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Speaker 1: Hello, America. I'm Robert Evans. This is Behind the Bastards,

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Speaker 1: a podcast about terrible people. And just the other day

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Speaker 1: I was doing, you know, normal things for a leftist,

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Speaker 1: anarchist democratt, mainly namely masturbating to slash fiction about Barack

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Speaker 1: Obama and Joseph Stalin, my two heroes, when I came

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Speaker 1: across a book, a book that reminded me of all

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Speaker 1: of the wonderful beauty of conservatism and all of the

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Speaker 1: evils of my morally bankrupt liberal ideology. And today we're

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Speaker 1: going to read another section from that book, Ben Shapiro's

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Speaker 1: True Allegiance. Katie and Cody, why don't you come onto

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Speaker 1: the stage and take a bow? Hello? Hello, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Oh it's too much, too much,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. You guys do it.

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Speaker 1: We do it for you. Guplode from Joy Hi, more

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Speaker 1: praise please, more praise? Oh guy? Okay, first question for

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Speaker 1: the annal, who do you think is the bottom Obama

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Speaker 1: or Stalin um Obama? Obama? Obama? You think so? Huh,

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Speaker 1: I've I've experienced your episode. Yeah. This is going to

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Speaker 1: be the new Stalin Trotsky Debate, and it's about whether

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Speaker 1: or not Stalin or Obama's a bottom. You haven't yet,

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Speaker 1: so maybe there's more information. Well, yeah, I have yet.

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Speaker 1: I've yet to learn about his habits, but I could

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Speaker 1: see that I think Obama's you know, yeah, I do

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Speaker 1: think that Biden or that not Biden Stalin. Sorry, they're

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Speaker 1: both such similar people. I think that Stalin is probably

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Speaker 1: has the versatility to be a switch for sure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who's to say, to be a fly on the wall

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Speaker 1: of that fan fick. I mean, I have some good

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Speaker 1: news about the way fan fiction works, Katie. I'm very

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Speaker 1: excited to be back. Um. I was not able to

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Speaker 1: attend the last chapters. Yeah that day, Yeah, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know you missed. Ben Shapiro still has not learned how

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Speaker 1: to write a single sentence. Yeah, as far as I know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to be fair, he got a little sleepy. M Yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe a sleepy on the third day when four days

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Speaker 1: to write this. Yeah, and on the fourth day he

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Speaker 1: got sleepy. Yeah. You know, we had a we had

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Speaker 1: a couple of different things in there, um, including President

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Speaker 1: Mark Prescott, who's who's white? Obama getting to give his

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Speaker 1: equivalent of the speech. George Bush gave it ground zero,

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Speaker 1: which is bad when a Democrat does it. But it

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Speaker 1: was good that George Bush did it. Um, simple maths

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Speaker 1: and yeah, and actually we're going to start again with

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Speaker 1: another President Prescott chapter as we as we turned into

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Speaker 1: six of the way through True Allegiance. So that's the

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Speaker 1: only thing I really missed was that the president gave

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Speaker 1: a speech. No, I mean, the black gangster character got

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Speaker 1: angry that the Al Sharpton character didn't want to kill

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Speaker 1: replace all of the cops with gangsters. Uh, cops aren't

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Speaker 1: already gangsters. Change changing the force that move. Oh and

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Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne did a did what what what's the term

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Speaker 1: when you you judge people based on their racest criminals? Um?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, racial profiling. And then it didn't help. And

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Speaker 1: but the point was still that it's good to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: didn't do what it was supposed to do. Um, and

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Speaker 1: learned nothing. He learned. Yeah, bit is even bad at

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Speaker 1: writing propaganda. Unbelievable, wrote a case against it. Still didn't

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Speaker 1: still see what he's doing. Yeah, because he kind of

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Speaker 1: racial profiling be like this is bad because it's racial profiling,

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Speaker 1: and then the racial profiling doesn't work and it turns

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Speaker 1: out they were right. But you're not supposed to walk

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Speaker 1: away from the book thinking that it was a good

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Speaker 1: it was a good try. We're glad he did it

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Speaker 1: because we need to keep doing it, alright, alrightn we

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Speaker 1: love we love your commas. So, almost two thirds of

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Speaker 1: the way into the book, here's President Prescott's chapter New

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Speaker 1: York City, featuring a lot of other characters. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: could switch forward in time thirty what we're starting there,

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Speaker 1: We'll see where we land. Ben knows that the key

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Speaker 1: to any like, really readable piece of fiction is that

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Speaker 1: the reader never have any sense of grounding or understanding

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Speaker 1: of where he is, much like yeah, yeah, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is this is I would describe Ben Shapiro as most

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Speaker 1: like this true allegiance is most similar to, for example,

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Speaker 1: the Dubliners. It's just like the Dubliners. That's surely that's

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Speaker 1: I do. Now, thinking about Ben Shapiro trying to write

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Speaker 1: just a book full of just like the sea wordword. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so the first chapter that we're going to read today

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Speaker 1: is Ellen, who remember is Ben Shapiro's wife, um, but

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Speaker 1: Governor Bubba Davis, who is basically George Bush. I think

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Speaker 1: that's what Ben's going for. Yeah, he's bushy in. He's

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Speaker 1: I can tell because he uses the classic Texan phrase

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Speaker 1: Horne swaggled all. The Governor Davis's refusal to send the

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Speaker 1: National Guard to New York sparked a firestorm across the nation.

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Speaker 1: He cited precedent, hadn't The governor of California refused a

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Speaker 1: but in the aftermath of the bridge attack, he didn't

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Speaker 1: get much sympathy. Everyone knows that Texas thinks of itself

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Speaker 1: the camera. Well that this was a man and not

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Speaker 1: a woman. Because this is how, this is how Ben

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Speaker 1: yet has to be a man because he didn't write screeching,

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Speaker 1: So here's Ben Shapiro, who clearly knows how people talk

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Speaker 1: on NBC, describing what NBC would say. Everyone knows that

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Speaker 1: Texas thinks of itself as its own little country, but

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Speaker 1: this time their hick governor has shown himself to be

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Speaker 1: deeply unpatriotic. You don't get to be a star in

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Speaker 1: while when your country needs you, which is like, first,

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Speaker 1: actually a good point. Second, remember when a literal fascist

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately still and still do every every day everything. But no,

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Speaker 1: MSNBC gets on and calls him a hick governor. Right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's getting it right. So yeah, Heroically, Governor Davis refuses

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Speaker 1: mass casualty event that's killed thousands of Americans. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: the media lambasts him for it. The media ran with

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Speaker 1: the story a president calling for love and unity and

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Speaker 1: a southern secessionist governor looking like George Wallace. Never mind

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Speaker 1: that Davis that's stood with the marchers of the Civil

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Speaker 1: old South. The media through collade, which I love. So

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Speaker 1: it's very funny. He's doing a good job und character,

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Speaker 1: you see well, and it's it's also just an example

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Speaker 1: because if you're writing a good book, you should always

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to make this character into clearly a good,

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Speaker 1: civil rights marchers. That's the laziest way to make him

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Speaker 1: It would be considered unbelievably lazy if it wasn't the

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Speaker 1: make it an interesting fucking story. He saved a bus

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Speaker 1: We can just tell you it's like how. It's like

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Speaker 1: how When they made the action movie Classic die Hard. Uh,

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Speaker 1: down there, they'll accuse me of outright insurrection. You're competent,

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Speaker 1: damn it, you're a woman, and those sexists and the

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Speaker 1: up in a box, it means more than nothing at all,

422
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: more than nothing at all, than nothing at all, even

423
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 1: just a little bit, a little bit should be the

424
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: bare minimum, just a bare minimum, just like go back

425
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: and add a sentence. It's not yeah, it's fine, it's good. Yeah.

