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Sebastian Gorka LIVE: Iowa shooter: Another gender-fluid trans terrorist

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	you But we have very good poll numbers.
	I guess you've been watching it through the roof.
	We have the weaponization of government like we've never had.
	Oh, Sebastian, you're the greatest.
	This guy, I have a feeling he may be in the administration with us.
	Does everyone know Sebastian?
	Sebastian Gorka.
	Nice to be tall, isn't it?
	He stood out.
	I see this guy.
	But I have 169, so he beats you.
	169, you believe that one?
	6'9", yes indeed, Barron Trump is 6 foot 9 inches tall.
	That was a better version of the video just before Christmas at Mar-a-Lago with the President.
	It's good to be tall, especially when your old boss can see you in a crowd.
	It's Friday, I do believe!
	Welcome, dear friends.
	We have an amazing show for you.
	It is, of course, Ask Dr. G Anything Friday.
	It's Second Amendment Friday.
	You can ask me whatever you want about guns, movies, anything.
	Just keep it clean.
	The number is 833-33-GORKA.
	That's 833-334-6752.
	And since it is Friday, what are we going to do?
	We're going to make movies great again.
	We're going to be reviewing what my friend Chris Coles calls the last really good movie Steven Spielberg made.
	What is it?
	If you know who works for me and that it's one of his favorite movies, you might be able to guess.
	And if you're into dinosaurs, I think you might enjoy it.
	All right, so much to discuss today.
	Let's do a rundown of some of the news in the last 24 hours.
	They've moved the January 6th speech from Saturday on January 6th to today, because I guess an inch and a half of snow in Pennsylvania scares Biden.
	Maybe he'll slip off the stage.
	And so his speech, in which allegedly he will be calling President Trump a threat to democracy, We'll be held today 12 miles from Valley Forge.
	If we have any coverage, more information of that speech on January the 5th instead, we will give it to you.
	We have the news.
	Amazing.
	We will be discussing it in this hour.
	I've already reached out to them.
	Breaking news this afternoon.
	Those incredible people at Judicial Watch have brought a $30 million lawsuit against the government and Lt.
	Michael Byrd for wrongful death of Ashley Babbitt on January 6.
	God bless Tom Fitton, Chris Farrell, the rest of the team.
	Chris, the head of investigations, will be with us this hour to talk about the significance of this case and why they're bringing it against the authorities for that death of that 14-year Air Force veteran.
	We have an incredible interview with Alejandro Mayorkas, where the man is incapable of saying that there is a crisis at the border.
	I guess 8 million people in three years, more than 10,000 a day isn't a crisis.
	And then here's a story that the mainstream media has already buried.
	Yeah, it may have happened a day ago.
	It may be another school shooting with five victims who are wounded.
	And one dead sixth-grader, plus the shooter himself, a seventeen-year-old.
	But why has this suddenly been dropped?
	Well, because according to the Daily Mail that has reported the images reposted by Libs of TikTok, the shooter Dylan Butler was LGBTQ.
	Yeah, he was lesbian, gay, bi, transgender activist.
	And when a trans terrorist kills people, that has to be buried.
	That has to be memory.
	Hold Or, and we're already seeing signs of this, the stories about how he was bullied and therefore he gets to kill people before he kills himself.
	Just like Nashville.
	Why did they hide that manifesto?
	It still hasn't been released.
	Over a year later, why did pages of it have to be leaked out?
	Because we saw on those pages what?
	I'm going to kill the cracker kids.
	Yeah, there is racism in America, but institutionalized racist violence is from the left.
	And if you look at so many recent shootings, What do we see?
	We see people who are part of the LGBTQ cult.
	The transgender cult.
	Like that killer in Nashville.
	Three little babies killed.
	Three members of staff gunned down by a woman who thought she was a man.
	The only mental illness we quote affirm.
	How about a little personal story?
	What was I doing before the show today, Eric?
	What did you set up for me?
	A lovely, delightful what?
	You were set up to do an interview in the studio using our facilities here.
	To do an interview with Swiss Broadcasting, I believe.
	It was, yes, indeed.
	We do these interviews now and again, especially for international media.
	And the national broadcaster of Switzerland, the federal Canton-based republic.
	What is the name of the individual?
	Oh, it was Maximilian... You had the name, Eric.
	Who was the host of the show who interviewed me?
	Just whisper it into my ear when you get it.
	I came to work early, and I sat down for an interview on President Trump and what a second year in the Trump administration would look like.
	And I may as well have just been speaking to somebody from PBS, NPR, or even CNN.
	It was left-wing liberal talking points about the dictatorial language of the president, how he's divisive, how he'll be dictatorial, and aren't we worried about democracy in America.
	I push back with the facts.
	When we were in the White House, we didn't raid Obama's home.
	We didn't have his former assistants arrested at Reagan Airport and put in leg shackles.
	We didn't target Catholics because they went to Latin Mass.
	All of that happens under what?
	The Biden administration.
	And when I said the Biden regime, my interlocutor took umbrage to that.
	The Public Broadcasting Corporation of Switzerland didn't like my language.
	And in the second half of the interview, his cameraman was making noises under his breath, was tut-tutting, was disagreeing with what I was saying.
	And we ended the interview.
	We talked about January 6, and they talked about all the people that were killed, all the police officers that were killed, and I said, what police officers?
	You mean the one police officer who died days later of an unrelated condition?
	And he says, what do you mean unrelated condition?
	He died because of what happened on January 6!
	I told the cameraman, who was getting a bit aggressive, well, maybe you should ask his mother, who said he wasn't pepper sprayed.
	He didn't have a stroke because of those events.
	He died of natural causes.
	And what does this supercilious bag of pus do in my studio?
	He says, oh, I suppose she's a doctor.
	At which point I exploded.
	I said, get out of my office.
	I said it to them in German, because they speak German.
	Get out of my office!
	You make fun of a woman who lost her husband, lost her son.
	You're gut-oppress.
	Do you have that name, Eric?
	Okay, I wrote it down somewhere.
	First, it was Pascal Weber who set it up.
	Then we changed the interview to somebody called Maximilian, who works for National Broadcaster in Switzerland.
	And you'll know better than the rest of them.
	You know better than MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times.
	The lesson, the moral of the story, We've got to fight harder guys.
	We've got to tell the truth.
	Day in, day out.
	Because they are distributing propaganda 24-7.
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	Next up, let's talk about the primary race.
	The article that mentions a Massimiliano Herber, Washington-based television correspondent
	for RSI, Radio Television Svezre, an Italian language channel, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation,
	but there's no picture.
	Oh, send me that.
	That'll be him.
	You think so?
	I just, I wasn't 100%, so I did not want to put a wrong name out there.
	Just send it to me.
	Okay.
	By the way, I've got one leg up on Harry Dunn already.
	I actually live in a district that he's running for.
	He doesn't even live there.
	But he's pledged that if he's elected, he will move there, which is nice.
	It's Maryland.
	They have a stupid rule.
	You don't have to live in there.
	Does it matter in America?
	Because we have all these people talking about Boba.
	Do Americans care about carpetbaggers today?
	I don't think county to county.
	Eric?
	That's one of the things I hate the most in politics.
	I hate states when it's different states.
	Like Hillary picking New York.
	That's what happened in my old district.
	Some guy from Maryland moved to California to run in my old congressional district.
	He didn't even change his registration.
	He couldn't vote for himself.
	But he won the election anyway.
	But at least you moved.
	He's pledging that he will move if he wins.
	Wow.
	Has he actually said that he'll move if he wins?
	Yeah, that's what I was just reading about it, yeah.
	I can unironically think that that sounds okay.
	That's incredible.
	Uh, is she dialing in?
	He's dialing her now.
	Skype, right?
	Yeah.
	PhD.
	Okay.
	Want the mics on for her?
	No.
	Okay.
	We're about to start.
	Okay.
	So we're going to start with a little bit of a simple one.
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	We're saying Merry Christmas again.
	That music with that clip of President Trump, Alex, you turn that into a permanent liner, OK?
	We're going to save that.
	Christmas officially ends this weekend.
	But that combination, I love that music.
	That lovely Christmas music with that admonition.
	Yes!
	We're gonna say Merry Christmas from now on.
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	All right, they say these presidential debates don't really mean anything.
	I mean, apart from what was the only one people remember at all is the black and white one between JFK and Nixon where Nixon had the five o'clock shadow and he looked unshaven.
	Does anybody remember any other presidential debate?
	Really?
	Really?
	Except maybe for this incredible kill shot.
	Dial 911 because I think somebody was murdered on camera.
	I preach this to the left, but it's even worse when Republicans try to play the same game.
	We're talking about that trans issue.
	Nikki Haley's campaign launch video sounded like a woke Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ad talking about how she would kick in heels.
	At the first debate, she said that only a woman can get this job done.
	That's what she said.
	After the third debate, when I criticized Ronna McDaniel after five failed years of leadership of this party, and criticized Nikki for her corrupt foreign dealings as a military contractor, she said that I have a woman problem.
	Nikki, I don't have a woman problem.
	You have a corruption problem.
	And I think that that's what people need to know.
	Nikki is corrupt.
	This is a woman who will send your kids to die so she can buy a bigger house.
	Wow, and she just grinned.
	Why?
	Because she knows it's true!
	What else do we need to know about Nikki Haley?
	Let's ask somebody who may have the receipts, the spokesperson for the MAGA, Inc.
	Super PAC.
	I think it's the first time we welcome her on our show.
	Happy Friday, Caroline Levitt.
	Hey, thank you so much for having me, Sebastian.
	I really appreciate it, especially on this very important topic of globalist rhino Nikki Haley.
	So it's really quite shocking, you know, that clip.
	You know, you have to do a little bit of research yourself.
	You look at how much she was worth when she left her position in the Trump administration, how many mansions she owns right now in Kiowa and elsewhere, just how much money she's made on the boards of various defense contractors.
	But as a woman who, you know, you're a spokesperson, you're a woman, you understand communications, you understand body language.
	When Vivek is like bringing that kill shot of criticism Why was Nikki Haley grinning?
	What do you think?
	Well, she just smiled and looked the other way because she knows, frankly, that it's true.
	If it weren't true, she'd get very defensive, like most human beings, right?
	Our initial reaction when someone is lying about us, when someone is accusing us of something, is to fight back.
	She didn't have that reaction because she knows that he is 100% right.
	And she cannot defend herself on her record of corruption and on her terrible record of flip-flopping and turning her back on the promises that she has made to voters.
	There are so many promises she made to the voters of South Carolina, like the fact that she would never implement a sales tax or hike the gas tax.
	She promised that on the campaign trail.
	Well, guess what?
	When she was governor, she supported both of those taxes, and she actually went back on her website Let's talk about this because your colleague sent me this and maybe you can give us some more details.
	I'll just read the quote.
	She's a fraud and it's not just on taxes, it's also with her relationship on China.
	Right, let's talk about this because your colleague sent me this and maybe you can give us some more details.
	I'll just read the quote, this is from Fox News.
	during former UN...
	Ambassador Nikki Haley's tenure as South Carolina governor, the state under her leadership partnered with a group led by the Chinese Communist government to send more than a dozen students to a Beijing summer camp.
	Why is a governor of a U.S.
	state sending American kids to Communist China, Caroline?
	That is a very good question, Sebastian, and the answer is, you only do that if you're a friend of the CCP, if you're an ally of the CCP.
