Candace Owens (37:17)
That is true and it makes me happy that I can announce that I've told you guys the shot in the dark is coming back this month. We're just a couple of weeks away from that. As we launch our platform, we will have a shot in the dark which will take you through the vaccine series, take you through the birth control series. Women don't even know what you're putting in your body every single day. And then we're going to go through food so that you can have that base understanding of the fact that your government hasn't poisoning you for a very long time while also gaslighting you with names. You're an anti vaxxer. Yes, Ma'am, I am. Hello. Nice to meet you. I'm all. I'm just anti poisoning, poisoning children. I know. It's so crazy. It's so crazy. I'm anti poisoning children. I don't care how much money you have as a lobbying group, you are not going to delude me into believing that these things are healthy for children simply so that some people can make a ton of money. And it's. It's. People should be arrested for this stuff. You know, truly, they should be arrested for the things they have done. Big Pharma. Big Pharma is itself, in and of itself, a cancer. It is a cancer that is giving cancer and giving addictions to all of us. And you should be angry that your government has allowed this to take place. So when they look at us and they say, why are you joining this Chinese app? You can look back at them and say, why have you been poisoning us? Since the 90s, since I've been growing up? Why are you continuing to poison our children? Why are you continuing to gaslight us and censor our speech? Because we're starting to notice if they can't answer those questions, then, you know, screw them. Who cares? All right, guys. I also, speaking on that topic of addictions that are coming from the government, coming from big Pharma, you guys had so many comments about the debate, which now beyond, like, Michaela, me debating it, but the differences between dependency and addiction. So I want to get into that. First, I want to remind you about American Financing because I know there are so many people that are struggling with high credit card bills. Well, there is no better time than right now to wipe out that debt and set yourself up for a strong 2025. Interest rates have fallen, and my friends at American Financing can help you access equity in your home at an interest rate in the fives that is much lower rate than the average 25% credit card rate. So think about how much you could be saving every month. American Financing is saving their customers an average of $800 a month. That's like a $10,000 raise to start the new year. They're closing in as fast as 10 days and even delaying two mortgage payments. So call American Financing today at 800-795-1210. That's 800-795-1210. Or you can visit american financing.net Owens Again, that's american financing.net Owens. Okay, so you guys had so many comments about addiction versus dependency, the overwhelming majority of people saying it's the exact same thing, right? Some people saying no, it's slightly different. You know, I guess the difference that they're trying to establish between being an addict and being a dependent is whether or not it begins to ruin your life life. And I just don't agree with that fundamentally. Do not agree with that. But there was a woman who emailed me at on our info box yesterday. She's a doctor, she's a psychologist and she explained something that made me go ah, that makes a lot of sense. And so I'm going to read you I just bits of her email brought while protecting her identity she wrote to me in your most recent episode, Justin Unfollows Usher, you mentioned your recent debate with Michaela Peterson, which of course I saw and I had to share something thoughts on both your addiction dependence stance and any changes displayed by Dr. Jordan Peterson on October 7th to establish my credibility since there's not much you can find out about me online because I stopped social media in 2016, I got back on last year, blah blah blah blah. She just basically tells me like all of her doctor credentials anyways, she says I graduated in 2011, was trained using the DSM4 and the DSM4TR. Okay, so that was a diagnostic manual when that we were told for just giving you one example that gender dysphoria was a mental disorder. And then remember then they changed it and they dropped the DSM 5. Right. The. The diagnostic manual manual change and suddenly we were all being called transphobic. This was literally what we grew up with. Okay, so she writes substance abuse was taught in the she's Talking about the DSM 4 again as an addiction. So back when we were told that gender dysphoria was a mental disorder, we it was the same time that substance abuse was being taught as an addiction. Then upon the release of DSM 5, she continues, everything changed, which I and many colleagues believe was for the worst. I can elaborate on those changes, but to save time, I won't. As mentioned above, I was able to get two treatment centers accredited and that was through my extensive work on policies and procedures, utilization review. A few years later I was an adjunct professor at the University of Bridgeport's Naturopathic School of Medicine where I taught third year doctoral students psychological diagnosis and counseling. I am very well versed on the differences between addiction and dependence. In a nutshell, you are right. But also Michaela is right. And like all stories, there are three sides to them. Mine, yours and the truth. In this case, the so called truth is more of a white lie for billing purposes. And what you and Michaela are saying is true. A quick Google search will tell you that the main difference between addiction and dependence is underlying behavior. In other words, if it's impulsive and self destructive, then it must be an addiction. But if your body needs to keep going, then it's dependency. Sounds like some great malarkey there, huh? Well, from personal experience, as the daughter of an alcoholic, having boyfriends when I was younger that didn't have the best judgment, and later running a treatment center, no matter what you call it, it is an addiction. Most of my patients at the treatment center were from up north where there's a lot of money and they still call themselves addicts. So dependence is not really a euphemism for an addiction. It's more of a category for billing purposes. Yes. Like Michaela said, the doctors are taught these differences or else they will not get paid for treatment. Okay, now about Dr. Peterson. Regardless of what we call his benzo withdrawal, which by the way, you're not going to trade up Xanax for heroin because it's two different classes of drugs that do different things. And that's why Michaela appeared annoyed. But I think most of us understood what you meant. It is an addiction. Maybe not psychologically, but his body was definitely addicted to creating the dependence. I think your point was that he had lost respect and followers related to the whole situation because he wasn't living up to the ideal of being in control of every situation. But