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Sept. 5, 2024 - Viva & Barnes
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LawTube Lawsuit! RussiaGate Hoax 3.0! AND MORE! Live with Megan Fox! Viva Frei
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Hi everyone, Kathy Hochlet is reminding everyone it's time to get that COVID shot.
I know a lot of us want to forget about COVID.
We all know somebody who's contracted it and not feeling good these days, so here's how we prevent it.
Just stop by your local drugstore, your pharmacy, your own provider.
Get this shot now.
Every year you should be thinking about getting it.
It doesn't take any time at all.
In fact, we're going to show you how fast it is.
Let's time my visit here today.
Let's get started.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to see you.
Hi. Welcome in, Governor.
How are you?
Nice to see you.
Great to see you as well.
Welcome, man.
Thank you.
I'm here for your vaccine today.
Yes, I am.
Thank you, man.
Good to see the pharmacist Danielle in here.
She'll help you around over here.
All right.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Hi, Danielle.
My name is Danielle.
Hi, Danielle.
How are you?
I'm good, thank you.
Hi, Danielle.
How are you?
A lot of these are not so many.
Oh, yeah.
We're doing plenty, which is great because we want to...
How does it protect the community?
Word of advice, everybody.
Wear the right clothing.
Gotta go up really high on the arm.
Alright, here we go.
Three, two, one.
This makes me want to effing puke.
Tell me when you're done.
I'm telling you when you're gonna start.
You're so funny, Kathy.
I didn't even feel it.
Three minutes and 14 seconds.
Does it take you that long to read your...
Thank you.
There's going to be a number of disclaimers here.
We are NY.
There's going to be a number of disclaimers during today's episode.
I'm going to disclose friendships, relationships, and detestation of vile human beings.
Let's start with the detestation of vile human beings.
In as much as I know Kathy Hochul from Policy, from Demeanor, from the Internet, She's a loathsome person who, as far as I'm concerned, given the fact that she is now in 2024 pushing that thing, whatever we want to call it,
at the risk of quoting a doctor from Canada and getting in trouble with the commie tube, what was qualified as a therapeutic at best, pushing that now in 2024 and then repeating the now-confirmed lies, disinformation, As relates to that particular medical intervention.
She's a disgusting human being.
Pushing that on six months old and up.
It's ironic because I just showed that clip of her yesterday.
Talking about, I know it's young.
Go get your six month old jibby jabbed.
You don't want them in a cold dark room.
After they've been ripped away from their parents because the parents didn't want to get them the jibby jab.
She's a pharmaceutical prostitute.
She is a pharma whore.
Like, you got your war whores, and then you got your pharma whores.
She's out now, four years in, pushing that pharmaceutical product.
But all that to say, when you hate somebody, and especially when you hate somebody, you want to make sure that you don't share something that is untrue about them because you're blinded by your hatred to the point where you're looking for your confirmation bias and thinking you found it.
This was the first video I saw yesterday of this particular Jibby Jab promotion.
They should not be allowed to promote pharmaceuticals, period.
Especially politicians, unless she is a registered lobbyist for the pharma company, which I think she is.
Maybe she's an unregistered lobbyist.
This was the first video I saw.
Look. Hi, everyone.
Kathy Hochul is reminding everyone it's time to get that COVID shot.
I know a lot of us want to forget about COVID.
We all know somebody who's contracted it.
You see what's going on with what they call the Pfizer eye?
Just stop by.
Alright, so I see that video, and in as much as I'm inclined to loathe Kathy Hochul for all of the right reasons, I say, this is weird.
It's a very damn good meme, by the way, because this is a fake video.
It's a very damn good doctored video, but there's no way in hell that Kathy Hochul...
Who's probably as much of a narcissist as anybody else out there in politics.
There's no way she would put that out, even if that were her face.
She would not.
She would wear the sunglasses the entire time.
So I go to Kathy's website, and I find the original video, and lo and behold, what you saw was the original video.
This was the disinformation, misinformation, which, as far as I understood, started off as a meme from the Dilley meme guys, the Trump team.
And when it's shared in context as, oh, here's a meme.
LOLs. She got one too many, huh?
And then someone cuts it and then pitches it or sells it as a standalone detached from the joke.
And then somebody else believes it.
You had a lot of people wrongly sharing that doctored video yesterday saying how Kathy Hochul has had one jibby jab too many.
You don't need to rely on the fake stuff and you need to make sure in this day and age, there's a ton of this going around right now.
We are September, October, November, two months out of the election.
And as we're going to talk about in a bit, Part and parcel of the strategy is going to be to discredit conservative commentators, conservative right-wing thought leaders, if we can call them that.
And the easiest way to do that is to share something that is outright fake, pass it off as real, and then people get to run with your poor judgment at having recirculated something which was too absurd to be true, and therefore it probably was.
Alrighty, people!
We're going to have a good one today.
Good afternoon.
Good morning, California.
Good evening, England.
Top of the morning to you, Aussie lads.
Megan Fox, if you don't know who it is, it's not the Megan Fox.
So don't anybody get, you know, there's so many jokes in there.
When you Google Megan Fox, there are two Megan Foxes, prominent Megan Foxes.
This is the journalist.
We're going to get to Megan in a bit.
She's in the backdrop.
And I said, I got to do my...
I gotta do my sponsored...
Thank our sponsors of today's show.
Gotta make sure that none of them are Russian-based sponsors.
We can't have that now.
That's gonna be...
We're talking about it, people.
I read the indictment.
It's a load of crap.
Everybody knows it's a load of crap.
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Now, bada bing, bada boom, people!
Oh, yeah, we're getting into it.
We're getting into it.
Oh, who is this?
One old guy's opinion.
Russiagate hoax 3.0.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me thrice!
I must be a dumbass crat.
Dude, we're getting into it.
Okay, Megan has been waiting patiently and politely in the back.
I should have made sure that we're live across all of the wonderful...
We are.
Let me see here.
Let me refresh on Rumble.
I'm using Rumble Premium, so now I no longer have to sit...
Premium. I do not use Rumble Premium, or YouTube Premium.
Commitube Premium.
So let me see that we're live on...
Stop it.
And let me make sure that we are live on vivabarneslaw.locals.com where we have the best, above-average community anywhere and everywhere.
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Megan, get ready to say hi to a world who may not know who you are just yet.
Megan, ma'am, how goes the battle?
No, you're on mute.
You gotta unmute yourself.
Yeah. Muted boomer.
How are you?
I'm good.
We've met on a live stream, I would say at least once, but maybe...
Twice? Maybe two or three times.
Yeah, but we keep saying we have to do something, and then we haven't.
But today's the day.
Today's the day.
And you know, the terrible thing is, I didn't warn you this time, but when you have guests on, the risk is that something big happens in the news, and then it's not going to be just an explorative discussion.
We've got to talk about the news.
But we're going to do it.
Everybody out there, we're doing the Russiagate 3.0 and the DUI guy lawsuit we're going to talk about in a bit.
So don't get antsy.
I'm going to ask Megan some questions about who she is and how she got to where she is.
We're going to get there.
But Megan, 30,000 foot overview for those in my audience who might not know who you are.
Sure. I'm a journalist.
I write at pjmedia.com.
I've been doing this for 20 years, approximately.
I used to do a lot of political opinion columns, but I kind of lost interest in politics a while ago.
I prefer to report on court cases.
And so I've been doing a lot of court coverage for maybe the last 10 years, starting in family court.
And now I've branched out to some of the more public cases.
And no, not a lawyer, but I like to call it law to...
I'll keep adjacent because I will do a lot of court coverage.
I cover some of the big cases and some of the smaller ones, too.
That's one of the ones that we'll be talking about today.
Very cool.
Is my mic better now?
Someone said it was cutting in and out, so I switched.
It was, but I think it was the machinations you were doing on Rumble.
It stopped after you stopped that.
Okay, perfect.
Megan, everyone says they know you and we love you.
All right, Megan.
I love you guys, too.
You know, okay, we're going to tease it.
Let's start with the DUI guy, and then we're going to get into the indictment.
Because Barnes and I talked about it on a Sunday night.
DUI guy is getting sued.
For those, I think everybody knows who DUI guy is.
We're not exactly in the same, we're in the same, you know, YouTube law verse, but we don't overlap all that often.
What the hell's going on with DUI guy?
Getting sued for using someone's face in a thumbnail?
Yeah, this is so crazy.
So I brought some visual aids in case you want to share my screen.
I brought some visual aids.
It might be a little easier because it's a complicated story.
It all begins with what the hails to your left here.
We have Jeremy and George.
They have a big YouTube channel.
They have over 700,000 subscribers.
They are treasure hunters.
They go and they buy storage units and then they film themselves going through the storage units and they find treasures and they resell these things.
And Jeremy's been known.
He's known for doing a lot of philanthropy work, giving away tons of gifts and toys to underprivileged kids, and also helping other YouTubers do this.
He calls it fun employment, training people how to become fun employed instead of unemployed.
And he has a huge following.
Huge. People who really love him, and George is his girlfriend.
And do this channel together.
He also films his life.
It's like a vlog, right?
Things that happen to him that are funny or interesting or vexing or whatever.
That's what he films and he puts on his channel.
He moves across the street in Levy County, Florida.
He buys 70 acres of property, his new place that he's going to winter in.
It's near a bunch of auction houses that he wants to go to and do for his business.
And he moves there, and there's a piece of property, a small piece of property right across from him that's for sale, and he doesn't buy it.
Well, somebody else buys it.
Lynette Preston.
Lynette Michelle Lacey Alexis Preston.
She has a lot of names, so this is why it's confusing.
She can sometimes go by Michelle, sometimes go by Lynette.
I actually went looking for a picture of her, and I have never used one in a thumbnail, so I couldn't find one.
I only have my AI versions.
So this is my AI version of Lynette Preston, who is the lady who moved across the street.
