Harry Potter, JK Rowling, and The Trans Athlete Olympic Ban?

Hi, everybody, and welcome to the show.

We have a lot to discuss today.

Happy Friday to everybody in the chat.

We're gonna be talking about this new Harry Potter HBO TV series

and there's a lot to discuss here.

This is created a fire on the internet.

We're gonna be talking about Black Snape and the RaceWap

that's now happening on this show

that really switches up the storyline.

That's gonna tie in a little bit to a Bridgerton episode.

We did this week where they did a race lesbian swap

on the show plus actor, a list actor, Andrew Garfield

is now coming after JK Rowling

and essentially calling her, she who shall not be named

because of her views on transgenderism and women's rights.

This is creating a whole debate surrounding

even watching the Harry Potter series.

Plus we have actor Josh Demell coming forward

and saying, you know what, we don't need actor's opinions

which is really interesting

given that we now have this opinion from Andrew Garfield.

And lastly, we're gonna be talking about the trans ban

at least that's what they're calling it right now.

In the Olympics, and this is supposed to be happening

around 20, 28, but the IOC just released their newest guidelines

which we'll discuss as this is gonna be like a trans heavy,

the trans heavy episode.

God say, I wasn't expecting to be continuing to talk

about this issue as much as we are on this show,

but here we are.

And before we get into all those stories,

we of course have Taylor in Nashville.

Hello everyone, all you filthy little mudbloods out there.

Glad to be talking about these issues today.

Yeah, we're trying, we don't go out of our way.

I feel like to talk about the trans stuff and the racewaps,

but I feel like it just keeps happening in culture.

So here we are.

It really does.

I mean, tomorrow we have an episode about like a trans lawyer

freaking out in court.

This just so happens to be the week

where this news is popping up.

But first we're gonna start with the Harry Potter remake,

which you guys know how I feel about remakes.

I'm over the remake hellscape that we're in right now.

What, the first Harry Potter movie came out in like 2001.

Why are we here again?

Why are we here except to form this IP

for probably everything that it's worth.

And I think that's why we're making remakes so much right now.

We just got an announcement that another 13 going on three

is being made.

And if you guys remember that movie came out in 2004.

Now they're re-upping it.

We are just turning out remakes in Hollywood

and not giving time or space to original creators,

original screenplays, original movies, TV, anything.

Now there's images from the new Moana trailer coming out

and people are just seeing this production

that's devoid of like proper lighting and color.

And it doesn't even feel like these remakes are living up

to the classics which they're based on.

And I wonder if you guys feel the same about Harry Potter.

I did ask you guys on Patreon how you feel

about this new Harry Potter remake.

So head over to Patreon if you guys want to get involved

in this show and have your opinion posted on here

during the show.

We have here, what do you think about HBO's remake

of Harry Potter?

Now 28% of you said I'm tired of remakes,

but I'll be watching.

Another 64% of you said I'm tired of remakes.

So I won't be watching.

6% of you said I love remakes and I'll be watching

and 1% said I love remakes and I won't be watching.

So I think in general, when we're looking at the public,

we're a little over remakes.

It's getting tired,

especially when you're turning out content

for things that were made what 24, 25 years ago,

it's really not necessary.

I think we can sit and wait,

allow the classics to really sit with us,

allow them to become somewhat timeless

before we're even testing that by making a remake of it.

And it feels like you're just doing it for the grab of it

or you're doing it to insert your new politics

into this remake.

And this becomes especially important

when we're talking about Harry Potter

and of course JK Rowling.

She's put herself in some political conversations

and now we have this remake coming out.

Now she claims online that she's super excited

about this remake that is very much true to the books.

But of course, people are bringing up this, okay?

They're bringing up Black Snape.

The actor who's been cast in this role,

his name is Papa as Seedoo

and here's an image of him now taking on that Snape role.

I want to take a look at just like the costuming

and everything we have going on here.

I don't know what this is.

This is just like a very modern take on this character to me

and I have to say, I am no Harry Potter expert.

I've seen maybe three of the films I've read

none of the books.

Yes, shame me in the comments.

But this is not my field of expertise.

All I know is, this does not look like him.

This does not look like the Snape that I remember

and even the book description, they call him pale skin.

They say he's salo skinned.

They say he has a hooked nose.

There's a lot of descriptive features

of this particular character that I feel like

you're not being met in this show,

not to mention the fact that apparently going

into this character's storyline,

there are some things that when you switch

this character to a black character,

it starts to feel racial.

It starts to feel a little bit racist.

He gets bullied by Harry Potter's father back in the day

and one of these bullying sessions,

bullying moments is described as him being like

lavitated up into a tree,

in stuck in a tree, in some sort, you know,

when you do that with a black man,

it starts to feel a little different.

He's also very much othered by people in his upbringing

and that's a deep part of his character

which feels kind of weird now that he's black

because we've racialized so many of our conversations.

We've spoken about the black struggle

and black power and civil rights.

So now when you try to racewap a character

in the name of equity and representation,

but that character has a very otherwise background,

it starts to feel like people are doing it

because he's black.

And I don't think Harry Potter's dad is supposed to be a racist,

but now you're making him look like one.

And there's even excerpts from the book here

that fans are posting where it says,

well, said James, appearing to deliberate the point,

it's more the fact that he exists if you know what I mean.

Like his existence is problematic.

Oh, that doesn't go in your black.

I'm scared.

Yeah, there's also, there's a character named Neville Longbottom,

that's not a good view, I'll do this one.

Who is, you know, they face a creature called a boggirt

that turns into whatever you're most afraid of.

And he's a most afraid of Professor Snape

and he's a white little white kid.

And so Professor Snape's gonna come out of the closet

as Neville's greatest fear.

There's also like a major plot line around Snape as a character.

His, he was in love with Harry's mom, spoiler alert, Lily.

And Lily kind of friendzones him and rejects him

in favor of James.

And now you've got the white guy who bullied this black guy

is chosen by the white lady and sideline and friendzone by her.

So just, you're introducing all kinds of strange dynamics now

that are kind of racialized just by virtue of this casting.

And the question is, is, is why?

What would motivate you to do this?

Is it really because, you know, the opportunity that this series

presented was to create a more faithful adaptation

to the books because now you have more, you can take your time,

you can go chapter by chapter if you want

or make like a longer series and go into more detail

of what's actually represented.

And then that's why I think there's so much backlash

to this casting just because it immediately undercuts

that opportunity.

And people were already skeptical of this.

Like Harry Potter fan, I'm more of a Harry Potter fan

than you obviously, but people were already skeptical

when they heard of this remake

because there is kind of a remake fatigue right now.

And there's also, we've just watched over and over again

with like properties like Star Wars

and even like Amazon's Lord of the Rings adaptation.

They're just kind of not really capturing the original magic.

It's not really about the OG source material

continuing it on.

They're just taking in these weird directions

that don't seem to resonate in these kind of like

more profound universal classic hero's journey type of ways.

So when we heard of this new Harry Potter adaptation

as first as like, A, this is too soon.

B, like no one really asked for this.

