#628 - Tucker Carlson
Episode Stats
Length
2 hours and 40 minutes
Words per Minute
207.29013
Hate Speech Sentences
123
Summary
Tucker Carlson is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and host of his own show, The Tucker Carlson Show, which has been ranked one of the top ten podcasts in America. He also hosts his own podcast, which was recently named one of The Top 10 Podcasts in America by Time Magazine, and has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Hollywood Reporter. Tucker is also a regular on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Bill Burr" and hosts a show called "The Late Show with Seth Meyers" which was ranked No. 7 on Time Magazine's Top 10 Most Influential People in America list.
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Today's guest is a host. He's an interviewer. He's a provocateur, if you will.
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We had him on previously, and we had a great time.
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He has his own podcast called The Tucker Carlson Show.
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He was just ranked one of the top ten podcasts in America.
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We want to support ALP, too, so I'm excited about that.
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Well, that started on the show, which is kind of weird.
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It's when PMI, Philip Morris, wrote me this letter.
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You were on a well-known comedian's podcast, and you said this about our product.
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And it's been really successful, so I'm grateful.
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So did they get upset about anything you said on the show?
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Yeah, because they said it was like a boner cure or whatever.
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I mean, I've hit a, you know, hit a vape like I'm just, you know, like I'm keeping a train going, you know?
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It's hard to vape while you're actually engaged in, right?
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It's like if I'm sitting there just huffing on a vape, killing time.
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Also, if you're not getting an erection, you're trying to kill time until you get one.
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That's the toughest thing that people never talk about about erectile dysfunction.
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The lies I would used to have to make up because I had pretty bad erectile dysfunction like in
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Without getting too personal, how did you have erectile dysfunction in your 20s?
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But that's because he had a script of wiener pills, and so I'd get over there, so I'd nibble
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off of his wiener pills, and this is when wiener pills were really first popular.
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When they were first out of the gate, when people...
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Now you can get some Indian guy who'll just mail you a bag of them, you know?
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Um, and they have saffron on them, which is sometimes it's kind of a lot, but you take
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But, um, but dude, I would stay over with him, and he would, uh, and he didn't notice.
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Sometimes I would, like, cut one in half or just take one, you know?
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But so I was living with, like, a 70-year-old dude just to copse part of his wiener pills
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When I think back of the reality of that, that was bonkers.
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Usually you move in with a sugar daddy for, like, the cocaine or something, but you were
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But can I ask, how do you think you wound up needing him in the first place at that age?
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Just too much mental, too much in my head, you know?
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Like, I would try to be getting a boner or whatever, and my brain would be like, you got
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And we lived together, and so it was like a constant battle.
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But then I think as I've gotten older and gotten more calm, it's been easier.
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Or if I couldn't get it started, it was just like, man, you know?
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You're like, hey, you know, it's like, you want to watch a pro...
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You know, just like trying to kill time while you're waiting to get a boner.
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It's weird, but there are a few people in the world really good at it.
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But no, biathlon is the cross-country skiing and then shooting.
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Well, it's wild because these guys are just like huffing.
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You know, imagine being oxygen deprived and then trying to shoot straight or do anything, really.
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Oh, look, this is the skill we're all going to need probably in a few years if we want to survive.
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Because the first and only other time I've ever been here, we were in some other city.
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And I made a joke about how it was a marital aid or something.
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And then about a week later, I got a letter from the general counsel's office at Philip Morris International,
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And they said, how dare you make unsubstantiated medical claims about our product?
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And I was like, first of all, I'm shilling your product just to be nice because I like it.
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And now you're scolding me for making a boner joke, which, by the way, was a compliment.
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If somebody's Zinn and then suddenly they got that dong going, who cares?
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But they were so corporate and nasty with me that I decided I'm going to make a competing product.
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And then around that time, probably about a week or two later, I asked around.
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And I found out that almost every other person using Zinn was using it rectally.
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Like, in fact, in a lot of places when you buy it, you get a little tube of – I don't know if you ever bought it,
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but you get a little tube of Vaseline and some surgical gloves.
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And I was like, in a country of 350 million people, like there should be a pouch for your mouth.
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And by the way, I'm not in any way judging at all.
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I think it's consistent with like other parts of their lives.
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I was like, this country needs an oral use only pouch.
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And I'm like hapless – you know, I'm putting it in my mouth.
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And occasionally people would look at me like on a plane or whatever.
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I put it in my mouth and they would give me that look like, that's not what you're supposed to do with that.
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But I didn't even know – I didn't have any reference points for it.
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If you're using that third jaw, I think, to catch a nicotine hit, that's pretty wild.
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Well, the problem is you can overdo it and you forget.
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And you can just – a lot of things can happen.
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I've never done it, but I have talked to people who are into it.
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Oh, it'll build up like a beaver dam back there, I feel like.
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We've already discussed erectile dysfunction, which I admitted I had, which is definitely never going to help my dating life.
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No, I think it makes you more relatable, less threatening.
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I bet you get a lot of calls after this, actually.
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If you took an erection pill, say you went on a date or something that was going pretty well and you took part of – or you nibbled off a little piece.
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Because do not make the mistake of taking a whole one.
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Like, that was – yeah, you take a whole one, dude.
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Yeah, people will start hanging their coats on you and stuff.
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I feel like you could become dependent on it, though.
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But at a certain point, it, like, alleviated, like, the fear of, like, of this – of kind of – of the – it alleviated the fear.
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It kind of like – so then after a while, you didn't need it all the time.
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It was kind of like training wheels in a way type of thing.
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Dude, I – one time, I was over there and – so the dude, like, we only had – we only had one bedroom, so I would just sleep on the couch, right?
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So an older man moves you into his house and gives you boner pills, but it's totally on the level.
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And I think he, like, cheated on his wife or something, so he got kicked out.
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And so – and I was looking for a place to live.
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Anyway, I used to go – like, I was learning the guitar at the time, and so he would have this lady stay over sometimes, and he would have me come in there and play music to him in the dark and shit, and I just learned how to play Tears in Heaven.
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Just to – again, to stand back and, you know, with no prior knowledge of the story at all, but just to, like, assess the facts as you've laid them out.
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And a girl who has a stash of boner pills, and then he invites you into the bedroom with him and the girl to serenade them.
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And this never got freaky at all, like, not for one second.
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I was thinking you were like Kato Kaelin in the guest house.
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If you turned it off, you couldn't turn it back on.
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So you had to leave it running all the time, and you had to, like, put gas into it.
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So I'd use his car to go to school over there at Loyola, and I would just leave it running.
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I would just, like, leave it running all day, dude.
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Well, I remember I went to y'all's party last year, and there was a lot of neat people there.
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He's a great guy, and there are a lot of people.
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This country's gotten far sadder and less healthy since it was discouraged, and it's coming back, and I think it shows.
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But, no, the company's done – I've never been in business.
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But we have a big factory near here, 14 manufacturing lines, and it's like – it's cool.
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It's actually been the single most amusing and purely fun thing I've ever done.
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Of course, I have no role in, like, the business.
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I help pick the name and the design and the flavors.
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Like, I know a lot about that because I'm a lifelong nicotine user over 40 years.
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I know a lot about nicotine, but I know nothing about business.
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My college roommate runs it and is, you know, my best friend.
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But basically, yeah, it's been wildly successful because I think people want a pouch that you can put in your mouth.
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And some people are like, I'm not going to do that.
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Yeah, and I don't want to have to go to, like, a Tiesto or a John Summit or a Levity concert or have to go to, like, a widespread panic concert to get somebody to boof it into my butt through a straw or something.
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It's like, how do you even get help getting it in if you need help?
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I think for a lot of people, Zen is a group activity.
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Like, it happens, you know, with, like, friends.
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I can't believe that was the song I played, and that's what they made me play, dude.
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When you were serenading the boner pill guy and his girlfriend?
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Those are, like, two of the beginner songs, man.
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I would think it would be, like, Brown-Eyed Girl or something.
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Well, Brown-Eyed Girl, definitely, if you're using one of those pouches you're talking about, dude.
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That's, like, kind of a classic boomer kicked out of the house with his younger girlfriend.
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I thought Brown-Eyed Girl is something dealing with somebody's butt, you know?
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Dude, you just – I just saw you got a top 10 podcast, one of the top 10 podcasts in America.
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No, it's – we have a rule in our office, which we've stuck with for, like, 30 – over 30 years now.
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So, wherever I've worked, like, no compliments.
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So, you don't ever want to work with people who compliment you at all.
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And you can feel when you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.
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But having people around you are like, oh, we're kicking ass.
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Like, that's the fastest way to rot your soul and just become an asshole.
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And having spent my life around assholes, I'm like, oh, I don't want to be that.
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It's better than being in the – I've certainly been in the bottom many times in my life.
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I had ratings that were so bad at one network I worked at that there was some question as to whether, given the margin of error, anyone was watching.
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Like, Nielsen couldn't tell you really with precision.
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I mean, it is fascinating, especially to hear how quickly people have gone away from cable.
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I mean, mostly I watch sports and then I just work a lot.
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You also got nominated for Anti-Semite of the Year.
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He was there – his son's named Tucker, by the way, I'm proud to say.
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The funny thing is I'm not even an Anti-Semite and I'm against Anti-Semitism.
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And I've said that like every day for the last ten years.
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I don't think – I think it is immoral to judge people on qualities they can't control
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I don't think that people are guilty by virtue of their blood.
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That's why I disagree with the Netanyahu cabinet.
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They believe the Palestinians are subhuman because they're Palestinian.
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And I just – that's an attitude that's anti-Christian.
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And so I'm completely opposed to anti-Semitism.
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And by the way, if I was an anti-Semite at this stage, I'd be like, yeah, I'm an anti-Semite.
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I probably have the number one podcast if I said that.
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And I know one of these guys very well in here.
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I said I know Bryce, but I know another person on the bottom.
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So why do they call you something that you're not and that they know you're not?
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They do it to make you into what they call you.
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And that is, like, the key insight I've had over the last year.
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It's like I used to think – like, people would always call me racist.
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I kind of like black people, but it's not even – it has nothing to do with whether I like black people or don't.
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Yeah, I don't know if you're jerseys or whatever.
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I kind of do, but even if I didn't, hating people on the basis of racism is immoron.
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So I would do these, like, long monologues and I would stay up and write them, you know, at home and be like, I'm going to tell the truth.
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They could criticize me for my real faults, which are super obvious, you know.
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I always gain a shit ton of weight every summer.
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Like, I have faults that are obvious to everybody, but they never attack me on those.
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It's like you don't need to – first of all, you can kill Nazis, right?
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So it's obviously to get you killed is part of it.
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But part of it is much deeper, and it's spiritual, and that is that evil feeds on hate.
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Is this someone who's lying, angry, promoting violence, chaos, division?
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I mean, that's literally the definition of evil, and good is its opposite.
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It's unity, peace, happiness, love, order, cleanliness, or whatever.
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So I look at someone like Mark Levin, who was a guy I used to know.
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I've never had strong feelings about the guy one or the other.
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However, I watch Mark Levin, like, go down this path where he's, like, crazed.
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It's almost like he's being attacked by bees or something.
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I can't imagine what it's—I'm not being mean.
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That guy works tirelessly to make people hate him.
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Same with a bunch of these people you see on the internet where it's like,
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And you're around—if you're around a decent, honest person,
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you just feel this, like, warmth and attraction and calm.
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And I think you have to trust your own guiding light at a certain point.
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I don't even think—like, we're so past rational argument.
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I mean, I've proven that by, like, every week dutifully doing the—actually, I'm against
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Obviously, we're not at a point, sadly, in our history where rational debate makes any difference at all.
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We're at a stage where the only thing you can trust is God, the love of other people, and your own God-given instincts.
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I mean, your pilot light of what—you have to really lock in your pilot light of what do you feel like is right and wrong.
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I think at this point, you have to trust that more than ever.
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Like, your dog doesn't need to be told who hates him.
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Oh, I think we've been lying to ourselves or we've been passive about evil showing up in our world, I think.
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And some of those things I want to talk about for sure.
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I mean, I saw this list, and I'm like, well, first of all, Miss Rachel's on it.
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If Miss Rachel has to come out, because she was obviously anti the war in Gaza, anti the genocide, and we've spoken up about it.
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I mean, there's no doubt in my heart and mine that it's a genocide.
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People can have other thoughts that they want, and that's fine.
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There was not a lot of question about it for me.
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Like, I learned about the history of the land, and then I was like, well, this is just wrong.
