A Christmas Reality Check for the Comment Section

Summary

The Chris Cuomo Project

Episode: "A Christmas Reality Check for the Comment Section"

Host: Chris Cuomo
Guest/Co-Host: Gregory aka "Father Homemaker"
Date: December 25, 2025

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Overview

This special holiday episode dives into Chris Cuomo’s reflections on the meaning of Christmas and the state of American discourse, especially as seen through the podcast and YouTube comment sections. With recurring co-host Greg, Chris responds candidly to audience feedback—ranging from political critique to media culture, generational divides, and the evolving digital landscape. Expect frank talk, some fireworks, and moments of humor and warmth.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Holiday Reflections and the Real Meaning of Christmas

• Chris’s Inclusive Message: Chris opens with a holiday greeting, stressing the importance of generosity and “celebrating something that’s bigger than yourself” whether Christmas, Hanukkah, or other traditions (02:04).
• Origins of Christmas Traditions: Chris explains the historical roots, tying Christmas’ placement to winter solstice and pagan festivals, demystifying icons like the Easter bunny and egg (02:05–02:43).

  “They matched calendars whenever convenient. That’s why a lot of the iconology, a lot of the symbology of Christianity is a little odd…”
  — Chris Cuomo (02:20)

• Personal Anecdote: Chris jokes with Greg about the joys and challenges of parenting during the holidays (03:17–03:48).

  “All you get doubled up on is the love.”
  — Chris Cuomo (03:44)

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2. Rage Bait, Media Algorithms, and Political Outrage

• Word of the Year: Chris discusses “rage bait” as Oxford’s 2025 word of the year and compares it to other “algorithm-driven slop” (04:28).
• Is Rage Bait New?: He traces outrage tactics back decades, citing examples like the Willie Horton ad, showing it’s not just a Trump-era phenomenon (05:10).

  “It’s not a new device. It’s just a new delivery device.”
  — Chris Cuomo (05:10)

• Critique of Political Obsession: Cuomo pushes back on the idea that relentless Trump-bashing is a productive strategy (05:37).

  “I just don’t believe it gets you where you want to be, which is in power.”
  — Chris Cuomo (05:54)

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3. Debate Over Military Strikes and Double Standards

• Venezuela Boat Strikes Comment: Chris fiercely rebuffs a critic who accuses him of defending drug dealers (06:23–08:56), drawing a pointed comparison to progressives’ reactions to Obama’s drone strikes.

  “You don’t know why I’m saying what I’m saying unless I explain it to you... You’re doing it now because it’s him, because he pisses you off... But guess who did [object to Obama]? MAGA people.”
  — Chris Cuomo (06:40–08:05)

• Principles Over Partisan Outrage: He insists due process is important but questions whether such issues are strong political ground for the left (08:56).

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4. Parties, Independents, and the Future of American Politics

• Calls for New Parties: Responding to a listener advocating a third party, Chris expresses support but notes constitutional barriers (09:19).

  “I’d like to abolish the parties... but it’s never going to happen.”
  — Chris Cuomo (09:19)

• Personal Values and Political Roots: He identifies with Democratic roots but distinguishes them from “culture war” stances, reflecting on generational shifts (09:40).

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5. Media, Branding, and Fraternizing with Foes

• On Don Lemon and Jim Acosta: Chris addresses accusations of “picking on” CNN colleagues, clarifying he critiques media branding and click-driven motives rather than harboring personal animosity (10:36–11:52).

  “When you put your name on everything, it’s about you... I want you to be a critical thinker. I don’t want you to be a lemon head.”
  — Chris Cuomo (11:17)

• On Mehdi Hasan: Chris discusses the challenge of keeping attention spans in a “clip-driven” environment and uses Hasan as an example of media figures leveraging outrage and digital confrontation for attention and income (13:05–15:54).

  “He is making Muslims a victim more than is fair or accurate… It’s not about who’s killing who; it’s about how he can make opportunity off of it. That’s my criticism.”
  — Chris Cuomo (14:12)

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6. Generational Reflections: Gen X and Millennials

• Gen X in Power: Responding to a listener, Chris assesses Gen X as “the bridge generation”—tough, resilient, and adaptable, shaped by pre-digital and digital upheaval (16:29).

