Albert Lanier; Gary Webb

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de Lanier, are you there?
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I am indeed, how are you?
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Oh?
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Great? Now your audio sounds great, hundred times better than before. Okay,
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this is great, Well, thank you very much. Okay, Well
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tell the audience radio it's a radio voice. Well, this
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is great. Okay, tell you who is Albert lanear tell
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tell the audience.
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Okay, before I do that, I have a bit of
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a question for you. Who's I like Operaman? Sorry? Sorry,
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that's good. That's why I ask. Don't they just a
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little about yourself that I'll get to me?
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Well, listen, now, I got a long life. I got it.
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You know.
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Well you want to hear some stuff. Okay, it was
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an intent evangelist. I ran with the bulls in Spain.
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I own a nightclub Manhattan as a private investigator. Very
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very colorful life.
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Uh. Involved in some.
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Of the major twenty four hour news stories like I
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was telling you off the other Tiger Woods case and
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Charlie Sheen case when it went nuts for a year, Wienergate, Zimmerman,
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all kinds of fun stuff, Congresslan investigations, my dad. I
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live in a wonderful, sunny Las Vegas. I'm getting out
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of the shape, my physical body back in shape. And
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thanks to get the Tea dot Com, life changed Tea
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And otherwise I'm just a grumpy old mf or just
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trying to get through the day.
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Crumpy old mfor I like that. I'll speak that. Okay,
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that's fair. So let me just tell you a little
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bit about myself.
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Okay, I'm born.
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And raison onlu Hawaii. I strangely enough, this year is
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the thirtieth anniversary of my high school graduation and the
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twenty fifth anniversary of my college graduation. I attended a
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liberal arts college called the University of Hawaii West O Wahoo,
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which I graduated from in nineteen ninety three with a
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Bachelor of Arts degrees in the humanity humanities. And in
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nineteen ninety four I began what became my career as
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not only a journalist, but as a freelance writer. I
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was a freelance writer journalists, and even to some extent,
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a ghostwriter, as well as writing other types of projects
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and materials. I was a freelance writer and journalist from
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nineteen ninety four until twenty seventeen. I technically retired last
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year in February. February of twenty seventeen, and since May
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of twenty seventeen, I've been writing a blog on a
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site called medium dot com, like the old school is
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www dotmedium dot com. And that's part of the reason
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that I'm here today is to promote my blog which
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is on medium dot com and it's reached its one
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year anniversary this month, and in fact, there's a brand
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new blog which I just wrote yesterday about the Gary Webb,
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about Gary Web and what happened to his career. I
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believe it's called Terminated with Extreme fre Judice, How the
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maintream media destroyed the career Gryweb. So you can check
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that out, and you can check out my other blogs.
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I've written about a number of things. It's largely oriented
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toward media and media issues and media aspects as well
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as rick from the headlines current events. So I've written
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about story Daniels and how the media treat twinmen. I've
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also written about what's going on with Meegan Kelly, and
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also wrote about Alex Jones. I did it kind of
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expose on OX shows called the Infohore the Alex Shows Deception.
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So that's one of many a number of blog pieces,
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maybe not many, but the number of blog pieces you
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can check out at my blog which is at old
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schools www dot medium dot com and for the more
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postmodern just medium dot com. And it's under my name Albert.
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Lemir yeah right, and Lanier spoke La and I e
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er when you get to medium dot com correct, So Okay.
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When came on the show to talk about Gary Webb,
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why don't you describe who Gary Webb was and how
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he became famous.
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Gary Webb was a reporter for a rather middle daily
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newspaper in northern California called the Santase Mercury News, and
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he was not just a reporter there, he was an
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investigative reporter. And previous to that, Web had been a reporter,
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I believe, at the Cleveland Brain Dealer at newspapers in Kentucky.
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I think he's from Kentucky, originally went to school there,
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and so he had come up through the ranks of
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the print journalism trade, much like I didn't write for dailies,
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but I went through the print journalism trade. I guess
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at this point I should also note my CV my
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curriculum vidding as the freelance writers. I have written a
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number of publications newspapers and magazines include Hollar Weekly, Specific
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Business News, Hawaiian Magazine, Edible Hawaiian Islands, for which I
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want an award, and a number of other publications. It'saw
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Business Journal, Agent Week, just a number of publications that
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I've contributed to. So that's part of my career. Of
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Big Agent show to demonstrate the people kind of my
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take on it, because this is my take on Garry
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Wayne's career, but it's from a journalistic point of view.
