May 20, 2021 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Who Killed Ashli Babbitt? | Guest: Tayler Hansen | Ep 154
The events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 resulted in the police-involved death of Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old unarmed white Air Force veteran. The details around her story are unclear, as competing narratives have made the truth hard to access. However, journalist Taylor Hansen, who was alongside Babbitt the day of her death and documented the entire scenario, joins me in studio to discuss the truth of what happened during those deadly moments. This is the story of who killed Ashli Babbitt.
The police here are willing to work with us and cooperate peacefully like our First Amendment allows gather more Americans under the condition that they will come and gather peacefully to discuss what needs to be done to save our country.
That is what terrorism looks like, ladies and gentlemen.
I know if you had kids in the room, I want to start by apologizing for showing you such carnage and violence.
I understand that those images and videos that you've seen from the January 6th most dangerous and terrible insurrection and horrible event in human history really scar us a lot.
I mean, everybody knows that the best psyop of waging war is to call for peace.
And we're going to be talking back about the injustices that are happening to the people who are being blamed for the riot, as well as talking about who actually killed the one person who was murdered that day intentionally, Ashley Babbitt, who was an unarmed white woman.
And we're going to find out who she was killed by, but it might actually shock you.
I brought on the person who basically broke the story.
They actually did.
And they're an investigative journalist, Taylor Hansen, who came into Texas.
You're a new resident here.
Welcome to Texas.
Thank you, buddy.
Yeah, awesome.
Happy to be here.
We love you.
We love you in Texas.
You're doing pretty damn good work.
Someone's got to.
I mean, it seems like nowadays we have almost no reporters on the ground that actually want to expose these names, especially being conservative and on the right.
I mean, we're all back the blue so much that even when an injustice like this happens, it's hush-hushed from both sides.
Nobody wants to know the name.
And if they do know the name, they don't release it.
I mean, multiple media outlets.
Oh, it doesn't matter that we all know his name.
We just won't run the story.
Yeah.
And we're going to find out who that was.
We're going to really get into this.
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So Taylor, we have a problem here.
We have a problem.
The government's trying to distract people from what's really happening, the injustices that are being put upon the people who participated in the events on the day of the Capitol.
I know that I was there.
You were there.
A lot of people were there that I know.
And I know that we're still not in jail.
It's weird how that works, right?
Yeah.
We're not in jail.
Unless this is the ultimate sick thing and having to spend four hours a day with Savannah is prison.
I don't know what else to say.
Thank you for that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But I want to talk about this.
So let me see if I can get a zoomed-in picture here without going into this.
So actually, that's fine.
Go to my screen.
So we're introduced to this person, Ashley Babbitt.
I know you're very close to their family.
Ashley Babbitt was shot and killed, which we're going to get into by this officer here.
And this is allegedly by an officer named Lieutenant Mike Bird.
And I need to hear from you how did we get here?
Okay.
Because I want to backtrack.
You were in the building at the time.
You were around this incident.
What happened here?
Because we've kind of pushed this under the rug.
Nobody's talking about this story.
And so I want to take our listeners back and I want to tell the story of the Capitol riots.
And I want to start by saying, how did we get from a peaceful walk in front of the White House where this person, Ashley Babbitt, was just on a live stream talking about making her voice heard to where we are that she is getting shot and killed inside the Capitol building?
I'll tell you how.
And it's the incompetence of the Capitol Police and the FBI and everybody that was involved that day.
I first laid eyes on Ashley Babbitt when everybody was that clip that you played.
That guy's name is William Watson.
And I mean, he's being held in solitary confinement.
Same with Jake Chansley, the Q shaman, over false affidavits filed by the police department.
And I followed her.
Everybody was kind of pushed up against this door, the house door.
And I saw this, you know, this woman draped in this flag kind of back away.
And she's just curious.
She's just looking around, not being violent, not being loud, not doing anything.
And I was curious because, you know, nothing wasn't going anywhere.
So I looped around and I followed her.
And Ashley and I, I mean, we were some of the first people to the speaker doors going into the hallway where the shooting actually took place.
And within five minutes, 10 minutes, I would say, the crowd was filled.
You couldn't even move shoulder to shoulder.
John Sullivan was actually right next to me.
And you had agitators, whatever you want to call them, breaking the windows, changing clothes.
You know, I have lots of people on video just dropping, changing total gear inside the Capitol, not outside.
I mean, both inside and outside, actually.
And really what led to this is, like I said, the incompetence of the Capitol Police.
And you'll see that farther on in this episode.
What they did that day, it was one big setup.
How I like to put it is: you do not march into one of the most secure buildings on the planet, not just in the U.S., but on the planet with the vice president inside, the sitting vice president, and all of the house, all the speakers, everything.
How is that possible?
Unless they're let in.
And you've seen the videos, you know, the cops, yeah, come on in.
As long as you can be peaceful, will you be peaceful?
No violence.
And William Watson is announcing on the speaker, and he's actually right next to Jake Chansley, the Q shaman, and both who weren't violent.
Not a single violent act from what I know and from what I documented.
I mean, I was around these guys the majority of the time they were in the Capitol.
And you had an agitator with a helmet breaking these windows out.
And the minute that this window pane was peeled out backwards, it seemed like Ashley Babbitt was almost boosted up by all the people around her.
And I mean, she had both hands on the door, both hands in this window seal with her head peeking through when she was shot right here.
Why was she shot?
There's an officer hiding around the corner, peeking his tip of his firearm out.
No warning, no verbal warnings.
Why were there three officers right next to Ashley Babbitt who felt the need not to issue her a single verbal warning, not to grab her, not to arrest her?
And then you had three SWAT members on the stairs, actually.
So you had six respondents and you had one in plain clothes as well.
So seven in the exact same room with Ashley Babbitt within the same vicinity.
And actually, about a minute prior to that, she was talking to all of them, having laughs with all these cops.
And the minute that she hops through that window, all of a sudden, deadly force is justified.
Right.
And I think this is what this is what confuses me here.
So I know that we have in post routing the overlays of the footage that you're referring to.
So people obviously were able to see that there are officers.
There's a response team that's around Ashley.
So this person enters the Capitol.
She's boosted up that they can see.
And then this somebody, right, who we don't know points a handgun and now shoots Ashley.
So, so the kills kills her.
You know, before we even get into understanding who he is and what was going on, you talked to me a little bit about the trauma.
