e do agree on our task force recommendations build upon these aims now listen i truly respect and admire the effort that was made by people that bernie sanders appointed to these task forces i think that aoc and dr abdull al saeed they were trying their best to you know make progress where it's possible but i think that this is in the end it's putting progressives and the left at a disadvantage because we're already showing our cards right we're telling the establishment we're definitely willing to compromise and this is what we take so if they know that we'd be willing to water down our own policies then why would they give us the full package they're gonna give us what we've agreed to water down and probably less than that right because when you already pre negotiate well you have to assume you will be negotiated down even further and it's just it's a bad strategy and when it comes to something like medicare for all we shouldn't have to propose things to biden to consider he should be proposing things to us to get us on board right and the response shouldn't be well since you know you don't support medicare for all we'll accept you know reigning in big pharma no our response should be we're planting our feet in the ground and we're not budging it's going to be medicare for all and if you are elected president we're going to do everything in our power to fight to pass medicare for all through congress and if you don't sign that fucking bill we will stand outside of the white house with signs every single day until you do we're going to fight you until you pass our policy so you know it's just it seems like it's bad it's getting progressives to show their cards and admit that we will accept the half measures that democrats will only give us and you just you don't want to do that and i want the left to be more savvy now i'm not saying that there's like no potential for these task forces to produce good like let's say hypothetically speaking we get one win without watering down any other policies let's say we don't get medicare for all but in exchange for him not adopting medicare for all he agrees to you know sign on to legalizing cannabis nationwide that would be beneficial but we didn't get that either as politico reports amid nationwide protests against police brutality the criminal justice panel formed by biden and sanders got into heated debates in recent weeks over qualified immunity a legal doctrine that shields police from being sued for misconduct progressives pushed to end it but biden appointees agreed only to sign on to a commitment to reign in the rule another flashpoint over marijuana ended similarly sanders team argued in private meetings that they should legalize cannabis but that idea was rejected one task force member described the disagreements over qualified immunity and pot as huge battles and multiple people involved said the criminal justice panel presented some of the biggest challenges for compromise now what i don't understand is let's say hypothetically speaking that the sanders people were successful and they got the biden people to agree to adopt legalizing cannabis so they you know they printed out they put it on joe biden's desk and they say we recommend that you agree to legalize cannabis he can unilaterally just say no i don't support it so i mean like at the end of the day i just i'm failing to see the utility in this it's good for corporate democrats like joe biden because he knows we're already willing to concede and accept his half measures rather than like pulling him you know with his feet dragging to our side we're having to go the distance to meet him halfway when he should be meeting us halfway right so we're having to compromise but he's not willing to compromise that's the issue here that i'm having with this it seems weird to me that you know you have a bunch of people on these task forces come up with policies to recommend to a candidate who can unilaterally accept or reject any of them so i mean if they agreed on everything if these task forces all held hands and saying kumbaya joe biden doesn't necessarily have to agree to adopt these policies and even if he did agree to adopt these policies you know there's no guarantee that he would fight for them so these these aren't just these seem like pointless efforts here um and again i'm trying not to like shit on what people like aoc and dr abdel i said tried to do because i mean i think they were trying but it just it doesn't seem conducive to anything that will benefit the left and if anything it's going to lead to us being placated now the entire document is more than a hundred pages so i can't possibly go through all of it but it seems like a lot of the victories the key victories for the left come in the form of climate change immigration and a lot of obama era executive orders that joe biden is going to sign into law as nbc news reports the recommendations though include a significant number of actions biden could direct the executive branch to take without congressional approval much as the trump administration has systematically reversed obama era actions over his four years they include executive orders on issues that are currently on the forefront of people's minds like helping frontline workers new guidelines on policing use of force measures housing outsourcing jobs addressing health care disparities and undoing trump's executive orders on immigration so in other words the biggest victories that it seems like we got out of these task forces is that joe biden is being recommended to sign executive orders that undo the executive orders that trump signed which undid the executive orders that obama signed which i fully expected joe biden to do anyway but the people involved seem very optimistic bernie sanders tweeted while joe biden and i and our supporters have strong disagreements about some of the most important issues facing our country we also understand that we must come together in order to defeat donald trump the most dangerous president in modern american history though the end result isn't what i or my supporters would have written alone the task forces have created a good policy blueprint that will move this country in a much needed progressive direction and substantially improve the lives of working class families throughout our country i look forward to working with vice president biden to help him win this campaign and to move this country forward toward economic racial social and environmental justice yeah i mean to me all of this frankly seems like window dressing it's not going to make joe biden more appealing if he you know agrees that these recommendations from the task forces to throw up aggressives a little bit more crumbs is going to be what he's going to do the reason anyone would vote for joe biden is because he's not Donald trump period end of story so you don't have to create this false appeal that's not there and we want to make sure that trump doesn't appoint another supreme court justice you can make the case for joe biden without forcing progressives to show our cards and admit that we're willing to water down the policies that we support rather than you know holding strong him just not being donald trump is probably enough for most people but to me when i see you know this attempt to throw crumbs to progressives i just feel insulted you know it puts us in a worse negotiating position later on when we actually do have power because we're already showing the establishment that we're more than willing to water down our own message and it's just it's all around i think harmful so this didn't produce anything i mean we'll have to wait and see right i mean maybe joe biden will say wow i really like these recommendations i'm going to adopt x y and z but at the end of the day joe biden is joe biden like these recommendations mean nothing if joe biden himself doesn't actually change and if they recommend something that he thinks is a little bit too extreme he could just unilaterally dismiss it so it's not it's not really that that uh inspiring to me like if joe biden truly wanted to reach out to the left this task force isn't necessarily the way to do that he could just offer us policy concessions that he knows we want right but i mean in terms of bernie sanders i get that he doesn't want to be blamed for donald trump getting reelected and he shouldn't and won't but this is not the way to do it it feels disingenuous it feels manipulative you don't have to try to lie to us and get us to think that joe biden is more progressive than he is in actuality joe biden is appealing to people because he's not donald trump and that's it he's not progressive we know exactly what we're getting with joe biden maybe a supreme court appointee that isn't extreme right isn't some far right goon like brett cavanaugh but what we do know is that this unity task force isn't going to move biden because if he were moved at all don't you think that a pandemic would have moved him on health care if a pandemic doesn't get him to change his mind on health care for example then i don't think that a task forces recommendation is so you know i i feel like i'm a debbie downer here i don't want people to be like i don't know overly doomish and gloomish about this but i just feel like there are better ways to affect change there are better routes that the left can take to influence people in power and i feel like this is the least productive if not harmful way at going about doing that hi everyone i have a great guest for you today it is one half of the serfs comedian lance he's a twitch streamer and a youtuber and i'm here to pick his brain about you know a variety of topics so lance thank you so much for coming on the program uh thank you very much for having me the first person to ever introduce me as a comedian so well i i think that it's definitely suitable uh your content is awesome you're always making me laugh and you are you're a comedian i think that that that's accurate um especially if someone like david rubin calls himself a comedian then i mean come on come on any i'm a comedian you know what i mean but no i i think that genuinely your content is great i think it's awesome uh okay so i feel like most of my audience has got to know by now about your channel and what you guys do but if they don't um tell them what you're all about uh okay so we do uh i guess political comedy uh which is kind of a misnomer i suppose uh we're kind of like it i would equate us to being mimes in the political arena like we're pretty low on on the totem pole but we try to do our best what we kind of did was like we would do long form documentaries on a whole bunch of different right wing ghouls so like you know your dav rubin's just have from all knows your jordan peterson's i happen to be canadian so i guess part of our ethos is we're trying to undo the damage that so many canadians have wrought upon america and again whether it's you know steven krauter loren southern uh man all of them stuff in malano uh we're not sending our best gavin mckinnis uh you know i i'm already i'm i'm i'm almost about to apologize but uh i guess we got more prominent we had about like 5 000 subscribers and our youtube channel got brigaded after we did a video on pewdiepie uh and we got false flagged for what is it malicious scams and something like that not nothing that we were doing our channel got taken down and then there was this really amazing online push to resurrect our channel from the grave and including from big names like i'd never thought would interact with me like your sam cedars or your h bomber guy like they were all coming out of the woodwork and we actually got uh i have it right here i didn't prepare this problem it's not like i always have it on hand or something so this is not a bit but um i got it framed this is an actual apology from from the youtube's because you know they they never apologize like they're pretty renowned for never do