Native Tribe Whose Land Billie Eilish's Mansion Sits on SPEAKS OUT After Her Absurd Grammys Speech

What this episode is about

The Tongva tribe, the indigenous people of the greater Los Angeles basin, has responded to Billie Eilish's Grammys speech in which she highlighted the concept of "stolen land." They expressed appreciation for her comments but emphasized that she has not reached out to them regarding her mansion, which sits on their ancestral land, and called for greater recognition of their territory in discussions about land rights.

Key takeaways

• Billy Isish's mansion plays host to the irony of 'no one is illegal on stolen land' – yet another Hollywood paradox.
• The Tongva tribe’s statement highlights celebrity activism’s shadow: visibility without accountability does little to reclaim lost heritage.
• Land disputes reveal a paradox in American history: every acquisition is steeped in a legacy of displacement and irony.
• If 'no illegal persons exist', do we erase borders, citizenship, and government too? A thought-provoking slippery slope!
• In a world of performative activism, will celebrities ever take tangible steps beyond mere words? The audience's vacant faces say it all.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Megyn Kelly (Guest) · 8 min speaking
• Rich (Host) · 3 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Billy Isish, Tongva tribe
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Billy Isish
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Justin Bieber, Jack Antinoff
4. 9:00 – 11:13: Birch Gold Group

Notable quotes from "Native Tribe Whose Land Billie Eilish's Mansion Sits on SPEAKS OUT After Her Absurd Grammys Speech"

• So yesterday we discussed some of the antics at the absurd Grammys on Sunday night. And one of the people we discussed was singer Billy Isish for saying the following. Watch.

  about Billy Isish · at 0:00

• Matters a lot. It matters to the Tongva tribe, which is actually technically, under her logic, the owner of the land on which her 14 million house sits. It's worth much more…

  about Tongva tribe · at 0:56

• Yes. Okay. Now, speaking of someone who hasn't thought it through couple years ago, this guy was in the news for getting married and Taylor Swift went to his wedding. He's…

  about Jack Antinoff · at 6:00

• So dumb. And honestly, Justin Bieber, I mentioned him, he was out there with one of those pins yesterday. Truly, honestly, one of the dumbest people in public life. He sings well. I wouldn't take that away from him. But for him.

  about Justin Bieber · at 8:28

• Ending list of reasons smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. with Birch Gold Group. Gold can thrive during uncertainty, which is why it's a…

  about Birch Gold Group · at 10:15

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Billy Isish — Person · Referenced public figure (criticized) · 4 mentions · first at 0:05
  Discussed for a political statement at the Grammys; hosts critique the logic and implications of her remarks and contrast them with her personal wealth/property situation.
• Jack Antinoff — Person · Referenced public figure (criticized) · 1 mention · first at 6:06
  Used as an example of a celebrity wearing an 'ice out' pin at the Grammys but appearing unable to articulate what it represents when questioned.
• Justin Bieber — Person · Referenced public figure (criticized) · 2 mentions · first at 8:28
  Mentioned as another celebrity seen wearing the same pin; hosts use him to argue celebrities are uninformed yet try to lecture the public on immigration/politics.

Places & events

• Tongva tribe — Place · Referenced group · 2 mentions · first at 0:56
  Indigenous people of the greater Los Angeles basin, mentioned in the context of land ownership and Billy Isish's mansion.

Sponsors

• Birch Gold Group — Company · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 10:19
  Company mentioned in an advertisement segment promoting gold investment as a hedge against economic uncertainty.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 So yesterday we discussed some of the antics at the absurd Grammys on Sunday night. And one of the people we discussed was singer Billy Isish for saying the following. Watch.

