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I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys.
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Knowledge fight.
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Dan and Jordan.
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Hey, everybody!
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Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
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I'm Dan.
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I'm Jordan.
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We're a couple dudes who like to sit around, drink novelty beverages, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
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Indeed we are.
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Jordan.
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I beat you to it, Jordan.
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Nah, I think I finished first.
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My name's longer, though, so it's...
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And my name is in your name.
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It is true.
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Yes, I'm gonna keep bringing that up.
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Is this our question?
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Keep bringing that up obsessively.
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I think so.
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I think it's a good idea.
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Dan and Jordan.
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Uh-huh.
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Yeah, I gotcha.
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And then Jordan is inside Jordana, like Jordana Brewster.
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I do remember Jordana Brewster.
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From the Fast and Furious movies.
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I thought that was from Punky Brewster.
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No, that's Soleil Moonfry.
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Ah, I gotcha.
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All right, so that's not Paget Brewster.
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No, that's someone else.
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Is that your question?
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Yes, it is.
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Okay.
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Who's Paget Brewster?
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I'm joking.
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I love Paget Brewster.
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Fantastic.
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She was in The Thrilling Adventure Hour.
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She's perfect.
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She was in Andy Richter Controls the Universe.
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Great.
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Come on, Dan.
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So you've asked yourself a question.
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Anyways, Dan, quick question.
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I was thinking about this because of news of the day.
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Sure.
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Have you ever had a conflict of interest?
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Have you ever been in a position to have a conflict of interest?
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Do you know what I'm saying?
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The most I can think is when I used to manage a movie theater back in my younger days, I was friends with some of the employees.
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Okay.
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And so I think there's probably a bit of a conflict of interest there.
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It's tough to discipline.
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Right, I can see that.
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But at the same time, you might have to write somebody up who's your friend.
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Yeah.
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Or at least there's friendly relations.
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Because I was a concessionist and then a projectionist along.
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Alongside these people and then got promoted to management.
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Right, right, right.
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And so there's, you know, two weeks ago I was just...
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So the tension between labor and management soon became very real for you.
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It never really got that bad.
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It was a movie theater in small town.
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Yeah.
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There was never a crisis of conflict of interest.
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But certainly, I think I'm a 35-year-old man now.
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I can look back on how I behaved as a 19-year-old movie theater manager, and I can say I probably was far more lenient.
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I probably treated people differently.
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Okay, all right, all right.
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People I liked and were my friends.
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Due to a conflict of interest, perhaps.
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Yeah, probably.
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I never got to an abuse of authority.
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I never fired anybody or did anything like that just because I didn't like somebody.
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But I probably was ruder.
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Yeah, well, I mean, yeah.
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You were Stanford Prisoner experimented, I suppose.
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Something along those lines.
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It was a weird period of time.
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The idea that, like, three people who weren't even out of college age were running an entire theater without a general manager for at least a couple-month stretch of time.
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That's very funny.
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Yeah, it was bizarre.
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That's weird.
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But we did the best we could, and it didn't go out of business, so that's great.
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You guys are, like, hiring ad firms and trying to get Don Draper pitched.
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I mean, not far off.
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Certainly not that high level.
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A lot of those decisions were probably made at corporate level.
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But in terms of reordering supplies and putting in work orders.
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Really?
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Yeah, scheduling movies, renting the films from the companies to play.
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There was a lot of admin.
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Were they trying to soft-close that movie theater?
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They might have been.
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Let's see if they fuck it up enough where we can just burn it down for insurance.
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Low-key, they might have been.
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But they failed.
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Take that.
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We rose to the challenge.
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Take that.
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We had one last dance-off to save the theater!
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I guess the other conflict of interest was I hated corporate.
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That's not a conflict of interest.
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No, that's pretty consistent in middle management positions.
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I think that's normal.
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So, I know a little bit about conflicts of interest and a ton about Alex Jones.
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And I don't know anything about either, Dan.
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And that is the rub of the show.
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Today, Jordan, I have a little bit of an apology, maybe.
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I'm not entirely sure if it qualifies as an apology.
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It doesn't.
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I don't feel great that we have three present day episodes in a row.
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Right, I understand.
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We're coming in with a 2019 episode.
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And I should give an explanation.
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Because everybody likes it when I'm dumb, you know?
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What are you talking about?
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You're losing your mind.
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It's fun to celebrate when I do something dumb.
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Dan, 95% of the time you apologize, you should not be apologizing.
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I had it in my mind that the last 2013 episode that we had done was the 19th.
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Yes.
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So, when I sat down to prepare what would have been today's episode, I accidentally did the day after that.
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Right.
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Ruining two hours of my time.
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Maybe.
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Not even.
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So I had prepared the wrong episode.
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So obviously when it came time to record, we did not have the right episode ready.
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So we jump into the present day, which we've got ready for you.
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And we'll be going over October 18th, 2019, which is Friday of last week.
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Good year.
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Real fun time.
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One of the reasons I chose this date to look into and to check was because the night before the 17th, Thursday.
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Was the night that Donald Trump was in Dallas for his rally, and Alex Jones was on scene.
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Oh, no.
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He attended the rally.
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So I figured Alex would have some weird nonsense to get into, and he does not disappoint.
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He's pretty...
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Pretty messy.
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All right, good.
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So, we'll get to that in just a moment, but first, we've got to take a moment to say thank you to some people who have signed up and are supporting the show.
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So, first of all, I apologize in advance.
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I'm probably mispronouncing this, but I think it's Name.
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N-A-I-M-H.
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Thank you so much.
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You are now a policy wonk.
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I'm a policy wonk.
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Thank you, Name.
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Thank you, Name.
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Next, Tom.
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Thank you so much.
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You are now a policy wonk.
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I'm a policy wonk.
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Thank you, Tom.
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Next, Brendan.
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Thank you so much.
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You are now a policy wonk.
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I'm a policy wonk.
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Thank you, Brendan.
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Next, Nicholas.
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Thank you so much.
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You are now a policy wonk.
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I'm a policy wonk.
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Thank you, Nicky.
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Thanks, Nicholas.
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Nicky.
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Don't.
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You don't know him.
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No, I don't.
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Or her.
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No, it's true.
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Next, Matt.
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Thank you so much.
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You are now a policy wonk.
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I'm a policy wonk.
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Thank you, Matt.
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And finally, I'd like to say thank you to somebody who joined up on an elevated level.
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We appreciate that very much.
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So, Jonathan G., thank you so much.
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You are now a technocrat.
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I'm a policy wonk.
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Crikey, mate.
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That's fantastic.
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Have yourself a brew.
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How's your 401k doing, bro?
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We gotta go full tilt boogie on this, Watson, alright?
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Let's just get down to business.
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We ain't making that money off that heroin.
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Why are you pimps so good?
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My neck is freakishly large.
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I declare...
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Infowar on you.
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Thank you so much, Jonathan G. Yes, thank you very much, Jonathan G. If you're out there listening, you're thinking, hey, I like this show, I like what these gents do, I'd like to support their efforts in whatever this is.
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If you're feeling that way, you can do that by going to our website, knowledgefight.com, clicking the button that says support the show, we would appreciate it.
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It'd be lovely.
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You have been looking at me like I'm a little bit loopy, and I might be.
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I don't recall looking at you like that.
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Have I been looking at you like that?
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Maybe I'm just getting that sense.
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I think you're getting that sense because I might actually be a little loopy.
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I think we might both be.
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It's entirely possible.
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I did a tough night's sleep last night.
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It's been a weird few days, yeah.
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You yourself are loopy, so that'll factor in, and we're going to make it through this.
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Let's ride the lightning.
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So, Jordan, we start off today's episode here, the 18th of 2019, with Alex.
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Almost feeling like, eh, impeachment's probably gonna happen.
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Okay.
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So if it's gonna happen, if it's gonna happen, we, by we he means his weirdo friends, have to start dealing with what happens next.
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I don't want to know what he thinks.
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They are definitely trying to remove the president right now.
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Yeah, no shit.
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The aftermath of what will happen if they're able to successfully remove him.
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A lot of nationalists and conservatives and Christians and libertarians think that President Trump is invincible.
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And I tell you, if you believe that, I think you're living in a bubble.
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We're going to open the phones up on that subject today.
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Who are you?
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I understand why Matt Drudge is running a lot of stories that show Trump in danger.
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Because Trump is in danger.
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So you can see Alex has now started to recognize the shift in Drudge's coverage.
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How dare you acknowledge reality?
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How dare you?
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Don't say that.
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This is like breaking the fourth wall.
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Don't say that.
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He's not recognizing reality.
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In a sense, too much, too close to hope.
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No, because what he's doing is he's saying that Drudge is running these stories in order to wake up Trump.
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So he's still living in a little bit of a delusional...
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Naturally.
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Yeah.
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He's still trying to hedge it as like, Drudge is still 100% on the team, don't worry about it, when he has no idea what's going on.
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No one does.
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That's why all these right-wing blogs and publications are going through their motions of like, have we lost our guy?
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Is Drudge turning?
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Who cares?
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Anyway, if you think that Trump is invincible, you live in a damn bubble.
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You're right.
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I agree.
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And Alex has lived in that bubble for quite a while.
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I was going to say, he's lived exactly in that bubble for a long time.
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He later gives one example of a person who he thinks Trump is invincible.
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And stares into a mirror for a while and then just lets it go.
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I'll give you one hint about who this person is.
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Oh, God.
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He was dating a Nazi.
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Sandra Bullock?
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Hey, now.
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Jesse James.
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Jesse James is apparently, he thinks that Trump is invincible.
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Okay.
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So that's good.
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Jesse James apparently lives in a bubble by the transitive property of Alex's words.
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And, you know, a lot of conservatives live in bubbles.
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But you know who doesn't?
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Alex's audience.
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How dare you?
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A lot of conservatives live in their own bubble.
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Not as much as...
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Leftists do.
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They live in an insane asylum bubble.
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Sure.
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But they do live in their own bubble.
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And you need to get outside of that bubble sometimes.
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And I know our listeners do.
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That's why we're activist, nationalist, Christian patriots, most of us.
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Yeah, that's getting out of the bubble.
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Libertarians want to be free, common sense, folks.
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I'm not saying somebody's bad out there if they don't believe in God.
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That's your issue.
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That's your issue.
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That's literally something that he has said over and over and over again, that you are bad if you do not believe in God.
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Two days prior to this, he did an hour about how God is the only way to defeat the globalists.
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He did an evangelical tent sermon.
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It's your issue, Dan.
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It's your issue.
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It's not me.
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I'm just out here telling people to get outside their bubble, Dan.
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Me, Alex Jones.
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Also, by the way, that framing of it is even like...
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You know, off.
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Because it's still saying that, like, if you don't have the same religious beliefs as me, that's your issue.
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Yeah, that's an issue.
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That's your problem.
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Look, look, we can all work through our issues.
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Maybe you get some therapy or something like that, and you'll find your way into the Lord.
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But until then, it's just an issue.
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Yeah, it's implicitly, like, Christian supremacist.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's implied within the framework.
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Right, right, right, right.
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Yeah, which is great.
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Yeah, love it.
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Yeah, but look, the thing is that Trump...
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Like, his rhetoric is...
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I mean, I don't know how you'd describe it, but...
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Vicious.
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Ooh.
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Vile.
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It's not how Alex goes.
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Bilious.
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Ooh.
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Deceitful.
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Did you get Lionel's the source?
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I'm working on it.
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What's going on here?
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Alex has a different description that he uses.
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I've supported Trump because I know he's for real, and I know he wants to reboot the nation.
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Read his golf courses.
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He's got the power to stop the censorship that's racketeering, election meddling.
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He's got the power.
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To go up to the deep state.
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And really, his rhetoric is basically perfect.
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He gave him about a 99. My bad.
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That's not perfect.
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And his action is about a 90. I mean, when you talk about pulling us out of these wars and trying to reroute the economy and trying to build the wall, they've built quite a bit of it.
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The Border Patrol asked them to replace the hundreds of miles that was basically Swiss cheese, like an old shot-up road sign.
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You know, if somebody shot up 100 road signs of the town and...
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Money got funded for new road signs and they replaced the ones that were shot up.
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You wouldn't say, oh, the county robbed everybody.
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They didn't replace one new sign.
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Because they replaced the hundred plus that were shot by shotguns.
