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All right. So I've got a thought experiment for you. But it goes like this. So I was talking about YouTube. And apparently YouTube is now banning the most racist KKK neo-Nazi material on YouTube. And so that's all that material that's associated with being over the line is being banned. And apparently that's legal. They can ban it because it's a private speech and whatnot. But let me ask you this…
← Previous segment →My favorite story is there are some comedians who are putting on a so-called straight Pride Parade in Boston. And we heard about this. Now, forget about the politics of it because I don't think it's terribly important. But just the fact that they would do it at all is hilarious.
So I thought that just the fact that somebody was trying to get away with this — I don't see it so much as a political act as a political theater, you know, large-scale prank, sense of humor kind of a thing. So I don't take it too seriously. But it does have a serious message. It's just that I don't take that part too seriously.
But here's the fun part. They just named their grand marshal. Well, they did two things that are funny. The first thing they did was they used Brad Pitt's picture in part of their promotion until Brad Pitt's management called them and told them stop doing it. And that gave them some extra press.
So they've done two smart things so far, smart in terms of pranks. First of all, having a straight Pride Parade in Boston is funny just also right off the bat because, you know, so wrong that it's funny. Then having Brad Pitt, you know, illegally using his face as some kind of an image for the thing is even more hilarious. And it's better because they got in trouble for it and then that became part of the story. So it was great for publicity.
And by the way, I think Brad Pitt probably thought it was funny. But you know, you have to take care of your image. You have to take care of business. But I can't imagine that Brad Pitt didn't laugh when he heard it. He probably laughed and said okay, I got to stop this, but it's kind of funny. I'm just guessing. And I'm just guessing from public perception of Brad Pitt that he looks like he has a sense of humor. That's all I'm saying.
But then they went one step further and they named their grand marshal for the straight Pride Parade. And they named Milo Yiannopoulos, who accepted. So Milo, doubtless the gayest man in America, is selected as the grand marshal of the straight Pride Parade. I gotta hand it to him. I gotta hand it to him.
Whoever is doing this parade thing, it's clearly for the laughs. They're doing everything that you would do to get the right kind of humorous attention. And I don't have any thoughts about the politics of it, but the humor of it and the prank of it all, it's well done. That's all I'm saying.
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Let's talk about Andrew Yang. So Andrew Yang tweeted something that I retweeted. I think probably people thought I was maybe agreeing with his message, but that wasn't why I retweeted it. So I'm gonna read what he said and then I think you'll know why I had to read it. So this is Democratic candidate Andrew Yang talking about abortion. And he says the following in his tweet. Andrew Yang says, "I…
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