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00:00:20.000 Attorney General Bondi says that the Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now.

00:00:26.000 She's reviewing the JFK and MLK files.

00:00:30.000 This is a promises made, promises kept story.

00:00:35.000 The Trump administration has made it clear that these things are going to be released to the public.

00:00:41.000 And seeing as Kash Patel has been confirmed by the Senate, Information that gets out to the public.

00:00:52.000 So we're going to talk about that.

00:00:54.000 There's some new information about Sean Diddy Combs in Related Nudes.

00:00:59.000 Sean P. Diddy Combs' lawyer quits his sex trafficking case.

00:01:03.000 The quote was, under no circumstances can I continue.

00:01:08.000 So we'll get into that and see what that actually means.

00:01:12.000 Then on more serious...

00:01:14.000 Well, I mean, I guess it's kind of serious.

00:01:18.000 Serious news.

00:01:19.000 Trump has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:01:22.000 That's a big deal.

00:01:23.000 The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, that's the head general.

00:01:27.000 Trump let him go, and we don't have a whole lot of information.

00:01:30.000 That broke just as the show started tonight, but we'll get into that.

00:01:35.000 The judge has denied the bid to block the administration from placing U.S. aid workers on leave.

00:01:41.000 We'll talk about that.

00:01:43.000 A judge defers ruling in the Eric Adams case, appointing a lawyer to guide decision.

00:01:49.000 So it seems that Kathy Hochul will not be trying to replace Mayor Eric Adams, but we'll discuss that.

00:01:59.000 There's been a bunch of incidents or a bunch of news coming out of Israel with the release of bodies, not prisoners, not even prisoners, bodies of...

00:02:12.000 What were Hamas's hostages?

00:02:15.000 And it's kind of a horror show, but we'll talk about that.

00:02:19.000 And then it's 2020 all over again.

00:02:23.000 COVID-like bat virus discovered by researchers in Chinese lab.

00:02:27.000 The Wuhan Institute of Virology has some kind of new bug and hopefully it stays in Wuhan. 0.89

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00:04:14.000 Yeah, right.

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00:04:21.000 I'm senior counsel at the Article 3 Project, working with Mike Davis.

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00:04:30.000 I mean, obviously, there's a lot of people, other people working, but...

00:04:32.000 Well, you haven't...

00:04:33.000 The only person that hasn't been confirmed that Trump picked was his first AG pick for Gates, right?

00:04:39.000 Yeah.

00:04:39.000 Well, I mean, I think he...

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00:06:46.000 Alright, we're going to go ahead and get into the news today.

00:06:50.000 We're going to start with the Bondi says Epstein client list sitting on my desk right now and is reviewing the JFK MLK files.

00:06:57.000 I'm of the opinion that this is an important story to a fairly narrow group of people.

00:07:04.000 But I think that the reason I say this is because there are people that find it extremely interesting.

00:07:11.000 The content of it, right? 0.81

00:07:12.000 Like children being raped, it's a serious story.

00:07:15.000 What do you mean by narrow group of people?

00:07:17.000 Like just people who have kept their focus on that specifically?

00:07:20.000 Yeah, I think that I mean that there are people that are really, really, really interested in this story.

00:07:25.000 Connects with the Diddy files, because what it is is both of those cases have become this sort of quasi-catch-all for when somebody doesn't like someone on the internet, they say they're probably in the Diddy files, they're probably in the Epstein files.

00:07:36.000 So actually seeing something done about it and seeing follow-through actually is a really, really big deal.

00:07:42.000 Yeah, and there are people that I think that it's really important to, but the...

00:07:47.000 I say it's narrow because it doesn't have a major impact on most people's lives.

00:07:56.000 It's important that People that have done these kind of crimes, committed these kind of crimes, you know, like child trafficking and stuff, it's important that the FBI go after them.

00:08:04.000 So I think it's very good that Cash is not only putting this information out so that people can see it and so that we bring this to light, but hopefully there will be arrests.

00:08:13.000 If there are names on these lists of people that are implicated in committing crimes, the FBI should get them.

00:08:22.000 They should wrap them up and they should be prosecuted, and it doesn't matter who they are.

00:08:26.000 When I said narrow, what I mean is it doesn't have a really big effect on the average.

00:08:33.000 Well, no, the cases themselves, the actual list does not have an effect on the average everyday person's life.

00:08:39.000 But an erosion of trust in the government, an erosion of trust in power speaks to the average everyday person's reasons for voting for Donald Trump.

00:08:49.000 And one of the big parts of that is they feel like the government has been held unaccountable.

00:08:53.000 They feel like celebrities like that get to spout off anything they want and nothing bad happens to them, no matter how much bad they do in the world.

00:09:00.000 So that depends on your idea of average everyday lives and whether it affects them, because if it brings back a certain amount of trust in the people that we're supposed to believe are out to help us or at least enforce the laws, then there is some type of benefit for everybody because it can help start building trust then there is some type of benefit for everybody because it can help start building trust once again with these institutions that we During his speech, it was beautiful when he got when he signed in, I got sworn in, I'm

00:09:28.000 He's had accountability like three times.

00:09:32.000 The energy in that room when he was talking, everyone was so excited.

00:09:35.000 He had the boys in his room with him.

00:09:37.000 And so Cash Patel being sworn in, hopefully he brings us that accountability that we're all looking for and we're seeking.

00:09:43.000 Will do you have a sense of what kind of director Cash is going to be?

00:09:48.000 I mean, he's going to be a badass.

00:09:49.000 Like, we've seen Cash is extraordinarily effective.

00:09:52.000 I think the thing that Cash did during the first administration, he was working for Devin Nunes.

00:09:57.000 He did an incredible job revealing what Adam Schiff and what a lot of the Democrats had been doing to try and screw the Trump administration, to try and manufacture the Russian narrative.

00:10:08.000 He's really diligent.

00:10:09.000 And he's also been targeted by these people.

00:10:12.000 I think one of the best parts of the way that Trump has set up his cabinet is in so many cases, He's chosen people that have been in some way the victim of the agency they're now overseeing, right?

00:10:22.000 Like he chose Tulsi Gabbard as the head of D&I. Tulsi Gabbard was on the deep sky, blue skies, deep skies?

00:10:29.000 I think it was quiet skies.

00:10:29.000 Quiet skies, right.

00:10:31.000 Some skies.

00:10:32.000 The program that was instituting the surveillance over her, and now she gets to supervise them.

00:10:37.000 One of the things that I find most problematic with that is Tulsi Gabbard, as a lieutenant colonel, In the National Guard.

00:10:46.000 I think she was the Reserves.

00:10:47.000 Lieutenant Colonel in the Reserves.

00:10:50.000 To achieve that kind of rank, that's not like a butter bars lieutenant.

00:10:57.000 That's a very high-ranking person.

00:10:59.000 And to think that...

00:11:01.000 Even though she's gone through all the vetting necessary to not only be an officer in the National Guard and then an officer in the reserves, but also to continue to get promotions after they've already started to slime her and stuff.

00:11:17.000 I think that it speaks to how...

00:11:20.000 How bad the narrative-building machine was and how they were treating people.

00:11:26.000 But you mentioned the people that Donald Trump had gotten confirmed, but I think it was Bhattacharya?

00:11:35.000 Yeah, Bhattacharya was targeted by NIH. NIH and Francis Collins, who's the previous head, did all this work to marginalize him.

00:11:44.000 And now he's running NIH. And that's a sort of consistent theme where...

00:11:48.000 This is not going to be the first administration.

00:11:51.000 You know, I supported Governor DeSantis in the primary.

00:11:53.000 A lot of people know that.

00:11:55.000 And I went down to actually work for him.

00:11:57.000 And I mean, a big part of it, you know, wasn't...

00:11:59.000 I was a Trump supporter in the first term, but I knew that there were issues with how he had staffed up and he just had...

00:12:06.000 He had a lot of trouble kind of getting a hold of the administration.

00:12:08.000 And I think he'd admit as much.

00:12:10.000 But what...

00:12:11.000 I've been thrilled by the first month of Trump 2 and every pick.

00:12:15.000 And it's just clear, like...

00:12:17.000 Not only has he learned from the mistakes of the first term, has he selected people who are not going to just be captured by their institutions.

00:12:26.000 He's also personally very invested in ensuring that the government functions the way it should this time.

00:12:31.000 And I think, you know, I really think in many ways it's like the four years off has done him really good.

00:12:36.000 And we're about to...

00:12:38.000 I'm thrilled with what I'm seeing.

00:12:40.000 I think we're about to have a really amazing four years.

00:12:41.000 Even look at how vocal in front of the camera J.D. Vance is in comparison to Mike Pence during the first term.

00:12:48.000 He's taken a much more front seat approach to how he's taking on the media and pushing forward the ideas that the Trump administration is trying to push through.

00:12:57.000 And he is very, very good for that.

00:12:58.000 that and it speaks to a big change between term one and term two.

00:13:01.000 Yeah, I think it's important that not only Donald Trump be, you know, Donald Trump and talk to the media the same way that he does and be that, you know, strong persona that But having a vice president that will also take the media to task is one of the things that I really think that...

00:13:23.000 Especially looking back, one of the worst things about Pence was he was clearly the old guard establishment, and he wouldn't stand up and say, you know what, no, the president is right, and actually take it to the left.

00:13:37.000 And the media has been such a valuable tool to the left.

00:13:43.000 And only recently has kind of the rest of the country, or when I say the rest of the country, I mean like the people that used to say, no, it's not that the media is biased, it's just that they're mostly in the city, so they have kind of a...

00:13:58.000 Default urban perspective.

00:14:00.000 No, that's not true at all.

00:14:02.000 They're actually funded by NGOs and funded by organizations that are looking to push a narrative that comes straight out of the government.

00:14:10.000 When you talk about the USAID money that was going to Politico and other organizations.

00:14:15.000 I think the key thing with Vance is Vance means that Trump isn't a lame duck.

00:14:19.000 Because Vance represents...

00:14:22.000 A further eight years of continuation of what Trump is doing.

00:14:24.000 And I think that's so different from the first term where Pence was clearly not of the MAGA world.

00:14:30.000 And so it's an opportunity to create a wedge.

00:14:32.000 It puts in question whether or not this is going to be the permanent direction of the Republican Party.

00:14:36.000 If it's an end to that, you have, you know, he's young, an elite communicator in his own right.

00:14:41.000 Yes, he's a fantastic speaker.

00:14:44.000 And he can take the media to task in a way that sometimes even better than Trump can.

00:14:48.000 Like he is a better communicator, a better speaker.

00:14:51.000 And he needs that right now because one of the things is, is they like to harp on the miss, the misspeaks and the things.

00:14:58.000 Things that he says that he kind of, you know, Trump gets carried away and he goes off and then they grab onto something, right?

00:15:03.000 And Vance doesn't have that problem.

00:15:04.000 Kind of in the same way we would joke that Vance had this one bad moment where he tried to go into a donut shop and seem like a normal person and just failed.

00:15:12.000 Like, you don't need him to do the normal guy shtick.

00:15:14.000 He is a fantastic communicator, he's a fantastic front-of-the-line politician.

00:15:18.000 Let him do that.

00:15:19.000 Yeah, Trump is like the sledgehammer.

00:15:21.000 Yes, exactly.

00:15:21.000 Vance is the scalpel, right?

00:15:23.000 Like, Vance is like surgical, kind of legalistic debate mind.

00:15:28.000 Make sure, just not leave anything exposed.

00:15:32.000 And where it's like, Trump is just like, we'll just bulldoze you.

00:15:35.000 But they're both great, and they're both very different and complementary styles of persuasion.

00:15:40.000 Not that I disagree with you, but I mean, I don't disagree, but the effectiveness of Vance, you can't overstate it.

00:15:51.000 The interview that he did when he got the I really don't care Margaret line, that was beautiful.

00:15:58.000 And I mean, it's t-shirts and it's become a meme in and of itself.

00:16:01.000 And I think that those kind of moments, like really taking the media to task where I don't care.

00:16:07.000 There was another time where he was like, do you hear yourself?

00:16:10.000 I forget what it was.

00:16:11.000 Oh, it's only one town got taken over.

00:16:15.000 Only one apartment complex.

00:16:17.000 Only a few apartment complexes.

00:16:19.000 The correct number of...

00:16:21.000 Apartment complexes to be taken over by Trende Aragua is zero.

00:16:25.000 And these kind of moments really matter.

00:16:28.000 And I think that he does a fabulous job.

00:16:30.000 So you were going to say...

00:16:31.000 I was going to say, I love that.

00:16:32.000 I don't know if you guys have seen today.

00:16:33.000 He's been on...

00:16:34.000 He's on X. And he's using X. And he's getting his message out there.

00:16:38.000 He's arguing, not arguing, but he's giving his points across.

00:16:40.000 He's being very transparent with what he's saying to the arguments about the whole UK and Russia thing.

00:16:45.000 So that, while normies might not know about that...

00:16:49.000 A lot of us, a lot of folks who are watching, millions and millions and millions are seeing him be transparent, unlike Biden and everyone else, and give his thoughts.

00:16:56.000 And he's solid, bro.

00:16:57.000 Two things.

00:16:59.000 First of all, I completely agree.

00:17:00.000 You mentioned Biden.

00:17:02.000 I think that the transparency that the Trump administration has and their availability to the press and their not just willingness, but desire to...

00:17:13.000 They relish it.

00:17:14.000 They enjoy taking these...

00:17:16.000 Putting the message out there, getting their own message out, and when the press tries to challenge them, they enjoy body-slamming them.

00:17:24.000 First of all, and second of all, I loved...

00:17:26.000 There was one more thing that J.D. Vance did when he body-slammed Mehdi Hassan.

00:17:29.000 I don't know if you saw that one.

00:17:30.000 Yes.

00:17:31.000 But I'm not a fan of Mehdi Hassan anyways, and I don't remember the exact tweet off the top of my head, so I'm not going to try, but it was absolutely...

00:17:39.000 It was brutal and wonderful, and that kind of aggressive...

00:17:46.000 But correct and factual take and willingness to correct the media, I think that's going to pay dividends for the administration.

00:17:54.000 No, I'm thrilled.

00:17:55.000 I don't think Trump could have done any better than me.

00:17:58.000 So...

00:17:59.000 I feel like everyone was a little sketchy at first about J.D. Vance because we didn't know him, but after hearing him talk the first time, the second time, the third time, and now we're a couple months into it, J.D. Vance is solid.

00:18:09.000 He had a fantastic debate performance.

00:18:10.000 Yeah, and if you paid attention to J.D. Vance, because he was a senator first, and so if you paid attention to him, he wasn't an unknown quantity.

00:18:18.000 People that were in the know knew how smart he is and knew his story.

00:18:22.000 He wrote the book the hillbilly elegy.

00:18:24.000 I think it was called in that's right And that was really well received and it really spoke to some real Prescient problems in the United States and and and I think that was part of why Donald Trump selected him if you contrast him with Mike Pence you really do see like the growth in his choices.

00:18:43.000 Yeah So when you look at Mike Pence, you look at somebody who was very much a part of the old guard and somebody who spoke to the past generations of politics and what J.D. Vance represents is the forward movement of what they consider now to be America first.

00:18:58.000 Yeah, I mean, we've had this conversation a little bit before, but the MAGA coalition is not a right-wing coalition.

00:19:09.000 The way that some people assume that it is.

00:19:11.000 And I think that I was talking a little bit to Sean about this.

00:19:15.000 It's really a coalition of not the leftists.

00:19:19.000 Because most of the people in positions of power now are 90s Democrats or they were Democrats even very recently.

00:19:26.000 And so that is the big tent kind of idea.

00:19:35.000 I mean, obviously the conservative Christians are welcome in the tent, but that also means that you have to have room for people that are not conservative Christians.

00:19:43.000 That's why the whole Ashley St. Clair Musk thing, it was a big deal to the Christians, like conservative Christians.

00:19:48.000 But in the overall MAGA kind of coalition, they were like, look, you know, maybe it's not maybe it's unbecoming, but it's not something that should be, you know, should be a problem for the broader coalition.

00:20:02.000 Because, well, Musk really did have a lot to do with the with with Trump getting elected or some people would take would have a problem with like Scott Pressler's lifestyle choices.

