Convenience is a Killer

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It's time to separate the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian.
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We're refusing to swipe left on hard truths in a world gone soft.
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This is Implicit Bias Radio, and I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon.
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This show actually still believes a little friction builds character and a little liquid courage sharpens the wit.
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Whether you're listening on WGSO streaming on BuzzSprout or catching the replay while nursing a whiskey neat, buckle up, we're about to talk the seductive lie that comfort equals progress, and why that lie is quietly destroying us.
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It's it's like the time, if you actually think about it, that my dad spent three solid hours wrestling with a VCR that flat out refused to admit Tuesday even existed.
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You know, the thing just kept blinking that cursed 12 o'clock like it was mocking him.
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He didn't want the manual, he wanted victory.
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And damn if he didn't get it, sweat on his brow, cussing in that beautiful way that almost sounds like a prayer mixed with a threat.
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That, though, was the era of the struggle.
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Brothers and sisters, let me tell you, God made sure we are magnificent in our misery.
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We survived lead paint chips, we survived garden hoses that tasted like warm chemicals, and the pure psychological warfare of listening to a dial-up modem scream its lungs out just to load Netscape pages.
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We were forged in inconvenience.
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And it actually put steel in our spines, and we needed it.
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Now, unfortunately, we've got apps that tell us when to breathe, when to stand up, when our sleep score is suboptimal.
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We feel like wet cardboard in a Louisiana thunderstorm.
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And that, my friends, is the real implicit bias of our age.
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That quiet prejudice against anything that requires real effort.
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The modern plague isn't failure.
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It's this frictionless existence that we've been sold.
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We traded the callous thumbs of a man who actually turned pages in a real book for the mindless dopamine swipe on your phone.
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We want the gold medal essentially without the lactic acid burning in our quads.
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You know, look, we've become rounded edges.
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No corners, terrified of a little wind chill or a little sweat, optimized for comfort, which is just marketing speak for biologically idling, while the engine of our God-given potential rusts out in the rain.
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Look back at that 2,000-year-old book.
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Our ancestors weren't lounging in ergonomic chairs, eating avocado toast with oat milk.
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There was a raw, jagged edge to their wisdom.
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Proverbs 6-6 actually hits a little bit differently when you fully read it out loud.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard.
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Consider her ways and be wise.
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The ant ain't hunting for life hacks or productivity apps.
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The ant is hauling a seed ten times its weight through the dirt because the season demands it.
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The comfort of the nest is only earned through the exhaustion of the field.
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Chasing comfort, unfortunately, invites a famine of the soul.
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Look, we used to understand this in our DNA.
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You think the old timers who built levees and drained swamps were looking for seamless experiences?
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Not quite.
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They fought mosquitoes the size of small birds, rebuilt after hurricanes that would make modern folks curl up in a fetal position and still found the time to cook a roo that actually required time and patience and fire.
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They knew something that unfortunately we seem to have forgotten.
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The most important things in life sit behind a door that's swollen stuck from humidity, or at the top of a hill that makes your lungs burn like you swallowed cayenne pepper.
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Success isn't the absence of resistance.
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It's the byproduct of enduring the things that we hate until we're the last stubborn SOB left who still knows how to do it right.
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Remove the resistance.
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You don't accelerate, you just lose your grip.
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It's like trying to play Freebird on a guitar with strings made of cooked spaghetti.
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It feels nice on the fingertips, but you're not shredding anything except your own dignity.
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You're just petting pasta while the real music dies.
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We've unfortunately traded the hunt for the prize.
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Remember waiting an hour to record your favorite song off the radio on cassette, you know, praying the DJ wouldn't talk over the intro.
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That anticipation actually built something.
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Now it's instant streaming, zero eight, zero investment.
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And somehow we're more anxious and empty than ever.
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We've become a civilization of pampered ghosts, haunted by the ghost of effort we used to put in.
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We think we're winning because we minimize the pain, but all we did was minimize our capacity to handle the things that actually matter.
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Our founding fathers knew this very well when just a very small percentage of the original 13 colonies spilled blood over a mere fraction of the taxes we pay today.
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When they determine that the government gets its power from us, not the other way around.
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And we get our rights from God, a dignity which no government can change or take away, which we are reminded of on this Independence Day.
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This, this is the implicit bias nobody talks about.
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Nobody's talking about this on the evening news.
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Our biases against, you know, all the very friction that actually makes us human.
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We medicate it, we app it away, we scroll past it, but the soul doesn't grow in a climate-controlled room.
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It glows in the heat of the day like the ant.
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When it grows, when we keep showing up for the podcast, even when downloads are flat, when you keep swinging in the hammer on that land project, even when the mosquitoes are winning.
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When you keep seeking the spirit, even when the whiskey is tempting you to stay comfortable.
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Liquid courage has its place, friends.
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A little divine breath, exactly when you need it.
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It's a glass that loosens the tongue and sharpens the wit, but it was never meant to replace the callus.
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Our founding fathers knew that.
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The good book knows that, and deep down we know it too.
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Comfort is a liar, friction is our friend.
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Stay biased towards the truth.
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Implicit Bias Radio is sipping weekly whiskey on this 4th of July episode.
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I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon.
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Welcome back into the Mr.
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Lester's top secret podcast layer.
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We've got a great crew for you here this week with uh two faces that you'll recognize, one voice that you won't want to hear, and that's Walker, and two faces who I think it's both of your second appearances on Implicit Bias Radio.
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So let's start at the bar.
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It is great to have you back.
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We're gonna start with Chris Smith of Lafayette Marble and Granite.
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Wonderful to have you, and you're ringing the bell already, which is not supposed to happen.
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You're right.
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I'm sorry.
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No, I'm kidding.
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That's newbie nervousness, I guess.
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No, you are good to go.
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Great to have you back.
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Thrilled to have you here in the TSPL.
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And hopefully you like this weekly whiskey.
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We'll get to that in a second.
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I do.
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Sitting next to him is a man that you've come to probably know well, not necessarily by his voice, but because he is a great sponsor of the show.
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And we've actually done some stuff with the Lafayette ski team with him.
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He is Leonard Mare of for our New Orleans listeners, New Orleans Power Sports, New Al New Orleans Power Sports North Shore, and Lafayette Power Sports.
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For those here in Lafayette, it's great to have you back, Leonard.
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Thank you.
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Great to be back.
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Um, I understand there's only one reason why you show up, though.
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I just come for the free whiskey.
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Which is not a bad reason to show up.
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And I think that's actually going to be his new nickname, which is just going to be free whiskey.
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Free whiskey.
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There you go.
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All right, sitting to my left, he is the Rust of Renegade, Caleb Morse.
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Caleb, we had a fantastic time at Mr.
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Lester Steakhouse last weekend.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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I really did.
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I even I got to talk to somebody afterwards.
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Uh, you might know him.
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And the next morning I explained to him, whenever you walk across, when you see someone approaching you that had too much to drink, you should square your shoulders, appear to smile, greet them in a chipper and happy attitude.
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That way they think that you're not hung over.
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And then I explained to this young man, I said, also, you should drink more water.
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Well, look, there's there's all kinds of things that that happen, and that's okay.
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And look, uh look, it's meant we're having fun.
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It is.
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It was a great time.
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We had it, we had a great group of people, some phenomenal food.
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Uh, it was it was a wonderful experience.
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Okay, so what I'm gonna tell everybody is this because the weekly whiskey special at Mr.
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Lester Steakhouse continues into July.
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It was on in June, and I'm gonna let you know, half of the barrel is gone.
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Half of implicit barrel is toast.
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It is not toast ed, it is toast at Mr.
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Lester Steakhouse.
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Over 126 bottles of 252 have turned into Kaiser Sose.
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Look, I I tried to put one or two bottles down that night.
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You came close.
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So, you know, I put in the good old college try.
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You can get your bottle still at Mr.
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Lester's.
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If you want the bottle in the restaurant, it's only 50 bucks.
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If you want a pour, your first pour is$5.
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Your second pour after that is 10, any pours you want, but it just makes sense.
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Buy the bottle.
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Just makes sense.
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That that's that's the best bang for your buck.
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It absolutely is on the 4th of July, when hopefully you are blowing something up in a safe manner somewhere.
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And Caleb, just for you, it's not a toilet.
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All right.
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I'm sorry, I had to.
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I didn't have anybody else to put it on.
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Could make it happen.
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I could have, I could have put that on Walker.
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I probably should have.
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No, no.
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I mean, it's it's all right.
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I stepped in a today.
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So if there's one thing I want to put on Walker, it's long pants instead of those short shorts he wears.
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All right.
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And notice he's not gonna even say anything.
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Not even gonna lean into the microphone.
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It's a wonder he'll lean into something else.
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That's a wonderful three agency, and I'm really proud of him.
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All right, so let's get to our weekly whiskey from the Implicit Bias Liquor Collective.
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This from our partner in Karin Crow, Sean Pines in Karencrow sending us this beautiful Remus straight bourbon whiskey.
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We're at 108 and a half on the proof.
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Which the first question I'm gonna ask as we go to the bar, Chris, why don't you start us off?
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I never would have picked this to come in at 108.
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Me either.
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It had a little bit of pepper on the front, but uh I got a lot of cinnamon, almost like a cinnamon bun on the nose.
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Um, it lasts a long, long time.
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Uh, some of those whiskies you'll have and the flavor kind of is up and down, kind of ramps.
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This one's nice and clean and smooth all the way through.
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I do like that pepper.
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It's not uh ethanol like you would get with pepper.
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No, not even close.
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But it's uh almost like a white pepper.
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Uh it pairs great with that cinnamon-ish, you know, kind of that run.
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Uh, and at the very end, it it's almost like cinnamon toast crunch milk.
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It's got that long, lingering legs that run through it.
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Um, yeah, I'm impressed.
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I've had some Remus, the uh the repeal and a couple of the other ones, the Gatsby, and those are good, but this one just seems just nice and even keeled and smooth.
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So I had the Remus Repeal 5 when it came out years ago.
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And it was, it might have even been the four.
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It was fantastic, but it was at 100 proof.
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Right.
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And the one thing that I thought I wanted was I wanted a little more proof on it.
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This to me gets us really close to that same flavor profile of the repeal.
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Right.
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But with the proof that makes it jump just a little bit.
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Yep.
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Just a little bit.
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Okay, let's go to the other side of the bar.
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So, Leonard, I'm curious.
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I I know you don't drink a ton of whiskey.
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No, I don't.
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Okay, so the question's gonna be because this is I actually I like.
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I like having a seasoned whiskey drinker on the show, somebody who has put down, you know, with us or without us a couple hundred bottles over the years.
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What do you think of this?
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Because sometimes this is a big thing.
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People want to be new to whiskey, and we don't just like things that experienced bourbon drinkers like, we like things that people new to it like as well.
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Well, I'm I'm definitely a rookie compared to the previous review, but uh I the the first taste in um got great flavor, uh, a little bit of burn on the end of my tongue, and uh and that carried on to the third or fourth sip I'm at right now.
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It's been great flavor and it's it's still lingering.
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I don't even need to grab another one.
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Not yet.
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Not yet.
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Not yet, because there's free whiskey, right?
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There is free whiskey.
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There is free whiskey, and of all the whiskeys that we get, there's a particular flavor profile we like.
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And we call it bourbon bourbon-y McBourbon.
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Yeah, right.
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This is a high corn mash bill.
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There's a lot of corn in the mash in the grain in the mash, which means you're gonna get a little bit sweeter of an offering, or you should at least expect that.
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I did get that.
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I was about to say, I think this is a little sweet.
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I actually kind of like that.
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As Caleb is over here with his eyes closed.
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I'm getting them.