  “We know life before these [phones]… We were the last truly resilient generation.”
  — Chris Cuomo (16:29–17:45)

• Millennials’ Struggles: Chris empathizes with millennials, listing traumas from 9/11 to economic crises, admiring their endurance but reserving judgment on how they will shape the future (17:45–18:35).

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7. Shadow Banning and Social Media Self-Censorship

• Addressing Shadow Bans: Chris acknowledges repeated episodes of shadow banning and critiques the paradoxical nature of online moderation, where content is both over-regulated and under-regulated (18:56–19:55).

  “Social media is a weird animal... It at once can limit things for the wrong reasons, and it absolutely exposes things for the wrong reasons.” — Chris Cuomo (18:56)

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8. UFOs, Transparency, and Audience Skepticism

• UFO/Alien Talk: Addressing negative comments on episodes featuring UFO experts, Chris affirms he’s open but skeptical—what matters most is government transparency, not “little green men” (20:30).

  “For me it’s about transparency. Not little green men, not bodies that they have... I believe there should be more transparency about these things.”
  — Chris Cuomo (20:30–21:46)

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9. Handling Hate and Political Trolling

• Responding to Toxic Commenters: Wrapping up, Chris dissects a “Maga Christmas” attack post, explaining the futility of anger-based engagement (22:16–26:43).

  “It is hard to not let somebody control how you think about them... I get it, and I get why it feels satisfying to say MAGA sucks... I just don’t find it to be productive.”
  — Chris Cuomo (23:01)

• Focusing on Winning and Positive Change: He reiterates that effectiveness, not outrage, creates real political change (24:00).

  “I’m about winning and positive change, okay? ...You guys have decided to make Trump as big and as powerful as possible.”
  — Chris Cuomo (24:41)

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10. Closing Banter & Human Touch

• Co-host Banter: Greg shares a light-hearted story about a jacket mix-up at Chris’s Christmas party, sparking jokes about thriftiness, Brooklyn, and clothing rental culture (26:43–28:49).
• Final Holiday Wishes: Chris and Greg exchange warm wishes for the season, and Chris thanks listeners for engaging—even when their comments are critical (28:49–29:28).

  “I don’t always like what you say, but I do listen to what you say. Okay. And I think that’s what matters most.”
  — Chris Cuomo (28:58)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Outrage and Media:

  “It’s not a new device. It’s just a new delivery device.”
  (05:10)

• On Due Process and Hypocrisy:

  “I’m not copping out about anything, you fucking punk. Here’s what bothers me about you people, okay? Don’t you fucking judge me…”
  (06:40)

• On Political Change:

  “I’d like to abolish the parties. I think it’s very hard… it’s never going to happen.”
  (09:19)

• On Millennials’ Trials:

  “Millennials had a really tough go, man.”
  (17:45)

• On Constructive Discourse:

  “I don’t always like what you say, but I do listen to what you say. Okay. And I think that’s what matters most.”
  (28:58)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Holiday Reflections & Christmas Origins: 02:04–03:10
• Rage Bait & Media Manipulation: 04:28–05:37
• Debates on Venezuela Boat Strikes: 06:23–08:56
• Political Parties & American Politics: 09:19–10:07
• On Criticizing CNN Colleagues: 10:36–11:52
• Mehdi Hasan & Media Critique: 13:05–15:54
• Gen X & Millennials: 16:29–18:35
• Shadow Banning & Social Media: 18:56–19:55
• UFOs and Government Transparency: 20:30–21:46
• Handling Hate Comments: 22:16–26:43
• Jacket Story & Co-Host Banter: 26:43–28:49
• Final Thoughts & Thank You: 28:49–29:28

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Tone and Style

Candid, unscripted, and frank—Chris Cuomo’s responses swing from fiery rebuttals to heartfelt wishes, often laced with humor and occasional profanity. The style is conversational but pointed, inviting tough questions and refusing glib answers.

