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00:02:27.000It's like the old, I remember the joke where it's like, I've been alive for four decades, you know, the 90s, the zeros, the 10s, and March.
00:03:15.000So Blake, for those of the uninitiated that haven't turned on their television all day, what happened in Fulton County?
00:03:20.000Yeah, so I assume those people must have given up TV for Lent or something.
00:03:24.000I don't know why they're watching this show, if so.
00:03:26.000But so Fulton County, the left staked a lot of hopes on this one.
00:03:32.000It was the one I feel like they got the most personal satisfaction from the weird thrill.
00:03:37.000Yeah, they really liked the idea that Fulton County, which symbolized the most shocking development of that evening, that Georgia was able to flip blue.
00:03:52.000And now, Fanny Willis, the DA of Fulton County, where Atlanta is, was going to criminally charge Trump for his election interference of trying to call members of the state legislature.
00:05:20.000And, you know, I hope I would say something about, you know, giving up porn for Lent or something because it was a very kind of pornographic display today.
00:07:55.000Yes, I paid for it with my business card that goes to my firm, which is being paid by the taxpayers of Fulton County, but she reimbursed me.
00:08:50.000This was definitely not the type of testimony that you would expect from people who are not only currently like prosecutors of people that are prosecuting and not just like take Trump out of it, right?
00:09:08.000These are not the people that you want to have that power in your society because, as you say, they don't seem like, and Wade, and we haven't even gotten to Willis's testimony yet, but it just doesn't seem like they prepared.
00:09:20.000It doesn't seem like they asked, they went over any of the possible questions that they would be asked.
00:09:25.000It doesn't feel like they read the brief or even, Blake, to your point, it doesn't feel like they read any of the accusations that came out of Mike Roman's testimony, the great Mike Roman.
00:09:34.000Or, by the way, it's like, and by this guy, this guy Wade is being divorced right now.
00:09:38.000And so a lot of this is actually a function of the divorce hearings because, as you say, the receipts weren't in Roman's testimony.
00:09:45.000But then, like, two days later, I mean, we're in like very much, I can't say it, a reality show scenario, let's just say, of Fulton County.
00:09:57.000And so the divorce court is where we get those receipts.
00:10:02.000And so it's like, has this guy even been paying attention to the, I question whether he has been paying attention to the proceedings to which he is a party?
00:12:29.000I thought her portrayal of why it is that she pays for things in cash and has lots of cash on hand was very compelling.
00:12:36.000Basically, it was a life lesson she learned from her father and then sort of joked about the way that she was raised by that old black man that she referred to.
00:12:44.000Yeah, basically, it's black culture, is what Fannie Willis's defense is.
00:12:54.000And she did that, you know, she stood up in that church and said, you know, these people attacking me.
00:12:58.000I think she was still denying the relate.
00:13:00.000She was either denying it, or that was when she admitted it.
00:13:03.000But she said, you know, all the attacks were based on race there.
00:13:06.000And of course, that's part of what's so upsetting about this: you do your personal bad behavior and you're just going to drag everyone in your culture with you down with it.
00:13:29.000No, his defense for Michael Vick's defense for dog fighting was that this is part of black culture.
00:13:37.000And he was like, and it was just strange because he was the one saying that it was, that he was the one trying to racialize it when it clearly was something that he had been, you know, obviously criticized by a lot of other teammates who also happened to be black.
00:13:53.000So it was like, no, why are you trying to play the race card to get out of your own bad behavior?
00:16:36.000You know, they're the ones who have, they hate Trump so much that they'll have a guy on and he'll call Don Lemon the N-word on air and stuff to prove that Trump is bad.
00:17:23.000So without getting too deep into this, Jack, you could look at the basically she's already dead to rights based on just the timeline.
00:17:31.000Forget the cash and forget the cabins and forget Aruba and forget Belize and forget just the fact that they have perjured themselves based on the relationship window that signed, sealed, and delivered.
00:17:42.000All the rest is basically entertainment and icing on the cake.
00:17:50.000There's lots of memes that are coming out of this that, of course, I have been receiving and yet will not be sharing because again, I have 40 days.
00:18:00.000So the real meat and potatoes of this, though, is the fact that she lied to the court in not in this hearing, but in a previous filing when she stated there was no relationship prior to his hire at the Fulton, using her power as the Fulton County DA.
