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Speaker 2: It's Behind the Bastards, a podcast hosted by a man

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Speaker 2: And as as we always do whenever I'm a wreck

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Speaker 2: all you you maniacs love that. But I finally found

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Speaker 2: a fresh you know, like in the movie Fury Road,

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Speaker 2: found the book equivalent of that, and to pour it,

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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna splash it all over our guests today, Garrison, Davis, Garrison,

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Speaker 2: how are you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm tired, but hanging in there.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, this is the day after both the union

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Speaker 2: negotiated its contract and Donald Trump got convicted of thirty

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Speaker 2: four felonys. It was a crazy day tonight for a

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Speaker 4: I also got to take some of our co workers

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Speaker 2: eating at a waffle house as a convicted All right, Garrison,

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Speaker 2: you're ready to warm this? Open the fuck up?

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Speaker 3: I always am.

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Speaker 1: This is behind the master?

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Speaker 3: This is the show that we're doing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a book episode, and I'm going to tell

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Speaker 2: being a victim of state repression is a terrible thing,

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Speaker 2: you know, having the force really you don't say, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Or thirty four counts of financial fraught.

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Speaker 2: It's it sucks actually being oppressed. But pretending to be

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Speaker 2: You have to make like grand speeches about how you

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Speaker 2: any consequences for any of your shitty behavior. Right and

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Speaker 2: in the in the long list of fake victims in

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Speaker 2: David wrote a book back in twenty twelve called Patriots

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Speaker 2: of Treason. And the plot of this book, this is

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Speaker 2: you need to hear about it to get to that book.

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Speaker 2: The plot of this book is that an unhinged Barack

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, I think I think we've seen

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Speaker 2: It's almost the Ben Shapiro story. His his not Barack

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Speaker 2: Obama stand in is Tyrell Johnson and is also a

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Speaker 2: I love conservative alternate histories that are exactly the opposite

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Speaker 3: It's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: It's good stuff. It's good stuff. It's a perfect snapshot

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Speaker 4: We're like in so many layers of like fiction. It's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And he's going to because of this horrible, the

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Speaker 4: Garrison out there, I'm gonna I'm gonna stay clean, uh huh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. You'll like this. They have a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that article in Texas Monthly on Defiance Press

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Speaker 2: Chadwick Bicknell's twenty twenty two novella and American Carol reimagines

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Speaker 2: After visits from George Washington, the ghost of America's passed,

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Speaker 3: That sounds amazing.

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Speaker 2: I think we're gonna have to get into that one.

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Speaker 2: Almost five years ago, America as everyone knew it came

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Speaker 4: I don't think New America is going to catch on.

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Speaker 5: I think that Gavin Newsom should use that as his

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Speaker 2: The one they do. But Gavin newsoen allied with the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am, I am, I am ready to hear.

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Speaker 2: Well, Garrison will take that little journey together into New America.

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Speaker 1: And it's not Gavin Newsom's hair sheel.

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Speaker 2: We don't know that, we don't know what brand he uses.

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Speaker 2: Ah wow, Sophie, I'm back and I am just feeling.

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Speaker 2: Guns, which is a real thing that people do. Others

437
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 2: have strobes to overload the night vision gear, and others

438
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 2: used signs, large banners, and makeshift shields to conceal their

439
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 2: nefarious activities.

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Speaker 3: Yeah this is just Portland.

441
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, well what are you concealing with a shield? Guys,

442
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,639
Speaker 2: they're concealing that they're trying not to get shot with

443
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 2: rubber bullets. One of the things I find fascinating and

444
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 2: kind of enlightening about this is that every time he

445
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 2: talks about the crowd, he talks about it as if

446
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 2: it's like a hive intelligence, Like not like it's a

447
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 2: group of actual people, but like it's it's some sort

448
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 2: of like alien species, where like the entire organization of

449
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 2: people has a collective mind. So yeah, here's.

450
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Speaker 3: Isn't like wrong.

451
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 2: Sometimes it isn't wrong about how fear works. It's it's

452
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Speaker 2: he he is crediting them with like again, you and

453
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 2: I have been to these kinds of things and seen

454
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Speaker 2: how hard it is to get a group of thousands

455
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 2: of people to take down one line of fence. Right.

456
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, in very brief moments, you'll see a group of

457
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Speaker 4: like fifty people move as like a fluid cluster and

458
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 4: do something really cool and then it breaks out and

459
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Speaker 4: to get into like entropy.

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Speaker 1: But if they do, they're wearing charcoal black, not into you.

461
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're probably probably didn't have the right color of

462
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Speaker 2: black in Portland.

463
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Speaker 3: Yeerson, honestly that that may be it.

464
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Speaker 5: Just like a charcoal or like a faded or you know, definitely.

465
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Speaker 3: Not would be nice. Actually I agree, Yeah, it's great.

466
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Speaker 1: It's a great color. It's a great color.

467
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 2: So here's another great line. The rules of engagement for

468
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 2: a massed assault were known, and he knew people would

469
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 2: hesitate thoughts of mowing down American protesters on the front

470
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 2: lawn of the White House was the kind of thing

471
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,959
Speaker 2: that got you hauled up to Capitol Hill He had

472
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Speaker 2: reviewed the rules carefully with the teams at the start

473
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Speaker 2: of his shift. As he watched the screens, he saw

474
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Speaker 2: that the crowd was monitoring his people on the rooftops

475
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 2: and their assorted purchase. The problem was that the crowd

476
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 2: was willing to risk it, fueled by hate and organized

477
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 2: by All Caps, Antifa and other radical groups. They had

478
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 2: gotten more sophisticated.

479
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Speaker 1: The Antifa All Caps for me baby, Yeah, and.