but this is the actual tweet apology they made so i'm i'm pretty i'm pretty proud of this this is uh this is a cherished item that is a frame worthy item like they never take responsibility and i will say i'm embarrassed to admit that i actually didn't find out about your guys's channel until you were taken down by youtube and then that's really fine once once i heard about it then you know i also was was upset by this and then once it came back i kind of like binged some of your guys's content and it's great but since you're here i wanted to get your take on something because we kind of have breaking news like it won't be breaking by the time that most people see this but um it is breaking as of now so we heard that friend of the show day ruben my brain is still in recovery mode from taking in so many high-level important ideas has made an endorsement he will be voting for donald trump in november now i know you're going to be shocked by this you've been following day ruben i've been following he was such a progressive before he was a classical liberal and he's voting for donald trump so any thoughts on this i for one of them i don't know floored i i did not expect this you know i mean after day everyone has put so much effort into cultivating this you know deeply refined left wing progressive technique i guess it made sense after a while i mean so many copies of his book got burnt and there's only so many book burnings you can attend before you're like there's something wrong with the radical left they've gone too far and uh yeah and i think that's i mean you know facetiousness aside uh everyone's done with the grift right like we understand what's happening now like he's he's decidedly making his money because that's where it's it's paying him the best um i i do find it kind of strange with day ruben though that he's got an enormous amount of hypocrisy right now i mean not like more than usual but he seems to be on the the side of like it's the left that's always doing the the id poll and it's the left that has to always talk about identity politics i have yet to see him in the last like maybe five or six interviews where he doesn't talk about being gay like it's always like you know and me a gay man you know and they don't they don't make me a cake and i'm fine with that i'm totally fine that you know venture bureau won't make me a cake i'm okay with that but i just i think it's it's kind of strange yeah that honestly bugs me so much because if you hate identity politics so much then stop talking about identity politics like you can actually use your show to shift to a different conversation but he every second he is reminding people that he's gay and it's i mean we know what he's trying to do he's trying to give himself like credibility as i think he during his marianne williamson interview he tried to use that as like evidence that he's a liberal i mean it's just it's laughable he's a clown and i will say that for the people who are thinking well this you know grift has reached its logical conclusion he's not going to go further i'm calling it now in like a year or two the grift will go either even further depending on like where the conservative movement goes and he may go full evangelical to where he like announces that he's no longer homosexual and we meet his new girlfriend alice like this is where it's heading she's helped me so much she cured me um he he's actually uh what was i going to say he's actually already evangelical you're you're halfway right right like he's already pronounced his atheism that's true that anymore yeah so yeah that's true it was a matter of time yeah okay i need to i need to say cut up on yeah yeah 2024 for sure i need to say caught up on my david rubin news i get most of my david rubin news from like people on twitter running randomly shitting on him but also from michael brooks and your show as well because i think you guys you really keep me in the loop um and you provide me with content where if he says something like just stupider than usual then it's like okay i gotta jump in i mean it's easy because it's like this is the low hanging fruit but it's shocking that so many people fall for the grift it's infuriating to me that someone like him has over a million subscribers but like lefties are just scraping by you know what i mean like because the algorithm buries our content so it's it's a little bit of salt to be honest but at the same time i have you noticed that a lot lately like the humanist report yeah totally so i just looked and over the last 28 days um 8 percent of overall searches have been like suggested videos which used to be like the majority and you know part of it is sure maybe it's because the election is over and people kind of like tune out of politics i don't necessarily blame them so i'm not removing my own culpability here but it's definitely a change to the algorithm because i mean if you look at new channels like kristo avalice for example a great canadian you guys send a phenomenal one there like he should be at 100 000 by now you know and four years ago had he been making the same type of content i think that he would be passed you know 100 000 people like david dole would be passed 500 000 so it's definitely it's it's frustrating to see the way that youtube is suppressing these types of news channels and and like if you aren't really sure what what i'm talking about um so i'm assuming that people who are watching this consume mostly indy media and left wing channels but if you look in your recommended tab to the left you know you're going to see msnbc fox news more often than not now and that's really you know youtube prioritizing who they deem as you know authoritative sources and once they kind of made that shift it hurt all of left-wing news channels um and you know there are some who are still able to thrive we kind of have these phases at least on my channel where we just see like 10 000 new subs in like a couple of weeks and then it goes back down to like zero on average um but you know it's it's just a lot more difficult now um it's harder for the up-and-comers and it's more difficult for people who have an audience already to grow that audience um so you know when you see people like dav rubin and right-wingers thrive the alt right in particular you know people like sarban avocad it is it irritates me like it pisses me off you know because there's there's so much going on that happens to the left that nobody talks about i think there's like there is one thing to be said about the fact that the left especially what is so called quote-unquote bread tube was really concerned with doing deeply research documentaries right like that's what we used to do as well and like i i still love it like the long-form documentary but it's a very long process right like it's it's obviously like we we want to bring the the biggest facts to the plate like i know the left gets accused of feelings over facts but like if you look at the amount of work that goes into an h bomber guy or like a philosophy tube video and these really long-form ones right like it's it's endless amounts of citations and sources and stuff like that and one month like one upload a month does not compare to someone like sarban avocad who and tim pool actually was one of the ones who really weaponized this they would film just a two-hour stream where tim pool is allowed to speak about anything and i do mean anything i don't know if you watch his live shows like they are they are and oh they are performance art of the highest level he's it's him and his partner weed lord and the two of them are there and they they can just talk about like i've never seen a more unhinged uh uncohesive line of thought come out of a human than a two-hour like tim pool podcast like the the topic could start out talking about hey donald trump is thinking about building the wall within maybe 30 seconds they'll be talking about uh chinese viruses and then 15 seconds later the moon and and like it just and it all seems like as if neither of them are like i don't know at all appalled what is happening or even taking it back like they it's a very good one-two combination but anyways my point of all this being because i'm starting to do what i'm accusing him of is that they will take this two-hour broadcast and then clip it into four uploads for the day so there'll be four tim pool uploads that day and that'll just game the algorithm like no one's business because they're going to have very inflammatory thumbnails and highlights right like uh obama is secretly a socialist confirmed right and then the next one will be uh you know alex jones proven right about alex andio casio cortez thumbnails pictures red text and that's enough for people to be like okay i guess i'll try to click on it enough people start doing that the algorithm starts to feed into it and then you know it gets to the point now where i can watch one jordan huedersen video and the entire right side of my bar is going to be nothing but like everything from nick fuentes to jared taylor to stephen mollano for well not stephen mollano anymore but yeah that was the way yeah and that kind of gets into a conversation that i wanted to have with you because i think that you are basically an expert on the field of the alt right and this pipeline because it's it's really prevalent and more so than people think um so steven mollano or stephen mollano i do have my official certificate right here the school of the school of alt redery that's great that's great um so i wasn't it i think it was last week or the week before where stephen mollano was banned from youtube he was also banned from twitter subsequently as well and i wanted to get your take on deplatforming because for me i kind of feel like my position on this has been almost a 180 like at first i was very um i wasn't against deplatforming unequivocally but i was very touchy on the subject because the way that youtube you know uses their algorithm it almost never hits the intended targets right so like the first wave of demonetization led to lgbtq plus channels be demonetized and that was really you know that scared me just because as a gay person like when i was coming out i watched so many coming out videos and to think that that type of content would be discouraged that was like genuinely harmful to me so you know it made me kind of do a double take about the intended result of deplatforming but at the same time i've evolved to the point where um just because youtube is stupid and incompetent doesn't necessarily mean that they shouldn't follow their own terms and conditions with regard to hate speech and on top of that you know the left functionally over the course of the last couple of years as we've kind of alluded to we've been deplatformed in a way like i'm not going to claim that we've been fully deplatformed but we've been suppressed by this algorithm so i i don't necessarily feel the need to defend the right on you know the basis of freeze peach when one they don't ever defend us and two we're already kind of the ones being deplatforming being deplatformed so if i'm going to go to bat for anyone i want it to be us so i wanted to get your take on this and the deplatforming of stefan malinio because if anyone deserves to be deplatformed i mean i think it'd be a white supremacist like him who's explicitly racist and richard spencer as well i think was right right second time well i mean third time he's he pops up and same with nick wentis nick wentis got taken down i think like maybe a month and a half ago and then he pops back up in these news kind of pseudo channels where you're like well that's clearly wentis again trying to pop back up on it um in my opinion honestly i think that my i my guiding star on this is kind of like i try to keep it at the levels of what we deem to be hate speech within the country so um i am completely for uh and this is i'm going to say this like unironically the