Ep 608 | Should Christians Trust Elon Musk?
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I ve been out of town for the past three days, which means I ve not been able to react to any of the news that has gone on in the past few days. But don t sleep on the interviews that we did this week, because they were really good.
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Okay, guys, I have so much to talk about today because I've been out of town this week and the
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excellent interviews that you heard over the past three days were pre-recorded,
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which means I haven't really been able to react to any of the news that has gone on in the last
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few days. And so, as you can imagine, I have a lot to say. But don't sleep on the interviews that we
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did this week because they were really good. Go back, listen to Mondays. That was Coach Kennedy.
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He's the guy in the center of the case that is being heard right now by the Supreme Court about
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praying in public schools. It wasn't even while school was going on. It was before and after
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football game. It's crazy conversation. Do not listen to what Sharon says so says about this
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case. If you follow her, she's had a lot of snark and a lot of bias, which I personally believe she
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always has and does. But in particular about that case, go listen at least to the other side of it.
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At least go listen to what he has to say, which, of course, that's going to come with its own bias.
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But you should have a well-rounded perspective of what's going on. And that does affect religious
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liberty for the rest of us, especially when it comes to coaches and teachers. So, go back and
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listen to Monday's episode about that. And then Tuesday's episode, we were with Mr. Bob Woodson of
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the Woodson Center. There were some controversial things said in that conversation. Whenever you're
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talking about race and we're talking about communities that we are told have problems that
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are only caused by white supremacy and systemic racism, whenever you have conversations about agency
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or responsibility or other solutions to problems that these communities are facing, you're going
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to get some backlash. But Mr. Bob Woodson has been in this space for a very long time. And so,
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definitely go listen to Tuesday's conversation, which was excellent because he's just a brilliant
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person whom I love and have learned a lot from. And then yesterday, we finally addressed some of the
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controversy surrounding John MacArthur and his church, Grace Community Church. We're talking about
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something that happened all the way back in 2004 that is really only now in the last couple of
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months being talked about. And we talked about what is true, what is not. There are many details
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that we don't know. And you guys have actually filled me in on some things that you guys learned
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about John MacArthur and the church and how that was dealt with, some of the things that we still don't
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know some of the details that have been filled in. There have been other people, other hosts,
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there have been some YouTubers who have talked about this, who have really dug into a lot of
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research. John Harris is one who has talked extensively about this. I kind of just gave my
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brief overview in saying I don't think that this is something that should be dismissed. Any kind of
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allegation and when we're talking about abuse and how we lovingly deal with victims of abuse should
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be handled seriously and talked about in a way that I think is very reverent. I think that a lot of
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people on the reformed side missed the ball when it came to that. And then, yeah, on the other end,
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though, we can't just assume things, bad things about pastors that you don't politically agree with.
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So there's more to be said about that. Maybe we'll talk more about that. We also talked a little bit
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about the Hillsong documentary yesterday, and we also talked about some of the drama that's going
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on in the Southern Baptist Convention. So again, go listen to that episode if you have not already.
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All right. And then today, I just want to react to some of the things that have happened this week.
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We're going to talk about Elon Musk buying Twitter. I won't bore you with the same takes that you've
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heard over and over again from very smart analysts and wonderful analysts, but it's just been talked about
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so much. But I'll just give you a little bit of a reaction on that. And then I'll talk about Melissa
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Lucio and her execution being stayed woman in the state of Texas who was convicted of murdering her
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two-year-old daughter. You guys know I have things to say about that. And then we are going to talk
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about perhaps a couple other things that are going on. It just kind of depends on where we are time-wise
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after those two things. So first, let me just give you, let me give you a reaction of Elon Musk
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buying Twitter and what I think about that. Obviously, I think it's a good thing. And this is
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not. Let me give you the, let me respond to something specifically that I'm hearing from
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conservative Christians that I haven't heard a lot of people address. When I posted about it,
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when I posted about Elon Musk buying Twitter and thinking that it was a good thing on Instagram,
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I got some comments from some of you who are concerned. You're concerned because you don't
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trust Elon. He is a part of this elite class of people. Obviously, he's the richest person in the
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world. He has probably done some work with the World Economic Forum that we know is the author of
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this ESG Great Reset World. But he has also spoken out against ESG. So let me just give him that point
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there. But there's concerns about his elitism. He has talked about, you know, putting microchips
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into people's brains. That is actually something that he has talked about in the past. And as far
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as we know, he doesn't have any kind of God-centered worldview, or at least that we have seen. And so
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there are some concerns about how his secular ideology could affect Twitter and some people
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saying, you know, you shouldn't be looking at Elon Musk as some kind of savior. Here's what I'll say
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to all of that. I still think Elon Musk buying Twitter is better than the alternative. Like you
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realize that the people running Twitter before were godless progressives, right? And so now we have
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someone who is a secular libertarian, who does not, that means that he doesn't agree with everything,
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obviously, that we say as Christian conservatives. But at least he sets a higher premium on free speech,
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on not discriminating against people because of their political or religious positions that are
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articulated on social media. I don't think that anyone has seen Elon Musk as the savior of Western
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civilization, the savior of democracy or free speech. But look, there are a lot of people who
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we wouldn't expect to play an integral and positive role in protecting our freedoms that do. People that
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we don't regard as moral exemplars, we don't regard as some kind of Christ-like example of how we should
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live that are nevertheless to be respected in the role that they play in protecting things like free
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speech. Donald Trump is one of those people. I think we would all acknowledge he doesn't have the
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same worldview that you and I do in a lot of ways. I don't think that he has the same regard for the
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inerrancy of scripture or human beings being made in the image of God or the sanctity of marriage
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and of human sexuality that we do. He certainly doesn't agree with us on a lot of things morally
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and theologically. And yet, I think we would argue, at least those of us who voted for Trump,
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that he played an important role in helping the country policy-wise. And so I think the same can be
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said of Elon Musk. There's a lot of things that he has said. There's a lot of things that he has
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probably done that we don't agree with, that we don't like. We don't look to him as our savior.
