Speaker 1: Hello, America. I'm Robert Evans. This is Behind the Bastards,
Speaker 1: a podcast about terrible people. And just the other day
Speaker 1: I was doing, you know, normal things for a leftist,
Speaker 1: anarchist democratt, mainly namely masturbating to slash fiction about Barack
Speaker 1: Obama and Joseph Stalin, my two heroes, when I came
Speaker 1: across a book, a book that reminded me of all
Speaker 1: of the wonderful beauty of conservatism and all of the
Speaker 1: evils of my morally bankrupt liberal ideology. And today we're
Speaker 1: going to read another section from that book, Ben Shapiro's
Speaker 1: True Allegiance. Katie and Cody, why don't you come onto
Speaker 1: the stage and take a bow? Hello? Hello, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Oh it's too much, too much,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. You guys do it.
Speaker 1: We do it for you. Guplode from Joy Hi, more
Speaker 1: praise please, more praise? Oh guy? Okay, first question for
Speaker 1: the annal, who do you think is the bottom Obama
Speaker 1: or Stalin um Obama? Obama? Obama? You think so? Huh,
Speaker 1: I've I've experienced your episode. Yeah. This is going to
Speaker 1: be the new Stalin Trotsky Debate, and it's about whether
Speaker 1: or not Stalin or Obama's a bottom. You haven't yet,
Speaker 1: so maybe there's more information. Well, yeah, I have yet.
Speaker 1: I've yet to learn about his habits, but I could
Speaker 1: see that I think Obama's you know, yeah, I do
Speaker 1: think that Biden or that not Biden Stalin. Sorry, they're
Speaker 1: both such similar people. I think that Stalin is probably
Speaker 1: has the versatility to be a switch for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's to say, to be a fly on the wall
Speaker 1: of that fan fick. I mean, I have some good
Speaker 1: news about the way fan fiction works, Katie. I'm very
Speaker 1: excited to be back. Um. I was not able to
Speaker 1: attend the last chapters. Yeah that day, Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you missed. Ben Shapiro still has not learned how
Speaker 1: to write a single sentence. Yeah, as far as I know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to be fair, he got a little sleepy. M Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe a sleepy on the third day when four days
Speaker 1: to write this. Yeah, and on the fourth day he
Speaker 1: got sleepy. Yeah. You know, we had a we had
Speaker 1: a couple of different things in there, um, including President
Speaker 1: Mark Prescott, who's who's white? Obama getting to give his
Speaker 1: equivalent of the speech. George Bush gave it ground zero,
Speaker 1: which is bad when a Democrat does it. But it
Speaker 1: was good that George Bush did it. Um, simple maths
Speaker 1: and yeah, and actually we're going to start again with
Speaker 1: another President Prescott chapter as we as we turned into
Speaker 1: six of the way through True Allegiance. So that's the
Speaker 1: only thing I really missed was that the president gave
Speaker 1: a speech. No, I mean, the black gangster character got
Speaker 1: angry that the Al Sharpton character didn't want to kill
Speaker 1: cops as much, so he started a secret plan to
Speaker 1: replace all of the cops with gangsters. Uh, cops aren't
Speaker 1: already gangsters. Change changing the force that move. Oh and
Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne did a did what what what's the term
Speaker 1: when you you judge people based on their racest criminals? Um?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, racial profiling. And then it didn't help. And
Speaker 1: but the point was still that it's good to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: didn't do what it was supposed to do. Um, and
Speaker 1: learned nothing. He learned. Yeah, bit is even bad at
Speaker 1: writing propaganda. Unbelievable, wrote a case against it. Still didn't
Speaker 1: still see what he's doing. Yeah, because he kind of
Speaker 1: had the people who Bret Hawthorne was ordering to do
Speaker 1: racial profiling be like this is bad because it's racial profiling,
Speaker 1: and then the racial profiling doesn't work and it turns
Speaker 1: out they were right. But you're not supposed to walk
Speaker 1: away from the book thinking that it was a good
Speaker 1: it was a good try. We're glad he did it
Speaker 1: because we need to keep doing it, alright, alrightn we
Speaker 1: love we love your commas. So, almost two thirds of
Speaker 1: the way into the book, here's President Prescott's chapter New
Speaker 1: York City, featuring a lot of other characters. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: could switch forward in time thirty what we're starting there,
Speaker 1: We'll see where we land. Ben knows that the key
Speaker 1: to any like, really readable piece of fiction is that
Speaker 1: the reader never have any sense of grounding or understanding
Speaker 1: of where he is, much like yeah, yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this is I would describe Ben Shapiro as most
Speaker 1: like this true allegiance is most similar to, for example,
Speaker 1: the Dubliners. It's just like the Dubliners. That's surely that's
Speaker 1: what he's going for, really nailing the just this consistent inconsistency. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. Now, thinking about Ben Shapiro trying to write
Speaker 1: James Joyce, I'm imagining Ben Shapiro writing about a character
Speaker 1: masturbating through a hole in his pocket and like getting
Speaker 1: stuck up, I'm not being able to write. Comes to uh,
Speaker 1: just a book full of just like the sea wordword. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the first chapter that we're going to read today
Speaker 1: is Ellen, who remember is Ben Shapiro's wife, um, but
Speaker 1: actually is Brett Hawthorne's wife, um. And he works for
Speaker 1: Governor Bubba Davis, who is basically George Bush. I think
Speaker 1: that's what Ben's going for. Yeah, he's bushy in. He's
Speaker 1: he's bushy in and a perfectly rendered Texan been really
Speaker 1: has spent a lot of time in my home state.
Speaker 1: I can tell because he uses the classic Texan phrase
Speaker 1: Horne swaggled all. The Governor Davis's refusal to send the
Speaker 1: National Guard to New York sparked a firestorm across the nation.
Speaker 1: He cited precedent, hadn't The governor of California refused a
Speaker 1: federal request to place National Guard troops on the border,
Speaker 1: but in the aftermath of the bridge attack, he didn't
Speaker 1: get much sympathy. Everyone knows that Texas thinks of itself
Speaker 1: as its own little country. Shouted one MSNBC commentator into
Speaker 1: the camera. Well that this was a man and not
Speaker 1: a woman. Because this is how, this is how Ben
Speaker 1: yet has to be a man because he didn't write screeching,
Speaker 1: and it has to be a white man because he
Speaker 1: absolutely would have told us if it was a black man.
