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What do you have today, Andrew?
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I have Project Veritas burning their own tip line.
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I've got our immediate future, Jeremy, and it's not good.
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And I've got my Barbie review.
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OK, people.
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Let's begin.
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Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
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All engineering.
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Lift off.
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We have a lift off.
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We have lift off.
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Get up, everybody.
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Are you ready to be baited with the truth?
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Good, because you're listening to the Truth Bait Podcast.
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I'm documentary filmmaker and podcaster Andrew Marcus.
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And with me always as we deconstruct America's
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propaganda war and put some truth back into the narrative
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is the only doctor of cultural analysis
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who has his own concierge practice.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
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give it up for the one and only rebel pundit, Jeremy Siegel.
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Jeremy, we've made it to another episode.
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It's like you're really getting this intro dialed in, I think.
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I just like, it's a surprise to me every episode
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what you're going to be.
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A doctor of what?
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With what?
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It's like a mad lib every episode.
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Yeah, but it's working.
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It's good.
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I like it.
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Thank you.
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You're not carrying out the Siegel.
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You didn't like that?
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See, now I'm going to build that back in here.
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No, I did.
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I liked it a couple times.
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Work in the long Siegel.
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A few times it made me feel important.
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It made me feel like the more important.
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It got silly?
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It made me feel like the more important host.
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But then, yeah, it got silly after a while.
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It was like, now he's just messing with me.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, no, not messing with you.
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Just trying to get the feel, Jeremy.
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Now you got it.
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I think it's good.
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I agree.
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Thank you very much.
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And I agree.
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I feel like it's hit a rhythm.
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I've figured out after 46 episodes plus nine rehearsal
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episodes how to time that intro.
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Can I actually call myself a doctor?
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If now that you say I'm a doctor,
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if I make a reservation at a restaurant,
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can I say this is Dr. Siegel?
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OK, yes.
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Although you run the risk of if somebody's choking,
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you might need to either come to their aid
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or deliver psychological treatment to the people
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sitting at the table around the person who's choking,
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if that's the kind of doctor you are.
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Yeah, it's like the minister.
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Doctor so-and-so at this church, right?
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Yes, Dr. Reverend.
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Dr. Reverend.
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That's right.
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Dr. Reverend make a reservation somewhere
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and then someone's having a heart attack?
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I would not put it on an application for a loan
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because then you might have a problem.
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Yeah, probably.
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So this has been a busy day.
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Trump was indicted today.
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Again, now he's indicted for January 6.
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Executive producer Anne told me at dinner.
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I had no idea.
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Yeah, he's going to have to.
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She's like, did you hear Trump got indicted?
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I'm like, again?
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Do you think he'll end up at the Gulag?
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You know what I said?
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Oh, well, who cares?
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But hold on a second, though.
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This one's interesting because what
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has happened to all of the J6 defendants,
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they've pretty much all been railroaded.
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And now Trump is a J6 defendant.
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Well, I hope they lock him up.
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They won't.
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They won't lock him up during trial
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like they did the other J6 Gulag attendees,
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the poor souls that are trapped there,
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because they're going to use that to drive a wedge.
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Trump doesn't get thrown in the Gulag like the rest of us.
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They're going to try and drive a wedge between him
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and his supporters with that.
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Trump gets special treatment.
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Won't work.
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But top level, I really would prefer
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that we were not in this situation at all,
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that we weren't in a Marxist America,
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that the opposition, the establishment opposition,
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wasn't in bed with the establishment of the other side.
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I wish we were in a much healthier situation.
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Given how depraved and toxic and sick of a situation we're in,
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I'm kind of of the mind that convicting him and throwing him
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in jail would be the most honest expression
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of the state of this disunion.
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Yeah.
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It would be a truth that nobody could ignore.
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They're going to let him go.
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After the election.
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And they're going to let Hunter Biden go.
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Absolutely.
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I agree.
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And then everybody can be friends.
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Everybody will be even.
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And they'll use all of this.
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Even Steven.
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All the trials and any convictions,
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it will all be used as the plausible context
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for why he lost instead of the rigging of the election
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that we all know is coming.
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Yeah.
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I would say the country is a joke.
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Well, everybody should hear the laughter.
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Hey, you mentioned you saw it on Gateway Pundit.
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Here's the clip that was up on Gateway Pundit.
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Larry Kudlow reacting makes an interesting point.
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We are potentially going to see the former President Trump
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be indicted yet again by the special counsel.
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Larry.
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I've got a thought.
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I appreciate the report very much.
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I just have a thought.
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One reason that this is coming out today
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is because former Hunter Biden best friend forever, Devin
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Archer, did his deposition yesterday
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and talked about the Hunter family brand, which
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is an influence peddling brand.
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Just hang on a second.
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You know, they do this every time something bad happens,
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they come up with a.
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Did you hear that?
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Yeah, wait a second.
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Yesterday.
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And talked about the Hunter family brand, which
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is an influence peddling brand.
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Just let's just hang on a second.
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He's got the control room in his ear telling him, no, no, no,
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no, stop.
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Don't say, stop that.
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You can't talk about that.
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The Hunter family brand, which is an influence peddling brand.
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Just let's just hang on a second.
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You know, they do this every time something bad happens,
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they come up with another indictment.
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March 16th, Jamie Comer reveals Biden's family payments.
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Then a few weeks later, April 4th,
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Trump's New York criminal indictment.
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That was the Alvin Bragg fiasco.
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Then later in the spring, June 8th, Republican views
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Biden's bribery 1023 form.
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OK, the GOP unleashed that.
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The next day on the 9th, we had Trump's classified documents
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indictment about Mar-a-Lago.
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In the summertime, just a few days ago, July 26th,
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we get the Hunter plea deal blows up in Wilmington, Delaware.
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And guess what?
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All of a sudden, Trump has to face additional charges,
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some Jack Smith about covering up tapes
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and having the maintenance guy.
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I mean, come on.
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Yesterday's deposition was very devastating for the Bidens.
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So today, all of a sudden, lo and behold,
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they're going to come up with some makeup indictment
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for January 6th that will hold absolutely no legal water.
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I guarantee it.
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Anyway, that's my hypothesis.
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That's my hypothesis.
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It sounds about right.
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Yeah.
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Narrative hardball.
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We mentioned Hunter.
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So Hunter's, I think this is a show too.
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You've got Hunter's ex-business partner, Devin Archer,
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who came and gave closed door testimony to the House.
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And I'm just waiting for this to be nothing.
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Right?
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Now, but a little something did come out.
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And they sent out Dan Goldman, Democrat.
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They sent him out.
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They must hate him.
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They must hate Dan Goldman.
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You could see how much he was squirming.
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He's selling an impossible lie.
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This is from outside the hearing room just after the testimony.
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And you're going to hear the sound quality changes
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in the middle of this.
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That's because I've taken two clips that I found online
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from different sources and pieced them together
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to show a little more context of the interaction.
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We just finished the two hours of Republican questioning.
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And I think it is safe to say that after yet another two hours,
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there still is no connection of any of Hunter Biden's business
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dealings with President Biden.
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Approximately 20 times over the course of 10-year relationship,
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Hunter may have put his father on the phone
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with any number of different people.
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Hunter spoke with his father every day.
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Any number of different people.
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It could have been a waiter.
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It could have been a bellboy.
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It could have been not.
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Yeah, this is the did not inhale argument.
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Yes, that's exactly right.
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And you can see he can't even sell it.
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You can see he doesn't believe it.
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He can't believe what he's out there selling.
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Hunter spoke with his father every day
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and would often put his father, occasionally would
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put his father on to say hello to who.
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How about that little flub?
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Yeah.
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Often put his father, occasionally put his father on.
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Hunter spoke with his father every day
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and would often put his father, occasionally
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would put his father on to say hello to whomever he happened
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to be caught at dinner with.
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And Mr. Archer clarified that was sometimes people
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that they were having, they were trying to do business with.
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And it was sometimes friends or other social engagements.
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I mean, notice how he starts the entire comment.
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We just finished the two hours of Republican questioning.
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And I think it is safe to say that after yet another two
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hours, there still is no connection
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of any of Hunter Biden's business dealings
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with President Biden.
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And then he proceeds to tell you all of the connections that
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were revealed between Hunter Biden.
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Now, is that an admittance that Hunter Biden's business
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dealings were criminal or illegal or wrong?
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No, not at least in terms of what he's talking about.
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The entire narrative surrounding what Devin Archer testified
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to that has come out thus far is about these phone calls
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that Hunter was on.
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We don't know when the phone calls were,
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although Dan Goldman makes it sound
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like it was over the course of 10 years, which
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would put some of them inside the vice presidency.
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But we don't know.
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We don't know.
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But what you do know is that they're spinning like crazy.
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They're spinning like tops.
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So maybe there's no smoke to what Devin Archer is saying,
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but these guys are spinning so hard,
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the smoke is coming up off of them.
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They look genuinely uncomfortable with all of this,
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and they're squirming.
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Are Republican allegations that the Bidens received money
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through shell companies?
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Did Archer talk about those?
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Did he verify those allegations?
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There is no evidence that anyone other than Hunter Biden
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received any money in connection with the business transactions
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with Devin Archer.
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So to confirm, you're saying that the speakerphone
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conversation.
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And by the way, notice what he did there.
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That was very slick.
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He narrowed it at the very end.
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See if you catch it.
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That anyone other than Hunter Biden
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received any money in connection with the business transactions
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with Devin Archer.
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So now he's only talking about the business transactions that
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involve Devin Archer.
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But that doesn't mean that Devin Archer only
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testified to the business transactions that directly
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involved him.
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Right.
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Devin Archer was his best friend.
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They, well, sorry.
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The way that Hunter described him at one point in life
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was my best friend in business.
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They met in Yale, which is also why I'm not so quick to just
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trust anything that, trust the intentions of Devin Archer
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as like some sort of hero who's going to come forward
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and tell the truth.
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Yeah, right.
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So to confirm, you're saying that the speakerphone
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conversations, they don't seem concerning to you
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because there is no specifics about business.
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And it just seemed like they were talking about it.
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It was clear that it was part of the daily conversations
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that Hunter Biden had with his father.
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And it was, and it sounds like most of the time,
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now President Biden didn't even know
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who the people he was at dinner.
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He was just asked to say hello.
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And he would talk about the way he described it several times.
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They asked over and over and over.
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He described what the weather was,
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what's going on on your end.
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It's at that moment I'm thinking he's
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going to say yada, yada, yada.
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Yeah, right.
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He was talking about the weather, yada, yada, yada.
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One thing leads to another.
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That was it.
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Yeah.
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Talk about the way he described it several times.
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They asked over and over and over.
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He described what the weather was,
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what's going on on your end.
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The witness was very.
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What does that mean, what's going on on your end?
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Sounds to me like the weather might have been some code talk.
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Right.
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Like how's the weather over there?
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Oh, it's cloudy today, which as you recall
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means I will take $10 million deposited
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into my Swiss bank account.
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How many slices of pizza does that equal?
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What's the conversion rate?
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16 slices.
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And you know what that means, it's sunny today.
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Oh, wow.
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Very consistent that none of those conversations
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ever had to do with any business dealings or transactions.
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So on Fox News, Jonathan Turley had a response
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to Dan Goldman, which I thought was worth clipping
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because it pretty much makes the point.
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These are accounts of almost two dozen calls
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made with these associates, some of whom
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are the most corrupt figures in Europe, where the vice
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president would call in.
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That's the point of influence peddling.
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When Archer says that he was there to sell the brand,
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the brand is influence peddling.
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And Joe Biden is the object of that influence peddling.
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And so you need to show that you will have access,
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that he's just a phone call away.
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Representative Goldman made the sound like.
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That was a very important point, that he didn't
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need to talk about anything.
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It was just proof of concept.
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You're buying my access to my dad.
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I'm going to represent you to my dad, who
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I can reach at any moment.
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And I can even get him on the phone right now.
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I can he can walk up to this table and say hello.
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That's the sell.
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That's all you need.
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Representative Goldman made the sound
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like he was calling his son's travel soccer team.
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These were almost two dozen calls
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with these corrupt business figures from Ukraine, Russia,
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and China.
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And the president called to show that he was part of the brand.
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Now that begs the question.
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Here comes Neil Cavuto with.
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At face value, it sounds like he is defending.
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He's representing the defense of Biden.
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Now that begs the.
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And more than just devil's advocate.
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Now that begs the question.
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We know the son was trying to leverage that relationship
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with the father.
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I think that's pretty clear, though I'm not a lawyer.
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The leap here is to say that the father was getting something
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out of it in participating if he knew he was participating.
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Do you think Joe Biden knew he was participating,
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leaving aside the far more explosive insidious
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that he might have been profiting,
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which we can't prove yet.
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In the face, Neil, Neil Cavuto called it a leap.
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I just don't think it's much of a leap.
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That's why I feel like he's sympathetic to the defense.
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The compartmentalization of the of what is happening here,
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that this is just about Hunter Biden and that dad is just
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hapless and loves his son and was taking advantage of again
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by his his wayward son.
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I think that it's the assumption is
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that he knew exactly what these meetings were about.
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I I just it's a strange credulity
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that he flies to China with his son and doesn't ask once.
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By the way, where are you going to go in China?
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You know, what are the are you doing business here
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that he makes?
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Yeah, he just opens the door to Air Force two
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and let's let's hunt her out like he's a dog.
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Hunter runs off down the tarmac.
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Come back by 11.
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I wonder what he must have been something important.
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Did Hunter come back like with mud all over him
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and matted hair?
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Maybe.
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Oh, you know.
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All these calls to these food to dinners
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with foreign characters.
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And he doesn't say who were those guys?
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Why were you meeting?
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It just it's just not very believable.
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That's right.
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It's not very believable.
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I'm going to I'm going to amend my prediction
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that you and I had earlier.
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I think Hunter may actually see the inside of a club fed
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and the person this is about getting Biden out
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before the election.
