Amala Ekpunobi
MrBeast Sides With His Trans Best Friend in Viral Controversy
MrBeast speaks out in support of his trans best friend in a heated exchange on X, Taylor Swift goes viral for singing “F The Patriarchy” at her concert, and the wife of LA Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, Kelly Stafford, goes viral for telling an extremely personal story on a podcast. Let’s talk about it.
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- Duration:
- 1h 22m
- Broadcast on:
- 24 Jun 2024
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This episode is brought to you by Snapple, wanna know another Snapple fact? The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, a duck, and a rooster. Ridiculous! Check out Snapple.com to find ridiculously flavored Snapple near you. Oh, everybody. Happy Monday. Welcome to the show. We have a much to discuss today. We're going to be touching on a little bit of drama that's unfolding online between a streamer by the name Nick Marx plus Ava slash Chris of Mr. Beast notoriety and Mr. Beast himself weighing in on this drama and defending his trans best friend that is featured in his videos. On from that, we're going to get into Taylor Swift who's now being called out for saying F the patriarchy at a concert. The conservatives are letting this run wild and calling her out for hypocrisy and all this different stuff. We'll get into that. Plus the Rams Matthew Stafford, his wife Kelly has done a podcast interview recently where she talks about how she landed the player and it's a very interesting story. So interesting that Stephen A Smith of ESPN notoriety had to weigh in and tell how he feels about the situation and the story that she told. But first, we are going to introduce Taylor in Nashville. Hey guys, I see some of y'all saying what happened to the good intro music. We can't use it anymore because of copyright issues. We tried using it and clipping it out after the countdown and that started clipping more of the show than what we wanted to. Then a lot of y'all complained about that. So we're cutting our losses. Maybe still going to move to a different song, but thank you for bearing with us in the meantime. It's not that bad of a bop right in the countdown. We're going to find two in it. We're going to find the right song for this channel guys. Don't you worry. Now let's get into this online drama between Mr. Beast and Ava and Nick Marx or whatever. So Nick Marx is a streamer. He's a gaming streamer. And he has spoken out about LGBTQ issues for quite some time. It seems he was defending Dr. Disrespect who was another gaming streamer who got in trouble. It seems for stating his opinion on the whole LGBTQ propaganda parade that's happening these days and saying that he'd like it to stay away from certain facets of our society. And now, you know, Mr. Beast gets into this drama because Mr. Beast has a best friend by the name Chris. But Chris now goes by Ava. And what happened was Ava slash Chris was featured in Mr. Beast's videos pre-transition as a biological male, Chris Tyson being the the full name there. And Chris Tyson has a family, you know, he's married with a wife and a child. And then it became known that Chris Tyson was going to transition to now become Ava Chris Tyson. And this created a whole lot of drama within his marriage, obviously, as one would expect. But it also created a problem for Mr. Beast, I'm assuming, of whether or not this individual stays in the Mr. Beast shows that are published all over the internet now as his best friend, despite the transition. And Mr. Beast stood by his friend, now known as Ava and said, sure thing, you're going to stay in the videos. And the videos happen, I guess, to document the transition, because you're seeing these different phases of Chris as, you know, formerly biologically male and cisgender now transitioning to be a woman. And a lot of people are making the argument, well, young people watch Mr. Beast's videos, millions and millions of young people watch Mr. Beast. And you're now exposing them to this LGBTQ+ narrative, and essentially co-signing and endorsing gender transition as you are not only remaining friends with this individual, but posting them on your platform for young impressionable people to see. So it's a sticky situation. We're going to show you a little bit of prior comments from the streamer Nick Merks, who has really ratcheted up the drama a little bit with comments made about Chris, which we'll get to in just a moment. But just to give you a taste of some of the conversations that are being had in the streaming space regarding LGBTQ propaganda, Pride Month, its infiltration into kids spaces and into streaming spaces. Here he is. I mean, like, just put two and two together like apex is a very pro, you know, fucking gay pro trends, pro and look, I'm not anti, but I'm not in the front of the parade doing the high knees. You know what I mean? So live and let people live, but I mean, we clearly have a difference of opinion, you know, across the board. So I mean, if you're expecting them to give me an invite to their pro league, I mean, probably be so surprised that ever fucking happened. You come across a very anti, but I'm not anti. I made that extremely clear, extremely. And I told you where I draw my line, I just don't, I don't like, I don't like the, I think parents should be teaching their kids about stuff like that. When it's up to the schools and teachers that you might not know, nah, nah. So there you go. You get a little taste of his viewpoint on the issue. And you know, he's sort of saying, I think it's a parent's job to teach these things to their children. So if we're going to be having these conversations at schools or within the gaming space, as he is a gamer, and we all know that gaming is getting increasingly more woke with diversity, quoted this and pronouns that and representation this, he's saying we need to keep that away from children and children spaces and gaming happens to be one of those spaces. So it's no wonder that he feels the same way about what's going on with Mr. Beast and his videos. And I'll show you just a brief example of a recent Mr. Beast video. This was posted three months ago, where Chris slash Ava is featured in the video. There's no explicit reference to transgenderism. I think you might get a few pronouns here and there, switch pronouns. Of course, she or now that he identifies as a woman. But you can get a taste of maybe what the exposure would be to a child by watching this. Hello, I just want to double check. Do you actually like the taste of our new chocolate. Yes, I love it. That is true. See how many times are you going to ask that? Okay, I just had to double check. When we post a video, do you watch them? Ooh, only if I'm in it. Chris, what do you want from it? True. Sorry. What am I supposed to watch it without me in it? Why would I do that? Was Jimmy a good roommate? No. That is a lie. What? So there you go. There's a little bit there. And like I said, they're going with Chris in the videos, but also goes by Ava on the internet. And I'm sure the children who are watching his content are aware of this. I can imagine as a parent, you're in a bit of a sticky situation. Every kid is like a diehard Mr. Beast fan. And all of a sudden, you have this biological male who's transitioning to be female right in front of their eyes through Mr. Beast videos. And I imagine there's a little bit of confusion there. If you see somebody who once was Chris, you know, a man married with, you know, wife and kids. And now we have Chris with the K and he looks a lot different and he's wearing, you know, red girlish hair and makeup and earrings and female clothes. I think you're going to be like, Hey, mom, you know, what's going on in this Mr. Beast video? Are you going to scroll through the comments to see what's going on? And you're going to be introduced to this idea of gender theory and that gender and, you know, sex is a signed at birth and you can choose your gender. And, you know, Chris was actually a woman born in a man's body. And this is not the sort of influence that we probably want to be having on children, especially those of a super young age where the influence of this sort of ideology could lead them down the path of identifying as non binary and trans are at the very least getting a dose of something that I don't feel is representative of reality. So that's been the introduction to the issue here. Now, Ava slash Chris and Nick Merx got into a little bit of a TIFF on X and Nick Merx ended up tweeting out this, which we can read. You should be ashamed of yourself leaving behind your wife and child to play pretend one day you'll wake up and realize what you've done. And of course, this is going to set off a ton of people. People were pissed. They were calling him a transphobe saying that he hates trans people. How dare you call out Chris, who is so brave for going through his journey and becoming who he actually is despite the fact that he had a wife and child. And then Ava slash Chris and Mr. Beast themselves hopped in to defend Chris and his choices and say that he's still sort of he's still supporting his child. He's still with his child all the time. Here's the tweet from Mr. Beast. Ava is literally always with her child and doesn't even go on shoots to spend more time with him. Tuck man, who I'm assuming is the child, is always smiling. Not sure why this rumor is a thing. So you have Mr. Beast referring to Chris as Ava. And of course, using the she her pronouns and defending the relationship that he has with his child who is now receiving this influence. And I got to say, if I'm being honest, like you're in a tough position. If you are Mr. Beast in the scenario, because this is somebody who in real life, I'm assuming is a best friend of yours is marketed on your platform on a very large platform. In fact, the largest platform on YouTube as your best friend. And he's deciding to transition with the wife and kid and with all this stuff going on. You either have the choice of I stand by my best friend and support him through this journey and keep him on the channel and face the wrath of the people who disagree with that choice, or you get rid of the best friend and you face the wrath of the people who say that you kicked out your best friend because he's trans and you're a