Episode Transcript
[00:00:07] This is Media Labs.
[00:00:38] Welcome back to Media Labs. I am Chronicles. This is Chronicles of a Nation.
[00:00:45] Today I'm spitballing a little bit, just wanted to put some things out there. I know there's a lot of conversation right now about this particular topic, the trans agenda, and I get that. There's also talk of destruction of civil rights.
[00:01:00] All kinds of countries are telling their citizens that are in the rainbow group, don't go to the United States. You'll be hung, tarred, feathered, the whole lot. But really, will you really? I find it interesting that there's a few things going on. There's all the protests that this administration is canceling civil rights protected class. And while there is some dangers within the unknown, the trajectory of this administration's ideas, I feel like no one is pleading for a conversation to happen. Follow me here. No one is saying to the President of the United States, can we sit down and have a conversation? Can we sit down and find a way for us to amicably. I think I said that right. Work together to calm the tension, or so called tension. I don't know what tension you're talking about. You know, there was a time in my life where gay bashings were plentiful. Some of us trying to get into our cars after a night at the club, running to get in our cars, blindsided by a pipe, baseball bat. Some of us running down the streets, shedding our heels and hanging onto our crowns because we were being chased, because the boys across the bridge wanted to come over and have some fun because they had nothing else to do. Well, you don't live in that world today, do you? You don't think about those that paved the way, that went through those things, those, the brutal beatings of the 70s and 80s and a little bit of the 90s of New York. It was horrendous, it was brutal, and for some, pridely so. And I wonder what exactly it is that you think you're going through today. Where are these beatings? Where is all this happening?
[00:02:58] Where's the mass firing of these individuals within this protected class?
[00:03:05] Where's the videos of people losing their job because they were told, well, they're a fag, so you can't work here, or you're a he she, so you can't work here. Where are those stories exactly? I'm just curious. I desperately want to know, do people still use the word faggot? Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure. But do they really possess all of society's thinking today like they once did?
[00:03:30] Because when I grew up in a time where it did, it was commonplace. I see all these things happen on high school campuses and college campuses, mostly college campuses, and I just wonder to myself, when do any of you stand on your own?
[00:03:48] When do any of you make calls, just a suggestion, make a call to the president, a plea to sit down and have a conversation? I haven't heard that you have particular groups out there that were designed as mechanisms for these, kind of go between the middleman, so to speak, glaad, Human Rights Campaign. I'll dig in on them later. But for right now, we're just gonna leave it at that as a question.
[00:04:15] But where are they? Why is there not a mechanism currently in place, a campaign, if you will, to say, Mr. President, can we sit down and have a conversation and create a dialogue? No, there isn't. And there isn't gonna be. Because people like chaos, people like strife. It's money for both sides. Let me clarify, and I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm a little tired of politics being involved in my life.
[00:04:46] I'm a little tired, a little wired, of being the scapegoat for leftist white women that have done all this damage. When is it exactly that any of you will take the time to stand on your own two feet, within your own convictions, and say, I want to live in a better place, in a better world.
[00:05:06] Maybe I should appeal to Republicans to sit down and try to start a conversation. But no one's done that. Mostly because right now they're chasing all the Jewish people off of campuses. And if you're gay and Jewish, I suggest you pick the side you know you're supposed to be pick. And I suggest you do it quickly. But for the rest of it, I just wonder. I have these questions. You know, there's a lot of talk, countries telling people, don't go to the United States. United States isn't safe. You'll be tarred and feathered and you'll never make it home. Lots of countries, Western countries. Does anybody else find that interesting? And it coincides with the very moment that the President of the United States puts tariffs on all those said countries. Has anybody put that together yet? Are you paying attention? Because I am. And it's not coincidental to say all of a sudden now it's not safe to go to the United States. They didn't do that the first time when he was president. They didn't say that during the years of Joe Biden. But now all of a sudden, because there's A tariff war. Now all of a sudden, it's not safe for a protected class of individual to come to the United States to say, it's less safe for you in the United States than our own country, because you're safe in our country. And yet so many of these Western nations have issues of their own. They play like they don't. They critique the news, cut and paste so everything looks shiny and glamorous, but it's really not, is it? Just makes you wonder, I suppose. Makes me wonder. I'm just curious. When do the men of the Gulag come to my door and arrest me for being trans?
