Radio Show Hour 3 – 2026/06/06

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[00:00:28] To our third and final hour, everybody.

[00:01:13] James Edwards here with you in our last hour, the second hour. We had a mainstay guest who has logged more than 50 appearances on this program over the course of the last 22 years. Now we go to a lady making her first. Leonardo is a feisty stand-up comedian, and she is making her debut right now. Joining us live, Leonardo, it is great to have you. You have certainly been making waves in recent months. Oh, well, thanks for having me on, James. I'm happy to be here.

[00:01:44] Perhaps for much longer than that. Well, you're very welcome. You, of course, have been hailed as one of the most controversial voices in the stand-up world today, known for your unapologetic takes on live culture and society, unafraid to challenge taboos and spark critical conversations. You have a raw and polarizing humor. You touch on everything from your roots to modern-day issues. And I think I am telling people things they already know. You have been all over the place on social media for a while now.

[00:02:13] Now, folks, if you are a subscriber to the American Free Press newspaper, in your mailbox this week would have landed an interview, a print Q&A that I did with Leonardo. Very good. We'll have a lot more fun tonight, get into some other issues we didn't get into there. But I think we should just cover a few of the basic biographical points before we move forward. Leonardo, very interesting background you have. Born in Montenegro. Born in Europe. Born in New York. What was your breaking point?

[00:02:42] You talked about it being during the COVID era. Yeah, I mean, I would actually say a little bit right before COVID with the trans stuff, that's when I started to break from the liberal ideology. You know, until that point, I was, I don't know, you know, nobody was as political as everybody is now. It was like a general, I'm a Democrat, I didn't really think about anything, but I'm in New

[00:03:07] York and I'm, you know, in my 20s and I'm surrounded by other dumb chicks. So this is what we think. We have one group think and this is it, you know. But when the, when the trans thing happened, I was like, okay, something's wrong here and I can't take the BS anymore. And so you left. This was something that we got into in the print interview. You left New York at that time. You had a pretty, it was actually funny just to read. Yeah. Go ahead.

[00:03:36] It took a couple of years to leave New York. I probably still wouldn't have left New York. I don't know, but I left New York. It was about a year into COVID. It was 2021, February, March of 2021. And I just realized that everybody around me was a gay race communist. And that if it came down to it, like they were going to turn me into the camp. Like if an order came down from whoever being like, hey, your neighbors that aren't vaccinated,

[00:04:07] report them because we're going to take them into the FEMA camp. Like I knew I was going to, that's where I was going. So I was like, I got to get out of here. Well, you ditched it. It's still working in comedy, but you ditched it for Austin, which as you mentioned, is certainly not necessarily a right-wing enclave. But compared to New York, it was an entirely different scene. So how did the Austin era go for you?

[00:04:31] Well, you know, the first part down there, maybe I was a bit more in the center with my beliefs, like center-right. I wasn't a far right, I guess you would say. But everybody around me was pretty right-wing too at that point because a lot of people were fleeing these liberal health roles for the same reason I was. And so we were here like, okay, this is great. Here's a place that's open.

[00:05:00] They're not doing the math thing. Like we're not doing the, I'm going to get offended at every little thing that you say. And so it was like a nice time for the first couple of years. Like it really was a kind of wild, wild west out there where the shows were run by the comedians. So there wasn't this like bureaucratic top-down ordering. And yeah, it was pretty wild. It was. It was good.

[00:05:29] And then, you know, the more established, I guess, industry came in. And that's when the tightening started happening. And a lot of the same politics started happening. And I was like, yeah, I'm not doing this either. But as we'll get into as this hour further develops, I mean, you're certainly not gone anywhere. If anything, you are more well-known in some ways today than ever.

[00:05:59] And you're still out there doing shows on tour. We'll plug that in just a moment as well. Let me just ask you this. This is a brief departure. How many years have you been doing stand-up? Active on the scene? I want to say seven years now. Yeah, seven years. I actually started just the year before COVID. Okay. So, I mean, you had all of this sort of, I don't want to say awakening, but I mean, a lot of things were going on in your life there at the 2019, 2020, 2021 time frame.