426
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: Now the holes on his head that used to hold

427
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: eyes stared through. Ellen written on his forehead and blue

428
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: ink was one word terrorista. She held back the urge

429
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: to vomit. Why hold that back? Sentence? Man, Yeah, this sentence,

430
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: she turned away, thinking it was a genius move. She concluded,

431
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: so offensive that there would have to be some response

432
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: from the Texas government. A crime directed not at the

433
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: national government, that at an individual claimed by the Mexican

434
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: government to be a criminal. Wow, that's was one sentence.

435
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 1: It played directly to Davis's soft spot abandonment. He'd wanted

436
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 1: to retaliate, he'd wanted to push across the border into Warez,

437
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: and Prescott would want no part of it. Not while

438
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: he was trying to woo the president of Mexico to

439
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: endorse his job creation plan, and not while he had

440
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,719
Speaker 1: the whole entire world unifying around him. Yeah, it might

441
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 1: be bad to invade Mexico in a time like that.

442
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I just got what Ben's doing. So

443
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 1: this book we have another nine eleven, and after the

444
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: actual nine eleven, George Bush immediately invaded Afghanistan and started

445
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: agitating to invade Iraq and playing the part of Iraq

446
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 1: and Afghanistan in this book is Mexico. Bush was right

447
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: to invade a country that had nothing to do with

448
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: the terrorist attack, and Bubba Davis is right to invade Mexico,

449
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: which also had nothing to do with the terrorist attack. Yeah, excellent,

450
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: I love it. Good stuff. Yeah. So Bubba calls Ellen

451
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: and he's like, this is America, not Afghanistan. This ship

452
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: can't happen at along my border. It's America's border, Bubba.

453
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: But America won't do ship to protect it. They failed.

454
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,159
Speaker 1: Now it's my turn. She took a deep breath, Governor,

455
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: She said, you do this and you could be looking

456
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: at open conflict with Press Scott this time. No more

457
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: play acting, no more excuses. You think he's going to

458
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: send his boys down here to shoot at our boys

459
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: over us killing some drug dealers. I don't know, but

460
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: neither do you. Everybody on Earth has called the president's bluff,

461
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: said Davis. Everybody. He's caved every time. What would make

462
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: this time different? You, she answered, he hates you. That

463
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: won't make his cohne is any bigger. Girl, he laughed. Girl, Yeah,

464
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: this is this is how people talk. Yeah, yeah, I'm

465
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing some dead criminals for a change.

466
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: And the line goes dead, and then Ellen quotes Caesar,

467
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, and says ali Ayakta s stuff, which well,

468
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: I think it should be s, but I'm not an

469
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: expert on Latin, which means like, it's what Caesar said

470
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: when he crossed the Rubicon. Because Ben Shapiro only knows

471
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: about classical history and only the parts of classical history

472
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: that are dramatic and stuff. Yeah, okay, the hero moments

473
00:27:52,680 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: where the hero of history Julius Caesar, destroys the democracy. Actually,

474
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: so yeah, I get why Ben, yeah is on board. Okay,

475
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: So next we have a solo Dad chapter. So that's yeah,

476
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: Soli Dad, if you'll remember, is uh the only woman

477
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: of color in the story and also a terrorist, but

478
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: a good terrorist that's been like yeah, yeah, So she's

479
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: hanging out with a bunch of her militia guys, one

480
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: of whom the black man who is there to tell

481
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: her that everything that she's doing is good. Uh, and

482
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: make Ben not seem racist, because look, there's a black

483
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: man in the book, Ezekiel uh is hanging out with

484
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: her and a bunch of guns, and one of Solidad's

485
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: men is like, we need to talk. Sola Dad nodded.

486
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: The men filed out of the living room into the outdoors.

487
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: Ezekiel nodded at her. You need anything, holler, I'll be outside,

488
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: he said. Aiden, who's the other guy, collapsed into a

489
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: broken down sofa, breathing hard, and then he leaned forward,

490
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: staring at Sola Dad. We need to go to Detroit,

491
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: he said, And in fairness, every time I've gone to

492
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: Detroit it did start with an emotional converse station. Yeah.

493
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: So uh yeah. She laughs at this because they're supposed

494
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: to be staying off grid and hiding. But Aiden's like,

495
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: Ricky needs my help. Ricky is the cop who shot

496
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: the dead eyed black boy. Um, and I guess he's

497
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: a friend of Solo Odds, one of her militiamen. Um. Yeah,

498
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: so Aiden informs us that those pieces of ship, which

499
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: I think are Black Lives Matter activists, just took over

500
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: the detention center. Um, and so yeah, he's worried. Okay,

501
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,959
Speaker 1: so Aiden's worried that the cop who killed the dead

502
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: eyed black boy is going to get murdered by the

503
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: BLM activists who took over the detention center where he's

504
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: being held. Okay, all right, Okay, that's good. That's at

505
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: least relatively succinct. Okay, it's pretty racist, but succinct. Oh yeah,

506
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's clear. I'm not confused. Yeah. They

507
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: sat listening to the commercials for carpet cleaner and gold then,

508
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: which is accurate for Fox News, So I guess that's fair.

509
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: Then the news came back on a newscaster speaking in

510
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: somber tones. Is voice cut by static interference. The protesters

511
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: gathered outside the detention center, chanting that they want their

512
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: own trial. So it doesn't look like we're missing any

513
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: words there. There's just in the middle of there, because

514
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: Ben doesn't even know how to write end static Like

515
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: the sentence is complete, it has in the middle. Yeah, yeah,

516
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: they're static in the middle of it. But the sentence

517
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: that we get is the protesters gathered outside the detention center,

518
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: chanting that they want their own trial. That's pretty I

519
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: don't know, we're not missing much there. Weird choice anyway,

520
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: Aden switches the radio off. He calls it an old

521
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 1: fashioned lynch mob because they're black people. Uh, and white

522
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: people are the victims of racism. Yeah, they're not going

523
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: home without a head on a pike. Uh. Cool. And

524
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: apparently sol It ads like, why do you care about

525
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: this guy? And he's like with ruins. He saved my

526
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: life once, so now you want to return the favor.

527
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: He nodded. But this isn't just about you anymore, she said,

528
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: I've got forty guys out there who abandoned everything they

529
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,479
Speaker 1: had to come out here and try to be left alone.

530
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: You want me to put them in the middle of

531
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: a ship storm. The storm is coming to you. They're distracted,

532
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: but leave us alone for how long? Aidan grimaced. I'll

533
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: bet Ricky thought they'd leave him alone, that he was

534
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: doing the right thing when he shot that black boy.