The movies are still, you know, the last one only came out

but 2009, 2012 something like that.

So they're not even that long in the past

and they hold up, you know, perfectly well.

I'd much rather see and people were calling for this.

Like, let's get a series on the marauders.

Let's get a series on like, you know, unlike

in the Lord of the Rings and whatever.

Like they'll author still alive and she can be involved

in these. So let's, let's get her involved

in telling different stories and different facets

of the lore.

And instead, you go for this like remake of the books,

which we just had all these movies come out

and then you're already kind of like complicating

and making, putting a barrier between the audience

and the lore and the source material.

And now I'm going to, I'm the one that has to be acting

instead of you.

And I have to act like this is the snake

that I read about in the books.

Yeah, and it's hard because, you know,

a lot of people say on its face,

it doesn't matter if you race off a character like this,

they can get over the certain moments

in the original source material where things

might look a different way,

but you really are not being faithful.

It's not a faithful adaptation.

And I do like to think, you're seeing the trailer

for this that it looks way better than I thought it would

and that JK Rowling has been heavily involved

in this project.

So maybe that's going to be the saving grace

of everything that's about to come out now.

But we see this happen time and time again.

And there's something to be said for just giving people

what they expect and what they've read and what they love.

And we saw this recently with Bridgerton.

Bridgerton has announced its season five.

And season five is going to be surrounding a character

Francesca Bridgerton.

Now she is meant to in the books,

fall in love with a man by the name of Michael Sterling,

a white man by the name of Michael Sterling.

They've switched out this character

for now, Michaela Sterling, who is not only not a white man,

she's a black woman.

So now this becomes a lesbian story arc here.

And a lot of people sort of retorted back and said,

well, that's totally fine.

You can switch the character.

It doesn't really mean anything to the story.

And it does change from what people expected

and what the book lovers wanted to see.

And that's something to be said there.

A lot of you pointed out in the comments,

which I did not know this, that Francesca featured here,

this character, is meant to fall in love with Michael Sterling.

And she's also meant to go through an infertility

struggle and a miscarriage.

And that's pivotal to her role.

It's pivotal to her character development.

And now, because you've replaced this character,

Michael, with Michaela, which how lazy is that,

you're going to get rid of this pivotal piece of the storyline.

And it can imagine, with Harry Potter,

that they're not going to have to get rid of some of these pieces

of his past, or at least rebrain those pieces of his past,

due to the fact that you've changed the race of this character.

So we're not really adhering to what makes the book great,

which is the original writing.

But I guess, I don't know, J.K. Rowling

seemed to be OK with this change.

Who knows how much say she had in the overall changes

that were made for that particular character.

And a lot of people are pointing out,

which we have to do, just take Adam Driver.

Adam Driver's standing right there.

He's right there.

And he would be perfect for this role.

Who knows if he would even take up this role?

But I mean, just look at him.

And he's a fantastic actor.

I mean, a fantastic actor.

He would have bodied the role of state.

And he was overlooked for a race walk,

which really makes no sense, not only

for the fact that it doesn't match the description,

but now the storyline, it seems, is going to have to change.

You know, if they really stick by the storyline

and originally what happens with this character

and is upbringing, I would be very shocked.

It would be shocking to see.

And I do wonder how people will interpret it

if they show it.

Because I don't know.

I don't think that's going to land well.

What's so ever?

OK, but now we're on the audience to react the right way,

and we've seen this a couple of times

where you make these kind of agenda-driven decisions.

And then you gaslight the audience into saying,

like, this is just normal.

This is just the best casting.

This is just the creative expression.

It doesn't matter.

Well, if it doesn't matter, then why are we forcing this?

And then when you get back last year,

you tell the audience that they're being racist

or they're being discriminatory or bigoted in some way.

And that was what happened with the Star Wars,

the act light, which we reacted to plenty on this channel.

The Lord of the Rings adaptation from Amazon.

So we've seen this thing before.

And I'm trying to be open-minded and reserve judgment

and all that.

But it's just hard because not only is a remake fatigue,

but there's fatigue of this kind of agenda-driven revisions

in these remakes.

Yeah, and I'm getting actor fatigue.

Actor, political take, fatigue, which

leads us to our next point here, Andrew Garfield.

Andrew, Andrew, pretentious Garfield is now

coming into the conversations around the JK,

Rowling, surrounding her views on trans rights, women's rights.

And of course, he's going to have a leftist take on the matter.

I'll read the quote here before we get into his video.

Deanna Radcliffe is really good in the Harry Potter films.

The films are really good.

I know it's controversial.

And we shouldn't be putting money in the pocket of inhumane

legislations right now through who shall remain nameless.

So it's funny, she's even leaning on some of what

JK Rowling wrote in her original Harry Potter books,

calling her who shall remain nameless.

But there are so many beautiful artists

that worked on those films.

Now let's hear it from the horses mouth

here in Andrew Garfield.

And like Daniel's so goddamn good.

And honestly, I hadn't watched the Harry Potter

since all recently.

I do know.

No, and he's really good in those Harry Potter movies.

That's Harry Potter movies are really good.

They're good.

Yeah.

I'm excited.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know it's like controversial.

And like we shouldn't be, you know, putting money

in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now

through she's the shall remain nameless.

But the soul and the spirit of a lot of the essence

of the themes of those films and the kids of soapy

and all the artisans and the craft people

and the I'm working with a wonderful makeup artist

there right now who was working the creature workshop.

And I'm just like, oh man, we can't throw the baby out

with the bath water.

Like there are so many beautiful artists

that that worked on those films.

Anyway, I have a newfound appreciation for all of the artists.

Yeah.

And Daniel Aglif, just.

Daniel's great.

Daniel's so, and then like that.

All of the artists except she who shall not be named,

who is responsible for the very thing

that she were able to consume.

And so beautifully so might I add.

And it's interesting because he says he doesn't want

to contribute to inhumane legislation

in having watched and consumed the Harry Potter books

or having consumed the movies.

Meaning he doesn't want any of that money to be funneled

to JK Rowling, the creator of this piece of art.

And when you look into the legislative

inhumanity of JK Rowling, let me give you just a little bit

of baseline for what that means.

So she's backing the legal challenges for women who are

fighting for their rights, fighting for their spaces,

their privacy, women who have been wronged

by the system with all of this transgender bullshit

that's happening right now.

She is using her own money, the money that she's gotten

from Harry Potter to fight those battles for those women.

She's backing legal challenges against the Scottish prison

service for the placement of trans women

in prison facilities that are for biological women.

And we've seen this issue take place here

in my state of California, but just in the US at large

in New Jersey, we had two female prison inmates pregnant

because they allowed a trans-identified woman

into the prison system.

And guess what?

They subsequently had sexual interactions

with that individual.

The Times of India reports that her support

for legal challenges ultimately saw that the UK Supreme

Court defined women as a biological female.

And that's of course a decision that JK Rowling widely

celebrated on her social media and on her platforms.

She's fighting the good fight for women's rights,

women's spaces, women's definitions, and their biology.

She's also fought against the Scotland's hate crime act.

You'll remember that Scotland put forward

this hate crime act, and I believe 2024.