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There's no reason that these children have to be getting killed, that they're experimenting with different weapons and different tactics on this kind of, like, basically this imprisoned group over there.
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And then when I saw this in Miss Rachel, I was like, what are we doing?
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Like, would you need Bert and Ernie to come out and say that it's a genocide?
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Like, at what point do people not trust what they're seeing anymore?
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That's the part that's made me think sometimes, like, I'm in this weird blender or aquarium.
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Have not an, like, it almost, like, why do you feel crazy for speaking up?
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But then it's not my place to think that somebody else should feel the same way or should feel okay about sharing stuff.
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I think because, you know, I think you don't know the, you don't really know what's going on.
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And if they would just say, hey, America is a country that's owned by Israel or that it's always been just this outpost or it's this LLC of Israel or it's this, or of this, or maybe not even of Israel.
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But if they would just tell us, then you can operate from a place of knowing what's going on.
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But for some reason, there's this weird secretiveness about stuff.
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And when things are secret, it feels evil because it feels like it's in the dark, right?
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And then when you see, like, we're watching people dying and kids dying and it's supposed to feel like it's just in with the next reel and the next trend dance or whatever.
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It's just, it all becomes, it all becomes confusing.
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And so those are moments where you do have to lock in, you know, just prayer, asking God, what am I supposed to do?
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Just trusting, like, the part inside of yourself that you feel like you've developed over time that's honest, I guess.
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Not only does it make sense, it's so beautifully expressed.
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Because, and I think a lot of people watch, I'll speak for myself, I've been brooding on this because my whole job is to try and find out what's happening and then explain it.
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And it's just an endless series of frustrating cul-de-sacs where you're like, why can't we know this, that, the other thing?
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And in the last two weeks, I feel like I've gotten closer to understanding what's actually going on.
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And of course, I could be completely wrong, but I'm not.
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And it's made me so much happier because the conclusion, I've sort of let go of a lot of my frustration and fear because I've realized that we already know exactly what this is.
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We don't know a lot of the details, you know, could be wrong about this or that, you know?
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But big picture, we know exactly what's going on.
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And I think at this point that if all the information on all these different threads, whatever it is, especially the murders, not just the recent murders or attempted murders, but the more historical ones,
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if all the relevant information came out tomorrow, would we be surprised?
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And there's enough evidence, but also our instincts tell us just by watching, like, what is this?
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It's about whether or not self-government actually exists.
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Like, do any of these countries have a system where the people decide who their leaders are and what the country should do collectively?
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Yes, I think elections are, to some extent, real and all that.
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But in the end, the big decisions are made not by nations or kings or presidents or whatever we imagine.
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They're made by, you know, the world's richest people.
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It's the people with the biggest stake in this, who have the most to gain and the most to lose, are never going to leave the big decisions to, like, three zip codes in Pennsylvania.
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And I'm not saying, by the way, I'm not claiming, you know, all elections are totally rigged or whatever.
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I'm not making any specific claims like that because I don't know if they're true or not.
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But I know that big picture, if we – we know that Kennedy was pushing up against some forbidden things and that's why he was killed.
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Well, it's not – it's too easy to say it was this group or that group or this group.
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It was all those groups acting in concert or parts of those groups acting in concert.
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I like what you said about if all the pieces came out, would you be that surprised?
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I feel like that whole thing is some sort of – I think there's some – there's definitely stuff there.
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But then also it's been such a kickball and a ruse for so long.
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It's like both political parties had a chance to put it out or to get – none of these people are operating on our behalf.
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Well, that's kind of the truth that I'm talking about.
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It feels like – well, so many of us believe and have believed and have forefathers that have spilt their blood and risked their lives
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and have friends who are enlisted now to protect this thing that I feel like we – this idea of America.
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And then that idea has gotten super blurry in the past few years.
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And especially at a time when I think a lot of people like – there's a lot of fears with like technology in the future and not knowing like where we're going to find our sense of purpose, right?
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That's a big thing that we talk about on this show a lot of our time is like where do you find your sense of purpose?
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And people find it a lot of times in their job, through their family, in their country, through their religion, through their faith.
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So, you know, some of those start to go away and some of those even look blurrier for the future, almost like it's like Marty McFly when he looks at that picture and it looks like he doesn't even exist.
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You know, and so it starts to make you think like, you know, if more of our purpose disappears and our traditions are challenged by media over the years that they're not – that they're wrong or they're racist or they're this or they're that, then you kind of end up with just – I don't know.
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It makes you feel like, well, what do I end up even – what even is the value of me at a certain point?
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Like I'm also looking at it from that perspective.
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You're speaking for millions of people when you say this.
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Like everyone can feel – I think people feel exactly what you're saying.
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And I still also feel like a lot of moments of hope of like, you know, like, okay, so I focus on my family.
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You know, I do those things that do give you feelings of meaning and purpose, right?
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So anyway, I'm not trying to be like a Debbie Downer, but go on.
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And by the way, I just want to amplify what you just said because that is the answer.
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And those aren't just feelings of meaning and purpose.
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Like that's what it really means to love people.
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Man, I thought I had, I've never done ketamine.
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But I do think, okay, so the first purpose is to love the people around you in your immediate orbit.
00:35:50.180
So, the short, the one sentence description of the whole thing that you just laid out, the way you're feeling,
00:35:57.520
is that we are discovering that we actually don't have control over anything big happening.
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And all this shit, all these systems that we've created and cherished and believed in and died for, as you said,
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They were fake because they gave us the false impression that we have control,
00:36:17.320
whether it's over our government or the future or whatever.
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We are on a commercial airliner in a thunderstorm.
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And if you're in 17B, you have no control over whether the plane lands safely or crashes.
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Well, we have to metabolize that, like, accept that.
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And once you do, there's total freedom in that.
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As we say in my family, our family motto is, there is no safety, there's only destiny.
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We can't really control that much about them except a couple of things.
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Do we love the people around us, and do we tell the truth?
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And if you want to prepare yourself for the turmoil that's only going to accelerate, this is all obvious, all of us can feel.
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Dogs can feel a thunderstorm coming three hours out.
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Oh, yeah, you'll see your neighbor just doing circles in the yard.
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And that's exactly, we are the German shepherds starting to freak out in the backyard because the weather's coming, and we can't see it.
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But they can feel it, and we can all feel that.
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But really what you need to do is make yourself strong inside by collecting your people close to you, staying in close touch with them, and telling the truth because telling the truth gives you spiritual power.
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The more you tell the truth, the more you are filled with supernatural power.
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To the extent a human being can be, I'm telling the truth, and I don't care if you kill me.
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I really don't care because what I'm saying is real, and it will outlive me.
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So if you get into that habit, the exercise of just being honest as much as you can be, of course, you're a human being, so you'll lie all the fucking time because you can't help it.
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But if you keep doing that, you'll be filled with a spiritual power that is stronger than any other power.
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Do you believe that our country is compromised?
00:38:30.680
I'm 56, so, like, I just grew up believing in everything, you know?
00:38:52.020
That's, like, the true Jedi move for a woman to be like, actually, I'm 61.
00:38:56.320
One, like, a conventional woman would always be like, actually, I'm 29, but the really
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She's a wonderful, beautiful comedian, and she's hilarious.
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But anyway, she was a senior, but she's 60 years old.
00:39:12.020
I bet she does, she did smoke, she said, in college.
00:39:16.780
And she wears tight bras because she says it keeps her awake.
00:39:23.480
But, yeah, do you think it's, like, and I guess that's a big question.
00:39:27.360
And also, going back to what you said a little bit ago, like you said, but then I look at
00:39:30.860
the history of time, and it's like, people have always been under the thumb of some type
00:39:40.540
It's like, part of you, it's like you're supposed to, don't be a baby about it, you know?
00:39:44.540
Like, you're just being, like, there's some sort of oppression.
00:39:46.980
And even as people that can feed themselves, we're not as oppressed as so many other people
00:39:50.560
or people that if they turn on the light, they're afraid it's going to activate a bomb
00:39:54.760
I had dinner with a guy who works for us last night, literally last night.
00:40:00.120
He goes, ah, I was born in Eritrea, but I grew up in a Sudanese refugee camp.
00:40:08.860
He's an amazing guy and a wonderful, wonderful guy.
00:40:11.940
But I was like, gosh, you know, I'm really, I'm from La Jolla.
00:40:24.900
But La Jolla is for sure the lap of luxury of America.
00:40:29.980
And almost every single childhood friend of mine was totally destroyed.
00:40:41.400
They didn't put, they did not put baby laxative in our cocaine growing up.
00:41:02.680
The point is, though, that we've, there's always been some sort of like, there's always been
00:41:08.340
But the older you are, the sadder it is to see your illusion shattered and the harder
00:41:13.340
So if you talk to people who are like 23 and you're like, I think the moon landing is fake.
00:41:25.680
Someone, a friend of mine who's unfortunately gone insane, but was a genius called James
00:41:31.820
James Carville from the Democratic Party from Louisiana.
00:41:36.620
And he, he's gone crazy and whatever, but he really was in his prime like a genius and
00:41:42.940
And he once said to me, I'll never forget we're in a restaurant in some foreign country.
00:41:46.200
And he goes, you know, people misunderstand the theory of evolution.
00:41:49.440
And I was like, I can't even do his accent, but he'd be like, survival of the fittest.
00:42:02.860
And he had this whole incredible rap about strength is not actually the quality that helps
00:42:11.380
It's flexibility, the ability to pivot with changes that you can't control.
00:42:18.100
And in fact, strength can be a feature of, rigidity can be a feature of strength.
00:42:29.460
No, you need to be able to move with the moment that you live in.
00:42:34.620
And so I feel like young people are in a pretty good spot, but yes, for older people, it's
00:42:44.620
You're much younger than I, but you still feel like, oh my gosh, I thought this was real.
00:42:51.020
I see it a lot in like just my, my, probably my mother and things like that.
00:43:02.300
I mean, it's like, it's something that's beautiful that you felt like was a certain way.
00:43:05.100
And now maybe some ethnicities and cultures didn't feel like it was that way.
00:43:08.640
And so sometimes I can understand that there's different points of view there, but I still
00:43:11.800
believe that the idea of America and what it's been, um, and that it's goals and that
00:43:18.240
the humans that want it to be that are, that it's altruistic, you know, a hundred percent,
00:43:24.300
but that you start to realize, Oh, that these powers above us there, they have something
00:43:30.200
different going on in that, um, they, you would think that they would, I guess they just
00:43:36.820
And so I think that's where some of my fear is.
00:43:38.860
It's just like, well, evil thrives in darkness.
00:43:42.020
It's like, what does it mean to be part of something moving forward?
00:43:46.660
Like, like, if I'm a citizen here now, what is in five years, what is, what am I a citizen
00:43:52.120
If I am, am I a citizen of a country that does genocides?
00:43:56.900
You know, like, I think I was watching some of the Gaza stuff and I kept thinking like,
00:44:00.360
well, surely America will come in at some point and help.
00:44:06.360
Um, especially since we're not, when you say genocide, you're not guessing.
00:44:13.640
And we know that not just from the video of its victims, but from the testimony of the
00:44:20.980
Members of the current government, hot cabinet secretaries in the current Israeli government
00:44:27.040
are on tape, including this week saying, we kill them because of how they were born.
00:44:46.360
Because look, people, you know, you often hear apologists for what's happening there,
00:44:54.140
One of the reasons I'm not that enthusiastic about war, because innocents die.
00:44:57.200
We always have to oppose the murder of innocents or else we're not civilized.
00:45:07.560
I know some, and what separates the savage from the civilized person is the civilized
00:45:12.940
person will never accept the murder of innocents.
00:45:26.080
Or an unarmed woman did not deserve to be murdered.
00:45:30.540
Okay, so that's the finance minister of Israel.
00:45:41.720
The truth is, until the last hostage returns, we shouldn't even give water to the Gaza Strip.
00:45:47.700
For a year and a half, we've been beating the hell out of Hamas.
00:45:51.260
We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble.
00:45:55.460
With total unprecedented destruction in the world.
00:46:00.540
The aim is to achieve the one and only required outcome.
00:46:03.660
The conquest of Gaza, the annihilation of Hamas.
00:46:11.500
So that's their view on it right there, you know?
00:46:13.880
He's saying, we're killing people and leveling the country in order to move the population out.
00:46:20.700
So how is that different from saying, there's certain people in my capital city I don't want here.
00:46:25.600
I'm going to put them on trains and move them east.
00:46:29.300
People are being killed and expelled from the place where they were born because of their bloodline.