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So I want to defend Trump, but he's in that position where he could really devastate them if he just took a few more steps.
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Yeah, I feel like he did a total power grab.
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He could totally devastate the country.
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Yeah, yeah.
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He could really devastate the libs if he shored up power, dissolved the Republic.
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Crushing victory.
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Absolutely put Alex back on Facebook.
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I believe that's what he's really going for.
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Crushing victory, that would be.
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Oh, man.
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So Alex has this interesting idea about the customs and border patrol just being like, we've got to fix these hundreds of miles of fence.
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And that's why there's no more fence being built.
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It's because they're like, I know...
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Build the wall.
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I know.
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Right.
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But he is.
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He's got to repair the wall first.
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So on August 30th, 2019, PolitiFact put out an analysis of how the old building the wall thing was going.
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How's it going?
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Seeing as it was one of the two main things that people chanted at Trump rallies on the run-up to the 2016 election, it seems like this should be, you know, how it's going, that should be a good gauge of how effective Trump has been as president.
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Well, I mean, Hillary's been in prison for about three years now, so I assume we're doing great.
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I mean, that Lock Her Up chant, that was just pandering.
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Yeah.
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Even by Trump's admission.
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So, like, it becomes even more important to see how he's doing with the other chant.
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Yeah, the one that's real!
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Yeah.
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Kill the...
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Wait, what?
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Before Trump took office, there was about 654 miles of, quote, primary barrier along the wall, like fences.
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Now, three years later, no additional miles have been built.
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All that Trump has achieved is replacing approximately 60 miles of fence.
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Right.
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Not these hundreds of miles that Alex is referring to that need to be replaced.
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About 60. Customs and Border Protection have received $6.2 billion to supposedly build state-of-the-art walls, but none of it has actually been built.
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Alex should be against this because it's an absurd level of financial malfeasance, but also because a lot of that money, those billions of dollars, you know where it came from?
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A lot of it came from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
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You know, the money that's taken from people when they're arrested or is seized by the IRS.
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I really thought he was super against that.
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Well, yeah.
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He certainly was.
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I mean, you know.
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Oh, well.
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Strange bedfellows and such.
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What are you going to do?
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What are you going to do?
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You got to get that wall built.
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Yeah.
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As we've discussed a number of times, even if Trump wanted to make this wall, he legitimately couldn't.
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The border runs across a lot of private property, the owners of which have said they're not interested in selling or allowing a wall to be built on their property.
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So you need to have all kinds of imminent domain cases that just never would work out.
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And that's not even to mention the 118 miles of border that's inside Big Bend National Park, which you can never get approval to build a wall in.
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If Alex wants to hang his hat on a guy allocating billions of dollars to fix a couple miles of fencing, I guess that's his prerogative.
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But I feel like if you do that, you're setting the bar insanely low.
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Like, isn't Trump supposed to be this overpowered, conquering leader?
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I really need there to be some sort of rhetorical referee who could just have jumped in the moment he said that.
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With a whistle and just been like, moving the goalposts, remove 10 minutes from your show.
► 00:16:26
Foul.
► 00:16:26
Continue, yeah.
► 00:16:27
Get a red card on him.
► 00:16:28
No kidding, yeah.
► 00:16:29
So, like I mentioned, Trump was in Dallas because he was down there to scout locations for the fence.
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Sure.
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I assume.
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Yeah.
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He had his rally.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And Alex was in attendance, which he speaks about in this next clip.
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We may get a few guests on briefly that were at the big Trump rally in Dallas last night.
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Spoiler alert, he does not.
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Oh, okay.
► 00:16:51
Because they're eyewitnesses to a lot of what transpired and went on.
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It was a circus.
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And I was there.
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I did not even intend to be riding around in an armored vehicle with a turret on the top.
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But the security group we were able to get to our contacts, great folks, had that armored vehicle as their main armored vehicle.
► 00:17:15
Okay, their main armored vehicle.
► 00:17:17
I don't know.
► 00:17:18
I don't even care to unpack that.
► 00:17:19
That's such weird.
► 00:17:21
Have you seen these pictures?
► 00:17:23
Uh-uh.
► 00:17:23
Alex basically rolling around in a tank, yelling at people in a bullhorn.
► 00:17:26
Why would I see those pictures?
► 00:17:28
Back to his roots.
► 00:17:29
That's part of the goddamn game, is that I can't see those pictures.
► 00:17:32
It's very exciting to see Alex appearing kind of like what you would expect his career to be, based on his earlier career.
► 00:17:38
Right.
► 00:17:38
He likes to bother people.
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He loves the bullhorn.
► 00:17:41
Tyranny Crusher 74 or whatever.
► 00:17:43
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:17:43
69, probably.
► 00:17:45
It just makes sense.
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It fits.
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Don't feel like it's okay to be using a...
► 00:17:53
An iteration of Tyranny Crusher in the very representation of Tyranny.
► 00:17:58
Right.
► 00:17:58
Whilst riding around...
► 00:18:00
Tyranny supporter.
► 00:18:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Everything is Orwellian.
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If he's sitting on a fucking tank at goddamn Tiananmen Square with a bullhorn, he's not crushing Tyranny, Dan.
► 00:18:09
In fairness, I'm calling it a tank.
► 00:18:11
It's not really a tank.
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It's sort of an armored Hummer, you'd describe it as.
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Okay, fine.
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With a roof turret.
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So, functionally, it's a tank.
► 00:18:19
Right.
► 00:18:19
It's a tank that doesn't appear to have, like...
► 00:18:23
Offensive capability.
► 00:18:24
It's got a turret!
► 00:18:26
Well, not a turret.
► 00:18:27
Opening.
► 00:18:28
Oh, okay.
► 00:18:28
Like a latch.
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Okay, I gotcha.
► 00:18:31
That's what he's referring to.
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I'm picturing a gun turret.
► 00:18:35
It does have that feeling.
► 00:18:37
It wasn't that.
► 00:18:38
Okay.
► 00:18:39
So anyway, Alex went out to the Dallas-Trump rally, and there's some footage flying around of him yelling into a bullhorn while poking his little head out of the top of this armored vehicle.
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Honestly, it's sadder than anything else I can think of.
► 00:18:50
It's just near parody levels of aggressive, militaristic masculinity.
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I'm a big, strong boy!
► 00:18:56
I'm a big, strong boy!
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Everybody notice me!
► 00:19:00
I'm a big, strong boy!
► 00:19:01
So I watched the video that Alex himself put out of the bullhorning that he did.
► 00:19:06
And there's a couple of points in that footage that I want to tell you about really quick.
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The first is that while Alex is driving around bullhorning, there are a number of people who are taping him with their phones.
► 00:19:15
It's unclear if their supporters are just hoping he'll get stuck in that roof hatch and then they'll have a viral video on their hands.
► 00:19:20
So good.
► 00:19:21
It'd go viral so fast.
► 00:19:22
However, there's one person in the shot who appears to be presenting as a real supporter.
► 00:19:27
He's an African-American man with dreadlocks pumping his fist in the air toward Alex.
► 00:19:31
However, if you pay close attention, that is one of Alex's new employees, a guy who All right.
► 00:19:38
All right.
► 00:19:53
Right.
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Is clunky.
► 00:19:58
Huh!
► 00:19:59
I don't...
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Well, we don't have any African-American supporters, so what if we paid for one?
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But it's even less that that I'm resonating with.
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It's the fact that there's just one person, and it's on the payroll.
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He's the only person who seems, like, really interested.
► 00:20:15
Yeah.
► 00:20:16
Yeah.
► 00:20:17
So, there's that.
► 00:20:18
Is that actually part of your, like, opening orientation when you join InfoWars?
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You might have to pretend to be a fan.
► 00:20:25
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:20:25
So then, Alex's armored vehicle parks, and the whole thing takes on a very sad vibe.
► 00:20:31
There were about 10 to 15 people around the car.
► 00:20:33
Will Johnson is one of them, so it's entirely possible a couple of others were InfoWars employees that I just don't know.
► 00:20:39
Sure.
► 00:20:39
Some of the people are just walking past and stop for a moment to see the spectacle, then keep walking.
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At least one of the people in the crowd is wearing a shirt that says, quote, anti-Trump social club.
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And they're just taping Alex on their phone, not causing any trouble or anything.
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Yeah.
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Someone else is wearing a lizard onesie, which is fun.
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All right.
► 00:20:57
Somebody in the crowd who Alex yells at, he says they're MSM, mainstream media.
► 00:21:02
This guy asks Alex if he has any proof that the deep state is trying to kill Trump.
► 00:21:07
And Alex just yells something about Phil Mudd.
► 00:21:09
Then he plugs Infowars.com a bunch of times and tries to get America is back chant going, which only kind of works.
► 00:21:16
Very lackluster response.
► 00:21:19
That's always sad when you see someone try to get a chant going.
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Yeah.
► 00:21:23
It only seems like this is a chant because you have a bullhorn.
► 00:21:25
Look, you only try and start a chant if you know you can get a chant going.
► 00:21:29
It's a really dangerous maneuver if you're not sure.
► 00:21:32
Yeah.
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I've been to many a couple...
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Before the Cubs were good.
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Back in the good old days of before 2016 and also after 2020.
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Right.
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It was like there would be so many people up in the high bleachers trying to get a chant going.
► 00:21:47
Drunks yelling, go Cubs, go.
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Yeah, and everybody just turned into looking at me like, we're alright, man.
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That's sad.
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Come on now.
► 00:21:53
But it's nowhere near the level of someone at an open mic or even a show trying to get a USA chant going.
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It just falls flat.
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You just feel for them.
► 00:22:03
Well, it's almost worse if you do successfully get the USA chant going.
► 00:22:06
That's kind of a push.
► 00:22:07
Yeah.
► 00:22:07
Alex looks winded, though he literally hasn't moved and is just popping his little head out of a roof hatch.
► 00:22:13
It's a grotesque, macabre picture of a man with almost nothing left in the tank.
► 00:22:17
It's just sad.
► 00:22:18
There's no joy in him at all.
► 00:22:20
He was being a douche like back in the old days.
► 00:22:23
You know, I'm not defending his early work, necessarily.
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But if you watch videos of him trolling people at rallies, even the lead-up to 2016, that election, there was a spark there.
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He really seemed like he was having fun when he would go out and yell at people and fuck with them.
► 00:22:41
Getting in a goddamn tank and bullhorning people at a Trump rally in his home state should be the most home of home turfs for Alex.
► 00:22:48
He should be owning that space.
► 00:22:50
But instead, he just seems like an angry old man in a tank, yelling about nothing to drive traffic to his website.
► 00:22:55
You look at it like, this guy's got to be miserable.
► 00:22:58
That should be the greatest moment for him.
► 00:23:02
He should be so alive.
► 00:23:05
He's in a tank, yelling at people at a Trump rally in Texas.
► 00:23:10
No, he's like Adam Sandler in Funny People, you know?
► 00:23:14
He's lost his roots, he's trying to come home, and he realizes that there's nothing for him at home anymore either, Dan.
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You can never go home again.
► 00:23:21
Once you sell your soul.
► 00:23:23
It's like feeling like he's treading water to some extent.
► 00:23:26
You can almost...
► 00:23:28
And not doing a good job treading water.
► 00:23:30
No.
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Getting ready to be no longer treading.
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Yep.
► 00:23:33
Also, it should be pointed out that at that rally in Dallas, a man was sent to the hospital for evaluation after police found him to be armed and wearing body armor, which is usually a really bad combination.
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It tends to imply that you might have an expectation that a shootout might be a likely part of your evening when you leave the house with those accessories.
► 00:23:51
Oh, he also had mace and a gas mask.
► 00:23:54
Okay, good.
► 00:23:54
But that has nothing to do with Alex.
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Except that he was wearing an InfoWars shirt.
► 00:23:59
Well, I mean...
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So that's cool and fun stuff.
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Absolutely really awesome.
► 00:24:03
Look, in his defense, not many shirts fit over body armor, Dan.
► 00:24:07
It might have been under.
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Okay, well, a lot of shirts wrinkle when they're under body armor, Dan.
► 00:24:13
But not these high-quality Zilvan shirts or whatever.
► 00:24:18
Because Haynes won't work with him anymore, so he's got to go with another company.
► 00:24:23
I don't know.
► 00:24:25
Anyway...
► 00:24:25
Alex was out there in full effect.
