WEBVTT - Daniel Schmidt: Commies Running Amok on Campus 0:00:11.697 --> 0:00:14.977 You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 0:00:14.977 --> 0:00:17.977 you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 0:00:18.017 --> 0:00:21.177 wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, welcome to the Buck 0:00:21.217 --> 0:00:25.697 Sexton Show. On this episode, Daniel Schmidt is with us. 0:00:25.737 --> 0:00:30.137 He is a conservative activist. He is a student going 0:00:30.217 --> 0:00:32.857 to be a junior at the University of Chicago and 0:00:33.017 --> 0:00:36.937 already making waves. I've seen him on Fox News, I've 0:00:36.977 --> 0:00:40.297 seen his pieces online. Daniel, great to have you on 0:00:40.337 --> 0:00:40.657 the show. 0:00:41.537 --> 0:00:44.177 Hey, thanks for having me. How are you all right? 0:00:44.217 --> 0:00:44.417 Man? 0:00:44.977 --> 0:00:48.697 It's been an interesting interesting time recently. You know, we 0:00:48.737 --> 0:00:52.777 had those Supreme Court decisions came down and it really 0:00:52.857 --> 0:00:57.897 put tremendous focus on admissions on college campuses. I know 0:00:57.937 --> 0:00:59.897 you haven't been able to hear from, say, the president 0:00:59.937 --> 0:01:03.657 of you Chicago, but as a current college student at 0:01:03.657 --> 0:01:07.697 an elite school, what do you think the response of 0:01:08.217 --> 0:01:11.697 the president the admissions committee you Chicago and other places 0:01:11.777 --> 0:01:13.337 like it is going to be to the Supreme Court 0:01:13.377 --> 0:01:16.937 decision that says it's kind of racist to do what 0:01:16.977 --> 0:01:17.537 they were doing. 0:01:18.777 --> 0:01:22.217 Well, it's actually really funny because the day of that announcement, 0:01:22.657 --> 0:01:25.817 my administration sent an email to every single student and 0:01:25.857 --> 0:01:29.177 the subject line was we care about diversity or something 0:01:29.217 --> 0:01:31.897 like that, and the whole email is basically like, we 0:01:31.977 --> 0:01:34.057 are troubled by these news and we're going to do 0:01:34.177 --> 0:01:38.217 everything we can to ensure diversity still remains a focus 0:01:38.257 --> 0:01:40.417 at our school. And I know Harvard sends some more emails. 0:01:40.457 --> 0:01:42.457 They all send some more emails, So you know, my 0:01:42.577 --> 0:01:45.217 prediction is they're just going to totally find loopholes. They're 0:01:45.257 --> 0:01:46.897 going to get rid of test scores. 0:01:46.897 --> 0:01:47.457 At my school. 0:01:47.497 --> 0:01:50.777 For example, the sat act is already test optional, and 0:01:50.817 --> 0:01:54.137 I think that's very deliberate. It's to place other emphasis 0:01:54.177 --> 0:01:58.577 on the essays, on the personality arts, which is totally subjective, 0:01:58.657 --> 0:02:01.497 and I think it's going to allow these emission officers, who, 0:02:01.857 --> 0:02:04.737 let's face our all liberal are all bleeding hearts, to 0:02:05.217 --> 0:02:07.737 allow more black kids in, more Hispanic kids in, and 0:02:07.897 --> 0:02:09.977 less white kids in, less Asian kids in. You know, 0:02:10.497 --> 0:02:13.297 I'm a lower middle class white kid, and something I 0:02:13.337 --> 0:02:15.737 always say is that I look around in my school 0:02:16.017 --> 0:02:18.977 and I have met very few middle class white kids. 0:02:19.017 --> 0:02:21.337 It's like a total shock. When I got to school, 0:02:21.537 --> 0:02:23.657 I found plenty of rich white kids, and I found 0:02:23.657 --> 0:02:26.697 plenty of rich black kids, but the class, the middle 0:02:26.697 --> 0:02:29.017 class whites. Those are the group. That's the group that's 0:02:29.177 --> 0:02:31.977 totally missing. And I mean, I hope there are more 0:02:32.017 --> 0:02:34.777 now because affirmative action is gone, but I'm not totally optimistic. 