And not making this about you, but the trauma.
Like what happened?
I mean, obviously, people aren't there when you get shot.
Like, what actually happened?
How did the situation unfold once you guys heard the gunshot?
Right as we heard the gunshot, I mean, it almost went silent directly afterwards.
And people didn't even realize what had really happened.
I was actually, I dropped to the ground right after because I thought it was an active shooter scene.
I mean, you had one of the SWAT members actually just yelling at everybody to get down, get down, get down.
So in my mind, I think it's an active shooter.
I had no idea at the moment that it was actually a Capitol Police officer.
And upon her falling to the ground out of the window, everyone kind of froze, especially all the police behind her and right alongside her because, I mean, they are, they were right there.
You know, they could have arrested her, they could have pulled her down.
And when she fell down, you know, I didn't realize that somebody had initially gotten shot and it actually hit somebody until about, I'd say, 10, 15 seconds afterwards.
And I saw her lying on the ground and she was bleeding.
And so I did everything I could.
You know, I went up and I'm trying to document at the same time.
But then, you know, I needed to put flashlight on her wound.
And that's why one of my videos was split up into two is because I had to end my video and actually put a flashlight.
And we're trying to get her scarf undone because nobody knew where she was shot at.
You know, there was no visible blood other than what was coming out of her mouth.
And that's when we finally got her scarf unraveled and we realized she was shot right through the neck and into her shoulder.
And I tried putting pressure on it, tried helping her in any way.
And I just watched the eyes roll back into her head.
And there was nothing, nobody was helping.
I mean, there were an inslect few people that were in the room that were trying to help, me and a few other people.
We were told not to.
We were told to back off because we're not the ones with the medical training.
The officers are.
That's exactly what they told us.
They said, we can't help her unless you leave her.
They told you not to help Ashley, who was just shot, an unarmed white woman, who I would like to say this, though.
I do want to preface this.
And I think Savannah knows this.
You know, I'm actually on film, a journalist, I've mentioned this to the audience before, that was like, oh, I found a video that tried, that makes it look like you're working with the rioters.
I'm like, what video?
And it's like, you're warning everyone that if they go any further, they could get shot.
And I was like, well, I don't know if that's working with people or just trying to make sure people don't die, which is this common decency thing we've lost in our society, where I knew that everyone is riled up and you're entering into a secure building.
Now, I don't think people realized as they were entering into the building how serious it was because they were just moving in.
I'm going, guys, you shouldn't have been allowed to get this far.
Like, there's no reason you should be able to have gotten in here.
And so now that you're in here, I think they're going to kill you guys.
And I told some guy that I said, hey, they're probably going to kill us.
And I actually thought that they were going to just open fire, which is why I was really hesitant to continue to document.
On my end, you know, the people were self-described revolutionaries.
They were calling themselves patriots.
They were going out and they were, you know, calling for, they were being pretty violent, the guys I was with.
But on your side, that's not what was happening there.
I mean, like, I've seen the footage, but what was the group you were with, that experience?
How was that different than from what, of course, I showed the world and what I saw on where I was?
Even I like the point of what you said is, you know, that we're all going to die.
Is I had that thought went through my mind before anybody had even breached the Capitol doors when the initial Capitol riot was, you know, kind of laid there.
And I mean, smoke grenades were going off.
I had to put a guy out that was on fire.
You know, his jacket caught on fire.
And I told him, I was like, you're on fire, dude.
And he was totally out of it.
And I said, they're going to kill somebody out here.
You know, I have never seen a police reaction this strong, even night 100 in Portland.
You know, I've never seen cops fight back that hard.
And then the minute that they pushed into those doors, I just got a sinking feeling in my chest and I knew something was going to happen.
I didn't know what it was.
And come to be, it's Ashley Babbitt getting murdered.
And the group that I really was with, I wouldn't say I was with one specific group.
I kind of was just wandering around wherever my camera would take me, you know, wherever something interesting was happening, something that needed to be documented.
And I just happened to be there at the wrong place at the wrong time because it's not like I wanted to document that.
I don't want to, you know, live the rest of my life knowing that I couldn't have done anything more to help that woman.
That sits with me every single day.
The fact that I tried to help her and there was nothing I can do.
But that group that I was with initially, when those doors were being breached, they were violent.
There's no doubt about that.
I mean, there were violent people.
There was violent people mixed in.
And then, I mean, the man that was responsible for breaking the windows with his helmet, right after Ashley Babbitt was shot, his reaction wasn't, oh, let's help.
He walked down the stairs and changed clothes, got rid of his helmet and changed into plain clothes so he couldn't be identified.
Why would you do that?
What's the point of changing your clothes when a woman is shot instead of trying to help her?
And the cops, and like I said, they told us, you know, don't help.
Don't help.
We're the ones that are medically trained.
Why did the officer, after he shot Ashley Babbitt, not administer medical aid?
Why did not a single officer administer medical aid to Ashley Babbitt?
That's what I'm really wondering.
Well, there was a barricade there, to be fair.
And this is what I want to get into: I know you brought this up.
So this is, this is already, you're starting to bring up this idea that this is a weird police shooting, right?
All we've cared about is unarmed people being killed by police.
Doesn't matter if they're using, and Savannah knows this, it doesn't matter if they're using counterfeit money or they're committing a crime or they're evading the police or breaking into the Capitol.
We always talk about the fact that it doesn't matter what they were doing, that nobody unarmed deserves to die.
That's the narrative that is currently here.
I know we've heard that a million and one times that it's like, it doesn't matter if they're a criminal, unarmed police officer shooting bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We hear that every single time.
But then, again, like you said, too, when it comes to Trump supporters, when it comes to conservatives, when it comes to them dying from the police unarmed, of course, it's like they turn a blind eye, they don't even care.
And we see this time and time again.
And this entire story with Ashley Babbitt is really sad to see and sad to hear.
And I'm glad that you're exposing it, Taylor, because again, we haven't heard about this.
A lot of people refuse to report on the police officer who did kill her because it doesn't fit the narrative.
Yeah, it doesn't.
And let's go into this.
So I know that you saw that this was suspicious, right?
It wasn't just the Ashley Babbitt killing that was suspicious.
They also tried to make it seem like Officer Sicknick died to make the story seem like people killed a police officer to counterbalance.
We know there's been a lot of lies and misinformation.