► 00:24:27
He was tanky yelling at people, having a blast, but not having a blast.
► 00:24:31
He seemed miserable.
► 00:24:33
But there was a reason that Alex really had to go to this rally.
► 00:24:37
Like, you know, Trump rally, been there, done that for Alex.
► 00:24:42
Seems like you would get old with him.
► 00:24:43
Yeah, you'd get bored with him.
► 00:24:44
I would say the first reason, the unspoken reason, Alex isn't going to use this as an excuse, but...
► 00:24:49
He needs a PR stunt.
► 00:24:51
Oh, 100%.
► 00:24:52
And riding around in a tank yelling at people is about as best as he can do right now.
► 00:24:55
In this day and age?
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Yeah.
► 00:24:56
That's great.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
► 00:24:57
So, good for that.
► 00:24:59
Yeah.
► 00:24:59
But there's another reason, and Alex talks about it in this next clip.
► 00:25:03
Love?
► 00:25:03
And so I said, with Biden coming out on the debate stage three nights ago, and saying...
► 00:25:17
We need to not fight with each other.
► 00:25:18
We need to focus on removing Trump by the 17th.
► 00:25:22
Well, that was last night, so I just said, whoa, Dallas.
► 00:25:25
He did it!
► 00:25:27
56 years later.
► 00:25:28
Oh, no.
► 00:25:29
Do not.
► 00:25:30
All the other bizarre statements by Pelosi.
► 00:25:32
Shut the fuck up.
► 00:25:33
Orange bullets around her wrist and Cory Booker.
► 00:25:36
I said, hey, everybody's got a real feeling of concern about this.
► 00:25:40
I'm going up to Dallas with the crew.
► 00:25:46
Did we stop Trump being assassinated?
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Did we stop an attempted assassination?
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The world will never know.
► 00:25:57
I love that.
► 00:26:00
I love that so much.
► 00:26:02
How many Infowarriors does it take to stop an assassination, Dan?
► 00:26:07
One, if they're committed.
► 00:26:08
Two!
► 00:26:09
A three.
► 00:26:10
This is that great.
► 00:26:11
Am I a hero?
► 00:26:12
The world will never know.
► 00:26:13
The world will never know.
► 00:26:14
We'll never know the sacrifices that I made to protect this dumb, dumb president.
► 00:26:18
Oh, man.
► 00:26:18
So, this is complete insanity.
► 00:26:20
Alex is suggesting that he might have stopped an assassination plot against Trump scheduled for this rally on October 17th.
► 00:26:26
This is more squarely in the genre of Alex insanity that I can get on board with.
► 00:26:31
I love this.
► 00:26:33
This is where I want him to be.
► 00:26:34
I do like knowing that, in his mind, presidential assassinations have a certain kind of poetry to them.
► 00:26:41
The globalists are like, we could have killed Trump at any point in time.
► 00:26:44
But it's the 50-year anniversary!
► 00:26:46
Come on!
► 00:26:48
Spoiler alert, it's not.
► 00:26:49
Oh, okay.
► 00:26:50
We'll get to that in a second.
► 00:26:52
This theory that he has is based on a clip of Joe Biden from the last presidential election, where Joe says, quote, It's so important that we remove this man from office.
► 00:27:01
On the 17th, And then he trails off.
► 00:27:04
There's no indication that he was saying the 17th.
► 00:27:07
It could have been anything to do with the number 17. Or it's totally plausible that Joe Biden just had one of those thoughts that he gets that don't really mean anything.
► 00:27:14
And he started saying it.
► 00:27:15
Oh, no, Joe!
► 00:27:17
Whatever the case, it's a separate sentence.
► 00:27:19
So saying that this is Joe Biden saying that we need to remove Trump by the 17th is a bit of a stretch.
► 00:27:25
Further evidence that Alex gives comes from a press conference that Nancy Pelosi gave where she mentioned her bracelet that she was wearing, which has a bullet in it, as well as some orange ornamental beads to signify safety vests that people wear.
► 00:27:39
Okay.
► 00:27:43
this country and any idiot understands that yeah but a special kind of idiot like alex sees a bullet and puts two and two together the tv is threatening him so Subliminal messages are being conveyed trying to taunt him that they're going to kill his hero.
► 00:27:58
Yes.
► 00:27:58
That is what's going on.
► 00:27:59
I don't understand why you think there's a problem here.
► 00:28:01
Right.
► 00:28:02
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
► 00:28:03
She's wearing...
► 00:28:05
Well, one, she's doing everything necessary.
► 00:28:08
And two, that bracelet is clearly a threat.
► 00:28:11
Done.
► 00:28:11
There's no way around it.
► 00:28:12
No other way.
► 00:28:13
InfoWars pointed this out about Pelosi.
► 00:28:15
Quote, her body language seemed unusually shaky during the press conference.
► 00:28:20
Now...
► 00:28:20
That could have been because she was telegraphing a presidential assassination at the test of the globalists.
► 00:28:25
Coulda.
► 00:28:25
Or it could be because part of that press conference had to do with the death of her longtime congressional co-worker, Elijah Cummings.
► 00:28:32
That might shake a person up a little bit.
► 00:28:34
Nancy Pelosi had been in the House of Representatives since 1987, and Cummings had been there since 1996.
► 00:28:41
It's 23 years the two of them worked together to get legislation passed, and it would be insane to imagine that his passing didn't affect her.
► 00:28:48
Dan, you're not understanding Alex's point of view here.
► 00:28:52
That can't be true, because he's not white.
► 00:28:55
Duh!
► 00:28:56
Yeah, or maybe she was announcing they were going to kill Trump so subtly.
► 00:29:00
Okay, that was true.
► 00:29:01
So subtly that literally only Alex picked up on him.
► 00:29:04
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:29:05
That is possible.
► 00:29:06
So I wanted to know more.
► 00:29:07
He's a crack detective.
► 00:29:08
I wanted to know more, so I went over to the Infowars article about this theory.
► 00:29:12
And man, the evidence is overwhelming.
► 00:29:16
All right.
► 00:29:16
So Kennedy was killed in Dallas.
► 00:29:18
Yes.
► 00:29:19
Trump's rally was in Dallas.
► 00:29:22
I agree with both of those facts.
► 00:29:24
So far, so good.
► 00:29:25
All perfect.
► 00:29:26
Now here's where it falls apart.
► 00:29:28
Immediately?
► 00:29:29
Oh boy, that's not good.
► 00:29:30
That's about the only thing that they get right.
► 00:29:34
Can't get one more detail?
► 00:29:35
So JFK was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963.
► 00:29:40
50 years ago to the day.
► 00:29:41
As you might notice, October 17th is not the anniversary of November 22nd.
► 00:29:46
50 years ago to the day.
► 00:29:48
Don't worry about that.
► 00:29:49
Alex has you covered.
► 00:29:50
I know it seems like...
► 00:29:52
I know it seems wrong.
► 00:29:53
Seems like it's not an anniversary.
► 00:29:54
I know it seems wrong.
► 00:29:57
So in the article, which was posted before the rally, in an attempt to build up the narrative that Trump's life is in danger in Dallas, they have pictures of two calendars.
► 00:30:06
One from October 1963, the year of JFK's assassination, and one from October 2019.
► 00:30:13
You ready to have your mind blown?
► 00:30:14
All right.
► 00:30:15
Dude!
► 00:30:15
Dude!
► 00:30:16
Okay.
► 00:30:16
You ready to have your mind blown?
► 00:30:17
All right.
► 00:30:17
Show me what's up.
► 00:30:18
The 17th.
► 00:30:19
Leap years?
► 00:30:20
The 17th is a Thursday in both years.
► 00:30:24
Freak out!
► 00:30:28
What?
► 00:30:28
That's all that they're going on.
► 00:30:31
What?
► 00:30:31
Yeah.
► 00:30:32
No!
► 00:30:33
Both years.
► 00:30:35
September 17th.
► 00:30:35
No!
► 00:30:36
Thursday.
► 00:30:36
No!
► 00:30:37
No, take that down.
► 00:30:38
No.
► 00:30:39
I want to cease and desist from, I don't know, from somebody.
► 00:30:42
Spoiler alert, that is definitely still an article that is up on it for words.
► 00:30:45
I want to cease and desist from the literal concept of October 17th.
► 00:30:49
Now, please, don't think about the fact that this is a low-level coincidence that means literally nothing, and that October 17th was a Thursday in 2013, 2002, 1996, 1991, 1985, 1974, 1968.
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1963, and a ton of other years that I got tired of looking up.
► 00:31:07
Do you mean all years where a president was either assassinated or attempted to be assassinated?
► 00:31:12
Probably.
► 00:31:12
This is stupendous stuff.
► 00:31:14
This is great.
► 00:31:16
I love this.
► 00:31:18
What fucking employee was like, uh, let's take a look at when October 17th was?
► 00:31:25
That's it?
► 00:31:26
Guys.
► 00:31:28
Writers meeting.
► 00:31:30
What are we doing?
► 00:31:31
Trump, Dallas.
► 00:31:33
1963.
► 00:31:34
October 17th is a Thursday.
► 00:31:35
That's 50 years ago today.
► 00:31:36
It's not.
► 00:31:37
Okay.
► 00:31:38
Not even 50. All right.
► 00:31:39
Not the right month.
► 00:31:40
I'm going to tell you right now, Alex wants to hear you say it's 50. Now listen to me.
► 00:31:45
Thursday.
► 00:31:47
Right?
► 00:31:48
Right.
► 00:31:49
All right.
► 00:31:50
I like where you're going so far.
► 00:31:52
Get some screenshots.
► 00:31:53
to put it on the website.
► 00:31:54
We're good.
► 00:31:56
This is a good theory.
► 00:31:58
Just so everybody in the writer's room knows, I love our job.
► 00:32:01
By the way, in case you were wondering, guess how long this took us?
► 00:32:05
It is 8.45.
► 00:32:06
We're done for the day!
► 00:32:09
If there's a sign that Infowars staff is just phoning this shit in, it's gotta be stuff like this.
► 00:32:14
This calendar conspiracy.
► 00:32:16
This is Bush League work.
► 00:32:17
Just the definition of a zero.
► 00:32:19
And along with these tech issues we keep seeing of everything not working, the idea that his writers are turning in something like this, it just has to mean that he...
► 00:32:28
People are leaving.
► 00:32:29
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:32:30
There's no byline on that.
► 00:32:31
It just says Infowars.
► 00:32:32
There's no byline.
► 00:32:33
No, I don't know who wrote that.
► 00:32:35
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:32:35
Kurt Nemo wouldn't turn in something like that.
► 00:32:37
Why not?
► 00:32:38
Paul Joseph Watson might.
► 00:32:39
Yeah.
► 00:32:40
Probably not, though.
► 00:32:41
And he would have heavily edited the calendars to look much faster than they otherwise would.
► 00:32:47
I honestly feel like he would do better than that.
► 00:32:49
And that's not a compliment to him, necessarily.
► 00:32:51
I don't know.
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I don't even...
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Just bad.
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But I love it.
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I just fucking love it.
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You know what?
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Here's the worst part.
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Here's my theory.
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They didn't even come up with it.
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That is totally something that some asshole posted online.
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And they just screen grabbed it.
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100% possible.
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They just screen grabbed it.
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They are that fucking lazy.
► 00:33:12
100% possible.
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But I still think it shows a lack of quality control going on.
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Not that they ever had good quality control to begin with.
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No, I know.
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But this being put in an article about how they're going to kill Trump.
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Yeah, no.
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Absurdly transparent and sad.
► 00:33:28
We're getting into high school AV club kind of situation here.
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We're getting into conspiracy message board Project Camelot level.
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Like, ooh, this means that it's sad.
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Sad.
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Oh, shit.
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If Alex buys a telescope, we're fucked.
► 00:33:44
Yeah.
► 00:33:44
So we get around to Alex, who now is really in favor of what Trump is doing in Syria with the Kurds.
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That quick, huh?
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Yeah.
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Wow, he's really vacillating faster than I'm comfortable with.
► 00:33:57
Yep.
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He's fully on board.
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He actually says it's wonderful.
► 00:34:01
What?
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At a certain point.
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Sure.
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Oof.
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Fine.
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It's bad.
► 00:34:06
First big thing I'm going to hit is Trump.
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Coming out and saying, we've got a peace deal.
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And the media, the left and the right, acting like he's a devil.
