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Speaker 1: introduction means. It's another reading Ben Shapiro's marvelous book Episode Baby,

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Speaker 1: Benny's book True Allegiance, which I think I can say

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Speaker 1: would be True Allegiance. That is Ben Shapiro's background. Is

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Speaker 1: That is Ben Shapiro's back, that's his origin story. Ski

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Speaker 1: who crossed the border. And it's telling that he does

423
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Speaker 1: have to invent a thing, right like, in order to

424
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Speaker 1: justify shutting down the border. And it's basically he's basically

425
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 1: saying the thing that Trump ran on. Right. I'm sure

426
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: some of them are wonderful people. I mean, this book

427
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: came out two months before Trump was elected. Yeah, yep,

428
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: they're the same person. Um. Yeah, the headlines hit almost immediately. Oh,

429
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: this should be good. Texas Governor's top aid says immigrant

430
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,359
Speaker 1: women children post security threat. I might posit that the

431
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 1: top store would be Texas Governor's top aid controlling li

432
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:06,959
Speaker 1: terry investigation into murdered soldier. Yeah yeah, that's a better headline. Yeah.

433
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: Um yeah. She should have known better than to give

434
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: him any material they could misuse. And again, what material

435
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't they have missed used? She vowed to ignore any

436
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,719
Speaker 1: calls coming from a media number. Um yeah, that's how

437
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 1: it works, right. I know there's probably some sort of

438
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: caller idea the media, the media, the media is calling me, yes,

439
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:36,239
Speaker 1: scam likely media number. Yeah. So it's this is the

440
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: third the tertiary story in the news. The number one

441
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: story is that New York got blowed up. The number

442
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: two story is the riots, the BLM style riots all

443
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: over the country. And I guess number three is America

444
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,679
Speaker 1: invades Mexico but they're not showing any of it, just

445
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 1: the president's speech, no no, and until they get the

446
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 1: tip mm hmm, and that the Mexican miller terry doesn't

447
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: do anything because they don't want to fight with the

448
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: National Guard, and they secretly like the cartel being cleared out,

449
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: so they're okay with being invaded by the good guys.

450
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: Each day, small groups of National Guards been raided ciadad Guarez,

451
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: usually by motor vehicle convoys across the border. The cartel

452
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: members had picked up on the nature of the offensive

453
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: action and it inserted themselves into heavily civilian areas, cutting

454
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: down on the ability of Texas forces to strike without

455
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,600
Speaker 1: facing the prospect of urban warfare. Now more dangerous search

456
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: and destroy emissions have been authorized. The American side of

457
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: the border remained quiet until it wasn't. Oh good, so

458
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: we're going to get a border massacre because obviously invading

459
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: Mexico sparks more violence in the US and stopping all

460
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: those moms from getting across their families doesn't. Again bench

461
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: Para making the point that he refuses, Yeah so, oh yeah,

462
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: a bunch of protesters get shot dead eventually twenty six people. Um,

463
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: everyone figured it for a drug cartel. It then the

464
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: footage came out. Ellen saw it on the evening news

465
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: as a network anchor. In toned what you were about

466
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: to watch is very graphic. Younger viewers are advised not

467
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: to watch. She cut to a grainy, close range video

468
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: of a man in a National Guard uniform from behind

469
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: walking up to a group of tents. Get out of

470
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: our the National guardsmen said, in a thick Texas accent,

471
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: get out of are you little? And then he uses

472
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 1: a racial slayer for Mexican people. Um, which, okay. A

473
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: few children, rubbing their eyes came scurrying out of their tents,

474
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: their mother's following. Seeing the barrel of a gun, they

475
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: raised their hands. The screen went white with the fired shots,

476
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: flash after flash, again and again. When the night vision calmed,

477
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: the smoking bodies of two dozen in instants lay on

478
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: the ground. Um. So, yeah, I guess. I'm sure it's

479
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: somebody posing as the National Guard to make them look bad, right,

480
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: Ben wouldn't have a National guardsman. Sure, I bet it's

481
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: Leon or something. I'll give I'll give Bencham credit if

482
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: it actually is. If he's actually making the point that no,

483
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: there's racists in the National Guard. They totally murdered children

484
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: in this, you know. But I don't think that's what

485
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: I say. Yeah, I think I think I might take

486
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: a pet against that doesn't feel like what we're building

487
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: to here. So the governor is angry at her, angry

488
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: at his aid that he put in charge of the

489
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: invasion of Mexico. Um, which I would be angry at

490
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: this too. Um, perhaps he shouldn't have invaded Mexico in

491
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: the bull offense in my book, I would say, so,

492
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 1: I didn't write this book. Might also literally be treason

493
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: to give an unelected aid control of the National Guard. Yeah,

494
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: it seems like it's a crime, right. Um, so the

495
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: governor's news story if everything else wasn't going on. Sorry continue, Yeah,

496
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: and Bubba of course tells him that the President's yelling

497
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: at him. Um, but not over the invasion of Mexico.