00:46:36.640
That, in the world that I grew up in, which is the United States of America, the main lesson, the lesson of World War II, the reason we fought against fascism was we reject that.
00:46:47.700
We do not kill people or expel them or put them on trains or put them in internment camps or move them to, quote, third countries, as Smotius just said, because of how they were born.
00:46:58.260
Because we don't accept that because we're Christians.
00:46:59.980
We think that every person was created as an individual and judged as an individual, period.
00:47:08.560
The Israelis, to be clear, are not the only people who think this way.
00:47:12.200
But we are better than all of them because we don't think this way.
00:47:16.180
And all of a sudden, you've got people in the United States, current United States government.
00:47:21.680
They're all defending this because they agree with it.
00:47:24.040
And then you see people jumping up and being like, Muslims shouldn't have jobs in the United States or in the U.S. government.
00:47:29.100
It's like, how is that better than saying Jews shouldn't have jobs or Christians or Buddhists?
00:47:36.260
It leads to the genocide we're watching right now in Gaza and to many other genocides.
00:47:51.380
Or because we have, you know, Mount Shasta and Key West?
00:47:56.880
And we're able to also take care of ourselves at the same time, I think.
00:48:02.120
It's based on what's north of our moral compass.
00:48:14.500
If you didn't do anything wrong, we don't get to kill you or expel you from your home because you're innocent.
00:48:19.440
Because we believe in justice, also called fairness.
00:48:22.140
That's the whole fucking point of this country.
00:48:24.960
And so when I see people arguing against that or calling me a Nazi when they're literally wholesale adopting the Nazi mindset, but then I think, you know what?
00:48:43.740
To love the people around me and to tell the truth no matter what.
00:48:49.780
Well, I think, I do think once you say like, yeah, if I get to a point where I can just share what I think or what I feel, whether I'm right or wrong.
00:48:59.640
But then also if you look at our history, we kind of, America was, did that to other people when it started.
00:49:05.800
And you would think that we'd learn that it was wrong and that's where we are now.
00:49:08.860
Well, we've acknowledged that it's wrong, I think.
00:49:11.700
I mean, look, there's a, you can acknowledge something is wrong without, you know, self-flagellating to the point where you're incapable of like going forward, which is kind of where we are.
00:49:20.660
It's like, you can't do it to the point where you're incapable of going forward.
00:49:23.240
Like, oh, well, we also, this, this mistake was made not by us.
00:49:26.580
This mistake was made by people in the past or at that time who believed that colonialism was fine.
00:49:32.100
And that was a different, people were playing by a different set of rules.
00:49:34.880
But that's the whole point of America is that we have like standards of decency, fairness.
00:49:40.880
I love that you use that word because that is the core of it.
00:49:47.600
If his brother's getting three Oreos and he's getting one, that's just unfair.
00:49:55.500
Dogs have it because it's part of the natural fabric.
00:50:02.640
And the rich man gets the same treatment in the justice system as the poor man.
00:50:08.680
You're both citizens and you're both equal because you're both created by God.
00:50:14.780
And that is being eroded because the people who run our system agree with Smotrich and
00:50:22.620
These people are damned by their birth, whatever they are.
00:50:26.780
It's like, no, I don't like the way your parents looked.
00:50:30.840
That's what we hated about the Nazis, what we hated about segregation, which I want
00:50:36.280
Because it punished some people and rewarded others on the basis of things they couldn't
00:50:40.700
And we'd had mixed babies a lot sooner too, which are pretty cute.
00:50:45.960
But like, fairness is what we need to preserve.
00:50:51.480
Not just because he molested kids or his buddies molested kids.
00:50:54.640
It's because the president of Harvard was involved in it.
00:51:00.160
Prince retard, whatever the guy in Great Britain, the kind of retarded looking prince.
00:51:05.500
Bill Gates, all the most powerful people in the world, got away with it.
00:51:11.420
And there's tons of child molestation in America, but there's an expectation that they'll
00:51:16.960
These people we know in our hearts will never be punished because they're rich.
00:51:22.040
We don't know for sure that they molested children, though.
00:51:25.920
But we know that there's never been a real inquiry into it because the people around
00:51:35.880
OK, well, that'll say is that, yeah, there's obvious that there's not of it feels like there's
00:51:40.420
an unfair investigation that's or or a lack of investigation or it's just this lie that
00:51:47.620
It's this clay of a lie that keeps getting remodeled and put into the museum in front of
00:51:52.900
But go to all your neighbors on the street and ask them.
00:51:56.960
No, but ask them, like, if you if your name popped up as like a visitor to Petto Island
00:52:01.480
11 times, do you think you would like be protected in the way that all these other people have
00:52:09.000
Oh, Darshowitz had a fast pass, I think, if anybody had one.
00:52:25.740
Why do you think that you made the anti-Semite list?
00:52:35.380
No, but I mean, I'm literally not an anti-Semite and I reject anti-Semitism as totally immoral
00:52:42.300
So I'm not only not by temperament an anti-Semite, you know, a million Jewish people I love, I
00:52:55.060
Again, for the fifth time, if I was, I would just say so.
00:53:00.040
Well, because I think they think I'm effective because I'm not a hater.
00:53:05.120
So they have to take out the guy who actually might change people's minds.
00:53:09.840
I think there's a spiritual dimension where they want me to become an anti-Semite and
00:53:14.580
a hater, both so they can control and dismiss me.
00:53:20.420
But also because some of the people pushing this are evil.
00:53:23.260
And by evil, I mean, specifically, they are committed to lying and violence.
00:53:28.700
And those are the hallmarks of evil, lying and violence and chaos and division.
00:53:32.900
So they're not going to play by any other rules.
00:53:35.760
So we're not in a, we're not where we used to be or we used to pretend we were.
00:53:39.760
Where we all thought we were playing by the same rules.
00:53:41.720
And the rules were, if you have a better argument than I have, then you win.
00:53:49.080
And I think the murder of Charlie Kirk was the moment when we could just admit it to ourselves.
00:53:52.760
This is a guy whose whole life revolved around the proposition.
00:53:57.060
And they didn't want to debate whoever they is.
00:54:00.400
And, and to be specific, who killed Charlie Kirk?
00:54:06.580
But I, when we do find out if we ever do, doubt we will.
00:54:09.760
But if we do, I think, again, we'll not be surprised.
00:54:22.120
Evil is a commitment to deception and violence.
00:54:26.540
So it's too easy to be like, oh, it's Netanyahu or Smotrich or whatever.
00:54:35.800
And it has been the thing against which people have fought through all of history.
00:54:40.900
It manifests itself in a million different ways.
00:54:42.280
But its hallmarks are always dishonesty and violence.
00:54:45.660
It feels like we've been a bit afraid to stand up against evil.
00:54:51.460
John Rich was just talking about it on your podcast the other day.
00:54:54.020
And I thought that that was a really neat episode.
00:54:56.260
And I learned a lot about John Rich and just like his clarity of thought I thought was really neat.
00:55:01.020
We were on a hunting trip and a pheasant hunting trip two weeks ago when we did that.
00:55:12.280
But that – yeah, but we shouldn't be afraid of it and we shouldn't be – so my struggle is against being shocked.
00:55:20.120
Like every time I learn something, I'm like, holy shit, I can't believe it.
00:55:25.560
Like this or that institution is corrupt or this or that person is lying.
00:55:35.560
We live in a fallen world filled with dishonesty and violence.
00:55:38.660
My job, all of our jobs are to fight against those things.
00:55:43.980
People are always like, man, I wish I had something that was like a challenge in the world.
00:55:50.500
And it's not to say that any of us are perfect or that we don't all have mistakes or things that we wish we had done or not done.
00:55:55.700
But overall, it does feel like this is like a video game of good versus evil and you have to start to see that like you're a player in it.
00:56:08.840
This is why at some point people may try to make you be quiet is because you approach all of this with humility, which is one of the hallmarks of good in my opinion.
00:56:18.660
Like almost every sentence you begin on this topic begins with, I'm no one to judge and I'm not, you know, that is the posture.
00:56:28.560
And one thing you notice about evil is its certainty, is its judgmental, condemnatory quality.
00:56:37.580
You're a fascist, anti-Semite, Nazi, Islamist, whatever.
00:56:41.080
However, its mirror image is what you just showed, which is, you know, we're all kind of screwed up, but we're trying to get to the truth.
00:56:53.400
Well, I think that's what most people are doing.
00:57:00.140
Am I really going to stand up and be like, I am positive.
00:57:05.100
Especially like as a country, when you're paying into taxes and you're showing up to vote and you're trying to help your neighbor and you're trying to follow the rules and do the best that you can, you know, at a certain point, that's like you're giving in to something as a group.
00:57:25.760
You're like giving in to something like this is how we believe that we should behave and that it best suits us moving forward.
00:57:30.960
And then when it's really started to just feel, and I think it's kind of obvious at this point, that the higher-ups are not working for us anymore.
00:57:40.060
And that's what I think has become the most evident in the past year especially is that people are like, oh, no matter who we elect, on which side, whatever it is, it's all this sort of shell game.
00:57:54.700
Well, not working for us is kind of the most benign description.
00:57:58.460
Like not working for you, that's just indifference.
00:58:01.580
That's when your parents like go on vacation and don't come home.
00:58:04.160
What's happening to us is having like a creepy stepfather.
00:58:07.520
Like I actually think there's malicious intent here.
00:58:10.720
But how could so many politicians and stuff get compromised?
00:58:14.300
Wouldn't there be more people that stood up and said, hey, this isn't right?
00:58:28.700
And the deal – everyone thinks it's about sexual blackmail, which is totally real.
00:58:46.160
But I don't think – and have drinking problems or cheating their wives or whatever.
00:58:54.760
Like the obvious one is like, why is Lindsey Graham for this or that war?
00:58:59.780
Because if you're trying to slurp on little fellas or whatever or you're jacking off to like, you know, butt activity or whatever, like does that like – you know, like I mean definitely pedophile.
00:59:16.820
But if you're just like looking at – I'm just like –
00:59:20.540
That's not – that's not most of them are not being sexually blackmailed.
00:59:24.060
I mean I think the Epstein thing was probably that to some extent.
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But no, it's much deeper and more recognizable and part of our daily life than that.
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It's much more insidious than that because it's less dramatic than that.
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It's the deal that we all make with ourselves to get what we want.
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And you make these compromises with yourself in which you consciously decide to be dishonest.
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Like you get – in order to get elected, I have to do the following things.
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I have to basically subvert democracy by carrying water for a tiny group of people against the interests of my actual voters.
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But it's so ubiquitous you don't even notice it.
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I'm going to take money from a foreign lobby that somehow isn't registered as a foreign lobby or whatever.
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I'll support this thing that I think is probably pretty wrong but I'm going to do it because I have to.
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It's those kind of moral compromises that wind up making people slaves.
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We have hundreds of slaves otherwise known as members of Congress.
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Because they've made these compromises in order to get what they think is the prize which is re-election.
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That's why it's so important to reframe it in your head.
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It's not just some freak on Petto Island, you know, banging a child and then, oh, they have him by the balls because they have videotape of him.
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It's for, you know, I need – you hear this every election season.
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I don't want to vote for this shit, but we need to control the Congress.
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Bat on before me and all of this will be yours.
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Don't make that deal because you lose yourself.
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All of a sudden you're a slave and you see these politicians.
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That's an enslaved man and you know the people who are free because they exude this kind of peace and joy and they're like, no, I don't care.
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It's not going to change anything because you're lying and I'm not.
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It's freedom versus slavery and we put ourselves in slavery with that deal.
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Well, the pain of holding on to lies and stuff like that and shame and stuff like that, it's really so heavy.
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Well, that's why getting sober is so liberating.
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Not just because you're not on drugs or alcohol, which is itself liberating, but because you admit what you did.
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And then you're like, oh, man, I admitted I was a cokehead or I drank vodka in the morning.
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In my case, it's like, it's pretty fucking embarrassing.
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Do you think that if we elected different officials that things would be different or do you think that no matter who gets in there that the compromising happens these days?
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No, I think leadership is the most important thing.
01:07:22.200
Why doesn't somebody come up with an app that tells us who's running, right?
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Because a lot of people don't have time to focus on exactly who's running, right?
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And they have to make sure that one of the parents is there to read them a bedtime story before the other parent goes and works on that as a security guard somewhere just to make ends meet, right?
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Right. So why don't they have like an app that says, okay, this, these are the candidates.
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This one doesn't accept any money from any of these places.
