George Santos
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Podcast Appearances
I go, watch, this person comes up.
You might not think they're very good, but the person in the audience that they're showing is like crying, tears, people are exciting, or the judge is hitting the golden buzzer.
So what you're seeing is society and social sort of validation, okay, this person's good, this person's cool.
And that happens in real life all the time in media because if you're a trans person and you're on Disney, they're saying this person's cool.
And so what do you have a bunch of kids doing?
Running around going, this is cool.
I'm trans.
And that is what Hollywood has done.
That's what television has done.
That's what news has done.
And so by us buying or at least getting a share of it, we can make us cool, which goes to your original point, is the perception of cool has been defined by people who hate us.
I noticed you started talking music and Ian's hatchet is emotional support guitar.
Stolen land.
Living on stolen land.
They can't control what's cool, but they can control what you see.
And so you can't fabricate cool with a nice suit.
If you're not confident, you're not cool.
And then you can prevent people from seeing cool.
And that's what these gatekeepers have seemed to have done sometimes.
Here's the interesting thing.