Wednesday, 13 October 2021

68: Lizard Lounge

A deep dive into the psychological engineering of racial reckoning and the political operatives using Critical Race Theory to trigger the American lizard brain.

By Moe Factz with Adam Curry | 3h 42m listen | 37 chapters
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About this episode

Kimberly Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum have successfully transitioned Critical Race Theory from a legal framework into a primary political battleground. While Crenshaw defines the theory as a study of historical legal infrastructure, its application in K-12 schools through the Abolitionist Teaching Network and the Department of Education suggests a more radical shift toward social engineering. This transition has sparked intense school board protests, leading to a Department of Justice and FBI crackdown on parental dissent.

Professor Matthias De Smet of Gent University identifies this societal shift as mass formation, a psychological state where free-floating anxiety is tethered to specific objects like viruses or racial reckoning. In Loudoun County, Virginia, teacher Andrea Weisskopf and others advocate for a critical analysis of whiteness, while political operatives like Joy Reid and Patrice Cullors utilize the narrative to drive voter engagement. Meanwhile, the Biden administration faces scrutiny over the nomination of Kristen Clarke, whose historical predecessor Amos Akerman is revealed to have a complex Confederate past despite his role in dismantling the KKK.

Mo Facts and Adam Curry explore the lizard brain theory, arguing that modern media and political structures aim to keep the public in a state of primitive fear. The episode highlights the irony of NBA star Kyrie Irving being framed as a social pariah for his vaccine stance while traditional media outlets adopt YouTube-style reaction models to maintain relevance. The segment concludes with a call for synergy and self-love as the only viable defenses against the ritualistic violence and cultural revolution tactics currently being mirrored from Mao Zedong’s China.


CHAPTER 01 / 37 Discussion

Critical Race Theory and the Binary Thinking Battleground

Adam Curry and Mo Facts introduce episode 68, focusing on the controversial topic of Critical Race Theory (CRT). They discuss how the subject has become a major battleground in school board meetings and political discourse, following their previous discussions on binary thinking. The hosts note that while some claim CRT is a scholarly legal framework, others view it as a tool for social engineering and political taunting.

critical race theory· adam curry· mo facts· school board meetings· binary thinking

00:00 Hard times in this crazy town having hard times there's no love to be smiled having hard times in this crazy town having hard times there's no love to be smiled having Mo Facts with Adam Curry for October 13th 2021 it's episode number 68 hello everybody how you doing we are back once again 14 days we're back on the system I'm Adam Curry here in the heart of Texas Hill Country and somewhere in Virginia Northern Virginia my friend on the other end ladies and gentlemen mr mo facts

00:43 how you doing adam ah mo since i started playing this track i'm doing even better than i was doing man fire fire you know you give you give me a good track like that i'm into it i love that i love it it's good man we have we have not spoken at all have we we had have we had like three text messages in in two weeks i think that's about it it's been crazy so you've been busy super busy super busy uh the job is getting mandated proof you know that kind of thing and yeah they're working the heck they're working the heck out of us uh

01:20 really wait wait wait preparation we yeah we we we got him for a little bit longer let's keep him let's work him real hard is that what's going on oh man of course but you know how it goes um with the thing in texas that's a good look so we'll see how it goes oh you mean the uh what um the governor did it yeah well the fun thing about that is of course it's uh southwest airlines who have pilots walking off the job or calling in sick they're headquartered in texas so okay yeah so and and the last i heard their ceo had said all right everyone's got to get you know vaccinated uh then this morning that mandate or um tuesday morning that mandate came out and so now we'll see who knows who knows it's you don't know but i mean it is what it is in the meantime yes we'll

02:13 ratchet it up yeah let's wind this up find out what the topic will be for mo facts with adam curry episode number 68 ladies and gentlemen nobody knows where it will stop except for mo he knows exactly what's going on the topic will be critical race theory damn you oh a much anticipated uh yes topic critical race theory what it is what it isn't do it does it exist does it not exist it does have a wikipedia page it is some people say it doesn't exist it's not a thing it's not a thing it doesn't exist at all it's even though it has a wikipedia page and is a scholarly thing

03:00 i think it's one of these things where people make it what they want it to be so picking up off where we left off last time on the binary thinking tip this is just like one of the battlegrounds that you know people are fighting on over this topic it's big it's big it's very big it's very big it's right behind the couf and it knows and in some people's mind it might even be bigger um depending on how you i'm how you look at it well it's it's certainly one of the major topics of these school board meetings where people are just getting into the school board's face you know so it's it's definitely top of mind we definitely that's going to be an element of it um i guess since so i had to tell you put your goggles on let's go ahead and get into number two

CHAPTER 02 / 37 Discussion

Kimberly Crenshaw Defines Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality

Kimberly Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum and a law professor at Columbia and UCLA, defines Critical Race Theory as the study of how law has historically sustained racial inequality. Appearing on MSNBC with Mehdi Hassan, she explains that the framework originated in law schools to examine the infrastructure from slavery to the present. The discussion also revisits Crenshaw's coining of the term "intersectionality" as a prism for understanding compounding forms of disadvantage.

kimberly crenshaw· intersectionality· msnbc· mehdi hassan· law· african american policy forum

03:45 so republicans are fanning the flames of a new culture war claiming the teaching of critical race theory is a threat to our kids and to community relations but this isn't just some abstract argument they're actually pushing through legislation in state after state as we speak legislation aimed at making sure it can't be talked about in schools which isn't just dumb because critical race theory isn't taught in schools to begin with it's taught to law students in university but it's also a complete violation of the first amendment from a party that claims to be all about free speech joining me now is kimberly crenshaw executive director with the african american policy forum she's also a law professor at columbia and

04:25 ucla host of the podcast intersectionality matters she's the one who coined the phrase intersectionality and also co-founded critical race theory kimberly it's a pleasure to have you on the show your african american policy forum is campaigning against these republican censorship campaigns so i want to start by asking you to please explain what critical race theory actually is because tucker carlson and marjorie clearly don't have a clue you do you helped found it define it for our viewers please in the simplest of terms well the simplest of terms and thanks for for the opportunity.

05:01 Critical race theory is the study of law and how it has been part of the infrastructure from slavery to emancipation to segregation to today, upon which racial inequalities have been based. Oh, that's interesting. Okay, so the founder of critical race theory here, Kimberly, what's her name? Kimberly Crenshaw. Crenshaw. So I did not know that this was that it had to do with law, which reminds me of the book, The Color of Law. That's where it was birthed. Not out of that, but it was birthed at a university. And as you heard Mehdi say, that's Mehdi Hassan from MSNBC.

05:46 He says that it's only taught in college courses. I mean, I mean, at universities, it's like, hold on, wait. That's not what we're hearing. No, that's definitely not what we're hearing. It seems to be middle school and high schools and even lower grades. Yeah, elementary schools as well. But this is the thing. It's like, oh, no, no, it's been this moving target. I had to lay this out front. I think what happened was that 1619 was supposed to be the original vehicle that they used to push this narrative. Oh, and it got submarined. Derailed. Yeah, it sure did. So it's like, okay, what can we dig in, you know, and pick up critical race theory, which

06:32 in itself is an offensive term. And let me explain that. When just the words all put together, when you hear critical, that's alarming in itself. Okay, urgent attention. Urgent. Right. And then you throw race into anything. Urgent. Yeah. And we do have the race ISO that I picked up, but we'll get to that later. Sorry. I already had it ready. Yeah, you can throw some race in there. It's how you throw some race in there. It's just from time to time. You just got to do that. Just, I think, you know, it's like in normal family life. It's like, could you please take out the garbage? Race. Just keep doing that. It's going to work perfectly.

07:15 And then you have theory, which theory just leaves everything up to debate. It's critical. It's about race, but it's a theory. So when you throw all these things together, it gives people alarm just from the beginning of it and the way it's being pushed. And the title of this video I'm pulling this from off YouTube is called The Truth About Critical Race Theory: Co-Founder Breaks Down GLP Gaslighting. That's a hell of a title. Yeah. So we should be familiar with Miss Kimberly Crenshaw from Intersectionality. This is a throwback clip from show 18. She wrote a hero where we covered the topic.

08:00 Intersectionality is just a metaphor for understanding the ways that multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves and they create obstacles that often are not understood within conventional ways of thinking about anti-racism or feminism or whatever social justice advocacy structures we have. Intersectionality isn't so much a grand theory. It's a prism for understanding certain kinds of problems. Okay, so that did not explain it to me. That did not help understand intersectionality. And we had the same outcome on show 18 that it's a word salad. It makes no sense. It's not really a theory. And now they're doing the same thing with critical race.

CHAPTER 03 / 37 Discussion

Political Operatives and the 1619 Project Narrative

The discussion shifts to the political motivations behind the sudden prominence of CRT, suggesting it replaced the "1619 Project" after that narrative faced significant pushback. The hosts critique Kimberly Crenshaw's direct call-outs of Senator Ted Cruz, labeling her a political operative rather than a pure academic. They argue that the academic definition of CRT is being used as a shield for broader social changes being pushed in K-12 schools.

1619 project· black lives matter· ted cruz· harvard law school· democrats· social engineering

08:45 Let me ask you a question. So you said, you know, the 1619 project that got submarined, and then they decided to go full on critical race theory. Who do you think they is in this case? That's a good question. Well, you have the Black Lives Matter Inc. crew. You have the Democrats, which is, or liberals, however you want to say it, which is using this as a major, for lack of better word, taunting. It's used to keep this pot going till 2022. Yeah. Yeah. Well, but from an academic perspective, you know,

09:28 it's not the case that some Democrat says, oh, time to ratchet up critical race theory. That's not how you get stuff into school. That's got to be a lot more. It's got to be structural. You know, it's got to be, it's got to be a part of the curriculum. I mean, that's, which I guess means that it's just really, really nastily corrupt all the way through. That's that's the point. It's a one of those things that can create a binary argument. and it works politically. It works through social engineering. It works in a lot of ways. And these kind of things make a current organic first.

10:07 You know, just in a while, and somebody's like, I like that. Critical race theory. Yeah, let's push that. Or since we already had Kimberly Crenshaw pushing the intersexuality, it's just a natural, hey, I got this critical race theory on the show. Could you grab that for me? I got some CRT over there. Because the thing is, this thing was created back in the 80s. So it's like, it's nothing new. I mean, it's very, it's very, it's been around in the law circles for a while now. Yeah. So, um, and well, hopefully, we'll, we'll come to understand what that means, how it's been around in the law circles. So, I guess this is where we find out that I mean, I don't know.

10:50 I'll let it unfold, Mo. I'm all here. We're going to the co-founder. So, we're going to let her explain us to us like we're idiots, what it is, what it isn't, and what it's being used for. So, let's go ahead and get into number four. It's basically an effort to think about we have had commitments to equality since the 14th Amendment, yet our reach has not realized itself in real equality. So, we're basically just asking questions and looking at the way that law has been a conduit for racial inequality and therefore what we need to do about law in order to bring us closer to the dreams that we have as a society.

11:34 But let me be clear: this is not about critical race theory. Ted Cruz knows what critical race theory is and isn't. The people who are trying to create this hysteria around critical race theory know what critical race theory is or isn't. What this is, is backlash politics coming precisely at a moment where finally racial justice has become a majoritarian interest on the part of Americans from all races and all classes. So, this is a way of pushing back against that without saying that we're for racism. They can say we're against critical race theory. Wait a minute. So, this is the founder of critical race theory. Yes. And she's name-checking Ted Cruz.

12:18 I mean, so she's just a political operative. She's full of crap. She's no idealist. Exactly. She's actually working for an organization. You know, I thought I had it here, but I don't. But yeah, she's working in a political capacity and a professor. Well, these professors like Moonlight in politics as well. That's true. That's true. It's just so blatantly obvious. When you're at that level calling out Ted Cruz, it's like, then you are not looking at a big picture of stuff. So you're doing something else. If I'm not mistaken, this was created at Harvard, right? And I think Ted Cruz is a law graduate from Harvard. So I think she's saying that from that point.

13:00 Oh, okay. Oh, he knows. You see what I'm saying? Like, he should know. Right. But critical race theory and the law and what Ted Cruz may or may not know doesn't sound like what these parents are talking about at these school board meetings. Doesn't that sound very similar to Black Lives Matter? Uh-huh. When you would say Black Lives Matter is A, B, C, then people are like, no, no, no. It's not that. It's this. So it's these things that could be used as a wedge for political gain, for social, like I said, social social change. As you said, as she said, that race is front and center now.

CHAPTER 04 / 37 Discussion

Willie Horton Reference and Historical Racial Playbooks

Kimberly Crenshaw compares modern opposition to CRT to historical "backlash politics," citing President Andrew Johnson's veto of civil rights and the "Willie Horton" ad campaign from the 1980s. The hosts pause to explain the Willie Horton case, involving a convicted murderer who committed further crimes while on a Massachusetts furlough program. They suggest Crenshaw's reliance on 1980s-era political references indicates her role as a long-term operative.

willie horton· andrew johnson· civil rights movement· massachusetts· racial justice

13:43 So they kind of got a seize on it. This is that unity and healing that we're hearing about. I feel so good about it. Come on in, you know what I'm saying? For some unity and healing. So let's go ahead and get into part three. Yes, well said. And you mentioned Ted Cruz, like you, an alumnus of Harvard Law School. He compared critical race theory to the KKK. What is your response to that, to Senator Cruz, on that specific comparison? Well, you know, it would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous and if it weren't so familiar. This is a mob mentality trying to Willie Hortonize racial justice.

14:20 And we've seen it before. We saw it right after the end of the Civil War when the idea that racial equality was anti-white racism was articulated by the president of the United States, President Johnson, who vetoed civil rights, saying that it was reverse discrimination. It took away from white people and gave to black people. But that wasn't the last time we saw it. We saw it during the civil rights movement when many white people said equality being full. forced to serve you violates my civil rights. So the idea that anti-racism is anti-white is a tried and true playbook move.

15:02 It used to be part of the neo-nationalist right. It's now moved to the center of the Republican Party on the heels of this so-called hysteria around critical race theory. Wow, this is this woman is truly disappointing me. I was ready to really hear something really intelligent, something great about some academic thing I could look into. This is just an operative. It's a tool for hysteria. She said hysteria twice. She did. She said it twice. And that's what it's causing on both sides because in the minds of people that want to believe there's a good thing, it's like, how do you not want to, you know, heal racism?

15:46 Like, same thing with how do you not want to take the vaccine? You know, how do you not want to do your part? Well, how do you not want to help? Yeah, back to the next one. Back to the binary that we've been talking about. Right. And on the other side, it's like, do you know what critical race theory is and who's pushing it? Where it's coming from out of Harvard. And my frustration is that if it's about law and how law is not being used or being misused, these are the kind of people that we're supposed to look to, Miss Crenshaw. Ms. Crenshaw, that you're supposed to be fighting a good legal fight, not pontificating about theories, you know, that don't mean a hell of beans.

16:25 We should be actually getting change to happen. And then she brings up Willie Horton. I mean, is that even a relevant name anymore? Does that still have no clue who that was? I didn't even have time to say that. Really? Oh, that's interesting. Oh, really? You want to explain who Willie Horton is to see? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Everyone else? Yeah, Willie Horton, it's like a thing now. Or it was for a while. This was a guy who was convicted, black guy, serving a life sentence for murder. Oh, okay. Okay. Now, and they let him out, right? On a furlough or get out, hang out at the weekend or something. And he didn't come back. He committed armed robbery. I think rape.

17:07 Is that in Texas? That was in Texas? No. No, hold on. Let me take a look. Or Florida. Maryland. Maryland. Okay. Wait, wait. He was. Yeah, Maryland. Wait a minute. He was the beneficiary of a Massachusetts furlough program. So he might have been in Massachusetts. Totally got by me. I mean, that's just. Well, this was a while ago. This was in the 80s. Okay. Well, like I said, she's from the 80s. So, I mean, like, exactly. Not saying that in the bad way, but it just seemed very from the 80s.

CHAPTER 05 / 37 Discussion

Matthias De Smet on Mass Formation and Free-Floating Anxiety

Professor Matthias De Smet from Gent University explains the psychological phenomenon of "mass formation," a hypnotic state that occurs when a population experiences high levels of free-floating anxiety. He describes how media narratives provide an "object of anxiety"—such as a virus or a social issue—allowing people to connect their fear to a specific target and follow a prescribed strategy. This process creates a new social bond through a collective "heroic battle" against the designated object.

matthias de smet· mass formation· psychology· gent university· free-floating anxiety· hypnosis

17:49 Well, exactly. And it's like, okay, not very relevant, but I caught it. Okay. So, well, now this is where I'm going to have to lean on you because hysteria, you've been doing coverage of this topic. I think the gentleman's name is. You want to help me with that? Matthias DeSmet. Okay. Is that Dutch? He's Belgian, actually, which is, and that's the Flemish side. So that's very close to Dutch. We can understand each other. It's like, you know, American English and British English. Got it. Got it. So you've been following these clips and talking about free-floating anxiety.

18:30 And I think critical race theory definitely falls under one of these triggers for that. So you can give your spiel on it and we can get right into the clip. Yeah, I'll just give a little background on Matthias De Smet. He's a professor in psychology from Gent University in Belgium. He has another degree in statistics. It's a hairball. Don't worry about hairball. And that's how he actually started becoming very interested in what was going on because he saw very quickly as a statistician and having a master's degree in that, that the numbers and the graphs that they were showing at the beginning of the Corona,

19:11 the Rona crisis, that they were full of crap and they were making some very huge assumptions and mistakes. And it took him, by his own admission, about six months until he figured out that, wait a minute, I know what's going on here. We are in a state of what he calls mass formation. And you can use the word formation as for hysteria. And so the final thing I'll say so I don't spoil any of the clips is that this state is a hypnotic state. It can be done by professionals. In this case, it was done by a number of factors. It can be done by professionals. professionals to a degree that this is often used in surgical settings, and people can be hypnotized, be in the same state that we're going to hear many people are.

19:54 And you can even cut them and they won't even feel it, won't even know it. So it's a serious hypnotic condition. So you say, under a spell. Oh, yeah, totally under a spell. Yes, sir. Before you start this next clip, I'll just like make the point that Beyonce had a very famous song called Information. Oh, right. Right, right, right. Well, in the context of mass formation, it means the same thing. You know, we're all standing in line. We're all together doing the same thing. We've fallen into the ranks. I guess we can go and get into number six.

20:35 Free-floating anxiety is the most painful psychological phenomenon someone can experience. So it's extremely unpainful. It leads up to panic attacks, to all kinds of extremely painful psychological experiences. So what people want in this situation is something to connect their anxiety to. They are looking for an explanation for their anxiety. And now, if this free-floating anxiety is highly present in a population and the media provide a narrative which indicates an object of anxiety and at the same time describe a strategy to deal with this object of anxiety,

21:19 then all the anxiety connects to this object and people are willing to follow the strategy to deal with this object no matter what the coast is. That is what happens in the beginning of mass formation. Then, in a second step, people start a collective and heroic battle with this object of anxiety. And in that way, a new kind of social bond emerges and a nuke and a new kind of sense making. Suddenly, life is all directed at battling the object of anxiety and in this way establishing a new connection with other people.

