Grandpa & Chill

Fight the Power (with Dante Rusciolelli)

June 15, 2022 Brandon Season 2 Episode 19
Grandpa & Chill
Fight the Power (with Dante Rusciolelli)
Show Notes Transcript

If we're not defunding the police, can we at least get a refund? We're missing a lot of ROI over here. Join our convo with comedian, actor, and mega-activist Dante Rusciolelli, where we talk about the highs and lows of protesting, and why the cops suck, and how to get the city to paint your stuff for freeº*.


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Three, but. Oh, well, hey, everybody, this is another episode of Grandpa on show. We're on with Dante Rusciolelli so glad to have you on today. I'm here, as always, with my amazing co-host, Phines, my grandfather, and our amazing producer, Sierra. How are you doing today, Dante? I'm great. Hi, everybody. Phines Barton, Sierra. Yeah. I'm having a very nice day, you guys. I'm really happy to be on here. Where is everybody? What part of the country? Illinois. All in Philadelphia? No. New York. Yeah. New York is in a different spot. Where in Illinois are you? Chicago area. Oh, cool. That's where all my family is. Yeah, of course they are. Mom, I'm in. That's where you're born in. I was born in a really small town called China Lake here in California. It's part of this town called Ridgecrest, and it's the earthquake capital of the world. So if you look up earthquake capital world, it'll pop up. We have about 1400 earthquakes a day, and there's nothing to do there. And that's where I was born on a very secretive military base and saw a lot of crazy stuff growing up that is now, you know, just drones and things that, you know, back in the seventies no one had ever seen. And I got to see it early and thought it was spaceships at first, but my dad's like, don't worry, you're fine. These are not spaceships. How did your parents end up there? Um, my dad was actually in the Air Force at a base right next to it. He was there when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. So he was sort of in the military and went to France and things and came back to Edwards Air Force Base. And this base is about an hour from there. And he had heard that they were hiring civilians and he needed a civilian job. And he got one. And they ended up he ended up driving bombs forever. And then they moved him up, I guess, because of his nice personality or something, because I guess in the military, he was a radio guy just like you guys. And you all have good personalities. So they moved him up to be the person who meets with all of the astronauts. Presidents, secretaries of the Navy, anyone visiting. It was his job to play golf, show them around the base, bring them to our house for a party, things like that. It was a crazy childhood I had. Wow, that sounds really fun, entertaining or I don't I don't know. I'm sure it's like double. I'm sure as the grass is greener. Was it awful that it happened? I loved it. I lived in this small town where it was super safe. And, you know, I'm not going to say that it was perfect because nothing's perfect when you actually, you know, are there. But when you look back on it, it was a pretty good childhood, you know, kind of childhood where the streetlights aren't on. I get to stay out. And, you know, we rode our bikes everywhere, and I lived in the desert it's like, how did my parents I wouldn't even let my daughter walk into the desert for like 5 minutes, and we got to, like, go out and, like, you know, where I was looking for I was and I'd see something run into a hole. I shook my hand in the hole. How do I know it wasn't a snake? Or because there's so many earthquakes you could lost an arm easily. You know, the feel of honestly, you'll feel like one a week, just sort of barely. But the rest are so minor, you don't even notice uh. I've never been in an earthquake before. That's crazy experience. I was. It's not that scary. Honestly, the big one that we had in L.A. Was very scary. That was scary to me because i had no idea what was happening. And the reason it was scary wasn't that I hadn't been in an earthquake and i hadn't shook. It was that I lived in an apartment building and all of a sudden, I'm on the phone with my ex-wife. It's like two in the morning, and we're talking, and all of a sudden, the whole world is shaking. Not just the building, but i'm and I was outside on the balcony a minute ago. I came back to bed. I'm talking to her, and it's raining up as hard as it can. There's just water hitting my everything and coming in, and i was like, oh, my god, the world's ending everything's shaking. There's water pouring. I realized what had happened was the pool on top of the building broke in the earthquake. And it's pouring onto my. Yeah, it's pouring into my house and everything else and all this stuff. But I really did think the world was ending, but my first thought was not to run out. I had a little puppy that I just bought and he ran under the bed and I'm like, Well, I'm going, I'm going to go with this little guy. So I waited. I found him, I pulled him out, and we made it outside and just stood out. There was the most bizarre day I mean, at least at that point in my life, because you walk out and that one was the big one. That was the one where everybody thought they were going to die. And some people did. And, you know, I lived in Hollywood proper at the time, right off the boulevard. And I went out there and like, you know, murals of like Frank Sinatra had come down and you look behind the wall and I would see like an old Pepsi can from like the 1950s that someone had put in the wall as they were plastering it. And, you know, I the weirdest thing I think I saw it was there was one place on Hollywood Boulevard and it had escalators that came down on two sides. And they were intertwined because of the earthquake all the way down, like they had somehow made a DNA chain. Line. From the earthquake. I know I was describing that with my hands because I'm Italian, but I tried to also verbally make it equivalent for the rest of the people. I felt it, too. Yeah. And now L.A. is going through natural disaster like daily, right? The Wild I don't know what I recorded today, but I think it was just a fire under a freeway or something. But, you know, I think what happens is when you're getting news about other places, you it's never what people make it out to be like. I'm sure people think that everywhere you go in L.A., there's homeless people and smash and grabs and, you know, violence. And someone said the other day that, like someone said in the audience of one of my shows, they're like, oh, yeah, I'm a Windows guy. And you guys like, you got to get them to go to L.A. put all the windows back because snitched out. I'm like, oh, my God. First of all, that was like five days of looting and rioting five years ago. And most of the people that I saw doing it, I could tell, were not from L.A. They weren't L.A. People were terrified. We were in our homes. People with Arizona, Nevada, license plates, other parts of California. I'm serious. They would say like Palmdale, and they're like on their plates. They would jump out at a place that was already being looted, fill up their stuff, and you would see them drive away. And I didn't see one neighbor doing it. I didn't see you know, I also marched in every Black Lives Matter protest for two years and people go, oh, weren't those terrible? And people are starting problems and. Right. Not once not once. We never did anything wrong. As a matter of fact, the one time that they started beating us, well, there's lots of times, but the one time they started beating us, that really affected me was someone used a megaphone in front of the mayor's house. Mayor Eric Garcetti is dad was the district attorney. I think when we had like the last riots here, right? Like wrong guy for this town for the second time. So what happened here? Was he some people protested with a megaphone in front of his home and there's a law on the books and you cannot protest with a megaphone in front of any public government officials. Right. You just can't you can protest no megaphone. Someone use a megaphone and they came out and started hitting everyone. And a little girl on film was hit. She was like three in her dad's hands and got hit with a baton so I looked up every law I could, and I went to the mayor's house the next day with a megaphone. And it was thank God it was December four. The next ten days, I sang as many loud Christmas carols as I could in front of this asshole's home. I can't tell you how many police had to show up for me. And they'd be like, You can't do this. I'm like, Please look up every law if you find one that says, I have to leave, I will otherwise call your boss and he'll tell you just to go away. But it was a weird time in L.A. And the news was not reporting it correctly, and that's what bothered me. You know, it's like the police were always starting stuff with protesters, and when people bring up blm, they always bring up, oh, there's this corrupt group called BLM that controlled everything. Do you know I only saw them twice, and I went to 50 marches. BLM was a movement, not a company. I don't even know who those people were. And I didn't like their marches. They had the smallest marches. If you actually look up BLM, you'd think that they would have millions of followers. BLM, L.A. does not, because no one followed them. We weren't about BLM, L.A. We were about Black Lives Matter, the movement. And that's kind of all it was sorry i talk a lot. I don't mean to go off so many. So what I mean is, I mean, for podcasts like that, you're doing great. Well, I guess the news media, the news media is about the extremes. That's how they they generate revenue by, you know, interesting getting interested in. What can I tell you something horrible that i posted and it's going viral. So I put this out I think yesterday and it has like 30,000 hits within a day which isn't bad for me just talking all they said into the camera was I said I have had to file 16 police brutality reports against officers here in Los Angeles every single one of them came with full videos where I never edit it and you see the entire thing. You watch them falsify a ticket saying someone was parked there with me. They do this to me at the Central Park two blocks away, but put it took it on my car in a private lot. Luckily, I caught them doing it and they still deny it. They go, Oh, well, you were there early in the day. And I said, So you can't give a retro ticket, my friend. You have to give it when I'm parked there. And I said, Besides that, I'd never once I never was but here's what a point I said in this video. I said, I filed six reports against police officers, and I told this to this week I was going to run for mayor of Los Angeles. And my wife said, Our company is doing too good. You're not doing it, blah, blah, blah. But I we had all the Democrats after me, and now people are following me and Obama followers and all these people and so everyone wants to know who I'm voting for. So this week I've been meeting with mayoral candidates and city council and people who are running for everything. And one of the city council, people whose name I don't want to mention because I don't want to hurt his campaign if, you know, people would be mad at him for this. But here's what he said, because Dante, if you look it up, you're 16 reports are just 16 of 5000 that they get every year and the police investigate themselves. How many of those reports do you think they have ever said the police did one thing wrong? And I said, zero. And he goes, right, because mathematically it's impossible. It's impossible mathematically. Four, 5000 reports with videos to be sent in to the police and each time they send you a letter back a year later. So if they break your heart, they take a year and then they send it back saying, We deny everything that you said. And then there's really nothing you can do unless you find a lawyer who's willing to take your case. But if you're a white guy who is getting this to happen to him, it may be for the right reasons for BLM and stuff, but because I am not a black person that this is happening to black lawyers don't want to talk to me, and they're the ones I need, you know, and it's really hard but bad things happen. So so here's how this all got started for me. So at about the the last day of all of this rioting and looting, I'm a celebrity manager. And one of my clients was coming over that day to film some stuff in my home. And I heard a helicopter. And so I was like, wow, that's like above my house. I go outside, there's like 20 cop cars. I'm not kidding. 20 cop cars, a helicopter. And I look and there's this nice SUV, and a young black kid was about 18 years old on his knees. And then grandpa gets out of the car and he looks like he's 90. It turns out he was about 78, but he looked terrible because he just got over cancer, I found out. But anyway, can barely walk and they're like, Get on your knees. It's like, I can't, I can't. And again, he cannot. It took him forever and when he did he was shaking and I started screaming at the police. What did they do? Is it just because they're black? And this is the end of the riots? So you pulled them over for being black and they won't answer now my because I'm screaming this to the police now my neighbors start coming out. I'm screaming it for 45 minutes and then I catch something on video that was so important. Finally, the guys I don't know if it's the captain. Look, I don't know who shows up. The boss shows up. It's a black guy. And the white guy who had pulled them over says to him, I don't know why we pulled them over. He goes, the helicopter 45 minutes ago said them. And he goes, We've been sitting here wondering what to do ever since. And when I heard it and I had it on video, I repeated it loudly to all my neighbors. And then we all started screaming, Let them go. This went on for 45 minutes and then they did let them go because they had no reason to pull them over. But my video went immediately viral. Immediately. Rihanna followed me that day and wrote me private messages and a thousand other celebrities. But that started my journey. I realized that day how corrupt our system was. And it bothered me because as a father of a black daughter, I want the system that she lives in to be better for her. And it isn't. Right now, we have the most corrupt police system I've ever heard of in my life. Our sheriff's department here in Los Angeles is so corrupt we're having to make laws to stop them. From harassing the families of people they've murdered. So if they murder someone just so that the family won't sue them, come after them or whatever, they go after anyone in that family who might have tickets unpaid, how can we put them in jail? How can we throw them on the ground and beat them? How can we follow them home every night and pull them over? You know what I mean? All these things that they do, writing them letters and all these cops will jump on their social media and threaten them and say things. And it's disgusting what happens here in L.A. And the mayor is just as bad. But the problem here, I voted my whole life, Republican and Democrat, so I'm not out here to get on anyone for anything like that. It's a human issue. It really is. This is a human issue. But the problem in L.A. Is we have really shitty Republicans that live here, but no one can run as a republican in l.a. You have to put a d next to your name. So we end up with some of the worst human beings on the planet because the d was next to their name and we didn't realize that they were in bed with the cops. Don't care about beating little black girls with megaphones. You know what I mean? Like, it's the worst i've ever seen it. And I've been here since the first riots, and i knew rodney king. Yeah, it's crazy. My town is is shit right now. I said that to my wife. I said, i hate it here. I really do. That's why I was trying to run for mayor and get the right people in because we're so corrupt that it's unlivable. I really I have so many videos of these police doing things to me. Do you know what happened? So during I would say about a year ago, it was a year ago, March 21. I'm driving down Sunset and I see a big march of white people. Well, a week before it was Brianna Taylor's birthday memorial is something March and a small group of people. But guess what? Police in riot gear showed up and started hitting them for no reason, just like started it all went down on Vine Street. I have it on video for no reason, but this was every time black people got together. So I started. I'll show you. I just found this in my garage. I started civil rights, security. I became security. I would march at the front and be ready to protect everyone. And I did that. But what happened? As I'm driving by, I see all these white people unchecked. There's not a cop around. I've never seen that with a group of people like this. I see some bike cops blocks away so I get over, I pull over, and I'm like, I'm filming just because I want to make a video go viral about they don't do it to white people as I'm doing it. I realize these are proud boys. Three of them are wearing those