0:02:34.817 --> 0:02:37.697 I think these administrations are going to find loopholes because 0:02:37.737 --> 0:02:41.057 they're so dedicated to this religion of diversity. 0:02:41.297 --> 0:02:44.617 So you think they're probably gonna keep the numbers of 0:02:44.817 --> 0:02:48.537 preferred minority categories the same irrespective of this decision. 0:02:49.417 --> 0:02:52.817 Yeah, I think so, because you know, it's how it's 0:02:52.857 --> 0:02:55.017 been for the past twenty years. And if they don't 0:02:55.057 --> 0:02:56.977 do it, they'll be called racist. And you know, it's 0:02:56.977 --> 0:02:59.057 so funny because the whole thing about affirmative action, and 0:02:59.097 --> 0:03:00.897 I'm not the first one to say this, but you 0:03:00.937 --> 0:03:03.457 know when they say, oh, you know, underprivileged people are 0:03:03.457 --> 0:03:05.977 getting in, I have not met a single black kid 0:03:06.017 --> 0:03:08.217 who's from like the ghetto or from the hood. These 0:03:08.257 --> 0:03:10.897 black kids, they come from school as, they come from 0:03:10.897 --> 0:03:14.017 boarding schools. They don't come from places where you know, 0:03:14.257 --> 0:03:16.577 there really are underprivileged people. So the whole thing about 0:03:16.577 --> 0:03:18.777 affirmative action is such a farce. But yeah, I think 0:03:18.777 --> 0:03:21.097 you're just gonna do other things to keep the numbers 0:03:21.097 --> 0:03:21.457 the same. 0:03:22.537 --> 0:03:27.017 How is it to be a an out and about 0:03:27.177 --> 0:03:30.777 conservative on the U Chicago campus these days. I mean, 0:03:30.817 --> 0:03:35.417 I was a college Republican at Amherst up in Massachusetts 0:03:35.457 --> 0:03:39.377 back in oh, god, now, early two thousands. So it's 0:03:39.417 --> 0:03:43.577 been twenty years. So tell me, Daniel, what's it like 0:03:43.697 --> 0:03:46.217 these days? I mean, are you do you feel like 0:03:46.337 --> 0:03:49.457 you're empowered in some sense because at least now with 0:03:49.497 --> 0:03:52.017 the Internet and with social media, you can share your 0:03:52.097 --> 0:03:54.937 voice more freely. Or what kind of concerns do you have? 0:03:55.017 --> 0:03:56.937 I mean, just what's it like bring us into the 0:03:57.337 --> 0:03:59.777 life of a campus conservative in twenty twenty three. 0:04:00.977 --> 0:04:02.697 Well, I'll give you a little bit of idea. So 0:04:02.897 --> 0:04:05.297 the first month I started college, you know, I'm a 0:04:05.297 --> 0:04:08.457 debate kid. I enjoy debate. I couldn't participate in a 0:04:08.457 --> 0:04:11.497 debate tournament because I'm white. That's not a joke. This 0:04:11.977 --> 0:04:15.217 debate tournament was only open to non white people. This 0:04:15.297 --> 0:04:17.737 is my first month in college, and so I kind 0:04:17.737 --> 0:04:19.577 of knew from that point, Okay, this is what the 0:04:19.617 --> 0:04:21.377 next four years are going to look like. And I 0:04:21.417 --> 0:04:23.257 had to do something about it. It had to speak up. 0:04:23.377 --> 0:04:26.497 And you're exactly right. The Internet, Twitter, specifically has really 0:04:26.537 --> 0:04:29.817 allowed this sort of new activism, journalism to happen. I 0:04:29.817 --> 0:04:31.857 don't know what I would do twenty years ago if 0:04:31.897 --> 0:04:34.657 the Internet didn't exist. I think I would who knows. 