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It feels like it would be very easy and obvious to create an app like that that would tell you exactly who to vote for.
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The problem is we're getting to a point of like knowledge about things.
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Like people sort of are figuring out what's going on that in order to be honest now, you have to be truly honest.
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If I think people are so wary of being lied to that if you sense that someone's like got to, you know, I'll be all honest about this stuff, but not about that thing.
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So true honesty, also called integrity, is what is needed.
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Well, you get killed, you know, you get killed.
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Like the system itself, and this is not the result of any foreign power, and this is just like the nature of systems, will work to expel you the same way your body works to expel bacteria or cancer.
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It's like the organism doesn't want this, and you see it.
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I've known very few honest members of Congress.
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One of them just left Congress, and the other is being primaried.
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It means that your own party says, we want you out.
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And so we're going to run someone from your party against you in the primary.
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And it's about not simply the fact that he disagrees with them on foreign policy, which is really the whole project really is just foreign policy, nothing to do with like your tax rates or your debt load.
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And if he doesn't think something, he's not going to say it.
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That's what makes the evil person die is sincerity.
01:10:03.400
If they smell sincerity on you, well, that's why they're calling me the most dangerous anti-Semite since Adolf Hitler himself.
01:10:30.800
Imagine if I was a member of Congress or a presidential candidate or anybody who has sincerity is marked immediately.
01:10:37.460
Because that person's a threat to everybody currently benefiting from the system.
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Because a lot of people say that allegedly she made a lot of money off of stock returns and stuff like that.
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That's like saying, you know, have you been, I know, I was just talking to Tim Dillon the other day.
01:10:58.540
And, but, you know, he's, everyone, they're all claiming, he's taking money from Qatar.
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Not only have I never taken a dollar from Qatar or anybody, I have no investors, zero.
01:11:17.600
I don't owe anybody anything, period, and never will.
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I'm going to, I'm going to invest money in Qatar.
01:11:25.600
I'm going to do just the opposite, just to, just to give the figure.
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I know that they have different rules and stuff for their people.
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And that we may disagree with some of them and stuff like that.
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I don't have to, you know, like if I go visit, I have to live by their rules.
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But if I'm, if I'm, if I'm from our country, then I can live by our rules.
01:11:46.680
But they, they accuse you of what they are and what they are is corrupt.
01:11:50.860
So Marjorie, did she make a ton of money trading on stocks with insider information?
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And you can agree or disagree with her, of course.
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But you can't say she's in it for the money, really?
01:12:13.200
And again, we can debate whether she's on the right track or the wrong track.
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You think her ideas are smart or stupid, but her sincerity is the most obvious thing about her.
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And it's also the most threatening thing about her.
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In fact, it's the only thing that they hate is sincerity because sincerity is purity and it can't be bought.
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And so, of course, they accuse, the first thing they're like, oh, you must be getting paid by somebody.
01:12:37.120
If I was as corrupt as Dan Crenshaw, you really think they would hassle me?
01:12:45.920
Well, on the most deep, on a moral level, he's completely corrupt.
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I mean, he takes orders from his donors to do things that have nothing to do with the welfare of his voters.
01:13:04.620
But I shouldn't be – I feel sorry for Dan Crenshaw being serious.
01:13:08.260
But anyway, the point is the more corrupt you are, the more they like you because they can control you.
01:13:13.600
What they don't want is someone who might do something unexpected who they can't control.
01:13:21.220
But do you think that as – well, for – so for Marjorie, do you – what do you think happened in that meeting?
01:13:27.840
Because she had a meeting, I guess, with Trump?
01:13:30.400
I don't know what happened between her and Trump.
01:13:33.520
I know what happened to her over the past five years serving in Congress, which was she was like –
01:13:38.200
Trump withdrew his political endorsement and publicly insulted Green, labeling her as a traitor due to her vocal opposition to his handling of Epstein files and other policy disagreements.
01:13:48.740
Green announced her resignation effective January 5th, 2026 to avoid a divisive primary challenge.
01:14:09.060
Why not go and say, okay, I'm going to keep fighting and people are going to support you?
01:14:15.240
Well, the only thing I know – I really don't.
01:14:17.800
I haven't talked to her about it and I don't know the answer.
01:14:19.500
I'm sure there's thinking behind it that I'm not that great at – you know, the thinking about what the right move in politics is.
01:14:26.180
But I know big picture what happened because I saw it up close, which is she showed up very much like any other person.
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And she shows up and all people are like, shut up, honey.
01:14:38.060
She was getting too close to what the truth is.
01:14:42.260
And the truth is the people running the system are completely corrupt and the welfare of their people, our country's people, is not even on their list of concerns at all.
01:14:52.780
They're beholden to the people who pay them and – or who threaten them.
01:14:57.400
And she said that out loud and, oh, man, she had like very few allies.
01:15:05.140
So I think she concluded – this is my understanding – she concluded I can't – I'm having no effect here at all.
01:15:11.360
And the Epstein thing, you know, I've never understood what the justification for keeping that information secret – Epstein was murdered in prison, okay?
01:15:30.040
Well, they put him with a cellmate that was kind of a crazy – like former police officer, right?
01:15:33.320
Yeah, a former police officer killed a number of drug dealers.
01:15:36.340
I'm not saying that guy did it, but I'm saying, well, I asked Bureau of Prisons because I learned all this stuff about it.
01:15:43.280
And I never expected to get down this rabbit hole at all.
01:15:46.640
I had – the guy called me like a week after his brother was killed.
01:15:50.780
And yeah, I was literally sitting in my backyard in Maine and he called me and I don't know how he got my cell.
01:15:59.360
It's not interesting and I won't bore you with it, but the bottom line is Jeff Epstein was murdered in federal lockup in Manhattan in the secure unit.
01:16:07.860
I think there were only 16 men on the unit and I think only 14 there that night.
01:16:13.640
I may have thought slightly wrong, but it's very small and it's the most secure federal lockup in the United States and he got murdered in it.
01:16:19.620
So that raises all kinds of obvious questions like who has the power to do that?
01:16:24.040
And then the attorney general at the time helped cover it up.
01:16:32.900
So I – and I say that and he's like, oh, I'm going to sue you.
01:16:42.320
Well, it turns out – and this does make you crazy – that his father, Donald Barr, is the guy who started Epstein's career,
01:16:48.440
who both gave him his first job for which he was not qualified and then got him his second job at Bear Stearns for which he was definitely unqualified.
01:16:56.980
But anyway, the point is that question of how an American citizen, kid toucher or not, could get murdered in federal lockup in our biggest city,
01:17:10.520
And then the attorney general of the United States is covering it up.
01:17:13.680
He admitted – this is the attorney general when Epstein was murdered – said, I told everyone around me,
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we need to make sure the country believes this was a suicide.
01:17:23.980
It's like you haven't even done a freaking investigation.
01:17:25.780
You're the chief law enforcement officer and you're telling me the outcome before you even look into it?
01:17:33.720
And so I'm not guessing at any of this stuff, okay?
01:17:37.620
So I call Bureau of Prisons and I'm like, I want the names of the inmates who are serving on this block because clearly nobody got in or out of the block.
01:17:47.820
Well, it also was a question to our prison system.
01:17:53.040
It's like how would you not – like obviously this is the guy you have to protect.
01:17:56.420
They did it on purpose and he was murdered clearly by another inmate.
01:18:01.380
And there is so much – I mean I did like an hour on this.
01:18:10.340
I've often been wrong but I've always been attentive to what I believe the facts to be.
01:18:14.340
I think it really matters whether you're accurate and I've tried to be.
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They never did the investigation into how this guy died.
01:18:24.120
They redressed him in clothes that he wasn't wearing when he died for pictures in the hospital infirmary.
01:18:30.060
All the records of what happened to his body are gone.
01:18:33.320
And critically, we cannot get – and I tried directly by calling the attorney general's office.
01:18:49.620
They allowed him to be murdered in federal lockup.
01:18:52.600
So leave all the Petto Island stuff out of it and just ask yourself how can we continue to live in a country where a high-profile inmate can be murdered in our prison system by some – who's powerful enough to do that?
01:19:06.960
And so these are not only legitimate questions.
01:19:12.380
And, like, we're mad at the people asking them?
01:19:19.880
It feels like the people you're supposed to be able to ask, you can't – like, we're the weird people now for asking questions.
01:19:26.640
Like, it's like you get labeled as the weird guy for asking questions.
01:19:31.780
They just said that lady, Bari Weiss or whatever her name is, and she was on ABC.
01:19:37.000
It's one of the greatest liars in our public life.
01:19:43.280
The last thing that I'm beginning to sort of reckon with right now is the extent of profound anti-American and anti-Jewish sentiment on large parts of the American right.
01:19:58.320
A lot of the illiberalism on the left that came from the fringe into the mainstream of the Democratic Party began as a fringe online movement that a lot of Democrats and a lot of liberals waved away because it was just some crazy influencers online.
01:20:16.780
And woe to the people that still are telling themselves that and still believe that the things that Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson are saying will not make an impact on the right because they will.
01:20:32.580
Everything about that is just so amazing to me.
01:20:43.100
It takes a lot of balls for Barry Weiss who acts openly on behalf of a foreign country.
01:20:50.640
They pertain to the fortunes of a foreign country.
01:20:58.480
And calling me anti-American, you can say that Carlson's an asshole or whatever, but she has to call me the one thing that she is, which is like this weird psychology, I have to say.
01:21:11.700
It's a buffoon, a hothead, bad table manners, whatever, fat.
01:21:23.880
You seem like you own a couple of Build-A-Bears probably, but just the seasonal ones.
01:21:28.200
I think you always look like you're ready for Christmas.
01:21:30.720
I wear the same clothes and it keeps my weight down.
01:21:35.560
And I wear size 36 and if I get above that, I'm just going to suffer through it until I stop eating donuts.
01:21:45.680
But why is this someone who's supporting a different country and not our country first?
01:21:53.400
Barry Weiss is a vocal supporter of Israel describing her views as pro-Israeli.
01:21:57.020
She's a, quote, Zionist fanatic calling me anti-American.
01:22:04.900
And I don't know the lady, but why does she get to, if her allegiance isn't to America first, how is she the head of an American network?
01:22:12.260
Well, that's, of course, an entirely fair question that you're not allowed to ask.
01:22:16.500
But here's the deeper thing that I've been meditating on recently is that a lot of our overlords like Barry Weiss are actually totally mediocre.
01:22:23.020
And the most depressing thing about the United States in 2025 is that we're led not just by bad people, but by unimpressive, dumb, totally non-creative people.
01:22:32.560
Barry Weiss has no experience in journalism at all.
01:22:35.560
She's like an opinion writer or whatever for the New York Times or something.
01:22:39.860
Like, never written a freaking story in her life.
01:22:48.060
But for you to ascend to the top of whatever pyramid you think you occupy, and you're not even impressive.
01:22:56.680
Bill Ackman's worth like $8 billion or something.
01:22:59.040
I don't care if Bill Ackman, whatever Bill Ackman does.
01:23:07.080
How do these people wind up running our biggest institutions?
01:23:10.080
And the reason that's significant is because if you pay close enough attention and you realize that the people running everything are stupid, then you think, well, actually, the system is truly rigged on behalf of people who do not deserve these positions at all.
01:23:25.880
It's not just that I disagree with Barry Weiss or she's calling me names or I'm calling her names or whatever.
01:23:29.260
It's like in no fair system and no meritocracy would Barry Weiss rise above secretary.
01:23:39.100
I've been in this business since Barry Weiss was breastfeeding, okay?
01:23:41.700
There's no world in which Barry Weiss rises to the top of a news network except a rigged world.
01:23:52.040
They're not – like people aren't even putting their best people in front.
01:23:57.420
It's like we're going to take someone as stupid as Bill Ackman and give him $8 billion.
01:24:01.660
We're going to take someone as stupid and totally non-creative, like literally uninformed.
01:24:09.340
And we're going to put her in charge of CBS News just to show that individual merit, energy, creativity, which is the most important thing.
01:24:19.760
Creativity is what a healthy society rewards because we are designed to create things.
01:24:27.860
The creative power is the spark that distinguishes us from all other species.
01:24:37.040
So creativity has to be the most rewarded factor in any healthy society.
01:24:42.820
And now, because our society is inverse, it's upside down, creativity is penalized.
01:24:53.940
And Barry Weiss, the single least creative human being, the single most robotic, what are the talking points?
01:25:00.880
Repeating them, that person winds up at the top of the pyramid.
01:25:11.900
It's that her presence at the top of CBS News means all of those institutions are totally fake.