And they essentially said, you can call the Scottish police

and you can report hate crimes against transgender

identifying individuals and we will take this very seriously.

And the wake of that act being passed,

thousands upon thousands of people called to reports JK Rowling.

They were journalists doing it.

They were everyday citizens doing it

because she simply wants to define a woman

as a biological woman.

She wants to keep women's spaces.

She wants to stop women from being victimized,

sexually assaulted, experiencing violence.

And she wants to stop those crimes

from being categorized as female crimes

when a biological man who identifies as a woman

commits those crimes.

These are righteous fights, at least in my opinion.

I guess Andrew Garfield does not think the same.

And you know what, JK Rowling did when she was getting

thousands of people calling on this hotline

to report her as a hate crime.

She said, arrest me.

Lock me up, lock me up, put me in the clanker, okay?

And hopefully not with somebody

who's a trans-identified woman,

a man pretending to be a woman.

So she's doing all that.

Plus she's fighting the legal battles of everyday women

who find themselves in the throes

of this ridiculous movement.

And now, pretentious little Andrew Garfield

wants to say, well, I'll consume this wonderful piece

of art that she's created,

but I don't want to send any money to, oh my gosh.

Give me your break.

We're over it.

And he joins a long list of actors

who have come after JK Rowling.

Emma Watson at this point, Daniel Radcliffe, John Lithgo,

and John Lithgo's in her show right now,

playing Dumbledore, who's meant to be

this wise, righteous character

who really guides the storyline.

And it's a paternal figure who has so much wisdom

and he bestows upon the other characters

in this realm and in this fantasy.

And then here he is calling out JK Rowling,

the creator of this beloved character

for her inhumanity.

It's getting tired, getting tired.

My favorite tweet I saw about this,

I can't remember who said it,

but it was basically to the effect of,

people are going to be saying

JK Rowling's name and reading her books

a hundred years from now.

And Andrew Garfield is going to be the wrong answer

to a Spider-Man trivia question.

I suppose pretty savage.

But yeah, to say like,

oh, we can't throw out the baby with the bathwater

and implicating that JK Rowling is the bathwater here

and the baby is the actors

that whose career she created

by creating this epic story that identified

with so many people such that there's theme parks

and multiple remakes of her films

within the span of 20, 25 years.

She's the baby, they're the bathwater, if anything.

It's so interesting because I've walked

at like old interviews of Andrew Garfield

and want to say pretentious.

I mean, pretentious.

That's the word that consistently pops up in my mind.

He's like referred to himself in relation

to being like a lifesaver like a doctor

or a medical practitioner

and has said that his job is just as important

because he's a storyteller

yet he's throwing storytellers under the bus

for I guess political takes that he disagrees with,

which is fine that you disagree with these political takes.

But the way in which you're going about this

and to not really give voice to exactly why

the JK Rowling is where she stands on this issue,

it just feels like it's a little ignorant to me.

And to refer to her is like she who shall not be named,

way to put the power like on her end of the court there

because that empowers her even more.

We all know who you're talking about.

So in the same way that that gives, I guess,

Voldemort and the story, this sort of powerfulness

that surrounds him in a more evil sense than with JK Rowling,

we all know who you're talking about.

And you're making her more powerful

in talking about her and discussing her in this way

and you're driving more people to her cause.

So thank you for that.

But of course, there's a lot of conversations

surrounding trans lives and Harry Potter.

People are posting things like this in response to all this.

Trans lives are more important than Harry Potter,

trying to urge people not to watch the show

and engage with this HBO series.

And we saw people try to do the same

with what Hogwarts legacy, that game that came out

and then it ended up being the number one game of the year.

The people in just can't stay away

from the creations of JK Rowling and you know what?

Good for her.

And I like that she's using her money

to do something for this movement

that it really speaks to her.

And you know what?

These actors are going to keep coming out of the work

after her, after her, after her.

I'm not surprised by this whatsoever.

But it's bringing up the discussion as to whether or not

actors should even be giving their political takes at all.

Because it is happening a lot now.

And you know what?

I'm fine.

Pure and after you have a platform

and you have something you want to say

and it's important to you, it's important to you.

By all means, go ahead and say what you're going to say

but we are open for criticizing those statements

and what you claim to be standing by.

I just wondered to myself, where in society

did we pedestalize actors to this degree?

It's unbelievable.

I mean, how we treat their movies, their projects,

the endless award shows every single year

just to award like, you know, golden statues

to this particular profession.

And we hang on to every single bit of word

that they have to say on any side of the political spectrum.

So I do find that very interesting.

And I think about that a lot as somebody

who does look into the political statements

of these individuals.

Now recently, this comes to a head

as Josh Demel goes on Megan Kelly.

He's an actor as well.

I know him best from Safe Haven, which I love that movie.

We love Safe Haven.

OK, and he had this to say about actors giving their opinions

as an actor who chooses typically to not give his opinion.

It's a good message for a lot of people

in the entertainment business these days.

I just feel like, you know, because you have a platform

doesn't mean that you get to preach to everybody.

Thank you.

Tell that to the Oscars.

I think I honestly believe that, you know,

it's very fortunate to be in this position.

And I spend a lot of time in the Midwest.

So I get to see what they actually think about, you know,

us.

And they're not afraid to tell me.

And, you know, I had this, I'll never forget this.

I was going to play golf with a buddy in Georgia

about 10 years ago.

And he meets me at the airport with a t-shirt that says,

nobody cares what actors think.

And I was like, damn, that's really

funny. That's really good.

And that always stopped with me because it's true.

I mean, my job, and I don't, that's why I don't really take,

I don't really, I have real strong opinions about things,

but I don't really talk about it because it's like, why?

You know, why would I, you know, alienate half my audience?

Because I respect that.

I respect your opinions and things.

But I'm not going to preach to them.

They can believe what they're going to believe.

I'm just here to, you know, make cool stuff.

If you really want to be successful in this business,

why would you make half of your audience despise you

by your political beliefs?

Maybe they don't care.

I don't know.

I mean, I look at it as a business decision.

You know, I want, I want, I'm here just to make cool movies,

cool TV, I'm here to make cool stuff.

And that's my, I'm a court jester, you know.

If I want to, if I want to preach to you about what I believe

politically, I'll go run for office,

which I'm not going to do, by the way.

Yeah, and it's really interesting

that these actors do consistently tell you what's to think

and feel, award show season is basically a time

for lectures from these individuals

where they had it on the red carpet.

They put on the pin for the movement of the moment

and then they tell you what you need to be doing

to be a good person.

I do wonder how we so quickly ushered ourself into that space.

And he talks about alienating yourself

from half the audience that watches your movies.

And while I do think that's true,

I feel like it doesn't stop any of these actors

from gaining traction because they are propped up

by the studios and corporations that also support

this messaging.

And consistently, we watch as Hollywood becomes woker

and woker and woker.

And the movies that come out are consistently

devoid of any originality.

They're just remakes of previous things

that we've already loved.

And now are just shallow and a shell of what they once were.

But that shell is stuffed with left leaning propaganda

and leftist politics.