0:04:35.097 --> 0:04:36.897 I will say this though, Funnily enough, you know a 0:04:36.897 --> 0:04:38.817 lot of people expect me to be like, oh, you know, 0:04:39.137 --> 0:04:42.617 I get attacked constantly, I get being up. Surprisingly, I've 0:04:42.697 --> 0:04:45.737 never had a single negative interaction of someone. I don't 0:04:45.737 --> 0:04:47.217 know if that's because they're scared of me or because 0:04:47.217 --> 0:04:49.537 they just don't care. You know, tons of talking on 0:04:49.577 --> 0:04:52.977 social media, tons of anonymous whispering, but I've never had 0:04:53.017 --> 0:04:55.217 anyone come up to me and been like, oh, you're evil, 0:04:55.217 --> 0:04:57.857 get out of here. So if any students are listening, 0:04:57.897 --> 0:05:00.217 you might be surprised that if you start speaking up 0:05:00.217 --> 0:05:03.217 and you're confident about it, you could actually get pretty far. 0:05:03.377 --> 0:05:06.097 And you know, it's funny because literally last week, The 0:05:06.097 --> 0:05:08.097 New York Times dropped like a hit piece on me, 0:05:08.177 --> 0:05:09.577 and I kind of knew from that point, Okay, I 0:05:09.617 --> 0:05:12.017 must be doing something. Okay if The New York Times 0:05:12.097 --> 0:05:14.097 is going after me because I'm literally just a nineteen 0:05:14.177 --> 0:05:16.497 year old kid, but yeah, yeah. 0:05:16.817 --> 0:05:19.097 Hold on, hold on, coody, you can't just skip over this. 0:05:19.137 --> 0:05:20.897 Probably the New York Times has done hit pieces on 0:05:20.937 --> 0:05:23.337 me too, my friends, so good job, welcome, welcome to 0:05:23.377 --> 0:05:26.017 the club. But I guess they're supposed to with me. 0:05:26.257 --> 0:05:28.537 I do a pretty big radio show, and some people 0:05:28.817 --> 0:05:30.817 in the movement know who I am. With you, your 0:05:30.897 --> 0:05:32.897 nineteen year old kid of me. You're already making splashes 0:05:32.897 --> 0:05:35.617 here you are on this podcast. What were they doing 0:05:35.657 --> 0:05:38.137 a hit piece on you? Though? Like? What did it say? 0:05:38.177 --> 0:05:39.017 What have you been up to? 0:05:40.257 --> 0:05:40.577 Yeah? 0:05:40.577 --> 0:05:43.017 So this all started a few months ago when I 0:05:43.057 --> 0:05:45.537 was registering for classes and I found this one class. 0:05:45.577 --> 0:05:48.297 It was called the Problem of Whiteness. And you know, 0:05:48.377 --> 0:05:50.657 as the title suggests, like what is this saying that 0:05:50.697 --> 0:05:53.537 there's a problem with white people or whiteness and that 0:05:53.817 --> 0:05:56.737 therefore there's a solution. I mean, can you imagine if 0:05:56.777 --> 0:05:59.377 there were a class problem of blackness, problem with any noess? 0:05:59.417 --> 0:06:01.897 I mean, it would be national outreach. So I saw 0:06:01.937 --> 0:06:04.417 this class, and you know, I used my Twitter account 0:06:04.457 --> 0:06:06.937 primarily to raise awareness of this stuff. So I wrote 0:06:06.937 --> 0:06:09.337 a thread about the class. I included the course description, 0:06:09.497 --> 0:06:13.497 which was calling whiteness like a problem with world making effects, 0:06:13.897 --> 0:06:16.697 and I noted the professor teaching it because I think 0:06:16.737 --> 0:06:19.897 it's cru sort to know who these people are. A 0:06:19.897 --> 0:06:22.817 few days later, this professor is calling me a cyber terrorist. 0:06:23.017 --> 0:06:26.097 She's saying my tweets may encourage an armed school shooter, 0:06:26.737 --> 0:06:29.737 and she is demanding my school expel me. She filed 0:06:29.777 --> 0:06:32.977 two separate complaints to get me expelled, saying I basically 0:06:33.097 --> 0:06:36.337 led some national harassment campaign against her. So that was 0:06:36.377 --> 0:06:38.697 all in the span of a few months. Things are quiet, 0:06:38.737 --> 0:06:41.177 and then go back just a few weeks ago, or 0:06:41.177 --> 0:06:43.417 actually two weeks ago, and out of nowhere, the New 0:06:43.457 --> 0:06:45.617 York Times dropped this article about me. They're calling me 0:06:45.657 --> 0:06:49.417 an instigator. They're basically criticizing my school, you Chicago, They're 0:06:49.417 --> 0:06:51.977 saying they should have punished me. And then just a 0:06:51.977 --> 0:06:55.097 few days after that, CNN drops an article written by 0:06:55.137 --> 0:06:59.217 some Obama spokesperson, former Obama spokesperson. She's saying I bully 0:06:59.297 --> 0:07:02.097 people in the silence. She's saying I should be expelled. 