She purports to have a turtle rescue.
And she began by trying to become friends with Jeremy.
And his story is that she tried to insert herself into his life.
You know, benefit from his audience for her turtle rescue.
And that was something that he was not interested in doing.
So things went bad between the neighbors.
Things went very bad between the neighbors.
And one thing after the next, and you end up in court.
And you end up in court.
Jeremy went to court first in Ohio because that's where he's a resident.
He went to court to get a restraining order against her and her live-in ex-husband.
And he got it.
And it was granted a permanent injunction against these people.
And it's supposed to be good in all 50 states.
He got this because she was harassing him?
Yes. Allegedly?
Allegedly. Well, the Ohio court found that she was.
Is she an elderly lady or is that just how the AI drew her?
She's like in her 60s, I want to say.
Is she tatted up to the neck in real life?
She's got a lot of tattoos.
She's got a lot of tattoos.
I don't know.
They're not up to the neck necessarily, but she has a lot of them.
And she lives on this property.
They live in a shed, a literal shed from Home Depot, you know, a shed in the Florida heat.
She has an adopted four-year-old little girl who lives in the shed with her.
Her ex-husband lives in a camper on the property.
The property is awash in...
Standing water, bad turtle conditions, like dirty ponds.
There's all footage of this.
Nails, glass, snakes everywhere.
It is a dangerous, dangerous piece of property.
That's what it looks like.
That's what she says.
She's from her own mouth.
Says it's dangerous.
We pick up this story.
Larry starts covering it, right?
And Larry is the thumbnail king.
His thumbnails are incredibly good.
Let me stop you there.
There's not a question of blame.
Just a question of predictability.
He started covering a lawsuit involving his neighbor?
No. Larry started covering this lawsuit between Jeremy Hales and Lynette Preston.
Sorry. Brain fart now.
Okay. Which is what he does, which is what LawTube does, right?
And then part two of that is he started covering a lawsuit of a mentally unwell or allegedly unhinged lady.
Yeah. Okay.
Right. Okay.
So he does.
I don't know, a handful of videos, nine or ten.
I mean, not that many.
Larry has a lot of content, right?
His playlist is much shorter than mine on this topic.
But he has a couple of thumbnails that look like this.
That is what Lynette actually looks like.
That is actually her, Lynette Preston.
And so he covers a few.
Now, this story began.
About this judge over here in The Clown Nose, okay?
This guy with The Clown Nose is about Judge Craig DeThomasis.
The reason why we got interested in it and why Larry, me, Tug, Legal Vices, MG Law, and others covered this case is because of Judge Craig DeThomasis, who was one of the worst judges we've ever seen on the bench.
This guy would drive you mad, okay?
It's so frustrating, so biased.
He litigates from the bench.
He testifies for witnesses.
He does things you can't believe.
And that's why we started covering this case.
It really wasn't about Lynette.
It wasn't about Jeremy.
It was this judge.
This judge gives her a temporary injunction against Jeremy Hales without ever hearing Jeremy Hales' explanation or response.
And he refuses to uphold the Ohio injunction against Jeremy Hales.
He refuses.
He takes away Jeremy's Second Amendment rights.
He tries to take away his First Amendment rights.
He tells him, you can't mention her on your channel.
You can't have your moderators mention her on your channel.
You're not allowed to use her name.
You're not allowed to use anything.
He just takes away Jeremy's entire right to live his life.
He tells him, you can't even drive on your street.
Because you have to go in the back way.
Because you have to pass her house to go in your driveway.
Nope, can't do it.
You've got to go around the other way.
I cover this case on PJ Media because of the obscene First Amendment violations that this judge has done to this man.
The idea about forcing him to detour to go into his house is to avoid the proximity of contact or visual line of sight that might interfere with the restraining order.
Okay. Yeah, there's a 500-foot rule.
And in fact, because of the 500-foot rule, there are places on his own property he can't stand because of the 500-foot rule.
I was going to make that as a joke, and okay.
No, it's not a joke.
But this was supposed to be a temporary order, and a temporary injunction in Florida I think is like 15 days.
You have like 15 days or maybe a month before you get a trial, an evidentiary hearing to decide whether the merits of this thing are...
Is a good thing.
Like, decide whether it's true or not.
Because the judge has to take her statements in the injunction hearing, the first one, as true.
But he puts these ridiculous restrictions on him, which are unconstitutional.
In the meantime, her lawyer starts dragging it out.
He never gets an evidentiary hearing, Viva, for a year.
Every time they're scheduled to go into his court, the guy spends the entire time reciting the history of the case and complaining about Jeremy Harrell's lawyers and yelling at them for calendar dates.
Never lets him tell his story, ever.
And this story gets weird, really weird.
Go to mypjmedia.com, look under Megan Fox on Authors, you'll find it all.
The judge was finally booted from the case just a couple weeks ago.
Booted from the case or booted from the bench?
No, the case.
It does exceed.
You're absolutely right.
And he should be booted from the bench.
But he denied three motions to disqualify himself based on bias.
And so Jeremy Hales' lawyers went to the appellate court with a writ of prohibition, which was granted.
And he was booted by the appellate court of Florida from this case for unlawful acts.
Unlawful acts.
So we were right to cover this case.
It's actually been an incredible case because it's unusual that a...
Appellate court will do this, right?
Then all of a sudden, Lynette gets a new lawyer.
And this lawyer is not even barred in Florida.
He's barred in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
But he somehow inserts himself into this case.
And I think it's because he wants to become a famous YouTube lawyer, perhaps.
And he finds a lawyer in Florida who will file this frivolous and ridiculous lawsuit against Jeremy, George, Larry, and a guy named DJ Raddus, who is a satire and parody YouTuber who does funny videos about this, funny songs and stuff.
Some of the songs drive me crazy.
What's the word when a lawyer gets permission to practice for one specific reason, for one case in a state?
ProHawkVJ? ProHawkVJ, thank you.
So, he has, he didn't...
Enter for Prohacvice before this suit was filed.
He has now just entered, as of yesterday, Prohacvice because he's taking over the federal.
He wants to go in federal court for her because Jeremy sued her in federal court for other damages and things that she's done to him over the last year.
Prohacvice. Prohacvice.
Not bad.
To be stolen, possibly.
All right.
So she's suing a DUI guy and three other people in Florida.
Someone asked what county.
Do we know what county?
Levy County.
Okay. Levy County, Florida, which is by all counts, stay away from Levy County, Florida, folks.
Do not go to Levy County, Florida.
Don't move there.
Oh, well, dude, come on.
It looks like it's next to WikiWashi or it's on the...
Hold on.
Let me go to the map here.
Oh, it's got the crystal blue waters.
Levy County is a nightmare.
Yeah, right next to Manatee Springs National Park.
Oh, well, it's a beautiful area, but okay, fine.
Judicially, it's a nightmare.
I booted you, right?
I booted your screen share.
I did.
I got rid of it because we have another one coming up here.
Add to stage.
Here we go.
Complaint for injunction and damages under Florida statute.
Florida statute 540.08.
While you talk about this, I'm just going to go...
Yeah, please.
I was just going to say, I didn't get a chance to copy and paste the law, but that's going to be very important as we go through this.
Florida statute 540.08.
So, do you want to read through the whole thing, or do you want me to just...
No, no.
We'll do an overview.
What's the bottom line?
He's in trouble for using her face and likeness on thumbnails.
Do they allege anything else in terms of...
For Jeremy and George, they do.
And in Jeremy and George's case, they are saying that the YouTube...
And this is interesting, too.
That his YouTube channel has created a fake fabricated reality drama using Lynette Preston as a character without her permission and without giving her royalties.
So they want royalties.
Let me let that sink in.
I'll give her one compliment.
This is creative.
It's an interesting argument in terms of being deviously creative and maliciously creative, and it'll give good ideas to bad people to do the same if this has the slightest chance of success.
Okay. And by the way, the section 540-8, 540.08, unauthorized publication of name or likeness.
No person to sell, print, display, or otherwise publicly used for purposes of trade or for commercial use, the name, portrait, yada, yada, yada.
I presume that there's an exception in here for newsworthy events.
There is an exception.
Go to the exceptions.
And strangely, he left them out of this.
The person who wrote this, who I believe is Bruce, the guy from Connecticut, not from Florida, wrote it, I believe.
That's my belief.
And that Scott Stark, the guy who filed it, I think is different.
I think that Bruce worked on this either with him or...
He says he's Lynette Preston's but he's not named on any of these things yet.
It's a very strange situation.
The world is filled with crazy people and they can use the legal system.
The funny thing is, we're not going to segue in just yet, but you got individual crazy people who use and abuse of the system like this lady here.
And then you get your institutionalized elected psychopaths who use and abuse of the system like we see on all levels against bigger figures.
And they just use and abuse the system in different ways.
Okay, so...
All right, so the theme, they say that the theme of this false reality drama is bad neighbors.
Now, they're claiming that it was based on the false premise that these two stalked Jeremy and George to Otter Creek, although they have emails and statements from her, prior statements that literally say, I moved there because I knew Jeremy Hales was moving across the street and my property would be worth more money.
Okay, so these are written statements that she made.
And she's changed her story a lot of times.
So it would be my contention if I were fighting this to say she chose to insert herself in the life of a YouTuber she knew.
She was a fan.
She watched the channel.
She knew what it was all about.
She walked into it willingly if you ask me.
They've published and displayed her image in the thumbnails for approximately 125 public videos as of the date without her consent.
They are also claiming that those videos get more views than his other videos.
I don't think that's true when you actually look at the...
So that's disputable too because you can tell that there's other things that get just as many views on his channels, including his storage unit stuff.
And so, yes, this is all about the images.
And now he's saying that Florida statute 540-08 provides that when a person's likeness is used without their consent, they may bring an action to enjoin their unauthorized use and recover for loss or injury, including reasonable royalties and damages.