So I really don't think it matters

so much that these actors come forward

and they alienate their audiences

because people still keep watching

and the studios don't care.

In fact, they probably support the actors

and they're endeavor to just push further

this leftist agenda.

But I do wonder when the shift truly took place.

And that's something that I need to look into

a little bit more because we all feel it.

Yeah, I know that it's happening.

Everything seems increasingly politicized

in the last 20, 25 years, for sure.

But we know that in these casting rooms and whatnot,

if you have beliefs that don't toe the line,

you need to stuff them down, don't say anything.

And otherwise, you should be parodying the beliefs

that you're supposed to have, the Hollywood right think.

And that your career will be uninhibited.

What Zachary Levi has come out and talked a lot

about that kind of stuff where you get punished

and with missing opportunities and roles,

if you're outspoken about beliefs that don't coincide

with what is considered the right opinion in Hollywood.

And look, I'm with you.

Like if an actor chooses to calculate the risk

and understand and comes out with the humility of look,

I pretend to be other people for a living on camera

and I may do that well or not.

But also, I feel passionately about the certain issue

I know that my job and fame doesn't give extra weight

to my opinions, but I'm offering my opinion

in a calculated risk kind of way.

Like, okay, fine, I can respect that.

But when they come out and say,

you should listen to me because I'm famous

and with the energy of like my opinion carries more weight

just because I'm a famous actor.

That's where I'm like, okay, we need to chill in that

a little bit.

I feel like especially in like some of the younger Hollywood

like the Rachel Zugglers.

And what we saw like Oscars, Javier Bardem,

with his big pins and stuff like that,

it's just like, that's a different energy

and that's where you need Rick at your base to come in

and say, you know, accept your award and F off.

That's so true, that is the distinction.

They do believe their opinions mean more

and it often is like coupled with this fuck you

to people who disagree with me.

Let's not forget that point that it is coupled

with this deep, disdain in hatred

for the regular everyday people that may disagree

with their like silver spoon leftist opinion.

And it's very interesting because when you hear an actor

like Josh Demel say, I'm not going to share my political

opinion, it's just not my job and it's just not my space.

I think most people are going to interpret that

as he's right leaning.

And I see a lot of comments saying,

oh, well, this is Josh Demel coming out as MAGA,

this is Josh Demel coming out as conservative.

It's not, although it's strange that like not sharing

your opinion and not wanting to be this person

who like gets in to a divide with your audience

means signals to people that you are conservative these days.

And that should say a lot.

That should say a lot.

Not only that society has ostracized conservative so much

that they don't want to come forward and say their opinions,

especially if they're in Hollywood,

but also that like a stance of neutrality on politics

and not coming forward and not feeling

the need to consistently plaster yourself

with your political take is now associated with conservatism.

I think in Chris Pratt, Cindy Sweeney,

those are two big examples of people

that haven't come out strong on one side or the other,

but yet people assume that they're these MAGA people

just because they're not very outspoken.

Or like Cindy Sweeney, I saw posted like a story supporting

her brother who's deployed in the military right now.

And you know, of course that's like people read

between the lines that that's some kind of endorsement

of Trump or the war or anything like that.

But it's not just being normal is enough to implicate you

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Yeah, totally.

She comes forward and says,

when I have something to speak about,

I'll speak about it.

Boom, label is conservative.

Boom, label is maga.

Kira Knightley laughs at a question

about the trans issues and JK Rowling

stands on the issue, boom, conservative, boom, maga.

The accusations come forward.

It's just insane that this is like the vice grip

that people have on celebrities' minds at this point

and what they're supposed to think

and what they're supposed to feel.

And we're never at a loss when it comes to celebrities

just giving their opinion without us asking for it.

Now quickly, we'll get into Elizabeth Banks

and she's been speaking out against the Save Act.

This is what actors do.

They prop up their iPhone.

They film the little video that says the thing

that they need to save for the time.

And sometimes we get a little like montage

or a collage of them singing the song with us.

Like we did the celebrity imagined video.

We always get something different.

Now Elizabeth Banks is coming out against the Save Act.

I know her from like pitch-perfect Hunger Games,

which we love Hunger Games, okay?

And she's talking about this idea of voter ID

and coming out against this idea of mandating voter ID

even though virtually like every other

well-run country in the world.

And even poorly-run countries in this world

have voter ID for their elections.

She apparently has a problem with that.

And let's see why.

Guys, the Save Act, stop it.

You gotta stop it.

Stop it.

It's not gonna hurt anybody, stop it.

Look it, I'm gonna show you who it hurts.

So this is my birth certificate.

I actually have two copies.

They're so old.

I was born in Pisfield, Massachusetts.

These are from the city of Pisfield,

office of the city clerk.

They say Elizabeth Mitchell.

Oh, so you have copies.

Let's continue.

Because that was my birth name, Elizabeth Mitchell.

So like millions and millions and millions

and millions of women, I changed my name.

But not through marriage.

I changed it to my professional name, Elizabeth Banks.

Here's my California driver's license, which says Elizabeth Banks.

Now she flashes that really quickly

because I feel like she doesn't want to show.

Obviously her driver's license to the world

but I do believe that's a real ID.

Now a lot of places are like mandating real ID.

You go to the airport now, they're gonna say,

by this date, you're gonna have to have

a real ID or whatever.

I believe if you have real ID and you go to vote

because you had to in order to get

the real ID substantiate your citizenship

here in the United States, you will be able to vote.

So she's already Gucci, she's good.

She's good, she can head to the polls and vote.

Obviously, because that's the name that I go by

and I had to legally change my name.

Can I tell you something?

I'm not even sure which state I legally changed my name

and I think it was New York, it might have been California.

The point is it was 27 years ago that that happened.

Well, let's figure out where we were living 27 years ago

and then we'll get the document about the name change.

Like this is not the most difficult thing in the world to do

especially somebody of her means.

And now she's trying to step into this narrative

that even lowly little me Elizabeth Banks won't be able

to vote, won't be able to vote in the presidential election

because of this ID, debacle or whatever.

It takes maybe a little bit of effort

to get some of these documents.

Maybe you already have them.

You just gotta find them in your house

and dust them off a little bit and go and be able to vote.

Nonetheless, you are capable of making these things happen.

In New York City, when Mayor Mamdoni was trying to hire

the average New Yorker, the average dough,

to go and shovel snow in the street after the snow storm,

what did they need two forms of ID?

Just to allow you to shovel snow and shit from the streets.

So if you want to vote in our elections to keep them fair,

you should probably have voter ID.

And I would have to go find that paperwork

to I guess show someone why these two things don't match.

But here's the thing, they just don't match

and they're never gonna match.

And let's not the thing because you did actually fill out

paperwork at some point in your life

and you went through the system.

So that's the reason why these things don't match.

And we're gonna have a record of that

because that's how it works.

And you can find that record.

Not to mention you have real ID.

Not gonna match for a lot of people.

Oh, but Elizabeth, you have a passport.

You're right, I'm rich and famous, I have a passport.

That's right, I travel.

How many millions of Americans do not have a passport?

