Amala Ekpunobi

Georgia School Sh***ter “Frustrated” Over Trans Acceptance?

CNN reports that the Georgia school shooter had a discord account where he allegedly wrote his intentions to target an elementary school and expressed “frustration with the acceptance of transgender people.” The Minecraft movie trailer is heavily ratioed with dislikes on YouTube, and Brittany Mahomes stands her ground after being criticized for liking a post about Trump’s platform on Instagram.

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Duration:: 1h 12m
Broadcast on:: 06 Sep 2024
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I'm your host, Amala Eppinobi, and today we have a very serious subject matter to talk about mixed in with some not-so-serious stuff. We're going to try to balance it out on today's show. This is always a tough thing to discuss when things like this happened. But of course, we're going to be talking about the Appalachia High School shooting that took place in Georgia and discussing some of the details that have been coming out about the suspect who was arrested in this case, as well as their parents and maybe some motivations behind this horrific act. Before we get into all of that, though, of course, we have Taylor in Nashville. Hi, Taylor. >> Hey, guys, yeah, good to be here. This is our third live stream of the week. I don't know when the last time we actually were able to do all three in a week. So glad to be here. Glad we're back. >> And we might not even have that many next week, because I might be going back to Florida to go take care of my grandmother. Some more, guys. I'm sorry to tell you that. But you know, family comes first, and if there's anything that reminds us of things like that, it happens to be these very tragic stories. And when events like this take place, I think we're all reminded how fragile life is, and just how crazy the world can be. Again, this is out of Georgia at Appalachian High School in Winter, Georgia, specifically, where they actually had a 14-year-old boy go into school and commit a school shooting. He took the lives of four individuals, two teachers and two students. And for a moment here, let's talk about the victims. So everybody has their names. We'll focus more so on that first than anything else in regard to this case. You have Christina Ermey, which I hope I'm saying her last name, right? I've seen different pronunciations here, who was a teacher and Romanian immigrant, who was working at the school on the day of the shooting, died at 53 years old, Richard Aspenwall, who was a teacher and also a coach at the school. And then, of course, you have two 14-year-old students who lost their lives as well. Christian Anglo, hope I've pronounced that correctly, and Mason Schurmerhorn. And I had heard you guys reference this happening on the show, but had no idea what was going on and what was the story behind this, ended up looking into it. And we have some more breaking news surrounding this entire story, and what happened at this Georgia High School that has come out today in regard to the motivation of the shooter. As I said before, the shooter was a 14-year-old male, and I'll say anything once. His name is Colt Gray. I know there's like tricky things surrounding whether or not we say these people names, whether or not they show their faces. We've blurred him in the thumbnail, and that's all I'll be saying on the identity of this person, as far as giving specifics there. But there have been different things surrounding this case that seem quite similar to other things we've seen happen in regard to school shootings. And there just seems to be a particular demographic, a particular type of person that goes through and commits these acts. I'm very curious to hear about this young kid's upbringing. So far, we've heard that he's come from a broken home, did not have the greatest family dynamic. His mother has multiple charges and a criminal history, many in regard to drugs. So you can hear a little bit about the background and maybe understand the pieces that put together a person who commits an act like this. And we've also found out that the parent of the shooter, the father in particular, is also being arrested and being charged with multiple counts, including involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder, and cruelty to children. And I'll show a little clip of him in court. Now, he does look obviously very distraught, as I imagine you would be if you were going through this, not only hearing the news that this is something that your son has done, but also, you know, knowing that you are responsible. And I saw a lot of people have a pretty unanimous take on this, that they supported the father being arrested. And when you hear the story, I think you probably will too. So this young kid was actually on the FBI's watch list, and he and his family were visited last year because he was suspected of being the type of person who would commit an act like this. He was questioned about whether or not he was going to move forward with going in and shooting the school. They had found evidence on the internet that he was interested in committing an act like this. They interviewed the father and asked whether or not he had any access to firearms. The father stated that they did own firearms, but that the child had no access. And then they bought him a gun. His father ended up gifting him the gun that he would then go on to use in this school shooting. Now, why, as a father, having known your kid was investigated, having known he was on a watch list somewhere, why you would go forward and buy your child to firearm is beyond me. It's very negligent on on his behalf. And we've seen this happen before, and we've actually seen the parents arrested and sentenced before in the case of Ethan crumbly, which his parents were in in Michigan. He committed a school shooting. And there was a very similar story there. Ethan was known to be a troubled kid. He was known throughout the school as somebody who was at high risk of committing an act like this and actually on the day that he went through and committed that heinous act of violence. He was actually seen by the school and his parents were there for a meeting about some questionable images that Ethan was putting together that insinuated that he wanted to commit an act of violence. And the parents cut that meeting short, allowed Ethan to go back to school. And on that day, he committed murder. And those parents have now been charged for the very same thing, manslaughter, for playing a role in this happening. And you know what? I thought about this, and I'm obviously not a parent at this moment in my life. And I thought about what if I were in the position of being the parent of a child that ends up committing an act like this. And a lot of people want to say, well, the child is wholly separate from the parent. They have nothing to do with one another. You know, some parents can be fantastic parents and never see something like this happening. And I can understand that to a certain extent, but I just can't see with this many details how the parents were not extremely concerned for the safety of their child and for the safety of other children that may have been in the wake of whatever their child was going to do and how you could go even further than that. And gift your child a firearm is beyond me. And you know, we should prosecute parents for this, I think, to the fullest extent of the law. And maybe it will, you know, function as an example for other parents who have troubled children to really take seriously their child's mental health to really look after their children. If they are noticing problems in red flags, step in and do something about it, because now it is not only your child's life at stake, it is not only the lives of other children at the school that your child goes to, but it's your life at stake as well. And the fact that the parents weren't taking it seriously before this moment tells you just about everything you need to know about his upbringing. I'd like to know more. I like to know if he's ever been to therapy of any kind. A lot of people are bringing up the question of SSRIs, whether or not he was on anti-depressants of any kind. As we know, that's pretty standard for people who go on and commit these acts. But I'm, I've got to say happy that the father is, is having criminal charges brought against them. Now as far as the breaking news in this case surrounding the motivation, CNN has actually reported this says there was a discord account that was linked to the suspects shared plans for the mass shooting. And we're going to go down to this bottom paragraph here. It says the account referenced Adam Lanza. So apparently his discord username in this account was Lanza in Russian and clearly sort of links to the former school shooter of Sandy Hook Elementary School. And in separate posts shared a desire to target an elementary school and express frustration with the acceptance of trans