marketplace of ideas right like the whole davreuben philosophy like you know we should have the free marketplace of ideas where the dial get turned up to 11 like i actually i like that well i like that idea that we should we should allow people with with opposing views to me you know to to be on the platforms i'm totally fine with that and i stop at is it going to be like direct targeted harassment so for someone like alex jones because he's kind of the classic example right alex jones is actively targeting the parents of families who died in sandy hook and he did it to the point that the parents were getting harassed to such a degree that one of the fathers committed suicide that is a to me a very clear cut and dry example if i if i own one of these tech companies cut him out right he's he's causing direct harm to individuals you know where it becomes a bit of a gray area is what if you have someone on there say like a ben chipiro for example who intentionally misgenders people because he doesn't feel that it's something that's wrong whereas you can make a very strong argument in my mind that intentionally misgendering members of the trans community can contribute to an atmosphere that is explainable and that really high rates of suicide you know that it's because of their vilification as a whole in society so if we have a person on there who's constantly saying like you're not a she or a he right and this is just the way that everyone should there there isn't a danger to that as well is it targeted though is it towards a specific individual or or doxing you know that would be another thing that i would i would say like you should have a zero tolerance policy for those kind of things i think ultimately if i'm being totally intellectually honest i don't think the left is intentionally suppressed by youtube just like i don't think the right is intentionally censored by twitter unlike what tim pool likes to say i don't think that's the case i think all these tech companies follow one guiding principle and that's money like that's that's that's ultimately what they care about the algorithm is looking to what can keep people and their eyes on content for as long as possible and the right wing just had a very big head start against the left because the left wasn't using youtube as this kind of like megaphone right they were fine with all the other forms of social media that they were dominating meanwhile the the right wingers were cultivating this really really powerful force on youtube until they became a force to be reckoned with i remember paul joseph watson was one of the first people to say like you know we're absolutely dominating this platform and he wasn't wrong and now it's to a point where again if you if you search one or two videos boom it pops up all over right you have that really thing um and you're also right about the fact that i think just news in general especially because you talk about mainstream news right like you report on mainstream stories report on joe biden stuff like that so you are getting suppressed by very safe profitable uh corporations like your ms mbc's or cnn that's just easy for them to to put up there and to to you know promote because they know they don't have to worry about it whereas you know maybe maybe mike might say something that is a little bit controversial right you might make a video montage about joe biden or you might make one about how alexandria ricasio-cortez is not a communist devil you know like she's actually like pretty reasonable things like that that might not be as safe as just ms mbc doing what they always do and at least in my opinion yeah no i think you're absolutely right and i am glad that you brought that up about you know this not being intentional this is just about money um i think that the left if they were able to draw in the money in terms of like ad revenue that the right does then maybe the algorithm would ease up but this isn't something that you know i don't believe that there's like a bunch of youtube executives like let's target the left more like it's totally just you know they make great right oh totally totally you know they make changes to the algorithm and they make these changes exclusively on the basis of what will increase their profits you know maximize revenue so it's not anything that's nefarious it's just something that we're dealing with and i'm not even going to suggest that this is a permanent thing um you know maybe it's just now they change the algorithm all the time and you can tell when they change the algorithm because you'll be like riding high um and like i'll put out videos like like 50 000 views you know every single day and then all of a sudden just falls off a cliff then i realize they change the algorithm and i think that this is the consensus that everyone um has acknowledged that these are due to really quiet changes to the algorithm they don't necessarily let us know about all of these changes we just kind of have to roll with the punches um but yeah it's a political agenda to them demonetizing lgbtq content though like there's no question about that right and that was the big reason that i left youtube to stream on twitch instead because i had interviewed a non-binary individual and i noticed that when right after i put their interview up on the the site instantly demonetized and also it was demonetized as i was broadcasting it and the thing i forget what the pop-up was but it was something along the lines of like you know the the controversial content or something and afterwards it was like it's happening again and again it's happening when i interviewed a lesbian it happened shortly thereafter when i interviewed another non-binary individual and so i was like there's a there's a pattern here and and clearly they think that these topics are controversial which is astounding because youtube takes such a big corporate stance during pride month right yeah they're really really big on like our logos or the rainbow and we care about this and we're gonna highlight all these you know various different actors and stuff like that yeah yeah you're right about that and i will say though um there is a good sign because anytime that i've put up anything with lgbtq or trans in the tags like i just expect that's going to be demonetized um and i think a lot of us have that expectation but we kind of just roll with the punches because we don't necessarily base what we're going to put out on what will or won't be demonetized but i think it was like last summer i put out a video that was very explicitly like um you know trans rights it was about transgender rights i can't remember the particular topic i think it was maybe like a trump thing that he did with regard to trans rights and it didn't get demonetized um and so i think i even tweeted about that i'll try to find the tweet to put it on screen i can't remember specifically and it was so shocking it was like oh well maybe this is a change if this is up and it's not getting demonetized maybe they're reversing that policy but then again i put up you know a video in lgbtq rights a month later and it does get hit so it's it's tough you know for me i don't necessarily care about the money aspect i think a lot of creators acknowledge that demonetization is just something that we deal that we deal with now but we have patreon to supplement that so it's not the biggest issue what really sucks is the fact that when you get limited ads that also means you get limited reach in terms of like who's going to see your video less recommendations um so it's kind of like the snowball effect where less potential people who would like your content who maybe would be a patron they don't get to see that so it does suck and i hope that it does change we're completely hopeless you know in terms of like what we can do we're just up to the whims of youtube unless there's a sizable enough competitor that comes along but hey you know we do what we can so i wanted to i want to ask you because um this is kind of a spicy topic and we'll try to sanitize the more controversial components but i think it's a discussion that's interesting and i haven't commented on this i'm not sure if you have either but nathan j robinson of current affairs he posted an article uh two articles this is spicy it is so the first article that he posted was isn't right wing populism just fascism and he kind of directly takes a shot at rising on the hill over a book that i actually have oh okay how is it and so i haven't read it yet um i i bought it because i really like crystal ball i think she's sharp but part of the reason why i bought this is because apparently there's an explanation of what the new right is now my understanding maybe this is too simplistic is that right wing populism isn't a thing like i have never um thought of populism in terms of right wing or left wing it's just whatever is popular mostly economic policy right um so i don't know what right wing populism means to me i always thought if you're right wing populist that's usually you're just the fascist so i was hoping to kind of get an explanation and i haven't read it yet so maybe sauger goes on to explain what he means by the new right and right wing populism but nathan j robins robinson's argument basically is that he doesn't really lay that out and so right wing populism is essentially just fascism because think about who we see as right wing quote unquote populists you know a jire bull scenario yeah tucker carlson um donald trump and they're all fascists so the question is you know is um right wing populism a thing and how does the left respond to that because his argument has kind of directed at crystal ball in the sense that he thinks that she's kind of enabling this type of fascism by one not challenging it and two by kind of sanitizing it right because nathan j robinson admits that he agrees with what sauger is saying 80 of the time but the thing is that you know if you allow yourself to just talk about discussions where you you know agree where if you narrow that parameters you're kind of not really getting the full sense of that person and how problematic they may be so for like an extreme example if i were to talk to david duke about just cats and food i'm sure that you know i would love to see that conversation it would be so weird it'd be a little scary uh because he scares me i i don't like black cats i'll tell you totally uh no like if we had a conversation about that you know it'd be a benign it wouldn't i wouldn't know that he's a white supremacist we'd agree seemingly on everything but if we you know widened that scope and we started talking about identity politics uh you know politics in general then it would be problematic so you know the argument not to um kind of put words in nathan j robinson's mouth but what i took away from this is that crystal ball is kind of helping to present this fake illusion of you know right wing populism when in actuality it's it's not a real thing it's just fascism and we shouldn't enable these people now i don't know what the implication is i don't know if he thinks that like we should kick sauger off of the hill i don't think that's what he's implying maybe he just wants crystal ball to challenge him more uh but i thought that it was a thought provoking piece because this is something that i've kind of grappled with like i'm not sure how many people remember this but back in is it 2018 or 2019 me and kao kalinsky kind of had a similar discussion on the progressive voice show but about joe rogan right and you know okay whether or not he is acceptable you know uh because i i take issue with his stance on trans rights and whatnot so absolutely um so you know it's probably his most problematic thing absolutely i kind of feel he's uh i'm not going to get too derailed with this but he's kind of a rorschach test for whoever is guested because i find when he has cornell west on the show uh you will have just an incredible