[MUSIC]
All right, back on the bonus episode, Jake and
Anna with you guys surprise number one.
Happy 15th anniversary.
[MUSIC]
>> Thank you.
>> Okay. >> [LAUGH]
>> Thank you [LAUGH].
>> So Anna has been with us for 15 freaking years.
>> Yes. >> That's unbelievable.
Okay and, we have a little video for you.
>> Come on, I'm gonna cry.
>> Let's watch.
>> Thank you.
>> Anna can you believe it's been 15 years.
>> That's a huge deal.
>> Anna Kas Perry in 15 years, wow, 15,
that's how old I was 10 years before I lost my virginity.
Congratulations on hitting this amazing milestone.
>> Watching you Grow for the past 15 years is an amazing journey.
>> From being a guest booker, a co host,
star of your own Youtube channel with the White University,
to hosting the main show sold for the first time ever.
>> Seeing you go from a young person coming in to this field leader that we
have, this general that we have, this great commanding presence.
It's been a sight to behold.
>> She's a warrior who is willing to go up against enemies that you are not supposed
to identify as enemies yet.
[COUGH] it's all together.
>> I couldn't imagine this place without you.
We wouldn't be what we are.
We wouldn't, honestly have what we have without you being here setting the tone.
>> I've always looked at the main show as your show.
So sorry, Ugur.
>> You are an asset not just a TYT but
the entire progressive community around the world.
>> You care so much about the people around you in the audience and
I'm so grateful to be even a small part of this team.
>> Best role model and leader and we are so grateful.
>> Most of all I'm very lucky to be your friend.
>> Love you Amiga. >> Congratulations,
I drank all this in the previous takes.
So I'm gonna make another, there's still some left in here.
>> Here's to many more years of morning meetings, salty rants and
especially when Richmond cry segments.
>> Let's do at least another 15, you're the best.
>> By the way what time is it?
Crap, 90?
[MUSIC]
>> [LAUGH] That's Edwin our legendary stage manager, manager of everything.
And he, before any show is about to start, he says 90, is in 90 seconds.
That's to warn me cuz I got to come downstairs.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay.
And also legendary photographer and he made this photo album for you.
>> My God Edwin.
>> Yeah, by the way, Edwin, a professional photographer.
Excellent pictures, so amazing by the way do you have a website yet
where people can buy them?
>> Not yet.
>> Not yet, okay, all right, good.
When you get it out, we'll let people know.
>> My God. >> Through all the 15 years,
Edwards secretly been taking pictures of you guys as well and [LAUGH] and so yeah.
>> You guys are amazing.
Thank you for the video.
I'm actually really excited cuz like some of you have seen members of like
the main show team maybe through twitch streams or things like that.
But not a lot of you have and in that video you see Aishwarya who is incredible.
She's, you know, such a hard worker has,
I wouldn't be able to do what I do without her.
Like she's an important member of our team.
Kate.
Kate is another producer.
Taylor is off this week, so I'm guessing that's why he wasn't in the video.
But Taylor is another member of like the main show production team and
like I know this is a video about me being at TYT for 15 years.
But like, I can't tell you guys how much I enjoy my job,
not only because of what we do, but because of the people I get to work with.
Like, I just love you guys, thank you for the support, thank you for
inspiring me every day and making me excited to work here.
Not a lot of people are that fortunate to look forward to working with the people
they work with and doing what they do every day.
So thank you so much for all of that, it's just amazing.
>> And for those of you who have never seen them, I love that you got to
see Bart who runs the soundboard and Edwin, legendary manager of everything.
And skip, who is- >> Yes, skip, thank you for
being in the video.
>> Skip's our technical director.
So he's the one who's directing right now.
Okay, I think he's on right now.
[LAUGH] He's unusually, yes.
And Skips one of the best in the business.
>> He really is.
>> Yeah. >> Dude,
because we're not a scripted show.
Okay. So sometimes we jump around with elements,
okay.
Whether it's graphics, videos, whatever, and he's always on it.
It's like he can read our minds.
It's amazing.
And same with Barton on the audio.
So you guys are amazing.
All right.
So we're gonna do two fun stories for you guys and
then we have my surprise at the end, which is not as dramatic.
It's just fun.
As usual people will make fun of me.
Everybody will have a blast.
Okay, but if you're ready, Anna let's do the two stories.
>> Yeah am ready.
>> Okay.
All right so, some Maga supporters think that January six was carried out by Antifa
rather than Trump supporters who wanted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
So one of these Maga chuds was asked why, why would it be Antifa?
Let's see what his answer was.
>> How do you all feel about the events of January 6?
>> A lot of that was Antifa.
>> Really?
>> Yes.
>> Why would Antifa interrupt the certification of
an election in which their candidate won?
Wouldn't they want him to be certified?
>> They just want to disrupt in any way possible.
>> Do you think Antifa wanted him to be president,
I guess is what I'm what I'm asking.
>> Yes.
>> Yeah.
>> So why would they interrupt the certification of the vote on January six.
>> I have a different view of things.
>> What is it just like, if you ever.
>> Yeah, it's- >> Doesn't make sense right?
Like why would they do that?
>> Sometimes life comes at you fast.
[LAUGH]. You
don't have time to think things through, thoughts and prayers.
>> Yeah look, that is the prototypical republican voter.
Remember he's been thinking this for a long time.