Passports cost $100 and something to get.

That is a poll tax, it's unconstitutional.

We are not gonna require people to go get a passport to vote.

This is a right enshrined in the constitution.

Stop making it harder for people to vote.

Start making it easier.

We know who benefits and who doesn't.

Stop it.

So start making it easier for people to vote.

Like, who is it difficult to vote for right now?

Who's really struggling?

If anything, we're making it a little too easy, I think.

According to some of the different reports

that are coming in with people committing acts

of fraud through our voting system.

I don't think we need to make it easier.

I think we need to make sure people are documented.

And that doesn't necessarily mean making this more difficult.

It just means streamlining a system that we're in the same way

that other countries are doing so

to keep their elections fair.

I think we're literally talking about the bare minimum here.

Like identify yourself that you are legitimately a citizen

of the country in whose politics you are trying to influence.

It's very, very simple.

And we require ID, do my cigarettes, to fly,

to do so many simple things in society.

And yet now the sudden we're up in arms.

And it only lends credence to the suspicion

that you are attempting to drive illegitimate votes

and incentivize illegitimate votes

or use those to your advantage

or that you're opposing this kind of legislation

because it helps you get illegitimate votes toward the power

that you so crave.

I saw recently on X2, a woman who was responding

to a lot of these narratives out there

that this is so hard for married women or blah, blah, blah.

And she was able to get a renewed copy

of her social security card, driver's license

and her marriage certificate all for under $50

and within a week or something like that.

Just not that difficult.

And even so, I mean, you're right.

I think we could stand to make voting more difficult

in general, like have a citizenship test,

maybe a language test,

that raised the voting age.

You could have some actual standards here.

A lot of the founders, there was a debate among the founders

of like in Britain, they had the House of Lords

and Commons and we have the Senate and House of Representatives

and that's kind of reflective of this idea

that like more educated or aristocratic people

should be given slightly more weight

in the governance of the country

if you actually understand the theory of governments

and if you have stake in the economy

by having a business or only property things

like that, no, that was perceived as a leaders

and we went toward more democratic

and that's fine and good.

But to go completely toward,

we should lower the common denominator

to the absolute lowest possible thing

to where you're not even a citizen of this country.

That's swung maybe a little bit further

in the opposite direction.

They're too far.

Yeah, 100% like you should at least understand

what it is you're voting for, what it is you're doing

and you should be able to identify yourself.

I mean, you can't ask for much more than that.

It's just ridiculous that we cannot possibly ask that

of people without this massive, massive backlash

in controversy in regards to that.

It's just it absolutely blows my mind.

So Elizabeth, I mean, through your very video you proved

that you have the means and faculties to pull together

the identification necessary to vote.

I don't think it was the dunk that she thinks it is

and her trying to claim that I'm just,

I had a struggle with this too

and I would have the same issue as every other American

had I not been rich and famous with a passport.

It's just, it's bullshit.

It's full stop bullshitting, please.

And like look at any other country

where they demand and mandate that you have voter ID

and things are going well and people are not up in arms

saying that black people and married women

are disenfranchised by this and think about what you're saying

when you say that.

Okay, now next, we're going to move on from celebrities now.

The Olympics has some news.

The Olympics is now not going to be allowing transgender women

to compete in female categories, shocker.

This is just stunning and brave.

We're going to get into this article from NBC News

says transgender women athletes are now excluded

from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility

policy on Thursday, which aligns with US President Donald

Trump's executive order on women sports

ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Quote eligibility for any female category event

at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event,

including individual and team sports

is now limited to biological females

says the International Olympic Committee

determined on the basis of a one time S or Y gene screening.

Now it's not said, how many individuals

this is going to end up affecting as of now

no women assigned male at birth competed

at the 2024 Paris Summer Games.

But this is a safeguard from the future turmoil

and back and forthness that we can have on this particular issue.

And I see a lot of people saying this is a non-issue,

it's not even happening, nobody's even meddling.

Okay, if it's a non-issue, let's just go ahead

and place the rule in place to just make sure everybody's

safe and everybody's cool from future.

Let's just go ahead and agree that biological males

have an advantage over women,

and that maybe they should not competing

be competing against women in the Olympics.

Now here's a video from the head of the IOC.

The scientific evidence is very clear.

Male chromosomes give performance advantages

in sports that rely on strength, power or endurance.

At the Olympic Games, even the smallest margins

can be the difference between victory and defeat.

So it's absolutely clear that it would not be fair

for biological males to compete in the female category.

In addition, in some sports, it would simply not be safe.

Every athlete must be treated with dignity and respect,

and athletes will only need to be screened

once in their lifetime.

The IOC recognizes the importance

of widespread participation in grassroots

and recreational sports programs,

and the impact that sport has in society.

However, the Olympic Games has a focus on elite sport,

and in elite sport, we must ensure the fairness, safety

and integrity of all competitions within the Games.

So there you have it.

These rules will go into effect in the 2028 Olympic Games,

and this is showing death and death in respect,

I think, to female athletes everywhere,

regardless of the current state of competition.

I love that they're finally acknowledging

biological men have an advantage over biological women.

It is simply a fact doesn't matter.

That's what the science shows us

and has shown us for a long time.

So oftentimes people are saying

this is really invalidating to women.

Women are just as strong as men.

They're just as capable as men.

But there's a reason we have female categories in sports,

because it's just simply not the case,

and it doesn't translate to sports.

It doesn't translate to strength and athleticism.

That is just the truth.

Me, a 25-year-old female could get my ass beat

in any sport by probably somebody at the age of 13,

who's a boy, probably 12, let's be honest.

And even if I was a professional athlete,

we've seen time and time again,

that when even young males enter the space

of adult female athletes,

they have a little bit more athleticism than they do,

and that's not to invalidate women or to invalidate

the accolades that women have brought among themselves

and have accomplished.

It's actually to make sure that that continues.

It's actually to make sure that women have their space.

It's to make sure that they have their opportunity.

So now some athletes are coming forward

and they're saying they have problems with this.

We have an athlete with an named Nikki Holtz.

She's a transgender non-binary Olympian,

and she's spoken out against what she's calling

an anti-trans policy.

Saying, quote, I don't know who needs to hear this,

but zero trans women competed in the Paris Olympics,

only one trans woman weightlifter competed

in Tokyo 2021, and she did not win a medal.

Can we please stop obsessing over trans people?

And I don't know, maybe focus our time,

energy and resources into real problems

that women's sports face.

It was a real problem that women's sports was facing.

You know what?

We'll allow us to focus our time, energy and resources

on the real issues of women is to distinctly define

what women are and to say that women

have their own space going forward.

Because when we start blurring the lines

and allowing men to enter these spaces,

allowing men to compete against women,

allowing men to bring their issues, their struggles,

their resources even into female spaces.

It's no longer about women.

It becomes a different debate.

It becomes a different conversation

and women are ostracized.

They're others.

They're discriminated against

for the sake of allowing men into this space.

So if you really want to focus your time, energy,

your resources on women's issues,

first tell me what a woman is.

Make sure it's defined and allow them to have their space.

And you know what?