498
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: Over this, which I think the yelling would have started.

499
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: I would have think that the President would have sent

500
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: into federal agents to arrest the governor of Texas for

501
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: invading a sovereign nation. Um, I didn't ellen, gripped your fists.

502
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: I didn't ask for this, Bubba. I did it as

503
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: a favor to you, some favor, he said. I've got

504
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: two dozen dead kids and their mama's and a boy

505
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: in a National Guard uniform responsible for all of it,

506
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: A boy I kept here in Texas instead of sending

507
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: him to New York like Prescott wanted me to. Do

508
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: we know who the little bastard was? Yes, she answered,

509
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: we do. Um, Okay, cool, His name because it's bad.

510
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: He's bad. He's bad. Uh so he's it's a soldier,

511
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: a sergeant named James Easton, McLawrence and Davis is like,

512
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: don't they all have three names? I guess that like

513
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: serial killer thing? Um? Oh boy. She passed him a

514
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: photo of a young man in a National Guard uniform.

515
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 1: His eyes were open a shade too far, bright blue

516
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: and off putting. His mouth was slack. Mclaurence joined the

517
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: Guard after dropping it out of high school and getting

518
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: his g e d. Not a stellar candidate for higher rank,

519
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: barely at the bottom rung. He's full active weight. How

520
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: is he full active duty and in the National Guard?

521
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense, Ben, do you not know

522
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: the National Guard works? Doesn't sound like he does. He's

523
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: full active duty. He joined the National Guard, he's full

524
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: active duty. No, then that's active duty Army. That's not

525
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: the National right. Yeah. Also, they're saying this guy's bottom rung,

526
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: but he's a sergeant, which is not the bottom not

527
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: not a bottom is actually a role with a lot

528
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: of responsibility where you're often in charge of significant number

529
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: of lives. I think you're just supposed to go with it,

530
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: don't question him just right about this stuff? Right, what

531
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: you know, not what you fantasize about. Noah, keep it

532
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: to your like live journal. So the governor asks what

533
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: that set this guy off? And uh, Ellen gives three possibilities.

534
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: One is that he hated illegal immigrants because his dad

535
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: lost his job at a manufacturing plant that moves south

536
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: of the border. Uh. And another is that he was

537
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: paid by cash by the cartels. And another is that

538
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: he's quote just crazy simple as that useful information. Yeah, yeah,

539
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: and it's I mean classic have been to like start with, Oh, well,

540
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: maybe he's angry because his dad lost his job. Yeah,

541
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: racism does not actually enter into that at all. Really, Um,

542
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: that's interesting have been because wide wide range we can

543
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: get racism, we can get there a lot of a

544
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of shades. So, uh, Davis is

545
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: sending Ellen to New York. Now, I guess she's botched

546
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: the job of commanding the army to invade Mexico. So

547
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: Bubba's I don't know, may be gonna put like the

548
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: agriculture secretary in. Well, what's she gonna do in New York?

549
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: She's going to talk to the president. Um, because the

550
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: president wants to humiliate Bubba Davis in front of the

551
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: entire country. Quote, Hell, he could have a local d

552
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: a down here drop charges against me. Is that they're

553
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: frog walking me when I get off the plane. It's

554
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: a setup. Ah. So Bubba doesn't want to get arrested

555
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: for invading Mexico. Uh. And so he's sending Ellen too

556
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: because she won't get arrested. They won't touch you because

557
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: of Brett. Um, that's fun. Um. And Ellen's like, well,

558
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: but the president hates my husband, and the governor says,

559
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter your husband's a national hero. He's not

560
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: going to arrest you. Um. Ellen had to admit that

561
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: the idea appealed to her. She hadn't seen Breton nearly

562
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: a year now, and she'd missed him awfully. Every time

563
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: they flashed his face across the television. Her chest ached

564
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: from missing him so much. What do I say to Prescott?

