RFK Jr. Was Hungry And Dana White Had The Time Of His Life

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Brett Cooper Show

Episode: RFK Jr. Was Hungry And Dana White Had The Time Of His Life
Host: Brett Cooper
Date: April 28, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Brett Cooper examines the culture of numbness and memeification surrounding violent events in America, specifically after the recent assassination attempt at the Hilton Hotel during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Through a blend of personal reflection, social media commentary, and viral reactions—from politicians and media figures (including RFK Jr. and Dana White) to everyday attendees—Brett explores how humor, detachment, and radicalization are shaping generational responses to ongoing political violence and chaos.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Immediate Reactions to the Hilton Shooting

• Normalization of Violence:
  Brett opens with her and the public’s numbed reaction to the shooting:

  “I was not even surprised in the slightest. I wasn’t shocked. Like, this was just a normal Saturday in the Trump administration, a normal Saturday in 2026.” – Brett (01:00)

• Internet Meme Culture:
  The event was quickly turned into jokes and memes online—a collective coping mechanism which, Brett asserts, now feels less like coping and more like resignation:

  "These days, I feel like they're just making jokes because it all feels like it is just a bad joke that we can't escape." – Brett (01:54)

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2. Notable Moments: RFK Jr. and the Kennedy Group Chat

• Stoic Reaction:
  Social media fixated on RFK Jr.’s calm demeanor amid chaos:

  “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sitting upright. He was stoic as everything was unfolding...People were commenting and going, oh yeah, this is just an average day for somebody in the Kennedy family.” – Brett (02:45)

• Kennedy Group Chat:
  His family checks in—and he responds with comic detachment:

  "He just said, ‘I’m really hungry.’ He’s unbothered. He’s hungry.” – Brett (03:43)

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3. Surreal Social Media Footage: Food, Selfies, and Nonchalance

• Secret Service Still Eating:
  A CIA agent was seen calmly continuing his meal:

  “He simply continued eating his salad...he didn’t want to get on the floor.” – Brett (06:49)

• Journalists Filming and Taking Booze:
  Viral footage showed journalists filming TikToks, taking selfies, and scrambling for leftover drinks while chaos unfolded:
  • Champagne bottle theft in a fur coat (07:57–08:09)
  • Journalists holding up alcohol, evacuating but prioritizing their drinks.

  “It feels like a scene out of a sitcom.” – Brett (08:28)

• Dissonance:
  The contradiction between live footage of their cavalier attitudes and later media interviews describing trauma:

  “Did you remember taking the champagne? Did you remember the selfies, the fit checks?” – Brett (09:15)

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4. Contrasting Emotional Responses: Dana White’s ‘Epic’ Night

• Dana White’s exuberant reaction made headlines:

  “This was basically the coolest night of his life.” – Brett (10:03)

  • Dana White's own words:

    “I didn’t get down. It was fucking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in.” – Dana White (10:08)

  • Brett’s reaction:

    “He just watched the greatest fight of his life.” – Brett (10:27)

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5. The Memeification of Disaster & Complacency

• Jokes become pervasive:

  “The jokes are all rolling...whether it is about him, whether it is about Dana White, the journalist selfies...” – Brett (11:00)

• The normalization of attempted assassinations and the repetition of violent events:

  “It is insane that they arrest a wannabe Trump assassin essentially every single month.” – Brett (11:28)

• A sense of collective resignation and powerlessness permeates the commentary.

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6. Radicalization, Loss of Empathy, and Chilling Manifestos

• Shift in Public Discourse:
  Brett draws a line from media, comedians, and online influencers who openly joke or call for violence to real-world consequences:

  “I had been scrolling online...watching people react to ultimatum clips where they call for Trump and MAGA conservatives to be, you know, killed in the streets.” – Brett (11:46)

  • Radical commentaries and jokes from major media (Jimmy Kimmel, SNL) highlighted:

    “Our first Lady Melania is here…You have a glow like an expectant widow.” – Jimmy Kimmel (12:24)

• Manifesto Analysis:
  The would-be assassin’s manifesto is described as chillingly coherent and matter-of-fact, lacking signs of typical lone-wolf pathology:

  “He confidently and coherently laid out why he believed he had to do this to save the country, because of how awful Trump was.” – Brett (14:03)

• Personal Disorientation:
  Brett’s own social circle includes “normal” people who privately condone or celebrate political violence—a sign of broadening radicalization:

  “They are normal friends and family, people that we have grown up with that attended our wedding...all of whom been successfully radicalized...” – Brett (15:21)

  • The dissonance of receiving baby gifts from people who then post about wanting Trump supporters killed.