But as we get into this, I know that you took this very personally, that you witnessed Ashley Babbitt.
Would you call that a murder?
Yeah, absolutely.
It was a murder through and through.
I mean, you want to know what she had in her backpack that day?
It was another scarf.
She wasn't armed.
Nobody was armed.
I mean, the only person that you could argue that was potentially armed was Jake Chansley, the Q shaman, because he had a spear.
And even he wasn't being violent that day from what I've seen.
Yeah, he's locked in solitary confinement 23 hours a day.
And his lawyer is calling, I mean, calling all Trump supporters and saying that they're short bussies.
You know, that these people have mental retardation.
He said he was autistic.
Yeah.
He essentially called him a retard with less, with more vulgar explanation.
Yeah.
I mean, and this is your lawyer calling you a retard.
Should probably get a new lawyer.
Yeah.
I mean, Savannah.
Savannah calls me that sometimes, but it's, I'm not, she's not representing me in court.
Yeah, it's a bit different when I call you that.
Yeah, it's like, you're not my lawyer.
I mean, so, so you dedicate your life to this.
And, and, and just so the audience tracks with us, we're going to get into a little bit later.
Why, uh, why Taylor's not in jail?
Um, because obviously the media has done their best to try to take out everybody and anybody who could expose the truth about January 6th that was there, but they're not winning.
So, this article, you stumbled upon this article from rollcall.com, and it says the Capitol Police weapon was left unattended in the Capitol bathroom again.
So, there's some seems to be some problems with the Capitol Police.
There's a U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant left his service weapon in a bathroom Monday night, and the unattended gun was discovered later by another Capitol Police officer.
After the House adjourned on Monday, Lieutenant Mike Bird left his Glock 22 in a bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center complex.
According to sources familiar with the incident, Bird is the commander of the House Chambers section of the Capitol Police and was on the job Tuesday and Wednesday.
Okay, so we're introduced to this gentleman named Lieutenant Mike Bird, who has a history of negligence with firearms.
And how did we go from this article to you unmasking that this is the same person that allegedly killed, or you would even say murdered, Ashley Babbitt?
It actually all started with that article.
The initial trail, it was on David Bailey, you know, special agent David Bailey.
And, you know, I cross-referenced, I did a lot of facial recognition software with him, and it just didn't add up.
And then I come to realize he actually wasn't even on the job that day.
David Bailey wasn't.
So, you know, I moved on to the next.
And that was actually, I researched that for over a month.
And I happened to just be looking at Capitol articles and scrolling down and I scrolled to about the fourth page.
And that's when I saw this roll call article.
And I clicked on it.
And, you know, Lieutenant Mike Bird was like, okay, you know, maybe I'll look at him because I knew it was Lieutenant.
And once I read the article, I just had a feeling it was him.
So then what I also did is I cross-referenced and looked at every black Capitol Hill police officer that was also a lieutenant.
Because in the public Congress statements by Nancy Pelosi and others, they said that they had laid off the lieutenant.
And so they already gave us his rank.
And so I was looking through lieutenants and I looked through the list of every single black lieutenant that was in the police force.
And there wasn't a lot, I'll tell you that.
And after that, I continued to do my research and delve into it and really look around for Michael Bird.
And that's when I found his LinkedIn.
And upon finding his LinkedIn, he, I mean, as the picture that you showed, he had the same handkerchief, the same kind of tie.
If you've seen the shooting, he's wearing a pink tie and a pink handkerchief.
Why is this Capitol police officer almost out of dress code, as you would say, compared to all the other officers around him?
Why is this guy different?
Why is he wearing something different?
So that really kind of caught my attention.
And after that, I did a lot of facial recognition software with him.
I matched his face up with the shooters.
Only come to realize that I was on the same lead as a lot of the legal investigators were as well.
And I've had the opportunity to work with the legal team with Ashley Babbitt's legal team.
And I can't go into very much detail because of the case being built.
And there is a case being built.
Contrary to the news saying that there's already been a lawsuit filed, there has not been any lawsuit filed yet.
I dug for about, I would say, two and a half months on this guy.
I found out his son is very, very anti-police, which that kind of struck a chord with me because how are you anti-police, but your father is a cop?
That doesn't make much sense to me.
You know, my family, I come from a family of law enforcement.
I respect law enforcement.
I love them.
And this event really kind of twisted my perception on who's good and who's bad in these industries.
And Michael Leroy Bird is his full name.
When I came across him and I put out all the details that I had and I was referencing with Daily B, I mean, all these other news sources, they were all on the exact same trail as me.
But you don't hear that because they haven't gone public with it.
Why?
Because they've all made the same decision not to run the story.
And why is that?
In any other situation, black, white, anybody unarmed is shot.
It's the biggest news story media.
I mean, look at George Floyd.
You know, unarmed pro, I mean, unarmed man killed for counterfeit money.
Supposedly, that's the narrative.
And, I mean, the whole summer of the last summer of riots, that's all that happened.
I mean, that was the stem of the biggest division we have seen in our country for a very, very long time.
And we're still experiencing it today.
Riots are still happening in the name of George Floyd.
But where are the riots for Ashley Babbitt?
Where are all these things for Ashley Babbitt?
It just didn't fit the narrative.
And these media sources knew it didn't fit the narrative and they didn't want to run it.
They are actually protecting a murderer right now, all for the same reason, because it doesn't fit their narrative.
A black officer shoots an unarmed white woman?
No, no, no.
It's supposed to be the other way around, but it isn't.
Right.
And what comes into here is interesting is it's not just because of the race, but you did notice a couple things that we know from the footage that this officer wasn't even using proper gun control.
He had his finger on the trigger.
He was running around with his finger on the trigger.
Now, you cross-examined images from inside the chamber and in the hallway.
You were able to match and ID him through his bracelet, which is pretty darn good work, I'd have to say.
And you were able to see that, yes, this is indeed the same person who shot the firearm.
It's incredible work, by the way.
Absolutely fantastic.
And Ashley Babbitt is killed.
And what does the world say?
Shockingly, that she deserved it, that Ashley deserved to die.
So the people that say that Ashley deserved to die, what's your response?
My response to those saying that Ashley Babbitt deserved to die is imagine if it was your kid.
Really?
Imagine if it was your kid.
Imagine if it was your wife.
Put yourself in Aaron Babbitt's shoes.
That man will never talk to his wife again.