[00:06:29] And I guess you've seen certainly that a lot of the things that we talk about, that you talk about, that we talk about, that our friends talk about has become countercultural now in sort of the hip and edgy way. I mean, even if it's nothing more than high schoolers in Memphis where we're broadcasting from tonight voting for Trump, I mean, you wouldn't have seen that 20 years ago. It's almost like a polar opposite of the 1960s.

[00:06:54] And now, if you're not right-wing and talking about Jews and race, you know, you're not in with it. You're not punk. That's the truth, right? Because here's the thing. I think the whole 60s hippie revolution, the punk revolution, that was all orchestrated. That's 100% right. Yeah, you know, and L.P. Hill Publishing has a book on exactly how that was staged. That was not an authentic expression, whereas this is.

[00:07:22] But anyway, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but you are correct. That was completely stage managed. Fake and gay, orchestrated, top-down, military, like all those bands had somebody, a father or mother or somebody who's in the military. And, you know, like, what's his name, Morrison? Multiple people that you could look at like this. So, the boomers and the Gen Xers had their fake gay revolution.

[00:07:51] And so, they don't actually know what a real revolution looks like because they don't know that theirs was fake. They, like, still think they were having all those, like, thoughts organically. And what's happened is that revolution succeeded in making everything exactly as it was, which is fake and gay. Like, everything around us is totally homosexual, pro-homo, as degenerate as you can be. That's the mainstream culture. That's what's so insane.

[00:08:21] So, if you want to be punk now, you've got to be, like, a moral, upstanding human being who believes in traditional family values, believes in God, wants to have a family and children, does not want to go hoeing it up, does not want to go tour on a boat with a bunch of rich old men who are just going to molest you. That's what it means to be punk now. You know, and it's great to see, to be honest.

[00:08:51] What's old is new again, and it is ascendant. And that's what's encouraging. We were just talking in the last hour about, you know, the vote for Massey is just one example. You know, from the 18- to 29-year-old demographic, it was almost, you know, a complete inversion of the, you know, the people in their, you know, 70s and 80s, how they voted. And so the future does seem to be trending in our way, but we still have to will it. And, well, we're doing that in a lot of different ways, and you're a big part of it.

[00:09:19] I think that so far, listen, I mean, I'm serious. Our side has been woefully underserved in the arts, and we have to have more of that. We have to have more of that. And not just intellectuals and commentators, but people that are actually making this popular. And, well, let's go ahead. Let me just say something about that, James, because I think that's incredibly important.

[00:09:46] It's one of the things that pisses me off to no extent when they cancel me or cancel my show or you try to silence me. Is I'm like, this isn't about me. This is about all the people that you're telling to go F themselves because they want to listen to me. That's the real issue. That's what really makes me serious is, you know, I just sold out my first show in Tampa. So what does that mean? That's next week, by the way.

[00:10:13] Yeah, that's people who want to hear what I'm saying. So you're going to have, like, these other people. It doesn't matter how many, even if it's 10 times as many people who don't want to hear what I'm saying. Nobody's making you listen. But beyond that, you're not just content for you not to listen. You want to make sure that this other group also doesn't listen. That's crossing the line.

[00:10:43] Folks, we're going to take our first break of the hour. Leonardo is our guest. Leonardo is funny. Dot com. That's the website. Leonardo is Leonardo is funny. Dot com is the website. You can get there more information about her tour. She's with us for the full hour. We're just getting started. A lot of questions from the audience coming your way in just a moment. It is common for politicians, major media outlets, and nonprofits to hype white on black murders aggressively. Or even claim that blacks are living in fear of white people.

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[00:13:10] So grateful to have Leonardo Johnny with us this hour. Our third and final tonight. Her website, Leonardoisfunny.com. Sold-out show in Tampa. One week from tonight, we know what she'll be doing. That's when that show is going to be. There are others throughout the rest of the year. A lot of stuff on her website. Be sure to check it out. Well, let's talk about it very quickly. I want to get to a lot of these great questions from the audience.

[00:13:35] But you slam modern sensitivity culture like the enemy it is in your shows. This is something we touched on in the newspaper interview, the aforementioned newspaper interview. But I think you have a great perspective that a lot of us don't have. You were raised quite literally in a different world, whether it be born in Montenegro, that very unique part of Europe tucked in between Croatia and Albania, Kosovo on the other side, Serbia, Macedonia.