Speaker 1: So here's Ben Shapiro, who clearly knows how people talk
Speaker 1: on NBC, describing what NBC would say. Everyone knows that
Speaker 1: Texas thinks of itself as its own little country, but
Speaker 1: this time their hick governor has shown himself to be
Speaker 1: deeply unpatriotic. You don't get to be a star in
Speaker 1: the lag of the United States and then go a
Speaker 1: while when your country needs you, which is like, first,
Speaker 1: actually a good point. Second, remember when a literal fascist
Speaker 1: won the presidency and every mainstream news outlet couldn't wait
Speaker 1: to go hang on at waffle houses and talk to
Speaker 1: Trump voters, uh, and lecture liberals about being in a bubble.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately still and still do every every day everything. But no,
Speaker 1: MSNBC gets on and calls him a hick governor. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's getting it right. So yeah, Heroically, Governor Davis refuses
Speaker 1: to send in the National Guard to help with a
Speaker 1: mass casualty event that's killed thousands of Americans. Uh, and
Speaker 1: the media lambasts him for it. The media ran with
Speaker 1: the story a president calling for love and unity and
Speaker 1: a southern secessionist governor looking like George Wallace. Never mind
Speaker 1: that Davis that's stood with the marchers of the Civil
Speaker 1: rights era. He now stood on the side of the
Speaker 1: old South. The media through collade, which I love. So
Speaker 1: to make this guy, to make this guy a good guy,
Speaker 1: been just like has to invent that he marched with
Speaker 1: civil rights marchers, which is like the easiest way to
Speaker 1: get around, Like, I don't want people to think this
Speaker 1: guy clearly being a bigot is a bigot. I'll just
Speaker 1: say that he stood with Martin Luther King. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: it's very funny. He's doing a good job und character,
Speaker 1: you see well, and it's it's also just an example
Speaker 1: of like how to not write a good book. Um,
Speaker 1: because if you're writing a good book, you should always
Speaker 1: be scared of giving yourself an easy answer. So, like,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to make this character into clearly a good,
Speaker 1: morally upright guy, your best way to end, Like you
Speaker 1: just kind of off handedly mentioned that he marched with
Speaker 1: civil rights marchers. That's the laziest way to make him
Speaker 1: into a good person because again it's this whole show
Speaker 1: like tell, don't show thing that Ben has going on,
Speaker 1: because yeah, because the governor's actually being evil here, so
Speaker 1: Ben just says, but in the past he did really
Speaker 1: good thing, So what he's doing now is good because
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King like, it's that's what a good thing is.
Speaker 1: It would be considered unbelievably lazy if it wasn't the
Speaker 1: person that we're talking about. It's very believably lazy. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's believably lazy. Again, if you wanted to make this
Speaker 1: more of an interesting book, have him actually have a
Speaker 1: point and be in the right and the federal government
Speaker 1: be wrong, but also have the governor be a guy
Speaker 1: with a problematic past to his battling with that and
Speaker 1: who like faces additional opposition because of bad things he's
Speaker 1: done in the past that maybe like gives the bad
Speaker 1: guys more like room to work with or something like,
Speaker 1: make it an interesting fucking story. He saved a bus
Speaker 1: full of nuns and school children in the past. We
Speaker 1: don't need to see that way earlier, way earlier, No,
Speaker 1: but that way, we don't have to waste words on it.
Speaker 1: We can just tell you it's like how. It's like
Speaker 1: how When they made the action movie Classic die Hard. Uh,
Speaker 1: they mentioned that John McClain had stood with the civil
Speaker 1: rights movements, that people would like him rather than painting
Speaker 1: him as a deadbeat husband and then making him likable
Speaker 1: through the things that he suffered and went through and
Speaker 1: sacrifices he made throughout the movie. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch die Hard tonight. It's good sounds like good storytelling.
Speaker 1: It's a Thanksgiving movie. It's a Christmas movie, a Thanksgiving movie.
Speaker 1: Die Hard two is an Easter movie. Die Hard two
Speaker 1: is an Easter movie. Is it's it's covered in snow
Speaker 1: the whole time. It's another Christmas movie. Yeah. The President
Speaker 1: of the United States. Uh okay, so um. Bubba Davis
Speaker 1: turns to ubba civil rights hero basically Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 1: Bubba Davis turns to Ellen ben Shapiro's wife and asks
Speaker 1: her to be like the public face of his resistance
Speaker 1: to the federal government, and she refuses because the President
Speaker 1: of the United States, she told Davis, had brought her
Speaker 1: husband home in one piece. He made mistakes. She knew
Speaker 1: he'd exile her husband based on lies, separated them for years.
Speaker 1: Slash the military, undermine the mission, she thought. But in
Speaker 1: the end, he brought Brett home and that was all
Speaker 1: that mattered to her, Which is, you know, actually a
Speaker 1: vaguely reasonable step for a character to take in this book.
Speaker 1: That's like a human being, Like, yeah, no, on that sentence,
Speaker 1: you know what been good on you? That was a
Speaker 1: believable single paragraph Was it a single paragraph sentence? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Yeah, he'd exiled her husband based on lies.
Speaker 1: Comma separated them for years. Comma slash the military, comma
Speaker 1: undermine the mission, comma. She thought. Yeah, it's not a
Speaker 1: great sentence. The sentence structure isn't good, but the paragraph
Speaker 1: covers useful emotional Yeah, absolutely, it's it's it was an
Speaker 1: attempt um And just because he kept the sentence going
Speaker 1: a little longer, that's fine. Yeah, okay, Bubba says. When
Speaker 1: she refuses, then I need you on the border. Somebody
Speaker 1: has to head up this outfit, and if I go
Speaker 1: down there, they'll accuse me of outright insurrection. You're competent,
Speaker 1: your husband is a well known military figure, and well
Speaker 1: damn it, you're a woman, and those sexists and the
Speaker 1: press won't labor a woman an insurrectionist. Okay, so he
Speaker 1: gives his I guess press secretary control of the military
Speaker 1: forces he's placing on the border because as a woman,
Speaker 1: the press won't accused her of leading an insurrection. So
Speaker 1: which end of that is sexist? Is my question? The
Speaker 1: media been uh landing on their great question. Um, I
Speaker 1: think the media sexist because they won't call her an
Speaker 1: insurrectionist when she starts leading an insurrection. Yeah, the media,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see maybe you know. Yeah, Okay, So
Speaker 1: that in the next paragraph she's been there for a week. Um,
Speaker 1: so I guess all of this was just going back
Speaker 1: in time to ca. So this is so every time.