535
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the dead eyed black child. Yeah, good lord.

536
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: H Aidan then thanks Sola Dad for giving her a

537
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: real something he'd been missing, a reason to fight. Uh.

538
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: So that's good, that's great. Yeah, it's just a bad book. Uh,

539
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, it's just a bad book. Okay, So

540
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: she thinks. She goes through a little long dark Teatime

541
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: of the Soul for a paragraph or so, and then

542
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: she decides to head out at nightfall to Detroit. And

543
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: then they're in Detroit, arrived in the evening, a chain

544
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: of cars and motorcycles taking refuge in the abandoned Michigan

545
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: Central Station, the old rail depot for the city. Uh

546
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: that the Aiden guides them through because I guess he

547
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: knows Detroit everything is decayed. Uh and bulling. Um. And yeah,

548
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: they hold up in an abandoned building and make it

549
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: their their their HQ. There's homeless drunks uh still around

550
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: the place. Um, because yeah, that's all of all of Detroit. Um.

551
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. So um yeah, oh, we get a

552
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: little rant about ben Shapira. For for years, the city

553
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: had tried to rehabilitate the building. It had been bought, rebought,

554
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: bought again. It considered bonds, taxpayer subsidies, anything to get

555
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: the building restored. Nobody had bothered Detroit was a disaster area.

556
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: Investing money in the city would be a massive waste.

557
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: Aidan had grown up in Detroit. He had said he

558
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: knew the city well. His grandfather worked for General Motors,

559
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: had a union job that was supposed to keep himployed

560
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: all his life. Then foreign cars began flooding the American market,

561
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: and the auto union contracts meant that American car companies

562
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: couldn't compete. Jobs started fleeing. As they did, the government

563
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: of the city decided to raise taxes dramatically, and the

564
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: people who still held jobs and the companies that still

565
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: decided to stay in town, they left to mayor. After

566
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: mayor took off, his promising to bring business back then

567
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: pandered by crushing businesses that remained. The act space disappeared.

568
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: So that's how Ben Shapiro thinks Detroit wound up where

569
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: it wound up. Cool. Yeah, that's it. Is this like

570
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: a segment from his podcast. Yeah. He also notes that

571
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: white families moved out to the suburbs, Black families couldn't

572
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: afford the follow the city self segregated. Okay, it's as

573
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: simple as that they decided to Okay, a masterful understanding.

574
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: It's interesting with reality. Yeah, it's interesting what's happening here

575
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: because he starts off by saying that, like Detroit is hopeless,

576
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: and like it can't be fixed. And then the only

577
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: plight that's worth focusing on are like the this white

578
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: kid whose dad lost his job and who yeah, like

579
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: that's that's fun. Uh And yeah, this continues because Aidan

580
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: and Ricky meet in Detroit and they think they're the

581
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: only two white kids in town, and so they become

582
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: best friends. Um, their parents went to church together, They

583
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: fought back bullies together. Rickie was the straight arrow, Aidan

584
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: the but juvenile delinquent, eager and ready to do anything

585
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: to make friends. Uh yeah, so two white boys against

586
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: the uh bad black kids of Detroit. That's Aiden and

587
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: Ricky the cop who shoots that little boy to death.

588
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: That's good? That good good the good. Yeah, good was

589
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: the word I was gonna use to I was like,

590
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: what's the what's the right word for this? Ben would

591
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: know good? Yeah, Okay, So yeah they become friends. But

592
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 1: then Aiden is a juvenile delinquent and they grow apart.

593
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: One day, Aiden's mother saw Ricky and church asked him

594
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: if he'd seen Aiden. Ricky lied to cover for him. Aiden,

595
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 1: he'd said, was probably at the library. Then hands gripped

596
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: into fists. Still wearing his Sunday suit, he went looking

597
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: for Aidan. He found him in a Rundown tract house,

598
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: surrounded by a couple of dropouts, high on weed and

599
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 1: drunk off his ass. Aiden. Ricky said, your mom's looking

600
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: for you. She missed you at church. One of the

601
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: losers laughed, Yeah, mama's boy, your mom is looking for you.

602
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: Shut up. Aiden slurred to him, Yeah, we'll tell her

603
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: I'm out here. I'm not gonna do that. I'd said

604
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: i'd come and get you. Aiden laughed, high pitched wine

605
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: that eventually tapered off into a snort. Well you tried, boy, scout.

606
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: Now get back home to your mama. Ricky grabbed him

607
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: by the scruff of his t shirt. Get your ass home, Aiden,

608
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: or what Aiden sneered or this, Ricky punched him in

609
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: the face. Aiden went down like a load of brick. Wow.

610
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: So it's interesting because we're getting Aiden's backstory here, but

611
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: it's not being posted as him having a conversation with

612
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: Solidad and telling her what happened. We're just reading this

613
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: as if it's another like we've just to twenty years

614
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: in the past. Is another scene without any sort of break.

615
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: It's not like he's not remembering, Like we're not starting

616
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: this chapter on Aiden and him like having remembering been written.

617
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 1: He's not describing and he's not telling the story. It's

618
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: just a series of paragraphs that describes the scene. He's

619
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: such a dogshit writer. I think, I seriously do not

620
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: think anybody edited this book. No, they did not, would

621
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: have been like, this is not how you write a book.

622
00:35:55,239 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: Then did he self publish it? No? The publishing company

623
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: is um, it's not great. It's it's no. And it

624
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: reads one of those things where like it's like I'll

625
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: kind of pay you if you like publicists for me. Yeah,

626
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: we're all I'm gonna. I want to. I've wanted to

627
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: look into the publishing company for a long time because

628
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: it is very clear that like, yeah, first first, this

629
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Speaker 1: is first draft ship. Can we have a moment for

630
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Speaker 1: how good? Thank you? So wonderful? So this quick? I'm sorry,

631
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: I can't. Yeah, this is such a terrible scene. It's

632
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: it's horrible. And what's funny also is that what happens

633
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 1: here isn't even all that dramatic because like Ricky punches

634
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 1: him and then Aiden never gets high again. Uh, and

635
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: he becomes a fed Uh Yeah, he's with the a

636
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: T F right this is a a a low grade

637
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 1: uh misrepresentation of something that was kind of similar that

638
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 1: barely didn't maybe kind of happened to Ben or somebody

639
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: he knew. I think it's just something Been assumes happens

640
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: to take him back. It's like this, like yo, like

641
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: this is this is what? Yeah, the tell there is

642
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: that within the book because it's not aiden telling the story.

643
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: It's the author telling this story referring to that person

644
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: as a one of the losers. That's all you need

645
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: to know. Yeah, yeah, it's very insightful and it's it's

646
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: interesting because this is clearly what Ben thinks drug addiction is,

647
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: as opposed to he's actually what he's actually described as

648
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: a kid smoking weed and drinking in a house, which

649
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 1: is not an evidence of a serious problem. Most people

650
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: in this country have something like that happen when their teens,

651
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: and it's generally fine. Like if you want to have this,

652
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: be like, haven't get into heroin or some ship, have

653
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: fucking ricky, like find him oh ding and turn him

654
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: over and stop him from choking on his own puke.