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That's not the role that he's playing here. He's buying Twitter. There are a lot more
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consequential things, honestly, going on in the world than that. But it's an important thing
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because I think that it protects this very crucial aspect of democracy. When I say democracy,
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I truly mean the will of the people. I'm not talking about what leftists mean when they say
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democracy, which is basically whatever they like, no matter how authoritarian it is.
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He is protecting public dialogue. He is protecting the free exchange of ideas.
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Do I think that this is going to be a difficult task, though, for him? Yes. I don't think that it's
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going to suddenly be, wow, Twitter is this wonderful, awesome place. Because look, let's just put
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something out there. Censorship, if you want to call it that, of some sort, is actually necessary.
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It's necessary because we do not want all speech on that platform. We don't. Do you want child
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pornography on Twitter? No. I don't think there should be any pornography on Twitter. There is,
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unfortunately, that is something that is allowed on Twitter. But do you want child exploitation on
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there? Do you want doxing to be allowed? Do you want there to be? And I don't know the question
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necessarily or the answer to this question necessarily for everyone. But if there are truly
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targeted campaigns of harassment, pushing someone to commit suicide or something like that, someone
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say they create 100 accounts and a bunch of anonymous people go after one person because of
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some kind of characteristic and push them to hurt themselves. Like, do you think that should be
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allowed? Look, censorship of some sort is necessary for the platform to be a place where people can go
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safely. And when I say safely, I'm talking about literal safety. Like, I'm talking about literal
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physical safety. So I don't think doxing should be allowed. I don't think those kinds of harassment
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campaigns should be allowed. I'm not talking about someone being ratioed or being criticized because of
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something that they have. I'm not even talking about someone saying something mean to someone
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that they should be kicked off. But like, I do think that you have to look at like what is actually
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harmful, actually harmful, not the left wing ideological idea of harmful, which is that
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saying that a man is a man is harmful and pushes people towards suicide. That's just a manipulation
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ideological tactic. That's not real. That's just something that they say to silence people whose ideas
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and words that they don't like. And so I think Elon Musk, though, I do think he's up to the task.
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He's already talked about the fact that when he says free speech, he is saying that he doesn't
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want to censor things that are not protected under the law. So, of course, that means that there will be
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censorship of things like child sex abuse material. And hopefully that there would be censorship of
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things like doxing someone, posting private information about a person. But there should not.
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I think no matter what the law says, but of course, you know, there's conversations about that.
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There should not be any punishment for someone saying that a man is a man.
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As Joe Rogan has brought up, you are then contradicting biology, which makes it ideology.
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And so censoring someone based on their ideological position or just their real position when it comes
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to what a man is or what a woman is, that's wrong. And I think Elon Musk understands that.
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Jack, who used to run Twitter, he recently stepped down. He has said he has endorsed Elon Musk on
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Twitter and said that he believes that Elon Musk is the singular solution for this. And since Elon
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Musk bought Twitter, there seems to be already some algorithm changes. There are accounts that
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have now gained thousands, tens of thousands, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of followers
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that have their account, their follower account has been stalled for a long time. I honestly don't
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spend that much time on Twitter. So I have gained some followers in the past couple of days, but I
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really don't care. I don't I don't really notice that kind of thing because I'm just not on Twitter
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quite as much. But changes seem to be afoot. Positive changes seem to be afoot. But it's not going to be
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as straightforward and as easy, I think, as a lot of people who are just saying free speech are saying
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there is some speech that you don't want on platforms. There is such thing as real actual
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harm. There are real actual threats. There are some things that simply shouldn't be able to circulate
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some things. The question has always been who gets to define that? Who gets to define harm? And so far,
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because Twitter is run by left wing ideologues, according to Vox, the donations of the
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of the employees, more than 98 percent went to Democrats. And so like we know the ideology of
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those of those of those employees. So the question is, who gets to decide what harm means? Who gets to
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decide what speech should actually be circulating? You can't not take anything off of the platform. So
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it's going to be tricky. It's going to be a little complex, but I am very positive about it. I am very
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positive about it. I think that this is a good thing. I think it's good that we have someone who
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is more I'm not a libertarian, but more libertarian minded is taking this over. He's already said,
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for example, it was incredibly inappropriate for Twitter to suspend the account of the New York
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Post when they published a factual story, a factual story about Hunter Biden right before the election.
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That was incredibly inappropriate. There are lots of things shadow banning that Twitter does.
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Oh, my gosh. There was this crazy clip of Ari Mebler. I think that's his name
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on Twitter. And I just thought of this. So I don't have it right in front of me. But he was on MSNBC
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and he was talking about, oh, the scary things that might happen if if Elon Musk, when Elon Musk
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takes over Twitter and he says, you know, it might be something where secretly you'd never know.
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But the algorithms will just inhibit the reach, turn down the reach of some people of some
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political persuasion or might try to limit the reach of a particular candidate that they don't
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like. You might never know that the algorithms are working against you as a progressive person
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on Twitter. That's the scary part that we are facing right now. If Elon Musk takes over Twitter
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and it's hilarious because that's what conservatives have been saying are happening for literally years.
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And the left has just laughed at us and said, that's a conspiracy theory. There's no such thing
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as shadow banning. There's no such thing as any kind of like algorithmic bias that's happening behind
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the scenes. You're just terrible. It has nothing to do with the ideology of people of people at Twitter.
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And now they're saying the same things. Oh, my gosh. I mean, there's just like the crazy, crazy reactions
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to people over this. Let me read you some some of those reactions. One of them is by someone named Tim
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Wise, and he articulates something that I've heard in a variety of ways on Twitter from these left
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wingers who are so worried about this. He's some kind of blue checkmark. I don't know who he is.