480
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 2: Then we get our actual Portland reference Garrison. The arrest

481
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 2: of several cells in Portland and New York had resulted

482
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 2: in bombings and two assassination attempts on department heads, leaving

483
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 2: one director in the hospital. This was beyond protests. This

484
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 2: was now war, though the press played the entire thing

485
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 2: down as minor incidents of violence and otherwise peaceful protests. Sure, yeah,

486
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Speaker 2: I again, it's this like, they did arrest a lot

487
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Speaker 2: of people that they claimed were like leaders in Portland

488
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 2: and elsewhere. And you know what didn't happen is any

489
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 2: directors of federal agencies got murdered.

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Speaker 3: No, unless I missed that in the news cycle.

491
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like they would have hit on that

492
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 2: pretty hard. Yeah, I did want to at anytime one

493
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,119
Speaker 2: of these guys gives me something to drill in on,

494
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Speaker 2: particularly in the press playing down incidents of violence at

495
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,959
Speaker 2: peaceful protests and stuff. I want to dig into that

496
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Speaker 2: as much as I can, And there's a couple of

497
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,439
Speaker 2: good articles on that by some scholars who have actually

498
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 2: analyzed the way in which the media tends to cover

499
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 2: social justice protests and what things they tend to highlight

500
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: in their coverage. One of the first papers I found

501
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 2: was by Danielle Brown and Summer Harlowe in the Journal

502
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Speaker 2: of Press and Politics titled Protests, Media Coverage and a

503
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 2: Hierarchy of Social struggle. This is what they write. Scholars

504
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 2: across disciplines of scrutinized press coverage of collective action, exploring

505
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 2: the institutional, organizational, and individual influences that shift the quality

506
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 2: and quantity of coverage. Many different structural, organizational, and institutional

507
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 2: features of media production and social disruption affect media coverage

508
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 2: of social movements. However, most scholars have shown that the

509
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 2: institutional logics of the mainstream media do not favor social movements,

510
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 2: and only the most appealing or newsworthy features of a

511
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 2: movement are likely to result in news coverage, and when

512
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 2: we talk about, like what are the most newsworthy features

513
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 2: of a movement that's like incidents of violence or anything

514
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 2: that can be characterized police on fire, Yeah exactly, Like yeah, yeah,

515
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: that's the like if that happens, that's the only thing

516
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: that's winding up in a lot of coverage on a protest.

517
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 4: If a dumpster's on fire on day one, it might

518
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,400
Speaker 4: get something. If dumpter's on fire on day twenty five,

519
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 4: no one cares.

520
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's become the norm. And Harlowe also wrote

521
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 2: an article for The Washington Post in twenty twenty one

522
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 2: where she summarized the data she's collected during years of

523
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 2: research into how the media covers protests. Quote my own

524
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 2: research analyzed about fifteen hundred protest related news stories published

525
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 2: throughout twenty fourteen in mainstream, alternative, partisan, and online news publications.

526
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 2: Articles about conservative protests, like protests supposed to immigration or

527
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 2: LGBT rights, or protest supporting Trump and gun rights, are

528
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 2: less likely to be negatively framed as riots than other

529
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: types of protests. In contrast, Black Lives Matter protests are

530
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 2: more likely to be framed as riots. New use coverage

531
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 2: focus is more on violence, property damage, and confrontations with police.

532
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 2: For example, at twenty seventeen San Antonio Express News article

533
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: about an anti white supremacy protest, which was included in

534
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 2: another study I did, started with a reference to brawls

535
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 2: that broke out and the arrest of protesters who swarmed

536
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 2: the sidewalk hurling insults and chanting. The aim of the

537
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 2: protest was placed in quotation marks white supremacy, which arguably

538
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 2: delegitimizes protesters' grievances, and yeah, yeah, pretty normal stuff. She

539
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: surveyed one hundred journalists from Missouri, Virginia, Arizona, and Texas

540
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen and combined those surveys

541
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 2: with an analysis of nine hundred and thirty two protest

542
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 2: related stories from newspapers in those states, and found that

543
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 2: most journalists said that they were neither supportive nor unsupportive

544
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 2: of protesters generally, and were less supportive of racial justice

545
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 2: movements than they were of women's rights or immigrants rights,

546
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Speaker 2: which I found interesting.

547
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Speaker 3: That is interesting.

548
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, again, it's the appic of what

549
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 2: this guy reports, because reality is the opposite of what

550
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 2: actually happened. But let's return to the fantasy. Of China

551
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 2: funded Antifa.

552
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: It's a lot more fun.

553
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 2: So this next line here gives us both collapsible ladders

554
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 2: as a sinister weapon and gives us our first anti

555
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: mask line. Sir the captain seated in front of him

556
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 2: spoke up, pointing to the far left monitor. Look, I

557
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: think those are collapsible ladders. Jack saw them too in

558
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 2: the crowd. They were hard to make out, even with

559
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 2: night vision that use them before to toss up makeshift barricades.

560
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: But tonight, tonight felt different. Leaning in, he toggled the

561
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 2: microphone on and tore off the black mask he'd been

562
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 2: forced to wear since the pandemic began. He couldn't afford

563
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: to have his voice muffled. Not now, this is Rabbit

564
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 2: to all stations. Southeast corner ladder spotted prepare for breaching attempts.

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00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 3: I like that. The ladder is hard to spot too.

566
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 3: It's very good.

567
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 2: What kind of ladders are they carrying that you can't

568
00:29:59,160 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 2: very easily?

569
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 4: An extendible ladder is like it's like three times.

570
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: Hind of a man. Yeah, yeah, I love this. How

571
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: sinister the ladders are. Yeah, it's it's all beautiful.

572
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 3: That maskline, he is really proud of that one.