	Why would you send American students to go over to Beijing and be indoctrinated by our greatest adversary around the globe, when we already know the Chinese Communist Party is engaging in espionage on our college campuses here on our homeland?
	And they're stealing the intellectual property and data of young Americans, Gen Z and millennial Americans every day through the use of TikTok and other social media platforms.
	And so this put our national security at risk by sending those students over there.
	It is because Nikki Haley has a long relationship and a friendship with the Chinese Communist Party.
	She has consistently put China first and America last.
	And it's not just that summer camp Shocking, shocking, shocking.
	What are your predictions?
	When will this all be over?
	in the state of South Carolina actually doubled in just one year.
	$670 million they invested in South Carolina in one year.
	That only happens if the executive of that state is welcoming the communists with open arms,
	and that's exactly what she did.
	Shocking, shocking, shocking.
	What are your predictions?
	When will this all be over?
	When are these rhinos and losers going to drop out, Caroline?
	Well, I'll tell you, Sebastian, I'm from the great first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire.
	That's where I am right now.
	I'm actually leaving a grassroots event supporting President Trump here on the ground.
	The enthusiasm, the energy has never been stronger.
	People are fired up to reelect him.
	He's going to take Iowa.
	He will win the New Hampshire primary for the third time, go on to swamp Mickey Haley in her own backyard in South Carolina, and he'll be our Republican nominee and our next president, too.
	It's one of my favorite states of the Union.
	Give our regards.
	It's so sad!
	The old man of the mountain fell off in Franconia.
	That symbol and all the license tags of New Hampshire, that granite face, is now a long-gone history.
	But it's live, free, or die.
	It is the motto of the state and it is the motto of America First.
	Follow this lady at KLevittNH.
	That's KLevittNH, spokesperson for the Make America Great Again Super PAC.
	Thank you, Caroline, and happy Friday.
	Your call's next here on America First, 833-33 Gorkovitz, 833-334-6752.
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	for original articles.
	I've got a brand new article up there this morning.
	Go to... Oh, there you go.
	He's refreshed it.
	Look at that.
	It's got the new article up there.
	Can President Trump win?
	You want to know the answer, don't you?
	Well, go to my Substack.
	SebastianGawker.Substack.com.
	That's my whole name.
	There's one word.
	SebastianGawker.Substack.com.
	Oh, he's up there.
	He's squinting at the teleprompter.
	He's speaking right now in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
	What is it Dan Bongiorno calls him?
	The rotting bag of old meal.
	Joe Biden is giving his speech right now lambasting the real President of the United States.
	Stay with us here on America First.
	He's really good.
	He's a good guy.
	He's a good friend.
	He's a good guy.
	He's a really good guy.
	He's a really good friend.
	Trump lost 60 court cases.
	Trump lost before the United States Supreme Court.
	And for the monologue, so again, it appears... I should have put two and two together.
	JP, because then, yeah, his name is also in that article.
	Jean-Pascal Azai.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Say that again.
	I should have put two and two together because the cameraman only called himself JP in that same article.
	It lists, you know, Maximiliano and his videographer Jean Pascal.
	Whoa, it does?
	In the article?
	In the article.
	I mean, that's gotta be him.
	I missed that.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	The title one more time for Caroline.
	Nikki Haley's... Nikki Haley's Ties to Communist China.
	Ties to Communist China.
	There we go.
	There we go, yeah.
	It's the, um, fourth article down in that article.
	Paragraph down, excuse me.
	Have you noticed Sununu's thing for her to win New Hampshire if everyone that can vote votes?
	Yes.
	Why do I think the ploy is to get Dems to vote for her there?
	Of course!
	Of course.
	It won't be enough, though.
	No, it won't, but... Alright, um... What did you say?
	How many paragraphs down?
	Oh, the fourth paragraph down in that article.
	I sent you that freedom tracker.
	Press freedom tracker.
	The one that starts with his name, and then... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Italian language channel, Total Tracker interview, that he and videographer.
	Right, right, right.
	Um, put Jean-Pascal Azains.
	Mm-hmm.
	Uh, brackets RSI.
	RSI and the fake news bias of European media.
	So knowing how his mind works now, he had one act left.
	No, no, no.
	Put Massimilio Herber, comma, It's a long title, that point.
	I know, but the whole point is, I want their names up there.
	the whatever I said.
	It's a long title at that point.
	I know, but the whole point is I want their names up there.
	Okay.
	40 seconds.
	Want to come in with something or?
	or we're coming with Biden, that's right.
	Yeah.
	You can block.
	Yeah.
	in Iraq.
	I'm trying to rewrite the facts of January 6th.
	Trump is trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal the election.
	But we knew the truth because we saw it with our own eyes.
	This wasn't like something a story being told.
	It was on television repeatedly.
	We saw it with our own eyes.
	Trump's mob wasn't a peaceful protest.
	It was a violent assault.
	They were insurrectionists, not patriots.
	Guys, that's Biden right now in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
	They're insurrectionists.
	He tried to steal the election.
	You mean unlike you, who actually did steal the election.
	They know he can't win, so they're going to paint the devil on the wall.
	The dictatorship is coming, whilst the dictatorship is already here.
	Wow, more than ever we have to tell the truth and we're so grateful for those who make it possible for us.
	Patriots like Mike Lindell, please have Mike's back.
	The left truly wants to destroy him as well because he's close to the president, he believes in America, he believes in the Bible.
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	Alright, let's walk down the numbers.
	Line 1, Kelly Orlando.
	Hello, Dr. Gorka!
	Hello!
	Hello, it's so nice to speak with you, sir.
	So I just have a question, a thought in my little brain.
	With what happened at Harvard with the resignation of Professor Gay, she was never a doctor.
	How do we know that Dr. Jill Biden is really a doctor?
	I mean, did she do the work?
	Kelly!
	Who cares?
	I mean, don't you think we've got bigger issues?
	Bigger fish to fry?
	I mean, what difference does it make?
	It's not going to protect the border.
	It's not going to stop war in Europe.
	It's not going to stop war in the Middle East.
	I really couldn't care less.
	It's like all the people who say, oh, Dr. Gorka, you're not a PhD.
	I don't care what you think about me.
	I don't rely on somebody else's qualifications.
	You have to measure me on what?
	What I do for America.
	I couldn't care less what Dr. Jill Biden calls herself.
	She doesn't even have a PhD.
	She has a postgraduate degree in education, right? It's all a clown show, Kelly.
	Let's concentrate on what's really important. Let's go to Jerry in Pittsburgh, line three.
	Yeah, when you were in the British reserves, did you ever have the opportunity to handle
	and or fire a Sterling submachine gun?
	Did I have an opportunity?
	That was my issued weapon.
	Because we were an intelligence unit, not a frontline unit, we did get familiarization with the FN FAL and the SA-80, but our sidearm was the Browning Hi-Power, and our issue weapon was the Sterling, one of my favorite weapons ever, Jerry.
	If I ever hit the lottery big time, I'm gonna jump through all the hoops and I have to get a Sterling.
	Yeah, I treated myself and I have one and it is one of my favorite acquisitions.
	One of the best submachine guns ever made.
	Great question, I'm all reminiscing now.
	Let's go to David, North Carolina, line four.
	Yes, my suggestion was when you have the president here, that he might pick an old Charlie Daniels
	band song, In America, as his walk-on music at some of the rallies.
	In America, Charlie Daniels.
	All right, we're going to play it on air next, and I'll make a judgment, although I have
	to say, David, the president, if you've ever seen him at Mar-a-Lago with his iPad as he's
	controlling the music coming out of the speakers, he has his very, very particular taste, so
	I'm not sure if anyone telling him what he should use is going to happen.
	But we will listen to that song, David, thank you.
	Why that song?
	Well, because it was, in the early Reagan era, it was a rallying cry that you can't Screw up America.
	And then it was repopularized after 9-11 too.
	All right, well, we'll check it out.
	I'm sure I'm familiar with it, but not by that title.
	But yeah, I mean, it's not going to be Rich Men North of Richmond, which we hoped last year after its popularity could become an iconic piece, but after the The musician, the singer-songwriter who released that said he doesn't do politics and he went all woke on us.
	It's not going to be that song, but we will check out In America.
	Although I do like, I do like Living in America.
	That's a very good song.
	You're listening to America First with me, Sebastian Gorka, former Assistant Deputy to the President for Strategy, not just the 45th, God willing if we do our part, the 47th President of the United States.
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	Mike's up, there we go. Did you say we call him?
	Yes, on his cell.
	Do you have his cell?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And why would you change that song?
	Everybody knows that.
	Patriot mobile the same senator and those same people have changed their
	tune. As time has gone on, gone on, politics, fear, money, all have intervened.
	you And now these maggot voices, who know the truth about Trump on January 6th, have abandoned the truth and abandoned democracy.
	They make a choice.
	Now the rest of us, Democrats, Independents, mainstream Republicans, have to make our choice.
	I know why.
	And I believe I know where, Chris.
	We'll defend the truth, not give it a big lie.
	We'll embrace the Constitution and the Declaration.
	I sent you an image for this interview, Eric.
	Yep.
	By the way, during that monologue, I had to comment in the rumble chat, Chunk24, a regular user when you were telling the Swiss broadcasting story, simply said, Swiss cheese.
	But I like Swiss cheese.
	Chris?
	Yes, indeed.
	Hey, buddy.
	Happy Friday.
	Happy Friday to you, my friend.
	All right.
	So we're going to talk about this breaking news.
	Indeed.
	Good stuff.
	You guys are the best.
	Thank you, sir.
	50 seconds.
	Patreon Mobile.
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	OK.
	and then sleep at the end.
	Come in with this loser again.
	Think about it. The alternative to democracy is dictatorship.
	The rule of...
	You You
	You .
	To be who you are.
	To be who you want to be.
	Democracy is about being able to bring about peaceful change.
	Democracy.
	Democracy is how we open the doors of opportunity wider and wider.
	It's incredible.
	Democracy, democracy, democracy.
	He's speaking right now.
	He doesn't even know that we're a republic, not a democracy.
	And I guess he doesn't realize that if you're a conservative, if you're a Catholic, if you're a former assistant to the president, that democracy isn't working out too well.
	Why?
	Because you're being targeted by the FBI.
	He's speaking right now, just a few miles from Valley Forge, about the threat to democracy.
	Well, he should just look in the mirror.
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	Even the calls you make on your cell phone.
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	All right, breaking news just before the show today.
	Let's put it up on the screen.
	Big, big news concerning the events of January the 6th.
	Headline, Judicial Watch files $30 million wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S.
	government on behalf of Ashley Babbitt's husband and estate.
	Wow, God bless Judicial Watch.
	And we've got our very good friend, the Head of Research and Investigations, Chris Farrell.
	Happy Friday.
	Happy Friday, Seb.
	Great to be with you.
	So tell us about this amazing news, why you did it, what's the nature of the suit.
	Just give us the lowdown.
	Well, there was only one homicide on January 6th, and that one homicide Was the shooting of Air Force veteran Ashley Babbitt, all 5'2", 105 pounds of her, by the loathsome Capitol Police Lieutenant Byrd, who, in a completely reckless and unlawful way, opened fire on her as she was in a
	You know, opening in a window frame with her hands and feet fully engaged, no weapon, not holding onto any object or any kind of thing that would be threatening to anybody.
	And Lieutenant Byrd gunned her down, and her wrongful death has got to have some kind of consequence.
	It has to have some kind of accountability.
	And that's why we filed this lawsuit on behalf of Ashley's widower.