00:20:12.000 Well, if it wasn't for Scott Pressler, you don't get Pennsylvania because Scott Pressler went to Pennsylvania, lived there for four years and did more work in Pennsylvania than probably anybody else.

00:20:22.000 So as a broad coalition, I think that that's that's why I don't think that it's it's deniable or debatable.

00:20:29.000 That's why Trump won. 0.79

00:20:31.000 And that kind of unity is something that comes from the left being so insane.

00:20:38.000 And really, really disconnected from what the right has become now, because most of the people, at least the way I've seen it, is the ones that suffer from like...

00:20:47.000 Terminal leftism, like the farthest left that you can see, they look at what it is now and they think of it as a far-right Christian nationalist party when anybody who's paying very, very close attention to it knows that there are too many disparate personalities for it to be anything so succinct.

00:21:03.000 You're 100% right, and you can hear that, or you could hear that for so long when they were trying to scare everybody with the whole Project 2025 narrative.

00:21:12.000 I read a lot of stuff about Project 2025, and I'm not particularly...

00:21:16.000 Devout Christian or anything. 1.00

00:21:18.000 I'm fairly agnostic.

00:21:19.000 But at the same time, there's nothing in Project 2025 that I was like...

00:21:24.000 You know, it is not particularly...

00:21:26.000 They had to manufacture stuff.

00:21:28.000 They had to manufacture, like, they're going to make you register every abortion or something like this. 1.00

00:21:32.000 It's so stupid. 0.99

00:21:33.000 But, you know, now that the election's over, we can all admit that Project 2025 was the real plan all along. 1.00

00:21:38.000 I was saying...

00:21:38.000 Even leading up to the election, I was like, look, man, Project 2025 is not bad.

00:21:47.000 I was like, if the option is Project 2025 or trans the kids, I'm going with Project 2025 every single time. 0.99

00:21:54.000 What Project 2025 was really like how to take over the government and not let the civil service run itself, right?

00:22:00.000 And how to staff it properly.

00:22:02.000 That was the core of the whole project.

00:22:04.000 It wasn't these random policy proposals thrown in by the occasional person.

00:22:07.000 Like, that's the stuff that the Democrats seized on and everybody objected to.

00:22:11.000 And that stuff's not getting done.

00:22:12.000 But, like, the heart of Project 2025 was stuff like, oh, yeah, civil service reform, and we're firing bureaucrats, and they're going to obey us, or we're going to fire them for different reasons.

00:22:22.000 Like DOJ is going to obey us.

00:22:24.000 You know, we're going to talk a lot about DOJ later, I think, with all these dropped prosecutions.

00:22:27.000 But I mean, that's a classic example.

00:22:29.000 Like the Department of Justice is not independent.

00:22:32.000 It's not.

00:22:33.000 Yeah.

00:22:33.000 Phil, are you saying, sir, that folks like us who were, you know, a Democrat back in the past when I was younger, I was never a Democrat.

00:22:41.000 I mean, I'm registered now only because I want to be part of the primaries.

00:22:45.000 But anyways, are you saying that we're not moving into the Christian right?

00:22:51.000 They're not leading the Republican Party anymore.

00:22:54.000 They are coming into art, the 10th of middle ground.

00:22:58.000 So, no, well, I'm saying that the MAGA coalition is a coalition, right?

00:23:03.000 And there was, and this kind of brought, again, I mentioned Musk and the whole Ashley St. Clair thing because this is really kind of what brought it to my attention.

00:23:11.000 There were so many people saying, oh, you know, this is not conservative.

00:23:15.000 This isn't conservative.

00:23:17.000 This isn't conservative.

00:23:18.000 And I'm like, you're right.

00:23:20.000 But that doesn't matter because not everyone in the MAGA movement is a conservative, right?

00:23:26.000 And you don't win if it's only conservatives.

00:23:29.000 If it's only Christian conservatives, they just don't have the numbers to win elections. 0.95

00:23:34.000 Or the media backing the way.

00:23:35.000 Well, yeah, that's true.

00:23:36.000 That's right.

00:23:36.000 But I mean, you're 100% right.

00:23:38.000 It's a much bigger group of people now, and Christian conservatives make up a smaller portion of it.

00:23:43.000 And actually, I've had discussions with Christians about this where it's like this is the religion-friendly party.

00:23:49.000 Yes, absolutely.

00:23:51.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:23:52.000 We are, you know, you have a, the other party is hostile to you and wants your way of life to go away.

00:23:55.000 We don't want that.

00:23:56.000 We are religion friendly, but we're also, there's, there is a bigger and bigger chunk of the party that's secular.

00:24:00.000 And that's true all over the West too, right?

00:24:02.000 Religiosity is going down even as right wing parties are growing.

00:24:05.000 And so it's about, I think, you know, everybody understand that this is a coalition that you can, you know, we don't want as a party to be disrespectful.

00:24:13.000 Yes.

00:24:14.000 Right?

00:24:15.000 Like, it's really important that everybody stay respectful of religion and religious people.

00:24:18.000 While simultaneously, I think it's just religious people understand that, yeah, you're not the coalition anymore.

00:24:23.000 You're part of the coalition.

00:24:24.000 A very important part, but you're just part of it.

00:24:26.000 That's really important.

00:24:27.000 The fact that you mentioned that this is the party that's not just not hostile to religion.

00:24:33.000 It's actually friendly to religion, even the people that are not religious.

00:24:37.000 Like, I consider myself agnostic, maybe a little...

00:24:41.000 I'm a little Catholic curious.

00:24:42.000 I grew up Catholic and I've gone to Catholic mass a couple times with some friends and stuff recently.

00:24:49.000 And I find it extremely attractive.

00:24:52.000 I think that the values that they put forward are good for society, good for the country.

00:24:59.000 And I'm definitely fond of the things that come along with.

00:25:03.000 I'm fond of Christmas.

00:25:04.000 I'm fond of...

00:25:06.000 I like the idea of a church community and stuff like that.

00:25:11.000 And so I don't think that it's a good idea for Christians to be like, hey, you must be... 1.00

00:25:18.000 This kind of Christian, I think if you do that, if they try to do that, what ends up happening is they don't kick people out of the party.

00:25:25.000 They have to leave the coalition themselves.

00:25:27.000 Also, base it solely on results, right?

00:25:30.000 Whether you want to criticize the coalition that Trump has built, this is still the party that helped repeal Roe v.

00:25:36.000 Wade.

00:25:37.000 It is still the president who pardoned pro-life protesters at the start of his term.

00:25:42.000 There is a lot of evidence that despite the fact that the coalition of people around it may not all agree on religion, that the party itself is doing what it can to benefit those who are religious.

00:25:53.000 Yeah.

00:25:53.000 And even and even if you're not religious, I think there's a lot of people in the coalition that are like, you know, maybe I'm not particularly religious myself, but I see that if you don't have a society that has.

00:26:04.000 Some kind of religious grounding, something else takes the place of religion, and that something else is always bad.

00:26:11.000 Always worse.

00:26:13.000 I think that's also, you know, there's a lot of mojo behind New Atheism in the mid-2000s, and the sort of like...

00:26:19.000 People like Chris Hitchens wrote a book, God is Not Great, Why Religion Poisons Everything.

00:26:23.000 And I think whether or not you are religious in your belief or not, the thesis of that book was wrong.

00:26:29.000 Yes.

00:26:29.000 Right?

00:26:29.000 Hitchens was wrong.

00:26:30.000 It's not religion that's the reason we have crazy beliefs in this world.

00:26:33.000 We saw what happens when you have the secular leftists take over.

00:26:37.000 They can believe in wilder, crazier things in any religion or any tradition.

00:26:42.000 Traditional religion, and I think a big part of that is religions have thousands of – a lot of them have thousands of years of evolution and theologians and people thinking about ethics, and most of the leftist stuff has been invented in the last 75 years by academics who are not grounded.

00:26:56.000 Our biggest thing for our coalition is America and what's best for our country and what's best for our kids' futures.

00:27:02.000 Yeah.

00:27:03.000 Yeah, and I think that there's – it's – It's hard to argue that religions, especially long-standing religions, it's hard to argue that they don't provide a very good roadmap on how to have a society.

00:27:17.000 And that families first, families being the first kind of small, little...

00:27:27.000 Government, I guess, is a good thing.

00:27:29.000 And focusing your entire society on making sure that families are the most important thing will provide for a better result than what the left tends to do with centering the margins and stuff like that.

00:27:45.000 Or leftists and academics in Hollywood all pushing anti-family messages on just about everyone all the time.

00:27:57.000 To the next story, Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:28:01.000 This is actually a very, very big deal because I don't remember the last time that a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was ever fired.

00:28:10.000 Yeah, it's not common.

00:28:13.000 And some people have been predicting this because the CQ Brown guy was like all in on DEI and was a product of the previous Biden administration.

00:28:22.000 And so I think we've been hearing rumblings about it that Hegseth was going to do something like this or that Trump was going to do something, and now it's finally happening.

00:28:30.000 Good.

00:28:31.000 Right, good.

00:28:31.000 It's about time we had a military that was focused on readiness and war fighting and not on social engineering.

00:28:39.000 That's something that I want to get to, the social engineering aspect.

00:28:42.000 So the AP reports, Washington, President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force General C.Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as a part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

00:28:59.000 The ouster of Brown, only the second black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shockwaves through the Pentagon.

00:29:05.000 Can we just stop right there?

00:29:05.000 Yes, please.

00:29:07.000 Notice the thing that they said.

00:29:08.000 A history-making fighter pilot.

00:29:10.000 Why?

00:29:11.000 What history did he make?

00:29:12.000 And it's like, is it really just that he's the second black general?

00:29:15.000 Is that the history?

00:29:16.000 Yes, that's their history.

00:29:17.000 I mean, I could be wrong.

00:29:18.000 There might be something.

00:29:19.000 But if I'm wrong, and there actually is some history that he made independent of merely his race.

00:29:24.000 Then, like, BAP should be ashamed of itself in terms of the way it's framed this article.

00:29:27.000 Yeah.

00:29:28.000 I mean, but this speaks to the way that the entire media thinks now, doesn't it?

00:29:33.000 You know, the identity of the person in question takes precedence over any of their achievements or any of the things that they've done, you know?

00:29:42.000 So, Donald Trump has tweeted about this.

00:29:45.000 He says...

00:29:47.000 I want to thank General Charles C.Q. Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:29:54.000 He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family.

00:29:59.000 Today I'm honored to announce that I am nominating Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Raisin Cain to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

00:30:08.000 I love it.

00:30:10.000 General Cain is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur, and a warfighter with significant interagency and special operations experience.

00:30:19.000 I like the fact that Donald Trump was magnanimous in his, you know, in the tweet.

00:30:26.000 And for Trump, that's magnanimous.

00:30:28.000 That's about as magnanimous as you can.

00:30:31.000 That's heaping on the praise for Donald Trump.

00:30:34.000 He didn't call him names, so that's good.

00:30:36.000 And I also, I didn't know...

00:30:40.000 Lieutenant General Cain was...

00:30:41.000 I didn't know that his nickname was...

00:30:44.000 I've never heard of this guy before, but he sounds great.

00:30:46.000 I like the idea that that was never his nickname and Trump just gave it to him now.

00:30:50.000 Yeah, right?

00:30:52.000 He totally would.

00:30:53.000 Part of me wants that to be...

00:30:55.000 Raisin to be his call sign, but also now that you mentioned it, I do think that it would be even better if Trump was like, no, I'm going to give him a nickname.

00:31:04.000 It'll be great.

00:31:06.000 I don't know anything about General Kane, so I'm going to actually...

00:31:11.000 A big thing AP should have noted was that he is the 780th white general to hold this position.

00:31:20.000 I was going to ask, when does it become no longer newsworthy?

00:31:23.000 Is it when you're the third ever of something?

00:31:27.000 No, it's when they stop talking about DEI. That's really what it is.

00:31:33.000 Let's see.

00:31:34.000 He was...

00:31:35.000 I wonder if he was...

00:31:37.000 So he was an F-16 pilot.

00:31:38.000 So if he's the 781st, it wouldn't be newsworthy.

00:31:42.000 But since he's the 780th...

00:31:44.000 I kind of was...

00:31:45.000 When they said special operations, I was wondering if he was something like a PJ or something like that, or if he had done that kind of special operations job.

00:31:56.000 But either way, I do think that it's good that Donald Trump is...

00:32:03.000 And Secretary Hegseth are putting the generals and staff on notice.

00:32:09.000 I've heard that he's talking about getting rid of, I want to say, half the generals in the military.

00:32:16.000 They deserve it.

00:32:17.000 Sorry.

00:32:18.000 I mean, when's the last time we won a war? 0.99

00:32:20.000 You guys are all focused on everything I've heard about, what's been going on in the military in terms of what they're putting the rank and file through with all these idiotic trainings and just... 1.00

00:32:31.000 They've screwed up the military. 0.99

00:32:33.000 Recruitment is down horribly to the point that it actually implicates our security.

00:32:39.000 That's just not acceptable performance.

00:32:42.000 And I think a big thing is that there hasn't been accountability at the top level for failures by our military.

00:32:47.000 It's always been lower-level people who've been held accountable.

00:32:50.000 How do generals at the top and those in charge of the military get recruitment back up then?

00:32:55.000 I mean, I just feel like that's one of those things that there's anti-American sentiment from within America that's very, very hard to reverse.

00:33:02.000 So just HEGSF being the SECDEF has increased the...

00:33:11.000 I remember there was a guest, and I wish I could remember who it was, was talking about that members re-enlisted after Trump got elected the first time because they weren't interested in the military under Obama.

00:33:24.000 And then I'm sure that that once again would probably pick up maybe two now after Trump was re-elected.

00:33:30.000 I'm not sure.

00:33:30.000 But it's very, very difficult to try and reignite fervor in the military when America's having such a hard time.

00:33:39.000 I feel like there are a lot of people who want to join, but when they see the DEI in the service, they see what's going on, and they're not joining.

00:33:46.000 Are those people paying attention to those stories?

00:33:50.000 Not these stories, but once they see Trump get in, they're like, okay, cool, I can join, I can do what I want to do.

00:33:56.000 They want to fight, they want to protect the country, serve without being told they're bad people.

00:34:01.000 Yeah, I mean, so, first of all, the...

00:34:05.000 I don't know if the majority of young men that were joining the military are white, but I know that there's a lot of Hispanics.

00:34:11.000 Oh, yeah.

00:34:11.000 Huge, huge.

00:34:12.000 And there are times where Hispanics count as white, so they might be counting the Hispanics as white.

00:34:19.000 But one of the things that Hispanics generally, they don't like the progressive left stuff.

00:34:26.000 If you're the kind of Hispanic dude that's like, I'm going to join the military, you're not. 1.00

00:34:30.000 You don't want to hear Latinx. 1.00

00:34:32.000 Yeah, you don't want to hear that.

00:34:34.000 The whole machismo thing, that's real.

00:34:37.000 And dudes are like, yo, I love my country, I love America, and I love my Latin heritage, but I don't want to deal with this kind of BS. And I think it's very, very good that...

00:34:51.000 The current sec death has made it abundantly clear that these things are changing.

00:34:55.000 And when these kind of stories come out, that Donald Trump has fired the top general in the whole military because of his take on DEI, I think that you'd mentioned how do we get the recruitment numbers up.

00:35:11.000 This is exactly how.

00:35:12.000 You get a leadership.

00:35:16.000 That is friendly to the troops.

00:35:19.000 I guarantee when Hegseth decided to get up and do PT with the special forces in Germany, he probably got a thousand men to sign up.

00:35:31.000 A thousand 18-year-olds across the country looked and said, that's the kind of guy that I want to serve.

00:35:36.000 Because all of my friends that are former and in the military, they were just like, man, it doesn't get any better.

00:35:43.000 The sec defs out there. 0.99

00:35:45.000 PT-ing in the cold with the special forces.

00:35:47.000 That's the military I want to join.

00:35:49.000 Young men are aggressive. 1.00

00:35:52.000 Especially if you love the country.

00:35:53.000 They got the testosterone that they want to exuberate into the world.

00:35:57.000 So when they see Pete doing his thing, it's just a thing.

00:36:01.000 I joined because I wanted to do stuff and fight and shoot guns against enemies.

00:36:06.000 That was my whole reason I joined.

00:36:08.000 I don't think we've lost that out there.

00:36:11.000 There's definitely still many million, millions of young men.