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What I saw on the ground was people waving Kurdish flags, flipping me off, saying F-Trump, saying, you know, down with Trump, with Antifa, spitting on us, hitting us.
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So now Alex went out to this rally, and I guess some people who have Kurdish flags were yelling at him, and now maybe that is a big part of his transformation to...
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Although he was already waffling on being against it in any meaningful way already.
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Like, we'd already heard that.
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Right.
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He was already coming around to supporting whatever Trump was doing.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But it can't...
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He was coming around to believing the last thing that anybody said to him about it.
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Right.
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He was against this pulling out whenever he was talking to Joel Skousen.
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Right.
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And then as soon as Skousen's gone...
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Right back on it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So he ran into people with Kurdish flags and Antifa out at the Dallas rally.
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Sure.
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Right?
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And he sat there.
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They're spitting on him.
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They're hitting him.
► 00:35:13
They're hitting their people?
► 00:35:14
Sure.
► 00:35:15
Everybody's got cameras.
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Everybody's got phones.
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Everybody's seen it.
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So we have to have visual proof.
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I'm not really interested in that at all.
► 00:35:21
Alex keeps saying that he has tons of footage of everything, but there's so much obscenity that it's going to take hours to bleep it all.
► 00:35:27
Sure.
► 00:35:27
He does this all the fucking time.
► 00:35:29
That's nice.
► 00:35:29
We're going to play it, but we just got to bleep it.
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We just got to bleep it.
► 00:35:31
Yeah.
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It's a very stock excuse for him.
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I'm not really interested in that.
► 00:35:36
I don't care if that happened.
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No, of course not.
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Not because I think people should get hit.
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Because I also don't think it happened.
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But I don't really care to argue that, is more what I'm saying.
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
► 00:35:46
I just think it's interesting because, as we hear in this next clip, we find out how Alex responded to that.
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And they stunk like a septic tank.
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I mean, these people are just the scum of the earth.
► 00:36:02
So they followed us around the whole time, and then they got us all surrounded in the police.
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We went over to the police and said, please help us.
► 00:36:09
And the police said no and walked away a line of police.
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Very despicable.
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And, you know, the guys I was with were either, you know, former police or folks that have worked with the police.
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And they said they'd never seen anything like it.
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It was very despicable.
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Despicable, but it shows where America's gone.
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I don't believe this at all.
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I don't believe any part of this story, because Alex has spent, I don't know, when did Antifa start becoming a buzzword?
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1988, I believe.
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He's been yelling since then, if they ever come up to him, he's going to beat their asses.
► 00:36:40
Yeah.
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He has the perfect opportunity now.
► 00:36:42
He's at a Trump rally.
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Someone who's Antifa comes over spitting on him, hitting him.
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It's in self-defense if he wants to kick the shit out of that person.
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He doesn't do it.
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He goes and runs to the police.
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I don't believe any of this.
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And if it is in self-defense...
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He should kick the shit out of that person by his own mind, just because, think about all the publicity he'd get.
► 00:37:00
He talks about how he just turns red.
► 00:37:02
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:37:03
He goes blank and he's an animal attacking people.
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Now, I know a lot of that is bravado and masculinity, and it's not really true.
► 00:37:10
Alex would love to get hit and then sue somebody.
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That would be the dream scenario for him.
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Just none of this tracks.
► 00:37:19
The idea that he got hit or spit on and he went to the police and was like, oh, please help us.
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Why would he, everything about him and everything he puts out into the world, why would he be the person who goes to the police and is like, I need your help resolving this.
► 00:37:33
Isn't he all about individualism and not relying on the nanny state?
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Right, right, right, right.
► 00:37:38
Bullshit.
► 00:37:39
Why wouldn't Ted Nugent want guns at his shows?
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It's an interesting question.
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Yeah.
► 00:37:44
So his big thing was yelling America is back at people.
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Like, that's what he tried to get that chant going.
► 00:37:49
Right.
► 00:37:50
And then people started singing Backstreet's Back and there was a whole dance fight.
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Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow.
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I'm not sure if that happened, although it's more believable than what Alex says happened when he started yelling America is back at demonic leftists.
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Okay, all right.
► 00:38:06
Watching people who can't even speak English going F Trump, F America.
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And I would, from the Middle East, and I would say, America's back, and boy, it was like throwing holy water on Linda Blair and the Exorcist.
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When I would say, America's back, or the Democratic Party founded the KKK, they would just go, I mean, just, some of them would just start shaking and fall down on the ground and start flopping around.
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You think I'm kidding?
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I've got footage of this.
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It was like exorcism when I would say, America's back.
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America's back.
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And they go...
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Well, you've seen the footage of people doing that.
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They go...
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And they start bumping into things and falling down.
► 00:38:48
I mean, these people are...
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Something's wrong with them.
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All I've seen...
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Sure.
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All I've seen is video of people fucking with Alex.
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Yeah.
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Like, I've seen...
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A couple instances of people hissing at him.
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Yeah.
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But it's clear they're fucking good.
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They're hilarious.
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Yeah.
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So, I don't know.
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They're having a great time.
► 00:39:06
Yeah.
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I don't think that he has footage of yelling America's back at people and them flopping on the ground and hissing like demons.
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Probably not.
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But if he does, it's 100% someone fucking with him.
► 00:39:18
Yeah.
► 00:39:18
So, this is great.
► 00:39:19
Either that or the weirdest coincidence.
► 00:39:23
Like a seizure?
► 00:39:23
Yeah.
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The grand mal seizure in history.
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Yeah.
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That would be a bummer.
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I doubt that that is the case.
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Probably not.
► 00:39:30
I think Alex is making this up, but I guess we'll find out once it's finished bleeping.
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Yeah.
► 00:39:36
Spoiler alert, that does not come by the end of the film.
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Oh, it doesn't?
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No.
► 00:39:39
So Alex, again, he's talking here about the situation with the Kurds in Syria.
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Right.
► 00:39:44
And he expresses that he's all for what Trump's doing.
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Well, he would be pro-genocide, that's true.
► 00:39:51
Trump has said in public...
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Remarks that he's made that, you know, gotta let Turkey clean that place out.
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I don't understand why you would have any problem with that language.
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It's certainly language that is shockingly close to other language, like cleansing.
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No, that's two different words!
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Root words.
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Okay, well, root words.
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Oh, we're going to start talking about what words mean now, Dan.
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This is 2019.
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Certainly those words are closer than October and November are anniversaries.
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Right, right, right.
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No, I understand.
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But the 17th is a Thursday.
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So it's pretty fucked up to imagine that...
► 00:40:32
Alex is okay and supportive of this, but he is.
► 00:40:36
And the thing that's even more fucked up is he doesn't even really seem to deny the idea that Turkey is going to go in and kill a lot of people.
► 00:40:44
He doesn't seem to care about that.
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And in this next clip, you get his only real response.
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And he makes this response a couple times on this episode, and I think it's abhorrent.
► 00:40:57
And I want to spend some time on what's really happening in Syria because I've had time to really study it.
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Fuck off.
► 00:41:03
I have to say I agree with what the president's done.
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I think it's very, very well thought out.
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Very, very pragmatic.
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And most importantly, he's doing what he said he would do.
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So I'm going to hit that in the last segment of this hour.
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And great to tell.
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We have a bunch of clips of it.
► 00:41:22
And boy, I saw the left just howling, the Kurds, the Kurds, the genocide, the mass murder.
► 00:41:29
Where was the media when even the UN admits the persecution of Christians accounts for about 80% of all religious persecution in the world?
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It used to be about a third.
► 00:41:44
A decade ago, persecution of Christians had doubled.
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Now it's cool.
► 00:41:48
Really more than that.
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I think it's quadrupled.
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You can pull the numbers up, but persecution of Christians is skyrocketing.
► 00:41:54
His only real angle on this isn't to refute or even seem to care at all about the actual situation and the people.
► 00:42:04
It's like, why didn't you care about my perceived victimhood?
► 00:42:08
And again, there is a problem with Christian persecution around the globe.
► 00:42:13
I don't believe that it's nearly as high as Alex is saying, because the reference that he's making isn't to the UN.
► 00:42:19
It's like a Catholic priest who gave a speech at the UN.
► 00:42:23
Yeah.
► 00:42:24
He always cites it as the UN said this.
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Yeah, the UN didn't put out a report on it.
► 00:42:29
No.
► 00:42:30
The Catholic priest just said it.
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Yeah, and that's not to take away...
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And we can trust the Catholic priests.
► 00:42:34
I think that's something that we've all...
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They have a good track record.
► 00:42:36
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:42:37
I'm not minimizing the idea that there are Christians who are in bad situations and are being victims themselves.
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Absolutely.
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But...
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That is not a good excuse for why he shouldn't have to care about what's going on in northern Syria.
► 00:42:55
No, he's literally saying, this is your fault.
► 00:42:58
He's whatabouting the atrocities.
► 00:43:00
I mean, not just that, but almost drawing a causal link between them.
► 00:43:04
If you had been there for my perceived links...
► 00:43:07
Then I will be there for yours.
► 00:43:09
Right.
► 00:43:09
But you didn't, so now I get to watch people die.
► 00:43:12
That's what you get.
► 00:43:13
Yeah, his commitment to human rights is conditional.
► 00:43:15
Yeah.
► 00:43:16
And that's a problem.
► 00:43:17
Yeah, you can be against all genocide.
► 00:43:20
It's possible.
► 00:43:21
Yeah, I've seen it happen.
► 00:43:22
It's not possible for Alex.
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No.
► 00:43:25
Or at least it's not something he's interested in.
► 00:43:27
Which is bad.
► 00:43:29
So Alex is being sued for his coverage of Sandy Hook and his behavior in that time period and around that subject.
► 00:43:37
He just lost another appeal on that case recently.
► 00:43:42
He says that it's not true.
► 00:43:44
What, that he lost the appeal?
► 00:43:46
Yeah.
► 00:43:46
Okay.
► 00:43:47
The situation was he was trying to get the case thrown out, and it didn't work, so he appealed the decision to not throw out the case, and he lost that appeal, so the case has to go forward.
► 00:43:56
And they were like, again, we are not throwing this lawsuit out.
► 00:43:59
They're just pushing back all of his stalling, delaying, obfuscation tactics.
► 00:44:05
They're just not working.
► 00:44:06
And so Alex, every time he talks about it, he always has to be like, everyone says I lost this case, I didn't lose it.
► 00:44:11
Creating a straw man.
► 00:44:13
Yeah.
► 00:44:13
Who cares?
► 00:44:14
Yeah.
► 00:44:14
In this next clip, though, he seems to be creating a completely fictitious version of what that lawsuit is about.
► 00:44:20
I don't understand.
► 00:44:22
I'm being sued by the Sandy Hook families backed up by the Democratic Party claiming false advertising.
► 00:44:29
What?
► 00:44:29
And they say that my fortune was made on Sandy Hook when I barely ever even talked about it.
► 00:44:33
And so, basically, those lawyers and law firms have attached themselves to the success of the show.
► 00:44:38
Using stuff we barely talked about to continue to say they're being victimized by me.
► 00:44:42
It's a form of waving the bloody shirts, what it's called.
► 00:44:47
But they're saying that there's an advertising formula to what we cover here.
► 00:44:53
No, we cover what the big news is.
► 00:44:55
Ha, ha, ha.
► 00:44:57
When Tom Arnold comes out and says somebody needs to kill Trump in Dallas, we cover that.
► 00:45:03
Oh, the big news.
► 00:45:04
Tom Arnold talking shit.
► 00:45:07
Which I didn't even look into that.
► 00:45:09
I don't know if he did or didn't.
► 00:45:10
Don't care.
► 00:45:11
Because you know what?
► 00:45:11
It's not big news.
► 00:45:12
Yeah.
► 00:45:13
Do you know what else it's not?
► 00:45:14
The 90s.
► 00:45:15
I'm fine.
► 00:45:17
True lies didn't just come out.
► 00:45:19
I don't care what Tom Arnold has to say.
► 00:45:21
The issue with Alex isn't false advertising.
► 00:45:24
It's like unjust enrichment.
► 00:45:26
It's the idea that he profited off of slandering people.
► 00:45:32
He doesn't understand that concept.
► 00:45:33
No, I think he does.
► 00:45:35
And he just doesn't want his audience to.
► 00:45:37
Oh, well, fair.