0:13 No one is illegal on stolen land. I love that. And yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. And I just I feel really hopeful in this room and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our our voices really do matter and the people matter and um to say sorry in that blacked out part she said f ICE. Um, her voice does matter, guys. It matters a lot. It matters to the Tongva tribe, uh, which is actually technically, under her logic, the owner of the land on which her 14 million house sits. It's worth much more than that. It was bought for that a few years ago. And here is what has happened since Sunday night. Her lavish mansion, located on land that belongs to the Tongva tribe, the indigenous people of the greater Los Angeles basin. Um they're upset about this land. It's theirs ancest ancestral land. They have issued the following statement. We

1:28 appreciate the opportunity to provide clarity regarding the recent comments made by Billy Isish as the first people of the greater Los Angeles basin. We do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land, they said, adding she has not reached out to the tribe herself. ish has not contacted our tribe directly regard regarding her property. We do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country. Additionally, the tribe said they've contacted is team quote to express our appreciation for her comments. It is our hope that in future discussions the tribe can be explicitly referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater LA basin remains Gabriel Leno Tongva territory. And so the real question here is when is she going to return her mansion to the Tongva? Rich, I mean 3 2 1, no time like the present. There's no such thing as an illegal on stolen land.

2:28 I'm sure it'd be a great community center for for the tribe and she can go someplace else that that she thinks was rightfully secured. Now, so many levels of absurdity to this one. Stealing land is what human beings did almost throughout the entirety of our history, very much including Native Americans, right? And this is in some ways it speaks well of us as a western society that you have people thinking this in these terms. We stole it. that that was bad because no one no Comanche was thinking oh we really shouldn't have done that to the Apaches when we pushed them out. No Irakcoy after they bought a bunch of rifles from the Dutch and the English were thinking no we shouldn't do this to the Moheakans right they just took the land so if you kind of peel the onion every tribe that you know Ben and Jerry say the Lakotas the Black Hills back or whatever it is they stole it from someone else they moved in there

3:18 and displaced other people. So this is how it works. And then it was through American leadership that you get a postw World War II situation where we take national sovereignty seriously. We take borders seriously. And and this just goes to how radical some of this the contentions are on im immigration. It's not just that borders don't have any legitimacy in terms of excluding people. We have no right to be here ourselves. It's it's a it's a criticism of the United States of America at its foundations. Charlie Billy Isish will never give back her mansion to the Tongva. Nor will any of these Hollywood celebrities who try to lecture us or make us do a land acknowledgement before we can hear them perform ever do such a gesture.

4:05 As stupid as her comments were, and they were made all the more so by the fact that for some reason she seemed to be wearing an academic gown of the sort you would expect the commencement speaker to wear. But the the thing that I

4:18 made you can identify it as anything. I thought it looked like a domino. It was odd, wasn't it? But she clearly had just heard that sentence somewhere or seen it on a fortune cookie or something and decided to say it. But I thought the more disturbing part was when the camera panned to the audience. The expressions on their faces were so vacant.

4:38 There was this sort of yes look in their eyes that honestly kind of worried me. It was weird. And I think as a result uh we ought perhaps not to take them too seriously because they're not going to do anything about it. As Rich says though, the core idea there is, if taken to its logical conclusion, exclusive of the sovereignty and authority of the United States government and all of the 50 states as well. So while Billy isish might not worry me, those sentiments when expressed from within the institutional left, as they often are, and within academia do because if there is no such thing as an illegal person, then there's no such thing as a citizen. And if there's no such thing as a citizen, then there's no such thing as a government because we live in a representative government and a constitutional republic. So she hasn't thought it through. It's very silly. But it is actually quite destructive of everything

5:39 else that we believe in. And then if you look at the behavior in Minnesota, you can sort of see how one leads to the other because if

5:47 Oh yeah. Right. Because if there is no such thing as an illegal person, well then all immigration laws are illegitimate and there's nothing wrong with nullifying federal law and then you kind of get rid of everything we've built up. Yes. Okay. Now, speaking of someone who hasn't thought it through uh couple years ago, this guy was in the news for getting married and Taylor Swift went to his wedding. He's written a bunch of songs for her. Apparently, he's a prolific songwriter and he's very well known in the music industry and his name is Jack Antinoff and um he was there at the Grammys and he did have on one of those little ice out pins and unfortunately for Jack, he got asked about it. And here's how that went.