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7. Generational Numbness, Coping with Dark Humor, and Unanswered Questions

• Desensitization:
  Laughing at memes and tragedy has become a generational norm:

  “We just move through the horrific events because they're commonplace. And so what do we do?” – Brett (16:49)

• The Kennedy Analogy:
  Everyone’s becoming “like the Kennedys,” so normalized to trauma it’s treated with boredom or humor.
• No Clear Solution:
  Brett confesses to feeling lost and powerless, simultaneously questioning whether to remain engaged or detach from this cycle:

  “I wish I had an answer or solution for where we go from here, but I genuinely have no idea.” – Brett (16:49)

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8. Final Reflections: Holding Onto Decency

• Despite the bleakness, Brett closes by affirming her hope that her (“our”) side retains decency and morality compared to those calling for or celebrating violence:

  “Our decency and morality generally is still intact. So thank God for that.” – Brett (17:13)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Not one single farm fresh, organic fuck given.” – Social media comment about RFK Jr. (02:55)
• “He has his lucky raccoon penis on him.” – Social media joke about RFK Jr. (03:21)
• "I was genuinely like, what is the point? ...it was like a gut punch." – Brett (11:47)
• “He just said, ‘I’m really hungry.’ He’s unbothered. He’s hungry.” – Brett (03:43)
• “I didn’t get down. It was fucking awesome.” – Dana White (10:08)
• “It objectively is tragic. But we also have to admit the ridiculousness of watching all of this unfold live.” – Brett (09:39)
• “They are normal friends and family...all of whom been successfully radicalized, where the things that they say and post aren't far off from what this man wrote in his manifesto.” – Brett (15:21)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Notable Topic | |:-------------:|:----------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:00 | Brett’s reaction to the shooting; cultural numbness | | 02:45 | Social media jokes about RFK Jr.'s reaction at the event | | 03:43 | Kennedy family group chat—RFK Jr.: “I’m really hungry.” | | 06:49 | CIA agent keeps eating salad during chaos | | 07:57–08:09 | Viral video: Journalist in fur coat grabs champagne and wine | | 09:15 | Media figures recount trauma hours later to news outlets | | 10:08 | Dana White: “It was fucking awesome.” | | 12:24 | Jimmy Kimmel’s “expectant widow” joke | | 14:03 | The assassin’s coherent manifesto | | 15:21 | Radicalization of normal people in personal circles | | 16:49 | Brett’s generational reflection on numbness and possible responses | | 17:13 | Final note: “Our decency and morality generally is still intact.” |

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Summary

Brett Cooper’s episode draws a poignant and unsettling picture of a society so inured to violence and political extremism that shootings at major events provoke more memes than mourning. Through biting humor and personal candor, Brett highlights the absurdity, danger, and heartbreaking reality of a culture where radicalization has seeped into daily life and close relationships—leaving many, including herself, grasping for meaning, resilience, and hope.

Transcript

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So on Saturday night, as I'm sure you guys know by now, shots rang out in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel where the White House Correspondents dinner and also about 15 other correspondence dinner events were taking place. And what made me so sad in the immediate aftermath of seeing all of this unfold on social media was that I was not even surprised in the slightest. I wasn't shocked. Like, this was just a normal Saturday in the Trump administration, a normal Saturday in 2026. Now, as I was watching all of the content come out of this, seeing everybody's firsthand reports and the videos, some people at the event seem, you know, similarly unfazed. And then the memeification of the event just further drives this point home. Like, we've just been sitting on the Internet making jokes about this for days. And that's because this assassination culture that I've sat on the show and talked about countless times, now that we've all been talking about, it is no longer extremism. It is commonplace. It is literally commonplace in our culture. And while I think the people online

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often make jokes to cope about things,

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these days, I feel like they're just making jokes because it all feels like it is just a bad joke that we can't escape. And so that, my friends, is what we're gonna talk about today. What I am trying to say here is that after I got over my initial fears for the people that I know who were sitting in that room hoping the President and the first lady were okay, obviously I was laying awake in bed nursing my baby, laughing at

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memes, and I wanted to slap myself. Like, I was scrolling and scrolling.