00:36:14.000 Who want to do that.

00:36:15.000 And you also grow up, you become a man within four weeks, or four months, or sorry, four years, whereas you see your college buddy dudes who are just learning about gender, whatever you're talking about.

00:36:25.000 You know, there's a...

00:36:27.000 Animalistic.

00:36:27.000 There is a, one of the pictures, actually, if you could go back to that, those pictures that you had for a second there, Serge, there was one picture that has spawned a boatload of memes, and it was Hegseth running with...

00:36:43.000 With the Special Forces guy.

00:36:44.000 Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about.

00:36:46.000 It was that, like, big Hulk-looking dude.

00:36:47.000 Oh, yeah?

00:36:48.000 You just had it.

00:36:49.000 Just put it up on images.

00:36:51.000 Show me a Hulk.

00:36:52.000 Yeah, right here.

00:36:53.000 Okay.

00:36:54.000 Yeah, there it is.

00:36:55.000 Oh, wow, yeah.

00:36:57.000 Okay.

00:36:58.000 Like, bring that up.

00:36:59.000 This dude here.

00:37:00.000 Okay.

00:37:01.000 This guy himself.

00:37:03.000 Has inspired at least a hundred dudes to say, I'm going.

00:37:07.000 Because I want to be that monster.

00:37:11.000 That's just the kind of dude that young guys look at and they're like, I want to be that guy.

00:37:17.000 It's amazing we ever got away from that.

00:37:19.000 What did everybody think the military was for?

00:37:24.000 To like, you know, to like hand out flowers? 0.99

00:37:27.000 No, these are the people that when we need to, we send them to kill people. 0.82

00:37:30.000 Yeah, and when you heard General Miley saying, you know, I want to know about white rage, that probably turned off a thousand people. 0.87

00:37:39.000 They're just, oh, I was going to join the military, but I'm not.

00:37:41.000 Not under that guy. 0.96

00:37:42.000 Not under that fat liberal. 0.90

00:37:44.000 Yeah, especially that was...

00:37:46.000 Did that happen before or after the Afghan pullout?

00:37:51.000 I think that was after.

00:37:52.000 It was so bad. 0.99

00:37:53.000 I want to understand white rape. 1.00

00:37:55.000 What an incredibly bad leader. 1.00

00:37:58.000 You... 0.81

00:37:59.000 Botch the pullout of Afghanistan. 0.99

00:38:01.000 Get something like 18 people killed.

00:38:03.000 How many people died in the bombing?

00:38:04.000 We had 13. 13 Marines died.

00:38:08.000 A billion dollars worth of equipment left.

00:38:10.000 Left all that gear over there.

00:38:12.000 And then you have the...

00:38:15.000 There's no repercussions for anyone.

00:38:17.000 No one gets fired.

00:38:19.000 Unbelievable.

00:38:20.000 None of them have the...

00:38:23.000 He should have stepped down himself.

00:38:25.000 He should have said, I am resigning.

00:38:28.000 A good leader would have said, this happened on my watch.

00:38:32.000 I am resigning.

00:38:34.000 I mean, but it's like when we're talking about the JFK files or the MLK files.

00:38:39.000 Americans don't believe that there is any accountability within the government.

00:38:43.000 That's one of the reasons why those stories pique the interest of people.

00:38:46.000 They're like, wow, am I actually going to get answers on this thing that happened all these decades ago?

00:38:51.000 That everybody looks at one another, they know what they're hearing is not the whole story, but they just kind of accept that that's the way that things are.

00:38:59.000 And in the current year, to hear about any level of accountability whatsoever, even if it's just the declassifying of files and the releasing of them, That seems monumental to a country that's been left in the dark for a very long time.

00:39:12.000 Yeah, I do think that you're right.

00:39:15.000 I think that there is a significant distrust.

00:39:19.000 I think that not only is it because of things like the JFK files and these kind of like rumored...

00:39:27.000 Things that people have an intuition about, but like the obvious things as well, like the whole COVID. I really think COVID was like the final nail in the coffin when it came to the credibility of the United States.

00:39:38.000 Well, I mean, it's not just that.

00:39:39.000 Because they were just like, there was the whole like...

00:39:42.000 You don't have to wear a mask.

00:39:44.000 And then it was, oh no, you do.

00:39:46.000 And then come to find out the reason they said you don't have to wear a mask is because they didn't have enough PPE for doctors.

00:39:51.000 So right out of the box, they lied to you.

00:39:54.000 Then all of the BS that comes along with it come to find out that masks actually don't do a significant job of protecting you.

00:40:02.000 And all of the misrepresentation, all of the lies, and all of the force that went along with it, all of the threats, all of the people that would get arrested.

00:40:11.000 The social distancing, which comes out, oh, that turns out that didn't mean anything.

00:40:16.000 That was made up and all of that stuff.

00:40:20.000 I think you're right about the general consensus and the kind of intuitive feeling people had about the MLK stuff and the CIA with JFK. But I think that the...

00:40:32.000 Outright things that the media and government have come out and said, yeah, that was not true.

00:40:38.000 I think those were, like, really damaging.

00:40:40.000 Yeah, it's when, even if you don't pay close attention to what's going on, you've heard in passing or in some fashion about what we do with our intelligence agencies overseas and the way that we have gone into other countries.

00:40:55.000 Nation building and all of these things and then to see those tactics then turn back around on the American people.

00:41:01.000 Again, if you're paying attention, makes perfect sense.

00:41:03.000 But to somebody who only pays attention to the corners and don't listen to it regularly, they just started to understand just the power of the intelligence apparatus and the way we've weaponized government against other people.

00:41:17.000 Yeah, we're going to go on to another story in just a second.

00:41:20.000 There's one thing I want to mention.

00:41:21.000 You mentioned about nation building and I think that...

00:41:23.000 Mike Bentz has made a lot of people aware of USAID and all the things they do.

00:41:29.000 And he's also...

00:41:30.000 I think that he's performing an important function now with...

00:41:33.000 He's out there in the podcast world again saying, look, these organizations have been corrupted, but that doesn't mean that these organizations are all bad.

00:41:45.000 And a country like the United States with the amount of power and with the expectations that the rest of the world puts on the United States, because we are expected to be the hegemon still and we are expected to keep the seas open for trade.

00:42:01.000 These type of organizations that that again, they have been corrupted and there shouldn't be DEI stuff in the US shouldn't be trying to go into strongly religious countries and teach them about LGBT issues and stuff like that. 0.92

00:42:14.000 That's that's completely ridiculous.

00:42:18.000 Having these organizations that will project soft power is important.

00:42:22.000 I wanted to get your thoughts on that.

00:42:23.000 On that point?

00:42:24.000 Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:42:25.000 I mean, I'm a big, you know, this is sort of my general, one of my main critiques of libertarianism, but it's like, do we really want to let somebody else be the guardian of sea lanes?

00:42:34.000 You want that to be China? 0.97

00:42:35.000 No?

00:42:36.000 Okay, right?

00:42:37.000 Like, we are, it's, I think I tweeted out a while ago, it's like, it was in response to the Trump-Gaza stuff, where I think everybody was freaking out about the idea that we might control some territory.

00:42:45.000 And I'm just like, It's okay to be an empire.

00:42:48.000 We can just do colonialism if we want.

00:42:52.000 Nation-based.

00:42:54.000 Colonialism.

00:42:55.000 I don't know, though.

00:42:55.000 A lot of countries used to do it.

00:42:57.000 So the point being that, yeah, there's a lot of benefits that come to us as a result of being...

00:43:04.000 So powerful.

00:43:04.000 That's a great distinction, though.

00:43:05.000 There is a difference between nation-building and colonialism.

00:43:09.000 Right.

00:43:09.000 Nation-building is when you spend a bunch of money for other people.

00:43:12.000 Colonialism is when you spend it for yourself. 0.91

00:43:14.000 I mean, I think the big issue for a lot of the people is, though, is they're like, these...

00:43:19.000 Organizations are so large and the amount of money put into it is so ungodly that they're like, who are we putting in charge to actually put the checks and balances into place to know that what we're doing is right?

00:43:31.000 And most of the time what we're seeing now is you see USAID gets exposed and whole entire NGOs fold.

00:43:39.000 Well, you're not really a non-governmental agency if you can't survive without the government, right?

00:43:44.000 And all I'm saying is to the average person, like I said, Mike Benz is...

00:43:48.000 I have said to the—he is one of the best, right?

00:43:50.000 You have to go read through everything you post, but you're not going to expect the average person to go into these deep dives and understand all of that.

00:43:57.000 What you have to understand is that the size of the country is now vast.

00:44:00.000 We are so powerful that it's ripe for corruption, and most people want to see that undone.

00:44:07.000 And I fully admit that I, for the most part, have a very utopian— I don't see my viewpoint as the right answer.

00:44:30.000 I see it as a jumping-off point for a discussion on how we can pare back some of it and find a middle ground.

00:44:36.000 Alright, we're gonna move on to this story here.

00:44:38.000 From the New York Post, Sean Diddy Combs' lawyer quits sex trafficking case under no circumstances can I continue. 1.00

00:44:45.000 You gotta be real dirty when your lawyer's like, bro, you fucked up. 0.99

00:44:49.000 Imagine being like a defense attorney who's just like, I can't even do it, man. 1.00

00:44:54.000 I can't imagine that.

00:44:56.000 I mean, I imagine he...

00:44:59.000 And it's not like Sean Combs doesn't have money to pay the man.

00:45:02.000 And I read the article.

00:45:03.000 It didn't seem like he had much.

00:45:05.000 He said that he didn't really give a reason.

00:45:07.000 He's just like, I can't do it.

00:45:09.000 Yeah, I mean...

00:45:10.000 I want to look at this motion.

00:45:12.000 So the New York Post is reporting...

00:45:16.000 One of Sean Diddy Combs' defense lawyers quit the disgraced music producer's criminal sex trafficking case new court paper show.

00:45:23.000 Anthony Rico filed a motion Thursday to withdraw as one of Bad Boy Records' six defense attorneys without explanation.

00:45:30.000 Rico's bid to step down won't be official until a judge signs off on it.

00:45:34.000 A judge must find sufficient reason to approve such a request.

00:45:37.000 Under no circumstances can I continue to effectively serve as counsel for Sean Combs Rico wrote in the Manhattan Federal Court affidavit It is respectfully but regrettably requested that court grant the relief requested The lawyer didn't elaborate on why he wanted to step down But noted the decision came after speaking with Combs' lead counsel, Mark Agnifilo I mean, so obviously there's just going to be inference and people are going to make assumptions

00:46:05.000 But it seems likely that the things that P. Diddy has done are so egregious.

00:46:14.000 That his lawyer is like, I won't be a party.

00:46:17.000 I'm finally understanding what's going on here.

00:46:19.000 So this is less revealing than I think we would think it would be.

00:46:24.000 It's really not.

00:46:24.000 Because there's six lawyers in the case and it's one of the lawyers being like, I cannot be his lawyer.

00:46:29.000 There are a lot of reasons why a lawyer might make that decision or make that ask to be let off the case.

00:46:34.000 Conflict of interest is the most obvious one.

00:46:38.000 For example, Diddy has all these people that he previously...

00:46:45.000 It's conceivable that this Rico guy represented a different client and might have knowledge that came from that and realized that I'm in some sort of conflict of interest situation.

00:46:53.000 It also could be payment, but it doesn't seem likely because he's wealthy and there's five other lawyers who are still going to be on board.

00:46:59.000 So I'm guessing what this is is some sort of newly...

00:47:03.000 A conflict that he became newly aware of because that explains the firmness of the like, I can't be his lawyer, right?

00:47:10.000 And that strikes me as very much like conflict of interest.

00:47:14.000 Your ethical rules are prohibiting you from going forward.

00:47:17.000 And a whole bunch of cases have continued to be pushed forward.

00:47:20.000 I mean, it was the lawyer.

00:47:22.000 I believe his name was Tony Busby was the lawyer who was filing all those cases on behalf of people who were filing claims against Diddy that have just come forward and forward.

00:47:30.000 And I think some of those have actually been dropped since then.

00:47:33.000 And the charges against Jay-Z were dropped in the case between him and Diddy.

00:47:38.000 It was like the rape of the girl back in 2000 or 2001, something like that.

00:47:44.000 I don't know how much I actually expect to come out of this case, but I think the more interesting discussion is about the concept of him having a list of people, having a list of blackmail against powerful people in Hollywood, 'cause a lot of people see that list akin to the way that they saw the Epstein files with politicians and world leaders. 'cause a lot of people see that list akin to the way that they saw the Epstein files with politicians and world leaders. - Yeah, I think that the P. Diddy list would be more salacious.

00:48:12.000 P. Diddy would be rolling around.

00:48:13.000 Those would be people you've actually heard of.

00:48:14.000 The ones on the Epstein files you've never heard of.

00:48:17.000 P. Diddy's going to be rolling around with millionaires and multi-millionaires.

00:48:21.000 Maybe there's a couple people that might reach a billion.

00:48:25.000 But when you're dealing with the Epstein list, that's power players and people that are powerful on the international scale.

00:48:33.000 Beyond just, I'm an entertainer, but actual...

00:48:37.000 Prince Philip was disgraced because of the Epstein list.

00:48:40.000 Do you think that there's overlap between...

00:48:42.000 I think me and you and Mary had this discussion at one point about whether there was overlap between the lists.

00:48:48.000 I think that there's some, but I don't think that it's significant.

00:48:52.000 I think that...

00:48:54.000 Not that the people that P. Diddy hangs out with wouldn't be interesting to people in positions of actual power.

00:49:04.000 Because again, someone like P. Diddy's got...

00:49:06.000 You know, a lot of power and a lot of money, and that means a lot.

00:49:09.000 But that's not Prince Philip.

00:49:11.000 That's not a that's not a prince of England.

00:49:13.000 You know, that's not like those kind of powerful people are different.

00:49:17.000 No, but if we're talking about the people who are pushing cultural cultural values of leftism on America, it's the entertainers.

00:49:24.000 It's Hollywood.

00:49:25.000 It's those people that have helped push forward that message for a very, very long time.

00:49:29.000 And Obama partied around with lots of celebrities and lots of entertainers.

00:49:34.000 It's not hard to believe that there is overlap there amongst other people.

00:49:37.000 Maybe not to the extent of the FCC. I mean, I'd give it maybe 15%.

00:49:43.000 But in the end of the day, that many people with Epstein and P. Diddy, that goes to show us that a lot of people, powerful people in power, are deranged, disgusting, terrible people.

00:49:54.000 What do you think, Will?

00:49:55.000 I mean, I think you're basically right.

00:49:57.000 There's probably mild overlap.

00:49:58.000 Not much, I would suspect.

00:49:59.000 I think it's just different circles and different people attending these parties.

00:50:02.000 He's probably getting funded by USAID. You know, I'm a lawyer, so I think about this again.

00:50:07.000 Why is this lawyer resigning? 0.90

00:50:08.000 I mean, I know people want to say it's like, oh, it's because Diddy's so disgusting.

00:50:13.000 And it's like, I'm pretty sure that's not the reason.

00:50:15.000 One, the guy would have signed on to this case well after a lot of these revelations would have been revealed, so he knew what he was getting into.

00:50:21.000 Two, you want to be a criminal defense lawyer.

00:50:24.000 You can't just abandon your client if some bad news about them comes out.

00:50:28.000 That's a great way to never...

00:50:29.000 This is big news right here.

00:50:30.000 Right.

00:50:30.000 Well, I mean, this would be a good news to do it.

00:50:32.000 Say some bad revelation comes out in the press.

00:50:34.000 Imagine your life's on the line.

00:50:37.000 You're going to trial over something that's going to put you away forever, and one of your lawyers is like, I can't defend you anymore. 1.00

00:50:43.000 You're disgusting. 1.00

00:50:44.000 How dare you? 1.00

00:50:45.000 Like, what?

00:50:48.000 It's, you know, that would be just contemptible behavior.

00:50:50.000 I wouldn't respect this lawyer if he did that.

00:50:52.000 So I think conflict is the thing that makes sense.

00:50:55.000 It's hilarious that the idea of dropping someone over moral issues is what loses you respect.

00:51:02.000 Well, of course it does.

00:51:04.000 That's your job.

00:51:06.000 Somebody has to do it, right?

00:51:08.000 Being a criminal defense lawyer is perfectly ethical.

