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	Thank you.
	Bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.
	Totally consistent with a jump from an animal to a human.
	There you go.
	I'd almost forgotten about that man.
	The little fascist that is Anthony Fauci.
	Telling us back in April of 2020.
	Oh, lab leak?
	What do you mean, a lab league?
	No, no, no, no.
	I already know because, you know what?
	I am science.
	I am science.
	Because I'm the highest paid bureaucrat in America, more than $400,000 every single year, almost twice what the President of America earns.
	I've been in my job for decades and I've been funneling cash to Wuhan through another cutout.
	So, no, I mean, you mean the only level four biodefense lab in communist China is in the same city as where the COVID Outbreak began?
	How dare you for a nanosecond consider there could be any connection between the communist Chinese military bio-research facility that I have been funding and the outbreak of a disease that has killed, oh, between six and seven million people across the globe.
	That's just a little reminder for you.
	Welcome, dear friends.
	It's Monday.
	It's CPAC week here in the Swamp.
	This is Sebastian Gorka on the Salem News Channel.
	We have a lot to discuss with you today.
	Some amazing guests.
	We're making movies great again in the third hour with our buddy Chris Coles.
	And most importantly, we're reminding you of the utter moral turpitude of the establishment and their lackeys in the mainstream lying legacy media.
	Here's a little summary.
	Cut one.
	Because we don't know where the novel coronavirus came from yet, the conspiracy theories fill the void.
	I'm telling you the Chai Khans are trying to weaponize this thing.
	Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with zero proof suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame.
	There's this question about the Wuhan lab.
	We know that it's been debunked.
	Those same agencies now have been tapped with investigating one of Trump world's most favorite conspiracy theories.
	Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkum, despite his own intelligence community's findings that that is simply not true.
	And there is simply no reason to believe that that is the case.
	There is no empirical evidence to verify that.
	If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, it's very, very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
	Could not have been artificial.
	Could not have been manipulated.
	Oh, I love Joy Reads.
	It's debunked bunkum.
	It's a Trump conspiracy theory!
	Really?
	Here's Simon Kent, Breitbart.com.
	The coronavirus pandemic most likely began with a laboratory leak.
	A U.S.
	Energy Department classified intelligence report now before the White House and key Congress members set out.
	The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday the Energy Department's revised Revised.
	I love that.
	Revised assessment of the pandemic's origins is based on fresh intelligence noted in an update to a 2021 document by the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines's office.
	Revised intelligence?
	You mean they found some intelligence?
	They found a brain cell that they could rub together with another brain cell at LX-1 at the Liberty Crossing where the Director of National Intelligence has his office because guess what?
	We didn't need to be at LX1.
	We didn't need to be at the epicenter of the 17 intelligence communities in America.
	17 intelligence agencies in the intelligence community to know, yeah, there's probably a link between the only level 4 bio lab in China and the release of COVID-19.
	The Wall Street Journal further states, while the investigation is ongoing, more authorities are coming to the lab leak hypothesis.
	However, there is as yet no unanimous decision.
	If there were a unanimous decision, that would be the wrong decision!
	Unanimous?
	If everybody in the room agrees, you've got a bigger problem.
	The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic's origins.
	The Energy Department.
	Now, why the Energy Department?
	It's a good question, but the Energy Department has the highest classification outside of the White House because they have to run our atomic weapons labs.
	They have more than a dozen national security research facilities.
	So, there's a kind of logic there.
	Something super scary and affecting national security.
	They've got a lot of scientists that work for them anyway.
	So, there you go.
	The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese lab.
	Four other agencies, along with a National Intelligence Panel, still judge that it was likely the result of natural transmission.
	And two are undecided.
	I wonder if those are friends of Fauci's.
	The report goes on to say the Energy Department made its judgment with, quote, low confidence, according to people who have read the classified report.
	However, it does align with previous speculation about the exact origin of the virus, as Breitbart News reported.
	Now, you know it was this all along.
	Because you've got a brain.
	So what's the real importance of all this?
	The real importance of this is the following.
	For nigh on three years, everyone in the establishment lied to you.
	Everyone in the establishment lied to you, and so did the mainstream media.
	If you take anything serious in the mainstream media again, whether it's reports of, you know, Biden blew up the Russian pipeline, to there's no border crisis, well, shame on you.
	Keep believing them.
	This is where we say they are the problem.
	This is where we say no more.
	We've finished.
	We've done with you and we're never ever going to listen to you again.
	The idea that you could suppress the truth for nigh on three years as Americans suffered, as children were kept out of schools, as toddlers were masked.
	This is the end of your reputation in perpetuity.
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	Yeah.
	Alrighty, mics on and he's on the line.
	Okay, give me a sec.
	All right, so make sure I've got them all down, so make sure I've got them all down, Alex.
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	Yes.
	Real quick, Newsmax wants to know if you could do a Pellegrino show tonight, 9.10, to talk about the COVID stuff.
	Is it empty?
	There's nothing on the calendar now.
	Sure.
	Alrighty.
	Two and a half minutes.
	Bill!
	Yes.
	Greetings.
	Hi, how are you doing?
	Are you a vindicated man today?
	Well, yeah, I guess.
	Look at that smile.
	I've never seen Bill Gertz smile that wide on my show before.
	Unbelievable.
	Unbelievable.
	What was the date of your original piece?
	January 2020.
	You don't have a link to that, do you?
	I could probably get one.
	Jeff, can you find the January article 2020 where Bill first broke this lab leak thing and then give it to Eric as a buffer?
	Got a title line for that monologue, by the way?
	Yes.
	Give me a title.
	What's a good title?
	Towards the end you said they lied to you about COVID for three years or something like that?
	Yeah, that's kind of obvious.
	Is there anything a little bit more catchy?
	Something like the government admits COVID came from a lab or something like that?
	Team Biden finally fesses up on COVID.
	I'll send it to my Gmail.
	That was quick, you already found it?
	Yeah.
	One minute.
	Alright, one minute.
	Stand by.
	I have his book as well.
	Oh good.
	Deceiving the Sky.
	Deceiving the Sky.
	Yup.
	And it's a National Security Correspondent, right?
	Correct.
	Washington Times.
	40 seconds. Stand by. Stand by.
	Stand by.
	It's a Monday.
	It's supposed to be a slow news day.
	I know.
	It was busy this weekend.
	What's going on?
	Maybe it's because it's CPAC week.
	It must be what it is.
	Something.
	Are you ready for CPAC?
	Kinda.
	It's a little different this year.
	Why is it a little different?
	Because we're not going to Florida.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I like those trips in February.
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	I know, you're not a winter person, poor Mr. G. Dear friends, we will be at CPAC later this week, get some exclusive interviews for you, checking in with all the big names President Trump will be speaking.
	Oh, hang on a second!
	Who's coming on the show tomorrow, Mr. G?
	45 and 47.
	45 and 47!
	In the same interview?
	That's superb.
	Yes, you can't miss it tomorrow.
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	There was an article in the Washington Times, I believe, way back when.
	Eric, do you have an image of this article from the Washington Times?
	Coronavirus linked to China biowarfare program possible, analyst says.
	When?
	What's the date on that?
	January 26, 2020.
	How on earth did that man know?
	Well, let's ask him.
	He's with us right now.
	Bill Gertz, why are you smiling today so broadly?
	Well, yeah, I've been fighting this battle since that time.
	The amazing thing that happened was right after that story ran, I went to boot it up on the internet and it disappeared.
	You mean if you tried to search for it, you just couldn't find it?
	Yeah, it disappeared, and it turned out that Facebook had pressured the paper to temporarily take it down, and I fought like hell to have it restored.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	It wasn't just the search engine.
	Facebook pressured your publisher?
	Yes, they took it down temporarily.
	That's shocking!
	Because they said that it was false information and false news based on two stories, one in the Washington Post and one in USA Today that said my story was a prime example of false information about the virus.
	And of course, we fought back and we put it back on the website.
	And, you know, that began a long period of Pressuring to get the facts out about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which I was really vindicated in January of 2021.
	That's when the State Department, under Mike Pompeo at the very end, put out a fact sheet which said basically, yeah, this virus likely came from there.
	People were sick there at the lab with COVID-like symptoms, And the PLA was conducting animal research at the laboratory in contradiction to the lab which said it only did civilian research.
	Now, what have you seen as a national security correspondent for The Washington Times?
	What have you seen in the last 24 hours since this story of the Department of Energy's recognition that it most likely was a lab leak?
	Have your colleagues in the mainstream media, have anybody reached out to you and said, Hey Bill, we're sorry what happened to you.
	Has anybody apologized to you?
	I'm just curious.
	No.
	In fact, I approached the Washington Post and demanded a correction and retraction.
	Never got one.
	USA Today tried to back down a little bit.
	They removed from their so-called fact-check story that my story was an example of false information about the virus.
	But it's been a constant battle.
	To me, I think we need to really move beyond this debate over lab leak versus natural origin.
	Now we have two intelligence agencies, Energy and FBI, that say it probably came from the lab, but we have four intelligence agencies that claim that it was natural origin.
	The World Health Organization did a survey of not 10,000, not 20,000, but 80,000 animals in China.
	And guess how many they found with the COVID virus?
	Zero.
	Zero?
	Yeah.
	So there's no evidence that it came from an animal.
	Let's just show the world what your colleagues were doing while you were actually reporting the facts.
	I just, in literally three minutes today, this is what I collected and posted on the internet.
	Fortune magazine.
	Fortune magazine.
	Trump's favorite COVID origin theory of a Wuhan lab leak just got crushed by NewSea research.
	Then we've got the AP.
	The COVID lab leak theory is dead.
	From a scientific American.
	This isn't a newspaper.
	Scientific American.
	The lab leak hypothesis made it harder for scientists to seek the truth.
	And then another AP story.
	Two new studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild.
	Do the next one.
	Let's show all of our listeners and viewers.
	Snopes.
	This is my favorite one.
	Snopes.
	The Occam's razor argument has not shifted in favor of a COVID lab leak.
	The BBC.
	COVID origin studies say evidence points to the Wuhan market.
	Then we have Forbes.
	The Wuhan lab leak hypothesis It's a conspiracy theory, not science.
	And then, let's just add it, the Grey Lady, the New York Times, a group of scientists presses a case against the lab leak theory of COVID.
	Bill, this is like, I don't know, this is like agitprop from the Soviet era.
	This is like Tass and Pravda and Izvestia.
	Yeah.
	You also didn't mention, but the Lancet, one of the premier scientific journal, The New York Times went even further, and they claimed that it was racist.
	that this idea that you had a bunch of scientists come out and say that if you said that this leaked from a lab, then this was a conspiracy theory.
	The New York Times went even further, and they claimed that it was racist.
	It was somehow anti-China racism to say that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
	It's really a corruption of science and a corruption of our intelligence agencies.
	What happened with the intel agencies was they lacked the in-house expertise You mean people who'd received funding from China or who'd got permission to study in China and therefore didn't want to criticize them, right Bill?
	That's right.