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Like an hour in, I was like, brett, what are we doing here?

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This is just insane. But also objectively the content that people

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were churning out about different reactions, jokes about what people were doing at the

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correspondence center ob that content was funny.

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And I mean, the jokes really wrote themselves in a lot of cases. Like, for example, just to give you

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one, like, as everybody was ducking for

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cover and the influencer journalists were taking

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videos of themselves under tables, taking 0.5 selfies.

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All of the things Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Was sitting upright.

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He was stoic as everything was unfolding. He was sitting up straight watching it all take place. And people were commenting and going, oh

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yeah, this is just an average day for somebody in the Kennedy family. Like somebody else said, he has seen crazier shit than this. On a Tuesday afternoon on a family vacation, not one single farm fresh, organic fuck given. This next comment was also incredible. This is something I was chuckling about, you know, at 3am in the dark. This guy said his brain worm mapped the trajectory of all of the shots and told him he was safe, no need to fuck for cover. Another person replied to leading report who said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Was seen not ducking for cover. And this guy replied and said, no need. He has his lucky raccoon penis on him.

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Like, I wouldn't put it past him,

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he's got like a rabbit foot hanging from his shirt or something.

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But the thing is, like, it wasn't

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even that the Internet was ascribing all

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of this to him like his son.

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Soon after everything transpired, he posted a screenshot of the Kennedy family group chat. Everyone was asking, you know, are you and Cheryl okay?

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Is everybody good?

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What's happening?

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And this is how RFK Jr replied.

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He just said, I'm really hungry.

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He's unbothered.

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

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[Brett (Main Speaker)]

Speaking of food and continuing on with the examples of the things that I was seeing on social media, the other clips that have gone the most viral from this event are also having to do with food. Like the New York City CAA agent who also did not duck for cover.

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He simply continued eating his salad.

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As you can see right here, he's watching everything transpire.

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He's poking at his food.

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Apparently the salad was brought up, so I understand. I would not have stopped eating it either. Apparently it was a news talk. He's kind of a germaphobe. He didn't want to get on the floor is what he told the press after the fact.

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But like, guys, this is the culture that we are living in in 2026. We are watching a nonchalant assassination attempt take place. Casual continuing on, eating their salad.

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Like after Trump was shot in Butler,

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we had a movement that was reignited. We had people on the left who

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contributed to all this violent rhetoric, who suddenly woke up and realized what they had done. There was empathy and it felt restored on both sides.

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That was when people, you know, came

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together across the aisle in unity to

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try to make the country better. That was in large part because of what, on July 14th and now, like two years later.

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Well, we gotta make sure we finish our salads. The burrata is not going to eat itself.

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Like now the journalists are filming vain

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tiktoks under tables they're evacuating, but not before they steal the leftover alcohol that

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was still sitting on the table, as

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you can see right here. Like, just watch this clip, for example. It's just unreal.

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So what you have here are journalists doing more 0.5 selfies, holding up all

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the champagne they're taking, and then watch

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this woman, this is the one that's really gone viral. She's in the fur coat, picks up

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a bottle of champagne. That's not enough.

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She then gets the bottle of wine. Like, that clip in and of itself is just insane. But you actually need to hear what

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the news, what the reporter is saying

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over these clips as they are playing on television. Listen to this. Tragically, we've covered shootings.

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And the journalists are like, let me

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get my booze before I leave. I mean, it's just like, it's insane. Per usual. It feels like a scene out of a sitcom. And I promise I am going somewhere

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with this, I'm not just here to react to all these clips because while

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we have all of this footage of people being totally chill, totally nonchalant, some of those same journalists are now going on the news 24 hours later and

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talking about how they are actually recovering from trauma. Watch this.

[Eyewitness or Reporter]

My sources, my contacts, my friends who are in the room with me, they're processing the traumatic stress. And I know for me personally, memories have been flooding back today. I remembered talking to House Speaker Mike Johnson two minutes before all this went down. And then I remembered as we were crouching on the ground, hearing people shouting, get down. And wondering if there was some assailant who was loose in the ballroom. So those memories are coming back.

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The trauma, it is flooding back.