0:07:02.137 --> 0:07:05.057 I mean, it really is a national thing. So I 0:07:05.097 --> 0:07:07.857 was totally surprised by that, but I guess it means 0:07:07.857 --> 0:07:09.017 I must be doing something right. 0:07:09.097 --> 0:07:11.457 And this professor has just going after me NonStop. 0:07:12.217 --> 0:07:14.897 So you still have interactions with the professor. 0:07:15.417 --> 0:07:16.297 No, fortunately not. 0:07:16.337 --> 0:07:17.737 I'm a little scared because I don't want to be 0:07:17.737 --> 0:07:20.217 accused of stalking or get a restrained order. 0:07:20.537 --> 0:07:24.377 Yeah you're smart, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:07:24.217 --> 0:07:26.457 You got you gotta. You always got to assume that 0:07:26.497 --> 0:07:30.457 the left. You can't even give any any daylight, any 0:07:30.537 --> 0:07:33.417 opening for them to do something nefarious, because I can 0:07:33.457 --> 0:07:35.737 assure you, Daniel, you know, I've got twenty years of 0:07:35.777 --> 0:07:40.417 experience dealing with this and they will, right, So if 0:07:40.417 --> 0:07:42.697 you open the door, they will. I want to come 0:07:42.737 --> 0:07:45.137 back here in a second. I did you actually take 0:07:45.177 --> 0:07:47.977 any of the classes in the Problem with Whiteness or 0:07:48.017 --> 0:07:49.697 do you just see the class description? Like did you 0:07:49.697 --> 0:07:50.777 show up an audit one? 0:07:51.857 --> 0:07:52.617 Well, I was. 0:07:52.577 --> 0:07:55.817 Going to, but then the class temp actually got temporarily 0:07:55.857 --> 0:07:58.817 postponed because I guess she got so many negative emails. 0:07:58.857 --> 0:08:02.337 She got scared. She demanded increase policing, she demanded this 0:08:02.377 --> 0:08:04.857 whole thing. And when the class was later taught in 0:08:04.897 --> 0:08:06.577 the spring, there was no way I'm gonna. I just 0:08:06.577 --> 0:08:08.497 didn't feel safe taking this class, Like is she going. 0:08:08.457 --> 0:08:10.817 Yeah, of course at that point. Yeah, I'd just be 0:08:10.857 --> 0:08:13.697 so curious. I'd be so curious to see it. I 0:08:13.737 --> 0:08:17.617 did take just so you know. It was gosh. Two 0:08:17.657 --> 0:08:22.337 thousand and three, I took a class in sociology, which is, 0:08:22.577 --> 0:08:27.337 you know, you're already dealing with sociology right, the American Right, 0:08:27.457 --> 0:08:30.057 it was called, and there were three conservatives in a 0:08:30.097 --> 0:08:32.417 class with I don't know, forty students in it or something, 0:08:32.937 --> 0:08:36.257 and it was the biggest caricature you'll be You'll not 0:08:36.377 --> 0:08:38.977 be shocked at all to know that the American Right 0:08:39.137 --> 0:08:43.577 in this Amherst College course was just about ignorance, racism, 0:08:43.617 --> 0:08:46.977 and sexism. That's it, That is the America. I was like, oh, wow, okay, 0:08:47.537 --> 0:08:48.977 that's that's a really, that's a really. 0:08:49.617 --> 0:08:51.537 I mean that was before Trump. When Trump came, I 0:08:51.537 --> 0:08:54.057 mean that totally changed everything. Now it's all about him 0:08:54.097 --> 0:08:56.297 and how he's racist, evil, So it's even worse now. 0:08:56.337 --> 0:08:57.217 But yeah, I'm not surprised. 0:08:57.377 --> 0:09:00.377 Let's let's I want to get to gender gender identity 0:09:00.417 --> 0:09:02.177 politics on campus and you can tell us some of 0:09:02.217 --> 0:09:04.697 the stories about that in a second. We'll get back 0:09:04.737 --> 0:09:06.937 to it. But first off, how's for everybody at home, 0:09:06.977 --> 0:09:09.457 how's your energy level these days? Because if you feel 0:09:09.457 --> 0:09:11.097 like you could use a boost, if you feel like 0:09:11.217 --> 0:09:16.377 just your overall focused energy drive fitness could use some help, 0:09:16.457 --> 0:09:20.577 you gotta check out Chalk. These supplements are phenomenal that 0:09:20.617 --> 0:09:22.417 are helping so many men and women in this audience 0:09:22.417 --> 0:09:24.697 get dialed in. 