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Having been a finance journalist and an independent journalist, I
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have a certain take on it. In any event, a
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Web was working for the Santazie Mercury News at the
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time that a series that he wrote came out in
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nineteen ninety six, and the name of the series is
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called Dark Alliance. Dark Alliance was the series that basically
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made is made and made him, as you mentioned famous.
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Basically Dark Alliance was about the series that was about
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three article series. If I'm not mistaken, the series was
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about the crack cocaine trade and trafficking in the United States,
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and what we'rether done was isolated largely to the West Coast,
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more specifically to Los Angeles, California. Within that context, he
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isolated it even further, sort of microsophically, brought down to
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the level of about three people. One was Ricky Freugay Ross,
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who is a drug dealer who I believe he found
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your show. If I'm not mistaken, Sure, yeah, you've got
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him on your show. I actually listened to that. It
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was a kind of interesting interview. Is also Norman Manessas
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and the Neo Bladdag and they were from the Odla.
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I believe Manessa's if I'm Not Mistaken had the nickname
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that two drugs, I'm Not Mistaken, And they were essentially
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the suppliers. Both Manthis and Linda were the suppliers of
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raw cocaine to Ricky Up who was selling it to
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street games in La and elsewhere, the primarily the in La,
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the crypts and the bloods, and was basically making millions
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on millions of dollars. I think at one point he
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was making three to four million in a day from coocaine.
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What happened was that the innovation, if you could call it,
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that was to take the cocaine to what was expensed
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at that time fifteen leaks seventy eighty cocaine is considered
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a highly expensive crook, but a couple hundred dollars of
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still or something like that and basically hardening it, turning
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it the smaller stones and the losses the term selling
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it for much cheaper amounts. So that was the innovation
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that Loss and probably others came up with, and that
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was The sort of the gist of the article was
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loss was the major font for pushing cocaine, primarily crack
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cocaine out into not only Los Angeles, but in other
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areas on the West coast and eventually around the country,
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and that Laddon and Manessas were using the proceeds from
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these drug trafficking not only for drug trafficking, but for
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our sales to finance the contra A the basically the
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control lebel army. Sorry, by that's just my thing. In
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the countries were fighting the Sandinista government, which was a
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left wing government in the drug way, So that was
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sort of the gist. Now, the controversial part of that
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series was that the CIA had knowledge or awareness that
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drugs were flowing, you know, the drugs are not only
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flowing into the country from these Nicaraguan sources, but that
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they were protecting these sources because the CIA backed the CONTRASCE. Essentially,
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as we have noted in this series, this was the
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quote unquote CIA army, that's how I refer to it,
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and they were supported by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Yeah, Ali North, good old Ali North has just got
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elected the chairman of the NRA.
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We're going to take over the NRA.
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I think, yeah, yeah, the guy that the set the
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price for a kilo of cocaine the United States and
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then they can let them uh run the NRA.
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It's it's fascinating.
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Well, you know, Ali Nors is essentially I mean that,
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I mean, that guy is so crooked it's not even
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worth discussing. Yeah, well discussing in many respects. I mean
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probably the depth of his involvement in Shady and Dirty
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Church is extensive. I mean, all I need to do
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for those of people who are really into Ali North,
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all I need to do is mention Rex eighty four.
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They'll probably have a connemption fit. But anyway, not the
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controversial part of the series when it came out in
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nineteen ninety six was the CIA aspect. And so in
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the piece that I recently wrote for my blog on
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medium dot com, what I do is I look at
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how this career was destroyed after this series came out.
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It had a tremendous initial impact, and that impact was
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substantial because it was like all over the media. Now.
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The reason that I discussed this and I'm on your
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show now besides promoting my blog, and I hate to
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say that because I've never promoted it big in my life,
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they have to now. Besides that, the thing, the other
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reason is because this serves as an object lesson as
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to what can happen in regards to the news media,
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the sort of invisible contours and invisible boundaries of the
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news behavior which are unknown to most people that are
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known for reporters, what you can and you can't get
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away with, and basically what even though he did homework,
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even though he produced a series that was factual and substantial,
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he basically violated these invisible boundaries in the news media.
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And that's in my view why he was destroyed ultimately
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by the major media, the dominant news media in this country.
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Is that he violated boundaries.
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Well, think about it. Web series would have been just
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fine had the CIA angle not been a part of it.