00:18:15.000So essentially when she brought him on for this Trump case, she said there was no relationship prior to this.
00:18:21.000And now we have documentary evidence that there was a relationship prior.
00:18:25.000And I think everyone kind of has suspected that anyway, let's put it on the screen while he's talking about.
00:18:32.000Yes, while she's talking here, put that up.
00:18:39.000So she, and this, this is, this is, I believe, the, um, the actual questionnaire from earlier.
00:18:44.000But yeah, she just, she lied to court.
00:18:46.000So when you, when you make a direct lie to the judge like this, that there was no relationship, then that's it.
00:18:53.000No household expenses, no cohabitating.
00:18:55.000And this, and Charlie, to your point, this is why there were so much, there was so much quibbling and so much consternation about, well, and if people had watched the, I got to say, I was in and out of this hearing because I was doing other stuff today because I have like a, you know, this, like a life outside of this.
00:19:13.000But and it went on for quite some time.
00:19:16.000And there was a lot of back and forth over what does the phrase cohabitating live?
00:19:32.000It's just straight up lied to the court.
00:19:34.000And I don't think that any judge or any, you know, fancy word games are going to wake their way out of it.
00:19:41.000You can't trick your way past the judge that you know you like.
00:19:43.000And I will say, just and I watched probably one-tenth of this.
00:19:47.000What I saw from the judge is the judge was actually sympathetic to the cross-examiners.
00:19:51.000There was one moment where the cross-examiner used imprecise language that was obviously a little bit, you know, let's just say, more colorful.
00:21:30.000For someone who has already pled guilty, like Jenna Ellis, is she able to reconsider that guilty plea if the prosecutor's taken off the case?
00:21:40.000It would depend on the specifics of the deal.
00:21:46.000It's not impossible, but again, it would have to go, you know, was that written into the deal?
00:21:51.000Was that something that was agreed to?
00:21:53.000Was that something that, you know, a good lawyer, by the way, would have put in some clauses like that, for example, or be able to find a way to get around it.
00:22:04.000And it wasn't just her, but there were other people who took no, I hope so.
00:22:07.000And I've obviously like, Charlie, of course, none of this should have been brought in the first place.
00:22:11.000No, it's this was this was obviously corrupt.
00:22:14.000And I think that their prior, their pre-existing relationship, and I've tweeted this, and I said, and again, just because I said I can't be mean doesn't mean I can't be truthful.
00:22:22.000And it seems to me that this entire case was brought because she was looking at a way to get her own piggy bank out of this, that she would be able to charge the more people she charged, the more money she would be able to requisition, make special allocations from the state government, which, by the way, if you go back to Mike Roman's original allegations on this, that there was a pot of COVID money, which, by the way, would be federal funds.
00:23:17.000And it's so glaring that well, our entire system does rely upon essentially imposing a calculation on people of should I plead guilty even if I truthfully believe I am innocent.
00:23:52.000I was talking to Josh McCoon, who's the chairman of the Georgia GOP today.
00:23:56.000He was texting me and took time out of his day to message me and ask for help, actually.
00:24:01.000So this is the message: her entire office should be and needs to be disqualified because if her entire office is not, then there certainly is no way for those people to reverse out of those plea deals.
00:24:14.000And so I don't know all the ins and outs.
00:24:17.000And somebody that's a much more in tune and somebody has a JD could probably actually tell us.
00:24:22.000But my understanding would be is probably if they threw the whole thing out and transferred it to a different county, then that would start the whole process over again.
00:24:30.000And so that, and even that county would have to re-look at everybody who's being processed.
00:24:35.000If the crime didn't commit in their county, they wouldn't there be jurisdictional issues.
00:24:39.000Well, that's the point is because she has cost herself a problem here, then another county would have to take over, but the other county could make the decision to just drop the whole thing, which now that that's not the way they wanted this whole thing to go, obviously.
00:24:57.000They wanted this to be in Fulton for a reason.
00:26:46.000So the Idaho House has just approved House Bill 515.
00:26:51.000It hasn't become law yet, but it's advancing.
00:26:53.000And what the bill would do is it would impose the death penalty as a potential penalty in cases of lewd conduct with children under the age of 12 with aggravating circumstances.
00:27:06.000So aggravated child sexual abuse could be a capital offense in the state of Idaho if they pass this.
00:27:12.000Now, for the time being, this would not be constitutional because the Supreme Court in a past more liberal time, they banned that.