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Bottom Line

This episode is a raw, unvarnished look at how online discourse, partisanship, and media culture intersect for a politically aware audience. Cuomo insists on moving beyond outrage, emphasizing positive action, critical thinking, and humility—even as he spars with his critics. A fitting Christmas “reality check,” indeed.

Transcript

[Chris Cuomo]

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[Chris Cuomo]

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[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Than.

[Chris Cuomo]

So we have comments from the audience that you want to go through and I am here for it.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Great. And this is coming out on Christmas or. Or right around Christmas. So do you want to have a Christmas message to the audience? A holiday message?

[Chris Cuomo]

I say happy holy days to you if you celebrate Christmas. Merry Christmas. Hope you remember the reason for the season.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Sure.

[Chris Cuomo]

You can argue that that is the birth of Christ. You can argue as a real fundamentalist. No, it isn't. Because they believe he was born in the spring. So then why is Christmas at this time of year? It is to match the winter solstice.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Wow.

[Chris Cuomo]

And the winter festivals that the pagans had. Why would you do that? Because Christians were worried about being persecuted. Yes.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Wow.

[Chris Cuomo]

So they matched calendars whenever convenient. That's why a lot of the iconology, a lot of the symbology of Christianity is a little odd. Like at Easter, which comes from the word oysters.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Oh, what?

[Chris Cuomo]

Estrus. Right. Pagan goddess of fertility. That's why you have the rabbit and the egg. Never made sense to me growing up now, you know. So delicious. I wish you A Merry Christmas for whatever it means to you. I hope what it does to you is make you generous, make you care and make you care for yourself, the people you take care of and the people you care for. And I wish you a Merry Christmas. Thank you. Your first one as a daddy.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

No, we had. She's a year and a half.

[Chris Cuomo]

She's a year and a half.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

So she was here for the first time.

[Chris Cuomo]

So it's really time for, you know.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

You'Re giving me the. The two sign. He wants me to have a second child with my wife. I think. I think we're good. I think. I love.

[Chris Cuomo]

It's fun.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

It's fun having one kid to focus on. You know what I mean? Because with two, that doubles the amount of work and the amount of Mount Does, I'm sure. What do you think? Literally, it's like a second person, you.

[Chris Cuomo]

Know, it's not one.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

We've already gotten rid of the really little kid, so we'd have to buy all that stuff all over again. You know what I mean, Nana?

[Chris Cuomo]

No, it works. All you get doubled up on is the love.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Oh, that's sweet.

[Chris Cuomo]

So the more, the more the merrier. But I wish you all holy days, if you've celebrated Hanukkah, great. Christmas, great. Whatever you celebrate, great. As long as you're celebrating something that's bigger than yourself now. Speaking of that, I will now switch into being bigger than myself and taking your comments, which are usually criticisms, especially when Greg is picking them, that's not intentional.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

I'm giving you an accurate distillation of what the audience has to say to you and wants to know from you. So you had this. I'll start with this rage bait video you put out a while ago because you've been on this thing about rage bait that was the biggest. The. The annual word from one of the dictionaries that. There's so many dictionaries. They all have a different word every year.

[Chris Cuomo]

English dictionary picked rage bait at the word of the year. The Mariam dictionary picked slop. Slop, which is what. All the crap that the algorithm dumps on you as content.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

It's pretty great though. Do you. Are you on Sora? Sora is very fun because on Sora, you. You. There's guard rails. You can generate some things. You can't generate some things. But like, if you. I got like David Ksh in there. It's pretty fun.

[Chris Cuomo]

Sora is a site you go to to make AI videos and they are really good.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Yeah, okay. Anyway, on your. On your Rage bait video. Steve Cud6283 wrote, With all due respect, the era of rage bait arrived when Trump came down his escalator. It's now the word of the year. What?

[Chris Cuomo]

You know, look, is that true? No. We have always had rage bait. How about when Roger Ailes colored the of Willie Horton a little bit darker to make people afraid of who Mike Dukakis had let out of prison? I mean, look, it's not a new device. It's just a new delivery device.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Didn't that happen with OJ Too on that Time magazine cover?