Now, I believe that this law is written for, like, selling products with your face on it, for instance, putting your face on a T-shirt, making money off your likeness or image.
They're trying to say that this...
Reporting on his neighbor and what this neighbor is doing to him constantly is somehow the same as that.
I agree with you.
It's creative, but I don't think it...
I don't know.
I don't know what I think about this other than...
As far as DUI guy goes, the allegations against him is...
Because it is a thing I can't get my head around.
I don't know if arguments have been made or if there have been any hearings yet.
Not yet.
Okay, so adversarial hearings, but...
How is she not a newsworthy event or a public figure for the purposes of...
I mean, how is this not getting hit with an anti-slap motion is what I'd be wondering.
So yeah, in the very beginning of this, he states that the defendants are private individuals.
That is false.
Lynette... Preston is a public figure by any stretch, by any definition.
She ran for public office.
That's one of the ways that Jeremy came in contact with her.
There was an argument over some town hall thing.
She was running for public office.
She also has a 501c3.
She claims she has a turtle rescue.
And that turtle rescue, she has solicited donations through the media.
She's gone to the media about this.
She's gone to the media about her adoption of the child that she has, getting good press for herself about what a wonderful person she is because she adopted this child and she goes to the media and she runs to them.
There's tons.
If you look up her name, you'll find news articles about Lynette Preston that have nothing to do with this.
So even before Jeremy...
And her came in contact.
This person was a limited purpose public person by definition of the law.
So he's wrong on that.
So Larry starts covering this case, and I love the way this is written.
Foreman, in the guise of covering the What the Hale story.
I mean, what else would he do?
Also known as covering the story.
Right. And to capitalize on the stories following, in the form of views and subscribers to his channel, published and displayed Miss Preston's image in his channel's video thumbnails for nine public videos, all without obtaining her consent.
Nine. Nine, Viva.
Just nine of them.
So, in comparison to Jeremy's 150-whatever, I mean, is that really anything to be worried about?
Foreman's publication and use of Ms. Preston's image and name has been for commercial and or advertising purposes of promoting monetized videos.
Foreman has violated the statute by publishing Ms. Preston's picture on video thumbnails without her consent and by publishing and using her name and image in videos without her consent.
As a result of Foreman's publication, the use of Ms. Preston's image and name without her consent, she has sustained loss and injury, which of course they don't say what it is.
Against Larry.
And the rest of the charges are about the same for everybody in this, except for Jeremy and George, which they're going after for this fake reality thing.
And they want damages, and they want royalties.
But Reid, you must have the law up by now.
Read the exception part of 540.08.
Yeah, I didn't have that exception.
He left out completely.
He left it out completely.
Exceptions listed in this section.
See, I don't see the exceptions here.
Oh, well, news media.
Hold on.
I'm going to go to the AI.
It says, this does not apply to news media such as newspapers, magazines, books, broadcasts, or news reports if it is used in legitimate public interest and not for advertising purposes.
Members of the armed forces.
What do I see?
I don't get the exception statute.
I only get section 54.80.
That's the exception right there.
The news, what you just read.
That's absolutely correct.
The provision of this section shall not apply to...
I could bring it up, but we know it is very small in writing.
The publication, printing, display, or use of name of likeness of a person, if any, newspaper...
Sorry, that's not a period.
That's a piece of dirt on my computer.
The person, if any, newspaper, magazine, book, news, broadcast, or television, or other news medium or publication as part of any bona fide news report or presentation having a current and legitimate public interest and where such name or likeness is not used for advertising purposes.
Yeah, and I think that obviously a public interest story, something that has been in the news, made national news, many people are talking about it, not just me, not just DUI guy, like that umbrella guy.
I mean, all these people are talking about this case because it's interesting.
It involves a popular YouTuber.
It certainly has a public interest to it.
I don't think there's any way you can say that Larry's coverage or anybody's coverage, including Jeremy's, isn't for a legitimate purpose because it's of public interest.
And I think he's confusing also the role of the media.
The media is not a commercial.
Though the media makes money on advertisers, etc.
You have revenue coming in from advertisers.
You have revenue coming in from possibly super chats or whatever.
The people who tune in to see you, Viva, they tune in to see your personality.
That's what you're selling.
You're not selling a story.
You're not selling other people.
You're selling you.
You're selling your personality, your style of presenting things.
It's an entertainment show.
The media is never considered commercial.
No, not unless they use the person for the purposes of selling a product.
Like in the way that someone uses Joe Rogan's likeness for some vape or marijuana products, they AI generate his voice or manipulate a video.
That's using someone's image or likeness for advertising purposes, not if you make money off of the work that you're doing.
Covering a story.
It's fair use by any definition.
I presume there's an argument.
I don't know what the anti-slap laws or the slap laws are in Florida, but the argument that this is intended to suppress DUI guys and others' legitimate First Amendment exercise of free speech on a matter of public interest, and it should be dismissed in whatever reversal of cost provisions there are.
So far, there's only been one motion filed in response to this.
Randy Schockett and Doreen Inklees, who are Jeremy's attorneys, filed a response, first recusing Judge DeThomasis off of it because he was assigned it.
Judge DeThomasis was assigned this case.
Judge DeThomasis.
I got to go pull up this guy's profile.
How do we spell it?
Oh, he's incredible.
D-E-T-H-O-M-A-S-I-S.
The Thomasis.
Yeah, he's Greek.
He's Greek.
The Thomasis.
His middle name is Constantine.
Constantine. I don't know why.
There was a great breakfast joint in Montreal called Cosmos, and the owner was Tony, and he talked like this.
He smoked over the eggs when he made it.
It was great.
This is Judge Craig the Thomasis.
So, it doesn't look crazy, but I guess photos can be deceiving.
Okay, so now how do we know who appointed...
Alright, cool.
I'll dive into this afterwards.
So he was on it, no longer is.
And... Uh-oh.
Have you frozen, Megan?
Megan appears to have been frozen.
Let me make sure that that's not my internet.
Chat, has Megan frozen or is it...
Am I frozen?
You guys see me talking right now because Megan seems to have...
Frozen, mid-gulp.
ShamWow. Okay, we got that.
Let me see here.
Locals, I'm in the chat here.
She's frozen, right?
Okay, you guys can see me.
Well, Megan, it's interesting.
This is like...
Oh, she's gone.
Well, she'll come back in a second.
I'm neurotic.
You all know this.
And every now and again, when I was getting into covering legal cases...
You'd feel a certain, not immunity, but protection from covering a Johnny Depp versus an Amber Heard because they're big celebrities, yada, yada, yada.
When you get into the nittier, grittier individual solo cases, there's less of a buffer between you and the subject.
Johnny Depp will not know who Viva Frye is, but when the DUI guy covers Lynette Thomas, the likelihood of Lynette, who...
It's not a Johnny Depp discovering who's covering her, and if she doesn't like it, making their life a living hell.
Well, you have that occurring in real time.
Oh, I tried to pull up an article of Lynette, who apparently, the article of her adopting a sick four-year-old child, but there were too many ads running in that, which I thought caused the freezing.
Bringing her back in.
Sorry about that.
I should have given you the warning there.
That's all right.
DeTomas is no longer in the case.
Okay, so it's going to be something to follow.
No other developments?
How has a DUI guy taken it?
The other motion that was filed, so DeThomas has recused himself.
He did the right thing, finally.
He finally did, and he was just like, he got off of it right away.
So it's been reassigned to somebody else.
The second motion that was filed is a rule, well, I'm not sure if they filed it yet.
They sent a letter telling Scott Stark, the attorney, that if he doesn't withdraw this lawsuit, they're filing a Rule 11 motion.
So they're giving him the grace period, whatever that is, before they file a motion for sanctions against them.
So that's the first thing that they're deciding to do.
I don't know if a slap is coming.
I don't know if the slap motion is coming.
We'll just have to wait and see.
Let's see what we've got here.
I caught my name.
J.D. is aware of many YouTube lawyers that cover the J.D. Va case.
Amber Heard.
The Johnny Depp.
Oh, Johnny Depp, yeah.
Well, I mean, especially, I'm trying to think of which trial.
It was in Rittenhouse when that moment went viral that I imagine everyone involved in that case discovered the LawTube community covering it.
What were you doing when he shot you?
Were you trying to shoot him when he shot you in the arms?
Something along those lines with Grosskraut.
Gage Grosskreutz.
Yeah, when he got his arm blown off, he's like, what were you doing?
It was something along the lines of the admission that he was going to kill.
I was pointing a gun at his head.
That's right, I was pointing a gun at his head.
That was the moment that that case was lost for the state.
He changed his name, Grosskreutz.
He did.
That was probably smart.
Because I don't remember what he changed it to.
No, no.
I never even looked it up.
I don't even want to know.
I don't want to gauge Grosskart saying, Viva, you doxed my new name, whatever it is.
You doxed me.
Yes. I mean, that's fun and that's cool.
I would not want to be in DUI Guy's shoes.
Is he laughing about it or is it a source of stress?
No, no, no.
He's laughing.
He has made some incredible videos discussing how he feels about it and how he sees it.
You guys should definitely get over to DUI Guy channel.
It's DUI.
I got a letter from Bruce, the guy who we think is behind this lawsuit.
Before this happened, he got a letter from him that said, take down these thumbnails that you did or we're going to sue you.
And Larry was like, eh, I don't really feel like being sued.
So he put a...
You notice on one of them, there was like a turtle mask on her.
He put stuff over her eyes so that you couldn't really make out her face.
And he missed only two or three of them.
He just missed them on accident, right?
So he did make an attempt to make her happy.
And they sued him anyway.
That umbrella guy got one too.
He got a letter saying, take down your thumbnails or we're going to sue you.
And he just decided to put Skeletor on the thumbnail instead.
The road to hell is paved in good intentions.
It's like when you empower the unreasonable demands in the first place, they don't stop.