	They were working hand-in-glove with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was engaged in this dangerous gain-of-function research.
	So that's my point about this lab leak versus natural origin.
	We've got to pressure the Chinese to stop doing this kind of research.
	Will, we're talking to the National Security Correspondent for the Washington Times, Bill Gertz.
	We're talking to him at Bill Gertz.
	The book is, let's put it up on the screen, Deceiving the Sky, Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy.
	We will continue our discussion with Bill momentarily.
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	So if nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people, according to this poll, not according to me, according to this poll, that's a hate group.
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	Wherever you have to go, Just get away.
	Because there's no fixing this.
	This can't be fixed.
	Yeah, that sounds like he's joking, right?
	Yikes.
	Yeah, definitely not a joke.
	Two minutes.
	Cut one.
	Oh, also for that...
	The New Venture, the YT.
	They asked if you have a preferred description you want us to give them for the channel.
	Oh!
	Have they provided a title for it?
	What's it called?
	Let me check.
	I think it was in the channel art.
	Let me see what it said.
	Yeah, what did it say there?
	Hang on.
	Check that again.
	Dr. Sebastian Gorka official is what they had in the...
	With official in parentheses is what they had for the...
	And the show title is in the banner art.
	How long is the YouTube channel description usually?
	Let me check on that, I can let you know.
	In terms of limit, I'm not sure.
	Usually you don't want it to be too long.
	Right, but is it a sentence or is it two sentences?
	It can be maybe two or three sentences, give or take.
	What is it, Jeff?
	Your favorite legal immigrant?
	That works.
	I like the Mr. Maga thing as well.
	Mr. Maga.
	Have you ever read the description of a YouTube channel, though?
	No.
	No.
	That's true.
	I have not.
	I have not.
	But it's something nice to have for housekeeping purposes.
	All right.
	20 seconds. 20 seconds.
	20 seconds.
	Because we don't know where the novel coronavirus came from yet, the conspiracy theories fill the void.
	I'm telling you the Chai Khans are trying to weaponize this thing.
	Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh with zero proof, suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame.
	The Wuhan lab, we know that it's been debunked.
	Those same agencies now have been tapped with investigating one of Trump World's most favorite conspiracy theories.
	This week, Donald Trump is still pushing the debunked bunkum despite his own intelligence community's findings that that is simply not true.
	And there is simply no reason to believe that that is the case.
	There is no empirical evidence to verify that.
	If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now It's very, very strongly leaning towards this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.
	Incredible.
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	We're back with National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times.
	He knew!
	He knew!
	Back in 2020, the truth about the Wuhan lab.
	Bill, you are making a really consequential observation about the paucity, the weakness of the intelligence community that went outside of the IC to get assistance from others that were, of course, compromised because of their links to China or funding to Wuhan and what have you.
	It seems to me that whether it's the FBI and the fake Russia collusion, the suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop story, or China threat analysis, we have a very, very broad problem across the IC.
	Yes.
	You know, it's not just that they didn't have the in-house The U.S.
	intelligence community has been biased in favor of China for decades, and I've highlighted this in my books and my reporting.
	They've been wrong on so many different occasions.
	This goes back to even 1999.
	I was in the Pentagon doing a story on the PLA, and I had a briefing from the Defense Intelligence Agency.
	And after the briefing, I was called into a room with the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a three-star Army general, who told me that China was not a threat.
	And I was absolutely shocked.
	But a few years later, it was revealed that there was a Chinese spy, Ron Monteperdo, working within the DIA, who had helped the director have those false views.
	So this is not a new problem when it comes to intelligence on China.
	It's been very poor.
	Can you tell us what have you seen in the last few weeks since the balloon escapade with the meeting between Putin and Xi?
	Any new vociferous statements about America?
	How is Beijing looking at us in the last few weeks?
	Very interesting.
	Around last November, Biden met Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia, and that kind of set in motion a mini detente, like we had under Kissinger with the Soviet Union way back in the Cold War.
	The Biden administration was about to launch a mini detente.
	The balloon incident basically derailed that, They had begun moderating their anti-U.S.
	rhetoric, and the Chinese are literally on a tear.
	They're blaming the United States for everything from causing the pandemic, which is totally false, to starting the Ukraine war.
	They blame the United States.
	I just did a piece for The Washington Times.
	It'll be coming out soon.
	It was a speech by the Office of Naval Intelligence Commander, a Rear Admiral, Mike Studeman.
	And Studeman said that Americans have a blind spot on China and that China is diminishing the United States.
	They want to become the top world power and the main impediment to doing that is the United States.
	So they're literally working to undermine and ultimately destroy the United States, which they regard as their number one enemy. - Wow, well that's impressive.
	When can we expect to read that article, Bill?
	Should be posted very shortly within, you know, the next few minutes or so.
	Wonderful.
	I will be reposting it on our social media pages.
	In the meantime, follow this man at Bill Gertz, national security correspondent for The Washington Times.
	He knew years ago the truth about Wuhan and the book is deceiving the sky inside Communist China's drive for global supremacy.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	I'd really like to talk about the FBI thing you sent me.
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	Yep, thank you.
	That's shocking that the Washington Times...
	He gave in to the Facebook pressure on Bill's piece.
	Yeah, that is depressing, honestly.
	Of all the outlets.
	That's pathetic.
	Wow.
	Bill Gertz got censored?
	Well, we're talking about his original story from April of 2020 when he said he had sources and then he tried to find his own story and the Times had pulled it because Facebook said it was disinformation.
	Wow.
	I know.
	Unbelievable.
	He was right on the money.
	I mean, we got censored too.
	It was unbelievable.
	And I had impeccable sources.
	You always do.
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	All right, once a week is just not enough with this guy because he's always breaking stories, impeccable connections, the best sources.
	That's why he's got his own media empire now.
	It's called justthenews.com.
	He is, of course, John Solomon.
	John, welcome back.
	It's been too long.
	It's been good.
	It's good to be with you.
	Yes, it goes by fast, doesn't it?
	The week blows by fast.
	Last week was like, boom!
	And now CPAC's here.
	It's going to be crazy.
	Quick reaction first.
	The fact that the DOE and now the FBI has fessed up that it's a lab leak theory.
	Let's put these images up of all the stories I put up, Eric, about the The lab theory being a conspiracy.
	So from Fortune magazine, to Scientific American, to the AP, to Reuters, the next one, to the New York Times, the BBC, Snopes and Forbes, they're all going to apologize, John, right?
	No.
	No, they're going to pretend that never happened.
	They're going to move on.
	They're going to move on.
	They were just reporting what their really bad sources told them.
	The same sources that told them about Russia collusion.
	Yes.
	Told them that there were Russian bounties on the heads of soldiers.
	I mean, how many times does the media have to realize the government has misled them repeatedly over the last six years?
	When I went to journalism school, you were given a healthy dose of skepticism.
	All right, we're going to cover the government.
	Be distrustful.
	Trust but verify before you report.
	Now they take anything like talking points and put them out there and double down on them in the face of facts that clearly contradict them.
	It's unbelievable.
	And just as a non-journalist, and don't ever call me a journalist, anybody out there, when Seymour Hersh writes this, whatever it is, 3,000 word argument, Screed on.
	Biden blew up the pipeline and he has one source.
	Tell me if I'm wrong.
	In journalism school, don't you need two sources for a story, John?
	Am I making that up?
	You do.
	You do.
	And I've done a lot of reporting on that one.
	There are some reasons to be concerned about that.
	Yeah, listen, two sources are always good.
	On the record, better than on background or off the record.
	And so you see today, too many journalists are in love with the stories they publish and not in love with checking out the facts to make sure they're right.
	And that's what happens.
	You know, I got attacked a lot during Ukraine, during the Ukraine impeachment, but the truth of the matter was the facts were sitting right there.
	All people had to do was go look.
	Reporters weren't interested in looking.
	And that really, that awakened me.
	Up until that point, I didn't realize how far astray my profession had gone.
	That's a great way of putting it, that they're in love with their own story.
	That is a very, very bad sign.
	Every night 6 p.m.
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	It's just the news, not noise.
	All right, let's put up a story that you sent me last week.
	Huge, huge story.
	FBI gone wild.
	Internal memos chronicle years of drunk driving, lost weapons and other misconduct.
	John, when I read this story, I mean, there are things in there That if you worked as a programmer at Microsoft, you would be out on your backside before you count to ten.
	These people, some of them aren't even retired early, and they stay in the job at the FBI with a badge and a gun.
	This is insane!
	They do drunk driving, which we know can be a felony charge.
	Yeah!
	Losing weapons, having sex with... Witnesses.
	Witnesses or prisoners or subordinates.
	Three things we all know that are inappropriate.
	And the reason this story is so important is that every time Congress has questioned Chris Wray, Chris says, don't worry about it.
	Office of Professional Responsibility is looking at it.
	They're tough on people.
	It turns out OPR is really not that tough on people.
	It doesn't fire the majority of the agents.
	In FBI employees who drive drunk, it doesn't fire hardly anyone who loses a weapon, including an M4 carbine, which, as you know, is a very lethal military-grade weapon.
	Out of the back of a car!
	It wasn't even in the trunk, he just left it in the back of the car!
	Yeah, it was too late for a Starbucks run.
	He had to go for a Starbucks run, leaves a lethal weapon, doesn't even put it in all the protective gear that he had, and there's no consequence.
	There's a couple days on the beach, suspension.
	Every time Chris Ray says this now, people are going to have the context that maybe OPR isn't the solution for a lot of this bad conduct.
	All right, follow him right now.
	Jay Solomon reports.
	Jay Solomon reports.
	Everything he puts up there is worth your time.
	I was told by another one of the few reliable journalists out there like yourself.
	I was told about six months ago, if there really is a turnaround in the house, If there is going to be a real investigation of Hunter Biden and real Russian collusion, the key person they have to get on the record is Eric Schwerin.
	And I've seen reports that he is now collaborating voluntarily with the GOP.
	Is this really the big deal I was told it would be?
	If this cooperation continues, it will be a huge deal.
	Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, came on the show Thursday night, announced that they had secured a cooperation deal with Eric Schwerin.
	Why is he so important?
	He's the man in the middle.
	He's doing Hunter Biden's tax issues.
	He's doing Joe Biden's tax issues.
	He's writing about the bills that Hunter Biden paid for his father.
	He's telling Hunter Biden he didn't pay his taxes on the Ukraine money.
	He's the guy trying to broker the CEFC-China deal.
	Nearly everything that concerns Republicans in the Hunter Biden narrative, nearly everything that should concern all of us in America about the way Hunter Biden used his father's name to go about getting business.
	Eric Schwerin was in the middle of, and he's very matter-of-fact.
	When you read his emails, he doesn't, you know, spin things.
	He gets right to the point.
	Hunter, you didn't pay your taxes.
	Hunter, your dad wants to start making money, even though he's the vice president.
	He's trying to figure out his earning potential.
	Hunter, these Chinese guys really want to get to know you.
	He's going to be so matter-of-fact.