573
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 2: It's so good. So the protesters, working with military precision,

574
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: penetrate like he gets a call that while they're sieging

575
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 2: the White House, rioters have already penetrated the Capitol and

576
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 2: taken the Speaker of the House hostage. So he has

577
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 2: to order he has to order a condition red because

578
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 2: protesters are headed for them. Next, the crowd surges forward

579
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 2: and the cops start shooting. He could not hear the

580
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 2: gunfire in the erc but he heard it over the speakers.

581
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 2: Rubber bullets at first sprayed a swath of the rioters,

582
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 2: but they did not recoil like they had before. Though

583
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 2: a dozen or more dropped from the kinetic impacts, most

584
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 2: got right back up and continued the climb. Body armor

585
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 2: Fucking Amazon and eBay. They would run out of rubber

586
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 2: bullets soon. Then things would get ugly and bloody. You

587
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: can get body armor on eBay. I wouldn't recommend it,

588
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 2: but they don't sell it on Amazon anyway. Whatever.

589
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 3: Maybe they mean like motorcross gear.

590
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 2: I don't know, like airsoft. I mean airsoft armor is

591
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 2: fine for rubber bullets. Yeah, I don't think they mean

592
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 2: like ballistic armor. I think I think I just like padding. Yeah,

593
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: that does make if these guys are all dressed as

594
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 2: air softers, though, it does make them seem a little

595
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 2: bit less threatening. Now it's unclear to me because he

596
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 2: makes a big deal about how they're using fireworks. At

597
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,239
Speaker 2: the start, he starts, there's a line here where like

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00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 2: they start heals mortars because they start exploding.

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00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 4: This this is an andy No thing. Andy No calls

600
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 4: all fireworks mortars like this, Like when they say mortars,

601
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 4: they don't mean like actual military motors. What they mean

602
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,000
Speaker 4: Fourth of July fireworks.

603
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: In this it's in this garrison. It's both because he

604
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: starts by talking about fireworks and meaning mortars, and then

605
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 2: he says mortars. And it becomes clear over the course

606
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: of the fight that they are actually shooting real mortars

607
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 2: at the White House. Presumably the Chinese gave it to them,

608
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 2: but these are these are Now we are both getting

609
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 2: like fear mongered of like they're using fireworks to test

610
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 2: the defenses and now they have real mortars. Okay, so

611
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 2: that's that's where this goes. We now cut to a

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00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: new character, Charlie spelled just with an I Kazinski, who

613
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 2: is a lady Secret Service person who works on the

614
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 2: President's detail, and she busts in the Oval Office. This

615
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 2: is we presume President Trump. And she's like, you know,

616
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: we got a real problem here. The Antifas are about

617
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 2: to take the White House. Part of why this is

618
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 2: very funny to me is that the first thing President

619
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 2: Trump says is like, I can't leave. What about my family,

620
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 2: my wife and son? And real President Trump absolutely would

621
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 2: not be concerned with that in the situation.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, it would leave them to die.

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Speaker 2: Several shots at the proof glass of the Oval office,

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00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 2: snap cracking on the armored glass. The President rose as

625
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 2: another explosion went off outside, throwing tiny bits of grass

626
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 2: and dirt on the window. He moved to her side

627
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 2: as two additional agents rushed in flanking him. My family,

628
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: my wife and son. So she promises to get his kids,

629
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: and yeah, there's a Charlie takes him down an elevator.

630
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 2: We're informed that the elevators in the White House can

631
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: be electrified after use, so they'll kill anyone trying to

632
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 2: access them. And there's also a gas system to pump

633
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 2: knockout drugs into the shaft if it were breached. I

634
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: looked into this. I couldn't find any evidence one way

635
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: or the other. Maybe maybe that's true, I hope. So

636
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: so he calls our boy Jack calls the Secretary of

637
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 2: Defense and tells him to scramble the troops, and the

638
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 2: troops are under attack too. The military base, Joint Base

639
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 2: Bowling was just hit by two car bombs and is

640
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 2: being shelled, and so is Andrew's Air Force Base. So

641
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: the antifas have carried out on the same night overwhelming

642
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 2: attacks against two military bases, the Capitol and the White House.

643
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: And again, in the most impressive actions you and I saw,

644
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 2: they were able to tear down a fence after like

645
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 2: five hours.

646
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 4: After like two weeks. Yeah, practice, this is. This is

647
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 4: an unprecedented level of coordination.

648
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, this this is I'm really wondering what the signal

649
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: loops are like for these anti Those.

650
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 3: Signal chats gotta be going crazy.

651
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 2: Hey guys, we're bombing Joint Air Force Base Santruce. We're

652
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 2: in the Pentagon, we are on the teams gone, We've

653
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 2: got the speaker. Oh yeah, it's really funny. So there's

654
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 2: a moment here where the Secret Service head or sorry,

655
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 2: where the President tells the Secretary of Defense to send

656
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 2: the army in to crack down on the protests, and

657
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense won't do He's not willing to

658
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 2: send American troops in to like fight Americans on American soil.

659
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 2: And this is again like a thing that happened right

660
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 2: now in real life. What happened is President Trump asked

661
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 2: General Millie, his secretary of Defense, can you just shoot

662
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 2: them in the legs?

663
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 3: Yeah?

664
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 2: And Milly was like, no, I can't have the army

665
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 2: just go shoot protesters in the lakes. Anyway, I find

666
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 2: that very funny. But you know, Garrison, what's not funny

667
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 2: and what won't shoot you in the.

668
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 3: Legs are lovely advertisers.

669
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 2: They might shoot you in the legs. If it's the

670
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 2: Washington State Highway Patrol again, they'll definitely shoot you in

671
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 2: the legs. Well yeah, yeah, all right, so we'll come back.