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I've never said 0:10:32.737 --> 0:10:34.617 anything like that so far, and I knew my first 0:10:34.697 --> 0:10:36.617 day going in everyone's already looking at me when I 0:10:36.617 --> 0:10:39.097 just say hey, my name's Daniel, and then there's silence afterward. 0:10:39.137 --> 0:10:41.457 They expected me to say whatever. So yeah, no, that's 0:10:41.497 --> 0:10:44.937 totally mandatory. And another thing that's just totally crazy that 0:10:45.057 --> 0:10:48.257 your listeners may be surprised by is these debate tournaments. 0:10:48.257 --> 0:10:50.937 I mentioned earlier how I couldn't participate in one because 0:10:50.977 --> 0:10:53.297 I'm white. It's not just that at the beginning of 0:10:53.377 --> 0:10:55.737 every round you have to say trigger warnings and if 0:10:55.737 --> 0:10:59.537 you don't you can actually lose around. I almost lost around. 0:10:59.897 --> 0:11:01.657 I don't do debate anymore because it's a joke. But 0:11:01.697 --> 0:11:03.857 when I was doing it initially, I almost lost the round. 0:11:03.937 --> 0:11:05.897 We were talking about like the Korean War or something 0:11:06.177 --> 0:11:09.057 I didn't give a trigger warning for, like war casualties, 0:11:09.097 --> 0:11:12.217 death destruction, and they SAIDY almost lost, So I mean, 0:11:12.217 --> 0:11:14.417 it is totally you know, you hear these stories and 0:11:14.457 --> 0:11:15.897 you assume it's exaggerated. 0:11:15.897 --> 0:11:17.537 It's not. It's really as bad as it seems. 0:11:17.617 --> 0:11:22.017 Wait, so it's it's mandatory to give a trigger warning 0:11:22.297 --> 0:11:25.817 in college debate. Now you and if you don't, you 0:11:25.817 --> 0:11:26.657 get puts off. 0:11:27.217 --> 0:11:29.377 Yeah, no, you can lose the round because you know 0:11:29.537 --> 0:11:33.017 you're doing harm to people. It's I'm not exaggering about that. 0:11:33.057 --> 0:11:33.897 It's actually insane. 0:11:34.617 --> 0:11:37.257 I did. I did high school debate for a little bit, 0:11:37.417 --> 0:11:39.537 and and even then I felt like it was always 0:11:39.697 --> 0:11:43.297 very politicized, like if you were arguing, you'd have to 0:11:43.377 --> 0:11:45.537 argue both sides that right, was Lincoln Douglas style debate. 0:11:45.937 --> 0:11:49.097 But if they got the sense that you I'm telling you, 0:11:49.097 --> 0:11:51.137 if they got the sense of your politics, the judges 0:11:51.217 --> 0:11:54.377 you were, you were in bad shape, bad shape usually. 0:11:54.417 --> 0:11:56.457 So the gender politics stuff, do you have a lot 0:11:56.497 --> 0:12:01.417 of conversations on campus about, you know, should the transgender 0:12:01.457 --> 0:12:04.057 students use these bathrooms, those bathrooms, et cetera. You know 0:12:04.097 --> 0:12:04.457 what I mean? 0:12:05.737 --> 0:12:09.457 Yeah, let me think not really, you know, uh, we 0:12:09.577 --> 0:12:10.937 have frat, we have sororities. 0:12:10.937 --> 0:12:13.097 I haven't heard much about women trying to join or 0:12:13.257 --> 0:12:13.697 that's in that. 0:12:13.897 --> 0:12:16.617 Not really, I'm trying to think you know my schools, 0:12:16.617 --> 0:12:17.857 and I will say this, My school is like a 0:12:17.937 --> 0:12:18.697 very nerdy school. 0:12:18.697 --> 0:12:20.097 We're kind of known for like the nerdiness. 0:12:20.137 --> 0:12:22.977 So it is relatively apolitical, which I think is probably 0:12:23.017 --> 0:12:24.697 the reason why I have succeeded so much. I think 0:12:24.737 --> 0:12:26.977 if I went to like Yale or UC Berkeley, I 0:12:27.017 --> 0:12:29.097 would probably have been kicked out by now. So I 0:12:29.097 --> 0:12:30.697 do have to give credits to my school. But it's 0:12:30.737 --> 0:12:32.337 been pretty common that aspect. 