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And so Joe is the one who's not going to go to prison.
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Joe's not going to suffer any real ramifications.
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He's just going to be out.
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Hunter will suffer some ramifications.
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And I continue to agree with you that Trump will not
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see the inside of a jail cell.
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I don't see how he could.
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I think you would just have more chaos than they
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are interested in having.
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No, they just want to stop him this one last time.
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He doesn't have another run in him.
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He doesn't have he's just seemed to be it would seem to be easier
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to steal the election again.
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I think this is part of this is part of stealing it.
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This is this is it creates the cloud around him.
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So they can say, of course, he lost.
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Right.
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Yeah, I agree.
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Just a little bit more.
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He was the worst candidate ever.
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Right.
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You don't have a chance, you can't run a candidate that's
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in all this legal problem.
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Exactly.
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And frankly, the GOP establishment is fine with that.
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They get to say, see, we were right.
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They're going to say, see, we were right.
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And you needed to go with Romney.
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You guys didn't go with Romney.
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We're going to make you pay.
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Rama Swami.
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Yeah.
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Romney Swami.
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Romney Swami.
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Show title.
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Romney Swami.
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OK.
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So on CNN, they were the squirm was palpable.
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And they are they're just trying to turn it any way
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that they can.
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Here.
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This is here.
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I'll play it.
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You may have heard this.
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It's gone fairly viral.
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But everybody's welcome to make their own personal judgments
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on the Biden.
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But it is it is frankly.
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The first voice you're hearing is the liberal, the Democrat
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who's defending Biden.
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And you can hear in his voice, his voice is cracking.
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He misspeaks a couple of times.
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Listen closely.
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And everybody's welcome to make their own personal judgments
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on the Biden.
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But it is it is frankly, they are they are a family,
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a real family with real feelings,
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with real struggles and challenges like every family.
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And I guarantee you that the more that the Republicans make
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this an issue, it will not work.
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Voters appreciate voters relate to having struggles
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in their own families.
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They root for people with vulnerability.
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Jeremy, can you relate to one of your children
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taking money from a Chinese oligarch
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or from a Ukrainian oil company?
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You can relate to that, can't you?
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It happens.
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It happens.
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Yeah, I don't even have a cousin somewhere that's done that.
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Are you saying you can't relate to this is not
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something that relates to anything,
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any of your lived experience?
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I can certainly relate to having some trouble in the family,
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having some family members in trouble doing things
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they shouldn't be doing.
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Even myself, done a few things I shouldn't have done.
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Did your family members suffer ramifications because of it?
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You know, I think most families, there's
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been some heartache and pain going around.
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But I don't know if that brings it full circle
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to this type of situation, where these guys are using
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their influence in the government
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and breaking the law left and right,
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and then saying, well, everybody has trouble in their family.
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For cash flow from international criminals.
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OK?
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Sure, everybody's got a family where Uncle Jimmy got a DUI.
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You know what I mean?
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That's right.
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This drug bust.
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This guy is right.
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This guy's right about that.
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But it's not going to bring the relatability factor around
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to what he's claiming it will be.
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Abilities, they root for people who
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understand and relate to them.
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And ultimately, the Bidens are a real family,
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just like everyone else.
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Sure.
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Yeah, a real family like everyone else
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who's got seven grandchildren, but only just recently
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acknowledged the last one.
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Yeah.
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Just like every other family.
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But Scott Jennings, the president
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has made being a family man a central part
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of his political identity.
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It's not Republicans with a family.
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So now we're talking about Biden's family man image,
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which that's a real sleight of hand, narratively.
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We're no longer talking about whether or not
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he is connected to Hunter's business,
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his crooked business, which was all predicated upon selling
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access to him.
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No, now we're talking about Hunter and Joe Biden
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as a family man.
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With all due respect, who made Hunter Biden into a complete
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scumbag?
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It's not Republicans with all due respect
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who made Hunter Biden into a complete scumbag
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on this and other issues.
539
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,480
Ignoring his own daughter for four years
540
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,800
and the president of the United States hanging up a stocking
541
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,520
for the dog.
542
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,360
I mean, the daughter.
543
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,600
And not for his seventh grandchild.
544
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:07,760
OK, look, we can all.
545
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,400
That is really cold.
546
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,400
That is so cold.
547
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:18,320
Well, now that's something people can relate to.
548
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,880
There are more people now that care about their dogs
549
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,360
more than their own kids.
550
00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:24,880
Yes, but hold on a second.
551
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,240
How many of them do that on international television
552
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,120
and make it part of the propaganda campaign?
553
00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:33,440
Yeah.
554
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:34,960
We can also have sympathy for people
555
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,360
who are struggling with addiction.
556
00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:38,440
Let's keep this conversation respectful.
557
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,200
Listen, I totally agree.
558
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,360
And you know where I'm from.
559
00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:42,880
A lot of families deal with addiction.
560
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,200
And you know who ends up picking up the pieces?
561
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:46,200
The grandparents.
562
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,120
And in this case, the grandparents
563
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,720
would not acknowledge this little girl.
564
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:51,440
It is offensive.
565
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,400
But the bottom line.
566
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,280
That was such a good answer.
567
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,480
That was a really good answer.
568
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,120
10 out of 10, I give that answer.
569
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:02,640
But they have now.
570
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:03,880
Oh, what a hero.
571
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,440
The polling must have been brutal.
572
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,280
The polling must have been brutal.
573
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,320
No one ever questioned the heart and integrity of Joe Biden
574
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,960
as a family man and as a human being.
575
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,120
And the pain and stuff that he lost, that man has been through.
576
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:18,680
Poor guy.
577
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:19,160
Yeah.
578
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,160
So the show goes on.
579
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,160
Yeah.
580
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,840
That's good.
581
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,720
So Project Veritas.
582
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:34,480
Oh, I'm sorry.
583
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,720
You were going to say?
584
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:37,480
No.
585
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,760
It's worthy of sitting down with a bag of popcorn at this point
586
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,960
and just watching it all unfold.
587
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,600
I like mine with M&Ms.
588
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,760
You've got to be able to not get upset about this stuff.
589
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:57,040
Because again, it doesn't matter.
590
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,080
However they're rolling any of this out
591
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,120
is designed to upset you.
592
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,960
And it's supposed to upset you.
593
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,840
You're out of control.
594
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,380
You don't have any control over this.
595
00:27:06,380 --> 00:27:09,880
None of us have any control over what is transpiring.
596
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,800
So you might as well sit back.
597
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,680
At least release yourself of the angst
598
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:16,480
that there's something you can do about it.
599
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,080
Because right now, it's clear there is not.
600
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:24,840
Sit back with a bag of $25 popcorn.
601
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:25,600
That's right.
602
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,200
Oh, you want to hear my Barbie review now?
603
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,360
Do you want to hear Barbie?
604
00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:34,880
Or do you want to hear what Project Veritas did?
605
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,880
Well, you already started Veritas.
606
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,120
And it ties into Biden, right?
607
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:41,400
So let's go with that.
608
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,280
Well, yeah, it does tie into Biden.
609
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,000
Because Project Veritas released a video.
610
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,360
Again, this is not James O'Keefe's Project Veritas.
611
00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:53,400
This is Hannah Giles' Project Veritas.
612
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:59,480
And they released a video that shows, beyond all doubt,
613
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:07,840
that the Ashley Biden diary that Project Veritas came
614
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:12,320
in possession of and led to an FBI raid of James O'Keefe's
615
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,560
home and a couple of their journalists
616
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,920
in just the most disgusting violation of First Amendment
617
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,960
rights since at least Obama's second term.
618
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:37,160
Well, here, first I'll play the audio of Ashley Biden
619
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,440
confirming that the contents are hers.
620
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,800
Hi, is this Ashley Biden?
621
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:44,640
This is she.
622
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,400
How are you?
623
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:46,840
I'm doing well.
624
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,080
Yeah, I just wanted to say I heard you have a
625
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,160
few of my belongings.
626
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,480
And so I was going to ask if you could please
627
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,720
meet my friend, Eric, who is down in Del Rey.
628
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,280
If you could meet him, I would love to talk to him.
629
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,400
I'm sure he's a great person.
630
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,040
I'm sure he's a great person.
631
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,720
So I'm going to ask him to introduce himself.
632
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,120
And then, I'm going to ask him to tell us
633
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,320
a little bit about himself.
634
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,840
And then, I'm going to ask him to tell us a little bit
635
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,080
about his life.
636
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,080
I am actually currently in prison down in Del Rey.
637
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,840
If you could meet him and get this up to him.
638
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,080
I don't want to have to get Secret Service involved
639
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,560
in this, because it's a whole process.
640
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,600
But I am Ashley Biden.
641
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:32,640
It is my stuff.
642
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,960
So if you could just give all of that over,
643
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,400
I would really appreciate it.
644
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,840
I know you sent a picture to my husband with a camera
645
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,960
and a few other things that are mine as well.
646
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,360
So that would be really great.
647
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,360
That is the first time anybody's hearing that, I think.
648
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,360
Who's the guy?
649
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,360
One of the, it's whoever, somebody working with Project Veritas.
650
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:58,360
Okay.
651
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:06,360
I would assume back when James was, James must have been part of the filming of that particular clip, is my guess.
652
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,360
Okay.
653
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,360
And that's interesting, but to me that is not what jumped out at me.
654
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,360
What jumped out at me was this.
655
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,360
What you're about to hear has never been released to the public.
656
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:25,360
This voicemail was left on the Project Veritas tip line on September 3rd, 2020,
657
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:30,360
which led our journalists to investigate the matter of Ashley Biden's diary,
658
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,360
thrusting us into a pivotal moment of history for all of press freedom.
659
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,360
Hi there. I'm calling from Florida.
660
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:42,360
My family, their friend who owns a house down here in Palm Beach was renting it out.
661
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,360
I don't know how, but this is a while back.
662
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:51,360
But anyway, somebody, a new renter moved in and Ashley Biden was staying in this room
663
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:58,360
and they found her diary, all of her clothes, luggage, pills.
664
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,360
Anyway, diary is pretty crazy.
665
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,360
I think it's worth taking a look at.
666
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,360
Not a joke. It's real.
667
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:14,360
And I'd love to get into your hands.
668
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:23,360
So to me, that sounds like Project Veritas burning its own tip line.
669
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:32,360
Who is going to call and leave a tip, a recorded tip on a tip line for them after that?
670
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:40,360
I wouldn't when I call to whistle blow on you, Jeremy.
671
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,360
I'd be worried you'd find out.
672
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,360
Yeah, I would recognize your voice.
673
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:54,360
Right. And I think it doesn't just burn Project Veritas' tip line.
674
00:31:54,360 --> 00:32:00,360
I think it burns James' tip line.
675
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:06,360
Maybe, but he's not the one that released it.
676
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:15,360
Correct, but he was unable to protect it because they knocked him out.
677
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,360
Well, that's true.
678
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:25,360
It's clearly not his fault, but does that enter into the calculation of somebody who's going to call and leave a message on a tip line?
679
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:31,360
Maybe, but he kept it protected the whole time he was there and in charge.
680
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:36,360
So, I mean, his track record's pretty good as far as that goes, but I see your point.
681
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:45,360
I mean, it definitely, I mean, you would, I mean, that lady's not going to call back with another tip.
682
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:50,360
Why would Hannah do that? Why would they do that?
683
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:59,360
Okay, I get that it shows once and for all that they didn't steal anything, that this was something that was given to them and came through the tip line.
684
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,360
Okay, great.
685
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,360
But that could...
686
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:12,360
Because Project Veritas and its new state of existence is amateur hour.
687
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:20,360
That would be the charitable explanation. The cynical explanation would be that they're burning James.
688
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,360
They're burning it down.
689
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,360
Yeah.
690
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,360
I don't know. I think it's just stupid.
691
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,360
Yeah, you may be right. That's Occam's razor.
692
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:35,360
I think it's stupid. I don't know that it hurts James. I think James can...
693
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:42,360
I mean, James did protect it while he was there. Now he's gone. He's got no control anymore.
694
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:52,360
It's another reason why it proves how stupid the board of directors is over there or how much they wanted to take him out,
695
00:33:52,360 --> 00:34:00,360
how badly they wanted to take him out at any expense and they don't care about anything.
696
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:07,360
And Hannah, I think, is stupid.
697
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:08,360
Well, it's definitely not...
698
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,360
She's stupid for taking the job. She shouldn't have gone there.
699
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:18,360
And she should have stayed at her own little organization down in Texas that was doing nothing.
700
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:23,360
Or she should have partnered with James after they tossed him out.
701
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,360
James and Hannah together again, that would have been huge.
702
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,360
Yeah.
703
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,360
Well, more popcorn.
704
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,360
I think it's a bad move. I think it's...
705
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,360
Definitely a bad move. It's definitely a bad move.
706
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,360
And why now? What was the imperative of doing it now?
707
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:51,360
Unless they got her permission.
708
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,360
Right. Okay. Yeah, that's possible. But they don't say that they did.
709
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,360
No, but it's possible they could have and we don't know that.
710
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,360
Yeah. Okay. You're right. You're right.
711
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,360
But more important than that is the impression that this leaves.
712
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:12,360
The impression it leaves is if you leave a tip, you could end up being blasted out.
713
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:17,360
I don't know. I would never release anything off the tip line ever.
714
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:27,360
Right. I mean, I would call in with a... Let me see if I can... Like some sort of a voice changer.
715
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:31,360
If there's a... I don't know if I could do it.
716
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:36,360
Hello. I have Ashley Biden's diary here.
717
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,360
That's right.
718
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:45,360
Can you come and pick it up? I think it's very important.
719
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:50,360
Nobody would have known that was me.
720
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:57,360
I think that's the only solution.
721
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,360
Well, I mean...
722
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:08,360
Well, it's like why didn't they disguise the voice? I mean, James did that a million times in a lot of their releases.
723
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:19,360
They would always have a whistleblower or some witness or something like that and black out their face and use a disguised voice.