Speaker 1: It's like, by the way, this is a year later.
Speaker 1: And she had to admit that the border felt different.
Speaker 1: It felt safe for the first time ever. Military vehicles
Speaker 1: patrolled the Texas side of the river, with checkpoints set
Speaker 1: up to funnel visitors and workers there after checking identification. Soldiers,
Speaker 1: many speaking Spanish, spoke with the locals, helping to oh
Speaker 1: my god, what a sentence. Soldiers Comma, many speaking Spanish.
Speaker 1: Commas spoke with the locals, Comma helping to direct them
Speaker 1: to the local ranches. Yeah, spoke with them to help
Speaker 1: them with. Yeah, I mean saying simple adjustments to get
Speaker 1: rid of all those commas. Yeah, it's it's it's just editor.
Speaker 1: And also, I don't know if you ever spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time and places where there's tons of military
Speaker 1: vehicles and soldiers manning checkpoints, I can say from experience
Speaker 1: in multiple countries, you don't feel very safe. Tons of
Speaker 1: soldiers handling basic travel needs makes me feel like I'm
Speaker 1: in a dangerous place, because every place I've been like
Speaker 1: that has been dangerous, interesting, interesting feeling. Yeah. Also spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time on the Texas border, and definitely
Speaker 1: a lot of terrible things do happen on chunks of
Speaker 1: the US Mexican border. It's a long border. Most of
Speaker 1: it's pretty empty, you know. Uh. Yeah. She'd been there
Speaker 1: for a week and there hadn't been any dead kids
Speaker 1: in the river. Every so often, a black helicopter had
Speaker 1: buzzed the troops on the American side of the border.
Speaker 1: Ellen thought it might be members of the same drug
Speaker 1: cartel that had killed Vivian. She even thought that she'd
Speaker 1: seen one of the men wearing a bandana over his face.
Speaker 1: She told the generals of the guard that she didn't
Speaker 1: want to see any fire at the helicopters unless fired upon.
Speaker 1: Things were bad enough without starting a war. In the
Speaker 1: last few days, yes, she needed to tell the military
Speaker 1: not to shoot random helicopters out of the sky. In
Speaker 1: the last few days, the helicopters had buzzed closer and closer,
Speaker 1: probing frauding American response. The Americans merely observed the guard
Speaker 1: had no intelligence capacities. Every soldier I know who's worked
Speaker 1: with guardsmen would agree with that statement, and fairness to Ben.
Speaker 1: The Feds hadn't been particularly responsive since Davis's big announcement,
Speaker 1: but Ellen had some private investigators do some digging. What
Speaker 1: they found shocked her. The city of Warez, they said,
Speaker 1: was won by the Warez Cartel, one of the most
Speaker 1: dangerous criminal enter prices on the planet. It's leadership and
Speaker 1: passed down through the Careo Fuintes brothers, who had turned Okay,
Speaker 1: So he starts talking about cartel's cartel's cartels. Uh okay,
Speaker 1: And now he's just quoting two thousand six Guardian article
Speaker 1: about crimes of the wires cartels. Yeah, we've got Ben
Speaker 1: Shapiro writing a Daily Wire article about the cartels for
Speaker 1: his website. Alright, No, he actually cites the two thousand
Speaker 1: six article from the UK Guardian and wait a second, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what fucking world are we in? Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great question. The timeline in this is not super clear
Speaker 1: because Obama was also president in the past. Okay, I
Speaker 1: thought that they did find weapons of mass destruction. They did.
Speaker 1: How does this fucking Guardian article from our world still
Speaker 1: fucking exists. Well, I mean, you know, they found the
Speaker 1: w m D. Is in the Middle East, there's still cartels.
Speaker 1: I guess Middle Eastern history is completely different in Ben's world,
Speaker 1: but everything is the same up until two thousand sixteen ish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care anymore. Yeah, uh yeah, the presence of
Speaker 1: American troops on the board. So basically she goes into
Speaker 1: how like it had been so dangerous. She cites a
Speaker 1: bunch of horrible things cartels did in Wirez, and then
Speaker 1: points out that since all the soldiers were now on
Speaker 1: the border, all of the violence in Wirez had stopped,
Speaker 1: So it was it was that simple tools. Some people
Speaker 1: might note that the Mexican military is basically armed identically
Speaker 1: to the United States military and has not succeeded in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form with crushing the cartels who
Speaker 1: are similarly armed. In a lot of cases, people might
Speaker 1: note that some people wouldn't be Ben Shapiro. Why would Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Ellen's job is to keep the peace on the border. Uh,
Speaker 1: she'd have to do better. She knew one incident gone
Speaker 1: wrong could end Davis's dreams of a safe Texas. So,
Speaker 1: I guess everything's working great on the border because the
Speaker 1: army is there. Um, it's good. Yeah. So we have
Speaker 1: a little line break and then we're I guess in
Speaker 1: the have advanced an indeterminate amount of time in the future.
Speaker 1: It's still so far that could change any second. We
Speaker 1: don't know. Ellen's cell phone rang New York number. She
Speaker 1: picked up. Hey, sweetheart, Brett's rich baritone rumbled through the phone.
Speaker 1: Give me, give me a break. No, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to hear Ben Shapiro write about these two love birds. Birds.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but we are. We are into the book.
Speaker 1: Need this description rich? Actually, I think you do, Hey sweetheart,
Speaker 1: says Brett's rich baritone. Hey babe, she said, miss you.
Speaker 1: His voice sounded thick over the phone. Almost hear already
Speaker 1: know you said it. Okay, sorry, okay, it's fine, Just
Speaker 1: a few days ago. They've been so close to re nighting. Now,
Speaker 1: with commercial air travel shut down in the crisis in
Speaker 1: New York, it could be weeks, they both knew. But
Speaker 1: this was something new too. Bret never talked like this
Speaker 1: since the rescue from a Bret hadn't been himself. He
Speaker 1: never called her sweetheart called. She could imagine why, and
Speaker 1: she could imagine his face. She longed to reach out
Speaker 1: and touch it. Miss you two. How's Bill? He's hanging
Speaker 1: in there? Another pause? Are you okay? Bill? By the way,
Speaker 1: is their friend whose wife and young daughter were just killed.
