Woke Celebrities Talk “Tax The Rich” at $30,000 a Ticket Met Gala - Will & Amala LIVE

uh it's it's kind of a lot of work like walking down this runway and having all the paparazzi pictures and everything uh at this gala is this your first met gala or oh i've been to multiple met galas oh really i'm a seasoned met gala veteran oh my gosh well so what are you doing with the theme this year like tell me about your your outfit this year my very fun blue dress okay it's uh it represents where i live the blue ridge mountains in tennessee oh okay and there used to be a native american tribe there until the white man moved it out and so now i am wearing this dress as in solidarity to give the land back to the natives wow that is so brave yeah i mean not my house okay but the other places in the blue ridge those go back to no not where i live but that is really the other ones you know that's what i'm all about no but honestly i mean like we're here to make statements you know and i think it's like super brave of you to walk out here and really do that i think that's great yeah no i uh you know i also did last year i had this this other blue dress it was against the police you know even though after obviously this guy tried to attack me and the police saved me but you know the thing is is that those kind of things don't matter when we have a systematic oppression of all sorts of things in this country right yeah i think we kind of went in similar directions as you can see i'm wearing a black dress uh there's no other colors present especially not white because you know i can never have whiteness sort of come into a space that i'm surrounded in or an environment that i'm surrounded in so that was really important to me and my designer in this dress um so what would really happen is we decided to use black dye of course but what was really important in the components of the dye that went into this dress is that we actually used tears collected from white males to uh make this die for this dress i'm sorry did you say black dye yes you want black people to die sir no no no no i'm just saying that die on the dress i would never say anything that semantically led anybody to black death do you understand that i don't know if i believe that unseen i was not expecting you to say that what do you mean you weren't expecting i don't know it's really clever i wasn't expecting you if you're gonna say something racist i'm gonna call you out for it i was like trying to keep the leftist character while that was happening uh in my brain but it was uh it was definitely tough i almost short circuited there for a second but that skit was in regard to the met gala and if any of you are in tune to pop culture and really anything happening with the sphere of elites when it comes to the met gala this year in particular was was quite a fun one i'm going to show you a tweet here so let's let's just remind you all that the met gala is really a show of prosperity wealth and elitism we have celebrities politicians show up in this space and the most extravagant outfits all pertaining to one theme now the theme this year was meant to be america and here is what some of our yes that's what the theme was yes oh no way i had no idea the theme was meant to be america that was the theme of the met gala this year now here's who we have showing up we have this woman here and equal rights for women outfit well no it's funny that she has an equal rights for women outfit well actually we'll get into some of the other pictures so i'll save this commentary okay save it okay zipped it up next we have cara delevingne in a peg the patriarchy outfits really does sound painful for you well i don't know who this patriarchy guy is i'm sure he's not going to enjoy it i'm i'm anticipating a painless experience for myself and a not so painless one for you uh this one we have megan rappanel with in gay we trust not in god we trust but in her very uncle sam esque outfit in gay we trust and lastly this young lady here in her tax the rich dress i don't there's got to be some of the other pictures from here because i wanted to show some of the other ones that have maybe you can pull it up online try and find it there's a lot of them under here the one with with our favorite new york city congressman and she's walking down the aisle but and this is with all the people not just her but with all the people who are walking down getting their photos taken and everything you see all of the other people there like the wait staff or whoever and they're all in masks they're all sitting there they're all in black they're in mask is that one i'll find it for you because i want i want people to see because it's actually like a very stark contrast and i think it plays to the the greater the greater problem the greater problem of what this is essentially that these people are the slaves and these are the masters in a way that these people are essentially like they can go out and not have to wear masks but then you have to send your children to school for eight hours a day masked even when they are less likely to die or get sick from the virus than someone who is older yet they have to wear masks for eight hours a day in school and these people at the met gala don't have to but then all the wait staff and the people who aren't the famous elites have to stand there in their masks looking on as these rich people walk by yeah i mean it's just so emblematic of actual true leftist elitism in this country it makes no sense and to show up to a met gala and let's give you the metrics on this a seat at the met gala or just you know a ticket to the met gal is 30 000 if you want to sit at a table it's 275 000 to sit at a table at the met gala and here we have what was that buy a table yeah yeah to have a table at the met gala yeah so these people show up wearing their tax the rich gowns and equal rights for women and we are women fighting against the patriarchy as you spent thirty thousand dollars to even get into the venue yeah i mean it's so it is for we have to be frank that i mean it is for charity i mean that's what the mcgill is about it's about it's a charity event so that's what it's supposed to be but the thing is is that you know and i you can look this up i mean aoc got her ticket for free to go to this event but regardless of all that is that the problem is that these people claimed in interviews one with vogue claimed that she was part of the working class she said she was part of the working class you don't go to the met gala in a dress and have like other people she had her like weight staff she has this long dress right and she's got these other people who are holding the dress behind her like some sort of like old school emperor not letting his i like like having his kimono touch the ground these people are like holding up her dress and you claim that you're a part of the working class you make 175 000 a year you when the pandemic happened what kind of pay cut did you take oh no you didn't take a pay cut oh wait oh you actually got a pay raise well you told the rest of us that we had to shut our businesses down and that we weren't allowed to to work and that some of us were non-essential well you stayed with more money and getting all these deals and i'll go into the met gala unmath i mean what a ridiculous hypocritical thing to do to claim you are part of the working class to claim that