The Culture War #84 January 6: When Democracy Ended | The Culture War with Tim Pool
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On January 6th, 2011, the streets of Washington, D.C. were the scene of one of the most violent anti-American insurrections in American history. On this episode of the podcast, we re joined by two men who were there that day: Joel Berry of The Babylon Bee and Adam Johnson of The Lectern Guy, and Steve Baker of The New York Times. They tell us what they saw, what they heard, and what happened that day, and how it changed the way the country looks at the events of that day and the events that came to pass. This episode is brought to you by Betonline, the leading gaming company in Canada, and Gambling Ontario, a leading provider of financial advice and support to the gaming industry. Betonline is a leading player in the $1.5 billion-a-day gaming industry, with more than $1B in annual revenue, making it the second-largest casino company in the world by revenue, behind only Las Vegas Sands. Gambling is legal in Canada and available for purchase in most major Canadian banks, with $100,000 and up to $150,000 in credit! BetOnline is the leading the market leader in online gaming, with over $1M in monthly revenue, and has the highest market cap in the entire Fortune 500 league, making them the only company with the highest grossing casino account in North America, surpassing the $100 million-dollar company in terms of revenue, according to Forbes Magazine. . and the third-largest in the Fortune 500, and the number 1st in the fastest-grossing casino game in the history of any other casino company by any non-targeted gambling firm in the U.S. market in the last 5 years (alongside the Forbes 30 years, ranked by Forbes Magazine and Forbes Magazine). . BetOnline has been listed in Forbes Magazine, Forbes has been ranked No. 1 in the past 5 years, and is No. 3 in the list of the past 3 years, making $1,000,000 or better than any other non-profit organization in any country by any other than . . . and No. 4 in the . in the third place in the country by Forbes ranked by revenue. The Economist, in 2019, in 2018, in the category of . . , and . . In 2019, The Economist named them the most influential person in the annual list of American magazine.
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This country faced a dark day. Violence in the streets of Washington, D.C.
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The seat of power of this country was assaulted in a way that we never expected.
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Hundreds of police officers were injured. Barricades were torn down.
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You could see smoke rising up from the city streets.
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I was terrified when I saw this. I couldn't believe it was happening.
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Of course I'm referring to when Antifa attacked the White House and forced Donald Trump into the emergency bunker,
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set fire to St. John's Church and firebombed the White House. What are you guys here for?
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I thought May 29th was the only insurrection when the far left attacked the White House,
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tore down the barricades, firebombed the grounds and set fire to St. John's Church,
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You're forgetting about, it was a January 20th of 2017.
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But not processed. There's a difference. People don't understand.
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There was a lot of people arrested for violence.
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The DOJ started turning them all back out on the street again, canceling their cases.
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The few that went to trial were either hung juries or they were acquitted by D.C.
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juries, of course. Something that is not happening to them.
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Hold on there a minute. You're saying that there were two insurrections?
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Don't tell me there was a third one on another date at some point three years ago in January,
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Why don't we just, why don't everybody introduce themselves now that we're done being morons?
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I'm the managing editor of The Babylon Bee and one of the writers for a new movie that is coming out
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called January 6th, The Most Darkest Day, which is a very, very serious and thorough examination
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We have two men who know it all firsthand, in fact.
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We do. My name is Adam Johnson, or The Lectern Guy, as I'm more notably known online and in chat rooms.
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You can find me on Twitter. That's the only place I'm at.
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It's a bunch of kids, went to prison, not out of prison now, and things are going better.
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I know it was hard for you because originally your branding was Podium Guy,
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and you tried really hard to correct the record.
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A lot of people who just don't understand that Getty Images takes photo, and Via Getty means by Getty Images.
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It was, but these are the people of Twitter 1.0.
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Well, there are those who would contend with that.
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But, yeah, Steve Baker, I'm with the Blaze Medium, investigative journalist for them.
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On that infamous day back in 2021, January 6th, I was actually independent at the time.
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And so because I did not submit my story to either the New Yorker or the New York Times or someone like that,
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well, let me – I have to correct my own record.
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One of the first entities that bought and licensed my videos was the New York Times for their documentary,
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And yet still, nevertheless, because my view of what happened that day was a little bit different than the approved narrative,
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they finally – it took them over three years, but they finally put me in leg chains.
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The video that came out of they shackled you, like just some mild-mannered journalist,
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and they're like, let's make an example of them.
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Yeah, and the thing is that they didn't have to do that.
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I was in the courtroom with actual felony defendants who were allowed to wear their suit and tie
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But they instructed my attorney on the morning before I had to self-present,
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told them that I had to show up in shorts, T-shirt, and flip-flops.
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It's in an email to my attorney from the Department of Justice.
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You wanted – they wanted you looking up like a slub.
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And I knew, of course, if they did that, that meant that that was an easier transfer
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And so I asked my attorney, I said, why are they doing – because they didn't have to do this.
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And first of all, we're talking about I'm a misdemeanor defendant, nonviolent misdemeanor
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So felony guys are just walking into the courtroom with their lawyers.
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Nonviolent misdemeanor defendant is brought in in leg chains and belly chains with my wrist cuffed to my stomach.
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No, I take offense to this because I actually showed up in a white v-neck shorts and flip-flops intentionally.
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And honestly, I have no respect for that court system.
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Well, you're – I mean, you might steal their electorate and they didn't know.
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I mean, is there any reason that they had to – I mean, could you have done actual damage to these guys in the courtroom?
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And that is exactly – because I asked my attorney.
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You've been poking them in the eye for three years and this is retribution.
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And that's a – and my attorney is a 23-year former federal prosecutor himself.
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Well, y'all are working on a documentary to show the world the true evils of these men.
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Yeah, we – I mean, it's – we didn't really necessarily set out to make something that, you know, we need to change the narrative.
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We need to stand – you know, at the Babylon Bee, all we're trying to do most of the time is look for the funny.
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You know, we're looking for the funniest thing that we can think of.
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And I think one of the funniest things that has happened over the last three years has just been the leftist reaction to January 6th has been so melodramatic and over the top.
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You know, the way they brought in, like, an ABC TV executive to, you know, write the narrative for the January 6th hearings.
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And it's – you know, and we've done headlines for three years about this, about, you know, how they're doing the January 6th cinematic extended universe and just kind of making fun of how it's really all just – I mean, it's a Hollywood thing.
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And so we decided to just make fun of it because it really is just by itself very funny.
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And what I have been surprised to hear, you know, just from people who have already screened it, we've sent it to a few, you know, January 6th defendants.
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They've said this is the best defense and indictment of the left in their response to January 6th that I've seen.
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And I think there's something powerful in just – we made this documentary in kind of a leftist voice.
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And he's very angry and serious about January 6th.
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And we just kind of played it earnestly all the way through.
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And you kind of realize as you're watching it just how ridiculous this whole thing is.
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There's an off-Broadway play right now that's came out.
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There's an off-Broadway play right now of January 6th.
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It is – I mean, it almost makes me mad because it's almost funnier than what we made.
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You smashed through police barricades and you overtook the United States Capitol.
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You carried your weapon on the federal grounds.
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Okay, I carried my weapon on the federal grounds that we own, that American citizens own.
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I have every constitutional right to carry a weapon and take over Congress.
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Just because a law is written does not mean it's the right law.
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So this is the story of the kid who turned his dad in.
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And it's funny because, like, if you really want to imagine what those conversations were actually like,
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the dad's sitting in the chair, slumped over with his belly sticking out, holding a beer.
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It was the actual real name of the character that was arrested and went to trial.
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He carried a firearm illegally into the district.
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There were a lot of people that carried firearms.
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There was a lot of places to hold, you know, and keep a gun concealed.
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So there was a lot more of that going on there that day than we would want to even admit.
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But the most important thing that everyone has to understand is that not a single person in the crowd used those weapons against law enforcement.
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But it's kind of funny how they've turned it into the apocalypse.
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And that's why I opened the show by talking about May 29th, 2020.
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Because at the very least, you could make the argument, by all means, say they're comparable.
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The president was forced into an emergency bunker.
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And actually, I would say it's not even fair to call it comparable because the far left injured over 100 officers, set fire to St. John's Church.
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And they firebombed the White House grounds, tearing down the barricades.
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The photos of that day are insane of the smoke rising up from the streets of D.C. from the helicopter shots.
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It might also be pertinent to say that the people that day, all of them were kind of in accord.
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The majority of people on January 6th were not there to do violent things.
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And the timing is what, again, because the media won't cover this accurately, they don't understand that those violent provocateurs, those people that had intention of stirring something up that day, they were already there at the Capitol long before Trump ever finished his speech.
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And, you know, because that whole thing erupted 20, 25 minutes before Trump ever left the stage.
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This is a historic presidential church across the street from the White House.
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And you can see that they broke into St. John's Church and they set a massive fire.
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All the while, they were attacking police officers, setting fire in the street at the White House.
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And I think the estimates are, they say, somewhere between, like, I don't know, what is it, like 140 officers were injured that day.
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You know, I actually blame Republicans because they did not treat this with the severity that they should have.
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And following this event, they should have had committee hearings.
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They should have said, how was the White House assaulted by these extremists?
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How was it that Donald Trump was forced into a bunker?
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And so when Donald Trump, after they clear the riot, the insurrection out, Trump takes a photo with the Bible at St. John's Church.
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Fortunately, firefighters were able to put the fire out.
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Then they said, Trump attacked peaceful protesters for a photo op.
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Yeah, the way they turned that narrative around.
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And yeah, I agree with you about the Republicans and their failure to address this.
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It's almost like leftist violence has become so ubiquitous we're desensitized to it.
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It's just we've kind of taken it for granted at this point that that's their MO.
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That's the way leftists get their stuff done is through political violence.
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Whereas, you know, the crowd on January 6th, we're talking about the most law-abiding peaceful people in the nation.
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I mean, these are people who own and build businesses, who have families, who have never done anything crazy like this.
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The fact that even some of them were driven to this point, what the narrative should be is what pushed these normal people over the edge to this.
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Are you guys familiar with Broadway plays or anything like that?
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I just couldn't help but notice that on this promo that MSNBC has for the off-Broadway play, it says, conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs.
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And I'm like, is it normal for people to plaster their name in Broadway?
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It just says a lot about a person who is like, I made this.
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Aaron Sorkin is scripting a movie about January 6th, which is hilarious to me.
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Yeah, and having worked in newsrooms, I just, I cannot, that show is so absolutely awful.
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Yeah, and it's just, oh my God, the garbage that Sorkin makes where it's like, you really think people, this is what people think of these jobs now because of these shows.
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Lionizing these journalists as if they're like these, you know, they deeply care about the truth and what they're saying and they're just hacks.
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It's not, it's not like a, so Newsroom dealt with a lot of big stories, but I can give you one really simple example of how these newsrooms operate.
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And it's, it's, it's not as important of a story, but it was when the movie Ghost in the Shell came out and Scarlett Johansson was playing this character.
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And they said, the character who's the major, that's the, here it is a name, the character has a real name, but they call her the major, is a Japanese.
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And so, uh, well, you know, we've got a problem here.
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And, uh, I'm actually a fan of Ghost in the Shell.
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And so, uh, during the, uh, editorial meeting, there, these young whippersnapper millennials are like, we actually have a story here because Scarlett Johansson is white.
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And it's an anime where the character is supposed to be Japanese.
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And then on the call, I went, actually like a big premise of Ghost in the Shell is that the mind transcends these things.
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And actually the major, uh, is in a prosthetic body.
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So the, the idea of the show itself is that you, you, what makes you, you can be transferred to another body.
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So a lot of fans are actually praising that you have, uh, the story being a Japanese girl is, is nearly killed and they transfer her consciousness through cyberized nanites into a prosthetic body entirely.
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And I was like, fans are actually praising this saying this is an interesting way to spin it with a movie star.
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And then the editorial team just went, yeah, but we, we, we think white people, you know, so we're going to, we're going to run the angle there.
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But white people are bad and, um, we want the clicks and we want to accuse people of racism.
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And I'm like, okay, I think it's ridiculous because how many, how many TV shows and movies do they cast people who are not gay as gay characters?
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Nick Offerman in the last of us, you couldn't find a single gay guy in Hollywood to play that role.