Speaker 1: That's what they spare for Bill. How's Bill? He's fine.
Speaker 1: In fairness to Ben, the way he wrote, Bill, he
Speaker 1: clearly was not broken up over the death of his
Speaker 1: wife and child. That is true. He's doing He's doing great.
Speaker 1: He's right back to work. Are you okay? Yes, that's
Speaker 1: a no, he laughed. So did she. Davis made a
Speaker 1: mistake not sending the troops. You know, I know, she answered,
Speaker 1: And I have a feeling something's coming here, something bad.
Speaker 1: I'm getting the same feeling. It's not over. Is it
Speaker 1: a long pause? No, I don't think it is. Someone
Speaker 1: knocked on the door. To Ellen's office. I gotta run, babe.
Speaker 1: She said, take a bullet for you. Bret Hawthorne responds,
Speaker 1: take a bullet for you, sweetheart. She hung up. Every time,
Speaker 1: that's the only that's what they say at the end.
Speaker 1: That's they're cute thing, take a bullet for you. And
Speaker 1: I've heard variations of this from a couple of different
Speaker 1: people who had family members who would end every conversation
Speaker 1: with I love you, you know, aunts and uncle's grandparents,
Speaker 1: and they were like, you know, it always seemed kind
Speaker 1: of silly to me until the day that like they died,
Speaker 1: and then I remembered the last thing that they said
Speaker 1: to me was that they loved me, And like, now
Speaker 1: I understand why they did, and that's legitimately like heartwarming
Speaker 1: and a wonderful thing. Uh, take a bullet for you
Speaker 1: is not, No, it's not. It's so interesting to associate
Speaker 1: violence with love. It says a lot about Bim. But
Speaker 1: that's his equivalent of like, we just want them to
Speaker 1: know how they feel. So mentioned being shot. Every time
Speaker 1: you finish a conversation the last remember the last time
Speaker 1: what we spoke, I said, I fucking die in a
Speaker 1: rain of bullet fire. Yeah, for you, for them, Oh,
Speaker 1: get stabbed in the abdomen repeatedly for you, babe. You
Speaker 1: can stabbed in the abdomen repeatedly for you. Fucking funk
Speaker 1: out my insides with searing hot metal for you, babe.
Speaker 1: For you, I'll pull my hamstring for you, baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll suffer hydrostatic shock as a high velocity around tears
Speaker 1: through my organs for you, babe. I love it. You too,
Speaker 1: of it, babe. And again, if you wanted to do
Speaker 1: like a fun cookie couple, you could have them do
Speaker 1: increasingly deranged versions of that to end their conversations. That's
Speaker 1: what's happening. Show that shows like, oh they're playful and
Speaker 1: they know yeah, gets sodomized by a drill bit for you,
Speaker 1: pay you can have fun with it. They love each other.
Speaker 1: Look at how much fun they Yeah, that's this. They're
Speaker 1: kind of dark. They have this dark sensibility as opposed
Speaker 1: to I can't even read them saying that without like
Speaker 1: gagging time. Yeah, it has every time. There's a visceral
Speaker 1: reaction to it too. It's the only piece of Vins
Speaker 1: writing that makes me feel anything. Okay, So she hangs
Speaker 1: up on Combat General Brett Hawthorne, and then she gets
Speaker 1: a slip of paper from a sergeant in the Guard
Speaker 1: that tells her it came from h Q. And we'll
Speaker 1: find out what that slip of paper says. But first, Cody, Katie, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, We'll take a bullet for you, my man. No,
Speaker 1: that's not the answer. The products and services that support
Speaker 1: this podcast. Of course, we should really get sponsored by
Speaker 1: body armor. Yeah. See if hesco will, Yeah that Robert
Speaker 1: throw some bucks at us where I'd prefer not to
Speaker 1: get shot for you, babe. So I wear Class four plates,
Speaker 1: stay out of danger and like be happy somewhere else.
Speaker 1: I'll attempt to stay safe as best I can for you, babe. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back. So she's just gotten a letter from h Q.
Speaker 1: Ellen goes to the some command headquarters. Oh boy, we're
Speaker 1: talking about journalists again. By the time she arrived at
Speaker 1: the mobile home, which is, I guess the mobile headquarters
Speaker 1: for the Guard, a small credit journalists had formed outside.
Speaker 1: As she stepped out of her car, the cameras clacked away.
Speaker 1: The focus of the nation was certainly in New York,
Speaker 1: she thought, but that didn't make the regional journalists any
Speaker 1: less hungry to get their footage on the national broadcast.
Speaker 1: It's an awkward sentence. Yeah, she saw the boxes. She
Speaker 1: stepped inside the empty room sitting on a makeshift deft
Speaker 1: at table. Somebody had cold from the local rec center.
Speaker 1: That's an awkward way of tell you there's a box
Speaker 1: in the room. That's yeah, I read that again. Please
Speaker 1: she saw so this is her like she saw the boxes.
Speaker 1: She steps inside the empty room, comma sitting on a
Speaker 1: makeshift desk a table, somebody had cold from the local
Speaker 1: rec center. The box was card Yeah, that sentence. She
Speaker 1: walked into a trailer. There was a makeshift desk, and
Speaker 1: on top of the desk was a box water log
Speaker 1: and cardboard or something that I wanted to do, like
Speaker 1: a search of how many commas are you used in
Speaker 1: this book? When we're done billions, that will break my machine.
Speaker 1: I only have four cores to compute that that with.