transphobe. And at the very least, you're cowering to the conservative right who's telling you that this is not a proper influence for children. Maybe there's a third option where he supports his best friend, but just as for the sake of what I've built here and for the sake of my channel and the platform that I've created, you stay out of the videos. But I can't imagine that goes well for him in either path that he takes. So you're in a tough position if you're Mr. Beast, because you got a lot to lose from whichever choice that you make. And I'm not sure what I would do. I'm sitting down thinking about if my best friend Risa came to me and said, now I feel like I am a man and I identify as a man and I want to start going on this journey. I don't know what I would do. Of course, I would remain friends with Risa because I feel like that's the best thing that you can do is show love to somebody who is struggling through their identity and hopefully through that relationship you can guide them in a better path. But what I'd be wanting to keep creating content that's going to influence people in this direction and sort of cosign and endorse what's going on in their life, probably not. That is not the choice I would make. But imagine how tough a conversation that is in the wake of everything going on, the dissolution of the marriage, all this stuff that is happening in this person's life. I don't know how I would approach that. So I'm just going to acknowledge tough spot for Mr. Beast. Taylor, what would you do? I have just no clue. I, you know, it's one thing I totally sympathize with this idea that this is a difficult thing that Chris or Eva is going through with transition and feeling this gender dysphoria if that is indeed, you know, how we can characterize whatever it is that he's going through, has been going through these last few years. But just I think maybe Mr. Beast is being blinded by his sense of, you know, proximity to to Chris and the friendship that he has to where if you take a step back and just look at the larger dynamics of the situation being Chris having a duty as a husband or whatever. I don't know what he'd be characterized as now and a father. You're at your best friend is at abdicating those responsibilities in favor of pursuing life as a woman. That's just the reality. And so if he's my best friend, honestly, I think what love looks like in that scenario and support looks like is sitting him down and saying, man, I couldn't imagine what you're going through on a personal level with the turmoil inside you right now. And I'm here for you as a friend to support you through that in whatever way that I can. But I have to tell you, you made this commitment when you became a husband, you made this commitment when you became a father. And your own feelings have to be the second order consideration in this scenario. You have a duty to your kid to show up as a father and a duty to your wife to show up as a husband. And we can figure out the rest. But like, let's have some some clarity about that. And that's to me, the tough love that my friend would need to hear in that situation. And, you know, we can deal with whatever we have to deal with. But the kids needs has to be in priority. And it's not it's not really about your feelings anymore. You know, when you when you get married and when you become a parent, like your feelings are not number one. And you can't be guided through life by that. And, you know, when when you proposed, it was as a man, when you got married, it was as a man, when you conceived the child, it was as a man. And you don't just get to flip the switch when it has all these consequences. Not to mention the even broader consequences to the millions and millions and millions of kids online watching this content and witnessing now Mr. Beast being put in this situation where he has to choose sides. And then he's affirming this choice that you're baking. And now everyone else is taking a what are the kids that are watching Mr. Beast taking away from how he's handling this. The consequences are very far reaching and it all traces back to Chris's decision to choose to live his life as a woman, even if it meant leaving his family. And I just can't cosign that even if I were his friend. And that's not to say that I want I think he needs to be attacked. But I also think that the criticism is fair because of the consequences that it is affecting on millions of kids now. Yeah, so his poor wife, dude, I can't imagine being married to somebody and then getting this absolute bomb dropped on you that they think that they're a woman. And like, you know, I view it, I'm gonna be so real with you, maybe a hot take. It's so selfish. It's so selfish that you've married somebody, you have a child, and then all of a sudden you drop this huge bomb into their their lives and make this choice that is so separated from reality. But at the same time, I view that it's like, it's mental illness in a large way. And how much of that can you truly control about yourself? But man, once you've chosen to marry and have a child, that is no yourself and your self identity is not your number one priority. It's what's healthy for your child. And it's such a selfish decision to choose to take on this new identity that is so utterly confusing for a child and plus them in so much turmoil, whether you recognize it or not, to be your most authentic self, especially when we know that in a lot of ways, this is not authentic. And I, you know, I sympathize with the struggle of going through this identity struggle. But man, is that so tough? I don't even know how you would come back from that. Once what if he told her, you know, I feel like I'm a woman, but for my child, I'm gonna remain a man and like stick through this marriage. I don't know how you deal with that. And kudos to her for it seems handling it with grace as Mr. Beast has said in his tweet that he's still seeing his child regularly, and that they're still having the times that he is a good influence. I don't know about that in my personal opinion. But I also don't know what I would do in that scenario, because this is somebody that your child has grown up with and is called dad. And now they think they're a mom and they think they're a woman. What do you do as a wife and as a mother? I do not know. But Ava did weigh on the situation, weigh in on the situation. Should I say Chris Tyson tweeted back and said this, they just want to villainize trans people when they realize and accept that I am in his life and says arguably more than most parents are able to be. They say or ruin him or far worse things. They don't actually care. They want to move the goalpost so they can go quote see trans people bad end quote. And I get the viewpoint of just like, you know, if you abandon your wife and kids in order to take on this identity, people would say, how dare you leave your wife and kids. That is so selfish. If you stick with your wife and kids and pursue your identity at the same time, people will say you are a horrible influence on your kids. I think both of those things can be correct at the same time. And maybe what people are telling you to do is take that turmoil that you might be feeling. And for lack of a better phrase here, be a man, channel it in some other direction, and show up for your kids as a man, as you have shown up for them their entire life. And maybe understand that the gender dysphoria that you may or may not be experiencing is probably not, you know, anchored in reality and in what is real. And you need to grapple with that as an adult. And more importantly, as an adult that is choose that chosen to bring a child into the world and hold that influence back from your child. And you can call that transphobia or saying that people hate trans people. I don't know. I just think it's being a good influence on your child and making the sacrifice every day parents make sacrifices for their children, both big and small. And this is one that when you are faced with it, you should have chosen sacrifice, not self identifying in my opinion. So I mean, we'll see. We'll see what happens. It doesn't look anything changing. He's going to remain in Mr. Beast videos. He remains in his child life. We'll see how these things turn out. We are largely living in what is a like a mass scale experiment right now on behalf of gender identity and pronouns and experimental surgeries and all this stuff. And we'll see decades from now how this actually goes on to impact people, especially children exposed to it. Yeah, it doesn't seem like it's going anywhere fast. And it is just crazy to think about how deep and far reaching and powerful this this sort of whole trans ideology is right now both on the level of Chris and his his statement there kind of couching the criticism that he's been receiving in this idea that this is just an attack on transness and all trans people because people just are hateful. And it's again, a simplistic framework to put yourself in, but it blinds you to the much more clear down to earth realities. And I've seen other comments of people saying, just let her she she's showing up as her true self. She's she's being a mom. It's like, the kid doesn't need another money. The kid has a mom, you know, you're depriving him of a father. And that that is just a real thing. We know statistically all the outcomes associated with that. And not to mention, the trauma that is being inflicted upon the child who's having to experience the confusion of of watching his father turned into a second mother, completely voluntarily also in a very public manner. I just, you know, I feel feel for the kid. We asked you guys, do you approve of how Mr. Beast is handling this situation? Right now it's 78% or saying no, 22% say yes. And I'm curious if this I'll ask another poll, if this is going to affect whether you would watch Mr. Beast content of the future or approve of people watching it. So I'll put that in the poll next. Yeah, it's interesting that it's just like this is happening with children's figures these days. We've seen Cartoon Network indulge the whole pride parade and doing pride content for kids. We've seen Nickelodeon do it with pride content for kids. Now you have, I guess, incidentally, Mr. Beast doing the same thing with the exposure. Although we acknowledge he's in a very tricky situation and has, you know, had