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Sebastian Gorka LIVE: The bizarro world of the E. Jean Carroll court case

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	The motion before us that we are arguing against is that this House fears the return of the man I worked for, Donald John Trump.
	I'm honored to be in this building, at this society, which has recognized and invited such champions in Western civilization who believed in the truth Who believed in the will of the people and Western civilization as Einstein, as Reagan, and as Thatcher.
	But I find it strange that the motion is coined in such a way that this house fears The return of a man who did more than any other in at least two generations to revivify that civilization, to stand up for concepts of representative government and national sovereignty and the greatness of our civilization.
	The most important speech he ever gave was at the Warsaw Ghetto, the site of the uprising against fascism.
	And he asked one question, which is the question of the age.
	Does the West, do we together, have what it takes to defend and defeat those who wish to destroy our civilization?
	And that is why I served him.
	They finally did it.
	It took them about three months.
	But that is a little clip from my speech at the Oxford Union.
	About President Trump.
	The motion before the House was, this House fears the re-election of President Donald Trump.
	And I debated against the motion in the face of none other than Bernie Sanders' commie brother who lives in the UK.
	The whole 11 minutes, yes, I flew, what did I do, like 6,000 miles to speak for 11 minutes on my own dime, but it's important.
	It's important.
	And I got more than 120 Oxford students, this bastion of wokeism, of leftism.
	To vote with me in favor of President Trump.
	We'll share more of those clips.
	We'll put the whole video up online.
	But that moment is really, for me, the most consequential.
	When President Trump stood there at the site of the Warsaw Uprising.
	And he asked one question.
	Does the West Have the will to fight and defeat those who wish to destroy us, whether it's Hamas, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Communist China, or those within America who hate America.
	Do you sometimes believe that you are living in a bizarre world where you don't understand what other people are telling you about the Biden administration, about the policies of the left?
	Well, I have in my hand the answer as to why you may feel that.
	Credit goes to Andrew Clavin.
	Thank you, Andrew, for sending me this article from the Wall Street Journal.
	It is written by Kim Strassel, and it quotes a survey by none other than Scott Rasmussen.
	Twice he surveyed last year what he calls an outlier group.
	That group are the quote-unquote elite, individuals with a postgraduate degree who earn more than $150,000 a year and who live in urban areas.
	And he asked them a few questions that may explain to you why you may think sometimes you are living in an alternate universe.
	Among this elite, 74% in America say that their finances, their economic condition is getting better.
	As opposed to only 20% of those who do not live in that quote-unquote elite.
	Actually, those who have Ivy League graduate degrees, the percentage for them is 88.
	is 88. 88% of Ivy League graduates say everything's just dandy.
	The elite with their postgraduate degrees who live in urban areas who earn
	over $150,000 a Everybody else, 40%.
	Now that's quite a large delta.
	From 84% to 40%.
	an 84% approval rating.
	Everybody else, 40%.
	Now that's quite a large delta.
	From 84% to 40%, that's two different Americas.
	What do they think?
	What does the elite think about other parts of society?
	They have a favorable view to the tune of 89% of college professors.
	You know, like the president of Harvard, Claudine Gay, who thinks genocidal chants on Harvard campus are just fine and dandy.
	This rich elite, what is their favorability of journalists in the media?
	A whopping 79%.
	79% of those with an income of $150,000 or more think, yeah, the media's just great.
	Union leaders, oh, we like them too, 78%.
	Members of Congress, even members of Congress, get an approval rating from the elite.
	Of 67%!
	Remember how Yankin won in Virginia?
	Two-thirds of the elite say they'd prefer a political candidate who says teachers and educational professionals, whatever that is, not parents should decide what children are taught.
	Hmm.
	How communist of them.
	Most striking of all is the elite's view on bedrock American principles and values.
	Nearly 50% of the elite, now listen to this, nearly 50% of the quote-unquote elite
	believe that the United States provides too much individual freedom.
	77% of them believed or believe today that there should be strict rationing
	of gasoline, meat and electricity to fight climate change.
	More than two-thirds of them, more than 66%, favor banning gasoline-powered cars and stoves and inessential air travel in the name of saving the planet.
	Well, there you have it.
	Here's the empirical proof.
	They don't live in the world you live in.
	And they think you are far too free.
	They think you shouldn't drive a gas-powered car.
	They think you shouldn't eat meat.
	They think that teachers should decide, and teachers alone, what your children and your grandchildren study.
	We cannot allow these people to run our country.
	This country must be run by those who understand what America is and why it is the greatest nation on God's green earth.
	Are you part of that?
	Are you running for office?
	Are you supporting somebody who's running for office?
	Are you knocking on doors?
	Are you an election officer?
	If not, why not?
	Because if you're not going to do it, who is?
	Somebody else?
	And if you're not going to do it now, when do you want to save America?
	After you've lost it?
	Stand up.
	Be counted.
	Happy Friday.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
	This is America First.
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	Next up, former Acting Director of National Intelligence, former Ambassador to the United Nations, the one, the only, Rick Grenell.
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	Okay.
	Want me to dial him now or wait for a bit?
	Just wait for a second.
	Actually, no, you can dial him up.
	Okay.
	You want the mics off for him?
	No.
	Okay.
	Actually, mic's off.
	Yeah, mic's off.
	Mic's off.
	.
	Thank you.
	Biden is a threat to democracy.
	He's an absolute threat to democracy.
	He's very dangerous for a couple of reasons.
	Number one, he's grossly incompetent, which is the number one reason.
	But he's also, actually in his own way, it's not him, it's the people that surround him.
	You got some very bad people surrounding him at that desk.
	You have people running the Department of Justice surrounding him.
	They're young and they're smart and they're communists and they're Marxists and they're fascists.
	And they're running this country.
	They're running it right into the ground.
	And most of them appointed by Barack Hussein Obama.
	His holdovers are the people who are really running things, especially at the Department of Justice.
	And President Trump is right.
	These are communists.
	They are Marxists.
	They are fascists.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	Somebody who's been on the front lines fighting the deep state, or rather what I call the in-your-face state now, is a very trusted confidant of the 45th, and God willing, if we do our part, the 47th President of the United States, former Acting Director of National Intelligence.
	It's been a while.
	Happy New Year, Rick Grenell.
	Hey, thanks for having me, Seb, my friend.
	It's always good to be here.
	So we have to talk about what you've been doing, some very interesting deep state activities by the people at Foggy Bottom.
	But first things first, as somebody who was above all 17 intelligence agencies, Intelligence agencies that we were told by Chuck Schumer have seven ways from Sunday of taking down a president who doesn't obey them.
	That's what he said about President Trump.
	How concerned are you that we have another 10 months before the election when you have the likes of Robert Kagan calling President Trump Caesar?
	We know what happened to Caesar.
	When you have articles in the mainstream legacy media talking about the need for the military, the military, to counter President Trump if he's re-elected.
	Is there nothing That the left will not do to stop our former boss?
	Yeah, I don't think so.
	I mean, I think, you know, people talk about a November surprise.
	I think we're going to have to worry about a May surprise, a June surprise, a July surprise.
	Look, and I'll add one more thing to that great list that you just put forward.
	This rollover of FISA is very concerning.
	I think the Republicans got played.
	We now know that the FISA abuse from DOJ is how they pretended that Donald Trump was a Russian asset and got approval to spy on his campaign.
	And they have that same authority, Seb.
	We did not get rid of that authority.
	We saw the problems and the Republican Congress allowed it to continue because they couldn't come up with the right reform package.
	What concerns me as we go into this next election is they now have the power, the exact same power that they had with FISA, to be able to abuse spying on Americans.
	Look, they will never admit that they're spying on Americans.
	They say, oh, well, we're spying on foreigners.
	And so be it.
	There's some Americans that get captured into that process.
	When I was acting DNI, one of the abuses that they would do in order to leak who they were spying on is they would abuse the way that the law allows them to identify an American who's swept up in the system.
	So the idea is they're spying on a foreigner.
	The foreigner happens to be talking to an American.
	So then that American's communication is swept into this.
	They are supposed to identify the American as simply US official or non-US official,
	something generic.
	But the way that the intelligence agencies have been abusing this,
	and they were doing it under Trump, is they would say,
	oh, a specific intelligence official from this agency, from this state,
	and they were identifying it to the point where you could figure out exactly who it was.
	And then the political types would come in and say, Oh, that sounds like it's a Grinnell or, or, you know, someone inside the administration, can I unmask that name?
	And they would go in and they would find out the name, they would then leak it to the Washington Post, that this person was was heard saying, you know, this, that and the other, and that would only be a half truth.
	This is the game that the intelligence community plays, and I'll state this, are we shocked That we're not seeing leaks from the intelligence community against the Biden team and all of the abuses that's going on in Ukraine and Israel and all the other wars that they want to happen.
	None of the leaks are happening.
	It's not just people like you or me or people who are former officials.
	We now know banks.
	Banks are colluding with the FBI if you're involved in a transaction that relates to President Trump or MAGA.
	Your details will be given to FinCEN, to the Financial Intelligence Center.
	So this is about all patriots.
	Before we run out of time, please follow this man at Richard Grinnell on social media.
	It's not just targeting conservatives at home, is it, Rick?
	Tell us what you found out about what is happening abroad.
	Well, I think you're referring to Guatemala.
	I've been down in Guatemala these days.
	Last week I spent four days there.
	And I'm very concerned with the weaponization of the State Department, weaponizing visas, weaponizing sanctions against conservatives who don't follow the left-wing line.
	We just have seen in Guatemala now the embassy, U.S.
	Embassy in Guatemala, weaponize entry into the United States and the idea of sanctions, scaring individuals with Treasury sanctions, financial sanctions, crippling sanctions.
	on individuals who challenge the left-wing narrative in Guatemala.
	It's happening.
	I've called for an Inspector General investigation.
	I've talked to a number of senators who said that they are very supportive of that idea.
	And I'm following up to make sure that we get an IG investigation of what the State Department is doing in Guatemala.
	I can tell you they've done this in the Balkans.
	They've done this all over the world.
	And the latest is just Guatemala.
	Well, I don't know about IG reports.
	They seem to just gather dust on the shelves of the agencies that write them.
	I think somebody has to... First step.
	First step, I think somebody has to fix Foggy Bottom or push it into the Potomac.
	I nominate Rick Grinnell.
	First, we have to win it, though.
	We've got 10 months, guys.
	Let's do it.
	Follow this man's lead.
	Follow him at Richard Grinnell on Twitter.
	Thank you, Rick.
	Stay safe.
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	All right, from one of my former colleagues in the administration at the cabinet level, we'll go to one of my White House colleagues.