Speaker 1: I don't have enough ram in this machine. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the boxes cardboard, wet at the bottom, a wet plastic
Speaker 1: bags hat beside it. The box had been carved open
Speaker 1: at the top. She crept up on it. Why did
Speaker 1: she creep up? Another real champion of a sentence? She
Speaker 1: crept up on it, Comma the pressure in her chest,
Speaker 1: screaming at her to not look inside, screaming, huh, there's
Speaker 1: a head. There's a head in the box. We're having
Speaker 1: our seven moment here, and it's the head of some
Speaker 1: National Guard motherfucker. Who oh, I guess a National Guard
Speaker 1: guy had been imprisoned in Mexico for months and she's
Speaker 1: just letting us know about this here because she finally
Speaker 1: got her head. Um, if you're I'm sorry, maybe dropped
Speaker 1: that earlier. I don't know, Like you know, he wrote
Speaker 1: this book in one sitting. He wrote her all the
Speaker 1: way through and it's like and he got sleepy at
Speaker 1: this point. If you want to do this scene, you
Speaker 1: pick any moment in any of the pages before this,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned this fucking once. You have the governor
Speaker 1: have an angry phone call with the President about how
Speaker 1: this man is in danger and he's been kidnapped, and
Speaker 1: the President says, we're going to take care of it.
Speaker 1: He's going to be fine, like they don't want to
Speaker 1: kill him. And you you show the president as like
Speaker 1: an unreasonable and and detached from reality, and the governor
Speaker 1: is caring about this guy. You established that like this
Speaker 1: is a major issue. And then when his head shows
Speaker 1: up in a box, it means more than nothing at all,
Speaker 1: more than nothing at all, than nothing at all, even
Speaker 1: just a little bit, a little bit should be the
Speaker 1: bare minimum, just a bare minimum, just like go back
Speaker 1: and add a sentence. It's not yeah, it's fine, it's good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now the holes on his head that used to hold
Speaker 1: eyes stared through. Ellen written on his forehead and blue
Speaker 1: ink was one word terrorista. She held back the urge
Speaker 1: to vomit. Why hold that back? Sentence? Man, Yeah, this sentence,
Speaker 1: she turned away, thinking it was a genius move. She concluded,
Speaker 1: so offensive that there would have to be some response
Speaker 1: from the Texas government. A crime directed not at the
Speaker 1: national government, that at an individual claimed by the Mexican
Speaker 1: government to be a criminal. Wow, that's was one sentence.
Speaker 1: It played directly to Davis's soft spot abandonment. He'd wanted
Speaker 1: to retaliate, he'd wanted to push across the border into Warez,
Speaker 1: and Prescott would want no part of it. Not while
Speaker 1: he was trying to woo the president of Mexico to
Speaker 1: endorse his job creation plan, and not while he had
Speaker 1: the whole entire world unifying around him. Yeah, it might
Speaker 1: be bad to invade Mexico in a time like that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I just got what Ben's doing. So
Speaker 1: this book we have another nine eleven, and after the
Speaker 1: actual nine eleven, George Bush immediately invaded Afghanistan and started
Speaker 1: agitating to invade Iraq and playing the part of Iraq
Speaker 1: and Afghanistan in this book is Mexico. Bush was right
Speaker 1: to invade a country that had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the terrorist attack, and Bubba Davis is right to invade Mexico,
Speaker 1: which also had nothing to do with the terrorist attack. Yeah, excellent,
Speaker 1: I love it. Good stuff. Yeah. So Bubba calls Ellen
Speaker 1: and he's like, this is America, not Afghanistan. This ship
Speaker 1: can't happen at along my border. It's America's border, Bubba.
Speaker 1: But America won't do ship to protect it. They failed.
Speaker 1: Now it's my turn. She took a deep breath, Governor,
Speaker 1: She said, you do this and you could be looking
Speaker 1: at open conflict with Press Scott this time. No more
Speaker 1: play acting, no more excuses. You think he's going to
Speaker 1: send his boys down here to shoot at our boys
Speaker 1: over us killing some drug dealers. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: neither do you. Everybody on Earth has called the president's bluff,
Speaker 1: said Davis. Everybody. He's caved every time. What would make
Speaker 1: this time different? You, she answered, he hates you. That
Speaker 1: won't make his cohne is any bigger. Girl, he laughed. Girl, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is how people talk. Yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing some dead criminals for a change.
Speaker 1: And the line goes dead, and then Ellen quotes Caesar,
Speaker 1: you know, and says ali Ayakta s stuff, which well,
Speaker 1: I think it should be s, but I'm not an
Speaker 1: expert on Latin, which means like, it's what Caesar said
Speaker 1: when he crossed the Rubicon. Because Ben Shapiro only knows
Speaker 1: about classical history and only the parts of classical history
Speaker 1: that are dramatic and stuff. Yeah, okay, the hero moments
Speaker 1: where the hero of history Julius Caesar, destroys the democracy. Actually,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I get why Ben, yeah is on board. Okay,
Speaker 1: So next we have a solo Dad chapter. So that's yeah,
Speaker 1: Soli Dad, if you'll remember, is uh the only woman
Speaker 1: of color in the story and also a terrorist, but
Speaker 1: a good terrorist that's been like yeah, yeah, So she's
Speaker 1: hanging out with a bunch of her militia guys, one
Speaker 1: of whom the black man who is there to tell
Speaker 1: her that everything that she's doing is good. Uh, and
Speaker 1: make Ben not seem racist, because look, there's a black
Speaker 1: man in the book, Ezekiel uh is hanging out with
Speaker 1: her and a bunch of guns, and one of Solidad's
Speaker 1: men is like, we need to talk. Sola Dad nodded.
Speaker 1: The men filed out of the living room into the outdoors.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel nodded at her. You need anything, holler, I'll be outside,
Speaker 1: he said. Aiden, who's the other guy, collapsed into a
Speaker 1: broken down sofa, breathing hard, and then he leaned forward,
Speaker 1: staring at Sola Dad. We need to go to Detroit,
Speaker 1: he said, And in fairness, every time I've gone to
Speaker 1: Detroit it did start with an emotional converse station. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah. She laughs at this because they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be staying off grid and hiding. But Aiden's like,
Speaker 1: Ricky needs my help. Ricky is the cop who shot
Speaker 1: the dead eyed black boy. Um, and I guess he's
Speaker 1: a friend of Solo Odds, one of her militiamen. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Aiden informs us that those pieces of ship, which
Speaker 1: I think are Black Lives Matter activists, just took over
Speaker 1: the detention center. Um, and so yeah, he's worried. Okay,
Speaker 1: so Aiden's worried that the cop who killed the dead
Speaker 1: eyed black boy is going to get murdered by the
Speaker 1: BLM activists who took over the detention center where he's
Speaker 1: being held. Okay, all right, Okay, that's good. That's at
Speaker 1: least relatively succinct. Okay, it's pretty racist, but succinct. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's clear. I'm not confused. Yeah. They
Speaker 1: sat listening to the commercials for carpet cleaner and gold then,
Speaker 1: which is accurate for Fox News, So I guess that's fair.