01:25:26.120
You tell me one – and I'm not even like moralizing.
01:25:32.300
He's a hedge fund guy who's made most of his money by short selling.
01:25:36.120
And that means I go on CNBC and I attack your company.
01:25:40.480
Its stock price falls and I've made a reverse bet against the stock price and I get rich.
01:26:06.180
They feel like it's Hollywood or the news creates a narrative.
01:26:13.680
The mass media, all of it is turning out slop and it's like –
01:26:23.660
So our job, again, is to love the people around us and tell the truth.
01:26:34.020
Dude, you've got the second biggest podcast in the world or something?
01:26:46.980
You were a stand-up comedian and all of a sudden you're like dominating global
01:26:58.500
Dude, my friend said these glasses aren't even real the other day.
01:27:01.220
Are those not – those are pretty ugly to be fake.
01:27:12.800
You're never going to impregnate anyone in those glasses.
01:27:22.480
I think you just overcame your eyewear with that.
01:27:24.940
You break out the acoustic air, Clapton, and even I want to sleep with you.
01:27:31.200
No, but I think for all the – like I do think – what's the phrase they use?
01:27:41.080
This is an arc of consciousness and you realize, holy shit, everything is terrible.
01:27:48.660
And I'm like, yes, but a new world is being born, like for real, and it's beautiful,
01:28:00.120
Everything – what you hate about the modern world is that it lacks creativity,
01:28:07.360
It's the energy that makes you different from the chair you're sitting in,
01:28:10.740
and that is bursting out everywhere, and I love it.
01:28:19.180
Did you see about how – oh, with TikTok, right, with social media,
01:28:27.520
Did you see that video with Yet and Yahoo for the TikTok ownership?
01:28:40.580
But we have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we're engaged.
01:28:45.880
And the most important ones are on social media.
01:28:49.240
And the most important purchase that is going on right now is class words.
01:29:04.680
And I hope it goes through because it's – it can be consequential.
01:29:12.940
Why did he just confirm every crazed anti-Semitic conspiracy online?
01:29:20.720
And there's literally the prime minister of Israel being like, yes, we control everything.
01:29:25.660
First of all, he, like Barry Weiss, is kind of stupid, clever, ruthless, but stupid, not creative at all.
01:29:32.980
But there's a deeper reason because he's trying to inspire hatred.
01:29:44.860
Well, I mean, we're being a hater in the sense where, like, if you hate against him.
01:29:48.520
But I guess if you're saying it's evil, then, yeah, hating evil isn't wrong, right?
01:29:53.700
It's like if you teach me, like, growing up, like about the Holocaust, you teach me about Nazis, you teach me about evil.
01:30:12.920
And it's the first one where you see these things happening.
01:30:15.280
Like, it's almost like, well, if I had seen slavery on my phone, I'd be like, this is fucked up.
01:30:21.240
If I had seen, you know, it's like, it's the first thing you see.
01:30:25.120
And did you see that chick who was at some conference recently?
01:30:27.560
I think she was like Carmela Harris, a speechwriter, former speechwriter.
01:30:30.900
And she's like, you know, we made a huge mistake, like, talking too much about the Holocaust because now people are comparing what's happening in Gaza to the Holocaust.
01:30:39.180
But it's like, don't come in and gaslight me to think now I'm wrong for seeing this.
01:30:46.600
Shit, we never should have mentioned the Nazis because we set absolute standards of behavior that we're now failing to meet and we're being blamed.
01:30:53.200
And then now when this guy says they want to buy TikTok so that the influence is different, like, it's just like, I don't understand.
01:31:02.440
Why are we the only people that feel, or why aren't more people activated about this?
01:31:09.540
It's like watching something horrible happen and we can't even ask our own country for help.
01:31:15.400
I can't believe that half of our representatives aren't speaking up and saying something like, hey, we're going to shut this down.
01:31:21.020
We're not going to let, because wasn't he condemned by the ICC for.
01:31:33.360
And, and I just don't understand how regular people, comedians and, you know, a guy who loves Johnson and Murphy from Maine are the ones who are fucking having to speak up about that.
01:31:46.020
Well, that's the beauty that I'm talking about.
01:31:48.680
And sorry if you don't love Johnson and Murphy.
01:31:50.040
I don't, these are like my Turkish grounding shoes.
01:31:54.180
They're so ugly, but I got these from someone else in the nicotine business who's like, dude, these will ground you to the earth's essential forces.
01:32:04.860
But I, I am originally from California in the 70s.
01:32:08.580
I look like you could smoke in them for sure, dude.
01:32:14.380
Every time I see a Johnson and Murphy, I peek my head and I say, hey, Tucky.
01:32:35.740
But we're like in this moment where the old is going away and the new is on its way.
01:32:42.360
And some of it is menacing and scary and hard to understand like AI or crypto.
01:32:50.880
It's called the human spirit and it's irrepressible.
01:32:53.560
You can't actually extinguish it no matter how many people you kill.
01:32:56.620
And no matter how many lies you tell, it will always sort of bubble up around you.
01:33:04.840
And I would just, last thing I want to say, like if you really are worried,
01:33:08.760
if you feel like, oh, there's this international conspiracy of people to oppress humanity and
01:33:21.540
Go and read some of the Epstein emails that have been released.
01:33:26.060
And ask yourself, like as a human, what's the first thing I noticed?
01:33:32.820
He was from Coney Island and he was like an idiot.
01:33:42.600
We imagine their geniuses because they're evil, but we miss the obvious signs that these
01:33:50.300
They are not as impressive as like the normal people in my world.
01:33:55.280
So we have this like picture of like the diabolical genius pulling the strings.
01:34:00.260
I'm moving this population here and this population.
01:34:07.180
They're just like nightclub bouncers who have billions of dollars and they're idiots.
01:34:21.700
Like I'm not too worried about Barry Weiss taking over the world.
01:34:24.520
I don't care how many billionaires hand her news organizations because she's obedient to their
01:34:32.900
Yeah, I've heard Tim Dillon talk about her, but I'm not that familiar with her.
01:34:37.720
So I think Tim, and he can speak for himself, but as I remember the story, like he was in
01:34:41.380
her orbit and, you know, I know all the people, of course, in her orbit.
01:34:48.640
She's very charming, I will say, and very energetic, which I love anybody.
01:34:52.620
But he was like buddies with her and they were going to parties.
01:34:55.500
And then like, well, he can explain it better than I could, but my understanding is he's
01:35:00.020
like, one day he's like, killed a lot of kids in Gaza, I think.
01:35:03.760
And I think within like 10 minutes, she was like on the phone with his agent.
01:35:11.980
So I guess our friendship wasn't built on the foundation, I assumed it was.
01:35:15.320
It's like, and dumb people are very much like that.
01:35:25.900
I remember her, do you remember when she attacked Tulsi Gabbard, who's a beautiful soul?
01:35:32.420
She sent me a couple of nice messages over the years.
01:35:35.960
But do you remember when he attacked her on Rogan?
01:35:43.220
He's like, I'm not sure, what do you mean by that?
01:35:45.000
You know, in his Rogan-like, not attacking back, but just like explain yourself a little
01:35:49.720
And Barry Weiss was like, it was like you caught her on the john or something.
01:35:52.740
She was like, oh, I have to explain the casual slander I threw at her.
01:35:58.020
She had no fucking idea what she was talking about.
01:36:11.000
According to multiple accounts from listeners and subsequent commentary, Weiss struggled
01:36:13.900
to define toady in that specific context and failed to effectively back up her assertion
01:36:19.460
Being flustered during the exchange, the moment was wildly circulating in clips online and
01:36:22.500
frequently brought up by critics of Weiss as an example of a journalist using obstantiated
01:36:28.340
No, it's an example of someone who got a 350 on the English SAT.
01:36:34.140
Okay, but somehow got a job at the New York Times and you don't know what toady is?
01:36:37.340
Like, she's in the word business, baby, you know?
01:36:39.280
Well, I just don't understand how, like, why isn't there, like, you used to believe that
01:36:48.060
everybody that was elected was campaigning for America first, right?
01:36:59.200
So, the country's dying not because the people are bad, because of bad leadership.
01:37:03.940
I used to, you know, you get brainwashed growing up here and you're like, no, what
01:37:08.520
No, what really matters is the willingness of your leaders to actually die for you as
01:37:16.160
If they love you, they will, your country will prosper.
01:37:24.160
And what do you think that we could do differently?
01:37:25.960
I know that John Rich on your show that one thing that was interesting, he said that he felt
01:37:30.440
like a lot of Americans have just kind of cowered and watched this kind of happen.
01:37:37.980
He was speaking mostly about Christians, but also about Americans, that they've just kind
01:37:41.460
of cowered and sort of let this, like, um, let evil policies, evil things come in and
01:37:47.420
not stood up for their own voices or stood up against their own fears.
01:37:56.100
There are plenty of things I'm just like, I don't want to deal with that.
01:38:01.560
I mean, it's not, I hate to point one of your, as I said a minute ago, one of your tics,
01:38:07.640
verbal tics that I just, I want to emulate and I want to be like this is you preface
01:38:12.380
every attack or assessment of someone else with a self critique.
01:38:16.380
You're like, I've done a lot of shitty things, but I think that person's doing a shitty thing.
01:38:20.360
Like I think that's a really good habit to get into just because righteousness is good.
01:38:33.540
The ego is very scary, but yeah, I have there been like, yeah.
01:38:37.700
Where's the leadership supposed to come from now?
01:38:39.980
Like if we can't believe that our politicians are going to guide us, right?
01:38:43.660
Well, the system is obviously changing, you know, just like the media.
01:38:49.220
It's, I can't, I could write 10 books on how different it is.
01:38:52.540
Everything about it, not just my perceptions of it, but the systems itself are totally different.
01:38:56.420
And so systems evolve and we're clearly at the end of something in the beginning of something
01:39:02.140
And I can't know with any precision what we're moving into, but clearly it's not going to be
01:39:06.860
Like we know that because this system doesn't work, doesn't produce anything worth having.
01:39:15.400
A lie doesn't infuriate you unless you know it's a lie.
01:39:20.620
And Barry Weiss can be like anyone who disagrees with Netanyahu is now imprisoned.
01:39:25.520
I'm sure she would love to do that, but it's still not going to work because you're going
01:39:29.040
to have prisons full of people who still disagree with Barry Weiss.
01:39:31.080
It's like you can't change people's minds by force.
01:39:35.580
So our system is reaching the end of something.
01:39:41.120
I hope it's not destroyed, but clearly it's going to change.
01:39:45.180
It feels like it's going to happen fast though, doesn't it?
01:39:50.780
That is, I've seen that in foreign countries and it's scary.
01:40:04.080
You know, just for a day or two where there's no cops and there are kids running around with
01:40:08.820
I was right next to a guy who got shot to death.
01:40:13.340
And you have people listening to young boy just popping off to doing who knows what.
01:40:23.700
So people, there's a lot of guns in every state, but.
01:40:29.400
And I don't, you know, I don't think in the end.
01:40:31.620
Oh, I think how it all ends is blacks versus drones.
01:40:43.860
Because like, you know, the news over time and everything, it makes white people, you
01:40:51.740
Yeah, whiteys, you know, during like the Trump campaign, they were like, every Southern
01:40:56.200
person or Midwestern person was the only, you know, piece of shit, you know, just all
01:41:01.840
The white people started ending up on a lot of pills and stuff like that and just confused
01:41:07.760
And that's been unfortunate because there's a lot of great people.
01:41:11.900
But it's actually one of the greatest crimes ever in this country.
01:41:16.100
But black folks, I think, are still like, they're still like, you know, they've kind
01:41:22.660
You know, they've had such an origin story in America, right?
01:41:29.300
And then like, their origin story is the best to be the victor in the end, right?
01:41:35.560
I feel like their origin story makes the best arc, character arc, to be like the hero at
01:41:41.620
So I think it ends up them versus drones, versus like the drones owned by evil folks.
01:42:00.720
But I think it's going to be black folks help us win it and they're going to defeat the
01:42:15.260
But I'm just saying, bro, you're going to have, it's going to be, that's where, I think
01:42:21.860
Well, I, one of the reasons that, you know, all those years they called me, no one ever
01:42:25.740
calls me a racist anymore, but they used to for years when I was at Fox, racist, racist,
01:42:30.840
And so I really thought a lot about, am I a racist?
01:42:32.840
And no, I'm annoyed by certain things for sure, but I'm not a racist at all.