00:27:22.000I think Louisiana had that in its laws.
00:27:24.000But new Supreme Court, take another shot at it.
00:27:27.000And so the discussion would be: do we support this, number one?
00:27:31.000And two, do we support it for anything else?
00:28:55.000I would say if I have a concern, it is probably that specifically child sexual abuse is a crime that we have such a moral revulsion to that this will sound weird, but we do stuff now.
00:29:11.000Like we just go back and we accuse some of stuff that happened 20 years ago and people get convicted of this.
00:29:20.000But I would worry about us having a death penalty offense where someone could come forward and say, this person sexually abused me 20 years ago, 30 years ago, and there's no meaningful way to find yourself.
00:30:05.000But anyway, he's so let me ask you a question.
00:30:08.000If somebody, theoretically, I don't want to get sued, if it came out that Woody Allen was a pedophile, theoretically, there's no evidence of that.
00:32:02.000It was like they would make him get drunk on communion wine and then they would rape him, you know, immediately before or after a mass, just totally wild stuff.
00:32:11.000And they offered a plea deal to the priest at the center of this where they said, you know, if he pleaded, he was very old.
00:32:17.000If you plead guilty, you won't get prison time.
00:32:20.000And he refused it, saying, I am innocent, and I will never confess to a crime I did not commit.
00:32:26.000So, he is convicted, goes to prison, gets a treatable heart condition, which they refuse to allow him to get treated because he is imprisoned, and dies of this.
00:32:36.000And they also paid the boy in this case 20 million dollars, some huge settlement.
00:32:42.000And that is still a law as far as it is.
00:32:59.000Is that this was obviously and spectacularly made up.
00:33:02.000This man, the accuser, had a history, had a criminal history, had a history of fabrications and lying.
00:33:09.000And it seems extremely clear that he took advantage of a moral frenzy, made up wild allegations, and people were just willing to endorse those.
00:33:16.000So, are we talking about if I remember?
00:33:19.000No, I was just going to say one of one of the big issues, Blake.
00:33:22.000And I haven't read the article recently, but it was something about like the he made a lot of very specific allegations early on.
00:33:31.000And then later, when they went to, you know, really just horrific stuff.
00:33:35.000And then when they went to actually check and like get him to, you know, the second round of questioning, all of the allegations started changing.
00:33:46.000And that's what they'll do this where you'll have these shrinks who will come out and they'll say, well, actually, the contradictions in their story make it more likely that it's true, Charlie.
00:34:51.000That if you take life, you have should have a life taken from you.
00:34:54.000Again, it's in all five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
00:34:58.000I said something on the show that wasn't necessarily true.
00:35:00.000I said it was the only law repeated five times.
00:35:02.000I think love your God, obviously, love God is all five times repeated, but it is repeated five times, which is very unusual in all five books of the Torah, the main canon of the Old Testament.
00:35:11.000But all the numerologists, right now, or yeah, but Jack, I want to ask you a question as our resident Catholic who's fasting for Lent, you can answer this honestly.
00:35:20.000Why are the Catholics, and I have such respect for Catholics, you know that this is not like some sort of trick.
00:35:30.000Yeah, well, so there's there's there's a you know an urge, I think, to follow the words of Pope Francis as basically covering all Catholics, and it's just not true, right?
00:35:42.000So there's a huge split within the Catholic Church.
00:35:45.000Hold on, Jack, this is dogma before Francis, just so we're clear.
00:35:48.000Yeah, so not dogma before because prior to, no, it's not, because prior to Francis, you even even as recently as Pope Pius, where it was very clear on the death penalty, was saying that the death penalty exists not as essentially not as a revenge on the person, but because and not as the deprivation of life, but because the right to life has been has been lost by the person who took life in the first place.
00:36:14.000And so you have popes very recently before Francis coming out and saying that there's just full-throated 100% support for, again, as we are caveating valid cases of using the death penalty.
00:36:28.000And so this really has been a huge shift that Francis had made.
00:36:32.000Now, other popes, as you say, prior to Francis had made some statements in that direction, but this has been a huge change by Pope Francis to be pushing this major anti-death penalty status.
00:36:43.000And so you will really find a lot of Catholics, myself included, that are on both sides of that issue, because there's been this huge, this huge shift.
00:36:50.000And obviously, by the way, I don't think there's anyone who could say that if you look at church history, that, oh, yeah, the Catholic Church was always against the death penalty.