a tough crossroads set in front of him when this whole news broke. And you also have things like Miss Rachel. We were covering Miss Rachel recently. Another one of the largest figures with young kids, more mainly babies and toddlers, she's literally referred to as Beyonce for toddlers. That's how large she is as far as entertaining them and teaching them skills and training them in there throughout their development. She has a non-binary cast member on her show as well that does her little songs for little series and plays music and sings with Miss Rachel. And I believe they then pronouns are utilized in some of Miss Rachel's videos. Although I think she tries to maybe tiptoe around the subject a little bit. This is Jules Hoffman, who is a non-binary identifying, as I said, goes by they then pronouns and is on Miss Rachel's program. So it's just so interesting that kids' content is just slowly but surely getting more and more exposure to these sorts of ideas. And while they might tiptoe around it or try to soften the blow of what's happening, it is exposure nonetheless. And I can hear the argument, you know, kids are going to be exposed to this anyways at some point in their life with the rate at which this is growing. And we even have many kids identifying as non-binary now and people having conversations in school about pronouns and she/her, he/him, they/them, and, you know, non-binary unicorns and gingerbread men that they're drawing in schools. But as a parent, I mean, I'm going to try to safeguard my kids from that as much as possible until we can have a conversation where I feel like they're at a developmental stage to truly understand the ramifications of what we're talking about. And that is not at the age that they would be watching Miss Rachel. For many, it's not at the age that they would be watching Mr. Beast. So it's a little concerning. It's a little concerning. I'm like, I'm still looking to love kids right now and I don't have kids that are on the internet. I'm going to try to safeguard my kids from technology for as long as possible while giving them the proper amount that they need to reach me in the case of a safety situation and to get their schoolwork done and things like that. But my goodness, all this other extra stuff is so unnecessary. And even more so than that, it's becoming harmful with what they're being exposed to. I'm thinking right now, I just saw this the other day, you know, that TikTok account, the date right stuff. And there's that guy who's always eating at these restaurants and he'll just make jokes and then say, like, I quit the one liner. That's, you know, kind of funny. But he had one the other day that was like, why don't we ever see drag queens performing at places for the elderly or something like that? And it just speaks to something that I think most people would just generally acknowledge is that there is almost a strange amount of emphasis on the part of people who espouse gender ideology, LGBTQ plus messaging, the pride movement, all that stuff. It's a strange amount, seems oriented toward kids and trying to be inserted into those spaces. And that is just a weird thing. We, like you said, I don't think that most kids are at the developmental stage, where they're ready to be introduced to concepts like sex, sexuality, certainly not sex or sexuality. And even this idea of gender, which really comes down to gender identity is like a pseudoscience. It's not even true to biology as we understand it. So the idea that this is something that should be being pushed on kids is just wild. And so to see it show up in places like Miss Rachel and Mr. Beast. And of course, if you open up the lives of TikTok feed, you can see just all these, you know, blue haired teachers with flags in their classroom and saying how they're going to sneak, you know, places for kids to change and transition closets in the classroom and hide it from their parents and all this stuff. It's just like, I think we need to pump the brakes on all this stuff a little bit. And remember, like we've talked about Mr. Rogers recently that this the children are vulnerable and impressionable. And you have to have treat the opportunity to influence them as like a sacred thing and defer to parents defer to letting people raise their own children. And for whatever reason, it just doesn't seem like that is the prevailing attitude. Right. And I think it's so funny because they actually, they view their actions as treating childhood development as a sacred thing with the influence that they're bringing to them, with bringing them to pride parades and allowing them to see drag shows. And it's interesting that in a lot of like the rhetoric in journals that you'll read surrounding this ideology, which yes, we call it a wokeness, even though a mandala stenberg, the Star Wars, the acolyte star is going to say that's a bastardized version of the word. You'll find that in a lot of the writings from like critical race theory to critical feminist theory, to stuff about, you know, fat phobia to what we're talking about with gender theory. They say the younger you start with children, the better, because prejudice starts very young in children. You have journals that state that children start to show signs of racism and prejudice from the age of three months old, and that there are things that you can do to create an anti-racist child or an anti misogynistic child or somebody who's going to usher forward gender equality and allow people to identify whatever orientation without judgment. And if prejudice can start at three months of age, then we should start influencing them at three months of age in the opposite direction. So this sort of rhetoric and what they've deemed to be truth goes on to justify the practice of exposing kids to this stuff earlier and earlier and earlier, because they're just trying to, you know, fortify kids with the knowledge that they should be accepting and push for equity and diversity and inclusion and all these different things as young as they possibly can. And that's not to say that's the motivation of people like Chris Tyson or or Miss Rachel, but I can imagine underpinning it maybe subconsciously. This is what they're thinking. The younger that we can expose kids to this stuff, the more accepting of it, they will be as they age. And that would be largely true. What you expose children to in their young developmental years goes on to affect them for ages and ages to come. So if the next time you see this stuff and you hear people talking about why they want to teach kids this stuff, that's largely why. And we've heard it straight from the horse's mouth. You hear some of these will teachers say it's important that we get them as young as possible because they are the future of this country. There are future leaders and who knows what they're getting at home. We need to teach them acceptance here at school. So I feel like that's what's underlying a lot of the exposure that young children are getting. They view themselves as the sort of sacred teachers of children who are going to usher in equality despite what parents may believe and despite the parental influence that they are receiving at home. And yeah, no, this is why my kid is not going to be an iPad kid. It's just not happening because it comes with so much more than just fun little cutesy videos that they watch on the internet. It's crazy to think about how we always know you have to be hands on as a parent. But with how many external influences they have today, you really have to be watching everything your child watches before they do. And that's a whole nother whole nother level to taking care of a child in today's world that just wouldn't have existed long ago. You could have just turned on the TV through on Mr. Rogers for hours and hours and hours and known that your child was not getting anything horrible, not that your child should be sitting in front of the TV for hours and hours. But you get the point, you could have left them there and they'd be fine. In fact, they'd probably be better off in a lot of ways with what they were learning. Now you leave your kid in front of the TV for a few hours. Who knows what they're going to start saying, Mommy, I want to be I want to be called day them. It's time to go dust off that box of old school Disney VHS tapes that are in your grandma's attic and the I'm talking about like the thick plastic covers that you open up. I feel known I'm talking about, you know, find a VHS player and just let your kids go wild on stuff that was made back in the day. Totally. That for kids because that is something that we used to understand and just broadly in culture. And you got programming like like Mr. Rogers or the reading rainbow, things like that. And it was it was just appropriate. You didn't have to worry. And nowadays, as you just cannot take that for granted. Last poll we did here is the concept of gender identity appropriate for young children to be exposed to. Looks like 91% of you are saying no and 9% say yes. Yeah, I mean, at some point you're going to have to do it with what's happening in the world. But yeah, hopefully at a point where your kids can understand where you stand on the issue, have enough critical thinking skills to decide where they stand on the issue and they can get their feet on solid ground in regard to it. Because at five, six, seven, it's just not it's not possible. And that's the time when they're, you know, graduating from Miss Rachel into Mr. Beast videos. And that's nuts to me. That is so wild. Okay, speaking of influence on a generation, a video of Taylor Swift is now going viral and it's going viral on the right side of media, you know, amongst the conservatives. And people are accusing her of grooming an entire generation. This video is getting millions and millions of views. And you're going to see it. And if you're a Swiftie, you're going to know exactly what song this is. I even recognize what song this was because I've heard it so many times. This is actually one of the songs from Taylor Swift that I do enjoy listening to. But I'll roll the clip for you. She's being accused of teaching young women to quote F, the patriarchy. And let's watch her say it. Okay, that's what, and viral guys, this time, second clip. So the lyrics are, and you were tossing me the car keys, F the patriarchy keychain on the