565
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: She said, you tell that son of a bitch that

566
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: we're not going to back down off the border, not

567
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: for him or anybody. And if he asks you about mclaurence,

568
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: you tell him we're investigating. Turned down any federal offers

569
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: for help. We don't need the feds down here mucking

570
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: up our operation. Not your choice, not your choice. Also,

571
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: it's the crime off the rails in this book, I

572
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: mean it's it is a crime of a U. S.

573
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: Serviceman in a foreign country. At no point would that

574
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: be the jurisdiction of Texas law enforcement. They would have

575
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: nothing to do with this legally, they can't. It would

576
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: be like the FBI or somebody would not be local

577
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: police in any way. That's just not how the government works.

578
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: But what if it is, Yeah, like all those full

579
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: time active duty National guardsmen and the full active duty

580
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: part of the National Guard that's active duty, but not

581
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: the army. Yeah, um, this is also this is unimportant.

582
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: But if you've already written a couple of sentences about

583
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: how she missed him terribly or awfully, she was an

584
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: awfully choice of words. Um, after you've done that, you

585
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: don't need to say when watching them on TV, her

586
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: chest ached from missing him so much. Ye, just your chest? Why,

587
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: I'll get it. I can. I can put two and

588
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: two together. Whenever she saw him on TV, her chest ached.

589
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: I understand why. It's because she missed him so much.

590
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: You don't even have to say she missed him. You

591
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: could say The idea of seeing brettig an appeal to

592
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: her been nearly a year every time she saw him

593
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:08,240
Speaker 1: flash on TV, her chest ached, and the reader using

594
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: his brain for her brain, all laid out for me. Yeah,

595
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: not like You're not trying to convey a complicated emotion

596
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: she misses her husband, and like, especially after reading the

597
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: rest of the book so far, I get it. I'm

598
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 1: all caught up with her feeling. Yeah, basic human emotion.

599
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: Um okay, so uh yeah, okay. So Ellen does immediately

600
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: point out that cross border murder falls under federal jurisdiction,

601
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: and the governor says he's busy, he won't mind, and

602
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: it'll allow him to save face, to put me up

603
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: for public scourging. I'll be the bad guy's southern hick

604
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,600
Speaker 1: who won't let the sweet faced yankee down here to

605
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: fix things. That's what the media is looking for anyway, Right.

606
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: They wouldn't send a Yankee. There's FBI offices in Texas.

607
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,800
Speaker 1: They would send someone from the El Paso FBI whose

608
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: job is to investigate murdered Americans in Mexico. That's a

609
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: thing that they do, right, it's the Yankees. They gotta

610
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: sit a yankee down to Texas. There's no Texans in

611
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: the FBI carpet bagging fed Oh man, what's your end game?

612
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: She's had said in game, Darlin, this thing here has

613
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: been going on since the Alamo. There's no end game,

614
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,439
Speaker 1: just a game that won't end anyway except us holding

615
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: our ground. You're cutting and running, but don't worry you

616
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: just Yes, the invasion of Mexico over cartels is the

617
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: same as the Alamo. Remember, and games, a game that

618
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: won't end, like cut one of those. Yeah, dude, Like

619
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: I can't even he didn't have an editor. Oh, absolutely not.

620
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: There's no way. And if you at what, Yeah, it's

621
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: probably his dad, well, someone he really likes and and

622
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel comfortable speaking up to his boss. I

623
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: think that's my guess. Yeah, so Ben's Brett or sorry,

624
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 1: Ellen agrees to go to New York. Uh, and she's

625
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: sitting in the National Guard terminal at the airport, which

626
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: might exist. I don't know, I've never I don't know

627
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: that the National Guard has not impossible, Okay, sure, Like

628
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe, um is that a thing that exists? Cody?

629
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 1: Are you trying to find out? What are you fact checking? Ben?

630
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: Um So As she's sitting there waiting to fly to

631
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: New York, she gets a call from a number she

632
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: doesn't recognize, so she uh picks up um to at

633
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: least hear what the media had prepared. At worst, she

634
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: could give a no comment, so she goes back on

635
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: her promise to not pick up from the media. But

636
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: it's not the media. It's Brett. Honey, don't come to

637
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: New York. He sounded winded. Horse, Brett. What's going on?