724
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:29,360
I mean, unless they got... Maybe they did get her permission, but I don't know. It does seem strange.
725
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:36,360
Let's do a quick election 24 update and then we can wrap up political stuff like this.
726
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:41,360
Here is from the YouTube channel Black Guns Matter.
727
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,360
I want to ask you about the...
728
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:44,360
What's that?
729
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,360
I know this guy.
730
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,360
Do you?
731
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:48,360
Black Guns Matter.
732
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,360
Okay.
733
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:58,360
Well, I don't know him, but I interviewed him a long time ago at the DNC one time. I met this guy who had Black Guns Matter shirt on.
734
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:03,360
And yeah, his name was Maj Tourre.
735
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,360
Yes. Wow. Good memory. That's not an easy name to memorize.
736
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,360
After all this time, he must have made an impression. Listen to it.
737
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:20,360
I'm glad you are predisposed to hear this man's words, Jeremy. He's talking to you.
738
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:27,360
I want to ask you about the fact that you're running for the Democratic nomination and 77% of Democrats support an assault weapons ban.
739
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,360
Do you not support an assault weapons ban?
740
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:35,360
If we can get a consensus on it, if Republicans and Democrats agreed to it and it passed Congress, I would sign it.
741
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,360
What's up, Solutionaries? Maj Tourre here.
742
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:44,360
You just saw RFK having a town hall discussion where he yet again talks about his anti-gun position.
743
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,360
Now, Maj is mostly right.
744
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:50,360
I've told you all for the last few months, this guy is just an anti-gun Democrat.
745
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:55,360
Why on earth so many libertarians, as you guys know, I'm a libertarian?
746
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,360
The reason why so many libertarians are enamored with him is falls into usually two categories.
747
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:06,360
One, he's been very critical of the COVID regime as well as the vaccines and critical of Fauci.
748
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:15,360
This just because he speaks well about the, you know, jab and big pharma does not mean we get to ignore his very unconstitutional take.
749
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:22,360
And in that video right there, you also saw if he was presented with a assault weapons ban, so-called assault weapons ban,
750
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:29,360
that's a made up term, that if it got through Congress somehow, Republicans and Democrats would actually concede and agree on this.
751
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,360
If he was the president, if it got to his desk, he would absolutely sign it.
752
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,360
This goes in alignment with the unconstitutional concept.
753
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,360
He's saying I would as opposed to saying, no, I wouldn't. It's unconstitutional. It's very simple.
754
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:48,360
Passing the buck in that way by saying, if the Republicans and Democrats came to a consensus and then they agreed and they put it in front of me,
755
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,360
I would violate the Constitution because that's in essence what's being said.
756
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:59,360
The whole thing being we have a Constitution. We have human rights that are codified as checks on the government.
757
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:07,360
Okay. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, not, oh, when a bunch of people somehow agree to this because they don't understand the Constitution.
758
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,360
They don't understand the purpose of the founding document, so forth and so on.
759
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:15,360
A president's job is to defend the Constitution and keep us out of wars.
760
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:24,360
I don't think he'll do that. And he's clearly has told us in direct terms through tweets as well as indirect terms through vague speech that in position,
761
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:30,360
he would be okay with violating the Constitution, which is the is the other part of the job as the commander in chief.
762
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:36,360
So this RFK thing is an absolute bust. There are plenty of other candidates that you could look into.
763
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:43,360
It's also important for us to make sure that we're looking into local and state candidates to make sure that we're building from the ground up.
764
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:50,360
I really like that last comment, especially the local races are more important.
765
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:57,360
It's true. The local races are more important.
766
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:04,360
Well, I mean, I agree with him on most most of what he says.
767
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:10,360
I don't know what other what other candidates he's talking about that there are to look at.
768
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:15,360
They all they all they all violate the Constitution.
769
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:28,360
Even Trump, like I mean, you you you it's way too much to ask for a president that will actually understand their role in defense of the Constitution.
770
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:33,360
They all say they're the most their job is to keep us safe.
771
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:40,360
They always say it. That's their number one priority. Their number one job is to keep us safe and keep everybody safe.
772
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:47,360
And Trump said it. None of them say our number one job is to defend and protect the Constitution.
773
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:53,360
Far as Bobby Kennedy goes, I disagree with with him on that point.
774
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:59,360
I disagree with Maj on his point saying, you know, you can't just overlook it.
775
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:05,360
Yeah, I don't think you overlook it, but he's got a lot of other good positions.
776
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:11,360
Guess who else would sign that bill if it was given to him?
777
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:17,360
Joe Biden. Well, guess who else would sign that bill if it was given to him?
778
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:24,360
Barack Obama. Yeah. So now you're going to are you leading up to say Donald Trump would do?
779
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:29,360
No, I'm saying that bill isn't coming. That's a safe play.
780
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:40,360
That's a safe play for that's a safe play for Bobby Kennedy to say that to appease Democrat voters, I think.
781
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:46,360
Well, but even then, it's it's pandering to a notion of abusing the Constitution.
782
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:54,360
They all do that. So I just want to make I just want to recap between our last episode and this episode now.
783
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:59,360
You and your large family are part of the overpopulation problem.
784
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:04,360
All right, which is that's a real fun thing for him to have basically cast upon you.
785
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:10,360
And it's because of your religious, your faith.
786
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:18,360
I mean, now he's going to come take the guns if he's given the opportunity. He doesn't have the impulse to say no.
787
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:24,360
He's going to take them. I don't know, man.
788
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:31,360
I don't know. I'd take him over any other Republican.
789
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,360
Yeah, that's true. That might still be true.
790
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:40,360
There's not I'm not voting for Republicans anymore.
791
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:45,360
I'm not doing it. I'm with you. No more. I will not ever vote for an establishment.
792
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:51,360
I'm not the whole the whole reason everything that's going on right now is going on because of Republicans.
793
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:59,360
But he he may Kennedy might be an establishment figure in Trump clothing.
794
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,360
That's what I think you have to look out for.
795
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:07,360
Fine, then I'm still strategically going for him and not Republicans.
796
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:12,360
I don't the Republican Party has to die.
797
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,360
I don't mean we have to go out and physically make it.
798
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It did. It did already. They're walking around with the with the carcass.
799
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:24,360
No, they're not. They're walking around with an immense amount of power.
800
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:31,360
No, I know. I'm just saying that the power of the purse in the Congress and they're still doing the same thing that they always do.
801
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:40,360
So where I agree 100 percent with Maj Ture there is you got you have to look at local elections.
802
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,360
That's why I I ran for local office last year.
803
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I ran for the county board in my county.
804
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And it's an that's a nonpartisan race.
805
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,360
And your printer to run an election day, did it?
806
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:04,360
No, I ran against a Republican. I ran against I ran against a Republican.
807
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:10,360
And and you fought the law and the law.
808
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:16,360
Well, she won. Yeah, she she she had been in there forever and been unopposed.
809
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:21,360
But I did get her. You may get her next. I for I forced her to go campaign.
810
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She had been run unopposed for years and she had to go out and stick signs up.
811
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And she's OK. Like I was running for different reasons.
812
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But did you not want to specifically?
813
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:49,360
No, I wanted to win. But I but I but I wanted to I wanted to just set an example that people need should get out if you're able to go run for local office.
814
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:56,360
And not everybody needs to run for office. You can participate in local government without being elected.
815
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The local politicians are easy to reach.
816
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,360
You can usually get their cell phone numbers and they pick up the phone when you call them.
817
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:12,360
Those people have a lot more control over your day to day life and the freedom that you have, you know, in the local municipality that you live in.
818
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:23,360
So so I agree with him there. And in and in a lot of cases, you don't have to vote for a Republican, even if the guy who you're voting for is a Republican.
819
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It may be a nonpartisan race. I'm not voting Republican anymore.
820
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I'm done with Republicans. One.
821
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I know I said that that was going to be the last thing.
822
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But I have one more thing. This came in from Al and Joliet. And it's related. Al Joliet sent us this clip from Joe Rogan talking with comedian Jim Gaffigan.
823
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Oh, wait, no. Did this one come from Al? No. Hold on a second. This one. Sorry, this one did not come from Big Al.
824
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That is I have something else from Big Al. This one comes from a new producer.
825
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:10,360
And I don't know. This one's a little interesting. This one comes under the name Suspect 68 in Regions Unknown.
826
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:22,360
So Suspect 68. And given the nature of this clip, I'm wondering if this is somebody who was involved in January 6 and it was Suspect 68.
827
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I don't know. This clip, the email that this came in with did not have a federal penitentiary extension.
828
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But yeah, here's Joe Rogan talking to comedian Jim Gaffigan about January 6.
829
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January 6 thing is bad, but also the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people to go into the Capitol building. That's a fact.
830
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So wait a minute. You're saying that that guy, what's his name? Ray Epps. Yeah, you really think that he was...
831
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I don't know. I don't know. But I do know that every other... I think he's going to sue Fox.
832
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:12,360
I think every other person who was involved in January 6, who was involved in coordinating a break-in into the Capitol and instigating people breaking...
833
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They were all arrested. This guy wasn't. Not only that, they were defending him in the New York Times, the Washington Post, those different things, because saying that Fox News unjustly accused him of instigating.
834
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Well, he clearly instigated. He did it on camera. I don't know if he was a Fed. I know a lot of people think he was a Fed. The people that were there were calling him a Fed.
835
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What I do know is when they asked the FBI, the FBI said, we can't tell you whether or not there were people that were there that were doing that.
836
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Now, there's been reports that there was hundreds of agents that were there that were doing that. I don't know if that's true either.
837
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:56,360
But I do know that they do use agent provocateurs to disrupt peaceful protests. It's a common tactic.
838
00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:04,360
What they do is say if there's a... like the World Trade Organization is a great example. That was in, I think, the 90s in Seattle.
839
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:10,360
And so what they did was they were protesting the World Trade Organization. They were doing it peacefully. It was a big problem.
840
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:16,360
So what they did is they sent in, allegedly, agent provocateurs. They started smashing buildings and lighting things on fire.
841
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,360
Led by who? Trivia. Led by who?
842
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,360
Lisa Fithian.
843
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:31,360
Lisa Fithian, who we've covered many times on this podcast. She is one of the lead organizers of the Anarchists.
844
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:38,360
We have had many encounters with her on the streets and in the years of our documentation of street movements.
845
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:47,360
Yeah, she's... that's definitely... that's exactly right. That is... she would be brought in for the chaos.
846
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:51,360
She even admits, I'm who you bring in when you're looking for bolt cutters.
847
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,360
She's a nice lady.
848
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:55,360
Yeah.
849
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You could not cross with a pin that was against the...
850
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,360
Oh, wait. So hold on. Let me reconnect where I was.
851
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:08,360
Now they could bring in the police. Now they can start arresting people. And then they created a no protest zone.
852
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:14,360
Where literally, if you had a pin on your jacket that was the WTO with a red line through it, they would not let you cross.
853
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:20,360
You could not cross with a pin that was against the WTO and go to work.
854
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:27,360
There was a no protest zone. So they silenced protest, which is a part of our freedom of speech.
855
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:32,360
So this is a tactic that some government agencies use to stop peaceful protest.
856
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:41,360
That's absolutely correct. Doesn't that sound like exactly like what happened on January 6th?
857
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,360
Yeah, pretty much.
858
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:53,360
I don't know where Fithian was. I'm sure that a lot of the people there know who Fithian is. Studied under her.
859
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,360
She was probably there.
860
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,360
She might have been.
861
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:03,360
I think it's a standard tactic, especially when someone is the enemy of the intelligence agencies.
862
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:08,360
With Trump, that's absolutely the case. Trump set himself up against the intelligence agencies.
863
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:14,360
He did it openly and he did it brazenly. And a lot of people think it's very dangerous.
864
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,360
The intelligence agencies are very important. You want to find out what's going on in other countries.
865
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,360
You want to find out what the threats to America are.
866
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:25,360
You want to find out what terrorist activities are going to be taking place and stop them before.
867
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,360
And JFK had his problem with the intelligence agencies.
868
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:33,360
Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, look, it's unchecked power, right? That's the deep state. It's unchecked power.
869
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:41,360
And I think Trump was very open about his disdain for the intelligence agencies. He created enemies in the intelligence agencies.
870
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:50,360
It's standard for intelligence agencies in this country to encourage agent provocateurs or to employ agent provocateurs.
871
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:57,360
And so you're saying when he was in Helsinki and he was saying, I believe Putin more than my intelligence community,
872
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:01,360
that was something the intelligence community was like, we're going to get him.
873
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:08,360
Well, I think they were going to get him in any way that they could because he's an enemy of the intelligence agencies.
874
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:15,360
And he was openly talking about them being incompetent and being corrupt.
875
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:21,360
And he fired Comey and he was against the FBI. And it's a very dangerous thing.
876
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:29,360
You talk to people that are intelligence agencies, it's a very dangerous thing for a president to be at war with the intelligence agencies and to do it so publicly.
877
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:38,360
And I think it's without a doubt when you have a gigantic, massive protest that a lot of people think is a threat to democracy,
878
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:45,360
you have these people who are saying the election was rigged and they're on the Capitol lawn, they're screaming and yelling.
879
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:50,360
I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that they would encourage people to do things that were unlawful.
880
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:58,360
Instead of peacefully protesting, which is what everybody was doing on the outside, which is totally legal, to take that and escalate it to entering into the Capitol.
881
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:07,360
Now you can lock things down. And now you have real clear evidence that this president is responsible for this insurrection attempt.
882
00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:12,360
And this is dangerous. This is a threat to our democracy. And he's never going to be president again.
883
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:17,360
We're going to indict him. We're going to go after him. We're going to do all these different things.
884
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:29,360
So first of all, thank you to Suspect 68 in Regions Unknown for sending that in. And he sent this comment with it, which I thought was very interesting.
885
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:39,360
He says, Joe Rogan saying January 6th was a hoax comes at an interesting time as his contract is about to expire.