655
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: At least make it a life or death situation. If

656
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: this guy's going to say he saved my life. No,

657
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: he got high on weed. He got high on weed

658
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: that one time and then got punched. One of the

659
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: losers punched him. No, no, no, that was Ricky. His

660
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: friend punched him. Because that's how heroes. Heroes make solve

661
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: all their problems with violence. That's what makes them heroes.

662
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, Beta, Sorry, sorry once again. Yeah, okay,

663
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: so that's why Aidan, the guy that we barely know,

664
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: wants to save Ricky, the guy who shot that dead

665
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: eyed black child, thinks it's disgusting and uncivil to punch Nazis.

666
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: I bet he does, but not your pot spoken friends,

667
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: not if it helps him become FEDS. Um. Yeah, so okay.

668
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: They go through like a plan. They talk about like

669
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 1: how the fucking detention centers laid out and yeah, okay,

670
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 1: so here's Aidan again. So here's the plan. We have

671
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: to wait until the right time. We're not interested in

672
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: taking out the police. They're armed, and they're scared, and

673
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: armed and scared are just as likely to shoot us

674
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: as anybody else. Bens on the virgins just dancing right

675
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: around it, isn't he? That is why people are angry.

676
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: Ben get there, just get there, man? Uh? Instead we

677
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: need chaos for the cover. Every riot has led by

678
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: a few key characters been the riot nowhere. Everybody that

679
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: they look like they're ready for war, but most of

680
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: them to show their friends that they're brave. The authorities

681
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: know that, so their chief task is to arrest the

682
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 1: rabble rousers and let the rest sort of fade away.

683
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: If that happens, we'll never get Officer of Sullivan out

684
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: of there. I guarantee you that whoever is leading this

685
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 1: thing is smart and capable. This is not amateur our.

686
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: Oh so it's we're getting into Ben's like the all if.

687
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: It's like riots and protests are like nefariously organized because

688
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 1: people couldn't spontaneously, you know, form up in large numbers

689
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: and confront and out maneuver the police without having like

690
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: a leadership cast. Yeah, it's funny because an article dropped

691
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: last week where like revealing, like so the Department of

692
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: Home and Secured in the FBI were spying on Portland

693
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: protesters during the protests and riots this summer, and we're

694
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: like desperately trying to figure out who the leaders were

695
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: and the exact like the exact like wording in the

696
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: report was something along the lines of all we wound

697
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: up with was a list of who was canceling who

698
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: on Twitter. It's very funny, beautiful. Yeah, it's the best

699
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: thing that's ever happened. I have never been so happy

700
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: reading a story that Yeah, yeah, it fucking ruled. Um. Yeah,

701
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: Ben knows riots, absolutely knows him a riot, Ben Riot, Shapiroya. Okay,

702
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: So one of them in the back pipes up, why

703
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: don't we just grab him off the street when he's released,

704
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: and Ezekiel, who's again the only black guy in this group, gafaws.

705
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: Have you seen us? We stick out like a KKK

706
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: rally and Harlem, no chance they don't find us and

707
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: at least neutralizes. No, here's what we're gonna do. Oh wait,

708
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: and then he doesn't tell us what he's going to

709
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: do instead of Aiden, The next paragraph is so after

710
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 1: Ezekiel says here's what we're gonna do, Aiden takes out

711
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: a garbage bag and pulls uniforms from it. Then he

712
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: tosses to Sola, Dad and three of the other men

713
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: who stepped forward to put them on. Now for the

714
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 1: rest of you guys, I've got something really special. Doesn't

715
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: even tell them anything, just throws out uniforms and men

716
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: start putting them on. Ben is a real bad writer.

717
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: I mean everything, everything that he has a character say

718
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: is like a cliche. I'm not thinking sure of the

719
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: right word, but it's like an overused phrase, like a

720
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: sentence structure that's like so obvious and overused. It's not like, yeah,

721
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: it's not Cliches necessarily will stand out like a KKK

722
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: member in Harlem. Well, and it's also, of course it

723
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 1: had to be the black guy who said that, because

724
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: he would think of Harlem, um like right like. And

725
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: it's it's also that he says, here's the plan, and

726
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: then nobody explains the plan, and instead another character takes

727
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: out a garbage bag full of uniforms and everybody understands

728
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: it um. And the chapter ends with Aidan opening a

729
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: duffel bag with T shirts in it, and we don't

730
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: know what's on the T shirts, but everybody's jaw drops

731
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: and Solidad chuckles, Well, you've got to die sometimes. So

732
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: I'm guessing my guess is that something racist is on

733
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: them to draw attention and create a giant fight or

734
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: something so that they can sneak in and free Ricky.

735
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: That'd be my guess kind of like kind of like

736
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: the start of the third die Hard movie. Actually, yeah, yeah,

737
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: that's an arbor Day movie. Okay, you're quicker than me, Cody.

738
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: Our next chapter is a lev On chapter. I think

739
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: we have to take a break. Oh yeah, yeah, I

740
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: guess we should. You just took the words out of

741
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: my mouth. I'm sorry, I apologize, welcome, I'm appreciative. I'm

742
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: appreciative too, and you know who's most appreciatives the products

743
00:42:54,080 --> 00:43:01,320
Speaker 1: and services that support this pod cast was gonna discast.

744
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: I was so happy. All right, we're back and it's

745
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: time for some mother fucking leave One, who is again

746
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: the black crack dealing Osama bin Laden of the story basically,

747
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: although there's also another Osama bin Laden who's basically Osama

748
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: bin Laden but named mom. There's a lot of a

749
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: lot of Obama's Yeah absolutely not. Oh okay, so when

750
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: we open, he's sleeping with uh oh wait, no, okay, sorry,

751
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just start this for two days. Leave

752
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: On stood in the cold. He had his men bring

753
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: him food and clothing. He slept on the sidewalk. Next

754
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: to him slept the mother of Kendrick Malone, the little

755
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: kid that Ricky killed with them slept hundreds of others.

756
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: Every day, local businesses shipped out supplies for the group,

757
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: eager to be seen as caring for the plight of

758
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: the righteous protesters. And still they didn't release Ricky Osla.

759
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 1: And perhaps they thought that the crowd would dissipate. Perhaps

760
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: they were waiting for federal intervention. Intervention that wouldn't come.

761
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: The President had already declared that this was a local matter,

762
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: and the resources of the state had already been redirected

763
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: to the disaster area in New York City. There would

764
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: be no cavalry, and so they waited. Each day, members

765
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: of the media crowded around leaf On to hear his words.

766
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: But each day the number of media dwindled, the attention

767
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: span of the nation ran shorter and shorter these days. Well, yeah,

768
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: there's just been a giant terrorist attack and the governor

769
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: of Texas is invading Mexico. So I guess people occupying

770
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: a detention center might not be the top story in

771
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: the nation at the time. Yeah, fair enough. So what

772
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: newspapers they have access to in there? Yeah, So leave

773
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: On decides that the time has come for action because

774
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: the media is not paying attention anymore, but action required provocation.