638
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: I can't say for certain yet, Just don't come to

639
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: New York. Something bad is going down. How you know that?

640
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: No time to explain. The line went dead. It's probably time, Yeah,

641
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: probably for too long would have gone on. Yeah, she

642
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: you know it's bad because he doesn't tell her he'd

643
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: take a bullet for you. Baby. It's just there's so

644
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,240
Speaker 1: many like cryptic messages this woman gets from her husband.

645
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: I would be sick of it. Yeah, finish your sentence.

646
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: Finish your sentence. Don't just like hang up and tell

647
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: me not to do something. And I don't know. Yeah,

648
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's time to take a break for stops.

649
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: You know, speaking of taking a bullet for you, We've

650
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: already done it. These products would take a bullet for you,

651
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: haven't we We did that months ago. Well, here's some

652
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: fucking ads anyway, you God damn Yankees, rank Libs, yank

653
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 1: lib Feds, and we are become returned. So next chapter

654
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: is a solidad chapter. Who is remember the terrorists Aimon Bundy,

655
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: but a Latino woman so that no one can call

656
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: Ben racist? Smart covering your tracks? Yeah, they camped outside

657
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 1: the city, no fires, no lights. They'd separated after Detroit

658
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: split up to avoid being followed. They set the rendezvous

659
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: for Nashville three days later. Sola Dad recommended that they

660
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: wind their way through several states to throw any would

661
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: be trackers off the scent. She took Ezekiel west and south.

662
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: Aidan took Ricky east and doubled back through Kentucky. Nearly

663
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: all the men made it. A few apparently decided they'd

664
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 1: had enough after Detroit, after seeing their faces on television

665
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: labeled white supremacists. They took off for the hills. So

666
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 1: it Dad told them to ditch all their electronic gear

667
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: to make for the northern border. If they could, they

668
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: flee into Canada to and seemed like what a bunch

669
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: of gun nuts would do. Okay, Um. The ones who

670
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: were left looked like they've been through a war. Eddie

671
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: was the worst, fat So as they all called him,

672
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: had taken a tire iron to the gut and gotten

673
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: stomped at the center of the crowd. He'd been in

674
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: and out of consciousness ever since, his fever spiking radically

675
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,359
Speaker 1: just before hitting camp, as he Kiel told Sola Dad,

676
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: he'd started twitching and then gone quiet. When Aidan and

677
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: Ricky drove in, Solidad motioned them over, they put down

678
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: their kickstands, turned off the hogs loves calling motorcycles hogs,

679
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: literally slapping. I think he's been on a motorcycle. I

680
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: think he wants to have been on a motorcycle, but

681
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I think he's been on a motorcycle.

682
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: We can all fill in the blank. Yeah, moped, he

683
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: can write a moped. He could write a moped. He

684
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: shouldn't write a moped. Our big boy vehicles, UM, and

685
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't want been to. Yeah, we're a

686
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: big girl. Just not a Been Shapiro. Uh, I'm just

687
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: looking if there's a Been Shapiro on a motorcycle picture

688
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: because there's so many shameful swords and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

689
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: and it's a little gun. Um m m, all right,

690
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: what we got do we have? Do we have been

691
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: Shapiro on a motorcycle? Um? No, I'm not. I'm not

692
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: seeing it. Yeah, there is, he does have that. He

693
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: does own a leather jacket your right coding. If the

694
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: motorcycle pick existed, it would be online. He would would

695
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: be the first response. It would be the saddest thing

696
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,959
Speaker 1: that anyone's ever seen. Um. But Ben is a little

697
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: bit too smart to be pictured on a motorcycle. So

698
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: he gets his motorcycle kicks by calling him hogs every

699
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: tiet chance he gets. Um, just an embarrassed for him. Yeah.

700
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: So their friend Fats So who's dying is in a coma.

701
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: And once they all get back together, Aiden, who's the

702
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: former fed who murdered a bunch of other Feds for

703
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: her asks, do we have anybody who knows anything about medicine?