[00:06:51] When is it? When is it not exactly. Not safe for me to go out in public? Perhaps if you are a pedophile, you shouldn't be in public. Anyway, I'm just saying. But here we are with this fantastic moment in time I see in our country to be able to change the course of the conversation by attempting to want to sit down with the President of the United States, talk about this supposed reckless behavior of the President, removing a website or a set of clicks on a website, let's say, like the White House website, where it no longer talks about gay recognition, and all of a sudden that's a hate crime by the government. I'm just really trying to understand. I could care less. I personally don't think it needs to be there in the first place. I. I don't see what the point is. Maybe somebody can tell me why in a rational, sane manner that doesn't get you arrested. I'm just curious. When do we filter out what's really going on here and realize. And look at the bigger picture? You know, I have friends on both sides. Gay, straight, Republican, you know, Democrat. But the ones I know, I like them equally, to be honest. They're interesting.
[00:08:07] And they listen to me because I try to play, not play, put myself in the middle and try to make peace with everything. Trying to find peace. Because I simply look beyond the noise. I don't look at the noise and the screaming and the shouting, the pointing, pointing the finger. But I'm still curious. Where exactly is this campaign to destroy a protected class? We put those laws in place and we put them in place for a better reason.
[00:08:39] We put them in place to say, no, it's not okay to beat someone up because they're gay or lesbian or what have you. That's why we put them in place, because people needed to understand there's consequences for beating someone up simply because of who they choose to lay down with which to me is already suspect anyway, but we'll get into that episode later. But that's why they were put in place. Gay marriage happened, and you guys just couldn't go and sit down, could you? You just had to keep poking and prodding for more and more and more. And now someone's here to tell you you're not getting anymore. Now you're mad. And now all of a sudden, it's not safe to go to the United States from another country.
[00:09:19] Now, I can understand being a bit upset when you can't change your passport. I get that that would upset me if I couldn't change my passport. But at the same time, you know, I don't care if it makes you feel so much better in your position or in your life to disallow me the ability to change an M to an F on my driver's license or ID card or whatever credential passport, then you do that. But to me, it makes me absolutely no mind whatsoever. Good luck with that, because it doesn't move me. It doesn't infect me with. With whatever it is you think you're gonna infect me with. Fear, anger, sadness, emotions, overreaction. I'm not gonna do it because I'm not out screaming about who I am or what I am.
[00:10:12] I have no intention to.
[00:10:15] My generation, we didn't do that. We were younger, and I mean all of us that grew up in the 90s, 80 babies, you know, late 70 babies. Except for some of you that act like spoiled brats today. You were that same way as a child, I'm sure. And I just wonder, often as loud as a lot of you scream, who exactly are you trying to convince?
[00:10:38] You or everyone else? Because when you have to scream that loud, I hate to see how bad you're screaming on the inside. I bet it's not a pretty sight for some of you. You needed spanking a long time ago. You're spoiled, entitled, rotten to your core. You have disdain for all of society that doesn't see your viewpoint or your ways, and that's the truth. And you believe that you're doing some good for the gay and trans community and visibility, but really, you're not. You're really not. You're hurting everyone. But all the little white girls have decided, no, this fight belongs to us now. So now we're going to pick it, burn, loot, and whatever else you can get your hands on to scream. So I say again, why are you screaming so loud if that's really your life? It's interesting to me, you call yourself non binary trans.
[00:11:37] You're everything.
[00:11:40] Everything but a white girl. You're every other identity but a white girl or a boy. Boys playing make believe on college campuses like they're women. Freak shows walking into game shop stores and screaming, I am a woman. I am a woman.
[00:12:00] Give me the corporate number. I am a woman. God, that was scary when I saw that video. You should look it up.
[00:12:06] That's on YouTube. Trans woman walks into a game store and scares everybody to shit. It's pretty comical. Every time I watch it, I laugh because he's clearly trying to fool somebody. He ain't fooling public, but he's trying to fool someone. But there's these questions that are simply just not being answered. And I don't want to do this every episode and I'm not going to do this every episode. I'm not going to talk about this all the time because my life does not revolve around this. Nor do I think our issues within society should revolve around this issue all of the time when we have plenty of issues to talk about. But it's important right now that this is talked about.