	I think he'll be a really important witness that connects all the dots and all the lies we've been told about the Biden family.
	He's the one guy, as an insider, that can put the lie to them and actually tell us the truth.
	Do you think they will subpoena or they'll get Hunter Biden on the floor of Congress?
	I think the first thing that's going to happen is they're going to do the institutions, right?
	They'll subpoena the banks, they'll subpoena some of the witnesses, and wait to subpoena Hunter Biden until they know everything they need to know, because you're maybe only going to get one crack at him.
	You've got to describe why you have to do it.
	So they're building this like a mob case right now.
	Congressman Comer is doing this just like mob prosecutors do.
	Roll up the little guys, keep working up the chain, eventually go after the big guys.
	Wait till the key person flips.
	It's gonna be an interesting year.
	Every day, check out the JustinNews.com website, bookmark it, and follow John at JSolomonReports.
	Your call's next here on America First.
	Thank you, John.
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	Titles for Gertz and Solomon and also for Professor Turley.
	Solomon.
	GOP snags crucial testimony.
	Biden witness.
	All right.
	Gertz.
	Gertz.
	Something about how he was right from the beginning.
	It was three years ago, right?
	Yeah, January 2020.
	For three years, they smeared me on Wuhan.
	Uh-huh.
	John's back, by the way.
	Hey, John.
	He was asking for you.
	Did you listen to the new Lavalier?
	I listened to it on the day of it, it sounded maybe a little bit better.
	Garrett had made a comment, he said he felt it sounded better, but I didn't really think it sounded worse.
	I listened to it on Carafano, it was like mildly better, not a big improvement.
	Jeff says he thinks it was worse.
	I thought it sounded worse.
	Yeah, we need to go high-end.
	How much was that one?
	I'll have to take a look.
	We need to go like TV studio quality because it was not a big improvement.
	Okay, I'll send a message to you.
	Thanks.
	And then I could wear that one, right?
	Because it'll be good enough to back me up.
	And let's get a really good one for the guest.
	Okay.
	Not coming in with anything?
	New.
	All right.
	All right.
	and have you talk with the mayor?
	I can't recall that.
	I don't think I've talked to the mayor.
	I've talked to everyone else there multiple times.
	It's the biggest story in America for the last, what, 20 days?
	And Biden can't remember whether he spoke to the mayor of East Palestine.
	Stunning.
	Stunning.
	He's just not fit.
	He's just not for office.
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	Line one.
	She was quick off the draw.
	Judy Brooklyn.
	Hello?
	Stop laughing at me.
	How dare you laugh at me?
	Because of your voice.
	Never mind.
	I'm not laughing at you.
	I think you're terrific.
	Listen.
	Biden went to Ukraine instead of East Palestine because he felt safer in Ukraine.
	Do you know that?
	Given the amount of MAGA voters, he's probably a chicken.
	Yeah, I think that you may be on to something, Judy.
	He wasn't going to breathe the air over there.
	Listen, I'm calling that something very boring, but I hope it's really not.
	I heard something yesterday and I'm upset about it and I wanted to run it by you.
	You remember the World Health Organization?
	Remember that little organization?
	Oh, yes.
	Which I call the world hazardous organization and my friend calls the worst hazardous organization either way.
	Remember, they're the ones that lied to the world.
	They protected China, right?
	And and they said it's not it's not whatever.
	Okay, guess what Biden today, February 27, I found that 194 countries are getting together.
	And they're going to be signing and Biden's going behind us behind Congress, which he shouldn't be doing.
	And they want to sign a, it's called Pandemic Treaty.
	And I'm not going to bore you, but just let you know, what does this mean?
	This means that they then, that we are now beholden to the World Health Organization, where they can say racism is a pandemic.
	Climate change is a pandemic.
	All kinds of stuff.
	And what can they do with that?
	They can close down schools, close down businesses.
	I've heard about this.
	I've heard about this.
	I, you know, I'm not that concerned because the things that they are saying he's giving away, he can't constitutionally do because it would have to be an act of Congress.
	It would have to be something voted on by the Senate.
	You know, the allegations are that he's going to sacrifice our sovereignty with some international organizations treaty.
	Well, he can't do that.
	That's the reason, for example, that Obama couldn't take the Iran deal to the Senate because the Senate would have voted it down.
	So, yes, they want to, but I don't think they've got a chance.
	Don't go anywhere.
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	Hey, so the movie goes like this.
	The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes and people can only come out if they take the cartels' drugs and keep taking them over and over.
	I threw the script away.
	We understand that they're Trump ultra-MAGA cultists.
	And that's their position.
	And their position is quite clear.
	Anything Donald Trump approves of, they approve of.
	Anything Donald Trump opposes, they oppose.
	And then being ultra MAGA means that they have to go 100 times more, you know, 100 times more virulent than than everybody else in MAGA world.
	You know, you know, the Lauren Boeberts, what they call the House Freedom Caucus.
	These people literally stand for the subjugation, dismantling and genocide of a nation.
	Oh, sorry.
	Mic's on.
	Yeah, no, he, well, like you said, he, was it, someone said he- You can put the camera, why are the cameras off?
	There we go.
	Go on.
	Didn't someone say he basically thinks he's a black Jack Ryan?
	Yeah, he does.
	And there's actually a potential issue of stolen valor as well.
	Not that he would face any repercussions if that was true.
	Well, you never know, you never know.
	A man can dream.
	Remember when the guy from the whole the Nick Sandman incident turned out to lie about his entire military service?
	Oh yeah, oh yeah.
	A Vietnam War era veteran.
	Right, right.
	That was so bad.
	The media gaslighting and covering up their own reporting.
	Two minutes.
	Any other cuts you want to use in this segment?
	I don't know.
	I'm going to take some calls here.
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	All right.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	That's a hate group.
	And I don't want to have anything to do with them.
	And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.
	Wherever you have to go, just get away.
	Because there's no fixing this.
	This can't be fixed.
	Hey, Mr. G, that sounded like a joke, didn't it?
	Really humorous commentary, didn't it?
	Exactly.
	You could tell he was joking the whole time.
	The facial expression, the giggling in his voice, the lightheartedness.
	Exactly.
	Who is he trying to kid?
	I mean, seriously, that's Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, which, by the way, I asked people on Twitter this morning.
	I never found Dilbert funny.
	I mean, give me Calvin and Hobbes any day, or The Wizard of Id, but seriously, just not funny.
	And I've worked in a cubicle, okay?
	So I've been there, I've seen it, I've done it.
	Just not funny.
	But there's a warning for you, children.
	Don't do dope.
	That guy's a dope head.
	He's proud about how much he smokes every day.
	The Hash Man.
	Well, that's what's going to happen.
	You're going to go viral and destroy your career in just a few moments.
	Because, Jeff, what were the details of the poll?
	There was some poll about attitudes, racial attitudes.
	Give us the summary.
	It was Rasmussen, right?
	Yeah, it was Rasmussen.
	It was basically if it's OK to be white.
	I think it was either 47% or 53% when they combined together.
	It was in the 20s of the people of African Americans that said that it wasn't okay to be white.
	And there's another 20-some percent that was either maybe or undecided.
	But the big number out of it is this was a poll of everybody.
	So I think that it was actually only 130 blacks that actually answered this poll.
	So you got like a thousand people do the poll, out of it like a hundred plus have bad attitudes to black people, to white people.
	So Scott Adams says all black people are dangerous.
	No, a hundred plus answered it.
	So it's basically about 60 black people that actually answered the question.
	Oh my gosh, seriously guys.
	Oh, and by the way, we've got another cut that'll amuse you.
	He's endorsed somebody for the presidency because apparently he's not a conservative, but he's endorsing a GOP candidate.
	Play cut.
	So for example, a lot of people don't know that I'm left-wing.
	A lot of your audience is going to be confused because the headlines are saying I'm a right-wing MAGA guy.
	I'm actually endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy for president, primarily because I'm a single-issue voter on Fentanyl.
	He's pretty tough on Fentanyl.
	But what people don't know is I'm super left-wing.
	I volunteered to work for Black Lives Matter, helped Hawk Newsom try to craft some useful policies that the right and the left would agree on.
	It's always a winner.
	Hulk Newsom, the guy who said, burn it all down, and as Jeff pointed out, where's Hulk Newsom standing up for this guy right now?
	I'm so, quote, so super left wing, I'm endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy.
	I bet Vivek's happy about that.
	Let's get your take.
	The number here is 833-33-GORKA.
	That's 833-334-6752.
	Eric, let's make a poll.
	Let's make a poll up on our site.
	Do you believe Scott Adams that he was just joking?
	Let's put that up there.
	Let's go to Phil in Philly, waiting super patiently.
	Welcome, Phil.
	Hey, Dr. G. Happy Monday.
	Happy Monday.
	I went through the Constitution of the United States of America, and I went through every amendment.
	I did a word search, word match.
	There's one word missing, and it's border.
	These brainiacs, who were centuries ahead of their time, planned for every type of situation except an open border.
	They probably just took it for granted that you have a country, you have a constitution, you have a border.
	When it comes down to it, it wasn't these guys who made this country possible.
	It was the most heroic, most famous, the best military general in the world.
	And we had him in George Washington.
	So, I mean, we have that playbook, and that's what it might take to reestablish this country.
	You mean to put a secure border in the Constitution?
	And to depose a self-appointed king that's been operating by proxy of enemies of this country, both domestic and foreign.
	Are you calling for violence against the senile old man in the White House?
	No, no, no.
	I just want people to open up their eyes that this guy, what would stop him from, when he depletes our oil and gas, which is going to be another 300 days, and he comes out and he says, buy electric or walk.
	What would stop him?
	Yeah, I just don't think he's going to last that long.
	I mean, we've got Jill Biden saying the following, Phil, it's absolutely shocking.
	So here we have, I think it's a pretty obvious statement, cut five, play cut.
	But has the decision been made amongst the family that he's going to run?
	Well, it's Joe's decision, and we support whatever he wants to do.
	If he's in, we're there.
	If he wants to do something else, we're there too.
	Is there any chance at this point that he's not going to run?
	Not in my book.
	You're all for it?
	I'm all for it, of course.
	All for it.
	He'll be 82 years old.
	Unbelievable.
	Well, you heard it there.
	Thank you, Phil.
	Let's go to David, California.
	Welcome, David.
	Oh, thank you, Doctor.
	Listen, John Kirby, OK?
	You mean Kabul Kirby?
	Yeah, that guy, he's at the White House briefing.
	This is typical.
	He has no definitive answer for the origin of COVID.
	If that isn't bad enough for one guy to take in a day, he's in front of the White House.
	Trying to defend the fact that Biden won't send the jets to Ukraine.
	In my heart, in my soul, I want the people in Ukraine to come.
	I am supporting Ukraine.
	Not the politics, not the baloney, the people, the men, women, and children that are paying a price for political boobs.
	But you know what gets me?
	This guy Kirby.
	Never, ever stops lying.
	I can't understand how, sometimes, somewhere, someplace in his life, he has to stand in front of a mirror.
