Star of the "Jackass" movies and successful podcaster Steve-O said that comedian Bill Maher refused to refrain from smoking marijuana in front of him in order to conduct an interview.During an episode of "Steve-O's Wild Ride!" the podcaster recalled guest Patrick Bet-David's appearance on Maher's "Club Random" podcast‚ which spawned several viral clips about Maher's views on climate change and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).Steve-O‚ whose real name is Stephen Gilchrist Glover‚ told Bet-David that he didn't much care for the way Maher had conducted his interview with the entrepreneur."Your appearance on Bill Maher's show ... I found the way he spoke to you to be rather insulting‚" Glover began.After establishing that he has been sober for nearly 16 years‚ Steve-O explained that he too had plans to appear on Maher's podcast but couldn't come to an agreement with the host."Really there's nothing that I value more than my sobriety. There's nothing more that I protect than my recovery‚ and I found it kind of upsetting when the Bill Maher podcast‚ which I saw you on‚ reached out. They said‚ 'You know his thing is he smokes pot the whole time while he interviews people‚'" Glover recalled. "I said‚ 'Happy to go on there but‚ but could he‚ while I'm on‚ out of respect for my sobriety‚ could he refrain from smoking pot?'" he recited."He said no‚" Bet-David predicted."He said‚ 'No‚ that's a deal breaker‚'" Steve-O confirmed. The stuntman compared Maher's response to that of Mike Tyson or rapper B-Real‚ both of whom have podcasts centered around pot smoking. "All of these prolific potheads‚ I've been on their shows‚ and it wasn't so important to them to blow marijuana smoke in my face‚" Steve-O added. "For Bill Maher‚ it was a dealbreaker." The "Jackass" star also said that from his own experience‚ he could then see how Maher could find even the most "innocuous thing" insulting. Steve-O has been sober for 16 years. He was asked to be on Bill Maher's podcast. Steve-O asked Maher out of respect for his sobriety if he could refrain from smoking pot during the interview and Bill said "No". — (@) "When I sat with him I was like‚ 'I have no idea where this is gonna go‚'" Bet-David remembered about his interview with Maher. The 45-year-old agreed that Maher was insulting him throughout the duration of the podcast‚ which caused him to take a different approach and act as Maher's "therapist.""I felt one insult‚ two insults‚ three‚ four‚ five‚" he cited. The Valuetainment brand owner stated that Maher's show bookers loved him and asked him to come on because they felt Maher needed to be "challenged."Bet-David also claimed that in addition to Maher taking the speaking role for 90% of their conversation‚ the episode garnered the most viewer comments the "Club Random" podcast has ever received.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Perhaps I sounded unhinged to more than a few people when I cautioned that “true social justice requires a woke supercomputer" a few years ago. Today? Don’t say I didn’t warn you: Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is issuing OMB’s first government-wide policy to mitigate risks of artificial intelligence (AI) and harness its benefits – delivering on a core component of the [sic] President Biden’s landmark AI Executive Order. The Order directed sweeping action to strengthen AI safety and security‚ protect Americans’ privacy‚ advance equity and civil rights‚ stand up for consumers and workers‚ promote innovation and competition‚ advance American leadership around the world‚ and more. Hold up. Advance equity? Yes‚ using a new Council of Chief AI Officers‚ which every federal agency must now appoint. Technology and justice are powerful idols‚ and the elite-level clash of their cults spells untold and untrammeled pain for Americans and the American experiment. According to the OMB‚ the new CAOs will “develop a plan to comply with minimum safety standards and to work with chief financial and human resource officers to develop the necessary budgets and workforces to use AI to further each agency's mission and ensure equitable outcomes.” As Ars Technica reports‚ the OMB has laid out in detail exactly what it has in mind: Agencies are encouraged to prioritize AI development and adoption for the public good and where the technology can be helpful in understanding and tackling large societal challenges‚ such as using AI to improve the accessibility of government services‚ reduce food insecurity‚ address the climate crisis‚ improve public health‚ advance equitable outcomes‚ protect democracy and human rights‚ and grow economic competitiveness in a way that benefits people across the United States. Behind the laundry list of social-justice jargon‚ the idea is simple. Having tried all other known forms of government to create a utopian heaven on earth‚ we have found all wanting. Justice is simply too complex for human beings to achieve. Whatever good we can manage is hopelessly incomplete due to our knowledge and capability limits. Only the most intelligent machines can understand in infinitesimal detail precisely what is due to exactly whom at exactly what moment in precisely what measure. In a world shot through with endless microaggressions and microinequities‚ only a national supercomputer can rightly weigh our worth in the balance and place us correctly in our proper rank on the great ladder of social credit – updating our status not by the election year‚ by the day‚ or even by the hour‚ but instant by instant‚ a new Last Judgment every femtosecond. Artificial intelligence must unite every federal agency into a new regime‚ a supercomputational one catechized into the woke religion‚ overseen by a priestly caste of superofficials. So much for democracy! So much for human rights! And so much for public health while we’re at it. These hallowed terms of our civil religion have been so thoroughly debased by our digitizing‚ diversifying overlords that they’ll now knock on your door if you say online that they and their slogans are like emperors without clothes. A few more steps down this road‚ and they’ll do it if you say it offline‚ too. Of course‚ there are common-sense‚ practical justifications for getting the government up to speed with our onrushing technologies. Officials asleep at the wheel will wake up to digitally powered regime change of a different type‚ where ambitious nerds seeking revenge on federal incompetence and DEI discrimination will cut out what they see as the middleman of justice