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You've got to, you've got to take Ron Swanson from me.
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They, they, that any, any kind of masculine, you know, traditionally masculine cis character, um, eventually is going to have to be a woman.
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He's going to have to pay his penance by, um, playing a, like playing a, a gay guy.
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Yeah, Elon Musk is a, is categorized as a slur.
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Everyone says Heath Ledger off to himself because of, you know, playing the Joker.
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Who's going to play you in the January 6th movie?
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I mean, obviously someone who looks very much like me.
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Someone will, there, you'll probably be cast as, John Krasinski played me on Saturday Night Live.
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There was, there were families sitting around a table game night or something or a date night at someone's home.
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And the feds break in and they start arresting one person at a time because they were all at the Capitol.
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And Krasinski picks up a lectern from behind the couch and walks out with it.
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I think you know someone and then this happens.
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All right, but hop to it, Angela, because we got a lot of pioneering to get through.
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He kept saying, you still think I'm Chuck Norris, right?
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Freaked out that two of our friends just got arrested?
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So we didn't get to see him carry the lectern, but.
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I mean, I think that was the right choice for actor for you.
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Your imposing stature matches that of Krasinski.
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Do you have to pay Getty when you use your own photo?
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I know if I want to use it for things, I have to pay for some type of rights to use
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And I think it's like five grand for up to a million different sales or uses of it.
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All you got to do is put devil horns on yourself, and now it's transformative.
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So for those that missed this, there's a big part of the story that on, let me see,
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if, when you look at photographs in newspapers, Getty Images is a large image repository that
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So when they're using a photo on their website or newspaper, they have to include via Getty,
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Some journalists saw it, say, via Getty, and they assumed your name was via Getty?
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These are the people who used to rule the world.
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Oh, was this like a, it was a trending thing, wasn't it?
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It was actually, but they were like, who names their kid via Getty?
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I saw this post from JD Vance, and he had said something like, he's like, my two boys
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So, you know, I got to, you know, something, something.
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And some journalist, was it Stephanie Rule or whatever?
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She was just like 14 eggs a day between two people.
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And JD Vance was like, I once said I could sleep all day, and they fact-checked me saying
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Look, I know the NPC meme, it's meant to be a joke, but I genuinely wonder if these people
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have some kind of limited early stage AI for brains.
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They see a Via Gedi in an image, and they're like, his name is Via Gedi.
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It's like, did any of you think that study did come out where people, there are real NPCs.
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Well, it's true, but I've met people who are based, who say they don't.
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And I've talked to people and asked them, like, you know, you have no inner monologue?
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And they're like, I don't know what that means.
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You don't, like, think in chains of thoughts of consciousness and language?
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And they're like, I see pictures and, like, images?
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And I was like, okay, well, they weren't woke, and they seem to be answering my question.
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So I don't want to immediately just assume that anybody who can't formulate, you know,
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have an inner monologue is incapable of processes.
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I think NPCs are more like, there are people who are more communal in nature.
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People were excited to mask up because they thought, like, I'm a part of something bigger
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And that's, like, people who are religious, people who believe in God are kind of more
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immune to that because we already have something that's actually meaningful that's bigger than
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Those who don't are kind of looking for that, you know?
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And so there's that sense to where the NPCs that go along with the crowd, you're kind of
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finding meaning in something bigger than yourself.
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It's the same NPC mindset of these mainstream journalists that are still on the J6 beat, that
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are still writing stories about it, still covering the trials.
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And they can't seem to find their way to realize that 99.9998% of the people that were there
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that day, A, weren't insurrectionists, weren't there for any other issue.
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There were only, by the Department of Justice's own numbers, about 225 people that did violence.
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Now, they've charged more people with that because, you know, you get them for aiding and
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abetting or they were near it or they, you know, they touched the sign that was being
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passed over their head rather than, you know, it's just a normal response that you do.
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Or someone's pushing you from behind your hands go up to not fall over.
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I think we all know the atrocities committed by lectern man over here.
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Also, abusive language and abusive behavior because before and after the event, when I
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was outside of the restricted areas, I said some things I didn't like.
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Like, for instance, in my hotel room that night afterwards in Virginia, I called Nancy Pelosi
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Something I said in my hotel room on a podcast that night with another journalist.
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We pour, you know, we're literally pour an adult beverage.
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I'm joking about what we're seeing on the television, which was it was allegedly somebody had stolen
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So I said these words and it's in my charging documents.
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Can you imagine what I would have learned about the government?
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I say I say that they use those words against me that I wish.
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And then I tell the story about when I went down the hallway into her office suite.
00:28:09.300
So as I turned into that, and I've got my camera rolling the whole time.
00:28:12.380
So I go into the office suite and as soon as I see in my camera frames up on actual damage
00:28:20.380
in her office, tables flipped over, bookshelves are rifled, stuff's all over the floor.
00:28:24.520
In my head, I went, I got to get the heck out of Dodge because this is the first time I'd
00:28:32.540
So I actually saved that, that I said the word.
00:28:36.160
Unfortunately, I saw damage in Pelosi's office.
00:28:42.220
But I followed it up with, but it couldn't have happened to a more deserving bitch.
00:28:52.700
Well, I suppose they put that towards intent or something or motive.
00:28:57.860
That is exactly what they're trying to frame, what your intentions are, your mental mindset
00:29:07.080
There was another, I believe this is part of your story, there's another journalist who
00:29:10.760
had been basically in the same areas as you, was walking around with you, but his framing
00:29:14.380
of everything was insurrection, bad, bad, evil men.
00:29:18.500
Yeah, actually, Luke Mogelson, who submitted his story to the New Yorker, famously captured
00:29:24.900
the cell phone camera video of the QAnon shaman praying in the Senate and doing all the things
00:29:37.000
Luke captured that, wrote the story, submitted it to the New Yorker, and the title of his story
00:29:43.560
Well, that was his get-out-of-jail-free card right there.
00:29:46.540
But he actually went through a broken window before I did.
00:29:50.540
Then you can see, because I had access to all the Capitol CCTV, so I didn't have to wait
00:29:57.240
on discovery from the government to get all the video of me in the Capitol.
00:30:02.160
And not only that, but even though it's mark-sensitive or highly sensitive, which would mean I can't
00:30:09.440
release it unless it's used in a trial, I had received it directly from Speaker Johnson.
00:30:14.460
So I was able to release the entire 37 minutes of me inside the Capitol, and it shows me
00:30:20.080
behaving better than most of the journalists that were there that day.
00:30:25.100
I wasn't wearing any political attire, no Trump gear or anything like that.
00:30:28.220
I, you see me actually getting and moving away from the crowd, videotaping above and
00:30:34.160
away, and then stopping on occasion to actually take notes, you know, setting my backpack, my
00:30:43.120
Now, so what they try to do, as you said, Tim, is they try to frame the intent of my insurrectionism
00:30:53.340
But what they're not doing is they're not going after the other, we've cataloged right
00:30:59.060
now somewhere between 80 and 100 other journalists, freelancers, stringers, independents, social media
00:31:07.640
influencers, podcasters, including actual employees of major media companies who entered a restricted
00:31:16.880
Now, just because you work for the New York Times or just because you have a badge, a press
00:31:23.760
pass of any kind, that does not give you the legal right to enter a restricted space unless
00:31:28.180
you're given express permission to do so by law enforcement.
00:31:31.480
So anybody, especially a journalist, Journalism 101, first year in journalism school, no, you
00:31:37.420
cannot enter a taped off, you know, police area.
00:31:40.100
Your press pass does not give you permission to do that.
00:31:42.360
But somewhere in between 80 and 100 did do that.
00:31:47.000
But the only ones who have been charged so far are the ones, and there's been, there's
00:31:56.040
They tried to get into Nancy Pelosi's office or something, didn't they?
00:31:58.860
Well, they were there after hours when it was closed or something like that, and they
00:32:01.660
were like walking around where they weren't supposed to be unescorted and nobody, nobody
00:32:06.420
The argument they made, because Colbert actually addressed this, was we weren't there to protest.
00:32:10.300
We're just walking around, and it's like, okay, so get charged at trespass.
00:32:16.900
These are, there should be a standard of justice across the board.
00:32:26.480
He thought the fire alarm would unlock the door?
00:32:28.080
Yeah, but he knew better because he removed the two signs.
00:32:33.720
He thought that if he pulled the lever, the doors would fly open, and those signs could
00:32:37.160
go whipping out into the air, injuring someone, so he politely took them down before opening
00:32:42.140
Maybe he just did a lot of escape rooms, and he's like, there's a secret way to get out
00:32:44.700
this, so I've got to move a couple of signs around.
00:32:48.300
No, but that was the legal, if we're going to talk about the legal side of it, is that
00:32:54.020
the government is deliberately ignoring a hundred other individuals, allegedly press of some
00:33:00.040
sort, of some type, that entered a restricted space.
00:33:03.920
So we have, actually on the table right now, I should, we should probably hear within the
00:33:08.100
week, we have a motion to dismiss my case based on selective prosecution.
00:33:13.440
And then not only is it very well written, very well presented to the judge to rule upon,
00:33:20.700
but even if he rules against it, which we expect him to do, it's about a 50-50 chance
00:33:25.840
that because in the motion we demand that the government provide for us the discovery
00:33:33.520
And that will piss them off, and they will not have time to provide that discovery in
00:33:57.560
They have offered me the right, the opportunity rather, to plea down to the glorified trespassing
00:34:04.360
charge, which is entering and remaining in a restricted space, as my single and only charge.
00:34:08.860
Now, in a plea offer, they do not tell you what your punishment will be for taking the
00:34:15.700
It's just assumed based on the comparatives that I'd probably get two years probation and
00:34:25.600
Well, you know, like, for instance, you get the trial punishment if you go to trial.
00:34:34.020
I went to prison for three months for that charge.
00:34:36.020
Yes, but I mean, how could you even compare the hardworking journalism of Steve to your atrocity
00:34:46.300
My judge was mostly pissed off that I was smiling.
00:34:51.660
And I was like, well, I just don't like the government.
00:34:57.260
So, Gretchen, is it possible that if you accept this plea agreement, the judge could
00:35:01.340
say, like, you're going to say you're guilty in exchange for this plea down.
00:35:04.700
Is it possible the judge just says, sure, I don't care.
00:35:09.140
Now, the single charge, they can put me in prison for up to 12 months and a multi-thousand
00:35:16.020
Now, they've increased the fines now, as you've probably been following here, is that over
00:35:20.440
the last year, especially, these people who have had the give, send, go accounts, and
00:35:25.720
they've been raising money for not only their legal fees, but also, in many cases, just to
00:35:29.860
keep their mortgage because they've lost their jobs.
00:35:32.840
Some of these guys have been waiting, have been held in pretrial detention.
00:35:35.740
They've raised as much as a quarter of a million dollars for their legal defense funds
00:35:38.980
and paying their mortgage, that kind of thing, while dad's in prison, those kinds
00:35:44.220
Well, now, the courts are fining these people that amount of money, which they raised.
00:35:54.540
So, if they raised $50,000 or raised a quarter of a million dollars through their give-and-go,
00:36:00.740
Are they publicly stating it's because you raised the money?
00:36:04.340
They're saying, you raised all this money, we're taking it from you.
00:36:05.940
They're showing what you were, how you benefited.
00:36:13.640
You benefited, essentially, from your charge or from your crime.
00:36:18.460
So, you've benefited this much from your crime, so that's what your fine is going to be.
00:36:22.140
So, that's why, even in my plea deal, we anticipate a very, very stiff penalty because
00:36:28.140
they're going to argue, you were an independent at the time, and since then, you've been hired
00:36:33.540
by the blaze, you've been financially remunerated for your crime, so you're fine.
00:36:39.980
They're actually thinking my fine could be as high as $100,000.
00:36:51.380
I mean, all he did was tell people to go into the Capitol over and over again.
00:36:54.860
I mean, she also had his hands on the sign that was being pushed into cops.
00:36:57.880
To which other people got a felony for, he didn't.
00:37:00.540
But was it possible that he was trying to adhere to the sign, like Spider-Man, to pull
00:37:07.980
Do you know what I was shocked about, though, to find out that there were people being sent
00:37:18.260
He's not even allowed to be in the city, and they're like 20 years.