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He says, F Elon Musk, apartheid baby, you, your company and everyone who stands for you. I'm saying
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this on your platform now and we'll keep saying it. Let's see how committed you are to free speech
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when we start roasting your ASS. Well, he has already said Elon Musk said that he hopes that all
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of his even his greatest enemies that they would stay on the platform because that's what free speech
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is about, which I think is a good sign. And but this is something that I keep seeing apartheid baby.
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OK, so because he was like alive in South Africa during the apartheid, like he had something to do
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with it because he happens to be white. I mean, that's kind of racist. And it's you know what?
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It's very derogatory to say to the first African-American leader of Twitter. I don't know.
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Maybe these people are a little discriminatory. And then he also goes on to say, I mean, I mean this
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in the real sense, I am not trying to belittle mental health, but this is a psychopathic thing
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to say. Literally, we're going to have to deal with Nazis the way our grandparents did because
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Elon Musk is going to let them say whatever they want in the name of free speech. Oh, was that the
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problem with the Nazis, Tim Wise? They were saying things that hurt people's feelings. Is that is that
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why America fought the Nazis? Because they were because of free speech? You absolute idiot. I think
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it's OK for me to say that. Oh, and then I OK, I do want to I do want to bring this up because a lot
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of people are falling for this and I fell for this, too. So there is this person named Richard
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Hannah, Hannah Nia, who said it's funny. He said Elon Musk takes over Twitter. He's a billionaire
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who doesn't even have a master's degree. Is that who we are going to trust with the future of our
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democracy? And I mean, it just got ratio ratioed into oblivion. And I think I quote tweeted it for a
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second and and said something, you know, along the lines of this is ridiculous. And then I started
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looking at the replies that he was giving to people and I was like, oh, he's trolling. But I
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feel like almost no conservative realized that he was trolling because in our defense, people actually
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say stuff like this. The left is so obsessed with superficial credentialism. They use the argument
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from authority fallacy. Any chance that they can get, oh, you don't know what a woman is. You're not
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a biologist. Of course, if a biologist does disagree with them on what a woman is, they would
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dismiss them out of hand, too. But that's how they kind of gatekeep just like basic observable
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logic. And they say, oh, you can't know something unless you have this particular credential.
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So it would seem that this person was being serious. But if you look at the replies, it's
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obvious that he is he really is just trolling. So if you happen to see that and you thought that
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it was serious, it's not serious. He was just joking about that. But a lot of leftists, I
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think, actually think that way. I mean, this almost had when I was looking at it, it almost
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had 10,000 likes. And so either that's by people who knew that he was joking or by people who
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actually thought, yeah, you really do need a master's degree in order to run Twitter.
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A lot of people, unfortunately, think that way.
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Um, and apparently so like there's some leaked audio coming from employees of Twitter who
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are literally in tears over this. And Robert Reich, who is also just a crazy person, he
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wrote this article saying that just like authoritarians and this is not satire, this is not satire.
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There's no irony because irony is always lost on leftists. He said that just like authoritarians,
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Yes. Um, Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist.
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Yes. Yes, Robert, that is exactly correct. You are, you are right. The Chinese Communist Party is
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known for their free and wild internet access, promotion of free and wild internet access.
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They don't have any kind of restrictions in these kind of dictatorial companies on,
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or countries on what people can access on the internet. You're absolutely right.
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Like every dictatorship, one of the characteristics is that they restrict the flow of information.
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They restrict people's right to free speech. They don't believe in a right to free speech.
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They restrict dissent. They push down narratives or they push down ideas. They push down words
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and thoughts that they don't like. Have you never read 1984? Was Big Brother known for everything that
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he allowed people to say and to see and to read? No, it was known by memory holding certain information,
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certain news stories. So you couldn't even remember what happened the next day. All you knew
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is what Big Brother was telling you that day, including how words changed and the definitions of,
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um, the definitions of particular ideas and words were changed by the people who are in charge.
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And because everything previously had been, uh, had been, um, memory hold, you weren't able to
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even fully remember or argue against the new definition that you're being told. Of course,
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the ministry of truth in 1984 is in charge of all of this. And the Biden administration
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in, in congruence with a lot of these left-wing crazies on Twitter, they are setting up a form of
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ministry of truth, I guess, to combat the free speech that will now be so frighteningly,
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frighteningly allowed on places like Twitter. I'll get into that in just one second.
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So the Biden administration has set up their own ministry of truth, the very Orwellian ministry of
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truth, the disinformation governance board. Is that what it's called? Disinformation governance
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board, where they're going to have a board of unelected people try to combat disinformation.
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And actually, of course, we have already seen the White House admit through Jen Psaki that they
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are frequently working with these tech organizations to try to combat disinformation. Obama has been
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talking about this a lot over the past few days publicly about the problem of disinformation.
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What do they mean by disinformation? What do they mean? They mean things that they don't like.
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That's what they mean by democracy. They mean authoritarianism that they like. All the people
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complaining about how being a free speech absolutist is somehow anti-democratic and somehow
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fascist and authoritarianism. It's just wild. All those people complaining about that when it comes
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to Elon Musk. Of course, I am sure support this disinformation governance board, which is an actual
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form of authoritarianism, which is actually much more totalitarian, much more tyrannical and dictatorial
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than anything that Donald Trump, anything that Ron DeSantis or Elon Musk has ever done.
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So just remember that, that when the left talks about the importance of democracy, they usually
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just mean authoritarianism that they like. And when they talk about authoritarianism, what they typically
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mean is a form of democracy and free speech that they don't like. You see how they kind of they
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they exchange those words without you even knowing? I mean, what they mean by a woman is also
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a man. And so that's why it's so important in the conversations and the discussions and debates
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that we have to define our terms. What do you mean by a woman? Do you also are you including the word
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man in that? That's again goes back to what we've talked about, about when inclusion, unfettered inclusion
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becomes toxic. What do you mean by democracy? Like, where are you getting that definition? That's how you
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engage in these kinds of conversations. They're afraid of free speech because of what we've talked about
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in the past. Obama, Biden, all progressives, they're afraid of free speech because progressivism,
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their insidious ideology is like molds. And how it grows and how it takes over and how it devours
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institutions and makes the people inside of the institution sick is by growing in the dark,
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growing without your knowledge. And so when light is shined on it, when it's found out, that's a
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problem. It's a problem for the mold. It's a problem for progressivism. It's allowed to grow.