886
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:55,360
And he is coming to the end. His deal is up this year. It was a three and a half year deal for $200 million for three and a half years at Spotify.
887
00:52:55,360 --> 00:53:15,360
Which I think is actually a really interesting point to make that Joe is planting this. He's saying things that are guaranteed to be extremely provocative, which anybody in his position would be doing that.
888
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:22,360
Is that because he's not going to get renewed or because he thinks that'll help him get renewed?
889
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:35,360
Well, even if he, it would work either way, wouldn't it? Spotify just laid off a bunch of people, especially in their podcasting and in their acquisitions department.
890
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:48,360
So I have a feeling that it's possible that they are cutting everything else so that they can afford to renew his contract. They'd be crazy to let him go.
891
00:53:48,360 --> 00:54:02,360
Yeah, they'd be better off to get rid of every other podcast and keep him and just be the Joe Rogan-ify.
892
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,360
And Truthbait. They should keep Truthbait.
893
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:14,360
Well, they can afford us. They don't pay us anything. That would be like taking corporate sponsorship. We don't do that.
894
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:32,360
I had thought that would have been the best transition right into the ask. But I have another point that I want to make with this though, which is when you're listening to that, does that sound at all like that appearance that Jon Stewart did on the Colbert show when he was basically giving
895
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:59,360
permission to the narrative for everybody that the virus came from a lab, that the lab leak theory is true? For a second there, I couldn't help but feel like I was getting a little bit of the same thing here where we are getting permission now in popular culture to go ahead and agree that yeah, there were fat agitators going on outside the outside.
896
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,360
Who was he talking to?
897
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,360
Comedian Jim Gaffigan.
898
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,360
Oh, the guy sounded like Jake Tapper.
899
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,360
Oh, that's interesting.
900
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:39,360
But anyways, yes, I thought if it's Tapper, then maybe you're really onto something there. But I would, I think you're right, it could be except Rogan's already gone too far off the reservation, I think, for that sort of thing to be coming through him like if it was Jon Stewart or like Bill Maher or somebody, then I would tend to think
901
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:53,360
that makes, you know, that's more of a possibility where there's going to be a narrative shift toward the truth for some sort of advantageous gain, you know, of the deep state.
902
00:55:53,360 --> 00:56:04,360
So you think truth's finally coming out but there's a different motive or reason why behind it.
903
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:05,360
But maybe.
904
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:11,360
No, maybe I just need my tinfoil hat. It's possible.
905
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:19,360
Yeah, I don't know he seems like he's probably on the level.
906
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:40,360
Would it have been the perfect time when we were talking about how Spotify doesn't pay us for you can you can get us on Spotify, but no we do not we don't want you to be confused. It is, we did not sell out to Spotify, and the reason is because we don't do that.
907
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:52,360
And we've reached the point in the program, we're going to tell you how it is we do things here. What's that Jeremy what were you saying. What do you mean we don't do that we don't have money to turn down.
908
00:56:52,360 --> 00:57:15,360
We don't we have we certainly have not solicited Spotify let's put it that way. Are you saying that if Spotify offered us $200 million for three and a half years but we had to go behind a paywall, and we had to face their restrictions and get their labels every time Joe Rogan talks about COVID, they put a label up on his episode is that way, you're really willing, you're willing to sell out.
909
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:26,360
Every time we talk about COVID they put a warning label on it today, and we don't get paid. So yeah, I'd sell out.
910
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:48,360
I'll take a $200 million. Can help a lot of people out with that money. Well, so the way we do it now though because we haven't been offered that money so this this moral dilemma does not yet present itself. We work on the value for value system if you find that our program is bringing value to you, is it helping you make sense of this crazy propaganda
911
00:57:48,360 --> 00:58:09,360
war that we are all subject to. If you're getting value from this we ask that you return value to the podcast much like suspect 68 in Regions Unknown did sending us this Joe Rogan clip I'm thinking his next email is going to be a GoFundMe page for his legal defense.
912
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:21,360
And suspect 68 next time you want to send a tip just call in leave a voicemail and we'll play your voice and everyone will know who you are.
913
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:28,360
Yeah, but you have to get him get his hands on some helium or something to to change his voice.
914
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:43,360
But that's exactly what that's that's a good piece of value, you know, sending us content is is maybe one of the most important pieces of value. Jeremy, as always, what is the most important thing someone can do to return value to the show.
915
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:47,360
Share the show. That's exactly right.
916
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:53,360
Everyone you know even your first grade teacher.
917
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:58,360
If they're still alive, they might like the show.
918
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:00,360
Yes, share the show.
919
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:11,360
Go to Apple podcasts because you can leave a comment about the show at Apple podcasts, and you can rate the show you go to Apple podcasts you scroll down to the bottom of our show page.
920
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And you'll see the number they have you'll see the five stars you click on the one all the way to the right it gives us the appropriate number of stars that we deserve five stars, and you can leave a comment there and that is very helpful for people who are finding us
921
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on Apple podcasts I wish all of the podcast applications had the ability to do that but as far as I know really only Apple does.
922
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So we ask people to go. Also write us at truth at truth bait.com, where you can send us excellent content like suspect 68 did and Al from Julia did send us other content which I have something coming up in the next segment.
923
00:59:50,360 --> 01:00:04,360
And you can also subscribe to our soon to be in existence, email list. Just put subscribe in the subject line and you will be added.
924
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,360
Yeah, Al sent in.
925
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:11,360
Al sent in a number of things.
926
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,360
This one was just an interesting.
927
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:17,360
This was an interesting piece from.
928
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:27,360
The Ford is set to lose $4.5 billion on electric vehicles, this year.
929
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:42,360
And that's after they lost 2.1 billion, just on the on the on their model, see oh yeah their model ease that's what they're calling the model ease, they lost 2.1 billion last year.
930
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:55,360
So, that is roughly let's see that's. So they've. So if they lose four and a half this year.
931
01:00:55,360 --> 01:01:11,360
That is going to be almost the entirety of their net for 2022 if their numbers remain consistent for the rest of the year. So they, they have revenue of $45 billion in the second quarter.
932
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:17,360
With a net of two just about $2 billion.
933
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:37,360
Okay, no. So they, if they, if they bring in $8 billion in net, and they're blowing four and a half so it's just more than half of their more than half of what they net they're blowing out the door for these vehicles and Al sent in this clip of their CEO on Fox business.
934
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:51,360
Joining me now is Ford CEO Jim Farley. So I want to start really big picture is Ford building electric vehicles because it wants to or it's being forced to do you think EVs are better than their internal combustion predecessors.
935
01:01:51,360 --> 01:02:08,360
For some vehicle, some customers they are but not for everyone. If you're if you're pulling a fifth wheel in in Wyoming you, you probably don't want to own an electric vehicle but if you have three cars in your household and ones for you know short distances running around town or, you know, 100 200 mile range.
936
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:18,360
It's a better car. Do you have a target date at which point Ford becomes primarily an electric vehicle maker. We think that 50% cut off for us will be around 2030.
937
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:32,360
Look we make a lot of big SUVs and pickup trucks, those customers will go electric a lot later. So Ford's a real different company than a lot of other companies, because we, we have specific kinds of vehicles we make.
938
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:34,360
Okay, wait, wait, wait.
939
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:35,360
That.
940
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,360
That's unlike other car companies.
941
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:47,360
Because they have specific kinds of vehicles they make right for for totally different you see, because we have never heard of a Toyota Civic.
942
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,360
Wait, what?
943
01:02:50,360 --> 01:03:00,360
I mean, well there's Honda Civic. Honda Civic. Because Honda makes vehicles that are specifically different than the other vehicles.
944
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:07,360
Yeah, you're right Toyota is not licensing the Honda Civic. You're right.
945
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:17,360
We have specific kinds of vehicles we make, and those kinds of vehicles, we think the internal combustion engine actually is going to grow at Ford for the next couple years.
946
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:23,360
That is them waving a white flag.
947
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:31,360
Yeah, that's that they snuck in a little bit of truth at the, at the end of that comment.
948
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:38,360
Now, and what's that, except by 2030, they're going to be half electric.
949
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:40,360
Good luck.
950
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Good luck.
951
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And I, you know, I, my, my father-in-law got an electric car.
952
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:58,360
Okay, and I don't know what this some kind of lightning bolt or something on the front of it.
953
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:02,360
A Chevy Bolt maybe. Yeah, that's it. Okay.
954
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:14,360
And I, I didn't know this but we went, our family went up to the Oshkosh, some kind of air show. There's a big giant air show.
955
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,360
Oh, the recent one where there was the crash?
956
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:31,360
Yeah, there was. We weren't there for the crash. There happened to be, look up the Oshkosh air show crash. Seems like there's a lot of crashes, like every year there's some sort of plane crashing going on at this air show.
957
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Anyways, it was like 187 degrees.
958
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,360
When we went to the air show last week.
959
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You were under a heat dome.
960
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:56,360
Yeah, we drove up there. Well, my father-in-law wanted to drive by himself because he's all into, like, he likes the science behind the electric vehicle and how it works and, you know, it's really great technology and all this stuff like that.
961
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So he likes to see how far he can go in his electric vehicle before it has to get charged up and stuff like that. Like he's always, he gives him something to test out. He likes to test things.
962
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He's a really cool guy. He comes over, he tests our internet speed, see how it's doing, you know, like he likes to test things out like that. So he was testing out his electric vehicle.
963
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So executive producer, Ann told me today he didn't use his air conditioning the whole way driving up there.
964
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He was driving 190 degrees outside, but he couldn't run the air conditioner because the battery would have died.
965
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:44,360
He must have been on fire.
966
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:55,360
It just makes me laugh about these cars, you know, like, I'll keep my combustion engine and I'll stay cool.
967
01:05:55,360 --> 01:06:00,360
Do you still have a pickup truck?
968
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:09,360
Yes. You do. And you use it. What do you do with it? Do you just drive around? Do you go to Starbucks in it?
969
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:21,360
Usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I do like a two hour drive through town. I just drive around the plaza.
970
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:35,360
Just doing laps, saying hi to people. Right. And at each stoplight, there was just only one, but at the stoplight, I usually rev the engine as hard as I can for a couple of minutes until it turns green.
971
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Then I go around again and then I go somewhere else and I just burn as much fuel as I possibly can.
972
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:51,360
In reality though, are you using your pickup truck as a pickup truck? I use my pickup truck as a tool.
973
01:06:51,360 --> 01:07:05,360
Do you haul things in it? What do you do? Right. I might haul beekeeping equipment around in it or construction materials if I'm doing some sort of project around the house.
974
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:25,360
You ever hitch? You do tow. Yes. Okay. Yeah. I tow a trailer, something behind it. I have a trailer. I often will pick up mulch or something for landscaping around our property or trees to plant.
975
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:35,360
Green things. Yeah. You're not really in the market for Ford's new electric vehicles.
976
01:07:35,360 --> 01:07:46,360
And again, as a leader of Ford, I'm so excited. I've never had the chance to grow like this. 60, 70% of our Lightning customers are new to Ford and never owned a pickup truck before.
977
01:07:46,360 --> 01:08:05,360
That's because they're not using them as pickup trucks. Because you can't. They don't have any real towing power. They don't last. They're no good. They're only good for people who are driving them around town for their groceries.
978
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:13,360
Or for the same reason you would drive a Tesla or to do laps around the town square like you do.
979
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:28,360
I had a battery operated golf cart here for a little while. Actually, I borrowed it from my father-in-law. It's great to drive to the mailbox and back.
980
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But a couple times I would drive out to the mailbox and I'd get like halfway back and the battery would stop. It was dead. It must be nice to not live in the same county as your mailbox.
981
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You can run out of gas. I mean, you can always run out of gas, right? But you can also have somebody bring you a five gallon jug of gas if you do run out of it.
982
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:06,360
But if you run out of electricity, your battery dies in one of these cars. What do you do?
983
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:10,360
You're stuck. You've got to get towed.
984
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:16,360
Yeah, you're toast. You have to be picked up by somebody in a gas internal combustion engine vehicle.
985
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When a golf cart died, I had to push it all the way back up to the garage. I had to push it up the hill. I was like, I'm never getting one of these electric cars.
986
01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:38,360
When a Tesla breaks down on the side of the road, what comes and picks it up? A tow truck with a gas engine. That's the deal. That's the fact.
987
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:45,360
When you need your Tesla rescued, you're calling somebody with an internal combustion engine.
988
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:53,360
Yeah, so it's definitely not there for yet or for a very long time. And the reason why it's all destined to fail is because none of this is happening as a result of market forces.
989
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:58,360
It's all happening because of market distortions led by the government.
990
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:11,360
It did make me think, like maybe there is a case for some of the hybrid style engines or something like that, where like at least while you're running, you know, you can charge your battery while you're driving.
991
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:25,360
You know, using the vehicle ends up charging the battery and then you can use less fuel when you're able to with battery power. I mean, that kind of makes some sense.
992
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:38,360
I think there are even some very good applications for electric vehicles the way they are right now. If you don't, if you have all short travel and you don't need to haul anything, you know, it may be a good option for you if you can afford it.
993
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:44,360
It's still more expensive, even with all the subsidies. It's still more expensive than an internal combustion engine vehicle.
994
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And you're kidding yourself if you think you're doing it because it's saving the environment in any way. As far as I can tell, it's just as bad, if not worse, for the environment to manufacture one of these vehicles and then eventually the battery is unrecyclable and extremely toxic and has an end of life.
995
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:27,360
And yeah, I mean, there's it has its own giant handful of pitfalls that accompany in it. So, you know, it's like any other technology. There's a trade off. But, you know, as with every single industry, these subsidies are just market distortions and they will not last long enough to catch up to, for the market to catch up, for actual market demand to catch up.
996
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:42,360
They're going to all burn through their billions. They will subsidize it. The electric divisions of all of these companies will be like the WNBA is to the NBA. That's my guess.
997
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:53,360
Supported, subsidized. Well, as long as they make gas vehicles illegal anyway. Well, that's yes, then they'll be.