22:02 That's one of my favorite clips. You have the object of anxiety being race, and you have the solution being critical race theory. Yes, and how about the free-floating anxiety? Which, because I think every and the beauty of critical race theory and people losing their shit over it is I think they're also under some form of spell and mass formation on both sides. I mean, that's what that's it's even in formation, you can have this back and forth dance, I would think. You know what I'm saying? Like you have two sides fixated on the same object, and some people say, well, this is pure racism.

CHAPTER 06 / 37 Discussion

Statistical Manipulation and The Economist Polling Data

Mehdi Hassan presents polling data from The Economist regarding American awareness and favorability of Critical Race Theory. The hosts deconstruct the presentation of these statistics, arguing that the "subset of a subset" delivery is designed to confuse listeners and make the narrative sound more official. They reference Matthias De Smet’s observation that during crises, even highly intelligent people will believe absurd numbers due to the impact of mass formation on cognitive functioning.

the economist· mehdi hassan· statistics· fox news· mass psychology· cognitive functioning

22:43 Why don't you want to do it? You know, that kind of thing. And it's like, well, do you have the other side? It's, well, I'm going to push back against this naturally just because just because the side is pushing for it. So you brought up the point of using statistics to manipulate people. So Meddy is going to do a very fascinating trick with these numbers that he rolls out from The Economist. So let's go ahead and listen to him. And then I have a subclip of just him stating the numbers once again. And hysteria indeed it is. You've written nearly a dozen books on race issues, including one literally called Critical Race Theory.

23:22 I want to put it in the mail to Ted Cruz's office. There's new polling out this week from The Economist, which found only 26% of Americans say they've heard a lot about critical race theory, with an additional 38% saying they've heard a little. Of those, a little, over half say they have a good idea of what critical race theory is, or they think they do, and the majority view it unfavorably. If you take a look at the number of mentions the term critical race theory is getting over on Fox News, it's gone through the roof in recent months. How much does that worry you? How much does that tell you that this country is not in a good place, especially on the right? Oh, I still have to interrupt. I am so tired of people with British accents telling Americans that we suck.

24:06 It's quite common now. F off, Lime. You know, I used to wonder a lot about how during the end of Reconstruction, people of color and people of goodwill understood what was happening. Did they know that African Americans were going to be completely disenfranchised and not be able to vote for seven decades? Were they aware that violence was going to take hold in capitals throughout the South, that there were going to be coups? Did the media participate in it? Were they? they believing some of the lies or failing to ask the questions, failing to consider the source?

24:46 And this moment makes me get a sense of what it must have been like. Lies being told, people believing, and people of goodwill being confused and not knowing what to do or what to make of it. Yeah, she's following the template and proud of it. So if you don't know it, then you're confused. And naturally, if you're confused, you just haven't been taught yet. And we have to teach you. And once you're taught, then you'll understand. It's kind of like one of those things. But did you hear the numbers he rolled out? And did it make any sense to you? Well, I was distracted when he rolled out the numbers by saying they were from The Economist.

25:29 And The Economist, ever since they got their new editor, has been just one big woke heap of garbage as far as I'm concerned. So I did not really hear the numbers. And by design, you didn't because I took just the number, his rollout of the numbers, and I put it in this little slump subclip. And we can even play it like two, three times to listen to the actual number that he's referring to. There's a new polling out this week from The Economist, which found only 26% of Americans say they've heard a lot about critical race theory with an additional 38%. A lot, a lot. Only 20%. 26% has only heard a lot about the movie.

26:12 So we're only talking about that 26% right now. Okay. Yeah. Okay. 26% has heard a lot. Okay. A lot. All right. Say they've heard a lot about critical race theory with an additional 38% saying they've heard a little. Oh, wait. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. So let's add those two numbers up. Okay. We're well over 50%. Yep. Have heard something. Yes. Okay. Of those a little, over half say they have a good idea of what critical race theory is. Stop. Okay. That's of those 54. Yeah. They say they have a good idea what critical race theory is. How can you, okay, now I'm, is that 54% of the 38 or the 26?

26:55 Because he said of those. I think the 38. Okay, so now we're down half of 38 have a good idea. So that's what, 19%, roughly 20, say 20, rounded up to 20. Okay, now we're talking about 20% of people. Yeah. Okay. Now I'm just saying he's doing a subset of a subset of a subset. Yeah, of course. Keep going. This is great. Critical race theory is. Well, they think they do, and the majority view it unfavorably. Okay, now the majority of the 54% of the 38%. Yeah, I should actually look at those numbers. I don't know if he's explaining it right, but it's. What I'm saying is that this, the way he's delivering it is he's throwing these numbers out at you.

27:39 He's saying 38%, and of those, 45, I mean, 54% have a good idea, and half of those of that 45%, excuse me, half of a majority of that 54% of the 38%, it's like, yeah, you couldn't say this any more confusing. He could have just said humming a hummina, humming, and it wouldn't have mattered. People didn't get it when he said it like this, and they won't get it. Anything else he says. Now, let's listen here in confully in context and what he surmises from his data. There's a new polling out this week from The Economist, which found only 26% of Americans say they've heard a lot about critical race theory, with an additional 38% saying they've heard a little.

28:22 Of those, a little, over half say they have a good idea of what critical race theory is, or they think they do, and the majority view it unfavorably. Yeah, it's I think, I think the whole point is: bloody, bladder, bladder, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The majority view it unfavorably. That was the message. That's the point. That's the message. Right. But they use these numbers to make it sound official. Make you sound, make them sound smart. You'll feel subconsciously dumb because you couldn't follow that riddle of a word problem. And rightly so. Because it's like, let me break out the pen and the pad and actually figure out if I want to really understand, if I'm listening empathetically,

29:06 I'm trying to understand what he's saying here. But you ran me into a circle, and that's by design because once again, the clips that you've been presenting on Mass Hysteria, it talks about bogus statistics. I'm a professor in clinical psychology at the Gentle University, and I'm also, I also have a master's degree in statistics. But in this crisis, I've been taking the perspective of mass psychology indeed in the beginning. beginning of the crisis, I have been studying the statistics and the numbers. And actually, I noticed that they were often blatantly wrong. And at the same time, people continued to believe in it and

29:50 go along with the mainstream narrative. And that was why I started to study it rather from the perspective of mass psychology, because I knew that mass formation has huge, huge impact on individuals' intelligence and cognitive functioning. And I had the feeling that this was the only thing that could explain why highly intelligent people started to believe in a narrative and the numbers that were in many respects utterly absurd.

30:30 I like what you're doing here. I like the comparison between lockdowns and mandates and masks and hysteria and Black Lives Matter or critical race theory and hysteria. And just so you know, I know Matias. He reached out to me and we have contacts. So if we ever want him to, you know, we could certainly suggest that he might want to do a little analysis of critical race theory or BLM or just the hysteria. He might be interested in that. I think that would be a wonderful idea because what we're seeing is, as you mentioned before, and kind of a foreshadowing, all these topics are finding their way to school board meetings and town hall meetings, and they're having the same kind of response.

CHAPTER 07 / 37 Discussion

Department of Education Handbook and Abolitionist Teaching Network

Dr. Carol Swain, a former Princeton professor, discusses a Department of Education handbook for reopening schools that included a link to the "Abolitionist Teaching Network." While the Biden administration claimed the inclusion was an error, Swain argues it reflects a deliberate alignment with radical activist groups. The hosts investigate the network's goals, which include sending white teachers to "anti-racist therapy."

department of education· joe biden· abolitionist teaching network· carol swain· princeton university· fox news

31:18 So now we have to go to the other side, which being Fox News, and they have, and just in complete transparency, Carol Swain, who she works for the 1776 Commission, and she's a former Princeton professor. And what she's going to do, so you have this 1619 from critical race on one side, and you have this on the other side. And she's going to talk about Biden and him promoting the non-existing CRT group. Well, yesterday we reported on the Department of Education's handbook for reopening schools, including a link to a radical activist group that wants to send white teachers to anti-racist therapy.

31:59 Yeah, we saw that and we said, what's that about? Well, now the administration backtracking a Department of Education spokesperson telling Fox News, quote, the department does not endorse the recommendations of this group, the Abolitionist Teaching Network, nor do they reflect our policy positions. It was an error in a lengthy document to include this citation. Well, here was her reaction, Dr. Carol Swain, former professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities and vice chair of the reconstituted 19 or 1776 Commission. Good morning to you. Good morning. Good morning. So, Dr. Swain, they say it's an error, but is it really an error they had to intentionally go in and put that link on page nine?

32:41 So, this is a guidebook to reopening our schools, reopening because of COVID. And on page nine, there's a link. You click on it, and it directs you to this website. Well, if it's an error, it's one of many that the Biden administration has made. Ever since day one, it has aligned itself with radical groups. It has pushed critical race theory. And what I believe is happening is that Democrats are realizing that this is a losing issue for them. Wait a minute. So, they put a link into the abolitionist teaching network. They put it in their how to reopen schools guidance for COVID.

33:26 Wow, I'm looking at the way I put it in the show notes, of course. Wow. Oh, well, you know, when I heard that, the Abolitionist Teaching Network, I had to go follow the network. So, I find Mr. Kevin Kevin Relrose, well, he's not famous. He's not famous, let me make me clear, but he's a big supporter and believer in the abolitionist teaching network and what they believe. And he goes on to speak on talking points about Dr. Bonita L. Love. And she's like one of the founders of the Abolitionist Teaching Network. Now, in my empathetic space, you're very good at.

34:08 You're good at it, Moe. You've got a lot of empathy. I try. I really try. But I will not call Kevin a cuck because of my empathy for him. But if you had to, if it ever was one, and I'm not saying this because I'm just saying that the way I will be covering this. this on lost tapes. Because this is one of those things that you need to do. You got to dive a little deeper. Okay. Yeah, I got to do it. Oh, you got to do the video. Yes, that'll be next Wednesday, everybody. Next Wednesday. Next Wednesday, 8 o'clock. Yeah. So, but we're going to get into being a co-conspirator. No, it's the, excuse me, let me say it right. The co-conspirators guide to abolitionist teaching.

CHAPTER 08 / 37 Discussion

Kevin Melrose and the Co-Conspirators Guide to Teaching

Kevin Melrose, a middle school teacher in Indianapolis, outlines the principles of "Abolitionist Teaching" based on the work of Dr. Bettina L. Love. He explains that teachers must move beyond being "allies" to becoming "co-conspirators" who put their privilege on the line. The hosts mock the specific terminology used in the training, such as "dark folks," "dark spaces," and "white emotionality," questioning the condescending nature of the curriculum.

kevin melrose· bettina love· indianapolis public schools· university of georgia· white emotionality

34:52 All quotes and credit go to Dr. Bettina L. Love. Thank you. Hello. My name is Kevin Melrose. I'm a middle school social studies teacher with Indianapolis Public Schools, and I'm here to talk with you today about abolitionist teaching. Abolitionist teaching is an idea brought forward by Dr. Bettina L. Love, who is a professor at the University of Georgia and one of the co-founders of the Abolitionist Teaching Network. Now, what is abolitionist teaching? Abolitionist teaching is the practice of working in solidarity with communities of color while drawing on the imagination, creativity, refusal, remembering, visionary thinking, healing, rebellious spirit, boldness, determination, and subversiveness of

35:36 abolitionists to eradicate injustice in and outside of schools. Abolitionist teaching works hand in hand with anti-racist teaching. Now, all of the ideas I'm discussing today, I've gathered from this book. It's absolutely incredible, and I highly encourage all of you to read it. What I will be discussing today is going to be focusing on what people that look like me with a similar status and privilege can do today to become abolitionists. Abolitionist teaching means putting something on the line in the name of justice. Wanting dark folks to thrive and giving up power and positions in order for dark folks to do so. The work of recognizing and checking white emotionality is done before you went to dark spaces.

36:19 White folks have to get well on their own terms before they engage with abolitionist teaching. Hold on, before we discuss this, I need to hear the last 10 seconds. I just gotta get, I gotta write down some of these terms. Abolitionist teaching means putting something on the line in the name of justice. Wanting dark folks to thrive and giving up power and positions in order for dark folks to do so. The work of recognizing and checking white emotionality is done before you went to dark spaces. White folks have to get well on their own terms before they engage with abolitionist teaching. Oh, my head hurts. Okay, dark books. Dark books. No, dark folks. Oh, I thought he said dark books. He said dark.

37:03 No, dark folks. Dark, who the hell says dark folks? I'm telling you, Kevin. Hey, look, Kevin, come close. If you're listening, come on. You ever say dark folks around dark folks? You're going to get your ass kicked up. Get your ass get lumped up. I'm just saying. I don't know what they teaching you over there at the network, but don't come around so-called black people saying dark folks and dark spaces. Yeah. And then just to balance it, white emotionality. Woohoo! I think I had some of that for breakfast. But you hear that this is that teaching that Biden's administration is pushing on these.

37:49 It's really phenomenal because what he said was nothing. It was just a whole bunch of words and descriptions and then throw in dark spaces and dark folks and white emotionality. It's one level deeper. It's well, you thought doing the work, you thought, you know, doing the work was going to do it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You had to go a level. That was just the beginning. That was just training wheels. Right. You have to come deeper and really relinquish your power, which if you're giving your power away, that means you still have power.

38:29 And that's what these people don't seem to understand. But what they want to do is not seem like the white savior, which has became a trope or a meme like in these movies where like the white teacher comes to the black neighborhood. Yeah, but it's also true, but it's a cliche, but it's because this is true. That's what they're trying to avoid. So they're like, I need, you think that's real? It's kind of like the thing with like, when people like going vegan, it's like, you know, oh, that's, I have vegan, non-GMO, organic, hand raised. You want to say it's like always one level deeper with how real it is, but it's still,

39:11 you come from a place that you had to give me something. Like, I can't do it for myself. And that's what they, it just totally misses them. It totally misses how condescending it is to say before you go to darks, where are dark spaces? I think that's if you go into clubhouse and then you got to hit a special code, you turn left and then you get to the dark space. Dark people in dark space. And you know how I feel about words. Yeah, dark, first of all, folks. I hate folks. Yeah. Folks are just rude. With X or without X. Because that's the other thing they're trying to get. They tried to get that one to roll out on black folks. No, they tried to do F-O-L-X. Yes. Nah. Yes.

CHAPTER 09 / 37 Discussion

Interrogating Whiteness and the Patriarchy in Middle School

The discussion continues regarding Kevin Melrose's instructional videos, where he advocates for a "critical analysis of whiteness" and the dismantling of the patriarchy within the classroom. Melrose asserts that teachers who do not explicitly support Black Lives Matter have no real understanding of social justice. The hosts express concern that such ideologies are being prioritized over traditional civics and character education in middle schools.

whiteness· patriarchy· social justice· middle school· education· co-conspirator

39:57 Got it right. So I don't know if he's saying folks in that way, of the non-binary, non-offensive way, or if he's saying it with the traditional. Give me more from this guy. Give me more from this guy. Let's go ahead and get more conspiratorial too. Now, you may be saying to yourself, Kevin, I am an ally. I believe in social justice for everyone. While that is great, it's simply not enough today. We cannot just be allies. We, as white people, must be co-conspirators. Okay. Allies do not put anything at stake. And in today's day and age, that is simply not enough.

40:33 Blackness is not a condition that needs saved. White people that are trying to go into the classroom to save black and brown children are totally misguided and have no idea what these students actually mean. The definition of a co-conspirator is to stand in solidarity and confront anti-blackness. A co-conspirator functions as a verb and not a noun. Co-conspirators can also be men who understand their privilege and work to challenge and undo the patriarchy. However, we cannot have these conversations about racism without talking about whiteness. The time-consuming and serious critique and reflection of one's socio-cultural heritage, which includes identities related to race, ethnicity, family structure, sexuality, class, abilities, and religion, taken side by side with a critical analysis of racism, sexism, white supremacy, and whiteness is the

41:26 groundwork of co-conspirators. Teachers who say they are deeply concerned about social justice or that they love all their children or I don't see color, but cannot say the words black lives matter, have no real understanding what social justice is and what it truly means to love, find joy, and appreciate their students and their students' culture. Mo, you're the right guy to ask. Yes. Do you know of any dark folks with an X who would hear this guy and go, oh yeah, spot on? No, I don't know of any because it's like, oh yeah, that's what we need.

42:08 We need white people who are co-conspirators and they're clued in. Yes. Who was I? I was reading. I mean, it's. He's in it deep. I mean, I feel like he feels he got invited to the cookout and he can, and he's a play. He knows what to say now. I don't know. It's very unfortunate. He's spent up all night studying and he just verbatim spills out whatever these network is teaching. And this is their ideal product that they want to have on the backside of this, which for me personally, and I mean, if there may be others, I'm sure there's others out there like that.

42:58 It still smacks of you think I am a victim. Yes. Even though you try to max that you're a white savior, it's like I acknowledge that I'm a white savior. And the fact that I acknowledge that, it doesn't make me a white savior now. Right. So it's like, what? Right. They have a store on their website. Let me see if they got any cool little hoodies with something stupid on it. Oh, yeah. Ooh, we can get the abolitionist. And you know, the abolitionist teaching network is all in the pan-African colors. It's interesting. Okay. You know, the red, the black, the orange, the black, the green. Of course, it has to be. It has to be on message on point. Yeah.

43:43 So what Kevin needs to realize, and I'm speaking from a place I want to have, I know I didn't call Kevin a cup. What I'm saying is, if you wanted to cast somebody in that role, he would probably, you probably prototype him around. Right. Central Castle. Because he just doesn't want to be offended. And I get it. And he's probably been browbeaten so bad. And what does he do? What is his vocation? What does he do? He's a middle school subject studies teacher. No wonder. No wonder these parents are so pissed off. This is like I said, this is the product that they're trying to create to destroy the patriarchy.

CHAPTER 10 / 37 Discussion

Patrice Cullors and the Trained Marxist Admission

Patrice Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, addresses accusations of being a Marxist on her YouTube channel. While she appears to laugh off some criticisms, the hosts play a clip where she explicitly states that she and co-founder Alicia Garza are "trained Marxists." They discuss how this admission has "tarnished" the BLM brand and fueled the argument that the movement is fundamentally anti-capitalist.

patrice cullors· black lives matter· marxism· capitalism· joe biden· kamala harris

44:25 He said it himself. To be an ally, you must say Black Lives Matter. And what Kevin doesn't realize is the Black Lives Matter brand is so tattered and marred. Whenever you say that, no matter if you're saying it's from a place like that, Black Lives Matter or boots on the ground, you're going to be people here in the binary world, they hear Marxists. And for that, I have Patrice Colors, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, addressing if she's a Marxist or not. So y'all asked, and I am ready to answer. Am I a Marxist? Let's get into it. Hey, everybody. My name is Patrice Colors. I am the co-founder of Black Lives Matter.

45:10 I'm also the executive director of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. And welcome to my YouTube channel. We're going to talk about something that I have been accused of over the last several months. It's been intense at times. It's been hilarious at times. But I feel like I need to set the record straight. Am I a Marxist? I've seen a lot of y'all's comments. In fact, I got them right here. Do not fall for their trick. They're pushing a communist agenda. I'm sorry, this is really funny. So despicable how Marxists have infiltrated the civil rights movement and turned it into a monster.

45:53 She is trying to burn the whole system down. Admitted trained Marxists and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrice Colors sends strongly worded letters to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris demanding they bow to their black liberation domestic terror agenda. We warned you this was coming and now it's here. Patrice Colors is a Marxist. All right, y'all. I mean, let's just talk about it. Am I a Marxist? I'm a lot of things. I do believe in Marxism. It's a philosophy that I learned really early on in my organizing career. We were taught to learn about the systems that were criticizing capitalism.