[00:14:05] That part of Europe, born there, raised in New York. So Albanian roots, by the way. Also, do you see the left's woke obsession with feelings over facts as a uniquely American decay? Or is that just everywhere now? That is a good question. I will say it is a decay that comes out of decadence.

[00:14:34] You have to have a superfluous society where you can even pretend that feelings are more important than facts. Because there's so much buffering from you having, like, let's just be specific, right? You have enough food. You've got housing. You've got more than enough. I mean, people, you can just walk around and see how fat people are. So nobody's really in a food scarcity situation.

[00:14:58] So now we're going to move into this nebulous world where you're not dealing with concrete things. And we can all pretend that what someone said was so awful because nobody has to, you know, go kill the soil in the morning or milk the cows or carry the grain where they don't have time for that BS.

[00:15:23] So I don't think it's uniquely American, to tell you the truth, because you see it in the UK, right? You're seeing it in parts of Northern Europe. I don't know. You know, it'd be interesting to find out whether France is dealing with that because the French have always kind of struck me as just cutting to the bone with things. You know, not really doing a lot of pretense.

[00:15:51] But, you know, I don't have a super in-depth experience with their culture. But it is something that seems to be a Northern European, Western European phenomenon. And it's a mark of just how successful they've been at creating and running civilization is the truth. That's the irony. That's a great answer. And I've got a lot more questions for you for more good answers.

[00:16:20] But that's an interesting and informed perspective. And so I'm going to pick up the pace a little bit now because I need to. And we start to move forward here with. Well, I'll just ask you this very quickly first. Your comedy, you talk about cultural taboos, political absurdities, but you built a huge following.

[00:16:43] And by that, I mean, folks, if you're unfamiliar with our guest, hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube, Instagram, tens of millions of views throughout the panoply of social media. By being what the media calls the most offensive comedian out there. And comedy used to be funny. Okay. You know, I'm a child of the 80s. I was born in 1980 at the very tail end of Gen X. And, you know, the late night comedy shows are just simply bullshit now.

[00:17:10] I mean, nothing could be more unfunny, actually, than Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert reading talking points that were written by entry level interns at MSNBC. You know, that's not funny. I mean, when you watch shows like this and the most heralded comedians are so-called today. I mean, is that offensive to you as someone who's genuinely funny? You know, genuinely funny? You know, it was in the beginning, but now I just understand the game.

[00:17:38] I understand that those are all people who have sold their soul. And humor or the truth isn't important to them. It's making as much money as they possibly can and getting as famous as they can. And to me, that's just like, that's such a hollow existence that I feel bad for them. But I've experienced that directly through being where I was in the awesome comedy scene and making compromises before.

[00:18:06] And then the way that you feel is like there's just not enough. There's not enough, like, attention. There's not enough money. There's not enough fame. There's not enough jobs. You're just constantly grasping. And the reason is because you've sold the stuff, I think, that is actually of substance for this stuff that is utterly meaningless, to be honest. I mean, who's going to remember any of these comics?

[00:18:35] Like, should we win and, you know, reestablish the culture based on truth and integrity? Who's going to remember Jimmy Kimmel? Like, only as an example of just how pathetic. Like, I believe that as long as you don't, like, utterly lose, you know, history is going to look back on these people and be like, what a pathetic worm. That's 100%.

[00:19:03] You're actually on to something big time here. And I use Earl Warren as an example of the Warren court that gave us the travesty of American jurisprudence, the Brown v. Board of Education decision. I always say, you know, this guy thought, he fantasized, you know, that little black school kids would go to monuments of him and, you know, salute him, you know, or something like that. And, of course, that's just never going to be the case.

[00:19:33] It wasn't the case then. It'll never be the case. But for people like Kimmel, you know, all of that, you know, they may be invited to the right cocktail parties. Now, I hope that history spits on his memory, on Warren's history, on the memory of all the traitors. A traitor is far more sustainable than an enemy. But I will say this.

[00:19:57] So I've got a question about your particular humor, you know, contra that of Jimmy Kimmel, if you can even call that humor at all. And I will first preface this by saying I have a beautiful wife, three children that I love. But I am, I will offer to everyone, as you know, I am a sexist and there are other isms that I embrace as well. So I preface that to say this, Leonardo, is that what I'm about to say is not meant to be.