people. So we don't know yet about this 14 year old's identity, whether or not he identified as trans, some things have been circulating about other online accounts that people speculated that he has that had pronouns in the bio. We do not know that for sure. So I don't want to openly confirm that on this channel. But now we know that he's had a discord account that expressed frustration over trans acceptance and directly link that to wanting to commit an act of violence, which again, deeply concerning. And you know, also posted this says law enforcement sources speaking to say CNN revealed this discord account says suspect was on the radar of the FBI over the alleged online threats last year. He was accused of killing four people at Appalachian high school says the American radical trans activist movement, Trentifa is filled with violent extremism, including popular messaging about killing people who don't accept trans ideology. And it seems as though a lot of his activity online was moving in with this extremist trans activist movement, which is strange. And obviously I'm going to make the link here. And it's a link that a lot of people are accusing others of being transphobes for making this link. There does seem to be, you know, a link between dealing with these mental health issues, taking on maybe a trans or non binary identity and committing an act of violence. And I want to be clear in my saying, not all trans people are violent extremists, not all trans people are going to commit a mass shooting like this or take the lives of students in their school. I want to make that abundantly clear. But we've had many cases now of people with this identity going through and committing active violence. I'm immediately reminded of the club Q shooting that took place. And I believe that was in Colorado. That was a non binary individual. The Nashville Covenant school shooting was committed by a trans identifying individual, the Joel Olstein shooting. This one's a little weird. We don't know if this person was trans or not, but this person had both female and male aliases that they were using at the time. So how and why is this link to me very clearly being made? Is it maybe that often people who commit acts of violence like this struggle with their mental health as do people who deal with gender dysphoria and just incongruence with their mind and their body and their identity? Could those things maybe lead to issues like this, especially the politicization of the identity itself, maybe lends more to this form of extremism. And of course, you mix in the fact that a lot of people who are struggling with gender dysphoria and depression and anxiety are also on SSRIs, which seems to be a link to this sort of violence as well. It's it's a recipe for disaster. And you know, a lot of people are sparking now the gun debate and saying, well, these sorts of guns shouldn't be available. How could even have access to this? And in in many cases, I think we can have that discussion and entertain the debate and no matter what, that debate's going to pop up anyways. But this is a 14 year old. It was illegal for him to have access to firearms in the first place at all. And still, this ended up happening. Now, I love that they're holding the parents accountable for this and saying, or at least the parents accountable for this and saying, you should have recognized the signs. Not only that, the FBI came to you directly and told you that there were signs that your child was going to commit this act of violence. And now you have to deal with the repercussions. I hope in every case, parents are investigated to the fullest extent possible to figure out what's going on here. But even more so than that, you would think that both the FBI and the school system that this kid was in were aware of what he was going through. Why were there not mental health interventions taken place? And if there were, why were they ineffective? That's what I would really want to know. Because a lot of times we see kids like this, we know that they are struggling through something, whatever the case may be. And we just hurl pharmaceuticals at them, pat them on the back and send them back out into a school where they are going to terrorize the students. And it's heartbreaking every single time that it happens. And every single time, almost, it feels like, as I said at the start of this, you're getting this act from a specific demographic of person. And very rarely are you hearing from the people who are in this person's community, or their parents, or law enforcement, that they had no idea this person would commit an act like this, that there was, they were never on any watch list. This came totally out of the blue. Almost never are we hearing that narrative. So what's happening? Is it sort of like the bystander effect where we think somebody is going to do something about it? And then it just never happens. Or we just don't have a system set up to properly deal with these people. Or is it that, you know, people maybe see a little bit of concern and go, he probably won't do anything. You know, it couldn't be us. It couldn't be this community. And then the news breaks and it does happen in this way. And four people lose their lives, I believe nine people are still in the hospital dealing with wounds and injuries that were accrued in this young man going into the school. And of course you have the traumatized students who go to this school, as well as students in the area. I believe it's also been reported that school got notice, multiple schools, I think five schools got notice that there was a threat or a warning of a school shooting happening. And all the students went to school. So maybe that happens often, I don't know, when schools get these threats and they have to just say, okay, well, it's another threat. What are we going to do? We can't do anything until something happens and they allow that to happen. But these threats need to be taken seriously. We'll say in the case of this school, there were student resource officers who were armed, who ended up responding to this quicker than the police could, which is a wonderful thing. And we do have certain politicians in our space saying that schools shouldn't have these student resource officers that we are policing our schools now. We're making them an anxious place for students because we have these student resource officers. But when things like this happen, student resource officers are good to have around, you know, and really that's it. That's what we have going on in this story. I will be very curious to see if there's any sort of manifesto or written letter from this 14 year old. He has apparently been in these online spaces discussing this for quite some time. And I think even alluded to the fact that he was going to plan this for for years and wanted to wait till he was of a certain age to go and commit this act. So there's got to be a lot written as to his motivation. And that should be released to the public. I know in the case of the Nashville shooting, they ultimately decided we're not going to release this manifesto to the public. Why? Because they don't trust you to handle that information. But we should know. I mean, it's just so ridiculous to me. How are you able to identify the warning signs in red flags in a kid who's going to do this? If you don't get the full scope of what their motivation is, what online spaces they're on, what they're talking about in these online spaces. And if we're going to come after parents for negligence in the raising of their kid, we should also inform parents on what to look out for when it comes to raising their child. And these things have to go hand in hand. You know what? If I come to be, you know, the parent of a child and just goodness forbid this child does something like this, I must have I must have failed somewhere. Something must have went wrong. I don't know how you could have somebody at 14 years old struggling like this and wanting to commit a violent act like this and having such hatred in themselves and, you know, wanting to protect that out into the world. And you don't notice as a parent, I feel like you have to just not be there for this to take place. So yeah, those are my thoughts on that. Taylor, I see you. You're just he's not. I mean, it's a lot to take in, right? The fact that the father was was contacted by the FBI that these issues were were brought to his attention is pretty unforgivable, like you said, and we asked you guys in the chat, should the father who bought his 14 year old son again, knowing he threatened to shooting be prosecuted and 78% of you are saying, yes. And it seems to be, you know, the the obvious response here. And what more is there to say, I will say it is interesting that it seems like we're learning a lot about this shooter within the first 24 48 hours, which is more than can be said about like the Vegas shooter, Stephen Patek, or the Trump shooter, by the way, which I think we're still trying to figure