672
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:54,359
Speaker 2: But first, here's some ads, all right, Garrison. So that's

673
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 2: our cold open, right. The White House is sieged and taken.

674
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 2: The president is it's kind of unclear what happens to him,

675
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 2: Like we know from the summary that he's supposed to

676
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 2: have died in this, but yeah.

677
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 3: Because he was like taking captured and died in prison.

678
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 2: We don't see him die in this right we some

679
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 2: you know, as a spoiler, he's not actually dead, garrissons.

680
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is alive and living in secret five years

681
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 2: so he's going to lead some like resistance for us hopefully.

682
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 4: Yeah.

683
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: Oh, Garrison, you've you've predicted exactly where this book is going.

684
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, of course, of course.

685
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 2: So chapter one, it opens with a character named Andy Forrest,

686
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 2: and Andy is in a cancer ward at a hospital

687
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 2: watching his dad die. It's it's National Hospital one fourteen

688
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 2: because all of the hospitals were in a sinister manner nationalized.

689
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 3: They're communist hospitals now.

690
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: They're communist hospitals now. Yeah, and his father is classified

691
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 2: as non essential, non contributing, so there's debate about whether

692
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 2: or not his recovery is even worth it, and he's

693
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 2: he's angry that he had to fight to get the

694
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 2: treatment he got and it's still not working and just

695
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 2: like that's just yeah, just like in Canada. I don't know,

696
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: like his experience sounds a lot like the hospital experience

697
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 2: I just had with my dad that exists in our

698
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: current system. But yeah, he's unhappy about it. And part

699
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 2: of why he's unhappy is that his sister's here, and

700
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 2: his sister is a sinister member of the new Antifa

701
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 2: law enforcement agency, the social enforcement Agency. Oh, Harrison, the

702
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 2: Garrison they shared do and they are literally they're literally

703
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 2: Antifa mobs that follow people around and harass them if

704
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: they're bad.

705
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 3: That's funny.

706
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 2: So I'm going to read me. So this is this

707
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: is the description of his sister. Oh for first, Actually,

708
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: there's a line I need to read here about the hospitals.

709
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 2: Andy wished he could afford private healthcare, but at the

710
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 2: same time was glad he couldn't. If I made that

711
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,240
Speaker 2: kind of money, it just would have put a target

712
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 2: on my back. In Numerica, making money was a curse?

713
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 4: Is it?

714
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,439
Speaker 2: Because that's not Actually that doesn't actually make sense. Can

715
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 2: you buy better healthcare with your money?

716
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 4: Or no?

717
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 2: Is it a curse? Or is it a curse?

718
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 3: I forgot about nu America for exec.

719
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 2: That he will not let you forget, Garrison. You're about

720
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 2: to get so many different fucking acronyms and shit shoved

721
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 2: in your face.

722
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 4: Oh I'm so I'm so thrilled for acronyms. I love

723
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 4: me some fake three letter agencies.

724
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: Are you all ready for this? Banana anyway, Okay, here's

725
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 2: here's a description of his sister. The woman wore her

726
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 2: black shirt with red piping on her collar showing her

727
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 2: rank and social enforcement. Where the National Security Force NSF

728
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 2: was a potent arm of the fedgov, social Enforcement was

729
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: a less controlled and thus more dangerous born out of

730
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 2: the all caps Antifa and BLM mobs during the liberation.

731
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: The act is informal police dispensing social justice as they

732
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 2: saw fit.

733
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 4: Oh wow, that's that's really something special.

734
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 2: It's't that beautiful.

735
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 4: That's that's that's amazing. That's really that's really nice. I

736
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:11,760
Speaker 4: like the caller piping.

737
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 3: Classy, classy nice.

738
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,760
Speaker 2: It's good to know that we we still have style.

739
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: When the Antifa mobs are made part of the government.

740
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 3: N SF has like a good a good ring to it.

741
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's not ye. Dispensing social justice is.

742
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: Just deeply, deeply funny.

743
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 2: It's it's extremely funny. Her name is Karen, and the

744
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 2: first thing he notices about her is that she's put

745
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 2: on weight since the last time he saw her. Because,

746
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 2: of course, cool insult my eye. Yeah, so they have

747
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 2: a fight, he says. It's because she and her social

748
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 2: justice goons got their dad fired from his job quote

749
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 2: because of the sees. He lost his house, our mom,

750
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 2: almost everything he had, and his reputation because of the.

751
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 3: Investigation canceled culture police.

752
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 2: That's literally what they are. They took his mom from him.

753
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 2: Oh fuck, it's so funny. So she's like, no, he

754
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 2: was a bad our dad did a bad thing. He

755
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 2: supported a domestic terrorist group, and he didn't change his

756
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,240
Speaker 2: class curriculum to the standard. The man was a professor

757
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 2: at Sir Journer Truth you and refused to adhere to

758
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 2: the rules. So Andy gets angry first because Sojourner Truth

759
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 2: University is supposed to be Mary Washington University, but all

760
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 2: of the schools with Washington and the name got purged

761
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 2: during the Great Reformation.

762
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 3: Nice and again it's like, actually.

763
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Sojourner Truth deserves the university more than

764
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Speaker 2: Mary Washington.

765
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 3: I agree, yeah, but whatever, I don't know.

766
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 2: That anybody cares that much. Here's him describing what happened

767
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 2: to his dad. His father had been a respected historian,

768
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 2: but the NSF had ruined him. Surely Sojourner Truth would

769
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 2: have been opposed to that. They had sent social enforcement

770
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 2: teams to follow him everywhere harassing him to the point

771
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 2: where he couldn't get to his classroom. They broke windows

772
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 2: at the house, set fire to his car, and relentlessly

773
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 2: followed him, screaming and shoving to the point where businesses

774
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 2: wouldn't allow him in. Everything he typed was monitored, screened,

775
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 2: and often edited. Big Tech monitored every keystroke he made,

776
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 2: or so he claimed.