Can you imagine?
I mean, think about the backlash when you have people on the right saying George Floyd deserved to die because he's a criminal.
How they react to that.
And now you're saying that this 14-year-old unarmed Air Force veteran who was an outstanding person, I've grown very close with their family.
They do, I mean, these are some of the nicest people around.
And all I can say is put yourself in their shoes, realistically.
And if your daughter were to get shot because she wanted to go and peacefully protest, she wasn't attacking cops.
Hell, she was laughing with the officers two to three minutes before she was executed.
Right.
So where is that shooting justified?
She's labeled a domestic terrorist, and these people are almost saying, you know, almost treating her and her family, not just her, like they're making bombs, you know, in their San Diego home.
That's what they're doing.
On their spare time, they're just making bombs.
But these people, what they like to do, they like to come home, memorize movies, and unwind.
I mean, they're all veterans.
Aaron Babbitt, he's a Marine veteran.
Ashley Babbitt is an Air Force vet.
So why is she suddenly this domestic terrorist?
It's because it's the narrative.
Everything comes down to the way the narrative goes and how they want it framed.
Well, and you brought up an interesting thing.
There's like a Reddit, there's a Reddit, what is that called?
Some sort of a form or whatever?
I don't spend any time on Reddit.
I have no idea.
But it's dedicated to IDing people from this riot.
And there was a comment that stood out to me that people are spending a lot of time, endless time, I should say, trying to put together a list and find out who was there.
And I liked what somebody said at the top of the thread, which was, I hope that the way that, you know, basically that the police responded to this teaches the right wing what will happen to them if they riot.
And to me, what was what the point of this entire thing was, to me, it is a total psyop is a total honeypot.
And I think that it was allowed to happen.
And I wrote a tweet today.
I'm going to go to it real fast.
I wrote a tweet and I basically said this.
Let me go here.
Sorry.
So I just said, we still don't have answers why Trump's request for National Guard was denied on 1.6.
The simple request could have prevented the insurrection.
So anyone involved in the denial of additional security is culpable for the riot and should be charged.
Meaning, it was Democrats primarily and other people within the deep state that denied the request for 10,000 servicemen to prevent this from happening.
Nobody should have been able to access that building.
It actually is impossible to access the Capitol building unless they were allowed to enter.
And I believe that.
The vice president was inside.
I mean, think about how close they were to the speaker's lobby while the vice president is right behind that door.
How do unarmed protesters, no matter the amount, no matter the number, march through the Capitol doors?
You don't, unless you were meant to.
And that's the thing.
When I first followed the crowd in through the doors, which the police opened, by the way, I was thinking in my mind, oh, they're going to lock everyone in.
You know, that's all they need to do is they'll just lock everyone in, take these congressmen, take these senators through the tunnels, and they'll be all right.
And then they'll make mass arrests.
I mean, what we've seen in Portland when they kettle these, you know, these rioters.
But that wasn't the case at all.
They continued to let everything happen and to let it unfold.
It's almost like they wanted a bloodbath to happen.
They wanted somebody to die that day.
And notice how the minute that people breached the Capitol grounds, the narrative was no longer election fraud.
Nothing mattered about the election fraud.
No matter the amount of evidence that was presented in the legal case mattered because what was the new narrative?
That Trump incited an insurrection.
Even though the initial Capitol gates and doors were breached 19 minutes before Trump's speech ended.
And it's a 1.3 mile walk from the ellipse to the Capitol.
That's long.
No, it is.
And, you know, before we go any further, we're going to talk about this.
We're going to get into this.
We're going to talk about why they're afraid of the truth coming out and why so many other conservative shows, if you're wondering why like right-wing shows or even just truth-telling shows haven't covered this, that's a good question.
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Okay, so obviously in the end of this, nobody will really talk about the killing of Ashley Babbitt because the reason why is I think it puts people into a rock and a hard place.
And I know Savannah knows about this.
There's a lot of journalists who were there who don't want to be ID.
They never released their footage, myself included.
I have probably at least an hour of unreleased footage from the Capitol that I just have not put out.
I know you have a lot of footage you've not put out.
The way that the people and the media and everyone treated the people who documented, and by the way, I'm not saying this is a good thing, but like all these terrorists that they're happy that they caught are because of our footage and stuff.
So like, you know, I even saw a comment.
Everything you think they'd be thinking up.
Yeah, they'd be coming to us like, thanks for helping us capture all these people that we hate.
But, you know, this is such a hot topic.
People don't even want to talk about it.
I mean, I even pulled out of the HBO movie.
I'm not doing that.
That's a setup, to be completely honest.
I know.
I know you did it.
Yeah.
Probably wasn't the best idea, only to come to learn that the FBI is actually working with these HBO directors and working with a lot more people.
So, I mean, and not specifically these HBO directors that I know of.
But I mean, they're basically trying to shop documentaries for these journalists because they know that there is a lot of unreleased footage.
And the thing about my unreleased footage is the FBI has all of it.
The FBI has all my footage.
I have nothing to hide.
You know, I was there on a journalistic capacity that day, but the public has hardly seen anything.
Anything at all.
I mean, I think four of my videos have been released to the public.
I have over 90 videos that people haven't seen.
And there's a reason for that is because, like you said, the way that people were treated and because it's much bigger than this narrative that they're saying, this insurrection narrative, all these journalists' video, they quite literally prove that this was not an insurrection.
Where are the weapons?
Why are they not holding members of Congress and the Senate hostages?
This is supposedly an insurrection.
You look at the Fiji coups.
What did they do to take over the governments?
They held their congressional candidates and everybody hostage.
Did this happen here?
I mean, you got these people on film saying, we must be peaceful.
You know, we must be peaceful if we're being let in.
We're going to sit in.
That seemed like it was the whole plan is they wanted to sit in and watch the evidence be presented.
And then before that could happen, Ashley Babbitt was shot.
Well, and this is what brings up something really interesting is the way that this was brought together, right?
Nobody seems to care about Ashley Babbitt because they say that she deserved it, but also with Lieutenant Mike Bird.
I mean, we've seen the fact that we just saw Derek Chauvin get basically, I mean, he got tried for being a murderer.
And why are we not seeing a trial for Lieutenant Mike Bird?
Even if he was justified, why are they so afraid to put him to trial?
They're afraid to put him to trial because it was a black officer that shot a white unarmed Air Force veteran of 14 years.