January six happened obviously, well over a year ago.
And so he's had this theory that it was Antifa,
he never bothered to think, wait, does this make sense?
I mean like the simplest question, wait, I hate Antifa, Antifa is on the left.
Why would they try to stop Biden from becoming president?
Why would they be so angry that they would raid the capitol on the day that
Biden's victory is gonna be certified, why?
I mean never even thought about it.
So he's asked for the first time and
he's just confounded while holding a bag full of fast food.
I mean the right wing voter, and by the way I'm not making fun.
No, no, no, no, no.
>> I love me a quarter pounder with cheese.
>> Yeah, no, no, don't get me wrong,
you can tell from my body I've had a couple of quarter pounder and cheese.
A couple of big mags.
A couple of fries.
So, and I love fast food and I talked about it on the show all the time, but
that right there unfortunately for all of us, that was America, okay.
But it was, look in the beginning I laughed and laughed, but
I watched it twice and then the second time I get kinda sad.
>> Me too.
My God, I'm glad that you had the same experience cuz the first time I saw it,
which was during our production meeting, it was hilarious.
Second time, which is right now, I couldn't help but
think about what his thoughts were following the interview and
how he very likely still thinks it was Antifa.
>> Yeah, no and they just, I'm not sure they possess
the capability to not be brainwashed, right.
To be able to tell whether something is real or fake.
So, they're so open to suggestion.
And so the minute the right wing media and right wing leaders like Trump
tell them something, they accepted instantly and never challenge it.
Never once think, hey does that make sense?
That thought never occurs to them.
So, and by the way guys, we say that's America, but I don't want you to get
confused about it or think about it wrong, everybody's human, right?
So you will see that in every country.
And so this, like I'm originally from Turkey, does Turkey have a portion of
the population that thinks and acts just like that?
Yes, it's humanity.
Okay, by the way, in almost every country, it's the right way.
>> But also Jake look, let's also be fair.
Okay. I mean,
this is an example of something pretty extreme, right.
Where it's like just take two seconds to think about it.
But I do think that regardless of what your political ideology is as a result of
these algorithms and these filter bubbles and also like just baked in
hypocrisy that people have, you see it all over the place.
I mean it's a little bit apples and oranges, but
let me just see if you agree with me here.
Look, the Democratic party and democratic voters were beside themselves
during the trump administration because of how insanely cruel he was to Muslims,
to immigrants, to anyone approaching the border seeking refuge in this country.
But then Biden just extended the same policies and the most vocal blue
check twitter accounts during the Trump administration were super hush hush.
During the Biden administration were even defended him on the same things.
Yeah.
No, it's true.
So I think the right wing does it more and I think that there's a reason for
it because they're authoritarian by nature and they're just looking for
an alpha male to tell them what to do.
And so one of the things that I remember from back in the day from
Michele Bachmann, if you remember her,
she was an extreme right winger from Minnesota.
And so it was not a famous thing she said, but we covered the one story that really
stuck with me, she said I didn't know what to do and I was lost,
I just didn't know what to do with my life.
Then God talked to me and told me what to do.
Now, obviously that's her imagination, right?
But she's so desperate for any kind of guidance she created something in her head
psychologically cuz she needed guidance.
She just doesn't know what to do.
And so when a leader says, don't worry God is telling you to do this,
they believe that instantly.
But Anna's right.
I mean the left also gets heavily influenced cuz it's the nature of
humanity.
So, the blue checks that maniacally defend Biden no matter what he does.
Biden's so, Biden's perfect.
He's never done anything wrong.
It's absurd.
How could you possibly believe that?
That's why we say, hey,
the good Supreme Court pick his domestic policy is a disaster.
He never meant anything about student loan debt.
He said he was gonna get rid of it and he didn't, he was lying on the other hand,
he did a great job with Ukraine.
That's how a normal unbiased person reacts.
But another good example and I'll give credit to Bill Maher here because I saw it
on his show and not a guy I'm prone to giving credit to.
But facts matter.
It turns out that a majority of Democratic voters think that if you get
COVID you have like a 50% chance of dying.
That's crazy.
That's not true at all.
>> What? >> Even at its worst,
it was like a 2% chance of dying before the vaccines.
And what happened is that the media and and the left scared people so much.
2% is maniacal, do not take a 2% chance.
That's what we were saying, right?
And the right ones like, who cares man?
Who cares 2% you have a real chance of dying.
But apparently what a lot of democrats heard was,
you're almost definitely gonna die.
No, no, no, no, no, no, that's not true.
Right?
And so people get so easily influenced.
So, and we have to deal with those mainstream democrats all the time.
They're zombies.
And so you give them, hey, but Biden promised this and he did that.
They're like, no, no, Biden's always right, Biden's always right,
title 42 you guys ripped Trump for that.
We ripped Trump for that.
That's the immigration policy that Anna is talking about,
now all of a sudden when Biden doesn't like, nope, don't criticize it.
>> Yeah it's crazy. So apparently you never meant it when you
were criticizing Trump, right?
So it's easy to make fun of the right wing and those,
honestly those Porsche laps, right.
But, we all as a humanity, we live in a glass house and last thing on those guys.
I feel extra sad because it's obvious how easily they're influenced and
right wing grifters like Trump look at those guys and tucker across and
look at those guys and think.
Easy marks.
>> One 100%.
Yeah, that is what makes me sad.