777
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 4: This, this is this is the retribute of justice blueprint.

778
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 3: This is what we need to get big tech Antifa

779
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 3: mobs hand in hand.

780
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, big tech working yet like perfectly with the random

781
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 2: mops of people breaking windows.

782
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,479
Speaker 4: Sitting in keystroke lubs, gangs.

783
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg just can't wait to partner with an antifa mob.

784
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 3: He would love this. He would love this definitely.

785
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 2: This has been his dream since the beginning. Andy's sister

786
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: was part of the Social Enforcers or SE, a part

787
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 2: of what the FEDGOV called the Great Reformation. Again, he's

788
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 2: already introduced all these concepts before, and now we're getting

789
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 2: the info dump on them, which is just is a

790
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 2: little sloppy. That's what we editor what I called this.

791
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 3: Yeah no, that's what we call solid writing. That's called

792
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 3: the world building.

793
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 2: Robert the Overview Throw of the government was called the

794
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 2: liberation by almost everyone out loud. In whispers, however, it

795
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 2: was called the fall. Karen had consumed the kool aid

796
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: of the riots. Yes, so yeah. He'd gotten fired by

797
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 2: the school, who didn't even care that he'd done nothing wrong,

798
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: And then came the NSF interrogators. Separate from the se

799
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 2: They were just as bad, if not worse, because they

800
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 2: had a fragment of legitimacy the social enforcers lacked. The

801
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 2: NSF claimed he knew radicals and that he had incriminating

802
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 2: materials in his possession, materials that were never produced, only alleged.

803
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 2: They allowed him to be hauled before two people's tribunals

804
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 2: the kangaroo courts of the SEES, with no evidence, and

805
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 2: he lost two years of his life, exiled to a

806
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: social quarantine camp, denied his freedoms. He had come back

807
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: from social quarantine a hollow shell of a human being.

808
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 2: In the end, Karen had done nothing for her father

809
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,479
Speaker 2: other than attempt to persuade him to provide the names

810
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 2: of his associates. She'd been in social enforcement and could

811
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 2: have vouched for him, perhaps called off their dogs. Instead,

812
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: she let their father die emotionally now the cancer was

813
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 2: doing the rest, and Andy reveals that they were the

814
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 2: terrorist group he was a charge of being a member of.

815
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 2: Was the Republican Party?

816
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's funny.

817
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: And Karen's like, no, he actually had ties to another

818
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 2: group called the Sons of Liberty and natural terrorist group

819
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 2: and he's like, well when it was it become I

820
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: legal to support a cause? Well, Andy, you've just been inconsistent.

821
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: There was your dad just a member of the Republican

822
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 2: Party or was he a member of this terrorist group?

823
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 2: But it's it's it's fine anyway. Karen and Andy continue

824
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 2: to argue. He calls them a bunch of thugs who

825
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 2: go out to administer you know, uh self described justice

826
00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,759
Speaker 2: to innocent people, and Karen says, we don't go after

827
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 2: innocent people. Innocent people have nothing to fear. YadA, YadA, YadA.

828
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's it's it's it's it's mostly the rest

829
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 2: of them. There. Argument is there's some good world building

830
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: when we get to the end of this chapter.

831
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 4: Here this is just like a boomer writing his own

832
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 4: scary enemy and then getting scared of himself.

833
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Where Karen saw him as flawed.

834
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 2: Andy saw him as a man who honored his friends.

835
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,479
Speaker 2: The mention of their mother hid hard. When their father

836
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 2: had lost his job and was tormented NonStop by the

837
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 2: social enforcers, she had left him. His mother lived under

838
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 2: a cloud of fear that she would be attacked while

839
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 2: stepping out to get groceries. That was part and parcel

840
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 2: with the tactics of the social enforcement teams. Harassment was

841
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 2: a weapon in their hands. She moved in with a friend,

842
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 2: but was unable to get work. Her name was on

843
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 2: a list because of their father. She took her life

844
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 2: six months later, never even speaking to Andy's father. He

845
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 2: had not been released for her funeral. Karen laid the

846
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 2: blame at their father's feet. So that's their totally realistic

847
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 2: situation here. Yeah, I found it powerful.

848
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 3: Very very scary.

849
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, very scary. So that's our opening. And then we

850
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 2: get to the district. So we're introduced to a new

851
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: CA character, Kaylee Leetram, who I think from reading this

852
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 2: was former CIA and is now a part of the

853
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 2: FEDGOV actual law enforcement agency, so not the anarchist mobs,

854
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 2: but like basically the FBI and the CIA and all

855
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 2: the other law enforcement groups got amalgamated into a different

856
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 2: organization that didn't have the name police in it, because

857
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 2: that's that's scary.

858
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 3: Now, it's really just the word that we have a

859
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 3: problem with. Nothing, Yeah, that they do systemically, I'll be

860
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 3: to be fair, there's definitely like a third of of

861
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 3: I don't know, the people on the left that I've met,

862
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 3: that just want to make the police their own police. No,

863
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 3: that is that is true.

864
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 2: But you know.

865
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 4: Another third who just wants the scenario as written here,

866
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 4: and the other third who yeah, to think of something

867
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 4: a little bit better than both of this.

868
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, But in the reality is that all three of

869
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 2: those groups together are about two hundred people, like not

870
00:45:56,360 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 2: not quite enough to overthrow the White House capital and

871
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: two hundred though, yeah, every one of them on Twitter.