46:32 We were taught to understand why there were philosophies that were criticizing capitalism. Is she walking back that she said she was a trained Marxist? I'm proud of it. Is she walking that back? No, she's walking you in a circle because she went around and read all the comments saying basically that she's a self-admitted Marxist, which she said she's a well-trained Marxist. I mean, I didn't, I feel like I needed to play the clip because we've addressed it enough. But then she goes through this and then she does the Kamala laugh. Yeah, and very inappropriately. Yeah. Right, like it's like such a joke. How could these people believe I'm a Marxist? Because I said I'm a Marxist. It's like, huh?

47:16 This is the mind loop. And then she goes around saying, yeah, I am. No, she doesn't say I'm a Marxist, but you know, I believe in Marxism. I got the 39, I got the 39-second clip of her second. Go ahead. Let's go ahead. I think that the criticism is helpful. I also think that it might, I think of a lot of things. The first thing I think is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. Okay, I heard that.

47:58 But then it's a joke. It's like, I don't know how people can think I'm a Marxist by me just saying it. I don't weird. Who are you? It's pretty racist of you to hold me to my words. Don't even know what a Marxist is, probably. Right. But when you say you're attacking capitalism, that makes my ears perk up because I don't know about everybody else, but I enjoy capitalism when it's in its right form. And of course, I always criticize what we have now as some kind of corporatism. Yes. But in the sense of the harder I work, the more I make, you know,

48:34 when it works that way. Yeah, when it works that way, then it's true capitalism. But if you give me what I have now compared to Marxism, I can't go that route because I know what comes with it. So yeah, so that's when she lost a lot of people. And that's why she had to go on her YouTube channel and address this topic. But I think poor Kevin doesn't realize when you, and I say that, like I said, with empathy now. I don't think he realizes when you say Black Lives Matter, that's a loaded term now. Yeah, it's no longer, it's no longer on vogue. And now it's, and once you attach that with critical race theory, it's just like it's talking.

CHAPTER 11 / 37 Discussion

Respectability Politics and the Interrogation of Whiteness

The hosts analyze Kevin Melrose's claim that "character education" is inherently anti-Black because it promotes respectability politics. They critique the "pedagogy" being pushed in schools, which focuses on personal and spiritual resistance rather than academic test scores. The segment highlights the tension between traditional educational values and the new focus on "interrogating whiteness" among young teachers.

intersectionality· respectability politics· pedagogy· character education· whiteness

49:15 it's toxic. Yeah, it's very, it's like radioactive. It's like, you know, we went for 1619 and Black Lives Matter. Well, we got to get rid of Kevin. Kevin's no good. He's got to go. He's screwing it up. Well, I mean, Kevin is a product of what they've created. I mean, this is, you're looking at what they the product, what they want on the back side of the training. So let with that said, let's go ahead and get into the final clip with Kevin. We cannot have conversations about racism without conversations about intersectionality. When teachers shy away from intersectionality, they shy away from ever fully knowing their students' humanity and the richness of their identities. Mattering cannot happen if identities are isolated and students cannot be their full selves.

49:57 Fighting oppression is not just a hashtag. The real work is personal, emotional, spiritual, communal. It is explicit with a deep and intense understanding that loving blackness is an act of political resistance. And therefore, it is a fundamental aspect to teaching dark black. I'd like to interrupt. I just want to go. I just want to hear what he said there again. Communal. It is explicit with a deep and intense understanding that loving blackness is an act of political resistance. Loving blackness is an act of political resistance. But what did he start the clip off with?

50:38 Intersectionality. Yes. Who coined the term intersectionality? The same people that does critical race theory. That was the crunch all lady. Exactly. It's the holding of the door. Here, black people hold the door for critical rights theory. And in that, we're going to teach a whole bunch of intersectionality. And if you're cisgendered male of the dark kind. Oh, I've learned a new term. I've learned a new term. It's cish-het. Huh? We are, as far as I know, cish-het. Bro, I'm super straight. Yeah, that's that's what I mean. Cis het. I know, I'm just saying, like, if you want to define me, I'm super straight.

51:18 Right. So, in uh, in the uh, in the critical race circles, you are cis het, which is almost like an epithet. It's almost like a slur. I only got one badge, I only got my dark badge. Yeah, you no more badges for you. That's what I'm saying. The only badge you get. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you a midget? Are you under four feet tall? Because you can get an extra badge. Curry. Small person. I know enough midgets. I'm okay saying it. They'll try and beat me up. Oh, you're midget adjacent, huh? You just want to fuck your privilege on me. A midget ally. That's right. All right, let's continue with our

51:56 ridiculous it can get. Is now, okay, now it's intersectionality. You see how quickly he just slips right into it from one to the other. And that's that's how it's going to go. And it's like, hold on, you want to attack the patriarchy. That's a no for me. You want to attack capitalism? That's a no for me. And then you do this sleight of hand from uh dark, dark topics to uh to um and that's that's very Kevin better be careful. I'm just I'm just saying this once again for Kevin. Anybody that may be listening, when you say dark people, don't be like Kevin close to darkie. Yes. Like, yeah. Please do not use that term.

52:35 Please. Please. I just, I beg you. But now back to the Marxism. Well, let me let me let me play the the whole we didn't play the whole Kevin. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, no, I interrupted. So I'm going to start it from the beginning so we can get the full effect of the full Kevin effect. We cannot have conversations about racism without conversations about intersectionality. When teachers shy away from intersectionality, they shy away from ever fully knowing their students' humanity and the richness of their identities. Mattering cannot happen if identities are isolated and students cannot be their full selves. Fighting oppression is not just a hashtag. The real work is personal, emotional, spiritual, communal.

53:15 It is explicit with a deep and intense understanding that loving blackness is an act of political resistance. And therefore, it is a fundamental aspect to teaching dark kids. Only after unpacking and interrogating whiteness, white teachers, and really all teachers, must unpack how whiteness functions in their lives. Then they can stand in solidarity with their students' communities for social change. We're now going to transition to what social studies teachers like myself can do to become abolitionist teachers.

53:51 And that all starts with pedagogy. Pedagogy should work in tandem with students' own knowledge of their community and grassroots organizations to push forward new ideas for social change and not to just be a tool to enhance test scores or grades. Pedagogy, regardless of its name, is useless without teachers. teachers dedicated to challenging systematic oppression with intersectional social justice. Many public and charter schools have centered this idea of character education, and it has replaced civics education. However, character education is anti-black. Oh, really? Which that goes into respectability politics. Like when you try to teach people, you know, what's respectable or not.

54:35 That's completely racist. But the interrogation of whiteness, like these are these terms. When people from the other side of the binary coin look at it, it's like, you want to interrogate white people, huh? Yeah. I mean, which that has its own imagery of like a spotlight that's swinging. You know what I'm saying? Like, where are we on the fourth? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. That kind of thought. So, but either way, this guy, how old is he? He can't be older than 28, 29. Yeah, he doesn't look very old at all. I mean, he's probably fresh out of college, maybe four or five years. Oh, so this is it, huh?

CHAPTER 12 / 37 Discussion

Conspicuous Consciousness and the Virtue Signaling Circle

Adam Curry introduces the term "conspicuous consciousness" to describe the practice of upper-class individuals adopting social justice causes to signal their status and awareness. He recounts an anecdote involving Professor James Pennebaker and a discussion on white privilege. The hosts argue that much of the modern "allyship" is a form of preemptive social positioning rather than genuine empathy.

conspicuous consciousness· virtue signaling· james pennebaker· white privilege· social status

55:16 This is the social studies. Now, of course, the problem, which I'm recognizing now, is that what he's saying and all these things, it is not critical race theory. So when people say critical race, when Ted Cruz says critical race theory, yeah, and everyone who is doing this can say, you have no idea what you're talking about. That's not critical race theory because it's not. It's just evil. It's lame. It's lame. It's not, but it's not. It's not perfect. It's perfect because it's not what the topic is because when you actually say that word and go read the book, it's a law theory.

55:58 Yes. But the way they're selling it to the middle schools and elementary schools and high schools as this rethinking of race, saying things, everything through a racist or racial lens. I'm going to say racist, a racial lens. And it's, and to do that, it's like you have to admit that you're racist going back to white fragility. Got to start. Got to atone. White man got to atone right off the bat. Right. Which, and it's not even atonement because we know what that means as well, because you can't force atonement. It's, you know, a person has to want to atone. You know what I mean? Like, I want to do this.

56:37 Oh, hold on a second. Of the white people I know who are completely into this, Mo, they really do want to atone. They really do feel the guilt. They, they, in fact, do interrogate themselves on this. They do workshops. I totally believe you. There's a lot of people who are doing that. And they're very. Now, I think there's also a lot of people I've heard talk in social settings where they talk a big game, but are they going to go sign up for the, you know, the for the course? No. But, oh, yes. Oh, it's so important. Kevin said, if you want to be a real ally, I mean, not an ally, because he said you need to be a co-conspirator. Ally is not enough. All you people out there that were just doing the talk, it's time to walk the wall.

57:22 It's time to put something on the line. Kevin said it. You have to put something on the line, like your name on a check. You know what I'm saying? Hand it out. That's what they want. That's the whole point. I want to try and get something out before I forget. Please. Before it passes. So, and I think this is a true scenario. Because, you know, I used to hang out back in the Austin days with the Obama bots. And so, you know, I was accused of very early on, years ago, six and a half years ago, by Professor Pennebaker, who was at one of these dinners. And he's a, I'm a big fan of his work. He does the performatives. That's his big body of work. And he and his wife are there. Well, we're just sitting there saying, well, you know, you have white privilege. And I'd never heard of this.

58:06 So, what are you talking about? It's so obvious. So these people, they are so racist without knowing it. Here's how I perceive it. So they'll talk these big games. Oh, it's so important. And then there will be a name. And it'll be someone, you know, it's not going to be Kevin. It'll be, you know, either like a Patrice Colors or I could, I can actually just go down, you know, let's see. I can just go to the abolitionist, it's hard to say for me, abolitionist teacher network and just look at our people. And let's see, we have, let's just grab one.

58:48 We've got Ashley, she, her, hers, activists in residence. And so the way it would go at this dinner party is, oh, I met Ashley, she, her, hers. And she's the activist in residence at the abolition. She's so impressive. She is just, I mean, she is, she's just. oh my God, you have to meet her. And I'm doing my Becky voice. Yeah, I understand what you're saying. And so they will take a person, a dark person, and they will, and they elevate them. And then, and it's almost like a worshiping of, you know, this is, oh, my goodness. She's, oh, this is so good. Yes. Oh, we all can learn so much from her. And I've always, it gives me the creeps when people do that.

59:33 I've said a term. I don't know if I coined it or not, but I call that conspicuous consciousness. Conspicuous. Conspicuous consciousness. Okay. Right. So conspicuous consumption is when you buy things for people to know that you have money, to know that you have wealth. I'm going to buy the virtue signaling in a way. Right. But what you're saying is the conspicuous consciousness is I'm going to go find Ashley and put her into my circle. Yes. That way I can let other people know. And like I said, virtue signaling is one of those terms. And like I said, I don't use those terms because it's just, it has, it has its own meaning now. It's not actual meaning.

1:00:16 I agree. Yeah, I agree. Right. So when you say conspicuous consciousness, it's your want to be conscious so people can know that you're conscious, you know, of, or you're down, you know, for the cause, that kind of thing. So, right. And by the way, my family, my whole family is like this. All white, extremely upper class, either political or in intelligence services. And they're not racist. I know my family, but it's just insincere. I know they don't really mean it. It's preemptive.

CHAPTER 13 / 37 Discussion

Meghan Markle and the Black Queen White Queen Dynamic

Adam Curry mentions his appearance on the Megyn Kelly show, where he discussed Meghan Markle using the "Black Queen, White Queen" framework. He also shares a story about his uncle, a former CIA operative, asking for advice on how to connect with "inner-city youth" by mentioning his experience carrying an Uzi. The hosts use these anecdotes to illustrate the disconnect between elite posturing and actual human connection.

meghan markle· meyn kelly· angela merkel· empathy· hip-hop

1:00:58 It's worse than that. It's pretty. I mean, it's preemptive. It's, excuse me. It's excuse me. It's preemptive in the fact that before I even the notion or it can be thought that I'm right, let me let you know right away. Yeah. Right. Let me get the book and laying on the white fragility book, laying on the coffee table. Let me put the Black Lives Matter squared up in my car. I was on Megan Kelly today. And of course, right off the bat, I name-checked Mo Facts. But I felt like saying, you know, I have, I have a black friend. Right. I have one black friend. By the way, I laid the black queen, white queen on Megan Kelly.

1:01:41 She loved it. We were talking about Merkel. Markle. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You got to hear this. It was dynamite. It was like Mo Facts all the way. You'll love it. So that's the thing, though. Is it preemptive or is it out of fear? Or is it just out of true empathy that you want to understand somebody? And that's what we do here, right? You come here. I come here, seek first to understand, then to be understood. And I don't think it's out of empathy to understand people. I remember my uncle called me one day and he was, you know, he was ambassador and he was, you know, all kinds of, you know, in Korea.

1:02:23 I mean, he's CIA. He's been around, right? So he's been in an interesting situation. And so he's way retired. This is maybe 10, 15 years ago. He calls me up. I said, Adam, I got to, you know, he was working for some think tank, the Korea Society. I'm sure it's a front for something else. And he's the president of the Korea Society. You know, Adam, I'm going to be talking to some inner city youth and I really want to be able to connect with them. And I guess he was calling me like MTV guy. Maybe I have some hip-hop tips for him or something. And he says, so, you know, should I let them know that for years I walked around with an Uzi strap to my arm? And would that connect with them? I was speechless, Moe. I was fucking speechless.

1:03:06 Only if you held it sideways. Yeah, exactly. Uncle Don, if you could do that gangsta like that. Yeah, yeah, now that you'll connect with. Otherwise, stay away from that. But that's why we have to do what we do here is to be empathetic because like all these people mean well. They mean well, he doesn't mean, you know, but when you go buy an Aerie, it's like either are you giving a buyer in your auction or you're a racist. If you want to be a co-conspirator, it's like, okay. Yeah. Well, I don't want to be a racist, so I have to be a co-conspirator. And that's where we're going to be. And what happened to Ally? What happened to Ally? Why did it have to be a problem? No, no, no, no, no.

CHAPTER 14 / 37 Discussion

Melissa Harris-Perry on Collective Ownership of Children

A 2013 MSNBC clip featuring Melissa Harris-Perry is played, in which she argues that society must move past the "private notion" that children belong to their parents and instead recognize they belong to the community. The hosts link this philosophy to the current Virginia gubernatorial race and the debate over whether parents should have a say in school curricula.

melissa harris-perry· msnbc· public education· virginia· gubernatorial race· parental rights

1:03:47 Because you don't have anything on the line. If you're just an ally, you're just talking to talk. You got to be speaking. It does work. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to give some of that privilege up, which I don't understand how you do that. It's like, let me, here's a quarter share of my privilege. Yeah. If you want to wear that around, I don't, it's, it's still walking the wall. I mean, still talking to talk, but it's just, I'm willing. If I'm, if I'm pushed to it, I'll put something on the line. But what troubles me is when you hear communists and Marxism, and the reason why that is, I have a clip here. Well, it's actually an ad from MSNBC from one Melissa Harris-Perry

1:04:29 on who owns kids. We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments. Oh, all your kids belong to us. Yeah. Interesting. And that's that's that was an old clip that that comes from.

1:05:08 I miss her. I miss her. She was, she, you know, although, you know, Joy Reed is even more fun, but I do miss she was the wrong optics. Oh, no, to be honest with you. Yeah, no, she was definitely. And she, and she was the wrong because they had to go. And this is the conspicuous consciousness. It's like, well, we can't have Melissa Harris Perry up there. You know, she's awful, fair-skinned. A dark person. Dark folks up here. Dark folks. Yeah, really. Dark, dark spirit that Joy Reed has. Yeah. So that's where you see this kind of shift. And it's by, it's like I said, it's a conscious decision by whoever's making the calls. But that's what troubles me.

1:05:53 And that's what troubles a lot of other people when you hear this talk of your parents, your kids don't belong to you. We could teach your kids what we want to. There's a heated gubernatorial race in Virginia right now. Yes. What's your backyard? And what wasn't there some scandal? The guy said something or give us the rundown. Yeah, he's basically said the same thing that she said: that we could, we, we could teach your uh, it's our job to teach your kids what they need to know, not the parents. And it's like a hit ad that they're running like on verbatim, but it's, it's the same thinking. It's like, we know better than you. Um, the scary thing is they mean it.

1:06:31 Yes. Yes. And that's, and that's why you see what's happening at these school board meetings of, I mean, look at California, not to slip over in COVID, but if somebody could tell you your kids can't come to school unless they have the shot, I mean, like, where does it stop at? Now, of course, we had immunization, those kind of things of that nature, but it's, it's the binary thing. It's, I'm going to jab it in your eye. You know what I'm saying? I'm going to make you, you know what I'm saying, fold and show you who has the real power and these power. Okay, exactly. All of these moves, every same what Kevin's doing. It's supposed to come across as, no, you can do some stuff. You can work on it. You can help, you co-conspirator.

CHAPTER 15 / 37 Discussion

Sharon Osbourne and the Woke Probation of the NFL

The hosts discuss the firing of Sharon Osbourne from "The Talk" and the resignation of Raiders coach John Gruden over leaked emails. They suggest Gruden was used by the NFL to facilitate the team's move to Las Vegas before being discarded under "woke probation." The segment explores how the threat of being canceled forces media personalities to performatively call out perceived racism to protect their careers.

sharon osbourne· piers morgan· john gruden· las vegas raiders· espn· cancel culture

1:07:16 But if you don't, if you say no, if you say no, let me say yes. I'm nice, Kevin. Don't make me mad, Kevin. Exactly. And he got a little spicy there at the end, too. I mean, if you notice, his tone changed. So I'm just going back because my head was kind of filled with it because there's that Megan Kelly thing. Hold on, it's important this because this was about Sharon Osborne, which to me, that's how I got to the Oprah thing because, you know, it's more than just an M5M and ratings fracas that they're stirring up. But they had some, so, you know, Sharon Osborne, he got in a fight because she supported Pierce Morgan, so she was supporting racist.

1:08:01 And then what's Cheryl? What's the girl's name? The woman's name. I know you're talking. I think it's Cheryl. Cheryl Cheryl. I think it's Cheryl. Underwood. Underwood. Yes. Underwood. Yeah. Cheryl Underwood. So then they had a recording of her and Sharon Osborne in her dressing room. Gosh, I wish I had that. I mean, I only heard it because I was listening to the show, where she says to Sharon Osborne, you have to understand, we're under enormous pressure. If there's anything that even sniffs of racism, if we don't call it out, then we get accosted on the street. And I thought that was an important thing because it's easy to hate Cheryl for what she did. I humanized her in that moment.

1:08:45 I said, okay, I don't think you're very intelligent that you're just going to let that happen. But wow, when you're talking about your career, because people could cancel her. her easily. And it seems like that's a real thing. And the ones that are really getting canceled are the ones on their own side. We saw with Rachel Nichols over ESPN, the same thing. They dug up a tape and these tapes, these emails. I don't know if you don't keep it with sports, but John Gruden, I'll show you. Oh, yeah, the Raiders coach. Yeah, they got him up out of there off some emails. And the first email came out that he said a guy had big lips, and people were crying on TV. Oh, my God. He said he had big lips. And it's such a racial trope. It's like, did he say big, black lips?