Speaker 1: Then the news came back on a newscaster speaking in
Speaker 1: somber tones. Is voice cut by static interference. The protesters
Speaker 1: gathered outside the detention center, chanting that they want their
Speaker 1: own trial. So it doesn't look like we're missing any
Speaker 1: words there. There's just in the middle of there, because
Speaker 1: Ben doesn't even know how to write end static Like
Speaker 1: the sentence is complete, it has in the middle. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're static in the middle of it. But the sentence
Speaker 1: that we get is the protesters gathered outside the detention center,
Speaker 1: chanting that they want their own trial. That's pretty I
Speaker 1: don't know, we're not missing much there. Weird choice anyway,
Speaker 1: Aden switches the radio off. He calls it an old
Speaker 1: fashioned lynch mob because they're black people. Uh, and white
Speaker 1: people are the victims of racism. Yeah, they're not going
Speaker 1: home without a head on a pike. Uh. Cool. And
Speaker 1: apparently sol It ads like, why do you care about
Speaker 1: this guy? And he's like with ruins. He saved my
Speaker 1: life once, so now you want to return the favor.
Speaker 1: He nodded. But this isn't just about you anymore, she said,
Speaker 1: I've got forty guys out there who abandoned everything they
Speaker 1: had to come out here and try to be left alone.
Speaker 1: You want me to put them in the middle of
Speaker 1: a ship storm. The storm is coming to you. They're distracted,
Speaker 1: but leave us alone for how long? Aidan grimaced. I'll
Speaker 1: bet Ricky thought they'd leave him alone, that he was
Speaker 1: doing the right thing when he shot that black boy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the dead eyed black child. Yeah, good lord.
Speaker 1: H Aidan then thanks Sola Dad for giving her a
Speaker 1: real something he'd been missing, a reason to fight. Uh.
Speaker 1: So that's good, that's great. Yeah, it's just a bad book. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, it's just a bad book. Okay, So
Speaker 1: she thinks. She goes through a little long dark Teatime
Speaker 1: of the Soul for a paragraph or so, and then
Speaker 1: she decides to head out at nightfall to Detroit. And
Speaker 1: then they're in Detroit, arrived in the evening, a chain
Speaker 1: of cars and motorcycles taking refuge in the abandoned Michigan
Speaker 1: Central Station, the old rail depot for the city. Uh
Speaker 1: that the Aiden guides them through because I guess he
Speaker 1: knows Detroit everything is decayed. Uh and bulling. Um. And yeah,
Speaker 1: they hold up in an abandoned building and make it
Speaker 1: their their their HQ. There's homeless drunks uh still around
Speaker 1: the place. Um, because yeah, that's all of all of Detroit. Um.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. So um yeah, oh, we get a
Speaker 1: little rant about ben Shapira. For for years, the city
Speaker 1: had tried to rehabilitate the building. It had been bought, rebought,
Speaker 1: bought again. It considered bonds, taxpayer subsidies, anything to get
Speaker 1: the building restored. Nobody had bothered Detroit was a disaster area.
Speaker 1: Investing money in the city would be a massive waste.
Speaker 1: Aidan had grown up in Detroit. He had said he
Speaker 1: knew the city well. His grandfather worked for General Motors,
Speaker 1: had a union job that was supposed to keep himployed
Speaker 1: all his life. Then foreign cars began flooding the American market,
Speaker 1: and the auto union contracts meant that American car companies
Speaker 1: couldn't compete. Jobs started fleeing. As they did, the government
Speaker 1: of the city decided to raise taxes dramatically, and the
Speaker 1: people who still held jobs and the companies that still
Speaker 1: decided to stay in town, they left to mayor. After
Speaker 1: mayor took off, his promising to bring business back then
Speaker 1: pandered by crushing businesses that remained. The act space disappeared.
Speaker 1: So that's how Ben Shapiro thinks Detroit wound up where
Speaker 1: it wound up. Cool. Yeah, that's it. Is this like
Speaker 1: a segment from his podcast. Yeah. He also notes that
Speaker 1: white families moved out to the suburbs, Black families couldn't
Speaker 1: afford the follow the city self segregated. Okay, it's as
Speaker 1: simple as that they decided to Okay, a masterful understanding.
Speaker 1: It's interesting with reality. Yeah, it's interesting what's happening here
Speaker 1: because he starts off by saying that, like Detroit is hopeless,
Speaker 1: and like it can't be fixed. And then the only
Speaker 1: plight that's worth focusing on are like the this white
Speaker 1: kid whose dad lost his job and who yeah, like
Speaker 1: that's that's fun. Uh And yeah, this continues because Aidan
Speaker 1: and Ricky meet in Detroit and they think they're the
Speaker 1: only two white kids in town, and so they become
Speaker 1: best friends. Um, their parents went to church together, They
Speaker 1: fought back bullies together. Rickie was the straight arrow, Aidan
Speaker 1: the but juvenile delinquent, eager and ready to do anything
Speaker 1: to make friends. Uh yeah, so two white boys against
Speaker 1: the uh bad black kids of Detroit. That's Aiden and
Speaker 1: Ricky the cop who shoots that little boy to death.
Speaker 1: That's good? That good good the good. Yeah, good was
Speaker 1: the word I was gonna use to I was like,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the right word for this? Ben would
Speaker 1: know good? Yeah, Okay, So yeah they become friends. But
Speaker 1: then Aiden is a juvenile delinquent and they grow apart.
Speaker 1: One day, Aiden's mother saw Ricky and church asked him
Speaker 1: if he'd seen Aiden. Ricky lied to cover for him. Aiden,
Speaker 1: he'd said, was probably at the library. Then hands gripped
Speaker 1: into fists. Still wearing his Sunday suit, he went looking
Speaker 1: for Aidan. He found him in a Rundown tract house,
Speaker 1: surrounded by a couple of dropouts, high on weed and
Speaker 1: drunk off his ass. Aiden. Ricky said, your mom's looking
Speaker 1: for you. She missed you at church. One of the
Speaker 1: losers laughed, Yeah, mama's boy, your mom is looking for you.