And they know the outrage from this will far surpass any outrage of George Floyd getting his neck nailed on.
Yeah, that event was terrible, but we saw what happened to Chalvin.
Why has this officer not been outed?
Why are they protecting his name?
And that was the whole reason.
I'm sitting there and watching.
And I was in the middle of this.
And then John Sullivan goes on CNN and tells a whole different story when he was right next to me.
Meanwhile, I'm on Laura Ingram telling my story, telling the true story.
And it almost was like anybody that was there that wanted to be a true seeker, their narrative was swallowed by mainstream medias and it didn't matter.
Yeah.
And what they've done now is instead of trying to investigate, let's say, who killed her or understand things, they've turned the attention to talking about mostly the reporters who were there.
And what's really interesting about this is like in the midst of all this, right?
We talk about this that, you know, President Biden has talked about how George Floyd's death had a bigger impact than MLK's assassination.
A criminal, by the way, George Floyd, who's dead now, so there's no point in, you know, diminishing a dead man's name.
But he was a criminal and he was killed unarmed.
And this makes it into the presidency who is willing to say this.
Do we have that clip?
Let's hear that.
George Floyd's.
Death dead.
But even Dr. King's assassination did not have the worldwide impact.
The George Floyd's death dead.
Yeah, and so this is the point is that, you know, people say, oh, well, she was a criminal and he was a cop.
He was doing his job.
Well, we could say the same thing about George Floyd, right?
He's just a criminal and a cop is just doing his job.
It's like, well, this is clearly excessive force.
I obviously Ashley Babbitt should not have been trying to be lifted into this building.
I don't, I'm not going to argue that.
But the fact that nobody cares about this shows you just how much that the media is working with the government to craft the narrative about the January 6th events to the point where the arguments aren't about the fact that people died.
You know, Officer Sicknick, who they say died from being hit on the head with the fire extinguisher, who put that lie out?
I think it was the FBI who carried the story were mainstream media outlets who propagated it.
I did at first.
I admit that.
And then I went, oh, actually, everybody's lying.
He didn't.
And I remember everybody even called us conspiracy theorists for first putting it out there that he didn't actually die from a fire extinguisher.
And it turns out he didn't.
He died from natural causes, a stroke, which may have been related to Capsicum spray, but we still don't have any evidence of that at all either.
Well, and you want to know where he's buried right now?
He's buried in Arlington.
In Arlington, I mean, that is for the best of the best, right?
And I'm not saying that Officer Sicknick wasn't a great officer.
He's a great man.
I can only imagine.
But they gave him that treatment all over a media narrative that they knew was completely bogus.
And so now, how are you going to explain to the family of Officer Sicknick that you're going to have to go and dig him up because he doesn't belong in Arlington because none of this happened.
I mean, it's tragic.
And everything comes down to the narrative.
If this shooting was in any other police jurisdiction in the nation, that officer's name would have been outed within 72 hours.
We all know that.
But why hasn't it been?
Because he's black.
Because he's black.
And also, too, because as we know, people get immunity for these kinds of things because the narrative is that these were terrorists.
This was not just a riot.
These weren't police.
What's crazy is the narrative has been so changed that people will be hypocritical against their own beliefs.
And I would say nobody even knows what Ashley Babbitt is, which is I want to get to why I think you're not in jail.
This is kind of uncomfortable, probably.
But like, obviously we know they tried to put me in jail.
That's a very, that was a very clear thing.
That was, that was tough.
That was a fun week.
A week?
That was like, it was like two months.
It's still going on.
Yeah, it's still going on.
They're still trying to put us in jail.
Like, that's a real thing.
Like, that's a possibility still.
Like that's a real genuine thing.
Like there are maybe after the stairs.
There are, yeah, there are people actively, and by people, I mean powerful people, still petitioning to put me in prison without bail and to be in solitary confinement.
And you know what?
I don't know.
I'm sure my wife sometimes, when I piss her off, would be would agree.
You know, it's just, it's more frustrating than anything.
It's like, how did we get to a point in America where it is this dangerous to be a journalist?
Like you had mentioned previously, Elijah, we do have friends who reported there, had footage there that would have gone viral and helped, you know, kind of build the story of what they're doing.
Even ID people.
Exactly, but it's like we won't even talk about it.
And I'm staying off camera for this episode too, quite a bit because I don't want to talk about this issue.
Like we are literally, the intelligence agencies in America are being used to attack journalists at this point.
So it's like, just don't talk about the issue or else go to jail.
Took, I mean, look, the FBI took all my private conversations.
They got my banking records.
I mean, it's probably some pretty awkward thing.
No, trust me.
I'm going through the same stuff right now.
I mean, I'm on phone three, phone three since the Capitol because it gets to the point of where my phone doesn't work and I can hear people talking on the left.
I can't get a hold of you.
Well, you can't get a hold of me, even on my brand new phone.
We tried to call you yesterday, Taylor, and I watched this happen.
It was like, this number is disconnected.
And you called us right back on the same number, and it was fine.
And we were like, wait, what?
I can't get through to Taylor's.
Is this political persecution?
What is happening?
It's straight political prosecution, everything we're seeing right now, and especially of journalists.
I mean, it's like the Obama admin all over again.
Why are you in my phone?
When I provided all my footage to the FBI initially after the riot, why are you on my phone?
Why are you trying to arrest me?
What did I do?
I don't know.
Don't work with the feds.
Don't work with the feds.
I will tell everyone that.
Do not work with the feds.
Don't work with the feds, bro.
The only thing they'll do is they'll use it against you.
They'll frame their own narrative.
They can download anything they want on your phone.
They can do whatever they do.
They can use your ring doorbell to listen in on you.
Like, they don't care.
That's why I don't have a ring doorbell.
Yeah, me neither.
They use ring doorbells to get into you.
Have you guys seen the latest footage of like the phones?
People were looking at the phones via like infrared cameras, and every five seconds our phones flash and like take pictures of us.
Well, and what you don't, what a lot of people don't realize, too.
Especially on the newer iPhones with the face unlock on it.
You can put a piece of tape over it and you can still unlock it with your phone.
You can have a piece of tape covering your camera and it shows its face, it'll unlock.
It's because of infrared.
Nobody realizes how the FBI uses our devices to track us on a daily basis or to listen to our conversations.
And how I look at it is, I have nothing to hide.