kind of masks. You rob a bank and like, I don't know, I have one in here somewhere, but, you know, it's just a mask that you put on. Scary mask, like clown or something. And they say as I'm filming them, let's see if we can break in through the back there at CNN. So I call the cops as I'm standing there filming them. Someone sees that my hat says civil rights activist. So they take it and punch me and someone hits me from behind. And now I'm like, you know, doing this, like, stop it. And blah, blah, blah. I call the cops nothing happens. Keep calling, keep calling, keep calling. Finally, those six bike cops slowly come up and they see me getting hit by these guys and I run up to them and I go, You just saw it. I have it on video. And I look and this guy, this asshole, his name is Sergeant Gutierrez, but he likes to be called Good Tila because he thinks he's very white. But Gautier, I met him two days earlier, and all I said to him on video was, hey, those officers are interacting with. So could you ask them to put on masks? And he hated me for it. Just hated me for it. At one point, he's like, you can't talk through a mask. And I was like, dude, I don't know a big business. Like, stop right there. You call me dude. It's either Sergeant Couture or blah, blah, blah or, you know, or captain or sergeant or whatever, you know, whatever. He yelled at me. I was like, OK, buddy, so I look over when these guys are punching and I run over to these cops and it's him. And they're just sitting there watching and aren't going to do anything and I'm saying this on video, they all look at me and put their heads down and here's how you know that they hate me. They said, Dante, we didn't see a thing. And they put their heads down, and that gave the Bra Boys permission to start beating me, which they did. They broke my nose. They hit me with a flagpole. I had to scream and get out of there. Like when I got all my blood all over my face. My shirt was ripped, and the cops watched them do it the entire time. That's how corrupt it is here, because I'm a civil rights activist and stand up for right. These guys were like, Hey, we don't care if they kill you because you asked us to put on mass yesterday and you called him dude. Like, Give me a break. Sorry, because I get very passionate about activism. I apologize. I'm sorry. I'm here for you. I'm down, everyone. I want also. I feel like I feel like you make a really good point about just how I guess how just the corruption is has changed or evolved because, you know, it used to it used to really have a lot more it used to be a lot more valuable to essentially have, like, a white escort to do things and go about places that you should be allowed to go to or things you should be allowed to do. But you literally just can't because of racism, and I remember. No. Right. You know, things that we don't and. Right. And I remember in 20, 20, you know, as like all the protests and things were happening, I was like, wow. I was like, you know, a lot of people out here. And then when I saw that the police when I once I saw that the police were actually like attacking white people, I was like, oh, I was like, this is totally different. Everything is different right now. This is all kinds of this is all kinds of brand new. You know, it's a totally. Yeah. And, you know, it's so funny. My wife went to help her mom get a haircut the other day in Vegas. She lives in Vegas. Yes. And she said the woman cutting her hair said this. She goes, I'm just afraid Antifa is going to come in and steal my grandbaby. And I'm like, goddamn woman. First of all, Antifa is not a group. I say, I'm the president. I do. Everyone hates me because I say it. Even proud boys call me the president of Antifa. And I put up posters all the time saying, by the way, we're not a real group. We don't have meetings and I don't know anyone else by name. That's part of the group. All we stand for is Antifa Fascism. I should just put that in my Twitter. I just want to see like. I'm sorry, I didn't. Mean. Yeah, right. Right. All I did one day I said to one of my assistants, Can you please make me up some mocks of like me being the president of New York? And they made these great things. I was like, OK, Commissioner, I'm officially the president. I voted myself. Then we're not a real organization. Here we go. Oh, my God. But I think that's kind of funny how they say, like, Antifa has taken over Portland now. Portland has always had weirdos living in the streets, and those weirdos are just acting up, really like there's a lot of weirdos. It's never going to Portland. Like you don't know if they're homeless or hipsters. Like the difference of actually oil. That's it. But, you know, I was going to say something to you. What I meant by you have a different experience, Sierra, than the rest of us. A friend of mine said to me when all of this was happening, he said, Dante, not only can I not feel comfortable owning a gun as a black man, he goes, The one thing I can't do ever, and my son's asked me is take him hunting. He goes, I'm terrified. That's a set up. I want to show up in anywhere with a gun. As a black man, I'll be shot. That's how I feel in America. That's what he said to me. And I never thought of it like that, you know what I mean? Even being the father of a black daughter, she's not worried about it because I'm her white dad, you know what I mean? Yeah. And it's that blew my mind. And he started listing 20 other things that he can't do that he had realized white people can do without even thinking about it. And I guess that's what's called white privilege. Caleb being able to do anything you want. Barber you can't run, can't go for a run, can go for a walk. And not wear a hoodie. Can't wear came by Skittles. OK? Right. But you can't wear a hoodie if you're black for sure. You better not be wearing a jacket during the day. I can't be caught breathing too hard. I don't know. Right, right. Don't want to sell one cigaret. Yeah. It's your life out. Yeah, it's just tough. I mean, we don't have to talk about. I just brought this up because I don't know why it just happened to be on my mind, but, you know, I'm here in L.A. and it is corrupt and cops know where I lived. You what happened that day? That I just told you about, where the old man and his grandsons got pulled over? There were four guys. First of all, the wife of one of them just had a baby and called me almost immediately and was like, oh, my God, my husband. I just saw this video that went viral. You're the one who took it. Is my husband OK? I'm like, yes, they let them go, blah, blah, blah. I don't know where he is. You're going to come. So now she and I are friends. But what happened was I came back to my house and that celebrity that was supposed to meet me there was in my yard and my wife had dealt with it and whatever I said, Sorry, buddy, you're going to have to give me another 10 minutes. I have to edit a very important video and put it on the Internet, which I did. I know that a minute of this is more important than putting up 30 minutes or 40 or an hour and a half and one's going to watch so quickly. I was just as fast as I could. I put it up 5 minutes later, my phone rings and a comedian who is also a cop who I hadn't talked to in 15 years is now calling me. And I'm like, Hello? He's like, Oh, hey, there's this exact words Hi, Dante. Long time, man. You still live at that house at the corner of blah blah blah, with all the signs out front? Yeah, yeah. I always tell all my friends where you live all the cops. When we drive by, I'm always like, Yeah, he lives there. That's my daughter lives. This is what I'm getting on the phone. He was the reason I called. You had just put something on the Internet. Could you take that down? I was like, No, it's like, but there's two sides to every story. I'm like, But I was there the whole time. There's only one side to this story, and he's like, Well, you really should take it down. And he hangs up next day. I go outside. My fence is fence color, wood. It's wood color. I don't want any other color. I liked it. Wood, my daughter, who is a black girl, had written in pink sidewalk chalk on my fence about this pick BLM, about three inches tall. The city of Los Angeles came out and painted my whole fence red. That was the day after I posted this video. That's how corrupt this is. And that's when it all started. That's when I said, I'm going to film everything. Everything. And I do. I do. I got the cops to leave black people alone. What they were doing is black nightclubs on Hollywood Boulevard would shut down at around 1:32 a.m. and they would wait for them. And I go, Hey, you know, we were looking in your car. Can we look in your car? They're just asking. Go look in your car. No, no reason I'm black. It was all fake. They go, OK, so they would all stand there. But now there's a cop car with lights and a car, people going through it. And six people who just came out of a club standing, waiting to go home. Well, they almost never found anything I started posting it every night and saying, hey, look what they're doing. They're trying to get rid of black people from Hollywood. Well, guess what? They stopped doing it I go out there every night at 130 and they stopped showing up. It finally got exposed. Every time I exposed something, they stopped, but they never apologized. They never take any responsibility, and they don't fire those people. Everyone I told you about still has their job offers here. It's called qualified immunity, and it's very scary. Yeah. What's the next subject device? Oh, well, let me see. I wrote notes before we go to the next subject. You and. I talk a lot, so I know. Of it's good. I write down, I try to remember stuff that I think is cool. Though. I do think it's funny because you know, the Black Panther Party, blah, blah, they were trying to protect people in their community by carrying guns and protecting their, you know, their community. Right. From being attacked by cops. There's this seemed like this new way of protecting people with your camera. But what I'll say is, as we're saying, was a fear of black people carrying a gun to go hunting. You know what? Let's get some white people out there on our side carrying guns and just be protecting us and be like, hey, if you attack me, police officer, this white man is going to shoot you. And then, hey, we'll see what happens then. And courts now also, too, I know you're looking for a black lawyer, but might not be anybody. I need to get a white lawyer. They are. They have I know they have clout to get a white lawyer. Things that you. Use, the white user. White privilege is best. I mean, I know you do. I do your thing. All day long. I see yellow people all day. Is very conflicting in this situation because I also have it's it's a thing I'm still mulling over with, like the fact that I need a white savior to help me, you know, get get equality but that's something I've been trying. Up real quick. I'm sorry. I just want to I just want to interrupt real quick. Something I left out of my story that might add to what you're about to say. I don't want to be a white savior. All I was was security for civil rights. And they had the president of Antifa leading the way, right? Yeah. And I film everything. Oh, no. I mean it. But but all I was going to say, I went to every march, you know, the biggest black star in Hollywood that showed up to my marches was Liu Now Liu now on the D list. Lu Now, do you know that we have every big black star in the world here in Los Angeles, and not one was there. Not one. Do you know that the other day what's her name? The singer starts with a Akira. She was getting a star on the boulevard. And that cop I told you about. Well, let me get beat up by the Bra Boys was standing right next to her and Busta Rhymes and a whole bunch of black stars. And I pulled up in my nice convertible as a white man, and I said, Hi, everyone. I'm yelling this over there. And they all stopped, and the cameras turned on me. And I said, Hey, this cop right here is the most corrupt police officer. His name is Gutierrez. Blah, blah, blah. I hope you all film him and, you know, do whatever not want. I reached out to Busta afterwards. I was like, Hey, man, that was me. You did that. Why don't you say something about it? Nothing nothing where black leaders are anymore, first of all. And where are black celebrities? Why are they so afraid? Like, so what if you lose half of your popularity? So what you're calling happening? Mm I bet it's a little more difficult than a little bit more. I think the same reasons we've been talk. I think the same reasons we've been talking about this are the same reasons. You know, we may not see some. Yeah, but if you're a Giant superstar like Denzel, Washington is not going to get beat up by the police on video they'll never happen. You know what I mean? When you are superstar and rich, it just doesn't happen. If you happen to be a rapper and superstar and rich, you'll probably get beaten by the police because their racist but racist people like black celebrities that are nice and sweet. And I'm sorry if I'm being too honest, but that's just facts. It's just facts. When else OK, fine. I'll bring some honesty back to going back to the Antifa thing, too, before we jump back to this one, it might not. Be a bad idea if you guys. Get organized as well it because you know, I think I know it's really hard to pin down a big group to define who the leader is. But same time, sometimes it's OK to fight fire with fire in the sense that organization does bring a little bit of like unity and on the same page. And this I'm not saying, well, I guess I'm speaking to the president yes. No. I can talk to all my constituents. Yes, yes, yes. But going back to what we talk about. Oh, yeah. I think again, this is what it's all about, is having people speak and having a chance to this is going back to what? Like even though you don't mean to be a white savior, sometimes that happens. You know, some I don't mean to be, you know, misogynist. Some actually, I hate that term. I get it. I'm a in my back, I guess a. I'm not trying like if I could say no. No, no. I mean, but it is you know what? Where we're pride if you can sometimes, you know, like if that's the case. But I know that I. Always fight for justice. Though, you know, real quick, my when I was in high school, my best friend cheated on his girlfriend. And the minute he did it, I said, fuck you. And I became best friends with her. And we're still best friends to this day. At my wedding, she was my best man. Yeah. And you know what she said about me? It was something that no one's ever said to me, and it blew my mind it was like hearing your own funeral. She said Dante has never one time gossiped with me. She's like, It's annoying. I love to gossip. He's my best friend. He won't gossip with me. She goes, I realized something a long time ago about Dante. He only cares about right and wrong. She was right. All right. This. This again. This is why it is so valuable to be a white person and doing that because you you are the person. If you're just speaking truth like general truths or whatever, like you were saying with the black actors and people with the money, same thing with the white man especially that you have so much like you are the one that's not getting everyone below you is getting injustice like they're getting they're not getting justice stereotyped because I'm sure that white men, they get injustice all the time. But yeah, you should be the one speaking up all the time. Every time. All the time. I mean, like that. Man. Thank you. Thank you. Listen, I have to say this as a civil rights activist, the hardest part is the family. I mean, if you watch anything about Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, you always have to watch the wife because he loves the wife. I love the wife. Malcolm love the wife. And when they're crying and saying, we don't want you to die, you kind of have to listen, you know what I mean? Because it's it's a hard thing to deal with. Yeah. My wife had to go through some real stuff. We're in therapy because she was so upset about me almost being killed by proud boys or how the police all, you know, hate us. And they came. And you know what I'll say? I even tell you this because they wrote me that false ticket, right? So I filed a report against them. They claimed I bribed them. They said I was trying to bribe them out of my $65 ticket. I said I would have paid $1,000,000 for this video, you assholes. And and so the next day I go to start my car and I look at my gas tanks, and I'm like, these cops came over here and put motor oil in my gas tank. I took it directly to my mechanic. He goes, Yeah, how did you know? And like, because I just filmed this yesterday. He's like, Oh, yeah, these guys for sure did this. I even showed it to my insurance company, Geico. I can't. I promise you, it was the police just like the next day, my my fence was red. Like, come on. Sorry I interrupted you again, man. You just keep reminding me of stuff I left out. I ain't trippin'. You're making my job easier. You lived in a place with the most—It is so funny. I think your perspective, because it's so positive yeah.