704
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: She shook her head. We need to get him to

705
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: a hospital. I do love this is I don't think

706
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: Ben meant it, but this is the most accurate part

707
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: of the book, because that is the thing all of

708
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: these like right wing militias have is like none of

709
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 1: them are medics, like none, None of them ever bring

710
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: medical supplies. None of them take care of each other. No,

711
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: they rely on Antifa to take care of them at protects. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah,

712
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: that part is pretty pretty on brand. Um. Yeah, So

713
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: they decide they've got to take him to a hospital. Um,

714
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: and Aiden's like, he's not gonna live anyway, and Sola

715
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: Dad gets angry, Um, we're not going to leave him

716
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:51,479
Speaker 1: to die. YadA, YadA, YadA. Um okay, so, um, they're

717
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: having a big fight. Um, and Aiden's angry because he

718
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: doesn't want to risk everybody's lives. Um. So, but Sola

719
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: Dad's like, I've got to make I gotta make the hall.

720
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm the boss. Um. So she calls

721
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: for Ezekiel, who's the token black eye in the militia,

722
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: give me a hand with this man. She leaned over

723
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: the body, felt the heat emanating from the burning skin.

724
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: She gripped him around the biceps, put her back into it,

725
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: and moved him nowhere. Embarrassed, she gripped him tighter, pulled again.

726
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: When she looked up, Ricky gotta go with her legs.

727
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: She's got to use her legs. She wants to move.

728
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: That's putting your back into it. That's bullshit. Sorry. So

729
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: the cop who killed the dead eyed black boy helps

730
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: and it's like, we gotta get him help. Nobody's gonna

731
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: die for me ever again, Um, no one died for you.

732
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: You killed somebody, Yeah, you shot, you shot a person

733
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: to death, a child. It's just some That's how he's coping.

734
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: That's what he's telling himself. Yeah, um okay. So they

735
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: get the guy they dropped Fats so off at an

736
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: emergency room. Um, and they have, uh, the black guy

737
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: stay with him because he's the only person without a

738
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: national face in the group. Um cool, Um yeah, do

739
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: do do? I've been way too much time on this. Huh.

740
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: This is just like a boring book. It is. It

741
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 1: is a boring book, Like and they she so Ben

742
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: starts this next it's like a full page that starts

743
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: with like they dropped him off at the hospital and

744
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: Ezekiel stayed with him. And then after that, the next

745
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 1: like six paragraphs are her talking with Ezekiel will he

746
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: tells her she's going he's going to stay behind and

747
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,919
Speaker 1: stuff like. It starts by explaining what happens and then

748
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: walks through it all slowly, um like a bad writer.

749
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: Back to the action. The headlights from the hogs carved

750
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: a three progged gash into the darkness, carved to gash.

751
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: Oh to one side of Sola dad Ricky Road to

752
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: the other. Aiden. The night was silent except for the

753
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: rumbling of the engines, the murky smell of the murky

754
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: smell of the trees. How do like somebody who hates trees?

755
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: What is murky smell? How is something smell murky? Well,

756
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: he grew up in a haunted marsh, so he has

757
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: a different association, same swamp creature. You are right, Katie,

758
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: Oh my god of the trees. I wish everyone could

759
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: see our faces, just so disgusted. I'll be making the

760
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: face and I'll look over and Cody's making the exact

761
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: It's just confusing. Oh god, Okay, So the start of this,

762
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 1: they're driving through the forest in Tennessee, and so what

763
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: Dad thinks about how awesome she is and how awesome

764
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: it is that they're doing this and like super Brad

765
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: that wear a bicycle a motorcycle militia. Um uh, Aiden,

766
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,439
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I dragged you into this, she yelled at last.

767
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: Sorry he grinned, I've been waiting for this all my life,

768
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: something to fight for. She glanced over at Ricky. His

769
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: mouth was set in a tight line, his gaze focused

770
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: on the dark horizon. Nothing left to fight for, said Ricky,

771
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,919
Speaker 1: you guys know what you're up against? That's incoherent. Yeah,

772
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: So she apologizes out of the blue. She apologizes to

773
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: Aid and then it's like, I'm sorry I drag you

774
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: into this, and he's like, why are you sorry? I've

775
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: been waiting for something to fight for my whole life.

776
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: And then Ricky's just says, nothing left to fight for?

777
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: You guys know what you're up against. That's not that's

778
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: completely nonsensical. He's trying to be cool and sparse with

779
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: the language, and it's just ineffective. Yeah, it's just it's

780
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 1: just didn't coherent. Nothing's been Yeah, the thing to fight

781
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: for is hard. Yeah, they're fighting for something. Why why

782
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: would you say anyway? That's yeah. So Ricky says, they're

783
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,720
Speaker 1: not gonna let us go. They say we killed Jim Crawford.

