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S8E9: The Hazing Ritual with Katherine Brodsky

Author/Journalist Katherine Brodsky and Bret discuss showing courage with No Apologies, learning about the self through the study of acting and journalism driven by curiosity rather than activism. 

S8E9: The Hazing Ritual with Katherine Brodsky

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A great interview. Thank you, Bret.

Joe Stallone

And the left is full of shit about everything. You are letting children have surgery to change their gender. The cities that all voted blue are awash in crime and drugs and homeless encampments. We have two wars under the cognitively impaired Joe Biden.

Stephen

Massholes are people from Massachusetts

Stephen

Why is it that everyone present at January 6th were convicted? That proud boy president got 20 years for telling guys to tear down a fence. Meanwhile the cop that shot into a crowd and killed a female veteran gets a medal probably.

Stephen

Antifa never go to jail for some reason. Probably protected by FBI.

Stephen

Is she Jewish?

Stephen

You seem to be anti-Left/Progressive — based on your use of the words “woke” and “tard”, at least. Speaking of authoritarians, your reference to electric chairs (which you’ve done to others in this group) feels like something an authoritarian would approve of.

J Hay

Dude are you ok? Need someone to pick your head psych prescription up!

OSOS

You know who else got cancelled- Naomi Wolf, former darling of the left until she started connecting the dots about the Gardasil vaccine destroying young girls fertility, forcing them into menopause. Now she is a pariah and Tucker is her only friend.

Sodaheiress

Love this episode, as a GenXer. I got canceled for being anti vaccine and mask mandate, but I've been working in the health field and researching vaccine risk since the 80s, long before Jenny McCarthy came out about her vaccine damaged child. I have worked with thousands of families with vaccine damaged children. The mainstream media's refusal to look at facts is staggering. I did my research and anyone who supports health mandates or censorship on anything can Fuck Off. Love you BEE.

Sodaheiress

WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE???? THIS IS HOW SUBHUMAN YOU ARE IN YOUR RETARDATION...YOU ARE EXACTLY THE KIND OF SHIT THAT BRET ACCURATELY POINTS OUT AS SHIT...THIS IS HOW SUBHUMAN YOU ARE IN YOUR RETARDATION...AND YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF BRET???? FOR SAYING 1+1=2???????? 😂😂😂😂😂

Neil G.

you are literally the fucking thing that he accurately complains about, then you make fun of him...all those things you point out that are either not true because of discrimination (like pay gap) and the radical feminist retarded bullshit (whose whole view of the world is based on the basic falsehood of the "oppression of women" -- does 1+1=3 😂😂) which fuels those incels...the fact that you fail to see that, yet you try & make fun of him for being a whino with no sense of the real world, when that is SCIENTIFICALLY the shit that you are, and the shit he accurately complains about, is subhuman, retarded, hypocritical shit of the highest order, which actually JUSTIFIES all the far right shit that you think you can condemn...you are LITERALLY the subhuman, retarded, far left shitpile that bastardizes logic that says Bret has no sense of the real world when you LITERALLY have no sense of the real world...then you complain about his complaining when you are BY DEFINITION the retarded complainer There is a certain chair with a certain electric shock...Hitler & Dahmer don't belong there...you do...they are saints now because of shit like you

Neil G.

Yes they are...you could say they are simply not as violent as the proud boys, but you deny their existence, and therefore justify everything the far right do, and even the Nazis...the furthest right...good job...why don't you sit in a certain chair with a certain electric shock for even thinking what you think, let alone saying it...being subhuman-retarded, on top of actually thinking you can lecture people about what reality is (making you even more subhuman in your retardation) is the ultimate human crime...you inherently don't have the right to exist

Neil G.

Not a question of cancel culture; it's a question of woke-tarded pseudo intellectualism which you clearly deny, and thereby justify Trump...for even existing, let alone speaking, you belong in a certain chair with a certain electric shock

Neil G.

Antifa is not an organization. The Right tends to be full of shit about it.

J Hay

Elon Musk is a ridiculously rich massive asshole (or ‘masshole’), with far too much power and influence. He was also born rich, which is often problematic.

J Hay

Trump and his minions are “Authoritarians” of the worst kind. Anyone who criticizes an authoritarian ruler loses, often in far more heinous ways than cancel culture has ever done.

J Hay

“Self-censoring ourselves” is somewhat redundant. Just say “self-censoring” or “censoring ourselves”. I hope that’s not censorship :)

J Hay

Nothing she said any real depth — prob why her career has been all over the place (and not in an interesting way)…

Marcelo

It's not figures on the left who have been systematically deplatformed from the internet. It's the right. If the left were winning the debates they would not have had to resort to that little douche who runs Cloudflare illegally wiping the Daily Stormer out, dozens if not hundreds of hosting and pay services banning TRS, Twitter/Facebook doing the same to these people as well as Red Ice and NJP, debanking that idiot Richard Spencer, and anyone else seriously talking about the Great Replacement, or any of the other underhanded and slimy ways the left have managed to reduce the scope of online political discourse into what has aptly been called the "kosher sandwich," meaning the furthest right you are allowed to be online is Joe Rogan, whose platform only hosts Jewish guests when the guest is a political figure (this is a statistical fact, over 90% of his political guests are Jewish and he has never had a single pro-White advocate on, not even to attempt to humiliate them), and will never ever ever be honest about the immigration or censorship issues, and the furthest left allowed on major platforms is Antifa, who are a screeching irregular army who fight for the Google HR policy, and protected by the radicalized staff embedded in these tech companies. There is no marketplace of ideas when the most radical opposition is censored to the point of obscurity, and then, worse, their position is presented in absentia on their behalf by their opposition, except mutated into some genocidal nonsense and redefined as "hate." And somehow it is never the most radical left that suffer this censorship.