out what might have been his motivation. And it is really frustrating how little information we tend to get with these. The fact that these discord revelations were made about the threats that this shooter allegedly made on discord or a school shooting have come out already as has information that his father had given a year ago about him being bullied for being gay, as his father suggested and things like that. So we're getting the contours of some potential, you know, motivations. And like you said, before the there's never you can never really reduce this to one thing. It's like, oh, he's trans therefore he's violent. Like, no, that's not a plausible, you know, it's not it's not an accurate depiction. There's always like, when you talk about the pie chart, there's mental health issues, there's aggression, there's his home life, there's potentially SSR eyes, there's bullying, there's lacks access to guns, there's all sorts of issues that were involved in this case. And I think it's it's always tempting to jump to one and then make that the whole story when it it does, you know, it does behoove us to be nuanced when it comes to our response and analysis of these things, even when emotions are running high. Yeah, 100%. There's so much going on. And I've like, I try to transport myself back into the mind of like my 14 year old self and to think about like, what my life was like, what was I focused on at that time? And I feel like I don't know. I, when I was 14, it was just like everything was just getting introduced as far as the internet and like all these different spaces that you could be in the random people you could be talking to, all these different influences were just getting ushered into my mind. And this kid seemingly grew up in that space and just there's so many different touch points for bad ideology. And you mix that with a broken family life and clear mental health problems. I don't think you can commit an act like this without having mental health problems. We are living in a society right now that is just like the perfect space to create more people like this and to create just more broken lives and more issues like this. And when students say they're like scared to go to school because stuff like this could happen at any moment, I mean, it's valid. It's a little value, you know, even if it happens rarely in comparison to other things, you know, you just, you don't want to be the one you don't want to be the school that ends up dealing with it. And when you see the mental health crisis that our nation is currently in the throes of, it's hard to say, you know, there's not going to be something else like this. And we need to start really prioritizing, reaching out, having discussions about mental health, giving kids resources and places to go, if they are struggling, as many of them are not getting support at home. And yeah, it's just a tough, a tough day for, for all involved and especially those that have lost their lives. I can imagine the devastation of getting news like that. And everybody's spoken so highly of these students and the teachers and spoke about how wonderful they are. And yeah, it's just very, very tough to deal with. We are going to move on to hopefully a little bit of lighter news to bring us back a little bit. Today, we're going to be talking about Britney Mahomes. And if you don't know who Britney Mahomes is, she is Pat Mahomes wife, Pat Mahomes is the QB of the Kansas City Chiefs. And they've had a great time. Obviously, recently, they won the Super Bowl, believe they just won their last game, according to Taylor, because I know nothing about sports. Thank you, Taylor. And Britney has been making her way into the news because, Oh my goodness, she might be a Trump supporter. Isn't that so crazy? That yeah, the darling, the football wife, the quarterbacks wife could be a Trump supporter. Crazy, crazy, crazy. We all gasp in unison. Now, how did people find this out? Because Britney has not been, you know, too forward about her politics through social media. They've been scanning her, her Instagram likes. And of course, if you follow somebody on Instagram, and they like a certain post, when you're looking at the Instagram likes, it will tell you, you know, Britney liked this particular post. And people found this, they found the real Donald Trump's 2024 GOP platform, make America great again, where he details the different things he wants to do in his next presidential term, things like sealing the border, or ending inflation, or making America the dominant energy source, all these different things. And of course, right down here, you can see that it is liked by Britney Lynn. Oh my gosh, the horror, the terror. Now, people started sharing this all over the internet and saying, Oh my gosh, how dare you Britney? I can't believe you support Donald Trump. You know, I, I used to love the NFL and Pat, but now that I know you support Donald Trump, I can't support you guys anymore. Or I love Taylor Swift. And I know you hang out with Taylor Swift and how dare you hang out with, with somebody who doesn't support Donald Trump when you know that you want to make America great again, and blah, blah, blah, blah, she was getting blasted online. And she responded and posted this on her story. She says I mean, honestly, to be a hater as an adult, you have to have some deep rooted issues, you refuse to heal from childhood. There's no reason your brain is fully developed. And you hate to see others doing well. Now, she also states that this is not how she maybe previously would have dealt with the hate that she's receiving on the internet that in the past, she would have come forward and allowed the hate to get to her a little bit and given into the people on social media who are coming after her. And actually the person who helped her, you know, not cower to them is her husband, Pat. And we'll watch this video where she details that. Yeah, I think we kind of got thrown into the fire together. And I think that's what's helped us, you know, do so well in the life that we are, is that we did it all together. And so, and he is a lot better at it than I am, maybe because his dad played professional sports. So I think he was around it and he understood it a lot more than I did. So having him to help me get through it has helped a lot because he's very good at, you know, managing those things and blocking people out and doing all that doing all that type of stuff. So having him beside me kind of guiding me coaching me through it has helped a ton. And I think that's kind of how we've gotten to where we're at now. What's been like a piece of advice that's helped you manage all of it? I think the main thing that, you know, he always told me is like stop caring about what people think, especially the people that don't even know you. And so I think social media used to get to me a lot. And now it's just like, honestly, I don't give up F U C K what people have to say about me anymore. And I think he's helped me get to that point to where, you know, I'm strong in who I am. I'm confident in who I am. I'm confident and mine in his relationship. And I'm confident in our life. So why does, you know, what other people say have to matter at all? Whoa. And that's the answer. Once you realize like the people who are screaming at you on social media, it's like, it's real, but it's not real. You know what I mean? It exists in the social media space. And it doesn't really exist outside of that. And you take your power back for lack of a better phrasing and realize that you can still be who you are. You can still do what you want to do. You can liken Instagram post from a presidential nominee who 50% of the country also supports. And you don't have to care that people are coming after you and hating on you for liking it or for expressing your views in that way. And she's been subtly going through and sort of liking comments of people saying, you know, don't back down, Brittany, you're allowed to have different opinions. You don't have to, you know, be part of the hive mind mentality that so many have within celebrity and within this space of like media and entertainment and sports. And of course, people are bringing up the whole Harrison Butker situation. If you guys don't remember Harrison Butker's the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs. He went to a comment and did a commencement speech at a college and was talking about how he has Catholic beliefs and talking about his wife and his marriage and how her life began when they got married and yada yada yada. And all these leftists came after him saying, how dare you have this mindset? How dare you express conservative beliefs? And he, you know, stuck to it. And you know, we may disagree on some things. He's highly religious. I'm not, but I'm glad that he's able to stand by his opinions and say, you know what, you don't have to vibe with what I'm saying. I vibe with what I'm saying. My family does. And that's the way I'm going to live. And