you know what we are going through that normal people are going through is the most ludicrous thing and this is what communists do communists do this they've been doing it for ages i mean like in north korea and and mao and and stalin all these guys they lived lives of luxury and then told you that they were helping you but they weren't they weren't helping you at all they lie and they live their rich lives full of splendor and wealth and they tell you that your health they're helping you and really in reality they are oppressing you and they hate you they look down on you these people getting their photos taken are looking at the wait staff who are there in their mass and they're looking down on them and saying you vermin disgusting they're not in my position like it's horrible that's that's what communists do and regardless i know the med gala is is for charity it doesn't matter you you are women all of them here except for are our sitting uh politician millionaires millionaires walking this little carpet talking about how oppressed you are while you live in your ivory towers with your private police and your millions and millions of dollars of annual revenue and you want to hop on on this carpet wearing dresses that say equal rights for women and peg the patriarchy and then gay we trust yeah think about that replacing the word god with the word gay on on the world stage for the met gala it is ridiculous and it's the highest form of just utter elitism that we've probably seen this entire year well how can these people claim that they're part of these oppressed groups i mean equal rights for women in gay we trust you are at one of the most prestigious events ever having your pictures taken by tons of people getty images i mean paying tons of money to be there with the literally the richest people in the world some of the richest people most famous people in the world and you are claiming that you are oppressed this is again how communists work they tell you that you're oppressed they tell you that you have all these struggles and that they are a part of it this is no populist message this is no nothing that is for the people this is an oligarchical elitist society that is using you i mean how can you not see when you watch these people walking down the runway that if you find these people to be endearing or as a champion for your rights or as someone who is a role model for you you are a slave you have a slave mentality if you believe these people have your best interests at heart this is it's not even left first right it is slave versus master by looking at these people and saying wow these people are trying to control everything i do and claim that it's for social justice for the greater good well they go and do none of the things that they try and put on you yeah wearing these dresses talking about equal rights and oppression while snapping their fingers and asking their their masked up employees to come and fix the train of their dress it is absolutely ridiculous another half-cafeato sir right saxophone woman for the oppressed woman yeah please it's like huh the theme of this is america all of these women have the opportunity to step forward onto this stage be patriotic take a strong stance of love for this country and go look at me look at the amount of opportunity that i've been able to take by being an american look at where it got me look at how successful i am because i live in america and i'm putting my money towards this cause for charity to make this country better but no they chose to go you know what i'm to ignore all the sess all the success that i've come across in this country i'm going to ignore the fact that we don't live in a patriarchy and that i've been able to become a successful woman all of these women in different eras of their career becoming successful here in america i'm going to ignore all that and try to sell this story of oppression that i've heard for so long and that i feel like everybody needs to hear these these people are evil these people are genuinely evil i mean look think about all the things that they have said about people like you me amla all of us who have these different types of values they have denigrated us and turned us into vermin to them that we are lower class citizens to them you know they shame us if we don't agree with them they shame us if we don't do the things that they want us to do and then they go and do the exact things that they were professing before and then telling us that we are still bad people for the things that we do i mean this is genuinely evil behavior to come and do that to be that type of person and say that you know you are supposed to do these things ostracize us and then go around and do the exact opposite of what they preach there's really no other word for it it is evil you have to be able to see past this i don't know yeah i don't know how you could be on the left you could have leftist ideologies you could you know think more you know social programs and be more progressive on social issues like all these things you could believe in that like fair enough but there's no way that you can't look at the elites in this country these types of people and say that they do not have your best interests at heart i mean it is it is practically impossible i would hope that like there's more unity between left-wing populism and right-wing populism than there is between even you know conservatives and some of the more far-right conservatives you know so it's like we have to come together with the left on those things and wake people up on the left that it's like the elite in this country are evil and they hate you and they don't care about you it's all for them nothing proves oppression better than wearing a thousand dollar designer gown with your oppression oh i'm just saying at the very least a thousand dollars i although some of these people show up and they're decked out in crystals and pearls and that's tens of thousands of dollars but at the very least thousands of dollars on whatever you're wearing with your your story of oppression painted right on it in front of a room a gallery of paparazzis and crystal chandeliers and and prime artisan paintings while you get photographed and watched by millions and millions of people who sit and clap for you nothing screams oppression more than that and you know what i'm sold i am now a feminist who's fighting the patriarchy and is going to fight to tax the rich because these four women have proven that to me so thank you we didn't even talk about tax the rich geez yeah we didn't we didn't even touch base on that there's just so much going on so bad it's so bad it makes me really angry it makes me angry that these are the people that we herald in society as our are great people you know that all of the news stations and the media comes out and talks about these types of people heralds them as as saviors and and and the and great people that's sad to me that's really sad to me and that's why it makes me angry because there are amazing strong people who are trying to do good things for this country who don't get enough credit i mean look we should even be look at the the people like we have normal everyday americans who did who took their own money to send planes to afghanistan to save american citizens and bring them back home what did you hear about them did you hear anything barely anything people