	We just call him the Baron.
	What's the latest news from campaign land?
	Next, Boris Epstein.
	For Grinnell, this president from the United States, who is a very good friend of mine,
	is a very good friend of mine, and I'm going to tell you a story.
	For Grinnell, is President Trump safe?
	For Grinnell, is President Trump safe?
	Is President Trump safe?
	Question mark.
	And monologue.
	monologue no you're not going crazy
	See ya.
	Not going crazy.
	Alright.
	Want me to call him up now?
	Hang on a second.
	Okay.
	Uh, what are we doing here?
	uh...
	Let's see.
	Come in with twelve, I'll do PhD, then I'll go to Boris.
	PhD, cut twelve, okay.
	Oxford, part two, then PhD, then Boris.
	Alright.
	And then I'll play cut two for him.
	Okay.
	Come in with twelve and then play cut two.
	Okay.
	You don't have the photograph of me and the President in Trump Tower, do you?
	It's probably somewhere in here, I'd have to find it.
	That's it, I only had one.
	Oh no!
	Oh no, what is this?
	Oh, you're right, hang on.
	No, I only had one from Midas.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Okay.
	He's not gonna arm wrestle me.
	Okay?
	seconds.
	Oh, I'm sending you the image.
	I'm going to use this for PhD.
	Before I do the read, I want to mention this photograph.
	Bless you.
	When I find it, I will be back.
	I will be back.
	Thanks for watching!
	So, let me flip the page.
	flip the take, the perspective.
	And don't get me wrong, I grew up here.
	I went to Ealing Abbey for 14 years.
	I was in the debate club.
	When I first met this man in 2015, it took some getting used to.
	When I was invited to Trump Tower to advise him during the Republican debate on national security, I thought, really?
	That guy from television?
	Him?
	He wants me to advise him?
	But it was not a hard decision.
	Why?
	Because within 30 seconds of meeting the man, I knew two things about him.
	He loved America, and he had an utter detestation for political correctness.
	For me, that was enough.
	And in classic Trump style, In classic Trump style, there's only me and him in Trump Tower and his campaign manager Corey in the corner.
	Halfway through the discussion, he stopped it dead, turned to Corey, and he said, I like this guy, let's hire him.
	And me and Stormy Daniels are connected because I also signed an NDA.
	Let's have some fun as well.
	Let's save the West, but have some fun.
	You may have to wear a penguin suit and be standing in Oxford Union, but you can have a bit of fun as well.
	Finally they posted it.
	Thank you to those layabout students at the Oxford Union.
	That was me debating against the motion, This House Fears the Re-election of President Trump.
	I've just put the video up there.
	Alex actually looked at the figures.
	It went up four days ago.
	It's almost got a million views already.
	Go and find it on all my social media platforms.
	All right, let's go to our guest.
	It's a little bit earlier than usual.
	But we have to check in with the one, the only, we call him the Baron, Boris Epstein.
	Happy Friday.
	Happy Friday, my friend.
	It's an honor to be with you, an honor to be with the audience, and it's a big, it's a big week.
	It is a huge week, but first things first, priorities please, Baron.
	I couldn't make out the band of the cigar you were smoking that you sent me the picture of yesterday.
	What was the second cigar?
	The second one was a partitas.
	Oh, a very fancy version, because usually the partitas... Alright, was that good?
	Was that a good rope?
	It was a perfect medium smoke, nice and relaxed, exactly what you need after a long day of President Trump winning across all fronts.
	Alright, I was going to play cards with you, I was going to, you know, I just want to cut to the chase.
	It's over, right?
	I mean, for the sanctimonious, for Jeb Bush in heels, they're toast, right?
	Well, here's the bottom line.
	The president won Iowa by a larger margin, by over three times the second largest margin of anyone else in the history of our country.
	Anyone else in the history of our country in Iowa caucuses.
	He is dominating in New Hampshire.
	It is.
	And he's also crushing Joe Biden in all the head-to-head polls.
	The full-spectrum dominance is unlimited.
	And why?
	Because the American people know that they need President Trump back in office to save our country, to save our economy, to save our border, to save our energy, to save the country and, yes, the world.
	So how long will the Pretenders last?
	There's no way he waits until Florida and loses Florida as well.
	If it's a crushing defeat for both of them in New Hampshire, will they call it a day?
	What are you hearing about the big left-wing funders for the likes of Nikki Haley?
	Have they had enough of burning their millions?
	I am hearing from major funders for Nikki Haley that they cannot even fathom that she's going to win, that maybe they're making some sort of bet on something else.
	And they know, even they know, that President Trump is going to be the nominee, and then he's going to absolutely crush Joe Biden in the election.
	The thing at this point is the fact that Rhonda Santamonius and Nikki Haley are staying in this race.
	is only helping one decrepit, illegitimate person, and that's Joe Biden.
	We need to call us behind President Trump.
	You and I have been singing on this show loud and clear for years and years and years.
	President Trump is the irrefutable, undisputed leader of the Republican Party in this world and the country, and it's time for all Americans to call us behind him, and let's go get our country back.
	And just the sheer fact that you have a donor to Haley, who on national cable television admits she has serious large-scale Democrat donors.
	How do you even admit that, Boris?
	Well, I think that you admit it if you're somebody who's not a skilled politician.
	You admit it if you have no idea and no clue about what the American people want.
	And if you're just out there regurgitating talking points.
	That's what happens.
	President Trump is the most authentic candidate, the most authentic president in the history of our country.
	And that's why the movement is absolutely unparalleled in the history of our country.
	And again, I'll say the world, there's never been a movement like this behind somebody who people love, who people believe in, who people trust and want to bring back to the Oval Office.
	Just do the numbers.
	More than 130 million votes for this man twice.
	That tells you everything you need to know.
	Follow our buddy Senior Advisor to the Trump 2024 campaign at BorisEP on social media and BorisEP.com.
	I've got to catch up with you.
	I've got to smoke some cigars after the show.
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	with the forces of the Lone Star State against the corrupt federal forces of the Biden administration.
	What's really going on?
	Can we secure the nation, at least one of the states of the Republic?
	Let's ask the Attorney General of the great Lone Star State, Ken Paxton.
	Happy New Year.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Thanks for having me back, Sebastian.
	Now, this is really tough for me to navigate because my wife worked at DHS.
	She was the Press Secretary for Customs and Border Protection.
	I know the people there.
	They're good people.
	They want to do their job, but they're not being allowed, at least, you know, the people there who wear green on the border aren't being allowed to do their jobs.
	That's why you guys had to step in.
	What has been the response from the political appointees of the Department of Homeland Security, and how can you secure at least Texas General Paxton?
	So, first of all, I agree with you.
	Border Patrol agents are heroes, and I've talked to many of them privately, hundreds, and they do want to do their jobs.
	They're being ordered, not just To not do their jobs, they're being ordered to help the cartels bring people into this country.
	So what you said up front is true.
	So we've got all kinds of things going on in Texas.
	As you know, we have Shelby Park, where the governor has basically told Border Patrol they can no longer do their logistics operation.
	And they have threatened with a letter to try to do what they can to stop us.
	Can I just get clarification?
	So Shelby Park is not federal land.
	Your people are trying to secure it from the coyotes.
	And hang on a second.
	The feds are telling you you can't secure Texas soil?
	Yes, it's public land.
	It's not even private.
	It's not owned by the federal government.
	It is a governmental entity of Texas.
	And they are telling us that we don't have the right to stop them on public lands.
	And they cite some law that is not applicable.
	And then they argue that because they're trying to secure the border, we're interfering with them securing the border.
	And my response was, well, that's funny because I haven't seen you secure the border.
	When are you going to start?
	So what happens now?
	Is there a standoff?
	Is it a Mexican standoff?
	What's happening between the Texas authorities and DHS?
	Is it a legal battle now?
	Is it a physical battle?
	What's happening?
	Presumably, they didn't state what they were going to do.
	They left it wide open.
	But we still control that park because it's our property.
	And we're going to continue to control that park.
	So I don't know what they're going to do.
	Are they going to sue us?
	Send Border Patrol there to try to sneak in.
	I don't know what their strategy is.
	I just know we're not giving in.
	Can you give our listeners because you're talking to about three and a half million people across the country from your California to Texas to Washington DC.
	How bad you have the optic you have the prism of Texas.
	Can you explain just how badly things have changed in terms of the security of the state and the sovereignty of the state under the last three years of the Biden Department of Homeland Security?
	I don't think we've ever had anything like it in our history.
	We went from a relatively controlled border to an open border that is open for the cartels.
	And look, this is not an accident.
	It wasn't like it accidentally happened.
	It was shut down by Trump through various policies that remain in Mexico, stopping catch and release, building a wall.
	And Biden has dismantled all of our federal laws and said we're not enforcing those.
	And not only that, we want the cartels to know You don't have to hide these people anymore.
	Bring them to us.
	We'll make this a lot faster.
	That way you can get more people through.
	You can make more money.
	And what that's led to is more drug importation, which means I know a lot more families that have lost children to fentanyl overdoses who had no idea they were taking fentanyl.
	It means we have a lot higher crime in our state and in our country.
	It means that we're having to fund education, health care costs, more prisons, more law enforcement.
	It's very expensive from both a social and economic perspective.
	And the Biden administration wants more of it, not less.
	You have been battling, and doing so with great success, the rhinos in Texas.
	God bless you, congratulations.
	We have a lot of them here in this stinking city who are trying to make some kind of agreement with the Biden White House that would give work permits to illegals, would agree to 5,000 illegals crossing into America every single day.
	I know you're the Attorney General of Texas, but You're speaking to people here in DC as well, to the quote-unquote elite.
	What is your message to those who have an R after their name, who think it's okay to sign a deal that would allow 5,000 illegals into America every 24 hours?
	I would say please don't do it.
	We already have, I don't know how many under the Biden administration, six, seven million people that we know of, probably more, including Potential terrorists.
	Not just potential.
	We're very likely to have gotten many terrorists in our country.
	It's cells that are just waiting to activate.
	So I would beg them, look, enforce the laws.
	We've already proven that that works.
	We know that Trump was doing it successfully.
	Why capitulate on something that was working to give the Biden administration out and now say, yeah, this disaster was created, but the Republicans agreed to it.
	Why give them that message?
	That's the message they'll use against us in the next election.
	Perfectly put.
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	Looks like Sports Illustrated is shutting down.
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	The world we were born in no longer exists.
	It's never been this over.
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	It's the March for Life.
	Oh my gosh, the fact that we actually got rid of Roe v. Wade.
	What was Biden's response this morning to the people marching for life?
	You won't believe it.