This is a transgender and non-binary Olympian,

which I don't even know what that means at this point.

I don't even know what that means.

We're born as.

So I don't even know what this person has

to say in the conversation about women.

Looks like he slash she is,

they is a biological woman.

I don't even know what's going on here.

And that amount of confusion alone in the conversation

stops us from spending our time and resources

on women's issues.

Now interestingly enough, you know,

I do feel bad for trans athletes

that want to compete and they can't, you know,

have society bent to your whim

and go and compete where you want to compete.

But that's the reality for safeguarding women.

You don't get to do that.

But you know what?

You get to live in the identity that you choose

and we in every other way in this world.

We allow for all this sort of stuff to happen.

Women's sports is not one of those places.

And I'm looking for the same when it comes to the bathroom.

I'm looking for the same when it comes

to the definition of what a woman is.

I'm looking to protect women in every way shape or form

from gender ideology when it comes to things like this

and men trying to step into that space.

Now JK Rowling has come up again

in relation to this Olympics conversation.

Here's what she had to say.

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return

to fair sport for women and girls.

But I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024

when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous

and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.

And this is a photo of Iman Khalif or Iman Khalif

JK Rowling really brought forward the conversation

about this particular athlete

who has like a genetic anomaly going on

where they are in fact, biologically male,

but there are some female reproductive parts

growing on this individual.

Now they've been fighting women, biological women

as a biological male, which I think we can all agree hopefully

is not okay given the force, the power, the strength

that men typically have over women.

Now it was a huge debate as to the identity

of this particular individual.

They identify as a biological woman

when they are in fact a biological male.

They are not technically trans and never claimed to be trans.

They were just somebody who was scientifically masquerading

as a woman and being allowed to fight other women.

And it's pretty clear when you watch some of these fights

you had female fighters saying they'd never fought somebody

so strong, they'd never experienced something like this.

Some of them stepping out of the fight

because of the strength of this biological man against them.

And in no place in our society

would we ever look at a man beating up a woman

and think that that's okay.

But because of this gender ideology

we were allowing that to take place.

Now JK Rowling called that out

and of course she's being called transphobic

even though this particular athlete

was not even technically trans.

You have people tweeting to this day.

I will never forget the way she bullied and harassed

Amanda Leif who isn't even trans

Rowling is a person full of hate and bitterness.

But nothing to be said of the people that allowed women

to get their asses beat by a man.

And then those women coming out and saying

that felt like getting my ass beat by a man

which is not okay.

And we've seen this in so many different sports.

I'm trying to think like surfing, boxing, volleyball,

cycling, track, swimming, over and over.

We've seen this trans athlete,

it's trans women in particular, enter the female space,

dominate women, take their awards,

take the money that is supposed to come with these awards,

the scholarship is meant to come with these awards

and it has to end.

Neal Olympics is one way to put a hold on that.

We heard for a long time with the NCAA swimming thing

and Leot Thomas had Olympic dreams

and wanted to be in the pool with the other female Olympians.

Looks like no, looks like that's not gonna happen.

And that's a good thing.

And now maybe we can focus our attention

and our time and our resources on women's issues

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Mike, I see somebody on the chat talking about toxic empathy

and that's 100% right.

Like when you're watching a woman get pelted in the face

by a biological man and then congratulating yourself

for being so open-minded and progressive

and calling anyone who opposes this a bigot.

Like I think we've reached toxic levels of empathy there.

And again, where's the empathy for the actual victims

in this case?

And you mentioned some of these examples we've seen

over the years like Peyton McNabb getting brain damage

from taking a volleyball to the face

at the hands of a trans athlete,

Paula Scanlon being subjected to watching biological males

change in front of her in the locker room

and being exposed to that in her space.

Rather than having her opportunities

and shots at championships or higher achievements

being stolen by the likes of Lea Thomas.

So there are real victims when you adopt this mentality

of toxic empathy.

And it also has echoes of the same mechanics

that we see with the grooming gangs

or rate gangs in the UK where we're so quote unquote

empathetic toward like, oh, we need to let in

all these different communities and migrants

and people and things like that.

And then we refuse to hold anyone accountable

when they're actually guilty of doing atrocious things

to innocent people.

And by doing that, we are punishing innocent people

and letting these guilty people off the hook.

And so we should just be grounded in reality

and truth and justice and just do the right thing

in these situations.

And sometimes that doesn't feel nice to absolutely everybody

but we have to go with what is actually just

and what actually corresponds with reality

and good governance.

Yeah, and it's just about time.

I mean, for how long could we continue

to have this conversation if somebody just goes?

And I like that they're saying that, you know,

very neutrally, this is not a political stance

on the issue, it's just what the science says.

The science says, if you have meal chromosomes,

you're probably gonna be far, far outpacing the women

who are in the category next to you.

And with that being said, with how, you know,

close cuts from these limbic competitions are,

you just can't compete against women

when they're at the peak of their career.

And just the minutia of every single movement

that they make out their changes,

the outcome of some of these competitions.

So we can't allow something in advantage

that is by no means minutia to be competing against these women.

And it doesn't need to be this awful,

transphobia, human rights, you know, conversation.

It's just the simple fact that, you know,

despite your struggle with gender dysphoria

and despite your new identity, you have an advantage

and you can hopefully acknowledge that

and they can acknowledge that in the system,

can acknowledge that by not allowing you to compete.

With that being said, we're gonna get into your super chats,

guys, and hear from you on today's topics.

Let's do it.

Okay, first one from today was Heather Freelink,

who says, ever notice every redhead gets replaced

by a black person, Annie Little Mermaid.

I guess the only representation we have

will be Pippi Longstocking until there's

a moderate remake of that, right?

Yeah.

It's true.

You know, you can look up these charts

of like the redheads that have been replaced.

And people point out that the word ginger

can be rearranged to the end word,

which is so wrong, but it's, it like makes you think.

It's very strange that I don't know why it's the redheads

that they're coming for, but the redheads,

they want you gone.

Now in this whole snake conversation,

that's a black-haired man.

Okay, that's a jet black, wavy-haired man, apparently.

And he's out, but it is typically the redheads.

And I don't know why that is.

The Weasley's all survived the purge of, you know,

race-swapping, I guess, at least in this iteration,

but maybe, you know.

Which is so fascinating,

because I feel like that's a character

that's pretty like right for race-swapping.

I don't know that his race really impacts too much

his storyline.

You'd have to let me know as a Harry Potter stand.

Well, I just, they're constantly described as being

like this fiery red-headed family.

So, I mean, it would very clearly fly in the face,

but there's not like plot points

that necessarily revolve around his redheadedness.

That's just kind of a physical description

that's really emphasized.

Whereas, you know, snake, it's not that, like,

there's plot points that revolve around his race,

but it's that by introducing these new racial dynamics

through the casting, you are painting or changing

the way that it's going to be perceived by the audience

and putting the burden now in the audience

to like discount that and get past it,

but you have this visual barrier of like a white guy

bullying a black guy on screen or whatever.

So, you know, there's less theoretically a problem

with recasting a Ron Weasley or race-swapping,

but also just again, why would you do that?