01:42:37.840
And not just because I think it's immoral to be racist.
01:42:40.300
I'm not a racist because black people, what do we think of black people?
01:42:46.220
I'm talking about African-Americans, hundreds and hundreds of years.
01:42:49.840
Like if you believe in the country, if you really feel like you're part of it, your ancestors
01:42:53.500
are buried here, you're going to die here, which is how I feel.
01:42:56.640
It's like, you're in it with black people because they've been here since day one.
01:43:00.640
There's like a, it's an American, I feel that actually.
01:43:05.180
I'm not, I think it's, I don't know how, like, I don't, I mean, definitely it's a, it's a
01:43:11.080
wild group, black folks, but I think they love to get in.
01:43:20.460
So I could definitely see them getting into it with drones, dude.
01:43:26.580
Oh, I'm rooting for blacks against drones for sure.
01:43:32.220
Do you think that the, I mean, it's, it's tough though to fight drones.
01:43:38.260
I think if they, once they really apply themselves to a sport, they start to crack the codes
01:43:44.260
You know, you put the hit stick on a drone, dude.
01:43:50.880
That shit's going to be one of the best things ever.
01:43:52.400
And it'll be, we'll be able to, some people will be able to watch it.
01:43:55.040
You'll be able to watch some of it on your phone.
01:44:01.640
Have you checked with black people about this at all?
01:44:13.560
So I think if you, and if drones are just shooting people out in the streets and stuff, like if
01:44:18.360
one of these companies like Palantir, like they were using in Gaza, it comes and starts
01:44:21.640
popping off here, which now has a data, like isn't Palantir, they're able to, they're going
01:44:30.480
I see a lot of, a lot of people referring to that, but I'm just going to have to plead
01:44:36.900
And this is allegedly, but there's articles that allege that, that they have weapons attached
01:44:42.080
to drones and that they're able to figure that out.
01:44:44.340
Palantir Technologies holds multiple major contracts with the U.S. government, particularly
01:44:47.640
with the Department of Defense, highlighted by a recent U.S. Army Enterprise Agreement
01:44:56.980
Consolidating 75 prior contracts into one for software and data services to boost military
01:45:03.980
Now just keep it, that looks like it's from Wikipedia, which is obviously controlled by CIA.
01:45:10.740
Perplexity is a company that advertises with us.
01:45:21.200
Did you see that they were just paying chat GPT?
01:45:27.020
Israel just paying chat GPT to adjust their sentiment towards them?
01:45:34.220
I want to find out in a second if we can get this article up here.
01:45:35.920
So the problem is going to be, the problem is going to be YouTube.
01:45:43.520
Candace Owens is like the most famous person in the world because of YouTube.
01:45:49.420
And if there is some, God hope it doesn't happen, but if there's some act of violence in the United States that can be used as a pretext in the same way that January 6th was used as a pretext to shut down all these people, they'll kick people off.
01:46:03.600
My fear is that people, there will be a crackdown on YouTube.
01:46:07.160
And at that point, you know, that's a big, that would be a true disaster for the country.
01:46:15.520
So if there's an act of violence, whether it's organic or not, because some of them are not organic, sorry, that's a fact, a proven fact.
01:46:21.840
But whatever the cause of it, if there's an act of violence against innocence and it's described as a hate crime, that it's not crazy to imagine.
01:46:32.100
And that could be used to tie people whose opinions are unpopular with certain groups.
01:46:40.240
And all of a sudden there's an emergency meeting with Sundar Pashai at Google and it's like, I'm sorry, you cannot have purveyors of hate like Candace Owens and me or you.
01:46:49.620
These people died because these podcasters said hateful things.
01:46:59.180
I mean, that's like my whole life is against it.
01:47:02.460
When you hate, even in your heart, even silently, you make evil stronger.
01:47:08.060
The only reason I bring up this stuff about Israel is because they're doing a genocide.
01:47:12.800
If I was in Nazi Germany and I saw bad things happening and I didn't raise my hand or if Nazi Germany was trying to buy a bakery next door to me and I didn't be like, hey, mustache guy is buying the bakery.
01:47:28.880
Like, I don't understand what you want me to do.
01:47:30.640
Get out of my face and I'll stop thinking about you.
01:47:33.900
You just can't train me to think one way and then show me a replica of it and not expect me to have the same sentiments toward it.
01:47:42.940
And to call someone a bad guy because of that is crazy to me.
01:47:46.040
This article says, the government of Israel has hired a new conservative-aligned firm, Clocktower XLLC, to create media for general Gen Z audiences in a contract worth $6 million.
01:47:56.820
At least 80% of content Clocktower produces will be tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms.
01:48:02.940
Clocktower will integrate its pro-Israel messaging in the Salem Media Network properties, a conservative Christian media group that boasts a vast radio network and produces high-profile shows such as Hugh Hewitt Show, Larry Elder Show, and The Right View with Laura Trump.
01:48:37.880
In its contract, Clocktower does not reveal much about what kinds of messaging will be promoted on behalf of Israel.
01:48:43.640
He took money for—wait, Brad Parscale took money from the Israeli government to do that?
01:48:47.680
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, the advisor who hired the controversial micro-targeting firm Cambridge Analytic during Trump's 2016,
01:48:55.820
campaign is at the center of the Israeli government's New Deal.
01:48:59.500
So Brad Parscale, I don't think, is an evil person.
01:49:04.680
But for an American citizen to take money from a foreign government to secretly propagandize on behalf of that government,
01:49:14.640
without saying it, is really—speaking of unpatriotic, I mean, that's—I hope that's not true.
01:49:21.940
Well, it just—it's like, at this point, it's—and I guess, I mean, Israel's certainly allowed to advertise wherever they want.
01:49:30.040
This is—so advertising is not threatening because when—it's just straightforward.
01:49:33.560
You see a billboard for jeans, and it's like, buy my jeans.
01:49:41.740
This is an effort to subvert what you think is true by making it dishonest.
01:49:50.500
And you don't disclose that you're taking money to do that.
01:49:52.840
And everything about this is dishonest and wrong.
01:49:56.280
And any American who would take money for that, you know, again, speaking of anti-American, really, who's the audience for this?
01:50:03.660
It's American citizens who think they're, like, tuning in for conservative analysis, and actually they're getting the point of view of a foreign government.
01:50:16.960
I think, yeah, I think it's just—I don't know.
01:50:19.040
It's a tough time because you realize, oh, you thought all these things were in place that were keeping our country.
01:50:27.880
Would you take money from a foreign—would you take—let's take Israel out of it.
01:50:33.860
It's like, yeah, you realize now that that's not the case, you know?
01:50:36.920
But I think it's like, where do we go from here?
01:50:39.720
Well, let me just—I mean, I don't want to be judgy because I've done all kinds of bad things.
01:50:46.600
Self-righteousness is the trap, and I fall into it for sure.
01:50:50.500
But let me just ask you if—again, take Israel out of it because it's so emotional.
01:51:03.940
But would you take money for—if Qatar's like, okay, we'll pay you $10 million or $6 million,
01:51:10.260
which I think is what Brad Parscale got, supposedly.
01:51:12.100
We want you to just subtly shift your message to be pro-Qatar.
01:51:17.200
Don't tell anybody you're taking this money, but just feed our line to your audience without telling them that you're doing it.
01:51:30.200
I wouldn't let people pay to have a person on this podcast.
01:51:38.680
Do you feel like the people must be trying to—because the podcast is really big.
01:51:44.520
Or somebody's like, hey, we—Qatar asked if we would do one from their country, right, during a UFC fight, right?
01:51:49.300
And I thought about that, and we're trying to figure that out.
01:51:51.360
But I didn't feel like it was the best kind of setting, sort of.
01:51:56.460
And now would I go back over there sometime and spend some time?
01:52:02.260
Because a lot of the guys over there, they're in the throbes and stuff.
01:52:07.600
Dude, they're nice because you can have no underpants on.
01:52:16.660
Talking to somebody and just feeling your nuts bang against your legs while you're standing there?
01:52:23.580
Bro, that's like that guy, like the hunchback of Notre Dame kind of, you know?
01:52:28.980
No, but just him, I just imagine like a handicapped guy inside of my legs ringing my nuts with like a rope or whatever, you know?
01:52:39.120
So you picture like a little gremlin under there.
01:52:44.160
Oh, dude, if your nuts had real bells inside of them, that shit would be sick, dude.
01:52:47.960
Imagine the pain, the force of that ringer hitting the sides of the cast iron is a lot.
01:52:56.200
I bet if your nuts weighed even two more ounces, it would strain you so much.
01:53:01.400
I bet your nuts have the perfect weight to them.
01:53:04.000
I think that's the whole theory of evolution, isn't it?
01:53:06.660
We evolved to have like perfectly weighted nuts.
01:53:09.320
And our ancestors who had, I don't know, disproportionately weighted nuts, they didn't reproduce.
01:53:15.840
Average human testicles each weigh about 15 to 25 grams.
01:53:32.720
If you're getting it in Baltimore, it's probably six in there.
01:53:44.560
Did you hear his genuine ignorance about narcotics?
01:53:59.720
I've been selling really good eight balls, man.
01:54:19.220
No, no, not with you, but I actually called the Israeli government more than once, and
01:54:30.080
I won't even criticize your genocide, because there are lots of bad things going on in the
01:54:38.320
They're not the only country committing atrocities.
01:54:41.840
Our own country's committed a lot of atrocities.
01:54:44.540
I think it's all coming out in the snow right now, but it's just crazy.
01:54:47.660
How about we just don't send any more money for those atrocities?
01:54:52.020
If you would stop it, if you get out of the Oval Office, no more visits from your prime
01:54:58.100
There are so many countries in the world that actually matter.
01:55:05.100
You are irrelevant, except to the extent we promised to defend you.
01:55:10.260
We wish you well, and I will never think about you again.
01:55:18.000
And so rather than just say that, we get these lectures like, oh, America can't exist without
01:55:25.480
Like, first of all, at some point, I'm offended.
01:55:31.000
I'm not a perfect person, but I really care about this place because I have nowhere else
01:55:36.860
Stop, but they won't stop, and they're constantly calling you names because they're committing
01:55:42.760
It's like, I spent 30 years not talking about this.
01:55:51.940
And I decide I don't want to talk about this because there are all kinds of other things
01:56:01.120
It was only when Trump gets elected in November, and by January, they're in the Oval Office,
01:56:08.440
foreign officials from Israel in the Oval Office demanding that we pay for a regime
01:56:28.000
But it was like, that whole election was about, we've had enough of this.
01:56:32.500
It really hurt everybody, including us, especially us.
01:56:44.680
And like days later, they're there demanding that we back them in a regime change war.
01:56:55.280
And then in June, we came really close to getting in like a full-blown war with Iran.
01:57:00.120
We spent billions in this totally pointless exercise.
01:57:05.080
So it's, from my perspective, it's like, I'm not obsessed with Israel.
01:57:08.180
You just back off and I'll never mention you again.
01:57:10.660
I don't want to think about you at all because you're meaningless actually.
01:57:14.400
You're a tiny country that has no strategic value at all.
01:57:18.140
So just as long as you stop trying to control my government, I'll leave you alone.
01:57:21.720
Well, sometimes it starts to seem like it's a video game and they've always controlled everything.
01:57:25.100
And then we're just now realizing it's like, I've said this a couple times, but it's almost like if Super Mario almost looked at the screen one day and looked at you playing with him instead of just following your demands on the screen.
01:57:38.280
Like if one day he just like fucking sat down his fireballs and like looked over at you and was like, hey, what the fuck are we doing here?
01:57:45.300
You know, it's almost like that's where it's just like broke the fourth wall.
01:57:49.220
No, I mean, like if he's just like, ah, I'm so tired of fighting this dragon.
01:57:53.020
You know, it's like, look, let's just let Bowser live.
01:57:56.860
You know, like if I just wonder if it became real.
01:58:05.400
It's like, yeah, if you if you can just let go of like.
01:58:13.840
That because it's sometimes it's anger that fuels that, you know, sometimes it's fear.
01:58:18.360
Some of it's like, yeah, a lot of it's fear, I think, uncertainty, safety.
01:58:24.360
But if you can get the anger out of it and just let it go and be like, I'm just going to do my best that I can.
01:58:29.980
But I'm going to be brave and speak up when I can, even if I'm wrong.
01:58:35.420
It's like I wish more people were speaking up sometimes, even if they're wrong.
01:58:39.220
I was kind of like, do you think that enough like pastors and preachers didn't speak up during the Gaza conflict?