	Aaron Babbitt and the Babbitt estate, her interests that he represents as the surviving husband.
	We've done years-long investigation into January 6th.
	We've uncovered all sorts of records and documents through our own litigation, forcing the government to provide both records, photographs, video, a wealth of records, including cell phone video and of the documentation from the Park Police, from the Capitol Police, from the military, and so we're trying to vindicate Ashley Babbitt and respect her husband's rights and get some kind of accountability for this wrongful death and the attack on her by Lieutenant Byrd.
	So, I want to be specific about this individual.
	So, Lieutenant Michael Byrd, whose identity was kept secret for more than half a year.
	This is from two hours ago.
	This is Paul Sperry, who is excellent on Twitter.
	Breaking.
	According to just filed judicial watch suit, the officer who killed Ashley Babbitt had had his police powers revoked For a prior off-duty shooting in which, quote, stray bullets from Lieutenant Byrd's firearm struck the sides of homes nearby.
	Investigation found use of force was not justified.
	Chris, in an interview after his identity, a Puff Piece interview after his identity was finally revealed, before he was given a medal for killing Ashley Babbitt, he actually says, I couldn't see the person I was shooting at.
	Well, that in itself should have led to charges, because a law enforcement officer can't... Absolutely reckless.
	Right.
	And there's also... I mean, first of all, he was shooting at a car.
	This other separate incident that he's talking about ended up in stray rounds going to people's houses.
	So he has this documented record that was bad enough that he was suspended.
	And there's also video of him before the shooting of Ashley Babbitt.
	Where he's running around the house chamber with his finger inside the trigger guard of his service weapon, which, you know, is a formula for disaster.
	Untold number of people could have been shot with this guy playing cowboy running around inside the chamber.
	I guess they were trying to secure the building, secure the room itself, or get members out.
	But the mortal sin of firearms handling is putting your finger inside the trigger guard
	unless you're going to pull the trigger and engage and kill someone.
	That's what the objective is, right?
	So this guy's got a horrible track record and he acted in a completely unlawful, reckless way
	and an innocent woman is dead because of it.
	And is this suit against him or the police department or the speaker who's responsible for security?
	What is Judicial Watch hoping will come out of this?
	Well, I mean, in the end, what we're really hoping for is accountability, right?
	That's what it is all about.
	In this case, we're suing the United States because, as the principal defendants, they're Who have the responsibility and are liable for all their employees' actions or omissions, actions and inactions, whether they're there or not.
	Right.
	But obviously there's also personal responsibility with regard to conduct, the behavior of Byrd.
	I mean, that's really what it hinges on.
	Yeah.
	And so the lawsuit itself is styled or is captioned or written as the state of Ashley Babbitt and Aaron Babbitt.
	individually on behalf of the estate of Ashley Dabbitt versus the United States of America.
	And the actual complaint is for assault and battery negligence, negligent supervision,
	because arguably Berg, supposedly an officer in charge, senior person.
	We're out of time, Chris, but I just want to say that if anybody was going to do this,
	it was Judicial Watch.
	God bless you.
	God bless everybody there.
	Tom Fitton, please support this organization at judicialwatch.org, and we hope you win.
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	We're suing the government over Ashley Babbit's homicide
	Mm-hmm Thanks for watching!
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	Oh my gosh, I completely forgot.
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	A man... I'm just writing the tweet right now in the break.
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	A man who did almost as much damage to our Second Amendment rights than any left-wing activist.
	God, just get out of there, will you?
	How about Donald Trump Jr.?
	That would be fun.
	What do you think, Eric?
	Do you think we can convince Don Jr.
	to become president of the NRA?
	I 100% support that decision.
	And we know he loves the outdoors.
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	He's a big hunter.
	Although I have to say, I did bump into Eric Trump at the SHOT Show last year.
	I don't think I'm telling any secrets out of school.
	He likes his Roscoes as well.
	So maybe Eric.
	I'll text Eric as well and see what he wants to do.
	Because we need... That was one of the most important organizations in America.
	For our freedoms.
	The first civil right that makes all the others possible.
	We need to salvage it.
	It can be salvaged.
	Wayne almost destroyed it completely.
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	Well, in the meantime, whilst we wait for our update from the IDF, from our amazing buddies over there like Colonel Conricus, you can fly the flag of the Judeo-Christian civilization we are a part of.
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	Hello everybody.
	This is your favorite president, Donald J. Trump.
	And I want to let you know that I'm also a big fan of Sebastian.
	So I know you listen to him, and he's got a great audience, good ratings, and all of those things.
	But he has it because he's a very talented guy.
	He's an amazing man.
	So I just wanted to say that.
	And you're not wasting your time by listening to Sebastian Gorka.
	And this is not a paid commercial, but it's a commercial out of love and out of respect for a man that's really a great patriot.
	So enjoy the shows for many years to come, unless he happens to be going into government, which could happen.
	Thank you.
	It's not a paid commercial.
	It's a commercial out of love.
	I love that line.
	Completely spontaneous.
	What do you think of when you hear that voice?
	Do you think of glory?
	Do you think of war?
	Do you think of napalm in the morning?
	Play card.
	You smell that?
	You smell that?
	Hey!
	Hey, punk sod!
	Hey, fuck, son!
	Nothing else in the world smells like that.
	Come on, move, move, move, move.
	I love the smell of night plum in the morning.
	Alright.
	I love Charlie Don't Surf, and I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
	Why are we playing that?
	We've got to get to our guest.
	Well, because Robert Duvall, the great, the legendary Robert Duvall, 93 years young today.
	Happy birthday, Mr. Duvall.
	Doesn't live too far away from where I live.
	What a great American.
	Let's celebrate that and so much more.
	Endorsements falling out of the skies like snowflakes.
	Endorsements for who?
	Let's ask my former White House colleague, Senior Advisor to the Trump 2024 campaign.
	We just call him the Baron.
	Boris Epstein, how are you my friend?
	I couldn't be better because I'm on America vs. Sebastian Gorka.
	What else could I be doing right now?
	This is the most important visit I'm doing today and I can't wait to talk about all the vital points.
	Before we get to that stuff and the politics in your day job, I know you're a history buff.
	Are you a movie buff?
	I am.
	I love the movies.
	All right, we should make time on another occasion to discuss your favorite taste in movies.
	All right, let's start with these amazing endorsements.
	Let's play a little cut from one of my favorite people on Capitol Hill from New Orleans, a guy called Scalise.
	Cut nine.
	But 2024, this is the time to be focused on the election in November.
	And I think the more you look at how off the track our country is and what we need to do to fix it, there is nobody better positioned than Donald Trump to get our country back on track.
	You were there.
	I was there working with him on the congressional side.
	You were in the White House when we got our country moving again.
	And it didn't take long.
	Donald Trump knows what we need to do to get our economy moving again, to help those families who are struggling.
	Baron, I'm a little confused.
	Whether it's Tom Emmer, whether it's Tom Cardinal and Steve Scalise, we haven't even had the first primary vote and President Trump has got these all sewn up.
	Here's what's happening, Sebastian.
	The American people, the constituents, are seeing loud and clear that America is in a disaster zone, that it's falling apart, and the only person who could save it is President Donald J. Trump.
	And now they're telling all of their elected officials, be it Tom Emmer from Minnesota, the whole Minnesota congressional delegation, Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas, that everyone is understanding and speaking loudly.
	The facts.
	And the facts are that crooked Joe Biden, his terrible crime family, have done all they can to destroy America, to destroy our system of justice, to destroy our system of government, to destroy our border, to destroy our economy, to destroy our national security, and President Trump is the only one who can save it.
	So, in the obverse to that, with all of these endorsements coming down for the President, which of course, of course, is understandable given his 50 to 60 point lead in front of everybody else on the Republican ticket, we have right now, just moments ago he stopped talking just a few miles down the road from Valley Forge, we have the current incumbent Who's given us empirical evidence, Boris, that they're doubling down.
	Instead of admitting either they're mistakes on the border, Mallorcas is incapable of saying there's a crisis, saying the economy is problematic or maybe we need another approach on international affairs with war breaking out everywhere.
	He attacks President Trump, he calls the MAGA voters a threat to democracy.
	Boris, this is A. illogical that they're doubling down, B. very disturbing.
	Is it simply because they have nothing else?
	What are they going to talk about?
	They can't talk about the economy, it's a disaster.
	Even the Democrats in Congress don't want to talk about quote-unquote Bidenomics.
	They're going to talk about the wars that Crooked Joe has caused all over the world.
	The fact that he's given up our economy totally to China, all they could do is go out there and scream threat to democracy when they're the ones who are pushing lawfare and political persecutions of Donald Trump and his supporters in textbook threats to democracy.
	Everything the Democrats are accusing President Trump of doing, they're doing themselves.
	And they know it.
	And even Crooked Joe, whatever's left up there, whatever you may know, He knows that he is the one that's guilty of being a threat to democracy.
	Yeah.
	And let's unpack that a little bit because I remember with our longer discussions when you were in studio, in the old studio, you know, sooner or later you'd have these injects of your historic knowledge.
	Like many immigrants, you have such a love for America that You know, you remember things or you know things that maybe those who are blessed by being born here have forgotten or never knew.
	And I just look back to the last time Democrats tried to remove a presidential nominee from the ballots and that was, of course, 1860.
	And who were they trying to remove from the ballots?
	It was the first ever Republican president.
	It was Abraham Lincoln.
	And what happened afterwards is civil war.
	Are these people so tone-deaf or so ideologically demented that they can't even see the cost, potentially, of what they're doing, Baron?
	You're right.
	They are that power-hungry.
	There's no question about it.
	They're power-hungry.
	They're power-drunk.
	They're obsessed.
	I mean, if you look at communists and violent dictators all over the world, that's what they've done.
	That's what they do.
	And, you know, the liberalism of today is not, as we've talked about, JFK or Bill Clinton, right?
	This is authoritarianism of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
	You've got the political witch hunts.
	You've got the show trials.
	Everything.
	That has happened historically, and thankfully we're not yet at France in 1789 and the 1790s situation, but the rate of terror.
	Everything that you've seen from liberal authoritarian regimes, the seeds of it are here right now.
	They're dangerous, they're un-American, unconstitutional, and that's why President Trump is fighting so strongly against them.
	So what are your predictions?
	We have ten months left.
	It looks as if they've painted themselves into a corner of radicalism, of doubling down, of even more ideologically divisive and extreme language.
	What are you most afraid of?
	How bad could it get?
	And how good is it for patriots in terms of waking up those who are maybe slumbering in the middle?
	It's vital for patriots.
	All American patriots, to wake up, to look, whether you're in the middle, left or right, and to realize what we are as a country.
	This is the precipice.
	Right now, we're at the precipice of absolute annihilation of our American system, our American republic, our American democracy.
	And that is at the hands of the Democrats.
	Why?
	Because they will say and do anything, anything, to try to get power and prevent Donald Trump from becoming president again, because he's their greatest threat.
	You know, for Heather Jo, we don't want to run against Donald Trump.
	That is a disgusting lie.
	They're obsessed, obsessed, with trying to get President Trump off the ballot.
	Why?
	Because they know they cannot beat him the old school way.
	And even some liberals are now coming out saying, Hey, what is this?
	This isn't the America we knew even 10, 20 years ago.
	And that's right, because the woke, radical leftists have ruined our country.
	And only President Trump could save it.
	All right, last question.
	When is he going to pull out?