BrienPiechos

Well, the free speech attitude in our culture is what leads to pseudo intellectualism and the most wrong ideas being allowed...so, we can't enforce fascism on speech, but culturally, we can...if you believe the wrong thing, print the wrong book, or promote the wrong cause, you should be put in the ground...end of story...that is an inherent fact...we can't enforce it as a law, but the permissiveness of speech has allowed the far left to run rampant in academia/the media & the far right in government...and yet, you still say the problem is an asterisk on free speech 😂😂😂...the problem is too much free speech...unbelievable how you miss the fundamental point because you are, ironically, the one who destroys society: the permitter of bad ideas, not just the bad ideas 👎👎👎👎👎

Neil G.

Her biggest crime was not talking about working on the set of CHUCKY.

R. M.

Fabulous episode thank you gents …

PETER GREER

This nonsense all started under Obama, not Trump. Trump was just the result of the Obama presidency.

Big E

This ep was boring. Aren’t we beyond this?

Anthony

The “marketplace of ideas” and open debate have never existed on social media. It’s anathema to probably all digital media, honestly. Social media was only ever supposed to be for irreverence and slice of life type of stuff. Not setting any sort of discourse or public debate. That stuff needs to happen in person, which unfortunately often gets violent. But that’s humanity— oh well.

Luke B.

She writes a book ostensibly rebuking cancel culture but only defends the victims when the issue and person cancelled fit in to her narrow ideological framework. Otherwise it's Musk's "duty" to ban "Nazis" rather than letting the marketplace of ideas and open debate win out, embracing the true democratic process, or removing the influence of three letter agencies from steering public discourse. God forbid Musk ever tell the ADL to fuck off. Her entire premise is she is principled, while being completely unprincipled. Anyone who wants to put an asterisk next to the First Amendment is an enemy of humanity. It's that simple.

BrienPiechos

Never change, man

M. Nero Nava

This woman a fraud alert, meely mouthed half assed criticisms of cancel culture that she rips off from people who actually had courage years ago when there was still time to change anything

Adam Lehrer

Vintage Rubin Report vibes this week.

Paul Richardson

I swear I've listened to this exact podcast a thousand times. No new ground broken here. I agree with most of what I've heard so far, but are we really still beating this long-dead horse?

Justin

Feel like he will be a lot happier if he stops caring over this stupid shit / unfollow the alt-right brain rot social media accounts he follows designed to make him mad and realize the world is a much bigger picture than that

OSOS

re/continued whinging on the podcast about the toxicity of "cancel culture", which apart from a few select careers changes… nothing in the big picture. India's rape-game is still top notch; men continue to enjoy killing women for domestic or religious "reasons" in muslim and non-muslim countries; incel gloating over erstwhile sex symbols vs "the wall"; pay gaps; fraternities; male privilege: everything in rude health. As for Bret being miffed by cheap sloganeering à la "believe all women": cry me a bloody river, dude.

mr greyez

he still hasn't come out with the t-shirt, so I'm a bit disappointed

Sértő-Radics Sarolta

People rip on Bret's pronunciation of names, but the way this chick says truf instead of truth is kind of annoying me. Probably says more about me than it does her. Figured they would have fixed that in acting school. She seems cool, but I'm sick of cancel culture, unless it's some wild grandiose tale. Weinstein's cancellation might be the only one worth really delving into. Has anyone read that book in him?

Stephen

He tells the same joke every week and I laugh every time. That 's good comedy.

Steve

I liked her! 🙃

Patrick

Great podcast

Erick

I was worried there, for a while…

David Lowe

And now we're back to this

Happyhead

Was mostly on her team until the end. Skipped the 70’s!? Are you crazy, girl?

N.M. Janice.

“Cue the complaining” it’s just lame to still be having these conversations in 2024…. Cancel culture is stupid …the majority of the population agrees can we move on and not stop whining like a triggered liberal

OSOS

am going to listen on my run. will say more later, after my run.

richard owain roberts

MSM have always told lies. The difference everyone now knows this.

Stevan Popovic

Is that fella not going to go for a run, today?

David Lowe

Good interview, not what I thought it would be.

Mark Hopkins

Watched "976-EVIL" last night. Has Bret ever commented on how clearly gay Stephen Geoffreys was before he did the gay porno? Gave me major Sal Mineo vibes for some reason.

John Q. Thompson

Cue the complaining.

N.M. Janice.

ah shıt here we go again.

Oleg


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