	I don't understand him, doctor.
	I don't understand how this guy can lie.
	But he's perfect.
	But David, you've got to understand, that's exactly what they need.
	They need somebody who has great acumen in lying.
	He's perfect for them, David.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Yeah.
	Thank you, David.
	Yeah, he is a disgrace to the uniform he wants.
	War, Kabul, Kirby.
	Let's go to Maria, Los Angeles.
	Welcome, Maria.
	Happy Monday.
	Hello.
	Good afternoon, Dr. Gorka.
	The lies the government keeps telling us.
	And here we go with this Wuhan virus.
	We had consummate journalists like Joshua Phillip have a documentary on The probabilities of this virus being man-made, whether it was released intentionally or unintentionally, China must be held responsible and forced to pay reparations to all the countries in the world.
	How do you force a dictatorship to do anything?
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, the Nazis were forced to pay reparations.
	No, they weren't.
	They weren't forced to pay reparations.
	We destroyed them.
	Yeah, I know.
	Actually, you know that they didn't pay reparations.
	We destroyed them.
	World War II happened in part because we forced Weimar Germany to pay reparations for World War I. That's the problem.
	How do you make a powerful existing dictatorship that you haven't destroyed pay reparations?
	It's a very simple question.
	Good question.
	I don't know how it can be done, but everybody's talking about reparations, so... Yeah, but we don't want to give in to their game.
	I don't think we want to give in to the slavery reparations game.
	We need to punish China.
	It's not going to be reparations.
	It's going to be what President Trump did with trade relations.
	Thank you.
	Let's squeeze in one more call.
	Let's go to John, Minneapolis.
	Hey, John.
	Hey, Dr. Gorka.
	Thanks.
	Great to have an opportunity to talk.
	Can you hear me okay?
	Yeah, you've got a minute.
	Okay, I think you'll agree with me when I say I like nothing more than when a right-wing conspiracy turns out to be probable and more than likely.
	But what has astounded me is the lack of curiosity at what caused this.
	Was it in the lab or was it in nature?
	If an airliner crashes, The manufacturer and the NTSB will stop at nothing to find the cause.
	And we're three years into this now, and we don't know, and we've got the Department of Energy that Jennifer Granholm, now weighing in on this, probably came from the lab.
	We have to know, we have to get Fauci to testify.
	What was our role in gain of function?
	Do we have any money in this Wuhan land, in American money?
	Well, we know that.
	We know.
	We know that.
	We know that he sent money to the Wuhan lab through the EcoAlliance cutout.
	It's not a question, but I completely agree with you.
	We need to get Fauci under oath on the floor of Congress.
	Let's make that little fascist sweat.
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	Good afternoon.
	Hey, how's it going?
	Good.
	How you doing?
	Sorry.
	I saw you ringing there.
	I needed to confirm I could pick it up.
	So I wasn't ignoring you.
	Sorry.
	Sorry.
	It took me a moment to pick up the Skype there.
	No worries.
	I know you're probably thinking they're not there.
	Well, we were here.
	Sorry.
	All right.
	Can we get a mic check on a mic?
	Yeah.
	Hang on just one second.
	We're going to open you up to you in just a moment.
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	Copy. 60.
	One minute, he's on the line.
	The Mid-Texas videos didn't have chyrons, I looked at them.
	Somebody making his hair, was somebody actually doing Knowles' hair there?
	They're opening, you can talk to Michael now.
	They were, weren't they?
	They were like dabbing makeup on him, and...
	I need at least 10 people to try to make this look.
	There we go.
	You're going to say you're Dylan Mulvaney next.
	All right.
	The latest book was Speechless, right?
	Yes, that's right.
	All right.
	You've got that, Eric?
	Yes.
	All right.
	We're going to have fun.
	I'm going to use the Mulvaney cut.
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	Happy Monday!
	Happy Monday, sir!
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	Now, do you eat the cigars, or do you smoke them as well?
	I never eat them, actually.
	I find the nicotine curbs my appetite, and that, maybe paired with a nice drink, is all I need to survive.
	Now, my question is, you will be bringing a requisite, adequate amount of cigars to CPAC this week, right?
	I had to budget this in when I agreed to speak at CPAC.
	I said, well, I know that I am going to see Dr. G there, so I need to make sure only the finest travel humidor comes with me.
	And I think you're going to be pleasantly impressed.
	It takes several people to carry it, right?
	It does.
	We're going to have a producer just assigned to my stogies.
	Well, I mean, it's the Daily Wire, of course they do.
	There was one woman, I went to go on Candice's show last year.
	There was a woman who was there to steam my jacket because it had got creased on the plane.
	I thought, yeah.
	Well, of course.
	You've got two people to steam your jacket, right?
	Oh, at least because you need at least one producer to pick out the blue M&Ms to make sure that before you go on you're adequately sure.
	The sad thing is he's not joking.
	Follow him right now at Mike Knowles, the Mike Knowles show.
	The latest book is Speechless.
	Let's have some fun first.
	We've got to talk some serious things in the second segment, but some fun things first.
	Truth.
	Does it really matter?
	We now know the Department of Energy has fessed up.
	The FBI as well.
	Yeah, lab leak.
	Three years later, it's a lab leak.
	Any consequences in the real world?
	Are we going to see apologies to the rest of us who said, the fact that there's a level four biodefense lab in Wuhan and that's where COVID came from, that's probably the source of it.
	And then we were called conspiracy theorists.
	What are your expectations?
	Do you have any expectations, Mike Knowles?
	My expectations are below my desk.
	They're below the floor at this point.
	They're so low.
	Because, as you say, we were proven right.
	There were a handful of people who early on said, I'm not buying this theory that the COVID came from a bad batch of bat soup.
	I suspect it might have something to do with that high-level bio lab right down the street from the wet market.
	And we were called crazy conspiracy theorists and lunatics and murderers and ignoramuses.
	And we turned out to be totally right.
	I have to tell you, Seb, I'm sick of being right.
	I like being right, I like being able to say to people that I told you so, but just being right is not enough.
	Because we conservatives are pretty much always right.
	And whenever we make predictions, and whenever we forewarn about some slippery slope, it always turns out to be true, and yet the left continues to win.
	It's not enough to be right, we also need there to be consequences for the people who inflict this on us.
	So this is the point, that they continue to win.
	Are we in a world where politics have just been severed from reality and consequences in reality?
	At what point can the truth even momentarily impinge upon the world of political consequences?
	Well, people are aware of the truth, and so that's a good sign.
	You see this especially in the transgender issue.
	Something like 80% of Americans acknowledge that men are not really women, women are not really men, and little kids should not be taught about this stuff.
	And so then the question becomes, okay, why is this still being taught in the schools?
	It's not a question of getting the truth out there.
	People basically understand the truth.
	It's a question of political power.
	So to use the schools as such a clear example of it, It's because the teacher unions own the schools, and the teacher unions own the Democrats.
	And so the Democrats are never going to turn against the teacher unions.
	And the Democrats, even when they lose elections, are able to maintain a lot of power because they control the entire bureaucracy, and they also control the media, and they also control a lot of other institutions of power in the country.
	And so I think what conservatives need to focus on now is not merely truth versus falsehood.
	I think we're pretty clear on that subject.
	But we also have to focus on, okay, how do we amass political power and wield that effectively for the cause of truth?
	Because if you're not able to do that, then you can be right all day long.
	It's not going to result in any effects in politics.
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	One of your colleagues did a rather controversial video last week.
	We discussed it offline at the weekend.
	Gotta get your take on Scott Adams.
	He's desperately trying to pitch his stay away from all black people lunacy as a sarcasm or a joke.
	I played the video.
	He wasn't joking.
	What's Michael Knowles' take?
	It's always hard to tell with Scott Adams because he will intentionally say provocative things and he'll even say things that he doesn't agree with to get a rise out of people.
	And this is all in line with his theory that he's been espousing for five or six years now, which is about persuasion in politics.
	And so I'm sort of with you, Seb.
	I watched the video.
	It didn't seem ironic to me.
	It didn't seem like he was pulling a fast one or anything.
	However, I will say to Scott's credit, That has been very much in keeping with his political message, which is essentially not about truth or falsehood or even good or bad.
	It's all about persuasion and the art of persuasion.
	However, he succeeded in persuading everybody he's a racist.
	Right.
	You know, if he's making a point about political rhetoric and persuasion, the fact that Dilbert has now been dropped from basically every single newspaper would suggest that whatever rhetoric he was engaging in, It was not persuasive in the way probably he would want it to have been.
	I gotta ask you this, because I never found Dilbert funny, did you?
	Well, Seb, you know I've never had a real job in my life.
	Oh, so you can't relate?
	I've only ever worked in politics and showbiz, yeah.
	So I just, I can't relate to it because, I don't know, then you gotta sit at a computer and you talk to managers.
	I just don't, I just don't know what that is.
	Yeah, he's never had to argue over the staple supply.
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	So my take is, he meant it.
	And he just had one of those, whether it was, you know, the 48th spliff that day or whatever that he smoked, he just had one of these filterless moments where the brain fart just said, OK, I can say this and there'll be no consequences.
	That's my take.
	I couldn't tell.
	I mean, I did wonder.
	I had the same reaction.
	I thought, is this a little bit of a chemically induced rant that I'm watching here?
	And then the other thing I wondered, too, is His whole shtick is he tries to get right up to that line and tiptoe his little toe over the line.
	I just thought, man, you just ran about 20 miles past the line.
	Yeah, right.
	Are you aware that you can't turn that around so easily?
	But I didn't even see today that he's pretending.
	Oh yeah, he went on Hotep Jesus' thing and he said, He was trying to be all kind of Scott Adams out of persuasion.
	If you ever see something shocking, you should always add the word really to the end of it.
	Like, Scott Adams said that?
	Oh really?
	No, really, he did say that.
	I mean it was just the most pathetic attempt at backpedaling I'd ever seen.
	Well, I almost when I read the headline, I thought, okay, I bet this is being blown up out of proportion.
	Let me see what Scott said.
	I'm sure.
	And I played it.
	Because yeah, I want nothing to do with black people.
	Oh, no.
	Okay.
	He actually said it.
	All right.
	All right, I gotta find the because I found out by accident just a few days ago that he blocked me on Twitter.
	So he's a bit of a snowflake.
	Scott, really?
	I wonder if he follows me.
	He had not followed me at one point.
	There are a lot of people like this.
	Well, look, I'll say, oh, did I irritate this person because they've now, you know, unfollowed me or blocked me or something?
	But he, yeah, I hadn't seen him pop up for, I don't know, probably a year or a year and a half.
	And then I saw that rant and I thought, oh, no, that's he's actually being pretty clear.
	I'm not quite sure what he's what his angle is here, but, you know.
	All right, I'm sending you this image, Eric.
	All right.
	And then we'll use Mulvaney here.
	Yep.
	And Consumer Research here.
	Oh, good.
	All right.
	Thank you.
	Consumer... You'll tee it up?
	Yeah, tee it up.
	All right.