They just get more and more demanding.
By the way, someone said Gage Grosscross changed his name to Shithead.
Obligatory. Don't call that dog Lifesaver.
No. Call him Shithead.
Good. If everybody has not yet seen the movie The Jerk, you must go watch the movie The Jerk.
It's a perfect movie.
It's a great movie.
It's true.
It's true.
I can feel the crowd itching to hear what's going on in the other realm of LawTube, YouTube drama.
Did you hear what?
You heard what's going on.
Only from you.
But you need to explain it to me.
So this will be a good opportunity to explain it to people who aren't following it because I'm not.
So it's amazing.
This is why at some point I have to check out of the industry.
Just check out for the day.
I'm just getting ready to go to bed last night.
Give or take 10 o'clock.
And then I see, I forget what it was, but there was an apology.
There was a tweet from Dave Rubin.
There was a tweet from Tim Pool.
And then I, not going down the rabbit hole, then I just find out what's going on in the news.
I missed the Merrick Garland, whatever press release he did.
They indicted, so the bottom line, or the summary, and there's levels to this, they've indicted two Russian employees of RT who allegedly laundered Let's say rounded up to $10 million through a company in Tennessee.
This is what we all...
They're not redact, but they give the names Canadian company, American company, yada, yada.
Bottom line, everybody knows who's being talked about by this point, and it's by design.
When you describe things with sufficient detail, a Canadian right-wing commentator who moved to Tennessee.
So these two apparent RT employees, Russian television, Do you know who Lauren Chen is?
You've definitely seen her.
She's a very insightful, call it conservative commentator.
I know everybody in this story.
Personally, to greater or lesser degrees, I know Tim Poole well now.
I know Dave Rubin.
I know Benny Johnson.
I've been on his show a few times.
I met Lauren up in Canada.
We've known each other for a few years.
So call me biased.
I'm inclined to think that nobody involved in this story is up to no good, but there are levels to it.
So the two RT employees funneling, financing $10 million through Tenet to interfere in the American election to promote Russian propaganda via Prominent right-wing commentators.
So they have allegedly invested $10 million in Tenet.
Tenet Media, who's getting the seed funding, says we're going to be a prominent right-wing commentator website.
We want to get some prominent right-wing commentators.
And so they contract with, they call them commentator one, commentator two, but everybody knows who they are.
And they've put up public tweets now at this point.
And they get paid to create content.
Period. Do they get paid to create content about a certain topic?
Well, that's the thing.
So when they're talking about interference in elections, I'll pull up my four highlights from the indictment.
This is from the indictment, which is why it's particularly curious, where they say, using multiple fake personas, this is referring to the two Russian peeps, the person edited, posted, and directed the posting of U.S. Company One, which we presume is...
the Lauren Chen Company.
Many of the videos published by US Company One contain commentary on events and issues in the United States, such as immigration, inflation, and other topics What? Wait, let me get this straight.
So if I think that the war in Ukraine, if I just personally think the war in Ukraine is a money dump and it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and we have no business doing it, am I a Russian disinformationist?
Because, you know, if I create a video on that, if I had happened to have taken a, you know, been supported by Tenet?
That would be the argument.
I mean, the argument would be you're a Russian stooge if you're not taking money from Tenet.
And the argument would be that you are a Russian tool or asset if you are.
When does CNN get indicted for their pharma horror position, for the propaganda that they push into us from the pharmaceutical companies that are on the payroll, like literally paying CNN to exist?
The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer.
When do we get to indict them?
For that.
And if that's the measure for being a Russian, the accusations are FARA violations, Foreign Agent Registration Act.
The argument is that these two individuals ought to have registered as foreign agents, and there are no charges against any of the commentators who are one step removed, because they were getting paid by Tenet.
To create content with no editorial control or oversight by tenants.
So they got to create the content that they wanted.
Content that they wanted.
To have the opinions that they wanted.
Getting paid by an American company.
So that's with respect to the Ruben, the Tim Pool.
As if anybody could pay these people to change their opinions anyhow.
It's idiotic.
Where it gets a little more nebulous is...
When it comes to what we believe is Lauren Chen, what we believe is Tenet Media, because it's known, and then where they were getting their funding from and what they knew or thought they knew of the financiers of their operations, this is the problem.
When money changes hands, it creates obligations and it'll cause for accusations later on.
When people say Tim Pool is a Russian stooge, he's taking Kremlin money, well, that money that Tim Pool and others got...
Came from an American incorporated company.
As if it's up to them to go find out where that company is getting its seed funding, etc.
There were some sketchy allegations of fabricated personas.
This guy named Gregorian, who was the ostensible financier who apparently didn't actually exist.
I saw that.
That is weird.
That is really weird.
There's some weird stuff here.
We're going to get back to the allegations in a second.
This is the issue to remember.
It's brought under the FARA Act.
Foreign Agents Registration Act.
This is Wikipedia and we can go to the act, but Wikipedia is not useless for everything.
It's a United States law that imposes public disclosure obligations on persons representing foreign interests.
It requires foreign agents to find individuals or entities engaged in domestic lobbying or advocacy for foreign government or organizations to register with the DOJ and disclose their relationship, etc., etc.
But media doesn't lobby.
Media, I mean...
That's one issue.
The other issue is even if they are agents of the Putin government because they work for the state-funded RT, was there financing of an American enterprise with no oversight seemingly?
There's some allegations that it said, hey, could you talk about this?
Or, you know, could you talk about these issues that are in the news?
There are some allegations to that effect in the lawsuit, so that'll be what they hang their hat on.
But it's not even clear that if they are foreign agents, that what they're doing is lobbying by financing the activities of a right wing conservative website.
I don't know that.
Is it though?
I mean, I would argue that it's not, but who the hell knows how this law is getting bastardized?
That is really stretching the definition of lobbying.
I mean, lobbying is going to lawmakers and trying to change laws.
Advocacy, I guess maybe you could shoehorn it in under advocacy.
But this would be, I mean, even if this is...
Even if it's journalism activism, if this is going to be the new rule, that media that gets foreign funding, agents need to register with FARA.
I mean, I don't know who the investors are in entities like the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News.
I suspect there are foreign investors.
You're a lawyer.
Why are you reading Wiki instead of the statute?
Because when it comes to summarizing laws, they're summarizing the statute.
That's why.
When it comes to political issues, I will approach it with skepticism, but they're doing nothing more than summarizing the statute, so it'll save a step.
Our current administration is full Marxist.
This is from one guy's opinions.
It is a new McCarthyism.
Hunter Biden is possibly more guilty of this.
Well, because he was there.
Yes, arguably.
They're actually doing some lobbying.
All right, so that's what FARA is.
Everybody should know that in order to appreciate how fully preposterous this is.
Not to mention, like, it's not worth nothing, or not for nothing, that this is coming from the corrupt Garland DOJ.
It's Russiagate 3.0, exactly the same way they did it in 2016, to create doubt prior to the results and to facilitate further promotion of doubt after the results.
Smearing the beneficiaries of a contract that they had, you know, pimple.
Dave Rubin, create content and expect to get paid for it, much like journalists write articles and expect to get paid by the word.
They're not agents.
And they're certainly not guilty of anything other than expecting to get paid.
They got paid handsomely, by the way, but get paid for their work.
So when I saw that allegation, there was no editorial oversight.
It was varying degrees of content.
I was like, then what the hell is this?
But you notice how they phrase it.
They just sort of leave it open.
It's not to promote any specific theory.
It's just so long as they're sowing discord, then they're serving the interests of the government.
Well, here's something interesting.
So I just, just on a whim, I googled foreign investors in American media.
And I came up with in 2017, FCC approves for the first time 100% foreign ownership of U.S. broadcast stations.
So if there's foreign ownership happening of U.S. broadcasting stations, does that mean that everybody on the station now can be investigated for, did they have to file for, you know, a foreign influence?
Or do they have to, is everything they talk about then being directed by foreign ownership?
This is a very big can of worms.
It is, I mean, by design.
How do I get it back when I want to do this?
Do I do this?
No, I have to go remove.
Ah, crap.
Oh, no, then I add it back.
Barnes went off on it last night on his bourbon with Barnes.
I mean, it's grotesquely unconstitutional.
But we're going to get to a paragraph where it really illustrates what this is.
On the one hand, it's a smear campaign.
And I don't think this is it.
This is just some of the facts here.
Despite describing U.S. Company 1's investor to commentator 1 and commentator 2 as Edward Gregorian.
The Gregorian chants.
A purported finance professional in Western Europe, founder one and founder two.
They don't mention who they are, but we think it's Chen and husband.
Admitted to each other in private communications that the investors were, in truth, and in fact, the Russians.
The same term that founder one and founder two used to refer to RT while working directly under contract with RT as described above.
It's the boogeyman term.
If you're doing business with Russians, you are going to...
Don't use that word anymore.
What about China?
China owns AMC theaters.
They own a lot of Hollywood production companies.
They own Joe Biden?
It's a really good question because Ayn Rand, when she worked in Hollywood, she wrote extensively about the communist infiltration of Hollywood using movies to propagandize the American public.
Nobody was ever indicted for that.
Not just that, but not a coincidence either.
Some people are piecing this together with Tim Pool announcing he was going to sue Kamala Harris for defamation of...
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
He threatened to sue three days ago, then this comes out, but this predates it substantially.
The release of this might have to do with Tim Pool and his announcement, but I think it more closely coincides with the discovery of the Chinese spy within the Hochul administration that literally just dropped yesterday.
It's Thursday today, right, Megan?
It is.
It's still Thursday.
Literally yesterday.
The story broke that there is, yet again, another Chinese spy having infiltrated Hochul's...
I saw that!
Kathy Hochul's...
Yep. Maybe that's why she's...
And I wonder how many pharma spies there are.
I wonder.