► 00:45:38
It's in his best interests for it to be presented this way.
► 00:45:41
Right, right, right, right.
► 00:45:42
And I would say that I don't believe him for a second.
► 00:45:45
I think that in our 2013, when we got to the Boston bombing, the way he so gleefully is talking about his increased traffic, the way he's leaning so deeply into this sensational bullshit coverage, that is irresponsible and is...
► 00:46:01
Something he probably could be sued for by the people in those pictures that he found on 4chan.
► 00:46:06
100%.
► 00:46:06
The way his behavior is being led by the increase in traffic, I don't believe that he doesn't have some kind of a strategy.
► 00:46:14
Whether or not it's on paper or they have meetings about it, it's very clear that he recognizes when there are things that are popular and he goes in that direction.
► 00:46:22
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 00:46:23
Whether or not that's up to the standard of unjust enrichment, I have no idea.
► 00:46:28
But to pretend it's not a real phenomenon, I think, is...
► 00:46:31
It strains credulity here.
► 00:46:33
Yeah, that's bananas.
► 00:46:34
Yeah.
► 00:46:35
So Alex, though, he just goes for the big stories.
► 00:46:38
You know what I'm saying?
► 00:46:39
Big stories.
► 00:46:41
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was...
► 00:46:42
Wasn't OJ complaining that they were blaming him for false advertising when he tried to put out that book?
► 00:46:47
Yeah, probably.
► 00:46:48
It was false advertising.
► 00:46:49
He didn't do it!
► 00:46:50
If he had.
► 00:46:51
If he had, this was...
► 00:46:52
False advertising.
► 00:46:53
It was false advertising.
► 00:46:55
CNN, though, they're the opposite.
► 00:46:57
Yes, of course they are.
► 00:46:58
They just lie on purpose.
► 00:46:59
Naturally.
► 00:47:00
But with CNN, it really is their marketing strategy to push the fake Russiagate and now the fake Impeachgate and all the rest of it.
► 00:47:10
But Trump is a public figure.
► 00:47:12
Trump's argument is, though, that they are defrauding the general public as a consumer class of information who believe that they're supposedly getting accurate info and that CNN is consciously lying to them.
► 00:47:25
It's like that famous movie that Andy Griffith stars in, The Face in the Crowd.
► 00:47:30
I ought to watch that again.
► 00:47:33
Another movie reference.
► 00:47:34
Great.
► 00:47:35
So what he's talking about is, I guess, Trump's team or somebody is trying to sue CNN based on James O 'Keefe's latest stunt.
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I don't care.
► 00:47:45
I don't care at all.
► 00:47:46
I didn't care to look into this because I just...
► 00:47:49
I don't have the patience for it.
► 00:47:50
It's going to get thrown out.
► 00:47:52
I only have so many hours in the day.
► 00:47:54
And quite frankly, the only thing I'm really interested in about this is Alex likes the idea of a representative of the president or his campaign suing the media.
► 00:48:05
That's not okay for him.
► 00:48:06
No, no, no.
► 00:48:07
You want the executive branch of the government to control the speech of the Fourth Estate.
► 00:48:14
That makes perfect sense.
► 00:48:15
Alex talks about things that are chilling free speech all the time.
► 00:48:19
Right, right, right.
► 00:48:20
I have to think that this falls under that heading.
► 00:48:23
Instead, he's all about it.
► 00:48:25
He's for it.
► 00:48:25
Who cares?
► 00:48:26
No, you want to make sure that the media cannot report on certain things without constant fear of retribution, Dan.
► 00:48:32
That makes perfect sense.
► 00:48:34
That's what the founders had in mind.
► 00:48:36
It's not chilling.
► 00:48:37
It's warming.
► 00:48:38
It's ice cold.
► 00:48:39
It's real bad.
► 00:48:40
Yeah.
► 00:48:40
People don't talk about the heat deaths.
► 00:48:43
So Alex gets into, like, he's complaining about us being in the Middle East and shit.
► 00:48:49
And he's like, Trump's bringing people home, which is in direct contradiction to what he agreed with Skousen and reality.
► 00:48:56
That too.
► 00:48:57
And he's like, look, we have all this money that we spend, right?
► 00:49:00
There's better ways that we could spend that.
► 00:49:02
Yes.
► 00:49:03
And I don't disagree.
► 00:49:04
Agreed.
► 00:49:05
And I actually don't even disagree with what he ends up talking about as something that we could do.
► 00:49:10
Okay.
► 00:49:11
You know what five trillion in roads and bridges and fast rail would look like to jobs in this country?
► 00:49:20
How about we don't be in as much debt and we spend three trillion on that?
► 00:49:23
I'd like to remind you that Alex is a libertarian.
► 00:49:26
Yeah.
► 00:49:27
But you see, that investment was for China, not here.
► 00:49:31
Our trains go 40 miles an hour.
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Our trains went 150 miles an hour when my dad was a little kid.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
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Two and a half hours to drive from their ranch to Houston, to downtown Houston.
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They could get on a train and in 50 minutes they were in downtown Houston.
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They could get off the train and go see the museums or go to restaurants.
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The train went 150 miles an hour at cruising speed.
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My dad's only 70 years old now.
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But when he was 10 years old, he could go to Houston in less than an hour.
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My train to Houston now, it takes four hours from there.
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We have had no infrastructure built of any type that's real and lasting since the 70s.
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I mean, look, if Alex were looking for a president in recent times who agreed with him completely about shifting spending toward infrastructure to build up high-speed rail, that president would be Barack Obama.
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What if you changed his name to Donald Trump, though?
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I don't think he's doing that.
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Oh, okay.
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First of all, no name changes.
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But also, I don't think that Trump is nearly as big an advocate of high-speed rail as Obama was.
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Oh, he's uninterested entirely.
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It wouldn't help him out.
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But if you said that it was Donald J. Trump who supported it, maybe all of his supporters would support it.
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What if we just made sure that there were stops at each of his hotels?
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Then he'd probably be for it.
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It seems like there would be so many good things that we could do if we just tricked him.
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That would be how you do it.
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Just lean into the emoluments thing.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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You want to get rich?
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Fine, but we're going to make our lives better too.
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Attach his gain to every social progress.
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That'd still be terrible.
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Put his name on shit?
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Fine, whatever.
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We get universal basic Trump income.
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Whatever.
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It's strange how I've never heard Alex tip his hat to Obama's consistent efforts.
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Strange.
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Alex never talks about how Republican governors in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida literally rejected federal money being offered for just that goal.
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You see, people like Alex want high-speed rail, but they don't want the government paying for it, or at least not Obama's government.
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They much prefer the fantasy of businesses building up this high-speed rail network.
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The private sector.
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Markets.
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Right, right, right.
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Like, a lot of libertarians don't even want the government paying for roads.
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Like, it's ridiculous.
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Fine.
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Go away.
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And you know what?
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The idea that businesses are going to build up this high-speed rail, that's probably never going to happen.
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Of course not.
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There's a number of reasons why.
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Money!
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That's what is at the root of all of them.
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See, they would make more money without high-speed rails.
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Right.
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And if we had high-speed rails, they would make less money.
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Yeah.
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So they will buy up everything possible to keep high-speed rails from happening.
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There's a reason it takes so long to get somewhere by train now.
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And that's because the railway system in this country has, and has had for decades, It doesn't exist primarily to serve passenger needs.
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With the rise in the prevalence of the automobile and the greater accessibility to cheaper air travel, people didn't need trains to get places nearly as much, and the commuter-focused rail market became way less profitable and harder for companies to justify starting as far back as the 1930s.
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Most rail lines prioritize freight traffic, and this makes passenger rail experiences even less appealing.
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Since sometimes you can end up having to wait for a passing freight train to go by at a crossing, you end up adding a bunch of time to your trip.
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Part and parcel of this is that most rail lines are built to accommodate freight traffic, and thus even though passenger trains are capable of traveling much faster, they're bound by the speed limits that apply to freight travel, because to operate differently would require an overhaul It just, there is no way...
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That this is going to become profitable for these businesses to operate differently.
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Of course not.
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Freight traffic is what their business model is built on.
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Right.
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Changing that would be ridiculous.
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Well, not just that, but the reorientation of...
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Part of this is just because oil and automobile execs in the 1930s...
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Bought up all the possible ways that a commuter system could be built because it would be more efficient and they would lose money.
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It's a giant piece of it.
► 00:54:06
Yeah.
► 00:54:06
They're trying to kill this.
► 00:54:08
I think Alex might have had someone tell him about Ayn Rand.
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I think that might be...
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He got drunk at the Trump rally and someone told him about Ayn Rand.
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Hey, we're going galt!
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So I personally love a train.
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And I've taken the Amtrak back to Missouri a few times.
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It's been a fantastic experience.
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I really enjoy it.
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Being able to look out the side of it, see the...
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It's a very soothing...
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For the most part.
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As long as the people you're on the train with aren't monsters, then you're good.
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Even taking the metro to, like, Milwaukee is more fun.
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Sure.
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I'd rather do that than drive anytime.
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Yeah.
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I'm very much with Alex on the idea of expanding rail in the United States, but I think he's a real idiot if he thinks that any business has the kind of profit incentive to take on this ridiculous amount of financial losses that would be required in order to pull it off.
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The only way we're ever going to have high-speed rail in this country is a massive, publicly-funded project.
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No!
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Oh, sorry.
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Short of that, the money is in freight, and it doesn't seem like that dynamic is going to change anytime soon.
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So if Alex is advocating for this, that's big government.
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So if he wants to do that, great.
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But then you've got to recognize that you're drifting into socialist territory.
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Right, right, right.
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You're drifting into using tax money for all of this public works, which seems to run counter to a ton of what Alex believes in.
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Yeah, I mean, conservatives love all of their closely held beliefs that were bought and paid for by lobbying and propagandists, but then when they come up against reality, they have to find this weird kind of pushback there, where they're like, no, no, no, let me twist my brain into 18 different pretzels so I can get to you how the government can pay for it, but they won't.
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But they will, but they're not.
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And it's a good idea.
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And the thing that's really fucked up about this is Alex and I could probably find common cause to an extent on this.
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Of course.
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The idea of spending billions of dollars would create a ton of jobs.
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You'd have an amazing thing that would come out the other side of it.
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It'd be like a public works kind of project.
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I think we could get together a little bit on that.
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And so that's not what I'm arguing with him about.
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And then you'd say Barack Obama and he'd be like, No!
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And then he'd start hissing and flopping on the ground.
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And then I'd get video of it.
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And I'll play for you later, but I've got to bleep it first.
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You've got to bleep a lot of shit.
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Even when he's having a seizure, it's a family show.
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I love the idea that you just said you have to bleep a lot of shit.
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But the point that I'm making isn't that I disagree with what he's presenting.
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It's that I know enough about his beliefs to know that he could never...
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No, of course not.
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I guess he would if Trump presented it.
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He'd just be like, yeah, great.
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No matter what, he'd find a way to work his brain around it.
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But it's so counter to just what he acts like he believes in.
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I don't trust him, is what I'm saying.
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They don't know what they believe.
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They're paid.
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People pay other people to make them believe shit that isn't real and is actually counter to what they know.
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He knows that it's a good idea to build high-speed rail.
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Right.
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And to use public money to do it.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
► 00:57:19
So Alex gets into complaining about Chinese people and how they have great trains.
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Oh, boy.
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They got trains coming up that'll go 350.
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Can you imagine getting somewhere 350 miles away in an hour?
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That's almost as fast as a jet airplane.
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We can't have that because we haven't ever repaired any of our railways because it was decided we're not going to have that anymore.
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It was decided we're not going to have that anymore.
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Who decided it, Dan?
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Well, from very early in his presidency, Obama was trying to get high-speed rail to be a priority, and the GOP impeded him on that issue.
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I don't understand why.
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Not all of them, to be fair.
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Some were okay with the idea.
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But, you know, there was an impediment program going on with Obama.
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They were just like, no!
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Well, any success that he had would reflect poorly upon that.
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Just knee-jerk now!
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Yep.
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We could have made this a priority when we had a president who was committed to it, when he was pushing for this back in 2009, and it could have made massive progress within the last decade.
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But Alex was too busy back then making documentaries about how said president was a communist infiltrator.
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Yeah, you know what else we could have done?
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He could have just fucking done it, Dan.
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We have learned that now.
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He could have just fucking done it.