	He doesn't like that you said Dilbert's not funny, obviously.
	No, this is before that.
	It's before that.
	It's well before that.
	And I've worked in a queue, but everybody in response to my tweet today saying it's not funny, they said, yeah, now and again, it was good.
	Like, what the hell?
	You're doing it daily.
	What does now and again mean?
	It's funny.
	I mean, you'd be fine.
	Oh, one out of 30 strips was mildly amusing.
	Congratulations.
	You've been doing it for like 30 years, right?
	Right.
	Not anymore.
	Yeah, that's amazing.
	Thanks.
	It was so swift.
	I mean, once USA Today called it, you're just like, OK.
	Yeah, but what did he expect?
	Right?
	The thing that he concluded the video with, too, is he said, I bet you weren't expecting that today.
	So he's acknowledging, you know.
	Right, right.
	Yeah.
	20 seconds.
	Oh, we've got, come in with the second Scott Adams card.
	Potep Jesus, yep, no liner.
	So,
	for example, A lot of people don't know that I'm left wing.
	A lot of your audience is going to be confused because the headlines are saying I'm a right-wing MAGA guy.
	I'm actually endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy for president, primarily because I'm a single-issue voter on fentanyl.
	He's pretty tough on fentanyl.
	But what people don't know is I'm super left-wing.
	I volunteered to work for Black Lives Matter, helped Hawke Newsom try to draft some useful policies that the right and the left would agree on.
	So you've gone from being a black supremacist working for Hawk News to being a white supremacist.
	Vivek must be so excited with that endorsement.
	Who's that neo-Nazi who likes to endorse people just before the race?
	What is that, Eric?
	Who's that white supremacist loser guy?
	Oh, Richard Spencer?
	Oh yeah, Richard Spencer.
	That's like getting an endorsement from Richard Spencer.
	Well done, well done Scott Adams endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy.
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	We are back with The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles, a middle-of-the-road Catholic, not very hardcore at all.
	His book is Speechless.
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	Get it right now.
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	Thank you.
	Speechless.
	Controlling words, controlling minds.
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	Michael, you did an amazing video.
	on this Dylan Mulvaney phenomena.
	Everybody needs to see it.
	I think it's the best explication of what's possibly behind this.
	Let's just do a reminder of who this man is after his recent plastic surgery.
	Play cut!
	That's a wrap on Face Reveal!
	Oh my gosh, hi!
	I missed you!
	You know I have a flair for the dramatics.
	But it's so good, right?
	I'm so happy, and it's still me, it's just a little bit softer of a version.
	And I just hope that all trans and non-binary people can get the gender-affirming resources that they need, because this is life-changing, and sometimes Life-saving.
	So, thank you so much for supporting me, and we've got so much to catch up on.
	I love ya!
	That's a man with XY chromosomes and I think still got a penis as well.
	Um, Mike, why aren't women pissed?
	I'm angry, but why aren't... This, the biggest insult is to women.
	I think many women are pissed about it.
	You certainly see this from the TERFs, the trans-exclusionary radical feminists, people like J.K.
	Rowling.
	But I think non-feminist women, also known as normal women, are pretty irritated too.
	Because not only is this man making a mockery of women and depicting women in the most over-the-top, caricaturish way possible... It's a parody, Mike!
	It's a parody!
	Of course.
	He's playing up every single silly cartoonish stereotype you could think about women.
	But there's also a real threat here, which is that Dylan Mulvaney and the ideology that he is advocating tells women that they're not allowed to have their own bathrooms, the women are not allowed to have their own locker rooms, the women are not allowed to have any of their own spaces that are free from men such as he coming into them.
	And that's a real political problem and Dylan Mulvaney, wittingly or unwittingly, is trying to bully women into into losing their spaces and their rights and their traditions.
	So if I were a regular run-of-the-mill woman of any any stripe or almost any political persuasion, I'd be pretty angry about that.
	But they've gone too far because they're rewriting James Bond.
	That's it, Mike.
	They are rewriting the original Ian Fleming books.
	I have inherited first editions from my father's collection and this is a bridge that they've crossed that they've just gone too far.
	Do you concur?
	They are not only rewriting Mark Twain.
	It's fine.
	They're not only rewriting Roald Dahl and Dr. Seuss.
	James Bondo.
	That is the line in the San Seb.
	I totally agree.
	And by the way, it's why people now need to start buying analog.
	It's why they need to buy physical copies of books and everything else.
	In fact, I think a lot of the impetus for this transgender craze we're in is because we're all living our lives in virtual reality.
	It's all digital.
	It's all online.
	So your body doesn't matter so much.
	Mike, my wife used to laugh at my massive DVD collection.
	Not anymore, and it wasn't just because of what George Lucas did to Star Wars.
	Get analog copies of the books, the DVDs, because the cloud, you don't own the cloud!
	Get his book, the real one, you know, with pages.
	With words on it this time.
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	I think I'm going to fly in fairly early Friday.
	I'm doing an interview with our two presidential candidates now, other than Trump.
	I think I'm going to interview Haley and Vivek.
	Maybe I'll ask him about Scott Adams' endorsement.
	Can you tell him that his name is written Vivek and it should be pronounced Vivek?
	You know, I've known him since college.
	What?
	He was in the law school when I was undergrad.
	Yeah, and I didn't think he would run.
	Did he have a big ego back then?
	There's not one person at Yale Law School who does not have an ego that bursts out the door, you know?
	Sorry, sorry, sorry.
	But are you going to be around Friday night?
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Excellent.
	All right, cool.
	Good.
	I'll let you know.
	I should be out, you know, probably 7, 8 o'clock.
	All right, let's find a good place to smoke cigars.
	That sounds good.
	See you, buddy.
	Travel safe.
	All right, see you, sir.
	Bye-bye.
	That's funny.
	They went to school together.
	I think Vivek also went to school with JD Vance at Yale, I believe.
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	Alright, I'm sure he wasn't excited to hear this, but there is a new endorsement for the Governor of Florida to become the President of the United States.
	No, it's not from Scott Adams, but it might as well be somebody that bad for his campaign.
	Let's hear it for Jeb Bush.
	Is this Ron DeSantis' opportunity to run for higher office?
	I think it is.
	He's been a really effective governor.
	He's young.
	I think we're on the verge of a generational change in our politics.
	I kind of hope so.
	I think it's time for a more forward-leaning, future-oriented Someone who's from outside Washington?
	which has made him, should he choose to run for president, a serious contender in Republican politics. - And who better to do it than someone who's been outside of Washington, who's governed effectively, who I think has shown that Florida could be a model for the future of our country. - Someone who's from outside Washington? who I think has shown that Florida could be a Hey, Mr. G, wasn't the governor of Florida a three-term congressman?
	Yep, six years he was in Congress.
	Four years before Trump.
	Eric, is there somebody worse that you could get?
	I mean, maybe if the Lincoln Project endorsed him, but Jeb Bush?
	How bad is that for Governor Ron?
	There's a reason that the nickname that stuck to Jeb, courtesy of then-candidate Donald Trump, was Low Energy.
	Can't wait to hear the official response from the governor's mansion.
	Jeb Bush!
	Jeb Bush!
	Low energy, Jeb.
	Wow.
	Hey, do you think, do you think, Jeb, do you think that Somnit Mar-a-Lago paid Jeb to do that?
	That's what I said.
	I said, that is the best thing that you'd have Trump have.
	They talk about how Trump is toxic.
	That is toxic right there, having the Bushes endorse you.
	Oh my gosh, that's too hilarious.
	All right.
	Waiting patiently in California.
	Let's go to Wendy, line one.
	Hey, Wendy.
	Well, good afternoon, Dr. Gorka.
	Greetings.
	Okay.
	So I was sick for a couple of weeks and I couldn't get a VPAC because apparently Trump said it back in 2019 or whatever.
	You mean your doctor wouldn't give it to you or your pharmacist wouldn't give it to you?
	No, the doctor.
	Wow, get another doctor.
	Well, I'm with Kaiser.
	I'm a state employer.
	Wow.
	Yeah, so I apologized for the late, you know, and they tried to give me tetracycline because that'll really work.
	So, but remember I called in about The name for the new woman's thing?
	Yes.
	And I mentioned beauty, you liked that, but it was too long.
	Don't say the new woman's thing, that's a little vague.
	The new podcast, yes.
	Yes.
	Okay, so I've got two options for it.
	Womanhood, God's image of beauty, or woman, beauty in God's image.
	I like that.
	Much shorter, much shorter.
	I thought you'd like that.
	And while I'm here, I'd like to throw in a movie for you guys to look at.
	Please.
	It's a true family, we're gonna win and kick butt.
	It's called, and it's older, it's called Sometimes a Great Notion.
	I haven't heard of that.
	It's with Henry Fonda and Paul Newman and Michael Saracen and Lee Remick.
	And they also gave it a nickname, Never Give an Inch.
	Huh.
	It's a really, really good one.
	Henry Fonda was a big lib, you know that right?
	Who?
	Fonda was a big lefty.
	Yeah, that was before I knew what a big lefty was.
	Oh, but you're saying I should look at it?
	I think that you guys would enjoy the whole premise of the movie.
	Alright, I'll check it out.
	Thank you kindly.
	Let's go to Tom, Illinois, line 2.
	Hey, thanks for picking my call.
	Are you on the speakerphone, Tom?
	I'm on the headset.
	Turn that off.
	What's your comment?
	What's your question, Tom?
	Running out of time.
	What's your comment?
	What's your question?
	Yes, I've got a new conspiracy theory for you.
	Go ahead.
	Now that I say that it's coming from the lab, which we all knew as soon as we found out there was a lab there.
	But I want to step further.
	It's very hard to hear you.
	What kind of phone are you on?
	It's very hard to hear you.
	I'm on an Android.
	Yeah, it's really... I don't know what's going on.
	Please try and make your point.
	Yes, I think that the virus was selected and let out intentionally.
	And that's because, going back to October 2019, they were trying to do a trade deal with Trump, which wasn't doing too well.
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	music Yes.
	He hung up.
	Okay.
	Did he tell you what his theory was, Jeff?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the Trump trade deal.
	So they released it to undo the Trump trade deal?
	Yes.
	Because that would make him, what?
	Undermine it?
	It's just ridiculous.
	I thought it would have been a good call for a response.
	For having fun.
	Alright, so what have we played?
	We've played... Oh, we haven't played Ryan.
	Let's play Ryan.
	We have a MyPillow here.
	Dude, we didn't play 7, right?
	Which one's 7?
	Mansion.
	We have not played it yet, no.
	Paul Ryan's 13.
	13, okay.
	I'm gonna t-up cut.
	No, we don't have much time here.
	This is an e-segment, yeah.
	Uh, come in with seven.
	Come in with seven.
	No liner. No liner.
	No liner. No liner. I'll be involved any way I can to help.
	I I identify as an American.
	I'm an American through and through.
	That's weird.
	Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat, West Virginia, has... Oh, no.
	Is he West Virginia or is he Kentucky?
	Where is he from?
	West Virginia.