don't even know these people's names but you go to this and you see all these people in million dollars of worth of dresses and these are the people heralded as heroes in this country that that is why it's angry angrifying angering angering infuriating to me because it shows such a backwards look on what society in america is today if if somebody from any foreign country was like i want to know about america what is american culture like this is what they tune into this is what they get to see this is their representation of what america is like and that is atrocious so stand up for good values and don't listen to the elite in this country be an individual be an individual and and find your own path okay don't let these people tell you how to think and feel because they're all losers and we need to get a total and complete shutdown of all of this until we can figure out what's going on seriously it should be illegal it's really on it's like this is that was horrible it was horrible anyways let's let's cool ourselves down for a second i posted twice on instagram yesterday on my feed which i never do i never post twice on instagram in one day because even though craig probably wants me to but i choose not to and i did because i was like this is just goodness gracious right right well before will uh spontaneously combust no i'm not gonna combust we are gonna move on to our next segment which we had an extremely special guest and that's christopher ruffo we talk about him all the time on this program let's just get right into the interview guys we have an extremely special guest on the show today it's christopher ruffo i feel like christopher ruffo is on the show even when he's not physically here because we're always covering his stories he is a fellow at the manhattan institute as well as our resident crt expert so christopher thank you so much for being on the program it's good to be with you amazing amazing so you had a sort of a rough go of things recently you're very popular on twitter that's the platform that i feel like most people know and love you from but you had your verification badge sort of snatched from you what happened there i did yeah my my kind of blue check was was was disappeared it was taken away uh very odd you know two things happened in my kind of tech world i got about a week ago a notification from gmail or from google rather where i host some of my email systems my non-sensitive email systems and my cloud storage and they said that a government-backed attack was seeking entry into my email so this was a kind of state-sponsored intelligence agency i'm not sure which one foreign domestic uh was seeking access to my email and then you know a week later i think you know by coincidence uh most likely google just removes my check said i was incorrectly verified and and then just snatches it away and i think that it shows uh both our vulnerability as individuals but also the arbitrary nature of a lot of the policies from tech which well i can't say why it happened i can't discern intentions i don't i don't know from behind the scenes it at least raises the suspicion that there is some kind of bias there's some kind of lack of transparency there's some kind of effort you know when you've been a naughty uh conservative uh they're gonna take your your stuff away uh that's what it feels like um at least to me right i just had my run in with this uh yesterday i've been banned off tick tock uh numerous times now but i went on instagram to do a live video yesterday nothing political just to play music for the people who follow me and banned from from doing live videos and simply because of community guidelines violations that go along with my political beliefs so we share that space have you had any uh help in sort of fighting back against this yeah you know the media has been really great i had a lot of articles written about it about it raising some kind of uh the alarm sounding the alarm and uh glenn greenwald's made a nice tweet you know kind of coming to my defense also noting that the first time someone was unverified was julian assange so there is a kind of backstory to some of this unverification uh and and then you know i've had some people reach out behind the scenes although if you're listening and you have any connections with twitter please reach out to me uh to try to see what what happened and see if we can get it fixed um and you know at the end of the day we only can do what we do and and i don't think i'm it doesn't it certainly doesn't make me feel like i need to change what i do to censor what i do i think of myself as a fairly moderate rationable a rational reasonable person uh and so it's it's sometimes kind of funny when you when you look at the when i look at the news coverage about me and the new york times or the post they present me as some kind of flame throwing arch-conservative ideologue um and it just kind of it it just it's like it's so bewildering it doesn't doesn't feel like to me that's that's what i am and uh and uh i oftentimes don't even recognize myself in some of the coverage i see you're a white man talking about crt so that's basically what you get essentially you are this horrible conservative nazi racist but almost like like i'm not verified i have over 100 000 followers on twitter not verified you know someone like dave portnoy isn't verified james o'keefe was never verified i feel like this is kind of for you in some respect almost a second badge of honor is being unverified like the people at twitter these leftists hate you so much because you speak so much truth that you get unverified it's almost like a kind of cool thing to know yeah yeah exactly it's like the new verification badge is no verification back and i'm not just saying that because i'm unverified you gotta get it and then get it taken away that's really the the double the double trick exactly what do you think is the main problem when it comes to these big social media sites i mean we're obviously seeing you being you know your blue check mark being taken away we're seeing censorship about conservatives all over the place i mean we saw this during the election and and it's just all over the shadow banning and and demonetization all sorts of things do you think that those kind of things tie in with a lot of the crt that you talk about or what do you think is the biggest problem when it comes to these big tech overlords we have now you know i i think there are two types of media right you have a high production media so you look at hollywood television programs uh kind of more artistic creations that are really dominated by the left and have been dominated by the left for many years and then you look at the kind of low tech lower production lower barrier to entry media such as talk radio facebook twitter uh live streams podcasts that are that are easier entry and require less production conservatives actually do really really well on those platforms dominate talk radio you know have historically dominated kind of sharing on twitter and so i think what the tech companies have realized is that uh the people who are increasingly using this their services using their platforms and doing actually really well reaching big audiences having a lot of influence are people that are not like them that do not think like them that do not share the same values as they do and they're now kind of shocked they