998
01:11:53,360 --> 01:12:01,360
Then we'll all be happier and healthier and fewer of us around.
999
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:19,360
But Ford is, you know, Ford, in fact, Ford, if I'm not mistaken, I thought I had an article here on it, Ford just formed a strategic relationship with a Chinese battery maker to partner for their E-Line.
1000
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:34,360
Good luck with that, Ford. Let me tell you my next segment, Jeremy, you know what, I actually am going to invite families who have children listening to turn this off and listen to this when their children are not around.
1001
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For the next two segments, which will wrap out the show.
1002
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:56,360
The first one we're going to do here is, it's heavy stuff. This is the, I came across a video by, put out by the Hudson Institute, their China Center.
1003
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And it is a speech, a presentation given by Kyle Bass, and let me read his description about the speaker. Kyle Bass is a member of the China Center Advisory Board and the founder and chief investment officer of Heyman Capital Management, an investment
1004
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:32,360
management, an investment manager of private funds focused on global event driven opportunities. He is also the co founder and chief executive officer of conservation equity management and environmental sustainability private equity firm founded in 2021.
1005
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:48,360
I think the really important thing is where it says, he's an investment manager of a private of private funds focused on global event driven opportunities. Okay, that's the most important part of that.
1006
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:58,360
He, he's an expert in analyzing events before they are, before they happen.
1007
01:13:58,360 --> 01:14:02,360
He can analyze the way it looks like things are going.
1008
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:11,360
And what he says about China is, you know, it's chilling. It's also pretty much in line with everything we've been saying.
1009
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:27,360
He's, he's basically saying, China is 100% going to go take Taiwan, everything they're doing indicates it, and he lays it out in detail. Now he gives an hour and a half long presentation I've distilled it down.
1010
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,360
But we're going to go through it.
1011
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And I would just urge people.
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01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:54,360
Listen, listen very carefully. If you're doing something else while you're listening to the podcast are you doing dishes right now, are you surfing, are you, are you driving, keep driving, but if you're doing any of the other things, stop and just listen, pay very very close attention to what he says.
1013
01:14:54,360 --> 01:15:15,360
And the first clip is, he's talking about the, the non economic based decisions that China is making, and why. So these are all the decisions where you look at it, and it doesn't make sense, except if you view it through the prism of what they're preparing to do with Taiwan.
1014
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:32,360
And then you talk about what China is doing that actually doesn't make financial sense. If you and I were running a sovereign, and we were running it to, let's say, operate in the highest regard of our, our capital and returns on capital, we would be making specific decisions.
1015
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:50,360
And what I'm going to show you today is China is not making those decisions. They're making decisions that are non economic and preparing themselves for sanctions. So in January of 2020, China updated its foreign investment law, which gave Beijing the power and ability to nationalize foreign assets investments under special circumstances, which include war.
1016
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Their words, not mine. Very important to know that they updated a law that gave Beijing the authority to just nationalize things and take them.
1017
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:08,360
June 2021, China issued or passed a new counter foreign sanctions law, which enabled Beijing to seize corporate assets and detain ex pat employees.
1018
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Simply if they underlying condition was compliance with foreign sanctions, i.e. if the US or Europe sanctioned China and the corporations of the US or Europe were complying with their own sanctions, China can nationalize the assets and detain the people.
1019
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It gives Beijing the legal authority to seize individuals assets and prevent them from leaving China. The new law coupled with the anti espionage law makes it virtually impossible for foreign companies to operate safely in the PRC.
1020
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May 2022, she ordered the Chinese banking system to risk assess and insulate against, quote, potential severe US sanctions.
1021
01:16:49,360 --> 01:17:01,360
Well, what would precipitate severe US sanctions? We are sending our foreign policy staff there with knee pads begging for meetings and our meetings are just begging for more meetings.
1022
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:11,360
What would change the Biden administration's tact to want us to or force us to to install or instill crippling sanctions?
1023
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It would in my view, it would only be a militaristic move on Taiwan. May 2022, she also ordered Chinese nationals overseas to divest their assets and repatriate foreign capital back to China.
1024
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We remember how she humiliated Hu Jintao and his loyalists, removed him from the party and installed a wartime cabinet.
1025
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What the press missed in the Hu Jintao humiliation was in one day. Imagine if we woke up here in America and one day you woke up and they said, Janet Yellen is gone.
1026
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The central bank president, Jerome Powell, is gone. And Gary Gensler is gone. So we're going to fire the head of the SEC, the head of the Fed all in one day.
1027
01:17:56,360 --> 01:18:04,360
I think you might be using a bad example. I know you're probably sitting there like, yeah, OK, sounds good so far. Your terms are acceptable.
1028
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:15,360
Right. And we're going to replace them with the head of the missile unit. We're going to replace them with the head of of nuclear munitions and then the head of all conventional munitions.
1029
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:26,360
That is removing every market technocrat that was responsible for China's supposed westernization and dealing with markets and replacing them with military people.
1030
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:38,360
So the press kind of missed that. Yeah, they sure did. I don't know if you remember, we talked about that on the show when Xi had.
1031
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What's his name removed? Zhu Jintao. Very unceremoniously.
1032
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An elderly revered leader who helped modernize China and he ushered him out the door very publicly, very humiliatingly.
1033
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:12,360
So he goes on to talk about the what's called the current account balance. I don't know if you're familiar with what the current account balance is, but he explains it.
1034
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And it is just more illustrating of the moves that they're making, which are completely out of step if what your interest is in succeeding economically.
1035
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Now, the difference between trade balance and current account balance, this for those of you that aren't particular economists or financial people, the trade balance is one data series that contributes to the calculation of the current account.
1036
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The current account is all financial flows in and out. So, you know, there are 450,000 Chinese students in US universities in the US.
1037
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:52,360
They are paying about 62 billion a year for that. That's money leaving. Right. This is money coming into China.
1038
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:58,360
That was money leaving when the Chinese were traveling prior to covid around the world and spending.
1039
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:02,360
They can't spend R&B anywhere. They have to spend dollars, euros, yen or pounds.
1040
01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:08,360
That number was a huge number, multiple hundreds of billions. So the current account is kind of the net assessment.
1041
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:15,360
Think about the net income of the sovereign. So the current account, I'm going to you guys are going to think I'm maybe conspiratorial.
1042
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:27,360
Let me walk you through this. The current account just prior to just prior to the covid was, as you see, trending down towards zero.
1043
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:37,360
That international travel number on China's macro level data series in the wind database right before covid was 420 billion dollars.
1044
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:46,360
So think about this for a second. The current account was going to zero and the primary reason was they had a big balance of trade that was positive in their favor.
1045
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:51,360
But allowing the Chinese population writ large to travel and spend abroad and maybe invest a little bit.
1046
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:57,360
Remember, they had they had certain amounts that were allowable. That number got to be 420 billion.
1047
01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:12,360
So at a time in which the Hong Kong protests were at their zenith, December 2019, and the time at which their current account was dangerously heading below zero for the first time, covid arose.
1048
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That was that was really convenient for them. That saved that that that really saved two major existential problems for the Communist Party, Hong Kong and their current account.
1049
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:28,360
So if you look at the current account boom and went straight back up to magic, four hundred billion dollars.
1050
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:35,360
So again, maybe maybe it was just a pure coincidence, but maybe it was a perfectly timed execution of something else.
1051
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:41,360
If you're running a positive current account, if you have more dollars coming in than going out,
1052
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:49,360
what you would be doing with that money is investing it in dollar based debt at the highest yields with the deepest capital markets in the world.
1053
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:55,360
So what are you seeing here? China's taken their Treasury balance from a trillion two to eight hundred and fifty billion.
1054
01:21:55,360 --> 01:22:05,360
We don't know what the new number is yet, but I would imagine that Janet Yellen's tour de appeasement recently was begging them to just stop selling their treasuries.
1055
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:16,360
Point being is this is a non-financial move. If you were running China, you'd be buying treasuries, not selling them unless you're trying to sanction proof your reserves.
1056
01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:20,360
They're selling treasuries, but they're buying agency securities in Belgium.
1057
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:30,360
If that's the case, that's also China betting that they can divide Europe and not have severe European sanctions when the US if and when the US sanctions them.
1058
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:40,360
And as we've seen out of Macron lately and what you're seeing out of Germany, there's not a lot of solidarity in in in Europe as far as it relates to China.
1059
01:22:40,360 --> 01:23:01,360
So they're selling. There was a lot to that was a lot of ground. Let me just recap the the account balance was prior to covid really maybe thanks in large part to Trump was tipping in our favor.
1060
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It was coming down to zero, which was way out of whack for what China was used to, which is at its height in 2008 2009 was at 450 billion almost 450 billion in China's favor by the by time covid hits it's almost at zero.
1061
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:38,360
And covid hits and it shoots back up to 400 billion in their favor and instead of turning around and putting it in US debt, which we're now selling at a higher premium.
1062
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:43,360
You can you get it you get a better return on your money from us now.
1063
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:49,360
They're selling it to their they're buying up debt in Europe.
1064
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:57,360
And that is not what you would do if you were looking for maximum return.
1065
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:04,360
So he goes on. Did you did you are you do you feel like you're following along.
1066
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Sort of.
1067
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Any questions class.
1068
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:16,360
No, you can go on.
1069
01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:31,360
All right, so now he talks about that looks as though they are getting ready to default on all of their all of their dollar denominated debts.
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If you were Xi Jinping, and you were you have two worlds you have your domestic world which is your R&B or your one based world which you control.
1071
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They control everything internally, but then you have the world they're interfaced with the outside and this is key to understanding they all cross border settlements about 85% of all cross border settlements when China trades with the rest of the world or in dollars.
1072
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Everything they do internally is in R&B or you want the dollars really important to them.
1073
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And so if you were she and you thought about the way their Chinese capital markets work you have domestic capital markets that issue bonds and stocks and R&B and you have domestic or Chinese companies that issue bonds and dollars.
1074
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So case in point there about 170 billion dollars worth of dollar bonds that the Chinese property develop developers issued to the West.
1075
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So a bunch of Western investors bought dollar bonds they have R&B based bonds too but if you were China and you were about to prepare for war you would just say you know what I'm just not going to pay those dollars back.
1076
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I'm going to default on my dollar stuff and I'm going to pay my R&B stuff so that my people are okay.
1077
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It's that's the basic way to think about what they're doing here.
1078
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So their offshore defaults their dollar based bonds if you look at the two current categories are 35%. So 65% of the dollar based bonds of all the property developers in China are in default offshore.
1079
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Onshore it's a little bit different.
1080
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Right now there are 79% of those bonds of the same companies not default only 21% are in default.
1081
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So if you're a Westerner holding a dollar bond you're going to get something that rhymes with hero.
1082
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So another dark indicator of what they seem to be preparing to do.
1083
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:41,360
It does look economically like they are preparing for sanctions and why would they be preparing for sanctions because they're going to take Taiwan.
1084
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Here he talks about the preparations they're making on the mainland.
1085
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Let's move straight into the mainland preparations for war and a timeline.
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Physical structures power systems and the new blood drive March of 2023 in Fujian China's building 18 new air raid shelters which the province announced and showcased on its website and two days later gone took it off the website never to be seen again.
1087
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So Fujian was very proud of these 18 air raid shelters for those of you that know the geography of China that is across the street from Taiwan they geo blocked it and we can't find it anymore but we have screen grabs of it.
1088
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March 2023 they're building the world's largest combat hospital also geo blocked after one day of announced on a website.
1089
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:37,360
So if you're building 18 air raid shelters along the Fujian coast you're building a combat hospital this rhymes with what Putin was doing.
1090
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If you remember he moved entire groups brigades of troops in October he started building and transferring blood banks to the border December January he was telling you what was coming.
1091
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It's happening again and you need to we need to pay attention.
1092
01:27:53,360 --> 01:28:04,360
June 2023 China states its first ever emergency drill to ensure it can handle large scale power outages in its eastern region happens to be the region right across from the Taiwan Strait.
1093
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It's the first time the National Energy Administration has held emergency drill for large scale power outages across provinces and region.
1094
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It's also the largest most extensive most targeted joint emergency power drill.
1095
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:26,360
June 2023 millions of people have been banned from traveling by plane or train and the Communist Party announced that the reason that was is their social credit scores were too low.
1096
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:30,360
One way that they can increase their social credit scores go give some blood.
1097
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:36,360
That's super interesting go give blood to bring that social credit score up.
1098
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:39,360
How amazing is that.
1099
01:28:39,360 --> 01:28:40,360
Yeah.
1100
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Pretty ominous.
1101
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:52,360
They are also securing energy needs consistent with the potential for being under severe sanctions and being at war.
1102
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China is the world's largest importer of crude oil and LNG.
1103
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They import almost 12 million barrels a day of crude 8 BCF a day of LNG.
1104
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They use about 15 and a half billion or a million barrels of oil a day.
1105
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:17,360
So you would try to secure that kind of natural resource commitment from let's just say countries around the world that might not adhere to US sanctions.
1106
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And if you were going to do that what would you do.
1107
01:29:20,360 --> 01:29:27,360
Well maybe you'd get on an airplane and for the first time in the history of the world the Chinese premier landed in Saudi Arabia.
1108
01:29:27,360 --> 01:29:35,360
And maybe you'd put try to get the Sunnis and the Shiites to love each other and start talking with Iran and Iraq.
1109
01:29:35,360 --> 01:29:37,360
What do you think he just did.
1110
01:29:37,360 --> 01:29:38,360
He just did that.
1111
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:41,360
He's trying to put together 12 million barrels a day.
1112
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:46,360
In May of 2023 China's coal imports hit 360 and 380 million tons.
1113
01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:54,360
That compares with 290 million tons the year before and an all time record in 2013 of 327 million tons.
1114
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:56,360
This is John Kerry's worst nightmare.
1115
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:57,360
Right.
