Back to episode — Episode 29 - Scott Clears Away the Fog of Fake News About Himself Using Nothing But Words and Coffee
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I was actually thinking to myself, man, things got boring, nothing's happening. An
← Previous segment →d then I wake up yesterday morning and I see a text from somebody saying, you know, what do you think about that Kanye? And I thought to myself at 5:30 in the morning or whenever I was waking up, why would I be thinking about Kanye right now at 5:30 in the morning? And then I checked my Twitter feed and I saw that Kanye West had retweeted my video in which I was talking about him and Candace Owens at nine separate times with nine different clips out of it. Which of course made the world blow up because, you know, it looked like worlds were colliding and, you know, dogs were marrying cats and, you know, it was raining and on fire at the same time. And yeah, you know, it was daytime and night simultaneously. And people didn't seem to be happy about the fact — I mean, think about what made people angry, and I hate to put it in these terms but what I do — you're gonna see that this is exactly what happened.
There were lots of noise and lots of complaints, but it really came down to this.
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The reason people were really unhappy is that Kanye West and I would just agree on something. And it feels racial. I don't know if it is, but it just feels racial. That the fact that we would both have just a reasonable, well-explained reason for believing that the past should not influence our decisions so much in the present — perfectly reasonable thing to think. But somehow it's not okay if Kan…
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