that was such a great email because it made things so much clearer to me because I knew, obviously, because I was very invested in the transgender debate, that diagnostically things had changed with this new manual. And I would agree with her, it was for the worst. Like suddenly it was all about feelings. The DSM 5 was all about feelings. You don't want to call somebody answer addict. Don't want to call somebody who has gender dysphoria, mentally ill. So these things have changed. We've updated it. And so Michaela was right to say that doctors learn this in school. And it's the same way that you the trans lobbyist. Correct. I say doctors are in school if this is not a mental disorder. But I would say that all of those things are up for a debate. And I think that we can agree that now your side, my side, and the truth that she kind of has this right and that it is a billing difference, which I think gives me credence, the claim that it feels. Feels wealthy. It's like the wealthy version of having an addiction where you get to say, well, no, I don't have an addiction. And I think people were a bit reticent to accept that narrative. Anyways, I thought that was really interesting, so I just wanted to share that with you guys. As we get into your other comments regarding episodes past, let me find where they are coming in. Okay. Regarding first topic, Red Notes, Susie writes china is based the Real man writes, china promotes LGBTQ on TikTok and they ban it on Red Note because they know know that LGBTQ probably cannot read this on YouTube. So I'm gonna stop reading that comment. Mark writes, USA wants to close TikTok and for the same reasons EU wants to close X and probably Telegram. Yeah, it's time to join RedNote and VK. There you go. That's correct. The EU is trying to come down X. They don't want free speech. It's authoritarian. While they point the finger at you for saying that you're following an authoritarian country, they're doing the same thing. Hugh White Girl writes, TikTok is mind melting and dumbing down our children. Worse than YouTube. Actually, that's kind of going to be the upside because Red Note bans all of that stuff. We're probably, maybe we're going to get math equations now. You know, maybe that's what they're going to do because it's not for Americans, it's actually for Chinese people. So they probably won't allow their population to have access to that sort of stuff. Regarding Rory Sykes, okay, I have to be careful what I read here. Heidi writes, the mom is not credible. Why didn't she leave sooner? Genevieve writes, she wouldn't leave him alone. John Posey writes, didn't have a wheelchair or a dolly or a work cart or hell, a vehicle to drive up to him. Trixie Andrews writes, why move from a country that has Medicare to one where the system sucks? Because she wanted fame and the son was the only one that was on her quote unquote shows paused Clause writes, she seemed off in that interview. Yes, the interview when I was watching it was quite disturbing. It kind of. Kind of. I don't know, I just felt like I was watching a scary movie. Like a scary movie about like a mom who had a lot of control over her son. And again, that's just my opinion. That is not a fact. Does not mean anything. But something did seem a little bit off to me in that interview as well. Regarding Carrie Underwood, people are supporting her rebellious Gadfly writes, carrie is a liberal, but she knows her audience is right wing country music. I can tell you she is not she is definitively not a woke liberal. I said she's a native neighbor and that's just not true. Alex writes Carries from Oklahoma. Of course she's conservative. Yes, I think people just assign Hollywood and just think oh the person must be liberal. But there's a lot more conservatives in Hollywood than you would think. They're all in my DMs. Tracy Bradley writes, Jesus, take the wheel. These little lefties probably forgot about that song. Certainly they did. And comments on red dye Thunder Chicken writes, russia banned GMO and food. Think about that. Yeah, it's always a really evil countries that don't allow this stuff and yet America so great, so free. No speech. Have your red dye. Rachel Davidson writes, I didn't know if the UK didn't allow lobbying. It makes me more and more upset the more I learn about these things. Do you think that we could ever get rid of lobbying? Please say yes. Lol. I'm going to say no because when the Congressmen go to D.C. to pretend they're doing things, they then just become a part of the swamp they don't want to leave. We should also have term limits because it would deincentivize them to stay there forever and see how they can fatten their pockets by accepting gifts and favors from lobbyists. And so I hate to be pessimistic about it, but I would say no. I would say definitely not. F1 elitist writes w World War II was when the food went bad we started eating rationed canned food. I bet that canned food is better than what we're eating today. I'm not even kidding. I I bet it literally is better than what we're eating today because we're not even eating food. I'd rather have food that's canned than not eat food at all that's just completely processed and your body can't break it down and it makes you sick. Julia White writes, UK and every country does not allow these companies to put these chemical in their food supplies to kill their people. It is only in America the FDA is pretending they are doing something as Trump takes office. Totally agree with you. And a couple of more random comments from Black Panther writes, thank you for speaking out for Gaza when other journalists were afraid to. You are very welcome. It has been my distinct honor to defend all of the innocent lives and the people to at least shine a light on all the innocent lives that were being lost. And like I said, I'm very let down by people who I once placed a lot of faith in in the conservative movement. For being too fearful or being too married to money to take the humane perspective. Lastly, Benice writes, Candace, can you please have your team enable comments on your RedNote account? We just did that. I hit a wrong button because I don't speak Mandarin and I've enabled comments now. So when I do my next post on Red Note, you guys should be able to see everything. By the way, in conclusion, I want to say a lot of you were writing that you were having issues with sound this episode. It wasn't on our end so so I was told to tell you guys to refresh. I'm sorry that that happened. I hope that it was corrected quickly. I hope it wasn't on our end. We'll find out after this. But you can find the episode in its entirety without the sound issues on Spotify video as well. It should also be up on rumble and hopefully YouTube resolves whatever the conflict was Anyways you guys, we will see you tomorrow to support the show. You can head to Locals of course. Keep our independence. I know you guys are excited about the Emmanuel Macron piece. It's taking a lot of work. Work. It is going to come out. You can go to candace.locals.com if you want to support our work. Otherwise we will see you guys tomorrow.