	Oh, you know he's a Catholic, right?
	Cut six.
	What's your message to those attending?
	March.
	What a sack of puss.
	What's your message to the people marching in the March for Life?
	March.
	Okay, let's have some fun.
	There's a Professor Gael Weitzman who chaired the panel on climate change at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday and... Oh, it's just so funny.
	Cut it.
	I am absolutely delighted to be able to manage and moderate a session today at the Open Forum.
	It is a topic that is near and dear to my heart with Arctic Base Camp.
	It's entitled On Thin Ice.
	Now we do know that the world has 16 climate tipping points.
	And I think what is less well known is that 9 of those 16 are in the polar regions.
	Science has also informed us that 6 of those tipping points will actually be triggered if we get to a positive 2 degree warmer world.
	Unfortunately, 5 of those are also in the poles, so the poles will actually determine the fate of humanity.
	Now, you shouldn't just trust me on that.
	I'm a social scientist, so I don't actually do that measurement data.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but I don't know what I'm talking about.
	I mean, Eric, can we keep that as, like, one of our key cuts?
	That is one of my favorite cuts ever.
	I can't believe... She didn't even stop for a second to think how it looks.
	Talking, talking, global warming, the world's gonna end, 16 tipping points.
	Oh, by the way, I'm not an expert.
	Yeah, that is delightful.
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	One last clip, if you'll indulge me, from my speech at the Oxford Union.
	The whole thing is up already on my Twitter feed.
	We'll put it everywhere else as well.
	We're going to just share with you a clip concerning the motion they had before the House in the oldest debating society in the world.
	This House fears the re-election of President Trump.
	I was debating against the motion.
	Here's a little clip.
	I was on my friend Carl Benjamin's show today and he said, well the question is interesting because maybe the people in this room, maybe the people at this college do fear him.
	But for the wrong reasons.
	Why would you not wish to have a man back who is the only person in history to have received more than 130 million votes?
	No other human being has received 130 million votes.
	Do the math.
	64 and... No, please.
	We have decorum here or we have nothing.
	Why would you wish to have others decide for you who should run a country?
	Should it not be the people who decide who runs a country?
	No, I'm good, thank you.
	That is why Donald Trump was elected in 2016.
	I find it rather risible, amusing at least, that as an immigrant to the United States, I have to remind my fellow Americans what they did in 2016.
	Because there is a connective tissue between every president from Washington to Obama.
	There is a similarity.
	Every single one of them was a member of the political and military elite from Washington to Obama.
	They were all congressmen, senators, governors, or retired generals.
	And then, what did the American people do?
	They said, enough!
	Enough of these people!
	We want somebody who is untainted by being a member of the quote-unquote elite.
	Quote.
	No, I'm good.
	Thank you.
	The I'm good thank you stuff that made the audience laugh is you're allowed to make points of information from the galleries and you don't have to take them as the debater and since I'd flown 8,000 miles to give a 10 minute speech I said I'm good.
	The whole speech is available on our social media accounts.
	We've already had almost a million views.
	In the last four days, so check it out, you might find it amusing.
	All right, there's far too much fake news out there in general, not just in the political sphere, but especially national security.
	One man who has been cutting like a scythe through it, like the sword of Damocles, is my new Newsmax colleague, Ryan Macbeth, and we are delighted to have him back in studio.
	Welcome back and Happy New Year, Ryan.
	Sebastian, thank you so much for having me.
	Happy New Year.
	I gotta tell you, when I tell people I'm coming on this show, all your fans come out of the woodwork.
	You have the best fans.
	I've been on a lot of people's shows, but I swear, you have the best fans.
	And the haters too, right?
	There's some of them as well, but you know, I...
	All I say is that, hey, I occasionally do security work for Velocity, which is a private intelligence company, and if Matt Gaetz hired me to do an intelligence analysis for him, I would give him the best possible analysis.
	If AOC said, Velocity, we want to hire Ryan McBeth to give us intelligence analysis, I would give her the best intelligence analysis, because intelligence analysis must be apolitical.
	Absolutely, absolutely.
	It's got to be about objectivity.
	Everything you put on YouTube, you've got to go Ryan Macbeth programming, you've got to subscribe right now to this YouTube channel, check out Ryan Substack.
	One of the best things you've done to date, and it's all superb, is you did a deep dive that nobody's ever done before.
	On why does the media get military stories wrong so often?
	And I don't understand how nobody done what you'd done before, which is to use LinkedIn, to use open intelligence, to find out how many people with veteran military backgrounds work at these institutions.
	So give us your theory of why, for example, with the Gaza Hotel rocket Accident.
	So many journalists got it wrong, Ryan.
	What did you find?
	What I found was that so few journalists end up in journalism after a career in the military that they don't have a baseline level of knowledge.
	So if I were to ask you, how many goals does a soccer field have?
	What would you say?
	Two.
	Two goals, right?
	So if I were to come along and say, no, no, no, no, no.
	A soccer field has four goals.
	You'd be like, well, hold on for a second.
	I have that experience.
	So if you have a New York Times reporter, and he has no military experience whatsoever, and you come up to him and say, hey, see that use of white phosphorus?
	That's a war crime.
	Well, what else does he have to believe?
	He has no baseline level of knowledge.
	And what I discovered doing this kind of research Was that specifically the New York Times has only 0.33% veterans.
	So an organization with thousands of employees.
	87,000 employees.
	8,700 employees.
	That's barely anyone who's a veteran.
	29 veterans employed at the New York Times.
	Now, the Washington Post is a little bit better.
	They have a veteran ratio of .05.
	But that's still embarrassing!
	It is a little odd.
	And the only thing I can think of is that I actually took a look at the New York Times DEI page, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which is very important.
	It's good to have a diverse newsroom.
	But the DEI page said nothing about veterans.
	And if you're going to cover major military topics, it might not be a bad idea to have a few people who know what they're talking about.
	Where did you find a slightly better ratio amongst media organs?
	So Fox News had a better ratio.
	They had ten Obvious question.
	who were former military. Newsmax had four, but it's actually, I guess, since Newsmax
	is a smaller organization, they have a higher percentage.
	So Newsmax, percentage-wise, is actually the highest at 15%. So MSNBC, they had one person.
	One.
	One. And CNN didn't have a single veteran.
	So, obvious question. If you've got a war that's been going on for quite some time in
	Ukraine, if you've got a rising China, if you've got Pakistan attacking Iran, if you've
	got the problem in Gaza, isn't the conclusion that we should draw, if we were advising them,
	that they may want to actively look for veterans?
	Or is there a function that veterans don't want to work in these kinds of places?
	You know, that's a really good question.
	And one of the things I can see is that if the New York Times reached out to me and said, hey, we'd like you to work for us.
	All right, well, does that mean I have to move to New York City?
	Well, I'm a gun owner.
	And I believe that I don't have a lot of guns.
	I have a couple of pistols, but one of my pistols has a 15-round magazine.
	And I'm not going to play Mother May I with New York City.
	There's a reason why I live two blocks away from D.C.
	instead of directly in D.C.
	because when I moved here, I didn't want to have to give up my guns or go through Pretzel just to get permission from the government to own something I already own.
	So it could be a situation where people don't want to work for the New York Times or the Washington Post, or even Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal, because then they have to move to New York and veterans tend to be gun owners.
	So that could be an issue.
	But there's plenty of remote work.
	So perhaps these news agencies haven't reached out to people to ask.
	Guys, if you want to have any credibility, 0.03 or even 0.2% just isn't going to cut it.
	There are wars happening right now and you need expertise.
	Maybe not on the level of Ryan, but somebody who actually knows the difference between a BMP and a drone.
	That would be nice.
	Please go to ryanmcbeth.com right now, go to his sub stack, follow him at Ryan McBeth on Twitter and the YouTube channel Ryan McBeth Programming.
	So much more to ask about how he got into this business.
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	We'll be back with open source intelligence analysis after these messages.
	That was all me, guys.
	Peace out yo!
	I ordered that, oh boy, I guess about three weeks ago.
	And yeah, this guy, I think it's dapperluck.com.
	You know, for your Rumble viewers, they were able to stick the American flag in the mic.
	There you go.
	They were able to stitch the American flag into my suit, which I really like.
	They actually asked if I wanted orange accents.
	You know, orange is my favorite color.
	Not just because I'm Irish Protestant, just I've always liked the color.
	And I thought, oh, it would be kind of neat to have orange buttonholes.
	But all right, I'm going to leave that next time.
	I'll do that next time.
	It needs something that's a little more stealth.
	But dapperluck.com.
	So what's the next project?
	What's the next topic?
	Boy, the next... I love the one about the video of the smoke grenades popping off the screen.
	Oh, yeah!
	I mean, that analysis of the attack, yeah.
	It was a Bradley that was attacking a T-72.
	T-90, yeah, with 25 mic mic.
	Does a T-90 have reactive?
	It does, doesn't it?
	It can.
	You can put reactive armor on almost anything.
	My next project, I'm actually working on it right now, it's how soldiers voted in elections throughout history.
	Wow.
	Fascinating.
	You look at looking at it from you know there was a gentleman who said that hey
	the uh it all started because this one guy on twitter said that um that Vladimir Zelensky
	had banned elections in Ukraine. I looked at the constitution and I was like no that isn't true.
	Article 83 of the Constitution says you can't have an election during martial law, and that's controlled by their legislature.
	And so I looked into it, like, how did we hold elections during the Civil War, during World War I, during World War II?
	How did we do it?
	I don't know!
	So I looked into it, and during the Civil War, that was some of the first times we had absentee ballots.
	And other states, such as Connecticut, required that you get a furlough to come back home and vote.
	And there, during President Lincoln's, or during the election in 1864, there were a number of copperhead Democrats who did not want soldiers voting for Lincoln.
	And in the end, Lincoln was going to win anyway.
	Now, one fascinating part to this is that Maryland had a constitutional amendment to ban slavery.
	Maryland was a union state, but it was a slave state.
	The bill to ban slavery and free all the slaves failed.
	And then they got 375 absentee ballots from Maryland militia.
	Wow. And they got it through.
	Who had been fighting to free the slaves.
	And that was enough?
	And that was enough to change Maryland's Constitution and the slaves in Maryland were free.
	So you're going to put this all in the video?
	It's all going in the video.
	How we voted during World War II.
	There, after, of course, after the Civil War, after Reconstruction, there were a number of poll taxes that were placed so that it would make it more difficult for African Americans to vote.
	And One of the major issues with allowing soldiers to vote during World War II was a lot of southern states had poll taxes.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, how is that soldier going to pay their poll tax?
	Right.
	Fascinating.
	All right, stand by.
