Right Now with Stephen Kent

Journalist and filmmaker Jorge Ventura joins Stephen Kent and Jacob Rich for a conversation about his documentary "Cartelville, USA" and why the illegal drug trade continues to thrive in California.

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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:48 “Cartelville USA” trailer
02:50 Jorge Ventura on how he got the scoop
04:48 What happened in CA’s Prop 64
06:00 Jacob Rich on why cartels like CA
07:45 Water and real estate issues
12:30 What the law says – and doesn’t say
18:38 The plight of the legal grower
20:45 Politicians don’t seem to care
23:00 Impact of Defund the Police
25:55 Jacob Rich goes way out on a limb
29:30 The investigation continues

---- Plugs for our Guests ----

Follow Jorge Ventura:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VenturaReport
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jorgeventuratv/
Documentary: https://carteldoc.dailycaller.com/documentary

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/jacobjamesrich

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson joins Stephen Kent and Jacob Rich to talk about coronavirus hysteria, vaccine mandates, big tech censorship, and if it's possible to have an honest conversation about COVID-19.

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--- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:05 Cautiously preparing for the show
02:30 Pandemic overreaction
10:15 Being skeptical of Big Pharma
15:39 Bill de Blasio’s NYC vaccine mandate
21:00 Long-term impact research
25:20 Pivot to marijuana
29:11 Reporting on side-effects
32:40 We review our own show

---- Reading List ----

Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
https://www.amazon.com/Pandemia-Coronavirus-Hysteria-Government-Rights-ebook/dp/B08XJRRZJP

Unreported Truths, Alex Berenson's Substack
https://alexberenson.substack.com/

---- Plugs for our Guests ----

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/jacobjamesrich

YouTuber Vaush joins Right Now to talk about the purpose of the socialist movement, if only white people can be white supremacists, and why you can't call everyone you disagree with a fascist.

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--- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:05 Vaush on attending Freer Future Fest
01:36 What and who is a libertarian socialist
07:55 Restoring political equilibrium
11:00 The case for co-ops
21:30 The primary function of the socialist movement
23:00 Calling everyone a “fascist”
30:25 Vaush: You don’t have to be white to be a white supremacist
40:40 Vaush isn’t a complete cynic
---- Plugs for Our Guests ----

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Sex and lifestyle content creator Arielle Scarcella joins Right Now to talk about leaving an "abusive relationship" with the left.

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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:05 Gender studies with Brad and Arielle
04:10 Arielle on leaving the woke world
08:35 The fight for cultural control
11:41 Getting demonetized by Big Tech
13:10 Can a porn star be conservative?
15:27 “Republican” vs “Conservative”
18:26 The Great Realignment
21:55 Leaving an abusive relationship with the left
23:22 LGBT community leans left as a default
25:17 Hard pivot: The Rittenhouse trial
30:55 Seeing the U.S.A.

---- Plugs for Our Guests ---- 

Follow Arielle Scarcella:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArielleScarcell
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/arielle

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Latest BradReacts!: https://youtu.be/aSNAsDX_rd8
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/brad_polumbo

On a new "Right Now," Stephen sits down with Karlyn Borysenko for a conversation about Critical Race Theory in education, cameras in the classroom, and if it's possible to fix the public school system.

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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:40 Karlyn Borysenko’s “WalkAway” moment and one-night stand with the GOP 04:50 Breaking the Coca-Cola training story
10:30 Heading in the right direction with CRT
12:47 Critical Race Theory isn’t about race
20:15 The white positivity movement
24:09 Racial affinity
29:25 The Mises Caucus in the Libertarian Party
31:12 Are public schools beyond saving?
33:40 Karlyn argues for cameras in classrooms
38:30 The national discourse on CRT

---- Reading List ----
Libertarian Party Mises Caucus
https://lpmisescaucus.com/

---- Plugs for our Guest ----
Karlyn Borysenko on YouTube h
ttps://www.youtube.com/c/DrKarlynBorysenko 

In this bonus segment from "Right Now," Brad Polumbo talks with Rightly contributor Nate Hochman about his experience at the National Conservatism Conference that featured speakers like Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz.

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Read Nate Hochman's reporting:

"What Do the National Conservatives Want?" https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/what-do-the-national-conservatives-want/

"Is Ted Cruz a National Conservative?"
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/is-ted-cruz-a-national-conservative/

"Among the National Conservatives"
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/among-the-national-conservatives/

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"Star Wars" can help fix our real-world politics. Just ask Stephen Kent.

In this episode of "Right Now," Stephen is interviewed by political comedian Andrew Heaton about his new book, "How the Force Can Fix the World: Lessons on Life, Liberty, and Happiness from a Galaxy Far, Far Away." Watch as Andrew and Stephen discuss how lessons from "Star Wars" can help mend political divides and even make us better humans.

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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Andrew Heaton takes over
01:53 Stephen breaks down book content
03:10 Polarization and attachment in Star Wars and in life
06:25 Lessons from theology
08:40 Mediating between the Sith and the Jedi
10:45 Can you love Star Wars AND Star Trek?
11:55 Lessons in empathy 16:05 Redemption and Force Ghosts
19:31 We’re all the bad guy to an extent
22:05 How Yoda can help you face your fears
26:15 “Hope is like the sun...”
29:25 Choose your own Star Wars adventure

---- Plugs for our Guests ----

How the Force Can Fix the World: Lessons on Life, Liberty, and Happiness from a Galaxy Far, Far Away by Stephen Kent
https://www.amazon.com/How-Force-Can-Fix-World/dp/1546000461

Los Angeles is Hideous: Poems About an Ugly City by Andrew Heaton https://www.amazon.com/Los-Angeles-Hideous-Poems-About/dp/0989613194 

Why do political debates perform so well on Twitch? Will life be any better for us in the Metaverse?