[00:20:28] Yes, I recognize truth between the sexes and the races, by the way, and everything else. But I wanted to offer that to let you know that what I'm about to say is not patronizing at all. But being a female stand-up is a tough proposition. Women have to be twice as funny as men. And a lot of the girl comics, you don't think so? Oh, no. How women are given so many graces. Because men are so nice to us.

[00:20:58] Like, these feminists are so full of shit. Like, men are so incredibly nice to us. And it's because, like, it's just in their DNA. And again, obviously I'm talking about white men. You know, you can have some of the other races. Definitely not Indian men. Like, they don't even know how to behave. But white men and some, like, black men who've been really fully Americanized conservatives are so nice to women.

[00:21:28] And if you just are, seriously, if you're 50% as funny as a man, you're going to go twice as far. Okay, all right. So maybe it's a difference of perspective. Because when I'm looking at it, I'm looking at what makes me laugh. But you're looking at it from a life lived in this profession. So you're saying that the laughs are easier for you to come by because of your sex. That's interesting. That's a difference of perspective. But, I mean, you're coming at this from an entirely different way. Absolutely. People are so much nicer.

[00:21:58] They're so much nicer. Their expectations are lower. So, and then here's the other thing, too, right? Like, a lot of the stuff I say, it juxtaposes with the fact that I'm a woman and we're living in this culture where women are these, like, rabid feminist banshees, right? So, and then I'm saying the exact opposite of what you expect. So that in itself makes it funny.

[00:22:22] Like, some of my jokes, I think, like, yeah, even if men say them, it's going to be funny because they're well-written jokes. But the person who's delivering it adds another layer to it. You know, it's like when a fat person does certain jokes, they're funny. They wouldn't be so funny if that person was not fat. Okay. Okay. I hear you. You know, as I hear you explain it, it makes sense coming from you because you've seen this on the road and on tour and at different venues. Yeah.

[00:22:51] And places you've performed. All right. Well, okay. So I'm willing to accept that from your perspective. I mean, I'm just saying from my perspective, you know, what makes me laugh, you know, a woman's got to be funnier. But I could see the other types. I think what's happening for you, James, is you're just being exposed to the majority of female comedians who aren't funny and you're not laughing. And you're thinking like, oh, it's because she needs to be funnier than a man. And the real issue is she's not funny.

[00:23:21] That's the issue. And this is why what I'm saying is true. Like women can be half as funny as men and go twice as far because the expectations are just lower. We just don't hold women to the same standards we hold men. We don't. And it doesn't matter what the feminists say. Like we just get an easier time. And so what's put in front of you, there's a couple of problems. First of all, because of that, women that aren't very funny are going to be propelled into the limelight because there's just a source of talent.

[00:23:52] And so then all that you see are a bunch of like not funny women. You're like, God, women are just not funny. And then on top of that, the kind of humor that Hollywood rewards women doing is really crude sexual stuff that advances their degenerate propaganda. So every female comedian that you've seen in the last 20 years, I mean, think of Sarah Silverman. It's been my vagina this, sex this.

[00:24:20] I had this many abortions. Men suck. So that's not funny to you. That's not funny to me either. There you go. Yeah, that's a great way. And she's had a lot of commercial success. She was, you know, the voice in the Wreck-It Ralph show. I've got kids, so I know these things. But anyway, hold on. Folks, we've got to take a hard bottom of the hour break. Leonardo Johnny, our guest. Leonardo is funny.com. As much of a time as we've had so far, twice as much to come in the last 30 minutes. I promise you.

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[00:30:22] Great to have Leonardo Johnny on with us for her first appearance on TPC, hopefully the first of many to come, and hopefully we'll be doing things with her to come that you can be part of, ladies and gentlemen. But let's continue on now. I just want to circle back to the topic we were addressing before the last break, Leonardo, and that is male versus female comics. I would ask you this, just sort of to dig into your psyche a little bit.

[00:30:50] Did you study – I'll give you one example. She was Jewish, yes, but Joan Rivers was funny. I liked Joan Rivers. I laughed at her a lot of her stuff. I think she was funny, too. Very funny. Did you study former female great stand-ups like Joan Rivers or Lily Tomlin or Phyllis Diller, or were male comics your models? It was definitely male comics. I mean, I really didn't know a lot of the female comics, and I wasn't really like – you know, I wasn't one of these people who was like obsessed with stand-up my whole life.