If you guys want to watch me, you know, live my everyday life, you're going to, you know, on the toilet, whatever.
Okay.
I mean, that's a little weird, whatever you guys are into, but by all means, I have nothing to hide.
They don't have the right to do that.
And I think that people need to understand, like, this is the point of what I was going to say, why you're not in jail is because they know that you know that they are going to be in some hot problems because they're trying to cover up the murder of Ashley Babbitt.
And they also don't want Lieutenant Mike Bird to be put on blast.
And so you have evidence.
You know what's going on.
And so they're not even trying to press you for immunity for prosecution or anything.
They've just been staying away from you, which is really interesting because pretty much everybody else in your situation, they've already either taken down or they're working with people.
By the way, a lot of people who are released are working with the feds.
That's a truthful statement.
There's quite a few people out there who are now forced to be working with the federal government to prosecute against other people from that event that day.
I am not one of them.
Thank God because I'm not in jail because I had a press credential that is the same press credential as like the New York Times and AP News that were also there.
And so not only did AP News' building get destroyed in Gaza, but apparently all like their American journalists would be arrested as well.
And they didn't want to do that.
They just didn't want to do that.
So they left me alone for now.
But I mean, they did stalk my house and my neighbors.
They followed me in vans and were taking really creepy.
Get the freak away from me.
I had four Ford fusions all blacked out.
I mean, for over a month after the Capitol.
Following me everywhere I'd go.
I'd go out and walk my dog and I'd be like, oh, there's the fusions again that I can't.
I mean, they're so tinted, you can't even see if there's anybody in the car.
And I almost just wanted to go up to one and open the door and be like, hey, guys, you know, nice to see you.
Do you want to have a conversation?
And because they do not want to talk to me, they've had one discussion with me and then I lawyered up.
Ever since, where are they at?
Except in my phone.
Dude, they're nowhere.
I know.
My neighbors were like, hey, could the feds keep knocking on my door?
Dude, me and Elijah were like running.
Yeah, me and Elijah were like running around our apartment complex because the front desk people were like, yeah, the feds were asking for you guys.
And then they were like scared to talk to us so wouldn't give us information about it.
And we were just like, cool.
So we're being hunted down.
They kept being like, Homeland Security is snooping around your building.
And like, homeland security.
Like, yeah, Homeland Security keeps coming to your apartment.
Well, I mean, I was like, hey, if you're watching this, so two of our FBI agents that watch this show, literally, like, sometimes my door is unlocked.
Don't tell them that.
Well, it doesn't matter if it's unlocked either.
They'll just kick it down.
Yeah, that's what I was saying.
It's like, it's like, yeah, you don't need to kick it down.
If you want to raid the house, just open the door.
The beds are like, oh, you have a VPN?
That's cute.
Yeah.
I know.
Oh, Lord VPN.
Yeah.
But on the real note, though, with this stuff.
is I'm going to go to this article.
It's like, because at the end of all this, I want to talk about why the government allowed this to happen.
So when you talk about like why they would allow the riot to happen, I'm going to piss some people off here, and that's fine because this is like Media Matters write something about me, and that's okay.
My producer is like, oh, okay.
But is not just putting into question why Building 7 fell in September 11th, but when you look at September 11th, what happens with some of these events that have immediate visceral reactions, you have to call into question the narrative.
So when a narrative is formed almost preemptively before the event even fully finishes, you have to start to question things.
Not only would I talk about the fact that some people talked about buildings falling on the news before they even fell, not only did more buildings and things fall that shouldn't have fall, what I thought was really weird to this day is that if you call into question the narrative of September 11th, universally across both ends of the spectrum on the left and the right, people will just call you an evil person.
Like a conspiracy theorist, they'll call you evil.
They'll be like, that's un-American.
You know, September 11th was a bunch of like cave people that somehow brought box cutters and took down our biggest buildings on a day when we happened to randomly be having drills that made us not be aware of what was actually happening.
And then, oh, and then his passport flew out of the window or something.
And then we found it on the ground and confirmed that it was al-Qaeda.
Therefore, we had to bomb Afghanistan and get into a 21-year-old war where we defend opium poppies.
And then also Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear bombs, which he actually didn't really.
And now we're still at war there too.
That being said, let's also say the minor thing, the war was the cover for the Patriot Act, which was now the government officially going rogue and spying on their own people and taking notes.
That's none of my business.
That's none of my business.
None of my business.
Never forget, don't ever question anything.
Don't ever question anything.
Never forget.
That's what it is.
Look, I'm not, I actually get pissed because when I watch and I see that Americans died that day and I watch the videos and I remember even the feelings of when it happened, it's what makes me mad is because I'm not here to say that the box cutting cave people didn't do it.
I'm not making a claim that who did it.
Some people think Mossad did it.
The CIA did it.
I don't know.
Okay, I don't really know.
I've heard a lot of theories.
All I can tell you is I am suspicious of a narrative when that event is used to distract people and then do horrible things.
And January 6th is that exact same issue where they've used it and they've crafted a narrative out of it that just objectively isn't true.
It's just not true.
And they're using this to clamp down to keep people, keep, keep access away from the government, to put a further separation, literally a barrier between the people and the government.
And now we have this Zoom president that, like, fake drives cars people thought was a hologram and golfs in reverse.
Like, that's...
Golfs in reverse.
That's a good one.
That's a good one, Ludge.
But when he got in that Ford, because it's a new electric Ford that he was test driving.
I don't think he was driving it, right?
I don't know.
It's like, I could just imagine.
I could just imagine what his secret service in his headphones.
You are not going to drive that.
Joe, get the hell out of the car.
Joe, do not put your foot on that gas pedal.
Joe, okay.
If you're going to do this, gas is on the right, brake is on the left.
I mean, he's lucky he was in a desert.
I mean, can you imagine if this man drove anything on public roads?
If he drives like he golfs, I feel bad for the car behind him.
Dude, no, you know what?
He was probably writing in.
You know, those like baby cars where it has the stick on the end and someone's pushing it.
Like, that's probably.
His agents driving from the passenger seat.
Dude, it looked like it looked like he wasn't driving the car.
I don't know.
We don't even have that here.
Well, like what you said about the narrative, you know, questioning 9-11, questioning all these big events.
That should be questioned.
You should question everything.
And that's my number one thing to my audience, to everyone, is why are we not allowed to question these things?