clearly, that's what Brittany is taking with her on this whole journey of being outed as a MAGA Republican, even though all she did was like a post. And you know, who's also supporting Brittany, Donald Trump, of course, had to hop in and say his piece on this. He said, I wanted to thank the beautiful Brittany Mahomes for so strongly defending me and the fact that MAGA is the greatest and most powerful political movement in the history of our now failing country with crime and illegal immigration totally out of control, inflation, ravaging all Americans and a world that is laughing at the stupidity of our hapless leaders. It is nice to see someone who loves our country and wants to save it from doom. What a great couple. See you both at the Super Bowl, Donald Trump, truth, social. So there you go. He's, he's back in her as well over this, uh, this Instagram like. And you know what, to me, this is, if you're hating on Brittany Mahomes, this is chronically online behavior. Trust her life goes on. Your life goes on. She votes for who she's going to vote for. You vote for who you're going to vote for. And guess what? One day, I want all celebrities, you know, just to be brave enough to talk about their, uh, their beliefs and values, because there does seem to be this general environment within Hollywood of if you are on X side, just don't say it out loud. And we all know what side that is. So this is a side of conservatism. If you are conservative, you're allowed to be that with Hollywood so long as you hide that about yourself and you're not too vocal about it. And if you are vocal about it, you end up pigeonholing yourself and your career into the conservative space because Hollywood really no longer allows you to work with people who disagree with you anymore. And that's such a shit thing to have to deal with as a celebrity, but you can't be forward and open about the values that you express, especially in an industry, which tries to shove values and their own agenda down your throat at any given moment. And I wish just conservative celebrities, which there are many of them. And for leftists listening right now who don't want to support conservative celebrities guarantee you are, you just don't know that you are. I wish they would just come forward and just like lift the veil a little bit and say, you know what? Yeah, I'm also going to be voting for Donald Trump or I also support this conservative idea because people would be shocked and horrified on the left to know the celebrities that they love that actually have conservative beliefs and values and they're living with them every single day, but hiding them when they go to work. And you know, just a few, just like a few big ones, a few a-listers, please, please grant me the happiness of letting these people know what you truly believe and the fact that you've believed it this entire time while they've been supporting you. So it's ridiculous that she's getting all this hate for liking a Trump, a Trump post. And there's so many others who support Donald Trump and who are in her space. And now people are reporting, of course, because Taylor Swift is being covered in all the Kansas City chief games because she's going there to support Travis and people are posting things like this. Taylor Swift sits separate from Brittany Mahomes at Chiefs game amid Trump support controversy. So I guess maybe this is calculated and she doesn't want us to be seen with Brittany in this moment of PR crisis. And we know Taylor Swift is very calculated in that regard when it comes to her public facing career. But there are also reports from sources saying that they still hang out together after the games. And I hope that it's just, you know, people blowing it out of proportion and that you're not actively doing this whole thing where you don't sit with her publicly but you hang out with her in private because she liked a post from Donald Trump because that would be just so garbo if that is the way you are trading your friends in the midst of a PR crisis. I wonder if she did the same with Blake Lively when she was in all that it ends with us controversy. Just, just Blake, stay away with, stay away from me from a few weeks. You can still, you know, come hang out at the pad after work when there's, when there's no paparazzi to see us together. But yeah, hopefully people are blowing this out of proportion. And you know what, kudos to Brittany, go Brittany for standing up for herself and saying, you know what, yeah, you guys can hate on me if you want. At some point, you kind of have to rip the band it off. Like how much do you want to continue to hide the things that you believe? And for how long is it like fruitful to have to hide that part of yourself just to maintain status or to maintain this sort of likability within the public space? At some point, you'll realize that it's really not worth much. And that the social media hate that you'll get on the other end of being yourself and supporting what you support is really nothing. It's just like whispers floating around from people who you do not have to worry about and will have little to no impact on your career, on your life, and especially on her marriage to Pat. So good for her. Yeah, I just don't know. We'll see if she comes forward and says anything else. There was no like big endorsement. When you saw this story, and I saw people being like hating on her, I thought maybe there was going to be like this huge thing where she like made a post of Donald Trump and said like, I support this man for president and you should too. And so does Pat and so does the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, Taylor, you're muted. Sorry, Trump kind of jumped the gun, I thought, when he went off with his post, I was like, I would like to thank Brittany Mahomes for her strong support. When all she did was like like a post, I wouldn't necessarily I'm then like double down on her expressing her own opinions, but not necessarily like, I endorsed Donald Trump for president and anyone who doesn't like him is a loser. Like there wasn't that level of support. So I guess it's fine for him to claim that though. Yeah, I got you if you're smart, then you'll jump on it. And that's exactly what he did. You know, it gives you a little bit of extra publicity. It ties you in with the story and makes things go off for you a bit. So I think it was a smart move on his part to to sort of link himself in there and be a part of the discussion that was taking place. We'll see. Are they gonna get photos of like Brittany and in Pat at Mar-a-Lago and together with Donald Trump? I don't think anybody's gonna go that far. That seems to be something you probably don't want to do. I want to show you this next story. However, my laptop is choosing not to work right now, but we're gonna talk about the Minecraft movie that is coming out. It's titled, I think, just straight up a Minecraft movie. So this is coming out. It's starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black. There's a couple other faces in it. And of course, the big controversy, I guess it's becoming a race thing that a Black woman is in this Minecraft movie. I believe her name is Dan Yella. If you watched Orange is the New Black, she was a character in Orange is the New Black. She's also been on Broadway in The Color Purple, which she is fantastic. She's a good singer. She's a great actress. She's a good dancer. So I was fine with seeing this. I have to preface this with saying I am not a huge Minecraft fan. I don't know much about Minecraft at all. I've never played the game. I've never been in the Minecraft world. What I do know about Minecraft is I guess it started out being for an older age demographic than young children. And now it's known that like young kids play Minecraft. I know like my younger half siblings are like, we love Minecraft. And like they'll sit and play for hours. And if you ask any kid, like what video game are you playing, they're going to say I'm playing Fortnite or I'm playing Minecraft. And they're coming out with a movie. And it stars Jack Black, which Jack Black is just like the guy for these movies now. He is the one where if you're making something for kids, he's probably going to be in it. And I guess it's because when he did the, what is it? The Super Mario's film, Super Mario Brothers or something like that. He was doing that whole peaches song. The peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches. And that thing went so viral. I can't tell you the amount of children that I saw on TikTok that were screaming that song. It was like a number one streamed among young children and all this different stuff. So maybe that's why they went in this direction with him for Minecraft. But people, I guess are pissed about it. They don't want to see Jack Black and they're watching this trailer and thinking like this movie is for kids. This is for little kids. I don't want to watch this. This is not for me whatsoever. I'll show you a little clip