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It's allowed to grow in the dark. And so shining light on it, that's why they hate,
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you know, Christopher Rufo. That's why they hate libs of TikTok. That's why they hate Elon Musk.
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It's not really any kind of substantive or logical disagreement. It's not that they have,
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they can't even like defend their positions. They don't even try to do that. They just try to threaten
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these people and bully them and intimidate them because they don't want the roots of their ideology,
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what's really going on, for example, with the gender and sexual indoctrination that we're seeing
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of young people in school. They don't want that shown. They just want you to feel like none of
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it's really happening. That's the problem that they have with free speech. And they also, they don't
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argue very well. They're not very logical in their positions. And so if you have the ability to say,
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well, you know, here's why a man is a man, or here's what abortion actually is,
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then you're going, like, that's going to be a problem for them because it shows the weakness
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of their position. And so that's what the freak out is all about. Yeah, I think that this is a
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good thing. I don't, it's such a straw man to say, oh, Elon Musk is some Christian conservatives.
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Elon Musk is not your savior. I don't see anyone saying that. I'm just saying that this is,
00:24:31.340
I think it's a good, a good indicator for where things go. And let me say, I said this in two
00:24:36.480
speeches over the weekend, or over the past few days. Let me just say that this all, so this all
00:24:43.600
started. Elon Musk buying Twitter started from the Babylon Bee making a joke, highlighting the fact
00:24:50.980
that a man cannot be a woman. That's how this all started. And so let me just, let's go back even
00:24:58.720
further. This huge thing that I think is going to be really good for free speech and democracy and
00:25:03.040
Western civilization. This all started from guys who started a satire account. They started a few
00:25:08.980
years ago. I know them. They're great guys. They're just regular guys. They started telling jokes. They
00:25:13.460
thought it was funny. It grew into this huge platform that ended up being, Elon Musk ended up
00:25:18.820
being a fan of them. It all started from those guys, those just Christian conservative guys saying
00:25:23.820
something that was true, saying something that was unpopular that, and then they got kicked off for
00:25:28.460
it. They got kicked off Twitter. I guess that caught the attention of the richest man in the world,
00:25:32.320
Elon Musk. And then he made a decision that really is going to change things, I think, for the better.
00:25:38.220
So keep that in mind. Keep that in mind when you are simply saying things that are true,
00:25:43.040
when you are raising a respectful ruckus, you don't know what flap of the butterfly wing you are.
00:25:47.580
All right. And speaking of talking about controversial things and saying things that
00:25:54.440
actually matter, I want to talk a little bit more about this Melissa Lucio thing. I know you've
00:25:58.580
heard me talk about it a lot, but I'm going to respond to some arguments, some other arguments
00:26:01.980
that I've been seeing and give you an update on what's going on there. All right. So you guys
00:26:08.620
probably heard I talked about it on Instagram that on Monday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
00:26:14.100
found that several of Lucio's lawyers' claims needed to be considered by a trial court. So
00:26:19.680
that means that her execution was stayed. So this was an 11th hour stay for her. I believe that
00:26:29.120
her execution was originally scheduled on Wednesday. And if you have not listened to or watched the
00:26:35.380
debate that I had with Texas State Rep Jeff Leach on this, I encourage you to do so. He has really
00:26:42.420
been leading the charge against her execution. He has said multiple times that he believes her to
00:26:47.400
be innocent. Now he has kind of gone, you'll hear in the, in the conversation that we have, he will
00:26:53.800
then, you know, he'll kind of hedge and say that he doesn't know if she's innocent, but he has said
00:26:57.320
publicly many times that he believes that she is innocent. And in fact, the letter that he signed
00:27:03.220
along with, I believe it was 82 other state representatives arguing that she should not be executed,
00:27:09.640
said that this was a crime, that she is innocent, said that she's innocent, and that they also
00:27:16.620
believe, Jeff Leach has also mentioned that he believes that this is a crime that didn't actually
00:27:20.720
happen. And so her lawyers have been working on this for a very long time. As you guys already know,
00:27:28.940
they have tried to appeal her case several times. And the courts of appeal have said decisively,
00:27:35.580
actually, actually, you know what, we think that she got a fair trial. We think that she got a fair
00:27:39.880
trial from the beginning and that there's no reason to overturn her conviction or her sentencing.