1116
01:29:57,360 --> 01:30:05,360
They are going back to the dirtiest cheapest potential fuel in the event that they're not going to be able to get that that LNG.
1117
01:30:05,360 --> 01:30:11,360
But it sure looks to me that that they are securing all of trying to secure all of their energy commitments.
1118
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:17,360
Chinese local governments permitted a staggering 106 gigawatts of new power new coal in 2022.
1119
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:22,360
That's 100 large coal fired power plants the most since 2015.
1120
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:25,360
And it quadrupled over 2021.
1121
01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:30,360
Just think about these think about where the world's headed on an ESG front and on a climate front and Greta.
1122
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:34,360
I can't figure out why Greta never ends up in Beijing but we can talk about that later.
1123
01:30:34,360 --> 01:30:40,360
We all know why she doesn't end up in Beijing because they wire her her money.
1124
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:43,360
She doesn't have to go collect it.
1125
01:30:43,360 --> 01:30:50,360
He also talks about what they're doing in regards to grain reserves and he makes a very interesting point.
1126
01:30:50,360 --> 01:30:52,360
Listen to this.
1127
01:30:52,360 --> 01:30:58,360
China is 20 percent of the world's population and they're hoarding almost 70 percent of the world's grain today.
1128
01:30:58,360 --> 01:31:02,360
Now different grains are in different different amounts.
1129
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:14,360
But the head of grain reserves at the National Food and Food and Strategic Reserves Administration told reporters this last November our wheat stockpiles can sustain China for a year and a half.
1130
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:16,360
That's super interesting. Why would you need to do that?
1131
01:31:16,360 --> 01:31:21,360
Why would you need to have a wheat stockpile that lasts a year and a half in China?
1132
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:31,360
If you had a grain reserve you're running a country and your people in one of your largest cities are hanging out their windows banging pots and pans because they're welded into their buildings.
1133
01:31:31,360 --> 01:31:33,360
And you have a food reserve in that city.
1134
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:36,360
Wouldn't you release the food reserve to the people that needed food?
1135
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:38,360
It didn't happen.
1136
01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:43,360
The grain reserves weren't touched in Shanghai when the COVID extreme COVID lockdowns were going on.
1137
01:31:43,360 --> 01:31:46,360
If you're not going to release them then then why are you holding them?
1138
01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:51,360
Good question.
1139
01:31:51,360 --> 01:31:52,360
Very good question.
1140
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:53,360
They're preparing for something else.
1141
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:56,360
That's why.
1142
01:31:56,360 --> 01:32:06,360
And as if that's not if all of that is not enough how about just Xi openly telegraphing it in all of his speeches and all of his actions.
1143
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:15,360
In January of 2022 the Communist Party's journal Kishi published Xi's secret speech 60 days roughly after it was given.
1144
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:21,360
And for the first time Xi himself was quoted as saying he called for the struggle against hostile forces.
1145
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:28,360
We all know he never names the United States in these speeches but we are deemed to be the hostile forces.
1146
01:32:28,360 --> 01:32:31,360
I don't think we're their strategic competitor that the press writes about.
1147
01:32:31,360 --> 01:32:41,360
October of 2022 he also ratcheted his rhetoric regarding Taiwan by changing what he views as something that authorities sorry that authorizes China's use of force.
1148
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:49,360
He declared that a simple refusal of China's overtures to reunify would then be grounds for an invasion.
1149
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:59,360
Prior to this it was someone in China in Taiwan's cabinet or presidency would have to formally declare they want to be independent.
1150
01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:08,360
Now it's just if you just refuse our overture we can come attack China's Taiwan Affairs Office released its first white paper in Taiwan in over 20 years.
1151
01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:11,360
And there was something really important in there.
1152
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:21,360
They said that the new policy document did away with the past promises not to send troops or quote administrators to Taiwan if China successfully conquers the island.
1153
01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:23,360
Definitely another ominous sign.
1154
01:33:23,360 --> 01:33:31,360
Also Xi states that China is now laser focused quote on the reacquisition of the Taiwanese separatists.
1155
01:33:31,360 --> 01:33:33,360
Again his rhetoric is becoming more bellicose.
1156
01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:40,360
Every speech he's given since 2017 he tells you what he's going to do and it's just getting worse and worse and worse in his words.
1157
01:33:40,360 --> 01:33:44,360
In fact he just recently did it the day that Janet Yellen landed in China.
1158
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:52,360
That day he visited China's Eastern Military Command and he told the people in the Eastern Military Command who oversee Taiwan to prepare for war.
1159
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:54,360
He was gaslighting Yellen right before she landed.
1160
01:33:54,360 --> 01:33:57,360
Of course.
1161
01:33:57,360 --> 01:34:07,360
I think it's pretty devastating evidence that he lays out that beyond any question they're going to take Taiwan.
1162
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:10,360
And sooner rather than later.
1163
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:14,360
He goes in a lot more detail.
1164
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:18,360
I'll be posting this up to the Truthbait Twitter feed.
1165
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:23,360
It's worth looking at the whole thing.
1166
01:34:23,360 --> 01:34:32,360
There's one of the attendees asks the question well essentially what do we do?
1167
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:40,360
Wall Street is so in bed with China so beholden to China what do we do to de-risk?
1168
01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:43,360
The answer is devastating.
1169
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:52,360
How do we de-risk from China of all those Wall Street and S&P companies considering their significant exposure from China?
1170
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:58,360
We're talking about more than 15 percent of almost every S&P company being exposed to China.
1171
01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:06,360
Unfortunately again even if you think about Biden and especially Blinken on the campaign trail.
1172
01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:17,360
He specifically said many times in the public domain that we meaning the United States will never trade human rights for a trade deal with China.
1173
01:35:17,360 --> 01:35:18,360
What did we just do?
1174
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:26,360
We just went over there hat in hand begging for meetings in the various disciplines and we didn't mention human rights.
1175
01:35:26,360 --> 01:35:33,360
We don't care. We care about economics and it's Wall Street driving this movement.
1176
01:35:33,360 --> 01:35:43,360
I always say in our firm if our national security and our values were left up to Wall Street and the private sector will all be speaking Chinese tomorrow.
1177
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:52,360
There's this chasm between Wall Street and S&P and the Director of National Intelligence giving you the data saying they are the largest threat to our way of life,
1178
01:35:52,360 --> 01:36:05,360
to our values and to our system and to the security of our country and yet we can't wait to raise more money for an IPO that will help them genetically modify their food so that they can have a bigger reserve to attack us with.
1179
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:07,360
It's actually insane.
1180
01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:21,360
So there's no answer other than if and when this happens the people that lose the money that lose what they have invested in China whether it's PP&E on the corporate level or whether it's money invested from US institutions
1181
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:26,360
in their equity markets in their private equity world, they're going to lose it all in my opinion.
1182
01:36:26,360 --> 01:36:31,360
That day is coming and those people deserve to lose it all and they deserve to lose their jobs.
1183
01:36:31,360 --> 01:36:38,360
That's trillions of dollars that are going to evaporate.
1184
01:36:38,360 --> 01:37:00,360
In World War II a similar thing happened where all these American multinational corps that were doing business with Germany, they all had to divest themselves of their German assets and the US government reimbursed them all for their assets.
1185
01:37:00,360 --> 01:37:19,360
Of course in the ultimate act of double dealing companies like IBM and General Motors, they took the reimbursement for their assets, which they then repatriated those assets and all the wartime profits from their German operations at the end of the war.
1186
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:23,360
So they ended up getting both.
1187
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:34,360
And yeah, so but I don't think the American government has the ability to write checks to all these companies that are going to be losing their butts when this happens.
1188
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:44,360
There's going to be a big push from Wall Street not to sanction China when they take Taiwan and I think with Biden in place that may very well be what happens.
1189
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:47,360
Or with any Democrat in place.
1190
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:53,360
My last clip from this is he talks about, so there's something called I'd never heard of this.
1191
01:37:53,360 --> 01:38:04,360
The wind information company, wind information company and it was a Hong Kong based, it's a Hong Kong based company, which Hong Kong is part of China.
1192
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:13,360
So it's a Chinese based company. It's essentially the Bloomberg of China so Bloomberg News, all the different entities of Bloomberg.
1193
01:38:13,360 --> 01:38:35,360
Bloomberg is a huge data company and they sell that data and this is what wind does the exact same thing only it's out of China and much like the media missed it when when Xi ushered out Zhu Jintao and replaced all of those finance ministers with military people.
1194
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:41,360
The media seems to have missed this even though it happened directly to them. They just didn't report it very much.
1195
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:49,360
How many of you in here use any of the China data series like wind or any of these and it like like the Bloomberg's of China at our firm.
1196
01:38:49,360 --> 01:38:54,360
You know we use wind at all the research universities in the US they use wind.
1197
01:38:54,360 --> 01:39:02,360
It is a data aggregator of both macro level data and corporate level data about three four months ago severed.
1198
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:03,360
It's gone.
1199
01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:04,360
No more data series.
1200
01:39:04,360 --> 01:39:05,360
You're not allowed to have it.
1201
01:39:05,360 --> 01:39:12,360
The data that we're getting out of China now is from the mainland approved by Xi Jinping to be released in a press release.
1202
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:14,360
There's no more databases.
1203
01:39:14,360 --> 01:39:15,360
Stanford doesn't have it anymore.
1204
01:39:15,360 --> 01:39:16,360
Harvard doesn't have any more.
1205
01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:26,360
All of the universities that are actually partners with China in many ways and receive a lot of Chinese donations have been said would be different if it was just me the god severed but it was everybody.
1206
01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:33,360
And they all remain quite silent about it because they're all still getting money from China.
1207
01:39:33,360 --> 01:39:36,360
I get ready folks.
1208
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:43,360
This is coming, and it is going to be the next Cold War. It's going to kick off with this.
1209
01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:46,360
And we're going to lose Taiwan. It's gone.
1210
01:39:46,360 --> 01:39:49,360
This is coming.
1211
01:39:49,360 --> 01:39:52,360
It's got to start before the election.
1212
01:39:52,360 --> 01:40:03,360
Well he mentioned that he thought that their earliest window would be this August, which is right now. I think the next possible window is April next April.
1213
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:17,360
Again, he it's the he made. There was a lot of other interesting stuff in here I highly recommend going and checking it out it'll be up on our Twitter feed by the time you get this if I can remember we'll put it up on the show notes as well.
1214
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:20,360
Why did you say kids shouldn't listen to that.
1215
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:26,360
Because it's Cold War said possibly the start of World War Three.
1216
01:40:26,360 --> 01:40:40,360
It's some pretty dark stuff really though Jeremy, it's for the next segment, because I'm going to talk about Barbie Barbie is not kid friendly okay at all.
1217
01:40:40,360 --> 01:40:47,360
Barbie is not kid friendly Barbies PG 13 and so is this segment.
1218
01:40:47,360 --> 01:40:55,360
Are you going to go see really, you really went and saw that movie. Yes I did. I did it for the show, Jeremy.
1219
01:40:55,360 --> 01:41:01,360
I am not going to go see that movie. That's okay we don't have to both go that's why there's two of us.
1220
01:41:01,360 --> 01:41:04,360
Yes, you went to see.
1221
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:07,360
What was the movie you went to go see.
1222
01:41:07,360 --> 01:41:19,360
Essential Church, Essential Church, I have not seen that one yet. Although I hope to get to that this week maybe I can get to that tomorrow. While it's in theaters that's where I want to see it in theaters.
1223
01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:27,360
Although it's not going to last after this week it'll be, it'll be out of theaters by this there's no way is it getting held over for next weekend.
1224
01:41:27,360 --> 01:41:39,360
No chance. So, yeah, Barbie is.
1225
01:41:39,360 --> 01:41:41,360
It's a complicated film.
1226
01:41:41,360 --> 01:41:43,360
It's not a good film.
1227
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:49,360
Okay, wait, let me start this segment by saying, I think everybody should go see it in the theaters.
1228
01:41:49,360 --> 01:42:10,360
I think it's an important film. And everybody should go see it in the theaters. Don't take your children to this movie though. This is not a kid's movie. And I think that it's a bit, you know, while it has a PG 13 rating, I don't even, I wouldn't take a 13 year old to it, not a 13 year old girl, I wouldn't take any young girl to this.
1229
01:42:10,360 --> 01:42:23,360
It's a very disturbing message. It's also very profane. They use a lot of vulgarity, the main theme song has, you know the name of a female dog.
1230
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:41,360
She has that word in the song, in the theme song that plays for the whole theater. One of the main characters uses MF, Mother Effer, I think was the line that she drops in the middle of one of her songs.
1231
01:42:41,360 --> 01:42:59,360
There are double entendres that are barely double entendre. It's so blatant. You know, jokes about masturbation. I won't say what they were, because I know you don't like that sort of thing. And I know some of our audience members don't like that sort of thing. We're going to keep it clean.
1232
01:42:59,360 --> 01:43:18,360
But yeah, that was all, that was all going on. It was shocking that this would at all be marketed as a kids film. There just were, even in Hollywood, they couldn't, they would not dare give this a PG rated rating. It's a PG 13.
1233
01:43:18,360 --> 01:43:31,360
So really, it felt to me more like it was for, you know, older women who had played with Barbie. I feel like that's who this film was actually speaking to.
1234
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:46,360
But of course they couldn't just market it that way because there's more money in marketing it to kids. Ben Shapiro did a 45 minute video, a 45 minute dissection and take down of this film. We're not going to do that.
1235
01:43:46,360 --> 01:43:56,360
We're not going to do 45 minutes on this. I am going to, I did clip some of Ben though, because you're not going to play Ben Shapiro for 45 minutes, are you?
1236
01:43:56,360 --> 01:44:12,360
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, but I am going to play some Ben Shapiro because he got, he got some of this right. Some of this he got right. And I'm going to, and I use it to, I want you to know I did not speed this up. It's going to sound like I sped him up. I did not speed him up. I was tempted to slow him down.