from from this movie. And hopefully you can see what I'm talking about here if this is going to work. Here is Jack Black showing up. Who are you? Who are you? I am Steve. And I guess it's like this Minecraft Steve character who is like the main guy in Minecraft. I'm sorry guys. I really don't play this video game. So people are like, what the hell? Why is Jack Black in this? Also Jason Momoa's character has like this weird look to him. And I don't know what's going on there because this is sort of like what they're trying to emulate. This is what Jason Momoa normally looks like. But he's taking on like this zany weird sort of character thing that they're doing for it. And a lot of people, I think the main point of criticism is that this movie just looks like it's made for children, which spoiler alert, I think it is actually made for children. So I think this is made for a much younger demographic than anybody who is going to be watching this in adulthood. Of course, you have your like woke movie watchers like critical drinker. He's talking about this on X and saying if modern entertainment was a single image, and here are your Minecraft main characters. And of course, yet she's been a big point of contention here. Now again, I don't know the Minecraft characters or if there is like a wide swath of Minecraft characters. I know the Minecraft Steve thing and that's Jack Black. And then you have these all strange characters. So I don't know if they're made up and they just got to insert their own people into this. Or if they're actually a part of like Minecraft lore or not, which you guys will have to let me know about that in the comments. Nick Fuentes ended up posting about this. And here is his tweet. Are you effing kidding me with a picture of her, this black character? A lot of people seem to be remarking on that. They think this is somewhat of a DEI hire that Minecraft has been co-opted by the woke left. And that is why she is casted in this. And again, guys, I don't know. I don't know if they made these characters up. I don't know if they're part of it. I don't know if they've re-swapped one of your weird Minecraft characters or something like that. And this is totally flies in the face of Minecraft lore. I won't be surprised if there is some woke messaging woven into the story. And it's made for kids. And then, you know, kids get a little, get little nods to leftist ideology in the story. But so far, I have no evidence of it. Other than people seem to be upset that she has been casted in this role. And I think it's just a little bit of a, it's an e-jerk reaction because we know typically how these movies go. We know that if they're going to create something that a lot of people have like a beloved attachment to, they're typically going to pretty much mess it up. But the fact that this is just made for kids and it seems like it is fully for their demographic. I don't know that adults are ever going to be satisfied with what comes out as a Minecraft movie. Now, they're making their dislike of this very clear in the YouTube dislikes. Here you can see there's over 899,000 dislikes on this trailer so far. A little bit of a battle though. There's half a million likes on it. But this seems to be the case with these movies that are being made. And I guess adapted these days that if you miss the mark, people are going to let you know that you have missed the mark and they are going to flood you with dislikes. They're going to flood you with comments. The amount of movie trailers that I've seen come out recently where they're like, we have to just turn the comments off. Just turn the comments off because the top comment will be one criticizing like how bad the movie looks and it will have more likes than the actual video itself. And Minecraft is another one of those things. The video game space has been wokified for quite some time. So I am just curious to see if they do the same with this Minecraft movie. Taylor, have you ever even played Minecraft? I've not. My nephews play it or at least they used to. And from what I can tell, it seems like a pretty cool concept. You can be creative and mine for materials and then build cool stuff, mine and craft. But yeah, the movie, I'm like, who is this for? I can understand and sympathize with. Okay, we're making it for kids. But I'm just skeptical because I think about video game adaptations in recent years. And a lot of times what they do is they take this IP and then make and what adds their adapting it, they don't make it for the core audience just to delight them. They have to jam in their own messaging and their own creativity and things like that. I feel like we really saw that with my favorite halo franchise. And I do not like the show that they made because I just felt like I didn't feel like didn't feel like the game didn't feel true to the original. And you know, maybe kids will be more forgiving if you throw a lot of bright colors and stuff at them. I also watched a few minutes of this Minecraft influencer reacting to the trailer. And he was kind of saying, this isn't really Minecrafty. It's like this colorful world. But you know, the the sheep are furry and things aren't really like that the visuals don't really look like what I was expecting and didn't seem like they were trying to put in cameos of OG Minecraft influencers or anything like that. And that probably would delight kids. So who knows, I guess it's the director of Napoleon Dynamite, which is a classic for millennials like me. I did love that. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, this movie's not for me. And apparently it's not for any of you guys either. I asked you in the chat, does this Minecraft movie appeal to you? And 91% are saying no. And 9% are saying yes. So I just don't know who this is for. I think the YouTube bombing of the dislikes maybe reflects that a little bit. But who knows, maybe it comes out and the kids love it and it becomes a sensation. But I'm skeptical at this point. Yeah, I feel like kids, kids like just about anything that has to do with something they love. So I don't think kids are like quick to criticize the accuracy of something. So this probably will be pretty big among the kiddos that watch this. But I could see as an adult just being frustrated because I guess Minecraft has a pretty large, you know, many demographics of people play Minecraft of all different ages, all different backgrounds. So I could see that this this trailer does seem tailored towards a certain demographic and may or may not have some of those more like woke diversity, equity and inclusion elements in the storytelling. And that's going to turn off a lot of adults. And it sucks to see like so many of these very, very high budget films being turned out. And they're so subpar quality, not even just in the messaging, but just like in the animation and the things that you're seeing. Like, how is it that you put $200 million into this? And I'm seeing like, I'm seeing a real bad animation. Like, I felt that with watching The Little Mermaid, you're like, millions of dollars went into this live action remake of The Little Mermaid. And I don't see any of it. I feel like there are some YouTube creators who do animation that could do a better job at recreating some of the things that you put in this film. And that seems to just fall short. Same thing with Star Wars, the acolyte, millions of dollars funneled into every single episode of the show. And you're looking at it and going, this doesn't mean it looks okay. Spacefire is expensive on that space fire is expensive. Yeah, millions of dollars worth of space fires. I am I am a little hung up on the Jack Black aspect of this. Like, you saw this, you showed the side by side of the character that he's allegedly portraying, and then the way he looks in the movie. And it's like, maybe there's a little bit of resemblance there. You could show it if you want to. But it's like, you could have had him shave, you could have colored his hair. Like, it looks like he literally rolled out of bed and went to the film studio and I'm like, all right, we're going to shoot the Minecraft movie. I guess if you're casting Jack Black in something, you're getting Jack Black, you know, like he's basically his same humor itself, which I kind of love. Like, I love School of Rock. I thought he was good in Gulliver's Travels, which is another movie where he's kind of inserted into a crazy fantasy world. But yeah, it was like, I don't know, there's something about it that's like, if you're going to put me immersively into this other world, but then it's just like, lop Jack Black right there, something about it just didn't hit. I feel like that is so Jack Black. Jack Black plays Jack Black like in everything that he does for the most part. So yeah, I think you're right. And like, when you're getting him, you know what you're getting. And I really do think they're just piggy backing off of the popularity of that Peach's song. I can't tell you like how many kids were screaming that song like in the car, leaving the movie theater for ages, just the amount of time I heard peaches. Oh, goodness. And then he went and did all the performances and was singing it live and all the kids are watching stuff like that. I think they just want. I've never heard of this song. Really? Yeah, no, it made a splash among the little ones. I really think they're just piggy backing on the success of that guys. We're going to get into your super chats on today's topics and hear from you. I've been seeing you guys chatting down below. Oh, yeah. Lots of lots of opinions in the chat today and see if they're any good. Timothy W is our first one today who says do either of y'all watch any electoral map prediction videos for the 2024 election by election time spoiler alert. They lean more towards Trump. No, I see stuff on Twitter and passing. I don't like take time to watch videos. But I did see something came out this week that like back in July, it was pretty close like 52% in favor of Trump for the electoral college. And now it's like 60. So it's kind of grown despite the DNC and all of the Kamala sycophantry that we've seen in recent weeks. But yeah, I don't trust polls much anymore one way or another. I don't care who they support after 2016, 2020. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, just keeps scrolling on that one. You really do. Sorry, guys. Yeah. Duck guy says, I smell extremism and that boy or girl or whatever they are is an extremist. Yeah, I mean, I think by definition of being a school shooter, you have to be an extremist of some sort, you know, to what extent and for what cause who knows, but I just can't imagine like, being a 14 year old who is consumed with the idea of committing an act like this is just so strange, so very strange. And you just have to, I don't know, in my mind, maybe I'm wrong, but you have to be neglected to be developing these thoughts and to be in a space to go through this to the fullest extent, you know. Yeah, man, 14. I mean, how much of like a actual ideologue can you be at that age, but at the same time, you're like capacity for, you know, rational thinking and your brain's not fully developed or anything either. So you can also be very extreme under extreme psychological distress. And that's already, you know, a volatile time in developmentally and adolescence lives. So you add to that, like he's got family trauma, it's got, you know, I guess his mom had had left with his two siblings and he was left in the care of his dad and she had issues with substance abuse and gender identity issues or whatever, like there's a lot going on being bullied. And I mean, it's, it's an extreme case, but it's, you can imagine how all that would attribute to it. So I guess, yeah, that does make one an extremist, even though it's crazy to say that about a 14 year old. Lamar says not taking away from what you're saying, but I can't believe it. You're real and not AI. That's crazy. But you have my full support now. PS love your videos. You can't believe that I'm real and not AI. Hi, Sean. I hope that I don't come off as being AI in any way, shape or form. I'd be very concerned if any of you thought that I come off as being AI with all the mistakes I make when speaking, there's no way. There's no way unless we're getting really far-entuned, that Turing test. Someone, someone put in a search for Margaret Thatcher on Google and it brought back a picture of you. Oh, good one. Sorry. A little bit of a stretch to joke about the founding fathers, how if you search for them on Google, then you get black people. Yeah. Anyways, in case you guys missed it. Google AI. Better move on. Cameron Campbell says this is why communication is key when you stop talking about this hard controversial topics like gender violence happens. We also need to talk more about mental health and treatment and parenting. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, I'm like wondering, like, what are some substantive things you can do at a school to make sure that this is like addressed? And I don't know. There just should just be like resource postings for kids and maybe there's just a discussion at some point during the school year, like if you're struggling, you need help, you know. Here, we have resources set up for you to reach out. I don't think there's enough, there's all this like ideology that's now being injected in schools and not enough actual support for for children. I mean, schools are places for education. Yes. But come on, if you see a kid slipping through the cracks, there's got to be something that can be done. And instead, we're just focusing on things that really do not matter when it comes to having conversations with with children. If there's one thing that like schools are going to focus on outside of just baseline teaching kids, well, they need to be taught. It's making sure that like kids are supported and not in like the, I want to support your identity or I want to support your transition. Right. Just like, do you have somebody to speak to? Do you have, you know, a healthy balance going on at home? And if not, what can be done about that? Can we point you in the direction for something to be done? Here here. See, Brian Kuhn says love you watching your stuff. Keep at it. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you, Brian. Sheila Pugh says families are under attack. Parents aren't allowed to parent and our children are being indoctrinated and sexualized from such a young age. Yeah, I'm wondering if this is if this does end up being like a trans thing. We're like, he's interested in this as like an appointment of activism. Where did you hear about that? When did that become a thing? Through that, I will say, I mean, in this case, in particular, the parent in question, I mean, is duly being prosecuted because he was allowed to parent, but failed in doing that by purchasing a firearm for his 14 year old son who had, or he knew, had made threats and expressed a desire to conduct a shooting like this. So you're getting it, in this case, from both those external sources and your own parent is basically failing you in this regard. And that's why I think it's totally justified that he's being prosecuted. And it does, like you were mentioning before, it seems like a total failure obviously on the part of the parent, but also on the part of the FBI and whatever other like, you know, you don't want to blame like the guidance counselors at school because in one sense, how could they know? But also like, man, something didn't get through to this kid and the first line is definitely with the parent. Second line is the FBI who received a tip about this, but also like, what else, what else could have been done? And you know, you hate asking that after the fact. Yeah, I just can't imagine like being a parent and being like, this is what my 14 year old needs as a gift. This is what I'm going to buy my 14 year olds. I mean, they're not even a lot to have. It's just crazy, crazy, wild. FYT says the age of gun ownership globally is startling to me in Australia. We do have young people who can use guns at 11 and 12. However, they have a minor license, our full license is granted at 18. And isn't like they can only be used for like, certain purposes in Australia. You guys have to fill me in. I my boyfriend, I know that, you know, supervised hunting, like, if you're participating in like, you know, target shooting sports or things like that. But again, pretty much every like, you know, stipulation that you could think of that would try to, you know, accommodate different situation or account for, you know, abusive situations is already written into regulations and laws. So far as I know, but at that point, you're getting into minutiae and we'd probably need like an expert on gun laws to get on this. Elizabeth Ramsey just sends a super chat. No message. Thank you, Elizabeth. I'm going to refresh here. David Don says these lefties are a hot mess. Kamala is parroting many of Trump's policies, calling them original and being applauded. But Trump is still demonized. Yeah, I've been seeing her. They've been using like images of Trump's wall for like her policies, prescriptions, and then she of course is doing the no tax on tips thing, which was Trump's thing. So yeah, she's piggybacking a little bit. And we'll see how that plays out. We'll see how that plays out in the debate. I think CNN this week surprised and finally kind of called her out on that. There was a clip going around of them being like, didn't she just steal all these policies? Did she previously advertise against them and speak out against the border wall? And now she's saying it's part of her platform. I mean, it's so in your face. It's like, is this is this fiction? Like, how can she expect to get to wait away with something like this? Yep. Cloud managed. Yep. Timothy W says, if Kamala wins, she'll paint the White House and rename it the Black House. Tell me I'm wrong. Oh my gosh. You know, that wouldn't