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That was what was off boundaries. You can't write about
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intelligence agencies in this company. You could then and even
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now it's very difficult. And keep in mind this is
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before nine to eleven. Then the internet was relatively new,
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and that was a way also that this series had
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a tremendous impact because what Web and the senez Mercury
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News did was put the series online and put the
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documents online. That was something new at the time, to
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put up these documents of a story. We just don't
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do that, certainly. I certainly never did that or wasn't
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able to do that as much even as the freelance
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journalists throughout the nineties and into the just two thousands,
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so to speak. But that was kind of an innovationising
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up all these documents in addition to the.
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Short Now, why do you think it is that mainstream
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media and even Gary what he was writing for the
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freds New Mercury Mercury something like that with the Mercury
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News was Mercury News, Santa Mercury News, right, you know,
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which isn't like that's like a weekly paper. This is
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not like a big paper, right, No.
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in California right there in Nevada. In California, the big
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papers would be the Los Angeles Times, you know, the
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San Francisco Chronicle, San Diego Union Tribune, and even in
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La So the California La Weekly for example. Those are
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the big papers. So something like Santa's a Mercury News
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is what Silicon Valley Area or something like that standard daily,
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your average kind of big city but but not big
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time daily. The reality of the media in this country
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is that there were only so many newspapers that matter
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in regards to the national pulse of news. When we're
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talking just quintet, you got the New York Times, Washington Post. Uh,
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you've got Wall Street Journal, and to a lesser extent,
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papers like the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles Times
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is the major paper, and you want to laugh, you
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dictate the national pulse.
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You want to left real quick because you talk about
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the LA Times in the Washington Post. When I was
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covering a Bernie campaign, my little uh slot in the
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in the in the press pool was right in between
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LA Times and Washington Post element o p because I
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was opperaman. I'm sitting there, man, right between the LA
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Times and the Washington Post.
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That can beat that. But but my questions is them.
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I probably shouldn't say, but I was gonna say. That
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must have been very uncomfortable, do you know what I mean?
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Yeah, you know, we gotta look.
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Lay and I won't go into details, but go ahead.
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Now, what how why is it?
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You know?
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I I know from my own experience, Okay, on several
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occasions I've had, I'll be trying to book a show
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and certain people will insert themselves into my life and
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I found out later on that they were CIA okay,
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or try and influence the show, either trying and get
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booked in the show, or try and influence the show
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in different ways. And I say, I don't even come
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on to even talk about it. Later on, I kind
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of just let it go and said, let the audience
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figure it out on their own. But now the thing is,
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what is it? How is it that they can influence
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a paper like the this San Jose Mercury News in
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order to uh like put the kiwash on Gary Webb? Like,
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how does that work mechanically?
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As I noted in my blog piece, the recent one,
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my anniversary piece, I go through a step by step
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dissection of how his career was essentially destroyed. And one
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of the aspects of Gary Webb being destroyed what's what
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I call the counter offensive or counter attack. And one
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of the ways that they work in regards to the
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San Jose Mercury News is they turned the news the
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Mercury News into an outlier, an outcast. At first, the
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Mercury News defended web. But when you've got the big
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guns New York Times, Washington Post, and in terms of
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California or southern California, the Los Angeles Times, when you've
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got all these big guns trained on you, and these
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guys are sending out reporters to look at the story
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and say, well, you know, that went beyond known facts,
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He misstated, he made conclusions that veered from accepted facts
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or the accepted truth. This kind of these kinds of aspects,
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when you have to have that, what it serves to
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do is to isolate and alienate. And so at some
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point the Mercury News, being an established, being a basic
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mainstringing paper because it was a daily, they gave in.
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And it's not unusual that they gave in. Because they're
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part of the sort of dominant news media or the
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major news media in this country. They may not be
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at the very top. I to use the term Bill
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O'Reilly would use it because you O'Reilly is nothing but
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a sleevey creep who wasn't even a decent reporter and
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just saved a lot of stuff that he was reporting on.
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But that's a whole other story. But the media elite,
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I think he used that term before, the media elite.
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So the media elite, when they trained their guns on
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you're in trouble. Keep in mind the internet with very
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news back then. So it's not like garyre had any
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recourse other than defending himself on mainstream American television. When
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he was being interviewed, whether it's cable TV or the
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networks or even in print, he didn't really have much
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of a choice other than to try to defend himself.
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But you can't really go to war against the media.
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And this is what Trump is probably learning right now,
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and he understands now. If he didn't understand before he
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went into office, he's understanding it now. You can't beat
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the media. You can't meet the major media in this company,
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it's a.
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R so al. But you mentioned how.