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Did you remember taking the champagne? Did you remember the selfies, the fit checks?

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I mean, it's just.

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It's just absurd. And I'm not trying to downplay something. It was obviously a tragic and awful, terrifying event. Especially if you were or somebody who is in that room. You're hearing the shots ring out. You have no idea where they're coming from.

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You have no idea if a shooter is being neutralized.

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Apparently there was no service in the room.

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Nobody could contact anyone.

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And like that. That is awful.

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It objectively is tragic. But we also have to admit the ridiculousness of watching all of this unfold live and seeing how many people were being so cavalier about it all to

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now it being drama 24 hours later on CNN.

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And if we are being truly and

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devastatingly honest about this, I feel like a lot of people are just unfazed. Like, take Dana White, for example. He was in attendance at the correspondence center and apparen using words from his own mouth.

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This was basically the coolest night of his life.

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Like, he walked out of that room, he talked to the press, and he said this.

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It started getting noisy, tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns, and they were screaming, get down. I didn't get down. It was fucking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. And it was a pretty. Pretty crazy, unique experience.

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I mean, this man, it looks like

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he just watched the greatest fight of his life. He was like, I'm not getting down.

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I see SWAT teams coming in.

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This is sweet.

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He can't stop smiling because of how epic it was. And he's not lying. Like, this was him in the room.

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Look at this zooming in on him.

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This man is so happy.

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And that is not the only clip of him still in that room. There are clips now that are circulating of him like, standing up, looking around, pulling out his phone, trying to take a picture. Like, I mean, he truly is just taking it all in.

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It's a normal Saturday night. He basically looks like the Andy surprised

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gift from Parks and Rec.

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And then just to top it all

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off, to drive this point home with people online, like I showed you at

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the beginning with the comments and the

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jokes on RFK Jr. The jokes are all rolling. Like, whether it is about him, whether it is about Dana White, the journalist

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selfies, the fact that the Mentalist was

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the performer and he was, you know, predicting Caroline Levitt's baby name, but did not predict that there was an assassin

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waiting out in the lobby.

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And, like, what I'm trying to say here is I don't feel like this is a if you're not laughing, you're crying situation anymore. I feel like people just want to laugh. Like, it's all just a joke. It's ridiculous that security wasn't tighter at an event like this.

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It is insane that they arrest a

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wannabe Trump assassin essentially every single month.

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It is insane that it feels like after years of this, nothing changes. We're still doing the same thing.

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So no wonder people are making jokes.

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It's like, well, what else are we

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gonna do at this point? Like, I was racking my brain this morning before I sat down to film.

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I almost didn't do this episode because

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my genuine feeling, I had, like, such

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a black pill moment.

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I was like, genuinely, what is the point? I had been scrolling online all weekend, all morning, watching people react to Ult Hasan clips where they call for Trump and mag and conservatives to be, you know, killed in the streets.

[Radical Commentator]

Yeah, kill them. Kill those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the street. Let the streets, streets. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist bloods, dude.

[Jimmy Kimmel]

And you actually wrote about this, and it was a great video where you talked about, you know, someone has to do it.

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When I say that, everyone knows exactly what I mean.

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People condemning Jimmy Kimmel for his disgusting

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joke about Melania being an expectant widow.

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Our first Lady Melania is here. Look at me. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.

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SNL Just a couple of weeks ago,

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joking about Trump getting shot at the Kennedy Center. Like, all of these types of videos.

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And I think that's cool that the President is going to the theater. I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

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I mean, it is all disgusting.

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And I know why people are reposting them and reacting to them like I've sat on this show, on my old show, I've reacted to video after video just like that.

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I've done entire episodes dedicated to this, saying that, you know, things need to

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change, they must change. I don't want to raise a child

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in a world like this.

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And I just sat there watching it and I was like, is it worth it to do that again? To feel like anything is actually changing?

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And that was an awful, awful feeling.

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Now, obviously, I'm sitting here, I'm doing this episode, but it was like a gut punch that. That was the way that I instinctively felt. Now, what really did stand out to me about this assassination attempt and everything surrounding it, unfortunately, it still didn't shock me. It was the shooter's manifesto that really stood out to me in this attempt, because unlike so many other mass shootings

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and assassination attempts, this was not some

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they themselves having a mental breakdown, you know, scribbling satanic verbiage in a journal, texting their trans lover like they're from the 1800s.