1237
01:44:12,360 --> 01:44:28,360
If we slowed it down, we'd be listening to him longer. I'm not doing that. It's a trade off. Jeremy, if you're listening to, if he's going too fast, you slow down your playback. All right. When you're listening to the, when you're listening to the show through your favorite podcast app.
1238
01:44:28,360 --> 01:44:39,360
From the beginning, you know what this movie is going to be. And it's going to be a very cynical take on what Barbie is, which is so weird. I don't know why Mattel would turn over its IP to filmmakers who clearly hate the IP.
1239
01:44:39,360 --> 01:44:46,360
It's as though you were going to make Toy Story, except that toys are all evil. They're all bad and you're supposed to hate them and you should burn them.
1240
01:44:46,360 --> 01:45:00,360
Because that's kind of the message of the film is that the Barbies are bad for the world. Okay. Basic sort of premise of the film, politically speaking, is that men and women are on two sides of the fight and they hate each other. And literally the only way you can have a happy world is if the women ignore the men and the men ignore the women.
1241
01:45:00,360 --> 01:45:11,360
So I clipped that because he's, he's right. That is exactly what the film conveys. That men and women need to be separate. That's the only, that's their only key to happiness.
1242
01:45:11,360 --> 01:45:21,360
And so I just, I'll give you, I'm going to give you my, I'm going to take you through the plot points of the film so you understand what we're talking about here.
1243
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:31,360
Barbie, in the film, Barbies, she's living her best Barbie life in her perfect Barbie world.
1244
01:45:31,360 --> 01:45:43,360
When suddenly things start to go a little weird, she starts to take on human traits and she starts to have an existential crisis. She can't stop thinking about death.
1245
01:45:43,360 --> 01:45:52,360
And this is like completely antithetical to everything going on inside Barbie world where it is like a beach party all the time. Life is perfect there.
1246
01:45:52,360 --> 01:45:56,360
And all of a sudden in the middle of a dance, she's like, you know, you ever think about death?
1247
01:45:56,360 --> 01:46:02,360
And it's like, errr, you know, the whole thing. Everything comes to a screeching halt.
1248
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:09,360
So she's thinking about death. She starts to get cellulite and her feet stop working correctly in the, you know, I don't know.
1249
01:46:09,360 --> 01:46:13,360
You remember, you used to play with Barbie, right Jeremy?
1250
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:14,360
All the time.
1251
01:46:14,360 --> 01:46:23,360
And you remember from your Barbie dolls the way that they, they're always up on tiptoes. They're up on, they're in high heels. You take them out of the high heels, but they are still on tiptoes.
1252
01:46:23,360 --> 01:46:31,360
Their feet are permanently on their tiptoes to accommodate the high heels. And her toes start to, her feet go flat.
1253
01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:39,360
And this is a big trauma. She's basically becoming human. She's taking on human characteristics.
1254
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:51,360
And Barbie Land is filled with all kinds of Barbies. All kinds of Barbies, all kinds of Kens, all the different playhouses, all the accessories that Mattel ever sold.
1255
01:46:51,360 --> 01:46:57,360
And the protagonist of this particular story is ordinary Barbie.
1256
01:46:57,360 --> 01:47:05,360
Okay, so like basically like generic Barbie. Now I looked into it. Mattel never put out an ordinary Barbie, but there is, it's like, she's like plain Barbie.
1257
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:13,360
She's not Dr. Barbie. She's not astronaut Barbie. She's just regular Barbie. She's ordinary Barbie.
1258
01:47:13,360 --> 01:47:25,360
And ordinary Barbie goes to consult with weird Barbie because weird Barbie is known as, you know, some kind of an oracle when it comes to these kinds of things.
1259
01:47:25,360 --> 01:47:33,360
Weird Barbie, they call her weird Barbie because like she too has taken on all these weird characteristics because of what her human has done to her.
1260
01:47:33,360 --> 01:47:41,360
And she like her hair is cut weird. She's got marker all over her face. Her legs are bent in a weird way. She's weird Barbie.
1261
01:47:41,360 --> 01:47:48,360
And weird Barbie tells her that Barbies in Barbie Land take on the characteristics of the humans who play with them.
1262
01:47:48,360 --> 01:47:58,360
And her human must be sad because if Barbie wants to be normal again, she has to go to the real world and find her human and help her.
1263
01:47:58,360 --> 01:48:12,360
So that's the main gist of the plot. But ordinary Barbie has to travel to the real world and find her child that's playing with her and make her feel better.
1264
01:48:12,360 --> 01:48:19,360
So she goes and Ken tags along. Now, Ken, let me frame this for you. Ken is a loser.
1265
01:48:19,360 --> 01:48:27,360
The Kens are losers and the protagonist Ken is the loserest of them all.
1266
01:48:27,360 --> 01:48:37,360
He's completely obsessed with Barbie who is constantly rejecting him and she's constantly rejecting him for the other girls.
1267
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:45,360
He has to leave because it's girls night. It's always girls night, which means he can't sleep over because the girls are sleeping over.
1268
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:53,360
So just an absolute obvious homosexual reference. She's gay. She's got no use for him.
1269
01:48:53,360 --> 01:49:03,360
And he seems gay, but he's just completely just fawning all over her. He's completely obsessed with her.
1270
01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:12,360
And because she's always rejecting him, he's just always brooding. He's incessantly brooding.
1271
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:19,360
And this is totally out of step with the original IP, which Ben Shapiro is absolutely right about.
1272
01:49:19,360 --> 01:49:24,360
In the intellectual property of Ken and Barbie, they're boyfriend and girlfriend.
1273
01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:30,360
She doesn't hate it. She's not disinterested in him. They're together.
1274
01:49:30,360 --> 01:49:33,360
Isn't he a stud?
1275
01:49:33,360 --> 01:49:39,360
I guess. I suppose so. Right. I guess he's an object of affection for girls.
1276
01:49:39,360 --> 01:49:47,360
I remember my Barbies or my Ken had a ripped chest and a stud.
1277
01:49:47,360 --> 01:49:53,360
You're right. He was Beach Ken, which is what Ken in this movie was. He was Beach Ken.
1278
01:49:53,360 --> 01:49:57,360
I really didn't have Barbies, but my sister did.
1279
01:49:57,360 --> 01:50:01,360
No, they were totally not yours. That's fine.
1280
01:50:01,360 --> 01:50:06,360
And the ones you have now are your daughters.
1281
01:50:06,360 --> 01:50:11,360
I would bet you don't have a Barbie doll within a mile of your house.
1282
01:50:11,360 --> 01:50:17,360
If I walk into somebody's house with my family and they have Barbies in their house, we walk out.
1283
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You turn around, you turn and walk out. Feet don't fail me now.
1284
01:50:24,360 --> 01:50:30,360
So, yeah, again, I just I thought that Ben was right.
1285
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:38,360
He makes a good point. Why do they give their IP over to people who seem to just hate their IP or just abuse their IP this way?
1286
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:41,360
What's in it for Mattel?
1287
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:50,360
Anyway, so they get to the real world and Barbie's shocked to find that women aren't in control because, you know, she's in Barbie land.
1288
01:50:50,360 --> 01:50:55,360
She thinks women control everything, right? But, you know, she knows about the real world and she's been living under this.
1289
01:50:55,360 --> 01:51:07,360
Everyone in Barbie land lives under this impression that their existence has healed the real world, that it's helped them, you know, set an example for what women can be, what girls can be in the real world.
1290
01:51:07,360 --> 01:51:16,360
And so the real world must be fantastic. And she gets to the real world that she's shocked to find that women are not in control and that men are all sexist pigs.
1291
01:51:16,360 --> 01:51:25,360
OK, and they they portray the the patriarchy, the way women are treated.
1292
01:51:25,360 --> 01:51:39,360
It's so over the top that they they they accidentally betray they betray that they accidentally expose the fact that they that we don't currently live under a patriarchy.
1293
01:51:39,360 --> 01:51:50,360
They basically they have to fake it so hard. They have to exaggerate it so hard. You're just you're left with the impression with, well, if it actually is true, why would you have to exaggerate it?
1294
01:51:50,360 --> 01:52:00,360
Why would you? It doesn't make any sense. But 10 in the real world, he discovers that there's this patriarch and he's just drunk on power.
1295
01:52:00,360 --> 01:52:11,360
OK, finally, he's living somewhere. He's he's somewhere where men aren't losers and it opens up his eyes. He's like, oh, my gosh, men don't have to be losers.
1296
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:20,360
Oh, he's so excited. He immediately he leaves Barbie there in the real world. He immediately goes back to Barbie land to install the patriarchy.
1297
01:52:20,360 --> 01:52:34,360
OK, so that's the drama and Ken. So, yeah, he goes back and he takes it over, installs the patriarchy and all the women become stupid and subservient.
1298
01:52:34,360 --> 01:52:40,360
And here's here's Ben again. The point of the film is the matriarchy is amazing. Women are amazing at everything.
1299
01:52:40,360 --> 01:52:47,360
Ken walks in and within two seconds he has taken over all of Barbie land and he has turned it into the Ken Dom.
1300
01:52:47,360 --> 01:52:57,360
Within within two seconds, apparently the women are so unbelievably competent and brilliant and great at everything over in Barbie land that an idiot man walks in and takes over the whole place inside of two seconds.
1301
01:52:57,360 --> 01:53:01,360
Fine. So he takes over the entire place. We later learn that's because the women didn't know what was coming.
1302
01:53:01,360 --> 01:53:07,360
They we later learned they didn't have immunity and the way that they get immunity is by learning to hate the men that you got.
1303
01:53:07,360 --> 01:53:10,360
That's the way that they have to learn to hit men.
1304
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:21,360
So, yeah, Ken goes back to Barbie land and before Barbie gets a chance to return five scenes later, Ken has transformed Barbie land into Ken Dom.
1305
01:53:21,360 --> 01:53:27,360
And it is just the it is raw patriarchy. Like I said, all the women are stupid. They're all subservient.
1306
01:53:27,360 --> 01:53:36,360
And Ben again makes a great point. Gee, women are so strong, but they like Ken is there for two seconds and converts it all to a patriarchy.
1307
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They're the women are immediately in a spell.
1308
01:53:40,360 --> 01:53:50,360
They they they're they have to be deep. They have to be deprogrammed.
1309
01:53:50,360 --> 01:53:55,360
Yeah. And and then America first trying to explain to Barbie what exactly is going on.
1310
01:53:55,360 --> 01:53:57,360
America, Ferrera, he says that too fast.
1311
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That's the she plays the so Barbie goes to find the human being. She finds the girl. She's a teenage girl. And it turns out it's not the teenage girl that's playing with her.
1312
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It's the teenage girl's mother who's playing with her. OK. And that's played by America, Ferrera.
1313
01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:18,360
And she's like, it's just like the indigenous people and smallpox. They had no immunity.
1314
01:54:18,360 --> 01:54:26,360
So they the ladies in Barbie land had no immunity to the magic of the patriarchy, the magic women were seduced into.
1315
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:32,360
So just to point out here, the actual argument the movie is making is that if women enjoy men, it's because they have been brainwashed by the patriarchy.
1316
01:54:32,360 --> 01:54:37,360
They make this message explicit in just a few minutes in the film. We end up with Barbie complaining.
1317
01:54:37,360 --> 01:54:41,360
She's complaining to weird Barbie. And she says, oh, my God, they've brainwashed all the other Barbies.
1318
01:54:41,360 --> 01:54:45,360
They've brainwashed all the other Barbies, says, quote, either you're brainwashed or you're weird and ugly.
1319
01:54:45,360 --> 01:54:49,360
There is no in between. And we're Barbie says, tell me about it.
1320
01:54:49,360 --> 01:55:00,360
And this is the perspective of the film. Either you're a third wave feminist cook. Who hates men, truly hates men, or you are brainwashed.
1321
01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:04,360
Yep, that that pretty much sums it up.
1322
01:55:04,360 --> 01:55:08,360
So the women are under the spell.
1323
01:55:08,360 --> 01:55:19,360
And the way that they the way that they cure the women is first they get the women away from the men and then they intellectually deconstruct the patriarchy.
1324
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:27,360
OK, in other words, they apply critical gender theory. Critical gender theory is the hero of the movie, Jeremy.
1325
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They they the the the human adult woman who her and her daughter end up back in Barbie land. That's and she is the one who lets them know that the way that they fix this is to deconstruct the situation.
1326
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And she gives this speech that is so important, Jeremy.
1327
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It is so important. People have have recorded it and posted it to YouTube.
1328
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It's taking on a cult level of importance. Here it is.
1329
01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:04,360
It is literally impossible to be a woman.
1330
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You are so beautiful, so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough.
1331
01:56:12,360 --> 01:56:17,360
Like, we have to always be extraordinary.
1332
01:56:17,360 --> 01:56:23,360
But somehow we're always doing it wrong.
1333
01:56:23,360 --> 01:56:28,360
You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin.
1334
01:56:28,360 --> 01:56:33,360
You have to say you want to be healthy. But also you have to be thin.
1335
01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:40,360
You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's for us.
1336
01:56:40,360 --> 01:56:45,360
You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.
1337
01:56:45,360 --> 01:56:49,360
You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.
1338
01:56:49,360 --> 01:56:54,360
You have to be a career woman, but also always be looking out for other people.
1339
01:56:54,360 --> 01:57:00,360
You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining.
1340
01:57:00,360 --> 01:57:08,360
You're supposed to say pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood.
1341
01:57:08,360 --> 01:57:12,360
But always stand out and always be grateful.
1342
01:57:12,360 --> 01:57:17,360
But never forget that the system is raised, so find a way to acknowledge that, but also always be grateful.
1343
01:57:17,360 --> 01:57:27,360
You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear.
1344
01:57:27,360 --> 01:57:34,360
Never get out of line. It's too hard. It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you.
1345
01:57:34,360 --> 01:57:40,360
And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.
1346
01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:57,360
I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us.