ground, you are always skipping town. Okay. And they got this clip of all the girls screaming F the patriarchy at this concert as it's just a pivotal part of the song that a lot of people like to scream out. And they're accusing Taylor Swift of grooming an entire generation of women into hating men and wanting to destroy the patriarchy. Now let's unpack this for a little bit. First of all, let's get over the song itself. This is from a song that Taylor Swift wrote called All Too Well. Now All Too Well came out in 2021. Y'all have had three years to find this song. She's been touring with this song, singing it in front of audiences far and wide, all over the world. And yes, they have been screaming F the patriarchy for quite some time. I'm astounded that this 10 second clip went viral now, but that's just the nature of the internet. You get a 10 second clip, and it goes viral and people don't take the time to look into the song where the lyrics are what's even going on there. And here we have Taylor Swift being accused of grooming an entire generation. And we'll talk about whether or not that's an accurate description of what Taylor Swift is doing in just a moment. But yeah, the lyrics to this song, I guess it's speculated that this song is about a relationship that she had with Jake Gyllenhaal. When she was far too young to be in a relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal, I believe she was in her early 20s or turning 21 at the time. She was dating Jake Gyllenhaal, and the lyrics stay state. You were tossing me the car keys, his car keys presumably. And he had an F the patriarchy keychain on those car keys. So you were tossing me the car keys, F the patriarchy keychain on the ground. You were always skipping town. I more interpreted that lyric as you have a grown man who's dating a much younger woman. He's tossing the car keys at her. He's very rude to this woman. And his car keys have an F the patriarchy keychain on them. It's kind of the irony of being a man who purports to really love women and F the patriarchy. And I want to protect women, and I'm a good man, whilst tossing your car keys at this younger woman who you are demeaning, not only through dating her at this age and being in somewhat of what she would, I guess, call a grooming relationship. And you're just being flippant towards her. So the irony of a lot of men who claim to be these feminists, but are treating women in this way. Now, of course, it's taken on many different meanings in hersinging it to the crowd. And I imagine a lot of these young girls are just screaming F the patriarchy. Because that's like the cool thing to say these days. You know, Taylor Swift has a dinner song. So we're gonna throw our middle fingers up and say F the patriarchy at this moment in the song. It makes us feel good. Taylor does it with us. And maybe it's taken on a bit of a throw it back in their face, meaning as she sings this song at concerts. But my goodness, do I feel like this was blown out of proportion that girls are singing these lyrics and screaming them back and that she's grooming an entire generation to hate men. There are other reasons that maybe you can say levy that accusation towards Taylor Swift in the brief moments in her career that she's been politically active. It has been towards left leaning causes. She has a whole documentary on Netflix, where she cries in part about wanting to jump into the political sphere of things and use her influence in that way to influence this next generation. And how she can do that. She's also faced a lot of criticism for apparently caring about climate change and being somewhat a part of this climate hysteria, but flying around in her private jet, I think more so than any other celebrity to date Taylor Swift will hop in her PJ to go from Tampa to Orlando and she don't give a f okay about about any of that. So she's constantly found herself in hot water politically. And you could argue that she is influencing a very young generation of girls and she takes on that influence as a pop star and thus her political ideology largely becomes their political ideology. But is that necessarily her fault? I always have to lean on the fact that each person is their own individual. In the case of these young girls that are watching Taylor Swift, they have a personal responsibility to look into the things that they're endorsing at the hands of these pop stars who hand it to them. And as parents, you guys have a personal responsibility when it comes to who you're exposing your child to and whether or not your child takes on that influence. And hopefully your influence as a parent is strong enough to sort of deflect to the things that Taylor Swift wants to bring into your household. I don't know how much of that responsibility lies on Taylor Swift as an artist, if you guys get what I mean. Now, of course, in Taylor Swift saying F the patriarchy, there's a lot of irony. And clearly in the clip, we'll play one more time so that you guys can see it. Okay, so clearly she's she has a little bit of, you know, gesture towards F the patriarchy. You can tell in the body language is a personal like endorsement of hers towards the statement. It's kind of ironic that you have one of the largest female pop stars to ever exist screaming F the patriarchy. And I'm wondering what influence the patriarchy has really had in her life considering since she was a teen. She's been famous. She's now a billionaire. And her sort of claim to this billionaire money is not only art, which is like a leisurely activity that now women get to do, although it's not leisurely when you're doing it at the level of being a billionaire, arguably. Where's the patriarchy and the influence of that? Also, Taylor Swift's career has largely bent towards her criticism of men in particular men that she stated in writing songs about these men. So where does the patriarchy exactly influence where you're at right now as a person who's like the number one artist in a very long time? I don't know. There's other Taylor Swift songs where she really calls out the patriarchy directly. She has a song called The Man where she talks about like how much better her life would be, how much more influence she would have, how much more powerful and assertive she would be if she was a man. And again, I just don't understand. There are many, many, many men in the world. Most men in the world have less power than Taylor Swift has, have less of weight to swing around than Taylor Swift has, has far less money than Taylor Swift has, has far less power and influence in Taylor Swift has. So I'm not sure where the patriarchy has really impacted her in any way, shape, or form. And interestingly enough, this is a conservative maybe take on Taylor Swift, but a lot of leftists feel the same way about Taylor Swift because she's delved into political ideology and espoused her leftism to a certain degree. And she can't seem to hit the right mark because leftists are even calling her like a performative white feminist. Like she doesn't even truly understand feminism from the perspective of being a white woman because she is in this position of power and complaining from that position of power when she truly doesn't understand the feminist struggle nor the struggle of people of color. So if you're Taylor Swift, you really can't win. No matter what you do, conservatives don't like an artist who's left leaning, which is typical. And you know, the left leaning people don't like Taylor Swift because she's a white woman and she's a billionaire. That sort of alienates you from that group of people. They don't think there is an ethical white woman and they also don't think there is an ethical billionaire. So you're at a loss, my dude. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you, but she continues to pull the crowd and they scream F the patriarchy back at her during the song. And I mean, she had a star studded crowd at her most recent heiress to her stop. Tom Cruise was there. I mean, Lucunus was there. Ashton Kutcher was there. Phoebe Waller Bridge was there. Andrew Scott was there. She was pulling Greta Gerwig, Travis Kelsey, all these people coming to see her. So her influence remains. No matter what this girl does, I don't know what what Taylor Swift could say to get people to not watch her anymore, but so far she hasn't done it. And she remains in the headlines all the time. I don't know if she was deserving of it in this case. As I said, if you want to call out Taylor Swift for being a feminist, there are way better examples you can use than this throw away if the patriarchy line in her songs. And yeah, if you want to accuse her of being a performative leftist, there are way better examples that you could use than this F the patriarchy line in this song. So I don't know. But Taylor Swift remains at top of mind, I guess, good for good for her. Yeah, love her. Hater, you're talking about her one way or another. We're talking about her, so I guess we're guilty in that as well. We asked you guys after hearing Amala give the context to the F the patriarchy line. Is this still outrageous to you? And it's 51% are saying no, 49% said yes, it was much bigger in favor of no earlier, but looks like it's leveled out. So I'm kind of surprised at that, to be honest with you, because I do, to your point, think that it's pretty innocuous when you understand that it's not saying, hey girls, let's all say you have the patriarchy together as part of the message of the song. It was just this throw away line highlighting Jake Gyllenal's hypocrisy. But whatever, I do get it, you're a stadium full of, you know, 20 something women, probably older now. Let's be honest. And you have a line in a song where we all get to scream F to patriarchy is kind of just one of those things that you can get everyone excited about to say for the modern woman. But it is really ironic with everything that you've said, but also in the sense that women in general, all the women in the stadium that are singing that song are outpacing men in today's society on so many metrics, whether it's education and career. So is the patriarchy in the room with us right now, Taylor, and all of your fans? I don't know. What are people going to do? What are people going to do when when we finally reach not, not only full equality, which we've largely done, but like women are just