1:09:30 I mean, I don't know. He said he had big lips because he's black, or did he just say that he had big lips? I don't understand. I don't, I don't get it. But either way, it's like. Well, first of all, they wanted him out for some reason because this doesn't happen. Just like, oh, we stumbled across some old stuff he sent. So they wanted him out. I don't know what was going on or why. But I just go to show you that this is how they're digging up emails and these emails. He wasn't even in the end. He wasn't even coaching in the NFL at the time. But then they came back. The big lips didn't get him. So they found some homophobic and misogynist. What do you think? Is there an end goal to this? Do you think that it's, well, let's, you know, let's clear some people out of the way and we can move in?

1:10:13 Because it doesn't seem like that's actually happening. Well, which is just as a sidebar conversation. I think with John Gruden's situation, they used him to get the team to Vegas. And now the NFL no longer needs him. And the Raiders are the bastard child of the NFL. Because you got to understand the ownership. Al Davis, Win Baby, just was it Win Baby Win or Just Win? My dad would kill me because that's his favorite team if I got that quote wrong. But I think it's Win Baby Win, if I'm not mistaken. But he was the owner and president of the AFL. So the Raiders have always been the red-headed stepchild of the NFL when they merged.

1:10:53 Okay. So this is going to sound stupid. So the Raiders are now in Vegas. Yes. Okay. So they needed a good coach. No, because they moved from Oakland to Oakland. Like it was this stronghold of support for this team. Big Type. So I think they brought Gruden in to smooth it over, kind of like the Barclays JDZ thing, right? We need somebody with, you know, sway with the crown. Right. They'll leave us. Handsome-looking white coach. Right. He just fit the Raiders, you know what I'm saying? M.O. of this tough guy, like tough as nails guy. Yeah. He got him to Vegas. Now they got a good foothold in Vegas. Like, now we got to get rid of this guy. And if we do it to the Raiders, you know, they couldn't like them guys anyway.

1:11:35 They could have just asked him to leave. Seems severe. Why do you want to destroy a guy? Well, you still got it. NFL still has to remind people that they're woke. I mean, they're on the woke probation. You know what I'm saying? It's like, okay. WB. WP. Woke probation, everybody. Probation, you're saying you got to let them know that we still, we still are still in the middle. Excuse me. You have to come over here and talk to Mo Fax, your parole officer. So let's see. We stopped at the, let's go, okay, 16. So let me set this right quick. So this is, again, this is Kimberly Crenshaw, and she's talking to Joy Reed this time.

CHAPTER 16 / 37 Discussion

Joy Reid and the GOP Strategy Against CRT

Joy Reid and Kimberly Crenshaw discuss the Republican "freak out" over CRT on MSNBC, labeling it a manufactured strategy by political operatives to create a wedge issue for the 2022 elections. The hosts observe that both MSNBC and Fox News use CRT as a ratings driver, keeping their respective audiences in a state of fervor while ignoring more tangible legal issues.

joy reid· msnbc· fox news· gop· 2022 elections· texas

1:12:16 Oh, woke up. So it's going to be a fantastic conversation. Party party party because she can let her hair down like she couldn't do with Mehdi. But they're going to discuss critical race theory is explained neither as is explained as neither Marxist nor racist by the leading scholar Kimberly Crenshaw, who co-developed the framework of the study and coined this term. Some of you may be wondering, what's the deal with the GOP freak out over critical race theory? It's everywhere and was even used as a GOP call to arms at a conservative Christian conference last week. The old Marxism used economics to gain control. The new Marxism, the new Marxism, uses identity politics.

1:12:59 And the result is something that looks nothing like America. There's no reason to believe that this new Marxism will result in anything but what the old Marxism resulted in. Critical race theory is racism, pure and simple. And it should be rejected by every American of every race. Let me tell you right now, critical race theory is bigoted. It is a lie. And it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets. Okay, but here's the thing. None of this is random. This is the result of a highly manufactured strategy created by seasoned political operatives looking for the perfect wedge issue to take back power.

1:13:41 Something to combat the energy of the multiracial coalition that took Georgia and something to replace Blue Lives Matter since January 6th, exposed. exposed that slogan as a sham. Conservatives in Congress took note and started chattering, which was then ingested into the feeder system of Fox News. The tagline disseminated, and the war against critical race theory took off. Chatter. You know, you know what I really like because I see this all day long. It's part of my job. On Fox, they're playing MSNBC. On MSNBC, they're playing Fox. On CNN, they're playing both. They're in the drain and they're circling and they're all going.

1:14:26 No one's watching this crap anymore, which is great for us, but also sad if they go away because we do need the entertainment. But this, it's this. It's this that when you're blaming your colleagues, you imagine your colleagues over at another station. I mean, that's dumb. It's petty. And that's all they've got. This critical race theory and these binary terms are the rating drivers. So they have to get involved in it. And it works for the politicians, like I said, because it does get, I mean, like, when you hear critical race theory, I mean, I have to say, on the right, it's a scary term for them to use.

1:15:08 It's like, oh, you know what? That's your CRT, you know, that critical race theory invasion. Oh, no, it's totally disingenuous the way they're playing it too. And now I understand the Ted Cruz thing. So they've got the critical race cannon pointed at Cruz's nuts. They just want to blow him up. And that's part of Texas. Texas, they think, is in play. You know, they're doing all kinds of things. Democrats are doing all kinds of things in Texas. They're really trying to turn it blue. So taking out Ted Cruz would be, I guess, something that they think is important because that's what they're doing. Yes. The problem is when you start going into the schools, that's going to be a major problem. So, well, yeah, because it's not about politicians. It's parents. It's parents who are standing up.

1:15:51 It's way beyond Ted Cruz. Right. And they're just latching on to the momentum on the ground. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, of course. And you see the same thing with the media. The media is latching on to, oh, if you throw critical race theory in the title, it's going to be a big, big, big winner with the ratings. You're right. Good point. So, I mean, like I said, and it just keeps everybody in a fervor to 2022. That's the whole thing. Oh, that's all intended for that. Yeah. Right. And then it gives you a substory to talk about outside of COVID, right? I mean, like, it's like people get COVID fatigue. So then we go back to the race. You got to have something that nothing else really talked about. I mean, to be honest with you. So these are the two topics that they've chosen to be

CHAPTER 17 / 37 Discussion

Orwellian Objects of Anxiety and Leader Survival

Professor Matthias De Smet references George Orwell’s "1984" to explain why political leaders must constantly invent new "objects of anxiety." He argues that if the masses ever woke up from their state of fear and focused anxiety, they would turn on their leaders. The hosts apply this to the current political climate, where both parties benefit from maintaining a state of racial and social tension.

george orwell· 1984· matthias de smet· anxiety· political leadership

1:16:37 the big deals for 2022. So now we got to go back to your clips. And now this is leaders know this. You want to set this up? Or, you know, yes. Well, this is once the spell has been cast, that's when the manipulation starts. And I think I'm not sure if it's this clip, but there may be a little extra thing about the so-called leaders. This is the Professor DeSmet again. So the masses can only exist if they have an enemy, if they have an object of anxiety. That's something that was very well described by Oral in 1984, where he talked about the Eurasian warrior who was a constant threat, but nobody actually knew whether he really existed or not.

1:17:23 But the masses and the topology system always have to invent new enemies, new objects of anxiety, because if there would be no object of anxiety, the masses would not have a reason to exist. Because one of the main reasons is the controlling anxiety. And the leaders of the masses feel that if there would be no object of anxiety anymore, the masses would wake up. And what would they do if they wake up? The first thing they would do is kill their leaders. Yes. I'm going to send this episode to the professor. Maybe he'll do some deconstruction on

1:18:07 CRT with his expertise. So with that in mind, you will see the vested interest to keep people in the binary trap. Because we just not saying we got to a post-racial anywhere near it. It's the fact that a lot of people could walk away from the George Floyd case and like, we got our guy. You know what I'm saying? He's gone for good. Justice was done. I went and did my march. I walked across the Black Lives Matter mural. So now I can go back to everyday life. Race. And they're like, no, they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You know what I'm saying? We got to keep them. We got to keep them jacked up. So this is just another thing. And it's just that

1:18:49 the leaders know it's like we got to keep them in a you know, saying this state of state of fear, right? Because it is the Democrats need it, and it's red meat for the Republicans, no pun intended, because the more they say it, the more they put out race. It's well, it actually Black Lives Matter and her confession. Her confession is so critical. And it's when I say her, I'm talking about Patrice Colors. Her confession that they are Marxists just tanks everything from now on. Excuse me, what you're right about, I think, is that the CRT is great for both parties. They both like using this as their tent poll issue and

1:19:30 pontificating about it. It's really unproductive for anybody, of course. But it's no progress leaves us in the deadness and a deadlock, and it just keeps said the leaders alive. I'm not saying easy, easy, whoever's listening. It's just from his analysis, the constant keeping them in formation keeps them alive. If you want to say, metaphorically, their political careers or even you're saying literally their literal lives. Yeah, absolutely. Well, okay, well, that's interesting because we're going to have to see

CHAPTER 18 / 37 Discussion

The Semantic Shift from Black to Dark Folks

In a second clip from Joy Reid's show, Kimberly Crenshaw denies that CRT is being taught in K-12 schools, calling the controversy a "boogeyman." The hosts note a shift in terminology from "Black and Brown" or "People of Color" to "Dark Folks," suggesting that activists are constantly rebranding to maintain a sense of urgency and to include a broader range of non-white immigrant groups.

joy reid· kimberly crenshaw· marxism· communism· terminology

1:20:11 CRT critical race theory for what it's being used for and not what it really is. Yeah, it's what do you call it? Object of anxiety. That's what it is. So, I guess we can go in and let Joy and Ms. Crenshaw part two. Hoping we go back to that. Here we go. No one wants a boogeyman near their kids, and certainly not in their classrooms. The operatives know this. Those fears got played up. And now, along with the fear of trans kids taking over junior high handball, parents are fighting with school boards in cities and towns across the country over curricula that they believe teaches white kids that they are racist.

1:20:51 None of this is actually happening. But who cares about a little old thing like the truth when you have the perfect campaign buzzword for 2022? It even has the magic word in it: race. Joining me now is Kimberly Crenshaw, co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum and the legal scholar who coined the term critical race theory. So it is your fault, madam. I tripped over the curb this morning and I went critical race theory. Damn you! Damn! It does everything bad. I mean, and the cicadas, y'all really need to stop with the cicadas critical race theory. That was not nice. They can throw everything in the bag. Everything in the bag. So I just wrote down a few of the notes of what people are calling critical race theory.

1:21:36 Marxism, racism, bigoted. Let's start with the Marxism. That's their favorite one. They're using that every single time. And I hate to ask you, I hate to ask dumb questions. So please don't think that I'm dumb. Is critical race theory, Marxism? Don't worry, Joy. We'll do that for her. So that's the thing. If you say critical race theory, they'll point to her book and the official academic term of critical race theory, but that's not what it is. And Joy did tell truth there. She says that it didn't, it doesn't teach white kids that they're racist.

1:22:17 No, it teaches their teachers that they're racist. And then the kids, the teachers teach the kids. So there is, like I said, they worry these things very carefully. But the product they want is Kevin's in every classroom is constantly reminding people to, you know, be co-conspirators. Kevin's Kevin in every classroom. Right. It's sad to say, but that's that's the goal of this whole thing. And they can never shake that Marxist term because of what Patrice said. It's just anything that's tied to race now, it is tied back to Black Lives Matter. It's going to be Marxist.

1:22:56 It's going to be Marxist. And this is a first. This is not a first in the fact that we talked about the Communist Party and racial dealings all the way back to the 1930s or even earlier. I mean, yeah, definitely even earlier than that. But in America, but now this is the first time we had it actually put out on the front where it's, you know, it's very clear to see what's going on here. So. Yeah, it's clear to us. Well, no, you can always go back and play the clip of her saying she's a Marxist. And that's not just from the Republican side.

1:23:37 I mean, I don't know where they, I don't want to. want this misconception in that black people are for Marxism. Not that I speak for all black people, but that just never took. I mean, because you had a lot of other groups that had Marxist views that they never could get a stronghold because that just doesn't support the average economic view of the average black American. There's such things that we want to be credited for our work. We're just like every other American in that aspect of it. We want to get paid more. We don't want people to tell us what to do with our kids. We want to have property ownership. These things are big to us. So they'll never get a stronghold.

1:24:22 And like I said, she burned herself when she said that. But you hear the language that Joy is using, operative, these loaded terms. And I think that's projection because you think, you think calling it a strategy by the Republicans, whereas the strategy is this whole setup. Right. And that's the whole thing. And like I said, it might work for them because as long as they get their Republicans talking about race, period, they can always label them the racist in the mind of the masses. So maybe from that aspect of it, it's like, oh, it's a so what would you

CHAPTER 20 / 37 Discussion

The Racial Reckoning and The Washington Post Critique

Kimberly Crenshaw describes the current era as a "racial reckoning" following the death of George Floyd. However, the hosts point out that even liberal outlets like The Washington Post and CNN have published pieces arguing that no such reckoning has actually occurred or that the term should not be used. They conclude that Crenshaw is increasingly out of touch with the more radical elements of the movement.

racial reckoning· george floyd· washington post· cnn· derek chauvin

1:30:57 And we wanted to tell these stories in order to do better with the promises that are embedded in the Constitution. That's what's in critical race theory. So is critical race theory, is there a K through 12 curriculum that right now is being taught? I'm sorry, I know it's a dumb question, but is there a K through 12 curriculum on critical race theory that's being taught in schools around this country? Well, look, Joy, if it was news to most Americans that critical race theory was in K through 12, it was news to me too. I'm one of the co-authors of one of the few books on critical race theory. I think I would know if we were being taught in K through 12. I mean, basically, critical race theory, classic critical race theory, is a law school course.

1:31:41 And it's really, you know, not taught as widely as I would hope it would. But here's the deal: this is not about whether anything called critical race theory is in K-12. What they're calling critical race theory doesn't exist anyway. Oh, okay. Oh, that's even better. So, critical race theory is not there, but whatever you're calling it, that's not real. Go away. Because the actual question that Joy was something completely different. The question you should have asked was: so, what is being confused for critical race theory in K through 12? That would be the actual question that a good journalist would ask. Yeah, but there's nothing because she said it.

1:32:22 There's nothing. She hit it out there. There's nothing there. So, what is that that was just linked into that document on page nine with the abolitionist teaching network? What is that? I mean, these classes that we're seeing, these teachers are being forced to go attend. What is that? Yeah, well, but I think you said it earlier. Critical race theory is what got the teachers into this mode, and now they're just off the hook. Right. It's like, I've been, uh, it's there. They got the programming, they got the programming evangelists. So they're like, I got to teach it to my pupils. Do you think they have a badge? Do they have a little badge?

1:33:03 Like, get a decoder ring when you're part of the club and you're a little abolitionist network. Yeah, yeah. ID card or something. I'm sure that, dude, you're probably in the network. It's like, go Google me. I'm in the network. Did you look into that thing? Who's funding that? Well, I did not look into it. I mean, like I said, it's just, I did not look. I did not have a chance to look into the actual network. I stopped with Kevin because it's like. that was harsh enough. That's all I need to see. That's all I need to see. Is that your fruit this tree is producing? I'm good to go. All I need to know. But of course, I'll do more research into it as time permits.

1:33:43 But I want to stick on talking to the expert, the co-author, the co-creator of Critical Race Theory and her denial that it even exists. So let's wrap up with them with number five. It is a backlash effort to reverse the racial reckoning, unlike any we've seen in our lifetime. And as you pointed out at the beginning, they can't say, you know. Well, I want to hear her say that again. It is a backlash effort to reverse the racial reckoning, unlike any we've seen in our lifetime. And as you pointed out at the beginning, they can't say, you know, we're for racism.

1:34:24 They can't say Derek Schultz should have killed George Floyd with his hand in his pocket, looking like he was completely without a care in the world. They couldn't say that. So they looked around and found a strange-sounding theory that they could put all of the grievances and resentments in and mobilize people around this boogeyman. And if our side can't really understand what's going on, it's going to work. It's worked in the past. It worked to end Reconstruction and it can work to end this reckoning too. Yeah. All right. That was purely political. Yeah. That's the whole point.

1:35:04 Unbelievable. That's the whole point. It's all politics. It's all about voting in 2022. And I'll say this, as you heard her say, she said the racial reckoning, she said that she's so tapped in that she would know about things. Well, little does she know that it's not politically correct to say racial reckoning. I like it. I liked it, actually. Well, of course, it rolls off the tone very easily, but the Washington Post opinion piece says, do not call it a racial reckoning. The race towards equality has barely begun. That's the headline. Really?

1:35:44 Of course, yes. And then also the CNN has one as well: is there was no racial reckoning. So she's out of the loop that one, no racial reckoning has exists. I mean, it doesn't exist or, you know, it hasn't materialized yet. Yeah, it hasn't materialized yet. But like I said, that she's antiquated. Not to meet Adrias or anything, but she actually thinks that George Floyd was progress, but not to the radicals. That's nothing. That's like, no, it's like, no, no, no. We got to keep pushing. Well, I'm sad to say this woman is just to be dismissed from here on out because she's no good. She's just. She couldn't even define her own terms of like

CHAPTER 21 / 37 Discussion

Etymology of Reckoning and the Settle the Score Narrative

The hosts explore the etymology of the word "reckoning," tracing it back to Proto-Germanic roots meaning to "count" or "settle an account." They discuss the aggressive connotations of the term "racial reckoning," suggesting it implies a "settling of the score" or "getting back" for historical grievances, which contributes to the anxiety felt by the general public.

etymology· germanic· proto-germanic· racial reckoning· linguistics

1:47:59 And you can go to mofax.com or directly to our donation page, which is mofundme.com at m-o-e-f-u-n-d.me.com, mofundme.com. And thank you very much for producing episode number 68. 68. So we left off on the racial reckoning. So what I want to do is go and find out the actual meaning of reckoning. Racial reckoning. Okay. Or reckoning. Yes. Reckoning. Yes. Can I make a guess without knowing? Sure. Is it derivative from German for the bill? For the rechlung? I'm not sure.

1:48:42 You said from the bill, from the bill. Yeah, like if you get a bill, you call for the reckoning, the reckoning. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, okay. Yeah. Settling up. You're settling up. You're close. Okay. Yep. That's almost almost it. But there's other meanings as well. It's a very peculiar word that can be used in so many formal and informal ways. So I have I swear English. That's a YouTube channel. And he's an English teacher and he has a wonderful English accent. So let's go and get into 23. Okay, we have a couple of phrasal verbs with this as well.

1:49:20 To reckon, to settle an account, but it's more common to reckon up, to work out the final amount, like to tally up, to balance the debits and credits. So look, you pay for everything today, and we'll reckon up at the end of the day. Yeah, we'll equalize it again to settle accounts. Okay, so to reckon. I reckon. I think it's my opinion.

1:49:57 Or to calculate. To reckon up, to settle debts, to settle an account, to tally up, if you like. To reckon on. You're going to have to reckon on this happening. Expect. To reckon with, to deal with. Yeah. And then somebody to be reckoned with or something to be reckoned with. A powerful force that's going to be difficult to reckon with. Okay. The origin of this word comes from proto-Germanic. There's a word reckonoa, which means to count and to explain.