[Chris Cuomo]

Sure, sure.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

OJ Simpson.

[Chris Cuomo]

And we've seen it many times, okay? We've seen it many times. And was Trump an accentuation point? Yes. Was he an acceleration point? Yes. Is he a low bar for me in terms of presidential behavior? Yes, all of those things. But I just don't understand where the analysis leaves you. You are a member of the left who believes that as long as you are condemning Trump as fully as possible as if he were the devil himself, like, you can never say anything good about the devil. The devil can't do anything good. It's just terrible. And anything it does that even looks good is only a deception to get you to do something bad. That's what you believe you have to be. I get it. I just don't believe it gets you where you want to be, which is in power.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

In that same video, it was touched upon these Venezuelan boat strikes or the boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela or whatever Jay Schowler4172 wrote. Where's the proof? These were all drug boats. And what authorization is he using? Defending drug dealers is such a bullshit cop out on your part.

[Chris Cuomo]

I'm not copying out about anything, you fucking punk. Here's what bothers me about you people, okay? Don't you fucking judge me. You don't want to be jud. You don't know why I'm saying what I'm saying unless I explain it to you. Fucking big mouth. You know, I'm copping out. I'm copping out on what I'm telling you politically. You take the side of, I want more due process for drug dealers. And I'll take the side of, well, if I see a lot of drugs in a boat and they're heading here and I'm going to kill them, I think that the American people wind up being okay with it. Now does that make it okay? No. But here's where you're the cop out, okay? You're the cop out. I Bet you if you were to go back and look at how you guys felt every time Obama used a drone to kill a terrorist, you weren't like, where's the proof? Where's the proof that this was a tr. Wasn't that just a wedding? Where was it? I don't know. I want to be convinced you're full of shit. You're doing it now because it's him, because he pisses you off and you suspect he's got bad motives all the time in a way that you didn't with Obama. But guess who did. MAGA people. They thought Obama was abusing things and that he was lying and all these other things and endless wars and all this other. Now where's the truth? Right here. I believe that when they pick targets in the war on terror, they had actionable information. I know the men and women who did that job. And I believe, in my experience, they acted with integrity. Could they be wrong? Of course they would be wrong. And could they kill people in addition to people they wanted to who didn't deserve it? Yeah, that's called war and it sucks. Which is why you should avoid war. Now, has he made a colorable claim that these are narco terrorists? No, he hasn't. And Congress hasn't insisted on it. And that is wrong. And I have said that. And I have said there should be due process. I'm just telling you fuckers that I don't think this is the Hill for you to die on. Just like when you went down to El Salvador in the defense of a guy who's a member of a gang because you don't like how he was deported because he should have had more due process. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying that politically it's not a strong position. That's what I'm trying to say. It's not a cop out. It's accurate.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

We get comments not just on YouTube but on Spotify and other platforms. This is a Spotify one from the same episode. Andrea Miles wrote your podcast accidentally came on after I listened to the news this a.m. i would just tell you you should stick to your class liberal roots. The Democrat Party seems to have in part abandoned those values. The Republican Party, well, they have abandoned a lot as well. Registered independent. Time to fund another party.

[Chris Cuomo]

Yes. Multiple parties. Or abandon the parties. Right. I'd like to abolish the parties. I think it's very hard. You know, it's in vogue these days to say we need constitutional amendment on this and on that we're not getting the constitutional amendment on anything. You don't have a consensus. You'll never get it through Congress. You'll never get it through the House, let alone Congress, let alone all the states. It's never going to happen. So why even talk about it as some kind of practical solution? I agree with everything you said, except I I think I do hew to my Democratic roots. I think that most of my value system when it comes to politics is from that. But my father was very different than a guy who's arguing for trans athletes at Capella University.

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[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Okay, this is from your interview with Anthony Scaramucci. Marvin Harris, 8926 writes, you sound angry. Why pick on Don and Acosta? Go do your own thing. Stop hating bnj. Barber also writes, how is Jim Acosta offending Chris?