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Yeah, dead parents, earthquakes every day. Oh. About a mile away. I have the most blessed life I do. I have the most blessed life in the whole world. But when you do, it's yin and yang. There's good. Yeah, you had. Well, you would have laughed at how I murdered her. So here's what happened. Ok? Here. Father calls me up, and my mother had been dying of cancer for a while, and he said she went into the cancer coalmine today and all if anyone's ever had a loved one, die of cancer. You know, the minute they go into that coma, they've got maybe a day, two days left. Right. So because your momma just went into the cancer coma, you better get up here. I run to I go to his house. It's 3 hours away from L.A.. I run in the house, and my dad, is she alive? And he's like, yeah, I run to her side. I'm kneeling there. I'm loving on my mom and I. It's like I'm talking to her, telling her everything. And all of a sudden I hear her take her last breath and that was it. I was like, oh, my God. And I just, like, sat there for a minute. And when I stood up, I heard I had been kneeling on her oxygen if my mother were there, she would have thought it was the funniest thing ever. She would be like, I didn't want to live any way in a coma. So the fact that you were kneeling on my oxygen is the funniest thing ever. So I don't care. It doesn't bother me. I know my mom would find it was terrible, and I'm glad it happened. I didn't want her to suffer. So good for me. But it was I was afraid I didn't even tell my dad this until, like, I didn't ever tell my dad. He died like six months later. But I told my wife I felt so guilty. I was like, honey, I'm pretty sure I killed my mom. And she's like, no, you didn't. She was a cancer. She was in a coma. I'm like, I'm pretty sure I killed her that day. Yeah. So the only thing. I know well, it's too late now. It's on video. Oh, yeah. I mean, I. You can't get arrested for that. You can't be. You know what? Cops that don't like you do what they will make up for what? They can't do some back. That's like Republican agenda. Like, no one's just, like, do some random shit, you know, you can't do it. Just see what happens. There's something crazy that my therapist said to me the other day. I told her that whole story about right and wrong, right? And she goes, Why do you think you care about right and wrong so much? I said, I sat there for a while and finally I said, You know what? I think it really was. I grew up in the seventies, and every sitcom, like Good Times are what's happening or whatever. It was always a lesson. Don't record the doobie Brothers. It's bad, or don't do this or don't do that or don't be a bad person, right? So that's how I grew up. And and she goes, and now tell me about those two television shows. Do they affect you today? And I said, Well, Fred, rerun Barry from what's happening was my opening act for ten years, and I'm now Jimmy Walker's manager. And she goes It looks like you found your parents. You found your television parents that raised you. And I was like, Oh, my God, you're right. That's crazy. Wow. Yeah. It's a crazy thing. Think of my family for real. Blew my mind. Yeah. Mm hm. What do you think going over there, Brandon? Yeah. Brandon talk. I'm going at his restaurant. Oh, yeah, sure. Off of what you just said. Did you not have a it sounded like he did have a close relationship with your parents. So what loved more? I don't. Know. I was drawn to this. I don't think they knew I was there unless you grew up in the seventies. It didn't make sense how parents treated kids. My daughter couldn't name one kid whose drowned. I could name 50 when I was a kid. People didn't watch the kids didn't watch the kids that died all the time. Yeah. Yeah. So should we have the dog? Yeah. He is a bird. It's OK. Grandpa's a. Great dog. He has a bird. We have a whole rescue. Turtles lizards, birds, everything from fish. What about you, Barton? Well, tell me about your bird, bud. Well, actually, actually, I have four birds, but this particular this particular one doesn't get along with the other three. I have to keep them separate. The one of the birds in the other room would kill this one if it can. I think so. I have to really keep them separate, and it makes it very difficult to keep two to a room for these birds because they fly around loose during the day. And the other three. One, two, well, they've eaten away part of a wall. And I have to. I have curtains that I have to put a lot of clips on to keep them from flying into the dining room where we are, the breakfast room where we eat. Otherwise they'll annoy us the whole time at dinner or chew up my recording equipment, which I'm not too happy about. Do you need a bird, by the way? Do you need any more animals? They chew through wires, through drywall, you know? Yeah, but but they are friendly, but but they they don't realize, like, for instance, when they fly at you, you're always afraid they'll hit you in the eye or something. And when they grab you with their beak, their beaks are very sharp and generally ends up with a little bit of a cut. So there's a lot, but they. But they are pleasant, and they're you get attached to them. You really get some quite attached to the birds, just like I guess you would with your wife. Yeah. People who have birds always loved them and always they all affectionate. They are my my daughter's boyfriend has one and he just loves his little bird. You mentioned that you have all types of animals now. You said you have lizards and what else that you mentioned. So we've got a big rescue here in Hollywood. My wife originally what happened was I bought my, my daughter some turtles down in Chinatown, some little red eared sliders, and they got kind of big. So I had to build upon, say, spiders. Red eared sliders. Yeah. They're a type of of of turtle and they're really sweet animals. They don't bite. They are just real nice. So we had those in the yard, and then people were like, Oh, you have a pond. Can I bring over my turtle and give it to you? And that kept happening and happening. And then I built a second pond just because it was my wife was enjoying having ponds. And so we built a second one for fish, and then people brought over more turtles and then finally I was like, we might as well make a sign, put it outside saying that we have, you know, except turtles, fish, frogs and whatever else will take. But the rule is only whatever you're OK. With living outside. Like if they die from nature, that's not my problem. I will love them, take care of them, feed them. I buy lots of food and worms and whatever type of animal it is that, you know, the frogs come up to me every day at a certain time and I feed them these I think they're called bracelet lizards. They came and they're like, I think Floridian or something. But these guys come out every day at like, I don't know, 530 and want me to feed them. And this is really cute. It's really cute. It's like. Do you have any normal pets, like dogs or cats or anything like that? Yeah, sadly, I'm allergic to cats, but we have two nice dogs, both rescues. One we found a poodle. We were driving to a I was making a movie. I directed a movie that I wrote with my wife called Bro. What happened? If you haven't seen it? I think it's up on YouTube. I think I put it up there for free because producers on it were having a fight and no one's buying it. And I'm like, Well, screw it. Let's watch it for free, everybody. So it stars me, Jamie Kennedy Bobby Lee and a bunch of other people. It's really funny. And my wife, Rebecca Cotchin, who is a good actress and comedian and goes, Oh, so we're driving to the the movie set. And my daughter is with me that day and she was about ten. And she goes, Daddy, a dog is going to die. I look at the light in front of me and there's a dog in the middle of traffic. And literally it's like a movie where cars like, oh, he's like going to get killed. And she's screaming her little head off. And I've been promising her a dog and today is not the fucking day. And I just said, Well, I'll scream at him to go home. So she screams at he sees her and comes right through traffic up to her door and she's holding on to her lamp. He jumps up to the window and he's got like black crazy beard. He looks like he's got rabies now. He's a white dog. I didn't even know this at the time. He was just that junkyard. And so he takes a little Lammy and they're playing. And I said, Tell him to go home. So he sits down, he watches us drive away. We drive a mile away to USC. When we get on to the campus, my daughter goes, Daddy, that puppy followed us. Sure enough, that dog is coming across the campus as fast as he can at my daughter. Apparently, chased us and found us and we kept him. She named him Henry. That day, she put a little piece of police tape she found over a garden around his neck. And made him our dog. And then her dad, who has Alzheimer's, had adopted a pit bull in Las Vegas. And now we have her because he's in hospice sadly. But she's a beautiful, sweet little black pickle. She's even sweeter than the Blue Dog. He's a dick, yet he's like a cat. Do you have any you said that you direct movies or plays or whatever. Do you have any any that are you're working on at this time? Yeah, we've got a new movie, I think it's called Karma. Obviously, movies change the name and stuff, but it's a horror movie that my wife is writing and we already have the funding for. So my company, Golden Artists Entertainment, is going to produce that one next Yesterday, actor James Hong got his star on the Walk of Fame, as if you don't know who he is. He loves that I'm the only person in the world who does an impression of him. Even when we did the voiceover for him in the movie, he's like, You do it for me. And I did. So some of it I got to do. So here's James Hong. If you don't know who he is, shut your eyes and you'll recognize him. Why don't you stay home and make noodles that the family that's you see from the very distinct voice he's been in. The first thing. It's all you want to think about that child. Yeah, he's like, I love this guy. He thought was the funniest thing. He made me do his voice all day, every day. He was like, get me on the phone calling his daughter. It was so funny and he is a super nice guy. I couldn't be more proud. He's like, 100 years old. I'm not kidding. He even was in that movie Airplane. If you go back and watch it, he's one of the people sits next to the guy and, like, kills himself. He plays the Japanese guy in that. But yeah, I love that guy. I see. They're real little. Real little short guy. I see a real little short guy. I would say he's I wouldn't say so short. He's like five, ten, but he's very thin. That's not the one I said. He was in everything I wish you could think of a big thing, but the movie really Michael Madsen in his world unraveling Michael Madsen and all of those Quentin Tarantino movies and stuff, if you don't know who he is. Yeah. And then I saw it with them. It's about these two twin brothers that are separated at birth and they end up meeting each other in war. And how they deal with that situation. It's really kind of a fun, crazy movie that we shot in a bunch of different countries. And it was wild. Those wild. Do you do you enjoy directing or acting or comedy doing a comedy? What what do you enjoy the most? I guess my favorite thing would be is if I could just direct comedy movies all day. I would prefer that I love serious acting, too, but it's I love comedy movies. It's so fun to write them. It's so fun to make them. It's fun to be on the set with all these creative people. And all of a sudden lines change because, you know, you've got all these great comedians in the same room and they'll say the line a different way. And you're like, I'm taking that. Thank you. And the creative process that happens on a comedy movie is totally different. Than when people are so serious and needing to be away from each other until they're right there at the last minute so that they can play off each other just the right way. And they don't want 50 rehearsals whereas comics want to rehearse 50 times so that we can come up with the right joke, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's very interesting. And for me it was more rewarding even though we made a giant war movie, you know, which was a feat to do, especially on the budget had. But for me, this bro, what happened, which sounds silly, is like it's Superbad meets The Hangover on a college campus. These two kids wake up after a giant, the biggest party of the year. One of them has an arrow kind of in this like this part of his neck, so it doesn't hurt that bad and he doesn't know why. And the other kid woke up in bed with a girl and he's a virgin and his fiancee's coming that day to get engaged. And he's afraid he slept with this girl. So the whole movie is like people will they'll wake someone up who might be sleeping and what happened? They'll, like, retell it. We go, we see it happen. And, you know, we're seeing five different versions of the truth. And at the end, we see the truth. And it's just a fun movie. I like those. How you see different versions. How do you at what what stage do you get funding and how in other words, is it just when you show somebody a book of the of the plot or is it something further along when when you get your funding? So that's a great question because that's the hardest part of any movie is getting it funded. And then the second part that's the hardest is getting it sold. So what my company does, we learn from and you're not going to believe this. My wife was the star for that company that makes Sharknado. They're called these Silo. But she was like their first big star. You go through all their old videos. She's on the cover of all of them. She was the woman who always killed the killer and all their stupid horror movies. Right? So we learned from them. What they did was they were making $50,000 movies and they had to distribute her. And they would call the distributor and say, What do you need? And distributor would say, We need this. And go, All right, we'll write a script for that. Then they'd send the distributor that if we make this for this, amount, can you sell it? Yeah, you've