00:37:57.000What I would say is the catechism of the church right now teaches that the death penalty is unacceptable and you are supposed to believe the catechism of the Catholic Church.
00:38:18.000So the encyclical was John Paul II and this was the gospel of life.
00:38:23.000But again, as you say, the encyclical is so that, you know, kind of using that pro-life language to say that, you know, we protect the innocent rights of the unborn as well as all life.
00:38:36.000And so it's sort of, it's sort of eroding that past support for the death penalty, which as, again, is very recent in church history.
00:38:45.000And clearly, if you look at the 2,000 years of Catholic Church history, has much longer standing than the current reading.
00:38:56.000So John Paul II, he disliked the death penalty.
00:38:59.000He wrote things saying it was bad, you know, not desirable.
00:39:04.000Benedict XVI, his successor, he called for abolishing the death penalty, which is entirely within his right to do so.
00:39:12.000And Pope Francis started with that, and then he has upgraded it to essentially saying a good Catholic should not support the death penalty.
00:40:03.000What I will say, even if those of you that are in the audience against the death penalty, what I don't understand is committing your life to advocacy for people that have done really bad things and not giving a darn about people in the womb that have done nothing, that are completely innocent.
00:40:20.000That's the moral equivalency I've never understand.
00:40:22.000People say, well, how can you be against the death penalty, but also, I mean, in favor of death penalty, but also against abortion.
00:40:29.000I always found that weird and people use it like it was a strong argument.
00:40:32.000I think it's one of the worst arguments because the baby has done nothing.
00:40:36.000Deep down, I think a lot of liberals see themselves in every vicious murderer who has been sentenced to death.
00:40:43.000And so they sympathize with them quite openly.
00:40:52.000And the idea that it's always just very difficult for me to imagine having too much sympathy for anyone where you could have done literally anything with your entire life and you chose to wantonly kill someone, prey on anyone, destroy a child's life.
00:41:13.000And so that could be a follow-up to this, which is, is there anything else you would support the death penalty for?
00:41:22.000They're defrauding thousands of people out of their life savings.
00:41:25.000Yeah, mass fraud, which China executes people for this.
00:41:29.000If you engage in severe fraud or severe government misconduct of some egregious corruption, that, and then also even just something like really depraved forms of armed robbery or assault.
00:41:44.000If you could do anything with your life and you like there's people in cities who do carjackings and then they shoot someone or those guys who were driving that car in Vegas and they killed that cyclist by running him over.
00:42:25.000And he says so eloquently, it's the most eloquent quote I could find summarizing basically what we're saying about the difference between these two types of individuals that we encounter in our societies, the innocence of a child, which obviously is what pedophilia defiles, right?
00:42:43.000It defiles the innocence of a child, so directly connected to this, versus a hardened murderer.
00:42:49.000And here's Pope Pius XII, and this is 1952.
00:42:52.000When it is a question of the execution of a condemned man, the state does not dispose of the individual's right to life.
00:43:00.000In this case, it is reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned person of the enjoyment of life in expiation of his crime when by his crime, he has already disposed himself of his right to life.
00:43:16.000Any final thoughts before we get to the next topic?
00:43:49.000Like, you need a couple of Ron Pauls in Congress.
00:43:52.000We need a couple of really crazy states in these United States to be like, we're going to do some really crazy stuff, and that's going to balance out.
00:44:03.000It's like we should be negotiating from as extreme as possible.
00:44:06.000Idaho is so deep-red, we need them to do stuff like this.
00:44:10.000So then maybe we'll take pedophilia more seriously in California and Arizona and everywhere else because we have the left, the radical left, is trying to normalize pedophilia.
00:44:22.000So it's okay to normalize killing people for pedophilia.
00:44:25.000And he's, they might be a lot of people.
00:44:26.000You know, Russia doesn't have it, by the way.
00:44:36.000It proves that America is a more democratic country because if you poll on it, the death penalty is popular for murder in almost every country.
00:44:44.000And yet in Europe, no one has the death penalty.
00:45:22.000Nathan Wade would try to say that, well, it was 1159, Your Honor.
00:45:29.000And no, and I, as far as other death penalties, I think what some of those guys did to Donald Trump to use the instruments of government to destroy the constitutional order, that that should be under consideration.