[00:31:18] You know, I just – I liked satire my whole life. You know, I liked books like Huckleberry Finn, right? I liked Mark Twain. I liked that kind of cutting satire that cut through BS. So that's what I kind of gravitated towards. And then, you know, I did – the kind of early comedies I remember seeing were people like Bill Burr when he was actually funny,

[00:31:46] you know, when he was actually a racist instead of being totally owned by his wife, his black wife, which – let that be a lesson, you fellas – dangers abound. And these kinds of things. You know, and I thought Joan Rivers was funny. I mean, it was only after did I even know about people like Phyllis Gillard, and that was because, you know, people that – sort of one of my mentors were like, why don't you look into them? Because maybe – you know, but I never felt like I needed to look into women for a model.

[00:32:14] Like, this whole thing where it's like, I've got to see someone who looks like me. It was just like – that's a nice kind of inspiration, but what are we doing? Am I trying to look like this person, or am I trying to be funny? And then it should really be about the substance and not about, you know, surface similarities or differences. No, no, no. I certainly don't disagree at all. I'm just, you know, curious as to who you thought was funny. I mean, what about male comics?

[00:32:43] I mean, who – what's your poison there? Yeah. I mean, I definitely thought, like I said, Bill Burr and – what's his name? Norm MacDonald. Yeah, that's a good one. You know, Patricio Neal was a black comic who was extremely funny. He was just very based in the truth. And he did a lot of jokes just really kind of addressing things even within the black community that they did that was stupid.

[00:33:10] And that's like makes me respect you, you know, where you're like, hey, look, my group is stupid too. It's like, okay, good. Then I'm going to respect you because I know you're going to be honest, you know. So I liked a lot of those. Those were really kind of my favorites. I'm forgetting the guy's name. Oh, Louis Black was funny to me. I know he's a Jew. This is a whore, but he'd scream on stage. And I just thought it was so funny the way he would lose it. Rodney Dangerfield would do that too.

[00:33:37] I mean, Jewish also, I can't remember his real name, but, you know, Jews could be funny. I mean, they can be Jewish and they can be funny. I mean, we can say that they're funny. Hey, Liz, what we're going to do, let's skip this last break. I've got about a thousand questions that have come in for Leonardo, and we've got like 20 minutes. So there's just no way. But we'll really try to pick up the pace here now. But I would just say one more thing about Jewish and female comedians. I was, as I mentioned before, born in 1980.

[00:34:05] So when you were born in 80, you didn't have, you know, everything on the Internet that you could watch on demand. You didn't have even at that point satellite TV. You watched what was on the major channels. And I remember laughing my ass off as like an eight-year-old boy watching Married with Children. I can't even imagine how funny it would be now that I could understand the content. But, you know, stuff like that was funny. But another show that I watched, and I don't mind telling you this, was Roseanne. And I know that you've sat down one-on-one with Roseanne Barr, who's also, you know, female and Jewish. What did you think about Roseanne?

[00:34:36] Well, I mean, I thought she was funny. She's funny. I mean, Jewish women are funny, you know. And that might be because there's a little bit more of the masculine presence. I mean, Jewish men are like women. So I wonder if the women are fulfilling the masculine role, right? Because they are kind of matriarchical. And so they're funny. Well, they are. I mean, again, Joan Rivers, Roseanne. I watched Roseanne. She was funny then. I mean, she's funny now.

[00:35:05] I mean, she's terrible on the issue of Israel. I mean, if you get her on the Jewish issue, she just, you know, goes off kilter. Well, that's where, like, somebody's emotions are clouding their judgment, you know. But on the other stuff, she's pretty good. I mean, what she got fired for was pretty good. And, I mean, that whole thing was just, you know, ridiculous. I was on her side in that. But she's never been fired for referring to that, you know, Obama flunky as a monkey. But anyway. All right. So we're going to do rapid fire now.

[00:35:32] And we're going to try to work these in in a minute, two minutes. We'll just get to as many as we can. But this is a great question. All of that having been established now, how did you discover your comic lane of politically incorrect humor? It was just the stuff that I most wanted to talk about and I was most afraid of talking about. So, you know, when I started, I got into comedy kind of sideways and it was through making fun of things that I thought were ridiculous that everybody was just abiding by.