00:37:23.900
And, of course, we were talking about it this morning in the lobby at the hotel, was you
00:37:28.520
have a guy like Stuart Rhodes, who I'm somewhat obsessed with his story, because if ever anybody
00:37:36.940
was sentenced to a multi-decade sentence for a thought crime, it was Stuart Rhodes.
00:37:45.000
Nine different FBI agents in his trial testified under cross-examination that they never were
00:37:52.260
able to find either written or verbal evidence of orders for the Oath Keepers to enter the
00:37:57.940
Capitol, stop the certification, attack Congress, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:38:02.660
They also proved absolutely conclusively that the only thing that Stuart Rhodes was guilty
00:38:11.000
of was words that he said before he got to the Capitol and words that he said after he
00:38:33.700
He actually, I think, you know, he was in the building more so.
00:38:39.340
And they said, well, he posted on Parler or something, don't leave.
00:38:43.840
I think Biggs had additional charges that happened after January 6th.
00:38:48.060
They found, I think, a grenade or something in his home in some classified documents.
00:38:52.280
But I mean, well, Stuart Rhodes was calling for the president to invoke the Insurrection
00:38:59.560
He had written two open letters to President Trump to do that.
00:39:01.880
And he said, if you will do that, my 35,000 Oath Keepers will defend the White House.
00:39:09.160
We will come armed and we will defend the White House.
00:39:21.380
And then a week later, a FBI CHS is secretly taping Stuart Rhodes, who is drunk in a parking
00:39:32.060
And Rhodes says these words, I wish I'd taken my rifle and put a bullet through Nancy Pelosi's
00:39:48.920
But when you put those two things, you book in both of those in front of a D.C.
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And so you put the bookend of what Stuart Rose said before and after January 6th on the
00:41:44.280
screens, as they did in a multimedia psyop in that trial.
00:41:51.500
What I love about all this, did you guys see, and you've got this experience with your
00:41:55.460
film coming up, but did you see the MSNBC interview of union workers?
00:42:00.040
And they've got a panel of these guys, and they walk up and they say, how do you feel
00:42:07.960
And they're like, and then one guy's like, yeah, I think I remember that.
00:42:12.700
And she's like, does this matter to you for the election?
00:42:20.280
The Democrats have turned this into a off-Broadway play.
00:42:31.680
We went to other places throughout the country, and we did kind of like man on the street type
00:42:47.680
We also went around DC, and we asked everyone where the January 6th memorial was.
00:42:58.980
We built this little stone that says, don't forget to remember January 6th.
00:43:03.020
And then we played music, and we saluted it and stuff like that.
00:43:09.400
This is all like a fiction that kind of just lives in the minds of these journalists and
00:43:14.620
these leftists, and they're shocked when people don't, it doesn't register with people.
00:43:18.980
It's, you know, it's, you remember that podcast?
00:43:24.500
You know what I think this is, is that when Donald Trump got elected, there was a collective
00:43:29.720
brain shattering among many Democrats and liberals who were so sure that Hillary was
00:43:34.440
And so these are people who are obsessed with mystery, crime, drama, wine mom types, and
00:43:42.280
They were given that soap opera drama, and they wanted season one, season two, season
00:43:47.160
They are living in a paranoid, delusional state where they want their life to be a movie.
00:43:52.400
I'm sorry, life is substantially more boring than movies.
00:43:55.420
That's why we go pay to see movies, because they're intentionally crazier.
00:43:59.360
So when they hear these stories, the January 6th, they're sitting there eating popcorn,
00:44:04.040
And they're getting the, you know, the committee in D.C., you know, Jamie Raskin, he's 20 minutes
00:44:10.980
from here, 30 minutes from here, represents some of the people who work at this company
00:44:14.880
as their rep, because we're next door to his district.
00:44:18.240
He does this whole thing on the J6 committee where he's like, these are people who are advocating
00:44:24.660
And in it, one of the clips he plays is me reading an article at Fox News being like,
00:44:29.060
Donald Trump says the protest is going to be wild on January 6th.
00:44:34.420
And he's saying that I'm advocating for something.
00:44:37.300
And I was like, well, I read a Fox News article, dude, chill.
00:44:40.260
This is the, and this was before, this is the whole game they were playing the whole time
00:44:43.840
is to drum all this nonsense up, lie, cheat, and steal.
00:44:47.220
Well, I ended up writing an op-ed being like, I literally just read a news article three
00:44:53.520
months before January where Fox News reported Trump says the protests will be wild.
00:44:58.540
And now they're trying to reframe the past to make it seem like there was a conspiracy.
00:45:03.480
Well, these wine moms want their soap opera drama.
00:45:06.220
You hit the nail on the head with wanting to be in a movie.
00:45:09.440
There's this tendency on the left that I see it everywhere, this tendency to kind of want
00:45:17.940
You know, Russia's Darth Vader and Ukraine is Luke Skywalker.
00:45:22.440
I mean, even Brian, who's the second Trump assassin?
00:45:27.960
Just reading what he wrote and hearing what he said, it's like he fancies himself as being
00:45:35.680
And when you have that delusion that you are the hero in this myth, assassinating Trump isn't
00:45:48.960
I mean, let's, you know, the joke we like to bring up, many people do, is what is the
00:45:55.160
It is a kid who lives on a desert planet who is radicalized by an old religious man who
00:46:01.880
And then he gets a cargo ship with some smugglers and they blow up a military base.
00:46:10.180
I mean, Disney loves Star Wars and they try to capitalize on it.
00:46:14.280
And a lot of people might be like, well, but Darth Vader was evil and all that stuff.
00:46:18.880
But the joke is the framing of the story can go in either direction depending on how you
00:46:25.560
Darth Vader was a disabled war veteran who was commanding a military of the Republic.
00:46:31.680
Tell me when in any of the Star Wars movies you see the Emperor do something wrong.
00:46:38.540
Well, and that's a huge misunderstanding of the purpose of myth on the left is that,
00:46:42.940
you know, people like Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter, in myth, they're Christ figures.
00:46:49.000
And when you put yourself in that place instead of what it's supposed to be portraying,
00:46:52.980
it gives you license to do all kinds of horrible things.
00:47:00.780
It is the belief that you are essentially the supreme entity of reality, that you can
00:47:08.380
There are rules to Satanist doctrine about, you know, don't harm others and things like
00:47:13.060
this, but the core tenet is you live for yourself and for your pleasures with some restriction.
00:47:24.000
That's why they put so much into making these narratives, because that's—they believe
00:47:28.880
that they can speak reality into existence, you know?
00:47:31.460
But the dissonance over time has got to just be—I think that's probably what's melting
00:47:36.200
You start telling yourself things that are just obviously not true, and when you're presented
00:47:39.980
facts, realities, you just—how do you deal with that?
00:47:44.760
Well, when Donald Trump came down that escalator, heads were exploding.
00:47:53.680
As they say, every seven years, every cell in your body has been replaced, and you are a
00:47:59.540
That means there are people who are—and every cell, every fiber of their being has
00:48:07.760
How do you rewire a brain that's been completely constructed around that narrative?
00:48:17.400
How many times you have to go grocery shopping before you figure out things aren't better?
00:48:20.800
I am so, so pissed off with them constantly saying the economy is good.
00:48:26.640
Nate Silver, I was reading the news the other day, and he's like, the economy is good, but
00:48:30.520
And I'm just like, have you been to the grocery store lately?
00:48:33.920
We—I was just talking to Allison earlier, and I was mentioning that we got three bags
00:48:39.240
It was one blueberry, one blackberry, two things of raspberries, two coconut milks.
00:48:44.840
What did—what did—I'm—I don't even know what we got.
00:48:47.560
Some toaster strudels, and it was $130, and I was looking at the shopping cart, and I was
00:48:57.540
It was just—we need—I was like, I need to pick up some coconut milk for my protein
00:49:02.460
$130, and they keep telling me everything's fine.
00:49:05.500
I told you this last time, my monthly grocery bill is $3,000.
00:49:17.840
It's—I think it's almost tripled in the last six years.
00:49:29.100
They're—yeah, they're—some of them are kind of falling off.
00:49:31.820
We need to get some more, but we're getting, you know, a good, you know, dozen eggs a day.
00:49:36.260
It's—you put a rooster in there, and they will make more of themselves.
00:49:40.240
See, we're trying to get ready for Asheville, North Carolina to happen in Ohio, so we have food.
00:49:47.260
Everybody knows I'm a big chicken fan because chickens are a birthright and a human tradition,
00:49:55.660
My wife is—her family's immigrants from Germany.
00:49:58.220
Their last name means chicken keeper in German, so it's like in her blood.
00:50:04.700
There's a really funny meme where a guy's talking about—it's a 4chan post, and he's
00:50:15.840
I wake up to hearing clucking and funny sounds, and I look out the window, and I watch them,
00:50:20.660
And then all of a sudden I feel better, and now I look forward to wake up in the morning
00:50:25.800
We have—we're out here in the country, so people just let their chickens out.
00:50:29.780
They've got these automatic doors on the chicken coops that when the sun comes up, it opens,
00:50:33.100
and you'll walk down the street, and there's just chickens crossing the road, and they just
00:50:38.660
Because we have, like—we have owls and chicken hawks and—
00:50:41.080
Oh, yeah, but people out here don't care, I guess.
00:50:47.980
Self-sufficiency is important right now because things are being run into the ground, costs
00:50:53.220
are through the roof, and the chicken joke, though it is only half-joking, is more
00:50:57.260
about what are you doing to be self-sufficient as the machine in the corporate press.
00:51:01.140
You know, I view it as some kind of, like, lich king.
00:51:05.280
It is an undead monster of an economy trying to tell you that the system is fine and to
00:51:10.720
bow before it, and these people that follow it are zombified by—it's actually quite
00:51:18.460
Look at the response, too, from FEMA after this hurricane.
00:51:21.060
You want to tell me the government's in a good place right now?
00:51:25.480
FEMA is basically bankrupt, and hurricane season goes through November 30th.
00:51:29.500
Yeah, they said that, what, do they have no more money for hurricanes?
00:51:32.500
Well, I mean, someone had to pay all those illegal immigrants to settle in this country.
00:51:37.200
So the idea is that the hurricane went through a bunch of rural counties, a bunch of red
00:51:41.980
counties, but is it Asheville that really got demolished?
00:51:46.480
How are those people who are going to respond to this?
00:51:48.740
Because are they going to look at the government's being run the way it is and say, you know
00:51:55.080
Trump should get up at this rally tomorrow, and he should say, one of the first things
00:52:00.320
I will do is an executive order to reallocate funding from foreign intervention and war
00:52:05.480
towards the victims of Hurricane Killeen and make sure that you get what you need.
00:52:11.100
He's going to win over those counties instantly, and their friends and their families.
00:52:14.560
There's nothing going to happen before the election, though, because there's 25 affected
00:52:20.040
Only two of those are blue counties, and that's the problem.
00:52:26.940
Well, and this is, I mean, I should have wrote this for the B, but I tweeted out the other
00:52:32.540
day that, in fact, Democrats should not be opposed to us going out in North Carolina and
00:52:39.880
handing out and harvesting ballots to all these people, you know, disaffected or, as I said,
00:52:51.900
And I will tell you, because I'm technically a resident of North Carolina, although I'm
00:52:57.100
I spend 90 percent of my life in hotel rooms elsewhere.
00:52:59.520
But the reality is, is that I'm very close to what's going on.
00:53:04.040
I'm very, I will be relocating there next week.
00:53:06.960
As a matter of fact, I'll basically be moving into someplace in western North Carolina to cover
00:53:14.140
But one of the things that I'm in touch with right now are the political operatives, GOP
00:53:20.100
particularly, and what they're watching, what they're doing.
00:53:25.720
They're well aware that Governor Cooper and the Biden administration, Harris campaign in
00:53:31.800
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To those counties, because relief means those people will get access to services.
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Access to services means they'll get their hands on ballots.
00:55:12.000
And yeah, and we're talking about that sounds like an attack on democracy.
00:55:17.380
All they need is, you know, 15,000, 20,000 vote.
00:55:26.300
Buttigieg came out and said, stop flying drones.
00:55:35.180
The fact that they, you know, neighbors helping neighbors, people helping people.