00:27:45.560
But the Innocence Project has taken up her case, as they so often do, and has rallied people in the
00:27:52.000
media and has rallied people in the state legislature in Texas to try to get people to see from their
00:28:00.400
perspective that she is innocent. There was also a Hulu documentary, Melissa versus Texas,
00:28:06.360
where they argue that she was innocent, but they don't just say, hey, she's innocent of murdering
00:28:12.260
her child. And this is my big beef with all of this that I'll get into a little bit, is that they don't
00:28:18.480
just say that. They say that there was no history of abuse, that she didn't abuse her child, that she was
00:28:23.180
a good mom, but she just fell on hard times. And they tried to get us to see her as a victim of her
00:28:29.260
circumstances, as a victim of some kind of racist and classist prosecution, that she didn't get a
00:28:36.740
fair trial because she is a victim of sexual abuse. And she was coerced into her confession
00:28:42.020
by these investigators because she is a victim of sexual abuse. And the history of being a victim
00:28:48.500
of sexual abuse made her take responsibility for something that she didn't actually,
00:28:53.780
that she shouldn't have taken responsibility for. And they completely dismiss every other reason
00:28:58.940
the jury decided to convict her. They completely dismiss all of the other evidence. They make
00:29:05.380
arguments on emotion. They are appealing to your emotion by giving you pieces of information that
00:29:10.960
one, we don't actually know are true, like her history of sexual abuse, and two, that aren't really
00:29:16.700
pertinent to whether or not she murdered her child. And then they come up with all of these other
00:29:21.280
possible excuses that they just kind of plant into your head whether or not they're true. Well, that may be
00:29:28.940
Mariah, the daughter who was murdered by Melissa. Maybe she had some kind of, maybe she had some kind of
00:29:36.240
issue that caused her to bruise more easily. That's not actually proven to be true. Like, maybe one of her
00:29:42.460
siblings pushed her down the stairs. There's absolutely no evidence of that. Maybe, you know, maybe something
00:29:49.260
else happened that she didn't actually receive any abuse and the ER doctor and the coroner and the
00:29:58.120
paramedic, that they're all just colluding together in life. So there's all kinds of assumptions and
00:30:03.300
emotional arguments being made from that side. And that is my beef. Put aside for a second what you
00:30:09.220
think about execution. Put aside for a second what you think about the death penalty. Okay, we can have a
00:30:14.060
debate over that. Maybe you don't think that she should be executed because you don't believe people
00:30:17.320
should be executed in general. Okay, that's fine. Like, we can have a conversation about that. If you
00:30:22.220
think either the death penalty is unjust per se or if you just think in our system, in our country, the
00:30:27.640
death penalty is unjust. Fine. We can have a conversation about that. Even if that's the case. You don't have
00:30:33.920
to lie. Like, you don't have to omit information about why she was convicted and why her sentencing has
00:30:42.180
been upheld. It is not based on this so-called coerced confession during her interrogation, which is what
00:30:48.680
Sharon says so has said. I responded to this in my Instagram stories. It's what many of these lawmakers have
00:30:56.040
said in Texas. It's what the Innocence Project is saying. And it's what this person named Josh Dubin, who
00:31:01.100
went on the Joe Rogan show a few months ago. He is an ambassador advisor, legal advisor for the Innocence Project.
00:31:08.580
And I just want to respond to a couple of clips, because I think that this is pushing so much
00:31:13.520
misinformation out there about this case. I just want to show you what a supposed expert in this case
00:31:21.100
is saying about it. So here's one clip. So she is the mother of 12 and is pregnant with twins
00:31:32.380
and is accused of killing her child. There's no physical evidence of any abuse whatsoever.
00:31:44.260
Oh, my goodness. So this is what you keep hearing. And this part makes me so mad because it is
00:31:51.020
injustice for the child who was murdered. It is injustice for Mariah. As we talked about,
00:31:56.420
as I've talked about on Instagram, as I talked about with Jeff Leach. First, we have the paramedics,
00:32:03.120
his sworn testimony, what he said in the trial. And this is according to transcripts that I can I can
00:32:08.980
link you. This is the appeals decision in 2011, quoted from the transcripts of the original of the
00:32:16.440
original trial. The paramedic, he was the one to testify who said that when he showed up,
00:32:22.580
Mariah found Mariah lying there dead. He said that Lucio, her mother, that her behavior was so
00:32:31.480
out of the ordinary that she wasn't distressed, that she wasn't anywhere within arm's length of
00:32:37.740
the child, that he said it was so strange that he wrote it down. And he wrote down in his notes that
00:32:43.300
the reaction and the attitude, the posture of this mother, who apparently called 911 because of the
00:32:50.080
death of her child, was so out of the ordinary from what he had seen that he noted it. And he
00:32:54.920
said immediately that it was obvious that this, even though he wasn't the one to diagnose this,
00:33:00.560
but that this seemed like a case of abuse. And then you have the ER doctor. You have an ER doctor
00:33:05.100
who said that he had been working in this industry for 30 years, and this was the worst case of a child
00:33:10.100
abuse that he had ever seen. Bruises all over her body and a broken arm, an arm that had been broken
00:33:18.200
for two to seven weeks without any treatment. So even if she did have some kind of blood disorder,
00:33:24.040
by the way, which again is something that was made up by the Innocence Project later, it was not
00:33:28.280
something that was noted in the beginning or found in the beginning. Like even if that were the case,
00:33:33.840
that doesn't cause an untreated broken arm. It doesn't cause also what the coroner found,
00:33:38.540
which were bite marks on her back. It doesn't cause bald patches on her head where her hair was ripped
00:33:44.320
out from the roots. It doesn't cause the indentation of her mother's rings on her body.
00:33:51.160
And during her confession, which was on tape, this investigation by the interrogators in the
00:34:00.000
police department, Melissa Lucio, uncoerced, admitted to causing all of the bruises and all of
00:34:07.500
the injuries on her daughter's body. This was not, they didn't lead her to saying these things. You know
00:34:13.460
why? You know how that obvious that is? It's because she said some very specific, that I'll
00:34:19.780
describe, and it's disturbing, some very specific things about how she abused her daughter that she
00:34:25.220
wouldn't have said, she wouldn't have just made up. Okay, so she said that she caused almost all of
00:34:30.420
the bruises, almost all of the scratches, but not all of them on her daughter's, on her daughter's
00:34:34.880
body. She described a very disturbing situation where she caused the bite mark on her daughter's back.
00:34:40.200
Other children were jumping around, they were frustrating her, and so for whatever reason,
00:34:44.780
she took it out on her daughter by covering up her daughter's mouth, Mariah, two years old,
00:34:49.380
and bit her on the back. Out of frustration, out of anger, she said that she pinched her daughter's
00:34:54.980
genitals. How would you make something like that up if that wasn't something that really happened?
00:35:02.040
And she said that she caused most of the bruising on Mariah, the pulling out the hair from the roots.
00:35:07.040
The coroner said that this was an awful case of child abuse, that she obviously died
00:35:11.140
based on some kind of trauma to the head. And people, the Innocence Project and Sharon Says So
00:35:18.080
all said, oh, well, you know, the autopsy, that's questionable because the interrogators,
00:35:22.500
the investigators were there at the autopsy. That's not unusual. That actually happens a lot.