	This is the latest absurd statement from the governor of Florida.
	Cut.
	Five.
	Play.
	Cut.
	And oh, by the way, you need somebody that can serve two terms.
	You're going to go in there as a lame duck president, even if you could get elected?
	I don't think that that's how it works there.
	We need a change agent in Washington.
	We need somebody that's going to go in there, actually unwind the bureaucracy, which Trump promised to do and didn't do.
	So I guess he wasn't a change agent?
	I mean, really, this guy is flailing.
	Is he going to drop out before Florida?
	Because that would be really embarrassing, wouldn't it, Boris?
	It'd be embarrassing, but that's the way it's going.
	He's dropping like a rock.
	President Trump has almost hit 70.
	The sanctimonious is around 10.
	Birdbrain hasn't surged.
	This isn't a race.
	It's an annihilation because the American people are standing with President Trump.
	And the sanctimonious should think about saving what's left of his pathetic If he wants to go on to anything in the future, he should do the right thing, drop out, and endorse President Donald J. Trump.
	All right.
	I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
	Thank you, my friend.
	I think we will be exchanging photographs of the cigars we will be smoking this weekend.
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	Where's that Carafano chappie?
	Just chillin' with his feet up.
	Making himself at home.
	Oh, sorry.
	Talking movies.
	You two haven't talked movies in a while.
	We have him!
	So where's all this snow? I want some!
	I want snow!
	Snow!
	Right, come in with the video here, alright?
	Eric, Eric!
	Come in with the Starsky video.
	Starsky, yes, yes.
	What was his name?
	Go see Boys in the Boat.
	Oh yeah, everybody said that.
	Excellent.
	We were actually just talking about Ferrari.
	I liked it.
	You know, it's a character film.
	Actually, the acting was great.
	Penelope Cruz was great.
	It was good.
	Yeah.
	It's a good plane movie.
	Car 30.
	Yes, thank you.
	Do you want the remake of Starsky and Hutch for C-Block?
	No.
	Do not, and I will never want it unless I'm trashing it.
	I'm going to use cut eight with Jim.
	Cut eight, come to the star stand and cut eight.
	First we'll talk popular culture.
	Oh, we didn't do cut one with Boris.
	Uh, alright.
	Ha ha ha.
	Uh, title for Boris?
	For Boris... What was the first question I asked him?
	We talked about DeSantis, we talked about... The endorsements.
	Oh, the endorsements.
	Scalise, Emmer, Cotton.
	Scalise.
	Everybody knows it's President Trump.
	you Everybody knows it's President Trump.
	Alright.
	One minute.
	Okay.
	How is this even a story?
	Why would you write a story?
	Asa Hutchinson polling at less than 1% will not commit to pardoning Trump.
	I mean, if you're polling at less than 1%, is that news?
	No, but it's hilarious that he would even say it, that anyone thinks to care.
	Oh, but someone would ask you!
	He's like, who cares?
	He put it on Twitter.
	He put it upon himself.
	It's like, OK, my plumber will not pardon President Trump.
	My plumber will not fix my nuclear reactor.
	Damn it!
	Oh my god.
	Oh.
	Ha ha ha ha ha.
	Ha ha ha ha ha.
	Oh.
	LNL win
	me win
	so so
	so and that's where you pause it where it says starring david
	soul Why do they not make TV theme tunes like that anymore?
	And that opening as he's jumping onto the top of that Fortorino in his sopping wet cardigan.
	I think he bust his coccyx landing on the roof.
	Look it up.
	It's real.
	It's a bone.
	Why did we play that?
	Well, because David sold past today, not really up in years, only 80 years old, according to his family.
	Of course, legendary as Sergeant Kenneth Richard Hutch Hutchinson, along with Paul Michael Glazer, playing Sergeant David Michael Starsky.
	There is only one correct answer to this question, Jim Carafano.
	Did you watch that show and like it?
	No, I didn't like it.
	But here's the thing is, okay, he was perfect for that, they were both perfect for that.
	They were!
	But do you remember his other TV series?
	I remember him in Salem's Lodge.
	No, no, no you don't.
	They actually tried to make a TV series on Casablanca.
	I don't know whether to believe Jim Carrafano, but how can you not love Starsky and Hutch?
	That's America.
	Humphrey Bogart part. It lasted like one episode.
	Are you joking?
	It was horrible. It was beyond. It was like, what genius?
	Like, hey, I have an idea.
	Redo Kassab Laker.
	It just, it just worked.
	I don't know whether to believe Jim Carrafano, but how can you not love Starsky and Hutch?
	That's America. I mean, that is America.
	You know, I was kind of done with cop shows by then.
	Oh, you're older than me, that's right.
	And the other thing, Miami Vice.
	I mean, the music was great, but after an episode you're like, I'm so over this shit.
	And you know what?
	This is as bad as Jeff!
	I remember real cop shows that had meaning.
	Like Adam-12?
	Mod Squad.
	Oh my gosh.
	You are older than me.
	You are older than me.
	All right.
	Rest in peace.
	We will keep David Sowell's family in our prayers.
	For me, I don't know.
	I was watching reruns on British TV and it was iconic for me.
	I loved it.
	It was just the chemistry of David and Paul and then Huggy Bear and then the angry black.
	The police chief has always got to be angry and black.
	It set the tone.
	It doesn't have to be black.
	It just has to be angry.
	So, actually, great film, worth going back to, Seven Ups, Tony LaBianca, Roy Schneider.
	I know Tony!
	Yeah, look at this movie, he looks like he's 10 years old.
	It may have been an independent film, but Roy Schneider was a really, really I love Roy Scheiner.
	So the Seven Ups were like a squad, like a special police squad in New York City.
	Okay, wow.
	And went after, you know, did the things that nobody else does.
	I'm looking this up right now.
	The Seven Ups.
	Sounds like a good name for a soda pop.
	The Seven Ups, you're right.
	Okay, it's the stuff I learned.
	All right, I want to amuse you all.
	We'll do national security in a second.
	This was a gut-busting laugh for our colleague here as I read this headline.
	This is from Breitbart.com.
	I was wondering why this is news.
	Asa Hutchinson polling at less than 1% will not commit to pardoning Trump.
	Well, Mike Plummer won't pardon Trump either, James, so this is a crisis, right?
	Why is this news?
	This is like calling Barbara and asking if he can reprogram your nuclear reactor.
	It's just not going to happen.
	Why do people even write stories like that?
	It's amusing.
	Well, listen, you know, look, I mean, we learned, you know I do policy, not politics, right?
	But the one thing that we didn't learn in this election, and unlike, I think, we'll know who the candidate is when people actually start voting, but the one thing that we did learn very, very early on, which you and I both discussed, and which I think, you know, there's two things, this is a, it's not a Republican party, this is a conservative party.
	Yes, it's changed, right.
	And there were two lanes that were completely dead ends.
	One was, I'm the anti-Trump.
	Nobody wanted to hear that.
	Because even the people who don't like Trump love Trump's policies.
	And let's be honest, the other lane that was the road to nowhere is the mini-me.
	Like, nobody wants a baby Trump, right?
	Because they have the real one.
	Well, it's like, I hate him but who's it?
	Bill Maher said, why do you go to the tribute band concert if the original band is still playing?
	Right.
	I mean, it's either Trump or somebody who's Trump, but not Trump.
	Let's stay out of politics, but on the conservative milieu, because this observation is really important, because it means that there's a very specific identity for the movement, that there seems to be agreement on policies, right?
	I think that's right.
	Look, some issues, let's just be honest, life.
	Yeah.
	You are not going to get the nomination of the Republican Party president if you're not pro-Russia.
	Or the border.
	Or the border, or immigration, or thinking that an unsustainable debt is okay.
	Or crime.
	Even on foreign policy, and this is where people disagree with me, but I'm right and they're wrong, there is absolute consensus, right?
	It is that American foreign policy ought to be based on Americans' interests.
	And also that a strong America is good.
	We can talk about what that looks like, but strong America is good for the world.
	And when people say, Republicans argue with each other on foreign policy, I say, well that's actually what they're supposed to do.
	Yes.
	I don't think there's any right answer right now because it's on the fly.
	should be about what are the right interests and what's the most efficacious way to dissent.
	Of course you're going to have debate and dialogue and discussion and disagreement.
	That's how you get to consensus.
	I'm curious.
	I don't think there's any right answer right now because it's on the fly.
	How did you think that happened?
	Was it President Trump as a catalyst or had the movement matured?
	How did we get this kind of agreement on 80%, 85%?
	Why?
	Was it the legacy of Reagan, or what?
	I think it's a road accident.
	I mean, honestly, I think, you know, Trump and the movement kind of collided with each other.
	And for an obvious reason, which is, what is really conservatism, when you think about it?
	It's not about conserving what is old.
	It's about understanding the limitations and frailty of human nature and that it's imperfect, and understanding that despite all our imperfections, the true purpose of community is to seek human flourishing and do the best we can.
	So you conserve what works, and you abandon what doesn't.
	Yes.
	And progressivism is exactly the opposite.
	It's creating a bright, shining city, not on the hill, but like the thing in Flash Gordon, the city floating in the clouds.
	Floating, the utopia, right.
	And the fact that there's no way to get there, and it's not real, that doesn't matter.
	We're doing conservative philosophy, wow.
	This is fun.
	All that travel, he's now relaxing, and we're thinking big pictures.
	He's unfettered!
	He's unfettered!
	All right, J.J.
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	I'm doing it for getting the story out there.
	Yeah.
	No, I mean, the thing is that at Substack, if you really want to be successful, you really have to invest in it.
	Yeah, it's a time.
	Yeah.
	But it does, it could work.
	But you're doing a lot of stuff usually for Fox, right?
	The articles?
	Not as much.
	I just do it when they ask.
	Oh, they come to you?
	I used to be a regular, do a regular contributor.
	Then they switched around and stuff and now I just do stuff when they call.
	So where do you post if you post?
	I just give it to them.
	Oh, you give it to the Heritage to Push.
	I don't care.
	My thing is when I write something it's really for not, unless somebody says,
	hey, write something about this, right?
	You know, I write it because I have a policy thing that I want to state, and I want to use the article
	to send to people or have people see that.
	So I don't really care where it's published because I can just send a link.
	Remember I told you I wasn't going to write any more books?
	Well, that didn't last very long.
	So I'm going to do this book about Italy, the mountain warfare in Italy during World War II.
	Why that?
	Well, because I did this book on Normandy, which is about how you fight in Western Europe.
	I was good.
	And then during COVID, I got bored and I had all this stuff about this campaign in Papua New Guinea that I never used.
	And so I started, and then while I was writing it, I thought, well, what's really interesting is how terrain really changes the nature of warfare.
	So I realized I'd written a book about warfare in Europe and that this was a completely different thing.
	And then the three most extreme environments really were different, where we had really super major campaigns were jungle fighting in Asia, You know, fighting in the plains of Europe, and then mountain warfare in Italy.
	So, Lin Reiner, who I did the original books for, they say, hey, you want to do another book?
	And I'm like, no.
	And I thought, I said, well, OK, you know what?
	Now I feel like I should do a trilogy, and I can finish this off.
	And I said, if I can, let me think about it.
	And so I wrote the, you know, I have a theory, which is if you can write the introduction, you can write the whole book, right?
	So I sat down and I wrote an introduction.
	I said, yeah, this is interesting.
	Yeah, so I'm going to do that.
	Do you have an overarching theory for mountain warfare?