1:50:41 But this word reckon, in nearly all of the senses I've given you, it's informal. It's great for an informal conversation in the pub. But in something semi-formal or something formal, writings particularly, I think my opinion is I calculate, I figure to settle up an account, to expect, to deal with, to anticipate. Okay? So to reckon. Okay. A lot more meaning to it than I initially thought.

1:51:19 Because you were in the informal way, but he also gave the formal meanings mean something to reckon with a force or to settle up, as you said, in the informal way. So either way, she said that, which her being a lawyer, aka a word wizard, how does she mean that racial reckoning? Is it like a racial force to be, you know, to be reckoned with? Or is it right, right? Any of those other meanings besides the even Steven are kind of frightening me. Yeah, about get back. I mean, you could, another way you could say that the get back. Right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So how are you using this word? Settle the score.

1:52:02 Yes. So what does that mean? When you hear that, it's like, okay, it's aggressive. Yeah. So in the minds of people that may be self-conscious about race, it's like, well, we narrative. I'm going narrative here. We oppressed them for 400 years and they want reckoning. What does that mean? You know what I'm saying? Like that makes people nervous. Yeah, because wait a minute. Does it mean 400 years for us? Yes. That's where I can go. 400 years. Ah, they can handle another 100. What's the problem? Right. So, I mean, that could be that could sound doubtful that she used to be aware of that.

1:52:45 That one's doubtful. But yeah. Yeah. It's aggressive and scary that way. Yes. Yeah. So what is that racial reckoning? That just sounds that's not like a black exploitation film. You know what I'm saying? Well, like the Panthers is coming back to, you know what I'm saying, to get whitey or whatever. So why use that term? But and then, like I said, the article said don't use that term. So. I just found that she was out of the loop with that again. Yeah. So now we have to go to the other side of the binary coin and go over to the Fox News side. And this is Tucker Carlson. This is the blurb from the video. Tucker Carlson tonight hosts blast

CHAPTER 22 / 37 Discussion

Tucker Carlson on Loudoun County and Immigrant Demographics

Tucker Carlson reports on the demographic shifts in Loudoun County, Virginia, the richest county in the U.S. He argues that while many new immigrants hold conservative social views, their presence provides power to "unhappy white liberals" who run the school boards. Mo Facts introduces the term "Cicadocrats" to describe Democrats who only engage with Black voters during election cycles while focusing their long-term efforts on social engineering for new immigrant populations.

tucker carlson· loudoun county· virginia· immigration· white liberals· cicadocrats

1:53:27 blast critical race theory and highlights parents' pushback. Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson. Tonight, Loudoun County, Virginia, right outside Washington, D.C., was for a very long time, for generations, a reasonable place. It was orderly and calm. It was well maintained. Loudoun County famously worked, certainly in contrast to the city nearby. And then two things happened to Loudoun County. First, lots of federal money flowed in. All those government contracts in Washington made Loudoun County rich. In fact, Loudoun County is now the single richest county in the entire United States.

1:54:05 And that's been a problem because any place you find easy money, you will also inevitably find large numbers of unhappy white liberals, those brittle neurotics with the masks on, screaming at everyone else to get in line. Loudoun County has a whole bunch of those people now. It also has a huge number of immigrants. One out of every four people in Loudoun County was born in another country. Now, in general, most immigrants are not very liberal at all, actually. In fact, many of them have what would now be described as extreme right-wing positions on social issues. If you ever have a chance, ask a Salvadoran what he thinks of transgenderism.

1:54:42 It'll make you laugh probably nervously. You'll look around and see if anyone heard it. But as a practical matter, it doesn't matter at all what immigrants, what Salvadorans or Pakistanis think of social issues or how they organize their own families. Immigrants vote overwhelmingly for the Democratic Party, and those votes give more power, not to them, but to those unhappy white liberals who want to blow everything up. So this made me realize, first of all, it's a lot of loaded language as in the Joy Reed clips of neurotics and it's a lot of people. Oh, no, no, no. The hyperbole is just as heavy on that side. And that's what I want to show.

1:55:24 It just detracts and pulls away from both into these two camps. But what also he said, it made me realize is this is not for the target audience is not quote unquote black, black American people. This is training the kids of the new immigrants. Yes. Because as he said, they come from very, I mean, if you talk about, just take the groups that's just coming into the country now in mass. Central America and Mexico, they have very strong patriarchal system, right? You look at the Haitians, similar thing. You look at the Afghanis, similar thing.

1:56:06 So these are a lot of people that's coming into the country, especially Loudoun County or counties like Loudoun County, which is right up the road from me. So I'm ground zero on this kind of thing. You got to get in those kids' heads early. You have to, and I think that's the reason why you hear the term dark people, because you can't use POC anymore. You can't use black anymore. You can't use black anymore. You can't use brown. Right. So you really think they're going to go with this with the dark stuff? Well, they're rolling out different terms. Like I said, the POC is dead. They tried that with some kind of crazy acronym, but those don't work.

1:56:45 Like I said, black has its own connotation to it. Brown is more Hispanic. So your Middle Eastern or Indian kids don't fall under that. So it's, you know, white and then what's opposite of white. So it's like, we can't do black. So let's go with dark. So this, this is probably not news to you, but this clearly shows that the Democratic Party has given up on black America. They've given up. They don't care. Well, no, no, what they are, there's now this is another term I came up with. They're cicadocrats. Okay. They go dormant for long periods of time.

1:57:24 Democrats. It's time for us to vote. And they dig their way out of the dirt and they come over to us. Like, it's time to vote now, black folks. But in the meantime, they had to actually engage with these other groups and set up because if you let kids come here and see that their parents' way got them conservative ways, got them to the point they're at with any pushback. Yeah, you lose. You'll lose them. You know what I'm saying? And so now it's like they had to go full cut press on one, giving them superiority over the white kids.

1:58:00 That's, I think that's the whole point of this critical race theory. And in the academic way, uh, because they have to train these newly integrated people, yeah, into becoming liberal into submission, train them into voting for us, yes. Well, well, make them counter their parents. I mean, it's just like any teenager, right? You make them to the counter their parents. And with any teenager, it's uh, you become you liberal when you're younger, and then you go more conservative.

CHAPTER 23 / 37 Discussion

Reimagining Education and the Birth Certificate Custody Theory

The hosts discuss the need to reimagine education through homeschooling and community-based learning to escape federal control. They delve into a legal theory regarding birth certificates, suggesting that signing the document effectively grants the state custody of the child. They reference "maritime law" and "sovereign citizen" concepts, noting that while the theories are complex, the state's power over children is a practical reality.

homeschooling· birth certificates· sovereign citizens· maritime law· wesley snipes· state custody

1:58:37 So, now they have to get those kids on ramp as early as possible. And that's why I think you're seeing the CRT or whatever you want to call it being pushed on these groups at a very early age. What would you want to call it? The stuff that we're seeing. Well, I would call this what it call it, what it is, is mind control. It's uh, it's mind control and manipulation. To be let me just be clear where I'm at with this whole thing. I'm past the point of history being taught in schools. Now, I know that might be a hot take, but what I'm saying is the whole point of history is you're not going to make everybody happy with history. So, what I would rather see taught is law.

1:59:19 Kids know their rights, kids know what voting means, civics, how the political system works. Yeah, that way, they can actually, you know, it's not a bunch of narrative because whoever has the political reins will define the narrative, right? Yeah, um, you'll go from um well this is why these textbooks change every four years. Like, who's in power? Let's go super, you know, well, slavery wasn't that bad. We're gonna write it off as kind of a form of just indentured servitude, which that's not true. And then, on the other hand, you know, um, uh, we're just as bad off as you heard her saying, like, now we're in a similar case that we were 400 years ago. It's like, no, that's not it either. So, my just my personal opinion

2:00:06 is I think history should be learned at your churches, your synagogues, your community centers, family, family history. Uh, that way you get the proper perspective. But if you want to help kids actually be good citizens and uh productive citizens, teach them law, teach them, teach them why, and then you can get history in there. So, if you teach them this for a case in point, like you said, well, law is almost by definition history, it's all case law. So, you're always going back in history to see how things were done in the past with law. Correct. That's that's the point I was going to make with the like the Brown versus Board of Education. Okay, you got these rights.

2:00:44 How'd you get them? You know, saying then you go through the case, and then kids will understand, like, oh, okay, that's how the judicial system works. But the problem here is much deeper. It's not about what parents want their kids to be taught, it's impossible in this situation. You have to blow up the whole system. I mean, every day I'm receiving at least one email from parents who are homeschooling or have looked towards alternative solutions that they're for full disclosure. I'm homeschooling now, right on. And now, in case in point, uh, we have a family law book, so I'm not just something I'm like just speaking.

2:01:26 Um, oh, can I be a guest lecturer at the Mofax school? Sure, Uncle Adam from Texas. It's a podcast elective. I'll go teach them a little bit of Linux or something, you know, give them a little uh, give them a little some extra in life. I'll teach them, teach them how to code. And this is how we're going to have to do it: community schooling, and that's the way to go. I think that's, I completely think that's the way to get the get the federal government out of everyone's school. Well, they'll never let that happen in mass because that's their control mechanism, of course. Well, that's their base, their funding. Yeah, uh, the teachers, like you always speak about, the teacher lobby, I mean, what I say lobby, but that's a

2:02:12 appropriate slip. But the teacher union is one of the most powerful unions that it is. It's got a lot of juice. So, you're not just going to let kids, just getting the kids to be able to homeschool, they had to, you had to prove your education level. It's like, hold on, what? Like, but this goes back to your kids aren't yours. And we need to really understand this. Yeah, that's a scary one. That's a scary one. Because what they're trying to play into is what we're talking about. Sure. Your homeschooling, your community is important to their education as well.

2:02:48 The community around them. But the way they make it sounds like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we really got to take care of this for you, which is taking it just a step too far. Yeah. And. we have to understand that our kids aren't ours. I mean, I don't want to go into that, but when you sign that birth certificate, you sign a lot of power over. It's like, okay, they're our kids, but you have custody of them. That's a scare. I mean, like, that's a real, I mean, it didn't really die. I mean, of course, I already knew this, but it really just was really redawned on me, if that's a word.

2:03:25 But with the birth certificate, extend. No, when you sign your right, when you sign that birth certificate, basically your children are awarded to the state that they give you custody on. Yeah, not everyone knows this. So that's why they can come and take custody at any time. Insurance officers, social services, all of these things. And like I said, these are things that we could really address if these lawyers want to address race and issues. I mean, there's issues that you can address, but even, I mean, I was getting called from short officers because they were slow to update the system. Like, okay, so when you're going to bring your kids to school, we hate to have somebody come out there. It's like, what?

2:04:07 Hold on. So you can't even not see your kids at school. Wow. Yeah, we got to, like I said, we, this is the point I'm saying about learning your rights and learning what you sign away when you sign certain documents. Not we all have to have a, I mean, I'm not one of those people where, you know, the sovereign people kind of thing, because to operate in this system, you had to have a social security number. You had to have a birth certificate. I mean, like, to even get jobs, right? You had to prove that you were, for our citizens, you had to prove that you were born here. So, yeah, it's wild, like, how little rights we do have or

2:04:50 how close we are to them. Actually, there's a huge huge theory about the law of the sea and the corporate maritime law, yes. And the corporate law. And now, whenever I bring this up on No Agenda, Dvorak scoffs at me. And it even, you know, even goes as deep as, well, when everything is an all uppercase, then that's the legal, like the ownership. That's where they own you. Are you a more Adam?

2:05:31 No, because that's something that the Moore, not the Moores, but one of these, the sovereign rights people, the Moores. Well, you're talking about Wesley Snipes, you know, the same thing. He's like, oh, sovereign citizen. You know, I don't know how. Taxation is theft. Yeah, Children. Well, he learned the hardest thing. That way, I know that works out for you. That didn't work out very well. Like I said, in theory, and that's what theory meets reality. In theory, yeah, all that sounds good, but I'm not trying to figure it out from the inside of a jail cell. You see what I'm saying? I'm not trying to argue my case. So you got to be pragmatic. Yeah, you got to be pragmatic when you're homeschooling four kids. I mean, you can't be sitting in jail. It's just not going to work. It kind of makes it hard to homeschool them. Jail doesn't have good Wi-Fi.

CHAPTER 24 / 37 Discussion

To Kill a Mockingbird and the White Savior Saviorism Critique

Loudoun County teacher Andrea Weisskopf is shown criticizing the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" for causing "racial trauma" through its "white saviorism." Mo Facts, reflecting on his own experience reading the book in school, states he was not traumatized and views the modern academic obsession with the text as a distraction from more pressing issues.

to kill a mockingbird· harper lee· white savior· racial trauma· andrea weisskopf

2:06:13 So let's get to number two. And that's why, mystery solved, a lot of places with high levels of recent immigrants tend to be far more liberal than those immigrants themselves. It's interesting. And that's definitely true in Loudoun County, Virginia. Take a look at the schools if you don't believe it. Loudoun County used to have famously good schools. People wanted to send their kids to those schools. Now those schools are run by lunatics who hate the country. It happened fast. It always does. Here's a video from a county school board meeting just two days ago. The first person you're going to see in this video is a middle school teacher called Andrea Weisskopf. Now, as you watch this, keep in mind that Andrea Weisskopf is actually a middle school teacher. She's not a paid actor.

2:06:56 We didn't make her up to prove a point. She is entirely real down to the ostentatiously displayed pronouns in her Twitter bio. Here's Miss Weisskopf explaining how the book To Kill a Mockingbird, a book the rest of us assumed was all about why racism is bad, is in fact itself racist because it causes something called racial trauma due to the fact there are white people in it. It's funny how they are so afraid of their children seeing another view of sexuality, gender, or religion. If you want to talk about books that are assigned, let's read To Kill a Mockingbird Together.

2:07:38 If you aren't willing to consider the racial trauma this assigned book causes black children with its white savor saviorism, then you have no business discussing any books. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, I have a unique opportunity. I have. happen to know a black child. He's a little older now. Mo, have you ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Yes, I did. I read it in, I think it was eighth or ninth grade, I believe. Good. Because as a white person, I have no idea about the trauma that must have caused you. I thought it was, like I said, it didn't sit with me one way or the other.

2:08:22 I mean, the black guy kind of got railroaded in it, but the point is, is that white saviorism, that's the key. I know, I know. I was waiting for you to say that as a child, you were traumatized by the white savior trying to come into the story. Well, ain't it amazing? That's traumatic, but all the stuff they show on Netflix and I'm a trauma. Yeah, that's trauma. Queen and Slim and all these Central Park 5, all this trauma-based entertainment. Although, that's not trauma. But if I read a book with, you know what I'm saying? It is based in, I think, like, it was like 30s, I believe, I want to say 40s, if I'm not mistaken.

2:09:06 Yes. That, you know, just told what happened in a legal case where I did get railroad, but it's the fact that the white guy, that's the whole point. It's the white saviorism. That's what they're trying to rebrand because allyship is being mocked. So it's like, we got to go one step further. Just want to make sure that I get it. And maybe it's not a fair question because it was so long ago. But you said, and I said, well, what did you? I asked you in a stupid way. But so what did you think of To Kill a Mockingbird? Were you impressed? You said, well, it was neither here nor there. You said the black guy got railroaded.

2:09:44 So, I mean, that was your takeaway? Yeah. I mean, no, that's important because for white people, this is a very important book. Because there is some, I do understand where the white saviorism comes from, but that's not what it is. But I think that as a white man, of course, I've read this book, but not in school because I came through the Dutch school system. So that was not in the curriculum. So I read it later in life. And the feeling I got is, oh, see, good. You know, it can work. It wasn't like really saviorism.

2:10:25 I didn't feel any of that. But quite honestly, I had the same. It's like, why is this? It just doesn't seem like there would have to be a big, a little indifferent, actually. Yeah. And I will say this on the other side of it, you do get these racially charged books. You get sounder. You get what, you know, those kind of books. But like I said, it's the adults are putting way more energy in it than the kids, to be honest with you. And it's just like it's another book you have to read. And like I said, it's a fictitious book. So why are we getting so bent out of shape over it? It's not like a reality story.

2:11:05 Right. I mean, it's other things that we could be reading, you know, or not reading. But the problem is you talk about race and the white saviorism, but her sentence starts off with sexuality. She didn't even, yeah, didn't even mention race at that point. No, that's the point. It's like you don't really care. You're just saying you just want that door to hold. You just want us to hold it so you can bring so much other stuff in. And it's like, you think I'm that dumb or black parents are that dumb or even saying dark parents, if you, I don't know what to call. I mean, because like you said, you can't say black and brown. You say, you can't say people of color. No, I'm going to say dark. No, no, I'm keeping it dark from now on. I'm just going to keep using it.

2:11:48 See how that works out for me. You let me know. Okay. But yeah, it's, it's, I don't, like I said, I don't know what's the argument. What's the what I get with the argument's about, but I don't understand from one side of it that how naive they think the people they're trying to help are. Well, let's go back to, let's go back to our mass formation. These people are under spell. So they are probably at this point in this state not capable of thinking that you're smart, dumb, or one way or the other.

CHAPTER 25 / 37 Discussion

Natural Immunity to Social Engineering and Kyrie Irving

The hosts discuss NBA player Kyrie Irving's refusal to comply with vaccine mandates, framing it as a form of "natural immunity" to social engineering. They analyze the media's use of biracial or Black reporters, like Malika Andrews, to criticize Black athletes, arguing that these optics are carefully managed by networks like ESPN to avoid the appearance of traditional racism.

kyrie irving· nba· espn· malika andrews· rachel nichols· vaccine mandates

2:12:31 They're just doing what they've been programmed to do. So do I have natural immunity? You have natural immunity from a lot of things. No, I'm saying, not me personally, but what I'm saying, but of like the people they're trying, the target audience is black people. They want to get. us riled up. So, we make a big push for it and then hold the door open. Then they flood all these other propagandistic information in. That's the goal. Right. That's interesting because this is targeted at dark people. But it's the white people that get riled up over it. But they need us to buy into it.

2:13:13 It's the same thing with the vaccine. The fact that we won't buy into it is a real problem for the people that's pushing it. Because if we, if we, and I say this very loosely as a group, but if on en masse, black people like, we want the vaccine, we want the vaccine. It will be snow. I'm saying it would be, you know, like, you would just, you know, ran up bulldozer by the, I'm saying, by what would be allowed. You know what I'm saying? We will all be mandated by now. But the fact that we're reluctant because, you know, we have the prior knowledge and what I call the natural immunity to race. It's like, no, I see where you're going with this. You realize that, right? I know you're in formation, but my natural immunity protects me from the BS.

2:13:59 And it's like, no, I'm not going to, I'm not willing to go that route. So I think that's why they can't understand it. Like why the calculations are there? Like, we're saying all the magic words. We're saying race. Why is it not working? Right. And props, mad props to Kyrie. Yeah. Good on him, man. And they sent since you brought it up. I mean, because a reason why I got to go here, because if it reached your radar, which you're a non-sports fan, it's working. The lady that ousted, they ousted Rachel Nichols for

2:14:40 my Kayla. Oh, the ESPN reporter who also got sidelined. Yes. No, no, no, no, not Sage, not Sage Steel. Oh, okay. The one they replaced Rachel Nichols with. She is outside of my page. No, she came out after Kyrie. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like they couldn't. I think Malika Andrews. That's it. Malika. Yes, she's the one who replaced Rachel Nichols. And now she's earning her keep by going at the Kyrie and in a way kind of going after Sage Steel, which is the one saying ESPN was making them mandating them.