01:58:53.160
I mean, from my perspective, as an American Christian, Protestant American Christian, it's like, yeah, of course, I think what Israel is doing is disgusting.
01:59:01.560
But my real rage, like what I'm actually upset about, if you're at dinner at my house, I never rage about the Israelis or the Jews at my house.
01:59:11.560
But my rage, my actual personal rage is directed toward my people.
01:59:18.640
It's Protestant Christian evangelical pastors who have made deals with the Israeli government or have theology so deranged that they think their Christian faith requires them to support the murder of children, including Christian children.
01:59:33.540
And I know some of them, and they believe that.
01:59:41.400
I need to keep them in my prayers because I really feel hostility toward those people because they are the betrayers.
01:59:46.340
Israel, in the end, is acting in its own interest or what it thinks is its own interest.
01:59:53.120
And they're going out there and giving sermons about Candace Owens on Sunday?
02:00:00.840
And that is not—whatever you think of Candace Owens.
02:00:02.500
Like, I love Candace Owens, but maybe you hate Candace Owens.
02:00:04.880
We can all agree that your opinion on Candace Owens has no bearing on the future of your soul.
02:00:13.300
So, like, if you are giving sermons against Candace Owens, then you are betraying your people, okay?
02:00:20.560
And because you're misrepresenting your faith, Christianity, and those people.
02:00:26.180
I clearly need to calm down about them because they're truly the villains in the story.
02:00:34.440
Of course, because you're always mad at the people you know best and, like, Israel, whatever.
02:00:39.200
But American evangelical leaders defending Netanyahu?
02:00:45.000
And you know how many Christians have been killed in this?
02:00:53.780
And one of the reasons they hate me is because I keep pointing it out.
02:00:57.920
Because they've blown up two churches in Gaza and killed people in the churches?
02:01:04.360
Because you're telling me that this is some existential battle between Islam and civilization.
02:01:16.280
You have the technology to put bombs in people's pagers, but you accidentally blew up two churches?
02:01:25.240
And I'm probably the only person in American media to point that out because I'm a Christian.
02:01:38.960
Whenever we're talking about anti-Semitism or the Nazis or Israel or whatever, it's so fake to me that I don't get upset.
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The Greek Orthodox Church, one of the oldest in the world, was hit by an Israeli airstrike on October 19, 2023.
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An adjacent church-affiliated building where around 400 to 500 people displaced were sheltering, killing 18 people.
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The Holy Family Church is the only Catholic church in Gaza.
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Strip this church has been a central shelter for Gaza's Christian community.
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In December 2023, two women were reportedly killed by a sniper while leaving the church.
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In July 2025, the church was struck by an Israeli tank-fire killing, injuring 10, including the Paris priest's father, Gabriel Romanelli.
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Well, why hasn't the Pope spoken up about it either, I wonder?
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But I was going to church here in town, and I was just shocked that people weren't speaking about it.
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And that's moments where you start to feel like, am I crazy?
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No, no, in the evangelical world, and not all of this, this is a very broad brush.
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I know a million, I had dinner next to one last night.
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And there are lots of tons, tons of great evangelicals.
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But their leadership in general has not only refused to condemn it, they've defended it.
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And at that point, it's like, this is the great deception you read about in the New Testament.
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If this isn't a great deception, Jesus' message is not to kill children, okay?
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And if you're telling me that it is, I don't need a theology degree to say you are a false prophet,
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and you're going to have to pay for what—I mean, you are, like, taking your soul into your own hands when you say shit like that.
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This is not a religion of conquest and violence.
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But because this Israel is not the Israel from the Bible, right?
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I've tried to have this conversation, and if it is, tell me how.
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Like, I admit I know nothing, but I do read the Bible every day, so I just don't see what you're talking about.
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Is it—are the people who live there now related to the people we read about in the Old Testament?
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So then you're telling me it's the same religion?
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By the way, maybe there's a good answer that I just don't know—I don't understand.
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But they literally never even try to answer the question.
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It's shut up, Nazi, including from Christian ministers calling me a Nazi because I asked—oh, big time.
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And again, not to make it about me, but I just want to be honest about it, that upsets me.
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Whereas, you know, Netanyahu also called me a Nazi.
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Oh, he's—oh, he's—yeah, I can't even tell you.
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When you ask a simple question, you're telling me we have a duty to support, quote, Israel
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It's like, you're a Christian pastor, and I'm a Christian—I'm a faithful, imperfect Christian.
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Listen, right now we have a movement within the MAGA movement that is anti-Israel.
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It's serious because it's led by Tucker Carlson, who was very close to vice president.
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It's coming out and saying worse things presently the Nazi party said.
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I'm saying worse things that the Nazi party said?
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And above all, I'm anti-blood guilt and collective punishment, which is what was bad about the Nazis.
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And this guy is a Christian minister, or supposedly, or something.
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So it's this kind of thing that actually does get under my skin.
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I should just shrug it off, but I have a lot of trouble shrugging it off because it's such a distortion of my religious faith that I have trouble letting it go.
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Well, I think it's brave to be able to speak up.
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Sometimes if you're right or wrong, it's brave to try.
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I didn't want to fight, but I shouldn't have been.
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And people say, well, you get information wrong.
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It's like, but if information is given out that's wrong, then how do you expect someone to know accurate information?
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Dude, I'm telling you, it's really simple because this is the business I've always been in.
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Like I, I let it hang out on my, my wife's down here to lick her thumb, which she does, which is kind of hot.
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Then I get to pause and say, it's not just stuff, Theo Vaughn.
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Like if I was using Zin, you'd be like, wait, your lower back is covered with this weird white shit.
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I've definitely done some things, but I'll say this.
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Pope Leo XIV has reiterated the Vatican's insistence on a two-state resolution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
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saying it's the only solution that can guarantee justice for both sides.
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Leo made the comments as he flew from Turkey to Lebanon.
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May I ask, there's been a change in the spelling of Turkey.
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This is like the Kiev-Kiv change, and no one notified me.
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There might have been a letter deal or something.
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I was just in Turkya, and they were calling it Turkey.
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And do you feel like it's hard for a lot of Jewish people to speak up about this because
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they're afraid of alienating other Jewish friends?
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And that's what I found with some of my Jewish friends.
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They'll talk with me about it and stuff like that, and my Jewish friends are fine if I have
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It doesn't mean I have different views about them, but if I don't like what a government's
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doing, including our own government, then that's okay, right?
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One of my Jewish friends, former Jewish employee, actually called me this morning.
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I talked to him for like an hour and a half about other stuff, not about Israel.
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But in the course of the conversation, he told me that he had said something to one of
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And that co-worker went to his boss and called him an anti-Semite.
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I also think there's something else going on, which is sad, which is I think a lot of
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what I'm seeing happen to Jewish people, including friends of mine, people I know, is there's
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so much yelling about the Nazis and the Holocaust, the people are getting really freaked out.
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And I've had people I have known for decades and love call me like, are you a Nazi?
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If you were a Nazi, you would have a tank or something.
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Well, I might be wearing my Turkish grounding shoes.
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And by the way, they leave a little green spot on the bottom of your foot, which I kind
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But no, I think it's making people really paranoid and afraid.
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And terrified people are really easy to control.
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I said to one of my kids last night at dinner, I was like, I'm making a pledge to you as
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your father that I'm going to use the phrase Arabs with box cutters every single day.
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And I'm going to laugh every time I say it because it amuses the shit out of me.
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Someone's going to be like, Arabs with box cutters.
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Anyway, all of us believe the Arabs with box cutters thing for all those years.
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And it made us so freaked out and afraid and threatened that we went along with all the stuff that was really bad for us and the world.
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And I think that a similar op actually is underway in the United States with Jewish people.
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I mean, maybe I think there are anti-Semites in America for sure.
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But in general, I've never met anyone who, like, hates all Jews or what.
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Again, I have friends, good friends, who are like, I can't believe you're a Nazi now.
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Well, I think anytime you find somebody, and I've thought this in my own world, it's like,
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if you start thinking like, oh, this race or this ethnicity or this group should be the one,
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That is a dangerous, that is an evil thought or feeling.
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So you have to recognize that that kind of thought is just a trap.
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When they call you names, they are trying to make you into the hater they claim you are.
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And obsessing over like other races being bad, like that's how you become a fucking crazy person.
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Well, that's the kind of stuff that the news has done over the years.
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So when you start to think about all the infighting that the news has created over the years
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and let us down all these rabbit holes, it's like, fuck, what the fuck were we doing?
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The whole point was to make you hate each other.
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I spent like 20 years being like, the threat is –
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It's pretty masterful like how things have gone on.
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I can tell that you're like in a stage that I was literally last week.
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And then you get through it and you're like, it's okay.
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I was an idiot for believing that stuff in the first place.
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If I fell for like – read his Jeffrey Epstein's emails and you will realize like if I fell for the idea
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that he was like a diabolical mastermind and not just some thug from Staten Island or Coney Island.
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Then you break through and you're like, of course it's fake.
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You really think that with the world at stake, three zip codes in Pennsylvania are choosing the president?
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But now like all the things that are real, God, people you love, the truth.
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It's like there's so much to be happy about actually.
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You don't have – they want you to be totally freaked out.
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And you look under the bed and you realize, yeah, it's actually there are tons of monsters under the bed.
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And then the second you say that, you're like, oh, I'm not afraid of anything actually.
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No, they probably can't kill you unless you bitch out and let them.
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Do you – what do you feel like about – is going on with Candace right now?
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Do you feel like the issues with the French are realistic?
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When she went down that wiener thing, I was like, who cares if that lady has a wiener or whatever?
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Who cares if somebody has a dang wiener or whatever, if some lady has a wiener?
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It would be shocking if you didn't know it and you found it by accident.
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If you were looking for something in your purse and then a damn wiener was in there or something.
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No, but I mean if you were like, I don't know, in a cab or something and reached over and you found what you didn't expect.
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If I'm her, I show that thing off every now and then.
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Yeah, I would do that ring game where you kind of like, I'd have that ring game and just hang it from my chin and then have people try to hook it on there, you know?
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Dude, they'd make me play it like three or four times, dude.
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Dude, if I was in bed with my wife and you showed up in the dark with an acoustic guitar playing Eric Clapton, that would scare.
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First of all, I would, and I'm not violent, but I'd fucking blow you away because I have a sidearm in my bedside.
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All of a sudden, you're in bed with your girl and someone's singing.
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And then in hindsight, when I realized I'm in there just playing for a bunch of geeked up seniors who are hopped up on wiener uppers, and I was over there fucking playing a sad song.
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Like, of all the Viagra songs, like Paradise by the Dashboard Lights or something, you know.
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They'd been drinking orange juice and vodkas, dude.
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And then I had that, uh, well, Billy Ray was a preacher, son.
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When you hear that, she's like, she's a black woman.
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But, like, the one that you hear still is hers.
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It's a testament to the durability of her version that that's still the one.
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I just, uh, I just wonder if some of, like, the bigger, like, pastors spoke up about it or not.
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And then that's when you start to think, well, am I wrong for, you know, what am I feeling?
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There's no public record of Judas Smith, the pastor and author, speaking publicly about the conflict in Gaza.
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However, there's a different Judas Smith, a medical student, who spoke about the impact of mystical strike on Soroka Medical Center in Israel, which may be a good source of confusion.
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No public statements on the Gaza conflict from the pastor and lead at church home.
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Um, but, yeah, I mean, people have their different views, you know, and those are, like, I think it's just stuff I'm curious about.
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And I don't know, like, enough about the Bible sometimes.
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I think we have to say that Jesus is against killing innocents.
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I just think we have to say that because what's, I mean, if we can't say that, then what can we say?
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Do, um, what do you feel like about Candace's assassination attempt?
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I think that, um, I don't, I don't understand it.
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I love, I just want to say again, I love Candace.
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Sometimes I know that's kind of weird or whatever.
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So I go over there and, uh, yeah, her kids are, like, as full of life as could be.
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And I, and, but, so I would say of the, of the assassination, I, you know, first of all, I knew him well.
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He was right at my house right before he was killed.
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And, uh, and I love his wife and know his wife well.
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So, you know, I just haven't wanted anything to do with it.
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And I want to make sure that there is a, like a truly rigorous and honest federal investigation of it.
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I think that, um, one of the, I don't know many of the details, but I know that, uh, recently, Candace said that, uh, Egyptian registered aircraft were following, uh, Erica Kirk, Charlie's widow around for a number of years in different places in the world.
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That's one of the weirdest things I've ever heard.