	He won't say he's a Democrat.
	I wonder why that is.
	Hmm.
	Interesting.
	Very, very interesting.
	Let's go to your calls, Bill.
	Texas, line three.
	Dr. Gorka, I'm so glad you played that.
	I'm normally very happy with Maria Bartiromo, but her chances to knock Joan Manchin up the head with a baseball bat, she failed every time.
	What?
	Why?
	Was the rest of the interview not good?
	Well, no, because he said, well, we're not energy independent.
	And I thought Maria Bartiromo was going to slam him about the Keystone Pipeline that his president stopped, which was the beginning of the end of our energy independent.
	Not only the loss of 40,000 jobs, I was just so disappointed with her.
	And that point about Joe Manchin being American.
	Un-friggin-believable.
	I love Maria Bartiromo.
	She's one of the few good people left at Fox.
	I'm going to have to check the full video.
	Thank you, Bill.
	That's a disappointment, if it's true.
	Annabelle, California, line five.
	Hi, Dr. Gorka.
	Two points I'd like to make about President Trump.
	This morning, I was listening to Dan Bongino.
	They had Don Jr.
	and Kimberly on, and it was so fabulous because apparently, with everything that President Trump has to deal with, he calls his son.
	Father calls his son.
	And he said, Don, you know, you're using too many hand signals when you talk like Italians.
	Too much hand.
	Tramp it down.
	And I thought, you know, this is what we're supposed to have in this world.
	Fathers.
	And by the way, and it just touched my heart because everything, he's looking out for his son.
	It's not a good look, Don.
	But anyway, I want to get to the important point, but please replay Steve Bannon, Man Hour, that you played about the family, your father and his father.
	It was fabulous.
	The last thing I want to say, in 1986, Well, I don't know what the Democrats were doing.
	Ellis Island gave out a gold medal of honor.
	They only gave it out to three people in history.
	You can look it up.
	Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, and President Trump.
	And at that time, President Trump said that the greatest honor in his life was to sit next to Rosa Parks and hold her hand.
	So this is what, when Biden was corresponding with his Klan member friends and his races.
	So I just wanted to say two things about President Trump, because I love him so much.
	And maybe you can ask him tomorrow.
	But anyway, thank you.
	Please replay Steve Bannon.
	No, we're going to, if Annabelle asks for it, we're going to do it.
	We're going to get John, our colleague, to repost the Manhood Hour with Steve Bannon, where we connected.
	There's so much similarity between our parents, although our parents never met.
	So if you want it, we're going to repost it.
	And also, I think we'll bring up that Ellis Island medal with the President tomorrow when he comes on the show.
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	Impressive.
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	See things you people wouldn't believe.
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	God, let's go see him together.
	Bull, rat, fighter town.
	You know who.
	Say.
	Master Blaster.
	Say loud.
	Master Blaster.
	Master Blasters.
	Sounds better with a British accent I think.
	So much fun!
	We love Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and we are delighted to review it in Making Movies Great Again with Chris Coles.
	Are you ready Chris?
	It's much better than the original.
	Well, I'll tell you something.
	I think we may have watched different movies.
	No, I sadly watched the first one as planned.
	It took me four days.
	Four days to get through it because I was just so, it was as uninspiring, dark, and dismal as I remembered it, but you gave me a choice.
	It is a hard movie to get through.
	You know, I could have put it on black, but I put it on red and I watched Mad Max.
	So we're gonna watch the original with Max Rockatinsky.
	Chris Coles, it's not even an American movie!
	No, but it is the movie that put Australia on the map for cinema.
	Really, I mean, this film, the original Mad Max, the original film,
	was the highest grossing film in history not highest grossing um sorry most revenue compared to its budget right it made the most money and hey you know compared to its budget until i think blair witch which is a movie that was made for like nothing for like 200 or something like that but this movie was was like independently financed the original mad max and it was just this sort of like couple of guys who had this idea let's make a crazy movie in australia
	And it was such a big hit, it put Australia on the map in terms of cinema, so well done for them, but a little bit of a difficult watch.
	$400,000.
	Let's just give them the figures.
	$400,000 US to make, totally privately financed by the Friends of the Filmmakers, and it made a cool $100 million.
	It's pretty good.
	Unbelievable.
	I mean, really unbelievable.
	And, you know, you can kind of see why, even though this was a difficult film to get through.
	It was painful to watch for about the first hour and a half.
	The last half an hour of the film...
	Maybe the hour, hour and 10 minutes.
	It's an hour 35 long.
	So when you said the first hour and a half was, was bad, I was like, yeah, the last four minutes were okay.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Okay.
	Let me say this because I looked at the time that I started to enjoy the film and it was an hour, 10 minutes.
	Okay.
	And I remember thinking, okay, so like the last 30 minutes here are going, are, are getting, it's getting a little bit better.
	I feel like it's going to get better.
	And I, I wasn't disappointed the last 20 minutes, let's say 20, 30 minutes.
	are amazing.
	And I would say if this guy had instead of created this like long, drawn out, uh, you know, bunch of like, it's a very, what would you call it?
	It's a mess.
	The film is a mess.
	And the whole first hour 10 is, is a bunch of sort of almost disconnected activities that are occurring.
	And then the last 20 minutes or so is like, um, is like a revenge film.
	Right, it's like my buddy Razorfist calls it a Western without horses.
	And it is!
	It's a revenge Western.
	I was actually going to make the exact same point.
	Yeah, it's a Western.
	Yeah.
	It's a Western without horses, and it's a revenge story.
	We've seen this many times before, but not in a future post-apocalyptic setting.
	Right, and we've seen the exact same scenario a few times.
	I mean, if you look at The Outlaw Josie Wales, if you look at Death Wish, these films came before this one and did it better It just didn't do it with cars.
	It just didn't do it with a post-apocalyptic setting.
	So this was new.
	This was unusual.
	Maybe a little bit trendy for the time, set some trends, but a lot of stuff is really weird.
	Like the villains in this movie are wacky.
	They're sinister, but in a deranged way.
	One thought I had, you know, about halfway through the film is Max is the only character who is not mad.
	That's good.
	No, that's really good.
	Even his boss, Fifi, the big, you know, bald guy, he's like, he's a little weird to say the least.
	Goose, his partner, is weird.
	These two guys at the beginning of the movie, they have issues.
	And then all of the villains are just nutcases.
	I will say this.
	There is something to be said for criminals or violent gangs in a post-apocalyptic setting that rings true to me.
	And one thing that I really don't like about this film, and I don't like about films like this, is that the villain doesn't have any kind of clear intention.
	There's no obvious goal for the villain.
	In the second film, there is.
	They want the gasoline that this little village has.
	In the first film, there's no stated goal.
	Well, the only goal is revenge for Knight Rider, the guy who's killed at the beginning.
	That's the only goal you can impute.
	Right, but they don't follow that up in any way.
	No.
	If they had gone after Mel Gibson, Max's family, because of that, I could understand.
	But what ends up happening in the film is they start going after his wife and kid because they randomly happen across them.
	Well, and also because she knees him in the balls when he licks her ice cream.
	Yeah, at the ice cream shop they randomly run into her.
	It's like total coincidence.
	It's like the dumbest thing.
	It's like you've created a scenario in which there could be a motive for the villain, but then you've just done away with that and had them randomly run into each other.
	But that said, I will say that the idea of having senseless violence and senseless criminality with this gang of bikers Uh, in this sort of quasi-post-apocalyptic film, makes sense in a way, because even though I don't like it, because it's sort of like a horror film, there's no real sense to the violence, it's just this monster, right?
	I, I, if you look at these villains, if you look at these bikers as Antifa, if you look at them as like the raiders of a store in like a Black Lives Matter protest or something, Then they start to make sense to you.
	There is this capacity for senseless violence.
	This is the kind of toxic masculinity that the left tries to apply to regular men who are raising their son in the suburbs.
	And when the boy climbs a tree and falls down out of it, they go, boys will be boys.
	And they go, how dare you say this evil thing?
	And it's like, well, no, boys are a little bit rough.
	They're a little bit violent.
	You've got to learn how to constrain that.
	And I would say that a film like this, as vicious and ugly and violent as it is, is a good example of why we do need strong, tough men in the world.
	Because there is evil, there is senseless violence, and you need somebody to come in and stop it.
	In the last 20 minutes of this film, I actually loved seeing Mel Gibson go out and take revenge.
	I loved it.
	And is it really a violent movie?
	Because I watched a two and a half hour long making of with the makers, very bad quality documentary.
	And they actually say, well, it's not very violent because most of the violence is imputed.
	You don't see the wife die.
	You don't see the child die.
	You see the sandal roll onto the tarmac.
	Nevertheless, I mean, the rape scene, you don't see the woman being raped, but you see her being dragged out of the car.
	Does this deserve the reputation it has for being this ultra-violent movie that was actually banned in Sweden and in New Zealand?
	Well, I do think that at the time, even the implied violence was so horrific.
	I mean, I think the 70s were all about brutal honesty in a way.
	And you can have... There was a lot of weird stuff going on in the 70s, right?
	Experimental filmmaking, stuff like this.
	This is definitely an amateur work.
	This is not the work of a seasoned professional.
	This is not a Hollywood, you know, polished film.
	This is made by a guy who'd never made a movie before and was a doctor.
	He was an ER surgeon obsessed with the violence and trauma of car accidents.
	That's who Miller was.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And I don't even know how they were able to do this.
	I mean, they did all of these stunts.
	It's incredible, really, what they were able to put together, him and this sort of amateur filmmaker.
	And they made this film, which is, again, not the most coherent picture in the world, but definitely for an amateur work, it's pretty impressive.
	And then they were able to parlay that into the second one, which I would say is something of a masterpiece.
	All right, we will discuss why he chose this movie next here on America First, Making Movies Great Again with my co-host, my buddy, Chris Coles, the host of Mr. Reagan on YouTube, also the Alpha Critic.
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	You should see the damage, Bronze.
	Metal damage.
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	Are you listening, Bronze?
	I am the Night Rider.
	I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine.
	I am a rocker.
	I'm a roller.
	I'm a sand controller.
	I'm a night rider, baby.
	And I'm a dude.
	And we ain't never coming back.
	He's not a mother.
	It's not exactly Citizen Kane or Casablanca.
	I have to ask you, Chris, which version did you watch?
	I don't know.
	I just downloaded whatever it is that I could find.
	But it was Australian accents, right?
	It was the original soundtrack.
	Because I found out, because I was a little young when this came out.
	I was like eight years old when this came out.
	Anywhere outside of Australia, It had a really, really crappy American dub.
	Even Mel Gibson, who was, by the way, guys, born in America.
	He's an American citizen.
	His family moved him to Australia when he was a kid.
	Even Mel Gibson's voice was dubbed into a bad, bad American accent.
	So, guys, if you're gonna watch this, you don't have to, but if you do, watch the original version.
	So, let's talk about Mad Max and at least its influence.
	If we say it's an amateurish film made by people who'd never made a movie before, We've got to recognize one thing, and that's the flipping impact this movie had.