784
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: They say we're white supremacists. Sola Dad said, do I

785
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: look like a white supremacist? White supremacy comes in many forms,

786
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: direct quote MSNBC today, they're nuts. I know, I know,

787
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: I know. Oh he's so mad, he's so mad. Nuts

788
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: but effective? Oh boy? Um. Also, when she's mentioned three

789
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: times this chapter that all of their electronics are off,

790
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: when did he watch MSNBC? Are you having time on

791
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: your hog? Yeah? Ben, I'm sure how many times hog

792
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: is used in this chapter? I actually do want to

793
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: know how many times the word hog is used in

794
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: this book entirely? Only four? Okay, only four matches. Oh

795
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: so they're all in this chapter. Okay, how many times

796
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: is the word motorcycle used? That's a good question, Cody. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,

797
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: that's a fair, fair ratio. You impressed, you impressed us.

798
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: Very good job. Yeah, point to you, Ben. Okay. So

799
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: they're talking, that's very boring talk that uh okay. Um.

800
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: So they talk about how their revolutionaries and then comparing

801
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: themselves to the founding fathers. Sola Ed says, if it's

802
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: good enough for Benjamin Franklin, it's good enough for me.

803
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: You do realize, Ricky said Riley Franklin took off for

804
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,879
Speaker 1: some French who horring during for most of the Revolutionary War.

805
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: It's thundered overhead and the clouds opened up ship. She

806
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 1: heard Aidan say just what we needed. Yeah, okay, it's raining,

807
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: YadA YadA. Oh there's something solid ahead of them. Okay,

808
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: I think that the man has found them, so they

809
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: get off the road. It's a military drone okay, Um,

810
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: too small to be anything else. They could be looking

811
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: for someone, for someone out wait. Military drones are very

812
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: small okay. Anyway, Um, so the drone. He's thinking of

813
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: the little little drones you can get for the park.

814
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: The drone. Couldn't they see it? Even it couldn't be

815
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 1: It couldn't be more than ten tho fet from the

816
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: ground during a rainstorm, which I don't think you're going

817
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: to see a drone in that those conditions in a motorcycle.

818
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: But okay, whatever, Um, oh it's a predator drone. Yeah,

819
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: those aren't. Those are giant. Those are the size of

820
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 1: a car, not a small drone. Okay, whatever, it doesn't

821
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: do any research. Perspective is off. Oh the drone is

822
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: on Aiden and they fire a missile. Okay, So the

823
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: drone does a missile strike on these guys, um and

824
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: it blows her off of her motorcycle. Uh, she peeked

825
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: over the hedge. The first twenty ft of trees had

826
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: been completely obliterated. The embers of the splintered burning trees

827
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:43,800
Speaker 1: floated through the air on the ground. It's rear wheel spinning.

828
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: Solidde could make out the twisted metal of Aiden's bike

829
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: near it. Comma, she could see what looked to be

830
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: a white lump of flesh. Period a mangled arm. That's

831
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 1: the next sentence. Just a mangled arm, a torn fragment

832
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: of a maroon scarf she had handed him to wipe

833
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: off the handlebars. Is the sentence after that? Yeah, not

834
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 1: sentences and commas Sometimes then there make them full sentences,

835
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: you know. She saw a mangled arm, Comma, a torn

836
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 1: fragment of a maroon scarf she'd handed aidan earlier. You know,

837
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: something like that, anything like that. She felt an arm

838
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 1: on her shoulder. Get to your damn bike, Ricky shouted

839
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,360
Speaker 1: into her ear They're coming back around. She tried to

840
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: get to her feet, but her left leg wouldn't respond.

841
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: Looking down, she could see the black ooze of blood

842
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 1: creeping through her pants. Ricky swung her roughly onto his back.

843
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: He pushed himself on the cycle. He cranked the throttle

844
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: aiden she moaned, son of a bitch. Behind him, the

845
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: drone dropped to attack altitude. All right, son of a

846
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: son of a bitch? Good good reading. Yeah, I'm still

847
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: just like really bored. I know, like stuff going on,

848
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's the plot or like

849
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: how it's written or both. It's horrible, just everything leading

850
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: up to this point. Yeah, yeah, it's not like we

851
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: don't really like these people are talking about how they're

852
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: like the new Founding Fathers, but like, her grievances are

853
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 1: very unclear, right, like she doesn't pay your taxes, and

854
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: so they murder a bunch of Feds and then they

855
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: break a cop out of prison on the other side

856
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: of the country. And I don't know what they're doing.