	Or so what?
	Well, it's just such a massive human suck, right?
	It plows through so many things.
	And the thing is, most people, mountain warfare training really doesn't do anything because Mountain Warfare was really about people defending their country against invasion, right?
	So the idea of actually fighting a war to fight through things is just kind of a ridiculously difficult idea.
	So you know the Battle of San Pietro?
	So this is going to be different, right?
	So the Battle of San Pietro, the book's all about that.
	So it's 10 days, right?
	So each chapter is going to be a day, but I'm going to go through the whole campaign in the trap.
	So there's going to be a day of battle and then a reflection on something.
	So it'd be really interesting, right?
	So rather than just having the battle all in one place, it's going to be throughout
	the whole book.
	And how do you have the materials?
	Oh, that's gotten so easy because everything's online these days.
	There's so many digital archives, it's just crazy.
	Right.
	So.
	Below the top here.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Ho ho ho!
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	He gave a very strange... Jeff, which one of these cuts, six or seven, is this... Did either of these have him talk about refusing to say the word crisis?
	Or is... Oh no, I took your cut sheet.
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	I've got two copies here.
	He's feverishly looking for his copy of the cut sheet.
	Which is the better cut?
	Should we do seven or six for Jim?
	Which one's going to get Jim more angry?
	The one where Maracas says he'll continue to serve.
	Oh, seven.
	Seven.
	If you were impeached, would you step down?
	You'd be the first cabinet member to be impeached by the House in 148 years.
	Brett, I lead 260 incredibly dedicated and talented men and women of the Department of Homeland Security.
	I will continue to lead them in advancing the mission of protecting the American people.
	That's what we do in the area of immigration, the area of cybersecurity, in our fight against human trafficking, in saving communities devastated by extreme weather events.
	We do so much for the American people and I'm incredibly proud to do it.
	He's going to continue to protect people from human trafficking.
	That's when I just, I blow a gasket.
	I mean, that's just, that's scum worthy.
	He is a human trafficker.
	Well, he betrayed the department.
	And I am biased here, I'll be honest about this.
	One of the first things he did on the job was he fired The Homeland Security Advisory Council, because he wanted to get rid of all the conservatives on the council, and I was on the council.
	I hadn't done anything.
	Matter of fact, we actually had a plan of things that we had gone over with Chad Wolf, which were perfectly bipartisan.
	And so I was going to say it, and we just got summarily thrown out on our butt, which just goes to show incredibly partisan.
	So the answer, which I in that hearing which really talked me off the most was
	when they said, would you accept money if only it was to secure the board,
	detain people and evict them? And he said, well, I'll accept money. And then he listed a whole
	bunch of things, which to take them out of swamp talk and turn to English, he basically what he
	said is, I will accept money from the U.S. Congress to facilitate the way we're importing illegal
	immigrants now and make it more efficient and take them in in greater numbers.
	Make the flow more efficient.
	That's right.
	That was the answer he gave.
	Nothing that he said, well I'll accept money for this, were things that would actually secure the border or reduce illegal immigration or deport people.
	It's bad for a radio host, but there are points like that where I'm just at a loss for words
	because he knows what he's doing, Jim, doesn't he?
	He worked in the Obama administration.
	He knows.
	Well, obviously he knows because he's been there for three plus years now, but the reality
	is, to your point, is, who was somebody that we all knew in the...
	I go back to the creation of the department.
	I mean, I was an advisor, Homeland Security advisor, on the council in the first presidency.
	I was there for part of Napolitano's.
	So I mean, I was on the transition team that ran the transition when it went over to Trump.
	So Mayorkas was somebody who knows how the department operates and he knows right from wrong.
	And on day one, he came in and started doing wrong and never looked back.
	And here he is where he is now.
	He's like gay, you know, the president of Harvard.
	They're in the same place, which is they know the game, which is they're loyal soldiers.
	It doesn't matter how evil or corrupt and bad things they do.
	If they just keep playing the game, whether they get impeached and removed or whether they just leave, they will be taken care of forever.
	And he knows that.
	Listen to this man.
	He knows this city.
	He's one of the good guys who knows this city.
	And he's been there since the day it was created.
	And he knows.
	Just listen.
	That one line will be the title of this segment.
	From day one, he knew he was doing the wrong thing.
	That's Mayorkas.
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	There is a man out there who personifies the quiet professional, even though he has a YouTube channel, where he's a little bit noisy now and again.
	And it's been far too long since I've had him on the show.
	He's a poet.
	He's a warrior.
	He's the head of the Warrior Poet Society.
	John Lovell!
	Happy New Year!
	Happy New Year to you.
	Such illustrious intros.
	Thank you so much.
	But I do not think I fit the bill of quiet professional.
	I am loud, as you said.
	Well, I don't care.
	I want to see the check in the mail.
	So you know the address, just send it.
	I'm so excited to hear that not only will you be at SHOT Show, but I saw you announce recently, look, I have more ARs than I can probably count.
	But am I allowed to say this?
	I'm gonna say it.
	I have a favorite.
	It's my Daniel Defense Mark 18.
	Dude, that sucker is sweet.
	It is like a Swiss watch, just a little bit bigger and a little bit louder.
	And I do understand that you have some... I love my Warrior Poet Society handgun, my Shadow Systems, but is it true that soon there will be a Warrior Poet Rifle?
	It already exists and people have been pining for me to do it for years and years.
	And I've had plenty of opportunity, but I wanted the right value, the right bang for the buck.
	And so finally, with Daniel Defense, we've been talking about something this for a long time, put it together and they really just said, well, what do you want out the door?
	And they, uh, what would you want in a gun with accessories and You know, the internal nuts and bolts and build.
	And so we came up with this.
	And so the idea is, is someone goes to Daniel Defense, they find the Warrior Poet Rifle, and it's already done.
	Like the optics, sling, all the accessories.
	Oh, you mean everything?
	I mean, it's ready to roll?
	It comes in a package.
	That's right.
	It's ready to roll.
	Wow.
	I just sent a picture to Eric.
	He'll put it up on a screen in a moment from the video where you launched it.
	I love Daniel Defense for my ARs.
	Why did you choose it?
	I'm just curious.
	It was the very first premium rifle I ever bought on my own.
	And I think the technology they do with their manufacturing process is to cold hammer forge a barrel, which is a really big deal.
	And they bring a lot of the high end production in-house rather than outsourcing and piecing it together, hoping such and such tolerance fit.
	And because they have such great manufacturing capability and they're not just reconfiguring a bunch of retailed parts and putting it together, they're able to give you the best Value while still keeping a price sane. So there you go.
	That is shadow systems till still your sidearm of choice You mean like this?
	Oh look!
	There he is!
	We didn't even rehearse that.
	We didn't even rehearse that.
	And that's the one with the comp.
	That's very sexy.
	I love my subcompact.
	I love the full size.
	It's like Glock but better out of the box.
	All the bells and whistles.
	Absolutely exciting.
	All right.
	We didn't rehearse any of this.
	We never do because we have far too much fun.
	A couple of questions.
	First things first, your reaction to the fact that as of 90 minutes ago the head of the NRA is no longer Wayne Lapierre?
	Fantastic.
	Wonderful.
	The firearms community is thrilled.
	They're thrilled.
	Very good to get who we believe a entrenched bureaucrat pushed to the side of the organization.
	I want fresh blood that is bold, that won't compromise.
	And I really, really hope we get somebody at the helm of the NRA That has the boldness of the founders that penned the Second Amendment.
	Right.
	My vote's for Donald Trump Jr.
	I'm going to be sending him texts with unsubtle hints that we need Donald Trump Jr.
	Do you have any ideas for who could be the president?
	I don't, but I really like that idea.
	That's fantastic.
	That or either Ted Nugent.
	What do you think of Ted Nugent?
	You know, I'm just so thrilled Wayne is gone.
	I don't care.
	You know, you do it.
	I'll do it.
	Anybody.
	I've got a neighbor down the road.
	He owns a gun.
	After 30 years.
	Oh my gosh.
	I tweeted out as soon as I heard this, a man who did almost as much damage to the Second Amendment as any leftist did.
	Dude, it was time to go 10 years ago.
	All right.
	We're not going to dance on any graves, at least not tonight.
	How about this?
	This is a fun story here, or a statistic.
	Last year, John, 16 million firearms were purchased in America.
	I think the left is losing, don't you?
	Despite our broken institutions of power which have been hijacked by radical leftists, you gotta love the American people that step up and buy guns like crazy.
	God love ya!
	Way to go!
	Get even more and never give them up.
	Never ever giving up, even if they're very strange white ones that look like Stormtrooper weapons that you bought for your wife.
	Can you give us, I haven't looked into that, it's just a back thing, look it up.
	It's John's bride, beautiful bride.
	What is the latest?
	I haven't kept track of it because, you know, my mind's in politics and then Christmas and then New Year's.
	Are we safe now to go back to braces?
	Did we win that in Texas and federal law?
	What happened with our AR braces?
	Yeah, so particularly though, yeah, that has been struck down and we've got all our braces on.
	We're rocking and rolling with them.
	So as I understand it, We're a green light for now.
	He's not a lawyer, but as he understands it.
	I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not doing that.
	But, uh, I've got braces and I kind of do whatever I want.
	And he doesn't mean suspenders.
	It's not on his teeth and it's not on his pants and he's got braces.
	All right.
	Last 30 seconds, John.
	Nevertheless, we don't take any of this for granted.
	Correct?
	Correct.
	Absolutely.
	All right.
	This man has an amazing... I'm sorry, what?
	No, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	This man has an amazing... I was like, yeah, you don't take Second Amendment for granted.
	You exercise the right, and if you don't use it, you're going to lose it.
	And so we need people with backbone to stand up for the Second Amendment and support it.
	Yeah, I'll just quote the CEO, the founder of Car Firearms, our good friend, Justin Moon, whose family escaped from communist North Korea.
	He said it on my show, he said it You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
	And that's a man who knows.
	Follow this individual.
	He is John Lovell275 on social media.
	The Warrior Poet Society and the Warrior Poet Society Network.
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	Donika must be listening to some fake news channel or Fox Rhinos.
	Chris Christie just gave an interview.
	This is fun.
	Quote from Chris Christie.
	If it's Biden versus Trump, I'm not voting.
	Donika's response.
	Nobody cares, Chris.
	Nobody cares.
	I wonder if anybody cares for... What's this guy's name?
	Who's this individual?
	Chris Hayes.
	Jeff, does anybody watch... I mean, you pull these amazing clips of me.
	Does anybody watch this person's show?
	He used to be on before Rachel Maddow, so it was like the Rachel Maddow warm-up act, because they look exactly alike.
	They do a bit, they do a bit.
	And this Epstein story that for so long was being whispered about.
	Oh Trump's implicated in Lolita Island and Lolita Express.
	Well of course nothing was relevant to the president except the fact that he kicked that pederast out of his club Mar-a-Lago.
	But that doesn't matter to little Chrissy Hayes.
	Listen to his choice of words.
	It's quite something.
	Cut six!
	And I have to say, it is really just so unbelievable that Fox News, Republicans, conservatives have made Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein, the focal point of their worldview about who the bad guys are in society.
	Because, let's just look at the facts here.
	The guy in American politics most closely associated with Epstein, and particularly Epstein's scandals, is, I think, inarguably Donald Trump.
	I think inarguably.
	Eric, what's wrong with the grammar of I think inarguably?
	Those two things are what we call mutually exclusive.