872
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 2: So there's some great descriptions here. When the boss of

873
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 2: the National Support Force, which is this law enforcement agency

874
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,439
Speaker 2: comes in, and you really you get a lot about

875
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 2: the author from how he describes her, because I think

876
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,600
Speaker 2: this is supposed to be AOC. The secretary of the

877
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: National Support Force came into the room, a perky woman,

878
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 2: probably the same age as Kaylee, in her mid to

879
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 2: late thirties. The secretary had a quasi hispanic look.

880
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 3: To she es no, no.

881
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 2: Hispanic.

882
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 3: See, how do you write that? And editor would have

883
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 3: caught that? Editor when I caught that?

884
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 2: What is what is quasi hispanic? Anyway, he's very Again.

885
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: It's like whenever Ben Shapiro talks about AOC, you can

886
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 2: just like you can feel the thirsty. Yeah. The secretary

887
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 2: had spanic look to her, dark skin, pristine, long straight hair,

888
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 2: and almost perfect makeup. She wore a single gold pip

889
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 2: on the coldar of her jacket that signaled her rank.

890
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 2: Other than that, she wore a small black flag pin

891
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 2: adorned with the white outlined fist and arrow lightning bolts

892
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 2: stabbing downward. The old flag had long been banned, deemed

893
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 2: far too racist and prejudice to ever be shown in public.

894
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 4: Nice nice base BASEA wow.

895
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 3: I like that. Also, they have like Star Trek uniforms

896
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 3: with like pimps on them.

897
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 5: Yeah.

898
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 2: No, that's good moves. It seems like the new government's

899
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 2: making some solid choices.

900
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 5: I like that they like add in details that they're like,

901
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 5: by the way, she's hot, hair, luscious.

902
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 2: Makeup, almost perfect, almost perfect. She fucked up one bit

903
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 2: of it.

904
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: They're like one eyelash out of place xoxo.

905
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, weird. Yeah, So you know, she gets into some

906
00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 2: sort of bullshit argument with the secretary lady, who is like,

907
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 2: have you been briefed as to why you were brought here?

908
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 2: And Kaylee, we can tell is like the bad girl

909
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 2: who doesn't who you know, doesn't play by the rules

910
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 2: but gets results. So the secretary asks, have you been

911
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 2: briefed as to why you were brought here? And Kaylee responds, no,

912
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 2: I presume it's because somebody fucked something up and you

913
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 2: need me to unfuck it. Watch your language, Kaylee. Her

914
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 2: direct supervisor, Burke Dorn said from his seat next to her.

915
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 2: Doran was the oldest man in the room and had

916
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 2: been FBI back in the day when they formed the

917
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 2: National Support Force. The FBI, DHS, state and local law

918
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 2: enforcement had all been combined. The word police had been

919
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,400
Speaker 2: dropped because it had been deemed defensive and potentially racist.

920
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 2: And I do love that all of these old FBI

921
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 2: guys and shit are still cops. They just had to

922
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 2: call themselves something different.

923
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 4: No, it shows it is a weird like fundamental misunderstanding

924
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 4: of like everything.

925
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's very funny that, like, yeah, it is

926
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: basically the same guys. It's just AOC is in charge

927
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 2: of the CIA. Now finally the leftist evolution has accomplished

928
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 2: its goal. So they're they're all concerned because the Sons

929
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 2: of Liberty are back. There's some they had thought that

930
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 2: they killed all these guys. Kay Lee was like, I

931
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 2: buried the bodies myself. We took them out. Uh, but

932
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 2: they're buried the bodies. No, no, no, kay Lee, whose

933
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 2: who's our our I think our self insert girl character author.

934
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 2: So we thought, but there have been some recent acts bombing,

935
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 2: cyber swipes and an assassination or two. We had our

936
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 2: friends in Silicon Valley crunch it and they say, there's

937
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 2: a pattern. You think the Sons of Liberty are or

938
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 2: the s o L are back. The use of the

939
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 2: acronym was important. The use of a full name gave

940
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 2: terrorist groups identity, using an acronym to humanize them. They

941
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 2: weren't people. They were just a thing and needed to

942
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 2: be dealt with. It was the language of the fedguff

943
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 2: which made it the language of numerica.

944
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 3: Well, why wow, there's a lot.

945
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 4: There's a lot to unpack. I don't know if we

946
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 4: have mind going on there to unpack that the level

947
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:02,240
Speaker 4: of dehumanization of three are accurate acronym terrorist groups.

948
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, what about the FBI, Like.

949
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 3: The FBI is an acrony.

950
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 2: Say yeah, so if becomes clear that's what's happened, is

951
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: they would you know, when these attacks started, they started

952
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 2: like following up on any leads who were kind of

953
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 2: close to some of the Sons of Liberty people that

954
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 2: they took out. And they saw on like a security

955
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,760
Speaker 2: camera footage next to a car that used to belong

956
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 2: to someone who's in the Sons of Liberty. They got

957
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,879
Speaker 2: a clear picture of Donald Trump. There's a they think

958
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 2: there's a there's a fifty three percent chance and their

959
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 2: facial recognition that it's really him. And Kayley's like, I

960
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 2: don't know, that's not very high and they're like, no,

961
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 2: take a look, and she's like, I'm confused. He was

962
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 2: arrested and put in prison. I saw the pre trial motions.

963
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 2: He died of a heart attack in his cell. Everyone

964
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 2: saw the body. It was all over the net. Dorn

965
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 2: diverted his eyes to the conference room table, and the

966
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 2: Secretary drew a long breath before continuing, what you saw

967
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 2: was what the country needed closure. Our friends in how

968
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 2: would help us craft something that would help everyone heal

969
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 2: he survived, we were unsure. We haven't seen any trace

970
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 2: of him or his detail since the liberation. We believe

971
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 2: there was an almost zero chance of him being alive.

972
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 2: The city was on fire and citizens were roving the streets.