be the most shocking news ever. But yeah, wouldn't wouldn't be that crazy, to be honest. Yeah. Triple Z says majority of gun owners follow the law to the T than most people because of how serious responsibility it is to own a gun. Criminals will commit crimes and access guns illegally ignoring the law. Yeah, that does seem to be the case. I mean, I'm open to hearing arguments about people saying if these things were banned altogether, then there would be no access in the first place. But I just can't imagine that like, a kid like this or somebody who wants to commit an act like this is not going to find a way to do it, you know? Yeah. And even so, I mean, you have to weigh like whatever marginal increased chance there is of something like this happening with guns against the, you know, the whole purpose of the Second Amendment. And, you know, we look at the UK and people getting arrested for social media posts and crazy stuff like that. And, you know, the Second Amendment is the bulwark against tyranny. And there is, if that means accepting some marginal higher risk of bad things happening because of gun ownership, like we do everything we can around that. But at what point are you going to fully give up your right to bear arms and sacrifice that on the altar of, you know, whatever marginal x amount of more safety. It's a tough question and obviously a contentious one. Of course, yeah. And then I'm like, this weapon has been available for decades. And like this, this has not been happening. So like, what is happening within our society that this is on the up and up and these things like this continue to occur when we they've there's been plenty of opportunity before for it to happen and it hasn't. It's very interesting. Yes. I can talk about before with the pie chart, like short of Spencer with the Second Amendment, there are plenty of other areas in which we are not doing everything that we can that maybe we can do everything that we can. So we should all agree that we can exhaust those without political contention first. And then, you know, we can still debate the remaining, but we should at least, you know, get to. And I think that's that's sensible and most people agree with that. But for whatever reason, that's usually not how the debate turns out. Yeah, it's true. So my dude says, I get why you get sent why you censored the stream title, but it looks like a completely different word. I thought maybe it was an anti trans school defecator. It does kind of look like that doesn't it. That did occur to me, but I figured you guys can figure it out. Do you guys are smart enough? It does. We just don't know what's going to happen. Sometimes YouTube sort of shadow bands, certain words and things. So try to err on the side of caution. Anything we can do to dodge that algorithm, which looks like Claudia showed up today. So it seems like we did OK. Yeah. Chris Reed says, what will happen to Donald Trump if he raises the age to buy bullets or magazines? Three people he cannot mess with the NRA, the gay community, and immigrants, they will get him out of the office. I mean, I don't know. We'll see. I'm open to hearing arguments about all these different things. I know the NRA is super powerful still, but I'm like, I haven't heard much about the NRA in quite some time, to be honest. But of course, there's still lurking back there doing their doing their thing. They are people of influence. Yeah. And to that point, I'm like, you've heard me broadly, I'm in support of Second Amendment, but I'm sure the NRA does some shady stuff that overreaches in certain ways. And they'd be first to criticize alongside you if that's the case. It's hard to be just try to be nuanced and consistent in good faith. But we, well, we try. But also like raising the age to buy bullets and magazines. I can, I'm open to that argument, but that also wouldn't have affected things in this case, because it was a father who provided the gun and was an ammunition. So right. I think like going after the father is one of the best things you could possibly do, one of the best things you can possibly do. Because if you think about like, okay, what are the people who are, I guess, stepping stones in something like this happening? Parents are number one 100%. Who's with the kid most of the time? Well, in today's teenage parents aren't with their kids most of the time, which is just crazy, a whole different discussion. But you're, you are, you know, line one of defense on this, then you have like the school and administrators. And I do think like if if the school was aware of this, or they have like any sort of information about prior investigations into this kid, and he was not kept away from the school, somebody needs to be held accountable there as well. But going after the parents is one of the best thing you can do, because not only is it, you know, pointing out punishment where it needs to happen, but it does set an example for other parents that you cannot just bring a child into this world, neglect the child, or even go further than that, allow your child and, and give your child the weapon with which to carry out, and attack like this, a percent. This is a tough neoversary reactions gameplay says finally caught your live. I was a Democrat and voted for Biden, but now I realize I was so lied to. Thank you so much for your content. It taught me so much. Oh, thank you so much. That's so awesome. So, that is so sweet. I always love to hear from people who are on that whole journey and on that track. So that's awesome. I'm glad we could help. Yeah, glad you're here. Sorry if I pronounced your name wrong. Keltic Blacksmith says just lurking today because I'm not my normal jester self, but my power might go out due to storms. So, I want to wish Analah's Gamp Gamp good health this weekend. Thank you. Yeah. And she updates, she is doing better. There were so many times, there's multiple times where this woman fought off death in this whole process. And it does seem like now she's in a rehabilitative stage. So, fingers crossed, not out of the woods yet. But yeah, what a scary time. I can't imagine. And my grandmother, so strong, she has gone through being in the hospital for weeks now at this point. Like hospice conversations, multiple times, all these different things, not a single tier, not a single tier. She's dealt with it like with such strength. It's insane, insane. Wow. Yeah. Well, we're glad for the update. Yes. What a strong lady. Keltic again says, good health starting this weekend forever for life. Oh, it's continuing. I want to almost gram a good health this weekend, good health starting this weekend forever for life. You know what I mean? I'm just going through it. Y'all, my head's not working right. Oh, if you're, if you're doing all right, Keltic. We get you. Thank you. Ray Padsip says 40 years old here. I'm hyped for the Minecraft movie. It feels like it's going to be a surprising fun blast like like Lego movie. Oh, good. I'm glad I'm glad that you're looking out and you think it's going to be a good thing. And hopefully it is something fun and entertaining. Barbara Boydunt says, what do you think of the rumor that Taylor and Travis's relationship is fake? Okay. You sound Taylor can confirm this. You open the can. I did open the can of worms. Taylor can confirm this. From the outset, I have believed that this relationship is PR. I don't know. It's not really been confirmed yet. These have been like minor stories that have been popping up and sinuating that this is a PR relationship. But from the moment I heard these two are dating, I was like, this is not real. This makes perfect sense for like the NFL to put together something like this for Taylor Swift's management team to put together something like this. Travis claimed that he went to a Taylor Swift concert and made her a friendship bracelet. And that's like how he wanted to meet her because if you guys know Swifties go to the Taylor Swift concerts and they trade around bracelets all night during the concert. So Travis Kelsey. Okay. This guy on the Kansas City Chiefs made a friendship bracelet and went to a Taylor Swift concert and wanted to give it to her. Give me a break. Give me the biggest break of all time. It's going to be a big break. He did not do that. He didn't do it. And I don't believe it. And it exactly sounds like what somebody would put together in a PR package when trying to pitch a couple. So A, they either met naturally and not under the circumstances that he's now fabricated to tell like the story of them becoming couple or they're a PR couple, which we all know Hollywood puts together PR couples all the time. It is one of like the best strategies to like rise to prominence and get your name out there and start circulating and have people talking about you more. And they're very strategic in creating couples. So my theory is that they've always been a PR couple, but it's not been confirmed yet, even though there are stories saying that they are. I don't