On a new "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Dylan Burns, a popular Twitch streamer and political consultant, and Shoshana Weissmann of the R Street Institute, to discuss why left-leaning individuals do better on Twitch than those on the right, how culture wars distract us from the real issues going on, and what to expect from Facebook's new Metaverse.

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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 The Hippy Dippy Championship on Twitch
03:12 How it started / how it’s going for Dylan Burns on Twitch
06:34 Why debates do well on Twitch (hint: it’s interactive)
10:10 The left does better than the right on Twitch - here’s why
13:04 Getting political after seeing his mom criminalized for drug abuse
15:23 IRL politics preceded online presence
19:35 Culture wars are a distraction
23:25 The focus on CRT at school board meetings
27:45 What are they actually teaching in schools about race?
36:41 First-hand experience with war-on-drugs failure
39:27 Will things be any better in the Metaverse?

--- Plugs for our Guests ----

Follow Dylan Burns:
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dylanburnstv
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanBurnsTV
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DylanBurns1776

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https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana

What is the Texas abortion law SB-8, why is the Supreme Court getting involved, and how will this impact abortion rights across the country?

On a new "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Kat Murti of Feminists for Liberty and Nate Hochman, ISI Fellow at the National Review and Rightly contributor, to discuss their respective stances on abortion, issues facing women in America today, if men should be part of the abortion conversation, what role the government should have in regards to abortion, and their outlook on this important issue for the future.

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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:35 Why men should be part of the conversation
04:40 Panelists’ lay out their views
08:00 Separate paths all leading to pro-life views
12:55 Pregnancy is not a disease
16:00 Close reading of Roe v Wade ruling
20:20 Whose rights matter?
23:00 Kat: We need a pro-motherhood, pro-family culture
25:45 Nate: Women swayed by “abortion industry” propaganda
26:35 That Texas abortion law - is it the right solution?
31:00 Testing some hypotheticals
36:00 A cause for optimism

---- Plugs for our Guests ---- 
Follow Kat Murti: https://twitter.com/KatMurti
https://twitter.com/FeministLiberty

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https://twitter.com/njhochman

Did libertarianism put America on the road to ruin? And did the conservative movement losing fights like that of same-sex marriage, really put us on the slippery slope to transgender ideology being the norm? This week we’re talking to Declan Leary of The American Conservative magazine, about why he wants to see libertarians cast out of the Republican coalition for good & see the American right get excited about controlling government and putting it to use for a change.

At the core of this show is a question about what defines “normal” when it comes to our politics. Societal norms in America have changed rapidly in the past sixty years, and a lot of good has come from it. But change also equals disruption; that’s the nature of challenging the status quo. There will always be costs to it, and there will also always be holdouts who do not accept the new “normal” or believe the consensus in politics or society at large is a consensus at all.

Recognizing this is part of why we started Rightly in the first place, and why I excitedly host this show every week. The “consensus” in American politics, particularly on the right, isn’t looking like much of a consensus at all these days. Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency changed everything.

Stephen’s guests this week are Declan Leary, Associate Editor of The American Conservatve magazine and Nate Hochman, a fellow with National Review. Both are from a younger generation of conservatives who would call themselves more traditionalist conservatives (tradcons), Leary most of all. The politics of Leary and increasingly so at his publication, The American Conservative, is all about challenging the decades old consensus on the right...that of fusionism between libertarian orthodoxy with conservative thought. Donald Trump was not so much an avatar of this faction as he was an inspiration to point out that the “consensus” in our politics was anything but. Whether it be gay marriage, no-fault divorce, adoption or the gender equality gains of the sexual revolution, all of this and more is up for renewed debate by a younger and quite energized conservative movement. But don’t talk to them about tax rates - their concern is what constitutes “virtue” and whether or not “liberty” is really working out so well for our society. Libertarians, progressives and liberals - in the mind of the new right, these traditional conservatives, they’re all part of the same problem in our politics, neighborhoods and families. In this episode, Declan Leary and Nate Hochman answer questions about this rising faction, what they do and don’t believe, and if America as we understand it today...is worth saving.

These conversations are important, because if you don’t understand these intellectual rifts on the right, you’ll only be caught flat-footed and surprised at the ways in which these debates are reshaping the Republican Party as we’ve understood it.

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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:05 Declan Leary: What Libertarians get wrong about liberty
05:30 Decades-old debate over fusionism still not settled
12:45 Neutrality is a myth; laws are always a value statement
19:45 What is a family and why is that so hard to define?
26:10 Leary: Buttigieg family photo a “mockery”
34:15 Gender neutral pronouns as the default
38:12 Why everything is subjective now
43:11 Always some good news to share

---- Reading List ----

“The Twisted Tree of LIberty” by Frank S. Meyer https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/01/communism-conservatism-twisted-tree-liberty/

“Freedom or Virtue” by L. Brent Bozell Jr. https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/01/freedom-virtue-conservatism-goal-society-freedom-or-virtue/ 


---- Plugs for our Guests ----

Follow Declan Leary: https://twitter.com/DeclanLeary
Follow Nate Hochman: https://twitter.com/njhochman