got a deal. So now they don't have to take their movie to 50 festivals and hope someone buys it or, you know, some convention here in L.A. it's presold and there's no better way to go to someone and say, Would you like to invest in my movie? We already have a distributor and it's presold, and he can show you the analytics on it. I can show you that my distributor, he worked for Blockbuster for 50 years and he's had his own company, so he's not going to rip you off for your silly amount of money, you know what I mean? So that's how we do it. And for me, couldn't be better. We've never lost anyone on a dime, so far. And I don't ever want to. I don't want to be that guy who goes, I really want to make a movie about Silkworm Farmer so they can win Academy Award or whatever. No I want to. I mean, if you put money in my company, Barton, there's no way I'm going to lose a dime for you because I don't want to. That's my main goal. Like, that's what I made, bro. What have I did on 50,000? If you watch, it looks like 5 million. I just knew it had to sell like a killer and every star had to be in it and 50,000 cameos in it. What you OK? It sounds better than the stock market. Yeah, sorry, you guys. Rosie, camera. Guys. Everyone will say. I just said it sounds better than the stock market. Yeah, it does. Yeah. Because it's I don't like having anything on shore. And here's what we do in Hollywood. You have to put their money in a separate account. So like, their money doesn't go into my bank account goes into account that I can't even touch unless the person running it is, you know, says we all can and it has to all go towards a movie. And that's how we run things. Everything at my company is by the book. You know, today my assistant did something and I was like, oh, don't ever do that. You know, let me handle it because, you know, he was like, oh, Dante is unavailable. I'm like, I'm not available. I was just in a meeting just tell him I'm in a meeting. You know, it was earlier today. I said, Tell him I'll call him back. But it was like, I guess I was unavailable, but just next time, say, Oh, he's in a meeting or call you back because I have a problem with even fibbing a little, if that makes sense. Like, I've never lied to my wife. I never will. Not once. 50,000 sounds like very just seed money to get started because it takes a lot more money than that to make a film. Let me tell you this break, I'm going to break some rules here so my movies don't go to theaters. Theater movies you've got to make they've got to be 50 million or more these days. 20 million maybe is the bottom. So there's this terrible spot that you don't want to be in as a businessman making movies. It's, I would say 500,000 to 20 million. If you're in that area, you're, you're set to lose money, you're set to lose money unless you've got the biggest stars in the world. And at some big movie other than that, that little area is the death spot. So if you make a $20 million movie or above, it's going to probably hit theaters and you're probably going to make 100 million. So when we make a $50,000 movie and we make it look like a $5 million movie and someone makes a $5 million movie that looks like a $5 million movie and we're in the same category, I'm going to make, let's say 600,000 on this $50,000 movie, and they're going to lose 4 million, 400,000 so that's the difference of me making a $50,000 movie that looks like 5 million and someone making 5 million is we get paid the same. These idiots well. So if you're getting 600,000, so am I. And I'm making so much and you're losing so much. Don't tell me I don't want to be rude. I have an obligation so I have to go off on a pleasure. Mike, my co-hosts that are great and very nice to talk with you. Thank you so much for having me. Nice talking to take care of those birds. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye bye. Bye, Grandpa. Oh, man, he leaves. I'm going to talk, Grandpa. OK. What were we doing now that no one's watching him I do the worst, be the worst host I can. And Phines, here. I'm going to be there on Tuesday. Well, sir. No, I think he was in the bathroom what's that? I'll be driving through Queens next. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, do you? Tuesday. Yeah. I'm taking my family for the first vacation ever because I work too hard for my daughter. I'm taking her to Broadway shows. We're going to some weddings. We're going to have a great time. Oh, wow. Clients. I've got some clients getting married, family getting married. Blah, blah, blah. It's going to be so fun. This is the first time in WA. Yeah, it's going to be Willow's first time. My daughter and I, I've been there a billion times. Billion? Yeah, one time. I'll know. So there's something. I don't know if it's on my bio, but I'm the only guy who does warm up for movies. You know, when you go to like a TV taping there's some warm up guys like, hey, everybody, you ever going to be on time? And there's the sign that blah, blah, blah. So I do that on movies. Any time they hire like a thousand extras, they only pay 100 of them. So if they have a thousand or 20,000, only 100 are being paid. The rest are being asked to be an extra in a movie. If they want to leave the front row in their red shirt, we're screwed. So my job is to keep them there all day. So we give away giant prizes and blah, blah, blah. But I was going to say, I've been to New York lots of times just for that. Like I was in Yankee Stadium for Anger Management with Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler. I've done that in like every Adam Sandler movie. I did. That was the Biggie Smalls movie that they filmed there. Notorious. Yeah, Notorious. I did that one there. A whole bunch, man. So I come out there a lot for that kind of stuff, or to meet up with clients or whatever or do stand up, you know? But most stand up comics don't go to L.A. or New York to do stand up. We live in L.A., in New York to work out our stand up. You don't get paid here. Like I tweeted today, I said, No comedy club in New York or L.A. pays more than 15 to $25 for a regular spot. They might pay more on a weekend for a giant room or something, but for a regular spot, if you go see me or the biggest you know, Kevin Hart tonight at the Comedy Store, we're both going to get 15 bucks. That's that's it. But the problem is all those prices came in in like 72 when everyone was making a dollar 80 an hour and $15 sounded great. I don't even have to work for one day just $15 Don Dick jokes. Well now parking's $25. We're losing ten. Yeah, they need to up prices. How do you manage working out your material and writing and all of that? I mean, it sounds like you're working 25 hours a day with directing and, you know, all that kind of. Stuff, man. Yeah, I actually posted this too the other day. Someone actually asked me a question similar. They said, Wait a minute, how can you be a manager if you're performing in Reno right now? And I said to them, Because I work from seven in the morning until seven at night every day. I don't dick jokes on the weekends for one hour a night each night. If my clients don't think the other 23 hours of my time are valuable enough, they don't have to join my fucking company. And as far as writing jokes, honestly, man, I'm at the point now where it's like when I first started, it was hard you had to figure it out. Now I just know if it's going to work or not. Comics. I taught classes for like 20 years of comedy classes and it's like my wife will ask me three jokes that one's going to kill. That was going to be OK and that was going to bomb. It's like, But I still want to do it. Don't do it. Sure enough, killed it was OK. But because that's what I do, you know what I mean? It's like, that's all I know. If you need me to do anything else, build a house, it's going to be a crooked house. I'll turn out. I know how to write jokes. I know how to direct movies and do this kind of stuff. Sadly, this is all I've done since I was 15, and I'm well-educated, but not on any other subjects. So storytelling, is it? That's that's it, though. It's such a such a big deal. I mean. Thanks. Yeah, I remember. We're built around our society's built around storytelling. Yeah. Pandemic happen, everybody. Lockdown. That's all. All people. There was that one book. Everybody loved the Bible. And there's some story I've. Heard of it. That I've heard mentioned on a podcast yesterday. I was on one of my clients. Do you guys know who's stuttering? John Melendez is? He was on the Howard Stern show and stuff. Anyway, he he has a big podcast right now. It's very political. And wait, what did you just say that made me? Oh, the Bible. I told him, I said, Did you know that there are books of the Bible that are not in the Bible that we all know were written by the same people? They're just sitting around in museums and they don't want to ever add them to the Bible because it just didn't fit the scenario. Yeah, but that's great. I heard about it. Yeah. All the same apostles wrote it as part of the Bible, and people just took it out and we know over time how people are, you know, like when you are like, if Donald Trump were president 2000 years ago, he would have changed the Bible here and there. Then the next Pope changes it, and then King James had his version, you know what I mean? Like a version. What do you mean, your version? Do you know what I'm saying, James? You know what pops into mind? Is, were you just talking about, like, how you rather make comedies instead of acting a regular movie? So now I'm wondering, when they were writing this Bible, they were just like, so we keep doing this over and over again. Is he playing these jokes? Are countries you. Jackasses about it? Right? Right. Yeah. They're like, all. Right, jackass forever. Let's make a new one. Right? We have little running. Yeah, exactly. I remember I listen to something about this, about archeology and this, like, trash archeologist. And they would talk about how, like, you can find so much information and, you know, wastebaskets and whatnot, but they had find like they go back to the, I guess the days when the Bible was being written and there's all these papers that they found that have been thrown away, but they're like but there are still kind of written for the Bible. So shall we take them as they not be here? So they should be in. It wasn't important, was it not? Yeah, that's pretty funny. Yeah. Who knows? Yeah, who knows? Who knows? What are your thoughts? We know it is a life story. I just think that people like stories and I don't know. I mean, that's what Mormonism is, right? It's like an amendment to the Bible. It I think so, yeah. You know, how did that all went down, right? How like Joseph Smith was like a 15 year old kid and he told his girlfriend, Hey, guess what? I found this crazy hat. And when I look into it, God tells me a new Bible. And then he's like, Oh, OK, he said this, and she writes it all down, right? And then they lost it. His friend stole it and said, Can you repeat all that? I want to see if it's the same thing you are reading. So he did it again and came out a whole different story. But anyways, yeah, I know all of that. Wow. Yeah. No, that wasn't some kid trying to get you guys. Come on. He was 50. Wow. Are you religious, Dante? I was an altar boy, and I am not against religion by any means. I believe in God, and I don't even know why I do, except for the fact that when I've prayed before things miracles happen for me. And I can't explain them. But I think that manmade religion is the worst thing on earth. It's killed more human beings than anything else. It has. Yeah. Religion has killed more humans. Anything it is. It's the reason for racism. It's the reason for slavery. Even is in the Bible. It's OK to enslave anyone of a foreign country, just not your own. That's all he says. And it says in the Bible to enslave others as long as they don't come from your country. It's a lot of things in the Bible that it's like, why are we picking and choosing? You know what I mean? Like, I've seen people who are still in the army talking about how the heck people serve Oh, did you just have some shellfish? Because gay people and eating shellfish or pork are both the same abomination in the Bible, same. Is that. Right? That bled more than one thread. I'm telling the whole thing. Be doing that, young lady. We have to stone. You did that thing right now. Yeah. So yeah, man, I know the Bible backwards and forwards, and that's what made me not want to be religious, you know, because I had too many questions. And you know what a nice priest said to me one time because I was always in trouble. Always. He said to me, Dante, I said, Man, I don't believe any of this. I said, Come on, man. There's no boat today that could fit every animal. And this guy was in one spot. There's no way he can find, like, things in California or where, you know, I'm like, naming all these lizards where I live, I'm like, where were those lizards? Over there he goes, Dante, here's what it is. Because I believe all of these are fables to help us all be better people. And you live with that and I said, that's a good way to look at it. If I can look at these as just stories I made up, you know, some dude was in a someone's a whale stomach. Sure. Then I'll buy into it because I like Peter Pan. That's a nice story, you know what I mean? So I think a lot of the things in that Old Testament if white people especially could see the people that wrote these things down the dark and how they look like al Qaeda or whatever these people are afraid of with their twangs. All right. You're from Atlanta. You know what I'm talking about, man. I mean, thank God Georgia isn't as bad as it used to be. At least Atlanta's black now. And there are some good places like Dahlonega. Doesn't seem as bad as some other places, but I'm just so tired of, like, I feel like we went backwards. You guys people are burning books worrying about racism after we've already had a black president. We moved on with that. We're in a blended, more blended country. The like. How do we go backwards? Our laws being unwritten. You know why? I feel like here's what I feel like, and it makes me very sad. I feel like I used to be both. I think I said at the beginning