00:45:41.000News headlines in recent weeks report that Mark Zuckerberg, who made his big tech billions by collecting data on your interactions, is building an apocalypse shelter.
00:45:50.000And while that is unsettling and eerie in and of itself, Joe Biden gets involved too, and we all need to start paying attention.
00:45:56.000It's never a good sign when a president starts doomsday prepping with a close to 90% of pharmaceuticals in the U.S. produced outside of the U.S., what happens when the next global crisis strikes?
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00:46:28.000But if you want life-saving ivermectin, which saved Tyler's life, it's eight life-saving potential medications: a moxtacillin, ZPAC, ivermectin.
00:47:56.000And so, so when we got back, though, what was amazing for me was that my first emergency medical kit from the wellness company was waiting for me right on the doorstep.
00:48:08.000We just, you know, just come in literally, I guess, like the delivery truck just been there right before I got back from the airport.
00:48:13.000And I was like, boom, I just grabbed that thing and I snatched it up in my hand and I opened it and I was like, oh my gosh, it's everything that I need.
00:48:23.000And, you know, take the, you know, the whole, the whole bit of what it is aside from you.
00:48:31.000Like, you know, we talk about, oh, we're the most advanced country.
00:48:34.000We're obviously going to be talking about that in a later segment.
00:48:36.000But it's such a pain to get basic medication in this country because you have to go to urgent care and then you have to wait in the waiting line and then you have to get checked.
00:48:45.000And then, you know, or if you want to go to your PCP, you've got to get an appointment and then you got to go to CBS or wherever it is.
00:50:38.000If all of a sudden you look at some of these savages, like in Indiana, there was this guy that went in and killed a pregnant woman and her three kids.
00:51:05.000I think you maybe at age 12, whenever sixth grade or so, you are a person, you know, they're old enough to, you don't, you don't need to like really wallow in it and have them be broken on a wheel or anything.
00:51:16.000But if it was something like chopping, you know, if we had a guillotine or something.
00:51:21.000I think it's the age where they can't be, you know, it's, I think there's too early and you become desensitized to maybe like this.
00:51:28.000I think it's when you can actually embrace.
00:51:31.000But it should also be taken in a holy way.
00:51:53.000So my argument would be younger people get involved with that because they're with around older people who do those things.
00:51:59.000I want you to imagine every day, all of a sudden they said, and today, remember that awful five, you know, the guy that went and shot up a school?
00:52:06.000Because, you know, the left hates school shooters, and so do we, but they focus on the gun.
00:53:52.000If we were going to, if we were, if you really want to have a question about, look, look, if you were a criminal and you were convicted or, you know, convicted and you were sentenced, but you were given a choice, you're going to say, all right, 20 years in jail or 20 lashes.
00:54:17.000If you commit what we would call a heinous crime, if you commit a crime against a human being and take their life, the current way that we do this is you get room and board and food for the remainder.
00:54:29.000Has that made society safer, lessened heinous crimes?
00:54:34.000Wouldn't it make sense to put the law, justice, on display for other people to see what happens when you do these things?
00:54:43.000I totally agree with Jack to the lashing part too.
00:55:10.000I don't even think these are thought crimes.
00:55:11.000I don't know how anyone could disagree with me.
00:55:14.000No, but you like you look at we brought up Jodi Arias because we were talking about why Mormons kill like their families and stuff like that and all that stuff.
00:56:16.000You need two witnesses, and it only is levying war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to its enemies.
00:56:22.000They give that precise definition because in England, they had the problem of that liberal use of treason where you're undermining the, you know, the body politic.
00:56:35.000And that's why there's a ban on bills of attainder because, for example, during the English Revolution against King Charles, they passed a bill of attainer and just executed a guy because they said basically he was a bad dude.
00:56:49.000And Parliament just said, we don't need a judge.
00:59:12.000So in the Bush era, social conservatism was like the, you know, the rule of the land and social conservative.
00:59:20.000And it got like to the point where, wasn't John Ashcroft at one point was like trying to cover up the nipple on the statue of the lady of justice because it was like, oh, this is too lurid and we have to, you know, we have to cover that up.
00:59:34.000And like this, it just went like super, super, you know, super far in one direction, almost to the point of where we're stifling everything.
00:59:44.000So this is where, so high school musical comes out in this era and theater culture, you know, really latches onto it.
00:59:50.000And then along comes a TV show called Glee.