thought that their platforms would liberate a kind of progressive utopian vision uh you know and that would remake the world in their image and now they're confronted with this problem that the the the people who actually oppose that vision in some cases um are are using their platform to advance something different and so they're trying to figure out what do we do do we do we kind of take a heavy-handed approach do we take a more kind of subtle approach and this is the thing that we're seeing and i think the the president trump ban was really the rubicon uh moment where they said you know what we're going to actually start drawing a line and enforcing a political orthodoxy and and we're going to take the heat from you know banning a sitting president and now we're living in the wake of that and i know prageru has had many uh many run-ins i have had my own small run-ins in my own way uh and we're all in this fight uh we're all experiencing this kind of jostling back and forth um and the future is unknown we'll have to see what happens yeah it sucks that we have to go on big tech and big social media to talk about the censorship that they are doing to us on their own platforms it's kind of ironic in a sense that that's what we have to do but it's really the best means of getting our messages out and you know one thing i hear a lot of people talking about is you know creating our own platforms and things like that as as conservatives and truth-loving people but for me you know i i think that people who are conservative need to be on these social these other social media platforms because if we want to influence people who have a difference of opinion than us or change their minds you know amela was a leftist before getting involved with prageru i was a liberal atheist before getting involved and it's like if it wasn't for social media we wouldn't be in this position what do you think about the argument of just going and creating our own social media or do you think we should try and stick it out with the ones that we already have i i think that yeah sure you can create an alternative platform i don't think there's any harm in that but what you have is then you have a kind of a conservative technological ghetto um you know conservatives don't have the market power don't have the uh kind of engineering power don't have the aesthetic power to create a true rival getter and parlor etc will never have a even a significant market share compared to twitter uh because they're derivative products and they're inferior products frankly and so i think that the solution is not to create a kind of echo an alternative echo chamber at a very small scale you know the solution is to recognize that even as a free-market conservative uh when you have monopoly conditions you justify some regulation some government intervention even very hardcore libertarians would agree under monopoly conditions whether it's standard oil or youtube some government regulation is necessary and appropriate and i think that when you have these monopolies youtube again a kind of video platform monopoly twitter social media kind of microblogging monopoly facebook interpersonal monopoly in a sense this now comprises the new public square and these are really uh public platforms for public debate and the founders were very clear on this that political speech is the most important speech to protect it's the essential uh speech category of our first amendment and therefore i think there's a good argument to be made that these companies you know should be i mean look they're great companies they've created an incredible public service they've they've they've allowed people who were voiceless to have a voice but there is now i think an obligation to the public that these should be essentially a public square services public square platforms and they should at least be you know you you can't be you know threatening to kill someone there there's certainly a line right on on on the freedom first amendment freedom of speech but i think that there has to be uh simple neutral uh accountable transparent mechanisms to guarantee that people who are uh engaging in political speech are are protected and not going to be at the at the whims of an arbitrary uh ideological power well sadly they want to say that they they want to have their cake and eat it too they want to say that they're they have editorial control over what happens but then they also want to say that they're a public forum open to all and that's the the great joke that they've basically played on as it seems yeah all while hiding the indoctrination that they're trying to put people through now i kind of want to shift gears to a prageru project that you've been heavily involved in and is coming out tomorrow and that is a short documentary called miss educated so we're going to play the trailer really quickly and then we have a couple questions about your involvement in this project technology and these lessons are poison for all kids the design of this is to put into the minds of kids as young as kindergarten that you are not like him he is not like her all of these things are designed to divide you the system set up to where if you're teaching anything about gender identity that you don't even have to notify parents when it's being taught parents have no idea and they don't know how radically the sex ed is changed here in america our kids are taught divisive racial ideologies skewed history and a new kind of sex education that robs them of their innocence this is the miseducation of our children okay so that's a new prageru short documentary that's coming out featuring you christopher ruffo called miseducated the decline of america schools now this has been getting out everywhere it's all over social media on every single platform i'm seeing people talk about the infiltration of crt and gender theory and this really horrible sex education that young people are being subjected to in our schools and it seems like people are fighting back and responding to it an article out of the journal says that 1.1 million students have now left the public school system and we're seeing a massive boom in homeschooling do you feel like this sort of indoctrination is a key player in that shift i i think it is i think obviously the the pandemic was probably the number one um but the pandemic was number one for two reasons the pandemic first off shut down schools so parents are saying well if my kid wants to learn anything i better get more involved but second even for kids who were attending school virtually parents got a kind of an ugly look into what's happening in the classroom what's actually being taught and then i think the combination of those two things really pushed parents to say wait a minute i need to get more involved i need to find out what's happening in our schools i need to show up at city council me or rather school board meetings you're seeing that happening everywhere and then in some cases i'm better off actually pulling my kid from the public school system finding an alternative and this is uh you know a hardship obviously for many parents but the the unintended benefit of this is that parents are now starting to raise questions about what's happening parents are seeing a really ugly side within the public education system and then they're they're actually using their creative energies and faculties to try