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The presol uh know, how they did a hatchet on
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there on Gary Webb, kind of like the same way
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they started questioning Michael Wolfe with the Fire.
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And Fury book. At first he was all accepted well
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and stuff like that, but then towards the end they
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started like criticizing a little thing, and then now he's
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banished from the media. What do you make of that?
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Ah? Interesting, That's an interesting case because well you have
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to look at bof Elf. Basically what he is is
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in my view, you know, why of slang terms for
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people and concepts and entities. Uh, he's basically what I
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call a love him and be one reporter. What he
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essentially does is seduce subjects. He wants to interview people
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that he wants to books about, like he did with
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Rupert Murdoch, sends them emails fuse him in praise, he
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says a lot of nice things about him. Then he
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gets that he gets to permission to shadow them, follow
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them around. Uh, and then he puts the screws to
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them once he writes the book. It's essentially what he
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did with the Trump administration. In fact, it's absolute what
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he did. But here's the thing about Wolf. Wolf was
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granted access to the West Wing, so he had a
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West Wing pass. So he's not just showing up with
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either the temporary prest bridge those of the White House
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or permanent ones. He's at the West Wing, so he's
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watching people. He's cornering people to say, hey, I talk
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to you, Can I have a few an interview, to
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do an interview or whatever. And well, now that he
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produces book, which was one of the first major look
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at the Trump administration. Keep in mind this came out
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what December last years ago, and so it was really
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the first real picture of the administration that people would
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get outside of the normal major news media but even
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alternative media aspects. And the thing is that I think
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that Wolfe's reputation has caught up with him. So he
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was on everything on TV and probably podcast and radio
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and who knowss. But after a point it began, I
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think the reality of wolf just a by you began
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to be manifest and I think people just kind of
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realize that he's nothing more than an opportunist, A smart
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op opportunist, no doubt, an opportunist. That's essentially what he
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is now. Red Hire and Fury is entirely accurate, fully inaccurate.
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I can't say absolutely, because I have not read the
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entire book I comment on that absolutely, but I would
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probably venture to argue that at least a minimum of
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twenty five percent what little I have read, twenty five
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percent of that has to be accurate. So it can't
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be entirely fault with the story. He had to have
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captured some some of the reality going on in that
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in that White House. But I think his reputation caught
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up with him.
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Okay, and uh and back to web.
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Because because his life was destroyed, can you can you
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can you go into that and they're like, no, was
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this just in the US? So was it also in
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his personal life as well? Is this finances, we're attacking stuff.
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Well, I mean basically they what happened was after this,
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let me just backtrack a little and describe what I
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call the counter offensive ENCOUNTERTECHKA. Basically, the media is the
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major newspapers like The New York Times, the Washington Post. They
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put reporters onto the web series and that subject and
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basically to try to credit him, they morgated that. Essentially
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they tight it, discredited him, uh and in essence disabled
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the story to buddy it in the in the eyes
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of the punk. The La Times had a team of
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about nineteen reporters and they had called themselves. This is
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according to Russ Grinn, who interviewed doc. I believe it
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was the majority of reports. I'm theater show hasty, late
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time orders on this team that was to beat the
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look at web series and vic the web series called
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them themselves to get very web teams. That's what they
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informally dubbed themselves.
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Okay.
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LA Times had a major dog in the hunt because
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The Times, I believe I actually interviewed Ricky Ross Freeway
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Ricky Ross years ago and they were aware of this.
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This actually wasn't entirely a new development. You know, I
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think Robert Perry of associated president the investigation into the
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sort of contra drug connection, and of course there was
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a let me see, there was a there was a
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set of investigation into the whole drug issue in regards
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to this, the Contra affair, I think in eighty seven,
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nineteen eighty seven. So it wasn't just something that was
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just brand new out of the sky, or it seemed
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by the way, probably in nineteen ninety six, there were
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some nibbles here and there. But what happened was the
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other times had gotten scooped by web. I mean, they
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basically were shown up because here's this guy working for
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not even one of the major newspapers in southern in California,
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and he has this big story. I mean, this is
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a gigantic story. Now, I don't know where you were
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in nineteen ninety six. Were you on the West Coast?
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Uh?
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No, in ninety six, I was living in New York, Okay.
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I was living in la in nineteen ninety six. This
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is part of the reason that I looked into this
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and I've examined it, because in a sense, it was
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slightly personal to me. I was a young selancer and
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a young journalist living in LA, working in LA and
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I read web in the papers there. I was there
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when all of that, when that series came out. So
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for me it's personal because I was an LA resident
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back then and it was I used the term insdiary
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in my blog piece. Explosive is another term. I was
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a gigantic story. If it was big back then in
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nineteen nine six, that story came out today, it would
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be even bigger. It'd be gigantic because it would be
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not only in the mainstream but also on the Internet.