0:12:32.577 --> 0:12:34.977 Yeah, well, look that's a good thing. Sounds like you 0:12:35.057 --> 0:12:37.897 found a place where I mean, I say Amherst. When 0:12:37.897 --> 0:12:41.577 people would show up, it's all it was all Patagonia 0:12:41.657 --> 0:12:45.657 fleeces and people wearing sweats and playing soccer in the quad. 0:12:46.137 --> 0:12:48.177 And then when the parents would drop their kids off 0:12:48.177 --> 0:12:51.377 and go, it just turned into a Marxist indoctrination factory. 0:12:51.417 --> 0:12:54.457 Like everyone just all the professors. 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I definitely the cop those 0:14:31.457 --> 0:14:31.977 we did? 0:14:31.977 --> 0:14:33.097 We didna get you hooked up with a pair of 0:14:33.137 --> 0:14:37.937 my slippers. They're phenomenal. So you you did? Uh, you've 0:14:37.937 --> 0:14:40.777 interviewed Tucker, right, you've done Fox. I mean, how did 0:14:40.777 --> 0:14:42.537 you get into this game? And also, are you an 0:14:42.577 --> 0:14:44.457 East Coast guy? You sound to me like you're an 0:14:44.497 --> 0:14:45.177 East Coast guy. 0:14:46.017 --> 0:14:46.537 That's funny. 0:14:46.537 --> 0:14:48.577 I'm actually I'm actually from Tennessee, from just like a 0:14:48.697 --> 0:14:49.617 totally normal town. 0:14:49.737 --> 0:14:52.697 So no, well you're like my co host Clay, who's 0:14:52.697 --> 0:14:57.617 from Nashville and does not has no Southern accident whatsoever. None. Right, yeah, 0:14:57.777 --> 0:15:00.937 that's so, So how'd you get into all this? Like, 0:15:01.057 --> 0:15:04.297 you know, you're you're a young guy. You're doing media, 0:15:04.377 --> 0:15:06.297 you know here you are. I mean, gosh, I was 0:15:06.337 --> 0:15:08.937 just trying to show up on time for my crappy 0:15:09.017 --> 0:15:11.057 sociology class when I was your age. So how'd you 0:15:11.057 --> 0:15:11.617 get into it? 0:15:12.657 --> 0:15:12.857 Well? 0:15:12.857 --> 0:15:14.817 Listen, I mean I didn't have any grand plans. I 0:15:14.857 --> 0:15:17.617 still don't have some grand strategy. I kind of just 0:15:17.737 --> 0:15:19.537 you know, I call out what I think is wrong 0:15:19.577 --> 0:15:21.457 and I defend what I think is true. That's kind 0:15:21.457 --> 0:15:23.777 of been my guiding motto. And I started it when 0:15:23.777 --> 0:15:25.657 I when I got into college, and I've had a 0:15:25.657 --> 0:15:28.657 lot of success. And you know, you mentioned Tucker Carls 0:15:28.657 --> 0:15:31.337 and he reached out to me after I asked a 0:15:31.457 --> 0:15:33.217 question to an Applebaum. 0:15:33.257 --> 0:15:35.097 I don't know if you're familiar for this. You know, 0:15:35.257 --> 0:15:37.657 total lib journalist. 0:15:37.697 --> 0:15:39.657 She came to my school and I asked her about 0:15:39.697 --> 0:15:43.337 Hunter Biden's laptop and her answer was like totally ridiculous. 0:15:43.457 --> 0:15:45.257 And the video clip got a lot of views, and 0:15:45.337 --> 0:15:46.137 I guess you saw it. 0:15:46.217 --> 0:15:48.857 I remember that. That's right. I should have endewed that. 0:15:49.097 --> 0:15:52.057 My friend. You had a viral moment just by asking. 0:15:52.577 --> 0:15:56.937 She's a historian slash lib who's written a lot of 0:15:56.937 --> 0:16:00.937 books about the Soviet Union and Ukraine, things like that. Stalin, 0:16:01.457 --> 0:16:03.977 and you asked about the Hunter Biden laptop at some 0:16:04.137 --> 0:16:05.817 form of Chicago and what did she say? 0:16:06.857 --> 0:16:08.937 Her answer was just literally like I don't care, Like 0:16:09.017 --> 0:16:12.377 that was totally here answer. And even the kids in 0:16:12.417 --> 0:16:14.177 the audience were looking at me like, what the heck 0:16:14.217 --> 0:16:15.897 did you just say? I mean, this was the biggest 0:16:15.897 --> 0:16:17.777 story of the time. I asked her, I said, do 0:16:17.817 --> 0:16:19.897 you think it was wrong that you claimed the story 0:16:20.017 --> 0:16:22.297 was rushing? This info turned out to be true. The 0:16:22.297 --> 0:16:24.697 New York Times confirmed that her answer was I don't care, 0:16:25.057 --> 0:16:27.457 and I you know, just the arrogance was just totally insane. 