that I voted for the best person I was, Republican and Democrat. Not anymore. I'm not. Once the Republicans showed me that they're racist because I can't ever be OK with that. That's just not on my radar. And so I think the problem dumb people in dumb states think that they are trying to own lives by changing the laws. Oh, you don't like abortion? Now we're going to put it back. No, dummy, you're not. You're going to bring it back to the states and the states are going to turn it over in your dumb state. You think California will ever over you know, overturn Roe versus Wade? It's never going to happen. Ding dong. You're not owning the lives. You're owning yourselves. You're owning your daughter, your home and your wife. You're you're only hurting yourself. You know, I don't know how it is in Georgia, but I perform all over the country and it drives me crazy. I'm like, oh, can I get a drink? Oh, sorry. Not on a Sunday. What? I can't drink on a what? No, like, I know we hate it, too. Then change it. No, but it's a law. Yeah, I know. But your grandma made up that law in the twenties when she was tired of her husband not coming home. So they made up this law. They can't drink on Sundays because he has to go to church. So change it. Just change it. I don't know. Another county go by. God damn man. You're grown up, your grandma's dead, and then that's it. Then they're not going to change because it is to benefit like is it benefits them too much. The laws are said to benefit them in the long run, but they really don't. They're all there. They're making them. Here's, here's the other thing I said, and this is being I don't want anyone to take this in the wrong way because I said this online and a lot of black people fought over this. They're like, Donte didn't mean it like that. He means it like white people would freak out. They want women to have a baby, even in the case of rape or incest. And I said, wait till those white people who don't think their wife or daughter is ever going to be raped is raped by whatever race they hate. I said, if they get a black race rape baby, are they going to ask her to not abort it? You know what I mean? And then I also posted some woman said something so great. She said, my body is not here for someone who can't have babies to take my baby. Right. You know what I mean? Like, it's the truth. That's what they want them to do. Well, if you can't have it, you need to give it away. I am not a factory for people who can't make babies. I read about that. Do you remember what that what exactly that came from? I know it's from something that Connie Berry. You mean that quote? Yeah. About the. Oh, I don't know. I just. I just repulsed it, and I think the word was actually incubated. My body is not an incubator for people who can't have their own till. I know that's been like an actual there's been like an actual, like, subject of, like, contention because Amy Barrett or whatever her name is. Dummy call me. Yeah. She wrote I think she wrote something in the legal past as a professional about how I think, yeah, I think it's like she she was looking at like old census data or something like that. And she was talking about it was about how the the quote is like, you know, what? Let me just find it. Let me just find it. Yeah, find it. And by the way, I want to say something while you're looking it up. If I keep licking my lips, it's because they are burning for two days. I had the worst chapped lips, and I watched myself on video on John Melendez this show yesterday. And it looks like. It's starting to get dry. That are burning. And I do not have Chapstick because my daughter steals it. It's still. Work right. Did you find. It? OK, so I'm on Snopes and Snopes is saying no, they didn't argue against abortion in order to boost this, quote, domestic supply of infants. But it comes. From, oh, I know what you're talking. Yeah, yeah. Tony Barrett. And in Alito's draft they said that the U.S. needs, quote, a domestic supply of infants to meet needs of parents seeking to adopt and that those who would otherwise abort must be made to carry the term, giving children up for adoption. So yes, she wrote a brief about abortion, and she noted that. She noted that, and she argued that mothers must birth their baby. Give it up. For adoption to meet market demands. OK, these are the tweets, right? I did hear that someone said from market demands and maybe that's the part that's got snubbed is saying it is false. But maybe I still I also read something where they're like, you know, if they bring back abortion and just named a couple of states, they're like, that's 600 and something extra babies in those already welfare states. Yeah. You know, like, who's going to take care of these kids? The people. People who you know, you never hear about any of these, like, weirdos that these perverts that, you know, are worried about, you know, where you have you babies and when you have your babies and how many babies you have, you never hear about any of those perverts actually adopting any babies. I mean, they definitely shouldn't because they're deranged, but you never hear about them actually doing anything like that. By the way, I'm a Hollywood elite. I guess I own a business in Hollywood. We don't eat babies. If someone ever hurt a child around me, I'd murder them. Are you really have you have you actually visited the baby thing? These babies have visited Dante. Have you visited the basement of a pizza parlor in person to see it for yourself? Have you seen those people? They get they get the answer no to all their own answers, and they still believe it. So you're sure you haven't seen anybody? You haven't seen Bill Gates or anyone, you know, you know, literally sucking the blood out of a baby like a vampire? No, not lately. Yes, I would. Have even playing it off on, like, Halloween. Not right. Like nothing. Not even playing. Around. Interesting. Yeah. People here care so much about, like, that's why we have homeless here because we treat them pretty well here in Los Angeles. Do you know the guy? There's a homeless man who lives across the street from me. I have a house. He's been there for 12 years. I know him by name, and I don't want him to move. And I'll tell you why. He goes around every single day and cleans the entire neighborhood. He does. And he's never done anything wrong, not once. And everyone goes there and is nice to him and feeds him. And if he wasn't here, we would have leaves and trash and everything else in the street that would never get cleaned up. And he has been a better neighbor than my next door neighbors. Yeah. Yeah. We walk our dogs just, you know, in Hollywood. Yeah. At midnight, and my wife says, oh, you're too, you know, you're too busy. I'll go do it. I don't even think twice. We are not unsafe in Hollywood at all. At all. And I hate to say this. I'll bring up the cops again real quick. I don't know if I'm going to throw out some numbers. I'm sure you guys haven't heard, but they will blow your mind. 54% of the Los Angeles budget goes only to the LAPD. What? How much? 54% of the entire budget for Los Angeles, it's in the billions goes to the LAPD. You know where that money should go. Half of it should go to the homeless. It should. And I'll tell you how we could fix things if we had housing and we had mental health and doctors and nurses and professionals to get them off of drugs and drug treatment centers set up for free for them and all of these things, just like they do in other first world countries that I go to that don't have homeless people sitting on the ground everywhere. It works for them. It can work for us. And we just don't do it. Our politicians, every single one of them says they're going to do it and they don't. And here's what I was going to say. I listen to a police scanner every day just to see what's happening in my neighborhood or whatever and or see if I need to go film something. That and nine out of ten calls are we've got a homeless guy holding a stick. Someone call that in. There's a homeless woman talking to ourself near a light. We're afraid she might step in traffic. Just dumb shit like this. Oh, there's a homeless guy sitting in the middle of traffic, blah, blah, blah. Like. You know, make a person. Millions of dollars, billions it takes for them to just to go on all these stops. If those people were just actually being treated as human beings and helped by the city of Los Angeles, we wouldn't have to. That's why I say defund the police. We don't need 54% to go to them. How about 25%? And we'll have enough cops, and we'll use the rest for the homeless and for our streets to clean them up and do other good things. With them, because we really don't need the cops we have. I saw a man I heard a man stole candy from a liquor store. Right. And I was like, Oh, shit, that's right. Where where I am, I'm going to run over there. That's on film. I get over, there's a helicopter and there are four cop cars. And sure enough, this man has stolen some candy from a liquor store. Not by gun or anything else. He just ran out, grabbed some candy. They are displaying it on the ground. There's about $8 worth of candy I wanted to say, Hey, everybody, I'm going to give this money to the owner. Plus, he gets his candy back. Why don't we get all of you to go fight crime? So. Right. But they didn't they were there for a half hour over a guy who stole a little bit of candy. It's not even a felony. It's a misdemeanor. It's a ticket, maybe. Maybe right yeah. And 54% needs to go to these guys. I don't think so. Yeah. I'm having I'm having some suspicions then there are a lot of things you say, but, you know, I'm one they're probably like, there's so much stuff you see, I'm trying to go back to all of it gone. Going back to abortions and states is shooting them their own foot. I don't know. I don't know if pursuing them in their own foot. I think I think if we follow the dollar feet, a lot of people are making money off of the off of the of the mistreatment and the babies that are being born that have nothing to do with them. But they're getting money for it because if they weren't if it was, yeah. The same thing, I would think the homelessness in it would be something that would if it was truly profitable for a politician or the government to get rid of homelessness, I think they would make the Uber the George Carlin joke about the war on homelessness is essentially the same thing. You know, throughout the beginning of time until now, there's not much they're not going to do no war on homelessness because there's no real profit in it. There's no real I mean. I guess you're 100% right in. The grand scheme of things, you would think because I've thought from when I was young and still to this day, I'm like, the more people that have houses, the more educated everyone is, the more money our whole system will make. I don't know. The more I'm seeing in this world, the more I'm like, I think people are just kind of greedy and they can't see. They are they don't want to see it. It's like, you know. But yeah, I think it's always follow the money, find it. You're right. You're 100% right. And guess what? I brought this up for years to anyone who would listen. And I'll I'll explain what I'm going to say about the homeless and why they're here and what happened so about ten years ago, I said to my wife, we don't have any homeless in L.A. Anymore, and there's no more graffiti. And I said, do you want to know why, dear? And I said, it's because everything in L.A. costs so much that even gang members, parents and themselves, we're able to take this home they bought for 30,000 and it's selling now for a million and a half. And now they're wealthy. They don't need to gangbang anymore. They don't need to spray paint anymore. Everyone in l.a. Is wealthy because of their home value. Now, so what happened in l.a. Is all of a sudden i started seeing homeless everywhere after years of never seeing them and never seeing graffiti. And now graffiti is coming back. And I said to my wife, something crazy's happening. We have to figure it out. So I started reading about it. A judge made one weird mistake that she could correct but never did. She basically said, you cannot go after the homeless stuff anymore. Meaning, here's the rules. Homeless can go anywhere they want as long as they stay. Have enough room on the sidewalk for a wheelchair to get by. They don't pee poop or do drugs and they don't sleep during the day. If they don't break those rules, they can stay wherever they are. That's what a judge said. She meant it more. As for Skid Row, but everyone on Skid Row in Oh, we don't have to stay Skid Row anymore. So they went every where they moved out of Skid Row because the law said now they can't. So now what's happening is we have more people that aren't necessarily homeless in L.A. But people move to L.A. and i've heard this from real people who tell me go, hey, man, I'm a comic. I'm from Georgia. I live in a tent, man. I'm not homeless. It's just easier for me. I don't want to pay 3000 a month rent. So I have a gym membership. I get up every day, I go to the gym, I take my shower, blah, blah, blah. Other people live in their vans here or there. You know, so many people do that now. The other half are homeless and ah, some are crazy and some are on drugs or both. But here is what happens. And here's where you follow the money. As I said to everyone, here's what's happening, you guys, they can change this law, but they're not. They want them in our neighborhoods because values are going down a little. And now all of a sudden in Hollywood, we never have construction because it's Hollywood. It's being preserved now. Every third home was torn down, every third home, these historic homes, so they could build these giant new apartment buildings. And they started coming up everywhere. Every street had ten constructions on it, ten everywhere. There's nowhere to drive, nowhere to get anywhere. And I went, oh, my God, our mayor, he did all of this. He is what do you call this? People sell property or property. You know, those get. So this is what he does. This was his job before he became mayor. So I figured it out, man. He's having the homeless bring down property value and telling all of his friends, come