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It technically was on the Internet back then in ninety six.
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The INTERNETWEW is relatively new in regards to public consciousness.
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But that's why I would have been even bigger today
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in twenty eighteen.
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But do you think it would come out today? I
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think we have more a suppression of the press in
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mainstream press, at least soon, than we did back then.
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Interesting, Why do you why do you think that scurious?
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You wrote a book, You wrote a story, a blog
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about Megan Kelly, about about Sorry Megan Kelly.
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Yeah, I wrote about Megan Kelly and her I think
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her reporting or moving to NBC. I we're working about her,
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but about moving to NBC and some of her reporting,
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like she had started out by interviewing Vladimir Putin right,
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which was a joke. I mean, he made mincemeat out
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of her. I mean it was just embarrassing.
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Well, because I'm referring to her interview with James Ali Fontis, Well,
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she didn't even ask him a single question. I just
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brought him on the show and was his pr piece.
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And where no matter what your feelings are about the
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more serious allegations, just the most basic review of his
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Instagram page and his online activity, and would if he
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had a custody evaluation for his own kids in family court,
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would lose custody of his own kids over his online
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behavior and the comments and the remarks and and the
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photos he had on his Instagram page. So and and
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she just totally uh glosses over that.
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And it just gives this guy a pass. Weren't asking
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him a single serious question.
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Well, first and foremost, if you look at where Megan
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Kelly is. I think she has a show on Sundays,
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I believe. I don't know if he still does.
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I haven't watched anything with her in a long time.
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I don't, I don't, I don't watch that much TV.
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I'm mostly an online guy, so if I see it
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on YouTube or something. But I believe she had a
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show on Sunday because I saw one episode of her
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show that was along with Alex Jokes, which was an
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answer this one. And that leads me to me. You know,
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when you bring up Megan Kelly, that just demonstrates that
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this woman's out of her debts. First of all, she's
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not a real journalist. She's a lawyer, and she was
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a lawyer that was interested in being a reporter. She
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she didn't even get hired on the local news level.
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She just got hired at Fox. And if you look
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at her work at Fox, like most other reporters they're Fox,
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She's not a real journalist and not a real reporter,
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she's a propagandist, which is what most of those people
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are there. I mean, someone like Sean Hannity is at
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least honest. I mean he stated he's not a reporter,
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which is pretty blatant obvious. But she's nothing more than
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really an attorney pretending to be a reporter. So if
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you look at her gig here at NBC or being
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brought over for but ten million dollars or more, she
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got to be a huge amount of money. I mean,
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it's been a play a disaster and disaster. She's not
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a real journalist. I mean Alex Jones, all people, I
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mean Alex Jones jokers. You know, this is a guy
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that I've written about in my blog. Alex Jones showed
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her up. I mean what he did was just so
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I just shot in my head. I know, did she
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not realize who she was dealing with because he painked
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her over the phone while she was basically trying to,
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you know, smooth the waters. I mean, I understand what
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she's trying to do. It's what journalists normally do when
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you talk to someone about doing an interview. Oh yeah,
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well this is what we're looking to do, and this,
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that and the other thing. And Alex taked all that
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and then and then played it before I think the
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NBC Our NBC Show segment came out about her. I mean,
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if if you want to see how far out of
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depth this woman is, just I mean, I'm not inviting
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people to go to InfoWars dot com, but if you
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can see it on YouTube or whatever, check this out.
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Because the woman basically got revealed to be what she
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is and that is someone pretending to be a journalist,
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or should I say, uh acting the role of journalists,
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acting the royal reporter.
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Okay, yeah, I just read the book A Show with
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Alex Jones's ex wife, and that turned out to be a.
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She doesn't know what she's doing. She doesn't know what
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she's doing. I mean, you just noted it. She doesn't
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know what she's doing. She wants you to pretend that
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she knows what she's doing. She's not an unintelligent person,
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but she's she's no reporter. No, she doesn't have the jobs.
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It's it's pretty clear even for TV and TV news
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to me is just basically what I call news entertainment.
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It's a joke.
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And you said you wrote my Bias is a Bridge Journey. Yeah, yeah,
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just a bit. Yeah. And you said you wrote a
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story about a Stormy Daniels to what was that?