00:51:10.000 I mean, our whole system is built on the idea that people have a right to a criminal defense.

00:51:14.000 So if you're if you're actually going to try and go be a high profile criminal defense lawyer who represents wealthy people, you better be used to the idea that they might have done something really disgusting.

00:51:23.000 And it's your job to defend them anyway.

00:51:25.000 Innocent until proven ditty.

00:51:26.000 Wait.

00:51:27.000 Yeah.

00:51:28.000 Well, I mean, John Adams agrees, right?

00:51:30.000 Yeah, right.

00:51:31.000 Absolutely.

00:51:31.000 So we just got this breaking news that I want to cut to here.

00:51:38.000 Zelensky surrenders to Trump and will sign mineral deal within hours.

00:51:41.000 This is something that we were debating on talking about.

00:51:44.000 We didn't have any news at the beginning of the show.

00:51:48.000 But Daily Mail is reporting Donald Trump appears to have won his trade standoff with Volodymyr Zelensky as the Ukrainian president is set to give in and signed a deal giving the U.S. access to deposits of critical minerals.

00:52:01.000 The deal was seen as crucial for satisfying Washington's demands for a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia to end the three-year-long war.

00:52:09.000 It's a staggering surrender from Zelensky, who I had seen.

00:52:13.000 I defend Ukraine.

00:52:14.000 I can't sell our country.

00:52:16.000 I don't know that he's actually selling it.

00:52:21.000 Zelensky said on Friday that officials from his country and the U.S. are working on concluding an economic deal to ensure that the accord worked for and was fair to Kiev.

00:52:29.000 We're signing an agreement hopefully in the next fairly short period of time, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about a deal for Ukraine's minerals.

00:52:36.000 Do you think that that's...

00:52:37.000 Because Donald Trump sometimes gets out over his skis.

00:52:40.000 Do you think that this is one of those cases?

00:52:43.000 No.

00:52:43.000 No, no, no.

00:52:44.000 I mean, well, Trump is in a position to kind of dictate terms, right?

00:52:46.000 Like, as we are.

00:52:47.000 I mean, the Ukrainian defense is overwhelmingly dependent on American funding and American goodwill.

00:52:52.000 Yeah.

00:52:53.000 So, you know, Trump coming in and I mean, Zelensky made some real mistakes in over the last few years, but I don't think there's a bigger one than deciding to go to Pennsylvania and effectively campaign for the Democrats.

00:53:02.000 100% agree.

00:53:03.000 So, you know, I don't I don't have a lot of sympathy.

00:53:06.000 And I think I watched there were some clips.

00:53:08.000 I think Rubio had an interview on with Catherine Herridge, actually, that was on X.

00:53:12.000 And Rubio in that interview described how.

00:53:15.000 Look, we thought we had an understanding with Zelensky about the fact that we're going to work together on this deal, and then we hear him saying, like, I'm not going to sign anything.

00:53:23.000 And Rubio basically said something along the lines of, well, that's not very productive for our relationship going forward.

00:53:29.000 And I think that there must have...

00:53:30.000 Somebody had a talk with Zelensky that's like, do you like your job?

00:53:35.000 Do you want to keep it?

00:53:36.000 Well, I mean, there is an argument that, you know...

00:53:39.000 Russia's after Zelensky's head.

00:53:41.000 And as long as the United States is kind of standing in between Russia and Zelensky, Zelensky gets to keep his head. 0.88

00:53:47.000 Right.

00:53:48.000 I think Zelensky might have...

00:53:49.000 I saw he might have made a call to the Polish where the Polish were like, you can't piss off the Americans like this.

00:53:54.000 They are your patron.

00:53:55.000 You get to, you know, the idea that you get to just operate independently of the Americans, like, that's not your situation.

00:54:02.000 Sorry, bro.

00:54:02.000 How much do you think this stems from the personal relationship between Donald Trump and Zelensky?

00:54:07.000 There's a good amount of that.

00:54:08.000 I think that if Zelensky had been more, you know, I think about Netanyahu as a good example of a comparison, right?

00:54:14.000 Like, Trump's not going to Netanyahu and demanding, like, mineral rights in Israel, partially because Netanyahu and Israel are able to defend themselves a lot more effectively.

00:54:25.000 In particular, I think that Zelensky has just played the global neoliberal card so aggressively.

00:54:32.000 He's just of the left.

00:54:34.000 And then Donald Trump comes into power and it's like, oh yeah, maybe this is a reason that countries that are dependent on American aid try not to weigh in on our domestic politics because it goes from one way to another.

00:54:47.000 I think at a certain point, you've got to wonder if Zelensky has got to realize he's going to need to resign.

00:54:53.000 His relationship with Trump is simply not strong enough that the Ukrainians need someone new in there to have a fresh start in terms of their relationship with the Trump administration.

00:55:03.000 So this is the first time that I've heard actually anyone articulate that.

00:55:05.000 Can you expand on it?

00:55:06.000 Yeah.

00:55:07.000 The idea of Zelensky resigning.

00:55:08.000 Yeah, no, I'm seeing a little bit of that.

00:55:10.000 I mean, I don't know that that's ever been discussed officially, but if you're running the government of Ukraine right now, You can't be in a position where you have a bad relationship with the United States government.

00:55:20.000 No way.

00:55:21.000 It makes your position untenable.

00:55:23.000 Think about sitting in your shoes.

00:55:25.000 Put yourself in the shoes of a Ukrainian voter and what you would want your government to be doing.

00:55:30.000 If you actually cared about winning this war or cared about a reasonable settlement, which you probably do.

00:55:34.000 You don't want to get screwed over.

00:55:36.000 So you'd say, whatever the reason and whatever the justice of your cause, Vladimir, we can't have you being on bad terms with Trump. 0.52

00:55:45.000 You just can't.

00:55:46.000 You know, I mean, we would say the same thing if you were thinking about your own—what you would want is your own leader.

00:55:52.000 You'd want your own leader to be on good terms with the president of the United States.

00:55:55.000 And so you'd be pissed at him for, like, going, you know, creating this tension with people like Vance and Rubio.

00:56:02.000 You'd be pissed at him for going off and saying all sorts of nasty stuff because you'd be saying to yourself, rationally, the worse your relationship with Trump is, the worse it's going to be for me and my family.

00:56:13.000 So that's why I think, ultimately, I suspect Zelensky, I don't think he'll make it through the year.

00:56:18.000 I think that's my guess.

00:56:20.000 And I'm not basing that on any internal knowledge.

00:56:22.000 I'm just sort of looking at the situation and thinking, this is not tenable.

00:56:26.000 And eventually, top-level Ukrainian politicians are going to say to him, you need to go, bro.

00:56:30.000 We need a fresh start with Trump.

00:56:32.000 It's crazy to me.

00:56:34.000 Like, when Trump took office again, and we keep talking about economic sanctions and tariffs, and you see all of the times that he would Level these on other countries.

00:56:46.000 They would bluster and say, we're not going to bend the knee.

00:56:50.000 They would eventually bend the knee.

00:56:51.000 You actually get a glimpse of just how powerful America could be if it actually cared about itself.

00:56:57.000 It's insane to me.

00:56:58.000 I look at it and I'm just like, do you know as powerful as this country is?

00:57:04.000 How much more we could take and do if we actually cared about our own self-interest.

00:57:10.000 That is a great point.

00:57:12.000 And I think that most Americans don't realize, because I feel the exact same way.

00:57:20.000 The way that our government has behaved for 12 of the past 16 years has been...

00:57:29.000 As if we could not risk upsetting anyone else.

00:57:34.000 And the way that Trump exercises power, soft power, clearly, because he's not gotten us into any kind of wars, and he's made far greater overtures towards peace with our adversaries, or with what people that we consider adversaries.

00:57:52.000 I'm thinking of North Korea, specifically.

00:57:57.000 The things that are possible for the United States really become clear.

00:58:02.000 And I think that, again, that's a great point because I felt the same way.

00:58:05.000 I did not, I guess I didn't really understand how much soft power the United States had.

00:58:12.000 It's clear that the U.S. can blow up every other country, right?

00:58:15.000 That's the difference.

00:58:16.000 Whenever we thought of that before, we thought it was through might.

00:58:19.000 Right?

00:58:20.000 Like, but then people make the joke like, yeah, but you haven't won a war in however many, many decades, right?

00:58:24.000 That's not the point.

00:58:25.000 I have a problem with that argument, but go ahead.

00:58:26.000 But the point being is that, look, we're not even talking about intervention of the U.S. military.

00:58:31.000 We're just saying that we're going to slap sanctions on you, we're going to cut off trade, and then you start to realize just how big and powerful the nation is.

00:58:40.000 And it's crazy to me how much, like you said, the left will gaslight you and say, these other nations are laughing at us.

00:58:46.000 I'm like, if they are, it's because they don't care about their own selves.

00:58:49.000 Because if they do, they understand they're going to lose out by not being involved with us, whether it's through trade, whether it's through the use of our military to protect their own borders.

00:58:59.000 There's a thousand ways in which we could be doing more for our country that we're starting to do now.

00:59:04.000 And I worry that the second you lose power, then it just goes back to the way it was.

00:59:10.000 You have to start imparting the idea that our own self-interest is key.

00:59:13.000 So that's one thing that I want to get your take on, Will.

00:59:16.000 I agree completely with what Brett's saying.

00:59:18.000 And I think that the idea of America First has been so foreign to Americans, we don't understand the potential that our country has.

00:59:28.000 And I think that...

00:59:29.000 Donald, because we were talking earlier about the MAGA coalition versus the left, I think that Donald Trump has really demonstrated that the United States can do great things for itself and still operate in a moral and ethical way internationally.

00:59:44.000 And this is how not just the right, though the right is probably, you know, screaming how much they love it, but this is the way that the right and the not left should look at the The not left, whoever isn't in the crazy leftist, these are the way that politicians should act towards the United States.

01:00:07.000 And I'd really love to hear your thoughts on that.

01:00:09.000 So I think, you know, for a long time we had on the left a sort of general globalist internationalist sense that we shouldn't be rocking the boat, that we should be seeking consensus, that we should just be doing what everybody else wants.

01:00:19.000 And on the right...

01:00:20.000 The right had antibodies against that because the right's historically more nationalist, anti-UN, for example.

01:00:26.000 But the right also has this long-standing free trade approach that would totally exclude the idea of using tariffs as an economic weapon as a way to...

01:00:33.000 Get people to serve our interests.

01:00:35.000 And the combination of those two things meant it's like, well, we have hard power or nothing, and most of the time it's nothing to get people to behave the way we want.

01:00:42.000 And Trump comes in, he's like, well, I'm obviously not some internationalist cuck.

01:00:46.000 And then also, like, obviously not.

01:00:49.000 But also that I'm not, at the same time, afraid of using tariffs.

01:00:56.000 And so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go around and be like, wait a second, you all are completely dependent on access to our market.

01:01:03.000 Your economies are completely dependent on access to American consumers.

01:01:07.000 So guess what?

01:01:08.000 You get to do what we want, because otherwise we're going to make your access to our consumers painful.

01:01:14.000 And you can't afford that, and that's just the nature of how having such an incredibly powerful economy here.

01:01:24.000 I mean, he kind of got into it in the first term.

01:01:26.000 He's like, well, what has the UN or NATO done for us in the last however many decades?

01:01:31.000 And maybe that was the first time anybody thought of asking the question, oh yeah, what have any of them done for us?

01:01:38.000 Yeah, well, I mean, NATO is us.

01:01:40.000 I mean, we spend more than the rest of the NATO countries combined on our military.

01:01:44.000 That's crazy.

01:01:44.000 And a lot of them are deciding to buff up their welfare states and not meet.

01:01:51.000 The idea that every NATO country is supposed to spend 2% of their own GDP, right?

01:01:58.000 I think that's what the agreement is.

01:01:59.000 The U.S., I just recently learned, only spends 3.6% of our GDP on our military.

01:02:04.000 That's something that if you tell your average leftist, they're going to be like, no way.

01:02:08.000 They're going to say, no, we must spend half the money of our GDP on.

01:02:13.000 We spend so much money on the military and blah, blah, blah.

01:02:15.000 And whereas we do in absolute dollars, we spend a lot.

01:02:18.000 But it's because the United States' GDP is like $29 trillion.

01:02:22.000 It's just a mind-boggling amount of money.

01:02:26.000 And then to think that we ask countries like...

01:02:29.000 Poland, and Poland, I think, is one of the better... 1.00

01:02:32.000 Poland meets its targets.

01:02:34.000 Yeah, they're really good about it.

01:02:36.000 And they spend 2% of their GDP. I don't know what Poland's GDP is, but it's obviously dramatically less than the United States, because they're just a smaller country with fewer people.

01:02:45.000 And so the actual ask of the individual...

01:02:50.000 European countries or other countries in NATO in absolute dollars is minuscule compared to what the United States.

01:02:57.000 And then they get, you know, they really start talking about how we're like being, you know, appeasing.

01:03:02.000 I really can't stand that.

01:03:04.000 Countries that are tiny that spend, that do not even meet their target on NATO spending.

01:03:09.000 You're tiny in the first place, and you don't even spend 2% of your GDP on your military, and then you're telling us that we're appeasing.

01:03:15.000 I don't care what you think.

01:03:17.000 It's not even a real conversation. 0.87

01:03:20.000 You're like a chihuahua yapping at us. 0.90

01:03:22.000 You're not a serious country. 0.99

01:03:24.000 If we start defending you, you'd fall to Russia in an instant. 0.99

01:03:29.000 Be grateful for the continued support of the American taxpayer.

01:03:33.000 Despite the fact that you guys have been obnoxious towards our current sitting president.

01:03:37.000 I mean, that is a lot of where I think a lot of the leftist arguments come in these days about when you see people, you know, coalescing online and talking about healthcare and they talk about it in foreign countries and we talk about how they say, oh, it's amazing that Americans don't just get free healthcare.

01:03:54.000 And then we say, well, that's because your military is pretty much subsidized by the might of our military.

01:04:00.000 I get that anger.

01:04:02.000 I do.

01:04:03.000 I understand that that's a very simplistic argument, but I do understand the anger from the average American who does think maybe the hospital, maybe all your medical bills shouldn't be covered, but you shouldn't go into insane debt because you broke your arm.

01:04:17.000 And to know that we're doing that so that we can defend other countries is infuriating on some level.

01:04:23.000 So I get that argument.

01:04:25.000 Yeah, I do.

01:04:25.000 I think that...

01:04:27.000 Most of that kind of perspective comes from a lack of understanding of what the actual problem is.

01:04:33.000 Because the idea that you shouldn't have to go into Hawk just because you break your arm.

01:04:39.000 Well, breaking your arm, while it's a bad thing, it's something that...

01:04:44.000 Modern medicine is very capable of dealing with, and it happens frequently enough where it shouldn't cost you $10,000 to get your arm x-rayed and set.

01:04:54.000 And then you get into insurance.

01:04:57.000 It shouldn't be at all.

01:04:57.000 I mean, you can go and get your teeth cleaned from a dentist for a couple hundred bucks.

01:05:02.000 That should probably be 50 bucks because it takes them like 10 minutes nowadays.

01:05:07.000 And that, even that is still, it's like, it's not outrageously expensive to get your, you know, spend $150, $200 to get your teeth cleaned.

01:05:13.000 It shouldn't be more than a couple hundred bucks to get an arm set because it's something that's fairly routine and unless they need to do, you know, put in, you know, steel and those kind of repairs.

01:05:24.000 They go in and they're like, we need to take an x-ray.

01:05:26.000 And then like when, and then they set your, they set them on like, we need to take another x-ray.

01:05:30.000 And the poor person's like, do you need to do the second x-ray?

01:05:33.000 But the point being is like when we talk about like plastic surgery or LASIK or those kind of procedures that aren't covered, all of that stuff, the prices have gone down because – and this is where I'm most libertarian.

01:05:46.000 The market does work.

01:05:48.000 The market does drive prices down.

01:05:49.000 It's a miracle that it happens and that it works the way that it does.

01:05:53.000 But because we don't have a market for health care, all the prices are – It's going to be through the roof because the insurance companies just pay.

01:06:03.000 It's a nightmare, but that's not the fault of the American population.

01:06:10.000 It's because of the government.