775
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: So far, the authorities had been smart. They had hold up,

776
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: put nobody on the street, waited for the ire to

777
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: burn itself out, you know, like we saw the cops

778
00:44:55,520 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 1: do this year. Oh yeah, They hadn't at any statements

779
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: other than to praise the peacefulness of the protesters and

780
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: suggest their sympathies for the protesters cause. Okay, So yeah,

781
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: then knows how the cops work. That's how they would

782
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: handle an occupation of a detention center. Jesus. Okay, So

783
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: Big Jim is offering to negotiate the uh yeah, negotiate

784
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: the stalemate. He said that Levin could become a player

785
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: by accepting the verdict demanding change from the Feds and

786
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: being granted an informal say in the appointment of officials

787
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: up to and including police officers. He said that Levin

788
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: should just let O'Sullivan go show that he was the

789
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: bigger man. Already, Big Jim had gone on national television

790
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: urging the President to send more federal officials to talk

791
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: about the future. Um the nation's eyes had been riveted

792
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: on Detroit, But with the Big Jim's in premature of legitimacy,

793
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: the Detroit. Federal solution was gradually drawing the steam out

794
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: of the kettle. La la, okay, just just just boring ship.

795
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: And then they arrived, like a blessing from the skies.

796
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: They came. There weren't many of them, but they were

797
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: enough white men, writing motorcycles, planting themselves in the midst

798
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: of the newly minted tent city, and they wore t

799
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: shirt fight the thugs. That okay, so he's got right

800
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: wing vigilantes showing up to a BLM protest. Ben did

801
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: predict one that got the media's attention, but oddly enough,

802
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: few of the men wanted to talk to the media.

803
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: That part's not accurate. One in particular bowed his head

804
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: anytime the cameras came near Levin, denounced them for the cameras.

805
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 1: Who are these white supremacists coming into a city white

806
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: racism is ruined and accusing us of racism for standing

807
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: up for our human rights, but secretly thanked God for

808
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: bringing them. It kept the fight alive at least for

809
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 1: another day. Okay, so become the Big Jim craft. Oh,

810
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: we switched fewpoint characters. So we've got Big Jim and

811
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: he's penning an up ed for the Wall Street Journal

812
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: and hanging out in his house and stuff. Uh to do?

813
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: The next step in Detroit, Big Jim knew would be

814
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,240
Speaker 1: to give leave on an option for withdrawal with some grace.

815
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: He'd already pressed lev On, and he knew Levan was waiting,

816
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: hoping for something big to happen, but that seemed unlikely.

817
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: With the nation's attention riveted elsewhere, Big Jim climbs out

818
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: of the shower. God, this is yes, this is just

819
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: a random interlude with Big Jim. Here, wait a second. Uh.

820
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: Suddenly he felt out of breath. He plunged forward, grabbing

821
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: the sync with both hands, but he could feel the

822
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 1: strengthen those hands weakening. He tried to push his fingertips

823
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: into the marble. They wouldn't give. For some reason, a

824
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: desperate need to hold himself up rushed over him, and

825
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: as he felt his bulk dragging towards the cool floor,

826
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 1: away from the fog the mirror, he had the odd

827
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: thought that the floor was red. Then he realized it

828
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: was red and slippery with his blood. He lost his grip.

829
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: His face hit the uzing puddle hard. He never saw

830
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: the man who fired the second round into his head.

831
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: Oh so he's geting. He gets shot to death ship.

832
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,359
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that was leave On. Um, yeah, that seems right.

833
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, now we're back to leave On after

834
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: killing Big Jim. Uh. And he's looking at the T

835
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 1: shirt gang. So I guess that's the shirts that said

836
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: they said fight the thugs. Uh. Because ben Ben wasn't

837
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: even courageous enough to make the shirts really racist as

838
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: like a direct promocation again like the die hard thing. Um, okay, yeah,

839
00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 1: fight the thing A delicate dance. Yeah, so we wind

840
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: up with a big belly. Oh Jesus Christ. Okay. There

841
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 1: were eight of them. All to four had their hogs

842
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: planted in the corners of the street, ready to move

843
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: off at the first sign of trouble. Three of the

844
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: other four planted themselves near the front of the crowd.

845
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: Neither steps to the detention center. The lone remaining man,

846
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: a white, bearded, big bellied bear in his mid sixties,

847
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: stood the crowd. Yeah I think so, like like a

848
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: A group of young protesters screamed obscenities at him. He

849
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: stood his ground placidly. A buzz built at the back

850
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: of the crowd, more white men, all wearing the same

851
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: shirts pulled up on motorcycles saying nothing. The Credit protesters

852
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: moved on them, expecting a confrontation. That's when Levin's phone

853
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: rang and he gets the news that Big Jim is dead,

854
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 1: and he screams out, they killed Big Jim to the cameras, Uh, yeah,

855
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: they killed Big Jim. Tear it down, all down, tear

856
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: down this corrupt system. Um, and I guess everybody uh

857
00:48:55,160 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 1: starts to go fucking nuts. Yeah, yeah, it's riot time yet, Shapiro. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

858
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,280
Speaker 1: Teenager with a tire iron grabs the white dude's beard

859
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: and pulls him to the ground from his beard and

860
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: then beats him with a tire iron in the belly.

861
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: Um and a bunch of other guys try to break

862
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: into the detention center, screaming, give us O'Sullivan, Um, give

863
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: us the child murderer. Cut off the beginning of that video. Yeah,

864
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: it sounds like he did. That, sounds like this is

865
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: VERI yeah, no, no, But the right wing guys would

866
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 1: just standing there placidly like they always do, the placid

867
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: bear of a man who, if this were a reality,

868
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: would have had like bear mace canisters in both hands.

869
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,760
Speaker 1: Think I do think ben is a writer that uses

870
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: the thesaurus. Search on Google is just like, what's an

871
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: word for calm placid? That sounds good. I'm a writer

872
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: behind Leave on the Street exploded them a writer, m

873
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: dash a man who writes things. Comma writing is what

874
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: I do? Period, he wrote, he wrote writing late behind

875
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: lev on the Street exploded into chaos, protesters and writers

876
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: merging into one throng. That's a weird way to say that.

877
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: The bearded white bear had disappeared into the center of

878
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: the crowd, his body trampled, kicked, stump, spit on. Hundreds

879
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: of people gathered in a circle to watch, to participate.

880
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: At the outskirts of the riot, motorcycles rev their engine,

881
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: fending off rocks and bottles. One of pulls out a

882
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 1: handgun and fires it into the air, scattering the crowd

883
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: near him, but drawing a few slat of debris from

884
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: all quarters. YadA, YadA, YadA. Levan gets handed a crowbar

885
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: and he starts beating the windows of the detention center

886
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: and he breaks in, but the room's empty, and he

887
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: has a bunch of his men come in and they're

888
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: all trying to find O'Sullivan. Uh oh, and now we

889
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 1: have another viewpoints which the attention officer unlocked the cell

890
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: holding Ricky o soul then and it creaked back on

891
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: its hinges. Oh. Sullivan backed up quickly into the corner,

892
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: his bulk filling it. You leave me alone, he said

893
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: to the masked woman in a police uniform. She wore

894
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: a bandana over her face and her gun was pointed

895
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: at the head of the detention officer. Follow me, Sola

896
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: Dad said, okay, so they're just in the solo. Dad's

897
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 1: gotten in there. We don't need to here, they just

898
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: it just happened, guys there. Yeah. She also threatens to

899
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: murder Ricky if he doesn't come with her, which is

900
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: odd for a rescue um. Yeah, and then she tells

901
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: him that the crowd wants to hurt him after threatening

902
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: to kill him. Uh okay, Oh wait, no, she's she's

903
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:36,879
Speaker 1: saying that the crowd will kill you if you don't

904
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: come with me. Okay, I guess that makes more questions.