1347
01:57:57,360 --> 01:58:07,360
And after she delivers that speech, one of the other Barbies suddenly comes to one of the Barbies that's in the in the vicinity suddenly comes snaps out of her trance.
1348
01:58:07,360 --> 01:58:14,360
And that's how they realized, we just need to make sure that all the other Barbies know and then they'll snap out of their trance too.
1349
01:58:14,360 --> 01:58:17,360
I have and this was the last bit of her speech.
1350
01:58:22,360 --> 01:58:24,360
It just isn't fair.
1351
01:58:24,360 --> 01:58:33,360
So, you know, I couldn't have listened to this and I'm thinking to myself, who doesn't feel this way?
1352
01:58:33,360 --> 01:58:41,360
Listen, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fail, never show fear.
1353
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Never show fear.
1354
01:58:43,360 --> 01:58:48,360
First of all, they accuse men of not showing emotion and not showing their fear.
1355
01:58:48,360 --> 01:58:52,360
This is this is universal. This could be applied to anybody.
1356
01:58:52,360 --> 01:58:55,360
This is not special to women.
1357
01:58:55,360 --> 01:59:01,360
Never get out of line. It's too hard. It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal.
1358
01:59:01,360 --> 01:59:09,360
Yeah, nobody's given men a medal either.
1359
01:59:09,360 --> 01:59:12,360
But that was the critical race theory saves the day.
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01:59:12,360 --> 01:59:16,360
The matriarchy is reestablished.
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And Ken, who is now really sad because he's lost his power and all he wanted in the first place was just to be treated decently by Barbie.
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01:59:25,360 --> 01:59:27,360
Is he treated decently at the end by Barbie?
1363
01:59:27,360 --> 01:59:29,360
Of course he isn't. That would be silly.
1364
01:59:29,360 --> 01:59:33,360
At the very end, he is told that he needs to learn to live without Barbie.
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01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:36,360
I just don't know who I am without you.
1366
01:59:36,360 --> 01:59:37,360
You're Ken.
1367
01:59:37,360 --> 01:59:42,360
But it's Barbie and Ken. There is no just Ken.
1368
01:59:42,360 --> 01:59:51,360
He who was literally created as a doll to be with Barbie, he needs to learn to be apart from Barbie and she needs to learn to be apart from him because atomistic isolation and loneliness is the best way to find fulfillment, ladies and gentlemen.
1369
01:59:51,360 --> 01:59:56,360
It'll be best for Ken if he never sees Barbie again. It'll be better for Barbie if she never sees Ken again.
1370
01:59:56,360 --> 01:59:59,360
Secular humanism is at its finest. We've reached the apotheosis.
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01:59:59,360 --> 02:00:04,360
Men and women don't belong together. They belong very, very much apart.
1372
02:00:04,360 --> 02:00:09,360
Yeah, a very dystopian message from this film.
1373
02:00:09,360 --> 02:00:12,360
And in the end, this is what's amazing.
1374
02:00:12,360 --> 02:00:22,360
So Barbie with her human companion deconstruct using critical gender theory.
1375
02:00:22,360 --> 02:00:27,360
They deconstruct the patriarchy. What does Barbie do?
1376
02:00:27,360 --> 02:00:31,360
She decides she wants to go back and live in the real world.
1377
02:00:31,360 --> 02:00:42,360
She and this is where I actually this is where I begin to think that the film is actually maybe it's maybe very subversive, but not the way people think.
1378
02:00:42,360 --> 02:00:53,360
Because Barbie, it turns out she spent too much time in the real world. That was the patriarchy was terrible, so terrible that she wanted to stop it from happening in Barbie land. But now she wants to go back there because she actually learned some feelings over in over in the real world.
1379
02:00:53,360 --> 02:00:59,360
So she decides that after all, this whole story was just Pinocchio and she just wants to be a real boy.
1380
02:00:59,360 --> 02:01:07,360
So Barbie is now sent back to the real world and she is now going to experience the apotheosis of what it means to be a human woman.
1381
02:01:07,360 --> 02:01:14,360
So we've learned early on in the movie when she goes to the real world, she's catcalled by a bunch of construction guys, and she says, I don't have a vagina.
1382
02:01:14,360 --> 02:01:19,360
And she again, amazing line for your for your seven year old girl. She'll love it.
1383
02:01:19,360 --> 02:01:22,360
So apparently, when she is turned into a real woman, she has now grown a vagina.
1384
02:01:22,360 --> 02:01:29,360
So the first thing that she does is she goes to the gynecologist because ladies, the apotheosis of your being is not motherhood.
1385
02:01:29,360 --> 02:01:35,360
We got rid of that at the very beginning. And it's not being a wife or partner because women are supposed to be apart from men.
1386
02:01:35,360 --> 02:01:38,360
It is your vagina. It is that you go to the gynecologist.
1387
02:01:38,360 --> 02:01:44,360
Ladies, this is what makes you the most human you can be, is that you go to the gynecologist.
1388
02:01:44,360 --> 02:01:47,360
Now, I could point out here that that's really transphobic.
1389
02:01:47,360 --> 02:01:54,360
And according to the same people who made this movie, not all women have vaginas and not all people with penises are men.
1390
02:01:54,360 --> 02:02:01,360
And that's a very good point. It's a transphobic ending that they slap onto this thing.
1391
02:02:01,360 --> 02:02:11,360
And, you know, I guess I said maybe this film is subversive. I'm not even so sure it's subversive as much as I feel like it's it's more than one film.
1392
02:02:11,360 --> 02:02:20,360
I think they may have made this entire like hardcore feminist screed and then executives came in and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1393
02:02:20,360 --> 02:02:23,360
No, no, no, no. You're not leaving it like this.
1394
02:02:23,360 --> 02:02:30,360
And they slapped on this thing at the end where she and they sold it to them as, hey, she's transitioning because she does.
1395
02:02:30,360 --> 02:02:36,360
This is a this is like a trans moment. She transitions. And how does she transition?
1396
02:02:36,360 --> 02:02:42,360
She has a vagina now. OK, so that's like, you know, oh, you can.
1397
02:02:42,360 --> 02:02:47,360
Yeah, you can transition. All you have to do is just go through the steps and you transition.
1398
02:02:47,360 --> 02:02:59,360
And now you're in your real world. But defining it that way, that basically they reinforce the idea.
1399
02:02:59,360 --> 02:03:07,360
Girls have girls have vaginas, boys have penises, which is a very anti-trans message.
1400
02:03:07,360 --> 02:03:13,360
And it's ironic, too, because this film had a trans a trans character, a trans Barbie.
1401
02:03:13,360 --> 02:03:21,360
Which undermines the entire narrative of the film, but let's not even get into that because I don't want to get into that.
1402
02:03:21,360 --> 02:03:25,360
I'm just more interested in where they're using Marxism.
1403
02:03:25,360 --> 02:03:33,360
The the critical gender theory, again, is the hero of the movie, not Barbie.
1404
02:03:33,360 --> 02:03:39,360
Critical gender theory. Let me just digress briefly here in how women actually achieve.
1405
02:03:39,360 --> 02:03:44,360
This is great. I included this because this is such a good point. You're going to actually like this, Jeremy.
1406
02:03:44,360 --> 02:03:50,360
Let me just digress briefly here in how women actually achieve power in Western civilization.
1407
02:03:50,360 --> 02:03:53,360
The answer is that they lobbied men and men gave it to them.
1408
02:03:53,360 --> 02:03:57,360
That is the actual answer as to how women achieve power in Western civilization.
1409
02:03:57,360 --> 02:04:02,360
The amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote was passed solely by men because women couldn't vote.
1410
02:04:02,360 --> 02:04:08,360
It turns out there are a lot of good hearted men out there who like women and who want women to be able to live lives they want.
1411
02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:12,360
It turns out that many of us are husbands and fathers. Many of us have daughters.
1412
02:04:12,360 --> 02:04:14,360
Many of us love the people we're married to.
1413
02:04:14,360 --> 02:04:19,360
It turns out that that actually describes a huge number of Western men that we are not your enemies.
1414
02:04:19,360 --> 02:04:26,360
And yet the entire premise of the movie is that what actually happened in the feminist movement is that women seized the power away from the men.
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02:04:26,360 --> 02:04:29,360
I'm sorry to break it to you ladies. It ain't true.
1416
02:04:29,360 --> 02:04:35,360
And last clip from him. He makes this prediction.
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02:04:35,360 --> 02:04:40,360
That's why you're seeing everybody wearing pink to the theaters. It's become like a Star Wars kind of thing. It's an actual cosplay of it.
1418
02:04:40,360 --> 02:04:46,360
The number of moms who are going to take their daughters back to the theater week two. Good luck with that.
1419
02:04:46,360 --> 02:04:48,360
Really good luck with that.
1420
02:04:48,360 --> 02:04:53,360
So he predicts a week to fall off.
1421
02:04:53,360 --> 02:05:02,360
And regrettably he's already wrong. From Al in Joliet, Big Al sends this. Barbie keeps dominating in second weekend.
1422
02:05:02,360 --> 02:05:09,360
Barbie took in a massive 93 million in its second weekend according to studio estimates on Sunday.
1423
02:05:09,360 --> 02:05:11,360
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
1424
02:05:11,360 --> 02:05:16,360
I have to tell you most people that I'm talking to love the film.
1425
02:05:16,360 --> 02:05:20,360
Their kids love the film. They love the film. Love, love, love the film.
1426
02:05:20,360 --> 02:05:31,360
Because they just they're not they're not paying attention. They don't realize they don't realize what they're watching.
1427
02:05:31,360 --> 02:05:38,360
That's sad. Sound of Freedom did another 12.4 million.
1428
02:05:38,360 --> 02:05:45,360
I know I don't have to worry about executive producer Ann going out to see Barbie.
1429
02:05:45,360 --> 02:05:54,360
Well, like I said, I would not take kids if you are offended by crass jokes, vulgar humor.
1430
02:05:54,360 --> 02:05:59,360
I would I you can take a pass if those things don't bother you.
1431
02:05:59,360 --> 02:06:11,360
I highly recommend going to see it because it is actually an important film in so far as understanding the state of our current culture and our cultural narrative.
1432
02:06:11,360 --> 02:06:16,360
And that is what our show is about. Our program is about the cultural narrative.
1433
02:06:16,360 --> 02:06:18,360
And so that's why I went.
1434
02:06:18,360 --> 02:06:27,360
And goes to see the movie. I'm going to clobber over the head and drag her by the hair and lock her up in a cave.
1435
02:06:27,360 --> 02:06:31,360
It's going to be difficult for her to vote from there.
1436
02:06:31,360 --> 02:06:37,360
The but apparently you don't mind if I see it. If I'm corrupted, you don't care.
1437
02:06:37,360 --> 02:06:44,360
I do mind that you saw it. I'm worried that your brain has been spoiled forever after that.
1438
02:06:44,360 --> 02:06:48,360
OK, so you're just not feeling the effects yet.
1439
02:06:48,360 --> 02:06:51,360
This is the best thing that came out of it, Jeremy.
1440
02:06:51,360 --> 02:06:57,360
This clip came out of a theater. I don't know where this is.
1441
02:06:57,360 --> 02:07:02,360
This is unbelievable. This happened at the end of one of the showings of Barbie.
1442
02:07:02,360 --> 02:07:09,360
In this clip, I'm going to describe it to you because it's going to be hard for via listening to understand what's happening.
1443
02:07:09,360 --> 02:07:12,360
But the credits are rolling and there are people standing.
1444
02:07:12,360 --> 02:07:22,360
There's a couple of people standing in the aisle and several people have their phones out and are recording.
1445
02:07:22,360 --> 02:07:28,360
And some words are being. Oh, no, two women are throwing punches at each other.
1446
02:07:28,360 --> 02:07:31,360
Oh, a fight is broken out in the theater.
1447
02:07:31,360 --> 02:07:34,360
Two women, two Barbie moms are fighting each other.
1448
02:07:34,360 --> 02:07:38,360
And along comes a man to get in between.
1449
02:07:38,360 --> 02:07:42,360
The patriarchy comes to divide them.
1450
02:07:42,360 --> 02:07:54,360
Gets into the way of these two women who could have worked it out without the man inserting himself into their cat fight.
1451
02:07:54,360 --> 02:07:57,360
Can you can you script that any better?
1452
02:07:57,360 --> 02:08:08,360
This film, which is a treatise, an argument for women not putting each other down and coming together as a team to take to dislodge the patriarchy.
1453
02:08:08,360 --> 02:08:15,360
And there they are throwing down in the theater and a man has to come break them up.
1454
02:08:15,360 --> 02:08:23,360
That's poetry in motion, my friend, poetry in motion.
1455
02:08:23,360 --> 02:08:29,360
Barbie, ladies and gentlemen, go see it. Go see it in the theaters. Buy popcorn.
1456
02:08:29,360 --> 02:08:36,360
I'm going to eat popcorn at home and watch more indictments.
1457
02:08:36,360 --> 02:08:43,360
OK, go to the theater, pick up popcorn, take it home, watch the indictments.
1458
02:08:43,360 --> 02:08:52,360
Thank you very much, Jeremy Siegel, for your time and your brains, your intellect, your perspective, your truth.
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Bringing your truth to the podcast, sharing it with our producers.
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Thank you to our producers. Very productive.
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Suspect number 68 in Whereabouts Unknown and Al and Joliet.
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Thank you very much for your contributions.
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That's what makes the show. You are our producers. You send us content. It ends up in the show.
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And don't forget to tune in every single Tuesday and Friday.
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We bring you two episodes a week without fail.
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To the best of our ability. This was episode forty six or forty seven. Forty six.
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We're getting close. Close to the big five. Oh, the big five. Oh, would that be we should have a we should have a party or something like a six month birthday party.
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We're a 50th birthday party. I'm just doing the math.
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It does sound better if we're 50, although I am in my 50s. So I don't know.
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Well, then you know how to throw one of those parties. Great. All right, everybody. Thank you very much. And now back into the sea of click bait with us all.