[Chris Cuomo]

He doesn't offend me. Don doesn't really offend me either. I don't like how they do things. First of all, these fucking people come after me all the time. By the way, are you defending me in their world? I doubt it. But that's not the point. I don't treat other people the way they treat me. If they if I did, there'd be a lot of people who are breathing through a tube. What I'm saying is that the way he's choosing to grow his following I think is kind of playing into what he used to oppose. That's all. But everybody's got to do what they got to do, and he wants to get paid and he wants to have the recognition. But look, to me, here's, here's what I think you should think about. When you put your name on everything, it's about you, okay? I don't sell anything with my name on it because it's not about me. I don't want you to buy into me as a brand, okay? My shirt says Critical Thinker because I want you to be one. Okay? I don't want you to be a lemon head, right? What the does that even mean?

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

It's a candy.

[Chris Cuomo]

What I'm saying is they're not bad either. Yeah, especially when they're a little soft, it's a too hard, you can go. But the point is, I wish him good things. I don't have to. A lot of people tell me I shouldn't, but that's my choice. I'm not coming after him. I promise you that. I defend the guy more than most. Okay? Now what should matter is you doing a real examination of what helps and what hurts. And you can look at it through different metrics. If the metric is what grows your following and gets you paid, that's one thing. But then there's really no greater value to what you do than its cash value. And I think that that is unfortunate. I think journalism isn't just about finding ways to get paid.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

This is from an old video. Adunb78 wrote this comment on an interview you had with Mehdi Hasan. The comment is, this video is too long. It's a long form interview, but sure, I'll take the point. I wanted to bring this up because I've seen you talk to Mehdi Hasan a lot on Twitt lately. And so I want to know if you wanted to address this man's, this person's attention span as well as your, your, you know, relationship with Medie and such.

[Chris Cuomo]

The. Everybody's attention span is getting shorter and shorter because that's what social media is giving you is smaller and smarter clips that are smaller, clips that are more outrageous because that is clickbait. And that's what they're doing. They're grabbing you with a meme. They're grabbing you with a quick sound bite. I remember when there was a time when we used to hate sound bites and we wanted more discussion and we wanted, you know, now we're going in the opposite direction. But then at the podcast, and they used to be really long, but we see what's happening with podcasts, right? More and more of them are not audio only. They're going to video. And they're becoming much more just like TV shows, really. I mean, that's the, the. The new TV shows, the new talk shows are all streaming shows. So look, the. What was the question in there? Oh, Mehdi Hassan.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Yeah.

[Chris Cuomo]

Mehdi Hassan, I think is playing too much to advantage. And he's too cute by half and he's too cle. His own good. And by each and all of those, I mean, he is making Muslims a victim more than is fair or accurate. Okay? Muslims are not the same thing as terrorists, okay? And it's not even true that all terrorists are Muslims because one, it's just not true. We see people doing terrible here. That is absolutely terroristic all the time and they can't even spell Muslims. So that's not what it is. Extreme Islamists are not the same thing as Muslims. They are people who have perverted the faith. The same way that if you say in the name of Lord Jesus I just bombed that abortion clinic, you're not a Christian. You're not a Christian. You may think you are, but you're not. Not the way I observe it, not the way I believe it, not the way I studied it. You see what I'm saying? Same thing. Now Mehdi is not wrong to draw that distinction and to point out when people fail to do so. But he has decided again, this is getting him paid. So he goes all in against Israel. And here's my point of proof. Something else will come up that he needs to be a part of to keep the clicks going, to keep the flow going of social media attention. And he will no longer talk about these things about Gaza, even though Hamas will be doing terrible things and things will still be happening. But he will no longer talk about it for the same reason he doesn't really talk about Sudan, because it's not about who's killing who, it's about how he can make opportunity off of it. That's my criticism. It doesn't make me condemn him as a person. It doesn't want me to see anything bad happen to him. And he'll talk a lot of obnoxious things because he is part of this new digital tough guy thing, which is where you just talk a lot of shit. And that's what used to pass for actually being tough as shit.