elucidation on the history of socialism and you'll be in america and you'll be like this is a beautiful hour of my life i i'm very happy i spent this time he has been Shapiro on and he's a transphobic piece of shit and you know well that that was that was a terrible hour and a half i'll never get back right yeah it's kind of like a dave rubin but not as bad as dave rubin like he pushes back sometimes like the kandace ovans uh interview on climate change that's a great example i think i even talked about that on my program but you know it's just a matter of like how does the left respond and i think that kyle kolinsky does make a really solid point in that you know if you think that people like dave rubin uh or excuse me not dave rubin but uh joe rogan or crystal ball are in a way inadvertently offering you a type of like pipeline to the alt right then you know having them you know um offer left perspectives could potentially be a pipeline out of the alt right as well so you know it's complicated and i think this is a really nuanced and somewhat messy subject and i wanted to get your take on this because i feel like you really have a solid understanding of the alt right and you know how people kind of get trapped in that pipeline so you know what is your take on this is the left being a little bit too like cancel culturally or do you think there's actually something there with nathan j robinson's argument so um i guess if we took it what's the classical definition of fascism you you're basically combining economic populism right that's what hitler was doing so ideas that are very uh social in origin we're talking about socialized medicine things like that for example with uh right wing or far right conservatism combined the two right i mean even far past i'm not i'm not going to call the right wing is as far fascist as they were but so are we seeing that in something like tucker carlson i think even before tucker carlson you were starting to see that with people like say alex jones who was constantly talking about instead of uh i mean they would usually have a couple of dog whistles here but it would talk about the globalists right it's the globalists and the elites and it's all of them right off in the corner or something like that he's he's talking about it's all it's all coded for you know the international bankers and you know in brackets all that kind of stuff but they're constantly vilifying this idea of there is something external and i mean if you're on the left you'll understand it happens to be like there's no secret to any of this uh the the people who control the levers of power happen to be the rich right the the the quote-unquote elites we we know who they are you have to look at the who's the fortune 500 right we know who the billionaires are we know what they own we know what assets they have we know the oil companies all that kind of stuff we understand that but they will try to take that same idea because everyone experiences alienation right we're all everyone's uh having trouble finding employment even worse now with covid 40 40 million extra americans unemployed but you've got this idea where everyone is is experiencing this alienation and now we've got this section of the right that's tapping into those same kind of things and and selling them and repackaging them with right wing populism as well that's what i would well sorry i know right wing populism as a thing i agree with your statement there right but that's that's what i would say is quote-unquote right wing populism and in the case of crystal ball and uh you know during bernie sanders campaign i was a huge fan of her uh and it was just it was really nice scene uh maybe just like a mainstream sunday morning t like good morning america style show that was actually talking about points with bernie sanders right whereas now i cannot stand it like if i even if i hear that little jingle that like i actually get like you know a visceral like uh fearful like i can feel my my skin crawling because a i think it's come out now at this point i think one of the biggest producers or founders on the show happens to be deeply invested in the royal companies of the us and i've read a number of articles i think even the intercepted an article on this how the hill exists to kind of sow dissemination between the progressive movement and the liberal movement of the united states so there might be an argument to there i'm not going to go to tinfoil hat i was just making fun of alex jones two seconds ago right but but the idea then that we have we have this show in which she's starting to say and i noticed she was saying this a lot before she got called out on it that tucker carlson is right about this and it usually starts with that preface right like i just want to say this he's an awful person all right he's a white nationalist we get it he's a mouthpiece but he's not wrong about blank and there seem to be a lot of those things right and tucker was actually right about this tuckers right about this and yes he's a bad person but it's true that there is these global elites that control the levers of power and into crystal ball i'm sure she thinks that it's it's the rich i'm sure she thinks that it's you know again the elites actually are who the elites are right the like i said the the millionaires the billionaires who control most of the levers of power in the united states but you can't repackage what tucker says for the left that's where the danger comes in and that's what i would agree with this idea and maybe that is you know i've read nathan j robinson's article i haven't read the book that you have in your hands but that that's where i agree with nathan that you can't normalize tucker and his ideas you have to consistently call them out for what they are because otherwise it's very insidious yeah and one of the issues that nathan j robinson also brings up is that there's this um explicit assumption in the book that it would be beneficial for the left if we teamed up with the right if the populist left and the populist right kind of form this you know economic alliance then we can get a lot of things done and i think that that is something that i unequivocally reject because i think that you know if you want to form a coalition that makes sense we need a rainbow coalition i think that fred hampton kind of he led the way on that you know but it has to be an anti-racist coalition because you can't disaggregate you know the race issues from the class issues so you can't throw people of color and trans people under a bus and say well we're going to team up with them for these economic issues but you're going to have to wait by the side like it doesn't work that way because the these things are inextricably linked so that's one of the things that you know had i read the book i would have also been turned off by that because i absolutely don't like this notion of teaming up with you know the populist right because i don't think that there is a populist right and i i'm glad that you brought up the tucker carlson thing like he's a bad person but like that still normalizes someone who is very clearly a white supremacist and you know by trying to point out the good point that he makes and since he's so nefarious you know it's great that he made a good point you know positive reinforcement sure i believe in positive reinforcement but this is an actor who is very intelligent who knows exactly what he's doing you know he throws you a couple of crumbs with regards to economic issues but if you accept what he what he has once he gets you in then you're pulled into a very nefarious explicitly white supremacist agenda and maybe you know he doesn't convince you right away but as you listen to him more because you were hooked by his economic policy statements well then maybe you know you start opening your mind a little bit more to white supremacy so i think it's it's a dangerous path to go down and i think that there really is like i don't want to say that you know um the show the rising is awful because i also watched it a lot you know during the primaries but i think that we do have to be careful as lefties to not allow snakes like you know Tucker Carlson to be legitimized by us you know either wittingly or unwittingly and it like part of it is i i feel like it should be just on its face laughable because you have sagar and jetty who's the co-host of the hill rising he's a trump supporter and he rails against neoliberal democrats but trump is a neoliberal like he ran as a populist but he governs as a neoliberal so how do you not abandon people who aren't living up to your populist principles so to me it seems like a trojan horse to you know the the alt right and that's why i think that there is something to you know Nathan j robinson's point here but i i don't want to discount you know he's not the only one making that critique either by the way it hasn't just been coming from Nathan j robinson i've seen a lot of other figures on the left and i'm not just in relation to crystals in particular but this the idea of the left starting to embrace elements of that right wing populism totally whatever you want to say you know quote right wing populism yeah and i think we have to reject it and we have to be very vocal about it because you know if you give them an inch they take a mile because they are very very strategic and they're savvy like people nowadays you're not going to find someone to say hey guys i'm a nazi here's a swastika like they use code words like i i think that contemplation levels right exactly exactly so i mean you have to you have to not get duped by them in other words but at the same time you know i want to bring up kyle kolinsky who made a good response video to this you know to where he says you know you you have to acknowledge that the average like layperson the normies they're not going to necessarily be as keen to these things and by criticizing people like crystal ball it seems like we're being like overly cancel or whatever so it's it's tough i feel like we're walking a fine line but there's so much it's no desire to cancel it right like i don't really say i'm not a cancel culture person in general because i don't think it works i don't think there's such a thing you know if it works jk rolling wouldn't be allowed to tweet anymore tucker colson wouldn't have a show yeah exactly i don't think cancel culture is a real thing yeah when it comes actually can i just quick sidebar what was your thoughts on kolinsky's latest defense of stefan malinow because he's coming out as a bit of a free speech absolutist right now like do you do i don't know what he said i'm assuming that he said that stefan malinio shouldn't be deplatformed but i would disagree with that um it's the idea that it's a slippery slope and that you know it's only a matter of time before i think he said like you know you you think it's okay when they're coming for people in the far right what happens when they come for people on the far left and then yeah i was like i can't really think of what the far left is um i mean i think maybe his example was fair con or something and i was like i don't consider him in any way to be a leftist i think i consider him an anti-semite and i think he's a very a very isolated example and he's been deplatformed so i don't think it applies to anyone yeah yeah you know my take on that is i kind of had a conversation with kyle about this during the uh crouter maza situation where steven crotter was demonetized and i was you know all for that um but i'm not worried about them coming for the left because we're already dealing with it like they have functionally deplatformed a lot of lefties you know as we kind of talked about earlier so it's not like um it's not the biggest issue but for me like the way that i think about this is um you know you have to be you have to be how do i put this you want to make sure that you're not allowing people like stefan