to find new solutions and i think that this is going to be a huge uh uh jolt of energy for people who want to see more parental control uh kind of better education better curriculum uh and i think that that's the first i saw the trailer so it's very exciting to see that trailer i think this would also play a um a part in getting out that message we were talking um before on the show about whether or not you we've had some states like idaho and others who have said we are going to ban crt from being taught in our classrooms and i said i think that's a good idea i think that banning it is best when you are teaching little white kids that they're racist and little black kids that they are oppressed i think that's a horrible thing to do what do you think about that what's your take on whether or not it should be banned or not yeah absolutely you know i i'm i've definitely have supported that and worked actually with many of the state legislatures in texas idaho tennessee uh florida at the board of education level um you know nine states now have done this and i think we're going to see another five to ten states uh join uh join join with this movement next year when the legislatures are back in session but it's it's really i think essential you know you shouldn't teach that you know for example the language in many of these bills one race is superior to another uh members of one race should be held responsible for the historical crimes committed by people who look like them or that one race or another is inherently oppressive or racist or victimized these are really crass generalizations and reductions that only serve to to fill kids with either guilt and shame or pessimism and despair they don't actually improve educational outcomes and they're intellectually kind of bogus formulations so you know state legislatures have a responsibility you have limited time in the classroom what's being taught what's not being taught they have to make these selections and the beauty of it is that now the people the voters the public through their state representatives get to decide these are the values we want to transmit through our public school systems these are the values we do not want to transmit through our public school systems this is the heart of democracy that is this is the heart of public control over public education and i think it's just starting this is a good a good beginning but we have to now offer better alternatives better curricula better pedagogies so that parents in in in places like texas and florida in idaho can be confident that when i send my child to a public school it reflects my values it reflects my priorities and they're going to get something that's valuable well we live here in los angeles the hell hole that it is as i'm sure you're aware and i don't have kids yet i don't think and um but one day you know i want to have kids and let's say my state that i live in california isn't going to ban crt what do you say to parents who live in a state or a city that is not doing that or not really pushing to to make these things outlawed what do you give as advice to those parents on what they should do for their kids yeah this is a good question and you know i have two kids uh my youngest is or my oldest is in elementary school my youngest has just started preschool very exciting and i live in washington state so it's a very similar environment and i used to live in the city of seattle and my wife and i really kind of you can try to change the school district the school system in los angeles or seattle um you know god bless you if that's your if that's your your passion and what you're fighting for but in the by the time your kids graduate from high school it's not going to change these are very slow-moving very entrenched bureaucracies and institutions so i i recommend just from a practical point of view you have a couple options if you want to like say live in the city of los angeles or new york or berkeley or seattle you have two options one is to move to go to a part of the state or another state even that you would find a school system that is already set up that reflects your values to a greater degree that's what i did i moved to a small town in washington state you have much better options much better schools actually my local school district where i live in rural washington state banned critical race theory by unanimous vote so they said nope we're not going to do this even though we're in washington state or you can send your kids to a kind of alternative school which is a private school catholic school religious school christian school a jewish school in some places and you know that costs money but i think many parents made the decision make the decision that it's a worthwhile expenditure if they can afford it uh and then that's the short-term solution for you personally the longer-term solution is to try to get reform uh and then i think ultimately to try to get more school choice so that you know i can i can pull out my kids and send them to private school i have the means to do so but every family should have the right to exit so if you're stuck in a failing school in the city of los angeles and you don't have money or in the working class i think you should be able to take your education dollars that probably around eighteen thousand dollars a year that the city of los angeles uh public schools are spending on you you should be able to take that and apply it anywhere so if you say hey i wanna pull my kid out of this failing uh kind of indoctrinating uh public school in in south la and i want to go to a charter school or a private school or a catholic school you should be able to take that money with you and i think ultimately that's really the fight is the right to exit everyone should have a right to exit a system that's failing them and and i think that's what we're seeing more and more uh from education reformers well christopher i want to thank you so much for the work that you're doing honestly you are an honorary employee at our podcast with how much we use your twitter and your stories thank you if you guys want to see more from christopher you can follow him on social media you can check out his five-minute video that he did with us here at prageru he is also featured in our upcoming short documentary that comes out tomorrow called miss educated christopher thank you so much for being on thank you so much so cool what a great opportunity uh chris is again doing amazing work so i always like talking to him and seeing what he's doing and hearing what he has to say you talk to him a lot i mean every now and then i've hugged out with chris a couple times actually wow i didn't you know oh you know i don't want to you know don't want to my own horn but no i amazing anyways guys uh so we're going to be doing a watch party on the show tomorrow 2 30 pst with jill simonian from prageru kids to go over our newest short documentary give it a watch give you our initial reactions called miss education so i'm looking forward to it we are looking forward to it you know what i'm looking forward to uh he's got to do it you got to do it one week guys in one week from today my book comes out how to win friends and influence enemies your guide to changing minds there's a topic there's 17 chapters in here each one is based on a different political or cultural topic where you can take the values and the