	Because after this movie came out, like Blade Runner, that we've already reviewed here on Making Movies Great Again, it created its own genre, didn't it, Chris?
	Oh yeah, well, not just this, but the second film and the third film, there was a lot of post-apocalyptic films that came out after this.
	The cars in particular, there had been car chase films, you know, before this.
	There had been car-centric films, right?
	What's funny is I was thinking, okay, they call... the villain at the beginning of the film calls himself Knight Rider.
	Yes.
	And then Mel Gibson's car kind of looks like... Like the eventual Knight Rider.
	The Interceptor.
	Yeah, the black on black.
	Right.
	Yeah, a little bit.
	And I'm like, ha, I wonder if this is inspiration for the show Knight Rider.
	I was thinking the same thing.
	And how did they not like have a copyright issue or somebody say, hey, somebody's used that name before again in a movie.
	Well, I think that the Knight Rider from the show was K. K-N-I-T-H-T.
	So, you know, K... How do you spell Knight?
	I don't remember.
	Anyway, doesn't matter.
	Knight in shining armor with a K. Knight as in darkness with an N. I just got done off the Peloton.
	I can't think after I get done off.
	Is that what happens to you?
	Is that why Peloton should be banned?
	Honestly, people say, oh, if you exercise, you get, like, it enlivens your eye.
	It makes me dumb.
	Like, I can't think afterwards.
	I don't get it.
	Stop exercising.
	That is the conclusion.
	Stop exercising.
	Buy a motorbike and have fun on a motorbike instead.
	Actually, you know, after watching this film, I did feel a little bit less intelligent as well.
	So that might be part of it.
	So why the hell did you force me to choose between this and Ghostbusters 2?
	I need to know why you did this to me.
	Well, I'll tell you why, because I've always wanted to watch this film.
	There's a few films I've always wanted to watch because, you know, I've always liked Road Warrior.
	I've always thought that the concept of this genre, this post-apocalyptic genre, is a good idea.
	I only assumed that the original Mad Max was As good as the second one.
	So hang on, you hadn't seen this at all?
	Never saw it.
	I've never seen it.
	Whoa!
	Okay, alright, good.
	That's why I wanted to see it.
	It was an opportunity for me to see it.
	If you came to this cold, and I don't think I'd ever paid attention to it and sat down in one go and ever watched it, maybe seen bits of it on TV or whatever.
	The first 20 minutes, especially, you know, when the night rider flies through the caravan, it's like a comedy.
	It's like it's... I don't know what the tone is.
	I couldn't work out what's the tone here.
	I mean, the fat policeman shouting at his sidekick to let him drive the car.
	It was like the tone was confused.
	And then this, they showed that there.
	And then, Eric, when...
	What's his name?
	Toe cutter dies at the end.
	They do the same effect.
	Eric, put the eyes up.
	This, this, what is this bulging eye thing?
	I mean, when the bad guys die, they have to have these pneumatic eyes, you know, pump up into the screen for a millisecond.
	I wasn't sure what the tone they were trying to cut, Chris.
	I will say this, the film is worth watching just for that last 30 minutes.
	I would say just start it at the one hour mark, and then just watch the rest of the film.
	You don't need the first hour of this film.
	It does give you a sort of sense that Mel Gibson's character Max and his wife, Are actually deeply in love with each other you do get that sense I think all of their scenes together are very good Obviously this turned Mel Gibson into a megastar.
	You know he went on to become a huge star So I do think that there's a couple of reasons why this film did well one.
	It's that it's Mel Gibson's charisma comes through for sure and Hang on, hang on, I gotta stop you there.
	Does it really?
	Because he is utterly magnetic.
	If you watch him, and we've already reviewed Lethal Weapon, if you watch him in other movies, I mean, he has a certain magnetism.
	You just can't stop, you know, paying attention when he's on the screen.
	Here, it's kind of like, I don't know whether it's the writing or because it was only his second film ever.
	Do you think this is one of his good performances?
	No, I mean he's still young, but here's the thing I was thinking about when I was watching this.
	Just his voice, he doesn't sound like a young man.
	He doesn't sound like, I think he's what, 23 in this movie or something like that?
	He sounds like a strong, You know, maybe 40 year old gentleman, you know, like he's a man.
	And I think that that's what a good lead is.
	It's the kind of guy that other men kind of want to be like, but maybe they're not born with that voice.
	Maybe they're not born with that face.
	You know, they don't they don't have that sort of like regular guy coolness or whatever.
	And in that age, in that era, you know, you're always I think we forget about what was cool or what people appreciated in a particular era, and this was the late 70s.
	This was at the end of whatever was popular in the 70s.
	People were looking for something new, different, interesting, and Mel Gibson comes on the screen, and I think that he was the kind of guy that was needed for the 80s at that time.
	He just looked kind of like what a cool 80s guy should look like, even in this film, I think.
	Except for his haircut.
	I have to say, I'm glad he lost this haircut.
	This is the worst haircut Mel Gibson has ever had.
	Just do the lethal weapon, do a mullet, do whatever you want.
	Even in Hamlet, the haircut was mildly better.
	But this does not do any favours for you, Mel.
	No, you're right.
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	The Knight Rider.
	That is his name.
	The Knight Rider.
	The Knight Rider.
	Remember him when you look at the night sky.
	I will.
	Take your hat off Anything you say Anything I say.
	What a wonderful philosophy you have.
	Take him away.
	That is the villain of the piece, uh, Hughes, let me get his name right, Hughes Byrne.
	He has a double-barreled name and that, I don't know if you did any research, Hugh Keyes Byrne, that guy was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
	And, and it shows.
	Really?
	Really?
	Are you really going to say that?
	I am.
	I am.
	I'll tell you why.
	Because, uh, classically trained actors, um, are always overly dramatic.
	Oh, it's hard.
	It's hard to bring in an actor, especially like that was trained in musical theater.
	When I was in film school, we brought in a musical theater actor for like a project we were doing.
	Good God.
	It was impossible to stop this guy talking like this, you know, and everything was, um, it was like a nightmare.
	Uh, they do tend to overact a little bit.
	The guy is bizarrely dramatic.
	I think it probably worked at the time.
	It's really dated now.
	It's really bizarre now.
	Um, they actually recast him in the last... Yes.
	In the last, uh, whatever... Fury Road thing.
	Fury Road, it's called.
	That's right.
	Yeah, Fury Road.
	They cast him as the villain of Fury Road.
	I thought that was kind of a cool thing, right?
	Bringing him back toward the end.
	I didn't really like Fury Road all that much.
	But I'm glad you said that, because some people rave about it.
	I just do not understand it.
	We'll talk about that later.
	Here's a photograph of him now.
	Not now.
	This was when the making of the documentary.
	This is what he looked like when they had the making of documentary that I sat through.
	So that's the actor.
	What about the rest of the performances?
	Let's talk a little bit about the gang, the motorbike gang.
	But I found out they actually drove, so they drove six, in preparation for the movie, they drove from Sydney to Melbourne on their motorbikes 600 miles before filming to get that kind of gang mentality.
	And they so went method, I guess, is they left notes written in their blood for Mel, for the makers of the movie, saying, we're coming to get you in their caravans.
	That's how...
	Seriously, they took this job, Chris.
	Well, I read somewhere that the stunt coordinator was in a motorcycle gang.
	Yes.
	A real motorcycle gang.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	The stunt coordinator on the way to work one of the first days of shooting with the actress who was playing Jessie, playing Mel's wife, they hit an 18-wheeler that didn't see them.
	And she broke her femur, and that's why they had to cast another actress immediately, and she lost the part.
	So, yeah, there was serious stuff happening that had nothing to do with these insane stunts.
	They were just riding to the set, and the accident occurred.
	That's crazy.
	Well, so because – apparently because this guy was in this motorcycle gang, a lot of the gang in the movie are members of a real-life motorcycle gang from Australia at the time.
	Oh, I believe it.
	Which to me is like mental.
	But, yeah, this is supposed to be one of the – what we're playing right now, one of the most violent scenes in the film, which seems tame by today's standards.
	But they burned this guy to death in his car, right?
	Right.
	And because of this scene I read, this film was banned in both New Zealand and Sweden, and in Sweden it wasn't – the ban wasn't taken off until like 2004, 2005, something like that.
	What?
	Really?
	Hang on, hang on.
	They don't kill Goose.
	Goose survives, remember?
	He's like Extra Crispy in the hospital.
	They burn him almost to death.
	Right, right, right, right.
	And then Mel says, that's not Goose.
	He doesn't want to believe that his partner is, you know, this complete vegetable.
	This is part of this long drawn out set up for the final showdown.
	This film could have been as masterful as something like Death Wish or something like The Outlaw Josie Wales if the right if when they written the script they had just said okay let's try to shorten up all this stuff into like 20 minutes and then make the whole rest of the film Mad Max hunting down and taking out this gang if he had sort of one by one taken out these guys these bad guys That, like him, because there's a little bit of detective work going on, right?
	He goes to this guy that's at a mechanic shop or something like that, and he's kind of beating him up a little bit trying to find out where the gang is.
	If he had done that subsequently, like one guy after another, and taken them out throughout the course of an hour and a half or whatever, That would have been a really gripping film to watch.
	As it is, it was just kind of a mess toward the beginning, I feel like.
	I want to give you my take on the end of the movie.
	This is Mad Max with me, Chris Coles, and with me, Sebastian Gawker, and my co-host, Chris Coles.
	All right, so the last few, I think it's like the last 24, 25 minutes of the movie is, I think, the genre establishing part of the film, along with the post-apocalyptic.
	Although it's not very post-apocalyptic because you see him drive past a supermarket.
	You go to his lovely house on the beach.
	So it's like there's the halls of justice that are decrepit.
	And then everywhere else is nice and has ice cream parlors.
	Anyway, but for me...
	I think you're right.
	A more kind of detective-based revenge element stretched out would have been more engrossing.
	Because the last 20 minutes are like, okay, so the lead villain crashes into a truck And then the kind of wacky little weedy guy has the option to hacksaw his foot off and then the movie ends.
	It's kind of like an anti-climax.
	It's too condensed and also you... I know it's kind of A demand of the viewer, but I want the protagonist to be the last person who gets justice dealt to them, not his, you know, weird sidekick.
	So let's play this.
	This is the, you know, the seminal last minute of the movie.
	Play cut.
	The chain in those handcuffs is high tensile steel.
	It'll take you 10 minutes to hack through it with this.
	Now, if you're lucky, you can hack through your ankle in five minutes.
	Go.
	You're mad, man!
	You think I look silly, don't you?
	Don't scream at me, man!
	Don't do this to me, please!
	Boom, roll.
	Roll credits.
	Now isn't it a bit backwards?
	Shouldn't the sidekick be killed first?
	Perfect ending, but for this... exactly what you're saying.
	What they should have done is there's a scene in which the primary villain turns to his buddy who we just saw there, you know, Mel Gibson handcuffing him to the thing and giving him the The hacksaw and telling him he's got ten minutes to cut through the chain or five minutes to cut through his leg.