So it's the day after that, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
Just to finish this paragraph, it says, on May 27, founder one, founder two, I'm going to ask the Russians about hiring producer two this coming week.
Approximately two days later, founder one, message producer two on Discord.
Here's a list of responsibilities I sent to the investors to approve bringing you on, waiting to hear back on salary.
Discord, okay, fine, that's fine.
I think it was the first part of that, just to get some facts here.
It is weird that the Gregorian guy is not real.
That makes me think that this...
It could have been part of a setup or an attempt to...
Go on, Megan.
I like the way you think.
An attempt to smear the people targeted in this thing.
Like, who are these people?
Who really are they?
We are coming off a Gretchen Whitmer fed napping.
Exactly. There it is.
We're coming off a failed Butler assassination.
What are the chances that there's not deep...
I'll say deep state.
What are the chances that there's not...
Intel operatives on the creating end of this scam.
Who's Gregorian?
Who is he?
And I mean, where did the money come from?
And the two individuals at RT, they might be the useful stooges in this deeper stage project.
Yeah, I mean, it's possible.
It is absolutely possible to be hired by some company and be fooled by this shell company that you're being paid for one thing and they're using you for something else without your knowledge.
It's very possible that that can happen.
Which is scary, because now I'm like, I'm not signing any deals.
It is always and very scary.
Even when you do an ad read, to the greatest extent possible, do my due diligence on sponsors.
And if I'm not comfortable with the business or anything, I don't do them, period.
That is definitely the line between the creators and tenant media, which is, you know, it was legit in the sense that everybody knew everybody.
These are players within the field and everybody knows them.
Where, you know, tenant media in terms of their due diligence as to where the financing is coming from.
And, you know, if I'm getting $10 million from somebody for purposes of a business, my question would be, where are you expecting to make your money back on the other end?
Because this is not a donation.
And if it's a legitimate business dealing, then, you know, you should do your due diligence and be careful who you sleep with.
It sounded like they asked, and there's a part in here that says it sounded like they asked for this guy's identification or articles about him to make sure that this person was true.
And they fabricated them!
Short of traveling to meet the person in person, but even then you don't know who the hell...
You could be meeting an actor.
And also, you know what this smells like to me, Viva?
It smells like that dossier.
Hillary's dossier.
Remember that?
Oh, yeah.
When did that happen?
That was 2015, 2016.
It was an election year, I do believe.
And they ran with it to undermine the duly elected president afterwards as a Russian asset.
Remember those 50 FBI agents that went on the record and said they were sure that the pee tapes or whatever were real?
No, we've got to attenuate that.
What they said is that it bears the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Conveniently worded to not be litigiously false or inculpatorily false.
I just said it bears the earmarks of a Russian.
Where are they now?
Where are those 50...
They should all be indicted as far as I'm concerned.
Of course they should.
If financing carte blanche...
Commentary is election interference.
What they did is exponentially worse.
You know, this is really scary, though, because the fact that they're targeting conservative commentators to set them up for this kind of fall, if that's what happened here, because that's kind of how it's sounding to me.
That's really scary.
Like, that would make me want to just never work with anybody ever.
Like, never, because how do you avoid getting caught up in something like this?
Well, imagine, so I practiced for 13 years, and when you do litigation for 13 years, you're only dealing with situations where the shit has hit the fan, and you come away from it saying, I'm never getting married, I'm never going into business with anybody, I can't trust anybody, it all falls to shit.
And that is the trauma, that is the lesson that you learn, and that's undoubtedly the lesson that I think is trying to be taught here.
That, and you know, in as much as this is Russiagate, It also smells like Operation COINTELPRO 2.0.
Sow discord among conservatives now.
Because undoubtedly, what will happen, unless people are very big about it, or unless someone actually did something wrong, Rubin, whoever the paid commentators were, are going to get mad at Company One and their principals for having seemingly withheld or not disclosed or concealed the source of the revenues, or the monies that were being used to pay them.
So this will sow discord among the conservative commentator community, no doubt.
No question.
Is Dave Rubin involved in this?
He put out a tweet that said, look, I'm the victim in this.
I was duped as much as everybody else.
So doesn't he own Locals?
Yeah, he's a shareholder of Locals and Rumble.
Yeah, Locals.
So that's not surprising to me either that he would be a target of something like this because Locals and Rumble have been giving them deep state nightmares because of the...
They're losing the chokehold on all social media, so that doesn't surprise me there either.
The biggest...
Benny Johnson is big, but I would put Tim Pool and Dave Rubin not a notch ahead in terms of size, but in terms of independence and...
Influence, perhaps.
Yeah, influence and promoting the independent platforms as a means of...
Benny Johnson lives on rumble.
He's got a massive following and he's wickedly insightful.
The platform rumble and the platform locals, I have no doubt they want to go after.
Hold on, but I had another thought as you said that.
Oh, no, never mind.
The chat is calling me out for mixing up my disinformation campaigns.
The 50 FBI agents, yes, that was about...
Hunter's laptop.
I'm sorry.
I have a hard time keeping track of all the lies Democrats tell us.
I'm very sorry for that.
Nobody in the chat would give you a hard time for that.
Please mention Uhuru 3 on trial in Florida as Russian agents.
I can't mention it because I don't know what that is, but I'm going to screen grab it and look into it.
It's wild, but I don't remember why I highlighted this paragraph.
As U.S. Company 1 prepared to launch in the fall of 2023, consistent with...
That's the persona Gregorian guy connection to FounderOne to work with the Russian firm we agreed to hire.
FounderOne introduced...
I love the guy's...
The defendant's name is Kalishnikov.
I mean, it doesn't...
It might as well be Smirnoff for that matter.
Yeah, Kalishnikov.
Kalishnikov to use CompanyOne employees and affiliates as outside editor hired by the company's investor.
In this role, Kalishnikov monitored U.S. CompanyOne internal communications and edited content published.
They make it sound so sinister.
What they were doing, from what I understand, is like clipping and making short videos, not like malicious editing or to make it contextually dishonest.
Right. Without disclosing that, he was an RT employee.
Kalashnikov also introduced his fellow RT employee, Afan Yaseva, to provide additional day-to-day direction to U.S. Company One employees and commentators, as I said.
The bottom line, as far as anything goes, is they They provided the commentary of their choosing.
Oh, no.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Let me ask you a question.
If this had been the other way, if this had been Ukrainian people doing this, would the DOJ care?
Well, no.
Good point.
We have hard examples of this going exactly the other way.
But would they care?
Megan, to answer your question?
No. They would not care.
And this is here the reason why they do care.
This is all the way down to the end of the suit.
Listen to this.
The next day, on or about, whatever, March 23rd, 2024, Afanasevia privately messaged founder on Discord asking that, quote, one of our creators recorded something about the Moscow terror attack.
Despite public reporting that the foreign terrorist organization ISIS had claimed responsibility for the attack, Afanasevia requested that U.S. Company One blame Ukraine and the United States, writing, I think we can focus on the Ukraine-US angle.
By the way, someone on the internet said this is a talking indictment.
We're not alleging facts.
We're not alleging violations of specific provisions of law.
We get there at the end.
This is argumentative.
Blame Ukraine is almost an editorial perspective.
That's not a quote.
Can we focus on the Ukraine-US angle?
There were a lot of people doing that.
I tweeted this out earlier.
Listen, the mainstream media spread fake news that ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, yet ISIS itself never made such statements.
All terrorists are now detained while they were heading to the border with Ukraine, which makes it even more suspicious why they would want to go to Ukraine to hide.
That doesn't say blame Ukraine.
It doesn't say blame Ukraine.
And I believe that these are facts, and they were reported on PBS as well.
But when they were reported, so the bottom line?
They didn't like the narrative that these commentators were promoting because it was providing another perspective.
Then the government's line they want you to tell.
Absolutely. And if you apply this analogously to the coverage of COVID and the COVID censorship, they didn't want even true stories that could create COVID, the jibby jab, what's the word?
Reluctance? What's the word when you're weary of something?
Hesitancy. Refusal?
No, no, it was hesitancy.
Hesitancy. They didn't want true stories that could cause hesitancy for that very reason.
I prefer Refusenik, actually.
That sounds too Russian, my goodness.
I know.
Oh my God, I'm going to be next.
Don't indict me.
We're all next.
I mean, that's the other problem.
But the bottom line, so they don't want focusing on what we're...
Either arguably or true facts.
ISIS claimed responsibility, but the argument was that typically those types of terrorist attacks are suicide attacks.
The terrorists were fleeing towards Ukraine, and this was reported in PBS, but with cynicism, not with perhaps entertaining the idea.
So it's freaking nuts.
Political is an understatement.
That's what's going on.
But the problem is this is going to cause a lot of defensiveness.
Every idiot on Twitter now and every idiot on the internet is going to say Russian stooge.
I've never been on the payroll for anything, but they're going to say Viva promotes what are not the narrative of the Biden regime.
He must be a Russian stooge, even though I've been on RT and I've actually criticized Putin on RT.
And I'm still standing.
What does that show, everybody?
I have a hard enough time keeping up with what's going on in my own town, let alone what's going on in Russia and Ukraine.
I don't know.
Can America just focus on America's problems and not use these other countries to create this discord between people here?
This is such a nothing burger.
It is a nothing burger.
Who cares?
By the way, let's say...
That this is true and that the Russians are putting some propaganda into our media, which I'm sure is happening, just like the Chinese are putting propaganda into our reporting.
Just like, I mean, look at Kathy Hochul had one in her cabinet or whatever, in her office.
So did What's-His-Name, the guy I can't believe is straight that was sleeping with a Russian.
Eric Swalwell?
Yeah, I can't believe he was sleeping with a Chinese spy.
Chinese, yes.
He was sleeping with a Chinese spy, which I can't believe because I had no idea that guy was straight.
We have to say allegedly.
They say that they had a relationship.
They say that.
Maybe that wasn't true.