905
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: You have been just wrote it badly shocking. Yeah. Yeah.

906
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:50,399
Speaker 1: Uh so she and Ricky take off and they get

907
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: out just ahead of the rioters. So we have a

908
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,760
Speaker 1: viewpoint switched to Sola Dad and Ricky in the middle

909
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: of Levan's chapter. Oh, and then we're back to Aiden,

910
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: so we have another viewpoints switched to Aiden, then Levan

911
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 1: in the present of the past in the president. I

912
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: don't think we're hearing about his past. Aiden's waiting for

913
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: them in a garage with a swat van. We don't

914
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: seem to know how he got the squad van. M yeah,

915
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: Soladad pounded on the barrier to the van's driver's compartment. Go,

916
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: she screamed, Go, let's get the hell out of here,

917
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: not without Ezekiel. Aiden replied, what, He's not here, He'll

918
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: be here any moment. Now. Two of Leban's men had

919
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 1: reached the van. One began slamming on Aiden's window while

920
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:28,439
Speaker 1: the other tried to pry open the back of the van.

921
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: Hold on, Aiden shouted, throwing the van in reverse. The

922
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: man at the back of the van screeched his head

923
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,839
Speaker 1: banged against the iron of the door. Sola Dad felt

924
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: sick to her stomach at the bump as the wheels

925
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: hit him, but Aiden kept backing up until there were

926
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:41,919
Speaker 1: just a few inches of room between the rear doors

927
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: and the elevator next to the stairwell. Ezekiel's coming Aiden said,

928
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,760
Speaker 1: any second. Now, the man at the driver's table. Okay,

929
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,919
Speaker 1: So the guy pounding on the window cracks it. Aiden

930
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,320
Speaker 1: pulls out a twenty two caliber handgun, rolls down the

931
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: window slightly and fired. The bullet hit the man in

932
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 1: the shoulder, knocking him to the ground. Which that's like

933
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: the smallest possible handgun generally, like that twenty two is

934
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: like the smallest of the bullets. Yeah, which is not

935
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: to say that it can't kill people. But it's interesting

936
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: that this bullet knocks a man to the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

937
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: a presumably a large thug, another bear of a man.

938
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: We have we have we have to we have to assume,

939
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: we have to assume. Okay, So the elevator doors open

940
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: after this, and Ezekiel's they're sitting on the floor, his

941
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: mouth open, breaking hard blood ran down the side of

942
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: his police uniform. Sola Dad leapt out of the back doors,

943
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: grabbed him by the arms. Stay with me, Ezekiel, We're

944
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,879
Speaker 1: almost out, almost free. He grunted through another arm over

945
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: her shoulder. Oh, Sullivan grabbed him by the collar and

946
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: hoisted him into the van. Uh duh, So yeah, they

947
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: confront He has to gun the engine and drive through. Uh,

948
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: people with handguns who are threatening him. Shots are fired,

949
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: but they don't hit anybody. Um, dadda yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. Okay,

950
00:53:56,239 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: let's get through this boring action. Uh, boring. Yeah, it's

951
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: really boring action. Um okay, Yeah, they get out, they escape. Great.

952
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: Uh and now we're back to Oh we do finally

953
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:14,279
Speaker 1: get back to leave on. Um, so he's here's about

954
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,759
Speaker 1: O'Sullivan's escape. The street fights are have died down that

955
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: we were being told the police had fled the detention center. Uh,

956
00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: there's bodies in the street bleeding. It looked like a

957
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 1: war zone. He turned to face the reporter, the camera

958
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: directly in his face. She'd asked him a question before

959
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: he found out O'Sullivan was gone. He'd completely forgotten it.

960
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: What did you ask? He murmured, What comes next? She asked,

961
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: The mayor is vowing to keep order. Levin looked out

962
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: over his burning city, his burning city. We don't need

963
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 1: the mayor to keep order. He's just as corrupt as

964
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: the rest. We're in a war now. You saw them

965
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: out there on their motorcycles with their racist T shirts.

966
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: White supremacist killed Reverend Jim Crawford tonight. No pretty words

967
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 1: are going to bring him back. So here's what American

968
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: needs to know. Detroit is now in our hands. We

969
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: will have justice, and it starts with the mayor, but

970
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: that's not where it ends. We want to work with

971
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:58,959
Speaker 1: the police officers who will serve justice. If they weren't,

972
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 1: we'll have our own forces of justice. Brothers will not

973
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: burn down brothers businesses. There will be no looting, no violence.

974
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: That's not what Big Jim would have wanted. We're going

975
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: to build something new in this city, something better. On

976
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 1: these ashes. Wherever Ricky O'Sullivan is, we'll bring him back

977
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,439
Speaker 1: to justice too. This is the beginning of a new era.

978
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: The blood you see here tonight that will be repaid

979
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: in freedom. So tonight I call for the people in

980
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: my city to join me. It's time to rise up

981
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: and claim our freedom. In the distance, the sun began

982
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: to rise. So I guess we went through a whole

983
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: night already. Um Son began to rise. Yeah, Okay, we're

984
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: at the end of part three, the end of now

985
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: you know, we're into part two. Now we're in part three,

986
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: the end of the beginning. Oh God, is that the

987
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: name of that. Yeah, I think this is a Brett

988
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: Hawthorne chapter. Okay, Okay, we'll go a little further. We

989
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:51,399
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta talk to Brett. Okay at the beginning. Yeah,

990
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 1: So it starts with Brett getting a phone call from

991
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: his friend Hassan, who's again his Muslim friend who he

992
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: went to school with, who worked for the FBI to

993
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: inform on other slams, but then stopped working with the

994
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,879
Speaker 1: FBI when White Obama decided that Muslim terrorists were fine

995
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: just to catch everybody out Obama. Um okay, so uh yeah.

996
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: Hassan calls him uh and is worried and tells him

997
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: to get over quickly. Clearly, something is bad has happened.

998
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: So Brett picks up his service weapon and slid it

999
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,479
Speaker 1: in the small of his back, because all professional gun

1000
00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: users know that holsters are not worth using for you

1001
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: gotta put him in a cool place, Robert Light in

1002
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: the back of your pants. Yeah yeah, Uh. Closing the

1003
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: door to the hotel room, he glanced down the hall stealthily.