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Yeah, well that was about how the media steaks women,
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And if you looked at that, for me, was about
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you know, some of the misogyny, some of the sort
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of blatant hatred for women, and more importantly, I think
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women who have been in compromising situations with important men
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or quote unquote important men. I don't consider forty five.
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I don't even want to say his name. Forty five
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that important. He thinks he's that important. I don't. But
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if you look at the way she's been treated, I mean,
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I actually saw a poll and this is part of
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what inspired me to write the piece. I saw a
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pole that stated the point start didn't even know her name,
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the port start and the president, and I thought, how
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is it you going to talk about something and not
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even what this person's name. She's an individual with a name. Now,
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she's a human being like all of us are, but
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somehow she doesn't count because she's engaged in a rather
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explicit line of work.
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It's it's interesting too that the other the playboy playing
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at Karen McDougall, nobody even knows her name even at all,
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and if it's like you know, they wouldn't even come
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close to remembering that name or reporting that name. And
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she actually had a relationship with with Trump went on
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for months. We got to take another commercial break here
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with Albert Linear. We've been talking about Gary Webb, Stormy Daniels,
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N I E. R. So, Albert, we were talking about
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Gary Webb.
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What is your conclusion? Do you think it was a suicide?
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I figured you would ask that question. Well, I'll put
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it to you this way. Supposedly with two gunshots to
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the head generally from my understanding of the suicide. But gunshot,
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you would only need one, So why too, Just want
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people to think about that.
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Well, you know, it looked that up. It is.
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It's not that uncommon for there to be two gunshots
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in a suicide.
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Well, but I'm saying it's not entirely in top but
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it's still suspicious. Game. It would depend on what the
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location of the gunshots would be. You know, if one
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word flesh, okay, that's something. But generally speaking one should
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do a job. So I would say it's fairly suspicious.
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But that's all I can say at this point. It's
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fairly suspicious, Okay.
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And when I talked to Freeway with Rick Ross, I'm
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pretty sure that he felt it was a suicide.
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Oh he did, Oh he told you that.
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I'm pretty sure. Yeah.
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In fact, everybody who I've talked to that that knew
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one all agree.
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That it was a suicide.
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It was a suicide. I just say that I'm suspicious
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of it. I can't say that it wasn't and I
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can't say that it was.
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It's best to be.
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I take the kind of position of it. I'm determined
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at this time.
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So any other recent new stories you've been writing about.
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Well, well, I'm retired at this point, so I'm not
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active in the trade. I do the an occasional op
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ed piece on occasion for a local news cy called
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Honolulu Civil Beat, and that's that depends. But no, I haven't.
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I mean, the last thing that I wrote was about
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Gary Webb is for It's my anniversary piece on my blog,
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and I looked into how his career was destroyed, and
752
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so I haven't really written anything outside of that.
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Gotcha, Okay, so we're pretty much running out of time.
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Is there anything you want to leave us with?
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Well, you know, that's a good point. I think one
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of the things that I wanted to mention and make
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clear was I think that the Gary Webb affair and
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what happened to him is an object Listen. As I
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mentioned earlier about what I call the invisible boundaries of
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the news media, there's a lot that really isn't understood
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by most people about the news media. In fact, most
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people approach the news media from total indorance. They really
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just don't understand it. And that's not unlike any other industry.
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They don't want you to understand it. They don't want
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you to be worst enough to understand what the news
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business is about. And that's logically no other industry does, right.
767
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I don't think the restaurant business wants people to know
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what the restaurant, what the what the industry is really like,
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nor would that be for agriculture. Agriculture know where that
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be for any other industry, and the news business is
771
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no different. There's a lot about the news business that
772
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the average person really just doesn't understand, you know. And
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I know that as somebody who's been an independent journalist,
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there's been a freelancer, been a journalist for twenty two years,
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you know. I know that, for example, that not every
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article that's printed in newspaper is written by the person
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who's given as the byeline. And I know this is
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somebody who is ghost written newsaper articles. I haven't just
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written my own articles, of which there're been you know
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who knows plenty of them or whatever of them about
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them the internet or elsewhere print. But I've also ghost written,
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which I won't go into detail about. There are also
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other other aspects of the media that are just really
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not known by people, such as the fact that people
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in the news media, which is nothing new, but people in
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news media lie. I mean, one example of this is
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what happened with what's her name, the New York Times
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reporter Maggie Haberman, who was blatantly lied about to me,
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I and Michelle Wolf and what she had joked about
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Sarah Sanders, the secretary at the White House course respondent dinner.