00:55:39.280
You know, whenever these disasters strike, we always see kind of this swell of humanity
00:55:43.040
and you kind of, you know, partisan bonds are broken and it's always kind of inspiring.
00:55:49.700
Just the idea that the government is going to come in and say, no, you're not going to help
00:55:57.080
It's just, it's so, so demonic and backwards that they, that they would do this to people.
00:56:02.500
You know, the first boots on the ground up there were former special forces operatives
00:56:08.640
They're, they're bringing in their helicopters.
00:56:11.420
No, that's exactly, well, that's what the Oath Keepers were known for.
00:56:14.820
For years, we're doing disaster relief operations.
00:56:19.580
A good buddy of mine, Mr. Gunsinger, his name is Mike.
00:56:23.420
This guy was, I think in the Navy, 20 years, special forces, but he's actually up there
00:56:28.400
So these are the, the heart of our communities.
00:56:31.540
So FEMA finally gets there, you know, yesterday or the day before and they, and they've got
00:56:37.760
It's their satellite vehicle with all their forms so that they can start signing people
00:56:45.060
So they pull into this big parking lot up there in Asheville where the special forces
00:56:49.940
have for a week already been, um, delivering needed medicines, insulin, things like that.
00:57:00.640
FEMA representative walks over to the tent and says, what are you guys doing?
00:57:03.680
They said, well, we're, you know, we've got medicines, insulin we're providing.
00:57:11.640
They said, well, you can't do this if you don't have a permit.
00:57:13.260
And you know what the special ops guys did, said, screw you, you F off, go back to your
00:57:19.800
We're not leaving and you're not making us leave.
00:57:22.400
The Appalachian people, they, uh, they beat to a different drum.
00:57:25.220
FEMA continues to be FEMA and the government, they're going to find out why the Appalachian
00:57:30.740
I heard also, um, they, that they're pulling out survivors, wreckage, homeless people, and
00:57:39.000
So government employees are staying in places that people have just lost everything.
00:57:54.360
Well, she got there quicker than the border, so.
00:57:56.100
I think the big, the big story is, you know, we talked about this last night on IRL that,
00:58:00.660
uh, 640 million spent on rehousing and settling illegal immigrants from FEMA.
00:58:05.400
So now their budget is strapped and they won't have any money for another hurricane.
00:58:11.120
Now, the argument the fact trickers make is that's always been the cap.
00:58:17.240
You're, you're not going to make, but regardless, you're not going to give hundreds of billions
00:58:20.640
of dollars to Ukraine and then say, well, we aren't able to help Americans that are suffering
00:58:25.860
Hurricane Katrina, almost 20 years ago, the average given out in checks for FEMA was almost
00:58:30.680
They also flew people out to, uh, Texas and a few other states and housed them there as
00:58:40.480
Well, you know, uh, the one thing I can say is FEMA giving half a billion dollars to illegal
00:58:45.140
immigrants means that the illegal immigrant border crisis is a federal emergency.
00:58:49.900
And maybe that's the narrative we can go for now with there is a border crisis.
00:58:54.200
The federal government's basically declared the illegal immigration to this country, a
00:58:58.380
federal emergency warranting half a billion dollars in funding.
00:59:04.040
I mean, it's going back to this idea of an attack on democracy in January 6th, you know,
00:59:08.580
just the idea that a few hundred people walking around the Capitol was the greatest, gravest
00:59:14.080
attack on democracy that our country has ever seen while they're ushering in illegals by
00:59:23.680
I mean, it, it, and the fact that people can still live in that narrative and, and believe
00:59:27.980
it is, and the, and the response from Republicans has been disgraceful too.
00:59:33.380
I mean, the, the fact that, you know, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene and my pillow
00:59:38.200
guy, Mike Lindell are like the only people out there speaking for these, these detained
00:59:42.780
political prisoners and, and the rest of the, the kind of like the respectable Republican
00:59:46.480
class, they're like, eh, I don't want to touch that.
00:59:49.060
You know, I don't want to be, look like I'm against law enforcement or, or I'm, I'm against,
00:59:53.080
I'm, I'm standing up for dangerous insurrectionists.
00:59:55.320
It's, it's, it's really, I think the, the kind of the normie Republican set needs to wake
00:59:59.960
up to the kind of government we're dealing with here.
01:00:01.980
It's, it says a lot when you have to rely on a pillow salesman for strength and leadership.
01:00:08.360
And with all due respect to Mike Lindell, he sacrificed so much.
01:00:12.940
And to this day they have, they have, they're having a hard go of it.
01:00:15.520
I mean, their, their latest commercial is talking about how another big box retailer has just
01:00:22.660
I think that being in politics, you're supposed to be a public servant.
01:00:26.180
They, they should be able to sell them pillows, sell them cars, just doing regular jobs.
01:00:29.960
Those should be our politicians, people who are actually a part of us and live our lives.
01:00:36.500
It's, it's, we, we look to our politicians, but the politicians we elect are people who
01:00:40.180
are like, look, I'm on the phone to raise money, not to serve the American people.
01:00:43.140
And it is the pillow salesman who says, I will put everything I have on the line to
01:00:50.280
So, um, my wife is a part of a group called PMORS and it's physicians, moms on the right.
01:00:55.700
And, uh, they got together, they went into an event to go see a congressperson.
01:01:00.060
And, uh, they flew out there, went to this event, this gala, and they had a nice sit
01:01:05.040
And it said, listen, I mean, I, I would love to do this for you, but your money would have
01:01:08.420
been better spent if you just donated to my campaign.
01:01:16.820
They spend all the time on the phone fundraising.
01:01:19.420
Marjorie Taylor Greene came on a IRO and mentioned and told us this.
01:01:22.360
We, I didn't know this, that when they're supposed to be voting on bills, there's like
01:01:26.220
four Democrats, four Republicans, and there's some parliamentarian who's not the speaker
01:01:35.920
And so Marjorie Thomas Massey and others started going into and demanding floor votes on all of
01:01:41.620
these bills, and this is why they hate her and the other Freedom Caucus members, because
01:01:48.040
they're on the phone in their office fundraising, and now they're being called to Congress to
01:01:51.560
vote, and they normally don't have to do it because they are lazy and they don't want
01:01:56.480
Lazy is the wrong word for someone who grinds their hands to the bone, fundraising.
01:02:00.780
They are more so less inclined to do public service and just try and keep the position in office.
01:02:08.420
You said something a moment ago about, you know, law enforcement, you know, the MAGA
01:02:13.220
are supposed to be, you know, supporters of law enforcement, and we have, you know, through
01:02:17.680
the blaze, we have shown that we have some federal officers who have perjured themselves
01:02:26.580
Capital police officers, including, you know, the guy that was on January 6th, the head of
01:02:37.580
I mean, we have the video evidence, we have everything.
01:02:39.920
Well, just yesterday when we released another one of our videos in this series about the
01:02:44.400
capital police, it's called A Day in the Life of Harry Dunn, part one.
01:02:48.160
And when we released that yesterday, one of the first things that you start seeing up
01:02:53.340
in our Twitter threads is that, you know, I thought MAGA was supposed to love cops.
01:02:58.860
And I'm like, you realize that it's the good guys at the capital police who are working with
01:03:08.680
And, you know, and I can assure you right now, there's 2,000 uniformed capital police that
01:03:14.260
are cheering this video because those guys who perjured themselves in trials made them
01:03:19.800
Well, not to mention when people were entering the capital on January 6th, police officers
01:03:24.380
were taking selfies with them and shaking their hands.
01:03:29.000
He's on camera speaking with the officers, asking them what they can do to assist the
01:03:32.980
officers with getting people out and then try getting people to leave.
01:03:36.200
And I think they put him in prison, didn't they?
01:03:37.660
Uh, if I don't know that particular incident, but there are many incidents where that took
01:03:43.320
And, and, and in fact, you know, and let's, let's go ahead and just dispel one rumor.
01:03:48.080
And I, and I know I get in trouble every time I do this, no Capitol police officer actually
01:03:56.840
I've been in the CCTV viewing room more than any other journalist on the planet.
01:04:00.720
I have seen, and I've watched the actual breaching of every door.
01:04:04.900
It was protesters that breached every single door.
01:04:09.780
Having said that, after they were breached and the numbers were overwhelming, some of
01:04:17.920
And there was the officer who said, I don't agree with it, but I respect it.
01:04:21.020
Or, or they said, I don't agree with what's going on right now, but you guys, you know,
01:04:27.760
You know, there, there, there, there was these kinds of conversation in the conversation,
01:04:30.680
like the one that you just mentioned there of what can we do for you?
01:04:33.360
There was so many, there, there, there is an interior door that's on camera being held
01:04:36.840
open by an officer and then protesters come in, uh, I think in front of the officer or
01:04:43.780
Uh, I mean, look, they opened the doors for Chansley into the Senate.
01:04:56.060
They walk past like seven cops and they go to the door and they open it and this, here
01:05:00.760
I got carrying a spear, you know, my favorite was when the police officer comes in and he's
01:05:05.260
like, Hey guys, just so this is the sacredest place.
01:05:12.400
And a guy with a rubber bullet stuck in his cheek and a cop, you need to think of, no,
01:05:17.720
So you can't pray in the Senate chamber, but you can definitely film yourself.
01:05:24.140
And that was an insurrection by right, right, right there.
01:05:26.780
So for those that don't know, there was a, well, he got fired for this, but who was
01:05:35.940
And the rumor is we've seen one video go viral where these two male staffers are basically
01:05:42.240
insulting baby Jesus in, in, in this, you know, and, and defiling the seat of, of, of our,
01:05:50.660
And, uh, the rumors, he's done it more than once that they, they had been doing this
01:05:55.680
frequently and only one of them got, got posted.
01:06:12.880
And, uh, but that's, that's, you know, that's, you think they're more or less wild than a
01:06:20.840
I mean, when I heard that he had a thousand bottles of baby oil, I was like, he's got nothing
01:06:29.760
Well, you know, and that was, that's the rumored, and I, I, I guess we can throw rumors out here
01:06:34.340
on this show maybe, but, uh, you know, I'm pregnant.
01:06:37.340
You know, Kamala Harris was not where she was supposed to be on January 6th either.
01:06:46.560
This is in the secret service, uh, logging, you know, their book records.
01:06:49.980
Is that, um, it was a known fact that she was going to be at the DNC headquarters from
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The debate and the vote at the Capitol on her, you know, coronation as, you know, vice
01:08:39.340
She is the VP elect and she has chosen not to be where the vote is taking place.
01:08:46.280
You know, I heard a crazy story just when I was at Rescue the Republic.
01:08:52.700
I'm not sure if he was a former, but there's another officer who, and you probably know
01:08:57.780
He took it upon himself to evacuate members of Congress and then he got in trouble because
01:09:10.740
He was calling in for, he actually, start from the beginning here, his job that day,
01:09:17.400
he was in charge of interior security of the entire Capitol building.
01:09:24.560
You can hear his voice on the radio comms, Capitol Police radio comms, calling in for assistance
01:09:32.380
He's trying to set up decontamination tents for the officers that are getting hit with
01:09:38.300
He's calling for, you know, water to be brought in to assist the officers in that regard.
01:09:44.640
He then calls in the, what they call the M4 units, the guys that are actually carrying
01:09:49.020
the long rifles, the automatic weapons, because he says, we don't want the, he actually says
01:09:56.900
We need the M4 units to come in because we can't risk them being taken by protesters.
01:10:02.860
So you see all the, all the M4 units start coming in right about one o'clock or right
01:10:09.300
And, and so once, once it was absolutely apparent that they were going to be breached, he started
01:10:18.520
calling in to headquarters, to the command center, to the, to the officers, or the chiefs,
01:10:28.760
I need to know, uh, and there, and there's silence, total silence coming from the command
01:10:37.360
So he literally says on the radio, he says, I'll take the five 50 and the five 34.
01:10:43.720
Those are like two, um, documents, uh, disciplinary documents.
01:10:48.160
He said, I'll take both disciplinary actions, but I am evacuating the Senate.
01:11:01.040
Eight minutes later, he runs down once he's, once he's verified and you can hear it all
01:11:06.020
Once it's verified that everybody's out of the Senate and he's safe, he runs to the
01:11:11.460
So he has embarrassed command now because he's taken the lead and probably done something
01:11:19.960
they didn't anticipate, something that was not supposed to happen.