[00:36:02] And one of the earlier times where I kind of crossed that threshold was 2019, you know, making trans jokes. And I was afraid to do them because it was like New York City peak, like trans mania. And people want to kill you if you're daring to point. And I, so that was how, that was how. I just went towards the things that really pissed me off and I was afraid to talk about. But they were the things I most wanted to talk about.

[00:36:31] Well, you used to do that. I mean, you know, the Simpsons, again, you know, showing my age. But, you know, I guess the Simpsons is still on the air. But in the early days, I think they gave shit takes on everybody, every culture, every race. It was funny. I mean, we can laugh at ourselves. But what you can't do is laugh at other people or at the expense of other people, at least not now. We'll get to that in a moment. But the world of stand-up comedy and comedy clubs has always been notoriously Jewish, you know, from the comedians themselves, the agents, the audience. Well, they didn't start it.

[00:37:00] Just so you know, they didn't start it. Just like everything else, it's like a white man starts it and then they get in and, like, overtake it. You know, that's what happens. Well, certainly. But, I mean, right. You came on the scene. I mean, that was the establishment there. They were the establishment there. But so, you know, how did you ever get any work to even begin with, you know, breaking through even? Well, you know, the Jewish jokes, I didn't really have a lot in the beginning.

[00:37:29] Because, again, it was like, uh-oh, if I talk, I knew the things that were like third rail stuff. And I just, it took me time to build up confidence to start talking about those things. So, you know, my first maybe Jewish joke was like, do you think 9-11 was an inside job or do you think it was a Jew? You know? And I would do that at, like, open mics or throwaway shows where I knew I wasn't going to lose too much by doing it.

[00:37:57] And it was a safe enough joke that nobody really knew where I stood on it. But it's when I started saying, believe it or not, it's really when I started saying the more racial stuff that I was getting in trouble. And then the Jewish stuff was just like the icing on the cake for them. Well, so this is one that's come in from the audience. I'll read this one. Abbott and Costello started in Burlesque doing very raunchy material. They were told that if they cleaned up their act, they would be stars.

[00:38:26] Have you been approached by agents or producers who told you that if you would just tone it down, they could get you more work, maybe even an HBO special? Not an HBO special, but I was definitely, you know, sent a person. I was sent a person who was going to try and maneuver things in a certain way, and I just ended contacting them because I'm not interested.

[00:38:56] Well, there you go. And now you're still doing – so you've been at this for seven years, as you said. Yeah. And you're still doing shows, but it's a little bit different method. I mean, I've been to your website, and I would encourage everybody to go there, and you have quite a few dates listed throughout the rest of the summer and into the fall. But it's an interesting booking method. So how do you go about selling tickets because you have been – you've taken this heat,

[00:39:26] cancellations, blacklisting, the whole playbook. Yeah. Well, I'm not allowed – I'm really – I can't play any comedy clubs. I can't play any major comedy clubs. And so I just don't. I just find – I find, like, event spaces and just rent them out and hold the shows there. And then I don't tell anybody where it is until the day of. And if you bought a ticket, you get the location. And if you didn't, you don't.

[00:39:53] And these are places that don't really have anyone to call because they're not – like, they're a business that's not – they're not going to have anybody there on Saturday night when I'm doing the show. So by the time the location goes out, it's too late for you to call anybody to cancel it because it's not like a known venue or there's nobody really to call, right? These are, like, off-the-beaten-path venues that nobody would even think a comedy show is happening here. And sometimes, you know, it's a fucking mess. Well, sorry about that swearing. It's a mess because –

[00:40:22] That's okay. That's okay. You know, it's not set up for comedy. So I have to, like, you know, rig the lighting and get the sound. And it's not perfect. And, you know, sometimes it's really difficult. And I'm like, oh, I understand why these other quote-unquote comedians don't do this because, like, they would just never do the work. Like, I've had to set up my own chairs, like, set up, you know, 500 chairs before a show by myself and then break it all down and set up the sound.