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Well, I'm you're over here sitting thinking about something being real sweet in your mouth.
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I'm enjoying the whiskey.
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So All right, Caleb.
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So let's go ahead.
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Let's let's see what this tastes like when Mama burned the cinnamon buns in the south part of her oven, located on the bottom rack, not the top rack.
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I mean, we're just waiting on it.
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You're right, though.
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I mean, you you get you get cinnamon, like cinnamon toast on the nose.
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I love the the cinnamon toast crunch milk flavor on there because you get it.
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It's got length, it's viscous, there's weight to it.
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It's not easily forgotten.
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This wants to be consumed and wants to be enjoyed for a long time.
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Um, I get a distinct flavor on the palate, though.
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And think of your favorite gas station when you're traveling along I-10 that's not in Louisiana.
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And when you pull up to it, you go in, and there's 10,000 open fuel pumps.
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It's like gas station heaven, right?
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Okay, so I think you've actively described the type of station we're talking about.
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Yep.
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And when you walk in, they're known for their beef jerky, but the little known thing that not everyone goes for is their roasted nuts.
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And they do pecans and cashews and a few others, but they do a roasted, like a roasted sweetened peanut.
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That's what I get on this flavor.
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Caleb would know a lot about the taste of roasted nuts.
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I've had a few in my mouth.
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And here, I get that roasted sweetened, not candied, because you know a lot of times people put too much sugar on there when they roast them, but like just barely sweetened peanuts.
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Uh, almost like there was a candy when we were kids.
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I don't remember.
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Walker's probably way too young to remember this.
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Y'all may.
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Uh you can get them in the little five cent cardboard boxes.
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And it was a peanut with like a Dr.
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Pepper colored thing around the outside with busting.
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I know the one you're talking about.
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Boston baked beans?
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Boston baked beans.
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And it's almost that kind of flavor because it's just it's sweet enough, not overly sweet.
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It's real, real palatable.
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And at 108-proof, it does not drink as 108-proof.
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No, this is so incredibly smooth on the proof.
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I get on the flavor of this one.
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So the first sip to me was very different from the third, right?
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And the first sip I got almost that spicy cherry soda flavoring on it.
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So, like a little bit of stone fruit on it, but dark stone fruit like plum.
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Right?
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Even maybe a little bit of prune sweetness on there that I got.
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And then it gave way to that beautiful, I think, that white pepper.
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I think you hit it on the nose, Chris.
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You get that wonderful pepper.
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And the legs, the finish is, I mean, it's phenomenal on this.
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This is something that I would put on my bar and want to drink neat all day long, whether it's hot or cold outside.
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It's something that I would put on the bar and make a fantastic cocktail out of.
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Now, if I'm making a cocktail, it doesn't need as much simple syrup.
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Yeah, it's got that sweetness.
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Now, if you like your stuff candied and heavily simple syrup, probably about half the normal amount.
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Maybe even a quarter of the normal amount.
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Yeah, I bet you this would probably make a phenomenal old-fashioned or even mint julep uh because of that sweetness to it.
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You wouldn't need near as much.
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I could see this as a mint julep because that bold, deep flavor that it possesses, offsetting the mint.
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Got a little hint of spearmint in the back end too, so it'd probably pair really well.
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Well, and it's got that baking spice.
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Yep.
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So that's that rye.
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It's 30 36% rye.
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I was gonna say, did anybody catch the mash pill and how much rye was in it?
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This is by definition a high rye bourbon.
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For a bourbon to be classified as high rye, it's got to have over 25% of rye grain in the mash pill.
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This is in the 30s.
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Yeah, that's what I was about to say with it.
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I said it tastes more like a high rye than a bourbon to me.
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So uh I didn't know the mix, but it definitely has that feel to it.
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It absolutely does.
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And to me, I mean, the flavor on this is phenomenal.
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And I can't wait for us to play What Would You Pay, presented by Box Drop of Lafayette, because the the what would you pay on this I think is gonna rochhambeau some people in this room pretty quickly.
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Well, and Leonard, so when when we talk about the high ride and the flavor distinction, right?
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Yeah think of that as stepping up to like a thousand CC when you've been on like a 420 or a four uh you feel it and you're like, this is great.
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Then you finally get on the big boy one, like that that I think you'll have one called the general, and you finally take off on something like that.
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You're like, oh, now I see the difference.
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I'm gonna take it to the water, Leonard, because you've got like your your regular personal watercraft uh that is like zero to what 30 knots in like five seconds or something like that.
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And then you've got the big boy one that goes what zero to thirty how quick?
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2.1 seconds.
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Yeah, that's that's your high rise, and that's that's what I love.
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Well, that that's a good description.
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It does feel supercharged.
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And that's a great way to think about it as opposed to turbocharged, which by the way was like a Harvard Business School word of the year, a year or two ago, which is just dumb.
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So let's go ahead and play what would you pay?
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And we're gonna rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code.
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So the Morse whiskey rating code for those who are either new to the show, or maybe you don't remember because you had a few too many of our whiskeys, is this red, I wouldn't drink it even if it was free.
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Yellow, I would only drink it if it was free.
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Green, I would buy this.
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Blue, I would seek this out.
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And then to play for the What Would You Pay Championship Belt Chain, presented by Box Drop of Lafayette, it's simply closest to the hole on the dollar amount.
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The price of this at Champines in Carn Crow, our Acadienna, one of our Acadiana implicit biased liquor collective partners.
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And since this is a store pick, this is their barrel.
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You can only get this, as with all of our store picks at that particular store.
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So let's start at the bar.
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So, Chris, we're gonna start with you.
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Where do you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code?
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And what would you pay for the what would you pay championship belt chain?
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Uh, I'm gonna call it a blue.
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Uh, I'm in Champagnes all the time.
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That's one of my usual haunts.
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Uh, and I've walked by this bottle quite a bit.
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Just kind of, I've had the Remus and I've had enough on my bar, but I am absolutely go over there and buy this the next time I'm through.
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Uh, didn't look at the price even, so I'm kind of dry on that.
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Uh, I would say it's probably 65, I'm just gonna guess.
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Okay.
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Maybe a little bit less because they do a good job over there keeping some really good whiskeys at some good price.
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But uh for the juice in the bottle, I'm gonna say it's 65.
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Okay.
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Caleb, we'll go with you while they switch microphones.
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It's a beautiful presentation, by the way, too.
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Like the bottle looks really nice.
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I like the coloring, probably because I like gold and red.
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Um, man, I'm I'm gonna be stingy.
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I'm gonna give it a green.
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Oh, you are lying and you know it's I'm being stingy.
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You are lying and you know it.
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I'm being stingy.
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I feel and it's look, part of it is I have a predisposition right now, and we've given out so many blues because we've had some really primo juice.
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If it's that good, it's just that good.
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Yeah, I'm not touching that one.
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Uh well, you know.
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Unfortunately, because you did.
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Joey, please, I did.
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Uh so yeah, I'm gonna give it a green.
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I'm gonna give it a green.
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Uh and uh 80 bucks.
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I think this is very, very much so worth$80.
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$80.
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All right, Leonard, where do you rate this on the Morse whiskey rating code?
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And what would your best guess be as to where this bottle would fit in in the price range for the what would you pay championship belt chain?
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Well, I think I would seek it out.
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I I think I would uh go out to buy it because I want to try the dual purpose and then try it over a uh a rock of ice.
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Uh there you go.
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The uh uh my favorites an old fashioned, so um I can't wait to see how that would taste with a few a few less sweet things.
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Okay.
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Um price.
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I really don't know, but I I would go 69 since it's uh one of their exclusive.
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So we have 65.
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We have 69.
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Caleb's not making a comment.
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Walker looked at me and gave me sweet eyes.
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I was not surprised.
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I was I was very surprised for sweet eyes.
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Caleb, you said 85, correct?
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Yes, sir.
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Okay, so first of all, you're already outvoted.
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This is not going to be a 2-2 because I knew you were lying.
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This is a blue.
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I cannot lie at how shocked I was when I tasted this.
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Not that I didn't expect them to have really good offerings from Champines and Karan Crow, but some bottles, when you look at them, you're like, oh, like Chris said, you can just walk past it.
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It's unpresuming.
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It is incredibly unpresuming.
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And that's one of the things I like about it.
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This reminds me of when we had our first like$38 blue on the show.
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It is unassuming, it is unpretentious, it is just great liquid in the bottle.
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And at$46.80, this is an absolute win for anyone who wants to drink great whiskey.
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$46.80 is nothing.
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I'm gonna have to reevaluate my whiskey pricing here because I think I've gotten spoiled as a problem.
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That that is a phenomenal bargain for what this is.
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Oh, there's no doubt.
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Even though I didn't give it a blue, like it's because you're a liar.
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I'm not gonna say I'm a liar.
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I have I I have a I'm predisposed right now.
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The price is changing as not gonna change.
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It's good though.
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Well, think about it.
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For$80 you thought was that, you're looking at half it for the juice.
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I mean, that's just a phenomenal.
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It makes it a better bargain.
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It doesn't mean I like it more.
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No, no, I get that.
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But it does mean that you really, really like it because you had to thoroughly enjoy it.
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You had to convince yourself not to give it a blue, and what is the problem.
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You are correct about that.
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It's not what you have to convince yourself of.
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Look, I'm not arguing against it.
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I'm telling you that I came in here, like what I told myself when I pulled up and and it slid my truck sideways, uh, that whatever it was, if it was great, I was gonna give it a green.
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And see, that is just not the way this is supposed to be approached.
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This is an in the moment thing, and you know this.
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Everything's in the moment.
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That moment was then too.
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How fair is this to the whiskey?
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It is not fair at all for you to say I'm gonna be asking.
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Fair doesn't make sense.
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That's like these.
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Fortune 500 companies that say, oh, we've got exceeds expectations on the rating chart at your year review, but you cannot get an exceeds expectations because, oh, well, we only can give that to a certain number of no, you either exceed the expectation or you don't.
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Well, it's it's exceeded the expectations.
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It's either a blue or it isn't.
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Because you predetermined that it would not be a green no matter what somebody else did.
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Yeah.
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Everyone here gets a second pour but one.
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Fair.
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And that is going to bring us to our break before we start solving the problems of the world on this independence day on implicit bias radio.
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Independence day episode of Implicit Bias Radio.
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I'm your host, Kavon Bordelon.
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Welcome back to the Mr.
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Lester's top secret podcast layer, where we have to send a shout-out, Caleb.
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We have to send a shout-out to Donald Day.
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Okay, yeah, yeah.
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And you know why.
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Chris, did you meet Donald Day?
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$5,000 in gas.
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Dear Lord.
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So Donald Day was one of our listener winners of tickets to summer supper at Mr.
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Lester Steakhouse last weekend.
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Donald drove in from Ruston, Louisiana four hours to come to a party at Mr.
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Lester Steakhouse that lasted three.
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So he drove four one direction for a three-hour party, spent the night, and drove four back the other direction.
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Well, there's more to his story, too, because forgive me if I'm wrong, was it was it Illinois?
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He is originally from Illinois, yes.
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And and look, he moved his dad's from that from that area, came back down.
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So there's a lot that goes with it.
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And I think it just shows that the gravity that Louisiana has.
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Because the the people here, and I told him this, the scenery, it's beautiful in its own right.
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Look, I love the swamp.
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I really do.
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I love the mountains.
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The basin is gorgeous in its own way.
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If you haven't seen it, especially in the early spring or the mid-spring when it's just started to turn green.
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It's still cool outside.
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It's gorgeous.
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Yep.
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And he came back to Louisiana.
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And look, the people in Louisiana are what draw you in.
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They are.
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You can't find the melting pot of people that we have here anywhere else in the United States.