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	It's a real bad habit.
	If I'm awake, odds are I'm listening to something, I'm imbibing a podcast, I'm watching somebody on YouTube who might be doing some open source intelligence.
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	So Ryan, I got to know you just before you transitioned.
	You were still working as a contractor doing cyber staff programming, but dabbling in the content provision on YouTube.
	Now this is your livelihood and you do it so very well.
	Will you explain Don't give any of the secrets away if you don't want to.
	But how do you do what you do?
	Talk about open source intelligence analysis.
	Give us some of the essentials, the non-negotiables to start doing it and do it well.
	Absolutely.
	So using open source intelligence, you're basically looking for information that is available openly.
	Like, for example, let's say you want to know the size of the Russian army.
	What's the size of the Russian army?
	Well, there's a couple of ways you could do it.
	You could look at Wikipedia.
	Maybe it's right.
	Maybe it's wrong.
	You could call the Russian embassy and ask them.
	Maybe they'll tell you the truth.
	Maybe they won't.
	Another thing you could do is take a look at the Russian Ministry of Defense website and take a look at their page where they're advertising for contracts for people who can fill contracts for things like hats.
	Now, they have a contract out for 200,000 hats.
	Well, you know that every Russian conscript gets two hats when they join.
	That means, hey, for the duration of this contract, they're going to bring on 100,000 new conscripts.
	So that's a way to estimate the size of the Russian army, and it's through totally open sources.
	So, open source intelligence essentially involves taking open data and drawing conclusions from that open data.
	And it can be incredibly accurate.
	In some cases, far more accurate than signals intelligence.
	People can lie over signals intelligence.
	Or human intelligence that might have people who are incentivized to lie to you.
	And make stuff up.
	Or make stuff up especially to curry favor or to get some kind of financial gain.
	Is there anything that would surprise people in terms of tools that you use?
	I mean you mentioned Wikipedia.
	Wikipedia is notorious because basically anybody can edit it and can change it.
	Are there things that you rely upon day in day out that are like really essential for your work?
	Absolutely.
	One of the tools that I rely on is satellite imagery.
	And you can actually purchase 5 meter resolution satellite imagery from companies such as Skywatch.
	Is it expensive?
	from companies such as Starlink. The name just suddenly escaped. Skywatch.
	$250.
	Is it expensive? $250. Now for some conflict areas I've seen up to $900.
	Okay. And in some cases what's actually kind of interesting, apparently Israel
	asked Skywatch not to publicize certain photos.
	So you might only see one every month or so.
	But for $250, you have a capability.
	That Americans would have killed for back in the 1960s.
	And how up to date?
	How recent can these images be?
	It can be as recent as yesterday.
	A lot of these images are used by, for example, someone is planning a development.
	Let's say there's a new condo development.
	Or farmers who are planning, this is where we're going to put our crops.
	But it can be used for pretty much everything.
	And if there's no pictures that exist, you can task a satellite.
	That's going to cost you some money.
	It's not cheap, right?
	It's not cheap.
	It's going to cost you some money.
	But you can task that satellite and you can get that imagery.
	What was the genesis of you starting to do this open source intelligence for everybody, not just for contractors, the private sector?
	Was there a topic?
	Yes, there was.
	It was why Russian tank turrets pop off of their hulls.
	But back when I was working for Accenture as a software engineer, I was interviewing people and there's this one guy who was just not answering those interview questions correctly.
	And I was thinking to myself, like, you know, he knows what he's talking about, but he just can't articulate it.
	A lot of computer, why does someone become a computer programmer?
	They become a computer programmer because they like computers more than people.
	So how do we, how do we judge a computer programmer?
	We interview them with a person.
	It's insane.
	A lot of these people, they don't like people.
	So I thought to myself, I'm going to create a YouTube channel.
	I'm going to teach some of these socially inept programmers how to answer interview questions.
	So I started doing that.
	5,000 subscribers after about a year or so just giving programming advice.
	How do you even begin?
	If you don't like human beings or if somebody likes to be in their cave programming, how do you get them out of that shell?
	It is extremely difficult and a lot of it is remote interviews help, but just doing good, knowing how to connect with these guys at their technical end really, really helps.
	And then when the war in Ukraine kicked off, I made two videos.
	One video about why Ukraine had not been the subject of cyber attacks.
	And that was mainly because they have very good cyber defenses and they have air gapped a lot of their equipment.
	And the second was why Russian tank turrets popped off of their hulls.
	I was an anti-armor guy for 20 years.
	I knew why.
	The news was talking about this turret throwing.
	Was it about where they stored the ammo?
	Absolutely.
	You're absolutely correct.
	The ammunition in many Russian tanks, T-72, T-90, all of this ammunition is stored in a circle, a circular carousel below the turret.
	Just waiting to cook off?
	Just waiting to cook off.
	So it's good in one sense.
	It's easy to manufacture, fairly easy to manufacture.
	You're losing one person.
	In the vehicle, so that's one less person that can be subject to radiation because the Russians assume they're going to fight.
	In a radiological environment, you're losing the loader, because it's an autoloader, and every time you open the breech to load a shell in, what happens?
	You get shine.
	You get that radiation in the vehicle, and the loader's getting juiced up.
	And it made the vehicle smaller.
	And back in the 1970s, when tanks were going to fight each other gun-on-gun, you wanted a smaller vehicle.
	Well, now we have missiles that don't care how small you are.
	They come after you with suicidal intent and you can't argue with it.
	And they come from top all the way down.
	So now it's a bad design.
	Fascinating.
	This is the stuff you learn.
	He works so hard on these videos.
	You will not regret it.
	It is Ryan Macbeth programming on YouTube.
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	Do not touch that dial.
	I believe I...
	Maybe it is, maybe it's not.
	I know it's a radiological term.
	So years ago, when I was actually a National Guardsman, and we were guarding the nuclear power plants after 9-11.
	And as part of our safety briefing, we weren't fully qualified rad workers, but we learned a little bit about how this stuff worked in order to get badges.
	We learned one of the things they talk about was shine.
	Oh, interesting.
	And when you have a... I just sent you something, Eric, if you can write it as a b-roll in the back.
	Did you text or email?
	If you have a source of radiation, you might have shine coming out of that source of radiation.
	So, if there's a wall here, if the radiation's right here, there's a wall here, you're not getting any shine.
	You step out from the wall and you're getting into the shine.
	You want to stay in front of the barrier.
	I assume that's just a radiological worker term.
	I'm one of those guys that remembers just about everything.
	And you picked up Arabic as well, right?
	So when I was deployed overseas, now, I do not speak as well as I used to.
	I can barely read anymore.
	I can pick out words.
	Like, I can go, oh, that word is mig.
	I know that.
	Because I, OK, that's the mach.
	Yeah.
	But when I went to Egypt, I was like, all right, we're here.
	You know, we're in their country.
	Were you training guys?
	Yeah, we were part of the MFO.
	Multinational Forest Service.
	Oh, no way!
	I visited them.
	My buddy worked for them.
	them. My first visit to Israel was to the MFO in 1993.
	Yeah.
	Oh, that was the year, I think the 173rd of that plane crash, I think?
	Maybe.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, I was in Egypt, and I would actually, at our little cop, our little common outpost, we had these Egyptian border guards right next door.
	And I just went over there, and I started talking to them.
	Wow.
	And I slowly learned Arabic.
	So you've got a good ear for languages?
	Maybe I do.
	I mean, I can still remember a little bit of German.
	But that's really all the German I needed to know.
	I started learning Arabic when I was over in Egypt, and by the time I left, I was conversational.
	So when I got to Iraq, the Iraqis, they called me Ryan al-Masri, Ryan the Egyptian.
	Because I talked like an Egyptian, which is better than walking like an Egyptian, or driving like one.
	So, the Iraqis, there was this one guy, I remember Omar, he worked in our little jail.
	He was jammed.
	He was Jamal Islamiyah.
	We knew he was Jamal Islamiyah.
	The police knew he was Jamal Islamiyah.
	The police were Jamal Islamiyah.
	He was writing down bumper numbers one day over vehicles, and I was like, Omar, are you going to kill us today?
	La, la, la, la, la, Siddiqi.
	Bukhara, Bukhara.
	Tomorrow.
	Tomorrow I kill you.
	Now how does it dig?
	Today we are friends.
	It's a different part of the world.
	It's a different part of the world.
	Reminds me when I was training my one-stop Pakistan Thank you for watching. Please subscribe to our channel.
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	America First Magnificent.
	It's SHOT show next week.
	I'll be in Vegas.
	Can't wait to see all the new goodies America's gun manufacturers have got ready for us.
	Especially, he'll be announcing it early here in about 15 minutes, the CEO of Car Firearms.
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	We're back with our good friend Ryan Macbeth, a colleague of mine at Newsmax, probably the best open source intelligent analyst out there.
	You've got to go to his YouTube channel, Ryan Macbeth Programming.
	Follow him on his Substack, on his Twitter.
	Ryan, I think one of the latest videos I saw of yours, they always turn up on my algorithm on my account.
	is your analysis of this video we'll play in the background of a t90 tank being hit by a fighting vehicle we loaned or we gave to the Ukrainians of Bradley being hit like like it's a video game with those 20 millimeter shells looks like it might have actually survived I had the same conclusion you did the guys who survived that will be deaf for the rest of their lives after I don't know how many rounds of 20 mil it took Fascinating video.
	Watch the analysis.
	This is happening now in Europe.
	Will you walk us through, just for a second, to give... Oh, first, shout out to your tailor.
	Oh, my tailor.
	Dapperlook.com.
	D-A-P-P-E-R-L-U-Q.
	Show the viewers the lining of your suit.
	I was able to get American flags sewn into... This meets with the flag code because they're not real flags.
	They're just printed flags.
	I was able to get American flags put into my suit.
	Dapperlook.com is... I'm jealous.
	I'm jealous.
	I'm gonna have to get me one of those Stars and Stripes line suits.
	Okay, let's get back to the serious work.
	Will you explain to those who may be, you know, thinking of changing careers, getting into the content provision, you work, do you have a team?
	Do you do it by yourself?
	What does the average video workload look like for Ryan Macbeth?
	It depends on the type of the video.
	I do not have a team.
	It is all me.
	I have considered hiring an editor, but it's one of those things where I'm not at the point yet where I'm losing out on money by having to do my own editing.
	It usually takes about an hour of work to do one minute of video.
	So ten minute video is ten hours.
	Ten hours of work.
	And a lot of that is, okay, let's say I'm talking about the T-90 tank that's getting hit by the Bradley.
	Well, it was getting shot by a Bradley M2A2 ODS.