information the facts and also the questions that i give you to be able to use to change people's minds the conversations that we're having in politics now are not productive to actually getting people to change their mind or at least be educated even if they don't change their mind but at least open up to a different point of view that's what this book is for i've gone and talked to thousands of people and i made this book so that you guys can do the exact same thing that i do and so we're one week out and i'm on the level with you guys we're getting pretty close to new york times bestseller list hopefully it's tough with knowing what the numbers are because they're somewhat arbitrary when it comes to saying oh you can sell this many books but you actually have to sell this many books and it's also like you know maybe because i'm conservative they're going to say oh we don't want to put you on there even though you outsold someone else so it is kind of arbitrary and it's it's tough when you're in my position as a conservative but what i can tell you now is that we are getting very close where it's coming to a point where they are going to say we can't there's no denying that he made this list at this point so what i need you guys to do is you can buy this book anywhere books are sold we got to get on that list and it's not just for me it is for everyone it's for america generally and i genuinely say that because i wrote this book for other people so that they can actually use it that's what i want to do and i want to get on that list so that more people can can hear about the book read the book understand good conversations to have how to influence enemies and win friends so the book is available how to win friends and influence enemies by will wit anywhere books are sold you can go on amazon books a million barnes and noble.com target um any any of those places you can also get a signed copy at the link in my instagram bio if you would like to and prageru also has a special that you can get a signed copy from prageru you should have got an email about it it's also on our website where you give a hundred dollars and you get will with socks and a signed book and a special note and a bookmark that's for a hundred dollars through prageru uh so check that on pregnancy.com but guys we're we're getting really close i just gotta plug this real quick because it's a really big deal it's my first book and so i'm very very passionate about this and i want to help people so anywhere books are sold how to win friends that influence enemies by will wit if you pre-order will's book he will personally come to your house and change your mind about something no that is not in the contract okay no that's it it would be pretty cool if it was if scott buys a book i'll do it but that's it that's probably about it yeah i think that's everybody's uh yeah no we're all on the same yeah you know if you pre-order a book scott will come to your house and change your mind on something or he'll just like come to your house no no whatever i think that's enough ladies and gentlemen yeah listen gentlemen too anyways guys full of jokes today uh now here is something that came out in the news today which was nobody in our office was happy about we're all super big fans of norm mcdonald and it turns out that he's passed away today at the age of 61 after a nearly decade-long battle with cancer but we wanted to sort of pay tribute to norm we are all super big fans of him me personally from his times on the weekend update for snl and any any sort of comedic monologue that you can find of norm on the internet although we're going to share the cleaner version today he's just always been known as a guy who who tells the truth and does it in a funny and crass and blunt way and there's really no other comedians like norman mcdonald he's just so funny we were talking about this before the show was that i'm not as funny as norma mcdonald but you're very similar i'm funny but like in the sense of like he like when we were watching him on the view there was this clip on the view that was on old row and he's like talking about like murdering clinton's and stuff and he just like the view cast and the people they're like you got to stop it like we're not talking about us anymore and he's like well wait i want to talk about it he like keeps talking about it's like same thing with i do and almost like we got to move on i'm like well wait a second but i gotta say this i gotta say this one thing yeah it's the same type of deal so anyway i respect him a lot he's like one of the real voices of comedy right something who's someone who's actually funny just on his own and truthful and truthful and just says what's real he says what's on everyone's mind yeah he's a man i love him he's great i don't think i've ever seen a video of him that did not make me laugh he's hilarious he's so funny now here's this clip of him on conan oh brian uh just enjoy you get in the car and what happens uh my driver tells me a joke the driver we said to pick you up told you a joke yeah and you're going to tell it now on the show yeah that's how i get on my material okay why don't we just have him on next time oh that guy that guy now wait till you hear me do it so the guys he goes uh i say i'll be the guy okay a moth goes into a podiatrist's office a moth goes into a podiatrist office you are correct a moth goes into a podiatrist's office and the potatoes office says what's the problem and the ma says what's the problem where do i begin man he goes i go to work for uh gregory olinovich and all day long i work honestly doc i don't even know what i'm doing anymore i don't even know if gregory olinovich knows he only knows that he has power over me and that seems to bring him happiness but i don't know i wake up in a malaise and i i walk here and there the podiatrist says oh yeah the moth goes yes he goes uh at night i i sometimes wake up and i turn to some old lady in my bed that's on my arm a lady that i once loved doc i i don't know where to turn to my youngest alexandria she fell in the in the in the cold of last year the cold took her down as it did many of us and my other boy and this is the hardest pill to swallow doc my other boy gregaro i no longer love him as much that pains me to say when i look in his eyes all i see is is the same cowardice that i that i catch when i take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror if only the cowardice was stronger than perhaps perhaps i could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and then this hellish facade how long drive was this do you live in the valley where do you live please sorry he says doc sometimes i feel like a spider even though i'm a moth just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me i'm not feeling good and so the moss the doctor says moth man you're troubled but you should be seeing a psychiatrist why on earth did you come here and then the ma said because the light was on [Applause] good stuff man that was really fun well rest in peace nor mcdonald a funny man i mean videos of him and and just people listening to his comedy is going to go on for decades and ages i think he's a timeless man so yeah what's great about him is that he had this battle with cancer incredibly sad for the last seven years but you didn't hear anything from norm you didn't hear him talking about his battle with cancer