Maybe I was right all along and that wasn't true.
I don't know.
But I mean, we have these things happen.
It's not like no one knows that foreign countries are trying to influence people.
The question is, is there...
Is that something that they're going to stop across the board?
Or are we just going to use this to go after our political enemies during an election year that is, you know, it's expedient for one party?
They are going to use it to shut people up through the fear of being indicted or besmirched or defamed by way of indictment into not expressing views contrary to the narrative.
I mean, they started with, you remember, Douglas Mackey back in 2020.
Who put out the meme about vote by text.
And they locked it, or they didn't lock it up.
Oh God, that was crazy.
And then, like, this is, they are suggesting that there's something nefarious if you derive revenues from something that is indirectly from an adversarial nation, that that's going to be, A, on the one hand, a FARA violation on the far end, but arguably, you know, wrong on the other end.
Like, these commentators, if, and I say it as a joke, but like...
Not as a joke.
I can't think of a Russian product.
Like a good vodka.
If I get sponsored by a vodka for my commentary, do I need to register as a FAR agent?
But it is reminiscent of Operation COINTELPRO-type creating fighting among allies.
It comes after the Chinese spy story as Kamala Harris is tanking in the polls.
It's so obvious what it is, but for the time being, there's allegations.
People are uncomfortable.
I'll be interested to see how it turns out.
Has anything been filed in response or did this just happen?
It literally just dropped yesterday.
I guess yesterday.
And who's actually being indicted?
Is it just the two Russians at Tenet?
Yeah. Imagine this also.
It's going to be a deterrent.
Obviously, for anybody to even go on RT, to give interviews on RT, you're to have anything to do with RT.
And as much as RT is, you know, Brazil and France are banning platforms, America wanted to ban RT because it's state-funded, as if the CBC, BBC, NPR is not.
This is just a threat or, what's the word, a deterrent for anybody to even have anything to do with RT.
Joshua Powell says, I think it's a good...
As long as it's applied to everyone equally.
No foreign state-sponsored investment in the media without disclosure is a good thing.
Well, no foreign state-sponsored investment in the media without disclosure.
True. Now, the other thing is this.
If this is illegal and Russia's interfering in America's elections, America's been doing it for a very long time elsewhere.
And this creates the absolute hypocrisy where why the hell should I take you seriously?
You, on the one hand, overthrew our democratically elected government in 2014.
Old Guy's Opinion says it sounds like Jack Smith's indictment.
The wording and paraphrasing is retarded.
It smells like a deep state operation.
Easier to charge Elon Musk as a Russian stoogie in Brazil.
Correct. That's where they're going with all of this.
They're going to try and put him in jail.
Mark my words.
They're going to try to indict him on something.
Oh, for sure.
This is it.
Kimmy Hunt.
The New York Times is owned by Mexican Carlos Slim.
Are they registered under Farah?
See, this is the thing.
If this is how we're going to play, then we're going to have to play equally across the board.
What I'm concerned about, though, is that that is not what's going to happen, as we have seen with going after Donald Trump relentlessly.
The Republicans never put Democrats in jail.
They don't go after them.
Not that I've seen anybody going after them in a political witch hunt the way we've seen with Donald Trump.
It won't be returned.
It will not.
And not that the right or the conservatives have anything to do with Russian disinformation or anything like that.
But I mean, I just don't.
I see it always on the Democrats are always doing this to conservatives and there's no.
There's no answer.
I was listening to Trump.
I forget on which podcast.
I don't think it was the Lex Friedman, but he was talking about it.
You're like, yeah, when I got into office, I said it would look ugly to go after the former president's wife and to lock her up, in as much as she deserved it.
And so we didn't do it.
But no good deed goes unpunished, and you are literally fighting with people who, I think, legitimately and credibly believe that they will go to jail if Trump gets elected into office.
Opens up that Pandora's box or lifts up the couch cushions and sees what's underneath, people will go to jail for it.
Hold on a second, Megan, if I may bring this one up.
You're going to see my ugly face here for a second.
But we got Biltong in the house on Rumble, who says, Good afternoon from Anton's.
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If you never tasted it, Megan, you have to taste it.
It's delicious.
It's like prosciutto but made out of beef.
And it's made in Roanoke, Texas.
Biltong, he had his run-ins with the bureaucrat tyrants over in Roanoke who said he can't have a bookshelf or an outdoor table or a barbecue in Texas.
What? They made him take it down.
No more barbecue and meat because you don't have that permit.
No bookshelf and no table.
Oh God, I hate the government.
Are we allowed to say that still?
I hate this.
For the timing.
What else was going on in the news today?
There was something fun.
Oh, no.
Okay, well, there's bad news.
There was some fun-ish stuff with Kamala and what's coming up with the debate.
My dog's going to take a dump as I'm looking at her.
You're not going to do it.
She's doing it right now.
Megan, if you don't know, I got a paralyzed puggle.
She slides her disgusting butt across the ground and occasionally evacuates her bowel.
That's going to be fun in the studio right now.
Give me one second.
Hold on.
He'll be right back.
There is an emergency in the studio.
Let's see.
Let me look at that.
Does anybody go to the Drudge Report?
When he said, what's in the news?
I immediately thought, well, I guess I could check the Drudge Report, but we all know that that's crap now.
Well, you know what's funny?
Barnes, Robert Barnes, my partner in law, he says, you want to know what the propaganda narrative of the day is?
Go read Drudge Report and then bet on or predict the exact opposite.
What's on the Drudge Report?
Well, the top story is Lichtman hands White House keys to Harris video.
He explains.
I don't even know what that means.
Andrew Lichtman.
It's Andrew Lichtman.
This is the jackass who purports to have predicted 90% of the election winners for the last 22 years.
This is the beautiful thing about when you say A and not A at any given point in time.
His name is Lichtman.
Which is a very unfortunate name.
I can lick my own balls.
That's from dodgeball people.
He sells himself as having predicted 90% of the election results or the presidential results over the last 20 years.
But he's a liar because he excludes what happens when he gets it wrong.
He predicted Biden when Biden was running.
He said, oh, there's a lot that would have to go wrong for Biden not to win.
Then Biden's out.
And now he says, oh, I'm going to go predict Kamala Harris based on my 13 key indicators.
And his indicators are absolute horse crap.
Hold on.
Hold on.
I'm going to pull this out.
Lichtman. Lichtman 13. I have to tell you, if you're asking me what I'm going to predict, I'm predicting a Harris win, too.
You shut the hell.
You get that heresy out of here.
I know you don't want to hear it.
Nobody wants to hear it.
But I don't see Republicans winning an election maybe ever again.
I just don't see it.
I'll tell you, I think you're wrong.
And I'm betting on predicted that you're wrong.
Oh, I hope I'm wrong.
Please, convince me that I'm wrong.
I can convince you based on polls and stats and Barnes goes on with the People's Pundit Richard Barris and they break down demographics, they break down all these things and they've come to their certainty.
Not in the don't show up and vote, do the Bongino thing, bring 10 people and make sure those 10 people bring 10 people.
My issue is that it's an existential one.
It's not a joke.
If Kamala Harris wins, there is no more democracy because the deep state will have won with their lawfare against Trump.
People think, I never tell anybody how to vote.
I'm simply observing that the consequence of a Kamala Harris victory will be to reward all of the bad players for all of the bad actions they've done over the last eight years.
It started with Russiagate, then it went to the impeachment one and two, the January 6th fed surrection, the weaponizing that to keep him off the ballot, trying to bankrupt him, weaponizing every aspect of the judicial system, then trying to kill him.
And then, oh, well, he lost in democracy.
Well, horseshit, that was never democracy to begin with.
I think you underestimate, though, how many people believe those hoaxes.
You underestimate how many people in everyday life that you see at the grocery store have not done any deep dives on the mainstream media's lies.
And they believe this stuff.
They truly believe that Donald Trump is a felon.
They believe there was Russian interference.
They believe that January 6th was the worst day on Earth and worse than 9-11.
They believe these things.
You're giving me the doom pill right now.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You're not wrong.
I have mildly educated friends who are the professional class and whatever, and I was in New York talking to one of them.
This was back in 2020.
I was like, man, what do you think of that Hunter Biden laptop story?
Can you believe that?
What about it?
You don't know about the Hunter Biden laptop story?
No, they don't.
And why would they?
Because it wasn't reported in any of the outlets that they read.
I like to believe That things are radically...
You know what?
I'll white-pill you back.
You're wrong because things are wildly different now.
You've got Elon Musk.
It's not the biggest platform on Earth, but it's one of them with amazing reach.
And he's gone to the dark side, that being the light side.
So you've got Elon, which is different this time around.
You've got something of a unity ticket with RFK, Tulsi Gabbard.
I think you have even some awakening in the left-wing media.
You've got Telegram, which is the biggest social media platform on Earth now, though not American as much as maybe Twitter.
So I think there's a bunch of bigger...
What's the word I'm looking for?
Bigger, not players, but bigger movements at play that didn't exist in 2020.
And in 2016, they just weren't prepared for the anomaly.
Am I talking myself into it?
I want to go back to the chat and see.
I got to tell you, I think Trump made a big mistake.
And I think that he had a way to win with certainty.
And he didn't take it.
And that was to choose RFK Jr. as his running mate.
And really be the unity ticket.
Instead, he chose J.D. Vance.
I have nothing against J.D. Vance.
But as a person who has a lot of audience members from the other side.
J.D. Vance does nothing for them.
It makes them hate Republicans even more.
If he had chosen RFK Jr., an avowed leftist, a guy from the other side, who is ready to put some of that stuff aside to say, we have to save this country and do these certain things, and I agree with Donald Trump.
I don't think he would be beatable, but he chose instead to listen to the same advisors that he listened to the last time, who gave him terrible advice, and he chose J.D. Vance, and I'm sorry, but I think that's the mistake that he made that is going to go down as the worst mistake that he made in this season.