973
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 2: The Trader President wasn't a quiet man. If he had

974
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 2: been alive, he would have popped up. We did some

975
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 2: good cgi with our Hollywood associates and gave the people

976
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 2: what they wanted. Justice. And then there's an Epstein reference. Jesus, Yeah,

977
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 2: of course, yeah, yeah. We couldn't have him Epstein himself.

978
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 2: He was dead, which was all we wanted. But now

979
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 2: it's clear he's not dead, and you can see. I

980
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 2: think Kaylee is going to turn out to be a

981
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 2: good character because she's disturbed that they lied about the

982
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 2: President being dead. I love the idea of Donald Trump

983
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 2: living in hiding in the undercraft.

984
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 4: He would hate hanging out with these guys, oh my god,

985
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 4: because they are not the same class level. Like he

986
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 4: does not fuck with these people actually, and he is

987
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 4: not gonna want to hang out with the sons of libert.

988
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 2: He's able to spend five or six years, completely silent

989
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 2: in the underground. When the real Trump gets cut off

990
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 2: of Twitter and creates a new app so that he

991
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 2: can tweet on the toilets, like the discrepancy between the

992
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 2: real man and this like cold blooded operator president is

993
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 2: extremely funny to me. Sure anyway, Kayley's concerned because she's

994
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 2: used to being able to see through the propaganda and

995
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 2: she hadn't caught that they lied about this, But now

996
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 2: she's like, you want me to assassinate the president of

997
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 2: the United States. He is not the president, not anymore,

998
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 2: the secretary had raged in her voice. It was understandable.

999
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 2: She and the President had been sworn enemies years before

1000
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,399
Speaker 2: the liberation. On top of that, they've already declared him dead.

1001
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 2: The United States is what we've made it, not what

1002
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 2: he was in charge of. That country is no more.

1003
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 2: He's a war criminal. The man is a monster and abomination.

1004
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 2: What I want is for you to do your job.

1005
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 2: The world thinks him dead, so we need to maintain that.

1006
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: Can you do it? And uh yeah? She's like, yeah,

1007
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 2: I need all the money you can give me, and

1008
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 2: I need a team. And she's told that she's gonna

1009
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 2: be She's going to have to fight against the the

1010
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 2: se groups out there, right, So the the remnants of

1011
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 2: the real cops have a conflict with the social enforcement

1012
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 2: cops because they don't actually follow any rules. They're just

1013
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 2: mobs of people who break windows and light your car

1014
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 2: on fire, which is the best word, the best world

1015
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 2: building in this book so far. But apparently AOC is

1016
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 2: in the process of trying to destroy the Social Enforcement Organization.

1017
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 4: It's great because it's, yeah, what if the world was

1018
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 4: full of like there's maybe like twenty anarchists who are

1019
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 4: actually like this, but what if everybody was those twenty people?

1020
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, and what if there were enough of them to

1021
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 2: overthrow the government exactly?

1022
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then just like keep going afterwards too, they

1023
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 4: just can't stop break a windows.

1024
00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we get a little inside AOC. Is my here.

1025
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: Six years ago, I was an outspoken junior congresswoman, a

1026
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:05,879
Speaker 2: radical in my own party. Now I control the most

1027
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 2: powerful agency in the Fed Gov. So yeah, she's she has.

1028
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 2: She pushed through the Restores Civil Liberties Act, which rolled

1029
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 2: all of the different police agencies together. So that's that's fun.

1030
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 2: And yeah, there's like a line about how they had

1031
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 2: to fire a few thousand cops to make this new

1032
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 2: cop agency. That's all the cop agencies, and that's a

1033
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,919
Speaker 2: small price to pay for to restore public confidence. Now

1034
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 2: the nu American people can feel a sense of confidence

1035
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 2: in their law enforcement. Even in her own head. It's

1036
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: nu America.

1037
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 4: So there's like the real cops and like the cancel

1038
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 4: culture cops, both working independently at the same time.

1039
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, Garrison, that's my understanding.

1040
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay, sure.

1041
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 2: Now that ends chapter two or chapter one. And now

1042
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 2: at chapter two we start in Alvarado, Texas.

1043
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 3: It was all one chapter.

1044
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 2: That was one chapter, Garrison, a lot of round right,

1045
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 2: he made moves. You know, we're we're almost done with

1046
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,839
Speaker 2: this episode. But I want to introduce you to Raoul Lopez,

1047
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,360
Speaker 2: who is He's eighteen years old and he's he's trying

1048
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 2: to decide should he join the youth cores.

1049
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 3: No.

1050
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: Most of his fellow high school graduate student line for

1051
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:18,280
Speaker 2: reparation points and stimulus relief rather than the land jobs.

1052
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 2: The TV news said Numerica was prospering, but he never

1053
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 2: saw it. Many businesses had been damaged by the riots

1054
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 2: and closed up forever, and others had simply left their

1055
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: buildings gutted for copper wire and plumbing.

1056
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 3: So what's changed. We still have TV news, we still

1057
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 3: have businesses like mm.

1058
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1059
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 2: What's different is that the entire economy seems to be

1060
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 2: based around reparations.

1061
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 4: Reparations and stimulus. Yeah, so we have like universal basic

1062
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 4: income and reparations and nationalized healthcare.

1063
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 2: It's kind of unclear.

1064
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 3: We did it, Joe. And they cancel culture cups.

1065
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:58,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, they cancel culture mob cups. So he Raoul goes

1066
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,399
Speaker 2: into the recruiters eye for the youth core and she's

1067
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 2: like hot. That's the first thing he notices is she's hot.