he didn't come out on social media and say oh my goodness look at me i have cancer i'm dying it's so sad or anything he battled his cancer on his own he didn't talk about it he had his private life and then he died gracefully and you know it's incredibly sad that he had to go but you know he did it in the right way he did in a way that had nothing to do with vanity he just he just fought his battle and he sadly lost but you know he he that's just what real masculinity is that's what being a man is about it's not having to put your burdens onto the rest of the world on social media and tell everyone you know here's what's happening and it's like very manly amazing thing to do right so rest in peace norm what a guy there won't be any comedians like him for i don't know definitely not any now yeah i mean yeah ever honestly without without comedy is gone yeah but uh now we're gonna move on to our last segment of the day and this is an interview that we got to do with one of uh dave ramsey or ramsey solutions personality by the name of christy right now she's coming out with a new book and we will talk about that during this interview but go ahead and check it out on the show today we have christy wright who is a ramsay solutions personality and author of a book that's now up for pre-order take back your time christy thank you so much for being on our show today yeah thanks for having me i'm so excited about this so i wanted to start off with really you telling us what the premise of your work is and what the premise of your your new book that comes out tomorrow is yes well here's what's interesting i have been a certified business coach for over a decade and so i've spent a lot of time helping women and men start and grow side businesses small businesses i've spoken at our entree leadership events here at ramsey solutions and so i've done this for a long time and this has been my background and what's so interesting is in 10 years of doing this the number one question i'm asked is not a business question it's this question how do you balance it all how do you balance everything how do you balance having a business and having a full-time job how do you balance having a family and having career goals and so the fact that it was such a common pain point for people at all ages all stages seasons of life types of work types of businesses male and female made me really curious as an entrepreneur and problem solver that i wanted to offer hope in this space and then in my own life having three kids in five years and feeling the strain myself i really wanted to dig into this topic and bring some hope into a place that is traditionally really filled with guilt and a lot of shame and a lot of exhaustion and overwhelm and and the truth is i think people walk around every day feeling like they're failing and they're not and so this is a book about more than just the calendar it's about helping you enjoy the life that the calendar represents so that's why i love the tagline the guilt-free guide to life balance i want to tackle the root issue that we deal with when it comes to our time i think something that's important is in your book you talk about it's not about productivity it's about doing what matters and i know this like we were talking before the show about you know i have my book coming out you have your book coming out you got so many media things and other things to write and do and it's like you can spend your time doing just a ton of different things or you can spend that time in the right way to make it the most meaningful amount of stuff so when you're talking about doing what matters what does that really mean what is like the advice you would give people where it's like you need to work smarter not harder yeah well you make a really good point because i think that when we think about balance and when we think even about time management we think the solution is to do more well i just need to be more productive i need to be more efficient i need to multitask more i need to wake up earlier stay up later i need a better app i need a better morning routine i need to work harder and smarter and faster in between we do all that and we just end up exhausted we're exhausted and we don't feel any more balanced and so it led me down this path of really researching and exploring what if balance isn't so much something you do how you balance it all perfectly with all these analogies that we have of walking the tightrope spinning the plates juggling the balls all the things what if instead it looks like peace even in chaos what if it looks like being confident in your choices when you say yes to that thing or no to that thing what if it looks like just being happy in your life and being proud of how you spend your time i think i think will that when we say we want balance that's what we're really after and so what i have come to realize and really this is this is proven in research as well i define life balance differently in this book life balance is not doing everything for an equal amount of time it's about doing the right things at the right time and when you do the right things at the right time and you get to decide what's right for you in any new season by the way well then you actually feel that sense of balance that you've been looking for all along and so to your point it's not about productivity and doing more it's about doing what matters so you need to decide what matters to you that's the first step in my five tactical steps to create balance in your life decide what matters even specifically in this season like what matters to me right now in the middle of a book season and i'm sure you're experiencing this as well will is different than what mattered to me this summer this summer i took fridays off i went to the lake i was working out seeing my friends and my house was sort of clean these things are not true right now okay like i am working all the time i'm not seeing my friends i'm not working out my house is not really clean right now but what matters in this season is different than what mattered in last season and i think that if we begin to consider the season we're in and decide what matters it gives us a sense of permission to focus on those things knowing that they will change again just because something's not right right now doesn't mean it'll never be right but it gives us that permission to focus on that and when you focus on the right things at the right time and spend your time on those things you shake the guilt for what's not right right now that you're not doing whether that's a clean house or time with friends or whatever but it also allows you to experience what is right right now and enjoy it and be proud of it and i think that's a pretty big gift in our culture that is so distracted and so connected i know exactly what we mean i mean my beer gut has expanded with the same thing you know my priorities with that is not the same but one thing digging deeper you talked about about prioritizing uh you know what the doing the right thing and you talked about confidence and i find that most young people nowadays they don't feel like they have that confidence in the decisions that they make they feel very insecure about all of these new things that are going on like like young people are very risk averse they say i don't want to take risks on anything i want to live very safe lives i don't want to