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It might not have been the best thing to do, though.
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Even though we now realize that that is apparently an option, I'm not sure it's a great option.
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I don't know, man.
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It's a bigger debate.
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I think it's probably true that if you actually do the things that are good for people, even conservatives on the ground will be like, oh yeah, my life is better.
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Fuck!
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Eventually, some people come around after you find the results.
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If the only people who are really getting mad are rich people, then you're doing it right.
► 00:59:13
So, Alex gets back into talking about the Syria situation.
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He just sort of touches and goes.
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He's just sort of like, yeah, you're going to hot potato this thing.
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You know, that sounds weirdly suspicious to our current foreign policy.
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Yeah, there's...
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Just touch it and...
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Hey, whoa!
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Hey, look at you!
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We've already heard that Alex's sort of primary thing is, you guys don't care about Christians, so I don't care about this, which is childish as fuck.
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And now he sort of articulates another reason why he's totally cool with Trump's actions.
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And I said I'd get to Trump.
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You know, he just gave a speech.
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He's still giving statements in the White House on why he did this.
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And is it going to be perfect?
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No.
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But Turkey was already doing incursions.
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They've been doing incursions since this war started eight, nine years ago.
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They already had taken areas of southern Syria.
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Western Syria, they got that huge border along them.
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And under Trump, they left.
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But that's because the deal was made that if Turkey did that, they were going to get this autonomous zone.
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And now Turkey's saying, hey, we're getting that 20-mile exclusion zone to keep the Kurds out.
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Or we're going to give you three-plus million people that are refugees into Europe.
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And Trump goes, oh, that makes sense.
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So that makes sense.
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All right, well...
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Great!
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Yeah.
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Did it!
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So, Alex, his other defense is this is the other option, and if we didn't do this, there would be more refugees in the West.
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Right, right, right.
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So that's good, because he doesn't want demographic rates to shift in the West.
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It really does seem like foreign policy decisions were framed to Trump thusly.
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Either you let us kill all these people, Or we send brown people your way.
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And he was like, ooh, kill all those people.
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If that's actually the conversation that's happening as opposed to Alex's perception of it, then that's fucked up to a level I can't even begin to describe.
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Yep.
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So Alex doesn't want there to be more refugees going into the quest.
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Naturally.
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Because, of course, he's...
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He wants there to be more white people around, relatively speaking.
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And so he starts talking about what these refugees bring to these countries.
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And this one is absurd.
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They literally tell the 14-year-old girls in German after-school programs, hey, go ahead and give yourself an adult Muslim husband.
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They have little 14-year-old girls on TV going, here is my husband.
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He is 24. He goes to my school with me.
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The guy's like, yeah, she's my bitch.
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I mean, you know, this is just sick cucking by the left.
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This is a family show.
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This is a family show, Jordan.
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Family show.
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Daddy, what's cucking?
► 01:02:07
Well, son.
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Yikes.
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So...
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I'm going to skip this next clip because it's just Alex saying that...
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It's just re-articulating the point that, like, I only care...
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If you cared about Christians, I'd care about this.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And that's sort of repetitive.
► 01:02:25
But Mattis, Mad Dog, Jim Mattis.
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Right, right, right, right.
► 01:02:30
He came out and made some jokes about Trump in his speech.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And here's Alex's response to that.
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Well, Mad Dog Mattis is loved by the corporate media because he's an effeminate, effete, All right.
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Right.
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It's so pathetically consistent.
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Just anybody who says anything bad about Trump, just fucking attack.
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They're feminine.
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Just attack them.
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Man.
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Yeah.
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In a sense, I'm on his team.
► 01:03:07
Fuck Mattis.
► 01:03:08
Fine.
► 01:03:08
All of these people who come out after they've left the administration and then start talking shit should be right on board with the Nuremberg trials.
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You're the problem.
► 01:03:17
I think any speech they have should at least be...
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I am so sorry!
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I am part of the issue and I killed a lot of people.
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And if it's not, then people in the audience should have a lot of pointed coughs in the middle of their speech.
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I'm almost at the point where it's like...
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Listen, just slink away, and if we never hear from you again, we'll all close our eyes, we'll call it a day.
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You speak in public, you go in a cage.
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That should be the rule.
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I kind of feel, I mean, I don't know about caging people, but I kind of feel similarly about Alex, like in the hypothetical situation where he turns on Trump.
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Yeah.
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It's like, you go away now.
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Yeah, you slink away.
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You don't.
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We all pretend this never happened.
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I know that you feel like you can help in some way now that you've realized Trump is a con man and all this shit, which you knew from the beginning.
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No shit.
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But you can't, so shut up.
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Go away.
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Yeah.
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And I do think that a lot of these people from the administration probably should.
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Except for Anthony Scaramucci, because I think he has something to bring to the table.
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He's got it.
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He's got something to bring to the table.
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That is definitely true.
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The rest of them should go away.
► 01:04:26
So Alex gets to this point in the show where he wants to take calls.
► 01:04:30
Because it turns out that none of the people from the rally are showing up.
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Or at least he said he was going to have some hypothetical guests.
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And there aren't any.
► 01:04:40
So he decides he's going to take calls.
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And he wants to do a challenge.
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And that challenge is he wants to take ten calls from people who disagree with him and think Trump should be impeached.
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How many do we get to?
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People that disagree, you're welcome to call as well.
► 01:04:56
I'm not giving the number out yet because I want to give the first round of callers.
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Let's say the first ten.
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We're going to open the phones up first for ten callers who disagree with me and think that Trump should be impeached.
► 01:05:13
But I'm really asking you to be serious.
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I don't want it to be tongue-in-cheek.
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You know damn well no one who listens to your show is going to give you a serious disagreement about that.
► 01:05:23
Anyone who disagrees with Alex and is listening to him is doing it to laugh at him or is named me.
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At this point, no one's fucking listening.
► 01:05:33
And if they are, they're not calling in.
► 01:05:35
It's a comical idea.
► 01:05:37
So your question, how many?
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We'll find out.
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We'll find out.
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He wants to take ten.
► 01:05:42
So, Alex, he's getting ready to open up the phone lines, and I don't know what the hell...
► 01:05:47
I don't know if he's got an...
► 01:05:48
His phone lines are like an old Camaro out in the cold.
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You've got to go turn it on and head back in the house for an hour.
► 01:05:54
You've got to warm him up for a little bit.
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You've got to turn on the defrost, go back inside, make some tea.
► 01:05:59
Well, if you go from zero to 60 without warming the car up, you can do some serious damage there, Dan.
► 01:06:05
I think his phone lines must operate the same way, because he opens the phone lines, and then it is a long time until any call...
► 01:06:12
He actually has an old man house phone on a switchboard.
► 01:06:15
That's what he's doing.
► 01:06:17
So he gets to rambling about other things, and he has found that there is a group that has revealed the climate change protest.
► 01:06:25
It's not really about climate change.
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It's all a red herring.
► 01:06:29
Oh, damn those groups.
► 01:06:31
There's another article I forgot to get.
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It was from last night on Infowars.com.
► 01:06:35
Just so many articles.
► 01:06:37
Extinction Rebellion had.
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Whatever the hell it's called.
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The group that takes over and blocks everything around the world.
► 01:06:44
They admitted we're here to make heterosexuality abnormal and reduce population.
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And climate change isn't real.
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It's our excuse to stop humans.
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There it is.
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Extinction Rebellion co-founders' climate protest is about ending idea heterosexuality is normal.
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It's not about the climate.
► 01:07:03
See, of course it's not.
► 01:07:05
It's about them dictating and some weird...
► 01:07:08
Anti-human cult run by Peter Singer.
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So, we get this group, Extinction Rebellion.
► 01:07:14
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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One of the things they do...
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Good folks a little misguided sometimes.
► 01:07:17
I don't know a ton about them, so I don't feel like I can say a pro or against strategy, a statement about them.
► 01:07:27
Yeah.
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But one of the things I was reading about is one of the things that they do is try and get arrested.
► 01:07:31
Yeah.
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So that's a big part of their strategy.
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Yeah.
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In order to bring attention to the protests that they do.
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I don't know.
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I mean, there's a diversity of tactics that are probably required in the world.
► 01:07:43
I don't know.
► 01:07:44
Anyway, a couple of quick points.
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First, Extinction Rebellion is an environmental group that has existed for less than a year.
► 01:07:51
They were founded last Halloween, and as best I can tell, they have nothing to do with Peter Singer.
► 01:07:55
They were...
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Wait.
► 01:07:57
They were founded last Halloween?
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Yeah.
► 01:07:59
The 17th wasn't on a Thursday last holiday, Dale.
► 01:08:02
Oh, no!
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That is it!
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Yeah.
► 01:08:04
Whatever it is in this circumstance, that is it!
► 01:08:08
So, also, the other thing is, this is just about an old Medium post that someone from Extinction Rebellion wrote about how the climate activism and being involved in that isn't just about the climate specifically, but it's about the, quote, toxic system that has infected the way that we relate to each other as humans and to all life.
► 01:08:26
This post is not a gotcha moment where the climate activist slips up and admits that climate change concerns aren't real.
► 01:08:32
And this is just about forcing Alex to kiss another man or whatever.
► 01:08:36
It's about understanding that climate activism exists in a broader lens than just being about climate change.
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And honestly, I think stuff like what this guy is talking about is really important.
► 01:08:46
The path forward, if we're going to take care of these issues and survive and coexist, it has to involve greater social and class justice and equality.
► 01:08:56
Or else, what you're going to do is you run the risk of finding climate solutions that only serve to deepen gaps between segments of society.
► 01:09:03
It's important as things become more serious to be deeply committed to solutions that don't veer into eco-fascist territory.
► 01:09:10
And that's what I see being expressed in this Medium post.
► 01:09:13
But Alex thinks that it's about making straight people feel weird.
► 01:09:16
Yeah, that's where we get back to the Club of Rome, like with the interconnectedness of all of these problems.
► 01:09:22
The problematique.
► 01:09:23
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 01:09:25
And I think that it's...
► 01:09:28
It's important to think about those things and it's important to not view things so granularly that you lose sight of the larger picture.
► 01:09:39
And I don't know.
► 01:09:41
I'm not saying I fully support everything that this person believes or anything, but from the right-wing blogs that were attacking him that I was reading, it's like, I don't...
► 01:09:49
I don't see what you see here.
► 01:09:51
No.
► 01:09:52
You don't need to see anything, and they don't need to have anything.
► 01:09:54
They just need to tell you that they have something, and then you'll believe it.
► 01:09:57
Sure.
► 01:09:58
That's how conservatism works.
► 01:09:59
So Alex comes back from break with some Ennio Morricone.
► 01:10:02
Okay.
► 01:10:03
And he starts talking about how he's got to go home and watch The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
► 01:10:07
Oh, that sounds fun.
► 01:10:08
And last scene of the Badly Ugly, it's really a good cinema, isn't it?
► 01:10:12
I need to go home tonight and turn the lights out in the bedroom and maybe watch the good of the Badly Ugly and just travel to a faraway place.
► 01:10:19
Then I want some tequila.
► 01:10:22
I'm sorry.
► 01:10:24
No tequila for me.
► 01:10:28
All right.
► 01:10:31
All right, so I have opened the phones up for folks that disagree, and there are very few calling in that disagree.
► 01:10:38
What a shock.
► 01:10:40
What a shock.
► 01:10:41
Every time I'm out, he pulls me back in with, I want some tequila.
► 01:10:45
But no tequila for me.
► 01:10:47
No tequila for me.
► 01:10:48
I am being told I can't drink anymore.
► 01:10:52
So that's good.
► 01:10:54
Alex gets to rambling because there's not many people calling in, which is not too surprising.
► 01:10:59
And he gets to talking about how, like, look, man, everyone says that I got drunk and put a million dollar bounty on the opposing counsel in my Sandy Hook lawsuit.
► 01:11:09
Sure.
► 01:11:10
And I don't know why they say it, except for that I did do those things.
► 01:11:13
They say that I encourage violence because I said I wanted his head on a spike.
► 01:11:17
And I don't know why they would say that, because I did that stuff.
► 01:11:19
They say that I encourage violence.
► 01:11:22
Ah, we should kill him!
► 01:11:24
He seems to look at his own career and his behavior slightly differently.
► 01:11:29
Okay.
► 01:11:30
And then he has an interesting suggestion of how the globalists can win.