01:11:24.560
The implication I suppose is they wanted members of Congress in those buildings to be confronted
01:11:31.840
by, at the very least, the, the riders on that day.
01:11:36.060
And the, the photos of members of the Senate being shoved or yelled at, whatever it may
01:11:43.940
And so I wonder, you know, uh, someone asked me, cause we were, we're talking, uh, at the
01:11:54.800
And because they don't want to be on the record and recording saying, stand down.
01:12:02.840
Um, and I acquired that actually before I ever met him and I've known him for almost
01:12:11.600
And again, his name is a former Lieutenant Tark Johnson.
01:12:15.500
And, uh, the one thing that he did that he became famous for was there was 16 officers
01:12:28.920
I have, I have the radio comms and when they called in the distress call, he got on there
01:12:36.680
and said, okay, we need, because when they knew that FBI and ATF SWAT teams were in the
01:12:41.300
building and we need, and he calls for FBI, ATF to come over there and help get those guys
01:12:49.520
Even, he even tells them exactly where he is outside waiting for them, for the SWAT teams
01:12:55.540
You can hear him on the radio say, basically, fuck it.
01:13:08.460
He saw it and realized this is my pass through the crowd.
01:13:11.960
You know, this is the Passover, you know, uh, symbol for me to get through the crowd.
01:13:16.760
So he is looking for now, again, it's on the radio comms.
01:13:25.500
Somebody, I need a cop to deliver me a, you know, a bullhorn to such and such place.
01:13:32.780
And he goes and finds one himself from a protester.
01:13:34.760
So then as he's trying to get help, two guys standing next to him said, what do you need?
01:13:43.580
I'm former law enforcement myself and shows him his badge.
01:13:47.100
Uh, he's retired, you know, so they carry those cards and everything.
01:13:49.700
And, uh, he says, yeah, I've got 16 distressed officers in.
01:14:08.460
He puts Tark Johnson, Lieutenant Johnson in the middle.
01:14:13.520
They go up the stairs through the crowd, announcing to the crowd, clear the way, clear the way.
01:14:29.540
They do security all over the country at riots all over the country.
01:14:32.600
They protect minority businesses in Louisville, in Minneapolis, in, um, uh, Ferguson.
01:14:53.160
Every one of them as they come out there, people are high-fiving the officers as they bring them down the steps,
01:14:57.020
led by a Capitol police officer with a MAGA hat on.
01:15:01.540
So he gets suspended three days later, loses his job.
01:15:19.860
So his job, because if, if you're, if you're a job or your, uh, your shift is, you know, a seven to three or seven to four shift,
01:15:28.600
that's, he has, he was in home confinement during his job hours for 17 months.
01:15:36.460
I mean, obviously they were fighting the process.
01:15:38.160
And, um, what ended up happening is when they did the disciplinary review on him, all of the disciplinary action is from three o'clock till he rescues.
01:15:51.460
So they actually disciplined him for rescuing those officers.
01:15:56.140
They claimed that he endangered them, but his, everything that he did heroically from one o'clock to three o'clock, not a word of it is in the disciplinary report.
01:16:07.300
Because that's where, that's where he embarrassed them.
01:16:15.380
I think, I think it's fairly obvious that Trump called for national guard.
01:16:21.180
There are videos where people at the Capitol are saying to the police, stop this.
01:16:29.240
The simple solution is they didn't want an evacuation.
01:16:34.400
You know, I don't want to go as far as to say that they wanted anyone to get hurt, but they wanted that photo of a member of Congress terrified as a guy screaming at them.
01:16:46.220
I believe that they anticipated that some of these MAGA yahoos were going to use their weapons that day.
01:16:53.060
All they needed was a couple of rounds fired at a couple of U.S. Capitol police officers, possibly seriously injured or killed, and we would have lost the Second Amendment as a result.
01:17:04.940
Can you imagine the Patriot coming out of that?
01:17:07.380
But considering none of these guys did any of that against police officers or the staffers who were there, I don't believe that they would have got – like members of Congress would have been injured or anything like that or harmed by the people who are riding.
01:17:20.280
I think it would have been confrontational and raucous, but under your view of it, should he, Tarek, not have evacuated members of Congress and the assumption from the machine state was that these guys would have injured members of Congress, you would have gotten Patriot Act not times two but times ten.
01:17:42.120
The Capitol would be surrounded by barricades triple-layer thick, and they would never remove them.
01:17:53.540
We interviewed a former – he actually went on the record.
01:17:57.160
He finally went on the record just a couple of weeks ago.
01:17:59.440
And this was after the new IG report came out about the National Guard.
01:18:03.960
And what he came on the record for, Casey Wardensky, former assistant secretary of the Army, appointed by Trump, 30 years in the Army, teaches at West Point.
01:18:14.060
He was also the chief economist of the Pentagon.
01:18:23.080
He says, we need to use your telecom system because we're going to have all the generals on here because there's something going on at the Capitol.
01:18:29.080
So then he gets on – so he's actually on the telecom system with two three-star generals, four-star general, and the National Guard commanders.
01:18:38.680
That was on that call where they birthed the phrase, we don't like the optics.
01:18:45.680
And so on that call, the National Guard guys are saying, no, our guys are armed.
01:18:55.160
We can be there in 15 minutes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:18:57.320
And the Pentagon pukes, the three- and four-star generals, said, no, we don't like the optics.
01:19:03.280
You know, it would be really funny if they're – like maybe a lot of people do believe this, but under the presumption that there was a plot that Democrats were saying, look, if these people do show up, we want them to run amok.
01:19:15.740
It would be funny if that the whole plan was just ruined, and that's why the January 6th committee was absurd, why the narratives don't make sense, is because they have this plan.
01:19:25.600
They're like, okay, after the MAGA people go in there and some senators and members of Congress are attacked or whatever happens, and we have all these photos, we're going to have these committee hearings, and we're going to go for years, and we will arrest Trump, and we're going to shut it all down.
01:19:35.980
And then you end up with this like half riot on one side, people milling about on the other.
01:19:42.140
They keep trying to lie and claim that cops died on that day.
01:19:45.040
Like they're trying really hard, but it's not true.
01:19:47.080
They have these big hearings, and it's just like, guys, no one knows or cares.
01:19:54.100
It shouldn't have happened, but it's not the apocalypse.
01:20:00.500
The fact that two pipe bombs, fake pipe bombs were planted by the FBI, presumably, at the DNC and RNC.
01:20:07.860
It tells me that somebody had something like this in mind from the get-go.
01:20:14.380
So this is amazing because when this story broke, no one caught this.
01:20:19.820
And I remember I was tweeting, I was DMing with a journalist on X.
01:20:24.180
AOC puts out this hour-long Instagram stream where she's like, I'm in my office, and then I hear boom, boom, boom, and I go hide in the bathroom.
01:20:38.940
And then she's like, I thought I was going to die or whatever, but it turned out to have been an officer who was evacuating her.
01:20:43.640
The funny thing about this is she's framing the story as the rioters have made it to my office.
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And the fact checkers come out and go, actually, there are tunnels that connect those buildings.
01:22:31.780
So she did reasonably fear that the rioters in the Capitol had made it to her office.
01:22:35.920
And then I said, I tweeted, I was reviewing the timeline to figure out when this story was.
01:22:42.360
Her story took place one hour before the Capitol was breached.
01:22:46.100
So did she know that there was going to be a breaching of the Capitol in advance that no one else knew?
01:22:51.600
No, the reality is she's making up a fake story.
01:22:53.420
I get some journalists, I think it was from Huffington Post, being like, no, that's not that's not correct.
01:22:58.720
And then I showed the story, showed what she said, showed the timeline of when she ordered.
01:23:03.660
The officer who knocked on her door was evacuating because of the pipe bombs.
01:23:07.200
No one knew that the Capitol was going to be breached one hour later.
01:23:10.940
So she made up a fake story where she was like, after everybody had already witnessed the Capitol being breached,
01:23:16.700
she pretended like she was terrified it was happening.
01:23:26.100
She knew that rioters were going to breach the Capitol the whole time because there was a conspiracy and they had planned for it.
01:23:33.660
My favorite line from that live stream of hers was where she said, I knew I was in mortal danger in a general sense, but also in a very specific sense.
01:23:43.760
Has Thomas Massey told you his story about the day?
01:23:50.640
A couple of the key points of Massey's story is, is that when they when they got the announcement,
01:23:57.160
because it went out to all of them that they were locking the buildings down, you know,
01:24:00.980
the House and Senate office buildings were going to be locked down.
01:24:03.480
And because specifically that the bombs were found in near proximity to those house buildings, office buildings.
01:24:09.900
And so he told his senior staff, he said, if you don't get out of here, you're going to be you're going to be locked in here for 12 hours.
01:24:16.860
So he told his senior staff to leave and they wouldn't leave.
01:24:20.120
And he's and he's like, guys, I'm telling you, you need to go now.
01:24:24.800
And and there is staffers are going, boss, is this a is this a loyalty test?
01:24:34.420
And then and then he said and he said, of course, you know, everybody knows that I'm the only guy here.
01:24:40.280
He said all my Democrat, you know, office neighbors.
01:24:44.500
So he said so they started sending their staff over and and they got locked into my staff.
01:24:50.560
And of course, you know, him being an engineer, what he did is because I didn't know if the building was going to be breached.
01:24:55.920
But he's so what he did is he took a milk crate and he and he taped two iPhones on each side with the cameras going out and put it outside the door so he could monitor the hallways and see who was coming.
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I just got a really great idea for a movie, J6 Zombie Apocalypse.
01:25:19.080
And zombies have overrun the Capitol and the Democrats are panicking and they all huddle inside Thomas Massey's office.
01:25:24.500
And he's got he puts a bandana on and he's like, let's go.
01:25:29.740
And the zombies are in the halls of the Capitol building.
01:25:34.600
In our movie, we reenacted the the insurrection with Lego guys.
01:25:39.360
And we also we also paid an animator on Fiverr to reanimate to recreate the insurrection for us.
01:25:56.920
No, look that that if we're going to characterize it as that was our bad day.
01:26:03.460
If Trump wins, we will we will have a they will burn down D.C. if Trump wins.
01:26:16.200
Well, they got to they got to bring all the mail in votes in to make sure that they have just enough to beat Trump in Pennsylvania.
01:26:25.680
But the left will definitely riot if Trump wins.
01:26:30.920
So I was there on the ground January 20th, 2017.
01:26:34.400
And there's roving bands of hundreds, 300 to 400 black clad individuals setting fire, smashing windows, running through the streets, knocking things over.
01:26:44.680
And this is the kind of stuff that that I covered frequently.
01:26:48.840
And there was this one point where I can't remember what street we were on.
01:27:00.340
Well, that's risky because now you are putting yourself in with the rioters by charging a police line to break through.
01:27:06.080
But my assumption usually is when they form a line, get out of the way of the police.
01:27:14.580
Fortunately for me, all the rioters followed me into the stairwell and surrounded me as I pressed up against the door.
01:27:18.840
And then the cops formed their line around that stairwell, roping and kettling in about 200 to 300 people.
01:27:25.700
The first thing I did was so the police make the announcement.
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And so I moved my way to the far right side of the of this area of the rioters.
01:27:38.140
And calmly, I looked at the officer to my right and he's standing with his baton out.
01:27:42.020
I was like, officer, I'm going to take my backpack off and just put it down.
01:27:47.500
I said, just want to let you know what I'm doing.
01:27:51.100
And then I asked if any of you guys could call over a supervisor or fan them over.
01:27:56.000
And one of the cops looks at me and he nods a little bit.
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And then he looks over at a guy and he goes like this.
01:28:03.680
Officer Washington, I think his name was, walks over and is like, what's going on?
01:28:06.400
And he pointed me and I was like, excuse me, sir.
01:28:19.820
A young young Asian reporter for a local news outlet is also there with her camera.
01:28:24.580
The camera guy begins saying the same thing like weird reporters.
01:28:31.660
And he says, no, no, you are all you have all been arrested.
01:28:36.700
I was like, just letting you know is what we have to do.
01:28:40.320
Finally, then this young reporter, she's on the phone.
