Hey guys, welcome back to the Blair White Project. Today we have a very special guest, Lauren Southern. I think this is the first thing we've done on camera together in like six years.

Yeah, I think we were probably on some like major live streams way back in the day, 2016 together. And that's about it. We've never actually done a video just us.

Well, you had a show that I remember. It was like one of the first shows I was ever on back in the day.

What's funny? Standoff. Don't talk to me about. Oh, yeah. Standoff. Is that a source subject?

It was just the worst green screen ever. I don't know what was going on. We had the technology for it, but we hadn't set it up. It was a bit cringe, but yeah, wow, throwback.

Yeah. But I mean, that kind of goes to like the fact that, first of all, people don't know, your YouTuber, political commentator, very known on the right wing sphere. And it's funny because we both started around like, I came in like right after Gamer Gai. I feel like you came in like right before. Yeah. Yeah, it would have been before. It was like 2015. So back then the budget for all this was a little smaller. And now people kind of got to figure out the green screen. It's so saturated now. Like I wasn't the first, but I was definitely one of the first people on YouTube that would go to like protests and interview left wingers and have them attack me and stuff. And that was like my thing. Now there's like a thousand people at all these protests doing Q&As, getting slurpees thrown at them. It's definitely that era in 2015, 2016. Whenever you made like a single

video saying, hey, why I'm not a feminist or this is my critique of woke stuff, it would go viral

because there was so, so few people doing it at that time. And yeah, you were, you were one of those

early voices for sure. Yeah. Don't you miss when like the main discourse was feminism? When the main discourse was

literally just like, hey, we should maybe, you know, innocent until proven guilty. Like you think we're

going a little far here. Maybe we shouldn't hate people for being white. And now it's like,

should we kill people for being white?

Overton windows shifted just a tad.

Right. It's crazy how like back then the things that, you know, I would get so passionate about online, like the nuances between A feminism and anti-feminism and like all the issues of it's like now look what's happened.

It's like we had COVID, we had riots, we had Trump. We had Biden. Like, holy shit.

Something happened in 2016. I feel like we entered another dimension. We went off in a weird portal, like split off from our universe. And everything just went down a really dark timeline.

Yeah. Really dark timeline. I mean, you actually, it's so funny, because we met in person, like relatively recently, it was like a month or two ago. And that was the first time we

ever met in person. And you asked me, one of the first things you asked me was like,

how are you so sane because of the industry we're in and like, you know, usually lends itself to people

kind of going through some things. So I want to ask you the same question because I got the

same impression of you, throwing back at you. How have you stayed sane in this industry?

I haven't. It's all a facade. But I took time away. That definitely helped. The fact that I actually have an

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