[00:12:46] Such a conflicting place for me because it has done damage and it is doing damage. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't blame parents. I don't see phobia when I hear them speak. Truth is, I know I could sit down with Ted Cruz and have a conversation.
[00:13:03] Senator Kennedy, maybe even Tom Cotton, I could sit down with them. I know I could sit before the President and have a conversation, a logical one. And I think that would be a great opportunity. Because if we don't want to live in such a mad country, an angry country, a confused country, a country that's chomping it to bit to scream, we're going to lose ourselves in the noise. I watched Halloween last night.
[00:13:28] And in Halloween, you know, they all think they found Michael Myers without a mask on and this short little pumpkin of a man. And they all start looking for him, chasing him down. Because one person, one said, that's Michael Myers.
[00:13:43] And you watch it. And they all just turn into monsters looking for someone. Come to find out after he jumps out of a window and firmly plants himself, or what's left of himself on the concrete below the window, it wasn't him. And everybody looks so puzzled and bewildered. Is that what we're gonna do as a society? Push ourselves off the ledge and then look and say, oh wait, we were wrong. Because no one is paying attention to what's beyond the noise? Both sides are guilty of it. Let me be absolutely clear. Both sides are guilty. And I don't like it because it's us in the middle, conservative but socially liberal, that have to pay the price. And I believe in a better and a goodness of my society here in my country, despite what Western nations love to say right now, which is don't go to the United States because it's not safe. Coincidentally, they're also getting tariffs by the current administration.
[00:14:44] If you can't figure that out, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm just saying. But that's where it leaves me today. If we always talk about this idea of diplomacy, conversation across the table, dialogue, why are we not using that within this landscape in our country where we have such a divide? I blame the news for it. I blame a lot of things for it. But I just wonder at what point is everyone just tired? Can't we be bigger than this? Can't we be stronger than this? Never in our society have we had this problem. We're going on over a decade of this madness. I'm tired of the lies being peddled about kids and hormone therapy. Because the truth is it's castration of young people, young girls chomping off their breasts, ripping out all their reproductive organs to scream so loud.
[00:15:42] I'm a boy, I'm non binary. That means you don't have breasts. Men can get pregnant. Yeah. No, they can't. And everybody knows it. Even I know it. Been knowing it. Because if anybody could have nine kids and be at home living off of tanf, it would be me. I'm just saying I would love to have my child myself, but we all know that's just not possible and it never will be.
[00:16:06] But then again, I don't live in la la land either. It's triggering for most.
[00:16:11] What should be triggering is the fact of how much medication you really do need. And daddy should have spanked you a long time ago. If he stand long enough to stand around and stay. I'm just saying there has to be clarity at some point. It's a very hard topic, I think, for the President to address because no one's giving him an option of where to start, a baseline. And no one's interested in doing that baseline. And I find that concerning. If you're paying attention, it should concern you. It's concerning that those within those powerful groups and agencies such as GLAAD and Human Rights Campaign have not come forward to do a press conference of any sort. And say, Mr. President, let's lower the temperature, let's sit down, let's create a dialogue. Go back out to the public and let them know that we're embarking on creating a conversation with the president and hopefully something fruitful could come of it. But they're not doing that. No, because they've paid the Democrats so much money and have them in such a twist and bind. Blackmail is easy for them. They let them do the dirty work. In case you haven't figured that out. I've just grown tired and frustrated and we'll continue to have these really good conversations here and I hope that more listen and I hope that more take hold of what we're bringing to the table here at Media Labs. I plan to do more episodes this week.
[00:17:37] Been a slow start. It's Monday. Slow start.
[00:17:40] I'm also working on the story that I covered on the flooding of Helene. I will be sharing the recordings of survivors in their words, unscripted, what took place. It's quite powerful to listen to them.
[00:17:56] For me, it's, it's heart wrenching to hear. You'll learn of some amazing people and you'll learn of some people that sound amazing at the end of the story, they're not so much. I'm glad everyone is here and I hope that everyone continues to listen and to stay a while. I just wonder, when does the change start? When do we begin to heal? Because we can't wait much longer. I'm just saying. I'm Chronicles. This is Chronicles of a Nation.
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