01:28:45.340
Her newsroom, I'm assuming what happened is calls the police and says, why have you arrested
01:28:49.020
our well-dressed, makeup clad street reporter with a cameraman?
01:28:53.860
And so he walks over and he goes, who's the journalist?
01:28:57.980
And a couple other people who are now realizing what we're doing smile and wave.
01:29:26.020
But fortunately, this local TV station called it in.
01:29:30.420
And because they had to get pulled out, he said, OK, I'm going to get the rest of the
01:29:34.940
There were some journalists will do air quotes.
01:29:37.160
They're going to get so mad when they see this show, by the way.
01:29:44.300
You know, some of them were like, they must be feds.
01:29:49.360
Because the journalists were in the front of the crowd of rioters, screaming in the
01:29:59.100
And the rest of us went over and were like, we're terribly sorry about this.
01:30:02.860
And we have been caught up in your arrest here.
01:30:05.340
And so they go on to claim that it's a conspiracy or some other nonsense.
01:30:10.880
Around 200 and some odd arrests of that crowd, they'll get processed.
01:30:18.160
The federal government cannot prove who individually committed a crime.
01:30:22.000
So in the so the first thing that happens is a couple of these guys start taking plea
01:30:26.680
deals and the lawyers for the activists start telling all of the activists, stop taking
01:30:36.640
And so what happens is in a couple of the cases, the defense successfully argues, did you
01:30:43.660
see my client start a fire, smash a window, commit a crime or in other ways break the law?
01:30:50.500
He's wearing a mask while this is there was a black client individual wearing these clothes.
01:30:54.580
And they're like, is it reasonable to assume that with all these people wearing the same
01:30:57.660
same clothes, you could not determine who actually was reasonable doubt.
01:31:01.340
So the government changes their strategy and says conspiracy to commit the crime.
01:31:06.120
And the judge is like, you cannot charge a group of people with conspiracy for wearing
01:31:11.880
So they all end up getting the charges dropped, file a lawsuit against the federal government
01:31:22.740
There was a there was a limousine driver, a private contractor.
01:31:26.200
They torched his limousine because they're like, screw the rich people.
01:31:36.100
They they were ransacking public property, flipping over garbage cans and they got paid
01:31:43.600
That's the difference between the left and the right.
01:31:47.240
A large component is the right doesn't organize.
01:31:53.600
The difference is I hate to say it, but anybody who studied this stuff knows that as much as
01:31:59.620
the TV would like to tell you otherwise, the terrifying reality of crime in this country
01:32:02.960
is that premeditated murder is almost never solved.
01:32:08.120
And so serial they're saying there's a serial killer maybe up in Long Island.
01:32:11.140
It's been going on for decades because they're planning this on how to avoid detection.
01:32:16.620
Someone in the heat of the moment does something bad and then there's a spattering of evidence
01:32:22.780
They plan their crimes in advance, well organized, making it very difficult.
01:32:27.100
They exploit the system so they can't be charged.
01:32:29.380
And on January 6th, a bunch of doofy dotards and right wing dudes with no real plans walked
01:32:34.660
around, ended up in the Capitol, some doing bad things, many and many just walking around.
01:32:44.300
Complete disorganization ends up with all of them.
01:32:46.620
Mostly getting, or I shouldn't say about many of them, going to jail for long periods
01:32:54.200
And I use that January 20th of 2017 as a comparative all the time.
01:32:59.800
I've debated other mainstream media journalists about this.
01:33:03.040
And we go back to the MPC brain is that they cannot see the difference between what's
01:33:08.920
And the difference is, very clearly, you're talking about a leftist system in a leftist
01:33:16.060
And when we say leftist, we're not talking about marginally.
01:33:19.200
You know, this is 95 percent Democrat voters there.
01:33:29.060
There's a reason they kept all the cases in D.C.
01:33:32.020
And so when you start seeing those cases from 2017 being dismissed, you started seeing
01:33:45.220
They threw up their hands and dismissed the rest of the cases.
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Over 200 cases after they realized they weren't going to win.
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And then, as Tim properly pointed out, then they started awarding them money.
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That's the kind of injustice that will drive good people insane.
01:35:31.660
It will drive people insane because, look, on January 6th, I was there with another journalist
01:35:37.340
and we were standing out in the lawn at the Washington Monument, you know, that morning early.
01:35:54.760
I mean, it was an incredible sight and it was joyous.
01:35:58.300
It was, you know, it was celebratory despite the wind and the cold.
01:36:02.620
And I am taking like 360, you know, camera shots of, you know, video shots of this crowd.
01:36:09.440
I've never been in a crowd this large before in my life.
01:36:14.340
And I said to the other journalist who was with me, I said, okay.
01:36:24.240
If this had been a Saturday, I might have expected a quarter of a million, 400,000 people to be there.
01:36:31.320
And I said, is this because they're still not back at work because of COVID?
01:36:36.360
Or are they just this frustrated at the system or what's going on right now?
01:36:42.140
So these were, you know, rhetorical questions that I was asking.
01:36:48.020
But in hindsight, what happened was is those that very, very small handful of provocateurs knew that this was dry, dry, dry tender out there.
01:37:02.640
And that it just took a little bit to light that fire.
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Washington to pay $1.6 million to settle lawsuits after protests at Trump's 2017 inauguration.
01:37:13.340
The class action suit allege mass arrests and excessive force.
01:37:17.440
They reached a $1.6 million settlement in two suits.
01:37:20.720
The lawsuits were brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C.
01:37:23.200
and Attorney Jeffrey Light on behalf of protesters.
01:37:26.140
The ACLU said in a statement Monday that the lawsuit alleged to Police Chief Newsham
01:37:30.260
and more than 20 officers engaged in or supervised constitutional violations,
01:37:35.460
including mass arrests of demonstrators of that probable cause, unlawful conditions,
01:37:38.600
and confinement for detainees, and or use of excessive force.
01:37:41.780
And I wonder if y'all can notice anything in this image.
01:37:54.640
You can actually see this is me holding my press pass,
01:37:58.560
and my phone as I'm live streaming what's going on.
01:38:01.420
And if you squint, you can tell that's me from one of the photos that I actually use on YouTube.
01:38:09.380
When they say excessive force, do they mean like blind firing into a crowd and shooting a woman in the neck
01:38:18.040
They mean that they surrounded them and made them stand there for three hours.
01:38:24.000
I'll note that the ACLU has never reached out to me to, you know, defend me for my First Amendment.
01:38:30.040
Well, you may notice in this photo as well these green hats that you'll see all over the place.
01:38:35.840
You know, at the time when I was covering protests, what I was told of these individuals with green hats,
01:38:40.480
they're the National Lawyers Guild, is that they're there to observe police behavior and protester behavior
01:38:44.620
to provide constitutional defenses for protesters.
01:38:50.560
So your volunteers and your lawyers are like, yeah.
01:38:58.680
And then one day I was in Boston and there was a bunch of right-wing individuals.
01:39:03.340
And on the other side of the park was a bunch of left-wing individuals.
01:39:07.660
The people on the left, quite literally the left, were holding crowbars and baseball bats.
01:39:12.400
And the National Lawyers Guild was standing alongside them.
01:39:17.800
And so I walked over and I was talking to them.
01:39:23.280
And they were like, you know, we're just doing our thing, blah, blah, blah.
01:39:25.280
And I had friends who were there and they're like, hey, look, it's Tim because Tim covers all the protests.
01:39:28.680
And then I said to the National Lawyers Guild, I was like, how come there's no National Lawyers Guild people over there?
01:39:34.820
And I said, how come you guys aren't observing the other side?
01:39:45.100
Well, and someone told me, like, they're a progressive leftist activist group that masquerade as legal protection.
01:39:50.380
Their purpose actually is just to provide means of, I mean, look what they did.
01:39:56.620
I can tell you a handful of those people in there, some of my note, did nothing wrong and should never have been arrested.
01:40:03.540
These people right here who are by me were not smashing anything.
01:40:07.480
There were a bunch of people black clad in hoodies and masks that were smashing things up.
01:40:13.920
There's two or three people who are there just filming.
01:40:19.080
But, you know, to stand there and just provide defense for the people who are knowingly organizing to destroy and damage this and then ignore, you know, what goes on the other side.
01:40:38.380
It is just another mechanism by which they can get away with committing crimes.
01:40:45.740
And going back to kind of like, you know, the bumbling right versus this organized, calculated evil left.
01:40:52.680
It's just, it can be overwhelming to see all that.
01:40:58.380
See, see, here's the issue I see with this, because I can look at this photo and say, I remember that day.
01:41:03.360
And, yeah, there's there's probably a lot of people in that crowd.
01:41:06.020
I would include other journalists who should not have been stopped, who committed no crimes, did nothing wrong and were wrongfully arrested.
01:41:17.000
You can say, look, here's here's a guy wearing a green shirt.
01:41:20.680
He's not a part of the group of people with black masks, throwing rocks and bricks and setting fires.
01:41:25.620
And if they had actually centered on only the people, if the cops were like, if you are part of the group of black mask wearing hoodies, black jeans that we have witnessed committing crimes, you're going to end up arresting 50 to 100 people, not 200 random people.
01:41:41.860
And the fact that they brought journalists into this is probably what helped the far leftists, the writers get payouts, because then the lawyers will say, look at these journalists.
01:41:49.860
This guy's got a credential with this, you know, magazine.
01:41:57.780
There's a gigantic mass of people running to the streets.
01:42:00.900
Many of them are smashing things and starting fires.
01:42:08.960
And then you end up letting all the criminals go because you did that instead of pulling them out one by one and making the difficult choice of arresting one at a time, which is often what police do.
01:42:22.380
Then they reach out, grab them and pull them to the other side.
01:42:24.600
With this mass arrest, they basically let them get away with it.
01:42:27.220
Now, that being said, on January 6th, there were many people who bumbled in, were regular people who committed no crimes.
01:42:34.560
These people were the justification for letting the criminals go.
01:42:38.220
One of the guys in our movie, Siaka, he actually was on Babylon Bee's staff.
01:42:44.740
He was in one of the doorways for maybe 60 seconds.
01:42:51.900
The police at one point said, hey, can we clear out this area so people can exit the building?
01:42:57.920
And he, all on video, he turns around and says to the crowd outside, hey, guys, clear away so people can get out.
01:43:07.100
And he's the guy that was arrested in front of his pregnant wife on the tarmac, coming back from a Daily Wire movie premiere.
01:43:13.580
The FBI raided his house, confiscated all his cell phones and his laptops.
01:43:23.500
Like, it really does seem that the only way any of this makes sense is that they wanted members of Congress to get hurt.
01:43:32.120
And look, Siaka is a great example, and there's so many others.
01:43:35.520
The one story that I enjoy or I hate they even have to tell his story is, you know, J.D.
01:43:43.940
He was contracted by an actual mainstream news station in Mobile, Alabama to go up.
01:43:51.200
He had his full big professional gear on his shoulder.
01:43:53.900
He went through the same window that Luke Mogelson for The New Yorker went through.
01:43:58.600
They almost paralleled each other through the Capitol.
01:44:05.320
They swatted him and his family, 630 in the morning, red dots on his wife and on his children on the porch, 25 agents, minimum of 25 agents.
01:44:20.000
He was not going to take a plea deal to something.
01:44:21.880
He was there performing the work of a journalist.
01:44:32.700
Before January 6th, he had been an activist with Latinos for Trump.
01:44:42.360
Judge finds him guilty on all four of his misdemeanors.
01:44:46.820
Now, he's swatted, right, for nonviolent misdemeanors as a journalist.
01:44:58.640
Eight, that the Democrat leadership and these people were hoping, or at least they expected, that members of Congress would be seriously injured or something would happen.
01:45:09.340
Because then, if you look at how this all goes down, a SWAT raid for a misdemeanor?
01:45:15.600
What about a photo of a senator being beaten or something like that happening?
01:45:18.640
Then the SWAT raids are like they're going after the people who assaulted the Capitol and attacked members of—
01:45:22.980
It's like they had a plan and the narrative already in place, and they said, okay, well, none of this happened, but we're going to go with it anyway.
01:45:27.640
Yeah, but why was Nancy Pelosi's daughter there filming a documentary during that day?