Why are we immediately silenced?
Why are we immediately censored or taken off of social media the minute we question these events, especially January 6th?
You've seen what they've done to all of our social medias.
I mean, I was deplatformed off of Instagram, Facebook, the day of just for reporting and doing my job.
And Twitter, I mean, we've all been stagnant on Twitter, if not losing thousands of followers.
Why, when people question a narrative, are we silenced?
And it almost proves our point that who's right here.
Like, I think I have this here.
Can we go on my screen real fast?
Okay, here it is.
Okay, so.
He threatens to run over a woman.
Yeah, so that's so casual, too.
He's like, gonna go.
Okay, I'm sorry, it's taking a second.
So look, it's like Biden has his hands on the steering wheel and he's gonna drive.
So this is him threatening to run over one of the reporters.
So two things came out of this.
Two things came out.
One thing was he threatened to run over reporters because they were asking him about what's going on between Israel and Palestine right now.
Second thing was the fake steering wheel.
You can find that on Crowder's Twitter, Elijah, if you go and we want to look it up there.
But again, going back to Taylor's point too, while you're looking for that, TWA Flight 800.
I'm watching that documentary right now.
And that whole documentary is about how this plane just blew up, killed 200 people, and people think it got shut down by missiles.
But again, you're not allowed to question that.
Exactly.
Well, any narrative that's questionable.
I'm sorry.
We can't.
We're silenced by the Gestapo.
We're like talking about these serious issues and laughing.
Look, look, look.
Look, so there's another steering wheel on the right.
You can see it right there, the red box.
He wasn't driving the car.
The secret service agent.
They were driving the car for him, and he pretended to drive a car, but he wasn't driving.
And like, that's the funniest thing.
Why is the media that's on the ground right there, you know, asking him all these questions about Israel, especially the journalists that he threatened to run over so nonchalantly?
Why did they not feel the need to move their cameras just a little bit?
Because that's why it's angled like that.
So you don't see it's like selected reporters.
Yeah, who films down and to the right?
Like with straight on.
But before we go any further, I had to tell you, obviously, in the midst of all of this stuff, there's been some insane times that we've all been experiencing.
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Um, so I'm sorry, could we put that picture back up?
That's so great.
Those are good times, just like reporting and just so nonchalant with all my badges on.
I love how they're like, Oh, Elijah Schaefer is a rioter, and it's like, I like literally have like all these like credentials and certifications, like right in front of literally, like just hanging off me while I report.
Yeah, uh, because in DC, it's a very secure place, the most police per square mile per square mile of anywhere, so you have to have credentials visible at all times, basically go anywhere.
You remember, even to get to your hotel, you had to show credentials to like, well, and even as Antifa's beating people in the streets, if you don't have credentials, nah, sorry, dude, you got to march through Black Lives Matter Plaza.
What, dude?
I watched to go through there.
I watched them redirect families with MAGA hats and like little kids into the mob and the crowd.
And I was like, damn, DC police don't give a damn about American.
Well, conservatives specifically.
Exactly.
Well, you have to think about the demographic, and especially with the Capitol Police Force.
Why do you think these people are so okay with politically prosecuting and lying on affidavits?
What's the demographic?
Over 90% Democrat in DC.
Huh?
Right.
I wonder if their police officers are the same.
Yes.
And why are some of the worst trained police officers in charge of protecting our congressmen?
That sounds like a bad idea, wouldn't it?
You think you'd want special agents, maybe some ex-Delta force, something along the lines of that.
No, anybody can become a Capitol Police officer.
I mean, I could probably, I mean, not anymore.
Not anymore at all because of the FBI and the intelligence agents.
No, they've restricted me from owning a firearm.
Wow.
No flight list, firearms, everything.
I was like, oh, they don't give a damn.
Because you did not fly here.
I know you did not fly.
No, I drove.
Yeah, we invited him on the show two months ago and he just got here by foot.
Yeah, it took a long time, guys.
Pedal bikes, and then my bike broke down and got blisters all over my feet, to say the least.
Yeah, you couldn't even, you couldn't, you had to, you had to walk here.
Hey, well, you know what?
You're like the people on the East Coast during the pipeline issue.
We've all learned to walk a little more.
No, but you know, on that, on that real note, I don't think people realize that we laugh at this now.
And I know we've taken here at Slightly Offensive a little bit of a turn away from covering riots and stuff.
Like, there's a reason why because we almost like, we almost lost our freedom.
But we were like, you don't understand.
There's been so much pressure on the back end.
Like, there has been so much federal pressure on the back end that I can tell you about six different journalists who have not been on the field since that day due to federal bullying and problems and issues.
I am one of them.
And I keep trying to get out on the field and there's a lot of problems.
I didn't even know if I could fly for a while.
Exactly.
For the past couple of months, too, we've just all, I know, all of us here on this panel have watched as people we personally know and are friends with are just politically persecuted.
Their homes are raided.
Their lives are destroyed.
Their jobs are ruined.
And we're just sitting here like, are we next?
When is this happening to us?
Well, they did it to us.
This show almost, they almost shut this show down entirely.
Like, they almost got us fully removed off of YouTube.
They were so close to getting the full show.
All they got was a show demonetized.
But like, also, like, I'm not going to get into because I don't want to arm them and tell you who was successful or not.
But some people like almost completely destroyed our whole lives.
And thank God for you guys who listen to this show and support us at Blaze TV.
You kept this alive.
I'm just telling you, that's a shameless plug, but it's blazetv.com/slash Elijah.
It is honestly the way that you support us there really, really helps us out a million times over.
I mean, we took a massive, we were going to expand staff and stuff.
We took a massive financial hit from all of this.
And it's okay, whatever.
So what?
Massive financial hit.
Guess what?
Still going to produce work.
Going to have our guests walk from Utah.
Like, we bought him some new Nikes made from slave labor and from Muslims in China.
And that's right.
A little bit of, I mean, a little bit of the tears there that we ignore.
But I'm going to, on a serious note, I meant, thank you guys for supporting us at Blaze TV.
It does mean a lot.
It really does let them know that you love us.
And for that reason, Blaze has actually rewarded us with a whole new project that we're working on that is amazing that I still can't really talk about.
But on that note, it's like, Taylor, in all of this, what with what you're seeing going on, what's next for this?
What do you see them using the Capitol riots for in the future?
What do you see for your future?