	I know that.
	But if I hire an editor, the editor might not know there's a difference between the M2A2 ODS and the M2A3 and the M2A4.
	So I have to go on to a website like Divvids, the Defense Department information website.
	I have to find the correct type of Bradley and show that.
	And that takes time.
	That's why one minute of video takes about an hour to do.
	And for those who are already dabbling in it, or dabbling in it, I'm enjoying a lot your shorts.
	You're sitting at your computer, maybe with a whiskey and a cigarette, you took out this absurd person who's pro-American tweeter, who's pro-Yemen, and then you translated what it actually says on the Yemeni flag in terms of destroy America.
	So, what is the advantage or the relevance of these little short videos you do?
	Well, the short videos give you a little bit of knowledge, like a chicken McNugget.
	You can eat that and it satisfies you a little bit.
	Now, I want everyone to walk away from these short videos learning something.
	Look, when you scroll on Instagram or on YouTube Shorts, I actually don't do TikTok because TikTok is essentially a Chinese psy-op.
	But when you're scrolling, you can scroll for entertainment.
	Entertainment is great.
	But I would love to leave you smarter when you go to the next video than you were before.
	And so that's the advantage of those shorts.
	It does allow me to grow my audience, but that audience is getting a dollar value out of it because at the end of the short, they've learned something.
	Well, let me tell you, I served in the British military.
	Oh, my gosh.
	1991, that's a long time ago.
	But I learn from every video you post, so thank you.
	And there's an amazing one you did about the mechanics of a flyover, right?
	Recently.
	I recently did a video and I partnered with the Maryland Air National Guard and their A-10 Warthogs where I got a chance to put video cameras in The GoPro camera is inside the A-10s, and I got a chance to work with the Groundhog, who's essentially a JTAC, a Joint Terminal Air Controller.
	And this guy calls in the planes, and if you've ever wondered how they fly planes over a stadium at the last note of the National Anthem, well, they do it because there's one thing...
	Don't give it away.
	Let's get it to your channel.
	He wants to give it away for free!
	Come on, get the eyeballs on the channel.
	I think it's one of the videos he's most proud of.
	And there's a connection to me, Dr. G, so watch it.
	How do they time those flyovers?
	And of course, it's the iconic A10.
	Don't miss it.
	RyanMacbeth.substack.com.
	Ryan Macbeth programming on YouTube.
	That went far too quickly.
	We'll have to get him back on Newsmax.
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	Ryan Macbeth comes on my show, he shares his wisdom with us, and then he leaves me cigars, actually in a travel cigar case as well.
	I can't wait.
	Now that's the kind of guest you want.
	What a gentleman and a scholar.
	But it's Friday, we've got to talk guns, and the best guest of all, it's Mr. Carr himself.
	Justin Moon, the CEO and President of Carr Firearms.
	Happy New Year, sir!
	Happy New Year, Sebastian.
	It's good to talk to you again.
	Thanks for having me on.
	Well, I'm going to see you in person in just a few days in the desert of Las Vegas for the gun event of the year when manufacturers display their latest items at SHOT Show.
	I look forward to that immensely.
	But I've got some really bad news for you, Mr. Moon.
	So I've been carrying your 9mm car now on my ankle for, well, even before I met you.
	We met at SHOT Show a few years ago, I told you what I carry, and you said, I want that in my museum, and you took it from me, you sent me a new one, which is very nice of you, but now I won't be able to carry that weapon anymore, because I've heard that you've developed a double stack car 9mm.
	Is this true, Mr. Moon?
	Well, you know, Sebastian, we are going to be showing a pre-production model of a double column car pistol that we've developed.
	And we hope to be delivering those guns sometime this year.
	But yeah, we will definitely get you one when it comes out, Sebastian.
	Talk to us about it.
	Talk to us about this gun.
	I saw one video about it, an early pre-production type.
	I got some photographs from the internet and from your colleagues.
	So is it true?
	Because if this is true, this is a genius move.
	That it won't just have a proprietary magazine, but it will take magazines patterned from other chassis as well.
	Is this going to be some kind of superb interchangeability?
	Yeah, this firearm will fire the SIG 365 magazines.
	All you do is have to We just have to put a sleeve on the magazine and then they'll fit into our gun.
	So we will be providing sleeves for the SIG 365.
	It also functions, you know, with the Hellcat magazine with a little bit of tweaking.
	But yeah, it's pretty much interchangeable with the magazines which we make, you know, SIG mags and even the Hellcat mag will function.
	Genius.
	New car pistol.
	All right.
	I love your guns, the CM9, the PM9, because they're like laser accurate.
	I think the original concept when you were in college was you loved the classic PPK, James Bond's gun, but you said you wanted something that small, but not anemic in a .380 caliber, but a nine mil, and that's how CAR was born.
	This is the upgrade.
	Talk to us about the upgrade, how different it will be, what the sighting options are, and what the mag capacity will be.
	So this firearm is set up with an RMR cut, so you can put red dots or green dots on it.
	It also has user-friendly upgrades, like a captured recoil spring.
	It's a simplified takedown of the field assembly of the firearm.
	All you do is have to turn the lever down and the slide will come apart from the gun.
	And you can use...
	The double column magazines, which are available.
	So whatever double column magazine SIGS runs, will run in our gun.
	So they're, you know, they're 10, they're 14, they're 20 round mags are already from the start, you know, available to be used in the carb pistol.
	And when it comes from the factory, what will the capacity be with the flash mags?
	The flush mag is 10 rounds.
	Nice.
	And then the extended mag with a sleeve on it is can be 15, can be 14 with the SIG mag or 15 with the one we'll be producing.
	And, you know, the options are there.
	So it's and you know, it's I've been shooting the gun and it's it is like the other car pistols.
	It is extremely accurate.
	It really runs and functions well.
	I think our customers who are familiar with the car action and the car type style of triggers will be very happy to have a higher capacity car pistol.
	Well, I'm super excited.
	When do you expect those to be available in the commercial market?
	Well, we're doing the pre-launch introduction at the SHOT Show where we'll be showing the pre-production samples.
	Running up to the NRA show we'll actually have a formal launch and probably towards the mid of the mid to 2024 we should start exciting start being able to Check out the line of weapons at KAHR.com, KAHR.com.
	We've had a recent victory with the courts slamming down the ATF pistol brace ban.
	In the last minute we have with you, Mr. Moon, this nevertheless should not lead us to being, how shall I say it, believing that our firearms rights are safe, should it?
	No, and really, you know, the Second Amendment in this Constitution is the one right which really protects all the others.
	So, you know, you just look at the way our federal government is behaving these days with the way they criminalize the justice system to go after President Trump.
	Now, they could do that to anybody if they can do that to Trump.
	So we really are not safe.
	Yeah.
	Except that we have the Second Amendment and our personal firearms.
	It's, uh, as you once said on a previous interview, I have quoted you many, many times since then, Justin Moon, and you know, with your family's history from Korea, you can vote yourself into socialism and communism, but you have to shoot your way out.
	It is the civil right that makes all the other civil rights possible.
	Please take it seriously.
	Start with car firearms, K-A-H-R dot com.
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	God bless you, Mr. Justin Moon.
	I will see you at SHOT Show.
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	Hmm.
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	Yeah.
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	No, not me.
	Dr. G. That's funny.
	I like those liners.
	Thank you, Mark.
	If you recognize the voice, that's Mark Lotta, my White House colleague.
	Pretty good pipes.
	I think he was in radio.
	Yeah, he had a radio show before he joined the administration.
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	Okay, what's going on on Capitol Hill?
	These are deals that the Republicans are agreeing to.
	They're afraid of a shutdown.
	Lankford wants 5,000 illegals every single day.
	Our buddy Steve Bannon, he's even had it with the new Speaker, Mike Johnson.
	Here he is, cut five.
	This shows you the irresponsibility.
	If Johnson pulls these tricks, hey, our thing is get rid of him.
	Go.
	You're not the man for the moment.
	And people say, Steve, you can't say they just got in.
	No, no.
	A leader will emerge.
	That's what happens in these turnings.
	Leaders emerge.
	Eric, how long has he been speaker?
	Like three weeks or what?
	I mean, how long has it been?
	I think the speaker election was, was in November.
	I don't remember anymore.
	Like it's been like a couple of months.
	Yeah.
	A couple of months.
	So yeah, not nearly.
	McCarthy was there for about nine months.
	Um, I, I hear a lot of these complaints.
	I'm willing to understand people who think maybe he's not... He's marginally slightly better.
	He's not willing to shut down the government over this, which... But to get rid of him already, what do you think of Bannon's demand?
	I don't like disagreeing with Steve Bannon.
	He knows of that of which he speaks.
	But I understand his frustrations.
	I'm not sure if I fully agree with it, but I understand where he's coming from.
	Alex, isn't it a bit early to get rid of the brand new speaker?
	No, I don't think so.
	If he's not meeting the demands, then he's gotta go.
	Oh my gosh.
	I think we've got a new radical.
	He's more radical than Eric.
	Is that possible?
	Who hired these people?
	I want to know.
	I want to talk to them.
	Maybe I should look in the mirror.
	Breaking news we've got.
	It looks as if Tim Scott, South Carolina, is going to endorse Donald Trump.
	What's Nikki Haley?
	Eric, didn't Nikki Haley, like, make Tim Scott?
	She's the one who appointed him to be a senator from South Carolina.
	That's right.
	Ooh, that's gonna sting.
	All right, guys, stay tuned.
	It's getting spicy!
	But let's have some fun.
	It's Friday.
	We need to check in with our buddy.
	In Hawaii.
	Chris Coles aka Mr. Reagan of the Alpha Critic and Mr. Reagan YouTube channels.
	I chose a movie that's a little bit out of our time range.
	It's not from the 80s or even the 90s.
	It's my father's favorite movie from 1933.
	The greatest monster movie ever.
	It's not Frankenstein.
	It's not Dracula.
	It's not even Gojira.
	We're going to Skull Island to see King Kong.
	Stay with us here on America First.
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	you Impressive.
	Most impressive.
	See things you people wouldn't believe.
	See things you people wouldn't believe.
	I want to talk to God.
	you Let's go see him again.
	Come on, I got him!
	He'll be out for hours.
	Send to the ship for anchor chains and tools.
	What are you going to do?
	Build a raft to float him to the ship.
	Why, the whole world will pay to see this.
	No chains will ever hold that.
	We'll give him more than chains.
	He's always been king of his world, but we'll teach him fear.
	We're millionaires, boys.
	I'll share it with all of you.
	Why, in a few months, it'll be up in lights on Broadway.
	Kong, the eighth wonder of the world!