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That's granted, that's probably considered a you know, an important
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lie in the grand scheme of things, But she blatantly
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stated that this comedian had made fun of this woman's
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looks and had put down her looks when she did
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nothing of the sort. I mean, that's that is an
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indication of what else people probably aren't aware of, or
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what they assume but probably aren't aware of. In regards
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to the news media Blayton lighting. I mean, I've seen
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a little blatant lighting myself over the years. Maybe not
800
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lots of it openly, but I've seen a little of it.
801
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And so there's a lot that's really not known about
802
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the news media, whether it's print, whether it's TV, radio,
803
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and even online. And again, there are boundaries, there are
804
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things that you can and can't do. Take the Gawker
805
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case for example, the one with Peter Field and Hulkovid
806
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that lawsuit. Gawker was a site that really had no
807
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real standards in regards to journalism, and they just they
808
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just were after people naming names and revealing secrets and
809
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what have you, and they ultimately paid a price for
810
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it because in the normative journalism world, whether it's regardless
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of whether you're mainstream or independent, there's only so much
812
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that you can write about or broadcast because editors and
813
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publishers and owners won't allow you to do so. You know,
814
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freedom of the press extends to those who want the press.
815
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So that's something that people don't really understand about journalistic reporters.
816
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They think we have the freedom to do what we want.
817
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We don't.
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Well, on that note, note Albert Lener, we're totally out
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of time, Thank you so much. All right, check out
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medium medium dot com. Albert lneer L A N I
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E R.
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Thank you so much, thank you.
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Okay, Well, then we had Albert Lanier talking about Gary
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Webb and news media in general. If you like the show,
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check out Oppermanreport dot com. That's where we have our
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members section. A lot of exclusive content on there that
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you won't find anywhere else. The porn of Steve Bannon's
828
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porn and meth house you find out here exclusively McMartin
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preschool investigation.
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We did.
831
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We contacted the gentleman who did the ground penetrating radar.
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No one interviewed this guy in forty years since the
833
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McMartin preschool case. And then came on our show and
834
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he told us how he found a hand dug room
835
00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:35.400
under Nathan McMartin garage never before reported. You find that
836
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they're on the Operman Report, you know, get Al Lanaire,
837
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He's very correct. The reason why I got into media
838
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and doing this radio show is because of my experience
839
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behind the scenes with media. Was involved in some of
840
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:50.320
the biggest twenty four hour news stories that you could find.
841
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One was the Tiger Woods case. You know, I was
842
00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:55.880
involved in that behind the scenes. In fact, the same
843
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:57.480
people were involved in that. We're the ones that been
844
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involved with the Stormy Daniel's case, the same agent, the
845
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:04.079
same at also to the Charlie Sheen case. When Charlie
846
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:06.079
Sheen had his year long meltdown, that was my client
847
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:08.719
Capri innocent. And again it was the same people involved
848
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:11.960
with Stormy Daniels Gene Rodriguez and Keith Davidson was involved
849
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with in Charlie Sheen case, Wienergate, many many cases behind
850
00:52:19.039 --> 00:52:21.400
and my whole story that I did, not my story,
851
00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:24.239
but my investigation involving Sarah Palin and Todd Paling.
852
00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:26.760
That eventually.
853
00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:33.440
Culminated in a congressional investigation to secret service misbehavior.
854
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All of these cases.
855
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You know, I watched from inside the case, inside the
856
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story from the people who were releasing the information. And
857
00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:46.599
it's very true that what you see on the news
858
00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:51.800
is not really what's going on, you know, it's more
859
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of a packaged story. And I also discovered too that
860
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just like they could flip a swing which and all
861
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:04.719
these different press outlets turn around and start sabotaging Gary Webb,
862
00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.760
they can flip a switch and change a story around
863
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.400
and suddenly, well this is something we can't talk about anymore.
864
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:12.880
I could bring up stories that I was involved in
865
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:16.320
that are no longer in the press at all. They're
866
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:19.000
not mentioned even just say, hey, remember that thing and
867
00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.199
it was turned out wrong. Even that doesn't happen. So
868
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:24.360
there's certain things that are covered up in a way
869
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:29.920
through press agents and through again editors and the people
870
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:33.199
who own the stations and the networks and the newspapers
871
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:37.039
and the and the TV stations and stuff. So there
872
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.599
is there is a lot to what he's saying. I've
873
00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:44.480
also noticed, especially since I started hosting a show and
874
00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:47.360
now I'm booking guests, there's a lot of infiltration too,
875
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:52.760
with the publishing companies, the publishers who put these these
876
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.639
authors out and a lot of these authors who write
877
00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:56.159
these books.