01:06:12.000 And then the scary part is they somehow turn that on its head and say that that is an argument for single-payer health care, and then you're like, hold up.

01:06:20.000 That's insane, too.

01:06:22.000 We're going to go ahead and move on to the next story here.

01:06:25.000 Judge denies bid to block Trump administration from placing USAID workers on leave.

01:06:31.000 This is being reported by CBS.

01:06:35.000 Washington, a federal judge on Friday, declined to block the Trump administration from putting thousands of employees with U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave and recalling others from overseas, clearing the way for President Trump to resume his efforts to overhaul the agency as part of his plan to slash the size of the federal government.

01:06:52.000 I do think that it's a good idea to do these.

01:06:56.000 I think the real tangible results when it comes to the significant changes of USAID are going to be the fact that the left doesn't have the access to federal money the way that it used to.

01:07:12.000 First off, this is a big W for the Trump administration.

01:07:16.000 Let's get that out of the way. 0.94

01:07:17.000 This was something that...

01:07:18.000 One of the cases where there had been a temporary restraining order put in place.

01:07:23.000 And, you know, I'd followed a lot of these cases.

01:07:25.000 This Judge Nichols, you know, I've got a friend named Bill Shipley who is heavily involved with J6 defendants, so he actually was in front of Judge Nichols a lot. 1.00

01:07:34.000 And he was saying, everybody's getting really mad at Judge Nichols over this particular injunction.

01:07:38.000 He was like, give him a second.

01:07:39.000 He's a really good judge.

01:07:41.000 Like, there's a reason.

01:07:41.000 I think you're going to end up winning pretty quickly here.

01:07:44.000 And that's what's happened.

01:07:47.000 USAID. You know, or these labor unions try to say, it's like, well, you can't get people off from USAID in foreign countries because they need access to, like, foreign alerts about danger in their country.

01:07:57.000 And he's like, well, okay, I'll give you, like, five days to demonstrate that that's true and, like, that you're actually entitled to, like, not get fired.

01:08:05.000 And five days later, he's like, nope, we can fire you.

01:08:08.000 Actually, they can go ahead and do what they want.

01:08:11.000 And that's what's happened here.

01:08:12.000 Do you anticipate...

01:08:14.000 Do you anticipate that there will be another challenge to this?

01:08:18.000 No, I think this is going to be the end of this particular case.

01:08:22.000 I think that you've lost your attempt to get an injunction to stop Trump from putting all of USA basically on administrative leave and telling them all that you can sit at home for the next six months until we finally fire you.

01:08:38.000 And I just don't think that once this ruling's been denied, they're not going to go to a different judge and try and judge stuff here.

01:08:44.000 A new judge will look at it and be like, you already filed this case in D.C. It's already been resolved.

01:08:49.000 No injunction.

01:08:51.000 I think this is just a straight W. There's a lot of different ones of these injunctions all over the country, obviously, where liberals are trying to lawfare and stop Doge and stuff, you name it.

01:09:01.000 That's my broader point.

01:09:05.000 There's been a discussion that we've been having around the table here about what the goal of the Trump administration is and about trying to return the power to the executive and get it away from the...

01:09:17.000 The bureaucracy, and that was one of the reasons why he's trying to do the birthright citizenship, because that should go before the Supreme Court, and that'll really bring the question, does the executive have the authority to fire people that are in the bureaucracy or not?

01:09:30.000 And I wanted to get your thoughts on that.

01:09:32.000 So yeah, I think the big case, and I think in the next...

01:09:35.000 And how does that pan out?

01:09:35.000 Probably early next week, because it's Friday, right?

01:09:37.000 So there's nothing going to happen in the next few days, but probably Monday, Tuesday, I would expect the Supreme Court's going to rule on the...

01:09:45.000 The case that's before them, I think it's the first one, which is Trump fired the head of the Office of Special Counsel, I think a guy named Dellinger.

01:09:54.000 Dellinger went to the D.C. District Court, got an injunction saying, you need to keep your—you, the Trump administration, are not allowed to fire this guy.

01:10:00.000 And that went up on appeal, and the D.C. Circuit Court said, well, it's a temporary restraining order, we don't— Meddle with temporary restraining orders because the idea being you don't need to appeal them because they're going to expire in 28 days on their own terms.

01:10:14.000 But the administration has gone to the Supreme Court and said, no, no, no, no, no.

01:10:19.000 Judges do not get to tell us who to hire and who to fire, and they can't use temporary restraining orders to deny us the ability to fire people for a month.

01:10:28.000 That's a ridiculous interference with such an obvious core article to power that not even a temporary restraining order should be allowed to stay in place.

01:10:37.000 And so that's already at the Supreme Court, right?

01:10:40.000 Like, there's already been briefing.

01:10:42.000 We're probably gonna hear about that Monday, Tuesday.

01:10:44.000 I expect the Trump administration's gonna win.

01:10:47.000 And if they win that, they might essentially win a huge knockout to a slew of these temporary restraining orders, basically saying, like, the Supreme Court's either gonna, you know, take a wider view of this or just put in some dicta, basically saying all these temporary restraining orders have gone wildly beyond the judge's authority.

01:11:08.000 People need to stop messing with the executive branch, period, and stock.

01:11:12.000 Some of the things that I've been hearing people discussing when it comes to this kind of stuff...

01:11:16.000 Even when FDR was making massive, massive executive orders that really changed the structure of government, there were no federal judges that were just saying, well, we're going to throw an injunction on this and stop it.

01:11:26.000 And this is really kind of an innovation that's happened, started, I guess, in the 60s, but really took off in the Barack Obama administration.

01:11:34.000 Can you speak to that?

01:11:35.000 Yeah, so the idea of a nationwide injunction, it's not obvious at all that judges should be able to issue injunctions beyond the parties to the litigation directly in front of them.

01:11:45.000 You know, a good example of this, I think there was a case in Florida where, you know, the state of, I think DeSantis was trying to, like, ban puberty blockers or something.

01:11:56.000 And they went to sue him.

01:11:58.000 And, you know, in federal court, the injunction was crafted so that DeSantis was not, while the case was being resolved, DeSantis was not allowed to prevent these two specific people from getting puberty blockers.

01:12:09.000 You can enforce the law broadly, but he couldn't enforce it to them.

01:12:12.000 That's the normal understanding of what power do district courts have?

01:12:16.000 Well, they have power over the litigants in front of them. 0.94

01:12:19.000 They can say, you don't do this to this person until we've settled your dispute.

01:12:24.000 So the idea that an injunction could be just broad and affect everybody in the country, despite the fact that not everybody in the country is in front of the court, it's not obvious that that should be allowed.

01:12:36.000 Especially given how aggressive some of these district court judges have been.

01:12:39.000 I mean, you know, there was the New York case where Judge Engelmeyer told Doge that they weren't allowed to access Treasury data.

01:12:46.000 I mean, they were straight up telling—it created this artificial distinction between political and career appointees, and it's like, you, the political appointees, are not allowed to see this data.

01:12:54.000 Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?

01:12:56.000 This is a democracy.

01:12:58.000 The political appointees are the people who are appointed by the elected president of the United States.

01:13:01.000 States, the civil servants do not have some, you know, bestowed grant of authority from our government.

01:13:06.000 Um, so that was bizarre.

01:13:08.000 There's been so many bizarre ones.

01:13:10.000 And I think in general, what you're going to see, I mean, I know justice Thomas has talked about tailoring these down and basically, you know, we way too many judges are getting way too quickly involved in the working as the executive branch.

01:13:22.000 Uh, I think that it's time for that to stop.

01:13:25.000 I think it's personally time for that to stop as a normative claim, and I think it will stop.

01:13:29.000 Is that just – is that where I hear so much about the term and the concept of activist judges now?

01:13:34.000 Is that just because it's all become so heavily politicized?

01:13:36.000 Like I've heard a lot of people discuss about the idea of the Supreme Court wasn't always seen as something that was politically biased but rather something that was just supposed to be about interpreting the Constitution.

01:13:48.000 Now you expect most of these cases a lot of the time to fall along party lines.

01:13:52.000 Well, generally, yes.

01:13:54.000 I mean, I'm probably biased in my assumption, but I do think that the argument that the conservatives or the textualists are the ones that are correct in their understanding.

01:14:05.000 You have to go by what the words on the paper mean, and you can't infer meaning.

01:14:12.000 So even though it's the conservatives that are the textualists, and my political opinions align far closer to conservatives than to progressives, I do think that that is the true thing.

01:14:26.000 The other side of the argument is...

01:14:29.000 Is the Constitution is meant to be interpreted, and so the meaning will change.

01:14:34.000 But I find, like, there's arguments made by, like, Judge Napolitano that says things like, if the Constitution mean, if it doesn't mean what it says, then it doesn't mean anything.

01:14:44.000 It either means what it says or it doesn't, and if it doesn't mean what it says, then it doesn't mean anything at all.

01:14:49.000 Or things like, if the Constitution was meant to be interpreted, then they would not, the framers would not have put an amendment process into the Constitution.

01:14:58.000 That is not only there so that way you can change it but also arduous and very difficult.

01:15:04.000 Like it's the reason that the amendment process is arduous is because they didn't want you to just change the meaning of the words on the paper based on what is popular at the time.

01:15:15.000 I guess I just think of it from a it's from a media framing device, which is that we talk about Soros backed DAs or Obama appointed judges or Trump appointed judges, which is a tool that both sides of the aisles friendly media apparatus uses as a way to frame their arguments when they're covering a story.

01:15:34.000 I just want to, like, you've actually sort of landed on a very interesting bigger debate in American constitutional law and the question of, like, should, you know, it almost goes to, like, should we even allow judicial review?

01:15:47.000 Right?

01:15:47.000 That's not obvious.

01:15:48.000 We treat it as obvious that our Supreme Court can weigh in on the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress and can overturn them.

01:15:54.000 It's not obvious that you have to allow that to happen.

01:15:57.000 You can just say that all the court's job is only to interpret the laws passed by Congress and then see if people's behavior conforms to it.

01:16:06.000 And then that connects to the question you're also talking about, which is like, okay, when exactly did judicial activism start and what is judicial activism?

01:16:16.000 That's, you know, query whether or not, like, some of our most famous cases that most people would think of as the best cases the Supreme Court has ever decided weren't, in fact, very activist.

01:16:24.000 So Brown v. 0.71

01:16:25.000 Board is a sort of classic example of this, where, you know, there's 80 years of precedent saying separate but equal is okay, and the court just decided, nah, change your mind.

01:16:35.000 And, you know, was it super principled in terms of, like, if you read the legal reasoning or you're like, man, this is just a masterpiece of legal reasoning.

01:16:41.000 Nobody could poke any holes in their argument here.

01:16:44.000 No, you could poke some holes in how they got from, how they just threw out 80 years of precedent.

01:16:49.000 But I think nobody wants to see Brown v.

01:16:51.000 Board of Education overturned.

01:16:52.000 We all agree that, you know, racial discrimination is bad.

01:16:55.000 So it's reflective of society at the time.

01:16:57.000 It can be.

01:16:57.000 I mean, you know, these things are, there's, you know, I think...

01:17:01.000 Conservatives always want, I think, and I'm sympathetic to this, the idea that you want it to be black and white, but the project of interpreting text and understanding meaning is there's always some amount of gray.

01:17:11.000 Like, language is not computer code.

01:17:13.000 It's not perfect.

01:17:15.000 And I think, in general, the idea that the conservatives have the better of the argument that in a world where you completely go to language is totally indeterminate and it can just mean whatever we want it to mean.

01:17:26.000 Then basically you're saying that there is no constitution and it's just a pure exercise of power.

01:17:31.000 I don't think that's right.

01:17:33.000 But I think that, you know, we shouldn't overstate the extent to which this is actually a black and white problem consistently.

01:17:42.000 Yeah.

01:17:43.000 And to your discussion about it's just a language, it doesn't matter, it's just an exercise of power.

01:17:48.000 That is kind of the furthest postmodernist leftist.

01:17:53.000 And that's a fundamental belief that they have, that there is no, like, that discourses are only an exercise of power, that the words that you say don't really mean anything.

01:18:04.000 And that's actually where...

01:18:06.000 That's where the foundation for the, you know, everyone's a Nazi kind of comes from.

01:18:11.000 The important thing isn't whether or not they're Nazis.

01:18:14.000 The important thing is, do you convince the people listening that they're bad people?

01:18:18.000 So you use whatever hyperbole that you want.

01:18:21.000 And these are arguments that are made by people.

01:18:22.000 I think it was like Foucault and Sartre and stuff like that.

01:18:27.000 It doesn't matter what you're saying, just that you're convincing the people listening.

01:18:31.000 It's really easy to understand why that tactic became so popular as phones became more commonplace and our communication went digital, which was that those bludgeoning arguments of name-calling and categorizing you as something abhorrent became far more tactical when everyone was now connected via which was that those bludgeoning arguments of name-calling and categorizing you as something abhorrent became far more tactical when everyone was now connected via social media and they could use that as a way of silencing people they disagreed with because people weren't used

01:19:00.000 I think that there's a lot of...

01:19:01.000 I don't think you're wrong, I think.

01:19:02.000 I wouldn't disagree, but I think there's a lot to it because these ideas, like I said, like the postmodern kind of left kind of got their start, you know, in like the 60s, like late 50s, early 60s and stuff.

01:19:14.000 Well, 50s and 60s.

01:19:15.000 So now you have, you know, you have your academics and your students who go to your four year colleges and have years of indoctrination into those beliefs, arguing online with somebody who works at an auto body shop.

01:19:29.000 And they think that those tactics of sounding unbelievably erudite while insulting you are going to work forever.

01:19:34.000 But we're seeing that that's less and less true now as those kind of arguments hold less weight.

01:19:40.000 Yeah, well, I mean, as long as people – when you're first called a Nazi, it's shocking because you're like, what?

01:19:48.000 How do you get there?

01:19:49.000 I'm not.

01:19:50.000 And then you start – people start – they – Second-guess themselves.

01:19:54.000 They're like, have I done anything like that?

01:19:56.000 Have I ever said?

01:19:56.000 And it's like you have to kind of take stock of yourself.

01:19:59.000 But the more you hear it, the more you get called it, when you know that you've never zigged a heil, you're just like, that's not true at all.

01:20:07.000 There's nothing that I have ever done that even remotely resembles that.

01:20:11.000 So you're just saying this, and then people kind of get used to it.

01:20:14.000 And that's kind of what's happened.

01:20:16.000 People, like, they know that they're not Nazis.

01:20:18.000 People know that they're not actually bigoted.

01:20:20.000 And so when someone calls you bigoted...

01:20:22.000 When you know you're not, you're just like, I know that I'm not, you know?

01:20:25.000 The cudgel works on the most, the ones who are the least self-assured, right?

01:20:29.000 So it works on somebody who isn't sure of who they are, or at the very least has a very deep fear of what others think of them.

01:20:35.000 What's the use of dismantling language?

01:20:38.000 Well, you might know.

01:20:41.000 Words don't mean anything anymore.

01:20:43.000 Maybe does it go to the Constitution?

01:20:46.000 So it allows you to kind of do whatever you normally want to in terms of law, right?

01:20:50.000 So that's the first, you know, the power of if you can basically win that all language is totally indeterminate and that then really law just becomes an exercise of power.

01:21:02.000 There's no principled basis on which to say like you can or can't do anything.

01:21:07.000 I mean, the left prefers that because it, you know, it believes in what's so-called like living constitutionalism.

01:21:11.000 I think this is what you were getting at with a lot of your kind of, you know, the critique of interpretation.

01:21:16.000 But, you know, the left really doesn't want to be constrained by the past understandings and past written texts.

01:21:22.000 They just want, you know, they want to go.

01:21:25.000 Is that like when they talk about well-regulated militia in regards to the Second Amendment when they understand that's not what they meant?

01:21:32.000 Well, I mean, to a degree, yes.

01:21:34.000 I mean, it is.

01:21:35.000 If you look at the context of a well-regulated in the time frame, it's pretty clear that they meant a working properly militia.

01:21:45.000 They weren't talking about the government regulating things because now the government regulations, like the way that we think of the administrative state, when you think of regulation, you think of the bureaucracy deciding laws, making rules.

01:21:59.000 That's not what well-regulated means.

01:22:01.000 The key thing there is it's about how does that clause operate grammatically.

01:22:05.000 So the clause is a well-regulated...