Okay, I'll tell you this, and I'm going to try to convince you on it.
You're wrong.
Your opinion is predicated on a factual error, which is that his advisors were telling him to pick J.D. Vance.
I happen to think and firmly believe that they were telling him to pick something more along the lines of a Nikki Haley than a J.D. Vance, and that it was only after the assassination that he said, I'm going with a J.D. Vance, which is why all of these swampy uni-party Republicans were pissed off with the choice of J.D. Vance.
Like, I was up at the RNC, and...
I was hearing rumorings of how they were lobbying not to have J.D. Vance.
Oh, I know.
I know those people don't like him either, but here's the thing.
Tulsi or RFK, I think RFK would have been the big bomb.
Tulsi would work as well because she was a Democrat.
I think what he's missed is this country is so divided.
You have a lot of Democrats out there who want to vote for Trump but can't do it because of J.D. Vance.
They can't.
They will be ostracized.
Ashamed of themselves.
What states are those types of Democrats in?
Because what I'll push back on is that...
Every state!
Well, no, but every state doesn't matter right now.
The swing states matter right now.
So my argument would be that J.D. Vance is the best pick for the swing states, given swing state concerns.
And now you get the best of both worlds because you get J.D. Vance, the populist, who comes from the swing state area, who's got a life story that, you know, he's there promoting...
I like him, but they're doing a good hack job on him.
You've got to see the truth.
They're doing a good job hacking him.
They're doing it.
And I see a lot of the people on the other side who are not in our bubble.
My audience consists of both sides.
I try not to be too political.
They know what my political views are.
I'm not pushing them on anybody.
You vote your conscience.
I may not even vote this year.
I don't give a shit anymore.
I'm done with this entire thing.
I see the other people on the side and I hear what they're saying.
I hear them.
They're not in our bubble.
And they don't like him.
They just don't.
Well, you're not wrong in that they don't, but I think the they that don't are not the they that matter, but the ones in the swing states, which is what Vance was primarily aiming for.
Now, the flip side, if you put an RFK in there...
I don't think that does any good for the swing states, and that might push away a lot of Republicans who, in as much as they like RFK for certain things, they dislike him for a number of other things.
I think it's cool he's staying on in the blue states, though, where it can hurt Kamala.
What a brilliant idea.
It's brilliant, but they're forcing him to stay on in the swing states now.
They try to keep him up in Michigan.
Wait, is that true?
They're forcing him?
Yeah, in Michigan, I believe.
Hold on.
The chat can get this faster than me.
RFK forced on ballot.
I may vote for RFK here in New York because my vote for Trump doesn't matter.
There's such a bunch of sons of bitches.
There's no other word for it.
This is from NBC.
So first they try to keep him off the ballot.
They sue to keep him off the ballot and now he has to stay on when he wants to get off?
Yeah, and then you got Mark Cuban, that boot-licking sycophant on Twitter saying...
Well, I mean, why would he have...
It's not fair to let him off when he fought to get on.
F you!
RFK won't be able to remove himself from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Two swing states.
Election officials of the two swing states confirm that Kennedy name will remain on the ballots despite his decision to drop on a backdrop.
A bunch of godforsaken scoundrels.
So, I think...
This is terrible.
No, it's terrible.
But I do think that the way this played out is the best possible way.
I don't think putting...
RFK wasn't even going to accept it, period.
But RFK as VP...
Would have been good, but not as good as this and RFK basically endorsing the Trump campaign and creating a much more massive unity ticket.
And the way he did it is beautiful.
I hope you're right.
I really do.
From your mouth to God's ears, and it's true, I have been blackpilled since 2020.
I haven't wanted to take part in any of this, and you can tell I'm behind on political news.
I'm checked out.
I don't want to know.
I pay attention when good things happen and I try to ignore the bad because it affects my mood just too much.
Not that I'm radically affected by it, but I'll be much more irritable.
And easy to...
Frustration when shit's going bad and we got a kid homeschooling.
By the way, this is funny.
From the rabbi.
That is what I would look like if I get the hat and put them...
It says, Vivi, you have picked a very dangerous profession for 2024.
How the hell was I supposed to know?
Yeah, how are we supposed to know?
Get to Fairmount and get some bagels and run.
Fairmount is in Montreal where they make the real Montreal bagels and they're absolutely delicious.
There's a few of these that came up here.
Let's see this.
I agree with Meghan.
Trump-Kennedy would have been great.
It would have been great, but I think this is the broader unity.
It would have been historic.
And by the way, he didn't pick his VP until after the assassination attempt.
So that was the perfect time to pick RFK Jr., the guy who's been most affected by political assassinations in this race, who has a real bone to pick with the CIA and the FBI and our institutions that we don't trust anymore.
I mean, it was poetic.
It was...
And then he missed it, and it really made me...
I went...
It was a big...
I will...
No, Sam, I'm happy the way it played out because, first of all, it wasn't that he...
And I felt like that changed everything.
And I think that whatever he had in mind going into it should have changed as well.
It changed the entire mood of the country.
And I don't know.
And I also, I truly love RFK Jr.
I think he's done so much for bringing attention to the pharmaceutical nightmare that we find ourselves in.
We're living under a pharmac...
That our government is holding hands with pharmaceutical companies to force us to take medication we don't want, that we don't think is effective, that we now know wasn't effective, and they're still trying to force us to take it.
That's fucking Kathy Hochul.
She makes me a puke.
It makes me want to choke her.
I don't understand.
Metaphorically speaking, people.
Metaphorically speaking.
Politically speaking.
In Minecraft.
And she wears that vaccine.
Oh, I know.
I never go to Minecraft.
I never got the in Minecraft joke until now.
How freaking stupid can I be?
Oh my goodness.
You get it now.
I have to live in this state with her ugly mug on the TV all the time.
You're in New York.
I am in New York.
I'm from Chicago, but I am now in New York.
I've been here for the last eight years.
I moved here right when Donald Trump was elected in 2016.
In November, I moved right after the election, and so I've been here for that long.
And I will tell you, I was here for the 2020 pandemic, and it was a nightmare to be in New York.
I'm not in New York City.
I'm in western New York, so I'm far away from the city.
But it didn't matter.
We were the most put-upon, tyrannized people in the United States during the pandemic, and it is because of Kathy Hochul.
She did things that...
To this day, I can't believe it happened.
She put bureaucrats, unelected bureaucrats, in charge of my movements, in charge of my children's movements.
It was insane in New York.
I'm sorry, but that's one of the biggest things.
This medical tyranny, to me, is one of the biggest issues ever.
And RFK Jr. has been out on the forefront, taking all the hits on this.
For a very long time, he is the only person I have ever donated money to his Children's Health Defense Fund.
He's one of the only people I've ever decided to write a check to because of what he has done.
And I feel that he doesn't get enough credit for that.
And I was very excited that there was a chance for him to be involved like this.
And maybe he will be.
But Trump went back on his word in 2016.
He told RFK that he would put him on a vaccine safety commission.
And then he didn't because he...
Listen to those stupid-ass advisors who told them, well, you can't because he's an anti-vexer and we don't want to be associated.
So is he going to go back on his promise to make him a part of this as well again?
I don't think so.
I think everybody's learned a lot of lessons over the last eight years and Trump certainly has learned not to listen to the people who literally just tried to have him killed.
I hope not.
I hope that's the truth.
I hope you're right.
Touch wood.
Megan, you know that I'm from Montreal in Quebec where we were under curfew for five and a half months in 2021?
We couldn't leave our houses from 8 at night until like 5 in the morning without our papers.
And it worked so well the first time they did it again the next year for about a month and a half.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Do you mind if I get to a bunch of these super chats?
No, no, no.
Go for it.
An old guy's opinion says all of the 51 were working or contracted with the U.S. intel community and they got appointments or jobs in the Biden-Harris administration.
I read that they got rewarded.
December 2016, Obama buttresses Russia.
Russia's gate on Trump by expelling 35 Russian diplomats.
I remember that too, Basil.
Hold on.
Matt Christensen, one of the commentators, is and has been a personal and professional friend with Lauren Chen for a long time.
And I know Matt.
I've been on Matt a couple times.
I like the guy as well.
You guys are overthinking this is just to scare advertisers from conservative alt media.
Probably. I mean, that's definitely a fringe benefit, but I think it's much more sinister than that.
Dummy crats and rhino neocons are the cause of the military-industrial complex to create boogeymen, to cause all these human gifts to their money god's altar.
I know what you're getting at there.
I think once the judiciary is in on it, all bets are off.
You could charge your enemy with wearing a green shirt.
You could.
Yep. There's no question.
And the judiciary is in on it.
Megan is right, unfortunately.
The rabbi, I got to that one already.
Template stealing elections in 2022.
What I had Alex Jones on, and I've said it all the time now.
He says they have the same play.
They just use it over and over again.
Mutatus, mutatus.
And we're seeing Russiagate 3.0.
Mainstream media has a strangle law on weak-minded.
Look at what the weak-minded look like.
RFK Jr.'s family turned on him.
Yep. Disgusting.
I agree with Megan.
Trump, Kennedy would have been great.
I got that one.
It's the economy and safety, stupid.
RFK and no.
RFK said no, by the way.
That's right.
The history of RFK through his father and uncle deep state unalivings would have united Trump camps with common thread of deep state political and actual unaliving.
Yep. And there is...
We've been going for an hour and this is fantastic.
Megan, we're doing this again.
This was fantastic.
Oh, good.
Oh, good.
Megan, American...
I haven't been banned for my black pill.
No, no, no.
I think one of the premises was wrong, I think, but I can't disagree.
I mean, a lot of people agree with you, and it's not an unreasonable or untenable position.
But this one, Kay Campbell, Americans don't want to live under communism.
That's why Trump will win.
Hopefully. I don't even think Americans know what communism is anymore.