in, man. I'm going to make it easy for you to build here. Do this, do that. All these people have done it. He's leaving the homeless here and now these guys are not filling up their apartment building. There's a place across the street from me that's been there for six years. It's only half full. Half full, and it's in the prime of Hollywood. There's places that still have signs have zero people in it. So the plan here's where you follow the money, my friend. All these people are going to go mad. My property value is down since the homeless are still here and no one's moving in. And the mayor and all of his buddies are going to say, you know what? I'll buy all those buildings back from you for half price if you're buying. Then when he does that, after he's mayor, once he goes away and he buys back all this property and his friends do, then they will all get together and make sure the homeless problem goes away. So that their property values go up. All these investors that he made go out and build the property are just suckers to his plan. So I told this to a woman at the L.A. Times and she goes, I'm investigating everything you just said. She's like, I'm already on that trail and everything. He said how how is it if the overwhelming majority of L.A. Is very liberal and I would assume, like, not interested in funneling all this money to the police state, how how are the citizens that are voting like falling for these republicans that do next to their name? And why is that's why? Because they scare them. Because just like if you guys see something about L.A., the police here send out these things right now because they're a vote for a new police commissioner, vote for a new city attorney and everything has picture black people doing smash and grab or something like that where they're like, oh, crime is up in l.a. And i, i listen to it every day. It's down in L.A. they want you to think it's up because they're running for office. That's it, period. That's the answer, man. Yeah, because they have the they have the ad money and they're already sort of rich to begin with. They're able to. Right here in L.A. The smart ones know how to vote, and the dummies vote for the wrong people. And sometimes we get the wrong people. Sometimes we get the right ones, and hopefully we'll get one that cares about the actual homeless. And, you know, there's a guy right now, I'm going to say his name, if that's OK. Yeah. So as Craig, I think his last name is Greenway I want him to win. And I like Sharon Bass. She's a black woman who's a congressman here. And she was I saw her with Bernie and stuff, and I went to see Bernie. And she was she's the one I wanted but then when I met with this man, he told me her record. He told me his record, and I like this guy's record better. And he's like, So you would rather vote for a woman who's black who might not do her job over me when I'm saying, I'll do everything you're asking? And I was like, wow, I will have to mention this to my wife and we'll get back to you. And he was right. Of course, I want to vote for the black woman who is a congresswoman, who is with Bernie and everything else. But he was right when I looked up her record. She has been she's disappeared all she's been doing is trying to get other people elected and she hasn't done her job. We all know politicians like that. Yeah. I want to go back to abortion. But before that, I did want to ask you, what is your experience been like talking to other white people about, like your activism and different things? I've had the worst life because of it. Yeah, I'm serious. I'm serious. White people treat me like shit. I lost half of my family and half of my friends over this. I did. And I didn't care. I still don't care. Fuck them. I'm serious. If you're racist, I'm glad you weeded yourself out, fool. If you can't see what I'm doing, you know, and you can't watch these videos and see that they're like, Why are you filming them? Just leave them alone. But, you know, shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. If those were, you know, I even said to one of my friends who got on me who was Jewish, and they were, like I said, what if those were Jewish people that the police were killing every day and beating every day on TV? What if those were Jews? You would be calling me an anti-Semite if I wasn't out there marching for you. So you better get your ass out there for everybody else. And I changed their mind. So that was good. Yeah. Because it's true. If Jewish people are being murdered by the police every day, they would call anyone an anti-Semite who was not out there marching with them. Mm hm. Yeah. Or not speaking about it. Right. And I'm you. I live in a Jewish house. The best. Get that? My daughter is a black Jew, and my dog, my wife is a Jew. And yeah, no, and also, I mean, I have conversations this about to white people or people that just random people that whatever want to fight the cause going to be helped. And I think it is. I appreciate you speaking from your chest. There's some truth to it. Because I think that's the only way we're going to also be able to actually have some kind of good conversation is like I was taught yeah. No, I've talked to a lot of like white liberals or people that are very like, oh yeah, BLM. But I they I think sometimes they want to tiptoe around. Guy is so small. Did you hear? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Right. Now there's this. So they're so scared to say anything wrong or what's on their real like the real feeling about like maybe the white person does feel like we need more black actors to, to, to support. But they're so afraid to say anything. But I think again, this is me putting a lot on my white folks, but you kind of got a responsibility to go ahead and say that and get and get told that you're wrong. All right? But it's that part of you. I think we're beyond being an active listener and trying to sit there in like, I want to say what's what's right and to the point where we all needs to start learning. Like like. Here's my problem. You know as well as I do, I have I've always and I'm not that guy who goes, oh, my black friends, I always had black friends, real black friends where, you know, it's like I have two friends, one black, one white, like, you know what I mean? Like, some people just say that dumb shit. Mm hmm. I've always been around black people, and so being around black people, I have always seen that. There's always infighting. Even with my daughter being light skinned, she couldn't fit in with the black people. She couldn't fit in with the white people. You know what I mean? Like, we all see it, and there's always been infighting. I remember in the nineties, if you were light skinned, they were like, oh, light skinned. Oh, that's eighties. Blah, blah, blah, you know, whatever. And then anything I post, same thing. Black people always fight on my page over the same issue. And I think what bothers me is like, I just wish that when it came to race, racism, police brutality and things like that, that we could all just go, Let's forget about what color anyone is. And remember, we're all humans and we're really just here to protect each other and be nice to each other. And you know, the color of someone's skin doesn't change the fact that all they want is love, health, happiness, safety and freedom for themselves and their family and friends, right? Yeah. That's all we all want love, health, happiness, safety and freedom. That's it. If you have those five things, you're the happiest person in the world, even if you have no money. Because with love, health, happiness, safety and freedom, we only need enough money to get by. Yeah. There's another thing I want to get off of that, and then nothing you say. But the one thing about that is it makes me think of you talking to that police officer. That was like nothing wrong happened here. You know, you you. It's what you sound like. Everyone has the right to the pursuit of happiness and justice, right? That's an ideal world. We'll have that. And these cops are supposed to provide that chance for me. To get the same justice everyone else, but they don't because we're not in it. Because there's so many divides of I'm a cop, you're not a cop, you're black. I'm where you have BLM. And I'm wondering. Yeah, still big on trying to think about how we can because I agree. We're all human and we all have the that that cop that was like what was you? My friend still goes home to his family and still probably wants to support them and doesn't feel well. He probably thinks he's a nice man. He really thinks I'm a fucking idiot, and he's never done anything wrong because part of the problem with police is a corrupted system corrupts people, but they don't see it because it's OK in their community. So I saw a video so powerful cops pulled over a guy they didn't know as a cop, an ex-cop. They went and they said, Give me this, give me that. He's like, No, I'll give you my name and that's all you get. And they go, No, you have to do this. It's like, Actually, I used to be a cop. Like, Oh, OK, well, we'll let you go. He's like, No, no, come back, you guys. You just told me I had to do this, and I told you I didn't have to that makes you guys corrupt. And like, what? We're not corrupt because you just told me I must do something. And when I told you I was a cop, you went, Oh, sorry. And went, to let me know, because I promise you, you're in a corrupted system. Because I promise you there's not one of you that hasn't changed your report slightly to make it sound like it was better for you than it is the victim or the person you arrested or something like that. He goes, we all do it, or he'll back you up that this guy may have had a gun or you thought he did, even though neither of you saw it, you were just scared. You shot because that's corruption. He goes backing people up in the time when you don't have to or standing up for someone just because he's another cop makes you corrupt. Know it does. I'm about to jump in because I know, I know Brendon's mad at me for always saying this, but I'm like, keep going. I this is the big problem with capital. Like capital being the issue. Like a lot of the issue of corruption. I mean, there is a lot of race and stuff to go into it too. But I think that needing capital, I don't know, like someone protecting their job or doing what's doing something. Like if a cop was like, let me do something, it's not corrupt ah, they notice something's corrupt. They may not do it because they might lose their job. And a lot of seems like stemmed from this home. Again, follow the dollar of why they're doing the things they're doing because I don't know. I feel too sympathetic for the average person. Think that they are pretty good people for the most part. You know, I think they're swayed by like thinking that's like if you're a cop, there's, there's, there's a lot of things going on too. Is, is, is deep. But you're so right, man. And I get get it and I don't, I never try to say I hate the cops. You know, people are always like, oh, I hate them. They should all die. And, like, you won't find me saying that. What I say is I hate a corrupted system. And I hate not cops. And what I used to write that kind of went a little viral. And some people, you know, used to wear shirts and stuff, the things I would say. But one of the things I said was 20 bad cops being protected by 2000 bad cops is 2020 bad cops. And it was 20, 20. And that's the truth. Yes, that is true. If 2000 people are defending those bad cops, you're all bad. Yeah. No, it's real. I've been I really try to look into stuff about, like, why I should or should not feel like I should get the cops to be defunded. But I keep leaning back on defunding part because of what you're saying of like the system's corrupt. The funding just means it doesn't say get rid of the police. It means they don't need their whole budget. Yeah. Do you know in L.A., I haven't put out the video yet, but they bought a whole bunch of BMW. There's these little tiny ones that are supposed to be hybrids. Tons of these are going to be these police cars that were going to be the ride around town, you know, that they didn't like them. So they just sort of gave them to their own employees. That are cheap discount with our money. That's that they drive BMW bikes in L.A.. Yeah, these cops, they buy tanks and shit. Well, what is that for? There's no army. We have an army. And that means that those tanks and shit are for us and the people of Los Angeles, not to protect us from. It's to get us. Yeah. So, you. Know, it's for. Us for one thing. Now, you got me fired up. Yeah, I lost half of my friends and family over this issue. I still do. People are so mad. I lost. People are even like you own a business. How much money are you losing? Tons and tons millions. I lost millions. I'm not talking millions. There are people. You know, the ShamWow guy is ShamWow. Yeah, I agree with him on everything. We had a big fight over Republican shit, and he says that's. That's my a. Lot. Yeah. Very capitalistic. Yeah. You go to jail. Yeah. No, he didn't go to jail. One of my other clients went to jail and he made me lots of money to damn it. But listen, the point is, this. I'm going to say, I think jail would change you. Yes. Yes. So we've got. They call them Sham. Well, what else? I want this white white activist in l.a. Who still makes videos every day that go viral. And he's still being followed by obama. He's still being followed by Rihanna and every celebrity and all this shit. But here's where my heart's broken. My wife and I had to go to therapy over it because she was worried about my life, and I had to stop being the guy who screamed at police and just filmed them quietly from afar. That's where I am now. She doesn't. That's all she cared about was like, don't get in their face. Don't make them want to murder you anymore. You are failing them. Just shoot it from afar and get the fuck out. So that is me. But here's what I think is bothering me is let's go back to where our black leaders and white people I was trying to tear down black leaders, even black people always, you know, well, they're fucking I'm a fuck. Yeah. No, we need whoever is going to lead somebody because I guess what I'm saying