Yeah

...

I, and I, as I said to, I texted you last night, and it's gonna make me cry.

But I said, "You know, Charlie was the closest thing to an angel of anyone I've ever met." I, I was inspired by him and blown away by him and h- and humbled by him.

How much he had done in his short 31 years.

What he has accomplished will, will last for centuries.

I think what we really had ...

... your vantage even more so, but...

Yeah

...

I, I, and I, as I said to, I texted you last night, and it's gonna make me cry, but I said, "You know, Charlie was the closest thing to an angel of anyone I've ever met." I, I was inspired by him and blown away by him and he, and humbled by him.

How much he had done in his short 31 years.

What he has accomplished will, will last for centuries.

I think what we really had...

And one of the last texts I, I, I had to him, and Andrew, you know, you, you were, you were so much closer to him and knew him for so many years, and he just...

... your vantage even more so, but.

Forced you to do it

... and he forced me to do it.

I didn't wanna do it, I swear.

No, it was in Chuck and Larry, where I played an Asian minister, and the, and it really was.

The makeup was out of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

I mean, if I had...

I wouldn't do it again today, honestly.

[laughs]

[laughs]

No, great job.

Very funny, really witty, really quick, and you can tell that, uh, that you don't mean any of that shit, so that's good.

Um, how many, uh, in Montreal see us?

Yeah, probably.

I always think Montreal is tight.

How have you been? You good?

Yeah

... than their hatred for your political views.

And I'm telling you, these, um, these guys, I get calls, and I'm not lying about this.

I mean, literally, like Academy Award-winning actor, uh, son called me, and he's like, "I wish I could talk like you do, you know.

I agree with you." And I went, "Don't.

Don't do it." I mean, it's not good for you.

You're a younger guy.

What does that mean?

Sorry about that.

So anyways, I'm at Adam Sandler's place.

He's got a new couch, and I go, "This is, well, we have m- we've changed." Nice.

Yeah.

And then we have girlfriends, good-looking girlfriends.

And all of a sudden, so we go, uh, so we go to a place that we wouldn't have gone the first season, 'cause I remember, like, uh, he lived...

He, he had, um, his dad knew somebody who had like a...

Yeah

So, Rob, what does it take to have guts like yours? I like the term.

I like the term, a failed narcissistic male athlete.

Kind of puts it in its place.

But no, I think people have to speak up.

If you love your culture, if you love your country, it just takes one generation to lose it.

I mean, this infatuation with communism, it doesn't take much of a grok or ChatGPT or Google search to realize that this is a proven failed system that has cost 100 million lives just in the very last century.

This isn't like 500 years ago.

And why is this happening under Republican leadership? And why aren't more people in power treating it like the national security issue that it is?

Check.

It's like, yeah.

[laughs] You know what it was like? It's like it's gotta be one parent who's missing- Mm ...

u- unavailable- Mm-hmm ... either physically or emotionally.

Yeah.

And another one trying to make up for it who has also got problems because she's with somebody who's emotionally and physically not available.

And so that was the kind of the click.

And then Elvis on a fish hook was just one of those quick hit-

They resent people that came up with a good idea and grounded out and made a billion dollars.

Yes, absolutely.

You have these, I think the term you're looking for, they self-identify as morally superior.

That's a fact.

And they seem to be isolated in academia, which does, I mean, it is really nice to fly in a private plane, but you would have to accumulate a certain amount of wealth and be successful at your chosen field to be able to have that extraordinary luxury to do that.

And so you have a class of people, and academia is up to words of 97% liberal.

And again, these are ideas that are not tested in the marketplace.

How's that going?

Tell us, w- how did you see this? How did it come, uh, how did you become aware of it, and why did you do what you did? Explain to people what happened there.

there.Well, um, Major League Baseball decided to, uh, threaten to fine, uh, three San Francisco Giants, um, pitchers who were, you know...

And by the way, uh, for putting a Bible verse on top of their hat.

Uh, you know, while they were also, um, you know, not forced to wear a pride, uh, emblem on their hat.

They a- actually had the choice.

Uh, but still, I mean, the, the idea is if you don't wear it, somehow you're a bigot.

And, you know, you have these, um, you know, Christians have deeply held religious beliefs, and the idea that you can just force them, uh, into, you know, doing something that is against their beliefs is, you know, that the Major League Baseball can make that decision.

What is, what is America 250 and our celebration? What does that mean to you in your heart?

But moreover than that, just standing up and saying something, because you were one of the few actors to stand up and say something this week.

Well, there is, you know, the idea that we have to participate in anything that's against their deeply held religious beliefs is against their civil rights, for one thing.

And the Supreme Court already ruled on this with the, you know, the gay cakes.

Right.

But look, my point about this is.

There seems to be – look, the gay community has won their rights, their long-fought-for rights for equality so that nobody can persecute them for the – you can't fire somebody for their sexual orientation.

And they wanted – they should get – if they want – you know, the same benefits that other couples would get.

Can you tell me more about this foundation real quick before I lose you?

Well, you know-

...

so imbalanced ...

it, it's the hypocrisy of it, because, you know, these, you know, ballplayers, baseball players as well, took a knee.

Um, and, and, and then you could look that up.

They actually did do that, not just the football players, but baseball players, too.

And none of them were reprimanded for taking a knee during the national anthem.

Rob, your reaction.

so imbalanced

...

it, it's the hypocrisy of it because, you know, these, you know, ballplayers, baseball players as well, took a knee.

Um, and, and, and then you could look that up.

They actually did do that, not just the football players, but baseball players too, and none of them were reprimanded for taking a knee during the national anthem.

So you, you have, um, uh, uh, just a kowtowing to this particular extreme leftist ideology, and everyone...