857
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're doing. What are they fighting for?

858
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: And we don't see any of them really express an

859
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: ideology like yeah, vague and just yea the vague, like

860
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 1: fighting fighting for something? Yeah, okay, what what I mean?

861
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: You freed the cop you think is innocent, even though

862
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 1: he admits he shot the boy. Um, and you blew

863
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: up a federal building because they came at you for

864
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: not paying taxes. Uh, what's what's the ideology? Though? It

865
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,720
Speaker 1: vague so that people could fill in their own idea

866
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: all gs and relate to it. I don't know if

867
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: that he trusted, like the aesthetics right there on motorcycles

868
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: and they have guns obviously they're the good guys, and

869
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 1: like their opposition to like the Obama of it all,

870
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 1: and just like yeah, these sort of vague signifiers and

871
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: markers like oh they're yeah, the motorcycles in the wind,

872
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: the murky trees. Yeah, the murky trees. It's amazing. What

873
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: does that mean? Nothing, Sophie means nothing. Okay, So uh.

874
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: The lev On chapter opens with revealing, you know, how

875
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: the President had been calling him and been like, you

876
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 1: chill out for a couple of days. I got a

877
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: secret for you. Turns out the secret is that they

878
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: were blowing up that cop and the terrorist mama with

879
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 1: the drone. Um. So the President seems to think they

880
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:57,959
Speaker 1: killed all three of them, and that's what he tells

881
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: levi On. Um. So that's great. Uh yeah, So just

882
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: so you know, leave On, the President is very proud

883
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: of what you've done there. You've kept people under control

884
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: in a bad situation. Won't be forgotten. About that, sir

885
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: Levon Coft, I can only keep them tamped down for

886
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 1: so long that people are agitated about that attack. Still

887
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: with Sullivan being dead, that helps. But they think the

888
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: mayor is a shill for white privilege. It's just not

889
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: how you say it, a chill, not a shill for

890
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: white privilege. That's not really a term anyone would use.

891
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: But well, I guess some people maybe are some people so, um,

892
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: I aw, he's got these like weird buzzword grievance things

893
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: that he's just gotta dip it in and that's what

894
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: it is, yep. Um. So, I'd be curious to know

895
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: how many times to talk about intersectionality in this. Yeah,

896
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it come up yet. But so what

897
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: levi On is asking the President for is the ability

898
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: to remake the police department and put his own people

899
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: in there. Um and for the President to throw his

900
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: support behind that. Um. So I guess that's that's that's

901
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: what he's proposing. Um. And uh, yeah, they talk about

902
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: this in a conversation. I don't think we need to

903
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: go all the way through uma YadA, yeah da yaha.

904
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: Uh and yeah, the President says all right, yeah, Well

905
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 1: let's I'll pressure the governor to give you the police

906
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: of Detroit. Within days, the applications began piling up on

907
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 1: Levan's desk. He'd moved over to the Mayor's office, taking

908
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: up virtual residents there along with his secret political weapon, Regina. Alone,

909
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: he meets with the police union. It doesn't go well.

910
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: The man was old school blue and he didn't want

911
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: to hear about changes to the department. He pointed out

912
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: that they all had contracts leave on enjoying his new

913
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 1: found power. Let the man stew for a few minutes.

914
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: Then he told them they had every intention of honoring

915
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 1: the contracts. There just might be a few more cops

916
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: writing desks. The new boys, he said, would take over

917
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: the streets. No more Ricky of Sullivan's. Now things were

918
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 1: running smoothly, though. Levan slotted personal interviews with each of

919
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: the possible new officers. Each was slotted for ten minutes. Meanwhile,

920
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: Levin worked at the committee appointed by So, yeah, he's

921
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: he's just putting a replacing the police with his guys. Um, Okay,

922
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: that's fine. Um. He writes a new directive for the

923
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: police that they're not allowed to use racial profiling, which

924
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: of course, uh is bad um. When told of the

925
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: new strictures, dozens of new of dozens of officers quit

926
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 1: right away. Good riddance, Levin told the mayor, less pensions

927
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: for you to pay. When Billy Barton walked into Levan's

928
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: new office and slapped down a list of four hundred

929
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: officers willing to quit over the new standards, Levin looked

930
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: him dead in the eye. Well, he said, I suppose

931
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,600
Speaker 1: it can't be helped. Changed has casualties. The media viewed

932
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:53,040
Speaker 1: Levin's new standards is groundbreaking. Rachel sensitivity, they said, had

933
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: never been used as an actual policing criterion. But nowhere

934
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,760
Speaker 1: was that criterion more necessary than Detroit. Had Rickie O'Sullivan

935
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,560
Speaker 1: been hot and held accountable under these standards, Levan said,

936
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: Regina standing beside him, perhaps Kendrick would still be alive today.