0:16:27.497 --> 0:16:30.297 Even David Axelrod, you know, Obama's chief strategist, was sitting 0:16:30.297 --> 0:16:30.657 next there. 0:16:30.817 --> 0:16:32.377 He couldn't believe it. He's like, Okay, well, need to 0:16:32.377 --> 0:16:33.057 shut it down now. 0:16:33.417 --> 0:16:37.217 So but but listen, even that example and out the examples. 0:16:37.297 --> 0:16:39.377 I didn't even know that it was going to be recorded. 0:16:39.417 --> 0:16:41.217 I didn't have any grand plans going in. I just 0:16:41.217 --> 0:16:42.817 did it because I got the mic and I was like, 0:16:42.897 --> 0:16:44.977 let me ask her this stuff. So, you know what 0:16:45.057 --> 0:16:46.617 I want to achieve in the next two years I'm 0:16:46.617 --> 0:16:48.937 in college. It's not it's not fame or anything like that. 0:16:49.217 --> 0:16:51.897 I just want to inspire other students to speak up 0:16:51.937 --> 0:16:54.617 to do something about it. Because I come from a 0:16:54.657 --> 0:16:57.377 single mother household. I don't come from any extraordinary backgrounds, 0:16:57.617 --> 0:16:59.177 and I've just been doing this and I've you know, 0:16:59.217 --> 0:17:01.097 now New York Times, I guess is attacking me, so 0:17:01.137 --> 0:17:03.097 I must be doing something right. So there are any 0:17:03.137 --> 0:17:05.537 other students listening in or just you know, hear about me, 0:17:05.697 --> 0:17:07.617 all I want to do is inspire them, show that 0:17:07.657 --> 0:17:10.177 you can actually achieve more than you think. And you 0:17:10.217 --> 0:17:12.137 know I've had you know, there is this policy on 0:17:12.217 --> 0:17:15.217 my school that banned unvaccinated students from dining halls. I 0:17:15.297 --> 0:17:18.337 pressed my administration. They reversed it. So just small things 0:17:18.377 --> 0:17:20.257 like that, you can actually make a bigger difference than 0:17:20.257 --> 0:17:23.257 you think, and you can also inspire other students around you, 0:17:23.297 --> 0:17:25.377 and before you know it, there's this like cascading effect 0:17:25.417 --> 0:17:28.057 where you actually may be surprised how many kids agree 0:17:28.097 --> 0:17:29.897 with you. So that's been my main goal is just 0:17:29.937 --> 0:17:33.017 sort of to inspire. But yeah, the Tucker interview was phenomenal. 0:17:33.697 --> 0:17:35.817 I'm blessed to have that opportunity. 0:17:35.857 --> 0:17:39.497 Have you had professors, even if just quietly and in 0:17:39.577 --> 0:17:42.657 back channel, reach out to you to support you and 0:17:42.697 --> 0:17:47.417 say they appreciate what you're doing. Have you been surprised 0:17:47.457 --> 0:17:49.497 at some of the support you've received from people in 0:17:49.537 --> 0:17:52.737 the administration, not publicly, but just to let you know 0:17:52.777 --> 0:17:56.017 that they think that you're taking an ethical approach, et cetera. 0:17:56.977 --> 0:17:59.577 Yeah, I have had a few professors. Actually a professor 0:17:59.577 --> 0:18:02.337 I had last quarter, I had no idea. He liked me, 0:18:02.417 --> 0:18:04.537 and then in the last day of class he was like, hey, 0:18:04.577 --> 0:18:06.017 I love what do you do it with that problem 0:18:06.017 --> 0:18:08.497 of whiteness class? I was like, really, I mean so again, 0:18:08.537 --> 0:18:10.177 I just want to stress, like you never know, well, 0:18:10.497 --> 0:18:12.297