[00:40:53] I'm like, this is, like, something that I know these people don't want to do. But I'm like, it's more important to me to be able to say the things I want to say and tell the truth than be in a fancy club where everything gets done for me. All right. I actually – I told Liz not to take the break, but now I want to take the break only because I want to talk to Leonardo off the air just for a minute in queue. And we're going to come back with more of your questions, I promise you. I mean, the light – the wheels are spinning here. So we're going to take a two-minute break. We'll be right back with you. Stay tuned.

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[00:43:27] All right, so we were just talking a little bit about how she goes about planning these events, these shows, without the benefit of being in the clear. You know, without the benefit of being able to book a venue and publicly promote it, as all acts and touring bands do, you can't do that when you're undercover

[00:43:50] and under threat of harassment and cancel culture and has nothing to do with the fan base that she has that packs the houses when they are allowed and they share clips like wildfire. And again, you know, her presence on social media speaks for itself, the number of followers. And she's on tour right now. So, I mean, we have a little bit of experience with that, you know, planning these things undercover. We do it about once a year, but we're not perpetually on tour.

[00:44:20] So it is unfortunate, but you do persevere. And you've got a big show. You've got a sold-out show coming up a week from now in Tampa. It dates throughout the rest of the year as well. What are people who are going to be attending shows like this, what are they going to see when they're with you? So it's about, you know, I'll have obviously an opening act and then it's me going up there for about 45 minutes to an hour.

[00:44:47] And I do a whole routine, you know. I've got jokes about pretty much anything that you can think of. I've got jokes about women. I've got jokes about Indians. I've got jokes about blacks. I've got jokes about Asians. It's everything that they tell us we can't talk about. Jokes about the trans. Obviously, there's jokes about the Jews. There's every group. I'm already laughing. Just hearing you say that is making me laugh.

[00:45:17] Nobody leaves the show. The nice thing, the feedback I've gotten from people who've been there is, yeah, you're doing all these jokes and these things that you're not supposed to say. But none of it is, like, hateful, which, by the way, I'm totally okay with people hating things and groups. I'm like, you're right. I don't believe this whole BS. Like, we can't hate. That's like tyranny. The right to hate is a fundamental right to humanity.

[00:45:45] But, you know, comedy travels on light feet. And so if it's coming off, like, with this vitriol, it's just not going to be funny. And also, I don't really like that. That's not my thing. Like, I do want to laugh at things that are ridiculous, even if I don't like a lot of the groups and the things that they're stereotyped for. You know, sometimes I have members of those groups in the show. And I don't want them to feel like, oh, I just got beat down on.

[00:46:13] I want them to be able to laugh and go, yeah, you know what? We do do that, and it is pretty stupid. Like, let's stop. You know what? Yeah. I'm Indian and we scam. Like, let's stop scamming. And then people won't say Indian scam, you know. Well, nobody else is covering that content, I can assure you, in that particular field.

[00:46:38] Well, it was late last year, I think, when Jared Taylor, I first heard your name mentioned to me by Jared Taylor, and then earlier this year, Greg Johnson. And then I reached out to you and so thankful to have you here tonight and going forward. But I would ask you this. How did you gravitate to this, let's just put it, unique slice of the political spectrum?

[00:47:07] You mentioned the third rail earlier. You don't just touch it, you ride it. So how did you land here with this particular group of folks? It was really in pursuit of the truth. It's not like I set out to come over here and be like, I'm going to be on the far right. My ideology is going to be so far right. There's no political party that represents what I believe in. And I would even say it's like far right.

[00:47:37] That's just like the categorization of, you know, the elites, the way they categorize all beliefs for us. It's so ridiculous. It's like everything I believe is what humanity, like, you know, European humanity has believed for thousands of years up until like 100 years ago. Everything I believe. And I said Europeans, but like, it's not just Europeans, right?

[00:48:06] Asians believe this. Africans had their own, you know, we prefer our own tribe and who's that for? We don't know who that is, right? So literally every human civilization who's been able to ponder and think about morality and have higher thoughts has been bleak. So I don't accept this categorization that somehow I'm an extremist. It's like, no, you're the extremist. And I'm just pointing out that you're ridiculous.

[00:48:36] And you perceive that as a threat because me doing that is a threat since telling the truth is actually what's going to destroy you. Well, but, you know, at the same time. I don't know if I even like the term politically incorrect, but you don't come at this from a perspective of, well, I'm all for free speech or. Well, if, you know, blacks can celebrate who they are, you know, maybe we can, too.