937
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 1: Showing attitude to police officers is something that Detroit cops

938
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: should have understood had he been properly trained. Don't call

939
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: our kids thugs just because you don't understand the experiences

940
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: they've had growing up. They've seen cops pull over their

941
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: dad's dragged them off to jail. We have an entire

942
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: generation of missing men in our community. Sensitivity is the key. Okay,

943
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:28,399
Speaker 1: so that's why hundreds of cops quit, which scans now,

944
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: but Ben is framing all of this as as bad

945
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: as bad. Remarkable about this yeah yeah, um, so he

946
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: changes the rules that anyone convicted of a non violent

947
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: felony could be considered to be a police officer. Um

948
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 1: and yeah, which is also He's like, why why should

949
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: having sold pot disqualify you from me? Exactly? Yeah? Um

950
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: more cops resign at this. The final blow to the

951
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: police enrollment standards came in the area of education. The

952
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: standard for the department had always been a high school

953
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,479
Speaker 1: degree or equivalent. Now, with the applications pouring in, Levon

954
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: had to face the fact that not enough applicants had

955
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 1: graduated from high school. Many had dropped out. Again, he

956
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,560
Speaker 1: cited racial disparities and changing the policy, explaining that every

957
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 1: trainee would be given remedial education necessary to do the job.

958
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: How can you expect people to work their way up

959
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: the ladder if we don't give them the chance to

960
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 1: get on the first rung. He's just being very reasonable here,

961
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: and also like, yeah, tons of police departments except G E.

962
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: D S. It's not uncommon. Yes, like people who don't

963
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: have the education provide free education to police officers. Sounds good.

964
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: Hid violent felons make them racially sensitive. Yeah, this guy

965
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: is the bad guy. Uh so he gets he gets

966
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: a cover on time. And one of the things that's

967
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: frustrating about this is there's no clear understanding of how

968
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: much time is passing because Levan is completely remaking a

969
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: major cities police department and he winds up on the

970
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: cover of time is the new face of law? How

971
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: is this happening so Fastically the mayor yeah, and I

972
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: and then he's yeah, he said okay, but then at

973
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:09,959
Speaker 1: the end of it he says that this all happens

974
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:19,919
Speaker 1: within forty eight hours. No, uh, I mean if only. Yeah.

975
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: It was like it was boring reading like hearing about

976
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: it because it was written in that way where it's like, okay,

977
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: so this is like like you're just describing like a

978
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: paragraph of month or something. Yeah, it's two days book.

979
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: Makes How much do we have left of this book?

980
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: The pace we are of the way through? Well, that's

981
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 1: not enough. No, it's not painful, it's not Shall we

982
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: save the rest for another day? Yeah? I think think

983
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: one more episode in us, and I think next episode

984
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: will finish this book and our next chapter will be bad.

985
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: Oh thank god. But also the people in other scenes

986
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: in other places, and yeah, it was literally anyone. Much

987
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:04,919
Speaker 1: like Ellen, I've missed bread Hawte. Whenever he's not talked

988
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: about on the page, written about on the page, my

989
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: heart aches from him not being on the page. And

990
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: when his name is mentioned, my heart thumps faster because

991
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: his name was mentioned and we miss him bread Hawthorn. Yeah, okay,

992
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: this feels like a good spot to endit. Cody Plugables. Yeah, guys,

993
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: chuck us out with our other show where You're ever

994
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 1: and Cody even more news is the name of the

995
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: podcasts and some more news his name of a show

996
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 1: on YouTube that you can watch. Hell yeah, and our

997
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 1: twitter's dr Mr Cody and Katie stole A crushed it. Yeah,

998
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: we're at Bastard's pot on Twitter on Instagram. That's the end.

999
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 1: That's the end of the episode. Take a bullet for

1000
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: your baby, bread all right,