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You can't find the personality we have here.
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You can't find the attitudes, the friendliness, everything else.
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You can have someone that will cuss you lower than a dog and then give you their shirt off their back.
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Correct.
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Within three feet of one another.
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And I really appreciate having them come in.
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I appreciate the conversation we have to have with him.
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Great conversation, great guy.
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And it just shows the diversity of listenership that we have too.
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And I was very impressed, I know you were as well, that he would give up that much of his time.
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Yes.
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We're thankful to have with us.
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I'm not just impressed.
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I am incredibly thankful, honored, and humbled that he listens as religiously as he does.
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I'm thrilled that he won.
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And I'm incredibly humbled that he actually finds us entertaining, whether he's laughing with us or laughing at us.
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Don't really care.
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But the fact that he actually lets his child listen as well.
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We try to keep it family friendly.
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We know our humor is sophomoric at best, but it's what we do.
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So did you hear him just say that you were taller than he thought?
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No, but that's that's funny.
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I made that wouldn't be wouldn't surprise me.
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Would not shock me at all.
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And yes, Smith is up there talking like he's doing any better.
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All right.
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So as a July 4th, Independence Day episode, this story has to be the one right out of the gate.
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Because this to me is one of those great American redemption stories, not just once, but twice.
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So for those who've read Mike Lindell's book, you know where Mike Lindell, you know, the My Pillow guy, you know where he came from.
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I mean, apparently at one time the guy was addicted to narcotics, he had a rough life and creates the my pillow and becomes worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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And then the 2020 election happens.
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And Mike Lindell leans into the truth.
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Not somebody else's truth, not what the media won't report.
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He leans into the truth and then gets sued into oblivion for it.
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He made comments about the 2020 election being rigged, made comments about Dominion voting systems doing nefarious things in order to rig the election.
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And what happens?
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People start dropping the My Pillow.
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Well, like Walmart, I think, dropped him.
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There were other major retailers who dropped carrying my pillow because of his statements.
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Definitely target.
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Definitely target.
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Then a couple weeks ago, we find out that maybe, just maybe, Mike Lindell is a second time redemption story in the United States.
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So please don't believe us on this.
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Well, the how much was the Dominion?
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1.3 billion dollars.
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They were suing him for 1.3 billion.
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That's almost$1 for a fraudulent vote.
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I made that up.
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Don't sue me for that much.
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No, but it's when you look at it and you're like, first of all,$1.3.
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So what you have to understand is when you file a lawsuit like that, you're going to file for revenue lost, so damages, and then punitive for the equation, because there's an equation on most lawsuits, for the equation to work out to$1.3 billion.
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Do you know how much Dominion voting systems has to be making from running elections in the United States?
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I love how you said running elections.
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They are.
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They are running elections, aren't they?
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They are in the business of running the electoral process in the United States, which then is supposed to yield a true result.
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But it turns out the really funny part is they sued Mike Lindell for$1.3 billion.
00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:58.559
I mean, I am picturing some dude who is a Bond villain with a skull cap and a hairless cat going$1.3 billion, right?
00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:00.480
I'm thinking Mike Myers made a new commercial.
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I can dig that.
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And then take a guess what they did.
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They dropped it.
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:10.480
They dropped the lawsuit out of nowhere.
00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.160
You know, sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:16.079
Now let's be clear.
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:18.480
And I'm gonna ask this question.
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:20.400
We've got a bunch of business owners in here.
00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:23.839
Why might there be reasons why you would file a lawsuit and then drop it?
00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.599
There are legitimate reasons why you would do that, even though you might you might be right.
00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:29.279
When you're acting rash sometimes.
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:30.480
So you've acted rash.
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:31.039
What else, Chris?
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:32.400
Yeah, you're trying to scare somebody off.
00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.400
You want them to be quiet and just run away.
00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:36.960
You're trying to just uh smokescreen something.
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:46.079
So why would a company the size of Dominion not worry about the fees that it costs them to file said lawsuit in the lawyer time and all that?
00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:47.759
Why would they not worry about that?
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:53.200
Uh they don't want the facts because the fees may be less than what's caused by getting these facts out.
00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:57.920
So if you can scare someone off so they don't have the facts, then so that might be why they drop it, right?
00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:13.440
But here's here's another my my what I'm getting at is this what does it cost a company like Dominion to file said lawsuit as opposed to what it might cost somebody like Mike Lindell, right?
00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:24.799
Because Dominion, Dominion has what in-house legal counsel, they have all of their attorneys, they have a legal department at Dominion.
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:27.440
So they don't have to go out and hire new attorneys.
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.400
But it's a training environment at that point, correct.
00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:36.079
So their cost to create the lawsuit costs what it costs to file the court papers.
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:37.519
And look, taxpayers are paying for that.
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:38.240
Don't worry about it.
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:39.680
At the end of the day, they are.
00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:44.400
So it costs them nothing, which is one of the reasons why they might file the lawsuit in the first place.
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:51.680
They might not want people talking about it, so they're gonna do it as a diversionary tactic or a suppression fire tactic.
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.279
Joke's on you, I'm hard-headed.
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:54.000
Yeah.
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.359
And then they they get rid of it.
00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:03.039
Now, to your point, it could be a legitimate thing where they looked at it and said, man, the the cost here is just getting exorbitant.
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:09.119
This is gonna go years because a lawsuit like this is going to take potentially decades to sort out.
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:23.680
Or Leonard, if you filed a lawsuit, what might be the biggest reason that you wouldn't want the lawsuit actually going to deposition, discovery?
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:27.599
What is the possibility of what you might be scared of?
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:29.359
It proven the truth.
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:30.720
There you go.
00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:36.160
Did y'all see how Lindell posed a$5 million challenge with that?
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:48.960
So uh at one point during all this, he did a prove me wrong or prove mic wrong thing, where if you could prove him wrong about the being in voting, he was going to give the person five million dollars.
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:51.279
Let me guess how many people claim that.
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:53.839
One person tried, it was a software expert.
00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:57.200
He said he met the challenge, and Mike said, Okay, prove it.
00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:59.839
And he proved it by taking Mike to court.
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:04.400
And uh the eighth circuit, the eighth circuit said there is no proof.
00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:09.119
So now the really interesting part is a report has been released.
00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:20.160
What people have to understand though is that this is not a government report, but it is a government like they had some oversight to this.
00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:26.559
There was some certification, third party to look at this and say, this report's real.
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:26.799
Yeah.
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:28.720
And a few things that were figured out.
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:35.200
So, first of all, and this is the big one, because we all remember being told the machines are not connected to the internet.
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:37.680
No, they were not for long.
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:40.880
Maybe while they're not powered up.
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:41.920
While in transport.
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:44.880
Yeah, maybe while in transport they're not connected to the internet.
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:45.279
Yeah.
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.000
What did the report actually find in Certify?
00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:49.839
Yeah, it was definitely connected to the internet.
00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:52.720
They came with modem chips on the motherboard.
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:54.000
Like prepped and ready.
00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:54.160
Yeah.
00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:55.680
Not just prepped and ready.
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.720
I mean functioning?
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.759
Functioning.
00:31:58.160 --> 00:31:58.720
Snap.
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This is why this is important on Independence Day.
00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:10.000
Because at the end of the day, if if our vote isn't counted correctly, our vote means nothing.
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:24.079
The Save America Act is the most important legislation that any American who was born of American parents as opposed to a birthright citizen might have in their lifetime.
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:44.720
Because at the end of the day, the Save America Act would ensure that the vote is authentic, real, counted correctly, and you know, it's that whole notice the semantics that one party likes to play.
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:46.160
Every vote should count.
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:48.559
Um, no, no, every legal vote should be a vote.
00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:49.839
Yeah, every legal vote should count.
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:58.160
I remember the first time I got to vote absentee ballot, and then I was all pumped up, all excited, and then they were like, hey, the 40-foot connex got stolen.
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:00.559
And I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:02.000
A whole connex?
00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:02.720
Yeah.
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:03.759
Well, let us vote again.
00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:05.119
No, it's too late.
00:33:06.240 --> 00:33:07.839
And that's when I realized, like, you know what?
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:11.359
Some people just don't care about reality.
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:18.160
They don't care about genuine human or American citizenship rights.
00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:20.000
Or true democracy.
00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.480
Well, this is the this is the big one.
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.759
For some people, understand though, they play semantics, right?
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:27.119
They like to take words.
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:29.279
The word war is real.
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.440
And they will say things like, every vote should count.
00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:38.799
So wait a minute, you're telling me that somebody who votes in Switzerland in the American election, that should count?
00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:40.400
Because that's one of every vote.
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:45.440
What they want you to think is that legal votes aren't being counted.
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:47.039
And that's not the case.
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.440
So the semantics there are a big thing.
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:55.440
The other big semantic that they like to play with, the other word war that they engage in is it's a threat to democracy.
00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:56.880
Oh, it's about democracy.
00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.079
It's our democracy.
00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:59.039
It's democracy.
00:33:59.119 --> 00:33:59.920
It's democracy.
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.400
When at the end of the day, they don't care about democracy.
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:07.039
Because what they do is they take their own little group and they go, oh, you know what?
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.360
Democracy is ruled by the majority.
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:18.400
And we have a minority of people, and we want to make sure that the minority gets to dictate to the majority how the majority lives their life.
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:19.840
And that's an issue.
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:24.639
Well, every citizen, every citizen should be a threat to democracy.
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.719
Every citizen should be a threat to government.
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:29.840
That's a different thing.
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:31.119
Valid, valid, valid.
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:33.119
And that's why we get the one-minute finger.
00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:35.519
Well, we'll come back with more implicit bias radio.
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:36.559
Radio.
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:37.599
Yeah.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.239
Wow, that was impressive, Walker.
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:47.599
Like I was actually not necessarily quite ready to jump back into this segment, but I guess here we are, final segment, hour one of Implicit Bias Radio.
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:48.719
I'm your host, Gavon Borderland.
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:49.840
We got a great crew here in the Mr.
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:50.960
Lester's TSPL.
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.239
Caleb Morse is here.
00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:54.559
Chris Smith of Lafayette Marble and Granite is here.
00:34:54.719 --> 00:35:01.599
Free whiskey, Leonard Moray of Lafayette PowerSports, New Orleans Power Sports, and New Orleans Power Sports North Shore is here as well.
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:03.199
It's great to have you on the TSPL.
00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:04.400
How's the whiskey so far?
00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:05.280
Very good.
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:05.920
Very good.
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:06.559
Fantastic.
00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:07.760
We uh looking at the bottle.
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.559
We're uh a little bit past halfway, so everybody's enjoying it.
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:12.000
But we got some kitchen up to do.
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:18.559
Yeah, well, there's plenty of whiskey here in the TSPL, as Leonard pointed out, and it's free for those who have shown up.
00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:20.000
So we are diving back into it.
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.519
Walker's even here for this episode, which is the first time we're talking to Walker in this hour.
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:24.480
Glad to be here.
00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:26.320
Uh yeah, he sounded glad, didn't he?
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:27.119
I am glad to be here.
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:28.000
You do not sound like that.
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:31.360
Well, look, while y'all are chatting, I want to pick while y'all are chatting.
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:34.239
I want to pick on Leonard for not pick on Leonard, but pick your brain for a moment, okay?
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:34.400
Yeah.
00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:35.119
Out of curiosity.
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I mean, with all the locations you have and everything else, summertime like this right now.
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:42.880
Y'all's y'all's main summer staple sellers.
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:43.599
Look at that.
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:47.519
Have they been the same this year or have they deviated this year with the economy and that kind of stuff?
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:48.400
Out of curiosity.
00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:51.440
Week of 4th of July is our busiest week of the year.