2:15:27 So what I'm saying is you're seeing when you get that spot, it comes with a price. Oh, yeah. And she's having to pay up. She's holding strong. I got to give him his props. He's holding strong. She's a one-dropper. Yeah. She's very, she's half Jewish and she's half black. She's the Drake of ESPN. Got it. And that was, but they used a real black woman. And now I say real, what I mean, a full black woman. No, because when I say that, I mean, biracial issue. I know it's your own thing. I know it's your own thing. Because I want to say this: biracial is its own thing, which that's not good nor bad.

2:16:05 I mean, just embrace it. But they, but for optics, they had to use a quote unquote, let me say it properly, quote unquote, a real black woman as the victim of Rachel Nichols. They couldn't use her. They had to use another lady that said she was a basically a token hire. You know, it's so disgusting how they do this. Again, back to Sharon Osborne, you know, so that whole thing came down. Then she goes on entertainment tonight and it's a race story. Who interviews her? The black guy, of course. It's so obvious, you know, and it's by itself.

2:16:46 I don't think what the guy's name is. He should be thinking, that sucks. Don't make me do this story all the time. It's rude. Dude, that's why, because if Rachel Nichols was in the same spot as Malika Andrews was, and her criticizing Kyrie would be the wrong optics. So these things are pre-planned. It's like, okay, we got the NBA season coming up. We might have some rubber rousers. So you're saying some people that don't want to go along with the program. And the NFL, I mean, NBA being 85% black or more, it's likely it's going to be a black person. So we need somebody that's black there or appears black to criticize these black players.

2:17:31 So lo and behold, here you are. And I know that sounds far-fetched, but that's pretty much how much how the kind of thing is. I come from that world, Moe. I come from media. That's exactly how they think. Spot on. on. But we know. It's like I said, like when we see the, it's the natural, they said, the natural immunity to the bullshit because when you see the black reporter sitting down with the uh like the case, the one we talked about last time with uh officer uh bird from the capital, they had to sit black reporters down with him. Okay, oh, now we see what this is. You know what, you know what? But I'll go back to my standard, uh, what I think is happening.

CHAPTER 26 / 37 Discussion

Reaction Video Model and the Death of Mainstream Talent

Adam Curry argues that mainstream media has been forced to adopt the "reaction video" model of YouTube to stay relevant. He claims that figures like Don Lemon and Joy Reid lack the natural talent and "shtick" of independent creators or politicians like Donald Trump. The segment highlights how the traditional media's reliance on commercials and rigid formats makes them inefficient compared to modern digital content.

reaction videos· youtube· don lemon· tucker carlson· 45 savage· social media

2:18:14 They are still the Boule, the intellectual elite, the liberal intellectual elite, uh, Democrats, all politicians, they still are using the old-fashioned messaging system, and they haven't really caught up or figured out how to reach people with their message. They still are doing it in the old-fashioned way, you know, do 60 minutes, interview with the New York Times, you know, maybe do an extra hit with Anderson Cooper just for the looks because the ratings aren't there. Um, and it's not working, it's fundamentally not working. Uh, Hollywood can't influence anyone anymore, no one cares.

2:18:58 They're tuning out, they're sick of commercials, so people aren't getting the messages the way they used to. The only way, ironically, is clips being played on podcasts and or mainly, I would say, you know, YouTube, clips on YouTube, clips on Twitter, clips on Insta. And I said Insta. That's how it's still being propagated. Very inefficient, very inefficient. And they're still pushing it this way. And they're going to come to the realization. It's going to stop working. It will eventually. I think it already is. It's just going to break. Look at it. It's not working on you. It's not working on

2:19:38 black Americans with mandates. It's not working. It's something that you pointed out that just dawned on me, but you're saying it's not working. But I think it is because what they're doing now is they're following the non-traditional media format of reaction to reaction. This is how it goes on the YouTube side and these kind of things. I react to a video and then somebody reacts to my video and then somebody reacts to that video and then I get back to me and then I react to that video. That's what they're doing. They're doing nothing but the reaction video model. It's like good point. Good point. Yeah. So this is them trying to mimic answer songs.

2:20:23 Right. So when you see Tucker Carlson say something, then she reacts to that and then gives more Tucker Carlson more content to react to her reaction. And then hopefully somebody from the outside of sphere will react to it. So what that does from your own YouTube experience, it hypes up the people watching your stuff and they'll be into it. And then, you know, and the same for everyone else who's answering your video. But I think it still remains very limited. It's not a mass scale operation because it's only going to be people who are really

2:21:07 maybe that's not talented. You got to have the problem is they don't have talent. Yeah. Like that's you nailed it. They'll never get it right. They have no Joy Reid indeed has no talent. Yeah. I mean, she might get one line off like calling Tucker Carlson Tuck'ems. Like, that's funny. You know what I'm saying? But it's like the other things is it's not, they're not talented. This, I mean, this, this is why 45 Savage beat him. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like they stole something because he's a natural talented jokester. You know what I mean? Like when it comes to like cracking or snapping or whatever you want to call it. He's got game. He's got shtick. Right. That's why he was so successful at it. But then the other side tries to do it.

2:21:50 It's like, yeah, like, and it sounds lame. So if you don't have talent, you just don't have talent. And that's what's really being exposed. And they don't have very many talented people in the mainstream. They do not. Because when you look at Don Lennon, he's like, oh, he'll say something. It's like, man, that was lame, bro. Come on. But he's entertaining to watch. In a Korean court. It's like in a Kring kind of way, which you can react to. It's beautiful because we've won. We've broken them to our model. Oh, so they still had to do it around commercials, which is the problem. Yeah, true. True. All right. So now we have Tor Carlson's saying clip.

CHAPTER 27 / 37 Discussion

Survivors of Mao's China Warn Against Cultural Revolution

A survivor of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution speaks at a school board meeting, drawing parallels between the "Red Guards" and modern social justice warriors. She warns that the tactics of dividing people by race today are identical to the class-based divisions used in communist China. The hosts discuss the danger of using children as political props and the fragility of civil society.

mao zedong· cultural revolution· china· red guards· communism· school board meetings

2:22:35 He had the teacher speaking. Now he's going to have parents speak. speaking out against reacting basically to the teachers. Oh, so if you don't consider to kill a mockingbird racist, says Andrea Weisskopf, then, quote, you have no business discussing any books. Can you even imagine what this lady's personal life must be like? Miserable does not even begin to describe it. Desperate, hellish. But if she somehow looks familiar, there's a reason for that. You've heard a lot of lectures like this recently from people like Andrea Weisskopf. Stupid people telling you what you're allowed to say and read.

2:23:13 That's essentially 2021 summed up in a single sentence. The scariest part is they're telling your kids the exact same thing all day, every day in school. So what effect is that having on your kids, on all of our kids, on the country itself? Well, over time, the effect is unimaginable. For the last year, most parents have put up with this. Either they didn't know it was happening or they felt powerless to stop it from happening. They were afraid to object, to speak up, as lunatics like Andrea Weisskopf hurt their children. But that's changing finally. Some parents have had enough of this. Watch this mother at this week's Loudoun County School Board meeting.

2:23:54 CRT is not an honest dialogue, it is a tactic that was used by Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan on slavery very, many years ago to dumb down my ancestors so we could not think for ourselves. CRT is racist. It is abusive. It discriminates against one's color. Let me educate you. An honest dialogue does not oppress. An honest dialogue does not implement hatred or injustice. It's to communicate with deceiving without deceiving people. Today, we don't need your agreement. We want action in the backbone for what we asked for today, to ban CRT. I had to come down here today to tell you to your face that we are coming together and we are strong. This will not be the last. Greet and meet, respectfully. And as you could hear, or maybe

2:24:37 infer from what she said, our ancestors, this is a black lady, which is this is something that they couldn't. It makes them crazy. The brain freezes. It's like, what do we do with this? Because if you go against her, then you understand it kind of just ruins your whole narrative. But they don't understand that nobody wants to be a victim anymore. Like, that's so, that's so pre-Rona. Well, even before then, I mean, that's the whole thing. But the problem is with social media, people finally have a voice to say no. If you before, I mean, only what the, if you want to only hear what MSNBC has to say.

2:25:22 And you'll be like, well, is that what black people are saying? Well, I guess so. That's what the black anchors are saying. Or that's what the black lady from Harvard is saying, you know, that kind of thing. So you have people like this woman here coming forward and saying, no, we don't want to be victims. And we realize that this is the same thing that went on throughout history. Like I said, it's just we live in the information age. And you can draw the parallels very easily to things that happened in the past. Yes, certainly when it comes to communication, absolutely. Well, so I'll see your one black lady

2:26:05 at a PTA meeting. I'll raise you a survivor of Miles China. I've been very alarmed about what's going on in our school. You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history. Growing up in Mao, China, all this seems very familiar. The communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people. The only difference is they use class instead of race. During the Cultural Revolution, I witnessed students and teachers turn against each other. We changed school names to be politically correct. We were taught to denounce our heritage. The Red Guards destroy anything that is not communist. Old statues, books, and anything else.

2:26:50 We are also encouraged to report on each other, just like the student equity ambassador program and the biased reporting system. This is indeed the American version of the Chinese communist, the Chinese cultural revolution. The critical race theory has its roots in cultural Marxism. It should have no place in our schools. How old was she? She must have been 60. Yeah, she's like in her maybe 60 or 70s. I don't want to age her, you know what I'm saying? But she's definitely, I mean, she's a survivor of Mao, so she has to, you know, be of the, you know, of that age. So you see that statues being pulled and books being taken out of school, like you heard in the previous clip.

2:27:34 clips, it gives the imagery of Mao's China. And then you have a woman coming forward that survived it and said, Yeah, this seems pretty similar. I remember this. It doesn't help your case, but where'd you get that from? I hadn't heard of it. I hadn't heard this woman. I got it off of what is it, DC Shorts on YouTube. Yeah, good one. I had not heard. But it was several, it was several women from China that say, now, in good faith, I have to say, some of these people are just seeking attention. Like a lot of these parents go out there and somebody will go viral and it's like, oh, I can top that.

2:28:15 You know, and then they just start yelling and cussing and that kind of thing. It's not all good fake actors on both sides. So I just want to point that out as well. I saw some clips and it's like little kids like, yeah, I don't want to have crypto race, Tewe. It's scary. It's like, bro, like, why are you traumatizing your kids like that just for some airtime? Like, not like, it's just because they don't, the kids, the adults don't even know what critical race theory is. So how can the kids? And it's like, how do you, how do they know it's scary? So that's me just being unbiased on both sides of it. I don't like to see children using that as political props. That's something that's very irksome to me.

2:28:59 Well, unfortunately, that happens. And sometimes. Yep. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just saying that. It's gone too far, is what you're saying. But no, I don't like it because one, it's not effective, first of all. And two, it's destructive. It's damaging. It's destructive to the kids. I mean, I thought that my point is for the kids. Yeah, it's damaging. No, I understand. Mo love the kids. So it's like, why are you bringing the children into this? But you could say the same thing. Well, they're bringing the kids into it because they're trying to teach them.

CHAPTER 28 / 37 Discussion

Historical Parallels of the Great Leap Forward and Ritualistic Violence

A historical overview of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) describes Mao's attempt to regain power after the failure of the "Great Leap Forward." The segment details the mobilization of students into paramilitary units that killed teachers and intellectuals. The hosts reflect on the horrific extremes of the era, including reports of ritualistic cannibalism, as a warning of how quickly social order can collapse.

great leap forward· lin biao· stalin· ussr· cannibalism· paramilitary

2:29:38 So I get it from both sides, but we need to realize if we don't put on the break sometime soon, we could actually end up in Mao's China. And I have some clips speaking on the cultural revolution and why it was so violent. Yes. And listen for the parallels. May 2016 marks 50 years since the start of China's cultural revolution. The decade-long shift resulted in an estimated 2 million deaths alongside widespread abuse, displacement, public humiliation, and torture. At the time, little was understood about the causes and devastating outcomes of the revolution. However, newly released archives have shed light on this dark period of China's modern history.

2:30:21 So now, half a century later, what do we know about China's cultural revolution? Well, the revolution was predominantly Chairman Mao Zedong's attempt to establish himself as the leader of the communist world by ridding the country of capitalism and its long-standing traditions. After Mao's Communist Party took power in 1949, the Soviet Union's new leader, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, and began to de-Stalinize the USSR. Seeing similarities between himself and Stalin, Mao began to fear a similar fate for himself. So in 1958, Mao launched a national campaign to boost China's economy called the Great Leap Forward, which radically redistributed land among China's rural population and organized workers into communes.

2:31:09 The Great Leap Forward failed miserably, decimating the economy and diminishing Mao's role within the ruling party. To regain control, Mao united with like-minded radicals, including his wife and defense minister Lin Biao, to launch the cultural revolution. Yeah. So it was done to retain power. At the end of the day, that's what it was all about, retaining power. But you heard like parents, kids turning on parents and turning them in, even turning them in, like we're seeing now with climate change. Yeah. And mask and we saw with the Rona, right?

2:31:48 If you see somebody outside, call. Yeah, but I mean, kids calling on their parents, you know, that's that's harsh. Well, that's whether we've been through this before because I was in school at this time. Is your parents abusive? This is one of the big culture changes that I went through as a child was: can you spank your kids or not? Oh, yeah. That was the big argument. Can you spank your kids or not? And it was like, hey, if your parents do anything, here's a number. And you can call them, you know, on your parents. And that really shifted the power structure between the child and the parent.

2:32:28 Of course, my mom. mom of fact, she said, You better, if you call them, you better hope they get here by the time I kill you. My mom, my mom had the hairbrush, and her threat was Adam Curry. Oh, no, she would do Adam Clark Curry. It's going to be bristle side down. One of those really stiff brushes, you know, like with the metal prongs. But that was the threat. Like I said, we've been here before of kids calling the authorities on their parents. So this is just another iteration of that.

2:33:11 But now it's often not actions, but thoughts. And now the kids actually have a cell phone. Yeah. And speed dial. Right. So it's like, oh, but it's, it's, I just find it like it's scary in one sense because I know how fragile these things are and how fast they can spin out of control. And I don't think the people in play don't take that very seriously or serious enough what they're playing with. So I guess we can get to the second clip of the cultural revolution.

2:33:46 At a conference in May of 1966, Mao claimed that bourgeois ideas had crept into society and the government, and that these elements could only be removed through violent class struggle. In the months that followed, Mao shut down China's schools and mobilized students into paramilitary units called Red Guards. The groups attacked and killed teachers, intellectuals, and eventually ordinary people they suspected of undermining the communist system. The movement infiltrated the military, workers, and even the ruling party itself. By the late 1960s, tens of thousands had been forced out of cities in an effort to purify urban areas, and millions had suffered rape, abuse, arbitrary imprisonment, or torture.

2:34:29 Some of the most horrific violence occurred in rural villages in southern China, where revolutionaries were known to practice ritualistic cannibalism in the name of revolution. Wow. That's hard. Opposition. Yeah. So this happened. I think people don't really appreciate how fragile civility is. And I always talk about that proverbial glass. And are we prepared? What's on the other side of that glass breaking, you know, of that metaphorical glass breaking? Because these families killed each other. It's very, it's very alarming. And that's why I've tried to push the empathetic listening and

2:35:14 understanding because you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube on these kind of things. The thing that's probably closest right now to what was happening then is the Sunrise movement. And if you follow them, so it's predominantly young people, young children, not children, but young. And they're very radical when it comes to climate change. And they're just kids in my mind, but the leadership of Sunrise, very, very radical. Again, it's the people from the 60s with true Marxist training from back in the day, and they're leading them.

2:35:57 So it definitely needs to be looked at, scrutinized carefully what's taking place. We have to because as we hear with the military, they're being pushed with the critical race theory. People on their jobs are being pushed with it. It's this constant unsettling, as the guy said before, an object of anxiety. It's a constant, the pushing of the object of anxiety. And then you have that, and then you have the DOJ directing the FBI to crack down.

CHAPTER 29 / 37 Discussion

DOJ and FBI Crackdown on School Board Protests

The Attorney General instructs the DOJ and FBI to address "threats" against school boards, which critics argue is an attempt to intimidate parents protesting COVID-19 restrictions and CRT. The hosts discuss the legal distinction between "domestic violent extremists" and "terrorists," noting that the government is increasingly using national security tools to monitor domestic political dissent.

department of justice· fbi· merrick garland· joe biden· first amendment· domestic terrorism

2:36:35 Every day in this country, the government under Joe Biden or whoever is running the joint infringes more and more upon our freedoms, pushing Americans closer and closer to the edge. The latest? The Attorney General of the United States instructing the Department of Justice and the FBI to address threats against school boards and teachers over COVID-19 restrictions, masks, and critical race theory saying those threats should be discouraged and prosecuted. The memo reads that, quote, constitutional protections don't extend to efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views.

2:37:13 Wait, what? A primer. The Constitution protects actions and speech, where individuals seek a redress of their grievances. Now, however, the age. AG seeks to remove that constitutional right. If you're a parent concerned about how your children are being taught, the DOAJ actually threatening parents concerned about their children. But it's okay to follow a U.S. senator into a bathroom and threaten to take her out of office. It's okay for Black Lives Matter rioters to intimidate and literally burn down our neighborhoods and businesses.

2:37:51 But, mama, don't even think about objecting to the ideological racial hatred being hoisted upon your own children. This is viewpoint discrimination, which is particularly disfavored by the courts because it restricts speech on a given subject matter. Yeah, it's so, you know, this whole DOJ going after the parents, I think that was more posturing than anything. I'm not, I'm not so sure how it's, you know, as when they put stuff on the books.

2:38:32 Just like when you had the thing say, oh, we're any terrorists anywhere, we can go after them. It's true. It's on the books. And the only reason why they didn't call people domestic terrorists up until this point because you had to have some official tie to a foreign terrorist group. That's the only reason they can't hit you with like the domestic terrorism charges now. I did that. I found that out in my studies and Wormhole on January 6th thing. That's the only. That's where they started calling them DVEs, domestic violent extremists.

2:39:15 Right. Which is not the same as a terrorist. Of course not, because a terrorist has to have ties to foreign terrorist operations. Basically, yes. Yeah. I mean, no, I'm saying by law, by law, that's if you're going to get charged, you had to have ties to the children. Well, remember, during Obama, there was some change and became enemy combatant. And there are some there's like some wishy-washy stuff they can just basically they can just pick you up a black bag you can throw you in gitmo anytime they want yeah if they want pretty much they have that of course that's pretty much it but that's my point like it's on the books now that if you go to the wrong pta meeting and say the wrong thing we heard the

2:39:59 story last time of the guy that went to the capitol uh didn't go in and that guy overheard him talk his neighbor overheard him talking about it and called the feds on it right so i mean let's not think this is far-fetched and this is where my problem comes in at is because now no one can be critical of the education their kids are getting which infringes upon my rights because if i want to go and say and say my peace uh at a pta meeting or uh a school board meeting i should have that right i'm not should have that i have that right not should i have that right and it shouldn't be afforded to me by the first

2:40:39 amendment and it shouldn't be afringed on so this is where the rubber meets the road at for people like me is that y'all can do whatever y'all want to do but when you start saying i can't voice my opinion on an anti-deep entity that controls like one-third of my kids day then i have a problem with that i have a problem with that have you been to a school meeting school board meeting i i have not i live in a county that the school superintendent is uh i want to say not say anti but he's not in favor of masks if you want your kids not to wear a mask that's possible they were one of the earlier schools that went back um so it's really like a

2:41:24 it's kind of like a red stronghold uh in northern virginia i mean and you see the demographics kind of changing but i'm ground zero here uh in northern virginia uh the the county i live in it leans more red and school in the school superintendent uh he's not anti-mask but he's um you can get waivers so your kid didn't have to wear masks to school and you know uh was one of the first early schools in this area to go back to full day last year so um it's it's just it's just weird and i was gonna go to the school board meetings and

2:42:04 make a fuss but then i was like you know what just sever ties with the entity um and then do it and do it kind of sad to say because my dad's okay i was gonna say and then just do an episode of mofax i could or yeah i could definitely do that um Um, uh, it's sad because my dad, he's always been an educator, but professionally he was an educator. And I never thought it would get like this, but I saw the kind of handwriting on the wall when towards the end of his career as a teacher. Um, it would just changing so fast. Um, so it's like I said, it's kind of sad.