01:22:07.000 Regulated militia being necessary to a free people, something like that.

01:22:11.000 The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

01:22:14.000 You know, this is a good example of where English is actually not indeterminate.

01:22:18.000 That phrase is a prefatory phrase that is basically saying the way that sentence reads properly is the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

01:22:28.000 And here's a really good reason why.

01:22:30.000 But it's not saying this is, you know, this is the only reason why and this is therefore the only purpose for which bearing arms is acceptable.

01:22:37.000 No, that's not the right way to read that English.

01:22:39.000 So would it have been easier if they just didn't give any reason and just said the...

01:22:43.000 Right, yeah, well they didn't assume that, I mean, it's pretty clear actually.

01:22:48.000 I mean, my understanding of, you know, the history of the Second Amendment, they understand exactly what they were doing.

01:22:52.000 I mean, you know, there's a lot of like really cruddy Second Amendment arguments that the left puts out there.

01:22:57.000 Things like, well, you know, they only had muskets back then.

01:23:00.000 So like you can only have muskets now.

01:23:02.000 It's like muskets were state of the art.

01:23:04.000 Right.

01:23:04.000 They were basically saying that the Sednary should have state of the art weaponry.

01:23:07.000 You know, and.

01:23:09.000 I mean, there are there are, I mean, obviously, like some limits on that, but the there's a whole slew of terrible left wing arguments.

01:23:17.000 But the worst of them is sort of seizing on this prefatory clause and then just butchering not only English grammar.

01:23:25.000 When the thing was written, but English grammar now.

01:23:29.000 Have you ever seen the meme where it's like, women, if they go back, if they had a time machine, men, if they had a time machine, and the men, it's like, write it as if they're two.

01:23:38.000 Write the Second Amendment as if they were five years old.

01:23:42.000 We're going to go ahead and we're going to jump to one last story, and it's a light one to end the week.

01:23:48.000 Yeah.

01:23:50.000 Israel Hamas swapped to go ahead, despite claim child hostages were killed with bare hands.

01:23:57.000 Yeah.

01:23:58.000 So the ceasefire deal still on track amid uproar over fate of two Israeli boys and false return of their mother's bodies.

01:24:06.000 So this is a situation that I find particularly disgusting, and it's something that people seem to ignore when they're talking about the Israel-Palestine argument, if they're sympathetic to the Palestinian side.

01:24:26.000 From The Guardian.

01:24:30.000 That is crazy.

01:24:47.000 The Israeli Defense Force said in a statement on Friday afternoon that autopsy results and military intelligence concluded that members of Hamas used their bare hands to kill Ariel Baez 4 and his 10-month-old brother Kiffer when they were seized in October 2023. If I understand correctly, there's actually no evidence that these kids and their mother were actually seized by Hamas.

01:25:11.000 They were...

01:25:13.000 There's some idea that they were seized by Gazan civilians.

01:25:16.000 That's what I've been hearing.

01:25:17.000 Because they don't wear uniforms, which, I mean, whether you think that the...

01:25:22.000 Except when they're handing them over in these ceremonies.

01:25:24.000 Then they somehow find their uniforms.

01:25:26.000 Crazy, right?

01:25:26.000 I wonder where they went.

01:25:27.000 Maybe it'd make it easier to identify who's a military and who's a civilian if they would wear them during conflict.

01:25:33.000 Well, you know, the Geneva suggestions are just that, apparently.

01:25:36.000 But they don't wear...

01:25:37.000 On October 7th, they weren't wearing...

01:25:42.000 You know, military garb.

01:25:43.000 They weren't wearing uniforms.

01:25:44.000 And there's a lot of people that would make the argument that there were a lot of Palestinians that just went into Israel and were kidnapping people.

01:25:51.000 And I find it difficult to disprove that theory.

01:25:56.000 Again, because they weren't wearing, you know, they weren't wearing uniforms.

01:26:00.000 So you can't really prove that there is a distinction.

01:26:03.000 And that's something that I find difficult to...

01:26:10.000 There are people that say, oh, well, you know, not everyone in Gaza is Hamas, sure, but I think they had like 70% approval rating or something like that in a poll or something.

01:26:23.000 Where's the Gazan-Oskar Schindler, right? 0.50

01:26:26.000 Where is the Gazan, you know, there have been hundreds of, it's been a year and a half. 0.96

01:26:33.000 It's not like, also, Hamas is not as powerful as the Nazi regime was in Germany, right? 0.99

01:26:39.000 Like, Hamas got their ass kicked very quickly. 0.99

01:26:42.000 I want to, just for a point, I want to articulate that. 0.99

01:26:45.000 In Germany, there were Germans that saved Jews.

01:26:49.000 In Gaza, there were no Gazans that saved Jews.

01:26:52.000 Yeah.

01:26:53.000 So in Nazi Germany, there were Germans that were protecting Jews and hiding Jews in, like...

01:26:58.000 You know, in Nazi Germany, there are no Gazans that were protecting Jews.

01:27:02.000 In fact, there were Gazans that were considered Gazan civilians that went into Israel and kidnapped Jews.

01:27:08.000 This is my ignorance for the situation.

01:27:11.000 In Germany, Jewish folks lived inside the city of where Germany was, with the Germans.

01:27:18.000 They were German, too.

01:27:19.000 They were Jews.

01:27:20.000 Right, but I'm just saying, yes.

01:27:21.000 But also, I don't know of any...

01:27:23.000 I've not heard of Israelis living in Gaza.

01:27:26.000 I feel like it's...

01:27:27.000 Zero.

01:27:27.000 Right.

01:27:28.000 You know why it is?

01:27:29.000 So there's no...

01:27:30.000 Israelis literally ripped... 0.70

01:27:31.000 The Israeli government ripped Israeli citizens from their homes and their settlements in the Gaza Strip in 2005. They made the Gazan Strip free of Jews. 0.91

01:27:41.000 Well, that's why there's no Gazan Schindler's List, because there was no one living there at the time.

01:27:46.000 Yeah, I guess they...

01:27:47.000 Yeah, it's just like it's a place where they're working.

01:27:49.000 Yeah.

01:27:49.000 And I think you're right.

01:27:51.000 Actually, that's a good point, right?

01:27:52.000 The people of Gaza don't have any day-to-day interactions with Israelis unless they were among the few who were getting work permits to go work in the Strip.

01:28:01.000 So you just have no relationship and no sort of empathy.

01:28:08.000 Because there's none of that cross-cultural interaction.

01:28:11.000 And I think that that probably is a good explanation for whereas not everybody in Germany agreed with Hitler.

01:28:16.000 And certainly there were plenty of Jews just living in Germany prior to Hitler that Germans would have been interacting with.

01:28:22.000 So that's the point that folks are standing in line.

01:28:24.000 Nothing to fill.

01:28:25.000 It's mute.

01:28:26.000 You can't just say that anymore.

01:28:28.000 And there was also, in the background of this, or during this, there was a, I think there were three buses that exploded in Israel?

01:28:36.000 Six.

01:28:36.000 Oh, six buses.

01:28:38.000 Yeah, six.

01:28:38.000 They designed to kill, I mean, we are very, everybody's very lucky that they went, you know, somehow, nobody died.

01:28:47.000 Oh, good.

01:28:48.000 And very could have easily been mass casualty events.

01:28:53.000 Yeah, and this is also, I mean, I was just in Israel, just like full disclosure, I was in there for about a week, and I've never had any security issues myself.

01:29:01.000 But the big discussions have been all about these hostage release deals, and where Israel's giving up 30 or something prisoners for every one hostage they're getting back.

01:29:12.000 And a lot of these prisoners are convicted criminals, people who were used to be involved in bus bombings back in like the Second Intifada in like 2000, and even more recently.

01:29:21.000 And all of a sudden, You know, after Israel has now released something like a thousand of these convicted criminals, all of a sudden buses are blowing up again.

01:29:28.000 Like, not, you know, I'm a fan of Israel, but I gotta say, and, you know, I really don't like the hostage deals they've been doing.

01:29:35.000 I think they've been really too, a little bit too cavalier about the future consequences of releasing these criminals, like that their own citizen, a lot of their own citizens are going to die or be taken captive in the future by some of the people that they're releasing.

01:29:48.000 Are they releasing them into the city, or are they sending them...

01:29:50.000 Some of them are getting released into the West Bank.

01:29:52.000 Some of them are getting released into Gaza.

01:29:53.000 Okay.

01:29:54.000 Do you have a sense that...

01:29:55.000 I mean, obviously, Gaza's been basically leveled.

01:29:58.000 I don't know exactly how many cities there were in Gaza.

01:30:01.000 I think there were two major cities in Gaza, right?

01:30:03.000 Three.

01:30:04.000 I mean, Gaza City is the dominant population center, but then there's Kanyunas and Rafa in the other south.

01:30:09.000 And I know Rafa got...

01:30:11.000 Got really destroyed.

01:30:13.000 Yeah.

01:30:13.000 That was kind of the final stand.

01:30:15.000 People forget.

01:30:16.000 I mean, Israel's really small and the Gaza Strip's even smaller.

01:30:18.000 Size of New Jersey, right?

01:30:20.000 Israel might be the size of New Jersey. 0.97

01:30:21.000 The Gaza Strip is the site of Las Vegas. 0.99

01:30:24.000 Oh, wow.

01:30:24.000 That's it.

01:30:25.000 You know, Las Vegas is a big town.

01:30:28.000 Yeah.

01:30:29.000 Right?

01:30:29.000 Like, there's downtown and there's a strip, right?

01:30:30.000 But, like, still not that big.

01:30:32.000 So, you know, I mean, we're talking 50 by 8 square miles or something.

01:30:37.000 Is it your sense that the...

01:30:39.000 Donald Trump has been talking about some very novel ideas of how to solve the issues going on in Gaza.

01:30:48.000 Is it your sense that that kind of approach is something that, first of all, that would produce positive results?

01:30:56.000 And second of all, is it something that the world is ready for?

01:30:59.000 I mean, I think the world, whether the world's ready for it or not, it's happening.

01:31:03.000 And I think what it has done, I mean, Trump basically saying, You know, he was basically being boxed in by the people.

01:31:11.000 They're like, well, you know, Israel won't take this over and nobody will stand for it. 0.96

01:31:15.000 And so, you know, your only option here is basically like take the Palestinian Authority that's in charge in the West Bank. 0.50

01:31:21.000 You can put them in charge of Gaza.

01:31:22.000 That's it.

01:31:23.000 That's really your only option here. 1.00

01:31:24.000 Trump's like, well, don't they suck too? 1.00

01:31:26.000 And everybody's like, oh yeah. 1.00

01:31:27.000 Oh yeah, they really suck. 1.00

01:31:28.000 Trust me, the Palestinian Authority is not cool. 1.00

01:31:30.000 They, you know, they might be like less radical than Hamas, but they still give like annuities to people who've blown up.

01:31:37.000 Israeli civilians.

01:31:38.000 Like, that's like, you know, blow up an Israeli civilian terrorist attack, you get rewarded by the government of the Palestinian Authority. 0.76

01:31:44.000 So these people, and they're notoriously corrupt, too, as often, you know, Arab governments are, because, I mean, we can get into the reason why. 0.98

01:31:52.000 Are they as, do they do the bidding of Iran the same way that... 0.79

01:31:58.000 No, no, they have the...

01:32:00.000 I wouldn't say so.

01:32:01.000 I wouldn't even say Hamas really does the bidding of Iran.

01:32:03.000 They've always operated more independently.

01:32:05.000 Hezbollah is a lot more directly tied to Iran.

01:32:08.000 Hamas is more just supported by them. 0.76

01:32:11.000 And Hamas surprised everybody with 10-7. 0.96

01:32:13.000 That's something else. 1.00

01:32:17.000 Basically, but getting back to Trump, well, Trump was like, well, that's stupid. 0.99

01:32:19.000 Like, and moreover, it's not, none of this is sufficiently deterring this in the future. 0.97

01:32:23.000 So here's the new plan.

01:32:24.000 We're just going to take it over.

01:32:26.000 It'll be ours now.

01:32:26.000 And all the Palestinians get to leave.

01:32:28.000 Right?

01:32:29.000 And it's like, it's sort of, it's like a new anchor. 0.99

01:32:32.000 And it's basically saying, what it really is saying is to all these Arab countries, it's like, your solutions suck. 0.99

01:32:37.000 And I'm not accepting them. 0.96

01:32:39.000 And unless you can come up with a solution that effectively resolves the Israeli security concerns.

01:32:44.000 And it's not some like, oh, we're going to put the PA in charge.

01:32:47.000 Like, that wouldn't last.

01:32:48.000 If you can't come up with something, then we will solve this problem for you.

01:32:51.000 And we will just, we will kick everybody out and we will take over and...

01:32:54.000 You know, put beautiful hotels in a military base in Gaza.

01:32:57.000 And send them to Egypt and send them to Jordan. 1.00

01:32:59.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, I talked with some people.

01:33:02.000 One of them had a really funny idea.

01:33:03.000 He's like, I really believe in the right of return for Gazans. 0.88

01:33:06.000 You know, their name, half the people in Gaza have a last name of al-Masri, the Egyptian.

01:33:11.000 Others have al-Hajjazi, the Saudi, or, you know, you name it.

01:33:16.000 It's like the idea being that they should all go home to their places of origin.

01:33:20.000 That would be just fine.

01:33:22.000 So the Egyptians have been, they're not interested in taking the Palestinians. 0.94

01:33:27.000 The Jordanians are not interested in taking the Palestinians because I know that there was some kind of uprising attempted in Jordan, right?

01:33:34.000 Well, I mean, historically, the Palestinians have been a major source of instability in both countries, particularly in Jordan.

01:33:39.000 They tried to assassinate, you know, the PLO when they were there.

01:33:43.000 I mean, we're talking about all the 80s, 70s, 80s.

01:33:45.000 They were, like, trying to assassinate the king of Jordan.

01:33:48.000 I think that's right.

01:33:50.000 But they tried to rebel against the Jordanian government.

01:33:52.000 Isn't the queen of Jordan, isn't she Palestinian?

01:33:56.000 I think she is.

01:33:57.000 She's certainly sympathetic to them.

01:33:59.000 But I get it.

01:34:00.000 I'm actually a little more sympathetic to the Egyptians and the Jordanians than maybe not the Egyptians because they did allow all those weapons to go into Gaza and then are like, ooh, me?

01:34:09.000 But this is a radicalized population.

01:34:14.000 You know, as I think we articulated at the beginning of the segment, there's a lot less distinction between Hamas and the Gazan population at large than people try to articulate.

01:34:21.000 This isn't like, you know, ISIS just randomly coming in and not having a serious amount of domestic support. 0.87

01:34:26.000 Like, the people of Gaza support Hamas by and large.

01:34:29.000 So, you know, there is...

01:34:32.000 I sent that to the Egyptians and the Jordanians not wanting an additional, like, Sunni Islamist, you know, population in their country to, like, destabilize their own countries. 1.00

01:34:41.000 I get that.

01:34:43.000 But guess what?

01:34:44.000 You're going to have to take some people, I think, probably.

01:34:47.000 And assuming we go there—or, again, you're going to have to figure out a way to solve the underlying problem in Gaza in a way that satisfies the Israeli security concerns, which are substantial.

01:34:55.000 That's not going to happen.

01:34:56.000 I mean, the argument—I find the argument compelling that if the—I think it was—it might have been Hugh Hewitt that said this, but he said, if the— If the Gazans put down their weapons, or if Hamas puts down their weapons, then there will be peace.

01:35:11.000 And if the Israelis put down their weapons, there's going to be a lot of dead Jews. 1.00

01:35:15.000 Yeah, and the thing that really is interesting is the way that the West kind of projects its own way of viewing the world onto and saying that the people in Gaza and the West Bank think the same way, or should think the same way.

01:35:26.000 Like, they just want a state.

01:35:27.000 No.

01:35:28.000 No, they don't.

01:35:29.000 They want Israel gone.

01:35:30.000 That's their goal.

01:35:31.000 They want Israel gone.

01:35:31.000 They think it's a stain on their honor.

01:35:33.000 That's exactly what From the River to the Sea means.

01:35:35.000 And you can hear that.

01:35:36.000 They keep saying it.

01:35:36.000 They're like, how clear could they be?