you know prioritize things that i know i'm supposed to be doing and would rather just do what everyone else is doing what is the advice that you have for people when they're looking at their life and trying to prioritize and do the right thing but they don't feel like they have the confidence to do so how do they actually you know get past that and and start getting into that right mindset yeah well that's a great question and what's interesting is this is a process it's not something at any age that you flip a switch and you're confident or you flip a switch and you know exactly what you want to do and it's crystal clear for most people it's a process but part of becoming a grown-up part of maturing into adulthood is finding confidence in the choices that are right for you now should you look to your right and your left and be inspired by best practices or people that have awesome jobs and awesome marriages that you want to learn from for sure but there's a there's there's a piece of this process where you have to go okay i'm going to learn from these principles and apply them to my life and figure out what's right for me and and the thread that i pull through the whole book the thing that i reiterate every single chapter is it's your life no one gets to tell you what should be important to you no one gets to tell you what you should spend your time on this is your life how you spend your time is how you spend your life so this matters and so i don't tell people in this book what you should be doing with your time i ask questions that bring awareness to help them discover that for themselves and then find confidence to act on those because what's interesting is when you begin to take action on your priorities on the choices that you make that confidence grows i even walk through several ways to build confidence in your choices in the book because it's a muscle if you never exercise that confidence muscle then it's a little weak at first like any muscle but the more you exercise it the more you practice it the more you strengthen it the easier it becomes i was actually just telling megan my publicist before we went live i said i'm getting really good at my no muscle in this season because i keep having this request from church to do one thing after another after another and i had committed to hosting a small group and there were very clear boundaries john this is what i'm willing to commit and nothing else and uh and they just keep asking i'm like oh we're not taking any more commitments at this time thank you like you just have to practice it but the more you practice it it really does get easier it's just gonna take some practice amazing now my my last question for you is sort of not really within the scope of your book but i feel like your your book can sort of help young women with this with this question and with this hardship that we're going through right now i'm 21 and i find that women in my generation there's this massive push now telling them well don't get married don't build long-term relationships and certainly don't have kids your career is far more important that we're than that we're pushing women into stem fields we're pushing women into sort of the the corporate world and young women are then choosing not to build long-term relationships and not to have children what are your thoughts on that and and that sort of way that our generation is moving towards i think that any time you get into generalizations stereotypes and a one-size-fits-all formula for anyone it's dangerous because i believe that we are all very unique and our paths are going to look very unique whether a woman starts a business or works in a career or stays home with her kids or doesn't have kids or volunteers full-time that's her choice and what's so beautiful is we live in a time when we do have more options than ever before and while that's exciting that can be overwhelming and it can almost be paralyzing or going wow i have so many choices the thing that i would encourage people to do is actually not look around you for what everyone else is doing it's reflect like what makes you come alive what brings you energy and gives you joy tap into that and follow those things and know by the way that what makes you come alive right now may change in a year or ten years and that's okay amala when i was 23 i was working at a farm i lived on a farm full time like taking care of goats and many donkeys that in my dream today okay dreams change but that was right then you can change your mind and your plans and your priorities you don't have to put yourself in a box this is what successful women do i want to help you define your version of success and chase that and if that's in the home with kids no kids in a career in new york at a fortune 500 company i think every person is unique and you have permission to do what's right for you great amazing well that is chrissy wright everybody you can order her book take back your time virtually anywhere where you can purchase books and that will be coming out tomorrow christy do you have anything you want to say to our audience before we let you go no thank you so much for having me i hope this uh encourages them to pursue what's right for them thanks for having me absolutely and that's christy wright so yeah we had two amazing people whose names start with chris on the show today wow actually chris with christ on the show today and uh yeah we're gonna wrap up here we talked about the met gala we talked about the passing of norman mcdonald we had chris farrow on the show and we had christy wright on the show now make sure you tune in tomorrow because we are going to be doing a watch party to watch our new short documentary miseducated featuring christopher ruffo and our very own jill simonian of prageru kids so make sure you get to see the premiere of our documentary with will and i and jill tomorrow now well what do you want to tell the audience well thursday thursday is even more important to tune in because thursday we are shaving my mustache which is that's a big deal okay well depending we might shave my mustache so you have to tune in to find out and bring your own razor i don't know how to say that it's a party yeah it's a razor party you know then you guys do that in college razor parties yep been there oh the good old days um anyway no it's not a racer party okay just just tune in on thursday at 2 30 pm pacific 5 30 pm eastern and then after that show at 4 p.m pacific on thursday i'm gonna be doing a live q a book club or book launch q a on my facebook page so that's at the will win on facebook at 4 p.m at 7 p.m eastern on thursday i'll be doing a q a and i'm a little be there too so she's going to be there too uh helping with questions and doing all sorts of stuff selling the books some more so and again how to win friends and influence enemies we are close to the new york times best seller list anywhere books are sold amazon barnes and noble target books a million wherever you want to go get a signed copy at the link in my instagram and twitter bio and i really appreciate it guys and i think that about wraps up the show today yep thank you guys for watching please like subscribe click the notification bell and if you'd rather listen go to google play spotify or apple podcast and leave us a five star review if it so pleases you bye guys we'll see you tomorrow see you for the razor party