CHAPTER 30 / 37 Discussion

The Failure of Zoom Learning and Teacher Unions

The hosts debate the effectiveness of distance learning, with Adam Curry arguing that the lack of human contact makes it nearly impossible for teachers to convey ideas. Mo Facts suggests that the technology exists to make it engaging—citing gaming as an example—but that teacher unions and outdated administrative structures prevent meaningful reform. They conclude that the current public school system is "unfixable" and must be reimagined.

zoom· khan academy· teacher unions· distance learning· grand theft auto· education reform

2:42:46 I mean, well, sad, but it's also an opportunity, Mo. I think it's an opportunity for the people and the communities themselves to retool, uh, recreate their own their new schooling system. I will say this: I mean, I do, uh, I am a owner of certain privileges that I've worked from home, you know, so that does help. Um, all parents don't have that option, so that's one of the difficult things. Um, I see, I think school could be reimagined. I think that it could

2:43:26 definitely be changes to be made where you don't have to, I mean, like, it doesn't have to be binary, like no public schools anymore. No, but I think, I think it has to be reimagined, Mo. It has to be. It has to. No, I totally agree with you on that. It has to be reimagined. You can't fix this. What's happened here is no longer fixable. It just has to be redone. I really believe that. I really think that there's so much middle management administration and it's poison. It's just poison. I don't think you can cut the poison out. It's the unions. I mean, let's just motivate that. Let's just keep it. I mean, right where the problem is at, it's the unions. And I know we have teachers out there, but the unions even get in the teacher's way.

2:44:13 Like I said, one of the problems is the teachers are underpaid. The quality of teachers, lateral entry. I mean, there's a whole bunch of whole stuff. Oh, yeah. No, I know a lot of teachers, and yes, technology issues. The whole lockdown was a mess. It was a mess. But why did it have to be? That's why I don't understand of we have Zoom. Why does it so hard to teach? We have Khan Academy. We have all these things. Why is it that it's so hard to get students in front of teachers? I don't understand what the problem is. I know what the problem is because they have these contract deals with these

2:44:58 providers and these people that create these systems. That's part of it. That's part of the problem. It's not that easy to teach via Zoom, certainly if you've never been doing it. And my only, I have an example of this where several years ago, I did a speech at a college in New Jersey in a media class, and I was invited back to do that again during the Rona. So the first time I was at the school and all the students were in the auditorium. The second time I was on Zoom and I had 26 windows and it sucked balls.

2:45:43 You cannot make contact. You cannot get, and some of them were actually interested. So it's not just a bunch of kids who are forced to sit there. You cannot get the human contact that is critical for communicating ideas. It's not there. And I'm sure that, you know, distance learning, and of course, lots of people do colleges, et cetera. But for young students, I think it's almost impossible for teachers to convey anything. Certainly if you're talking classrooms of 20, 30 strong. I'll push back against that. Okay. Because the kids have no problem connecting when they're gaming.

2:46:23 Oh, no, but listen to what I'm saying. The teachers don't know how to do it. The teachers don't know how. The kids understand. The teachers do not know how to teach in this manner. No, I agree. That's what I'm saying. It's that, but why are we not trying to fix the problem? It's because the teachers don't want to be phased out. Or this, I mean, it's the same conversation we're having with the media, right? The current media doesn't fit the system. Good point. It's the same thing. So it's, do we restrict the kids? Because the kids have no problem with connecting. Well, I actually liked your idea there. I mean, I like the gaming idea. I think if kids could go in and could do like a grand theft auto, except, you know, it's their teacher they're shooting.

2:47:09 Well, that would engage. That would be very engaging. People are like robots. I mean, because these kids, like, you have a. have a little, you know what I'm saying? Like, and what I'm just saying is I don't accept that it can't be done because that's not how we think, right? I mean, you're no, no, I mean podcasting. So, I mean, I've no, it can be done. I'm just saying, I don't know if it makes sense to try and fix these people. First of all, the quality is the quality of teachers. I mean, I mean, just keep it 1,000. You can walk in with a four-year degree and lateral entry and walk into a classroom in a very short period of time.

2:47:50 Of course, I don't want to generalize because it's different from state to state. But with lateral entry, you don't have to have the four-year teaching degree with the, you know what I'm saying? With the, that's kind of like being a nurse. It's like they're saying, okay, you have a four-year degree. You can come be a nurse. And then we'll teach you how to be a nurse on the fly. Right. What? Huh? Really? That's what we're doing with our most prized possession, our children. Unfortunately, yes. So that's where it's broken at. But you want to keep the wages down because the unions need to make their cut. So they can build airports. As I said, I think homeschooling is the way to go.

2:48:32 I think you're doing a good thing there. I think hybrid is the way to go. I'll just say that. There's some kind of win-win there. But with that said, we got to go thank some more people that allow us to do what we do. I like brand new money. I just, I don't want any money around me. I'd almost rather have a new one than an old 20. That's kind of dumb. But there's something about new money that excites you. You like $100 bills? Oh, man. I like all money too. Oh, most beautiful thing on earth is a $100 bill. I haven't seen a woman as good looking as a $100 bill. There's something about $100 bill that excites you.

CHAPTER 31 / 37 Discussion

Stephen Covey's Synergy and the COVID-19 Vaccine Booster

Mo Facts plays a clip of Stephen Covey discussing "Synergy" (Habit 6) as a metaphorical "booster shot" for the mind. Covey explains that synergy is the fruit of seeking first to understand, creating "third alternatives" rather than adversarial win-lose outcomes. The hosts present this as the true solution to the social divisions discussed throughout the episode.

stephen covey· seven habits of highly effective people· synergy· win-win· empathetic listening

2:56:28 We gave people a double dose of the healing vaccine or wherever you want to call it. Yes. So I thought maybe we should call it the COVID-19 vaccine from Mr. Stephen Covey of Seven Habits of Highly Affected People. This is something I want to start doing because it was so well received and empathetic listening. I think we can make this not every show, but just make sure we give people a booster every now and again on their COVID. COVID-19 vaccine. So this one is synergy.

2:57:10 It should help. Habit six, synergize, in a sense, is the fruit of the spirit of win-win, habit four. The spirit of seeking first to understand, then to be understood. Habit five. Then what happens is a very powerful thing. When people begin to interact together genuinely and they're open to each other's influence, they begin to get new insight. Something happens to them both. It creates the possibility of third alternatives.

2:57:49 Not the either-or approach, not win-lose, lose-win, not compromise. Compromise is one plus one equals one and a half. Positive synergy is one plus one equals three. Negative synergy, one plus one equals one half. In other words, so much of the effort and energy is spent in the adversarialism. It's been a while since I've heard him. There's your booster. That's your third booster shot, folks. That should do it. You're good to go now. You're immunized. Yeah.

2:58:31 And in all seriousness, that's how you beat this thing is the empathetic listening is the synergy is to seek first to understand it and to be then to be understood because we don't want to end up like Miles China. No. And I know people like, oh, they'll roll their eyes, but. Yeah, no, no, no. Whoever thought we'd see vaccine mandates? Whoever thought we'd lock down our whole country. Uh-uh-uh-uh. Time for that is over. That's why I'm so aggressive about pushing the information of just understanding because you even poo-pooed the fact that, well, it's just the DOJ and they're just putting, no, just putting something on the books, that kind of posturing thing.

CHAPTER 32 / 37 Discussion

Kristen Clarke Confirmation and the Amos Akerman Legacy

Senator Dick Durbin supports the nomination of Kristen Clarke to lead the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, invoking the legacy of Amos Akerman, the first Attorney General to prosecute the KKK during Reconstruction. Durbin emphasizes that Clarke will be the first Senate-confirmed woman of color in the role. The hosts analyze the "woman of color" branding and the strategic use of historical parallels.

kristen clarke· dick durbin· amos akerman· department of justice· reconstruction· voting rights

2:59:15 But Dick Durbin is very serious, and this was him at the Kristen Clark's confirmation hearings. And I heard these two clips, and I found them troubling. So if people don't know, just a little background, this is Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois. He's the one that gave us Obama, basically, back when Obama was running. And now he's back at it again, giving us Kristen Clark, who was then the nominee for the lead civil rights division at the DOJ.

2:59:51 She was confirmed, but here is him speaking on her confirmation. As he knelt on his neck, he stared into a camera with a look, with a look that haunts me to this day. Those nine minutes and 29 seconds took George Floyd's life and changed America's national conversation about law enforcement. Those nine minutes and 29 seconds sparked a global movement and compelled us to bear witness to the reality of racial injustice in our country.

3:00:29 In this Senate, we are in a privileged position to face that reality and to continue America's long, sometimes bitter march toward equal justice under the law. That is why I rise today in support of Kristen Clark's nomination to be assistant attorney general for the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. It's worth noting the history of this position. The Civil Rights Division is one of the most important components of the Justice Department. The Attorney General's office has existed since 1789. The Justice Department itself was not created until after our Civil War.

3:01:13 During the days of Reconstruction after that war, our nation resolved to take new steps to make a more perfect union through the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, the 14th Amendment's guarantee of due process and equal protection, and the 15th Amendment's protection of all citizens' fundamental right to vote. Always nice to see a Jamaican coming in to protect our African Americans. Yes. So that's one thing. And just for all clarity, she is married to a white man. Oh, no.

3:01:52 The horrors. No, what I mean by that is that it's just amazing that these people, they get to be so. well, they're above it, they're above it. They have special privileges and rights. You know, it's like they can do whatever they want. Which is, like I said, you can marry who you want, you can love who you want. My issue is that perspective if you dedicate your life to race and those kind of things, you would think one of those things is passing those genetics on to you know inside the culture. But it doesn't seem that way. And I think, and what my problem is: this

3:02:35 when you look at Suzanne Rice, when you look at Kamala Harris, when you look at this lady, it's a trend there. What is the trend? Yeah, of course I see the trend. The trend is non-non-African American, African-Americans, right? That's my point. Like, how are you finding all these non-African-American, African-American? I can't even say it. Non-African American, African-American. Right. Why are you finding all these? Well, it doesn't matter because they're dark. That's my point. So my point is the perspective is lost. Because even if you married a black American man, and a reason why I'm saying this is because this was so important, important to

3:03:22 Barack Obama's political career. Right. So why is it not in reverse the same thing? Why are we not? Of course, if Obama was married to, and we're just going to pull the rug back for a minute. If Obama was married to a white woman, he would lose all racial credibility. Let's just keep that totally. But why is that not reciprocal? Well, because it's not fair. No, I'm just saying, like, I mean, I mean, why? Yeah, obviously, because shut up. Just shut up. They'll do whatever they want. I mean, it's hypocritical. It's crazy.

3:04:04 Right. And but if you point that out, like I said, if Obama and Obama was aware of this, he knew he had to marry a Michelle. It's not say Michelle itself, but he had to marry a Michelle. It was, he was saying it was, he knew how it would be perceived because they were like, well, you're not really one of us. But the fact that he was tethered is tied in that gave him the cred. Exactly. So I'm just wondering why it's not, that's why I raised the issue of her race of her spouse or her lineage because it's just not, it's not the same, it's not fair. I think the lineage, I think that said as a trend, I think that's an interesting observation.

3:04:46 It was a combination of both for me. Why is this the and I'm asking this from the point of why is this the combination that the powers that be are pushing to the top? Because we all know that in these positions, you're kind of handpicked to be groomed for these positions. Oh, definitely. Early on in your career. So what is going on here? So with that said, let's get into the second clip from Durbin. The Department of Justice was created after the passage of those amendments and entrusted with the responsibility to defend the rights of Americans, particularly the newly emancipated, formerly enslaved

3:05:31 Americans. Given the department's immediate imperative to protect and preserve civil rights, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Amos Ackerman to be the first Attorney General to lead this new department. Why? He had extensive experience in prosecuting voter intimidation as the U.S. Attorney in the state of Georgia. More than 150 years later, the Civil Rights Division, the Justice Department, now is entrusted with that constitutional responsibility. The division enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religion, national origin, and citizenship status.

3:06:19 And just as President Grant appointed a legal expert with a breadth of experience to lead the newly formed Justice Department in 1870, today, President Joe Biden has chosen Kristen Clark to take up the medal as the head of the Civil Rights Division. With her breadth of experience defending the civil rights of all Americans, Kristen Clark is singularly qualified to lead this division, particularly at this moment in history. And, Madam President, Kristen Clark will be the first. Senate-confirmed woman of color to do so. The first. Oh, and there it is.

CHAPTER 33 / 37 Discussion

The Trend of Non-African American Leadership

Mo Facts observes a trend in the "powers that be" selecting leaders with non-African American lineages—such as Kristen Clarke, Susan Rice, and Kamala Harris—to represent Black Americans. He compares this to Barack Obama's need to marry Michelle Obama to gain "racial credibility," questioning why the same standard of cultural tethering is not applied to these handpicked female leaders.

kristen clarke· susan rice· kamala harris· barack obama· lineage· genetics

3:07:01 That's what counts. That's what is it. That's who really cares if she's any good. She'll be a woman and she's dark. Yes. But the reason we did. I'm sorry. Did he actually say African-American woman? I just want to check. No, color. Woman of color. Oh, okay. So he did that right. All right. Yes. The woman of color. Like I said, the reason why I bring this up is because Clarence Thomas was railroaded and written down because of who he married. You see what you see? Why is this different? It's not really, but I have to point this out.

3:07:41 Now, I'll digress a bit, but I want to go back to another point: Amos Akerman. Why did he invoke that name? Why that name specifically? I'll explain to you why. Amos Akerman was famous for going after the KKK. Oh, this was his claim to fame. Now, we're going to go and get into Mr. Amos Akerman and his past. But yes, this was, he went after the KKK. Now, Kristen Clark is going to go after the KKK. Which parents, which, yeah, you got the KKP.

3:08:25 Wow. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's the whole point. This the school board comes from her desk. All of it, this is what this is about: is going after first, we all first of all, we have to label them as terrorists, and then we have somebody that's going to invoke the same spirit as Amos Akerman. Are you ready to hear about Amos Akerman? Yes, one moment. I wanted to add that I think. Yes. Our friend Crenshaw, Kimberly Crenshaw, just because you brought it up and my eye caught it earlier.

3:09:07 I believe that she here it is. She assisted legal team presenting Anita Hill at the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Isn't that interesting? Yeah, I don't find this interesting, but not surprising. No, not at all. All right. Yes. Yes. I'm very keen to hear about Mr. Akerman. All right, 36. Fuck the police products. Hold on, stop. Stop. I did a poor job. This is okay. Value for value. This is why value for value is so important. It wasn't long enough to click into a separate clip. So they're going out of one segment on this podcast.

3:09:50 This is, what was it, behind the police with Robert Evans. I don't know if you heard of him or not. You mean Robert? The movie producer, Robert Evans? I don't know if that's the movie producer. I know he's a popular podcaster and journalist. Oh, no, no, no, that's something different. Okay. Okay. And rapper, rap artist, propaganda, aka Jason Petty. So they're going out of one segment and then they have to go into ads and then they come out of the ads into their talking with F the Police. Right. So I want. So, no, they went into the ads of saying these are the F the Police products. Oh, I got you. I'm wondering, like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do y'all not get flagged for that?

3:10:34 Yeah, over there. I mean, no, so I left that in there so you could play the first 10 seconds of the transition. And we can let people know what they don't have to tolerate due to value for value. Fuck the police products. We're back. Oh, my gosh. You know what I love is being back from ads because it means that we can talk more about the horrific history of racism and law enforcement. The terror and trauma that sits inside of my DNA and it's passed on generationally.

3:11:12 Yes. Should have had an air horn there. So starting in 1870, President Grant began to lobby Congress to give him power to do something about the Klan. Because again, local law enforcement was actively aiding and abetting the KKK. In 1870 and 1871, Congress passed the Enforcement Acts. These protected the rights of black men to vote, hold office, and serve on juries and generally enjoy equal protection under the law. The Ku Klux Klan Acts, as they came to be known, allowed President Grant to call up the army in order to arrest and break up the bands of disguised night marauders. And we're going to be like 99% critical of law. law enforcement on this podcast, but we got to be fair when it's important to be fair.

CHAPTER 34 / 37 Discussion

Amos Akerman's Confederate Past and Political Sanitization

The hosts reveal that Amos Akerman, celebrated by Dick Durbin for fighting the KKK, was actually a volunteer in the Confederate Army. They play a clip from the "Behind the Police" podcast that attempts to reconcile this fact. The discussion highlights the hypocrisy of the modern left in "sanitizing" historical figures when their actions serve a current political narrative, despite their ties to the Confederacy.

amos akerman· confederate army· kkk· robert evans· behind the police· revisionist history

3:11:53 And federal law enforcement did a pretty decent job on breaking up the Klan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is where things get really complicated, Prop, because a lot of the credit for this goes to Amos Ackerman, the Attorney General of the United States. Ackerman joined the Republican Party after the Civil War and became one of the nation's most strenuous advocates for black suffrage. He was like, black people have the right to vote and hold office, and we will, I will make sure we enforce this with fucking riflemen if we have to. Okay. Oh, yeah. He's serious. He said. So you heard what you had to deal with with ads. Oh, yeah.

3:12:36 Hey, man, I couldn't believe that I was talking to Megan Kelly, and then she took a break to sell Genucell, which is some beauty product. It's sad. You have this heavy conversation. It's like, oh, we got to do a break. Now we're back so we can talk more about this oppressive racism. And then the guy's like, yeah, it's deep in my genetics that I passed along. This podcast is so cringe. It's like everything we do, if you did it completely wrong. I'm sorry to say it. But yeah, but you heard him get strong with the, oh, yeah, he wouldn't enforce it with effing rifles if he had to, right?

3:13:18 Well, Mr. Ackerman has a very interesting past before he started working for the DOJ. And here's where things get complicated. Because before he was a Republican, before he was the Attorney General, Amos Ackerman volunteered and fought in the Confederate Army. People have layers of complication. People are complicated. They in them contain minis. Yeah. And this, for Amos, this seems to have been like he was, it seems to have been more a matter of like, you hear about these folks who are like really loyal to their state for reasons I have trouble understanding. Like he doesn't seem to have joined the Confederate Army specifically to fight for slavery, although he fought for slavery because that's what the Confederate Army fought for.