00:35:27.580
There's no evidence at all that this, that the coroner, that the ER doctor, that the paramedic,
00:35:32.220
what, they were all colluding together to lie? These are medical professionals, and they all
00:35:37.720
testified to this. The jury would have also seen the photos of the abuse that was inflicted on her.
00:35:44.400
And no, this was not by the stepfather. Melissa Lucio admitted again on tape that Robert Alvarez,
00:35:50.060
her boyfriend at the time, was not guilty of this. And so, look, we've got a case here where the jury
00:35:57.440
saw the evidence, heard the evidence of child abuse. Her defense lawyer, Melissa Lucio's defense
00:36:03.820
lawyer admitted in court, hey, yes, she is an abuser. She did abuse her child. She's a terrible
00:36:12.520
mother, but she didn't strike the death blow. The jury didn't buy it. So to say that there was no
00:36:17.620
evidence of abuse, that is insane. That's insane. That is not true. There was much evidence of abuse.
00:36:25.760
And not only that, but CPS, as corrupt as they are, they had a long history with Melissa Lucio.
00:36:33.320
In affidavits, there is recordings of her neglect of her children, how she would test positive for
00:36:40.420
cocaine. Some of her children even tested positive for cocaine. Mariah was taken away from her mother,
00:36:46.280
as well as the other children in 2004, because of severe neglect that was obvious to CPS when they
00:36:52.940
showed up. And so, in 2007, Mariah and her other siblings were brought back to her mom in 2008.
00:37:01.960
That is when she was murdered. And not only that, here's another piece of this that you'll hear in
00:37:07.260
the Hulu documentary that you'll also hear from these Innocence Project people said, oh, there was
00:37:11.980
no evidence. All the other children, they didn't get abused. And all the other children, they are
00:37:15.940
supporting their mom. That's not actually true. So, Celina Lucio, and she looks exactly like her mom.
00:37:22.540
She has a TikTok account called Fifth of Fourteen, which you should go look up yourself and look at
00:37:26.880
these videos yourself. She has been making videos talking about how, yes, her mom absolutely did abuse
00:37:34.260
Mariah. Now, she says that her mom wasn't physically abusive to any of the other children, but that she
00:37:39.600
was abusive to Mariah, physically abusive to Mariah. She describes all kinds of abuse that I didn't know
00:37:45.640
about because they're not in the court decisions, like trying to suffocate Mariah with a pillow.
00:37:50.720
She remembers these things. And here's what also Celina said, that she was the only one of the only,
00:37:57.420
there were only a few siblings that actually lived with Melissa Lucio at the time that Mariah was
00:38:03.380
murdered. All of the other siblings that are supporting Melissa saying that, oh, she's not guilty.
00:38:08.320
They didn't even live with Melissa at the time, but Celina did. And Celina is making these videos
00:38:12.720
saying that she loves her mom. She doesn't want her mom to be executed, of course, but that her mom
00:38:17.580
is absolutely guilty. And she claims that maybe her mom didn't mean to kill her, maybe, but she
00:38:23.260
absolutely did abuse her and cause this. She believes that her mom is guilty. And she also claims that the
00:38:29.060
Hulu documentary purposely excluded her from the documentary because she didn't say what she wanted to say.
00:38:35.360
And she actually posts receipts of this conversation with the director of the Hulu documentary that
00:38:40.780
really show that they didn't want Celina's voice. They didn't want her testimony because she believes
00:38:46.160
that her mom is guilty. Same with another one of her siblings that was living with Mariah at the
00:38:50.840
time. And so there's so much more information about this factual information that is being omitted by
00:38:57.300
the media, being omitted by the propaganda machine that is the Innocence Project, because they are
00:39:02.100
simply anti-death penalty. They are not pro-innocence. And if you're anti-death penalty, just be that.
00:39:07.500
That's fine. You can be anti-death penalty, but don't lie. The media is lying about this, just like
00:39:14.220
they did the Julius Jones case. Sharon says so is intentionally or not. She is leaving out information
00:39:20.080
about this that does give us an idea of why the jury reached the decision that they did, why the criminal
00:39:26.900
appeals courts have reached the decision that they have to say that this is just an innocent
00:39:31.520
mother who was doing the best that she can, that there was no evidence of abuse. That's just a lie.
00:39:36.280
That's a lie. And let me show you, let me just show you another one of these of this clip from the Joe
00:39:40.840
Rogan podcast. It's just amazing. This is a person who is in this context as being a spokesperson for the
00:39:45.920
Innocence Project, who is trying to get Melissa off of death row and to say that she is innocent and
00:39:53.060
commit this crime. Listen to this. What are they accusing her? Killing her child. Of how?
00:40:01.160
I think it was, I think it was manual strangulation. You can read about the case on the Innocence
00:40:06.700
Project. Do they know what the kid actually died from? They know now and her experts show that it was
00:40:14.600
not, you have, I don't want to speak about the case in details without giving people a chance to read
00:40:21.380
the details and decide from themselves. Because getting behind something is not something you
00:40:29.020
should do because somebody says it on a podcast. I encourage people to do their own research.
00:40:35.120
And frankly, I don't know enough about the details of the nooks and crannies of the case.