	You either think it or it's inarguable.
	It cannot be both.
	And who's most associated with the pederast Epstein?
	Jeff, you put a story into my stag today.
	Bill Clinton did what to Vanity Fair when they had a story about him and Epstein?
	He didn't just threaten him.
	He went there to threaten him.
	That means he's guilty and he didn't want to put it in an email.
	Bill Clinton went to the offices of Vanity Fair to threaten them.
	Chris Hayes, you're pathetic.
	Next up, it's Friday.
	Let's have some fun.
	Let's make movies great again with our good buddy Chris Coles.
	Stay on this channel.
	You You
	Oh Impressive.
	Most impressive.
	See things you people wouldn't believe. When you talk to God.
	and I'm glad to be a part of it.
	Let's go see him again.
	So the kind of control you're attempting is, it's not possible.
	Listen, if there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained.
	Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... Oh, there it is.
	There it is.
	You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will...
	No, I'm simply saying that life finds a way.
	Life will not be contained.
	Life finds a way.
	Jeff Goldblum from the iconic, the genre-establishing movie Jurassic Park, playing Dr. Malcolm, the expert on chaos theory.
	My co-host choice for this week's Making Movies Great Again, Chris Coles.
	Happy Friday.
	Happy Friday and Happy New Year!
	This is actually the first one we've recorded in the new year.
	Correct!
	Yes, Happy New Year!
	And we find you on the island of Hawaii, where this historic movie was in fact filmed, not on the Isla Nublar Island, fictitious island, from the Michael Crichton novel.
	So, Chris, tell us, this is a little bit more modern than the movies, most of the movies that we have reviewed, Making Movies Great Again, so why did you add this to our list?
	You know, I was just thinking I made a list of all the great movies from the 80s and the early 90s.
	And I don't know, this just struck me as like the last really great film of that era, I felt like.
	This and GoldenEye.
	I feel like this and GoldenEye mark sort of the end of that period of filmmaking that I feel like was really, truly great.
	And Steven Spielberg in particular, I feel like this was his last great film.
	A lot of people would, you know, scoff at that and say, well, what about Schindler's List?
	It's such a great movie and everything.
	Yeah, okay.
	If you want a film that documents history, then you know, that's what he sort of became, right?
	He became this sort of, I don't know, historical Reenactment guy, you know, like he started making films about, you know, historical periods, which is a fine thing to want to do.
	But to me, it doesn't have the same kind of power and grandeur as, you know, making a work of fiction that is, you know, that explores the imagination.
	But I guess he'd done that a little bit too much and he wanted to be taken very seriously.
	So he took out most of the humor from his projects and, you know, started shooting in black and white.
	And there we go.
	I think that's a really sound observation, Chris, because this is... I looked at this movie, and we're just playing the B-roll from inside the helicopter as they're arriving to the island, and whether it's there, whether it's in the amusement arcade, whether it's in the caravan at the archaeological dig at the beginning, There's a Spielberg-iness to this movie.
	Even the lighting.
	You look at this lighting inside the helicopter, and you know it's fakie.
	You know it's a movie.
	Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, a completely different genre.
	But this is Jaws.
	This is close encounters.
	And in fact, I think one reviewer called this Jaws for dry land, right?
	The T-Rex is Spielberg's Jaws for dry land.
	I think you're right.
	This is the last Spielberg.
	Spielberg as we knew him. What category do we put this movie into? Of course
	the story is from the Michael Crichton novel, Jurassic Park.
	It garnered five sequels, most of them absolute garbage, but it's classified
	as a techno thriller.
	I'm not sure it's a techno-thriller.
	The book is quite a horror film.
	The horror book.
	How should we categorize Jurassic Park amongst other movies?
	Or is it, with this arrival of CGI, is it sui generis?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I love that term, sui generis, because there are so many films that we've discussed that fit that as a genre, right?
	Because great films, if a film is done well enough, it is difficult to classify.
	I mean, think about Ghostbusters, right?
	Is it a comedy?
	Is it an action film?
	Is it a horror film?
	It has little elements of all those things, but it's not.
	It's just a great movie, a great story.
	And that's what Jurassic Park is.
	It's really a great story.
	In fact, watching this back...
	It's it's so weird because it is 90s.
	I mean, there is some very 90s fashion in there, some very 90s things that people today they dress a little bit 90s.
	I don't think they really understand how tacky the 90s were.
	You know, this Jurassic Park did it relatively well.
	But yeah, you get that little touch of that.
	But for the most part, it's just, you know, it's just beautifully done.
	Every department did their job perfectly.
	It's one of those films where everybody did everything exactly right.
	And it's actually almost difficult for me to understand sometimes.
	I'm watching this movie back and I haven't seen this film since I was a kid.
	Oh, really?
	So I didn't remember exactly.
	Yeah, no, no.
	I don't think I've seen this film in many, many years.
	But I remember thinking, you know, this was, you know, obviously this is one of the great films of all time.
	It spawned a million sequels and tons and tons of merchandise.
	It's a huge, like, you know, event film it was.
	And I'm just watching through the scenes and I'm thinking, there are so many moments in this film that they have this slow pacing and it builds up to this grand moment, really, truly a grand moment.
	It's like there's a setup and there's a payoff, and there's a setup and there's a payoff.
	And it's like Spielberg knew exactly how to do that so well, and all the acting is so perfect, and all the casting is so perfect.
	This film is one of the best cast films I've ever seen in my life.
	Everything was so good that you just sit there and you just say, this is an adventure that I'm going on with these people.
	And it's perfect from beginning to end.
	And I don't even think they know how to make films like this anymore.
	And I don't know if it's cultural.
	I don't know if it has to do with the artists in, the so-called artists in Hollywood right now.
	But for some reason, they cannot seem to reproduce something like this, which they seem to be able to do year after year up until, you know, the early 2000s, I would say.
	I mean, probably, again, like I said, this in Goldeneye were really the truly the last great ones.
	But there was a few pretty good films after that.
	But yeah.
	They certainly weren't making them consistently.
	Let me make a stab at why.
	I think you're on to something.
	Why can nobody remember any plot of any Marvel movie?
	I mean, you literally cannot remember the plot of any Marvel movie.
	Why?
	Because they're all formulas.
	They're all the same flipping formula.
	There's no formula to Jurassic Park.
	There's just every component of the jigsaw, whether it's the direction, the acting, the casting, the special effects, the production design.
	Each of the components is excellent and together they make a whole.
	It's not a formula.
	There's no formula to Ghostbusters.
	There's no formula to Jurassic Park.
	But there is this series of... And this is, I think you're right, Spielberg's expertise.
	It's the set-up, the pay-off, the set-up and the pay-off.
	We're playing it as B-roll.
	Let's play the actual clip of the first... I mean, the thing that makes Jurassic Park Jurassic Park.
	The first massive pay-off where you see the Diplodocus and it looks real.
	T-rex?
	You said you've got a T-rex?
	Say again?
	We have a T-Rex.
	Put your head between your knees.
	Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler, welcome to Jurassic Park.
	They're moving in herds.
	you They do move in herds.
	How'd you do this?
	The most hilarious thing of all is that none of that was there and the actors have given interviews where they said yes, there was a big X on a piece of paper on a broomstick and they were reacting to the big X on the piece of paper on a broomstick and they sold it!
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	A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just like today.
	And, just like today, they fed on the blood of animals, even dinosaurs.
	Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap.
	After a long time, the tree sap would get hard and become fossilized, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving the mosquito inside.
	This fossilized tree sap, which we call amber, waited for millions of years with the mosquito inside, until Jurassic Park scientists came along.
	Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the preserved blood from the mosquito and... Bingo!
	Dino DNA!
	Dino DNA.
	We're making movies great again.
	Now, Chris, I don't know why, but I love that moment from the movie.
	Where they're, you know, at the InGen laboratory on the island.
	They're getting their little tour.
	Grant, Malcolm, and everybody else.
	And they show this little cartoon.
	They show this little explication, which is actually, they put in there because Crichton, who has paid half a million dollars to write the script after selling the book to Spielberg for one and a half million dollars.
	Pretty cool deal, even before it was published.
	He had so much exposition in the script.
	They said We don't want all this bloody exposition from characters.
	Let's let's bring in a cartoonist and let's have a little cartoon It's lots of fun.
	It's a little child.
	It's like that cartoon.
	What is it?
	How does a bill become a law, you know, remember that that that yeah thing from the 70s schoolhouse rock schoolhouse rock, but it works and it also It's connected to the special effects of this movie because I don't know about you, Chris.
	Maybe when the Diplodocus is out in the open and everything's bright and sunny, it may be a little ropey.
	But apart from that, when it's nighttime, when it's the T-Rex, when it's the raptors in the kitchen, I don't know about you, Chris.
	I watched this again this morning.
	Those dinosaurs look real to me.
	You're not taken out of it.
	I mean, they bloody look real.
	There's a lot of moments where It's hard to tell that it's even computer.
	And this is the first time that it's ever really used like this.
	I think they were very careful with it.
	They were very, you know, they were, they took their time to say, OK, how do we show these exactly right?
	And they just use the clips that look just perfect.
	And they got it just right because they were concerned that audiences wouldn't buy it.
	But once they got it, you know, once they had it, I think they knew what they had.
	And what's really interesting is that you don't see the dinosaurs first.
	You didn't show this clip exactly, but you see the reaction first.
	That's the first thing you see.
	You don't see a dinosaur.
	You see them, jaws dropped to the floor, looking up at something.
	And then you at the audience are like, what are we looking at?
	What are we looking at?
	And then you turn the camera around and you see the dinosaurs.
	And it is that wow moment.
	It's such a great job of capturing those reactions.
	The reaction in acting and in directing, when you learn about this in film school, You do talk a lot about how, you know, it's not necessarily acting to act like to deliver lines.
	I mean, that's all well and good.
	But to react to somebody else delivering lines is actually often far more difficult.
	And that's really what sells it oftentimes, right?
	If you have somebody say something, Hitchcock does a does a an interview about this.
	You can find it on YouTube.
	It's a Hitchcock talking about editing.
	And if you film some children playing, and then you show a guy,
	and he's looking at the children playing, you think, oh, what a sweet man.
	And then if you shoot a picture, a video of a woman in a bikini,
	and then you shoot the guy, you think, oh, this guy's a creep, right?
	And he's got the same exact expression.
	But it's just going back and forth.
	People will make assumptions about what the guy's reacting to.
	But also the same thing can happen in reverse where the reaction can indicate the power of the thing.
	They try to trick you this way sometimes in film where somebody will tell not a particularly good joke.
	But the reaction is so strong from the other person that you think, oh yeah, that was actually pretty funny, right?
	Or somebody says something that's not particularly clever or charming, but the other person reacts as if it is.
	So reactions can really influence the audience, and they work with that a lot in this film.
	And I gotta say, this film, more than any other that I've probably ever seen in my life, is a film that applies the rule, show, don't tell.
	That's a big rule in writing for film and TV.
	Uh, you often want to show things rather than tell them.
	There are so many moments in this film where there's no dialogue, but you see what happens with, you know, some kind of little trick of the camera or something that's used to illustrate exactly what's happened, and you don't need any dialogue at all.
	Really well done.
	To that point, it's not just the actors.
	reacting to something you can't see, it's also the intimation of something happening.
	Katie pointed this out this morning.