6:33 Watch close. Can you talk to me a little bit about the pin that you're wearing tonight?

6:37 I mean, why is that important? This is terrible, you know? I mean, it's time to is is just for every reason you could imagine, I would think, but um

6:51 yeah, I'm a bit speechless trying to even talk about it. Yeah, absolutely. It's like hard to talk about anything else at this point. Um

6:59 but is it we can do both and and find a way to uh I don't know. It's just a really good time for uh people to come together and and figure out how to move through this because it's only going to be small communities that can really help.

7:17 Rich, he has no idea why he is a Greenland related protest. Maybe the ice ice in Greenland.

7:26 This is why that was amazing. This is why I've written about this. This is why so many of those people when they complain use the phrase, you know, with with everything that's going on because they don't know what's going on. So, they've just heard there's something bad and they say it's very hard to talk about anything else with everything that's going on. Then you ask what's going on and they say, you know, everything.

7:48 And then the moronic reporter, as opposed to realizing, oh my god, this is actually a great moment. I could actually really expose him. She's like, oh, you know, like who who does have the words, you know,

7:58 neither of them know what it is probably. No. And of course for the listening audience, he's wearing the ice out pin, but normally you put that on your lapel. He has it way down on his like his hip pocket. It's almost like he he didn't even want to wear it, but they were handing him out when you walked in. He's like, "Okay, I guess I have to put this thing on and then had the misfortune of being asked about it."

8:23 It's like a skit from Arrested Development or something. So dumb. And honestly, Justin Bieber, I mentioned him, he was out there with one of those pins yesterday. Truly, I mean, honestly, one of the dumbest people in public life. He sings well. I I wouldn't take that away from him. But for for him who was like a week ago in his tidy whies doing a concert to try to lecture us. We pulled a couple of pictures of Justin Bieber cuz like when you see Justin Bieber walking around in these paparazzi shots where like literally the only part of him you can really see is just the little circle of his face because he's covered in his sweatshirt from head to toe or he's wearing his bizarre I don't know what like Justin Bieber is kind of like a Britney Spears Spears figure to me. He's like kind of gone. He became too big a star, too rich at too early an age and now I don't I mean he's like probably about six months

9:12 away from a conservatorship from the look of it who now wants to lecture us on immigration policy. Rich, should we ask him perhaps about temporary protected status and the latest decision which is based on alleged racial animist?

9:25 Yeah, it's a little bit like the the French French Revolution. and you had to wear a cockade to show you're with the revolutionaries and a lot of people just did it because they're scared or because everyone else was was doing it or they're forced to do it. I think it at at one point the king was was wearing it because you know he's afraid of getting executed. But you know there's an elite that decides what the cause is and and these are all lemmings. They they of course pride themselves in their great independence of mind and courage but just nothing of the sort. They just do what everyone else thinks they're they do what they're supposed to do and and play act. And a lot of them are, you know, actors and they they sing the words put in front of them. And this is just a version of that.

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Who speaks in "Native Tribe Whose Land Billie Eilish's Mansion Sits on SPEAKS OUT After Her Absurd Grammys Speech"?

Megyn Kelly (Guest), Rich (Host).

What is "Native Tribe Whose Land Billie Eilish's Mansion Sits on SPEAKS OUT After Her Absurd Grammys Speech" about?

The Tongva tribe, the indigenous people of the greater Los Angeles basin, has responded to Billie Eilish's Grammys speech in which she highlighted the concept of "stolen land." They expressed appreciation for her comments but emphasized that she has not reached out to them regarding her mansion, which sits on their ancestral land, and called for greater recognition of their territory in…

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5 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Billy Isish, Tongva tribe, Jack Antinoff, Justin Bieber. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Native Tribe Whose Land Billie Eilish's Mansion Sits on SPEAKS OUT After Her Absurd Grammys Speech"?

The episode runs 11 min; the transcript is about 2,050 words in 23 timestamped sections.

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