malin you to spread their hatred because you can defend his free speech rights if you are free speech absolutist and i think that that's that's fine if you are you know principled and you're adhering to that but you have to acknowledge uh and i'm sure kalkolinsky does that you know this is someone who would never defend your free speech rights and you know fascist if you allow them the free speech rights to you know um gain popularity and power then they will deplatform everyone else and not support free speech i think it was it richard spencer who said he doesn't support free speech absolutism or something to that effect um so you know definitely a huge fan of tucker carlson too right i think him jared taylor uh david duke they all think that tucker carlson speaks for them like oh he's our best our best voice in the mainstream media happens to be tucker carlson you know he knows he speaks the truth you know here's here's here's a good uh here's a good quote for you i don't know if you've ever heard this but uh i think it was zizek who was talking about uh how a little bit of dogmatism is actually a good thing and he's like we can determine as a society he's like you wouldn't argue with someone i should probably be you wouldn't argue with someone about the merits of rape right like you wouldn't have that debate that so there's there's nothing to be had there no it doesn't matter what their argument is uh he's like well it feels good or whatever that like that's a non-starter we know we can cut off the bar so like a little bit of dogmatism within society can actually be a defining characteristic of the level to which we've reached so i think i think that is okay to to an extent right i i don't think that every single person who says something like i i'm again i'm very very i'm further on the free speech train than i think most people on the left are and i usually stop at the limits of hate speech right if it's going to directly damage or harm people that's where i'm like okay i don't think you like your freedom of speech can also be limiting someone else's freedom of speech in just in the in the exact opposite direction you just don't think of it that way um sorry i've done i've done the tim pool thing we're so far off your topic uh but uh yeah back to back to kalinsky and and and you know uh crystal ball uh i i think i think she has i think she she she she was aware of it as well because she apologized she she issued a video or sorry i don't know if she directly apologized but it was more of a just like i know what everyone's saying i've seen the i've read the articles and everything and uh to this extent like i am not praising tucker carlson he's a horrible person he's a white nationalist let's like you know get that out you know that's it's a non-starter kind of thing yeah and i will say just for the record i i like crystal ball i i'm not assuming like malin 10 in criticizing because i i've also done horrible things on my channel you know it's it's all about growing right where human beings were imperfect like i've platformed ha goodman and i kind of like attribute my channel to his success in a way and now he's a maggot shed so that's something that i really think about like how am i vetting these people who i bring on my channel and whatnot and to kalinskin's point i think that what he says like his principal stands on gets you so canceled i'm gonna be i am i'm i've already been cancelled so i'm gonna take the biggest 180 mic god damn it why did i have lens on fucking lands now he's a trump support no no um no i so i really like how kalinsky's stands even if i disagree because he is so principled when it comes to free speech and like he sticks to it um and i wish that i were as consistent as him on this issue but my stance has changed a little bit and i kind of feel like that free speech absolutism that he champions it only works if we all have the same agreement on free speech like if people like stefan malinio and davreuben actually were the free speech champions that they say they are then i think that that stance could work but because they're not because they would take away our free speech rights that's why i think it doesn't necessarily work in practice my thoughts on that though is that like i i am someone who i'm on the same page as you i am completely fine with uh apologizing maybe it's the canadian in me right but like i'm completely fine with apologizing i'm fine with taking things down like part of being what a quote-unquote progressive is to me is that i'm constantly changing and evolving my beliefs based on my information as it's proposed to me right like if you had told me 10 years ago uh about aspects of the trans community i would have had no idea what you're talking about i would have been like what isn't that just people dressing up in drag or something like that you know like i wouldn't have and like obviously i like try like anyone else should try to read and you learn you better yourself so the idea of just being like i don't delete any tweets i have ever made i don't do anything because i want a permanent leisure and like uh to a certain extent like i wish that kyle klinsky would take down the the old tweets where he calls people the efsler for example as an insult right uh and i understand that he's of the mind where he doesn't have to change anything he does but to me that's kind of the same thing that trump does you know like trump never apologizes trump never backs down so do most strongmen you know that's it's kind of this absolutism in which like i never want to show i don't think it's i don't like i'm please don't think i'm comparing the two of them i think like i like kyle klinsky right i've interviewed we love kyle we don't like trump yeah i'm not trying to you know juxtapose the two of them back to back but what i what i am trying to say is that like i i think there's no shame or problem in either admitting when you're wrong or even trying to better yourself as a content creator right like you know take your stuff down take uh take a video down like i did it very recently i i was debating right wing uh race realist by the name of actual justice warrior and he had called out a video i did on uh fergensen and mike brown and uh before he even did a video on me and my you know take on the mike brown incident i was already getting feedback from my own community where they were saying this was a really bad take lance you know like you because i was i was kind of just downplaying the aspects because i hadn't read the department of justice report i didn't know uh like all the facts behind it and i was just saying like well mike brown was just he was walking while black and yet another case of just police brutality and all this kind of stuff and everyone was like you should actually be more informed on this right you can't it's going to look worse long term on both you and the left if you just try to have this absolutist like you know the black people are being persecuted because they are there's there's an incredibly huge problem in the united states when it comes to the black community and the way they are treated the systemic racism historical racism all this kind of stuff but to do this in this one case is bad so yes based on that feedback i took the video down and then because he made a video on me he he actually thought that he had credit for this or something and we ended up doing like a very spicy debate afterwards but again i i have no problem with that like i i i never will like you'll you'll probably find me down the road uh apologizing for things that i'm saying in this interview right now but that but there's there's no problem with that to me you know i think i i i don't see that as a sign of weakness i see it as a sign of growth yeah absolutely and that's why i like i'm not sold on this idea that cancel culture is a thing because people like i said like if cancel culture were as powerful as people going to get out to be then Tucker Carlson wouldn't have a show a lot of people would be canceled you know um but like growth is important like i think that there's this assumption with this cancel culture rhetoric to kind of shift gears into cancel culture that um the left is uncompromising and they're never willing to accept growth but that the opposite is true like i totally agree with you like we are pro growth like if you're going to grow and change i think that's really important like cult of dusty is one of the best people to talk to on this um i haven't talked to him yet but he's someone who i actually i was subscribed to him a long time ago like in the early 2010s but i actually unsubscribed because the content that he made uh he made a particular video about black lives matter that i disagreed with i thought it was a bad take so i unsubscribed and like he's back now he's streaming and he talks about all these bad takes i had they were terrible i said this i said that and i disagree with them um and so i think that that's really phenomenal that's beautiful and for me if i were to go back to like the early humanist report catalog i would probably find a lot that i disagree with because the thing is that we're constantly as human beings we're constantly growing and if you're not growing then i think that's bad like it when nobody wants to admit that they were wrong nobody wants to back down everybody wants to be able to commend themselves for holding strong on something on a particular position throughout the years but that's not realistic for everything so i think that you know encouraging growth is important um and cancel culture like we keep seeing it like there's this letter from harper the letter as it's no name i saw a video from david dole on this and he basically said everything that i wanted to so i kind of feel like okay well it's out there it's out in the universe but i mean like it's cancel culture is not really an issue um it's more of a thing that is used in a way i think to ironically to silence the left right because like if you criticize someone like jk rolling for example what is her first defense oh well this is cancel culture everyone's too pc but it's like well you're not canceled though you're you're a billionaire in your mansion so you're not being canceled and you're using cancel culture as a defense the shut down debate about your actions so what is your take on cancel culture because i'm irritated whenever i hear the words personally i i think we're we're just gonna be uh this is going to be an exercise in masturbation i guess well no i i completely agree with you like i i i don't think cancel culture is a real thing i think that like even someone like jk rolling is going to even if jk rolling was the platformed off of twitter tomorrow for you know hate speech uh towards the trans community um she would still be a billionaire she she could start her own twitter tomorrow if she wanted to right and i'm not even saying learn to code but she could actually she has the money to start her entire social media company um i i don't think it's a real thing and i don't think it bears fruit in terms of like where the results can give me examples of people who were canceled right it is a part of cancel culture um i like it seems to me like people just don't want to be held accountable or they don't want to be called out for their shitty takes on twitter uh and by virtue of the platform especially if you you're a famous person that's kind of what twitter is going to be you know like i like i don't know about you i don't know how often you actually check all the replies to a single tweet you have but there's going to be you know half the half the human population probably hates you right in any case right all the conservatives will hate you right like all the outwriters despise me they're constantly telling me terrible things and and like that that's just the virtue of the platform um that doesn't mean that i i don't want to take information from especially