worship and erect a new form of rule on the foundation of straight-ahead tech worship. This one-feed-to-rule-them-all model spells the end of America just as definitively as the single-feed social justice/social credit system of the woke supercomputer’s unelected theocrats. The era of the computer overlords Technology and justice are powerful idols‚ and the elite-level clash of their cults spells untold and untrammeled pain for Americans and the American experiment. Understandably‚ hedonists and trads alike hope only to nope out from under the creepy sensation of this impending battle royale overshadowing ever more of our lives. But fleeing en masse for the Shire or Burning Man‚ like calling in the airstrikes on the Big Tech data centers‚ abandons the moderate path that alone will give Americans the grace to gradually process our unfolding reality and adjust to it with wisdom instead of collectively collapsing into a hostile and alien timeline. We do need competent technologists and public officials‚ and we do need them cooperative‚ with each other‚ with American citizens‚ and with the dearly won constitutional form of government we rightly cherish‚ no matter how battered and diminished it has become. However‚ we won’t get them unless leading figures in tech and governance rise to recognize that a sweeping revolution is not the cure for what ails us. Americans know how fragile our young country is. Our imaginations and artworks are filled with recurring dreams and nightmares of fracture‚ faction‚ chaos‚ and collapse. Libertarianism‚ conservatism‚ and even liberalism are so hard to maintain because of the anarchism that still pulses just below the surface of so much of American life and the accompanying fear that only some form of iron rule can save us from a headlong descent into barbarism the minute things go south. Ultimately‚ the change of heart we need at the leading edge of tech and the foundations of our government must come from a place more profound and trustworthy than imagination or calculation. It must come from a discernment born of painful spiritual experience. A council of tech-savvy elders thus tested and tempered would be a boon not only to tech or to government but to the people‚ to the citizenry‚ whom ostensibly all this fuss is about. But we’re not going to get it from today’s OMB‚ and we’re not going to get it from the “Biden” administration. If you’re a top technologist or a presumptive second-term Trump official‚ the golden road is wide open‚ and there is no number you have to take to get in line to lead. To take advantage‚ and save your country‚ you’ll need both more and less than ambition‚ competence‚ and intelligence. Bring humility‚ patience‚ and an ear for what’s heard only in silence‚ and you just might be remembered forever.

Easter is a time that confronts Christians with the more‚ shall we say‚ outlandish aspects of our faith. Yes‚ we really do believe that a man came back from the dead. Even those not actively hostile to Christianity find this off-putting and tend to encourage a view of the resurrection that reduces it to some kind of metaphor for spiritual rebirth. No‚ we answer. It really happened. And accepting that it did completely changes the nature of reality. The search for truth — indeed‚ the notion that such a thing even exists — is highly underrated these days. But grasping it allows you to do great things.To acknowledge the malevolent influence of unseen principals and powers is to understand that‚ from our earthly perspective‚ some victories can look like defeat. As a Catholic priest and Franciscan friar‚ Maximilian Kolbe was well aware of the eternal stakes of our existence. “There are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil‚ sin and love‚” he once wrote. "And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?” But when the Nazis occupied Kolbe's native Poland in 1939‚ he did what he could to resist in the here and now. Refusing the status offered to him as an ethnic German‚ Kolbe helped to hide thousands of Jewish refugees in his friary. These efforts eventually caught up with him‚ and in 1941‚ he was sent to Auschwitz. There‚ he managed to use the time left to him to engage in spiritual combat of sorts.When ten prisoners were selected for execution by starvation in retaliation for an escape attempt‚ Kolbe volunteered to take one of their places. He led the other prisoners in prayer and hymns as they faced slow and agonizing death. When only Kolbe and a few of his cellmates remained‚ a guard executed them with an injection of carbolic acid. Present at Kolbe’s 1983 canonization was the man whose life he saved.

Disney is no match for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). Last February‚ DeSantis signed House Bill 9B‚ which established the central Florida tourism oversight board as a replacement for Disney’s long-standing Reedy Creek improvement district. This put an end to the tax breaks and power that Disney held in the Sunshine State. While Disney tried to sue DeSantis‚ the company just agreed to drop the lawsuit. “It turns out when you do things like try to sexually indoctrinate children and confuse them‚ it turns out you’re held accountable in Florida‚” Sara Gonzales says. Blaze TV contributor Matthew Marsden has some wishes of his own for Disney. “I hope they go bankrupt‚” he says‚ adding‚ “I think they’re an evil corporation.” Gonzales agrees‚ calling Disney “just garbage.” “There’s no fixing it‚ because no matter how many people you have at a lower level who are good people or good at their jobs or whatever‚ the executives are making these decisions‚ and it affects the entire company‚” she says. What’s happening to Disney is what happens when ordinary people fight back against the wokeness infiltrating major companies that once seemed too big to fail. “What we need to do is support other things and give them an alternative‚” Marsden says. Adam Johnson agrees‚ noting that what’s happened to many of the child Disney stars is good enough reason to stay away. “Look at how all the Disney kids turned out right‚” Johnson says. “That right there should have been enough information of who these people were at the core of them. Because those kids were around the people who were producing all these things.” “I just can’t wrap my head around a stranger wanting to talk to my child about sex‚” he adds. Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture‚ subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America‚ defend the Constitution‚ and live the American dream.