1068
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 2: She's got a small triangle insignia on her right collar,

1069
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 2: which he says is probably a rank. I think it

1070
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 2: might actually be like the queer triangle, like for concentration

1071
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 2: camp inmates. Because she's about to talk to him about

1072
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 2: the different minority groups he's a part of and how

1073
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 2: many points he'll get from them on his reparations. It's bad.

1074
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 2: It's bad. Garrison so weird. Also, this is a personal

1075
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:32,879
Speaker 2: pet peeve, but he describes the electronic device she's using

1076
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 2: as a digipad, and like, just call it an iPad.

1077
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 7: Man.

1078
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 2: You wrote this in twenty twenty one. It's set in

1079
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. They didn't invent a new set of tablets.

1080
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 2: It just give her an iPad.

1081
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 3: It's like, it's so fine, just say tablet like this

1082
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 3: till it right? Did you?

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Speaker 2: Pad?

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00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 3: Is so pad?

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00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 2: Come on, man, come on, man, like we have tablets.

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00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 2: So Roll was the first person in his family to

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00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 2: graduate high school, and she his mom, wanted him to

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00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 2: go to college. Rule had tried to explain to his

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00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:06,720
Speaker 2: mother that his grades had been low, that jumping straight

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00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 2: into college was not really an option. The problem was

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00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 2: that when college had been made free, everyone wanted to go.

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00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 2: The colleges couldn't handle the massive influx students got in

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00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 2: based on race, sexual preference, poverty level. Even with Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 3: What are we doing?

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00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?

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00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 3: How many dicks have you sucked? He's on the application.

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Speaker 2: Paper, Jesus, Oh my god, it's so funny. I'm sorry.

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00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 3: Not enough dix for the graduate program.

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00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 2: Not enough dick. So your grades back, literally, that's what

1100
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 2: he's like, is like, because of all the different things

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00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 2: that count, your grades actually matter, and my grades aren't

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00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 2: high enough to get in. And that's like why the

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00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 2: system's broken. That's so funny, Like it sounds like the

1104
00:57:54,760 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 2: systems still merit based. Then, yeah, it's very funny. So

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00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 2: this lady is like, no, you could. You could go

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00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 2: to college. If you do two years in the Youth Corps.

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00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 2: You get into any school that you want, right, and

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00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 2: there's even classes in the evenings to help you prepare

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00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 2: for school, and those grades can boost your high school

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00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 2: grades retroactively so you can get into better colleges. It

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00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 2: actually sounds like the Youth Corp is a great deal.

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Speaker 2: Garrisons deal. You get paid, you get freedom and board,

1113
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,919
Speaker 2: on the job training, free admission to any college you want.

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00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 3: That's not a bad deal.

1115
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds great. So he asks does it pay, and

1116
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 2: she tells him we pay off the freedom scale. It

1117
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 2: isn't a lot, but we're providing you room, board and training.

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00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 2: You'd be ranked by reparation points. You are Hispanic, so

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00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 2: that would give you some points, but being male will

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Speaker 2: hold you back for points based on sex. By any chance,

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00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 2: are you gay? Transgender are part of an oppressed religion?

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00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 1: See, I'm fine with them giving CIS men less points.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, that's exactly what she says. You'll still

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00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 2: make more than a privileged white man.

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Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. You're still on the team, buddy.

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00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 2: And role asks even if we did the same work.

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00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 2: Of course, the recruiter said with a smile. The scale

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00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 2: rates people by their oppressed status. The more oppressed you are,

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00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 2: the more you're compensated. It's based on the reparations scale

1130
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Speaker 2: used for monthly checks. It's all designed to make things fair.

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Speaker 4: There's just this is so fox News break like, this

1132
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 4: is so sus Such a high number of people who

1133
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,439
Speaker 4: genuinely believe like this is what like the Democrats want

1134
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 4: to do and like like have already done for colleges,

1135
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 4: people who this is already what is happening like this,

1136
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 4: this is DEI.

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Speaker 3: This is like.

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Speaker 2: It's it's really funny, and it's like he's he's like,

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00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 2: I don't what prevents somebody from just lying about being

1140
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 2: gay to get more money, But he also doesn't do that,

1141
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 2: which is kind of like suddenly working against the author's point. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: I think this is a good place to end for

1143
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 2: now we've seen our vision of the of the terrifying

1144
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 2: antifa utopia. Garrison. I think it's interesting to see this

1145
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 2: actually laid out by somebody who's like a baseline level

1146
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:14,080
Speaker 2: of competent at writing, so you can really actually see

1147
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 2: what they think is going to happen or what they

1148
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:21,040
Speaker 2: think the Democrats want. Fascinating stuff.

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Speaker 4: I do wonder what my oppression level would be, like

1150
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 4: how much do I make? I would I would love

1151
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 4: to try to try to quantify this, honestly, but maybe

1152
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 4: that's for another another time.

1153
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's for another time. Well, Garrison, you know

1154
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 2: what's not for another time?

1155
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 3: The end of this episode.

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01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 2: That's fine right now? Oh yeah, what do you gotta plug? Garrison?

1157
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1158
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 4: There's probably something can happen here episode on some terrible

1159
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 4: thing that's happened that I put out recently, So go

1160
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 4: check out.

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Speaker 3: It could happen here.

1162
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 4: Sometimes we talk about good things too, so you never know.

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01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 4: It's always it's always a gamble. And then you can

1164
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,919
Speaker 4: find me on X the place to go to see

1165
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 4: what's happening at Hungry bo Tie.

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01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:05,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where Garrison will be whipping up his social

1167
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 2: enforcement mob. I'll try, I'll try.

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01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really uncomfortable hearing you call it X.

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01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 3: I was like, what are you?

1170
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you talking about? And everybody

1171
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Speaker 1: we did it. It's fucking over. Bye. Behind the Bastards

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01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,920
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1174
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,360
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1175
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