for someone like jk roland who is getting feedback from her peers right from from people she worked with like uh what is it daniel radcliffe right just came out and just did the most beautiful elegant little like you know you could just hear it as it is tonight for the whimsical voice you know just coming out and and made this whole post that was just so lovely to see that was just like i i'm sorry uh that she's she's doing this but at the same time if you as a child uh took anything from these please don't ever let that leave your heart uh i hope that it meant to you as much as it meant to us to create it all that kind of stuff but at the same time trans women are women trans men are men and that's all there is to it right and and that i yeah i mean i mean sorry my my long wouldn't answer short that cancel culture is not real yeah no and that's that's beautifully put because i i totally agree like what i see like the discourse with regard to cancel culture for me can be like reduced down to someone getting backlash over a tweet so they say oh well i'm canceled or like if you put up a youtube video with the bad tag and it gets like majority dislikes then you say i've been canceled but because you're still here so have you really been canceled though i mean it's just it's not really a real thing and in the instances where someone is like legitimately canceled and they lose their career it's really rare and it usually is legitimate like lucy k like i think that that was probably a justified cancel wouldn't most people say you know what i mean so it's it's overblown and i think that really it's it's i don't know it's a sloppy discourse it's intellectually lazy in my opinion so whenever i see like hysteria about cancel culture i mean you can point to instances of like a viral video leading to someone losing their job and sure you can you can debate whether or not that's something that we want in society but overall what we're really talking about with cancel culture um in terms of like the political discourses people with large platforms people who are on national mainstream news people with power and money and you're not being canceled if we criticize you they just want to put out shitty takes and not be criticized but i mean that you're canceling everyone else wants to criticize let's let's use louis as an example because louis in my opinion wasn't canceled in the same way that these people are saying they're canceled louis was accused of women of you know forcing them to watch them masturbate and locking them in rooms to perform those acts and then admitted to it and and that was it it wasn't like this long ongoing process where louis said like the the thing with all these comedians who are like you can't even do comedy anymore like i can't even say what i want to say i'll be canceled instantaneously blah blah blah sure you can do comedy you can do have you seen eric andre's new special it's got to be one of the most offensive comedy specials in a long time and yet it's it's still not as bad as most of these other comedians stuff because there's a point right like what is the punchline the same thing with like the really the the kind of shitty uh dave chappelle one of my favorite comedians probably my favorite comedian actually if i if i be totally honest um his new special is unfortunately on netflix not not that good and just because it really feels like he's punching down right he's you know he's attacking members of the trans community stuff like that and there's not really a point to the punchline at the end of the j sorry the punchline at the end of the day wasn't like something that is actually going to be transformative that actually makes me really think about a societal issue like he used to do so beautifully he was sublime at that right so in the case of louis ck uh he's even though he was quote unquote canceled by which by virtue of like he admitted to doing some pretty horrifying things he still sells no comedy clubs he still makes comedy specials he's still if you wanted to i'm sure he could have a special on a non-netflix-esque network i'm sure you can get on a whole bunch of other tv shows if you really wanted to right like he hasn't effectively been silenced you know uh how about someone like mel Gibson you know mel Gibson has to be one of the most vile racists of our generation in terms of like he believes these horrifying things and is vocal about it it's not like we have to think about whether or not mel Gibson is a piece of shit we have it on tape you know you know calling calling you know saying you're gonna get violated by a pack of n words and things like that right i'm trying to keep it as pg this is definitely not as bad as he put it uh all the way to being incredibly anti-semitic he was nominated for an academy award a couple years ago you know like persona non grata canceled mel Gibson is nominated for an academy fucking Roman Polanski won an academy award after quote and quote like should he not be canceled like he raped a 13 year old i think that's pretty canceled but i like i don't know like right and i know i will say the people who are the most like anti-cancel culture they are cancel culture though like i can't remember who and i'll put it up on the screen megan kelly was railing against cancel culture previously but all of a sudden she's tweeting at nike and disney because they just penned a deal with Colin Kaepernick i mean what is the goal of tagging them you know and trying to get him fired obviously so it's like cancel culture is a weapon that's being used disproportionately against the left and like i think that you can debate the merits of cancel culture in fact since we're talking about this i've got to plug the some more news segment on this by cody johnson it's like 40 minutes but it's it's it's perfect um but i mean cancel culture is being overblown and it's being used as a weapon against the left to demonize the left and it's just fucking bullshit like i'm sorry yeah no i totally agree um who's who's a very example i was just thinking of um and now you've got me distracted by cody shoddy i can't can't stop thinking about it shout out to cody shoddy he's he's our he's our lefty charlie kelly it's not not the one we deserve but it's the one we need yeah i don't know sorry i lost my fan thought we'll we'll just we'll just keep talking okay okay um well yeah um i will plug since we're talking about cody shoddy back in 2018 i was on the creationist cat channel with benjamin nixon and cody shoddy uh i loved it so check it out um it was one of my funnest collaborations aside from this one uh because you know i got to be like associated with like comedy and i'm not very funny like i'm kind of like this dry nerd um but they told like the video was awesome so i'll plug that and maybe i'll put a link to it if i could find the video i'm sure it's still around um and and we're plugging creationist cat at the same time so yeah creationist cat is all around yeah yeah and benjamin nixon also who has a podcast daily i think um that's phenomenal we'll we'll just like go through all the shoutouts now no um but since we're going to shoutouts um let's go ahead and uh let's plug your channel because my audience has got to subscribe to you you have two youtube channels correct i do yeah so i basically wanted to emulate the tim pool uh strategy like i told you so i i stream every day on twitch uh you can check that out obviously at twitch.tv slash the serfs tv in fact uh most of our social media is just at the serfs tv so if you go to twitter.com slash the serfs tv instagram slash the serfs tv pornhub.com slash the serfs tv you'll you'll find uh every every version of that but then our new channel sorry any only fans on uh serfs or serfs on only fans yeah that that that one will be coming up soon um but then uh the other one is uh it's called the surf time so it's just youtube.com slash the surf times and it is basically i take my streams that i've done during the course of the day and i'll edit them into little teeny parcels and you know parsecs uh you know i can i can speak there too i i love my i love my star wars um but anyways i would cut that into little pieces and then i would put that up on uh the the surf times and it's astonishing how much that works like i'm gonna be totally honest with you it the tim pool model works for reason it's it's one of the reasons vosh has grown so fast so quickly if there is one strategy i would tell the left to start emulating is that and then obviously um you know work on your craft uh polish your stuff make make your stuff as entertaining as possible uh you know cultivate your own voice and then find what works for you and all that kind of stuff but in terms of trying to aggressively attack the youtube algorithm and promote left to stuff that strategy does work like 10 minute plus videos into very catchy kind of like uh headline thumbnails stuff like that it is a really good strategy yeah that's good to know because vosh is to his credit he is blowing up on youtube which is really nice to see because like that type of content before like five years ago that's like longer for him um it wouldn't have a leg to stand on in youtube like you really were incentivized to make shorter videos and i'm kind of still in that shorter video mode uh but the longer format videos especially if people like uh posting clips of live streams it really does have like a ton of views um so that's that's really good to know i kind of need to shake up my format i haven't had a really big format change but i kind of do a little bit of both here like i'll do some shorter news videos and then i'll do like my deep dives which are like 10 plus minutes um but i kind of make videos for like assuming whether or not i would want to watch them and i i usually aim for like eight to twelve minutes i think that's the sweet spot because like you don't you don't want it to be too short like you want to finish your dinner if you're watching youtube but you don't want it to be too long because you know they're supposed to be quick but i think that really trying to grow is part of the process so we can take back this algorithm from the alt-right um and that's i'm glad that you brought that up because that is important for people to know who are kind of like these up-and-comers who are trying to get you know um their foot in the door and it's just it's really tough yeah i mean the other piece of advice then i would give if we're doing this is to uh use solidarity because that actually works quite a bit as well on on youtube like combine with other content creators uh collaborate as much as possible promote each other um that's what the right was doing without even thinking about it because i don't think they were thinking of the solidarity they were just thinking of it in terms of marketing principles right so your Dave Rubin's had Joe Rogan on your Joe Rogan's had Stefan Molano on your Stefan Molano's had Jared Taylor and then that's how the entire pipeline was created but their cross-pollinization that they were doing so very frequently does work right because at the end of the day it's about finding people and right now you and me have had this unbelievably amazingly lovely interaction and the people watching my stream uh i'd say maybe like a handful of them are going to love you as well and then a handful of them are just gonna be like yeah that was nice but like i'm okay and the same thing vice versa right some people are gonna be watching me and they're gonna be like oh i liked him he was funny other people are gonna be like who is this like you know complete moron on on the show but there is there is going to be like an overlap and a cross promotion and i think that that absolutely works i think it's i think it's a it's a good thing yeah yeah definitely i'm trying to commit to that more as well um it's tough because it's like you only have a finite amount of time and i'm trying to do more