Speaker 1: Shut up. Aiden slurred to him, Yeah, we'll tell her
Speaker 1: I'm out here. I'm not gonna do that. I'd said
Speaker 1: i'd come and get you. Aiden laughed, high pitched wine
Speaker 1: that eventually tapered off into a snort. Well you tried, boy, scout.
Speaker 1: Now get back home to your mama. Ricky grabbed him
Speaker 1: by the scruff of his t shirt. Get your ass home, Aiden,
Speaker 1: or what Aiden sneered or this, Ricky punched him in
Speaker 1: the face. Aiden went down like a load of brick. Wow.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting because we're getting Aiden's backstory here, but
Speaker 1: it's not being posted as him having a conversation with
Speaker 1: Solidad and telling her what happened. We're just reading this
Speaker 1: as if it's another like we've just to twenty years
Speaker 1: in the past. Is another scene without any sort of break.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's not remembering, Like we're not starting
Speaker 1: this chapter on Aiden and him like having remembering been written.
Speaker 1: He's not describing and he's not telling the story. It's
Speaker 1: just a series of paragraphs that describes the scene. He's
Speaker 1: such a dogshit writer. I think, I seriously do not
Speaker 1: think anybody edited this book. No, they did not, would
Speaker 1: have been like, this is not how you write a book.
Speaker 1: Then did he self publish it? No? The publishing company
Speaker 1: is um, it's not great. It's it's no. And it
Speaker 1: reads one of those things where like it's like I'll
Speaker 1: kind of pay you if you like publicists for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're all I'm gonna. I want to. I've wanted to
Speaker 1: look into the publishing company for a long time because
Speaker 1: it is very clear that like, yeah, first first, this
Speaker 1: is first draft ship. Can we have a moment for
Speaker 1: how good? Thank you? So wonderful? So this quick? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I can't. Yeah, this is such a terrible scene. It's
Speaker 1: it's horrible. And what's funny also is that what happens
Speaker 1: here isn't even all that dramatic because like Ricky punches
Speaker 1: him and then Aiden never gets high again. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he becomes a fed Uh Yeah, he's with the a
Speaker 1: T F right this is a a a low grade
Speaker 1: uh misrepresentation of something that was kind of similar that
Speaker 1: barely didn't maybe kind of happened to Ben or somebody
Speaker 1: he knew. I think it's just something Been assumes happens
Speaker 1: to take him back. It's like this, like yo, like
Speaker 1: this is this is what? Yeah, the tell there is
Speaker 1: that within the book because it's not aiden telling the story.
Speaker 1: It's the author telling this story referring to that person
Speaker 1: as a one of the losers. That's all you need
Speaker 1: to know. Yeah, yeah, it's very insightful and it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting because this is clearly what Ben thinks drug addiction is,
Speaker 1: as opposed to he's actually what he's actually described as
Speaker 1: a kid smoking weed and drinking in a house, which
Speaker 1: is not an evidence of a serious problem. Most people
Speaker 1: in this country have something like that happen when their teens,
Speaker 1: and it's generally fine. Like if you want to have this,
Speaker 1: be like, haven't get into heroin or some ship, have
Speaker 1: fucking ricky, like find him oh ding and turn him
Speaker 1: over and stop him from choking on his own puke.
Speaker 1: At least make it a life or death situation. If
Speaker 1: this guy's going to say he saved my life. No,
Speaker 1: he got high on weed. He got high on weed
Speaker 1: that one time and then got punched. One of the
Speaker 1: losers punched him. No, no, no, that was Ricky. His
Speaker 1: friend punched him. Because that's how heroes. Heroes make solve
Speaker 1: all their problems with violence. That's what makes them heroes.
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, Beta, Sorry, sorry once again. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so that's why Aidan, the guy that we barely know,
Speaker 1: wants to save Ricky, the guy who shot that dead
Speaker 1: eyed black child, thinks it's disgusting and uncivil to punch Nazis.
Speaker 1: I bet he does, but not your pot spoken friends,
Speaker 1: not if it helps him become FEDS. Um. Yeah, so okay.
Speaker 1: They go through like a plan. They talk about like
Speaker 1: how the fucking detention centers laid out and yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so here's Aidan again. So here's the plan. We have
Speaker 1: to wait until the right time. We're not interested in
Speaker 1: taking out the police. They're armed, and they're scared, and
Speaker 1: armed and scared are just as likely to shoot us
Speaker 1: as anybody else. Bens on the virgins just dancing right
Speaker 1: around it, isn't he? That is why people are angry.
Speaker 1: Ben get there, just get there, man? Uh? Instead we
Speaker 1: need chaos for the cover. Every riot has led by
Speaker 1: a few key characters been the riot nowhere. Everybody that
Speaker 1: they look like they're ready for war, but most of
Speaker 1: them to show their friends that they're brave. The authorities
Speaker 1: know that, so their chief task is to arrest the
Speaker 1: rabble rousers and let the rest sort of fade away.
Speaker 1: If that happens, we'll never get Officer of Sullivan out
Speaker 1: of there. I guarantee you that whoever is leading this
Speaker 1: thing is smart and capable. This is not amateur our.
Speaker 1: Oh so it's we're getting into Ben's like the all if.
Speaker 1: It's like riots and protests are like nefariously organized because
Speaker 1: people couldn't spontaneously, you know, form up in large numbers
Speaker 1: and confront and out maneuver the police without having like
Speaker 1: a leadership cast. Yeah, it's funny because an article dropped
Speaker 1: last week where like revealing, like so the Department of
Speaker 1: Home and Secured in the FBI were spying on Portland
Speaker 1: protesters during the protests and riots this summer, and we're
Speaker 1: like desperately trying to figure out who the leaders were
Speaker 1: and the exact like the exact like wording in the
Speaker 1: report was something along the lines of all we wound
Speaker 1: up with was a list of who was canceling who
Speaker 1: on Twitter. It's very funny, beautiful. Yeah, it's the best
Speaker 1: thing that's ever happened. I have never been so happy
Speaker 1: reading a story that Yeah, yeah, it fucking ruled. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ben knows riots, absolutely knows him a riot, Ben Riot, Shapiroya. Okay,
Speaker 1: So one of them in the back pipes up, why
Speaker 1: don't we just grab him off the street when he's released,
Speaker 1: and Ezekiel, who's again the only black guy in this group, gafaws.