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And I just want to say that that is factually true.
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So that's like the one data point that I happen to know is true.
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And what does Egyptian, as it could mean aircrafts from Egypt, who knows?
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So I, that enough, um, and, and it also her claim that, you know, there were kind of a disproportionately large number of foreign registered cell phones at the event.
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I don't know, but it, it means that, you know, the FBI has a moral and legal obligation to, to look in every direction and to be open-minded as you would in any investigation, in journalism, in science.
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I don't know the answer and I'm going to sift through everything as open-mindedly as I can, as honestly as I can to get to what the truth is.
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That's, that's, again, that's science, that's law enforcement, that's journalism.
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And I just want to make sure that is happening.
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And I just don't have a ton of confidence in the FBI or the men who run it.
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And I'm not saying that out of ignorance at all.
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I'm just saying, I think it's really important that we have that.
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And also, I have no, I mean, I never wanted to think of this.
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This dumb Twitter shit, like leaders of the FBI are on Twitter.
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Oh, the one, do you see the video that Tim Dillon did about the, um.
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I never wanted to think about any of this shit.
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I never wanted to think that our FBI didn't care about us or that our CIA was compromised or that we couldn't, like, you can't even call the police department without thinking that it goes directly to some other foreign lobby.
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Like, so like, and like, I never, like, so it's weird that if people point fingers, you're like, I never, I just wanted to be, I just wanted to try my best and fucking be alive.
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Like, you're not like a weirdo just because your brain is trying to figure things out.
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That's a brain's job is to try to figure things out.
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Um, so it's just so crazy that people who are trying to figure things out are getting ostracized, you know, whether they're right or wrong or something, at least they're trying to have some semblance of, like, curiosity, which is really just kind of reframe.
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If the official story describing the murder of your friend doesn't make sense and you find yourself yelling at a podcaster for coming up with other theories, you're, you're barking in the wrong direction.
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Listen, your anger should be focused on the people whose job it is legally, constitutionally to get to the answer.
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And there's very little pressure on them, I notice.
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And I've, by the way, I've said this to a bunch of people, you know, off the record, you know, people I'm just talking to.
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It's like, you know, what Candace is saying is, is clearly causing a lot of turmoil.
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I'm a freaking podcaster, but I do know how the system works.
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The FBI has this case and of course the state of Utah.
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It's their job to not only find out what happened, present it to the public in a way that restores some confidence that you can like have justice in this country.
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I don't have confidence in that because there's a lot of evidence that we don't have that.
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So restore confidence by being honest and telling a story that makes sense.
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So why, if they don't do that and they haven't done that, they have not done that, how can you be mad at Candace Owens or anyone else for filling a vacuum that they left?
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But, okay, no, the people with the authority are the ones responsible and they're the ones who should be held responsible when there's a failure.
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Not some podcaster, not me, not you, not Candace.
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It's always like, you know, you say, well, I don't know why Israel's committing genocide.
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It's like, shouldn't you be mad at Israel for committing the genocide?
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Yeah, or shouldn't, why am I the one even asking about it, dude?
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You know, I'm a guy who lived with a 66-year-old man to fucking chirp boner pills off of him, dude.
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With respect, like a lot of these criminal investigations, your story doesn't make sense.
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That makes him sound kind of wholesome and normal.
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He said, you live with him so you can get free boner pills.
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Then he invites you into his bedroom in the dark with his girl to play Eric Clapton songs on an acoustic guitar.
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And you don't think there's anything kind of freaky about that at all?
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I think that's the most normal thing we've talked about all episode.
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I want to get you out of here soon because we want to go to your party tonight.
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What is one of the things about the Charlie Kirk assassination that rubs you the wrongest?
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I mean, it's the whole thing with the kid and the images and then they see him at like a Dairy Queen.
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Some of the, it's just like, it's all so confusing.
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But what do you, but also the fact that it doesn't feel like there's any presentation from the FBI or something about reality.
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So it feels like it's just, it's, it's internet sluice filling in all the pieces.
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I've called directly to say that just as an American, as a friend of Charlie's who is interested in seeing justice and is interested in preserving our system beyond this year.
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Like if you want the system to continue, you have to satisfy people that the system is real.
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And if they're convinced that it's not real, at some point they'll overthrow it.
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Actually, I think they've got one of the top-rated varsity sodomy teams in the country.
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I don't, you know, none of us really act alone.
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But if you're, that's not my default assumption, and it shouldn't be yours.
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And their default assumption was we acted alone.
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What about life suggests that people typically act alone?
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What was the last time you acted alone in anything?
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B, we know that people had foreknowledge of this because they posted about it on X and said,
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Charlie Kirk is going to be killed on this date, and he was.
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Was it a guessing thing where every day they posted that?
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Have they been hauled into FBI HQ and had a long conversation with how they knew that?
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Like, if I were doing this investigation because I spent my whole life doing non-criminal investigations
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called journalism, like, what do we know is true?
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If I was doing this investigation, they would be at the very top of the list.
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We know because we've got public postings on Twitter that people know, just like a 9-11.
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We know people bet against American Airlines and the banks that were in the World Trade Centers.
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Those people clearly had foreknowledge of 9-11.
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But, so you're saying that just the fact that there could possibly be some foreknowledge should be investigated?
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Well, there was foreknowledge because they were, I saw the tweets.
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And so there were, I saw at least two that said, you know, everything's going to change when Charlie Kirk gets to the college in Utah.
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So those people, I'm not saying they're a part of a conspiracy, but they have, there's evidence that they had foreknowledge.
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Like, tell me how this guy who seemed normal became a radical, trans, furry murderer?
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Tell me how this guy became so radicalized that he murdered a stranger.
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I'm saying I want an explanation for how it happened.
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Oh, we can't talk about that because it'll, you know, prejudice the jury pool.
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Really, you've told the world that you have both a confession from him in his text to his boyfriend and the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it.
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So why is it so difficult to just explain, dude, 9-11, the rubble was still smoldering.
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I was on television on 9-11, so I remember this very well.
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People instantly appeared, oh, this is Islamic radicalism.
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We're going to invite this guy in from Columbia who's just written a book about it and, like, the whole explanation was ready to go.
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This, there's no even attempt, which is both good and bad, but there's no attempt to explain how this happened.
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Like, it's, that's the key question we all want to know.
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Yes, I know Charlie Kirk just got, was murdered by gunshot, got it, saw it.
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Yeah, but if you're just a curious person who wants to know why your friend got killed, it's a friend.
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So maybe, so I have said from the beginning, if you don't like what Candace Owens is saying, why don't you call her and offer a more plausible explanation for what happened?
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I don't think she's bad, but, I love her actually, but, let's just stipulate she's bad, but why wouldn't you do that?
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Well, I don't agree with some of the stuff that she, the rabbit hole she goes down, but I don't even know.
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But I like the fact that she likes to dig in the garden, you know?
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So it's like, I like the fact that she's curious, and that, obviously, if people weren't resonating with what she's doing, then nobody would be paying attention.
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But, you know how many places I go, people will come up to me and be like, and I don't think they want to say something to me, they'll be like, I love Candace Owens.
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Dude, did I tell you what happened to me in Oslo this summer?
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White Oslo, some people call it white Oslo as well.
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But anyway, I'm in Oslo, Norway, and just for one night, we were fishing, and we go to Oslo to fly out, and I'm walking down the street with one of my daughters, Tucker Carlson!
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I was like, shit, I'm going to get yelled at in Oslo.
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And I texted Candace, I was like, that is fame when people come up to you just because of the reflected glory of someone you know.
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She's an amazing broadcaster, yes, because they sense in her, she might be wrong.
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And I can say, as someone who's dealt with government officials my whole life, I'm not vouching for everything Candace claims.
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I don't even know a lot of what she claims because I'm working on other stuff, and it makes me sad also.
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But the point is, do I trust Candace more than I trust your average DOJ official?
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We can all be wrong, but who do I trust to try to tell the truth more?
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It's like, I remember when you were interviewing Putin, I remember thinking, we may get some real information here, which is kind of a crazy-
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I'll be like, dude, we might really get some information here.
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Instead of all this BS, like Russia was involved in making all these ads and all this thing, we might really get some information here.
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I know I'm responsible for Danny Pearl's murder for saying that, but Qatar Airways is like the best airline.
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And what I like about their country is they keep shit in line.
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Remember you couldn't even say it the other day.
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Well, I could say it because I'm American, but no, you're not allowed to spray paint public buildings there.
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You're not allowed to have sex in an ATM vestibule or smoke meth in front of other people's houses.
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So there's a constriction of freedom in some ways.
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He's like, dude, he wanted me to say f*** it to his friends on Zoom.
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Bro, I'm like, dude, I'm not saying I just woke up.
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Can we just consider you just said my gay friend called me the other day and he wants me to say f*** it to his friends on Zoom.
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Yeah, but it's like people are trying to say like, well, you can't say this and that.
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But it's like, what do you want me to do in that instance?
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It's like my gay buddy calls me up and he's like, dude, a couple of my boys are over here.
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And I'm like, dude, you know, and I just woken up.
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I'm like, I'm not saying it like if I just woke up, dude, that's crazy.
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Dude, I'm not having my eyes open for 40 seconds.
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At least let me put on some sneakers, you know?
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And also the fact that Piers Morgan wouldn't say it.
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And I understand like not yelling it at somebody that's gay or like, you know, say you open your door
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and like two guys are like blowing each other in your front yard or something.
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You joke about the skinny girl being fat because it's a joke.
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Dude, like one time I walked behind a 7-Eleven.
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And one of them was blowing one of them, right?
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It was around the holidays that had those antler ears out the side.
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I don't know which one it was, but that was the.
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But my buddy, the other day, it's like, now I'm the bad guy to a gay friend because I
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And you're like, no, the one thing you want, I deny you, dude.
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I think that a lot of people like gay people, they should auction off the word.
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Somebody can say it one time at a certain time.
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Everybody can buy a Zoom pass to watch the person say it.
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Like you, like, say like, um, I'm trying to think of who, but say, uh, who's a good one?
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Burt Reynolds is going to say it tonight, right?
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And everybody can buy a pass to watch him say it, right?
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But it doesn't, I'm not insecure about this because I've worked around and loved gays my
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None of my gay friends are going to be upset about this.
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It's like, they're like rappers with the N word.
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The people that say, but dude, I think it's the same with the N word.
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They should auction it off where people could like, say if Angela, you know, Jolie saying
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the N word tonight at 10, 15, you know how many people are going to pay to watch?
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And then the money goes towards, uh, black causes and black culture.
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But could you get an OnlyFans to be like, say the N word?
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If you could get George Washington's great grandson to say it, what about that?
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Tonight, we got George Washington's great grandson.
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We got George Washington's great grandson tonight at probably.
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Oh, George Washington didn't have any children?
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But if his great-great-grandson is saying, I'm going to tap in, there's no way.
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How about if it was Thomas Jefferson's black great-great-great-great-grandson?
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But still, if it's a little Asian guy or whatever who's been in a coma, they know he's waking
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Anyway, Tucker, how do we stay, like, I'm sure there's moments where you've gotten too
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Like, if you look at some of this stuff too much, it gets really, it can get pretty negative.
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I've like, I'm above the clouds and it's always sunny there.
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It's like, I feel so much better because I just concluded that everything you suspect
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It was true in every period in history and it's true now.
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And the only thing that's changed is we lied to ourselves about it.
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And you can make a difference by telling the truth.
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And when you do, you become stronger in some supernatural way.
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And there's just so much beauty and joy in life.
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I'm not going to get bogged down in all the hatred.
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I'm not going to take orders from Mark Levin and become a Nazi just because he calls me
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People will make fun of me for stuff or do certain things.
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I don't care really what you call me that much.
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I mean, I already know things that I am, you know, I'm not great.
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But they never call you the things you really are.
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He lived, he lived with a dude who gave him free Viagra.
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I had to sneak in there and eat some of it at night.
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Um, Tucker Carlson, man, thanks so much for your time, dude.
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Do you think we're going to get in trouble for any of this?
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I, I'm already, I was already voted Nazi of the week by BB or something.
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I would notice if you started Nazi-ing a little bit.
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It's a little too rigid for me just temperamentally also.
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Um, look, before you leave, Tucker, I just want to play this for you.
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It's just, you know, I'm thinking like maybe I do invite Theo over.
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Well, it's because I couldn't make rent sometimes.
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I think he was thinking of any way I could help out.
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Hey dude, those erections, those are caused by Alps.
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And, uh, thanks for inviting me to your get together.