My concern is they think it's good to censor free speech because free speech is risky.
Yeah, they like it.
They want it.
They want communism.
They want socialism.
They want free healthcare.
They want all these things without thinking about what the consequences of all this free shit is.
Can I say that here?
Yeah, for sure.
Don't worry about that.
Aviva, I missed the beginning of the show, but did you see Fanny and Nathan Wade together on the police body cam when Fanny's daughter was being arrested?
I did not, but I saw...
I can't wait for this.
I love your coverage, by the way.
I watched it religiously every day.
I can't wait to get back into something else.
Well, that sounds gross with Fanny Wills, but I can't wait to get back into the fanny.
I can't wait for that story to start picking up again.
It's Fanny.
Yes, Fonny, Kamala.
It's Donna, Dana.
It's because there's such a bunch of babies when they call Trump orange man or 45. They take that as an insult.
Nobody gives a crap if you mispronounce their name.
No reasonable person actually gives a crap.
In our locals community, we've got...
This is a long one here.
Hold on, I'm going to get this.
Hipped question here.
Pasha Moyer says, rare photo of Megan Fox interviewing a prominent national politician.
And it's a fox interviewing a snake.
That looks like Fox from the cartoon.
The more they try to prosecute Trump, the stronger he becomes, says Victor Cardoni.
Then we got Gantet.
Ten buck tip.
He says, someone who is politically tone deaf, making comments about J.D. Vance, knowing what the mainstream media is making the statements, you are not going to vote, is the definition of a low IQ voter.
Gantet's a mean...
He should tone his rhetoric a little bit, might be more...
Megan, the summary of the accusation is that you might be swayed by mainstream media narratives.
But what Gantet might be missing by way of point is...
No, no, I'm not swayed.
That's what I was going to say.
Not me.
We shall not judge Meghan by her base, but she might happen to have access to a market that is different than ours.
I do.
I have access to a market that is very wide.
And I have a saying on my channel, let's make Americans friends again.
Because I truly believe that Democrats and Republicans, we used to be able to be friends, have barbecues, drink beers together, be married to one another without having this kind of horrific hatred for each other based on who we vote for and so on.
I'm on YouTube and I'm on Rumble at Megan Fox Investigates.
The thing is that I want us to be friends again.
I want this country to hold hands again.
I'm tired of this shit.
I'm tired.
And I'm not talking about the politicians.
We'll never get them.
But I want our neighbors and friends to get...
I don't want people losing their family members because somebody voted for Trump and somebody voted for the other guy.
This is, it's outrageous what's happening.
And the thing is, is that I do have access to some of these people because there's a lot of viewers that I have who come from all different political spectrums.
We have Democrats, we have Republicans, we've got Green Party, we've got people who don't vote, people who really don't care about this anymore.
And I'm just seeing a common thread where a lot of people who would consider themselves Democrats, they just don't have, they don't know about a lot of the hoaxes.
Sometimes, but I try to avoid it because politics is so divisive.
I've given up on avoiding it.
I don't talk about it with some of my siblings and family members, but we all get along.
This is meganfox.locals.com, and I'm going to put the link in the pinned comment after.
No, but it is true that when you have a less political...
Someone's coming into the office here.
Yeah, you're not wearing a shirt.
Get a shirt on and get out of here.
When you have a less political nature...
You reach, you know, a less, not partisan or less silo, but a broader community.
And you know what the people who are not in our end of the internet think like.
I know what they think like, too.
I'm friends with them or used to be friends with them.
And the question I have is, I like it, MAPA, make Americans friends again.
I just want to wake Americans up again.
Wake? Wagga.
Wagga. Wagga.
But no, so your perspective is, it's not wrong.
And you know, and it's true of a lot of people.
The question is, how do you reach them?
It's very difficult.
And that's why I really wanted a unity ticket with a Democrat on it, because I think that most Democrats just need to see a Democrat on the ticket.
And that gives them the permission to vote for it.
And I think RFK had a good chance, or Tulsi, had a much better chance of getting those votes.
I'm not saying anything against J.D. Vance, guys.
I think he has a great story.
He seems like a decent guy.
But then again, I don't like politicians in general.
I think all of them are terrible, which is why I like Donald Trump, because he wasn't one, because he's a businessman who we've known our whole lives.
We've known Donald Trump.
He's been the same guy he's always been.
He's not any different than he was in 1985 when he was making cameos on Home Alone.
And he's the same guy we've always known.
And that's what I liked about him.
Megan, where can...
So I'm going to put all the links in afterwards and I will not burden you to come over to our Locals community for the after party.
Where can people find you on all platforms?
And then send me the links after and I'll put them in the pinned comment.
Okay, youtube.com.
I'm at...
Megan Fox Investigates, I think.
I don't know.
Maybe you'll find me that way.
I'll give Viva the link.
I never know my YouTube name.
It's terrible.
I need my mods.
Where are my mods?
And on Rumble, I have Megan Fox Investigates and Megan Fox Writer.
I always do my live streams on Megan Fox Investigates on Rumble.
I don't know why I have two channels.
It just is the way they had it set up.
And on MeganFox.Locals.com, you can follow me there for free.
And then the paid subscription is five a month.
And we have live chats.
We have cooking streams.
We do a lot of fun things.
I do fun things with my chat.
We do laundry streams where we watch true crime documentaries together and fold laundry.
And we're really more focused on legal cases, on lawsuits on my channel.
I very rarely talk about politics or election, so it's a nice place to get a break from this stuff if you want a break.
Like, I needed a break.
I did this for...
For almost 20 years, Viva, I needed a break.
And in 2020, I decided, I'm taking a break.
I've done enough.
And I haven't convinced any of you, and I'm done trying.
Yeah, well, you know, it is...
No, look, I avoided politics my entire life until it became unavoidable.
And then I hope one day to go back to the fishing, like only fishing and maybe, you know, sane law.
But I don't think things are getting saner anytime soon.
Do you have a dog, by the way?
Oh, yeah.
Archie Ruckus.
Yes. What kind of dog?
Archimedes Ruckus is a very large German Shepherd.
He's 115 pounds of fur and excitement.
I knew that you were not a cat woman.
I knew it.
I'm not.
That was a joke I meant to make a long time ago on the J.D. Man.
I'm not a cat lady.
I have...
I have four children now because I have a foreign exchange student from South Korea this year.
So I have three of my own and one borrowed for the year.
And I've been married for 24 years.
We just passed our 24th anniversary in August.
And no cat lady around here.
We're all allergic to cats.
See, that is already an indication of a base level of sanity.
The ability to stay married for an extensive period of time, raise three kids.
If I may ask how old the kids are?
Yeah, I have an 18-year-old who just started college.
She's in college now.
I have a 15-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son and then a 15-year-old exchange student from South Korea.
And it's quite an experience.
I'm very, very busy with lots of driving to activities.
I don't know if you're in New York City or...
No, Western New York.
Far, far, far away from New York City.
Thank God.
We got to Florida, and we've had one car our entire lives.
We got down here, and it lasted about six months.
We need a second car, and you can't get anywhere without driving.
You can't even get to the other end of the community without driving, which is the one thing I do not like.
I bike a lot of places, but I'm up in an area with a lot of old Jewish drivers, and it's not a safe place to bike on the street.
I haven't gotten over the fact that, as a parent, you become a professional chauffeur.
For all of its beauty.
And then when they start driving, then all you're doing is just sitting around worrying about them driving.
And it's almost like I prefer being the chauffeur.
As far as I know, as far as I understand, the girls are better than the boys, so at least you have another eight years.
In driving, in terms of driving.
My daughter takes after my husband who used to race cars, so it doesn't bode well for her.
She's already been pulled over for speeding twice.
Well, you know what would solve that?
A Prius.
Yeah. Megan, we do this again.
Please. This was fantastic.
Absolutely. Megan's links are going to be up.
I'm going to head over to Locals.
Megan, thank you.
I'll send them to you on Twitter.
Bye, guys.
Thanks for having me.
Well, that was fantastic.
I almost ended the stream, everybody.
There were a couple.
Let me see if I didn't miss any of the chats yet.
There were a couple more that came in on Rumble.
RFK didn't want to be on Trump's VP.
RFK Jr. is still running for president, Casey Campbell.
All right, people, we're going to go over to Locals now, and it's not going to be supporters only because we're using StreamYard.
And let's do this.
Link to Locals.
Who said lame?
Jointed Apollo, you say lame.
Aye, sir.
Disagree with your assessment.
Link to locals.
Come on over.
I'm going to end it on all the other platforms.
So tomorrow is Friday.
There will be a show tomorrow.
I'm going to do a car vlog this afternoon.
I'm going to do the summary of the indictment.
It's a load of shit.
Everybody should understand that.
At least, it's allegedly a load of shit.
It's all allegations for now.
Timing is suspicious.
The institution is corrupt.
It's the same playbook over and over again.
So with that said, I will analyze the allegations for what they are.
It's a massive abuse of the Farrah legislation, which is arguably unconstitutional in the first place, but not so arguably being weaponized to sow political discord at a time when there was unity and a time when there was political advances being made by the Republicans.
So ending on YouTube.
Thank you all for being here.
YouTube, goodbye.
Ending on Twitter.
Twitter, thank you all for being here.
Goodbye. And Rumble, Oh, son of a beasting.
Well, I forgot to sell my own products.
If you want to get some good merch, people, go to vivafry.com.
Here, before we go.
Get your shirts, people.
Get a shirt.
Get a hat.
Get the one that says fight.
You'll look badass when you wear this outside.
This'll... Yeah, it's fantastic.
This is beautiful.
Okay, close this up.
Oh, now my computer's gonna freeze.
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10 bucks a month, 100 bucks a year if you get the whole year at a discounted rate.
And you don't even have to.
You can just come join as a member of Rumble.
Enjoy the day.
Locals, here we come.
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