out doing men all the time now. You cannot scream F the patriarchy anymore. And it seems like even our fans and a little bit of Taylor Swift has kind of lost the what what I believe to be the initial meaning and interpretation of that lyric was, you'll have to let me know because I'm not a swifty. If you guys are swifties, let me know if I had that interpretation correctly, because even in the music video that she has for all too well, it pretty clearly insinuates that like, if the patriarchy is this sort of like throw away thing that he claims to believe, but doesn't, I don't know, that was just my an interpretation. That's what I got from the lyrics. So I am just not sure why at all we are having this back and forth about Taylor Swift. But again, in a few weeks from now, something else will pop up that she did. And she'll sing a song that she wrote 10 years ago. And people will say, Oh my gosh, there's this feminist lyric in this Taylor Swift song from 2014. And the crowd is singing a bag of her. She's grooming young children. I don't know. I've seen two other viral Taylor Swift things since this came out. It was she had like some malfunction at her concert and the screen was glitching. And then Dave Grohl came out at his concert and was like, Oh, yeah, this doesn't happen at ours. We because we play for real, we're not lip-syncing like she is basically. And then she's responding to that now. And then the other thing was Travis Kelsey was like brought out as a dancer at one of her concerts, which looked really cringe and whatever. But like, you know what, do your thing, man. I don't know. I feel like we just end up talking about her about everything, whether it's political or just drama, just because she's of a certain level of influence where everything's under the microscope and everyone can find something to be offended about or, you know, make a make a passing jab at. Yeah, I don't like I wonder why Dave Grohl has beef with Taylor Swift. If you guys know that, you guys can let me know comments. It did seem like a straight, but I'm also like, is there something here that I don't know about that you guys have beef? You have beef with the Foo Fighters. What is going on? I have no idea. But she has beef with everybody to be honest. I've been following the whole Charlie XCX beef, which the brat album I caught on this channel, which is so funny because I should have known this is going to come. I got on the channel, I was like, I don't really like electronic music. I don't really like electro dance music or whatever EDM. And I don't know that her her album fully qualifies as EDM, although I guess it is electro dance and like club music or whatever. But Charlie XCX released brat. I listened to that album. It is so good. It is so good. Anthony Fantana gave her a 10. It's one of the few albums that he's ever given a 10. And she released it and was anticipating like a huge surge of support and people downloading and listening to this iconic album in the UK. And I guess her and Taylor Swift have beef because the day that she released her album, Taylor Swift released a new version of an old album that she put out, not super old. It was like her most recent, the tortured poet society or something like that, whatever it's called. And she released a specific album, a new version of that album with like a couple new songs in the UK to apparently beat Charlie XCX out of that number one spot in the UK, which is a very petty thing to do as somebody who's already so big within the industry. So she's catching a lot of heat all over the place. But I have to take my statement, if Charlie XCX's album counts as EDM, we found an EDM song, songs that I like because that one was a fire. It's a fire. I've been listening to it every day. Okay, this is why we talk about not being a label's people, right? Don't label yourself as an anti EDM person because you might catch a song that you actually like. And then this is true. Not identifying with that, it's true in politics, true in music fandom, apparently. Yep. And I made the mistake here. And I take back my words, I had to eat my words listening to brat. Now, lastly, we're gonna talk about this video that's going viral. Matthew Stafford, the quarterback of the Rams, his wife, went on a podcast recently. And I guess she was questioned about how she landed Matthew Stafford. And she had a little story to tell because she played some games in order to get this man and decided to make him jealous in pursuit of him. Let's hear her tell the story. Wait, so was he trying to casually date and you were all in? Yeah, girl. Anyways, long story short, it wasn't that cute of a relationship at first. I hated him. I loved him. I dated the backup to piss him off, which worked. Oh, yes. He was like, that'll do it. He was the bad boy too. Matthew is so sweet and southern gentleman and all that stuff. And the backup was the complete opposite. Yeah. Ooh, and it upset him. So they lived in the same dorm because athletes lived in the same dorm and he would see my car there. And so at one point, he waited and followed me out and got in my car and wouldn't get out. And he was like, this is so hot. I was like, this is amazing working. Yeah. I was getting out of my car and he was like, I don't, he's not right for you. And I was like, you can't tell me that. Okay. Embarrassing. That is so embarrassing. I can't imagine being the husband and she's like, babe, listen to this new podcast I did. And you have to hear your wife recount getting with another man to make you jealous. Not only that, she says you were the goody two shoes sweet. And this guy was like a bad boy, aggressive masculine type with my heart would shatter and break to a million pieces. And you were already stuck because you married her. That's crazy. I can understand, you know, having it be a little like, ha, ha, nudge each other when you're married of, oh, yeah, she dated this other guy to make me jealous, but to go and tell the whole world that you dated backup on his own. And dated this bad boy in order to make him jealous. And it worked in playing him and he had to come to you and tell you this man isn't right for you while you were pulling strings. Now, who knows if it's even true? Because I think a lot of women make choices like this. And they're not being strategic about it at all. She was probably just dating the bad when he'd date the bad boy. And all of a sudden Matthew comes in and asserts himself and she's like, okay, I think this is probably going to be a healthier and safer direction. So I'll just say that I dated this guy to get back at him. But maybe it's true. Maybe she was that strategic. And she went out of her way to date somebody that she didn't fully see herself with in order to make him jealous so that he would come back to her and say this is not the right guy for you. Fellas, if you're listening right now, would this work on you? Would this work on you? A woman dating somebody in the periphery of your life who is not good for them and not a healthy choice in order to make you jealous and want to go. It'd have to be a damn good woman. So maybe this speaks to her credentials as a wife and as a woman, but that would give me the ick. What do you mean? Sometimes I'll, I'll see this, you know, like when you have like a crush on a celebrity or you like a guy or whatever and suddenly you figure out what their dating history is and you go, because if you can date that person, then you're definitely not going to date me. Like we are not in the same universe. We are not in the same realm. We're not on the same spectrum when it comes to like intellect or sense of humor, all these things. And suddenly you go, oh, if you can date that, why am I even going to bark up this street? Is that not the same for man? Do you guys not like look at a woman's dating history and go like, ew, how did that? How did he fool you into being attracted to him? I don't know. This is news. Yeah, I would think so. I mean, it definitely reflects on your character and like the way your judgment of man. A lot of it just feels like it's, it's so high school, you know, and it's like, okay, I, I like this guy, but he wasn't giving me the commitment that I wanted. So I went out and dated someone else that was close to him in order to manipulate him. And it's like, okay, but you're married now and you have four kids and you're a grown adults. I don't know why we're bringing up this story, even if it is true. There's, there's something to be said for like, you know, cutely telling the story of how you met and your dating process and sharing that and whatever, but it all worked out in the end and it was everything so great now. But to the way she is kind of telling it just felt a little bit like disrespectful of her current status and relationship and just kind of not very, yeah, honoring of her, her husband and marriage and everything else and just, I don't know, this whole genre of podcasts where girls just get together and tell these like really sleazy stories and just talk about men, talk about gross sex stuff, gossip, do all this. I'm like, I get the sort of visceral appeal of something like that, but man, it's just like, send the asteroid when I look at that stuff. I only ever see the worst of those when a clip like this goes viral. But my goodness, it's like, do we really need to be doing this and having whole shows oriented around this? I just, I don't get it. It's not people want the scoop. People want the story. And I get making mistakes and dating and dating somebody who's not for you. Obviously, we've all been there. We've done that. We dated LaHoo, and then you find the person who's right for you or whatever. But purposefully dating the wrong type of guy to get the right guy jealous. It's just crazy. I don't know. I don't know what to say about it. Steven A had something to say about it though. We react to Steven A from time to time. He keeps his finger on the pulse of culture because he's constantly getting in on these stories and talking about him. Here is his response to Kelly Stafford. The backup to piss him off. Oh, yes. He was like, that'll do it. He was the bad boy too. Like, yeah. Oh, and it upset him. So they lived in the same dorm because athletes lived in the same dorm and he would see my car there. How is it that y'all know that men have egos and males are ego dominant? But you forget