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[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Try [e-mail] copilot this is also from your Scaramucci interview. Ardle Hatley 8253 writes Chris, do you think when Gen X starts getting in office, will things change? Just curious.

[Chris Cuomo]

I think Gen X is in office. Gen X is my generation. So it's people between 45 and 60. I mean this is us, this is our time now. You're Gonna have younger people in there. I don't have any problem with that, by the way. I don't think just because you're 60, you're better than someone who's 30. It depends what your life experience is and your intelligence and your aptitude is. But we're in it. We're in it. Gen X, I think, is a very special collection of people. We are a bridge generation. We know life before these. We were tough. We were left alone. We went outside unsupervised. We didn't have play dates. We were more competitive. We were not rewarded for being mediocre. There was a toughness. There was a resilience to us that I think you see in our success now. I've often wanted to find better ways. I always hated that it call this Generation X, Generation X. As if we were somehow undefined, as you know what I mean? Like, it was kind of like a space holder. I think that we've been the last truly resilient generation. However, I do want to hold out my opinion on millennials, and I'll tell you why. Millennials had a really tough go, man.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Yes.

[Chris Cuomo]

They were raised as young children with 9, 11, really scary war on terror, a huge increase in political deceit and deception, the economic cratering of 2008, the digital revolution, phones, social media, terrorism here at home, the worst attacks ever here at home. And then all of the social strife and BLM and everything that's followed in the last 10 years, and all the Trump stuff, all on their watch. Still relatively young people, they have really been put through it, and it'll be interesting to see how they process that and what it gathers as strength in their own commitment to this country and what they do with our communities.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

This is from your interview with Dan Farah. He was the one who produced and directed the Age of Disclosure UFO documentary, How to Make a Monster, wrote Chris. Is this your first time being shadow banned? I think it's a comment on the video not having a bunch of views, but yeah. Is this your first time being shadow banned, you think? I don't think it is. I think it's happened to you. I think you've been on the shitter plenty of times. I have been the old website.

[Chris Cuomo]

I've been shadow banned lots of times. Because social media is a weird animal, right? It at once can limit things for the wrong reasons, and it absolutely exposes things for the wrong reasons. And that's why you people use the term unalive. It's so interesting that there's more talk of Violence and there's more inhumanity and there's more lack of empathy than ever in any media platform by a gazillion percent and an exponent. And yet if you say kill, they'll, you know, they'll, they'll, they'll, they'll sideline your video. And that is part of the odd kind of incongruity, the paradox of the learning curve of what social media needs to be.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

It's also, I mean words like suicide, like three. It's a weird sort of self censorship of being able to like just use social media to connect to people.

[Chris Cuomo]

Well look, what we're learning is it's a lot easier than using certain words. You don't have to. As long as the feel of it is nasty, is debasing, is outraged, you're going to be fine in getting picked up by the algorithm. So you don't need to use any of those words.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Well, this is also from a UFO episode. Your interview with Avi Loeb, professor at Harvard. Giggity82 writes to professor professionally lying squawkers. Stephen Atkinson writes, sounds like coast to coast radio at 2am and Dave Hamill 8 says find serious guests please. 2 ease.

[Chris Cuomo]

So here's the thing. I know that it's a lot to swallow that Dan believes that they have found UAP craft with non human remains. I know I have it. I don't believe that. Okay. Now I don't know what he knows, right. So I can't disprove it either.

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[Chris Cuomo]

Am I open to there being other life in the universe? Yes, I am. Why, why wouldn't I be? We're the only ones that figured it out. We're the only ones. And the only kind of existence is carbon based. Do we know that? But that arrogance aside, for me it's about transparency. Not little green men, not bodies that they have. It's that they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars and a lot of American assets to do things that they say they've never done. And they find things, they have reverse engineering of technology. And I believe there should be more transparency about these things. And I think that can be done without giving away the secrets that keep us ahead of China. And I think the more that we would learn, we would see we're actually not where we need to be in terms of versus China and a lot of other actors, state and non state. It's about transparency for me, not little green men.