	There's a scene in which those two are speaking and the primary villain says to him, you need to burn this guy to death.
	And this guy won't do it.
	And he won't do it.
	And so they struggle over the match.
	The match sort of falls into the gasoline, like burns his buddy alive.
	OK.
	So what should have happened is the primary villain should have said, OK, if you won't do it, I will.
	And then he does it, and then he's the guy at the end that gets, you know, that Mel Gibson chains to the door.
	It's a very simple concept of, like, setting up for the finale that the public is going to appreciate.
	A satisfying ending.
	Because the concept of chaining him to the thing and saying you got ten minutes to cut to the chain is brilliant.
	But you gotta make that the worst guy in the film.
	The actual bad guy, you know?
	You're right about the post-apocalyptic thing not being quite post-apocalyptic.
	That's why I keep calling it quasi-post-apocalyptic.
	Right, right.
	The post-apocalyptic with ice cream parlors, right?
	Yes, exactly.
	But they do say at the very beginning, and I missed it because I must have looked away, or sorry, I didn't read it.
	At the beginning it says, a few years from now, or something like that.
	A few years from now, that's the only indication we get.
	Now what's really fascinating about this film is that the reason that this film was even created, the concept was of this, you know, this whole thing, was because of the gas shortage in the 1970s.
	Right, you remember like the Jimmy Carter era?
	Yeah, you had alternate days for odds and evens to get gas on your license plate.
	There's huge lines of cars.
	So in Australia apparently they had the same thing, which I didn't really realize, but naturally they would have of course.
	And I read that in the region in which Miller grew up, only the emergency services were getting any kind of gasoline or petrol as they would call it.
	And so people were just going crazy and apparently like there were some violent incidents where he lived And he thought, but you know what's weird about that?
	There is only one scene in this film in which they actually steal gasoline from the tanker and there's this kind of concept of a gas shortage.
	And then he really blew that up in the second film and made that the key aspect of that movie.
	He probably should have made that the key aspect of this film as well, you know, but he didn't really talk about it that much, but it was clearly in there, and that is how he got the idea in the first place.
	There is one element of this scene that I think is important because it kind of presages what happens later in society, that you have Johnny the boy pleading to be, you know, let out or let free and he doesn't recognize, you know, who Mad Max is and he says, but I've got, and I'm quoting here, I've got a personality disorder.
	I am sick.
	The court said I am.
	So it's this, you know, I'm not responsible, right?
	For killing goose or anything else.
	The court, the system said, I'm a sick man.
	I think that's important.
	That's an important message.
	I actually completely agree with you, and what's interesting is that we kind of see the same themes coming back around every five, ten years or something like that.
	We're having the same debates constantly.
	I would go back and watch these interviews on William Buckley's old show, and they would be talking about the same stuff we're talking about today in the 1960s.
	We never really get over this stuff.
	In the second film, which I thought was fantastic, Hang on, hang on, we'll get there, we'll get there.
	Don't steal my thunder.
	We'll talk about what happened after the original Rockatansky movie.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka, this is Making Movies Great Again with my buddy Chris Colt, the host of the superlative Mr. Reagan channel on YouTube, also Alpha Critic.
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	All right, so The genre?
	Oh, let's talk about Miller for a second.
	Let's put Miller back on the screen again.
	Did you look into, because I like, I didn't know who this guy really was.
	I enjoyed the Mad Max movies that came after the original.
	Do you know what other movies this guy has made?
	No, I'm not really.
	I didn't look into that.
	He made... It's alright, this is only a movie review channel.
	Don't worry about it.
	He made Babe.
	He made Babe, okay, and... Happy Feet!
	Can you believe that?
	This is the same guy who likes to, you know, have children run over on the highway and blow caravans up, and he's making Happy Feet and Babe about the little pig on the farm.
	You know who I did watch, or did look up?
	I looked up the cinematographers for the first and second film.
	Because I was like, why is this second film so much better than the first film?
	Talk to us about the other ones, because the second one's okay.
	I actually like the campiness of the third one.
	I love Tina Turner.
	I thought the remake of Fury Road was garbage, but talk to me, Chris.
	No, I love Road Warrior.
	Here's the thing about the Road Warrior.
	It's like a reluctant hero and he tries to save these innocent people.
	It's a very simple story.
	Miller had this obsession with this idea of making a silent film with sound.
	So making like a film with no dialogue, but obviously it's a, you know, normal film.
	You've got audio.
	Right.
	And he, he came close to accomplishing it in this, in the second film that he, he, I would say he like legit accomplished it in Fury Road, which I think he went too far and it was a little bit too much of a silent film.
	But Road Warrior is one thing I always thought was funny.
	I kind of forgot about this.
	until re-watching it.
	There's two villains, basically.
	There's a villain in the Road Warrior, and then there's his assistant or sidekick, right?
	And the main villain is, I think, less scary than the sidekick.
	The sidekick is this wild man.
	He's the more ferocious of the two.
	Right.
	The main villain is kind of an intellectual, and you kind of forget about it.
	He's a big, bulky guy.
	I think they should have swapped him.
	I think that the big, bulky leader in the second film should have been sort of Darth Vader to, you know, the primary villain, who in the actual film is the secondary villain.
	But this secondary villain has a chick on the back of his bike, right?
	This hot chick that the biker has all the time.
	But it's not a hot chick.
	It's a dude.
	He's riding around with this pretty boy dude on the back of his bike.
	And what I love about, you know, this whole genre of film is it's such a sort of traditionally masculine set of films.
	It's like the war between the good traditionally masculine and the evil traditionally masculine.
	And he kind of incorporates that In both the incredible violence in the film, or the implied incredible violence, as you noted, but also this sort of like sexual perversion that this villain has at the time.
	Like right now, you would never be able to do that.
	People would go crazy.
	They'd say, oh, you can't make gay people evil.
	That's horrible.
	What's wrong with you?
	But in this second film, they actually give this guy, this gay girlfriend or this male girlfriend, And I just thought that was a fascinating little detail that I had forgotten.
	I don't even know if I'd noticed it when I was a kid.
	I just probably thought it was his buddy.
	Right.
	No, I know.
	It's something you realize and you think.
	I mean, whether it's this movie or whether it's the original, I don't think anybody would make anything like this today, correct?
	Oh yeah, never, never.
	But yeah, I do love his car.
	There's something about a souped-up car in a movie that's just a cool thing.
	And it's a shame in the second film that it actually gets destroyed, which is so sad.
	And then magically it comes back.
	Does it come back?
	Yeah, it magically comes back.
	It lasts for, in the fourth one, Fury Road, it lasts for six minutes.
	They bring it back and then they destroy it again.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, maybe he got a new one.
	I don't know.
	Well, no, he's going through the wilderness.
	It's far more post-apocalyptic and he's, he's scrounging parts to rebuild it.
	So have you seen Fury Road?
	Have you seen the remake?
	I have, but I, I could, I, I was bored by the whole thing.
	And I was just, I just was like, I just, I don't know.
	It didn't do it.
	It didn't grab you.
	All right.
	Um, I have to ask Eric because he's been doing a lot of homework for us all the time with these, uh, making movie Movie's great again, ours.
	I need you to chip in, my associate producer, Eric.
	Did you like the original Mad Max?
	I did enjoy it a lot.
	The more I look back at it, and I said this to you before, I think it's like the original Terminator in that it's a very sharp and tight movie.
	Every scene is important.
	There's no filler whatsoever.
	Each scene leads to the next.
	Yeah, like the death of the Knight Rider, the revenge, Goose getting burned, the family getting killed, and then revenge.
	Just very concise and compact, which is perfect for an action movie.
	So I actually... Of course the second one is the best, Road Warrior is the superior Mad Max movie, but... And then what about Fury Road?
	I think... I said before, Fury Road is a good action movie, it's a terrible Mad Max movie.
	Max is an extra in his own movie.
	He's... No, he's a dummy!
	He's a mannequin strapped to the front of a truck!
	I mean, how did Tom Hardy even... I mean, I know Tom Hardy's a little weird, but to be strapped to a truck for like, what, four months on end?
	That's lunacy!
	Yeah, he deserves so much better, I think, as an actor.
	They really should have brought back Mel Gibson as well.
	It's shocking to me that they just went, oh, Mel Gibson is, like, cancelled by the left, and therefore, yeah, oh, we can't hire him again.
	Are you kidding?
	Like, if you had made Mel Gibson the lead in Fury Road, I think that that film would have been epic.
	Just print money.
	All you have to do is just print money.
	All right.
	Are we ready for the next?
	All right.
	Let's have a final.
	Let's have a final verdict.
	What do we say about Mad Max?
	I'm going to say not a movie I'd watch again, but You gotta salute them for what they did with $400,000.
	Incredible cultural impact because, you know, even the phrase, he's going Mad Max, or that's a Mad Max world, has become a phrase in the English language.
	So, you know, cultural impact, absolutely.
	Chris, your verdict?
	You know, I think that we have to recognize the cultural impact, the fact that it has led to all this other great stuff.
	But yeah, it's not really worth watching.
	I'd say it's worth watching the last hour, if you just want to watch.
	Not even the last hour, maybe the last 30-40 minutes.
	If you want to rent it or whatever, just watch the last bit.
	That's all you need to see.
	And then the second one I think is pretty epic.
	If they, you know, they could do another Mad Max with Mel Gibson.
	I don't, I don't understand why they don't do that.
	They should do another Indiana Jones with, I think they should do it with Harrison Ford and his cousin, uh, who's the guy that plays...
	Yeah, me.
	No, I was thinking, who's Magnum P.I.?
	Oh, Tom Selleck!
	Tom Selleck.
	Bring his cousin in, Tom Selleck, and have them both be geriatric Indiana Jones cousins fighting Nazis again.
	I think it'd be great.
	Have you seen the Magnum P.I.
	episode that is a complete rip-off of Raiders of the Lost Ark?
	No, I've seen little clips of it, but I've never seen the full episode.
	They did the same thing with MacGyver.
	They made a rip-off of MacGyver.
	You need to watch it.
	Alright, are you ready for our next movie extravaganza?
	I want to know what we're seeing.
	Honestly, I can't wait.
	This one, I can't say I was like super disappointed because it's a film that I've been wanting to watch, Mad Max, so I'm glad I finally did get to see it.
	But yeah, I would like to cleanse the palate with a true classic, something I can really enjoy.
	Alright, it's not happy-go-lucky, it's not a feel-good movie, but it is an amazing movie by a legend!
	A true legend, the great, the one and only John Milius.
	We are going to watch the original Red Dawn.
	Oh, fantastic!
	Fantastic!
	Now don't tell me you haven't seen it!
	I have seen Red Dawn.
	Okay, good.
	But I only saw it like maybe five or six years ago for the first time.
	Nice.
	Alright guys, get busy.
	You've got one week.
	You've got one week to watch Red Dawn and then we together will dissect it, we'll celebrate it, an absolute classic, seminal to my childhood and so many others.
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