1004
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: What you glance stealthily all the time, Cody. I don't

1005
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,400
Speaker 1: know why nobody who wasn't drunk or having an affair

1006
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: would be coming down the hall at two am, he figured,

1007
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: but better to be paranoid than blithe. Sure enough, a

1008
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: buzz cut man in a black suit waiting at the

1009
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: elevator Federal, thought Brett. There was only one reason for

1010
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: him to be waiting. The President wanted to see General

1011
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,720
Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne. And there was only one reason the President

1012
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: would want to see General Brett Hawthorne to stop his investigation.

1013
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: I like the Federal. Uh yeah, so I guess they

1014
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 1: they had both met at some point previously that I

1015
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: don't think we saw. Um yeah. And Brett doesn't want

1016
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: to have another meeting with the president. Um yeah. He's

1017
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: the last thing Mark Prescott wanted. Brett figured was bad

1018
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: publicity right after a terror attack. Islamophobia in the top ranks.

1019
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: That's how the headlines in the nation would read, and

1020
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: Prescott read the nation. The man in the black suit

1021
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: locked eyes with Brett began walking towards him. After years

1022
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: of writing the bureaucratic Bowl, Brett had one key rule.

1023
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: Better to ask forgiveness than to seek permission, which is

1024
00:57:57,920 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: why he was relieved to see a door at the

1025
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: stairs and the other end of the hallway. Unfortunately, he

1026
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: was on the second floor. So he turns back and

1027
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: he uh takes the stairs half the flight at a time,

1028
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: his knees throbbing behind him. He hears the door slam

1029
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: open and the man's voice, he's running. We'll grab him

1030
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: in the lobby. Brett had no such intention. So we

1031
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: don't know why these guys are chasing him. Really, but

1032
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: I can take him. Yeah, Brett knows how to run.

1033
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: He's great at running. And he gets onto the street

1034
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: without the Feds catching him. Yeah. So he makes his

1035
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,520
Speaker 1: way to where Hassan lives, which is a neighborhood nobody

1036
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:38,479
Speaker 1: wants to walk at at night. Um. Yeah, well he's black,

1037
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: of course, he lives in a bad neighborhood. Jesus come. Yeah,

1038
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: he lives in an old building refurbished with cheap appliances

1039
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: and cheaper flooring. Uh so that's great. They self segregated, Robert,

1040
00:58:55,000 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: that's Ben's favorite kind of uh god. Um okay. So

1041
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 1: Hassan gives him a thumb drive h and shows it

1042
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: to Brett. Uh, and I assume it opened quickly. Hassan

1043
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: slid it a thumb drive loaded onto his laptop, set

1044
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: the machine on the coffee table for Brett. Do you

1045
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 1: know this man? And then a video file popped up.

1046
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: It showed a young slim Muslim man wearing jeans and

1047
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: a long sleeve shirt. YadA YadA. Uh do you recognize him,

1048
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: Brett does. It's Mohammed um and he asks Hassan how

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00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 1: he found it. Um oh, okay, I guess Hassan has

1050
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: backdoor access to most of the security cameras in New

1051
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: York mosques. What. Yeah, that's how we got this picture.

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00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 1: Here's the development. Yeah. No, it took him years, that's all.

1053
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: He says. He's got it. He has all the security

1054
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: camera footage. Um. So yeah, the footage is four days old.

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00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: It's too oh god, Um, it was taken four days ago.

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00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,120
Speaker 1: Hassan anticipated Brett's disappointment. I know, too long. But finding

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00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: a man named Mohammed in a Moscow, New York is

1058
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: like finding a Jew named Goldstein in a synagogue here. Yeah,

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01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 1: there is. Uh So the guy that Mohammed's talking to

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01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:12,760
Speaker 1: is under FBI surveillance. Uh. We talk about this new

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01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: terrorist who's been introduced for a little while, and I

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01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: don't care. Uh. Yeah, apparently this other terrorist has given

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01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: opening prayers that the New York Stock exchange. Uh. So

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01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: that's great, Um, because prominent Muslims are all tied to terrorism.

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01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. Yeah, sorry, I forgot. So Brett

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01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: travels to the house of this m mom who's been

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01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,920
Speaker 1: hanging out with the terrorist. Uh. The m mom actually

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01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: lived on a rural compound off the road. In the dark,

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01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: Brett missed the turn off twice. The gravel clanked off

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01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: the underside of the cheap Toyota Hassan had borrowed from

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01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: a friend. The woods showed black against the early glimmers

1072
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 1: of rising sun. Blah blah blah blah. So it's daytime. Um,

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01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: there's prayers going on. Uh. He shows up at the

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01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: m mom's house end is told that the office doesn't

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01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: open until nine am. He says, tell him, the teacher

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01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 1: sent me the mention of a Shami's nickname, who I

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01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: guess is the terrorist mastermind that we heard about earlier. Okay,

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01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: so obviously they don't respond to a random white dude

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01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: who's clearly military walking up and saying that he was

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01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 1: sent by a terrorist. Uh they say that name. Yeah, Um,

1081
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: But the mom's like, that's all right, I know this man.

1082
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,840
Speaker 1: And he shows up and he he invites Brett in

1083
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: um An Jammari Hassan had told Brett before Brett left

1084
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: for Jersey was no one to be trifled with. He'd

1085
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 1: been rumored to have deep connections to various Middle East

1086
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: based charities with their own connections to major terror groups.

1087
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: He fronted for a variety of Islamic human rights organizations

1088
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: dedicated to fighting Islamophobia, and it was in that guy's

1089
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:48,919
Speaker 1: that he'd become a go to face for Prescott. Okay,

1090
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: so this guy is fighting Islamophobia, and obviously all organizations

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01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: that are fighting Islamophobia are fronts for terrorists. That's that's

1092
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: what's been right here. That's until logical conclusion. Yeah for

1093
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: Ben Okay, this is fun. The very next sentence states

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01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: that the Prescott tenure had seen several small, lone wolf

1095
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 1: attacks each time Prescott had cited on Maria's evidence that

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01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: the moderate Muslim community was alive and well in the

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01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 1: United States. It's fun to note that of the way

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01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: in the book is the first time we learned that

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01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: the US has been beset by lone wolf Islamic terrorist

1100
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: attacks during this president's administration. Um, yeah, this is three, Yeah,

1101
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: part three. We are more than two thirds of the

1102
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 1: way through the book. We're almost three quarters of the

1103
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: way through the book. Um, yeah, context, But yeah, he's so.

1104
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 1: This guy is a well established media personality. He's a

1105
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:51,360
Speaker 1: moderate Muslim, but he also criticizes Israel, which should be

1106
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: another hint that he's secretly a terrorist. Um yeah, so,

1107
01:02:57,600 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: so said the mom. What can I do for you,

1108
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: General Hawthorne. I'm so glad you made it back to

1109
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: us in one piece. Allah must have protected you from harm. Indeed,

1110
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: he must have said Brett, I come here seeking your

1111
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: advice and help and let Yet you mentioned the teacher.

1112
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: Why would you think I know such a monster? No reason,

1113
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 1: Brett said carefully, But I am looking for a man,

1114
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 1: and I think that, given your prominence, he might approach you.

1115
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 1: I'm approached by many Muslims, I am blessed by Allah

1116
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: and having a wide following in a grand platform. How

1117
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,360
Speaker 1: would I know the man you seek? His name is Mohammed,

1118
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: Brett explained. Just am astounded by this man writing everybody

1119
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 1: else's religions and racial experiences, etcetera, etcetera. Yeah, it's it's great.