00:59:54.000And a lot of people don't realize that Glee, which came out right around the same time that social media got launched, right around the same time that smartphones got launched.
01:00:19.000It was supposed to be like a, like a parody, like a Monty Python thing.
01:00:22.000But the problem was the fans and like who are all millennials that are suck at home because of the Great Recession and they can't get jobs and they're all in debt.
01:00:30.000They start watching Glee and they start falling in love with it and they start taking it a little bit too seriously.
01:00:38.000This becomes the plague ship for all identity politics and like, which later becomes wokeness and all of this stuff goes back to that original glee fandom, which was meant as a parody of high school musical.
01:00:56.000And we have a huge piece written by Bill Hurrell, edited by myself, humanevents.com.
01:01:03.000I published it two years ago now, full two years ago.
01:01:05.000And I talked about all this on Timcast.
01:01:09.000And, you know, I got a lot of attacks for it.
01:01:12.000But, and because I said, I'm not saying that Glee invented wokeness.
01:01:16.000And this is what people don't understand.
01:01:17.000It's that it was theater culture plus identity politics plus social media plus Barack Obama getting into office plus the rise of smartphones and the economic depression because all the millennials' lives ended up sucking, which by the way is one of the songs in Glee that suddenly it became this way to like relive your high school in a better way, a more fun way.
01:01:43.000And it basically spills over and leads to the point where it's kind of taking over society now.
01:01:50.000And it's interesting because what Wicked did, and again, just so I understand the four-part move here, high school musical glee, wicked, frozen.
01:01:58.000We can get to that later, but it's like a four-part move here.
01:02:02.000And it got increasingly, glee was definitely the most radical of them all as far as introducing some of these elements.
01:02:09.000And then there's also cheer as well, which is kind of involved in this, which has its own issues.
01:02:15.000But Jack, can you riff on theater culture?
01:02:25.000But theater culture is very, very left-wing, is very, very, very woke.
01:02:34.000Yeah, so theater culture, again, you're talking about a culture where, so, so we always say that like the left is people that are in touch with their emotions.
01:02:43.000And of course, in theater, you are called to emote.
01:02:46.000You are called to portray emotions, false emotions, performative emotions in a stage setting for an entertainment purpose.
01:02:57.000So for people who are empaths, people who are empathetic, you are drawn to theater.
01:03:03.000And particularly, we're talking, and I want to be clear about this.
01:03:06.000We're particularly talking about actors and the people that are actually on screen or on stage, because traditionally, it wasn't necessarily the people who were the directors, the producers, and the writers that were involved in this.
01:03:23.000Alfred Hitchcock actually has this famous statement that actors are cattle.
01:03:29.000And so you get these people who are just so sucked into the deconstruction of emotion, the deconstruction of narrative, in order to normally and nominally perform the construction of narrative.
01:03:43.000Then you get these wonderful stories when it's produced through the lens of a great director, a great writer.
01:03:50.000But then when you have theater people who start to create their own things, their own society, their own institutions, when they start getting involved in things like politics, when they start getting, and by the way, if you've ever known theater people, if you do theater people at college or in high school, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
01:04:10.000Everybody knows who I'm talking about.
01:04:15.000But you take the director out and you start having theater people directing other theater people.
01:04:20.000And the only thing that comes of it is absolute madness and sheer insanity.
01:04:26.000This is kind of where, like, you know, Ben Shapiro's famous aphorism of a factual care about your feelings is actually kind of like a response to the fact that the feelings crowd has taken over everything and that we all lead with feelings now.
01:04:43.000This started with stuff like Glee and Wicked and Frozen and High School Musical and all of that kind of taking over society.
01:04:52.000And this is where you get, by the way, like a Jen Saki who's making these references and you get, do you, okay, people think, you know, for anybody who wants to say like, oh, posto is making this up or anything, I'm not reading the chat right now.
01:05:02.000But it, do you guys remember the Disinformation Governance Board?
01:05:06.000This was this board where she was singing theater songs, Nina Yankovich, and also participated in and created this, a Harry Potter musical act called The Moaning Myrtles, but at the same time was working for, was working for, at one point, the Ukrainian government directly as a quote-unquote disinformation researcher, which is just so amazing.
01:05:36.000Then she comes to the U.S. government where she's focused on the disinformation governance board.
01:05:40.000Again, at the Department of Homeland Security, a law enforcement agency where she's going to be coming after people like us.