01:45:32.360
Nancy Pelosi's daughter was there filming a documentary that day.
01:45:40.980
And on the documentary, Nancy Pelosi says, I take full responsibility for this failure.
01:45:47.840
She says, it's my fault, and Trump brought it up, and they're like, shut up, Trump, you can't.
01:45:51.440
She tried to get me in a documentary three times, would not leave my attorneys alone.
01:45:55.000
I told her I would go on, but I want to be with your mom.
01:45:57.640
See, and that's the other thing that's crazy to me.
01:46:00.360
But you're not allowed to ask for money or anything.
01:46:05.580
I'm hearing stuff just in this podcast that is news to me, as a right-wing guy who's always in the news.
01:46:14.880
As part of the terms of your, I guess, were you convicted, or you took a plea?
01:46:21.400
We got the felony dropped and the violent entry dropped because I walked through open doors.
01:46:31.680
So part of this is that you can't profit in any way off of...
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So any time I go to these podcasts or hang out with you guys, it's all on my dollar by die.
01:46:43.240
So in the instance of being asked to be in the documentary, would you be allowed to say to her,
01:46:46.960
in two years, I will do it if you pay me X amount of dollars?
01:46:49.980
Or you can't even ask her the money now for it in advance, right?
01:46:59.160
But it's exactly what I thought it was going to be.
01:47:06.280
What was the original intent of the documentary?
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I have to take off the tinfoil hat and explain that January 6th is a constitutional day.
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So the fact that there was going to be the certification of a college vote.
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I mean, there were over 100 journalists invited to be there that day that were already inside the building.
01:49:04.540
And they knew that there were states sending alternate electors.
01:49:07.720
So there were other items of interest going on.
01:49:11.640
But back to your point, Tim, is that there was a plan that did not happen that day.
01:49:19.280
There was a plan for things to happen that did not transpire in the manner in which they believed.
01:49:24.660
And look, I say this all the time, and I go on the record on a regular basis.
01:49:28.800
One of my dead man switches is that I tell certain things that we're working on on podcasts,
01:49:34.080
and I tell them on TV shows, I tell them in interviews,
01:49:36.340
is because I think that when we finally settle this thing conclusively,
01:49:42.300
you're going to find out that this plan was hatched in the DOD.
01:49:53.360
Oh, no, I'm putting – no, this is not tinfoil.
01:50:01.120
I'm telling you that this was hatched in Mark Milley's office
01:50:03.460
and that this was why the National Guard was turned down
01:50:07.640
because those three generals who turned down the National Guard
01:50:09.960
and said they didn't – for the reasons of optics,
01:50:12.600
they were answering for Milley who was not on that call at the time.
01:50:16.240
And the Secretary of the Army was also mysteriously gone that day.
01:50:21.180
And then in addition to that, you're going to learn that because our special forces
01:50:32.660
and I'll give you an exact quote from a three-star general,
01:50:40.060
He said, all I would need is four or five of my best guys to make January 6th happen.
01:50:45.660
Okay. Well, power in the world – people don't quite understand.
01:50:53.040
What does it mean to win a war, to win a conflict?
01:50:55.380
And so I often entertain these – the silliness of war crimes as a concept.
01:51:01.180
We talk about them on the show, but I will point out, what's a war crime?
01:51:06.040
When two entities are fighting an existential war,
01:51:09.460
do you think either really cares about what's criminal or not?
01:51:12.780
It is that we are gentlemanly men of the liberal economic order who say,
01:51:16.340
no, no, we have war crimes, and you best not commit them.
01:51:20.240
However, if the United States or its allies does things that should be considered war crimes,
01:51:26.280
The concept of war crimes typically exists for those in power to restrict actions against them
01:51:30.240
or give justification and cast his belly for retaliation should you engage in this conflict.
01:51:33.940
That being said, what does it mean to truly win power?
01:51:36.360
However, I'll say this, and it's not an advocacy of, but if on May 29th, 2020,
01:51:42.920
when the far left firebombed St. John's Church and they ripped down the barricades and were attacking police,
01:51:48.300
if Donald Trump sat down in his chair and crossed his legs and looked at Barr and said,
01:51:56.940
I said, withdraw our law enforcement and stand down.
01:52:01.760
The far left would have jumped the fence of the White House, torn things down,
01:52:07.660
Trump would be in the emergency bunker with a small contingent protecting him.
01:52:10.600
The next day, they would say, my God, what has happened to this country?
01:52:14.440
Trump would come out and say, yesterday, good and honest, peaceful protesters
01:52:23.800
But there was a contingent of violent insurrectionists who took that moment
01:52:28.160
and our goodwill in an attempt to overthrow the seat of power in our nation.
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We asked our law enforcement to stand down not to allow that to happen.
01:52:36.860
We did it because we were concerned about the safety of the honest and peaceful journalists,
01:52:41.580
our peaceful protesters and journalists who were there, and they exploited this.
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It is a tradition in this country, especially in D.C., to have your word and to speak your mind.
01:52:50.920
But upon us deciding to avoid a conflict with innocent people that could risk injury,
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we were assaulted and attacked by a contingent of far-left terrorists
01:53:03.220
Could you imagine what the narrative would be if Trump said, stand down?
01:53:08.540
The issue is, Republicans are doofy, and they do things by the book,
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And they went, tell the police to get rid of them.
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And the next day, it was Trump attacks peaceful protesters for photo op.
01:53:19.440
On January 6th, when you watch a guy, one of the people at the Capitol,
01:53:23.540
run to the police and say, stop this, what are you guys doing?
01:53:28.680
When Trump says, he said, I want to bring in the National Guard,
01:53:33.600
What was the real point of all of everything that went down?
01:53:36.880
Well, look, without me accusing anyone of anything,
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If outside of any kind of false flag operation or conspiracy or whatever,
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if on May 29th, the protesters repelled the police,
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burned down St. John's Church, and successfully breached the White House grounds,
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closing out his second term, and who knows what we'd be seeing.
01:54:05.580
we're going to get rid of these protesters, and they did.
01:54:12.480
We have straightforward, decent, rule-playing people against Hamas.
01:54:18.920
Well, I got to tell you, it is the ninja versus the samurai, my friend.
01:54:21.980
The samurai, with their great honor and Bushido, are standing at the gate saying,
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And the ninjas are like, let's sneak in the back.
01:54:32.480
That great moment from the opening of that video game goes to Tsushima,
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where the samurai goes down to meet the barbarian, you know, in an honorable way.
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You know, this is how the battle's going to end.
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The barbarian just pours gas on him and lights him on fire.
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The person who wins war is capable of greater violence.
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A lot of people like to romanticize the Revolutionary War as the American use of guerrilla tactics.
01:55:01.880
The American revolutionaries did utilize guerrilla tactics more so,
01:55:08.660
The reality is largely that battles were fought marching in front of each other on a battlefield,
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In what reality would a smart, logical person be like,
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everyone line up and then walk towards the other person while you openly fire and don't take cover?
01:55:28.980
And I love the movie The Patriot, probably my favorite movie ever,
01:55:32.100
where Mel Gibson is negotiating with Cornwallis,
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and he says, onto negotiations, first order of affairs,
01:55:42.840
And he says, so long as your officers are ordering the killing of women and children,
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could you imagine what the battlefield would be like without gentlemen?
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Chaos, people running around, and is that what they thought?
01:55:58.160
Now you got dudes burying themselves half in the ground with AK-47s popping up and opening fire
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because winning is what they're trying to accomplish,
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and this gentlemanly idea of conflict is meaningless.
01:56:11.000
Those that are engaged in subterfuge and subversion are going to win the narrative battle.
01:56:16.320
And those who keep trying to play the straightforward game of these are the rules,
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my friends, I got to tell you, Trump keeps trying to win the argument.
01:56:23.980
He goes up on stage and he does these big rallies and he says,
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I'm going to fix this, I'm going to fix that, here's how I'm going to do it.
01:56:29.520
And Kamala Harris dodges the interviews and she gives non-answers.
01:56:32.660
And everyone's like, ha-ha, she really can't win, she has no argument.
01:56:36.600
And then Democrats are like, just go ballot harvest.
01:56:40.680
Just get a piece of paper with their name on it, you win.
01:56:42.980
So Republicans need to start thinking about the mechanisms of power
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and not the straightforward surface-level game.
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Because basically what they're saying is, let's play a game of Monopoly
01:56:53.540
where for some reason, you know, our Democrat buddy always says,
01:56:58.760
And we're like, yeah, that's cool, we're okay with you being the banker.
01:57:01.340
But somehow they always have extra money, no matter what we do.
01:57:03.940
They just keep, and they're pulling 500s out of the bank and saying,
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Yeah, because the left's loyalty isn't to the system.
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The left's loyalty is to their higher evil ideals that the system is,
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And the system is nothing but a lever to accomplish those higher ideals.
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Most conservatives are still, their loyalty is to the system.
01:57:26.520
And I think we need to start thinking about what those higher ideals are.
01:57:31.780
And, you know, that idea of by any means necessary,
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by any means necessary has been the left's MO for decades.
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And unfortunately, you know, in this one-sided war we're in,
01:57:44.280
conservatives are going to have to start thinking like that.
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How do we use some of these mechanisms to accomplish our higher ideals?
01:57:50.420
You know, once the system's broken, what's left?
01:57:53.720
But I think the important thing to close that off with is,
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the ends don't justify the means because you'll never meet the ends.
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And the one thing I can say that is good of the right for not engaging in these
01:58:07.120
if you are to adopt these behaviors of your enemies to create a system,
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Our whole purpose is to stop the evil and create a sound,
01:58:20.720
you know what, let's just do what the left does.
01:58:24.160
we got you to build the system we've been trying to build forever.
01:58:28.600
We have to do it by the book, but we have to be smart about it.
01:58:31.560
I have to still it down to conservatives have convictions
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And we can't abandon our convictions because it's what makes us who we are.
01:58:44.060
there's a very large divide right now between where the new Republican Party is marching
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and where the old Republican Party is being left behind.
01:58:57.720
But it's a lot of people are upset with Melania coming out being pro-abortion.
01:59:02.500
And there's a lot of conservative influencers that are saying,
01:59:16.880
that looks at the tragedy in Western North Carolina right now
01:59:26.540
a tragedy that we need to provide assistance, relief, and recovery for?
01:59:35.200
you realize that with 25 counties down, this may actually give us the election.
01:59:49.260
the money and the power and the things that are being done.
01:59:52.840
And we were kind of talking about this on the way up in the car,
01:59:59.320
I kind of have to keep the long-term hope in mind,
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trying to keep a beach ball under the surface of the water.
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The Democrats have to use a lot of money and power to keep it that way.
02:00:33.560
But eventually it just—sometimes it pops up in funny ways.
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you know, where we were fighting a losing battle with big tech.
02:00:42.900
You know, the Babylon Bee is being threatened by Facebook.
02:00:47.760
And suddenly, you know, Gandalf Elon rides in on his white horse with the riders of Rohan.
02:00:53.720
And suddenly we have this powerful free speech platform that really is—I mean, it has changed history in ways that we don't even fully comprehend.
02:01:05.880
And so you kind of got to hold on to that hope that, you know, we're going to fight the fight on the daily.
02:01:13.340
Regardless of what happens in the short term, we know that we're fighting for the right cause.
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And we trust that we're serving a God who will reward that and that we'll win in the end.
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I think people rely too much on someone else to do the work for them, largely on the right thinking.
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We have cultural problems that need to be solved.
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And I don't mean that as a dig, like, you're better at raising your kids.
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I'm saying, like, be the best you can for your children is a better way to put it.
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But too often people are like, hey, look, Elon's saving free speech.
02:01:49.220
He is a juggernaut who broke down a major barrier, but it's going to require diligence and vigilance on our part forever.
02:02:04.180
But what I always tell people is that you raising good kids is ten times more powerful than your vote or your activism or your blips on social media.
02:02:14.380
You know, raising good kids to love and care for and stand for the truth, who have integrity, that's the long-term battle that we're fighting.
02:02:24.320
I got five sons, and we work on that on a daily basis.
02:02:27.340
I will say, though, in the culture, we already see a couple things that are kind of turning around.
02:02:35.440
It's when, oh, who's the guy with the curly hair, syndicate radio host?