that when it comes to your own man. What could possibly make you, if you are Mrs. Stafford, what could possibly make you think that it is okay? You're the go home. After revealing to the public, I kicked it with his backup. Possible, possible advantage. Could that, could you peel from that with a husband of yours who you have four kids with? I met the woman once. She's a nice lady. I'm not casting any asperger on her character or anything like that. I would never disrespect Matthew Stafford's wife or anybody else's wife. I'm just making the point. What would make you think that's okay? Yes. What is what? What is the question? What would make you do that? Especially the poor kids. Now the four kids get another story. Oh, my gosh, it just goes deeper, deeper, deeper. But ladies, if you're listening right now, you are supposed to do the opposite. If for some reason you feel the need to lie, you lie to inflates the ego, not to deflate the meant ego. I feel like, especially once he's your husband, you're supposed to be playing him. I used to be hyping him up. He's supposed to do the opposite of whatever it was. And I feel like we make the mistake. Maybe we get a little bit too comfortable with him. We're like, Oh, he's here. You know, we can go ahead and deflate deflate his ego a little bit. We could Tom Brady deflate the ball a bit. No, you're supposed to do the opposite. You keep it inflated, guys. Oh, my gosh, that's our last story for today. We're gonna get into your super chats. But pray for Kelly Stafford, because hopefully they're all taking this. Well, it's a whole other thing to like go and tell this story on a podcast. It's another thing to have it go viral for how shit it is that you did this and said when said this. So it's just a whole it's a whole nother level to things like I saw this guy who's going viral on Twitter for proposing to his girlfriend who is now his fiance. He posted the photo. Let me find it. He posted the photo of him like leaning on his knees and proposing to her and said something like Pride Month is out. I'm gonna I've got to find exactly what he said. I'm gonna find it somewhere. Okay. Here it is. Okay. It says Pride Month is so defeated. I love you. And he posted his engagement photos and to the ring and everything. Now, all these gay people are on his back. Oh my gosh, no. All these all these gay people are responding to his picture saying like you proposed to your girlfriend and your first thought was gay people weird flex, babe. And it has 474,000 likes on Twitter, which for Twitter, 474,000 likes is absolutely insane. That is decimation as far as going viral. And it's multiple gay people responding to him and being like, you're thinking about gay men while you're proposing to your girlfriend, babes. Embarrassing. Embarrassing. Delete the account. There's one comment that was like something about his shirt and he's like, oh yeah, I got my shirt from my black friend. And then someone was like, why didn't why didn't you just say it's your friend? Like this guy just keeps putting his foot in his mouth. But yeah, maybe the lesson from today is just like priorities and perspective and the Kelly Stafford in the Chris Tyson story. Maybe tell us if we can work that in somehow. But my goodness, like keep your eye on the ball, understand what is most valuable and important in your life and don't fumble your proposal by making it about Pride Month. My goodness, you got to live with that the rest of your life in your marriage. Yeah, tragic, a tragic blip on the timeline that is your life. No regrets. No regrets. Let's hear from you guys. All right, Brooke Reed is our first super chatter today. She said, hi, thank you for what you do. Just wondering what are your thoughts on women possibly being in the draft as a 20 year old woman? I don't know how I feel. I keep seeing this on TikTok and stuff. People are talking about it. Yeah, I guess I don't know how I feel about it either. I guess I obviously support the separation of genders, especially when it comes to things like combat and it does not make sense for women to be drafted into those positions. However, I guess if we're going to experience equality in this nation, maybe you could get drafted for like intelligence communications, the tech side of the military. But honestly, it couldn't be me. It couldn't be me. Hopefully if the draft ever happens, you know, I had a spinal surgery when I was 14. So I have like titanium rods in my back on both sides. So maybe that disqualifies me. Maybe I'll be home for for that. What is it you have? You're safe. It's 18 to like 28. Is that the age cut off? I don't know. Yeah, I'm definitely past it at this point. Okay, so we're safe. The show. Yeah, I don't know. When Americans, neighbor came up, I was came out. I was like this close to signing up for the military. And you know, my brother's in the military, mad respect. Yeah, like they're the Israeli army, for example, I think they have a draft for that includes emails. But I think that's out of necessity because their existence existence is always under threat for like since they've been a country. And you need that level of recruitment in order to just have the army that you need to have in order to defend yourself. So my first thought is thank, thank God, we don't have to do that in the US. And then that's not we're not in a position where we need to be drafting our women. But also the I don't know if it's the traditionalist or patriarchal person in me that it's like, you know what? No, men should be the first ones, you know, answering the sound at night in your home. And we should be the first ones that answer the call to defend our country when we need to. And yeah, that seems to be not as clear these days. But yeah, it's just just how it is. But at the same time, you know, if a girl wants to sign up should be able to and nothing wrong with that either. I'm all for the equality. But also let's be real about combat standards and not jeopardize the safety of people who are fighting alongside each other by lowering standards for women. So that's how I feel. And we have a long history of women contributing to war efforts from home. It's not like we just sit at home in Dilly Dally. It's a good question, Brooke. Thank you. Very good question. Michelle G says, Hi, my boyfriend made a documentary on how he got CXL as a police officer and how DEI is destroying a city here in Miami. Would love if you watched it and let us know what you think. Unbecoming full documentary. I can send the links. CXL canceled. I think that's what that is an abbreviation for. Sounds like canceled. Yeah, I'd have to hear more. I have to send us more info. Yeah, we'll check it out. Uralic Tribe says it reminds me of when Stalin wanted to separate families and remove family identity so that people wouldn't be people just number labels or Soviets. What reminds you of that? I'm not sure. It was toward the beginning. So it must have been maybe the Chris Tyson stuff. Yeah. I mean, you can see there's like a lot of, you know, at this at the same time as like there's this collectivist narrative, it kind of does remove the individual and separate what are deeper and stronger bonds that we have within our lives, like family and particularly the nuclear family. You'll find that this is often a goal, whether it be conscious or subconscious. And the breaking down of bonds is inherently problematic in that you lose sight of your values. And when you lose sight of your values, other values can be given to you. And we're seeing that now more so than ever, it feels like Casey says, Hey guys, the baseball college world series is today. Who's your pick Tennessee or Texas A&M? I don't know what you're talking about. Never heard of her, never met her. My LSU Tigers are defending champions of the college world series. So I'm sad that we have to relinquish that title this year. We'll be back next year. So yeah, I pay attention to college baseball when we're doing well, which is pretty much every year because we have an awesome team. But all that to say, I don't care about Tennessee or Texas A&M. Unfortunately, it is cool that the SEC is repping to teams though. So there you go. Good on us. No, you're not going to get Nancy from language and nothing from me. I'm going to know what your name sounds better. Texas A&M rolls off the tongue a little better than the state of Tennessee. Wow, shots fired. So sorry. Me and my fellow Tennesseans. And now says a classmate at a school asked me if I knew how I felt about Amala to gauge my political views on transgenderism two days ago. LOL, we whispered after it. That is so funny. Wow, that is crazy. That is crazy to think about. You've just blown my mind with that statement. I have to let you know right now that's insane. But also so cool that you guys can have this whole little secret conversation from checking out the content. Love that. That is awesome. Yeah, that's a milestone when someone to gauge how you view an issue. What do you think about Amala's views? I love that. Thank you for sharing that. Nicodemus 1984 says cheers to both of you interesting topic. But for me, you can't beat the original Looney Tunes and you're safe from any inappropriate, inappropriate ideology. Thanks. Yeah, Looney Tunes was funny. I used to watch that a lot as a kid. What else did I watch? Codename Kids Next Door. That one was a great show. Tom and Jerry. There's just so many really good shows on Read Between the Lions. Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow. It's in a book. So good. Someone had to cancel Pepe Le Pew because he was not getting consent from the women he was kissing. Damn rip. He wasn't in the new space jam because of that. Rips. Silliness. That's so silly. Silliness. We worried about that and you're put in indoctrination and just get out of town. Oh gosh. Ash Roach says Amla, I agree with you. Like always regarding the trans ideology. But I will say I've never seen Miss Rachel push any agenda as my son will not be exposed to that. That's great. I don't know. Miss Rachel LOL. You mourned though. There's like some emojis so that are showing up as blank squares so I can't fully read it. Okay. No worries. Yeah, I feel like Miss Rachel and we spoke about this in our Pride episode about her that she has walked the line of it. I think a lot better than most people would and she continues to make content that even though there might be a non-binary person present in the content. There's no reference to it. They're not like saying and here's Jules and Jules goes by they then pronouns. Can you say they then? You know she's not doing that which I can appreciate that even though you may endorse visually you're not endorsing in a way that is handing that information directly to kids. And I felt like her Pride message for the most part was benign. The only thing I disagreed with her and hopefully she does not do is put Dylan Mulvaney on her platform because that opens up a whole nother can of worms. Even Jules, the non-binary individual that is on her program now. If you go to Jules page, I didn't look through all of the content but the content may reference love and acceptance but it never explicitly says non-binary they them. I think the most that they do is they'll put Jules will put hashtag LGBTQ on like one of their videos and for me that's too much. I don't want my kid clicking hashtag LGBTQ and finding all the other stuff that comes with that and I don't know if Jules is a woman, a man, I don't know what's going on there but that's enough for me. So shout out to Miss Rachel for at least seemingly keeping it cool and not putting too much of it in her content but still not for me. If anything I would if I had a kid I would watch the Miss Rachel videos before I show them to my child. Right which is tough because there's so many of them in there like very long. I know. Because they're designed for you to just be able to put your kid in front of them for a period of time. It's just like you don't have that fundamental level of trust because you know okay even if maybe there's nothing overt going into the content they're smoking by smoke you know where there's smoke there's a fire there's smoke of the Dylan Mulvaney stuff there's smoke of this non-binary person and their activism and being at Chicago's drag show and running stuff like that there's smoke in her pride message is just like okay you clearly have an ideological bent and you're willing to espouse that ideological bent even if you know that will jeopardize the trust that parents have of you so clearly that ideology is worth more to you than my trust as a parent. So I'm going to hold those things in tension that doesn't mean you know necessarily that every single thing you've ever put out is laced with ideology but it does mean that now I can't just assume that you place the that that sacred space of innocence and trust over this ideological agenda and that is unfortunate because now we have to be vigilant so same thing with Disney and a lot of other content in this day so sucks. G says I just think Mr. Beast made a mistake he chose to defend his friend I don't think he's trying to push an ideology I just think he went too far in support of a friend he should have kept quiet. Yeah it's tough because he like I said you silence his violence so if he keeps quiet he doesn't mention that his his best friend is trans and is no longer in the videos you've committed an act of transphobia so there's no way I don't there's no way in doing this as Mr. Beast you win you there's a loss at every single angle at every single choice no matter what you could it could be the loss of the best friend it could be a loss of a conservative audience it could be a loss of a left-leaning audience it's just loss all across the board. Alice Iris says Taylor Swift re-releases old albums on other female pop singers release dates says she actively puts down other women LOL. Yeah that's what I was talking about with the Charlie XCX thing she did to her in the UK which it's just crazy to me especially considering the lore and the history of the Taylor Swift Mattie healing thing and then Charlie XCX is marrying the drummer Joe Grinch of the 1975 and all that sort of stuff and Charlie has songs seemingly referencing Taylor Swift and not liking her so there's a lot of drama I guess happening behind the scenes with these individuals it's just fascinating to think about. So Caddy it is Laura Chizan says my son and I love watching Mr. Beast together he has not made a comment about Chris Mr. Beast has not said anything in his videos which I appreciate yeah I guess it would just be like a visual hmm what's going on daddy why does he have long hair now why is he wearing a good crop top you know which I don't know maybe as a parent you can you know you can figure skate around your answers or just be very direct with your child and your child is capable of you know taking in that information not understanding it I guess it's going to be different for each individual. Barbara Boyden says she has the first amendment right if you do not like it do not listen to it yeah of course that's for friend of Taylor Swift. Yeah she can write whatever she wants in her songs and the crowd can scream back whatever they want in her songs outside of fire there's a fire so yeah I mean that's true 100 percent. Colin says hey for the past few years I've been listening to your show since the first Dylan Mulvaney vid and wanted thank you for being a part of my life and my journey. Oh that's so sweet you go way back then the first Dylan Mulvaney vid it was a long long time ago I appreciate that you've been a long term supporter of the show that is so great. Yeah Hamlet was the OG beefing with Dylan Mulvaney before it was even cool to beef with Dylan. I know and then it went nuts after that that's so crazy who could have anticipated that. Not me. Well you did because you were like there's this dude. Oh yeah I guess that's true these days as a girl a days ago in videos and I think somebody needs to call him out then you did it and then you bombed us and the drama ensued. The Dylan Mulvaney fans really came from my neck but here I am still still standing still standing. Leanna or Caracapa says Amla there's a real I need you to see because I left a comment and the response I got was insane is there any way I can send it to you so you can react to it at some point. You might be able to DM me on like Instagram or Twitter or send it and send it and hopefully I'll catch it. Yeah you can send some stuff to me. That's true. Thanks to Source on the show as well guys on Instagram I'm a little easier to reach. Yes. Perhaps Amla is inundated often so John Jackson Greager says I'm not the one to read into things but Chris is asking why would I watch a video that I'm not in it seems a little telling. Yeah I mean it's that was interesting a little narcissistic yeah just a little little little kind of tongue and cheek but it was also like you're but you're serious. You're right right who knows how far to read into that but yeah it could be could be a telling statement. Kelbier says as a 33 year old gay man I appreciate y'all's takes on the trans tote topic. I feel the tea and LGBT especially online is a roading progress we made. Yeah yeah and we're moving backwards it's crazy. Now you hear people some conservatives and all of them saying like this is what happens when you legalize gay marriage. I'm like okay well whoa we're we're gonna backslide on this because people are gonna see this and think it's all connected because you're saying it's all connected not you the super chatter of course but a lot of people are saying this is all connected and we're one movement and people are gonna be like oh we need to we need a backslide on all this. That's similar to how you know like the there's liberals feel like the far left has left them behind and now like the Democrats or if you identify as left like there's all these other things that are crazy attached to it that if you're just like an old school liberal you're like I don't support any of that but it's all and unfortunately it's kind of on you to differentiate yourself now because if you just identify as a Democrat or with the left then there's a lot of baggage there and I feel like that happens to people who are just like yeah happy to be gay but that's not my whole identity I'm not about this whole like you know movement and activism and stuff so unfortunate times in which we live but we're here for the nuance so glad you are as well kelbert man of power says hey they're gang that's why you got to vet your girl 10 times thoroughly before you marry a 50% 304 who is now named missed Stafford just shaking my head you know what maybe he's cool with it I'm sure like if she was so openly sharing this story on the podcast I'm assuming it's a story that she shared with him openly and said you know this was the game that I was playing and he would be crazy if not I guess that wasn't during yeah that'd be crazy he was finding it out for the first time yeah that'd be nuts but I'm sure he was intrigued by that for some reason yeah but I can it was like the it was like the energy was not like oh I'm so ashamed that this is something that I did when we were dating but now it's all cool because you know I've talked about it with him and blah blah blah blah it was none of that it was like got him yeah isn't this great like oh thanks uh yeah vet your girl that she doesn't do stuff like that and vet your guy that they don't become a girl after you're married and have kid with more lessons from today for real uh Diva Don says Amala would you uh you would definitely be disqualified I had to get a waiver to enlist for two screws in my shoulder all that mess in your back is a no-go Aloha yeah I wonder if like and during a draft they would make exceptions or something like that when they're conscripting people but yeah I my grandfather was in the Navy for a couple decades a little bit more than a couple decades and uh I wanted at one point when I was like 18 I was looking into like oh well let's let's call a recruiter and talk about going in the Navy they were like absolutely not you one surgery no and of course it's a very large surgery it's not it's not it's not a small deal but I'm totally physically capable I didn't think it was going to be as big of a deal as it is but now they're like you got a splinter in your finger when you're six years old you're not allowed you're allowed to be a part of this anymore which luckily I didn't do it because now we're here and who knows what conflict our country gets involved in it has nothing to do with us whatsoever so absolutely not sorry yeah let's say with them not being able to hit recruiting