	King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
	Film director Carl Danim capturing him with the smallest tear gas grenades I've ever seen.
	It is that moment when the beast of Skyland has been conquered.
	1933's King Kong.
	Yeah, we're going a little bit...
	Earlier than the 1980s, but it is one of the greatest movies ever made.
	My father's favorite movie.
	And we're gonna tell you why it's so good with our co-host, the one, the only, Mr. Reagan, Chris Coles of YouTube.
	Greetings to you, my dear friend.
	Greetings, greetings.
	What an epic film.
	This is a heck of a choice.
	This is the first film we've done, I believe, from this era.
	And I don't know if it could have been a better choice.
	It's considered one of the greatest films of all time.
	And by the way, I watched the documentary before this morning whilst I was getting everything prepared, and a comedian made one of the best jokes I've ever heard about King Kong.
	He said that that scene that you just played, he said the least believable thing about King Kong is that an entertainment producer would share revenue so easily with a crew of men like that.
	And I thought, you know what, that's probably true.
	That caught me as well off guard when, you know, King Kong has been captured and the director says, yeah, I'm going to split the profits with everybody, including the deckhand on the ship and the cook from... Excuse me?
	No.
	That's where our suspension of disbelief was a little bit challenged.
	Okay.
	Let's talk about this film.
	So many things to discuss.
	Number one, let's just be clear here.
	It inspired everything that came afterwards, from Godzilla to Jurassic Park.
	It made stop-motion special effects a thing.
	And also, I'm sorry, it's indisputable, is it not, Chris, that this is the greatest monster in cinematic history?
	You know, it is debatable because you got Frankenstein, you got the Wolfman, you got Dracula, you've got Nosferatu, you've got all these crazy monsters.
	But for me, yeah, this probably is my favorite.
	And I'll tell you what, the reason why people love King Kong, I think, Is because he's not really a sinister character.
	He's not intentionally trying to harm anyone.
	He's just a big, dumb oaf.
	Which is actually comparable in some ways to Frankenstein.
	But yeah, he's actually a lovable monster from a monster movie.
	Sure, there's the terror.
	Sure, there's the reality that, yeah, you get in King Kong's way, you're probably going to meet a grisly end.
	But it's not really intentional.
	He's not really trying to hurt anyone.
	He's just trying to explore the world and be the beast that he is.
	Yeah, let's stop on that for a moment because it is perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects when it comes to the story of King Kong.
	So this is, you know, the Beast of Skull Island that is worshipped by the locals.
	This film director who's been making documentaries and now...
	He says, oh, I need to have a woman in my film because, quote, we need flappers.
	People want to go and see the love interest.
	He captures this beast, takes it to New York.
	He breaks out of the chains on the night of the show and then climbs the Empire State.
	And then we have that classic.
	We'll talk about who's flying the planes, because it's very interesting, who's flying the biplanes that bring down King Kong.
	But the fascinating thing is, A, this is 1933.
	This is the movie that saves RKO.
	RKO was going to go into receivership.
	King Kong becomes this massive success.
	But the story is interesting because, go back in time, Chris.
	If this is 1933, you've never seen, you know, a 60-foot monster bite a human being's head off or throw innocent women out of their apartment buildings you know 10 stories up and there's this scene where one of the tribesmen is trod on and they show King Kong's foot treading on him like three times I mean this is this is gory stuff nevertheless what's what's the um
	The inheritance, what's the legacy of this?
	The audience, at the end of the day, Chris, despite the horror, the decapitations and everything else, who do we sympathize with?
	We don't sympathize with Denim.
	We might sympathize with Fay Wray, who really sells it.
	I don't know how many times she screams in the movie.
	But who do we sympathize, Chris?
	We sympathize with the Beast.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I actually felt myself sad.
	At the end of the film, watching the planes come and kill King Kong.
	And part of it's the music, you know, part of it's the music.
	The score is unbelievable.
	You know, there's these moments where you're watching the film.
	And if you weren't watching it with that music in the, you know, in the perspective of 2023, you might think, oh, this is a little bit You know, unrealistic.
	This is a little bit silly.
	It's a puppet, obviously.
	It's stop motion.
	But with the music, when you're in it, you kind of don't care.
	You love this giant beast that's, you know, you know how it's made.
	Yeah we we gotta give a a hat we gotta give a hat tip to Max Steiner so we're coming out of the period of of the silent movies where where music was constant right because there's nothing else so you had music playing there was no soundtrack from the actors themselves and Max Steiner does something shocking for the time there's no music in this movie until they arrive to the island right and then there's this Very, very adroit use of the emotionally charged music.
	So, yeah, adds to it completely.
	Okay, let's walk down some of the things we need to know about it.
	So, let's talk about the story behind it.
	What's the pitch at the beginning?
	Denim's complaining to his production team that I need to make the most successful, the greatest movie of all time.
	This is a movie within a movie, isn't it, Chris?
	Because the people who are making it, the filmmakers, were former documentarians, war heroes, and then they talk about They need to make the biggest movie ever.
	And then the character in the movie says, I'm going to make the biggest movie ever.
	So there's this kind of meta subtext.
	And what happens, Chris?
	They do make the most successful movie of the age.
	So it's like it's happening on so many multiple levels.
	Well, there is a film that came out in 1930 that is essentially the film that they're pretending to make in this film.
	And the film that came out of it was called Ingagi.
	And this film, Ingagi, was a documentary film, supposedly a documentary film.
	They really actually stole a bunch of footage from a different documentary that had previously been made.
	Uh, and then they filmed all this footage at, like, Griffith Zoo, Griffith Park Zoo in L.A., and they pretended it was a documentary.
	Look into N'Gagi.
	Fascinating film.
	You can actually watch it for free on YouTube.
	Not a particularly good film, but it was a sensation at the time, and part of it was, part of it explains something in this movie that doesn't make any sense.
	I remember as a kid...
	I don't understand why a gorilla is in love with a human woman.
	I don't understand this love dynamic.
	This doesn't make any sense to me.
	As a kid, I never understood that.
	Well, this comes back to context.
	You know, I told you I spent a year listening to radio shows.
	I sent you those radio shows.
	Hopefully you listened to a little bit of it.
	And I kind of got into the mentality of the era.
	Well, this is another one of those examples where if you don't really understand the context, you don't really understand King Kong.
	And people at the time sort of took for granted this concept of gorillas and human women potentially mating, becoming a sort of like a couple because of this film Ngagi, which presented this bizarre idea That there was a tribe in Africa that offered up to a dangerous tribe of gorillas every year a woman in tribute.
	And so there's this group of gorillas in Africa who had human wives and half-gorilla, half-human offspring.
	So there was already this idea in the culture that it was potential.
	there was the possibility that gorillas could love women.
	And to get to this film, this was already part of the culture,
	sort of like the concept of like these, this knockout gas bomb things
	that are obviously ridiculous in the film from the 2023 perspective.
	Back then that was sort of a common part of some of these kinds of adventure stories
	and novels and stuff like that.
	So at the time, the knockout gas was common and you had this concept in the culture that human women,
	oh, and by the way, Ngogi shows fully nude African women, which I think was part of the reason
	that film was so successful.
	Um, okay.
	Okay, I've shamed him after a year of doing this to actually do research for one of our shows.
	I did!
	I've never even heard of Ngargi, so I salute you, thank you.
	I hope this will now be a battle of the two researchers.
	Let me just read to you a little bit about this movie I've never heard of.
	Engagi pretends to be a documentary about Sir Hubert Winstead of London on an expedition to the Belgian Congo and depicts a tribe of gorilla-worshipping women who use the gorillas as sex slaves.
	Oh my gosh, I didn't know that.
	Chris has brought his A-game.
	This is the context in which King Kong was made.
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	He says the girl there is the Bride of Kong.
	Great!
	Find out what they're gonna do!
	What's that?
	He says, look at the golden woman.
	Yeah, blondes are scarce around here.
	Gift for Kong, he says.
	Good Lord.
	He wants to buy the golden woman as a gift for Kong.
	OK.
	I'm not going to say, Chris, that this has the best acting of the era.
	I think the best actors are Kong, who actually emotes, I mean, what is done by Willis O'Brien, the model maker, archaeologist, former ranch hand who invents, basically, stop motion.
	That figure is alive.
	And then the other person who actually acts in this is Fay Wray.
	Fay Wray, I mean, you know.
	You gotta think, she's screaming her nut off at nothing.
	There's nothing there because the stop-motion figure is about, you know, 10 inches high and is being filmed somewhere else.
	So, it's not the acting that makes this movie great.
	It's the design of the Beast, but also Chris.
	The design of the sets.
	Let's have some images here.
	This is meant to be like a lost world.
	It is inspired by the paintings of Gustave Doré, the man who was the French illustrator for Paradise Lost.
	These are the direct influences to this movie.
	And a lot of the movie's sets come from an older film, which is being made at the same time.
	And also, The producers were making, as this was being made, the deadliest game.
	And a lot of the jungle sets were being cross-purposed for this.
	So I don't know about you, Chris, but I try to put myself in the position of a moviegoer who's bought my five-cent ticket, walks into the theater, 1933, the lights go down, And then you see this primordial jungle.
	You see a Diplodocus, a Brontosaur, a Pterodactyl wrestling with King Kong.
	It must have been mind-blowing.
	You know, what was weird is I'm watching it today.
	I've actually studied film.
	I know how a lot of these techniques are done.
	And I still I'm watching it.
	And it's so seamless, right?
	That what they're doing with the rear projection, what they're doing with the matte paintings, what they're doing with the miniatures and the models.
	I don't know how it's done.
	I'm watching it and I'm sitting there.
	I'm thinking, I don't know how they did some of these scenes.
	And it's so great.
	It's not something that you can do, right?
	It's something you need a team of people to do, all of whom are experts in their field.
	This is a lost art, essentially, at this point, because we use CGI for everything now.
	And they did it so beautifully.
	Are there things that don't hold up today?
	Yeah, of course.
	I mean, if you had a 12-year-old kid watching this, he'd go, oh, that looks fake and blah, blah, blah.
	And also the fact that you've got a 4 and 1⁄2 minute overture at the beginning.
	Yeah, that's a little bit funny too, yeah.
	But as you watch it though, you do get enveloped into the world.
	It does feel real somehow, even though it feels fictional.
	There is a magic to it, and this is something that we talk about on the show.
	When we were kids watching films, me in the 80s and you in the 70s, watching these films, there was a kind of a magic to it.
	And so even though there's something false about it, there's something magical.
	We didn't look at it when we were kids as fake.
	We looked at it as almost hyper-realistic.
	A world that doesn't exist, but you kind of want to live in that world a little bit.