► 01:11:34
Alright.
► 01:11:35
And the last thing I do...
► 01:11:37
Was sit there and actually say, I want physical violence against these people, because that's what they do.
► 01:11:42
I'm not stooping down at a level, and I don't want to make them martyrs.
► 01:11:45
The only way they could win right now is assassinating Hillary and blaming it on us.
► 01:11:53
And so the idea that I want violence, the idea that I'm pushing violence, the idea that patriots are doing that is just asinine.
► 01:12:01
It's the left assaulting and harassing people.
► 01:12:04
The left is the violent ones.
► 01:12:08
What I hear here is a silly, scary thing.
► 01:12:13
It's right in the middle there.
► 01:12:14
Because I'm old enough to remember when that dude sent a pipe bomb to Hillary Clinton and George Soros and all of these enemies of the anti-globalist left, right, excuse me.
► 01:12:26
And I remember that Alex said that that was a false flag.
► 01:12:30
And I hear, when Alex is saying these things, almost a wink.
► 01:12:37
If someone kills these people, it's just the globalists doing it to set us up.
► 01:12:42
Which is so consistent in his career, but it's always so jarring in the present day and talking about hypothetical murders that could happen.
► 01:12:51
It's almost like, hey, we got your back if you do it.
► 01:12:53
And I know that's not what he's saying, but there's a way you could hear it that way.
► 01:12:57
That's a little troubling.
► 01:12:58
He's not saying that.
► 01:13:00
If you did it, though, he would.
► 01:13:02
But he's not saying that.
► 01:13:03
He would absolutely cover for anybody who killed one of his enemies.
► 01:13:06
It would obviously be a false flag attempt in order to make his team look bad and get sympathy and pity for the globalists.
► 01:13:13
And he's not saying that he would cover for you if you did that.
► 01:13:17
He's just saying that you know he would cover you if you did that.
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You already know it.
► 01:13:23
He doesn't need to say it.
► 01:13:24
He's not saying it, but you know it.
► 01:13:27
You know it!
► 01:13:27
Yeah.
► 01:13:28
But he doesn't need to say it.
► 01:13:29
Right.
► 01:13:30
And I don't think that that's necessarily persuasive or would get someone to do something violent.
► 01:13:36
Yeah.
► 01:13:36
But it is a strange thing to be fully aware of.
► 01:13:40
Yeah.
► 01:13:40
And I think anybody who listens to his show, at least on a subconscious level, understands that.
► 01:13:45
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 01:13:46
I don't know.
► 01:13:47
Anyway, Alex was out at this Dallas rally, right?
► 01:13:51
And he was saying...
► 01:13:53
You know.
► 01:13:54
Wait, real quick.
► 01:13:55
I didn't see the end of the rally.
► 01:13:57
Did they kill Donald Trump?
► 01:13:58
No.
► 01:13:59
Oh, okay.
► 01:13:59
Nothing happened.
► 01:14:00
Oh, good.
► 01:14:00
I mean, that does ruin the mystery a little bit on this episode, but otherwise I think we're good.
► 01:14:05
Can you believe they missed the anniversary?
► 01:14:06
I know.
► 01:14:07
Nothing happened.
► 01:14:09
But Alex got yelled at by Antifa and apparently some people with Kurdish flags.
► 01:14:16
So this next clip is really interesting to me because it's deeply racist.
► 01:14:22
Deeply racist.
► 01:14:24
But in what he's saying, like the literal words, he's trying to argue that he's not racist.
► 01:14:31
Right.
► 01:14:32
But in the way he makes his argument, he shows and reveals a deep racism.
► 01:14:38
They always do that.
► 01:14:40
But it's also important to point out that I don't believe this happened.
► 01:14:43
No, of course not.
► 01:14:44
I believe it's an imaginary scenario that Alex is constructing to tell his audience to demonstrate that he's not racist.
► 01:14:50
Racistly.
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But in doing so, reveals deep racism.
► 01:14:53
Gotcha.
► 01:14:54
And a bunch of them looked at me real weird and stopped.
► 01:14:58
Because this was the lowest level Antifa.
► 01:15:01
Actually, about half of them actually were Hispanic and black and stuff.
► 01:15:04
And they were being directed by the other Antifa that were college professors and people in mass.
► 01:15:09
And they were like, huh?
► 01:15:10
They were like, huh?
► 01:15:12
What, you don't hate us?
► 01:15:13
And I said, no, you've been lied to them.
► 01:15:14
They're like, oh, that's on video too.
► 01:15:16
And I'm like, yeah, dude.
► 01:15:17
They couldn't believe I was sitting down with the KKK.
► 01:15:19
They just, they went, oh, we're sorry.
► 01:15:21
They really believed that.
► 01:15:22
Now is the critical time to keep InfoWars on the air.
► 01:15:26
Cut off by the break, too.
► 01:15:28
So, the way Alex is presenting this, there's the low-level Hispanic and black, largely Antifa, who are being directed...
► 01:15:37
They're the lowest level, Dan.
► 01:15:38
They're being directed by the higher-level smart...
► 01:15:41
College professors, who we are led to assume are not.
► 01:15:45
I know from context when he talks about this, he always calls them like white meth-head types.
► 01:15:50
So, he believes that there's a hierarchy structure where the white people are directing things around.
► 01:15:57
There's a white supremacy in his false version of Antifa.
► 01:16:00
Right.
► 01:16:01
And he thinks that he's revealing that they are racist by having this hierarchy, though because they obviously don't, and he is imagining that that is how it...
► 01:16:12
Obviously would go.
► 01:16:14
That's one part of it.
► 01:16:15
And then the conception of these non-white, low-level Antifa people being so dumb and fooled by the white overlords.
► 01:16:27
That presentation is fucked up.
► 01:16:31
That is insanely fucked up.
► 01:16:34
So congratulations, Alex.
► 01:16:36
In trying to argue that you're not a racist, you have revealed...
► 01:16:39
A insanely racist view of the world.
► 01:16:42
I have not heard a racist once try to convince me that they were not racist without doing it racistly.
► 01:16:51
It's never happened.
► 01:16:53
It does seem...
► 01:16:53
It has just never happened.
► 01:16:55
Even when they're trying to lie!
► 01:16:58
Even when they're trying to be like, ha-ha, I don't hate black people because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
► 01:17:03
And they're like, and I never say the N-word, blah, blah, blah.
► 01:17:06
What?
► 01:17:06
What?
► 01:17:07
What are you doing?
► 01:17:08
Yeah.
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Very messed up.
► 01:17:09
Yeah.
► 01:17:10
So that happened at the rally.
► 01:17:12
Alex imagined that he was, you know, really flipping some minority Antifa people over to the side of Liberty.
► 01:17:19
Absolutely.
► 01:17:19
Not hard.
► 01:17:20
But also, like I said, there was that guy who had a gun and body armor and an InfoWars shirt.
► 01:17:25
Right.
► 01:17:25
And you would expect that Alex might hear about that and then either not talk about it or say it was a false flag or say, you know, trying to demonize the Patriots or something.
► 01:17:35
Totally different perspective.
► 01:17:36
That's what Buddy Ted.
► 01:17:37
Also a man with a gun wearing helmet, vest, arrested outside event, and he was wearing an InfoWars shirt.
► 01:17:44
And it turns out Owen was able to get contacted by him.
► 01:17:48
I've invited the fellow on the show.
► 01:17:49
I haven't gotten work back yet.
► 01:17:50
And it turns out he was just there in case Antifa attacked, exercising his Second Amendment.
► 01:17:54
Sure.
► 01:17:55
He was not planning anything violent.
► 01:17:56
He was nowhere near the president.
► 01:17:57
But it turns out that is not fake news.
► 01:17:59
The gentleman says he was wearing an InfoWars shirt, I guess under his jacket.
► 01:18:04
But they sure made that into a big deal.
► 01:18:08
Yeah.
► 01:18:08
I wonder why.
► 01:18:09
I wonder why.
► 01:18:10
Guy with a gun and body armor at a fucking Trump rally.
► 01:18:14
I wonder why that's a big deal.
► 01:18:16
I mean, technically, in Texas, it's not illegal to have body armor on, unless you're a felon.
► 01:18:22
If you're a felon, you can't have body armor.
► 01:18:24
Sure, great laws.
► 01:18:25
Sure.
► 01:18:25
All good stuff.
► 01:18:27
Way to solve the problem of guns there, Texas.
► 01:18:29
You got us.
► 01:18:30
I don't think that the guy's doing anything illegal, but I do think it's not good.
► 01:18:36
For people to be out.
► 01:18:37
I would say this probably also if someone on the left was out protesting in body armor and a gun.
► 01:18:44
I would still say when you do that, you highly, highly escalate the opportunity for you to need those things.
► 01:18:54
Right, right, right.
► 01:18:55
And I just don't think it's healthy.
► 01:18:57
I really don't.
► 01:18:58
I mean, the only time it makes sense is when the escalation has already occurred without you.
► 01:19:05
You know, like, I'm fine with the Black Panthers in the 60s walking around armed watching the cops.
► 01:19:12
Different context.
► 01:19:12
Exactly.
► 01:19:13
That's what I'm saying.
► 01:19:14
Or people in, like, Chile now or in Hong Kong.
► 01:19:17
You know, those are different scenarios.
► 01:19:19
The escalation was already passed long before they ever got there.
► 01:19:23
You're just at a fucking stadium with a bunch of people who you like.
► 01:19:28
Yeah.
► 01:19:28
You know?
► 01:19:29
And you're expecting Antifa is going to show up and hit you with something and then you can kill them.
► 01:19:34
Yeah.
► 01:19:34
That's all that's going on.
► 01:19:36
Yeah, that's premeditated, preemptive self-defense murder is what I would describe that as.
► 01:19:43
I don't think that flows off the tongue, but it's not a bad description.
► 01:19:47
So, in this next clip, Alex, I think really you get to the core of his feelings about Trump.
► 01:19:52
And that is that, I would describe this 30 seconds as, I love Trump.
► 01:19:56
But fuck, I want to get back on Facebook.
► 01:19:58
That's really all I hear.
► 01:20:00
I love Trump.
► 01:20:01
He's done an amazing job on so many fronts.
► 01:20:04
But he's not stood up for the persecution of his supporters.
► 01:20:08
He hardly ever talks about how they get beat up outside of the arenas because he thinks that will scare people away.
► 01:20:13
He needs to say, don't let these bullies stop you.
► 01:20:15
More need to come.
► 01:20:16
I'm going to have a rally in 100,000 group.
► 01:20:18
He needs to call their bluff.
► 01:20:19
And he needs to speak out against the censorship.
► 01:20:22
And Brad Parscale needs to.
► 01:20:26
I mean, if they don't do that and they leave us out to dry, it's just not right.
► 01:20:32
I want back on Facebook, baby.
► 01:20:34
So cool.
► 01:20:36
That he started it with, I love Trump, made me hope for just one second that he would then complete your sentence.
► 01:20:42
I want back on Facebook.
► 01:20:43
What I want to sum this 30-second clip up as, I love Trump, but I want back on Facebook.
► 01:20:52
It's all I hear.
► 01:20:53
Even if he's saying all this stuff about Trump supporters being attacked and all this in the middle, that's just filler.
► 01:20:58
He loves that that's happening.
► 01:21:00
Or he loves that the optics of that is happening to the point where he can use that in order to get more attention and stuff.
► 01:21:08
The problem is that he's not on Facebook.
► 01:21:10
Yeah.
► 01:21:10
So anyway.
► 01:21:12
I don't know if that's a scandal.
► 01:21:31
The 17th was a Thursday this year.
► 01:21:33
Oh, no.
► 01:21:34
Who knows what could have happened to Barnes?
► 01:21:36
So, in his rambling, Alex tries to rationalize the fact that Drudge is having more negative coverage of Trump.
► 01:21:44
And he needs people...
► 01:21:46
Like I said, I believe this wholeheartedly.
► 01:21:49
And I don't know what it means, and I don't know how it's going to break.
► 01:21:51
But I do know that Alex cannot turn on Drudge.
► 01:21:55
There's just no way.
► 01:21:56
So, what he has to do is he has to...
► 01:21:59
You know, make the argument that this isn't a big deal.
► 01:22:02
Don't worry about it.
► 01:22:02
Not a big deal.
► 01:22:04
There's a big debate about what's Drudge doing.