And if you don't, uh, comply and you don't, um, go along with it, you don't...

Rob, your reaction.

What inspired that,

Rob? Thank you, and I just want to say that these guys get the league minimum.

So, I mean, it's a good amount of money, but they're living in California.

So, you know, that's – they still like living in apartments and stuff.

These guys aren't rich ballplayers.

You're not talking about Otani.

That's right.

It became so imbalanced.

That's exactly how I was hoping you would say that.

The only thing, the Democrats haven't...

Spencer! No, they, the Democrats have their ideological captives, and they're not letting it go.

The thing is that they've convinced their, their people that, uh, uh, it's just no matter how bad things are, it would somehow, these people are so evil, it'll be worse.

It's like, yes, your entire town burned down, but imagine if it was burned down by someone who was transphobic.

Can you imagine? You know, at least the person who was burned down at least had, you know, there were rainbow colors to the flames, you know? So the, yes, it's, yes, there's a lot of human poop, but imagine if that poop was conservative.

Imagine the stench of that.

And, uh, that is the experience for a lot of people that live there, a lot of people that visit, but is that gonna reach enough people to advance?

When did you guys all of a sudden become on the front lines of all this stuff?

We weren't.

We never – they put us there because of these totalitarian morons trying to ruin the language and the culture.

It's – look, if you have an opinion, you're automatically putting yourself on the front lines in the culture wars.

How dare you? I think that color is brown.

No, it isn't.

Yeah.

right

Why did you write this book? What, what moved you to do this?

Well, when I was canceled, or attempted to be canceled for speaking on behalf of parents who, uh, believed that their children were fine, and then after a series of mandated shots that was required for them to go to school, vaccines, um, and the p- the pediatricians told them, and society and the media tells them that there was no problem at all, that it's perfectly safe, and that their kids would be fine, and then the kids were never fine again.

And people, it's...

I'm not, I'm not talking about autism that's, you know, that you see in the news and things where they show it's the eccentric kids who focus, hyper-focus on particular things.

I'm talking about kids being in their diapers at 19.

I'm talking about screaming, violent kids, kids head banging, having to be in helmets.

Once you see that, you can't unsee that, and so I spoke up about that.

Yeah.

[laughs]

And so [laughs] anytime it gets, "We got power.

How do we ruin it?" Well, um, there is a divisiveness happening because there is a void.

Charlie, uh, that void, and people trying to take it, take it and, um, and fill it, and sometimes in a negative way.

And I do think there is a, a negative thing happening, and, and it happens with, with any group that would take power.

The liberals obviously abused it, and now it's the conservatives' turn, but there is a certain ugliness.

There are people that are, um...

Mm-hmm.

... um, in the suburb of San Francisco.

Well, it was really great because we lived in a place, um, that, uh, money didn't really matter.

Everybody was ...

It was definitely the suburbs.

This is the ...

We were the end of the baby boom, and it was a really great time in America.

Uh, so you know, we're ...

[laughs]

Schneider.

Thank you so much.

Oh, so they got a new woman on The View.

Have you heard? Jimmy Kimmel is going to join the cast.

How are you? Thank you so much for being out here.

Appreciate it.

We'll tell you, I...

I can't see without my glasses.

Right, right, right.

Is this gonna land? Is this, is this joke gonna land? Are they gonna be with me? Are they gonna hate me? Are they gonna boo me? That's there.

And for people who've been on stage, I remember when I was a young man first doing stand-up, and I remember one time bombing on stage, and the only way I could describe it best, 'cause I said, "I wanna remember this.

This is an educational moment." And I remember it really felt, Frank, like my ears were melting off of my face.

And I went like, "Wow, this is painful." And I said, "Now I gotta remember this." And I, and I said, "This has to be informative because I can't let this audience or anybody get to me like this." But they still, you still have to let it get to you, otherwise you're a zombie or a robot.

But there's a certain amount you say that I'm not gonna put that out there.

So in that sense, you know, um, you know, the need as a performer to express yourself, for whatever reason, Mommy didn't give you attention or whatever, that, that maybe gets you into the profession.

Here it is.

Well, we're not getting on the wrong side of the people who vote for us.

Well, what, what you're opening up is a chasm here, and, and what you're really saying is that there are people that can ...

This society is particularly susceptible to bad faith actors, for people to come in without the best intentions and to abuse the system that has afforded, afforded them these incredible freedoms and luxuries.

I mean, the thing about this, this co- this, this country is if you get in, oof, you are lucky.

If you become an American citizen, it is incredible.

However, if you come in with the bad intentions, or you come in here and you realize there's a system that you could really corrupt and that, that, that could be corrupted to benefit you by ...

It's, it's doesn't seem that difficult.

Right.

You still talk to each other all the time, right?

Yeah.

With ...

You know, to me, the guy who was the most talented that I, when I grew up, was, uh, you know, as, as a young comedian, was seeing Dana Carvey.

Dana Carvey, he wasn't even famous nationally, but in San Francisco, you could not get in to see him at a club.

And, uh, he would ...

The room would explode with laughter.

Why?

Sometimes when you build that reputation up as a person that when you say you're going to do something, you do it, that's all you need.

Okay.

All right.

I'm just asking.

I will say that we have to be, you know, we.

I just think...

If you go back to the Shah of Iran and how he was pushed out because Iran was getting at that time 16% of the oil profits in 1952 from the predecessor to British Petroleum.

Well, extremists, I'm just saying

What's going to replace it? Anything? Is it going to be like podcasters and YouTubers like Kill Tony?

Yes.

You're going to have people that are watching specific shows for them.

I mean, Kill Tony is way bigger than all those shows.

That's right.

Exponentially to the 10th power, bigger than them.

They have 10 million people who watch each episode.

Oh, no.