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:59.599
So uh jet skis, C-Do's, wave runners going out, uh, boat customers all over the place, ATVs, UTVs.
00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:03.119
It it goes strong through the spring and summer.
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:04.960
Uh, peak of summer is right now.
00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:05.599
So for us.
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There you go.
00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:06.800
Very good.
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:07.039
Okay.
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:07.920
I'm just curious.
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:08.559
That's all.
00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:09.280
All right.
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:18.000
So speaking of buying things, read a really interesting theory about something Lego allegedly figured out.
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About the difference.
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:20.639
I don't think it's allegedly.
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:21.599
Okay.
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:24.400
I don't have Lego on the record saying it.
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:26.400
So I'm saying allegedly Lego figured it out.
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I found the study.
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It okay, then they did, and it totally makes sense.
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:32.559
Which is the really cool part.
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.119
And the basic of it is this.
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:52.000
And I think this has to do more with the difference between the thought of young males and the thought of young females, and where young men go and where men go with their thought process versus females and their thought process.
00:36:52.559 --> 00:37:01.760
And for those who have grown up where you've got maybe an older daughter, younger son, you might have seen something of this nature.
00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:06.400
So, for example, this is what Lego figured out.
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:10.239
And it had to do with Batman Lego figurines.
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:16.159
When they gave Batman to little boys, boys became Batman.
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:18.239
They played as I am Batman.
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:19.119
Right?
00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:26.880
When girls were given the same Batman toys, and then they they did different toys.
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:29.920
It wasn't just Batman that they used, but Batman was the one that jumped out.
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:34.559
Little girls made Batman them.
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So instead of being able to put themselves in other people's shoes and say, if I was Batman, here's how awesome it would be.
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:48.000
Everything became about, oh, I don't care that this is Batman and he's awesome.
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I'm this.
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And they put lipstick on Batman, they put makeup on him, they did girl things with Batman.
00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:55.840
It was part of the story.
00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:56.239
Yeah.
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:58.880
So, like for boys, it was more mission-oriented.
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Like, I'm Batman, I'm going to do this.
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These are my assignments.
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This is what I'm I'm fighting, I'm fighting the bad guy, going for the Joker.
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:07.280
Where girls, it was like, hey, Batman's coming over to have tea.
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We're going to prepare for that.
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:09.679
It was more relationship.
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:16.960
And I think part of that, I had a just had the epiphany, might be related to the sin of pride.
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:27.440
Because when we think about, look at the differences between male and female, and we tend men, even like I'll be honest with you, I didn't think I had a pride problem until this year.
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.719
And then God showed me that that pride has many different faces.
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:31.440
It does.
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:44.079
Um it's very rare to have a woman with a pride problem because they're predisposed to nurture and care for a group, right?
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:50.079
The family unit, where men and boys were like, I must do this to provide for my family.
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:50.639
Right?
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:56.320
So we were trying to get and that that stems from, I think, a a pride or a biblical standpoint, a pride issue.
00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:03.519
And it's very unique that Lego found this because Lego was one of the first toys that was launched to that was really truly unisex.
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:04.239
Correct.
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And then shifted to being very predominantly a male toy.
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Probably because of the I must build this.
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Well, I must build what's on the box.
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I must build this set.
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:18.400
I right, I want to accomplish the goal.
00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:20.079
Chris, I'm curious to your thoughts about this.
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:22.880
You said you had thoughts on the story because you looked it up.
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:26.719
Yeah, so uh I've seen this not with my I have three daughters.
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:31.119
So we had Legos, but they were definitely following the package for the most part.
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:33.760
But when I'm growing up, uh, if it's a G.I.
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:35.760
Joe, Transformers, anything else, we would have those.
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.760
Me and my brother would destroy them pretty much because we would be in action and one against the other.
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:42.559
But then my sister would get a hold of those same things.
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:49.039
She would just take those, and it was tea parties and all this, and we would come in completely offended that our toys are getting used in this way.
00:39:49.199 --> 00:40:05.199
So I can see just compartmentalizing it wise, that the women do put themselves in either the toys uh person by using them to go shopping or anything else, and things that they would do, like their dreams, their aspirations, would be projected upon the toy, and it did not matter the face.
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:07.360
Here's the interesting part to me.
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:16.639
The interesting part to me is that when young boys were playing with these toys, they set themselves aside and became someone else.
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:20.639
When young girls were playing with these toys, it's all about them.
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:22.239
Oh, they stayed relevant.
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:28.079
No, they didn't stay relevant, they forced their world upon everything else.
00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:32.079
Whereas the boy said, Oh, I'm in Batman's world, right?
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:32.639
Okay, yeah.
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:34.719
The girl said, Batman has to come into mind.
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:35.199
Do you know?
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:36.079
Which is just interesting.
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:39.199
Do you know what the the goal of the study was?
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.079
I don't remember.
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:40.320
No.
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:41.280
To sell more Legos.
00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:41.840
Of course.
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.960
Let's say Yeah, let's say it's 50-50, right?
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:46.960
We know it's not, but let's say it's 50-50.
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.119
And boys were predominantly, or boy families were the predominantly the purchasers of Legos.
00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:53.679
And Legos said, well, how do we sell more to little girls?
00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:57.199
So they hired all these psychologists, everyone else, and try to figure things out.
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:01.119
And what they found was the psychology of it was a byproduct.
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:07.199
Look, their goal was marketing to sell more Legos to the little girls because it would sell more Legos, put more money in their pockets.
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.800
But we got a really unique look at the data on this.
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:17.280
Leonard, I'm curious as to your thoughts if you even got a chance to look at this one or if the okay, so I'm curious to see your thoughts on this one.
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:18.719
I actually have an opinion.
00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:20.880
I'm not just here for the bourbons.
00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:32.320
But the uh um Lego um dipped into how do we sell more to crossbreeds and uh how do how do we get to the um 50% of the population?
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:37.039
But when I was a kid, I had a Batman belt, Kate.
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:40.239
You you bought into it 100%, you were Batman.
00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:43.679
Um I never grew up.
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:56.400
So seeing my daughters, um they never had a Batman and never had a son, so they they kept going, excuse me, with the uh uh with all the toys they had, so I never brought it in.
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:57.920
I do have an opinion on Lego.
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:10.400
They bought out Cypress Gardens, which was the first um ever amusement park in Florida, and they put it as a back burner, never closed it down, still allow ski shows.
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:27.280
But Lego came in and purchased the property and put Lego land in front of it in Orlando, and uh they were trying to keep what was old and bring in what was new, and they've successfully um put it in a in a different realm.
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:30.320
But uh I have all girls, just like you protested.
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.559
And uh no, they didn't they they didn't invest in Batman anything.
00:42:34.639 --> 00:42:43.039
So uh well and look, Lego is I don't want to say double down, but they've they've changed their marketing too since this was done, right?
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.000
So uh I'm sure everyone in this room will agree with me.
00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:51.920
Boys and girls are different, and not every one of them is as different as as they all can be.
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:56.559
So there are tom tomboy girls and so forth, and there are less masculine boys, right?
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.199
It it it happens and there it exists, and that's okay.
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:15.119
But Lego has now gone through and said, hey, well, let's strip some of this down, and they have Lego friends, and they have uh Well, okay, but that's also partially because Lego Well, it's being this whole more I don't want to say gender flu progressive.
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:17.280
Company.
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:22.880
And and look, and when they swapped and started doing that, they did the exact opposite of what their goal was.
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.440
When they did this study, they said, let's sell more Legos.
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:33.679
And then they said, Well, let's let's ignore the biological or physiological or psychological differences between boy and girls and we'll make them this way.
00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:36.159
And the market dropped.
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:41.679
So why not understand and recognize that we're different and that's okay?
00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:46.719
It's not just that, it's this, and this has always bothered me about big companies.
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:57.440
When you are a 15, 16, 10,$5 billion company, you know, there was an old saying that an old boss once told me.
00:43:57.599 --> 00:43:59.760
He said, Son, you should dance with the girl that brought you.
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:10.480
These companies become so concerned about growth in the sectors where they don't have it that they then abandon the customers they do have.
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:22.400
They are so worried about the bird in the bush as opposed to the bird in the hand that what they end up doing is they end up lighting themselves on fire in the name of growth.
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:24.320
Is that what happened to Lincoln logs?
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I don't know about Lincoln logs.
00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:27.679
I know it's what happened to Bud Light.
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:29.039
But oh, there you go.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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I mean, look at so many businesses that have done this.
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And at the end of the day, you know, people are different.
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:39.280
Boys and girls are different.
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If one group got you there, try and get the others, but don't do it at the expense of the one that got you where you are today.
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Anyway, we'll go back and have some fun with this as we kind of revisit this.
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Caleb Morse, it's great to have you back in the TSPL.
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And it's nice to be inside.
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Did you oh it was hot last week, but it was cool to smoke cigars out on the porch.
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I was very happy about that.
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I really was.
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Yep.
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Nice though to be in the AC and thanks to our landlord.
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So we don't have to C-I-L-L, my landlord.
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For those who know the Eddie Murphy joke, yeah, back on Saturday Night Live when it was funny.
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Thanks, Caleb.
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At the bar, Chris Smith of Lafayette, Marble, and Granite.
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Chris.
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Yep.
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Um great being here as always, man.
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I was about to say, hopefully you have a good time and we're we're all enjoyable and we are all enjoying the weekly whiskey that we have, along with Mr.
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Okay.
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So as we think about this Independence Day, did anybody go watch the movie Citizen Vigilante?
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And I'll I'll give you the scenario behind it in just a second.
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I didn't watch it, but uh, when you sent the article, I uh I caught a bunch of synopsis of it and other reviews.
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And uh yeah, people are a little bit upset about it.
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People are a little upset.
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So I'll give you the background.
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Leonard, I don't I think you shook your head no.
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Okay, so here's what happened and why we are where we are today with the movie Citizen Vigilante.
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The movie was banned in Europe, basically.
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For lack of a detailed explanation, several countries in Europe, if not all of Europe, banned the movie Citizen Vigilante.
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And the reason why is because the premise of the movie, and I love that we talked about Batman in the final segment of Hour One, because this almost ties in.
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Basically, what's the origin story of Batman?
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His parents are killed and he wants vengeance.
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Correct.
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Well, his parents are killed in Gotham City, where the police are corrupt.
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They're corrupt, and the DA doesn't do anything and punish people.
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Correct.
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The politicians are corrupt, so he can no longer rely on government.
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So Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.
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You can't say like Batman.
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You gotta say, I'm Batman.
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Yeah.
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Whatever.
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So basically, the premise of Citizen Vigilante is the Citizen.
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It's the United States.
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Oh, sorry.
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No, it's in Europe.
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It actually takes place in Europe.
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Interestingly enough, the main character who is Citizen Vigilante is an American.
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Oh, fed up with that everywhere.
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Shocker that an American would save Europe.
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Anyway, let's go back to the story.
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The premise behind it is the American who is Citizen Vigilante is looking for justice.
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Specifically amongst the immigrant or illegal immigrant population in Europe who are committing vast crimes and not being punished.
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Now, this is what I have to say for the movie Citizen Vigilante.
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I watch the movie and I love a movie where you have subtitles.
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No, it doesn't need subtitles, it's in English.
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Wait, Europeans speak English?
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A lot of them do.
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Yes.
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For those who might not know Caleb, because I'm sure you didn't.
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Consistent principles of the main character throughout the movie.
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The judge who lets the criminal go is just as guilty as the criminal.
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And held to the same standard and the same punishment.
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But Citizen Vigilante does not have one thing Batman did have.
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What did Batman have that was his weakness amongst all the criminals?
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Chris, do you do you remember what it was?