[00:49:05] You're so far beyond that. I mean, you're at an advanced level of understanding on these questions. And if anybody's followed your social media presence, they know it. How did you get to this station that you're at with with regards to what, you know, what you're willing to talk about? I mean, all up to and including Jewish power and influence.

[00:49:30] I mean, you're really on it, you know, like the AP course of this whole thing and the people that you associate with and collaborate with are on that level, too. So how did that? Yeah, you know, it's you're bringing up a good point because what it feels like is being submerged underneath layers and layers of earth like dirt.

[00:49:56] When you're when you're in the other side, when you're doing whatever the mainstream wants, whether you are left or right, you're submerged under layers of earth. And you think that you're seeing the sun and then you realize, like, wait, I can dig up. And then you keep digging up and you keep digging up. And then all of a sudden you get to the surface and you go, oh, that was all bullshit. And there's like no going back. And so the question is, like, how do you get there?

[00:50:22] And there was a bunch of different things that did it, like mean this is I don't know if it sounds crazy, but people posting mean there's ways that means convey a truth so deeply to to the primal parts of us that know the truth. Like, you know, Plato said that that learning wasn't about like learning new things. It was about remembering what we already knew.

[00:50:47] And I do believe that we are imprinted with the knowledge of truth because otherwise, like, how are we able to recognize it when we hit it? Right. Like when somebody's lying to us, we get a sense like, I don't think this person telling you the truth. But when somebody tells us the truth, usually we're like, yeah, I can really tell. Right.

[00:51:17] Remembering something that I had known. And it was just instant. It was an instant recognition. No, this is true. No, this is actually true. And it was through the work of people like Jared Taylor and Kevin McDonald and a lot of anonymous people and reading, you know, digging. Like I see a post that was interesting. And then I started digging through the comments like, OK, who's got the source material for this? Where can I find this?

[00:51:44] And studying history, studying the true history of the Bolshevik Revolution and all the communist revolutions around the world and really learning what was going on there. You know, people like Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky who were hinting at these things. Well, you know, Solzhenitsyn in the second book wasn't hinting. But a lot of it is history and there are people telling the truth out there.

[00:52:12] And so it's like if you have the desire, I don't know, you know, what God said was true. Like you can speak the truth. You're going to find it. That's kind of a miracle of this universe that we live in. Like it doesn't have to be that way. But it is. And to me, like that's proof that it's God's universe, that he's designed it in a way that like you'll find the truth if you're looking for it. And all this is going to turn around.

[00:52:39] And when it does, it'll be as a result of those steadfast few. You mentioned some of them are, you know, long term and lifelong friends in some cases. Jared, I've known for my entire adult life. You spoke at Ameren last year. I mean, you have really gone all the way in this thing. I mean, you're so well plugged in now. I mean, you're weighing in online. And by the way, we mentioned Leonardo is funny dot com. Her Twitter handle, and I will still call it that at Leonardo is funny.

[00:53:09] Weighing in on even things as esoteric as the Nick Fuentes and Dan Bilzerian tête-à-tête. And so she knows all the players and she weighs in on that aside from her professional career. But when this thing turns and it will. And I'll just say, just so everybody's listening. Yeah, I'm definitely team Bilzerian all the way. Dan, I've met Dan one time in person and had a few conversations.

[00:53:38] And there's always somebody else there. So people always try to say stupid things. And the man is telling the truth. People can fault him for his previous life. And they think maybe he's too cozied up to the Muslims or whatever. I don't agree with everything. But the man is telling the truth. And he's honest. And Nick is the complete opposite of that. There's momentum on our side.

[00:54:03] And when we win, not if, but when, it'll be as the result of influencers like our guest right now that have been a big part of it. Leonardo, it has been so great to have you tonight, get to know you better over the course of this hour. Look forward to more collaborations to come. Leonardoisfunny.com. Thanks for having me. You got it. Well, we appreciate it. And we will talk to you again and see you soon. And stay tuned for more. And that goes for everybody else out there.

[00:54:32] We'll be back with you a week from tonight for Sasha Ross Mueller in Germany live tonight. And Nick Scannon live from London tonight. Mark Weber in the second hour. Leonardo tonight. I'm James Edwards. Good night for our entire staff and crew. God bless you. We'll talk to you next week.