	And I feel like that was absolutely true here.
	Anyone watching this film at that time, these were effects that nobody had seen before.
	People were like, this is You know, hyper-realistic.
	This is a world beyond my imagination, and this must have just blown everybody away.
	Well, so much so, and I will skip over the fact that you deliberately pointed out that I'm older than you.
	But I am of a better generation, better vintage.
	Yes, I was watching the movies of the 70s.
	But before this was released, the rushes of the movie The Lost World, which was the first stop motion ever depicting dinosaurs, Conan Doyle took that footage And played it to the American Association of Magicians, including Houdini.
	Oh, that's Conan Doyle and Houdini.
	And said, this is real footage of dinosaurs.
	And they couldn't, they didn't understand where he got it from.
	And then afterwards, about a year later, he had to apologize to Houdini for tricking him.
	Because people thought that this footage Was real, so much so, the author of Sherlock Holmes used the Lost World footage to convince people that, yes, I somehow magically found film of dinosaurs.
	So, yes, like so many of the films that we've reviewed here.
	It's so generous.
	It's unique and it creates a trend in and of itself.
	If we go forward in time, what do we have?
	Willis O'Brien's assistant on the later movie, the great, what is it, Mighty Joe Young,
	is of course Ray Harryhausen.
	Ray Harryhausen, who becomes the king of stop motion, the man who will make later movies about Simbad
	and about the ancient Greeks, he'll do Clash of the Titans.
	And then of course we have what?
	We have up to Star Wars and Phil Tippett and the use of stop motion there.
	So these, there we go, Phil Tippett with one of the tauntauns from The Empire Strikes Back.
	These are the films we review.
	Why?
	Because of the effect they have in perpetuity for decades to come.
	And then to your point of how it's mesmerizing, it's enthralling, Who made this movie?
	Let's just say a few things about who made this movie.
	The two men behind it, of course, David O. Selznick, the legend, is the producer, but Merian Cooper and Ernest Shrochak.
	Who are these people?
	These are individuals in World War I who were fighter pilots, shot down, burnt, became filmmakers, fought the communists in the 1920s in Poland, traveled the world making movies, and then they decide, okay, Let's make the greatest movie ever.
	Chris, we don't have movie makers like that today, do we?
	War heroes fighting communists with their biplanes and then they make a film?
	Seb, Seb, they're fighting the LGBTQ plus culture war, okay?
	On the wrong side, on the wrong side.
	On the wrong side, yeah.
	They're the communists now, actually, weirdly.
	You know, It's kind of a weird thing because we haven't talked too much because this film is so interesting and there's so much history to it and it's so mesmerizing.
	It's such a classic.
	Everybody knows it.
	We have kind of forgotten to go through the story of the film.
	And I think that maybe people don't think about that enough.
	It's a little kind of underrated because it's a relatively simple story.
	But it is an excellent story.
	All right.
	All right.
	Hold that.
	Hold that.
	You're absolutely right.
	Let's do that.
	Let's go through the story because it deserves that.
	It's not just that it's mesmerizing and creates its own genre, the monster movie, the special effects movie.
	Let's talk about the story next.
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	Wait a minute!
	What about Kong?
	Well, what about him?
	We came here to get a moving picture!
	And we found something worth more than all the movies in the world!
	What?
	We've got those gas bombs!
	If we can capture him alive... Why, you're crazy!
	Besides that, he's on a cliff where a whole army couldn't get at him.
	Yeah, if he stays there.
	But we've got something he wants.
	Yeah?
	Something he won't get again.
	Hey, look out!
	It's Kong!
	Kong's coming!
	Kong's coming!
	They're setting the trap, Chris.
	Talk to us about the story within the story.
	Yeah, you know, it's it's such a great story.
	It's such a simple story.
	This is back when you could actually have a woman in distress.
	This is back.
	And you know, it's so funny.
	The woman in distress.
	Simple story.
	That has existed since the dawn of time.
	It's only in the past, I don't know, say 10, 15, maybe 20 years that society has decided, oh no, the woman in distress isn't allowed anymore.
	We have to make the boy in distress and the girl's got to save him or something like that.
	You know, this is, this is a new idea.
	But it is such a compelling idea because throughout history, Uh, women have felt to some degree vulnerable, right?
	Especially if like, you know, if a woman's out there and, you know, her husband gets her pregnant, she's very, you know, she can't run so quickly away from the beasts of the wilderness.
	You know, other men, other warriors from another tribe might be able to attack her.
	Women historically have been very vulnerable.
	We live in a very safe society today.
	People don't really realize.
	So it's always been the men's job to protect the women.
	This has always been true since the dawn of time.
	And women like that.
	They want men who can protect them.
	And so movies like this...
	They sort of fulfill a fantasy on two levels, right?
	The woman gets to feel that she's protected by the strong man, and the man feels like he gets to go rescue and protect his woman.
	Also, by the way, at the beginning of this film, which I absolutely love, there is a sort of a fantasy fulfillment for women everywhere, which is This girl just gets plucked out of obscurity and she's made into a movie star.
	Let's unpack that a little bit.
	So the second one, absolutely.
	So Fay Wray, it's like depression here in New York and she's outside a fruit and vegetable stall and clearly about to, you know, pickpocket something or, you know, steal something to eat and then, you know, Denham sees her and says, That face?
	Come with me, little lady.
	And makes, you know, her the squeeze, the star of his new documentary about Skull Island and about Kong.
	So, you know, that idea of being plucked, as you say, from obscurity and being turned into a Hollywood starlet.
	And then let's go back to the other one.
	It's not just through time or through the ages.
	It is the role.
	Let's be clear here.
	I mean, we are men's men.
	We are traditionalists.
	A woman can never be the protector.
	I'm sorry if I see another Marvel movie Where a 90-pound woman decks out a 300-pound bodybuilder.
	It's like, just, you know, are you smoking Hunter Biden's crack pipe?
	Men are protectors and always have been.
	That's why they shouldn't be allowed to compete as women in swim meets.
	Because guess what?
	We're bigger.
	We're stronger.
	We're faster.
	And as you said, when women are pregnant, they can't do anything in terms of physicality and protecting themselves.
	That's our job.
	So what do we have here?
	We have the most Ancient story of all, the damsel in distress.
	And it's not just another man.
	It is this uber biped.
	It's this 60-foot monster of a biped that has to be defeated by these two war heroes at the end we'll talk about momentarily.
	So this is why it's not just enthralling and the special effects account and we can even sympathize with the beast.
	It's like beauty and the beast.
	But because it does what?
	It tugs on those eternal story arcs, those themes of civilization through the ages.
	The woman who is recognized and then made into this star, this beauty.
	At the same time, the man, the first mate of the ship, who will save her, right?
	From the beast.
	So, I think you've just explained it, Chris.
	This is the eternal forever.
	appeal of not only King Kong, but these kinds of stories, Chris.
	Yeah, and they took, they took advantage of the fact that they were doing this stop motion stuff and they wanted to include a lot of different creatures.
	So they had different interactions with the crew and these beasts.
	And they I believe they had four different separate fights between King Kong and these other kind of prehistoric dinosaurs and different kinds of beasts were King Kong.
	And every time he does this, you know, like, you know, I've Defeated this thing.
	He's got he's a this very animalistic thing and they they made him so realistic You know, it's bizarre because he doesn't seem realistic if you just see a still image of him.
	He seems ridiculous But if you see him the way that they've made him move there's this moment where he kills the Tyrannosaurus Rex By just tearing his jaw from his head.
	It's like the craziest thing you ever see and then and then he's sitting there and the Tyrannosaurus Rex is dead and And Feyre is screaming over, she's trying to kind of get away.
	She's trying to, well, she's not screaming.
	She's trying to be quiet so that maybe hopefully King Kong will forget about her.
	And he's killed this Tyrannosaurus rex.
	And he's sort of playing with the body to make sure that the Tyrannosaurus rex is dead.
	He's lifting the head up.
	He's moving the jaw back and forth, you know, and it's exactly how a gorilla would play with another beast that it has killed.
	would mess with it. Now it's kind of safe, hopefully. Let me poke it and prod it and
	make sure." It's bizarre how the filmmakers really figured that out. And they said, what
	exactly would a gorilla do in this moment? And they portrayed that in the film. So it
	gives a kind of realism. Like I say, if you watch these little clips, it doesn't always
	It looks obviously ridiculous.
	But when you're in the movie, watching it, when you're sort of in that world, it's pretty darn good.
	And you do allow yourself to get enveloped into the fantasy.
	Really do.
	It's an amazing movie.
	And just for the record, these two war heroes, before they made this movie, they made documentaries on safari in Africa.
	One of them was obsessed with gorillas.
	The reason this movie exists is because one of the two war heroes was obsessed with the ape and the ape-man disconnect.
	So the idea that you're absolutely right, when he's toying like a cat toys with a dead mouse, as he's, you know, picking up the bits of the Tyrannosaurus Rex that he killed, it's just...
	It so convinces you, and as you said, the fight with the pterodactyl, the Diplodocus that we see, the T-Rex.
	Oh, the Stegosaurus!
	The Stegosaurus attack!
	You're sitting here in 1933 and you're seeing a Stegosaurus attack on a massive screen in front of you.
	We're talking King Kong 1933 RKO pictures.
	Just one of the greatest movies ever made.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker, this is America First.
	I think what might have happened today If anything had happened to you... Then you wouldn't be bothered with having a woman on board.
	Don't laugh.
	I'm scared for you.
	I'm sort of... I'm scared of you, too.
	Ann... I... Say... I guess I love you.
	Why, Jack, you hate women.
	Yeah, I know.
	But you aren't women.
	Say, uh, Ann, I don't suppose, uh... I mean... Well, you don't feel anything like that about me, do you?
	Period.
	Mr. Driscoll, are you on deck?
	Jack!
	the next one.
	Yes, sir.
	OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here.
	You're the actor, you're the writer, you're the content provider on YouTube.
	The guy who's playing Jack there, the squeezed Bruce Cabot, he's just a log.
	He's a piece of wood.
	It's an all sharks performance throughout.
	But if you want to understand acting, Go back and watch that scene where Faye Ray, just watch her eyes.
	Watch her eyes.
	Watch the way she doesn't say anything and she's just saying, I am falling in love with this man right now.
	Tell us about Faye Ray in your estimation, not just the screaming in Kong's hand at the top of, you know, the Empire State, but if there's anybody who's doing some acting outside of the special effects ape, it's her, right?
	Oh wow, yeah.
	You picked a really good scene to talk about that.