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Absolutely.
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Huge Batman fan.
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So he he never killed anybody.
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He had a code.
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Citizen Vigilante kills everyone.
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Yes.
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Kills everyone.
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Well, no, that's his code.
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That's his code.
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Well, okay, but the the innocent driver who he uses to prove a point that has been.
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There's no such thing as innocent.
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You're either active or passive.
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But at the end of the day, the movie at the end is dedicated to all the victims of crime, the rape victims, the violent crime victims in Europe, because of the policies that are going on in Europe.
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So and what they did is uh Germany has the FSK, right?
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And the FSK is their ratings board.
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That ratings board is what tells them if it like we would R N C 17, that kind of stuff.
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Uh over there, they said, well, we're just not going to give it a rating.
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So instead of literally banning it, they said, we're not going to rate it.
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Why?
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Because banning it takes a lot more work.
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If they don't rate it, it's them taking a stand and look, we're standing against vigilantism.
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And they said that they did that because it promoted violence against immigrants.
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They did it because it would promote violence against a certain group of immigrants against the government.
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But violence against other people is condoned and okay.
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So that's okay.
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But violence against a particular group, that's a problem.
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But violence against everybody is not an issue.
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Originally they said that it was uh it was Nazi propaganda.
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That's correct that's what they tried to say.
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And they said, well, it's not really Nazi propaganda.
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It's just this other group.
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Similar but different.
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Very similar but different.
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Chris, you got a thought?
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Yeah.
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So uh I've watched certain segments of it and people's comments on it.
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And uh the way that it's been presented is it's violence against the Muslim population.
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Yet he took everyone's discretions and treated them equally.
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It wasn't just the migrant population who was committing a lot of the crimes and some of the major crimes, but those allowed them to get off those around that were European citizens or judges or those that were in higher authority that were allowing this to happen were were suffering the same exact fate.
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:13.760
So this is this is the point of I think where people aren't calling out and recognizing.
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The movie does not advocate for violence against Muslims.
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The movie does not advocate for violence against judges.
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The movie advocates for violence against those who would give away the freedoms of the people who create and support society in exchange for the rights of people who will violate the rights of others.
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In other words, this is a philosophical film that makes a point.
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And that is what scares the hell out of them.
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The fact that somebody can stand up and say that philosophy needs to be punished, that principle needs to be punished, that principle is guilty, that principle is the problem.
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:03.440
That's what scared the hell out of them.
00:53:03.679 --> 00:53:04.719
Well, you have to look.
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Like, it's very fortuitous actually.
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:09.440
Do you know what happened this last week?
00:53:09.679 --> 00:53:11.119
There was a lot of stuff that happened last week.
00:53:11.360 --> 00:53:12.719
There was a mass shooting at a mosque.
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:13.840
Yes, right?
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:15.840
So we had this mass shooting at a mosque.
00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:21.280
Uh, there was a company that was asked to do uh security assessments and threat assessments at mosques.
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:26.239
And many, many people said they wouldn't do it because it was at a mosque.
00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:33.920
And that that in itself shows that there's there's ignorance that exists with it, right?
00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:39.280
So uh Americans, we believe that all people are created equal.
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So we're equally smart and we're equally ignorant.
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That you can't have one without the other.
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So we have to accept people for who they are, where they are, and understand that mankind is a conglomerate of individuals.
00:53:54.719 --> 00:54:00.960
At the end of the day, it's the principle of those who break the law suffer the punishment, right?
00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:01.679
Correct.
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Not those who think differently.
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And as Christians and Catholics, we we we try to live there, right?
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:08.079
None of us are perfect.
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:08.880
We all try.
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:19.920
But we are not supposed to hate, dislike, judge, or act against someone who has shown us no ill or threat.
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:21.280
Well, what does our savior say?
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:23.360
The greatest of these is love.
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:24.079
Yeah.
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We're called to love one another despite ourselves and despite themselves.
00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:38.880
Here's the really interesting part of this whole story to me because you have the people who say that they are for freedom censoring certain things.
00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:44.239
You have principles that are put forth that those same people don't like.
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:51.199
You have facts because the movie is dedicated to the victims of violent crimes who are not receiving justice.
00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:59.360
You have a report in Europe that has come out and said, we estimate that there are, I want to say, like 260,000 rapes.
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:01.440
And please don't believe us on that.
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:02.320
Go look that up.
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:03.760
Um, the report is out there.
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You can judge that on your own.
00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:13.840
But this is what really jumps out to me is that in the end, you can't stop the truth from getting out.
00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:15.440
You can't stop it from happening.
00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:34.239
So the creator of the movie, who was not happy, obviously, that his movie was being restricted and in some places banned, in some places kind of a shadow ban, decided to do something radical with his product.
00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:35.119
Right.
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:38.079
Well, there's been multiple movies throughout.
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Uh Dirty Harry's one when they were in the 70s, uh Vigilante going out, uh, cops weren't doing anything, needed somebody in the media to take charge.
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:50.079
Uh I remember one of my favorite movies, uh, it was Michael Douglas.
00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:53.199
Um was it um Falling Down?
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Falling Down, yes.
00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:55.679
Just fantastic movie.
00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:57.280
Somebody that had enough.
00:55:57.760 --> 00:55:58.239
This is it.
00:55:58.639 --> 00:55:58.960
Right.
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:01.840
You're gonna try assaulting me, I've got you, right?
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:08.880
It's the same thing over there, yet they are being uh more restricted by their government than the people would want.
00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:14.559
So the people are actually speaking out in a low budget type movie and getting grief about it.
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:21.440
This to me is why it really falls in line with convenience is a killer.
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:25.840
It was convenient for the German movie rating board to just say, Yeah, we're just not gonna rate it.
00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:27.360
They made it comfortable for themselves.
00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:28.719
And what did they end up creating?
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:30.719
They created an online monster.
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:40.159
The number of people who have seen this on X and have watched this now on the internet, because the creator of the movie said, Fine, you want to keep me out of theaters?
00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:43.199
I'm gonna give it to everyone for free.
00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:44.000
Right.
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.840
When you look at the other, there's books and other movies they banned, right?
00:56:48.000 --> 00:56:53.679
Uh 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in a Rye.
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:56.320
This one I'm not familiar with, but it's it's Brave New World.
00:56:56.400 --> 00:56:57.119
I'm not familiar with that one.
00:56:57.280 --> 00:56:58.239
I'm not familiar with that one either.
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.880
Uh movies, Clockwork Orange.
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:02.239
Where was that banned?
00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:03.039
Germany.
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:03.599
Really?
00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:04.239
Yep.
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:06.800
And uh Temptation of Christ.
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:09.360
I knew that one was banned in certain places as well.
00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:16.000
So, I mean, it goes through to show that like a lot of times when these bans happen, people yearn for freedom.
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:19.280
Well, and the freedom that we're granted here by our creator.
00:57:19.519 --> 00:57:22.320
Weren't there issues with V for Vendetta as well?
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:23.199
I think so.
00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:23.920
I think so.
00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:35.039
I mean, we're really going starting to go, man, they are really putting this movie in rare air by doing everything they can to keep people from seeing it, and now people are watching it.
00:57:35.599 --> 00:57:42.000
And I think this is probably what scares the European as well as American governments the most.
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:50.880
One of the lines in the movie is, and it's actually funny because I did not even consider that when we when we started this segment where I said we do this so you don't have to.
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:58.159
The the main character says, I do this for you until you learn to do it for yourself.
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:06.559
Which, if you think back to the reason why we are here on July 4th, when this episode will air on the radio.
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What was the percentage of the 13 colonies that participated in the Revolutionary War?
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3%.
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:13.440
It's actually less than 3%.
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.920
Less than 3% of the citizens participated in the Revolutionary War.
00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:22.320
Well, when you look at the original Sons of Liberty, seven people.
00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:25.840
Seven people helped start the Revolutionary War.
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And I think that's the point.
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I mean, this even goes back to the limp biscuit concert theory, which is the powers that be see a rage amongst a majority of the population and go, if they decide to throw us out and hang us by our necks, we're gonna be done so fast it'll make our heads not just spin, but separate potentially from the rest of our bodies.
00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:55.119
That's because the people should hold the power and we give it up.
00:58:55.280 --> 00:58:57.920
We give up our power because it's convenient.
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Because look, the government knows better.
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:04.480
They should they know what you should eat, you should drink, you should smoke or not smoke.
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:09.679
When in the reality of it is that we're we're educated enough, we can do what we think is morally right.
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:16.719
I mean, the the business owners in here, y'all do y'all do business the way you do it because the law says you have to, or because you think it's morally correct?
00:59:17.119 --> 00:59:18.639
It's definitely morally correct.
00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:21.599
I mean, we we didn't get into business to make money.
00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:24.320
If you go and chase the dollar, you're never gonna catch it.
00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:28.400
You need to do what's gonna really enhance your team and the world.
00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:30.559
I'm doing it for someone else.
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:35.519
So I wrote this down before the movie came out, and I said, I want to talk about this on the show.
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:39.840
But what you said where we abdicate our power, we give our power away.
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:45.920
This is a little bit of a different spin on the, you know, strong men create good times, good times.
00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:47.920
I think this is more accurate, though.
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Vigilance creates apathy.
00:59:51.679 --> 00:59:57.679
Apathy creates terror, terror creates vigilance.
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And right now, they are trying to keep us in apathy so they can keep us afraid of the terror.
01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:17.920
If the terror becomes vigilance, now all of a sudden, those who have their desires on ruling the world are really gonna be in trouble.
01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:20.320
Did we get the one-minute finger and I missed it or something?
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:22.079
Walker seems to be not paying attention over here.
01:00:26.559 --> 01:00:28.400
But ultimately, I think that's where we are.
01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:30.400
I think we are really close to vigilance.
01:00:30.639 --> 01:00:38.480
People seeing it, people now becoming, for lack of a better term, awake to what the powers that be are doing.
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:43.840
I think they're they're about to start creating security.
01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:45.519
Well, and look how many people we have now.
01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:48.639
They're like, look, I'm tired of grocery stores, I'm tired of this, I'm tired of that, I'm tired of the game.
01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:50.480
Now he gives the one regulating so much.
01:00:50.639 --> 01:00:52.320
And they want to be more self-sufficient.
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:59.760
And that's what it comes down to is what is wrong with an American citizen or a or a world citizen being self-sufficient?
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Absolutely nothing.
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And that that is our implicit bias.
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We'll have a whiskey special for you when we come back after this break.
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A 4th of July weekly special should be something once in a year.
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This one maybe once in a lifetime.
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As we welcome you back to the Mr.
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Lester's top secret podcast layer.
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I'm Kavan Bordelon.
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We've got Caleb Morse here.
01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:22.079
We have Leonard Mare.
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He is free whiskey on the show.
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And okay, Leonard, you got something else over there.
01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:26.880
What you trying?
01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:27.840
I'm empty.
01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:28.480
You're empty?
01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:29.840
What are you trying up there?
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Do you know what that bottle is, or do you just pick up the bottle?
01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:32.480
It's redemption.
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It's redemption.
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So there's a redemption cognac cask.
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Lower proof, but you're gonna get a lot of good flavor.
01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:39.599
I'll be curious to know what you think about that.
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That's like a little 86 or yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's it's not quite what this one is.
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But look, I said there's a once in a year.
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This is maybe a once-in-a-lifetime weekly whiskey special at Mr.
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Lester Steakhouse at Cypress Bayou Casino.
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For those listening on podcasts, congratulations.
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You can make your reservation if they have any left by Saturday, because here's the special.
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Caleb, what are the colors of this country?
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What colors do we say don't run?
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Red, white, and blue, baby.