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[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Well, I thought I'd wrap this up today. Like I said, it's Christmas time. I thought I'd have a nice little Christmas themed comment for you. I think it's a good summation of where we are, especially with like, some things you have coming out in the channel. Or maybe they've already come out already, but this is from Quanthrux. Have a very Merry Maga Christmas and enjoy that. Pedophile in Chief. Pedophile is spelled wrong.

[Chris Cuomo]

Wow, there's a shock look.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

16 likes, I do believe.

[Chris Cuomo]

Well, of course, because you're anti maga and as long as you're anti maga.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Well, no, it says Very Merry Maga Christmas.

[Chris Cuomo]

Yeah, I know. And then they call him a pedophile.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Pedophile in chief.

[Chris Cuomo]

See, because there's irony.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

I see. I, I took it as like, no, we, we support the pedophile because we put him in office.

[Chris Cuomo]

No.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Alleged. Alleged.

[Chris Cuomo]

No. This. This person did not vote for Trump. He hates Trump or she Trumps. And I get it one again. And you may think that this is soft. I actually think it's very hard. It is hard to not let somebody control how you think about them. It is hard to do that. And I have learned to do that not just because of my public existence, but because of my combat training and in learning how to not be afraid of somebody, how not to be angry at them about what they did. To me, it has been really useful as a skill set of learning how to engage and escalate and de. Escalate and disengage. I don't always get it right. I mean, one time I thought I was getting it right by yelling at people who were yelling at me instead of hitting them the way I wanted to. And I got all the Fredo shit and got you all mad at me for what I said, as opposed to having hit them, which is what my original plan was. So I get it and I get why it feels satisfying to say MAGA sucks, Trump sucks, or a bunch of fascists and Nazis and all that stuff. I get it, I get it. I just don't feel find it to be productive. I, I think that you can recognize that this is a really, really incomplete and unuseful political movement and that Trump has so many flaws and creates so much opportunity to get somebody better that I don't need to waste the energy by making him the center of it, by attacking him all the time. Now, I know it works in terms of getting clicks like you got clicks that you certainly don't deserve, right? That you didn' spell the word right. But people are so desperate for resistance to him and what they believe he represents, right or wrong. And it's pretty easy to have a negative connotation of him and deservedly so because of how he speaks and acts. But I just don't think that makes it right. And I don't think that puts you in a better position. See, I'm about winning and positive change, okay? I'm about positive change. And you need to win races to make positive change. It's hard to make any positive change excep yourself when you don't have power over anybody else or anything else. So that's where I'm coming from on it. I don't want to give him attention. The same reason that people in a campaign often won't use their competitor's name. The same reason why when a guy's getting ready for a fight, he often won't say his opponent's name. Why? Because he doesn't want to make it about him. He wants to keep it on him and on their ability to beat them and make them as small as possible. You guys have decided to make Trump as big and as powerful as possible possible.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Well, I won't say the name of the person who posted it starts with the Q, but I won't say that. But it gives me the option have a very merry Maga Christmas and enjoy that pedophiler in Chief to give an automatic reply. You can say Happy Holidays. Thanks, you too. Or same to you. Do you wish for me to. Same to you. Okay, great. Same to you, Quant Thrux or I'm not going to say their name to this person.

[Chris Cuomo]

Why?

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Because you just said not to say their name. Like they, like in.

[Chris Cuomo]

No, no, no, no.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Like I know. And a political opponent. I'm not trying to give them power. You were talking about Trump. I'm talking. I'm not trying to give Quanthrox more power here.

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[Chris Cuomo]

I think that sometimes saying somebody's name exposes them to scrutiny that maybe they deserve. I don't think Quan Thru does, though, because I think what he or she or they or it probably is Quant Thru. Is or are doing is kind of what everybody's doing right now that, you know, you're angry. You're angry about what's going on, and. And you want to reject it. And I think that's. It totally makes sense. How you do it is where we disagree. It's not that I'm giving Trump a pass, I guarantee you that.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Well, that's it for the comments. I want to thank you for a good year. I hope you have a happy Christmas. Did you know that at your, you know, you had a Christmas party that I was invited to for the first time this year? Did you know that somebody had the exact same jacket as me and I took their jacket by mistake? No, it was the identical sitting over there. 100.