is, as a white activist, who's still screaming BLM, I'm the last one, at least in L.A., I'm the last one in L.A. Screaming at every day, still wearing BLM masks, still wearing the the shirts, every day. I'm the last one, and it's like i don't even see black people doing it, and i'm still doing it every day. And it's like it's frustrating man, when no one else, it's like everyone was like, well, that was a fun summer, wasn't it? We marched in. We got to hang out even though it's covered. No, goddammit, it's still going on. Nothing changed right where everybody else go. I'm still showing you videos. I'm still showing you proof every day. Stop it. Letting it happen. It's the people who are still letting that happen. It's just like I always said, in the south, they fuck themselves. It's true. You know what? The cops to stop doing things. You can't just march for a half a summer you can't let your black celebrities not fucking speak up. And you're right, white people have to speak up to Lonell said this the first time I've ever seen white people at a march she goes, That's the reason we're not being murdered, because you guys are here. They're afraid to kill white people. And she was right. And I'm sorry for interrupting this here. Sorry. Well, I think it's kind of it's kind of weird to, like, be specifically calling out, like, black celebrities because like you said, if you feel like you're the only one like where are where are the rest of the where are the rest of the white celebrities? Well, I agree with you about white celebrities. Don't let me too. It doesn't need. To, but it. Desperately does. Oh, really? I really do. They say no, they do. And they say one thing. And there is one thing. If there's one thing that I learned out of 20, 20 is well, there's two things I learned out of 2020 is that y'all can't nobody be trusted. All y'all are nasty. And two is that, you know, this is becoming this is evolving. It has evolved completely from a racial issue where it's like I mean, in some ways it kind of feel when when we put the onus on like one community, it feels like we're kind of essentially telling people, telling like a whole group of people to like pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Because all I mean by this is you. Well, I just I want to finish. I'm not I'm sorry I stole your view or anything, but because, you know, we're saying we're asking, you know, where is this? Where is that? Where are these people? Where are those people? Well, the same things that we're describing, you know, about the way that, you know, different people are profiled or targeted, punished differently. That all affects that all affects people the same way we watch different celebrities like even Ellen, like getting, you know, canceled or blackballed. Essentially, once they established that they were gay. That same kind of backlash exists for people that, you know, are famous and do have money and have all this potential and promise. And, you know, once they do decide to speak out against the wrong thing, you know, it's over. They're doing that. Right? It happened to Colin Kaepernick. We see it happen. Call it happening every day that he don't play football. It's happening. Right. I'll tell you right now. It's happening right now, too, that Representative Madison Cawthorn, I don't know why they don't like that man, but they don't like that man at all. And every day it seems like they're like in some weird picture or video I think they wrote about that. Man, I don't know what it is, but, you know, you're privileged, you're not privileged, but you're you're status can go like that. If you say something that somebody doesn't like. Yeah, but I'm doing it is. And so that's the difference. I am not saying to someone else, hey, you guys, I'm not going to do it. But the black community should do it. I'm saying, as someone who has lost millions of dollars. Yeah, half of my family and friends and I'm saying if I can do it, where is everyone else? Yeah, they are celebrities, too. But what I meant by that and I didn't mean to just say black, but why I say black is it is a Black Lives Matter issue. And when I said, oh, if this was Jewish people being killed and there was not one Jewish celebrity ever at an event or a rally, I would have said Jewish people. Why aren't Jewish people, Jewish celebrities showing up? Where's Adam Sandler? Where's, you know, this guy or that guy? That's all I meant. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's here and. I am doing it. So that's why I feel like I can tell another celebrity I did it. You better do it. Not I get it. He lost money, but we're all coming back from it and we're going to be better for it. I mean, you do have a right to say that right to say whatever but yeah, there's two things. One, a first, I was going to say the reason why I do speaking as a black person, that but I'm not famous are rich. But the reason why I'm not out there protesting every day is because I got bills, my friend. Not that do matter, but this is where it goes back to rich people. And this is why, again, I agree with Sierra even more like actually really hard. So I am very, very adamant. I'm very adamant about I shouldn't have to tell the people that oppressed me about my oppression. I'm too busy being oppressed right now if you really care. And he really had like if you really cared, then you would go look up yourself how you have me fucked up, you know, like if that was something that matter because for the last I don't know since I got since since we got here on America, we've been probably protesting a little bit about how we don't like how we're being treated. To a certain extent. It only it seems to only make a big difference when it is from these the people that have justice and rights to actually say something. So I would put it more on it's every if you if you got if you if you're profiting off of this system that is profiting off of systematic racism, then there and that's including me, that's working a job. I'm not like out here on the street struggling all the way. But we have a little bit of responsibility to in my opinion, to say something. And I think, yeah, I feel you. I feel you that I think every every especially celebrities should be out here saying stuff. But honestly. I guess what if if black celebrities did come out as a as a force, you don't get rid of all of them and then every white celebrity would have followed because they were just as afraid but have everything to lose and nothing to gain, if that makes sense. And I know you would say they do have everything to gain, but I'm talking about why people don't care. That's the people I'm talking now. Yeah. You know, those people, the ones we don't care about anyway. You know, the ones I hope change or something good happens. I mean, there's every generation. I'm much older than you guys, but I feel like when I grew up, I thought that someday all those dumb old sixties will be dead ones who hated black people and stuff, and we'll just move on. And we're what happen? I guess they told their kids, you know, and those kids told their kids. Now they're still working and they won't wake up. I think it's bigger. I think it's beyond that fear. And like I'm telling you this as systematic, like even the people that even me, this person is preaching, all is yada, yada. Let me get a nice amount of money in my hand and this amount of clout. And we'll see how silent I get when I have some comfortable life for me and mine. It takes a lot of confidence, which I'm a confidence a lot of bravery to step out of that. Again, a systematic capitalistic, it makes us really into it makes us really kind of individualistic to a point where once you make it past that cross the threshold is not your problem anymore. You know, I even have that thing with even the way I speak sometimes is like since I sound white, are the good one that I now have to check myself to be like, am I still here to represent everybody? Even though I pass this threshold that I'm a white person able to listen to me talk or whatever, I still have to be like if I had more slang or if I use anything different, I, you know, there's this you know, it's tough to be ever president of that, I think sometimes, but it's easy just to be very sympathetic to my black celebrities out there. It is easy to follow it is a slippery slope and money will change your mind quick. You know. How about someone who's as rich as Oprah that could never have her money taken away? She could have been out there every day and she would have had every celebrity right behind her. And you know, I did it, Oprah. I gave up millions for this. And why can't you like Yahoo? Why don't you why don't you give $1,000,000,000 to some organization that'll do it for you then or something? You know what I mean? Let's use the money. Celebrities, if you don't show up, let's let the money show up. Oh, yeah. Have you all seen? Have y'all all seen? Don't look up. That's all I know. I haven't oh, I did see it, but I was too high to remember it. Now, so the premise of it, everybody listening, the premise of it is essentially, you know, they Leonardo DiCaprio looks up at the sky and he sees that there's a meteor hurdling. Oh, yes. Yeah. He and Jennifer Lawrence are like, oh, shit, you know, we got to tell somebody. So they go and tell the government. The government's like, oh, shit, this sounds important, bro. And they finally get up to the president, who is Meryl Streep is basically playing Trump. And she's like, I hear you, but I have midterms in like so and so, so literally like and it's like a def con like 11 since you like it's going like once if the if the if the meteor makes contact, it's going to destroy the planet. Like it's there's there's no there's no chance there's no chance of anything positive happening. It's not going to miss it's not going to. There will be no midterms. You know, whittle down no matter how bad. And so you get through you keep watching the movie and the movie is basically about people like it's basically about misinformation and like basically like the way that we live now. So it was like soup. I thought it was maybe going to be like interesting and fun, but it was mostly just incredibly depressing. Like, bitch, I lived all I literally lived all that. Like, it just happened like 18 months ago. And so, like, the further you get, like, it finally gets out to like the, the public that there is a giant meteor hurtling towards the earth. And so it starts freaking out. Meryl Streep is like, oh my God, fine, I'll do something. And so like, they craft some kind of plan to like shoot down the meteor and they have it marked on the calendar. They got like axes crossing off. They're checking all the boxes until the day they're going to shoot the meteor. And then, you know, it counts down and it doesn't happen. And they're like, girl, what happened? And so then they go back to Meryl Streep and Meryl's like, OK, so I heard what you were saying about like this year and like imminent demise and complete extinction. OK, but what if we let it keep go and so when faced with like the imminent, literal, complete, undeniable, like, destruction of all humanity, all business, all life, all funds, all that some dummy had, the great idea is kind of a spoiler, but you'll be fine. Yeah. Because Dummy had the great idea to see what if we could what if we can make some money off of this? Like, what if we could make what if I told you there was a way to profit off of the meteor so they just let it keep hurtling towards the earth. And, like, the window just to interfere with its impact is closing, like, by the hour. And they're like, oh, but, but but I'm telling you, bro, if we could get this to work like you, have you ever seen a kajillion dollars even on a screen? Like, it's crazy? So I say that just to say that like, you know, capitalism. It definitely it's we've definitely more from a more racial from a more strictly racial point of contention in the country to to a classist one for sure because like that's I mean that basically happened that basically happened between all of these like crazy crackhead congresspeople you know buying stock in that in Pfizer. And whether or not and the people who make masks when they knew before anyone else knew, you know all that kind of all that crazy shit happens every happens every day. And that's what's happening with all this abortion stuff, all the abortion stuff, the CRT stuff. They're finding ways to profit off of you being vulnerable and dumb and just at risk or just dying. I'm pretty sure they found a way to profit off of you just plain die. No one will be hurt more by this than women of color. No one, no one will be hurt more. White women will not be earning even close to as much as women of color or or or color communities because people are taking on an extra baby that they couldn't afford and they're being forced to by the law. You know, in Tennessee right now, do you guys read that if you even have Plan B on you you get a fine of $50,000. Like you do that there? And what was it? Is it Tennessee or someone else is trying to also outlaw condoms? Like. Yeah, they want to stop the prevention. Just brain dead of the dead. Right. Florida, if it were a person, it would wear children's teeth around. Like that's a weird place. I don't disagree. That Florida would not be allowed to live near a school where a person. No, you know, you can't go over Florida. And. Have. Have kids would be on the. No, it would be. It would be it would be the paper. Right? Yeah. Florida's crazy. I don't know what's wrong with that whole state, but yeah, I agree with everything you said. You guys are so smart. You've got it going on. You know what you guys are talking about? Yeah, everything is. You're right about everything, you know, and with this, you know, you mentioned all these crazies and in Congress, the one thing I could say that I do know about Coffield is I think the reason people were trying to make fun of him is he's one of those guys who is always going after the LGBT community. And then so they leaked a picture of him having sex with a man so that he can stop pretending he's not gay anymore and leave the LGBTQ community alone. So that's why they were messing with him. I think I hate