00:40:41.580
Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. So this person acting as a spokesperson who just a few minutes ago
00:40:46.940
in this, in, in this podcast, in this interview said that she was innocent, that, you know, the crime
00:40:51.840
wasn't committed. He doesn't even know. He doesn't know what the case is. Like he doesn't even know
00:40:58.080
the facts of the case. She was not accused of strangling her child. She was the, the child had
00:41:04.100
blunt force trauma to the brain. She had bruises all over her internal organs. Again, the worst case of
00:41:10.140
child abuse that this ER doctor had ever seen. She was not accused of strangling her child. And he realized
00:41:16.240
he didn't know the details of the case. And so he just fell back on, oh, well, I don't want to be a
00:41:20.480
person who tells you. Just a few minutes ago, he was trying to tell you exactly what to think. These
00:41:24.840
people don't even know the details of the case who are arguing for her innocence. That's a big deal to
00:41:31.900
potentially be upending justice for the murder of a child based on emotional propaganda. You don't even
00:41:37.600
know the facts. That's a problem. That's a problem. And honestly, a lot of people that I've talked to
00:41:43.220
about this don't know the facts of this. I had one exchange on Instagram and I wouldn't typically
00:41:49.360
message these kinds of people back because like from the tone and the content of the message,
00:41:54.980
I was like, okay, clearly this person doesn't actually know what they're talking about. But
00:41:59.380
I saw we had some mutual, some mutual friends. And so I was like, okay, this is like a legitimate
00:42:04.020
person. So let me go back and forth. And this person accused my side of only caring about the
00:42:14.160
emotional side of the argument, just like dismissing the facts. And I'm like, oh, my goodness,
00:42:19.600
like the gaslighting and projection. It was just like so enraging to me. And I was sassier than I
00:42:24.100
should have been. Probably. There were some things that I wanted to say, but I wanted to be like,
00:42:31.380
okay, I got to just got to tell you, this is the difference between your and your, but I did it
00:42:35.940
because I tried to stay at the task at hand and talk about, okay, actually the side that is missing
00:42:42.060
the facts of this case is the side of the innocence project. The side that is saying that this crime
00:42:46.240
didn't really happen, that she's completely innocent, that she's a victim of this. You're not
00:42:50.140
looking at Salina's videos. You're not looking at what the appeals court decided and why they decided
00:42:54.380
it and what the testimony of the expert witnesses said in the court. And look, you can look at the
00:43:03.720
other things. You can look at the other factors. I think that's fine. We should look at all sides of
00:43:08.280
this. That's why I engaged with a lawmaker who is on the other side of this. And I did listen to what
00:43:15.620
he had to say. And that's all well and good. All I'm bringing up is that there is a whole host of
00:43:22.140
facts in so much context and content that is being left out by the media and by the left side,
00:43:29.360
just like in the Julius Jones case. And even if you think, again, even if you think she shouldn't
00:43:34.620
be executed, even if you think there are some sketchy things that went on with this particular
00:43:40.560
case, I am willing to talk about that. What I'm not willing to be okay with is the lies,
00:43:46.880
the omission of the information, the trying to paint this person, this Melissa Lucio as an
00:43:52.840
innocent victim and basically just disregarding Mariah, making up things like, oh, she wasn't
00:43:58.480
abused at all. There's no evidence of abuse. She didn't have. No, this is just because this was a
00:44:03.640
Latino woman, Melissa Lucio, and she was persecuted because of that. Look, everyone in Cameron County
00:44:11.240
where this happened is Hispanic, like everyone. And so this was not a matter of discriminating
00:44:16.140
against someone because of her race. That's, again, another propaganda tool by the Innocence
00:44:20.340
Project to try to stir people's hearts. And the Innocence Project understands, and really the other
00:44:26.360
side of the story, the people propagating the talking points that they are, they understand
00:44:31.880
most people operate from emotion. Most people operate not on facts, not on logic, not trying
00:44:38.020
to really understand what's going on, not trying to dig into a case. They know that most people are
00:44:45.500
lazy. Most people aren't going to ask questions. Most people aren't going to critically think.
00:44:50.020
They just hear something. And I think, honestly, most people think, well, it doesn't affect me
00:44:53.740
whether she's kept on death row or not. And, oh, it's not going to bring back Mariah if she's
00:44:58.960
executed. And so why should we want this? That's not justice, by the way.
00:45:08.020
Justice is not about bringing a victim back. That's not how God defines justice in the Old
00:45:13.800
Testament. And God created justice, whether you like that or not. And so that's what I
00:45:18.680
can't deal with. I can't deal with the dishonesty. That's what bothers me in all of this. Not even
00:45:23.560
showing that, hey, this is a complicated case. And there are reasons why the jury and the judge
00:45:30.860
believed her to be guilty. There are good arguments put forward. Like, it's the lies. That's what
00:45:38.120
bothers me. And, you know, we were talking before this about what would I like to see happen then?
00:45:45.320
Like, what would I like to be the result of all of this? Is it execution? Like, do I believe that
00:45:51.380
she should be executed? Or do I believe that she should get a new trial at all? Because the
00:45:58.140
the court of appeals did find, so there were nine arguments put forth by her lawyers saying,
00:46:04.140
like, this is why she should, why she should get a new trial. This is why her execution should be
00:46:09.620
stayed. And the criminal court of appeals found that the Lucio's lawyer's claims needed to be
00:46:15.460
considered by a trial court. And those claims were, so one of the claims was that, but for the state's
00:46:23.800
use of false testimony, no juror would have convicted her. So they claimed that the state
00:46:28.200
used false testimony. Previous courts of appeals have said that's not true, but they say, the lawyers
00:46:33.580
say that it is. They also say previously unavailable scientific evidence would preclude her conviction.
00:46:39.680
She is actually innocent, is another claim that they make. The state suppressed favorable material
00:46:45.420
evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland. Now, other courts of appeal have already looked at these
00:46:51.260
arguments and said that these are not legitimate, substantiated arguments. But this time, this court
00:46:56.840
of appeal said that they actually, all these things mean that her case should be reconsidered.