01:05:46.000Then she, I believe she's currently, or last I checked after she got fired because somebody, me, a couple of years back blew this entire thing up, blew the lid on the disinformation governance board.
01:05:55.000Then she went to work for the British government, basically doing the same thing.
01:05:58.000She's worked for like all these different governments.
01:06:00.000And it's like there's this weird tie between like the national security state and the theater people, which produces Anina Yankovich that's somehow doing Harry Potter songs and comes from the Harry Potter fan.
01:06:15.000So fandoms of things like fandoms of glee, fandoms of Harry Potter, fandoms of the current fandom of Star Wars, example, just totally infested with identity politics, are now actually and quite literally taking over our national security agencies.
01:07:06.000And then he also just stays around and he does some stuff on what life is like in Moscow, the Russian capital.
01:07:11.000And so he does one clip that's he goes to the Russian subway system, which at the least has more impressive stations than DC or New York does.
01:07:22.000We can get into the rest of it, but they are very nice looking stations.
01:07:25.000And then he also goes, he does a video where he visits a Russian grocery store, buys a bunch of food, and leaves with it.
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01:09:36.000I went from amused to legitimately angry.
01:09:41.000So we were guessing what this would cost.
01:09:43.000Everybody here is from the United States buys groceries, and we didn't pay any attention to costs as we were just putting in the car what we would actually eat over a week.
01:09:50.000And we all came in around 400 bucks, about 400 bucks.
01:09:58.000And that's when you start to realize that ideology maybe doesn't matter as much as you thought.
01:10:03.000Corruption, if you take people's standard of living and you tank it through filth and crime and inflation, and they literally can't buy the groceries they want, at that point, maybe it matters less what you say or whether you're a good person or a bad person.
01:10:18.000You're wrecking people's lives in their country.
01:10:20.000And that's what our leaders have done to us.
01:10:23.000And coming to a Russian grocery store, the heart of evil, and seeing what things cost and how people live, it will radicalize you against our leaders.
01:10:56.000So to be fair, you know, there's been a little bit more development in Russia since then.
01:11:01.000The life, I'll say this, and Jack will probably agree with this: the lifestyle in the Moscow region versus the rest of the entire Massachusetts.
01:11:10.000It's a European city versus a third world country.
01:11:13.000It's like a real city that's like an American city in Moscow, everywhere else outside in St. Petersburg too, Petersburg.
01:11:22.000But outside of that, everything south and east of Moscow is very not fun.
01:12:31.000Outside of that, your selections are very limited.
01:12:35.000So yeah, things are cheaper, but it's not like when a Russian comes to America and they go through our supermarkets everywhere, like in the middle, you know, middle of nowhere, they're like, oh my gosh, I can't believe you have all this.
01:12:47.000Like, how do people eat through all this, this much food?
01:12:50.000Yeah, I think Angela makes a really good point, though, because some people think, though, and I think the video is very powerful in this regard, that Russia still has breadlines and they're this impoverished, just like dictatorial.
01:13:00.000But they kind of do outside of Moscow because there's so many people on pensions there.
01:13:07.000Well, that's what I'm saying is that almost everyone's on the government dole in Moscow or they're connected through the world.
01:13:14.000Moscow is like normal life everywhere outside of Moscow.
01:13:17.000And St. Petersburg is like completely dependent on the pension.
01:13:22.000Let me explain what Producer Angelo was trying to say here is that his point was that to a lot of the audience, so a lot of people remember sort of the to the to an older audience out there.
01:13:33.000And they remember the, when they hear Moscow, they think Soviet Union and they think of breadlines and they think of what life was like during that time.
01:13:41.000And they remember the old Yeltsin video where he came to the U.S.
01:13:44.000And Tyler, it's kind of what you're referring to when he comes to the U.S. in like the early 90s and he has this, wow, look at a supermarket.
01:14:02.000It was a Houston supermarket that I've been talking about.
01:14:05.000And then there's also, and, and so, what, what producer Angelo is saying, um, he's just a message in the chat is that, you know, perhaps what Tucker is doing is kind of pushing, not pushing back, but just kind of updating people's frame on where things stand.
01:14:25.000Because, you know, like Tyler, you were there as a spy, obviously, in 2007.
01:14:30.000But, you know, for other people, they just remember the Cold War era.