01:35:39.000 Leave them when they tell you. 0.69

01:35:41.000 We want to get rid of Israel. 1.00

01:35:42.000 We want the Jews gone. 1.00

01:35:43.000 Oh, they just mean they want their own national aspirations. 0.97

01:35:45.000 Do you remember Dabik?

01:35:47.000 Do you remember Dabik?

01:35:50.000 When ISIS was actually a real power, they had their magazine they were putting out, it was called The Beak, and they had an article called Why We Hate You and Why We Fight You, and it literally went through all the reasons why the Sunni Islamists hated people that were not... 0.88

01:36:11.000 Muslims, right?

01:36:12.000 And it was very clear. 1.00

01:36:13.000 It was because you're unbelievers, because God says we gotta kill ya. 1.00

01:36:19.000 Like, straight down the list. 0.98

01:36:21.000 And Barack Obama was still making the argument, and this is to your point about, like, the West projects their ideas on.

01:36:27.000 Barack Obama was making the argument, well, no, it's economics.

01:36:29.000 They're doing this because they don't have iPhones, and they don't have modern things.

01:36:34.000 It's like, no, they literally put out a magazine with better copy editing than your average New York Times, and they were straight up saying, hey, this is what, it's called, this is why we hate you, and this is why we fight you.

01:36:48.000 And we should just have the seriousness and the respect for them to tell you.

01:36:50.000 Take them at their word.

01:36:51.000 Just take them at their word that this is what they want and stop saying that what they want is just a side-by-side state.

01:36:58.000 They don't.

01:36:58.000 That's not what they want.

01:36:59.000 And that's uniform, both in the West Bank and in Gaza.

01:37:04.000 There are solutions here.

01:37:07.000 I've listened to some people who have some pretty interesting ideas about what to do about the West Bank, too.

01:37:14.000 The idea being that the Middle East has three different forces pulling it in different directions.

01:37:20.000 Tribalism and modernity.

01:37:22.000 And tribalism is an important thing.

01:37:24.000 It actually kind of explains the origin of Islam because, you know, tribalism emerges because there's not a lot of water in the Middle East, so individualism doesn't work.

01:37:31.000 You need to have a tribe.

01:37:32.000 You need to have a clan.

01:37:33.000 You need to be loyal to the clan.

01:37:35.000 And so there's a lot of, you know, there's on the one hand a lot of internal support, but also that's where, you know...

01:37:41.000 Inbreeding in the Muslim world comes from. 1.00

01:37:42.000 It's actually not a phenomenon of Islam.

01:37:44.000 It's a phenomenon of the underlying tribalism.

01:37:46.000 Islam is actually supposed to be the corrective to that because it was like Muhammad who was saying things like, you should marry from afar.

01:37:54.000 You should marry outside the clan. 1.00

01:37:56.000 Their jihad?

01:37:57.000 And also, we should all be coming together underneath the banner of Allah rather than constantly fighting with each other over water sources.

01:38:06.000 Talking about a really wildly oversimplifying history of the Arab world, but basically because Islam managed to unify tribes, get them to stop fighting each other, deal with inbreeding, and tamp down blood feuds, it was able to unite a lot of people and then swallow up a huge part of the Arab world. 0.92

01:38:22.000 But anyway, the tribalism hasn't gone away.

01:38:25.000 It's still a thing.

01:38:26.000 And so when you're trying to explain the Middle East why are certain countries peaceful and why are they not, you might say, oh, well, some of them have oil and some of them are wealthy.

01:38:34.000 It's like, no.

01:38:35.000 Iraq has tons of oil.

01:38:36.000 So does Syria. 0.69

01:38:37.000 So does Iran. 0.96

01:38:38.000 There are dysfunctional baski cases. 0.78

01:38:40.000 Dubai doesn't have any oil.

01:38:41.000 Dubai is, you know, super wealthy and powerful despite not having any.

01:38:44.000 What it is, stable tribalism.

01:38:48.000 It's like families that are...

01:38:49.000 Saudi Arabia is Saudi Arabia, owned by the Saud family.

01:38:54.000 The Emirates are united.

01:38:56.000 Arab Emirates owned by individual families and tribes that work together in concert.

01:39:01.000 Kuwait, owned by a family.

01:39:04.000 Bahrain.

01:39:04.000 Cutter.

01:39:05.000 Everywhere that's stable in the Middle East has, like, a stable tribal sovereignty.

01:39:13.000 Thus, this guy's solution, he said, Palestinian Emirates.

01:39:16.000 There should be an Emirate of Ramallah, one of the cities, an Emirate of Hebron, an Emirate of Bethlehem, an Emirate of Janine. 0.93

01:39:23.000 Like, you have small, little areas that are run by, like, with, by a, you know, essentially put the family in charge, and then they own it, and they can run it and keep it stable.

01:39:34.000 You avoid all the sectarian.

01:39:35.000 Because the thing is, one thing people don't realize, if there were, in fact, a Palestinian state, like, of all the area of the West Bank with all these different cities in it, the only thing that would unify it is hostility to Israel. 0.62

01:39:45.000 And so it's a recipe for endless war.

01:39:48.000 Because the moment if they, you know, other than that, they'd all be fighting amongst each other with their own regional and sectarian biases against each other.

01:39:56.000 And so it would just, like, the only way to glue the state of Palestine together is...

01:40:01.000 You know, trying to calm an enemy.

01:40:04.000 Okay.

01:40:04.000 You know, this is also why, like, why did Assad, why is Assad so historically anti-Israel in Syria?

01:40:10.000 Well, he leads this hodgepodge of the Alawites and the Druze and the Sunnis and the Shias. 1.00

01:40:16.000 And the only way you could get everybody to stick together is be like, those Jews, they suck. 1.00

01:40:21.000 And so, yeah, I mean... 0.99

01:40:24.000 So that's, you know, that's like a sort of long, that's the short form explanation of why, like, the two-state solution isn't, one, many reasons why the two-state solution is bad.

01:40:32.000 It doesn't account for tribalism.

01:40:33.000 It doesn't account for the clan structure of families in the region.

01:40:36.000 And, you know, a better idea would be many, many smaller statelets, little emirates.

01:40:42.000 City-states, like, back in, yeah.

01:40:44.000 Thank you.

01:40:45.000 I had no idea about any of that, so that makes a lot of sense.

01:40:49.000 Yeah, I didn't either until two weeks ago, and then I listened to a guy explain it to me, and it made a lot of sense to me, so.

01:40:54.000 All right.

01:40:55.000 Well, I think we're going to go ahead and go on over to Super Chats.

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01:41:33.000 Alpha Turkey says, well, well, Maine governor got nuked. 1.00

01:41:37.000 So glad we have a president with big cojones. 0.99

01:41:40.000 One month in, and I barely feel like we can keep up. 0.99

01:41:42.000 I agree.

01:41:44.000 It was, and that was one of the things that, even though I didn't mention, that was one of the things that I was thinking about when we were talking about how the president will, you know, he will assert himself.

01:41:52.000 And for people that don't know, Donald Trump and the Maine governor got into a disagreement today about federal funding.

01:41:59.000 Actually, it was about trans women, so boys, on girls' sports teams.

01:42:07.000 Donald Trump had said, hey, you're going to have to stop doing this.

01:42:12.000 And the Maine governor said, well, we'll see you in court.

01:42:14.000 And he's like, well, if you see us in court, we're not going to give you any federal funding, so you're going to do it.

01:42:19.000 And I know that Maine isn't all that blue.

01:42:22.000 It's actually kind of purple.

01:42:23.000 So I think you lose.

01:42:25.000 And honestly, if I understand correctly, some of the analysts that I've been listening to were saying that it is an 80-20 transition.

01:42:32.000 Topic in Maine.

01:42:34.000 80% of the people don't like young boys that are dressed as girls on girls sports teams.

01:42:40.000 I think that's generally kind of the split in the U.S. Most of the people are kind of like, you know, even if you decide you want to go live your life and maybe I'll call you she, you still can't play sports with the girls.

01:42:53.000 So there's your backstory for that one.

01:42:55.000 Let's see here.

01:42:56.000 What else do we got?

01:42:58.000 WhiskeyDrankers says, Hey Phil and crew, I was hoping to get a shout out for Heroes Never Alone, a 501c3 out of Legionnaire, PA. A good place to move without West Virginia 1099BS. Thanks for all you guys do.

01:43:12.000 We love you.

01:43:13.000 Cheers.

01:43:13.000 Thank you very much.

01:43:14.000 And there's your shout out.

01:43:15.000 There you go.

01:43:16.000 There you go.

01:43:17.000 Common Sense Fishing says, I just busted a gut laughing hearing Phil smirk when saying Ray Stanley will be in the members area like...

01:43:27.000 He's but nobody?

01:43:28.000 Quickly followed up by a junior.

01:43:31.000 That's kind of what he said.

01:43:32.000 That's what the super chat says.

01:43:34.000 I know it's kind of tough.

01:43:36.000 YouTube is real finicky when it comes to the typing.

01:43:40.000 So shout out Common Sense Fishing. 0.97

01:43:43.000 I think so, yeah. 1.00

01:43:44.000 Shut up, man. 0.99

01:43:45.000 Sometimes there's character limits depending on how much the Super Chat works. 0.99

01:43:47.000 It's very tricky.

01:43:48.000 You've got to figure out a way to fit everything you want to say in there.

01:43:52.000 And also, it'll finish it for you, but it doesn't do it like other spell checks does.

01:43:56.000 It's kind of difficult.

01:43:58.000 The hardest part for me when we're doing the show is reading the articles, because I suck at reading out loud doubly as hard when it's reading the Super Chats.

01:44:06.000 Super Chats, yeah.

01:44:06.000 Because you've got to kind of know what they're saying.

01:44:09.000 You can't just robotically read it.

01:44:10.000 You never know what somebody's going to say.

01:44:14.000 No, it happens.

01:44:16.000 That happens to Mary a lot of times.

01:44:18.000 She'll just go, I'm not reading that.

01:44:21.000 She's good at not falling into the trap, right?

01:44:24.000 Otherwise, somebody's going to get you to say something awful.

01:44:27.000 So YouTube just crashed, so we're reloading here.

01:44:30.000 Give us a second.

01:44:32.000 Let's see.

01:44:37.000 Let's see here.

01:44:39.000 Zach Yandel says, Brett...

01:44:41.000 Your lie in April on Hulu recent discovery.

01:44:44.000 What?

01:44:45.000 Read it again?

01:44:46.000 Literally says, Brett, your lie in April on Hulu recent discovery.

01:44:51.000 And it's your as in possessive, not you are.

01:44:53.000 Oh, so it's a show or a movie.

01:44:56.000 Okay, I'll have to...

01:44:57.000 Let's go?

01:44:58.000 Okay, let's go.

01:44:59.000 I'll have to check it out.

01:45:00.000 You should go check out Reacher Season 3, which is very, very good.

01:45:04.000 Season 3?

01:45:05.000 Okay. 0.84

01:45:05.000 Yep, much, much better at its start than Season 2 was, even if Alan Richardson is kind of a TDS-suffering lunatic. 0.84

01:45:11.000 That's okay.

01:45:12.000 I'd go watch The Agency.

01:45:13.000 You guys haven't seen that one?

01:45:14.000 The Showtime?

01:45:15.000 Yeah, that's a little bit too cerebral.

01:45:18.000 I mean, it's Michael Fassbender, right?

01:45:20.000 Yeah, it's Michael Fassbender.

01:45:21.000 I get into it, and I'm like, I don't care about the mental health of spies. 1.00

01:45:24.000 I just want to see him blow shit up. 0.99

01:45:27.000 I just want to see him, you know, like, let's find a middle ground here. 1.00

01:45:31.000 Like, I don't want to watch a spy go to therapy.

01:45:32.000 It's just me.

01:45:33.000 Can he go in a car chase after he gets out of therapy?

01:45:36.000 Or get on a car chase getting to therapy and he runs in the office and he's like, okay, now I'm safe.

01:45:40.000 Get to the gunfight on the way to the therapist.

01:45:42.000 That I'm okay with.

01:45:43.000 Yeah.

01:45:44.000 Therapist is like, tell me about your day.

01:45:47.000 Tommy K. Tomic says the FBI should halt all flights scheduled by people on the list.

01:45:53.000 What list?

01:45:54.000 Must be talking about the Epstein.

01:45:56.000 Oh, the Epstein list.

01:45:57.000 Okay, yeah, there you go.

01:45:58.000 Or on the Diddy list, yeah.

01:45:59.000 I mean, that depends with the way flights are going these days.

01:46:02.000 I feel like they should just be arrested.

01:46:04.000 Like, can we start with that?

01:46:05.000 Like, I don't know.

01:46:06.000 I'm just, like, going to throw out there that maybe the people who sex traffic children should, you know, the consequences should be more substantial than awkwardness.

01:46:13.000 Her blocks abound. 0.95

01:46:15.000 No, they're like that, or you have to fly one of those Endeavor Air...

01:46:18.000 Flights.

01:46:19.000 Or spirit.

01:46:20.000 Imagine if that was the way that our government resolved this problem. 0.99

01:46:24.000 They're like, okay, we found you guilty of flying to go have sex with children. 0.92

01:46:28.000 The solution to this is you're not allowed to fly anymore. 0.98

01:46:31.000 No, it's like nothing but flights from women. 0.99

01:46:34.000 Yeah, it's all just unmanned flights.

01:46:36.000 The Endeavor Air, Endeavor Air.

01:46:38.000 Right, you have to go on those flights.

01:46:40.000 They're all women, Endeavor Air. 1.00

01:46:42.000 They would actually have hashtag unmanned because there was an all-woman crew, which is... 1.00

01:46:48.000 Cringe, but typical of feminists and stuff. 1.00

01:46:52.000 Common Sense Fishing says, the way politicians flip-flop like fish, I don't trust anyone who hasn't been America first from the get-go. 0.83

01:47:00.000 Even before Trump showed up, like Ron and Rand Paul, they're all swamp creatures nearly all.

01:47:06.000 I mean, you do have to give some grace to politicians that have...

01:47:11.000 turned things around and have stood by their convictions since then, right?

01:47:14.000 From what I understand, J.D. Vance had some stances early on in his career that didn't necessarily line up.

01:47:19.000 J.D. Vance didn't like Trump in the 2016 primary.

01:47:22.000 The point is kind of more to – if the ideas that you're promulgating are good for the country and they're held by a lot of people, you want to get the politicians to go to work for you and your views.

01:47:34.000 I don't go to politicians or actors for honesty.

01:47:38.000 I go to them because either you're making a piece of art that I want to consume or you're potentially in charge of helping put forth laws and ideas that I want to see come forward.

01:47:48.000 And in that case, I don't know the person.

01:47:50.000 I don't know whether they honestly believe that, but it's about making sure that the views that the movement are pushing are the ones that are popular because they're the ones that they're doing.

01:48:00.000 I don't look to them for...

01:48:02.000 Integrity.

01:48:03.000 If the option is a politician with integrity that I disagree with or a politician that's going to lie about what he believes but still going to do the things that I like, I'm going to go with the guy that's going to lie and do the things that I like.

01:48:16.000 And that is more likely to be the case even for the ones that are going to do things that you don't like.

01:48:21.000 You're more than likely going to get one void of integrity going against you or for you.

01:48:27.000 Very rarely do you get a politician with integrity.

01:48:30.000 And there's one thing that I want to say on this.

01:48:32.000 We talk about it fairly regularly on here.

01:48:35.000 It's easy for us as pundits or people that are on the internet talking about politics and stuff.

01:48:41.000 It's easy for us to get wrapped up in, this is what I want, and it's got to be this way.

01:48:44.000 But you've got to remember, the Republicans only have a two-seat majority in the House, and they only have a one-seat majority sometimes in the Senate.

01:48:54.000 And that means that you have to deal with the opposing party to get them to vote with you.

01:49:01.000 Like, how the sausage is made sucks, but this is the system that we live in.

01:49:06.000 And it's real easy for us to say, we want this and we want that, and if we don't get it, then we're going to primary this guy and blah, blah, blah.

01:49:12.000 But that doesn't mean that the next guy is going to have a different circumstance if the split in the House or the Senate remains the same.

01:49:21.000 Yeah, this is sort of my, you know...

01:49:23.000 We at the Article 3 project have been pretty hard on a lot of senators, and we did a lot of bullying, which I'm very proud of.