Right now‚ we Orthodox are still in the midst of Lent. Of the Lenten fast‚ much can be said. At a time this year when so many of us face incessant demands to blast off into the future or return to the distant past‚ Lent demands we inhabit and accept the present. Our present discomforts open on to the reality that the experience of God now requires our suffering now. The pangs of hunger‚ of the loss of the analgesic distraction that food and drink can provide even when hunger is far away – these things are only the initial forms of self-denial and repentance that blossom fully in the heart‚ where we encounter God through suffering in our heart on behalf of the world. Both the political and the spiritual demand humility and discernment. In this experience‚ we come to know our heart is truly the temple of the Lord‚ akin to a church or monastery‚ made for the same purpose‚ to bring us into union with God. This process‚ which can and often does consume an entire life and “lifestyle‚” may be taken up with spiritual athleticism and asceticism that pushes the mind‚ soul‚ and body to the utmost limit. Like athletes training and testing themselves and one another‚ Orthodox are encouraged to push themselves: The limits of holy self-stripping and the surrender of comforts‚ passions‚ pleasures‚ and even the senses can only be found in the greatest love — to lay down one’s life for others as a sacrifice on their behalf. At the same time‚ Orthodox are reminded of the great danger — the great spiritual danger — in pushing oneself too hard‚ too far‚ too fast. Pride‚ as well as a host of other sins born of temptation and delusion‚ is always there beckoning us to take on more than is proper for us given our degree of spiritual strength and development. Little do the demons revel in more than a Christian discovering with horror that he or she has suffered a seemingly irreversible act of self-sabotage. Such moments can tempt even the deeply faithful to abandon all hope and all discipline with it. This lesson applies with great import to Lent itself. Taking on too strict a fast is a recipe for sin‚ delusion‚ confusion‚ failure‚ and despair — often even more so than taking on too lenient a fast. Falling short through weakness or ineptitude is painful enough but never a surprise‚ and the remedy is always clear and always the same: self-condemnation‚ repentance‚ prayer for forgiveness and mercy‚ and a resumption of the spiritual struggle. Falling short through pride makes the climb back through the reliable remedy greatly more challenging‚ more painful‚ and more difficult to trust. It invites the still more grievous harm of the strange vainglory that is judging oneself unworthy of the mercy of God — a judgment that belongs to God alone — or even preemptively rejecting the forgiveness of God‚ an error that‚ at the truly diabolical height of its intensity‚ can be tantamount to the unforgivable sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit. To avoid these nightmarish outcomes‚ there is but one path to take‚ that of humility. Without the discipline of humility‚ there is no possibility of acquiring careful discernment as to one’s level of spiritual strength or weakness. The acquisition of such discernment may be aided or supplemented by reading and contemplating spiritual texts‚ but even the very best of these can never substitute for the development of one’s own spiritual experience. Humility is‚ in this sense‚ not at all an abstract virtue or ideal‚ approached by recalling past examples or imagining future accomplishments but an experience now‚ year by year‚ day by day‚ moment by moment‚ rise upon fall‚ fall upon rise. This is the spiritual battle heightened and clarified by the Lenten fast‚ which should extend beyond food and drink to encompass all the things‚ visible and invisible‚ which we fashion into an earthly den of false and fleeting comfort. This includes politics‚ especially distracting now‚ in what we rightly sense is a moment of crisis for our country and our society. It's tempting to retreat from our present discomfort and seek solace in either the faintly recollected past or in a future beyond imagination. Frantic acceleration — whether "forward" or "back" — into abrupt‚ wholesale transformation seems preferable to remaining in this unbearable tension.But the reordering of earthly affairs is no substitute for the reordering of our hearts. In training our attention on our internal‚ spiritual disarray‚ the Lenten season confronts us with the most urgent source of our pain: the woefully inadequate abode we have prepared for the King of All.Our shame and wounded pride can lead us to spiritual extremes as well. Here‚ as with the penitent in the midst of Lent‚ humble discernment is key‚ allowing us to determine and accept the degree of intensity we are capable of withstanding and using as it is intended‚ toward the healing of body and soul. In short‚ we must pray to God as we are now. We must pray like the Publican‚ that we might be received by Him — back into our own hearts‚ so to speak — like the father received his prodigal son.It is here that we will find the only true salvation: the eternal union with God made possible to us in grace by the God-man Christ.

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