01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:14.880
There are three whiskeys that are highly desirous that also encapsulate red, white, and blue, right?
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:18.639
Yeah, I mean, well, red would be 107.
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Weller 107 antique.
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Which is just a superb whiskey.
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White.
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:26.159
What white?
01:02:26.239 --> 01:02:27.920
I think there's four letters.
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There are, and they stand for create your private bourbon.
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CYPB, a white label weller, usually comes in.
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It's a different proof every year.
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This offering, I believe, is 90 proof, but the flavor on it is as Ferris Bueller would say, so choice.
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If you have the means, I highly recommend goating.
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Well, that's the thing.
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When you go, they they rotate, they change, so it's it's never the same.
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Hard to find.
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And then blue.
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Blue hits a it's a little higher proof.
01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:00.159
I mean, that would be what they call full proof.
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:00.719
It would be.
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It would be Weller Foolproof, and get it while supplies last.
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:08.880
It is a one-night only special, a flight of the three at Mr.
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Lester Steakhouse, celebrating Independence Day, only available on the 4th of July.
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25 bucks for Weller CYPB.
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Well, let's go red, Weller Antique 107, white CYPB, and blue foolproof.
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:28.320
And look, it's only a tenth of our nation's our nation's age.
01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:31.840
Well, they didn't want to charge 250, so they figured 25.
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You still get that 250.
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:35.199
At 250, they probably still sell a few.
01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:46.880
They probably would for those three offerings together, because finding those three offerings together almost anywhere in the state of Louisiana is, as Renee would say, unobtaining them.
01:03:47.679 --> 01:03:48.880
What a special.
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If you had the opportunity to make your reservation, go down there.
01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:56.800
You might even be able to just go down and have a cigar and have a flight.
01:03:57.199 --> 01:04:01.760
But again, remember, and this is the big thing because as we all know, that's thus allocated.
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It is while supplies last on and only on the 4th of July.
01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:10.079
I was talking to a gentleman earlier too about it.
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He was fussing about allocations because he's like, look, we do this, we try hard, and then we get it, and then our distributors send it somewhere else.
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But here we have somebody who looked, Mr.
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Lester's taken care of and taking care of you.
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And look, we love that they shared this information with implicit bias radio so we could promote it for them, let people know what's out there.
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Hope they enjoyed.
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Okay.
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So, first of all, Leonard, what do you think of that redemption cognac cask?
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That was actually pretty good.
01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:40.400
I I did like the Remus.
01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:42.639
Um still enjoying it.
01:04:42.719 --> 01:04:44.079
I could still taste it.
01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:46.880
I added this on top of it, and it's pretty damn good.
01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:53.599
Well, very different profile flavors because uh 36% rye, a lot more spice with that cognac cast, a little bit sweeter.
01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:56.960
You're gonna get that whiny, that whiny viscous finish on it.
01:04:57.039 --> 01:05:04.159
Yeah, much lower proof, but it it tends to be a little more peppery, even though it's a lower proof.
01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:04.719
All right.
01:05:04.800 --> 01:05:10.639
So let's talk international affairs because you know, one of the things we like to celebrate here is the United States, especially on the 4th of July.
01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:17.679
But man, Caleb, you you spent, in my understanding, what, six years?
01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:18.719
Yeah, almost seven.
01:05:19.199 --> 01:05:26.400
Almost seven, a six to seven year lifetime in the Middle East and specifically in Iraq.
01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:36.559
And Iraq seems to be getting some things under control that a lot of people have maybe been hoping for in the US in the last week, week and a half.
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:41.280
Look, they've had a corruption problem for a long time.
01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:48.719
When you look at the billions of dollars that Americans have spent there on rebuilding their infrastructure, uh there was the Hadith.
01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:50.639
Did you just say infant structure?
01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:51.679
Maybe I did.
01:05:52.239 --> 01:05:56.000
Um And look, give given the level of how they operate, it might be correct.
01:05:56.159 --> 01:05:59.760
Yeah, and look, there were there was the Hadith Dam there, uh it was Marine Corps installation there.
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:02.719
At the time, I was either attached to 1st Marine or 2nd Marine Division.
01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:06.239
And we spent all this money on building up a hydroelectric system.
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:13.519
So Iraq has a big problem of rolling blackouts because their infrastructure is busted, it's broken.
01:06:13.599 --> 01:06:15.760
We tore a bunch of it up, not gonna lie to you.
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:18.079
But then they also demolished it themselves.
01:06:18.239 --> 01:06:20.639
They would go through and steal the copper, do all this other stuff.
01:06:20.719 --> 01:06:22.559
They have a huge problem with unemployment.
01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:30.719
But the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Oil, Ministry of Energy are all rife with corruption.
01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:37.840
So it's interesting that you say they have people demolishing things and stealing copper.
01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:41.840
You're not talking about people who live at the American level of poverty.
01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:48.880
The poor in America in the 80s averaged four TVs and two cars in their homes.
01:06:49.039 --> 01:06:49.280
Yeah, no.
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:50.880
That's what we classified as poor.
01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:59.599
The poor people there live in uh we we drove by a village and it was uh in in in Baghdad.
01:06:59.920 --> 01:07:05.679
It was in one of the Mahalas, the neighborhoods, and uh it's one of the oldest known structures known to man.
01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:14.159
And the mud huts there, I'm using the term mud hut loosely, have been there for a millennia, and people are still living in them.
01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:16.320
Were they made out of hemp creep?
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:17.360
Something similar.
01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:18.800
I'm just I mean something similar.
01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:19.760
We talked about it last week.
01:07:19.840 --> 01:07:20.639
That's why I asked it by the way.
01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:21.679
Something very similar.
01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:28.639
Uh you think they actually had refrigeration systems back then, like Iraq itself is the seat of a lot of knowledge and information.
01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:31.199
Uh the Euphrates, the Tigris, beautiful area.
01:07:31.519 --> 01:07:32.400
Cradle of civilization.
01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:33.039
Yeah.
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And when you look at the people that are living, they are destitute.
01:07:37.679 --> 01:07:39.920
So this is what I find interesting.
01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:44.079
We think about how Americans live and people are called poor here.
01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:53.519
And we look at the corruption here, we look at the amount of money that's siphoned off the top, we look at politicians who get elected and they're worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
01:07:53.599 --> 01:07:57.599
And within three years or six years, they're worth tens of millions of dollars.
01:07:57.840 --> 01:07:59.360
We think about that corruption.
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:03.840
According to one estimate, so we talked about the Iraqi corruption problem.
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:09.920
In one night, 45 government officials were arrested by the Iraqi military.
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:12.400
And initially, people thought it was a coup d'etat.
01:08:12.719 --> 01:08:13.599
And it wasn't.
01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:17.279
It was the actual person in power cleaning things up.
01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:35.279
As of this recording, one estimate has the amount of physical cash that has been confiscated at over 900 billion dollars in Iraqi dinar and US dollars.
01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:38.479
Almost a trillion dollars.
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:40.000
Think about how much money that is.
01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:47.920
What you have to realize too is this is a country that has the fifth largest oil reserves in the world.
01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:50.960
They have so many natural resources.
01:08:51.439 --> 01:08:57.119
Everything like it is a it can be, and parts of it are still beautiful.
01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:07.920
But yet people are so concerned about me and not we that they are out consuming and are consuming other people.
01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:11.520
That is what scares me the most, right?
01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:18.239
What scares me the most is that we look at this dynamic and we think about the 1% at the top in the United States.
01:09:20.159 --> 01:09:25.199
At least the disparity between the 1% in the US versus the 1% there.
01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:29.199
The 1% in the US is probably living with air conditioning and plumbing.
01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:35.119
The 1% there might have water.
01:09:36.239 --> 01:09:37.039
Mud huts.
01:09:39.119 --> 01:09:43.920
So take that step back and now go, man, what's really going on?
01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:57.279
Because this is the this is what jumps out from the entire situation, which is Caleb, we have heard forever that the Iraqi dinar was going to be revalued.
01:09:57.920 --> 01:10:04.000
Well, I know people who have a million dinar right now here in the U.S.
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:08.000
So let's let's talk about the disparity between the Iraqi dinar and the US dollar.
01:10:08.159 --> 01:10:11.359
It's like one US dollar is worth like 45 million Iraqi dinar.
01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:11.520
Yeah.
01:10:11.920 --> 01:10:12.560
It's it's not that bad.
01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:13.279
That's hyperbole.
01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:17.439
Whatever the number is, my buddy bought like$200 worth, and it's like one million dinar, right?
01:10:17.680 --> 01:10:19.600
And it was an entire C bag.
01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:22.640
When we say C bag, that's the big canvas bags.
01:10:22.720 --> 01:10:24.880
Um he's like, when it hits, it's gonna be great.
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:30.000
What you have to realize is that when it hits, it will be a different denotation.
01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:35.359
It will be a different valuation, it'll be a different bill, just like we did.
01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:36.560
Just like we did.
01:10:36.720 --> 01:10:38.960
When you look at the the Confederate bucks that existed.
01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:39.279
Yep.
01:10:39.439 --> 01:10:41.920
Whenever they changed that and then they went to the the U.S.
01:10:42.000 --> 01:10:43.359
bank note became what it is.
01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:47.520
Confederate notes now just have value for collectability, not because of value.
01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:48.560
Well, even U.S.
01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:49.439
banknotes have that.
01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:50.720
Walker, what are you doing with that finger?
01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:52.800
It says this is not not for legal tender.
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:57.600
Oh, he's pointing back at I love how he completely retracts that instead of telling us, yeah, that's the one-minute finger.
01:10:57.680 --> 01:10:59.359
Penultimate segment after this, right?
01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:00.000
Yes, sir.
01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:01.439
Go counter Denar.
01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.800
Yeah, he he can't count past 10.
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:07.279
Anyway, we'll be back right after this.
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Implicit bias radio rolls on.
01:11:09.920 --> 01:11:11.600
Do not miss the specials at Mr.
01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:13.359
Lester Steakhouse on this weekend.
01:11:13.439 --> 01:11:15.760
Trust me, you'll find it on our Facebook, their Facebook.
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:16.800
You don't want to miss it.
01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:24.159
What you also don't want to miss is the crew that we have here and the music that we use in the well, so they're called bumps.
01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:34.239
So for those who don't know like how radio works, how television works, there's a little bit of cushion in between the commercial breaks and the actual talk.
01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:35.760
And that's when they play music.
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:38.000
They call that literally a bump.
01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:42.960
Or there's a little banner that comes out that says this hour brought to you by something like that.
01:11:43.199 --> 01:11:43.920
Those are put in.
01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:47.039
And I'll tell people why I love giving people inside baseball.
01:11:47.359 --> 01:11:49.680
They put those in for this reason.
01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:55.840
Because it's really hard to gauge exactly how long your conversation is going to go.
01:11:56.159 --> 01:12:06.159
So they give you a few seconds where they can shorten the music or lengthen the music or do whatever they need to do in the edit booth so that when they drop the show, it hits an exact time frame.
01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:08.880
And we use very specific music on this show.
01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:11.600
Leonard, I I know that you've listened to this show a lot.
01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:13.359
Uh do you like the music we use?
01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:13.920
I do.
01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:14.479
I do.
01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:15.039
It's fun.
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:17.359
Do you remember any of the songs that we use as music?
01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:18.159
Not a single one.
01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:18.880
Not a single one.
01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:19.439
That's okay.
01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:21.600
Caleb, I know you know some of the music.
01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:22.399
Do you know any of the songs?
01:12:22.560 --> 01:12:23.439
Uh Bad Company.
01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:25.920
So Bad Company, yes, that is one.
01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:27.920
Do you remember anything else?