00:47:03.280
Okay. I guess I'm okay with that outcome. I'm not like excited for her to be executed because one
00:47:10.260
problem I do think that we have with execution in this country is that it's not consistent. It's up to
00:47:16.420
the prosecutor's discretion. So someone could have committed clearly a heinous murder and could not
00:47:22.040
go to death. It could not be on death row, could not be executed. Whereas someone else who committed
00:47:28.120
a murder, but I don't know, maybe they only killed one person and they're getting executed, but the
00:47:33.500
person who killed two people is not getting executed because it's just up to the prosecutor's
00:47:37.640
discretion. And it's up to their, basically their political ideology or how they're feeling that day
00:47:43.000
or whether they have like an election coming up. So I do agree. There is a problem with the
00:47:47.020
inconsistency. I have already done an episode on the death penalty and why I don't think that it is
00:47:51.580
unjust per se, but it is absolutely a biblical prescription and command for murder. But there
00:47:57.860
are plenty of good faith debates that we can have about execution in this country. I'm willing to have
00:48:03.260
those. So it's really not about for me that I just like want her to be executed. Of course.
00:48:11.260
Although, again, I do think that someone convicted of murder, that that is a just a just punishment.
00:48:19.100
And in one sense, I'm like, sure, she can just have she can have a retrial. What's the harm in that?
00:48:26.340
I think my issue is that propaganda is forcing this change. And that is not justice. That is not
00:48:35.120
justice. A Hulu documentary and a left wing organization and Texas state legislators and
00:48:41.920
people in the media who are exclusively telling one side of this story, painting her as a victim,
00:48:47.700
not at all talking about the long history with CPS, the long history of neglect, the physical evidence
00:48:53.220
of abuse, the testimony of the medical professionals in court that show that say that she was abused,
00:48:59.700
the uncoerced confession of severe abuse by Melissa towards Mariah. All of that is being excluded from
00:49:09.540
the conversation. And so that means that this person's punishment, the justice system is actually
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being swayed by a lie, by deceit. That is a problem in principle for me, because that is not justice.
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That is mob justice. That is people who are lying, telling one side of the story, putting pressure
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on the political system, on the justice system to make a particular decision. That is not right in
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principle. You could see, like, let's think a little bit about all the different negative ways that
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that could possibly go, right? If the mob gets to decide someone's punishment based not on the truth,
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but on a lie. Now, I think it'd be one thing if the Innocence Project and everyone else trying to
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stay her execution, if they put all the facts out there, if they put the court transcripts out there,
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if they really laid it all out and told the truth about who Melissa Lucio is, her long history of
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abuse, and all the reasons why she was convicted of murder and why her case was upheld, and then
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argued, even if this is all true, we still think that her execution should be stayed or she should
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get a new trial, and here's why. I would have respect for that. I would have plenty of respect
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for that. That's a conversation to be had. I'm willing to have that conversation. The line is what
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bothers me, not just in this case, but with Julius Jones, with several other cases. This is a trend.
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They pick a person who is a person of color. They create a narrative around this person. That is not
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true. They leave out the facts. They leave out the context. They always make sure that there's plenty
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of time in between, you know, 10 to 15 plus years in between now and the crime, so people really don't
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remember how they felt when it was first reported on. Also, the political scene has changed. The media
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scene has changed, and so the media isn't going to report the truth in an unbiased way. They're going
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to be progressive, unlike several years ago, but this is the formula that the Innocence Project
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puts forward, and people are taken by it because people are always taken by social justice narratives.
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That is the part that bothers me. That's the machine, the social justice, criminal justice machine
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that bothers me, that is fueled by propaganda, manipulative emotionalism, and it doesn't
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actually care about the victims. No one's asking, like, what is justice for the victims? And it's
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also, it goes into the conversation about this erroneous idea that the only kind of justice is
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restorative justice, in which the person who committed the crime is restored to society or
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reconciled to their victim. That's not the only form of justice. Some forms of justice are simply
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punitive. I mean, that's how God lays it out in the Old Testament, and that is what our basic rights
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in the Constitution and what are the principles of our laws are actually based on is the biblical,
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general biblical idea of justice. And so some punishment is simply punitive, but this whole social
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justice, criminal justice world has really taken in a lot of Christians and robbed them of their
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discernment. Again, conversations, debates to be had about the death penalty in this country and
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whether or not she should get a new trial. The line really, really bothers me. And the left does
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this all the time. They can't, they know, the reason why they lie about someone like Melissa Lucio
00:52:42.380
is because they know that if they say, if they show the autopsy pictures, if they say what the ER doctor
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and the coroner and the paramedic say, if they play what she confessed in her interrogation,
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the very specific and disturbing history of abuse that she inflicted on Mariah, they know that if
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they show what Celina has said, which by the way, Celina also said that her defense, that her mom's
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defense attorneys tried to manipulate her and her other sister into taking the blame for Mariah's
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bruises. This was before the Innocence Project came up with this whole edema line.
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Um, they know that if they highlight those things and you're not going to feel sympathy for this
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woman, Kim Kardashian's not going to say anything about it. And then, um, they won't get the result
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that they want. It's really nasty stuff. That's not justice because justice can't be extricated from
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truth, right? Truth actually matters. And so I guess that's the result that I want to see is just truth.
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It's not that I am opposed to this person not being executed right now. I just think that we just need
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to be telling the truth. And I don't want mob justice. Do you? I don't want mob justice for
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anyone. And I think there needs to be more consistency in the punitive measures that we take
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so that we don't have to worry about someone committing the same crime and getting two different
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punishments for it. I do think that that's a problem. So that's kind of my, my, my final thoughts
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for now on all of this. I probably have more to say on this because it just irks me to no end how
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many people are lying about this case and getting away with lying about this case. And they just,
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they don't care about little Mariah, who I believe, of course, by all the facts available
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was brutally murdered. And it makes me, it just makes me really sad. The truth matters. Truth and
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love can't be extricated from each other. Truth and justice can never be separated. So that's why I
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keep talking about this because it matters. People get mad at me when I talk about this, but
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the truth hurts, unfortunately. All right. That's all I have time for today. This was long. I knew
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it was going to be long, but I had a million other things that I could talk about too, but I don't,
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I don't have time to get into it. We'll have to talk more about it next week before I close this out.
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