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Like, it was none of this, this manifesto.

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I don't know if you guys have read it. I don't want to read it here. But it was totally coherent.

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It was jovial, even. He started it out by saying, hello, everybody. So sorry to be doing this, but alas, it must be done. I mean, this man was a teacher. He left a note at the end of the manifesto for his students saying, I'm so sorry, kids, stay in school. I don't want you to ever have to do this. He thanked his parents. He said, I love you guys. Thank you for raising me so well. He confidently and coherently laid out why he believed he had to do this

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to save the country, because of how awful Trump was.

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And that was that.

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It was very matter of fact. Again, so incredibly coherent, and this was

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so unbelievably chilling to me because he

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just seemed like a normal guy, a normal teacher, well educated man, somebody that any of us might have known or might have even been friends with, like my mom. Actually, this is just like, awful timing, but my mom was visiting family this week that you hadn't seen in a while. Family who once was not political in the slightest chose to stay out of it, you know, prioritize relationships and, you know, their passions in life over politics, who have now become completely and utterly radicalized, who confidently told my mother to her face that the only way we were going to save the country was if somebody took out Trump. And that's just one example. I mean, Alex and I both know people, you know from previous times in our life who say the same thing

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confidently and publicly, who are confident enough in these feelings to text and say that they didn't even feel bad when

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Charlie Kirk was shot, that they had no empathy for his children, for his family, that they were actually happy, happy about it because they felt like he deserved it, Posted about it, texted about it in group chats, Totally comfortable. These are normal people. Normal people from middle America, frat bros. They are not the freaking blue haired,

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BDSM fetish loving authors writing trans children's

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books, fighting for anarchy. They're not the bald, bearded, booby Oxford University tutor that is going viral right now, which you can see.

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You're like absolute freaks.

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Like, they are normal friends and family, people that we have grown up with that attended our wedding, who sent us presents for our son, all of whom been successfully radicalized, where the things that they say and post aren't far off from what this man wrote in his manifesto. And that is what stood out to me.

[Brett's Co-host or Guest]

That is what was so unbelievably chilling.

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

And it is also just on a personal note, it is so disorienting.

[Brett's Co-host or Guest]

Like, how can you call me when

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

I am freshly postpartum and check in on me?

[Brett's Co-host or Guest]

How can you send Alex and I presents for our newborn baby son and then post on Facebook about how you

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

think Trump and all of MAGA and all of his voters should be shot and do that all in the span of one week? It is sickening. And unfortunately, that's just the world that we live in. It's so atrocious.

[Brett's Co-host or Guest]

And then you go online and you're

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

laughing at jokes about all of it because I guess that's all we can do. And like. And I'm sitting here and I wish I had an answer or solution for where we go from here, but I genuinely have no idea. And I don't think most people do either. Like, I look around at my generation, I read Yalls comments, the things that

[Brett's Co-host or Guest]

you DM me and send me. And I just see us all existing

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

in this chaos, laughing at memes and making jokes. Jokes because it's easier. And honestly, at this point, it is our normal. As gross and sickening as it is, it is so commonplace now that again, when I saw this news, I went, okay, another one. And that is such an awful feeling. Like, to bring it back to what I was talking about at the beginning with rfk, like, are we just all Kennedys now so accustomed to horrifying, tragic, awful events that now when it's, when it's all over when consuming the news

[Brett's Co-host or Guest]

is over when the doom scrolling is

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

done at 3am we just shoot our family a text wondering what's for dinner, wondering if brunch is still on for next Saturday. Because we just move through the horrific events because they're commonplace. And so what do we do? Do we try to fight back against

[Brett's Co-host or Guest]

the people who won't talk to us,

[Brett (Main Speaker)]

won't listen, won't reason, want us dead and spit on the graves of our friends? Or do we just say I'm done and I'm disconnecting from it all. I'm not gonna scroll, I'm not gonna consume it, I'm not going to engage. That's honestly even though I do this show and I'm in media, like it's a question that I wrestle with literally every single day before I sit down in front of this microphone. Now the good thing is, and thank God for this, as many problems as our party has, especially right now, as many criticisms as voters are expressing at the moment, I am say that when it comes to this, we are not like the other side and I hope we never will be. Our decency and morality generally is still intact. So thank God for that.