01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:30.479
Uh I can't say the name.
01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:32.079
Can't what do you mean you can't say the name?
01:12:32.159 --> 01:12:34.159
No, no, but we're gonna get in FCC trouble.
01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:35.760
Well, you can say part of the name.
01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:37.359
I'm trying to think of which one you can do.
01:12:37.520 --> 01:12:38.159
I was gonna make one up.
01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:39.840
Yeah, well, that's what I'm buying time.
01:12:40.000 --> 01:12:40.960
I was about to say, yeah, it just doesn't.
01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:42.079
Thank you for calling me out.
01:12:42.319 --> 01:12:42.960
You're you're welcome.
01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:47.279
No, so look, our our title music is When the Levies Break by Led Zeppelin.
01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:52.479
And that's there's there's tributes in there, like my son's a huge Led Zeppelin fan.
01:12:52.800 --> 01:12:55.439
This show is basically it's because the levy broke.
01:12:55.520 --> 01:12:57.039
We tried not to do this show forever.
01:12:57.279 --> 01:13:00.239
Haven't we used uh My Heart Will Go On by Celine before?
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:01.600
That would be a huge no.
01:13:01.680 --> 01:13:04.479
I think Leonard's about to spit whiskey out of his nose on that one.
01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:06.399
No, no, no, Celine Dion.
01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:08.000
I think we've got some AC DC.
01:13:08.159 --> 01:13:08.800
We do have AC DC.
01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:09.920
We've got some Allison Chains.
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:12.079
We've had Thunderstrike a few times in there.
01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:13.520
Yep, we've got some Van Halen.
01:13:14.079 --> 01:13:16.640
I mean, we've got pretty good, pretty good.
01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:18.000
Really good stuff.
01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:21.119
Um, and actually, it's probably time for us to go back and look at some of that.
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:24.960
Like the title track won't change, but we probably need to change some of those just to keep some variants in there.
01:13:25.119 --> 01:13:34.319
But the really interesting part is you know what's not in there, and it could be, but what type of music is definitely not in the bumps of our shin and juice.
01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:37.680
There's no Snoop Dogg, even though Snoop's got some great tracks.
01:13:37.920 --> 01:13:38.880
Yep, so does Drew.
01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:40.720
There's no NWA.
01:13:40.960 --> 01:13:41.600
Oh wow, yeah.
01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:42.399
There's no Easy.
01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:43.600
Easy Easy.
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:46.399
There's definitely no Two Live Crew for those who remember Two Live Crew.
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:50.079
Yeah, that would that would get us in the FCC problem.
01:13:50.159 --> 01:13:50.640
Yep, yep.
01:13:50.880 --> 01:13:52.960
But you know what the really interesting part is?
01:13:53.439 --> 01:13:59.520
For the first time in a decade, there's no rap songs in the Billboard Top 200.
01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:06.640
So, whenever we were talking about this earlier, I looked it up, and you're right, the Billboard Top 200 has no rap songs.
01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:13.359
But you know what is the the largest growth of music genre in the top 200 right now?
01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:14.640
I don't.
01:14:15.039 --> 01:14:16.960
Faith-based music.
01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:19.199
That's really interesting.
01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:20.640
That's surprising.
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:23.039
Why does that surprise you, Leonard?
01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:25.119
I don't listen to it.
01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:25.840
So Okay.
01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:28.000
Well, I mean, no, think about this.
01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:30.640
Is it that you don't listen to it or you don't realize you're listening to it?
01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:31.520
I don't realize it.
01:14:31.680 --> 01:14:34.800
So, like, I I listen to uh Christian Thrash Metal.
01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:36.479
Well, people don't realize that Creed.
01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:38.159
Why would you look at me like that, Walker?
01:14:38.239 --> 01:14:40.159
Like, I listen to I listen to Heavy Met of it.
01:14:40.319 --> 01:14:41.680
Oh, I listen to Christian Thrashmetal, man.
01:14:42.399 --> 01:14:44.239
Creed was a Christian grunge band.
01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:44.800
Christian rock.
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:46.640
Well, maybe not grunge, Christian rock.
01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:47.199
Yes.
01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:49.840
So there that surprised you too?
01:14:50.079 --> 01:14:51.520
No, I just looked up.
01:14:51.840 --> 01:14:54.239
Walker just has a perpetually surprised look on his face.
01:14:54.479 --> 01:14:56.000
There are, sorry, Kennedy.
01:14:56.159 --> 01:15:04.640
Um there are there are many, many bands, many, many groups that that have Christian themed music that aren't what we would consider Christian music.
01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:06.079
And look, there's a ton of it out there.
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:08.079
It's just finding what resonates with you.
01:15:08.159 --> 01:15:16.960
But like right now on the the Billboard Top 200, there's between 20 and 30 that are significantly known or known as Christian music.
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:18.880
How many more mention Christ?
01:15:19.039 --> 01:15:19.600
I don't know.
01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:23.439
But we've seen we've seen yeah, we've seen a big resurgence in that.
01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:26.560
And when you look at like Does this prove the point of what we're about to talk about?
01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:27.279
It does.
01:15:27.439 --> 01:15:28.399
I think it really does.
01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:29.680
I don't disagree with you.
01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:31.680
I mean, I'm following the logic that you're putting down.
01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:41.199
So we have covered on this show the intelligence intervention into music in this country.
01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:43.520
Strange Fashion Pumpkins was right.
01:15:44.000 --> 01:16:06.560
Strange happenings in the valley, where they go into the 1960s, the birds, the mamas, and the papas, Frank Zappa, who all lived in the same little valley where you eventually had the Manson murders, and the fact that the birds, the mamas and the papas, um almost Buffalo, uh Buffalo Springfield, almost all of their parents were military intelligence.
01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:08.960
They all had ties in some way, shape, or form.
01:16:09.119 --> 01:16:16.159
Crosby Stills and Nash, they all had ties, even down to Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, who's father huge.
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:23.680
Well, his father was the abbey of the ship that was allegedly attacked in Vietnam to start the Vietnam War.
01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:27.439
Allegedly, come on, like nothing actually hit their ship at all.
01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:35.279
So, I mean, when you start putting that together and you go, okay, was the intelligence community affiliated or influencing what was going on?
01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:37.920
Influencing might be the right word.
01:16:38.079 --> 01:16:58.960
And then there has long been the standing thought that it was the CIA that created rap and propagated, especially gangster rap in order to control masses, as well as to create a crack and cocaine epidemic in the inner city in order to generate funds that were off the books to create their own essentially their own black budget army.
01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:11.439
Then you now have no rap songs in the top 200 on Billboard, a resurgence of Christian music, and you go, huh.
01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:16.079
Well, if they were funding it, maybe that's why it's gone.
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:28.319
But what you have, what you're putting together, Caleb, is this is that if they were funding one to be put in place over the other, the other has to come back in order for the theory to be true.
01:17:28.560 --> 01:17:29.760
In other words, 100%.
01:17:30.479 --> 01:17:50.560
In other words, was USAID laundering money to keep certain forms of music in the ears of American youth as opposed to keep Christian rock, Christian music, which is now having a major resurgence, into their ears and changing the way that they think.
01:17:51.039 --> 01:17:54.159
To quote a wonderful song, we don't need no education.
01:17:54.479 --> 01:17:56.319
Leonard, you got a thought on this, I can tell.
01:17:56.479 --> 01:17:56.800
No.
01:17:57.039 --> 01:17:57.359
No.
01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:00.000
I'm here for the free bourbon.
01:18:01.359 --> 01:18:11.359
But it it it's a um it's a thought pattern as to that's I can't imagine the CIA or anybody being involved in music.
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:18.640
But well, I mean, they've come out and the CIA hadn't come out and said it, but we've had many artists, such as um his name right now, the lead singer of Smash and Pumpkins.
01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:19.359
Billy Corrigan.
01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:22.239
You said that the CIA was part of all this stuff.
01:18:22.560 --> 01:18:25.199
Oh, Ice Cube has said it, Kanye has said it.
01:18:25.279 --> 01:18:30.880
I mean, you start going and looking at all the different musicians who've said these people are involved in doing things.
01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:31.760
That's crazy.
01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:40.239
And please, I mean, uh to all our listeners out there, as we always say, please don't believe us, go look this up because but Chris Cornell, Cooker, Kirk Cobain, all these people.
01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:43.439
Oh no, if you want to start going down that rabbit hole, yes.
01:18:43.840 --> 01:18:48.960
I mean, if you want to go down the rabbit hole of the 27 club, which was Hendricks, it was Cornell.
01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:50.800
No, it was not Cornell, it was Cor Cobain.
01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:53.920
I mean, when you start looking, it was Jim Morrison.
01:18:54.239 --> 01:19:02.399
There's just how many times does it go from being just possible to being highly probable?
01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:06.079
Well, eventually I have to say that there's a pattern here, that something exists.
01:19:06.159 --> 01:19:08.239
And we ignore it because what we're told to ignore.
01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:09.920
Hey, look, something's over here.
01:19:10.079 --> 01:19:12.159
Follow the follow the dancing monkey.
01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:18.399
And that's what happens to us is our government goes through and says, pay attention to what I want you to pay attention to.
01:19:18.479 --> 01:19:19.920
Look at the sock puppet.
01:19:20.159 --> 01:19:21.840
And we had all these this music.
01:19:22.000 --> 01:19:29.279
Well, I mean, if you don't think the government was involved in music, what do you think happened in the 90s with InSync Backstreet Boys and everything else?
01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:31.840
Oh, I you think they were talented?
01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:35.680
No, I just thought that was activists trying to get a marriage law passed.
01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:37.199
That's a whole nother thing.
01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:53.039
But and this is why when we say you get the opportunity to put the stuff down and talk to your family, you get the opportunity to not be comfortable, to not have convenience, get uncomfortable, have conversations, and do things that require physical activity.
01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:57.840
It's why look, so Leonard, when I was out with you and the UL ski team here.
01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:06.640
By the way, for those who don't know, you're not listening inside of Louisiana, maybe just inside of Lafayette, the University of Louisiana Lafayette has a multi-tier national championship.
01:20:07.119 --> 01:20:08.399
Phenomenal ski team.
01:20:08.640 --> 01:20:09.439
Six in a row.
01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:10.319
Six in a row.
01:20:10.399 --> 01:20:13.199
They've won like 30 some odd tournaments in a row.
01:20:14.000 --> 01:20:14.720
30 plus.
01:20:14.960 --> 01:20:22.319
Just being out there was so refreshing because like we put phones down and we're just having fun doing stuff.
01:20:22.560 --> 01:20:24.800
They were the best of the best.
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:30.640
I I can't even imagine that here in um Louisiana for a ski team.
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:34.159
Were you all over here that by the by the the training uh, yeah?
01:20:34.560 --> 01:20:35.359
Airport lake, yeah.
01:20:35.439 --> 01:20:37.119
Yep did y'all see the big gator there or no?
01:20:37.199 --> 01:20:37.439
No.
01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:39.680
Actually, I think they just had that gator removed.
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:40.399
Oh man.
01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:41.520
Got a little aggressive.
01:20:41.680 --> 01:20:43.279
Well, he was incentived not to fall.
01:20:43.439 --> 01:20:44.560
Yeah, well, he was.
01:20:44.800 --> 01:20:53.199
But at the end of the day, the conversation that we had out there on that boat, whether it's in the boat, whether it's in the blind, whatever it is, take that time and get out there.
01:20:53.359 --> 01:20:53.600
Yeah.
01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:57.279
And you've got to use, I mean, something like you sell, Leonard.
01:20:57.359 --> 01:20:58.960
And that that's what we say.
01:20:59.039 --> 01:21:00.720
And it's it's part of our implicit bias.