candidate interviews but i think that this cross-pollinization really is the way to go um because if we want to create that type of pipeline for lack of a better word you know into the left circles then you do have to do this exactly like you can't just have you know the same uh three people that you watch you have to be introduced to newer voices and there's so many great people who are popping up on the left who are just they have to be promoted like it's a shame that they're not getting the attention that they deserve given how much time effort and research you know they put into these videos so like i try to do my part to promote them and you know it's it's just kind of like a give and take so yeah is there anything else well i think my daily streams are i i usually get uh two or three clips lined up every single day it'll be the humanist report it'll be rational national and then some of michael brooks and the majority report are usually the main the mainstream ones that i put in there usually i might add a little jamie peck or something else in in there as well but that's usually like the four or five that i put on there um it would be amazing to see more voices get promoted as well like i would love if there was for example a woman who's as prominent as sam cedar is uh you know i would love to see members of the trans community get anywhere near those kind of numbers right it would be awesome if we had way more like uh diversity and promotion that kind of stuff like that is to i guess to put a bow on this whole thing the the in pole that dav rubin likes to pull uh is that's the wrong kind but the good kind is promoting and collaborating and working with other other creators of a variety of you know diversity is a beautiful thing it absolutely yeah it can't just be like five white dudes who you get all your left-wing news from like it has right it has to be really diverse perspectives i think that's really important like you need a balanced diet um of different lefty takes you know um so diversify who you listen to and yeah we'll try to help with that for sure how often do you stream per day um or like is it like a two-hour stream like how long do you go for usually i i'm monday to friday uh usually about four hours a day uh depending on depends on the the load uh if it's a really heavy news day how much stuff is going down and then there's a segment that i do every day where i just uh pick apart ghouls so i'll i'll just laugh at PragerU i'll laugh at Paul Joseph Watson i'll you know we'll just line up all these things we were looking at alex jones today and obviously it's it can be vaccine it can be taxing but at the same time that that to me is something that i find that i've become decent at uh in in the sense that i'm i'm okay at improv comedy when when i'm looking at the it really helps that their talking points are always the same because you know the the research isn't too extensive so there's times when i just talked about it earlier when i really messed this up and i should have done way more diligent research when it came to uh to mike brown and furgusson but for the most part they they have the same 10 talking points it's basically the attack helicopter comedy equivalent of uh you know their their right wing conservative uh points and and they'll just regurgitate them in different forms yeah i was gonna ask you about that but that doesn't make sense because like i feel like after i film like if i put a lot of research and like thought into a piece like by the time i'm towards the end of that like filming i can't speak like i go like in trump mode and it's like i'm i'm slurring over my words because it's like so much energy to like try to really focus and like get it out there in a really specific way because like you're recovering topics that are like really complex um and like if you say like just one word incorrect in a sentence that can like change the entire meaning of like a particular policy especially like when we're like really knee deep and like medicare for all you know for example um which i haven't done one of those in a while um but yeah they do make it easier especially you won't be able to it looks like yeah yeah we're never getting it so you know you gotta laugh or you're gonna cry exactly so uh if there's nothing else that you want to talk about um then we can end here and i would really just encourage everyone to please please please subscribe to the serfs everywhere both channels and on twitch uh if you're not then i will ban you and cancel you from watching the human support well that's it i've got nothing left to talk about hopefully you guys enjoy the show thanks so much to my guest lance from the serfs uh check out their channel there will be links down below on and usual we're not going to end the show without thanking all of our patreon payback on youtube members for helping the show not just to survive but thrive as well uh thank you all so much i've got nothing left to say so i'm gonna stop talking i'll see you all next week i'm mike figurado this is the humanist report take care


Hi guys, um, so I just wanted to make a guess a video on something interesting and It's a little bit really kind of you know price action and Being and I caution the word Emotional right because it can have obviously negative connotations to it and But in this context, I don't mean it in you know a very negative way or anything like that I just mean it in maybe more of a reactive Scenario when it comes to price and it takes a while to really you know kind of catch yourself When you do this right and I see this pretty much all the time and and spank Who says who said, you know, wow the pounder sold off hard? OMG I'm glad about with those trades in good profits, right? Yeah, cuz I think it was last week We were and I'm still long on that um that that that pound Swiss trade as well, but the point is is is that It's all a matter of perspective and really kind of understanding was what's going on in so far as You know the pound right so in price action is selling off now um You know on on the surface, I guess, you know just looking at a point blank It looks like you know the pound is is selling off But we're not driven, you know in the group by you know price and what we shouldn't be driven By is price. Yeah, and again, it does take a while to To really kind of figure this out and kind of catch yourself in in the moment So heading down to maybe something like a one hour chart, right? And yes, the pound has moved. It is a fact that the pound has moved You know for maybe about what's that 100 or 200 sorry and 64 pips in this space of Four hours and when you consider All the other candlesticks small candlesticks, you know that it does look like a massive move but but first of all if you're if you Or we I guess Really want to be a buyer at a pound although the pound is subject to It being Well put it this way the bank of England is still on the interest rate hiking cycle So as long as they're still hiking to me, it's still the pound is still a buy only against obviously certain currencies right not against every single currency, but Um if you know prices are moving, you know pulling back, right? Um a does it really matter? You know how prices pull back if you're looking at long trades right if you're looking at levels In and around, you know daily demand zones or you know capture pay relief zones or stop hunts Does it really matter how prices pull back and I get it as far as you know You know you potentially taking you know profit And it was a great, you know profit taking You know you timed it, you know, right if you timed it at the top, right? Not everyone's going to time it at the top, but but in the medium to long term that's like that That's kind of like short term In many ways, it's a bit of like short term thinking if you understand if you have the confidence that the pound may go even You know, maybe a couple hundred pips higher.  So if they did take profits, then they're glad they did, right? But ultimately this could have been one of those moves, right? This pullback could have been one of those moves where in real time before You know, uh, we knew that prices, you know, they went higher that could have been considered the same, you know severe type drop. Yeah, but then Uh, you know prices ended up going higher, right? And I'm not saying that You know that that that's gonna happen here. I'm not trying to this is not me trying to predict where price is gonna go right now But you know the one of the points I'm trying to make is is don't be Try not to be driven by what short price does in the short term if you have a long term medium to long term view on On on on price and the fundamentals are all risk sentiment because it doesn't really matter at the end of the day Um, these things are going to happen in an uptrend. You're going to get pullbacks, right? Imagine the same thing happened down here, right? At some point, you know, traders would have been going short Right here If you consider all of the smaller candles below it traders who are driven by price action would have been like, oh my days You know the pound is setting off. I'm glad I took profits here Right or wherever you took profits you took profits there took profits there And then, you know, you would have missed out on everything else Yeah so Again, we know, you know, we have a you know, the probabilities are on our side as to why we want to be a buyer of the of the pound and a seller of the Japanese yen, right and Prices are going to pull back. They always will Um and to the degree that they pull back Or how they pull back Shouldn't scare you out of the trade if you understand Um, you know, again the fundamentals of this sentiment in the medium to long term. This is this is really the point I'm trying to to make and even in this one, right? There would have been again another sell-off right another sell-off Which would have had traders, you know saying to themselves like glad I took profit, you know Depending on where they got in and there's an again I'm not saying that you shouldn't have taken profit because it's always and you should really have your profit targets set ahead of time, right? And where you potentially want to take profit. I'm saying that you should have held You know on during all this time if you didn't understand what was going on fundamentally and definitely have You know profit targets and take profit along the way But to the point of you know, if you were driven out of this trade if you were scared out of this trade Let's say, you know, you had your long-term view and nothing changes, right fundamentally, but then you have Um a drop like this happen Yeah, and you're sitting at the the computer screen and wondering why this is happening. Yeah And there's really no narrative. Nothing's really changed fundamentally risk sentiment wise. Everything's just as it, you know should be et cetera Then why get out of the trade? Right, this is where fundamentals and understanding, you know, risk sentiment and what really is driving the market as far as value Um, is the but is the pound cheap against the uh, is against Japanese? Yeah, and this is where it helps you because a lot of times you can't believe or you know be driven by what you see You know with your eyes because the markets constantly being And I don't and I don't want to say manipulated, but it's it's it looks like it's being manipulated Simply because of and you would think that if you don't understand how the markets work But from for example a market maker perspective, this is a business model, right? This is actually a business model This is what market makers and institutional flow and institutions have to do in order to This is this is this is their business model, right? This is what they do And so some people might call it manipulation if you understand what's going on It's not really manipulation, but the point being is Is that these things are designed