And what do you see for the future of Ashley Babbitt's case?
I mean, we all know that, I mean, all these prosecutions that they're pumping out.
I mean, they're all politically motivated prosecutions.
They're to prove a point.
It's to say, this is what happens when the right riots.
Why is Antifa in Portland?
They can lock federal police officers in a building and they can try and burn it down.
They can try to kill these officers.
Nah, that's not a big deal.
Zero arrest.
And if they get arrested, they get released by the DA.
It's to prove a point.
It's to prove that we are on the wrong side of history.
And indeed, we are actually on the right side.
The right and the right side of history.
And it's just to intimidate us.
I mean, look at it.
I mean, the Patriot Act, you touched on it earlier.
That's why they're able to get into my phone.
That's why they're able to tack your stuff.
All of our stuff.
I mean, they're in everything.
Hell, they listen to every single word that I have to say.
And it's all for a reason.
It's for their narrative is to shut us up because we are the 3%.
That's the reality of it.
Trump supporters and people that actually are willing to go out of their way to make a difference.
It's the 3%.
And that's what matters.
And if they can do anything to silence the 3%, that's all that matters.
It's because once our voices are gone, who else's narrative is out there?
Nobody's.
They win the narrative battle.
And that's what this has all been about for the past few years.
I mean, we've seen it.
History is repeating itself over and over and over and over again.
The minute they win this narrative, and especially with my generation, 20 and under, they're full-fledged communists.
They've been indoctrinated.
And it's all for a reason of the fact that if you can control one generation, you can control the nation.
And they're doing that.
And on that note, check out this picture of my screen.
This was me right after the Capitol.
Just standing there with a deer.
Like, I wonder.
I think after Ashley was shot, there's a video clip of me stumbling out.
I mean, I had been getting pepper sprayed all day with everybody, you know, documenting on everything and interviewing people.
I mean, I was covered in tear gas, everything.
And I stumbled out and I said, you know, they just shot a woman in the stomach because I, I mean, I was in full and complete shock.
I was numb.
I didn't know where I was.
I walked out of the Capitol somehow, staring at my feet the entire time, and I ended up down the street.
And I walked for about 40 minutes until I kind of came back to and realized the scope of what had just happened.
And I got on Twitter and I realized, oh, Ashley, this video of Ashley Babbitt actually ended up uploading because you know at the Capitol, there was, I mean, there was no service.
It's almost like they had jammers.
You couldn't upload anything from the ground almost.
And I get there and 1.5 million views of this woman being executed in a matter of 10 minutes.
And that boggled my mind.
And all the comments, everything is, oh, you know, oh, it's horrible.
But then you get all the other people coming in.
She deserved it.
You don't even know the narrative yet, but they're saying you deserve it.
You deserve to die because you are a domestic terrorist.
And I'm sure you saw the memes floating around in all these pictures.
I mean, you still do.
In all our replies, they'll get a picture of us.
And mine used to be when I, way back when I did activism with the Baby Lives Matter stuff, they'd grab the screen cap of me posing in front of the police, you know, and then they just say, Taylor Hansen, domestic terrorist.
And it's like, oh, interesting.
And they treat me like a domestic terrorist at the airport, too.
I mean, now I can't fly at all.
I got lucky and kind of was able to fly with a lot of restrictions prior to that and go and cover Ashley Babbitt's memorial, her ash spreading and everything.
But they would announce to the plane that there is going to be somebody undercover on the plane in normal clothes.
Why would you do that?
And then they bomb swab my hands for residue in front of everybody upon entrance and upon exiting.
It's like, oh, I wonder what these people are thinking about me right now.
They think I'm a domestic terrorist.
And it all goes back to the same thing.
It's all a psychological op.
Everything comes down to psychology.
Why do you think the Capitol and the FBI, why did they put out all of these people's low-quality pictures for the left to identify?
They knew exactly who all these people were.
They knew who the journalists were.
My picture was up there on the person of interest list for a while.
It's because they wanted to spark more division and more hatred.
And look at what they've done.
We're in a worse stage than we were after the George Floyd riots.
I mean, I don't think I've ever seen a country so divided as of right now.
And it's only getting worse as of now.
Yeah, well, I'm glad that you are not in jail.
I'm glad that you're still here.
And for that, if you can follow Taylor, you can follow him on Twitter.
You can follow him pretty much anywhere else where you find the links.
And I encourage you to follow him and to follow his work.
He also has a new show that'll be being launched soon.
Can they subscribe to your YouTube yet?
Did you create one?
I did create one.
So subscribe to his YouTube and be ready for the show that's going to launch.
He's got a lot going on with investigative journalism.
Before we end the show, like I always mention, if you make it this far on the show, hopefully you enjoy this program.
I know that it's been a really tough time to get this produced today.
You guys have no idea.
We have no idea.
No idea.
We have so much technical problems.
I swear.
I got 99 problems and my TriCaster is one.
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We have a couple of these.
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I never understand their names, but okay, He Doar.
It says, hilarious.
Best worst top 17 podcast.
This podcast has it all.
It's true.
It does, actually.
It's got 8K confetti.
That's true right there.
It's true.
We got good graphics.
Ridiculously adorable Savannah to be debated.
So true.
I'm just kidding.
We love our Savannah.
Interesting and informed guests.
That is true.
Both interesting and informed.
Top it all off with the hilarious recently approved fact checker, which is true.
Best worst top 17 podcaster in a broom closet.
Also true.
Elijah Schaefer.
These guys are not afraid to tell it like it is and expose the ridiculousness of what we're all living through in a way that is smart, funny, and informative.
Thank you, He Dwar, for your amazing review.
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What the do we ever just have normal reviews?
Names?
No, never.
Baby Palomeno.
Don't be offended.
Be informed.
I enjoy listening to this show right after poop.
Oh, that's a poop.
Popping a clown pill while I drive in my car alone, fully masked.
Thank you.
The mental illness is felt and well received.
On that note, my name is Elijah Schaefer.
I'm the host, slightly offensive, the best worst show on Blaze TV.
I hope I'm in your top 17 hosts on the internet at least.
If I'm your top 21, I feel like we're getting somewhere.
But we'll get in there.
Some of you told me I was in your top 11.
And whoever that was, thank you.
It helps me to sleep at night.
My guest today was Taylor Hansen, reporter and journalist.
Thank you for all the hard work you do.
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