	So whether it's the tumbler of water on the dashboard that's vibrating as the T-Rex is walking by, which was done, by the way, with a man underneath the dashboard plucking a guitar string that was attached to the dashboard, or whether right at the beginning, do you remember right at the beginning where the worker gets killed by the T-Rex?
	It's like Jaws.
	You never see the T-Rex.
	You see the bushes, you see the jungle shaking, which is exactly like Jaws, where you see the yellow barrels, you know, screaming around the little boat.
	You don't see Jaws.
	So here, It's the intimation.
	It's the inference.
	It's just like Alien, you know, the genius of Ridley Scott.
	You don't show the monster.
	You see flashes of the monster, of course.
	What does your imagination do?
	It fills in the gaps, and it makes it even scarier than anything you could imagine in real life, until, of course, in this case, you have a pretty bloody good animatronic.
	And the animatronics were designed by the best in the business, the late, great Stan Winston, originally Phil Tippett.
	who did all the stop-motion for the likes of Empire Strikes Back for Star Wars was meant to make these animals in stop-motion or animatronics along with Stan Winston and Spielberg said I don't buy it we can't have it all stop-motion or all animatronic and along comes his buddy George Lucas industrial light and magic they say we can do it for you on computers And when they see this, Spielberg says to Tippett, the stop-motion guy, you're out of a job.
	To which Tippett says, don't you mean extinct?
	Which is a line they actually used in the movie.
	And this is the genesis, 1993, the genesis of computer-generated imagery.
	And man, for the first movie to do it wholesale, it's pretty bloody impressive.
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	God creates dinosaurs.
	God destroys dinosaurs.
	God creates man.
	Man destroys God.
	Man creates dinosaurs.
	Dinosaurs eat man.
	Woman inherits the earth.
	I'm sorry, Chris.
	It's just some bloody good writing.
	Am I right?
	No, yeah.
	I mean, there's so many little lines like that.
	Like you said, the extinct line.
	They were so great at just picking up these like little moments.
	And that cartoon that you mentioned earlier, there was this kind of educational cartoon that they had back then that they're referencing in that little cartoon.
	And I noticed that throughout this film, they do something that they did in a lot of films of the 80s and early 90s, is that there was like, you know, they were shooting about the facade of something.
	But then somebody's got to go behind the scenes, right?
	So, like, for instance, the way a skyscraper works, you kind of just see how people live their life, but then sort of behind the scenes, there's construction going on, stuff like that.
	So in Die Hard, where is McClane?
	He's in the construction he bits, right?
	In this film, it's kind of similar.
	You know, a lot of times we like to see what's going on behind the scenes, the places where we don't have access.
	And in this case, we're sort of behind the walled-off areas of an amusement park, right?
	I mean, literally, in this case.
	But this amusement park is being built, and we can see the construction work, and we can see all the sort of machinations going on trying to develop this theme park.
	And it gives it a sense of realism that you wouldn't get if you didn't go behind the scenes there.
	And you really feel like, you know, this is really what would happen if somebody created a dinosaur theme park.
	It's just done so well.
	It was so brilliant to do that, you know, behind the scenes.
	They're not quite built yet a thing.
	And it worked out beautifully.
	Yeah, it's like, it's just, you know, 30 seconds in The Wizard of Oz where you see the mighty Oz behind the curtain.
	Here, you're behind the curtain for half an hour.
	They're still building stuff.
	You're seeing the dinosaur come out of the shell in the lab.
	It's a brave move because you're going behind the thing that should be the promenade, that should be the fascia.
	Let's talk about the casting.
	One of my favorite actors, top of my list, is Sam Neill.
	Anything with Sam Neill.
	I'm a huge fan of that Antipodean actor.
	Also, I know he rubs people hot and cold.
	I like Jeff Goldblum.
	I'm not a fan of Laura Dern.
	Dickie Attenborough, the famous British director and actor, an inspired choice as well.
	One of the first First ever castings of Samuel L. Jackson, and then I'm going to talk a little bit about Newman, of course, of Wayne Knight as Nedry, and my favorite late actor is the great Bob Peck who plays Muldoon.
	I'll talk a little bit about some of those later, but you're the actor.
	Talk about the casting of Jurassic Park, Chris.
	Yeah, incredible, incredible.
	By the way, Richard Attenborough, we have seen him already.
	Yes, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	He was in The Great Escape.
	He was in The Great Escape, which was it's it's crazy to see him in both, actually.
	Yeah, no, that we have.
	There's also another connection to some other movies we can discuss later.
	Are you a fan of Mr. Goldblum?
	I don't love Jeff Goldblum.
	I don't love his little weirdness.
	I used to do this thing.
	When I was in high school, uh, where I just go in and now I'm, uh, here, uh, by myself, uh, talking to myself.
	And, uh, for some reason, just saying it like that, the movie was so famous that just saying it like that kind of spazzy a little bit more maybe than I just did it.
	But, uh, people just would laugh because they would recognize that from the film.
	Cause it was such a stupid little thing.
	Um, I didn't, there were some things I don't like about Jurassic Park.
	I didn't like them at the time.
	I think I was with this come out in 93.
	93.
	Yeah. 93.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I would have been 13 years old when this film came out.
	And even then, and I'm watching it now, remembering the things I didn't like.
	I don't like the chaos theory crap.
	I think it's just put in there to... You know, it's in the book, okay?
	I read the book.
	You know, it's in there because they want to sound smart, essentially.
	They wanted to sound interesting and smart and, like, talk about something that people don't know about.
	Well, people don't know about it because it's stupid.
	And, you know, you don't need a professor talking about this.
	It's nonsense.
	And I didn't like Jeff Goldblum.
	I think he's kind of weird and spazzy and he's not, I don't know, he's not heroic.
	He's kind of nerdy, but in like a rock star costume.
	I don't know.
	It's like a weird character.
	There's that, and then there's also this whole theme from the beginning to the end of the film of this curmudgeon-y guy who's essentially the hero of the movie, you know, the classic hero, Grant, and he's a little bit Indiana Jones-y, you know, he's almost like a sort of 90s version of Indiana Jones.
	He's Indiana Jones who hates kids.
	Who hates kids, and that's his whole story arc, is that he hates kids at the beginning, he's supposed to love kids at the end, But even as a kid, you know, when I'm 13 years old in the movie theater watching this, I didn't buy it.
	And part of that might have been that he reminded me a little bit of my curmudgeonly old uncle.
	But this guy, he didn't like kids at the beginning of the film.
	Then he's got this terrible experience with these two kids.
	And we're supposed to believe that by the end he's holding these two kids in the helicopter like now he loves kids.
	Right.
	No, I thought, this guy's never having kids after this.
	Like, you know, this is a terrible way to introduce him to children.
	Yeah, that look from Laura Dern at him in the helicopter as he's got his arms around the kids.
	Yeah, you didn't go from hating kids to being a family man just because some dinosaur tried to kill you.
	We're talking Jurassic Park.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
	Alright, I'm sorry he may not like the character, but as a tribute to one of our staff members' sisters who had a crush on Jeff Goldblum, Eric has prepared a little Jeff Goldblum montage.
	Dr. Sattler, Dr. Grant, you've heard of Chaos Theory?
	No.
	Non-linear equations?
	Strange attractors.
	Dr. Sapper, I refuse to believe that you aren't familiar with the concept of attraction.
	There.
	Look at this.
	See?
	See?
	I'm right again.
	Nobody could have predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle.
	Alan!
	Alan!
	There's another example.
	See, here I am now by myself, talking to myself.
	That's chaos there.
	That is one big pilot.
	You will remember to wash your hands before you eat anything.
	You put a tourniquet on.
	Ian?
	Ian?
	Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend.
	Anybody hear that?
	It's a, um... It's an impact tremor is what it is.
	I'm fairly alarmed here.
	Must go faster.
	More Jeff Goldblum in one montage than many people would want to see in a whole year, let alone one movie, but that is for you out there, you know who you are.
	Okay, I've gotta geek out a little bit on my second favorite actor in this movie.
	Sam Neill is my first, but Bob Peck, who plays Muldoon, the late, great Bob Peck, who died, I think, at the age of...
	53 from Cancer.
	If you're not familiar with it Mel Gibson remade it as a movie but there is an amazing British miniseries that Bob Peck was the star of called Heart of Darkness.
	Guys if you want to see some real good thriller miniseries check out the Heart of Darkness.
	We've got a picture of Mr. Muldoon or Bob Peck Carrying a gun we've seen before in the movies.
	It is the iconic SPAS-12, the Franchi SPAS-12.
	The Terminator Arnold used it as well.
	As well as Dr. Grant at the end of the movie.
	And it is one of my favorite weapons as well.
	A thank you to Danny who took that photograph of me in my double-breasted handmade suit and my SPAS-12.
	A little shout out to one of the most iconic weapons out there.
	And of course, For me, the most famous line of the movie, just before Muldoon
	buys it, is a reminder of what raptors do.
	Clever girl.
	you you
	Clever girl.
	I don't know about you, but that looks like a real dinosaur to me.
	That doesn't look like CGI or animatronics.
	Let's talk about some optional casting.
	I love exploring alternative futures.
	William Hurt, very different, very different.
	Dr. Grant was considered for the role, as was Harrison Ford and Tim Robbins.
	Okay, unusual.
	Connery was considered for the John Hammond owner of the park.
	And Jim Carrey actually auditioned for the Goldblum role.
	So Malcolm, Dr. Malcolm, Jim Carrey, the comedian, auditioned for it, as did for the role of The Squeeze, the anthropologist Helen Hunt and Gwyneth Paltrow.
	Laura Dern, I'm not a fan.
	What do you think of Laura Dern?
	And what about having Helen Hunt or Gwyneth Paltrow in that role, Chris?
	Yeah, Gwyneth Paltrow would have been far too beautiful.
	Helen Hunt is sort of interchangeable with Laura Dern.
	That would have worked fine.
	She was fine in Twister.
	I think Laura Dern was great in this role.
	I think that the only thing that's really, really terrible about the film Jurassic Park is that it brought Laura Dern into prominence.
	In the world.
	If only that had never happened, the world would be a better place.
	But no, Laura Dern in this film is good.
	The reason she's good is that you just don't expect Dr. Grant to have a Gwyneth Paltrow level wife or girlfriend or whatever it is.
	Laura Dern is the kind of woman that you would kind of expect to be an archaeologist, you know, digging in the dirt.
	She kind of has that sense to her.
	Like, who's that guy, Steve Irwin?
	His wife, It's kind of like this, right?
	And she's from Oregon.
	She's actually where I'm from.
	She's the kind of woman who's got something beautiful about her, something that many men would like, but, you know, but she's not like, you know, this Victoria's Secret model that's got to have her nails done perfectly all the time.
	She's not the kind of woman that I date.
	Let's talk.
	We'll discuss that at another time, Mr. Coles.
	But, you know, she's the kind of chick that I grew up with, you know, back home in Oregon.
	You know, a little bit like, you know, she's willing to get her hands dirty, willing to do a little work on the farm or whatever it is.
	And an outdoorsy girl.
	And I think she's perfectly cast.
	An outdoorsy girl.
	Perfectly cast, perfectly cast.
	The guy that you're talking about with that shotgun, the Australian, he's Australian.
	Bob Peck, yeah, yeah.
	Honestly, I felt like he was the real hero.
	Like, he should have been the real hero of this movie, even when I was a kid.
	I was watching that character, I thought, this is my favorite character in this movie.
	And they kill him off, and I've always hated that.
	I've never forgiven Spielberg for killing him off.