You know, and it would just be out of this kind of agenda.

So.

Yeah, I watched the stage play,

which I forget what the name of that stage play is.

Yeah, the first child and Hermione is black

in both like child form and of course,

adult form in that play.

And it doesn't change much really.

So, I could see that I was surprised

that they didn't do that with this iteration.

And I know a lot of people had issues

with the Hermione race for this TV show.

She looks like Hermione to me and she sounds like her to me.

So, I mean, it's great.

It's good though, actress.

She's got kind of the big teeth.

Someone did point out that like there's a story element

of like Draco Malfoy calling her mud blood.

And so if you're calling like a brown person mud blood,

there's a little bit of like, that's kind of weird.

But this not as as in your face is like the character.

You look like the character.

And that's what that's what you do.

You know, if you if you cast this pop a guy

and then you painted him white and had that slick back,

that black slick back, you know what?

He could be the character, but you didn't do that.

You couldn't do that.

And now it's weird.

Now it's free.

Freedom driver.

Yeah.

Someone said Ezra Miller too in the chat,

they said if he's not, if he weren't crazy,

then we could do that.

Yeah, it's like, oh, that's the caveat.

But he was already in the Fantastic Beasts

stuff.

So true.

He was there.

All right, Alex says, hey, we missed the dynamic duo.

OK, I was going to say in the Manusphere documentary.

Yes, Myron didn't do very well.

But if he has helped guys like myself,

get galaxies better with women, isn't that a great thing?

I want to know what you mean by galaxies better with women.

Is it just that you're pulling women now

or that you're like, you're getting more female attention?

What do I need you, Alex?

Maybe we look at a later date, you need to define.

And this is Alex that used to play, what is Xbox?

Yeah, yeah, he's my halo buddy.

I still play with him.

OK, nice.

Thanks.

Alex, I need to know what you mean by galaxies better with women.

Maybe you have informed Taylor on exactly what this means.

But I have a feeling that there are a lot of different people

who could have put you in a position

to be galaxies better with women.

And I'm glad that you are.

But I bet that there's a lot of different people

with even better messaging that could have put you

leagues ahead with women that are not my room.

And if the documentary didn't make him look that great,

we must ask ourselves why and if there is a better messenger.

Hey, man, I'll leave it at that.

I'm glad he's hearing it from you as well,

because we've had this conversation a few times.

And I say this is similar things.

But he loves his my room, I guess.

Celtic Blacksmith says, since you got my location

wrong a couple of weeks ago, I'm thinking I'm in the UK.

It's Ohio.

Thank you very much.

You are now Tyler for the day that it's decided.

Whoa, Tyler's back.

Tyler and I literally saw someone else call me Travis today

and they're like, oh, yeah, Travis is back too.

I just get every generic white guy name.

It's back.

Fair enough, Celtic.

I apologize for getting your location wrong.

Celtic, I would have thought you were in the UK.

I would have thought you were in the UK.

I mean, you know, the name of Celtic Blacksmith.

Yeah, I don't know.

The image of it, but in both of that is, yeah,

you're like in the hills of Ireland, you know,

like drinking a Guinness and pounding.

Yeah, awesome.

You sound like you're supposed to be in the new Harry Potter

show.

Yeah, literally except he'd be right swapped.

But yeah, fair enough, Celtic.

Julie Sterling says, hi, Amla.

I'm so happy to finally catch a live.

I love watching your videos and they've opened my eyes

to different opinions and helped me change some of my opinions

with facts.

Thank you.

Oh, that's so awesome.

I love to hear that type of stuff.

Just like that people are open-minded when they're watching

the show.

I'm always trying to like walk the line of giving my opinion,

but also hoping that, you know, people can sit and watch

it be comfortable in hearing it and not be, you know,

too, too pushed back from the things that I'm saying.

So I'm so glad that you had that experience watching show.

But also, if you disagree, you suck and get out of here.

Yes.

Hi.

Katelyn says, hi, Amla and Taylor.

Congrats to both of you, love JK.

I am pro women's rights not being infringed by men

trying to cause play my rights.

Why do trans what rights outweigh my rights?

I am pro voter ID, but I live in Texas.

Hey, there you are.

Yeah, it's just, it is interesting that trans rights,

I don't think a lot of people view it as outlying women's rights,

but they inherently do that with the identity of trans individuals.

And I think that's a hard conversation to have for people

because of this deep, you know, empathy,

some may call it suicidal empathy that we have

for certain groups, but it is a conversation

that needs to be had nonetheless, maybe an uncomfortable one.

But when you're getting in the way of women's rights

and women's progress, we got to, we got to talk about it.

And it's happening time and time again.

Yeah, victims just don't have enough oppression.

I mean, sorry, women don't have enough oppression points

compared to these other categories.

Exactly.

To get overshadowed.

Yep.

This one looks like we've got a prosolization effort here.

When you convert to Christianity, when,

which denomination will you join?

Don't say you won't, because I already said when,

so now you have to.

Is this the one that's going to work on you?

No, you know what?

This is not the one that's going to work on me.

Guys, I don't think that's happening.

And if it were happening, I couldn't tell you where it would happen,

but it's not.

I would, at someone who grew up in all kinds

of like different denominational contexts,

I would be curious to understand and hear

your perceptions of the various divisions within Christianity,

just out of personal fascination with how it's perceived.

But maybe we can save that for Patreon.

Do a Christianity tier list.

There you go.

Somebody who doesn't believe it.

I, that sounds fascinating to me personally.

Celtic says, just so you're aware,

Amola, the entire Amalysia is in the chat right now in full.

Thank you guys for being in the chat.

Appreciate you.

Appreciate you deeply.

Always be representing.

I love it.

Y'all were right back.

As soon as you started doing lives again,

I feel like I know the word hasn't quite gotten out as much yet.

But the OGs were right back as soon as we were right.

That's so true.

So I love that.

Nadira says, as a potterhead, I just have to say

that all these rolling haters think they live in DH being

HP supporters and making JK into Voldemort.

But in reality, they don't realize the live in OOTP

and all the ignorant, all our ignorant ministry drones.

I'm having trouble getting through this.

So you're going to have to break down these acronyms.

I don't live in the DH.

What is the DH?

Can someone help me out there?

I'm still looking up.

It's got to be something Harry Potter, right?

Okay.

They live in, like, Deathly Hallows.

Deathly Hallows?

But that's not a place.

That's like a haters think they live in Deathly.

I'm confused.

Okay, hold on.

Are Carlos somebody said, but that's not, I don't remember that.

Well, they think they live in Deathly Hallows

being Harry Potter supporters.

I'm confused.

I'm sorry to be here.

That's a good, good guess.

OOTP.

We're trying, we're trying.

But yeah, it's wrong to make JK into that Hallows

being Harry Potter making JK rolling Voldemort.

They think that their Harry Potter in Deathly Hall

is fighting Voldemort.

Oh, maybe, yeah.

Okay, I see.

Okay.

Thank you.

Wow.

And leave it to me.

I didn't even read the books.

Yeah.

Okay.