02:02:50.020
And I'm like, God, when Grandpa says he's into the new thing, that's when you know it's on its way out.
02:02:55.260
Well, for me, it was the other day when I saw that YouTube had Timcast IRL featured on their live.
02:03:02.280
So for anybody who went to YouTube live, you would see Timcast IRL playing.
02:03:07.600
And, you know, we had a, we were talking, we had a Dallas Sanya on yesterday.
02:03:11.600
And I said, I don't know what happened, but somebody at Google might have been like, hey, this, this IRL show is really popular.
02:03:19.120
And then they were like, oh, but isn't he a fascist?
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And they were like, oh, OK, I guess we'll feature it.
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All of a sudden, Timcast IRL is featured number one.
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And I was like, something happened at Google, man.
02:03:35.240
That's not just lifting the weight off our back because they had their thumb on the scale.
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That's actually putting us on top of the pedestal.
02:03:43.260
We fired up the theater last week and we watched Inside Out 2 with the kids, fully prepared to make fun of the movie the entire time, throw popcorn at the screen.
02:03:57.060
Yeah, so the movie was actually, it was actually a good movie and I was surprised.
02:04:00.520
It was the highest grossing animated movie in history.
02:04:04.900
And I'm told that there was an internal battle at Disney because they had, they actually had originally in the original script, Riley, the main character, they had.
02:04:15.200
Undertones of kind of a lesbian love affair with this other girl at school.
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I just, I don't want to point out because I just checked.
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But I got an image here that may be a tweet, but we are featured number two right now on YouTube Live.
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There's a big old lectern guy just right on the front page.
02:04:38.500
So YouTube has on their default live page right now the calm musings of lectern guy.
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Hopefully having insurrectionists on your show doesn't remove you from the featured.
02:04:57.220
You were actually one of, so I was on, I think I was on with Luke a few months ago.
02:05:02.600
And I was talking about, I actually brought you up.
02:05:04.360
I said, you know, there were a handful of people who gave me a chance to speak and get my story straight.
02:05:13.300
It was Babylon Bee reaching out and trying to set the story straight.
02:05:20.440
People talk crap about you, you know, and it's, yeah, yeah.
02:05:26.240
I have no problem saying this man gave me a voice and a chance to speak and clear my name.
02:05:33.980
I mean, I complain on the internet and invite people to come complain with me.
02:05:37.540
The most egregious thing that happened to you, Adam, was that you lost your PlayStation account.
02:05:42.960
That was, oh, yeah, this, this actually happened.
02:05:47.840
Actually, I play video games like at two o'clock in the morning when the kids are asleep.
02:05:50.720
That's the only time you can play them when you're a dad of five kids.
02:05:53.940
So, uh, so I had, I've had an account forever, right?
02:05:56.680
So I get back a couple months after prison and my PlayStation account gets taken from me.
02:06:02.140
And I had something like a hundred platinum trophies, like, like a lot of, a lot of time,
02:06:08.840
So I've been slowly grinding through and getting my platens back.
02:06:11.600
Well, they banned you for being the lectern guys.
02:06:14.580
They gave me no reason whatsoever, but my 10 year account just gone.
02:06:21.540
I think Disney lost a billion dollars and then shed a brick.
02:06:26.300
Uh, you know, again, Dallas was here and he's this big movie producer.
02:06:29.360
He's working with the daily wire and things like that.
02:06:31.540
And he was, I, I heard this rumor that Kevin Feige at Marvel fired a bunch of activists.
02:06:35.200
And it's fascinating because you can tell when it started at Marvel.
02:06:40.460
You know, look, I often talk about how conservatives, they complain a lot, people on the right and
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then post liberals, the anti-woke complain a lot about when movies go woke, but they don't
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So I take a look and they say, oh, superhero movies are dumb.
02:06:55.400
Captain America, the first Avenger is a movie that I think every dad should show to his
02:07:02.940
He's got all these different ailments, but he is desperate to serve his country.
02:07:06.540
He, he feels he owes this country a debt of gratitude for what they've offered him.
02:07:10.300
He wants to help fight and he keeps trying to enlist.
02:07:14.000
He's actually lying about his name to, to keep trying, but he keeps failing.
02:07:18.120
And so you have the story of a guy trying to serve his country to fight the bad guys and
02:07:23.760
And, uh, Steve Rogers is a great character in this movie.
02:07:27.660
You got this great scene where, um, what is it?
02:07:38.580
He's, uh, he's the general, he's basically like training a bunch of guys.
02:07:41.500
And then you have a Stanley Tucci who's the scientist and, uh, yeah, yeah.
02:07:45.520
The guy who plays Elrond and agent Smith, uh, no, no, no.
02:07:54.960
But he's like, we don't want to screw on a guy like this.
02:07:59.040
And then he pulls the fake grenade and throws it.
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Like, he didn't even, it's a training exercise and he's jumping on the grenade.
02:08:09.800
That's what the, those early Marvel movies are great studies in heroism.
02:08:13.060
Steve Rogers was a hero before he ever got the serum.
02:08:16.960
Iron Man is the opposite of that, where he had the money and the power and the suit,
02:08:20.800
but he didn't have the integrity of character that he had to, you know, so you kind of see
02:08:26.880
You need the, you need the power, the physical strength, but you also need this inward character.
02:08:32.740
Iron Man has all the power without a care in the world.
02:08:35.960
Experiences suffering and realizes what his power has wrought and turns it around.
02:08:43.020
Well, you know, I just, I watched, uh, so after he, after we talked about this, uh,
02:08:48.920
this, this rumor has been circulating that he, Kevin Feige was like, why are our movies
02:08:57.180
I mean, it's unprecedented how big these movies were.
02:08:59.920
And he nukes all of the woke activists who are writing the stuff.
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And I, and I, I, I, so you take a look at Infinity War.
02:09:11.460
It was three movies in one, three different color schemes.
02:09:15.360
I watched this, like, it's like a movie film director breaking down how he was so impressed
02:09:20.680
Thanos, the villain is actually the main character.
02:09:24.180
And then, cause all the other characters are around him and he's, and he wins in the
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And then in between this, you get, uh, Captain Marvel, Brie Larson, this dainty woke female.
02:09:42.300
They say, we're going to have her take over and be what Robert Downey Jr.
02:09:46.360
Was her, her character, her, her, her, her, her profile does not fit the character she's
02:09:52.320
Captain Marvel, whether people don't really like the character to begin with, but she's
02:09:57.780
They want to play this Superman like character.
02:10:06.320
Her, her, she was the wrong choice for this role.
02:10:08.800
And they were like, we're going to girl boss this.
02:10:13.340
You get the girl power moment that everyone groaned about.
02:10:17.780
But I wasn't, when I was in the theater, when end game came out, the whole audience groaned
02:10:22.180
When they did that scene at the, at the end where all the women were like, she's not
02:10:26.420
I heard, oh, and then you have the scene where Brie Larson's fighting Thanos, who's supposed
02:10:34.120
And she just looks at him and it's like, oh, just stop.
02:10:38.040
And I'm, so I, I, I put the movie on last night and I was watching and I was like, that's
02:10:42.820
when they went heavy into girl boss, woke feminist, all of that stuff.
02:10:49.620
Cause that movie made like a billion dollars and Captain Marvel did, uh, but it was really
02:10:57.260
coasting off of the success of, of end game and, and, uh, and infinity war.
02:11:01.880
And so they, they got this idea that this is, oh, this is what the audience wants now.
02:11:10.800
You made your peak and now all your profits are declining.
02:11:13.780
Disney loses a billion dollars on all their past releases.
02:11:18.380
Recently though, Kevin Feige, who's the King of Marvel and who's made tens of billions,
02:11:22.920
if not hundreds of billions, who knows an IP value alone, hundreds of billions, apparently
02:11:27.600
is like, uh, we got to fire all these people because they are ruining everything.
02:11:32.000
And now the Marvel universe is a, is a, is a, is a disaster.
02:11:39.580
There was supposed to be a trilogy for Ray for Star Wars.
02:11:42.860
With the feminist documentary filmmaker making a blockbuster for the first time.
02:11:46.840
And then you have, uh, the Acolyte canceled after the first season.
02:11:50.380
Someone at Disney is getting pissed and they're like, what is happening?
02:11:57.420
Jack Dorsey used to be, he's a former CEO of Twitter when it was Twitter, free speech,
02:12:02.060
He said, somehow within three or four years, he's a woke activist.
02:12:06.560
You know, long story short is they start seeing an emergence of various types of, of ideology.
02:12:13.940
You've got the pro-American nationalist ideology, and then you've got wokeness, but wokeness was
02:12:18.580
always in line with what was deemed advertiser acceptable.
02:12:22.700
Anybody says something that's kind of racist is bad for advertisers.
02:12:25.060
Anybody says racism is bad is good for advertisers.
02:12:26.860
This created a monetary pressure in that direction.
02:12:30.140
Jack Dorsey builds a system that creates these rules that promotes this kind of woke ideology,
02:12:38.160
The way to describe it is he built a toilet that allowed woke activists to dump in,
02:12:41.700
and then he hooked the pipe right to his mouth.
02:12:43.260
So all of the, all of the refuse of woke ideology is funneling into his brain,
02:12:49.920
But he can't see it, because he is surrounded in every direction by woke activists.
02:12:57.160
Meanwhile, the majority of people are watching saying that sucks.
02:12:59.620
As you mentioned, Captain Marvel makes a billion dollars, and they say,
02:13:12.520
So I remember when the commercials came out for Pirates 2, Dead Man's Chest,
02:13:16.380
and the commercials say the number one movie in America.
02:13:21.480
Everyone wanted to see the second one because the first one was good,
02:13:25.900
So now it's turning around because after sustained failure and a loss of a billion dollars,
02:13:35.680
Well, I mean, you look at, what was the blockbuster last year?
02:13:41.720
Just jets flying around shooting the terrorists.
02:13:50.660
It was masculine, and that's what people wanted.
02:13:53.260
If they get back, so one of the problems now with Marvel is the cinematic universe
02:13:59.100
has become a hodgepodge of insanity that makes no sense.
02:14:02.280
The multiverse, you know, what's the guy, Major, what's his face?
02:14:06.840
Major is who gets removed because of his scandal.
02:14:09.380
Now they've got, but I don't want to harp on Marvel, but all of the Disney shows they've
02:14:14.460
picked up have just become a hodgepodge of weird garbled nonsense.
02:14:17.420
I don't know how they bring it back together, but that's good news because it opens the
02:14:21.820
door for new and independent creators to start taking that space, so I'm excited for that.
02:14:25.760
But we're about at time, so if you guys want to give your final thoughts, wrap up.
02:14:31.420
Yeah, so the January 6th, The Most Darkest Day documentary is coming out October 11th.
02:14:38.760
If you want to see it, you can subscribe to The Babylon Bee.
02:14:42.700
I don't know if there's any plans to release it from that anytime soon, but if you want
02:14:46.380
to see it on release day, subscribe to The Babylon Bee at our website.
02:14:50.240
And yeah, I think hopefully people will enjoy it.
02:14:55.260
You can follow me on Twitter at Lectern Leader.
02:15:00.280
The website's being built, so hopefully within the next month or so, we'll have some merchandise
02:15:06.200
All the money that comes in for that, we'll be going to feeding kids for Christmas and
02:15:09.640
making sure they have a good Christmas this year.
02:15:13.280
Yeah, and just follow my stuff at TheBlaze.com or BlazeTV.
02:15:19.940
And then we have up on YouTube, Not Behind the Paywall, is our most recent mini-documentary,
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which is going to be a three-part series on a day in the life of Harry Dunn.
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He's the most famous of the Capitol Police officers who perjured himself in congressional
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The Capitol Police have done an internal investigation, but that's as far as that's gone.
02:15:45.440
But now we just have to force the Judiciary Committee and the DOJ to actually do their
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So that's why we are hitting really hard in this new documentary.
02:16:03.940
Well, you guys, this has been fun and funny, so I really do appreciate you guys hanging out.
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or wherever you get your podcasts, give us a good rating, because we have long neglected
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I've got these people yelling at me being like, you've got a million followers listening
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So we'll be back tonight at 8 p.m. over at youtube.com slash timcast IRL.
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Thank you all so much, and we'll see you there.