► 01:22:05
Well, Drudge will show what they're saying and then he'll show what Trump's saying.
► 01:22:08
And then when it turns out Trump's right, he'll show it.
► 01:22:10
I mean, it's still 70% pro-Trump.
► 01:22:13
I think it's pretty boring to have a page that just supports the president.
► 01:22:17
I mean, we have the enemy up on our site.
► 01:22:19
And I see people going, what do you have this Hillary speech on here?
► 01:22:22
We don't need to hear from her.
► 01:22:23
You don't need to hear from her saying she may get back in the race?
► 01:22:26
I love the idea that he's like, it's boring to have a page that's all Trump support.
► 01:22:31
We have the enemy on the page in a context of demonizing them to support Trump.
► 01:22:36
Yep.
► 01:22:37
It's a little different.
► 01:22:39
I know people don't want to hear a radio show that is pro-Trump regardless of any circumstances or change or decisions that he makes.
► 01:22:46
I love Trump.
► 01:22:47
And all my old positions mean nothing.
► 01:22:49
Yeah.
► 01:22:50
That is correct.
► 01:22:52
It would be boring.
► 01:22:53
It is a little boring.
► 01:22:54
It is boring.
► 01:22:55
Except for the fucking calendar conspiracy.
► 01:22:58
Right.
► 01:22:58
That's good stuff.
► 01:22:59
And Alex now trying to take calls.
► 01:23:01
Yes.
► 01:23:02
Because this is great.
► 01:23:03
This is...
► 01:23:04
Man.
► 01:23:05
Not going.
► 01:23:06
Alex goes to his first call, and here's what happens.
► 01:23:10
You guys say you want Trump impeached.
► 01:23:11
Go ahead, Cody.
► 01:23:16
Sounds like it's raining.
► 01:23:19
You know, this white noise might put me to sleep.
► 01:23:21
I thought initially that that might be someone playing audio of Turkish air raids or something.
► 01:23:30
I thought...
► 01:23:31
Like, someone might have trolled Alex and was just playing that audio.
► 01:23:35
I had no idea.
► 01:23:35
It also could be white noise.
► 01:23:37
Could be anything.
► 01:23:38
I heard horses running.
► 01:23:39
I got that.
► 01:23:40
I'm not sure.
► 01:23:41
You know, it's an audio Rorschach test.
► 01:23:44
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 01:23:44
You can hear whatever you want.
► 01:23:45
I like horses.
► 01:23:46
I realized I'm probably overthinking this because Alex tries to go to another call.
► 01:23:50
Oh, my goodness.
► 01:23:52
Bill in Kansas, you're on the air.
► 01:23:54
Welcome.
► 01:23:57
No.
► 01:24:01
Like I said, we got a new way of doing things around here, folks.
► 01:24:04
It's just been magic around here lately.
► 01:24:07
But I like it.
► 01:24:09
I like it.
► 01:24:10
I don't get mad anymore about technical difficulties.
► 01:24:13
I just enjoy it.
► 01:24:15
There you go.
► 01:24:16
There's some more white noise for you.
► 01:24:18
Okay.
► 01:24:19
Well, you know what the gambler says.
► 01:24:22
You got to know when to hold them.
► 01:24:23
You got to know when to fold them.
► 01:24:25
You got to know when to walk away.
► 01:24:27
You got to know when to run.
► 01:24:29
So we're done with calls.
► 01:24:31
We'll cut the white noise off at that point.
► 01:24:34
So two calls, two strikes, no more calls.
► 01:24:38
And you know what?
► 01:24:39
I love it.
► 01:24:40
I love it.
► 01:24:40
I'm not mad about this.
► 01:24:41
You know what?
► 01:24:42
There's tech problems.
► 01:24:43
They just do things differently around here.
► 01:24:44
I don't care.
► 01:24:45
I'm totally happy about it.
► 01:24:46
I love it.
► 01:24:47
I love not being able to do my show.
► 01:24:50
I mean, we're on too long without getting the phones worked out.
► 01:24:54
We're on too long.
► 01:24:56
I get one episode.
► 01:24:58
Maybe a couple episodes, but this is too long.
► 01:25:01
Yeah, I mean, there is that, and then also you add that to not being able to play clips whenever they're supposed to be played and all that stuff.
► 01:25:10
And then you add it to the calendar bullshit.
► 01:25:13
You're just like, this operation's falling apart.
► 01:25:16
It feels like if you turn the cameras around, it's just Rex running back and forth from station to station.
► 01:25:21
Yeah.
► 01:25:22
It leads me to suspect the...
► 01:25:25
The possibilities of him trying to sell off the warehouse to cash out seem likely.
► 01:25:30
I don't know if that's the case, but it seems like he can't possibly have a full staff anymore.
► 01:25:38
This isn't the staff that was there six months ago, a year ago.
► 01:25:41
Not at all.
► 01:25:41
It feels like a different production.
► 01:25:43
Not at all is this the same show.
► 01:25:45
Yeah, or the alternative is whatever he was paying for, like, the phone line or the experts who run his ability to take calls is now he can't afford.
► 01:25:56
Right.
► 01:25:57
And he has to do that on his own or something.
► 01:25:59
Or they decided to stop working with him.
► 01:26:01
Whatever the case is, something here indicates, like, a deterioration of his...
► 01:26:07
Ooh, no, I've got it.
► 01:26:09
Gray interference.
► 01:26:10
That's what it is.
► 01:26:11
That's why he can't take calls.
► 01:26:12
It could be a Pulsar weapon.
► 01:26:13
It's the Graze.
► 01:26:13
We all know.
► 01:26:14
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
► 01:26:15
We've seen it happen to Carrie so many times.
► 01:26:17
Well, but Alex says that it's just a glitch.
► 01:26:20
I'm going to go to your calls.
► 01:26:21
We've got the phone system working.
► 01:26:22
It just had a weird glitch.
► 01:26:23
It was hung up, so I apologize.
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Two callers were there, but it was just hung up, a little digital thing, so it's working now.
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We'll go to the next segment.
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Oh, the two callers who disagree with you and think Trump should be impeached.
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Weird.
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Weird how there's a strange glitch while the people who are probably going to tell you to go fuck yourself can't talk to them.
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I don't think that necessarily Alex faked a glitch in order to not talk to these people, but it's weird.
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It's a coincidence that...
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Oh, unfortunate.
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What a missed opportunity for you to...
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Tell off some people.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I don't know.
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I've listened to this show long enough to know that whenever he gets a dissenting call, it's usually like, you're not extreme enough.
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You should be calling for Hillary to be hung.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The dissent is never dissent.
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The dissent always starts with, love your products.
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I take them all every morning.
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And here's the thing.
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I agree with you.
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Right.
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Great dissent, guys.
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Yeah, it's either that or like, why do you dodge the Jewish question?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay.
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All right.
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That's what your disagreement is.
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I disagree with you?
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Okay, all right.
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So phone lines aren't working, so Alex has to vamp some more.
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He plays some special reports, because he has nothing, and then he rambles about how you shouldn't win the lottery.
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Sure!
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And there's a lot of documentaries and books written about it, that Europe and here in the U.S., but Asia has a lot of lotteries as well, that you'll have some middle-class dude who's been married for 30 years, totally happy, got a nice house, swimming pool, goes on vacations every year, his kids are in college.
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He wins a $5 million lottery, and a year later he's dead, in prison, bankrupt, or a combination of those.
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Maybe dead and in prison.
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Could be.
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95% of the cases.
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I mean, they basically, it's hard to find cases where people get a bunch of money and don't destroy their lives.
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Well, you'll never hear about those.
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Yeah, that's the point.
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Nobody is interested in the, I got a ton of money and everything is fine now story.
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I invested in some property and everything's going good.
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Yeah, no kidding.
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It's not a story anyone tells.
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That's why you don't hear about it.
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They didn't earn it.
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They didn't learn how to control it.
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Money and success will destroy you faster than anything if you're just going for success and money.
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I mean, you think people like Dan Bilzerian is happy because his daddy gave him $100 million or whatever?
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Probably.
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You think these rock stars are happy and they even earned it, supposedly?
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No, because they're not helping people.
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What about Trump?
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No, he's helping people.
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Trump got tons of money.
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Yeah, but he's using it to help people.
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That's what we've known about Trump since his entire career began.
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Nobody helps people quite like Donald J. Trump.
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It's so amazing that he can go on a little bit of a jag about how unearned money is somehow...
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Do you think that this guy who was given a ton of money by his parents, even though he himself has no appreciable skills or talent, you think he's happy?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Very weird.
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So Alex, like I said, he just mostly plays special reports because he kind of really wanted to talk to callers because he probably didn't do too much preparing.
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He was out late at the rally and, you know, he never prepares anyway.
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So he has a particular special report we're going to hear about in this last clip.
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Is it going to be racist?
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No.
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Oh, it's not the racist Chinese one?
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No.
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Okay, good.
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No, those aren't special reports anymore.
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They're pretty much every day he has a new one.
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No.
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But this is interesting because, like...
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We've done the investigation of how he came to support Trump, and we've listened to a lot of different time periods of his career, and I could hear somebody who doesn't know those things hearing this clip and being like, ah, what about this special report?
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That's interesting.
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I hear this, I think Alex could go fucking fuck himself.
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We gotta get some bleeps on this show.
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Then I've got...
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A bunch of other special reports our crew has put together that I'll air.
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Brainwashed liberals think Trump is a gangster.
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We're going to play that.
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You do!
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Brainwashed liberals like Alex Jones in July 2015.
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He still does!
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That brainwashed liberal.
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He still fucking does!
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Brainwashed liberals think Trump is a mobster.
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He's a gangster.
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It's crazy.
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I mean, you hear stuff like that, and it's just like there's no sincerity.
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There's no context.
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There's no through line to any of this.
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It just is what it is.
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It's bootlicking.
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It is rationalizing.
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It is towing the line 100%.
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Yeah.
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There's so many things now where I can't help but see in my head all of these propagandists reading anti-Trump.
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And then just crossing out bad adjectives and adding good ones.
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Not even that.
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The antonyms.
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Specifically the exact opposite of what it is.
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Like, oh, that call was stupid and he tossed it off and changed the world.
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That means that he took his time thinking about it.
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And you're like, fucking whatever.
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Fuck off.
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It's all just meaningless.
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And I find very little interest except for the areas where it's like, well, this might be relevant as things get bad.
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And then also, I think it's really interesting to see these diminishing quality instances.
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Like that Trump is going to get killed at his Dallas rally based on this dumb calendar bullshit.
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The tech problems.
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I see an increasing inability to do this job well.
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It's just bad propaganda.
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And I just wonder if he's still on air a couple months from now.
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How is that deterioration going to proceed?
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It's going to keep going.
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No, he's not going to right the ship somehow.
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No, that's not happening.
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It's nigh impossible for that to happen.
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So I just think a couple months from now, this could be comically bad.
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And I look forward to that.
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That makes me excited, that possibility.
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But the rest of this, yeah, it's just predictable trash.
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Whatever Trump says, he cares.
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In a short period of time, he won't be inviting llamas.
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They'll just be wandering in on their own.
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Goddammit, llamas are back again!
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I hired security for this!
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You let them in once.
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Can't get rid of them.
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I do have this question in my mind that it's impossible to answer, necessarily.
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And that is, like, now, how would Alex respond to Trump bombing?
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Yeah.
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Getting drunk, crying, Trump shoves ISIS up our dirty assholes.
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Would that happen now?
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Is it possible that there's something that will reach that point?
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I don't know.
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Maybe a couple months ago I would have said, yeah, he probably would respond the same.
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I don't know now.
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I really don't.
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The idea that he could be so waffly...
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After this turkey thing.
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The fact that he could be so back and forth on that and so...
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It's great.
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It leads me to believe that there isn't a point.
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No.
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I think it's just gone.
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I don't think so either.
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I don't know.
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I've thought that in the past, too, and he sometimes manages to surprise me.
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So we'll find out.
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I don't know.
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True.
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So apologies for the three present-day episodes in a row.
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Wednesday will be something entirely different.
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Again, you don't need to apologize for that.
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95% of the time you apologize.
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Fine.
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You do not need to apologize.
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Fine.
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All right.
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But we'll be back with something different on Wednesday.
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Indeed we will, Dan.
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We do have a website.
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It is knowledgefight.com.
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