Republicans, but even that was so funny because he was just like, bitch, I don't care. You, me, I don't care. I'm a prankster. I was a prank, dummy. A prank. Yeah, right. A prank. Well, he did say the other one was a prank where he was wearing like women. He said they're all pretty. That's OK. They're all pranks. He said I just lovingly as a jokingly jokey person, I just casually, you know, thrusted my naked crotch into my cousin space over and over. It's fine. We're friends and we're bro's. That's what brothers do not have. Bro's that's what we do. Everyone. Yeah, that sounds like sound like football to me. Ha. It's crazy, guys. And, you know, the really crazy people, like the Marjorie Taylor Green, too. We saw a video of her, you know, saying we are all going to be here tomorrow when they try to steal the election and blah, blah, blah. She started an insurrection with Trump. If anyone is a lawyer out there who's listening in Washington, DC, I want you to go read the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, Section three. It basically says, if you ever are a part of an insurrection, against the United States of America, you can no longer be allowed to run for public office. So Trump and hers should never be allowed to again because that wasn't insurrection. People did break into our capital and tried to kill our vice president. And anyone who says it wasn't is a liar. And anyone who tried to start it should never be allowed in politics. But what if you're just really passionate about tourism? Very passionate. What if you're just really passionate about rubbing your own feces on to government. Right on podiums and all sorts of stuff? I don't know if it counts. Then I played double jeopardy or something. Got to be you guys. I have to find Vaseline or something in my house at some point for my stupid lips. I am dying. Yeah. I don't know what it is. We're getting weird weather right now. I think we have a lot of wind lately, and it's just killing. Every dry air. I get a humidifier. We have one in the house, but outside, it's like I have a convertible and, like. Oh. Oh, for sure. Yeah, it's getting me. I know. Me too. I could be. I could talk about this all day now. Isn't it. So embarrassing? I don't know if it really is. Can I say one thing about that? Did you see Handmaid's Tale? Did you ever watch that, though? Not, you know. The premise. I hope you watch it. Please watch it. I beg you to watch it. And here's why it came out during Obama, when everyone was holding hands and butterflies were flying and you remember and little birds would come up to you and sing in your ear, little Disney songs as we'd walk around. I remember those days. It was wonderful. And then Trump came along and what we are seeing now is the beginning of The Handmaid's Tale. So basically the premise, I'm not going to tell you the whole story, but the premise is that America is America, and we get someone like Trump, who basically turns half of the country the middle part. New York and California are free, and so is Canada. Obviously, but he takes the middle of the country and it becomes its own country. That country is basically us. When we started, pilgrims like, you know, women have zero rights. They have to cover up. They the worst part, though, is any women that weren't part of this, that were just regular women like yourself, like, let's say you couldn't get out of your home in time because everyone else is running. You're like you're nuts. This isn't going to happen. Everyone else leaves. So anyone like you that isn't part of their religion is used as a baby. Maker. So you are sent to a house and you are there slaves in the house, and then you are expected to carry the baby for the women because no one can have babies in this time period. And so just the slave women do it and that's basically it. And you became a slave because you lived in America and didn't get out. That's why Black Lives Matter. It doesn't matter. Six, seven, 11. I might be wrong, but I think the author said that she intentionally wrote only things that actually happened so that people can be like your imagination so fucked up. So I think every every aspect of the story was true at some point, historically, somewhere, you know? Right. Yeah. Jesus for much of it, when you when you watch it, you go, oh, my God, they're doing that still in other countries, or we're back to doing it now. Or when. North Carolina. Last right yeah. Or and you know, we talked earlier, you guys, about how people pick and choose with the Bible. They've always done that and especially racists. That's their go to thing, you know what I mean? It's the one that they help change the world. Oh, we're going to make everyone a Christian so they listen to us and obey us. And I hate to say that because I was born a Christian and all of this stuff, but it's about control. Religion is man made. And when we finally get rid of that someday and just love God or know God or whatever the fuck happens, we're going to be in a better spot because people can no longer use it to enslave others. It's like anybody. Excuse sir. Vehicle for people to do what they want to do or would have done anyway, you know? And why do we think that that's the one religion? There have been religion since the beginning of time. The Greeks had a billion religion. There's a million religions. And then if you watch religious, he even shows you that basically the story of Jesus and the mom and the birth and that the December 31st happened with like Ganesh or someone in the Indian religion, it's identical. And he was a thousand years before you know, born of a virgin mother. His name was like whatever. And he was born December 30, 22 whatever the birthday is when his Christmas 25th same same one, you know it's identical look it up but it's in religious, religious, religious, religious. The Bill Maher movie documentary it's great. Yeah. That one really changes your mind about things because he just shows you in each book what it actually says. You don't have to question it. You don't have to you know, there's a great, great, great movie. I highly recommend it. I also recommend you guys go watch bro. It happened sometime. It's fun. Yeah. I play a crazy drug dealer and my wife plays my wife in the movie. She plays an even crazier drug dealer and has to go to the party with these kids because they are taking some of our drugs and she needs to watch them. It's a funny movie. All right. I'm here for it. Yeah, and if people want to follow my activism, I'm DantetheComic on all social media. I most of my videos are probably best seen at Tik Tok, where I'm just DantetheComic2, because they took down [DantetheComic] 1. Because China is a police state and they don't like questioning authority and the fact that all my videos were about questioning the police, they kept taking them down. And finally they took I had millions of followers. Maybe they even owed me tons of money when they got rid of me. They owed me money because my videos pulled in money. Damn. That's the word. I hate to see it. Oh, well, I don't care who cares I just want what's right. I don't need the fame. You guys don't have to follow me. Follow the stories. You know what I mean? Follow the money, like Phines said. Things will be right. Just follow your politics. That's the problem. Not enough people just watch five things a week that have to do with the news and try to get it from somewhere outside of the US. Doesn't mean that we're. It's just too many companies are owned by Republicans and Democrats. Watch the BBC, watch Al-Jazeera, you know, watch no shit. Just check Twitter. Sometimes we tell you what's happening. And. We don't have like, a news source anymore. Everyone, you know, this fake news got us all from watching news. Doesn't mean it's not true. I mean, we all know that there are always biased stories, but news is news, you know what I mean? And people didn't like climate change is not up for that. That's not up for you know, you can't you can't say like, oh, you know, they scientists say a woman, a baby starts at conception. Oh, but we don't believe in science when it comes to climate stuff. You can't pick and choose. Yeah. A lot of higher up politicians still do. Do you know that some like I watched another documentary called Get Me Roger Stone. Roger Stone was that white haired skinny? No way. Is this the one you're talking about, Sierra no. He's another idiot. He's a big idiot. But the thing about this guy, if you watch his video, you think that Trump and all of his people are just pure evil, right? Or stupid? Right. But then I watched this video, and this guy has been working ever since Nixon, and he's proud of what he does. He said in this video, he goes, look, Republicans hire me to make up bullshit to help them win. And they do. He goes, One day I was sitting around with Trump and I thought, wouldn't it be funny if we made up a story that Obama is from Kenya and we start spreading it? And he says this in the video that I started that Trump thought it was hilarious, and we spread it because it spread like wildfire. Roger Stone is a deep. Right, but I love how he was so honest and what I'm being paid to do. And so I get I get I don't like him. What he does is evil is hurt the world, but he is doing what he's paid for. That is what he's paid for. If these guys want a cheater, they chose a cheater. I mean, he worked for Nixon. Oh, my God. Yeah. Get me Roger Stone. It's a great documentary. Great, great, great. You got to see it. Gutsy. He's a demon of a person. Yeah. Brandon, do. You have last thoughts? For sure? Yeah, we always do. Last thoughts on the show. Dante, we just go around and say sort of whatever is on our mind and then wrap up. Phines? Nah, man, you go first. OK, so yeah, I think that it's been really amazing and like and lightning having you on Dante. I think that you're someone who, like, is not afraid or very brave in speaking your mind and speaking to a lot of these injustices. And I think me included, like a lot of people could really use that and learn from that. And yeah, I appreciate you being on. Thank you. Yes. I thank you. Also, I appreciate hearing from just all of the things that are going on with you. And and I think that was really insightful and good to hear from. A total white person, civil rights activist. That's pretty sweet. I talked to Jean a couple of weeks ago. Who? Jean Peelen! The writer! Oh, yes. Yeah. I talked to a black–white activists all the time. Yes, yes. Oh, yeah. I didn't forget you, Jean. Yes, I remember. I remember you and I'm just thank you for thank you for coming on. Is always awesome to have anybody talking. I hear from see, I'm really seriously from the heart and I do some cheesy stuff now. I truly find it. Your perspective, I think, is my my favorite takeaway here. I do think that is I'm in my notes is this comedians just being also they just have lived a lot of times they're going through like quite a bit, but they just are so good at turning a spin on. They are taking taking all this stuff is going on in life and I. Killed my mom. Making it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly. My mom would think it's the funniest thing ever. I promise she would tell the story every day if she could. But look, sometimes I, as someone who likes to be out, gets attention like I want mom to hold our breath to when I'm talking, OK? So I don't think I that no matter what situation they're going to just be waiting for me to say what you need to hear about my day. So yeah. It's a pleasure meeting you. Thank you. Same so I wanted to say bye to you guys next time, if you have me on, I'd love to interview you guys because I felt a little left out in the way that I was being interviewed. And when you guys would talk, I was like, Oh, I want to hear more. And I was like, I'm really got. Darn it. So next time, really, I wanted to ask you guys some questions and get to know more of what you guys want and want from not just me, but what some ideas are for your community and the policing throughout the whole nation and the world and all those things. And I hope people respond in the comments about that too. And next time, yeah, maybe we can have a roundtable instead of interviewing you. Let's have a conversation next time. OK, I would love it you because really you guys are so smart and what a good group. And I want to hear more from Grandpa too, because he's got a perspective. None of us are going to half. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Well, it was a pleasure, you guys. And thank you so much for having me on. I'm going to go let my wife know where I am. I never even told her I was in the studio secretly. I mean, your last word. Yeah. I want to say thank you so much for coming. I would definitely love to do that. I would have loved to later this year and have like a have a reverse interview. And I do want to say before we go, I want to say, fuck, what is your name? Thanks. Joe Manchin. Oh, there it is. Absolutely worthless. The day that we were recording this, all the beloved queridos, the day we're recording this—this thumb of a person has decided to be the only fucking Democrat in quotes that voted against the abortion bill that was admittedly about 49 years too late, but already didn't have enough votes to pass on its own. But Joey just had to stand out and be a little pick me boy. So he decided to vote no. He's absolutely worthless. I'll be tweeting that daily. If you want to follow me on Twitter, I'm not going to post. I'm going to give you the handle. You got to look for that bitch I'm going to be tweeting daily about how worthless Joe Manchin is until he's voted out or, you know, indicted, whatever. I don't know what he does with his time. Yeah. But thank you so much for coming. I cannot wait to have you back. Same, same, you guys. I'll come on any time. I want to do one more. Thank you to Austin, my assistant, who I think is great and he's on the show with you guys. And I just want to thank him because I'm so glad he did. And it worked out because I wasn't near my computer and I was able to use my phone. I apologize for any confusion. It had with you guys. No, it's perfect. All right. It's still daylight in Hollywood, so I'm getting my glasses waiting for you guys. All right. Night.