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:05.119
One segment left, it's gonna be tons of fun because this one we're making fun of somebody.
01:21:05.840 --> 01:21:07.279
And I think you're gonna like it.
01:21:07.439 --> 01:21:08.079
Cheers.
01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:11.600
Final segment of this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio.
01:21:11.680 --> 01:21:13.119
I'm your host, Kavan Bordelon.
01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:14.640
Great crew here in the Mr.
01:21:14.720 --> 01:21:19.920
Lester's T S P L, Caleb Morse, Leonard Mare, who's just here for the free whiskey.
01:21:20.079 --> 01:21:23.600
And let me tell you, this last segment is gonna be tons of fun.
01:21:23.680 --> 01:21:28.880
Not before, though, we tell you about the Saturday only special at Mr.
01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:31.760
Lester Steakhouse, Cypress Bayou Casino.
01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:34.800
Three pours, red, white, and blue.
01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:37.600
Weller Antique 107.
01:21:37.680 --> 01:21:38.000
Yep.
01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:40.079
Weller CYPB.
01:21:40.319 --> 01:21:41.760
Weller foolproof.
01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:43.039
A three-poor flight.
01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:44.239
That foolproof, too.
01:21:44.319 --> 01:21:44.720
Oh my goodness.
01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:46.399
Caleb, you want to tell them how much?
01:21:47.840 --> 01:21:54.000
Think about the number that would not you would normally pay for one pour and you're paying less than that for three.
01:21:54.239 --> 01:21:59.920
$25 for a three-poor red, white, and blue flight.
01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:02.960
Absolutely freaking amazing.
01:22:03.199 --> 01:22:03.520
Okay.
01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:08.960
So you know what your$25 could do instead of getting you a good pour?
01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:11.199
There's something else you could do with that$25.
01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:12.960
Are you gonna talk about lot lizards?
01:22:13.039 --> 01:22:13.840
Because I'm not sure where this is going.
01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:19.039
No, you could ensure that Joe Biden still doesn't have enough money to build a presidential library.
01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:21.119
I told you we were making fun of somebody.
01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:23.199
I told you we were gonna make fun of somebody.
01:22:23.279 --> 01:22:25.680
And look, I'm not making fun of Joe.
01:22:25.760 --> 01:22:28.960
I'm not making fun of the fact that Joe is potentially incoherent and sick.
01:22:29.039 --> 01:22:30.479
We we don't make fun of those things.
01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:45.039
What I am making fun of Joe for is this Joe is a career politician who went on record bribing a foreign government to make sure that his son didn't get prosecuted with a billion dollars of your money.
01:22:45.359 --> 01:22:52.479
I'm making fun of the fact that Joe would tell people who wanted to buy government access that there had to be 10% for the big guy.
01:22:53.039 --> 01:22:54.560
That's what we're making fun of.
01:22:54.720 --> 01:23:05.680
And now, seemingly, Joe Biden may be, according to multiple reports, the first United States president who will not have enough money to build a presidential library.
01:23:06.239 --> 01:23:08.079
And not just by a little bit.
01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:15.760
Not not like I was trying to compare it real quick to like how much it cost in the state of Louisiana to run for state level office.
01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:20.000
And you can do that for in the$300,000 to$350,000 price range.
01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:26.399
Um Joe, so when you look at presidential libraries, there are the majority of them are privately funded.
01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:27.039
Correct.
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:32.399
And they raised a phenomenal, good for you, Joe,$4 million.
01:23:34.319 --> 01:23:36.560
That's look, for you and me, that's a lot of money.
01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:37.680
Oh, that's a ton of money.
01:23:37.840 --> 01:23:40.000
That's you ever seen a million dollars in person?
01:23:40.079 --> 01:23:40.560
Nope.
01:23:40.880 --> 01:23:42.479
And you notice he doesn't turn his own mic on.
01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:43.520
Anyway, yeah, yeah.
01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:44.960
He'll never see a million that way.
01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:46.000
How about this?
01:23:46.960 --> 01:23:48.640
I am 53 years old.
01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:51.920
You give me$4 million after taxes today.
01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:57.359
I don't physically have to work for the rest of my life.
01:23:57.600 --> 01:24:00.880
Yeah, call the interest on it 5%.
01:24:03.039 --> 01:24:04.720
You're still losing money, but yeah, 5%.
01:24:07.039 --> 01:24:09.199
That's$200,000 a year in interest.
01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:10.880
Which is which is a great salary.
01:24:11.119 --> 01:24:13.520
Which is a which is a great salary, right?
01:24:15.680 --> 01:24:20.319
But let's compare that to what Barack Hussein Obama.
01:24:20.479 --> 01:24:21.680
Oh, I'm sorry I didn't say that right.
01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:25.680
Barack Hussein Obama paid for his presidential library.
01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:27.359
What's that estimated number, Caleb?
01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:29.840
I'm pulling it up right now because it was it was way more.
01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:32.319
It was over 400 million.
01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:34.399
I thought it was closer to nine.
01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:35.920
It is, it's like 865.
01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:37.600
I haven't typed that fast.
01:24:38.000 --> 01:24:39.279
Dear Lord.
01:24:39.680 --> 01:24:41.359
So go ahead, Leonard.
01:24:41.680 --> 01:24:42.880
Somebody's making money.
01:24:43.119 --> 01:24:43.760
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:24:43.920 --> 01:24:45.119
Leonard, ring the bell.
01:24:45.279 --> 01:24:49.039
That is money on this show because you and I are thinking the same thing.
01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:50.479
Yeah, 850 million.
01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:52.479
There is the estimate in 2018.
01:24:52.640 --> 01:24:55.439
And they're charging every entry.
01:24:55.680 --> 01:24:56.560
Yeah, well, you know what?
01:24:56.640 --> 01:24:57.119
That's for him.
01:24:57.520 --> 01:24:58.000
$50.
01:24:58.319 --> 01:25:06.159
Uh, if you can prove you're a local resident resident, it's gonna be a$35 fee, but you have to show an ID.
01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:07.279
Hey, or they're asking.
01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:09.600
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:12.319
In order to vote, they don't want you to show an ID.
01:25:12.720 --> 01:25:23.760
But in order to get the resident discount in Chicago to visit the Barack Hussein Obama Library, you have to show an ID, a valid ID.
01:25:24.079 --> 01:25:25.359
To live in Illinois.
01:25:25.600 --> 01:25:26.560
That you live in Illinois.
01:25:26.720 --> 01:25:28.319
Oh, that is insane.
01:25:28.399 --> 01:25:29.359
So I'm like you.
01:25:29.520 --> 01:25:43.760
I look at this building where the Obama Presidential Library is, and I go, there is no way, number one, that it cost$900 million, almost 900 million, to construct and finish that building.
01:25:43.840 --> 01:25:44.319
There's no way.
01:25:44.560 --> 01:25:44.880
No, hold on.
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:46.399
It's gotta be a money laundering thing.
01:25:46.560 --> 01:25:48.399
Let me tell you, there's a museum in there.
01:25:48.640 --> 01:25:49.520
Doesn't say what it is.
01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:50.720
There's a restroom, I'm sure.
01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:53.920
There's a digital presidential library.
01:25:54.479 --> 01:25:55.600
Which means it's cheaper.
01:25:55.840 --> 01:25:56.560
No, no, no, no.
01:25:56.640 --> 01:25:58.880
Look, you know how much memory sticks cost nowadays?
01:25:59.680 --> 01:26:00.880
There's at least one terabyte.
01:26:02.239 --> 01:26:04.000
There's a community center.
01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:07.439
There's a branch of the public library.
01:26:08.800 --> 01:26:10.800
But we we build public libraries here.
01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:11.359
It's a branch.
01:26:11.439 --> 01:26:13.840
My question is But it's not publicly accessible.
01:26:14.079 --> 01:26:14.399
What?
01:26:14.800 --> 01:26:15.840
You have to pay to go in.
01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:17.600
Okay, so here's here's the go ahead.
01:26:18.800 --> 01:26:19.359
I've got questions.
01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:21.279
There's an athletic facility.
01:26:21.520 --> 01:26:22.720
All it is is a home court.
01:26:22.960 --> 01:26:26.000
Well, he's got a basketball court because that was his thing, the basketball court at the White House.
01:26:26.239 --> 01:26:26.800
It's a home court.
01:26:26.880 --> 01:26:27.920
It's just a basketball court.
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Okay.
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That's it.
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So one.
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So I'm going to tell you like I told the contractor who told me about a house many years ago here in southern Louisiana where the guy said, Oh, we're getting, you know, this is going to cost$175 a square foot.
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Now, this is back in like 2001.
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No, take that back.
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It was 2006 because it was after Katrina.
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And I remember looking at him and saying, Okay, I want you to show me the$100,000 effing bathroom in that house because there is no way it costs that much because the guy said, Oh, it's building materials, it's this, it's that.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Somebody's making money somewhere.
01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:01.920
And here's the other thing that really jumps out.
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What does Obama have on private organizations to make them donate a billion dollars to his library that Joe no longer has?
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Right.
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Remember.
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Would it be influence?
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That's the big question.
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These presidential libraries are being built off of private donations.
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Thank you, Leonard.
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On public property.
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On public property.
01:27:25.119 --> 01:27:30.000
And these private companies are pledging money for what reason?
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Show me, show me a major corporation that's going to give a million, five, ten million dollars when they get no ROI, when they are publicly traded.
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Yet they will cut their own employees' pension plans to make sure they can give that money away.
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Are they getting something back?
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Somehow.
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Well, it's I don't know about how I say this.
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It's a it's a blank waving contest at this point in time.
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It's who has the biggest library because we have Obama's is 850 million.
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Bill Clinton, 165.
01:28:01.920 --> 01:28:02.479
I disagree.
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GW, 500.
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I completely disagree.
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I don't think this is a proverbial in the can contest.
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No.
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I think this is all a huge money laundering scheme.
01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:13.920
That's what I think.
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I think these are money laundering schemes that you will find are benefiting certain NGOs and charities.
01:28:20.319 --> 01:28:21.439
This is my thought process.
01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:23.359
That means that you think the government's corrupt.
01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:24.880
I don't think the government's corrupt.
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I think that the people in the government?
01:28:27.439 --> 01:28:28.079
Ring the bell, please.
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Please ring the bell, Leonard.
01:28:29.920 --> 01:28:32.000
Yes, I think it's Would you look at that?
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How convenient, which is the whole theme of this show, right?
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They've got convenience built in.
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They've paid for convenience when it comes to getting the laws they want passed, to getting their agendas pushed.
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They've paid for convenience.
01:28:44.319 --> 01:28:53.279
And now all of a sudden, just like it was convenient for the Germans to say, oh, we don't want to give a rating to Citizen Vigilante.
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Now it's coming back to Biden.
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And to me, you want proof that the deep state is being rooted out.
01:29:00.159 --> 01:29:05.920
The fact that Joe Biden cannot get enough private donations, it means that his influence is gone.
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Remember, the Clinton Foundation is now belly up because their money got dried up as well.
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That's that's only because Epstein is not with us.
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Do you remember how many?
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Do you remember how many NGOs were in the state of Minnesota up until about six months ago?
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Uh it was more than days in the year.
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42,000 NGOs housed in Minnesota.
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That's crazy.
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Think about how many of them were involved in all of this, and that is how much corruption has to be rooted out.
01:29:37.760 --> 01:29:42.960
And it's why we need you to, as my father would say, feel your oats.
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Let them drop on this Independence Day.
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Don't put up with it, and remind the government that it gets its power from you, not the other way around.
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We'll see you in seven.
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Cheers and happy Independence Day from this week's episode of Implicit Bias Radio.