Candace Owens — Where Did Candace Owens Get Her Start?

Where did you get all your, where did you I mean, it's obviously questions play out 1000s of times and whatnot. a boring one. Where'd you get where'd you get your start? My start in what? Journalism or whatever your journalism. What would you what would you classify yourself as? I mean, I'm very, I do a lot of stuff. So it's kind of hard because, I mean, I write, obviously, I'm an author and I create content, but I also, you know, do a lot of interviews.

I do a lot of news hits. So it's a lot. And I mean, I best the best place that I got my, the, like the answer to that is on YouTube is kind of, if you're talking about just like my public profile, I started making YouTube videos in 2017. Um, and I was doing skits, actually. I was just doing like skits kind of mocking. I feel like that's kind of when politics got hysterical. Like, you know what I mean? Like it, prior to, when I was in college, Republicans and Democrats were just like friends.

He was totally fine to like not talk about politics. And then it was suddenly not fine and people got very hysterical, especially after like the Trump, when, and I started making skits, kind of mocking that. And I think it was my 3rd or 4th video that went trending worldwide. got like 26000000 views. Who were some of the, who were some of the influential people that came, came at you for your views and your, I mean, LeBron came at you, didn't he Cardi B came at you?

LeBron never came after me. I actually usually go after LeBron because I think it's important for him with the platform that he has. And I think that, to be clear, LeBron is a well-meaning person. I don't think LeBron means to do bad. I just don't think he's that smart. I really do. I think LeBron James is low IQ. Why do you say that though? Because I've heard him speak about issues and he just is he's so wrong, but I think he carries with him an arrogance, which isn't hard when you're being called a king, right?

And he is an incredible talent. There's no doubt about that. He's an incredible talent, talent. It's very hard to level yourself and to say, okay, I can be really talented, but also not be educated about something, right? And if you are not educated about something, you shouldn't speak on it. I try to do very good about that. If I don't know something. I, I usually talk 95% of the podcast, by the way, Candace, I talk 95% of every podcast.

I am fucking, this is all you. This is all you can. But would you rather LeBron? a good way to be. And I've done that before when people are talking about something. I say, actually, I don't know anything about this, and I'm just gonna listen. And I think for LeBron... Would you rather be quiet, though? I would rather, yeah, I would rather him be quiet than tell his people that follow him a lie. Yeah, 100%. better to be quiet than to be alive.

She doesn't think it's a lie, right? But that's what I'm saying. So I think for him, he needs to do the work of actually becoming educated about these issues and it's not hard. It really isn't hard to actually look up data and to look up the facts. I mean, with a man with his kind of money, he doesn't even really have to look up that. In fact, someone could send him a short list of the bullet points. say, hey, here's what's actually going on in American society.

But, um, Yeah, I think so LeBron James frustrates me because he has such a big platform and he has the power to do so much good. I always say he's just, he's not a Kobe. I don't know. I know how to explain that. I absolutely loved Kobe and I think Kobe was extremely educated and he just wasn't someone that the media could play. But Kobe didn't voice his opinion as much as LeBron. might be a reason for that. What about what about what about the Cardi B thing?

Cardi B came at you for something? Oh, sorry, is that right? Were you in a Cardi B or how did it work? Cardi B and I have been in several spats. So you don't like Cardi B? Is that funny to you at all? that like you and Cardi V are going on? I know. like in these rap battles. I actually, I have to drop like a mixtape. I think Nikki slaps harder than Cardi. Yeah, that's fax. yeah I think Nikki's great and Nikki's... I love them both.

Yeah. What did Cardi say to you? I don't even remember how it started. I think, I mean, Cardi is, it's incredible how uneducated she is. I mean, we got she just got embarrassed on Twitter. She was just saying stuff about politics and I was just responding. I wasn't being rude. I was just like she literally doesn't even know what country she's in, how the country works. You know, she's hardly, you know, when she types, there's 87 typos and basic words.

And yet, same thing. She's mouthing off and saying things, and she literally doesn't understand, like, I don't even think she understands like Congress has a Senate and House of Representatives. Like, I mean, she has no idea what she's talking about. And the thing about Cardi that's upsetting is that I watched her on love and hip hop. Um, my cousin was super into that show and she was at my house and I started watching it with her.

And before Cardi blew up, you knew she was going to be a star. She was very likable. And she was likable because she sort of, She, she was shameless, like she knew exactly who she was, exactly what she wasn't, and she didn't really care. You know what I mean? It was like, whatever, I'm going to make it. I'm gonna be big. I have bad teeth. And of course, she got her teeth done. And she was very funny and entertaining and enjoyable.

And then something happened when she became bigger that she got bitter. you know, and people started telling her, like, card, you got to care about politics. No, you literally don't, Car. You don't have to care about policy. Did you ever fight her in like a trailer boxing event or anything? Like can of someone versus Cardi B? Oh, would you really? Yo, actually, time out, that would fuck her up. I don't know. I haven't really seen either, but fighting wise, but I think that would be like the main event headline.

They should do Cardi B versus Candace, like, 100%. What about you in AOC, though? Um, what do you mean? boxing? She would never do it. She doesn't even respond to anything that I say because it's hard. like her whole thing is like anytime anybody says anything to her. She like, you want to have sex with me? Yeah, can we talk if you're a racist? Is your goal is your goal to face? Carlson the other night. Like, what kind of response is that?

Do you ever think, though, hold on. she say, though? Huh? What did AOC tweet and you responded to it? It was just ridiculous. And she does this all the time. If anybody critiques her. She just says either her 3 things are like, you're a racist Republican. Can I read it? Or, like, you want to, like, basically, you want to have sex with me. Like you're, you're fetishizing about me. It's like nobody in the political realm should be separate.

So the whole thing was that she always complains about masks and then she went to a state with a non-mask mandate. Yeah, particularly she complains about their policies in Florida and DeSantis, so it's like, all right. Why are you there? Why are you there? Fair critique, right? I mean, totally fair critique. And she just came back with some ridiculous. If Republicans are mad they can't date me. They can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend's feet, you creepy weirdos.

And then she did another tweet where she said, like, it's so obvious that you're obsessed with me because you're sexually frustrated. It was just like, this is not how adults speak. You know what I mean? You're an elected member of Congress. This is just not how adults speak. Respond to the critique. And or don't respond, but don't pretend that people critiquing you is sexual.