3:14:03 But in his mind, I think it was more like, I'm really loyal to Georgia. I don't know. I can't get in the head of that guy, but I guess if you can make that up, he tried to afterwards. Yeah. So I want to give it to the possibility that people, probably hundreds of them at the time, you know, like you said, just was like, look, we're down here. This is what we do. We're fighting for our way of life. I guess that's right. And in the middle of that, finally had this like, you know, this is bullshit. You know what I'm saying? And was like, but if you're the only person for miles talking like this, it's probably hard to find some good community.

3:14:45 And you're probably going to fumble. And then you become this guy to where you're like, hey, there's one thing I can do. I could probably like dismantle this Klan thing. That seems like a good thing to do. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, this is where you see how history is not being taught in school. Crap. My issue is from the left, they're all if you have anything to do with Confederacy, we got to tear down your factor right away. Oh, yeah, right away. Looking at that 20, that's looking through the 2021 lens. You look like a real racist. Right. But here, it's like, well, you know, he kind of did something that we liked for a little while.

3:15:28 So that kind of erases everything that he did for the Confederacy. No, if you want to have it your way, then anything that Mr. Akerman stands for, even when Dick Derby brings him up, you know, no, he has to be shouted down because, you know, he fought to protect slavery. As these gentlemen said, he fought for slavery by their calculations. But you see how it works? It's not about facts. No, no, it's never about facts. And that's why he set it up the way he did with the strong language in the first clip. Like he said with effing rifles, he was going to do it. You're like, yeah, we know it's another shoe to drive. What is the point of this behind the police thing?

3:16:13 Not just to say how bad. No, no, I mean, what is the point? It's a podcast, right? Right. What is the point of the podcast? You heard what we said, 99% critical of police. He made it quite clear what it was about. No, I'm just saying that's that's the point of it. And then he has his Mr. Jason Petty with him. And it's just like, no, if you fought for the Confederacy, there's no back seats on that. I mean, that's just if you're about the work. that they're about. Yeah. Yeah, their work. Yes. Yeah, it doesn't work. That's did that go to show you that they're there's all bull crap.

3:16:54 Yeah. It's all political. It's all about who we can get to manipulate people to go cast a vote at the end of the day. That's all it's about. Do you think they really know that? These people, these guys seem dumb. Well, they're doing a podcast on it. It should be their what I'm saying is the emotional intelligence side of it. You know, anytime you say anything Confederate on the left, you're done. It's a rap. But it's like, well, let's sanitize this guy because we kind of got to need him for what we need him for. The same way Dick Durbin did. Why didn't Dick Durbin bring that up? That he was a former Confederate soldier.

3:17:34 He just kind of like glossed over the whole thing. Like, well, you know, well, we know why. Yeah. Right. So that the headline is: DOJ confirmation receives praise for federal Confederate soldier. Right. That's what I'm saying. It doesn't matter. None of this matters to these people. They just talk out the side of their neck. But it's like they have this, it's not logical. It's not based in any, okay, well, let's weigh out what these people's impact was. No, it's just, well, they did something we like, so it just erased everything. We don't know anything about this guy. We didn't know what he did for his prior years to work for the DC.

3:18:18 Well, for sure, this podcast that these guys are doing sucks. They really suck because they're being disingenuous, dishonest. Well, it continues on part three. Yeah, if there's a thing that can make up for volunteering to serve in the Confederate Army, I guess it's dismantling the KKK. I guess. Like, that's a good, that's a good try art. Yeah. Paul, so now I want you to pay attention. Sorry about that, but I want you to pay attention to their definition of dismantling. And now he's saying they dismounted the Klan right in Reconstruction. So that doesn't make any sense.

CHAPTER 35 / 37 Discussion

The Botched Dismantling of the KKK and Railroad Subsidies

Historical records show that while Amos Akerman prosecuted hundreds of Klansmen, President Ulysses S. Grant abruptly fired him and commuted the sentences of many convicts. The hosts suggest Akerman was actually removed for challenging Northern capitalists and railroad subsidies. They draw a parallel to modern politics, suggesting Kristen Clarke should focus on Big Pharma's civil rights infringements rather than political posturing.

ulysses s. grant· amos akerman· kkk· railroads· subsidies· big pharma

3:18:55 But let's listen to their definition of dismantle. Yeah, if there's a thing that can make up for volunteering to serve in the Confederate Army, I guess it's dismantling the KKK. I guess. Like, that's a good, that's a good triart. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the worst Klan violence was in South Carolina, and Grant declared martial law in that state, citing a condition of lawlessness. He suspended habeas corpus, and numerous Klansmen were rounded up by federal authorities, including Sheriff Rice Rogers, who we have been talking about. A lot of sheriffs got pulled up in this. So the Senate held extensive hearings where hundreds of black victims of the Klan were allowed to tell their stories to the nation.

3:19:36 Under Ackerman's direction, 600 Klansmen were convicted and 65 of them sent to a federal penitentiary. By 1872, the Klan was no longer a meaningful force in the United States. Frederick Douglass himself said that without President Grant's actions, Black Americans would have been trapped again in a condition almost identical to slavery. That is probably true, but it's also true that Grant kind of botched the landing on this one, firing Ackerman to appease his political rivals and commuting the sentences of some Klansmen in a bid for reconciliation. So again. Oh. So 600 arrested, 66 sent to federal prison, and then Grant goes and commutes some of those 66 to get them right back out.

3:20:18 Sounds like dismantling to me. I mean, seriously? Well, it was enough to compensate for his fighting with the Confederate Army. So what? Currently? 66 arrests? I mean, I could trip and fall on 66 Klansmen in Reconstruction. Back in those days, yeah, for sure. And it seems like this dude was what we talked about on the last show. He was flipped. Right. It's like, hey, you want your legacy? Hey, give us the Klan. Right. That's what it seems like to me. And then he was just abruptly fired one year into doing the job. And then Grant goes back and commutes their sentences.

3:21:03 Does none of this make sense? And then they say, oh, well, Klan's dismantled. Let's get back to business as usual. So putting ourselves back in those days, what was the point of this fake move? Well, 39. Grant's presumed motivations for suppressing the Ku Klarks Klan are dubious. Consider, for example, consider the experience of Amos Ackerman, his second attorney general. Ackerman was the most vigorous of Grant's attorneys general in prosecuting the Kevin Clarks Klan. Klan. In order to expedite prosecutions, he expanded the powers of the then newly created federal justice department.

3:21:48 About 600 Klan members were convicted. Yet Grant abruptly asked for Ackerman to resign in December 1871. Partly at the prompting of Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, Grant had misgivings about Ackerman's quote obsession, close quote, with the Klan. Perhaps more importantly, Ackerman also frustrated important Northern capitalists. He was, for example, critical of the questionable terms under which railroads often qualified for federal subsidies. Racism was just as prevalent in the North as it was in the South.

3:22:29 The only difference was that blacks represented but 1%, 1% of the population of the organic Republican states. Those states, those same states, would not have granted blacks the right to vote if blacks accounted for 40% of their population as it did in the South, where blacks did account for 40% of the population. And he actually spent more money appropriated by Congress to enforce the KKKX. He spent most of that money, not in the South, but in the North, in the big cities of the North to police the elections where the Irish were voting. Oh, wow.

3:23:14 You know, there's a new book out about Ulysses Grant. Is it? Yeah. Yeah. I just saw, I think, Brett Baer, Fox News anchor, wrote a book about Ulysses S. Grant. I actually was thinking, that's interesting. I should probably read that. I don't know anything about him. Well, that would give this would be a good motivation to read it now. Yeah. But yeah, you saw it. Ackerman started stepping on the toes of big business. That's right. Which is kind of what it would be the equivalent probably to pharmaceuticals now in this sway at the time. And he had to go. And he freed some of the Klansmen. So I don't understand

3:23:58 how did these facts line up for Dick Durbin to sit out here and celebrate one to celebrate Mr. Ackerman without fully. If you wanted to be genuine, you would say, here's a man that was on the wrong side of history, but he tried to write himself. And that's the way you would posture that. Right. Well, how about this? How about Dick Durbin wants to do the same thing? He wants to round up a bunch of annoying people and then let them go on the back end. Just a posture. Just a posture. Not dissimilar to the January 6th trespassers. Yes. And I say trespasses because that's what most of them are being held on

3:24:41 for now nine months, 10 months. But what goes, what I find funny is here's an opportunity for Miss Kristen Clark. If I make sure I got her name correctly, you did. Yes, Kristen Clark, to be a Amos Akerman, to hold big business accountable, being the pharmaceutical industry, and say, no, you can't infringe upon people's civil rights for their personal beliefs. And you can't jab them. That would be appropriate from her, certainly as a, quote, African American. You would think so. And I was saying, that's the point I'm trying to make. Or just from the fact that she's had many cases protecting religious beliefs.

CHAPTER 36 / 37 Discussion

Lizard Brain Theory and the Resistance to Higher Thought

The hosts discuss the "lizard brain" (the amygdala) and how it drives fear, revenge, and binary thinking. They argue that modern social engineering aims to keep the population trapped in this primitive state to prevent higher rational thought and compassion. Mo Facts jokingly attributes this to "lizard people," but clarifies the metaphorical meaning: a system designed to reduce humans to their most base, reactive instincts.

lizard brain· seth godin· matthias de smet· amygdala· binary thought· social control

3:25:26 And, you know, this is not her first rodeo. So you're on the clock. If you side with, you know what I'm saying, with Big Pharma in allowing these things to happen, you're just a, you know, spoken the wheel of, you know, oppression that you claim to be against. I mean, that's what I'm saying. But this is the point. Facts do not matter as your clips you gave me about a mass formation. He's going to point out that facts do not matter. So what happens is that at that moment, when people experience this mental intoxication, it doesn't matter anymore whether the narrative is correct or wrong, even blatantly wrong.

3:26:13 What matters is that it leads up to this mental intoxication. And that's why they continue to go along with the narrative, even if they could know by thinking for one second that it is wrong. Because for people, it doesn't matter when the narrative is wrong. And what we all try to do is we all try to. to show constantly that the narrative is wrong. But for people, that's not what it is all about. It's all about this, the fact that they don't want to go back to this painful state of free-floating anxiety.

3:26:51 Yeah. I can see by the title of your next clips that I should just wait to tell you what he said is the solution. Uh-huh. Or do you want to know now? Well, I'll say this. Let me just set it up. I have ironclad proof that reptilians are behind it all. Now you can go ahead and say what you need. Oh, screw. Forget what I was going to say. I want to see the proof reptilians are behind it. Let's go. 41. Seth, I want to start by talking about a problem.

3:27:27 So, for me, when I'm approached with conflict, my immediate response is: I'm angry, I lunge, and oftentimes, even if my response is right in theory, the collateral damage that I cause by standing up for something is so much worse than the original issue. Yeah, well, it's experienced by everybody. And let's understand why it happens first. Wild animals are wild animals because they only have a little tiny brain, and that little tiny brain keeps them alive. It's about fear and revenge and reproduction and anger, and let's go. And human beings have that same brain, but we evolved to have this other brain in front, the one that does ballet, the one that does big ideas.

3:28:09 But that brain is slow compared to our wild animal brain, our lizard brain. The lizard brain is right next to our spinal cord, and it can go like that. And it floods our brain with chemicals instantly. And this brain takes three more seconds to catch up. And by the time that happens, it's really difficult for that brain to say, calm down, here's the right answer. You just have to walk down an airplane when they're experiencing turbulence. What we know is planes don't crash because of turbulence, but people freak because the lizard brain takes over. We're going to die. But out of sort of the lizard brain has come this idea of the resistance. How does that work? So Steve Pressfield coined the term, and what it means is that there's part of us that doesn't want to be seen.

3:28:51 So that's where writer's block comes from. No one actually has writer's block, just like no one gets plumber's block. You just do the plumbing. You can't write because the act of writing means you'll be seen forever by strangers. So you hold back. Oh, literally behind it. They want us to be like them thinking with their little reptilian brains. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. They do. And this dawn on me. I know it sounds far-fetched. No, but

3:29:30 it's lizard people. We connect deeply on lizard people. But it's not the fact that they have scaly skin and little beady eyes and a long lizard tongue. It's their brain. They can't think past, destroy, or, you know, make babies eat or destroy. That's it. That's all they're able to think on the level of. And they want to bring us down to that level of thinking through binary thought. That's the point. That's why they want to destroy humanity. Out of jealousy of our ability to have compassion and to be able to rationalize and think with our second and third parts of our brain that they don't have.

3:30:19 That's the whole point. And the lizard people are behind it. And I know people are rolling their eyes right now saying, Mo has flipped his wig. But no, that's the point. That's where they want us at. This is what this gentleman, the clips you gave me, you supplied me with at my ask to say this is what they want. They want us in the little pack or whatever. I don't know what you call a pack of lizards. A brood. You know what I'm saying? Like they want to know. I don't know if it's a brood of lizards. I don't know what we're going wrong with it, though. I think it's a brood of snakes, right? So I think we're going to be able to do it. No, it's a brood. I don't know. We're going with brood of lizards.

3:31:02 It sounds so much better. Oh, it's no way. It's called a lounge. A lounge? Yes. A group of lizards is called the lounge. That's even better. I know. I'm loving this. So they want us all in a lounge of lizards just reacting with our little lizard brains and not using what we have, what we've been blessed with. Like I said, the ability to use the same. second and third components of our brain to give us higher thought. And that's what they're jealous about. That's why they want to destroy us. That's the whole thing. The lizard people behind it. And I put my whole chest on it.

3:31:42 Well, that's interesting because when I said to Professor DeSmet, I said, all right, so we have the severe hypnotic state of the leaders. What do we do? He said, the most important thing is keep talking, keep speaking your truth. The minute you stop talking, it's all over. And he said, memes and mockery, that's the way to destroy. Why? He says it breaks the spell. Because why? I mean, we had to look at it why, though, because it only a human brain can interpret it. Yes, you're right. The sarcasm, the joke, the mass humor.

3:32:25 And that's why it really is the most effective tool on their systems because they can't write an algorithm to detect sarcasm. Exactly. No way can they, well, maybe one day, but not in this, not here. How can you show the Spider-Man point at the Spider-Man meme and have an AI detect what you mean by that? You can't. I told you they want us dumbed down. This is the reason why they're coming to schools. It's a reason why they're coming for the children. But this has been going on for a long time. Of course. Schools and the children. Absolutely. But this is the closest they've ever been to it because, as you said,

3:33:09 the same way, kind of like teachers and media are outdated, parents are outdated as well. We're at the same time of you, you came about when television was first like really becoming television as we know it now. Parents had no clue what television was. It's like this is a stupid box to show pictures and play music and play, you know, play sound. They don't understand the cultural integration it has. The same way with smartphones and technology is now. The parents are kind of outdated. Sure. So this is the opportune time to seize the young and turn them into little baby lizards.

CHAPTER 37 / 37 Discussion

Dancing with Fear and the Greatest Love of All

Seth Godin explains that the "lizard brain" cannot be silenced, only acknowledged and "danced with." He suggests daily writing or blogging as a way to own one's words and move past the resistance. The episode concludes with a rendition of "The Greatest Love of All," emphasizing that self-love and dignity are the ultimate defenses against the "lizard brain" takeover and social manipulation.

seth godin· fear· blogging· whitney houston· dignity· self-love

3:33:53 Well, I'm not going to let that happen. I will fight tooth and nail to stop the lizard people from stealing our children. That statement could go so many levels. You like it, huh? That could go so many levels, but let's go ahead and wrap up with the lizard brain part two. How does one, when they're trying to make a huge change and take a huge risk, silence the lizard brains around them? Yeah, I wish we could get rid of it. You can't. The harder you try to get rid of it, the stronger it becomes. What you can do is acknowledge it, go with and, not but. I feel this, and I'm going to do something that works, as opposed to, I feel this, but I'm unable to move forward.

3:34:36 So the fear won't go away, especially if we want it to. But what we can do is learn to dance with it. One way to think about it: no one says to their coach, How can I run the Boston Marathon without getting tired? Getting tired is part of the deal. Well, the same thing's true with the work that matters. How can I do it without being afraid? You can't. There's something I carry with me, and Pemberton calls it a Shempa Stone. And the idea is when the fear shows up, oh, there you go. Acknowledge it. The fear shows up. I don't know that I identified it. Well, if the lizard shows up, it might be fear, it might be anger, it's all that primeval stuff. So, the best advice I give people all the time is you should start a blog and you should write a blog every day. I've done 7,500 in a row, haven't missed a day in more than 15 years.

3:35:21 And the reason is simple because it means every night you go to bed saying, Tomorrow, I need to say something in writing because it's going to be out there for years to come. But if every day we're writing something down and putting it out there to the universe, we're taking a risk and we're going to have to live with those words and own those words forever. Exactly. Then, isn't that great? But do you worry that in 2018, we're not looking to solve for getting out of lizard brain? It seems like lizard brain is getting celebrated and winning the game. Wow, and that was from what that was from NBC Betteruse. That is with

3:36:05 Seth Godin. Oh, I recognize. Yeah, I know Seth Godin, sure. Oh, I thought I recognized the voice. It's never surprised me who you. I'll be more surprised if you say you didn't know. At this point, annoying you, I would be surprised to see if you say you don't know someone. It's interesting. We were just. just talking about Seth Godin because he's doing some other, he's all over the place. Oh, no, he was doing, he's doing a climate change book. He's a marketing guy. Now, that's why in this context, Seth Godin knows what he's talking about. He knows very well how the lizard brain works because that's how he made his career in advertising.

3:36:46 And advertising plays on your lizard brain. Sure does. I mean, watch the commercials. 100%. I never got a new truck. You know what I'm saying? I have to go get a new truck. Or my mate or my spouse or mate will think I'm less than the other guy. Oh, no. He's like, of course. And if you drink this beer, look at the women you're going to get. Yes. Yeah. It goes all back to the lizard brain. We are under attack by lizard people. I mean, just say what, say it. And you can take that in the metaphorical way that I mean it right now. As in

3:37:24 we're surrounded by lizard brain people that only think with the most base human values. And that's a very, that's how you end up with Miles Chimer. And MoFax with Adam Curry is here to help ourselves and you fight the lizard brain takeover. The fact that you're listening probably means you're already in a good place. But for sure, certainly with the outrage that's going on everywhere today, we're all just seconds away from that flip that they were talking about. Boom, in a heartbeat. The lizard brain kicks in. You're out of control.

3:38:05 Right. And you make a mistake that you regret for a very long time if you live in that space for too long. Well, that's my rap. Hey, Moe, thank you. This was, I like this a lot. I learned so much now. I feel a lot more empowered about being able to speak about the critical race theory controversy. And of course, you know, 67 episodes of schooling before this has helped me understand a lot more about the people and the players involved. This is another topper, man. Thank you so much. I appreciate that, Adam. And as I always say, pay attention to everything and the truth will reveal itself. I'll see you in two weeks, Mo, and the live next Wednesday. Eight o'clock.

3:38:50 You like the song? I'm going to sing it for you. I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them be the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside and give them a sense of pride to make it easier. Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

3:39:35 Everybody's searching for a hero. People need someone to look up to. I never found anyone who fulfilled my need. A lonely place to be. And so I learned to depend on me. I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe.

3:40:19 No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity because the greatest love of all was happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love

3:41:04 of what is easy to achieve. Learning to love. yourself is the greatest love of all. And if by chance that special place that you've been dreaming of

3:41:47 leads you to alone find your strength in love,