1120
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: So the mom says, he doesn't know this seventeen year

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01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: old named Mohammed Um okay uh, and Brett doesn't believe him.

1122
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: Are you implying that I'm lying to you? Know? Said Brett.

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01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: I'm flat out telling you that you're lying. I know

1124
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: you know such a man. So either you can continue

1125
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: spatting this line of bullshit and I can have you

1126
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 1: detained in question, or you can tell me the truth.

1127
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: Omari laughed out loud. No, I don't think you have

1128
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: that sort of pull. General. You may be a hot

1129
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:04,800
Speaker 1: shot with a particular segment of the population, but as

1130
01:04:04,840 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: you say, I am somewhat well connected. Gentlemen, please come in.

1131
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 1: The door behind Brett opened and came the federal agent

1132
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: from the hotel, his face impassive, and other black suit

1133
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: clad fed stood next to him. Brett pushed himself to

1134
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: his feet and mom, I believe we'll be talking again.

1135
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: Omari stood as well, looked Brett in the I no,

1136
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: I don't believe we will. Let's there we go. Yeah, okay,

1137
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 1: So the FEDS, the FEDS, and this guy who's an

1138
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: anti islamophobia Muslim terrorists are all in bed together because

1139
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: the President likes this terrorist because he's a moderate Muslim,

1140
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: and I, yeah, there you go. It's good. Ben Shapiro,

1141
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: Shin Bapiro. Alright, well I think that's gonna do us

1142
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: for for for this week's episode. Yeah, the way in

1143
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: our next chapter is another prescott it. Yeah, we got

1144
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 1: ten percent more through it. It's dense. It's a dense one. Well,

1145
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: it's all those commas. They take up a lot of space.

1146
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: I am excited because, Yeah, this next chapter starts with

1147
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne and the President having a conversation. Um, oh boy,

1148
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a good one. Yeah,

1149
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a real good one. Um.

1150
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 1: How many of you you think we have left one

1151
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: to Jesus? Probably probably three or four? Right, Okay, we've

1152
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: got on set one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

1153
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: eight more chapters including uh well we have actually I

1154
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:45,120
Speaker 1: guess uh six more named chapters and then the end

1155
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: of the beginning and epilogue, and we haven't about the author.

1156
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 1: You know what, I might sneak ahead to that right now,

1157
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: spoilers what Yeah, well, there's about the author I want

1158
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: to I want to know. Oh boy, howdy. So it

1159
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: starts with like you know, he's an editor at large

1160
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: at Breitbart News, the editor of Daily wire List, some

1161
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: of the political books he wrote. Shapiro was also a

1162
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: nationally syndicated columnists since age seventeen, a graduate of u

1163
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: c l A and Harvard Law School, and the host

1164
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 1: of the Morning Answer on kr l A It's seventy

1165
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Katie five ninety in Orange County.

1166
01:06:21,920 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh says Shapiro isn't just content to have people

1167
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 1: be dazzled by his brilliance. He actually goes out and

1168
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: confronts and tries to persuade, mobilize, motivate people. Glenn Beck

1169
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: called Shapiro a warrior for conservatism against those who use

1170
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: fear and intimidation to stifle honest debate. I've never known

1171
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: him to back down from a fight, Sarah Palin says,

1172
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: especially when he's wrong. He got a palm yeah. She

1173
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 1: says that Americans should consider Ben's advice about how we

1174
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 1: must stand up and push back twice as hard against

1175
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 1: this bullying. Sean Hannity says to join Ben Shapiro and

1176
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: fight back against liberal bullying. Michelle Malkin says Shapiro is

1177
01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 1: infused with the indomitable spirit of his friend and mentor

1178
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 1: Andrew Breitbart. Even the liberal Washington Post in the aftermath

1179
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 1: of Shapiro's devastating destruction of Pierce national Television. Oh my god,

1180
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 1: this has a sentence been absolutely wrote. Even the liberal

1181
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: Washington Post, in the aftermath of Shapiro's devastating destruction of

1182
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:27,880
Speaker 1: Pierce Morgan on National Television, conceded that Shapiro was a

1183
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: foe of extraordinary polemical ability. It's got his thinking little

1184
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:38,440
Speaker 1: fingers all over it. Yeah, well, this way to write rogues.

1185
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 1: Gallery of endorsements he's got there. He brutally destroyed Pierce Morgan,

1186
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: the Liberal Washington I will say this, if he had

1187
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 1: literally destroyed Pierce Morgan, I would be more positive towards

1188
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 1: shape absolutely if he found his philactry. Yeah. Um, he's

1189
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 1: referring to a debate he had with Pierce Morgan about guns. Yeah,

1190
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: and uh, that conversation is the entire basis throughout his

1191
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 1: other book, Uh ten or eleven, I forget ways to

1192
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: beat the Left. It's like this his destruction of the

1193
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:19,960
Speaker 1: left book. How did he beat the leftist? Um he

1194
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: used for his example of a leftist through the entire book.

1195
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 1: Is Pierce morgana leftist? Yeah? He knows, he understands politics. Well, yeah,

1196
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: I mean Pierce Morgan is definitely, like I would say,

1197
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: the most prominent maoist in the country right now. You know,

1198
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:41,320
Speaker 1: very famous left wing voice Pierce Morgan, Piers Morgan, Piers

1199
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 1: Morgan good friend of the current president. Yeah, and leftist

1200
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: Piers Morgan. Well, I feel like the only thing to

1201
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: say is head Babs, want to plug your plug? Yeah,

1202
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 1: because I take a bullet for you. Yeah, this is

1203
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,120
Speaker 1: Robert's job. It's not our show, it's his show. No,

1204
01:09:02,240 --> 01:09:08,840
Speaker 1: I want your pluggable, But Katie, you go, you go, no,

1205
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: you shows. We've got a show called some More News

1206
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: on YouTube check us out and Patreon, uh dot com,

1207
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:18,920
Speaker 1: slash some more News, our podcast called even more News.

1208
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,280
Speaker 1: We also co host another podcast called The Worst Yere Ever.

1209
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:25,799
Speaker 1: And I'm Dr Mr Cody on Twitter. Katie's Katie Stole. Yeah,

1210
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:35,439
Speaker 1: it's good job. Been Shapiro hero. Yeah, you can find

1211
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,879
Speaker 1: me nowhere at all, um, I've never heard of the internet.

1212
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm actually alone in a forest shrieking this. I'm just

1213
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: channeling Been Shapiro's words and I don't know who I'm

1214
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: talking to right now. So you're definitely calling them bib Yeah, yeah,

1215
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 1: I mean I take a bullet for him. God, I

1216
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: can't even say that without like starting to wretch a

1217
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 1: little bit. I'd get even I answer for you, bag. Yeah,

1218
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 1: I'd lay down in front of a combine for you,

1219
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 1: babe and getting churned up into moach. Babe, do you

1220
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:16,320
Speaker 1: love me? Yeah? Sure? Why not? That's the episode. That's

1221
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 1: the show. That's the episode.