know, man. That seems like a lot of gymnastics to me to hook something up. But maybe that is how the world works. You know, I used to work for an agency in Hollywood before I started for PragerU. And there were people who like worked with very prominent influencers and were in the business of making influencers out of people and like generating stories and, you know, followers and just very, very shady ways. I can't name name. I guess I could, but I'm not going to just in case. Yeah, man. There are people who have achieved high levels of fame through total manipulation and BS means and I can say that that's for sure. You have to think about it. Like there are there are ladder climbers everywhere. There are like women who go to football games and basketball games specifically to like seek out these relationships and create this sort of like strategic couple thing like that. Why would you not form that into like a business and have a PR company that does that for celebrities or like have management that does that for celebrities? It makes perfect sense. As a celebrity, you're dating another attractive person. You're set up with them for just a little bit and then you can go on about your business and then your fame has increased, your money has increased, everything like secure the bag for this fake relationship. And maybe you might even end up like liking them. Maybe you guys are compatible. But if you do not think there is a business in creating celebrity couples, I have something to tell you. Sit down. You need to make the investigative documentary that exposes all of this stuff. I really do. Bombshell. I'm just like, man, this is all too much for me. I'm getting tooled for this. I'm just going to go read a book and pet my cat and crawl into a rock under a rock. Elena Richardson just sends a super chat. No message. Thank you. Elena Luke Eckblod sends a super chat with a high five emoji. Appreciate it. Thank you, Luke. Anisha says, does anyone remember the AC movie from 2016 or was I the only one that was a little traumatized? I have no faith in filmmakers anymore. AC movie. Oh, Assassin's Creed. No, I never watched that. Is that Jake Gyllenha? No, he was in Prince of Persia. I get those. Michael Fassbender. Oh, wow. He was in that. I never watched it. They've got a lot of pretty big names in this. Oh, no, I never watched it. What's the rating on IMDB or whatever? Let's check. I see Google says 64% people liked this movie. Let's see. IMDB has a 5.6 out of 10. Okay. Probably middle of the road. You got it. I keep seeing the, you know, the Rotten Tomatoes. You got to go with the audience reviews and not the critics because they'll review it high. But I feel like IMDB is a good proxy at least after several years. You get a pretty honest assessment from the masses. But no, yeah, didn't see that one. Well, as cool, I said, sometimes it escapes me how some people's lives are totally not normal. We're all capable of extremism, but actually doing it is scary. Hashtag-based causing. Yeah, I mean, yeah, 100% actually doing it would be pretty pretty damn scary. I can't even imagine. You just feel like when you hear all these stories and so many of them sound so similar, like him and like the Ethan kid, even similar up to the parents gifting you the weapon that you utilize at the school shooting, it's like there seems to be a specific recipe for this type of person. So why are we not focusing on the ingredients and trying to like figure out how to overcome these problems? Instead, we're like focusing on the outcome and saying like how can we guard these people off from being able to commit the outcome, which is a valid question and something we should be asking ourselves. But why are we not like figuring out the recipe to the outcome and stopping them prior? The FBI dropped the ball here, which again, it's like, what are you supposed to do? He made some threats online. He's talking about it on the score. The FBI picks it up. They come in visit the house. The dad says he doesn't have access to firearms. You leave and then this happens. I don't know how much more you can do. Maybe these houses need to be marked as like, I don't even even even that seems like kind of second amendment questionable of like if your kid is saying this stuff online, maybe your whole household is not allowed to have firearms. But it's like, okay, can you can you borrow off a law abiding citizen because their child is showing signs of possibly not being a law abiding citizen? I don't know. I don't have the answers. Luckily, I don't work in the field of creating answers to these things. Uh, Elena Richardson says you've you're some of my favorite creators, but I got to use my first chat to bully. Amala, you always say whether or not, and then add or not again. I say whether or not or not. I don't understand. Maybe not all in one. Whether or not you do blah, blah, blah, then maybe like, or not something else. Okay. I don't know. I'll have to catch myself saying it. You guys, I used to, what did I used to do on this channel? Time and time again. I used to say of which in the wrong context. And you guys called me out for that. And I have to think about whether or not we're not. Yeah. Wow. Mess mess with my brain. Well, catch it now that I now that I have a note of it. Whether or not there's something wrong with that or not? Is that what I do? Whether or not there's something wrong with that or not? Maybe that's what I'm doing. Oh, I guess that would be wrong. Yeah. Whether or not there's something wrong with that. A dangling. Yeah. Or not. It's just redundant. Yes, it is redundant. But thank you for that. Oops. Sheila Pugh says, "I agree this particular parent should be prosecuted. He provided a weapon to a child who was already identified as at risk." Yep, definitely. And of course, you have to draw the line of like, okay, at what point do parents deserve prosecution? Like, what if the FBI visits your child and you just do nothing? Like, you don't seek out mental health resources or you don't do that? Well, some people don't have access to them. Some people don't think to do that. Like, should you then be prosecuted because you knew your child could do something? It's very tricky territory to sort of figure out. It's like a moral gray area in a lot of instances. But this one's pretty clear. Your child is marked as a possible school shooter and you hand him a gun. That's a no-no. Yeah. And I believe in law, there's a concept called like the reasonable person standard. And it's like, if a reasonable parent is approached with information like this and then proceeds to purchase their child a firearm within a year, is that something a reasonable parent would do? Or is that a negligence? And I feel like a jury would conclude that that would certainly be negligence. So to me, it's totally reasonable to prosecute him. And then I wonder like, okay, this is just a question of the problem. How far divorced do you have to be from that scenario to buy your child a firearm? Like, what if he bought him a firearm at 18 and then he goes and does something like this? Are you then still or like, it's 17? I guess either way, you're not supposed to be buying a firearm for a kid that age anyways. So rough. Adrian Navarro says, I really enjoyed your breakdown about Kamala's black speak. It's so painfully cringe. Love to watching your facial expressions. It is so cringe. The black scent is so cringe, y'all. I had to come after her a second time for that because she just keeps doing it. I don't know why you would keep doing it. Just stop. Please get some help. Just don't address everybody the same. Charlie Roanhouse says, finally catching alive. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm a Christian. So when people don't want common sense of my standpoint, I send them to you. Oh, thank you. So you send the non-religious my way. I'll take it. Yeah, because I'm sure we overlap on a lot of our beliefs, just not on the religious part. So that's cool. That's why I'm here too. You can sit with us. Exactly. We balance each other out, Taylor and I. Let's see a couple more here. Nicodemus says, good evening. Just a little support for your daily resilience in dealing with this kind of subject. Stay strong for your grandmother, cheers to you both. Thank you. That is so, so very sweet. I appreciate it. I appreciate all your kind words. As well, my grandmother. She's strong. Thank you. And I actually believe that was our last one today, so thank you guys. Yes. Great note to close out the show. Guys, thank you so much for watching. Drop all your thoughts on the different topics that we discussed on today's show in the comments down below. As always, if you disagree with anything I said in this video, I encourage healthy debates. We do get out, but do so respectfully. And if you like this video, like, subscribe. Click the notification bell to be notified every single time we post a video for you guys, which is every day. 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