	I'm like, you couldn't have let him live and then pop up in the sequels and maybe be the hero in like a later film?
	I didn't get it because to me he was the best character.
	I felt like- And not only that, come on, one second here.
	He actually wore shorts that were short, like Thomas Magnum.
	Right?
	Right.
	And he had that sort of safari outfit and he pulls it off, you know, you don't, that's the crazy thing.
	It's this sort of very antiquated uniform.
	Yeah.
	Actually the crocodile hunter wears the same uniform, Steve Irwin wears the same uniform, but they pull it off somehow because they are those men that can get that stuff done and you believe it.
	So they can dress in this way that looks like a caricature, but you know, they totally pull it off.
	Everybody was perfectly cast.
	I don't know about the Ian Malcolm character.
	Ian Malcolm and Dr. Grant, they're fighting over the girl.
	That's an interesting dynamic.
	It reminded me a little bit of Johnny Quest.
	I don't know if you ever saw the Johnny Quest.
	Uh, but there was the dad, and then there was this sort of, like, security guard guy that was, that was like, uh, you know, an uncle in a way.
	Race Bannon.
	And, you know, yeah, Race Bannon.
	That was a great character, you know what I mean?
	And I think Ian Malcolm was supposed to be kind of a Race Bannon kind of character, but... Otherwise known as Mike Pence.
	He does look very, very much like Ray Spaniel.
	But then he gets injured and then he's just kind of sitting there for most of the rest of the movie because I think they wanted it to be grants.
	They wanted Dr. Grant to be the hero.
	Right.
	You know, and like, you know, fair enough.
	It did.
	It worked out the way they did it.
	I don't know.
	I think everything was well cast.
	It's weird to think that Samuel L. Jackson is that character, because this is before Samuel L. Jackson was Samuel L. Jackson.
	And then he gets killed, but you never see him die.
	You just see his arm.
	Yeah.
	And actually, as a kid, I never realized that was the same guy, because only until that moment you hear his name in the film.
	She cries out his name when his arm falls on her.
	Exactly, yeah.
	But they had mentioned it a couple times before that, but I didn't really click in my head that that was the same character, and I'd forgotten that he'd gone over there.
	You didn't have the visual illustration of where he was and what he was trying to do before she goes, you know, to the circuit breakers to try to, you know, turn all the electricity back on.
	And so I didn't realize that that was the arm of Samuel L. Jackson, actually, until this time watching it.
	I've never put that together until now.
	So, you know, not everything in this movie is perfect, but it does end up being a perfect movie at the end of the day.
	All right, a couple of last trivia points before we get to our final thoughts.
	It was made for a stunning $63 million and garnered $1 billion.
	A little bit of behind the scenes.
	How does a film that only cost $60 million Garner a billion in revenue because they spent 65 million on marketing.
	They spent more on marketing than they spent on making the movie.
	It garnered five sequels, most of them garbage, three Oscars, and one little fun fact.
	The autonomous Ford Jeeps that were donated by Ford are not autonomous.
	They were built by George Barris, who built the original Batmobile, and they had drivers hidden in the trunk.
	So they actually had steering wheels in the back of the vehicle, and they were actually driven by people hiding in the trunk of the car.
	The script was purchased for $1.5 million before the book was published.
	Crichton was paid another half a million to turn it into a screenplay.
	Other people who bid for it but didn't buy the book.
	Tim Burton, that would have been a very different movie.
	Richard Donner and Joe Dante and James Cameron tried to purchase it just a few hours after Spielberg did.
	So Cameron, Dante, Donner and Burton all wanted to make the movie but it ended up being Spielberg.
	We're talking, of course, Jurassic Park with our buddy Chris Coles,
	coming to you from the reliefactor.com studios.
	Mr. Grant?
	Boy, do I hate being right all the time.
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	Keep absolutely still.
	This vision is based on movement.
	When that T-Rex screams and roars, I'm sorry, it looks real to me.
	That's why Jurassic Park is Jurassic Park.
	Final thoughts, Chris, about this movie before we rank it?
	Listen, it has flaws.
	I mean, the movie has flaws, but at the end of the day, like I said, it is basically a perfect film.
	The reason that you went to go see this film was the spectacle of seeing dinosaurs that really seemed real.
	you know, to try to see dinosaurs for the first time in history since man first existed
	on this planet, the first time we're seeing these creatures again on the Earth in a way
	that looks like it possibly could have been.
	Okay, the velociraptors in real life were the size of chickens or whatever it was.
	They weren't quite that big.
	They got a couple of the things wrong.
	There were dinosaurs that were that size and kind of vaguely looked like that.
	I don't know why they picked Velociraptor as the one.
	But the thing is, it's not just looking at these dinosaurs.
	It's a spectacular story.
	One other issue that I have with this film is they needed conflict between the scientists and the capitalists, right?
	They didn't really make him a capitalist.
	They didn't want to make it that fight, I think, so they made him more of a philanthropist.
	But in either case, they wanted to make this concern like, oh, you know, you guys are doing science wrong, right?
	And have this conflict.
	So there's a lot of arguments that they put forward throughout this film when they're bickering that to me never made any sense.
	Even as a kid, I'm like, I don't think this is a valid argument, you know?
	So it's a little bit silly in some ways, but you're really not going there for a philosophical debate, right?
	You're really not watching this film for that reason.
	You're watching this film To see the dinosaurs.
	And you know what you get added onto that?
	Really, one of the best stories in terms of just a great thriller to watch these people running away from dinosaurs.
	This is the end of the film.
	They have one of the best finales, one of the best twist endings of any film of this type.
	I don't know if there's a lot of films of this type, really, in history.
	This is a sort of one-off.
	But just a perfect twist ending, and really probably one of the greatest films ever made, really.
	No, it is.
	I think you would use the word spectacular.
	I think the great word to describe this, the noun, is this is spectacle.
	This is movie as spectacle, and it is done right.
	Before we finish, before we grade this and pick our next movie, I want to pay my respects to the late, great Michael Crichton, who from Andromeda Strain, To Westworld, to Future World, to Jurassic Park, to ER.
	Just a stunning, you know, series of movies, TV shows.
	A guy who was a man of science himself, he was a medical doctor.
	If you're not familiar with, everybody knows the books and the movies, but I want to praise Michael Crichton, the man, and especially this speech.
	Let's put it up on the screen.
	Before he died, he gave a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that everybody in America needs to read, especially now.
	It's called Environmentalism is a Religion.
	I just want to read to you two sentences from this amazing speech.
	He said, In this speech that you can get online, today one of the most powerful religions in the Western world is environmentalism.
	Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.
	Increasingly, it seems facts aren't necessary for these people because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief.
	Wow, wow, wow.
	That's in 2003, Michael Crichton warned us, go and read the speech.
	It's very, very short.
	All right, before we grade it, Eric, why were you so desperate for us to review this movie?
	This is a movie that I grew up with.
	It came out in 1993, a year before I was born, but I know that for me and my sister and a lot of others in my generation, this was our first PG-13 movie.
	This movie was a rite of passage, basically.
	You're not a little kid anymore.
	You can watch something that's a little on the scarier side.
	You know, looking back on it now, it seems tame compared to movies these days, but I think what really works with this movie is that It's a movie that's about awe and wonder.
	Yes, there are scary parts.
	People get eaten by dinosaurs, you see it happen, but at the end of the day, they are still treated with a sense of majesty and wonder that plays to the, I think, the audiences.
	Most people, you can imagine, boys and girls alike, when they were kids, who weren't fascinated by dinosaurs.
	Uh, Jeff.
	Jeff doesn't think they exist.
	Jeff thinks they weren't real.
	But yeah, no, most people loved dinosaurs when we were a kid.
	The idea of these big, these majestic creatures that once walked the earth that are not here anymore.
	And like you said, getting to see them in real life, getting to see them maybe how they really looked, maybe not, getting to hear what they sounded like possibly.
	And it's that sense of awe and wonder that still carries over to this day, even though I'm an adult now.
	It's a pretty good review, Chris.
	Pretty good, right?
	Brilliant, brilliant.
	This guy, I think we're out of a job.
	Somebody should hire that guy.
	Somebody should hire that guy.
	Alright, I think that was the easiest episode of our show for Eric to do the clips for.
	Nicely done, sir.
	Nicely done.
	Alright, let's rank this out of fleas in amber.
	Let's, no, what is it?
	Mosquitoes.
	Mosquitoes in amber out of ten.
	You're going to do it for a modern audience.
	I'm going to do it in the universe of all movies.
	You know what?
	It's really weird because I don't even really think of this as an old movie.
	It's like you said, it's...
	This is like the most modern movie we've done.
	It isn't really, because we did True Lies, but even True Lies seems older than this.
	Somehow Jurassic Park still seems modern, and I think the reason is because there were so many sequels, maybe?
	I'm not really sure exactly what it is, but it doesn't seem like this is as old as it is.
	This is almost 20 years ago.
	No, this is, yeah, yeah, yeah, over 20 years ago now, right?
	30 years.
	30 years ago.
	Yeah.
	Is that right?
	Yeah.
	1993.
	Is my mouth off?
	1993, you're right.
	It just seems like it couldn't possibly be 30 years old, this film, but it's so old.
	But it feels like it was maybe 10 years old at the most.
	It seems like a fairly modern film, but it's really better than anything that we've got now, just like most of the films that we review here.
	But I think it's something that everyone will watch.
	I think it's something that at some point in everyone's life, about maybe age 12 or 13, people will watch this film.
	Maybe a little younger than that.
	Maybe 10 or 11.
	They'll watch this film with their parents.
	Coles.
	Coles.
	Give me a grade.
	Yeah.
	Give me a grade, Coles.
	Stop talking.
	It's 10 out of 10.
	Woo!
	Wow!
	It's a 10 out of 10.
	Everybody's going to watch it.
	Everybody's going to love it.
	This is a film that everyone will love.
	All right, you know me, I'm so reticent to give 10 out of 10s or even 9 out of 10s in the universe of all movies, in the universe of... No, you shouldn't.
	You should be reticent, yeah.
	All right, I'm gonna do this.
	I'm gonna cheat here.
	I'm gonna give this, in the universe of movies, 8.75.
	Will you forgive me, Eric?
	Is that okay?
	It's above 70 so that's a passing grade.
	Alright, 8.75.
	Alright, last thing we have to do is we have to choose the next movie.
	I'm going to do something a little bit different because there's one movie a caller suggested yesterday that would have been perfect because it's actually in the universe of Michael Crichton.
	and it's got one of my favorite actors in it it's Yul Brynner and it's Westworld
	which would have been a nice tie-in however as I was watching this movie as I was watching
	interviews with Spielberg I realized that what the real uh inspiration for this movie was according
	to Spielberg and it's a it's a really old movie but I think we have to review it.
	So, King Kong, the original King Kong.
	Chris, I'll leave it up to you.
	Westworld with Yul Brynner or the OG King Kong?
	Oh, man.
	Let's watch King Kong.
	You know, that's an old movie.
	We're going back to the 30s.
	We're going back to the 30s.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	But it's a direct inspiration for Jurassic Park.
	All right, guys.
	We're going to expand the aperture to an incredible movie, one of my dad's favorite films.
	He saw it as a child in the 1930s.
	So guys, get ready.
	Get your black and white goggles on.
	We're watching King Kong.
	As ever, it's been a delight with our buddy Chris Coles, me, Sebastian Gorka, making movies great again.

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