878
00:53:56.199 --> 00:54:00.840
The stories are are cover stories, the actual stories.
879
00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:04.880
We just did a show with the James uh I
880
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can't pronounce his name to Genio.
881
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:12.000
About JFK and Martin Luther King, and.
882
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:21.400
I forgot I was gonna I totally forgot what I
883
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:24.199
was gonna get you there. But the thing is is
884
00:54:24.239 --> 00:54:27.079
that many of these these authors in these books. Oh no,
885
00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:29.480
but he was talking about how Tom Hanks put out
886
00:54:29.480 --> 00:54:33.079
these cover these movies that are rewriting history about the
887
00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:35.280
Post and about Charlie Wilson's War.
888
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:37.320
And there was another one.
889
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:40.280
I forget that that Tom Hanks has had done, and
890
00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:44.639
the one that Welcome to Parkland, Okay, about the JFK assassination.
891
00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:47.639
And it seems like that there's an official version of
892
00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:49.880
the story that the powers that be want to get
893
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:54.119
out and they'll they'llt have they'll hire authors, and they
894
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have publishing companies that will promote these authors and put
895
00:54:57.599 --> 00:55:00.360
them out and to give the official version of the story.
896
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Like we were talking about McMartin preschool, that that movie
897
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that came out with James Woods, that was produced, by
898
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:09.760
the way, by Oliver Stone, you know, that was a
899
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:14.960
whitewasher of the McMartin case. So I've noticed this pattern,
900
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okay of and behind the scenes, and I've experienced at firsthand,
901
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like I said, and I've also don't, Like I said,
902
00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:22.880
my sat right between the Washington Post report and the
903
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.000
Only Times reporter and I got along great with them.
904
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But a lot of the Katie Terry and I met her.
905
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You know, my daughter met the Kristen whatever, you know,
906
00:55:30.159 --> 00:55:32.719
whatever her name is for gonna listen, you know. And
907
00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:36.159
these are very nice people, intelligent people, but there's lines
908
00:55:36.199 --> 00:55:39.039
that they won't cross, and there's even lines of conversation
909
00:55:39.159 --> 00:55:42.039
that they won't enter into, even off the record, behind
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00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:45.480
the scenes. Maybe if there's several drinks in the bar.
911
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I never got to do that, you know, but there's
912
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.599
just things that they just won't touch. And even here
913
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:54.800
covering the Hillary campaign. I was talking to another local
914
00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:57.400
reporter that writes for a local paper, and I said, well.
915
00:55:57.360 --> 00:56:01.360
How could this be? How could Bernie have five thousand
916
00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:04.719
people and Hillary has eight hundred and then half of
917
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:08.639
those are union stooges showing up for their rallies. How
918
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:10.800
could she possibly want this? And they just shake their head.
919
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:12.679
They don't even want to get involved. They just want
920
00:56:12.719 --> 00:56:16.280
to put their heads down and bury their heads. So
921
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:21.760
it's not always that there's control from the top down.
922
00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:23.480
There's also control from the bottom of people.
923
00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:24.800
They don't want to lift their heads, they don't want
924
00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:26.920
to get in the way, they don't want to make waves,
925
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and they don't want to disturb the status quo because
926
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:34.360
they just know that you get along better if you
927
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:35.000
go along.
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And that's not our.
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Model here at the Operative Report, which is why we're
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00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:41.800
not getting along okay, which is why we're so low
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on funds all the time here and when we're starving
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and we really need to support to keep this show
933
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on the air and even to go another week because
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I'm just so exhausted this week, I had so many
935
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guests just bail on me the last second, and just
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I've put in so many hours or this week on
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this show is just unbelievable. So to support the show,
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you know, I gotta tell you, I get hundreds of emails
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a day. Man, hundreds of people find out my phone ums.
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They found out my secret email, adressing and email. If
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you've got a product you want promoted, man, come on
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I can trust you.
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Trust me on that. You'll definitely get some traffic. I
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can guarantee you that. But to support the show, you
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give you thirteen months for sixty bucks, okay, and that'll
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really keep us going here. We only need like ten
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ers to get through this month. The who cares? I'm exhausted, okay.
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I can only you can do so much here with
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what I have to work with. Let's see Jagadish had
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a whole bunch of guests bail on me this week.
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But I want to thank Albert Lnier for showing up
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