And I'm getting out of there.

And then is that order of the Phoenix is the O-O?

Oh, yep.

Okay.

They don't realize that they live in order of the Phoenix

and they are all ignorant, ministry drones.

And the ministry lady is what's her name?

Dolores Ombrage is that?

Yes.

Wow.

Guys.

I want to go.

I want to go.

I want to go.

I want to go.

I want to go.

I want to go.

I want to go.

I want to go.

12minare lead but maize riding trans women are women and

still it's edge into your skin or something like that.

Mm.

100%.

There you go.

Yeah.

So much we do the picture of Haraldan.

And there's like the degree to which this woman of his

character embodies like the current relative ruling the

western world or whatever.

If like the hyper-eitor Terry in

but nice to your face type of you know,

feminized.

Whatever is.

I was like,

That's.

Good observation.

to JK Rowling's insight and depth as an author and creator of these stories that tap into

archetypes and resonate with us. And when we're messing with that with all this stuff we're doing,

but I digress. Maybe she knows a little something. I know, literally.

Matthew Harrell says, I think we should just say men and not biological men, so we don't validate

their claim, but there's another kind of man. It's just so difficult when you have this

conversation. I feel like I swap out a million different words just to get across one message

and the simple message as a men or men or women or women. But you know, sometimes

sometimes I even lose track of what I'm saying, what I'm having this conversation. It's like

what pro now do you use when you're talking about someone in a story that involves a trans person

and how they look, what they sometimes came figure. Now it's just like I try to be consistent,

but also try to be like generally courteous. It's tough. Yeah. And then like you're trying to

describe it for an audience that's listening. So like, that's another factor in it. Like tomorrow's

episode, I have to think about people listening and go, well, this is a person who's a man who

thinks they're a woman who's now dressed as a man and saying this about being a woman, but it's

just, oh my gosh. And you guys are going to want to see tomorrow's episode. I don't know. It's a

weird one. I haven't laughed that hard recording a video in a long time. I was losing it. And I

mean, it's it's sad. Like it's a sad patient involving like a trans warrior who freaks out and

kind of loses their their crap in a really tragic situation. But there's also just

objectively hilarious contradictions and things in it. So yeah, student. Okay. Joanne says,

have you heard about the Canadian bill that just passed? We no longer have freedom of speech.

I would love to hear thoughts on this bill being passed. Also, my offer to moderate still stands.

I did not see that. I'm going to have to look up that Canadian. Do you know Taylor?

Actually, no. I mean, it doesn't surprise me every time I hear about Canada, they're talking about

euthanizing people and making deals with China and importing more people into their cities and all

kinds of stuff. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anything coming out of there doesn't surprise me anymore. But

that's not shocked. That's something violating any sort of tentative freedom of speech is coming

out of Canada. Yeah. That goes the whole like Bill C 16 controversy with Jordan Peterson a decade

and they were like trying to compel speech and universities about around the pronouns.

So yeah, but I have to look into that, Joanne. No, I got a rough up there. But yeah, we'll look into it.

Chad Rico Minneapolis. This is Alex again. He just changes name. By the way, I don't agree with

a lot of stuff. Myron says, but he has helped me lose weight straight in my teeth, gain muscle and

gain overall beneficial ammo. You did that though. You give yourself credit for like

you did the work. You know, you're listening to myron may have influence how you think about things,

but give yourself credit for looks maxing yourself. And yeah, and give yourself credit for

being able to differentiate between advice that you should take and bullshit because I'm sure he

shoveled a lot of bullshit when he was giving you the advice and you took from that lose weight

and work on yourself and gain muscle and and game. Again, I need to know what you're talking about

when you say game because there's a lot of things that may get you a little bit more play with

women that may get you a little bit more female attention. You might even be scoring with women,

but that doesn't mean that it's the proper approach to women. Women will put up with a lot of stuff.

Okay. Myron presumably gets women. It seems. I mean, I don't know, but

I just lost one as we saw. Yeah. Yeah. He lost a good woman. It seems in the process of

making that documentary. And that's really what matters. Not that you're getting women,

but like what type of women? What type of manner are you to those women? Are these like long-term

possibilities? Are these are you are you valuable and are they valuable? And are you are you doing good

good stuff with some of that? The dynamic relationally between you and you being set up for,

you know, what you really want most, which I know is ultimately like long-term partnership,

marriage, family, et cetera, children. So are you on that trajectory listening to this type of

stuff? Or, you know, is it just, oh, I flashed my knee at the club and it looks max a little bit

and got some girls to dance with me for a few minutes. All right. Right. Right. Like what's going

down? I need the details. I see Matthew said I said when, but I can't tell you. Matthew, I can't tell

you. I don't even have an answer. Even if I did have an answer, I don't have an answer. So,

awesome. Yeah. And the the compulsion energy is not probably not the the most effective strategy

as we've seen through his dream. I'm sorry. But I'm so sorry. The safe cannot be cracked here.

Yeah. Celtic says, by the way, fold's hands. Let's talk about PO boxes.

Guys, we're lucky we got the lives back. That's been a PO box. That's been a PO box. It's been a

struggle for like, I don't know how many years now. Ever since I started this five years ago.

So I have been caught and filled out the PO box. People work for me to do that.

I'll I'll I'll open up a PO box here in Tennessee and you can send me some cool swords and armor

and bad ass stuff. I can put it on my kids. My my son's room is going to be Lord of the Rings

slash Hobbit themed for the nursery. So I'm starting to put all my nicknacks and get some some

stuff like and that's Lord of the Rings themed in there. So I'm going to make them a little little

Hobbit dagger sting or something. Yeah, I'll be freaking awesome. So if I'm alone, I will. But

yeah, we can talk about opening a PO box. I need to get some maybe Sabrina can do that for me.

Yeah, Sabrina. We're on it now. A little bit guys with Patreon. We're doing the live streams again.

We're yes. We're hunting. So maybe we can even squeeze out the PO box as well. But I think that's

our last super chat for the day. Okay, guys. Thank you so much for watching the show today.

Tomorrow, we have a crazy video coming out that that whole translator thing. So make sure you

catch that and you watch because that one's a fun one. If you want to see a Sunday video and a

Sunday's I'm doing tea time on Patreon where I just sit and talk with you guys about things that

are not featured on this show. We're not getting super political. We're just having fun getting

to personalize the tea. And this week we're doing good news. So good news. I'm probably going to

cry because I'm pregnant. I cry everything. So we're going to watch some good fun news clips

Sunday. And I'm probably going to bump my eyes out. So you guys catch that on Patreon if you become

a D drinker. Guys, thank you so much for watching. I want to hear your thoughts in the comments

down below on this entire Harry Potter remake. Will you be watching it? Will you not be watching it?

How do you feel about black snake? How do you feel about transgender women no longer being able to

compete in the female categories at the Olympics? And how do you feel about Andrew Garfield's

comments on JK Rowling and her inhumane legislation? Let me know down below. It's always

easy for you to disagree with anything I said during this entire stream. Let me know. I encourage

healthy debate in the comments. So do get out and do so respectfully. And if you like this video,

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