01:15:48.000I would ride on the train and I would just randomly start talking into my shoe and like it's my watch and like just freak all the old people out.
01:15:54.000Yeah, that's a good way to get yourself reported to the kids.
01:16:34.000The food is so much better, so much more nutritious and so much more alive and nutrient-rich than anything you'll find in America outside of like, you know, farm to table.
01:16:44.000When we say farm to table, they just call that food in all of Europe.
01:16:50.000Like even if you're in Poland, it's, you know, I go spend time with my Polish relatives and they'll say, you know, where did these eggs come from?
01:16:56.000They're like, see those chickens across the street?
01:17:02.000That's where the milk you're drinking came from.
01:17:04.000You know, and this is just, this is just super normal.
01:17:07.000And the fact that we have so much fake food, or like when Tanya's family comes to visit, even her father, well, he sees American food and he's like, not all of it, but a lot of it.
01:17:20.000It doesn't taste like it's got nutrients.
01:17:22.000And if you've never been to, you know, Europe and just any part of it, you know, even, you know, Western Europe is definitely obviously more expensive than anything that you're going to see east of Berlin.
01:17:33.000But even in like quote unquote cheaper Eastern European areas, you know, the food you're going to get is so much more healthy, so much more nutrient-rich.
01:17:41.000And you're going to say, wow, I've never tasted bread before.
01:17:54.000The Twitter did have community notes where they said over 60% of Russians spend half of their salary on food, according to Russia's state-owned news agency.
01:18:03.000The average wage in Russia was 73,000 rubles per month, which is $791 a month with today's exchange rate.
01:18:10.000And that's also a big part of this is that due to U.S. sanctions on Russia, the value of the ruble versus the U.S. dollar has gotten really crazy just in the last couple of years.
01:18:22.000And so that does mean if you are a tourist from America going to Russia, the buying power of your dollar is really, really strong.
01:18:29.000And that is going to make the price seem really jarring in comparison.
01:18:34.000But that's not necessarily the best reflection on is Russia better or worse than America.
01:18:40.000I'll never forget my first day in Nova Churkovsk when I first got there.
01:18:45.000This was a place that was famous because there was like this big murder scene that happened in Novichikovsky.
01:22:50.000But some of them are interesting because, for example, there's a lot of reason to believe that the high rate of centenarians in Sardinia might be less that they live really healthy lives and more that the rural areas of Italy never quite hit the industrial revolution.
01:23:07.000And so they don't have good record keeping.
01:23:09.000And so a lot of people they believe are doing pension scams in Sardinia.
01:23:14.000That might be true, but it like there's an entire ring of islands in Greece that replicate that.
01:23:24.000I think it might be similar with those, which is we have fringe parts of not super industrialized European of countries of European countries.
01:23:33.000European countries that have that are pretty nice, but then they have some fringe areas that aren't as developed or modernized.
01:23:40.000And so it's rural, not super developed islands in Greece, rural, super not-developed islands in Italy, and then the most rural, less developed part of Japan.
01:23:50.000Let me ask you, they eat a lot of fish in both those places too.
01:24:15.000We're eating in a grain that is less impossible for us.
01:24:18.000I feel like when people say the food is better, they sort of mean on this abstract level that all of the foods are just a step of different, they have different agricultural practices.
01:25:21.000But I think what a lot of it is is America has this base tier of diet that a lot of people eat that is, we know it's trashy and we just kind of eat it anyway.
01:25:31.000What you are saying, which is smart, is that if you're a tourist to America and you eat the best food we have to offer, our food can actually be very tasty.
01:25:38.000Our food is really tasty, and it can be really healthy, and it's still not expensive.
01:25:43.000What in American fare can be, quote, really healthy?
01:28:23.000And I think America has a very strong food purity culture, which causes a lot of people to kind of go insane and think, I need to shop at one of only these two or three places or these restaurants.
01:28:34.000And if I don't do this, I will turn into this like land whale or a monster and I will die of heart disease.
01:28:39.000And no, it's kind of an 80-20 principle.
01:28:42.000Most of the really horrible stuff in American food, you can cut out pretty easily.
01:29:34.000Everyone's decided, it's just everyone repeats it.
01:29:36.000And then they go on vacation and they like it.
01:29:40.000Can I just say one thing on this, the American food debate?
01:29:43.000Because even though American food may not be as healthy as it could be and should be and is in other places of the world, no one has the flavor options with diversity.