to scare traders out of, you know, of their trades, right? Um, and you can see again how how much higher prices went from there If you don't know what's going on if you have no idea what's going on Fundamentally and risk sentiment wise and can make certain choices to you know to hold on Then you're going to miss out on you know these these massive, you know moves and again going back to where We are What has this got to do with? Uh, you know our trades, especially if we're going we're looking to go long, you know at certain demand zones, right? If if prices are coming down sharply, that's that's better, right? We get we get we can potentially get a A pullback in the buy trade sooner, right? If it if it takes forever to come down then it's going to take a bit longer um, but either way regardless of what happens In the price in the opposite direction to what the way that we're looking to trade if nothing has changed If nothing has changed you're looking on Bloomberg you're looking on um, you know on on on Financial times or Reuters or anything like that and you don't see anything Then to me it is what it is and i'm not saying again Don't confuse me saying this with um our prices are going to go higher or are going to go lower Nobody knows right nobody. Sorry nobody knows What price is going to do in the short term? But what's likely to happen in the median term as long as the british pound is you know continuing to high crates and as well risk sentiment. Yeah continues to remain less Then it is honestly i don't say less but maybe you know coming more towards maybe more risk neutral um Then obviously the pound should be a buy In in that in that scenario, but again just as a reiteration So he's no wrong words today as to to reiterate I guess What i'm really want to want to say as well is that um, this is not a recommendation to buy or sell The pound for me again is probably one of the currencies that I am very cautious It's like a cautious buy. So i'm not putting you know my normal position size on the pound i've explained this um on I think I did a A post on it last week one second. Let me find it. Yep. So here we are and here is my recent You know analysis on the pound on the 25th and I said everyone So here's my most recent thoughts on the pound in the short term. I think the pound is still a buy Is it the best buy I wouldn't put it ahead Of the dollar the new zealand dollar the cad or even the australian dollar at the moment And that's due to rising The rising potential for stagflation this year Of course stagflation could happen to most if not all economies, but with the uk I've been reading some articles recently and their economy could be hit sooner rather than later Yes, the bank of england is still on the hiking cycle, which it gives support to the pound But i'm keeping an eye on continued rising inflation which can affect Can Have I should I should have put the effect of hurt in the economy and causing stagflation So if the rumor starts to indicate that the uk is headed for stagflation Then my bias towards the pound will change currently the pound swiss has come down to an interesting level Which now looks like a stop hunt setup the cpr zone I was watching didn't give me an entry this morning's news Although I focus on pound as a whole or just a gdp as a whole And less on things like retail sales wasn't great But it adds to the narrative of the slower consumer spending cost of living due to higher prices rising inflation Which then brings the stagflation scenario More into focus just to reiterate I I still think the pound is a buy against swiss and the yen at the moment But my usual position size is going to be reduced Is going to be reduced On pound long trades until positive signs of uk economic growth emerge right so again going back to the chart Again that that was from the 25th so again from the 25th prices You know when it still went higher, but again just looking at from this from a daily perspective and I'm watching my Weekly technical analysis video For the for the group members, you know Ultimately, you know, we do want we do want prices to pull back into a demand zone and how they pull back into the demand zone Is neither here nor there if that price is You know the price action is not driven by a change in fundamentals right or risk sentiment So, you know, that's pretty much it. But if you want to have again an idea of of of, you know The whole analysis behind the pound yen then just watch the video I put out earlier In the members trading Trading video channel. Yeah, but uh, but yeah, just just be very cautious and be aware I guess of you know of of of Looking at price action As and the meaning of price action because not every single Large move. Yeah, that happens in the market Is going to be some sort of reversal. So and again, I know you're learning this spanking everyone else watching this Um, but this is uh, you know part of I guess, you know, the mentoring, right? Is what I provide and just to maybe to give you a different perspective as to you know, what I think is going on So so yeah anyways guys, that's pretty much it And I'll see you in the group


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Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this week's Misconception in Astronomy, we are going to talk about the moon phases and understand what causes them and find out that they are not caused by Earth's shadow, which is a common misconception. So what causes the phases of our moon? Well, here we watch the moon go through its cycle of phases. And you can see that it will start out as a thin crescent, quickly become full, and then go back again to a thin crescent, very quickly in the image. But we'll note that it actually takes a full month. Now what we know that does not cause the moon's phases is the Earth's shadow. What we find is that we will always have one half of the solid surface of the moon that is illuminated by the sun. And we also find that half of the moon faces Earth. So let's take a look at this. Now the half facing the sun would be the half here on the right-hand side. And that would not matter which phase we're looking at here. We're looking at two examples. This half of the moon will always be illuminated. Now we also know that half faces the Earth. So the half facing the Earth would be this portion, so the part down below here. And in this case it would be angled a little bit more. Again, we want to go right through there and we would look at this portion facing Earth. Now the only part that will be illuminated is the portion, the illuminated portion of the moon that happens to be facing Earth at that time. So in this case, in this first case, we would see this portion of the moon meets both criteria. It is facing Earth and it is the illuminated portion. And there we would see a first quarter moon. Now in this case we see it's a little bit different. This part here is facing the sun, so it would be illuminated. This portion above the green line would then be the part that is facing Earth. And only this little portion here would be illuminated. So we would see a very thin crescent phase. So it is the combination of these two things that gives the moon its phases. Now to be clear, phases are not specific to the moon. Any object would go through phases. So if we were on the moon, and here is an image taken by one of the Apollo missions, watching the Earth rise over the lunar limb from orbit around the moon. And we note that our Earth is not in a fully illuminated phase. It is actually in what we would call a gibbous phase. We also have noted that the planet Venus will go through phases, as would the planet Mercury. Any planet closer to the sun than where you are would go through phases. So in these cases we would see phases elsewhere. Any object, any moon around another planet would also go through the same set of phases that our moon does. Now, it is true that the moon's Earth shadow does occasionally fall on the moon. This is what we call a lunar eclipse. And here we see the uneclipsed moon off to one side here. So there is the uneclipsed moon. And we see the moon much closer into Earth's shadow. So the Earth's shadow there is falling on the moon, but that is only in those very special cases when the Earth, moon and sun are exactly lined up that gives us a lunar eclipse. So let's go ahead and finish up with our summary. And what we looked at today is that the phases of the moon are not caused by the shadow of Earth. They are caused by how much of the illuminated portion of the moon's surface is visible from Earth at that time. Yes, it is true that the moon does occasionally pass through Earth's shadow, but this is only during a lunar eclipse, which does not happen every time, and is only for a short period of time over the course of maybe a couple of hours on just full moon and just those full moons when everything is lined up perfectly to give us an eclipse. So that concludes this lecture on the phases of the moon and that they're not caused by Earth's shadow. We'll be back again next week for another misconception in astronomy. So until then, have a great day, everyone, and I will see you in class.


Art with stocks flirting with record highs is a summer correction looming here now as Paul Christopher head global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, so Paul you expect the S&P 500 to hit 22 30 or 23 30 by the end of the year that would on the on the lower end be an eight and a half percent drop from where we are now at 24 36 so do we get a correction coming this summer? We probably have some time between now in the autumn We probably have some give-back in stocks as valuations consolidate people will be looking into 2018 thinking about the Fed about inflation and about fiscal policy and what Congress might be able to do those are going to be some big questions So with a target on the S&P 500 between 22 30 22 30 and 23 30 that implies roughly flat growth for the market in 2017 what does that tell you about the broader bull market? Is it still intact? We still think so Scott the the economy we think probably has a couple of more years to go That means earnings will continue to grow, but we do think late in the cycle as we are with the Fed raising rates Especially we're going to have more time more opportunities for investors to double-think or rethink How much of their ruling to pay for a dollar of earnings? All right, so then investors should use these pullbacks potentially is buying opportunities I mean, what do you make of technology stocks? We're seeing Amazon and alphabet over $1,000 a share. It's pretty incredible Yeah, that's pretty incredible. We went back to even weight on technology last autumn We thought maybe they were a little bit overdone then we think they're even more a little overdone now We continue to like the cyclicals where we think you've got a better chance of playing longer term sustainable growth Okay, so a more safer play there a safer play cyclicals like the discretionary consumer discretionary and industrials All right and in terms of Trump policy We know Trump has a host of market-friendly agendas, but they seem to be stalled So where does the Trump play fit into your S&P target? Yeah, we didn't make any assumptions about fiscal policy reforms or implementation this year because we thought delay and dilution would be the order of the day That's proving to be the case. There's still a chance We could get some prospect of health care reform and tax reform for early 2018 The markets might start to discount that in late 17, but we'll play that when we get to it right now We're not expecting or forecasting any sort of fiscal policy Improvement or boost for the market. Yeah, and don't forget we have that big August recess in Congress So nothing's gonna get done that. Yes. All right, Paul Christopher. We'll leave it there. Thanks so much for joining us Thanks, Scott. All right, I'm Scott Gam and you're watching the street