[Chris Cuomo]

So you have somebody else's jacket?

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

No, I met him yesterday, and I switched it because it's the short one and mine is the long one because I'm tall. So I've been. I've been wearing this, like, short jacket. But I saw, you know, my AirPods were in there, and so I track. He went to the movies. He, like, was hanging out in some parking lot. So I. At your Christmas party, had a good time, but it led to a, you know, I didn't have my keys. It was kind of annoying. Has that ever happened to you? Yeah, I got it back. I met. I met him in the lobby of the other show. You do?

[Chris Cuomo]

Wow.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Yeah. You had no idea this was happening behind your back?

[Chris Cuomo]

I didn't. And I'm so happy that it resolves itself favorably for both parties.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Well, now I have to get a new jacket because I know somebody else is walking around with the same jacket. Jacket.

[Chris Cuomo]

But you're from Brooklyn. Don't you buy a lot of thrifting clothes all the time?

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

No.

[Chris Cuomo]

Wasn't that sweater somebody else's?

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

No cords. Yours. You're assuming this based on what you pay me. You must think that I make so little. I have to go thrift.

[Chris Cuomo]

No, I mean, this is what you guys do. You're getting your little prison tattoos, right? The little.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Little. Yeah, like little Miley Cyrus little messages. The. Yeah, the inmates. And you.

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[Chris Cuomo]

You and your wife go thrifting?

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

We don't go. No, my wife does the thing called newly borrows clothing. It's the clothing rental. She. She gets this zebra bag I have to drop off, like, every 10 days where it's just a bunch of old clothing. But you should. The UPS store, they're just piled. That's what everybody. All these people are doing. They're just Piled up. I'm going to say women because, well, in Brooklyn, but they don't have men's, they just have women. So it's just a giant pile of zebra bags.

[Chris Cuomo]

It makes you kind of less privileged if you wear somebody else's clothes. If that works for you. That's not at all what I'm saying.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

These are my clothes. I'm saying I didn't like a man.

[Chris Cuomo]

Wearing somebody else's pants.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Yeah, I bought these brand new. What are you talking about?

[Chris Cuomo]

Way the pants, they're mustard. They're from 1960s. They're not.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

They're brown. These are brown pants.

[Chris Cuomo]

So flexible. Now, what have you been doing? You've been doing.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

I'm doing.

[Chris Cuomo]

I'm doing a little Suzanne Summers at home.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Yeah.

[Chris Cuomo]

Yeah, I'm.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

I'm doing some Pilates.

[Chris Cuomo]

I wish you the best for Christmas.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Hey, cheers.

[Chris Cuomo]

You are great. Enjoy your little girl, enjoy your wife, enjoy your friends, and we'll get after it again in the new year.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Happy holidays.

[Chris Cuomo]

Same for you. Thank you for the commenting. Thank you for paying attention. I don't always like what you say, but I do listen to what you say. Okay. And I think that's what matters most. Thank you for subscribing and following. Thank you for checking me out on News Nation 8p at midnight every weekday night. Thank you for going to the TikTok shop and buying your swag. No, that's stuff that you would be given. Shit.

[Gregory (Greg) or Father Homemaker]

Swag we all get.

[Chris Cuomo]

Yeah. So this you're gonna buy and you're gonna buy for yourself and you're gonna buy for other people and you're gonna feel good about it because one, you're sending a positive message about yourself that you're a critical thinker and not a le different. That you're a free agent and you're going to show that and you're going to give it to other people you feel are like minded in that way and spread independence, which is what we need more of in our politics and our society. And you'll feel good knowing that the money you put into the kitty is going to be crowdsourced to make contributions we can all feel good about. All right, check you out soon. Problems are real. It's going to be a tough year, so let's get after it.

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