quotas in any of the branches right now they may be taking people with scoliosis and all kinds of issues I had my thing I had a birth injury when I was born and had lost some mobility in my right arm and strengthened my right arm and just with that I wouldn't pass the test because you have to be able to reach behind you and do certain things and I just I'm mostly functional I can play sports and all that but uh it used to be pretty stringent but I don't know these days now they might be having to open it up to uh gimps like us yeah right uh Austin says hey you should make your own opening song you have a great voice ah maybe one of these days one of these days I do like to sing I'm not so good on the production side of things though so we'll have to find somebody to help with that if a mandala stanberg can make a song right for the entertainment like we can do it but you know what mandala stanberg people are like hating on her and saying like this song is trash or whatever mandala stanberg has good music I actually have songs of hers from back before all of this garbo uh that are actually really good sorry mandala for what you're at now you said you liked the flow of her song even if not the content didn't hate it yeah I it didn't do much for me but I'm not the target audience on any stretch of it so she has a more like ballad-y song with this one guy I'll have to find out what it is so you guys can see if you actually like it but uh and she plays a violin oh my gosh I'll have to find out what that name of that song is but just uh later on though guys we'll get in your countdown song if you have a countdown song that you want to submit to us you can send it and we'll review it but almost pretty picky I will say extremely extreme uh chicken oh it's extremely chicken borkadoba says women can skip drafts if they get pregnant I once joked of uh coming out and they said at last we know uh now they think I'm joking that I'm not coming out as what pregnant confused wait what that's a whole definition of the word anchor baby maybe coming out as a woman but then you still couldn't get pregnant I don't I don't understand I'm not following I apologize I know it's tough sometimes guys because you don't have as many characters in the super chat as you'd like yes it's like old school twitter you'd have to fit everything in 140 and you're like awful using twos instead of the word to contracting everything doing your best ampersand's instead of the word and I still kind of have to do that because I'll have twitter premium but great I'll ask uh and she says is risa taking applications for a friend I'm in Orange County and we can hang out and go eat but little like welling up eyes and tears of bojice i think risa's always looking for cool new friends you can DM her on instagram i'm sure she'd love that we've been going through your guys' applications for the dating show there are some good ones in there there are some very funny ones in there as well where you guys just like went for leaned into the comedy did you watch them yes we did they were very interesting to say the least you guys will maybe be seeing some of them soon yeah uh yeah and by the way I mean do you feel bad that she just wants to be risa's friend and not yours there was no like right do you guys need any friend my friend just read it's okay risa's cool i understand i totally i'm sure she wants to be a friend too uh steffin robert says today's relationship symptoms are to compensate for one's own lack of appreciation with painful exposure what i'm confused yeah this is not so i'm really normally making us think deeply yes steffin today's relationship symptoms are to compensate for one's own lack of appreciation with painful exposure lack of appreciation with painful exposure i'm confused if you haven't been exposed to painful things you're compensating for that by having strange relationship dynamics i don't know maybe can't connect the dots i could if that's what you're saying i think i can see where you're going somebody said oh no do we have charlie superchat charlie uh yeah here we go yeah i'm getting there charlie okay charlie you weren't skipped you weren't skipped oh we got to get jina pickle first who says donating to the free pet de la pew fund nice we're going to start protesting for a peppy leap you he didn't do shit uh donald s says as someone that works in the gaming/streamer space i'm glad that nick is pushing back on the trans narrative and thank you too for not being hot takers and giving sensible takes keep up the good work thank you appreciate that i mean yeah somebody's got to do it i'm glad somebody's like calling it out and i'm sure in the gaming space there has got to be a lot of gamers who i think are starting to reference this because i feel like the gaming community is not typically synonymous with a lot of the stuff that we're seeing right now and would be more apt to talk about why they disagree with this but i guess it's also like you risk your career talking about these things and maybe he's at a point where he's just not afraid to say it anymore yeah gaming industries in such a weird space it seems like the people who make the games and the people who run platforms like twitch and esports and all this stuff are very much bought into the narrative and want to censor people who say mean things and uncalled duty now or whatever and are very like into that and then i still feel like the average gamer is just like a normal dude's right and uh they're not as much into the whole thing so it's good to hear from you donald thank you um charlie we did not forget you says obeland my high school a failing grade was below 69.4 percent curious uh what was your school's grading scale some schools now are as low as below 40 percent for a fail okay i'm trying to think uh 90 to 100 a 80 to 90 b and then c and then d and then your f is in like the 50s so yeah that was me too i feel like that's the traditional yeah don't surprise me that uh they're moving things around these days yeah right yeah they got a i guess failing grade is below 69 you'd have to do pretty well that's that's see or more in order to pass oh so it's higher standards yeah higher standards for them but other ones are they're doing let go if you get a if you get an f you're not really failing it's still a passing grade or whatever if you get below an f that's when you're actually failing the class which is just i don't know it's not imagine getting an f and not and like not being told that's not failing yeah like you're still passing crazy we can start with something besides f then dude nuts uh ask to ask says hi from sweden i don't have anyone i can share my views with show your show helps i also love that you accept people having different views than you yes of course everybody here everybody's welcome here regardless of what your viewpoint is i'm sad to hear that you can't find somebody to express these things with and hopefully you find someone soon yeah there's some some craziness and sweet and great place though my mom's Swedish by descent a larson cell shout out to the Swedes watching appreciate y'all um ash roach says they sabotage my message i said i don't know why i just love miss Rachel but i love you more he he uh also a racist three month old made me lol yeah i mean they exist i'm trying to find the graph of like babies can be racist it exists somewhere maybe i'll show it on a different show um but yeah they write that about like babies start showing signs of racism as early as three months and they can view color and make judgments based off of color and stuff like that it's nuts and uh that's why we have the book like anti-racist baby by every mx kendy and all this different stuff because they really believe that why old uh angie followed up and says i or ang says i'll be all your friends thank you thank you thank you thank you for super chat lifetimes thank you for being a great author mel martinez i think this is our little last one for today says i got fired at a job because i ask the women if she goes to the gym i hate wokeness no investigation whatsoever it is insane damn yeah i guess that's a no-no these days and the leftist place that i used to work for they had a poster that said like you are not allowed to ask people about what they're eating like why they're eating it you're not allowed to give people weight loss advice or fitness advice within this space because it's fatphobic and it's like rude to say these things to people and it's and it's a violation of their humanity in order to talk about these things or ask them questions about it insane so i can imagine i can imagine people feel that way about asking them whether or not they go to the gym nuts yeah best of luck finding another job without yeah for real crazy people running the show uh last one here at the buzzer fat tested travel says uh can we find a balance for gamers between becoming a tate bro and an alphabet mafia yeah for real yeah i imagine most people sit in the middle of those two things but just the two groups are just the loudest so that's what you experience and that's what you think the community is made up of it's just the two loudest groups to exist ever and here we are dealing with it but they give us content so there's that guys that's the end of our show i'd like you to drop your thoughts in the comments down below in the different things we cover today talking about mr beast chris tyson nickmerx let us know your thoughts on that taylor swift and her f the patriarchy line at her heiress tour concert plus we discussed the idea of being a racist baby that's uh a fun little new one and kelly staford and how she got her man the quarterback on the rams let us know how you feel about that as always i encourage healthy debate so if you disagree with anything set in this video do get out but do so respectfully and if you like this video like subscribe click the notification bell to be notified every 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MrBeast speaks out in support of his trans best friend in a heated exchange on X, Taylor Swift goes viral for singing “F The Patriarchy” at her concert, and the wife of LA Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, Kelly Stafford, goes viral for telling an extremely personal story on a podcast. Let’s talk about it.
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