	When I was starting out acting in Hollywood and I was going to these acting classes, I think the hardest thing to sell, convincingly, was falling in love with somebody.
	The guy actually does a little bit better job than you might think.
	I think at the time, there was a guy like that.
	That guy existed.
	He was sophisticated with regard to his career and his job, but when it came to falling in love, he was about as dumb as a child.
	It looks like this guy's never Fallen in love with a girl in his life.
	He's never had a girlfriend.
	Now he doesn't know what to do.
	So he acts like this dumb oaf.
	Well, she, her, every little nuance, every little expression indicates that she's in love with this guy.
	Maybe, you know, and it's weird in those moments, you don't always feel like you want to admit it, right?
	And so he doesn't even know that she's in love with him, even though you can tell as a viewer that she is, you know, from our view, from the camera's view.
	She sells it so, so well, every little nuance.
	And that's her job, right?
	His job is just to be the dumb ox that says, I think I'm in love with you, girl.
	And her job, like you say, is to sell it just with a small expression, just with a look.
	And she does it brilliantly.
	Her casting is great.
	You know, it's weird because in the movie, she's an ordinary girl who's like starving to death.
	And this guy just kind of randomly Uh, you know, they must have gone through hundreds of girls to find the perfect girl.
	And what's weird is, like I said, I watched a documentary about the film before coming on today.
	And while I'm watching this documentary, there's guys that are talking about this, you know, having seen it as boys and going, You know, I fell in love with that girl.
	I'm watching King Kong, and I fell in love with this character in this movie.
	And that happens.
	Men do, especially when they're younger.
	They will fall in love with girls on the screen.
	When I was a kid, and I was trying to make movies, I always said to my friends, I said, we need to find actresses that people will fall in love with, that men will fall in love with.
	Because these are the kind of actresses that make the real money.
	And she did that.
	And I think every man in America was in love with her after this film.
	I think, yeah.
	I mean, there are a couple of names like that.
	You know, you've got the Ginger Rogers, you've got the Lauren Bacalls, but I think for a whole generation, Fay Wray, Fay Wray was the it girl.
	She was the girl that people fell in love with.
	I want to say a big thank you here.
	I don't do this usually because I do a load of my research by myself, but George of Film Journal had a 19-minute video.
	I think we can put it up on the screen right now.
	This is a great, great Young YouTuber, doesn't have a lot of followers, but his review of King Kong gives you inside knowledge that you won't find elsewhere.
	So congratulations to George of Film Journal.
	I want to also add a little bit of trivia.
	We've got the image of the fighter pilots.
	Just this idea.
	Who comes up with this idea that we're going to have fighter pilots in biplanes with machine guns shooting King Kong off the Empire State Building as he's trying to swat them?
	Who is playing the fighter pilots?
	Oh, it's real fighter pilots.
	It's the producers.
	It's Marion Cooper and Ernest Shojak.
	They are the actual people playing themselves.
	The heroes of World War One.
	The heroes of killing commies in Poland after World War One.
	They're the guys who just did a little cameo in the movie themselves.
	What else do we have to note before final thoughts?
	How much did it make?
	Okay, this movie, which was likely going to be the last film RKO ever made before it, you know, declared bankruptcy, cost $672,000.
	A lot of money.
	A lot of money in 1933.
	Netted $5 million and of course would be released again and again and again over the years.
	1933 netted five million and of course would be released again and again and again over
	the years.
	Interestingly, when the Hays Code came in for ethics and morality in movies, many of
	the scenes had to be deleted.
	The tribesman being eaten, the woman being thrown out of her apartment, the man being stomped off, were removed from all, all versions until...
	A pristine copy was found in Pennsylvania in the 1960s, and that is the version we have today with the re-edited inserted parts of it.
	And one more historic fact, first ever movie commentary, I think it was on the LaserDisc release of King Kong, was of this movie.
	So, influencing so many other things coming afterward.
	What was it, Eric, you said four movies came afterwards as a result, remakes or sequels?
	That was right.
	There was the sequel, released the same year, Son of Kong, the remake in 1976, and then the sequel to that remake, King Kong Lives, and then the Peter Jackson remake in the year 2005.
	Yeah, I would say the remake King Kong in 76 is actually a much better movie.
	Then many people will have you believe, but the original is of course King Kong 1933.
	Alright, last thoughts and then our ratings and then of course our next choice for a review here on America First.
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	That's so insightful.
	People must all be gathered up ahead there.
	That wall, Skipper.
	What do you think of that, eh?
	Colossal.
	It might almost be Egyptian.
	Yeah, but what's on the other side of that wall?
	That's what I want to know.
	Who do you suppose could have built it?
	Oh, I was up in Angkor once.
	That's bigger than this, and nobody knows who built it.
	Oh, boy, what a chance!
	What a picture!
	Amazing effects, multi-plate photography, stop motion.
	That's when they arrive to Skull Island, they see this massive gate, this massive wall behind which the tribesmen keep King Kong before they sacrifice a woman to him with regularity.
	Then, 47 minutes into the movie, we finally see the beast, the big unveiling.
	Eventually he's captured and then the denouement prior to the battle on the top of the Empire State
	is in front of a New York audience. Play clip.
	Ladies and gentlemen I'm here tonight to tell you a very strange story.
	A story so strange that no one will believe it.
	But ladies and gentlemen, seeing is believing.
	And we, my partners and I, have brought back the living proof of our adventure.
	An adventure in which twelve of our party met horrible deaths.
	And now, ladies and gentlemen, before I tell you any more, I'm going to show you the greatest thing your eyes have ever beheld.
	He was a king and a god in the world he knew.
	But now he comes to civilization.
	Merely a captive.
	A show to gratify your curiosity.
	Ladies and gentlemen, look at Kong!
	the eighth wonder of the world within minutes he will break loose of his chains when he
	sees fey rey He will rampage across New York, killing innocent New Yorkers, climb up the Empire State, and eventually be brought down by the brave fighter pilots.
	The ending, well, tells you what the story's about.
	Play cut.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me through, officer.
	My name's Denham.
	Denham.
	Lieutenant, I'm Carl Denham.
	Carl Denham?
	Denham?
	Oh, that's the man that captured the monster.
	Well, Denham, the airplanes got him.
	Oh, no.
	It wasn't the airplanes.
	It was beauty that killed the beast.
	Like you, Chris, when I saw this, I don't know how old I was, saw it on, you know, a cathode ray tube back in antiquity as a kid on a rerun.
	And I said, why does a 60-foot gorilla want to have sex with a woman who's five foot two?
	I'm a little confused.
	Why did he fall in love with that little, like, you know, Barbie doll thing?
	Doesn't matter.
	The whole thing works.
	It's a classic.
	Final thoughts on King Kong.
	Yeah, it's actually a pretty great ending.
	These filmmakers, they did so much right in this movie.
	It's one of those films where they got everything perfect.
	They've got so many people working on this film that knew exactly what they were doing.
	The story was great.
	It was a very ambitious film.
	Yeah.
	You know, so much of this film is the setup.
	They don't do that so much anymore.
	They jump straight into the action.
	They jump straight... Too quick.
	Too quick.
	Cut.
	This, you set up the adventure.
	What are you doing?
	There's even a mystery at the beginning.
	We don't even know where they're going or why they're going there.
	He wants to film this movie.
	He doesn't even have a script.
	He's not sure what he's gonna find.
	He's not sure how he's gonna even tell this story.
	And they get to the island, like you say, it takes a long time until we finally see King Kong, and that build-up really makes this film work.
	It is such a good story.
	And then they bring Kong back to New York City, and he rampages through New York City.
	So whilst they were coming up with this idea, they say, okay, what is this?
	Is it an adventure where we go into the wilderness and we see these exotic beasts?
	Is it something where an exotic beast somehow is brought to New York and rampages through New York?
	Oh, let's put them together!
	So they tell this story and they take time to tell the story and they do a really great job of it.
	And it's a classic for a reason.
	It's one of these weird movies where it's difficult because you don't know how it's going to hold up to a modern audience.
	But it does seem to hold up.
	People still love it.
	And I think it's because we do recognize that this is early cinema.
	We do realize this is a landmark film.
	And so when you see it in context, you do kind of give it a break here and there in terms of, you know, our perception of what we expect to see in a modern day film, you know.
	Yeah, I think having watched it again in its entirety for the first time in literally decades, I don't think I've seen this since I was in my teens, and then listening to your analysis, discussing it together, watching the makings of, I think what you've pointed to is so apt.
	This piece of artifice, this 90-minute movie, Demonstrates the power of imagination.
	These guys had a real imagination and then they executed it.
	Even without the best acting in the world, the effects, the scenery, the mystery, the idea you bring this beast to New York.
	Imagination plus execution.
	That's what makes for a great movie, a great book, a great theater play.
	Okay.
	Thank you, Chris.
	Superb analysis.
	Now it's time to rate it.
	10 out of... Oh, biplanes!
	Let's do it.
	Out of 10 biplanes, you rate it for a modern audience.
	I rate it in the universal eternal canon of movies.
	How many biplanes out of 10 does King Kong get?
	Look, for me personally, I'm going to give it a 10.
	I absolutely love it, but I don't rate it that way.
	I rate it how a modern audience is going to like it.
	Now, like you say, the acting isn't perfect.
	If you want to see a film for acting from this era, I would suggest the comedies.
	I would suggest Clark Gable.
	I would suggest, you know, William Powell.
	Watch my favorite films from this era are the Thin Man movies, which eventually we'll have to get to.
	I absolutely love those movies.
	If you want to watch a film for the acting, watch something like that.
	It happened one night, you know, one of these films from that era.
	But this, you're not watching this film for that reason.
	It's a film I think everyone should go back and watch.
	If you really like cinema or you even, if you just like that era, I would really suggest going and watching it.
	I think most people can watch this and put it in the context that it deserves, which is, you know, a great classic of history and, you know, early days of cinema.
	So I'll give it at least I'm going to be a little bit harsh just because I don't know how many people are going to love this.
	I think it's a little bit of a niche thing.
	So I'll give it a 7.
	Wow, okay.
	I always struggle here with my ratings because I have the responsibility of putting them in the broader canon of all movies.
	This is easy-peasy, easy-peasy.
	In the canon, the universal canon of the movies, King Kong is 10 biplanes out of 10 biplanes.
	Alright guys, if you haven't seen it in a while, if you've only seen bits of it, or you think, oh yeah, that thing with the gorilla and the Empire State, watch it this evening or this weekend, you won't regret it.
	Chris, I'm excited.
	What's next?
	Oh, I forgot that I have to do that, but I do have movies in mind already.
	Okay, now this is going to be a fun one.
	I wanted to do a comedy.

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