01:49:28.000 It's always proper to bully senators and congresspeople.

01:49:31.000 Especially to get President Trump's nominees confirmed.

01:49:34.000 But I do have a view that is, and I think especially, you should let Susan Collins do what she wants. 0.76

01:49:41.000 That's the view.

01:49:41.000 Why is that?

01:49:42.000 Because Susan Collins is as good as we're going to get in Maine. 0.92

01:49:44.000 We're not going to get a better...

01:49:45.000 You know, the alternative to Susan Collins is a Democrat who votes with us 0% of the time. 0.83

01:49:50.000 Susan Collins voting with us half the time is gravy. 1.00

01:49:52.000 It's why the Democrats were so stupid when they complained about Joe Manchin constantly. 1.00

01:49:56.000 Like, Joe Manchin's from here. 1.00

01:49:58.000 He's a West Virginian.

01:49:59.000 You're lucky you get, you know, West Virginia went 70% for Trump.

01:50:02.000 You're lucky you get any votes ever.

01:50:04.000 And you should be grateful every day that Joe Manchin doesn't just decide to switch parties and tell you to screw yourself.

01:50:09.000 Well, yeah.

01:50:09.000 And the difference is kind of that the Republicans look at that as somebody who's voting to support what his constituents want, whereas the left sees it as somebody who's not obeying their rules.

01:50:19.000 Yeah.

01:50:19.000 And I agree with you both totally.

01:50:22.000 And I just think that it's important.

01:50:25.000 Or it's incumbent on us to remind people that there are realities that we're dealing with and whereas we're going to, like I said, we're going to sit here and pontificate and we're going to say we want this and we wish this and we think this.

01:50:38.000 That doesn't mean that that changes anything in Washington, and the realities on the ground are always going to be the realities on the ground.

01:50:45.000 If we can get two-thirds of the House and then 75 seats in the Senate, then let's go do everything we want.

01:50:55.000 Go repeal everything, get rid of all the stuff we can get rid of.

01:50:59.000 That sounds awesome to me, and I'm all for it.

01:51:02.000 But considering we don't have that kind of majority, there are limitations as to what we can do.

01:51:07.000 And if we end up with two big bills like they're talking about, it's better to have the stuff that you want and a bunch of garbage that you don't want than have nothing at all.

01:51:17.000 And that's your option.

01:51:18.000 A bunch of garbage to get the other people to vote for it, or else you don't get a bill that you like at all. 0.93

01:51:24.000 On the J.D. Vance thing... 0.95

01:51:27.000 Casual fishing is correct.

01:51:29.000 I mean, he could have been.

01:51:30.000 He's a Marine.

01:51:30.000 He's from the Appalachian.

01:51:33.000 He could have loved America's whole life.

01:51:35.000 It didn't mean he was America first just because he judged Trump in a certain way.

01:51:38.000 So, like, he could have, you know, he said what he said about Trump.

01:51:42.000 He had his thoughts, but it may be in the back of his mind.

01:51:44.000 A lot of people still love this country.

01:51:46.000 He still wanted to serve his country.

01:51:47.000 So I give respect to that part.

01:51:49.000 Absolutely.

01:51:50.000 So we're going to go ahead and read some more Super Chats.

01:51:54.000 Shane H. Wilder says, one thing I noticed MSM not covering is the 70 Christian martyrs beheaded by ISIS-linked terrorists in the Congo in the Kasanga Massacre?

01:52:05.000 I did not know about this at all.

01:52:06.000 That recent?

01:52:07.000 I assume so.

01:52:09.000 How do you spell that?

01:52:10.000 Kasanga?

01:52:11.000 K-A-S-A. Oh, Kasanga Church Massacre?

01:52:14.000 Things that happen in Africa frequently get ignored unless it's North Africa.

01:52:19.000 And they don't like to talk about any form of persecution that Christians face.

01:52:23.000 Oh, yes.

01:52:24.000 That goes against the Marxist left-wing view in America.

01:52:28.000 Which kind of speaks to the conversation we were having earlier.

01:52:32.000 Like, even in the...

01:52:35.000 Big tent MAGA movement, you do have people that are, even if they aren't true believers, they're fond of Christianity, of religion.

01:52:43.000 They're not hostile to it, which is obviously much better.

01:52:47.000 This also connects to the broader Israel point.

01:52:50.000 Israel is a lot more friendly to Christianity than its neighbors are.

01:52:53.000 A lot more.

01:52:54.000 I spoke with a lot of...

01:52:56.000 I could go into detail on this, but I spoke with a number of, actually a couple of Palestinian Christians who came to speak with us, and they had really, really interesting stories about, you know, like, one of them was involved in like a sort of kind of Palestinian, like, not terror group, but a Palestinian activist group, and he thought like he had his friends, and then one day, like, one of these Islamists kidnapped his sister.

01:53:22.000 And brought them back to a different city.

01:53:24.000 And he knew the people in there.

01:53:26.000 And he went to the city and he's like, hey guys, I've been working with you all this time.

01:53:29.000 I'm with you in this activist group.

01:53:30.000 Can I get my sister out, please? 0.92

01:53:32.000 Thank you.

01:53:33.000 And they're like, you're Christian.

01:53:35.000 There's nothing for you here.

01:53:37.000 Like, at all.

01:53:39.000 And that's the point I was making about there's an underlying tribalism and sectarianism in a lot of Arab culture that like, oh, you're not our religion?

01:53:48.000 Well, you're not us.

01:53:50.000 Oh, your sister got kidnapped?

01:53:52.000 That's too bad. 1.00

01:53:54.000 Sucks for you. 0.99

01:53:55.000 Not our problem. 0.98

01:53:59.000 And then you compare that to what they get in Israel where, yeah, the Christians are definitely a minority in Israel, obviously.

01:54:07.000 And really what they're fighting for is to not be treated.

01:54:10.000 Under the Arab rubric, because there's the palette, there's the Jewish rubric and the Arab rubric that are sort of settled in because those are the much bigger populations.

01:54:16.000 And there's fights that the Christians are having to be like, no, no, no, we're different from both. 0.98

01:54:19.000 Like we want Christian education.

01:54:21.000 We want our kids to be brought up Christian and the Israeli government's like, yeah, okay, sure. 0.50

01:54:26.000 Yeah.

01:54:28.000 Tyrant God says, I found out in France you have to have a suppressor by law if you own a firearm.

01:54:34.000 Your safety of the public.

01:54:35.000 The only reason why they are heavily regulated in the U.S. is control.

01:54:39.000 Rock on field.

01:54:40.000 Cheers.

01:54:40.000 You're totally right.

01:54:41.000 And it's not just France.

01:54:42.000 There's multiple places in Europe where a suppressor is actually mandatory.

01:54:47.000 How polite.

01:54:49.000 It is polite.

01:54:50.000 It is.

01:54:50.000 I mean, if you put a can on a rifle, especially like a...

01:54:56.000 Medium cartridge, like a 5.56 or whatever.

01:54:58.000 Like, it's still got a loud snap when you're shooting it, but it's totally different than shooting that same rifle without any hearing protection and without a can, man, it's...

01:55:10.000 One time when I first started shooting rifles, one time I went to the range and I forgot my ear pro and I was like, oh, I'm going to go ahead and shoot anyways.

01:55:17.000 I shot one round.

01:55:19.000 I was like, no, the hell I'm not.

01:55:22.000 It was when I lived in Massachusetts.

01:55:23.000 It was a 40-minute drive to the range.

01:55:25.000 It was a 40-minute drive home.

01:55:27.000 And it sucked, but I was not shooting anymore because, man, that rings your bell.

01:55:30.000 Yeah, no, I don't shoot often, but I think I got invited to go to a shooting range once and it was the first time I'd gone shooting in like 20 years.

01:55:37.000 And I go there and I'm like...

01:55:38.000 You forget, if you don't do it, how loud guns are.

01:55:42.000 Like, just, they are, you know, and I can hear it.

01:55:44.000 I'm like, I hear my hearing.

01:55:46.000 I can't tolerate this.

01:55:47.000 And if I don't stop, if I don't get out of this room, my hearing will be permanently damaged.

01:55:52.000 Yeah, definitely.

01:55:52.000 Like, I need to, you know, that's pretty rough.

01:55:56.000 And I wonder how soldiers put up with that.

01:55:57.000 I mean, do soldiers just have ear protection, or is it just something that...

01:56:00.000 Nowadays, most of your military, like, especially your...

01:56:05.000 Infantry guys, most of them have some kind of ear pearl.

01:56:08.000 I never did combat at all, but any training exercise, anything we did, always hearing protection.

01:56:14.000 Did you have the plugs?

01:56:15.000 It was the orange plugs.

01:56:17.000 No, you can't F around with the big old ears, the muffs.

01:56:21.000 The new helmets you can, man.

01:56:23.000 You can put the muffs that are connected.

01:56:25.000 Oh, sure.

01:56:25.000 Oh, that would be nice.

01:56:27.000 I can dig that.

01:56:29.000 I'm not a robot.

01:56:30.000 But that's one of the things.

01:56:31.000 The military, if you look at the...

01:56:36.000 Regular riflemen infantry, they're pretty well eclipsed.

01:56:39.000 They're walking out with hard armor for rifles, and they're walking out with a decent amount of armor for flak, and they're walking out with...

01:56:49.000 Ear Pro and most of them are getting at least a single tube night vision.

01:56:56.000 They're really well armed.

01:56:59.000 You can just go right down to the local PX and a lot of places in town like Jacksonville.

01:57:03.000 If the government's not going to give it to you, you can load up yourself and take what you need to.

01:57:08.000 Actually, I'm curious.

01:57:09.000 You're a musician, right?

01:57:12.000 Ear production's got to be a big deal for you too when you're just playing.

01:57:17.000 On stage, we wear in-ear monitors, so I'm in control of how loud it is, but they're form-fitting.

01:57:26.000 They're expensive as hell to get the ear.

01:57:30.000 They're multi-drivers.

01:57:31.000 There's multiple little speakers in there and stuff, and they've got a full range and stuff.

01:57:36.000 I've been doing it 25 years and I have tinnitus, you know, on stage.

01:57:41.000 I'll start out at a certain volume and depending on the size of the stage or where we're playing, it's like if you're playing a smaller place and you're right on top of the drums or you're close to the drums, you kind of need to crank it up and it gets loud in there.

01:57:52.000 But if you're playing in a big arena, you know, you kind of turn it down.

01:57:56.000 But, you know, it's a real...

01:57:58.000 It's a real balancing act because, you know, you want to be in the moment and you want to be able to hear the crowd.

01:58:03.000 So you have mics that are facing out to the crowd and you have to turn those up, but then you've got a lot of splashback and stuff.

01:58:09.000 So it's, like I said, it's a balancing act and it's tough.

01:58:14.000 And I've definitely got tinnitus.

01:58:17.000 I hear it ringing right now.

01:58:18.000 That's part of the reason why, like, I'll wear these for a little while, but before the end of the show, usually I'll end up taking them off because just having that kind of...

01:58:25.000 Over the ear, even though I turn every time, no matter where I sit down, whoever was there before me has it way louder than I want it.

01:58:34.000 I'll go and sit down where Mary does to do PCC, and she's got it cranked up.

01:58:38.000 He just jumps out of his seat because her volume is just sky high.

01:58:42.000 Girl, you're going to be deaf in a year. 0.54

01:58:43.000 But yeah, it's a real thing.

01:58:45.000 And I shoot a lot, too.

01:58:48.000 Don't skimp on earpro.

01:58:49.000 I wear expensive.

01:58:51.000 You have to.

01:58:51.000 It's important.

01:58:52.000 You can be old.

01:58:53.000 You never gain your hearing back.

01:58:54.000 Once your hearing's gone, it's gone.

01:58:57.000 Let's see here.

01:58:58.000 Awoken State Florida says, First time Super Chat.

01:59:01.000 Love you all and everything you do.

01:59:02.000 Wanted to shout out my man's new channel, Department of Deportation.

01:59:06.000 Also a website with t-shirts for sale.

01:59:08.000 I was hoping you can help get him some extra visibility.

01:59:12.000 More viewers, thanks.

01:59:14.000 Congratulations on your new endeavor.

01:59:17.000 Department of Deportation.

01:59:18.000 Great name.

01:59:19.000 It'll be so popular for the next four years.

01:59:23.000 Mystery Beard said, My vinyl of anti-fragile arrives Sunday. 0.91

01:59:27.000 Sick, man.

01:59:28.000 Thank you so much.

01:59:29.000 I appreciate it.

01:59:30.000 If you're looking to get a copy of All That Remains' new record, you can go to All That Remains online or you can get it off of Amazon.

01:59:36.000 I think they've got the...

01:59:39.000 I think they have the CDs.

01:59:41.000 If not, go to allthatremainsonline.com.

01:59:43.000 We got them there.

01:59:44.000 Let's see.

01:59:45.000 Anthony Green says, if you do not know who Raisin Cain is, you have to hear his story.

01:59:49.000 He's the general who told Trump ISIS could be defeated in weeks, not years.

01:59:53.000 It's legit Trump's funniest story from 45. I will check that out.

01:59:57.000 That's worth looking into.

01:59:58.000 Alright.

02:00:00.000 Yeah.

02:00:02.000 Phil talking about Diddy and Epstein while wearing a TTI shirt is a bold move.

02:00:07.000 I'm not sure why.

02:00:10.000 I'm not going to talk about what TTI is because YouTube has rules.

02:00:14.000 But if you know, you know.

02:00:16.000 So, yeah.

02:00:17.000 I'm not sure why that's a bold move.

02:00:23.000 Let's see.

02:00:24.000 Dark Angel Don or...

02:00:26.000 Poops! 0.99

02:00:27.000 There you go.

02:00:27.000 First Super Chat longtime fan wanted to highlight the fact that General Jim Slife also got fired today.

02:00:35.000 He was a toxic POS over at FSOC and pushed DEI shit hard. 0.99

02:00:39.000 Also openly hated enlisted people, MAGA. You know, it's bad news when your brass hates the enlisted. 0.99

02:00:45.000 Yeah.

02:00:46.000 Yes.

02:00:46.000 You know?

02:00:47.000 Yes. 0.84

02:00:49.000 I don't like the brass to begin with, but if you give hate back, you can go F to F off.

02:00:53.000 I mean, hate...

02:00:54.000 It has to only flow up.

02:00:56.000 Hate cannot flow down.

02:00:58.000 Why do you not even want to do that with your lives?

02:01:00.000 You hate the soldiers serving under you?

02:01:03.000 And it's a huge deal.

02:01:04.000 Their lives you're dealing with and everything, man.

02:01:07.000 You can't be effing around with that.

02:01:09.000 Alright, so smash that like button.

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02:01:17.000 And yeah, so Will, you got anything you want to shout out?

02:01:20.000 Yes, A3Paction.org.

02:01:22.000 So Article 3 Project.

02:01:24.000 We are, you know, we haven't really talked a huge amount about this, maybe a little.

02:01:29.000 We're all about getting people confirmed.

02:01:30.000 Now, a lot of President Trump's main nominees have gotten firm, but now we're on the subordinates and there's a lot of very important people.

02:01:36.000 Even the liberal secretary?

02:01:37.000 Yeah.

02:01:38.000 Well, I mean, I think we just, we believe Trump should get all his appointees.

02:01:41.000 Okay.

02:01:42.000 So including the ones we don't necessarily agree with on policy.

02:01:45.000 So we think you should support them.

02:01:46.000 But there's a lot of people like Harmeet Dillon, who's going to be running the civil rights section at DOJ. People like Gail Slater is going to be running antitrust and going after big tech.

02:01:53.000 There are a lot of secondary nominees that some of these senators might be getting ideas about.

02:01:58.000 Oh, we could maybe stop them.

02:01:59.000 Go to A3Paction.org. 0.68

02:02:01.000 We make it unbelievably easy for you to contact your senator.

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02:02:08.000 And trust me, that's what they pay attention to.

02:02:10.000 They don't pay attention to the broader hubbub necessarily.

02:02:13.000 But if you are a constituent...

02:02:14.000 And you email your senator and they hear about it.

02:02:17.000 They're going to take that seriously.

02:02:18.000 It's a streamlined?

02:02:19.000 Streamlined.

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02:02:23.000 So a3paction.org.

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02:03:00.000 Absolutely.

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