Speaker 1: Have you seen us? We stick out like a KKK
Speaker 1: rally and Harlem, no chance they don't find us and
Speaker 1: at least neutralizes. No, here's what we're gonna do. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: and then he doesn't tell us what he's going to
Speaker 1: do instead of Aiden, The next paragraph is so after
Speaker 1: Ezekiel says here's what we're gonna do, Aiden takes out
Speaker 1: a garbage bag and pulls uniforms from it. Then he
Speaker 1: tosses to Sola, Dad and three of the other men
Speaker 1: who stepped forward to put them on. Now for the
Speaker 1: rest of you guys, I've got something really special. Doesn't
Speaker 1: even tell them anything, just throws out uniforms and men
Speaker 1: start putting them on. Ben is a real bad writer.
Speaker 1: I mean everything, everything that he has a character say
Speaker 1: is like a cliche. I'm not thinking sure of the
Speaker 1: right word, but it's like an overused phrase, like a
Speaker 1: sentence structure that's like so obvious and overused. It's not like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not Cliches necessarily will stand out like a KKK
Speaker 1: member in Harlem. Well, and it's also, of course it
Speaker 1: had to be the black guy who said that, because
Speaker 1: he would think of Harlem, um like right like. And
Speaker 1: it's it's also that he says, here's the plan, and
Speaker 1: then nobody explains the plan, and instead another character takes
Speaker 1: out a garbage bag full of uniforms and everybody understands
Speaker 1: it um. And the chapter ends with Aidan opening a
Speaker 1: duffel bag with T shirts in it, and we don't
Speaker 1: know what's on the T shirts, but everybody's jaw drops
Speaker 1: and Solidad chuckles, Well, you've got to die sometimes. So
Speaker 1: I'm guessing my guess is that something racist is on
Speaker 1: them to draw attention and create a giant fight or
Speaker 1: something so that they can sneak in and free Ricky.
Speaker 1: That'd be my guess kind of like kind of like
Speaker 1: the start of the third die Hard movie. Actually, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an arbor Day movie. Okay, you're quicker than me, Cody.
Speaker 1: Our next chapter is a lev On chapter. I think
Speaker 1: we have to take a break. Oh yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess we should. You just took the words out of
Speaker 1: my mouth. I'm sorry, I apologize, welcome, I'm appreciative. I'm
Speaker 1: appreciative too, and you know who's most appreciatives the products
Speaker 1: and services that support this pod cast was gonna discast.
Speaker 1: I was so happy. All right, we're back and it's
Speaker 1: time for some mother fucking leave One, who is again
Speaker 1: the black crack dealing Osama bin Laden of the story basically,
Speaker 1: although there's also another Osama bin Laden who's basically Osama
Speaker 1: bin Laden but named mom. There's a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of Obama's Yeah absolutely not. Oh okay, so when
Speaker 1: we open, he's sleeping with uh oh wait, no, okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just start this for two days. Leave
Speaker 1: On stood in the cold. He had his men bring
Speaker 1: him food and clothing. He slept on the sidewalk. Next
Speaker 1: to him slept the mother of Kendrick Malone, the little
Speaker 1: kid that Ricky killed with them slept hundreds of others.
Speaker 1: Every day, local businesses shipped out supplies for the group,
Speaker 1: eager to be seen as caring for the plight of
Speaker 1: the righteous protesters. And still they didn't release Ricky Osla.
Speaker 1: And perhaps they thought that the crowd would dissipate. Perhaps
Speaker 1: they were waiting for federal intervention. Intervention that wouldn't come.
Speaker 1: The President had already declared that this was a local matter,
Speaker 1: and the resources of the state had already been redirected
Speaker 1: to the disaster area in New York City. There would
Speaker 1: be no cavalry, and so they waited. Each day, members
Speaker 1: of the media crowded around leaf On to hear his words.
Speaker 1: But each day the number of media dwindled, the attention
Speaker 1: span of the nation ran shorter and shorter these days. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's just been a giant terrorist attack and the governor
Speaker 1: of Texas is invading Mexico. So I guess people occupying
Speaker 1: a detention center might not be the top story in
Speaker 1: the nation at the time. Yeah, fair enough. So what
Speaker 1: newspapers they have access to in there? Yeah, So leave
Speaker 1: On decides that the time has come for action because
Speaker 1: the media is not paying attention anymore, but action required provocation.
Speaker 1: So far, the authorities had been smart. They had hold up,
Speaker 1: put nobody on the street, waited for the ire to
Speaker 1: burn itself out, you know, like we saw the cops
Speaker 1: do this year. Oh yeah, They hadn't at any statements
Speaker 1: other than to praise the peacefulness of the protesters and
Speaker 1: suggest their sympathies for the protesters cause. Okay, So yeah,
Speaker 1: then knows how the cops work. That's how they would
Speaker 1: handle an occupation of a detention center. Jesus. Okay, So
Speaker 1: Big Jim is offering to negotiate the uh yeah, negotiate
Speaker 1: the stalemate. He said that Levin could become a player
Speaker 1: by accepting the verdict demanding change from the Feds and
Speaker 1: being granted an informal say in the appointment of officials
Speaker 1: up to and including police officers. He said that Levin
Speaker 1: should just let O'Sullivan go show that he was the
Speaker 1: bigger man. Already, Big Jim had gone on national television
Speaker 1: urging the President to send more federal officials to talk
Speaker 1: about the future. Um the nation's eyes had been riveted
Speaker 1: on Detroit, But with the Big Jim's in premature of legitimacy,
Speaker 1: the Detroit. Federal solution was gradually drawing the steam out
Speaker 1: of the kettle. La la, okay, just just just boring ship.
Speaker 1: And then they arrived, like a blessing from the skies.
Speaker 1: They came. There weren't many of them, but they were
Speaker 1: enough white men, writing motorcycles, planting themselves in the midst
Speaker 1: of the newly minted tent city, and they wore t
Speaker 1: shirt fight the thugs. That okay, so he's got right
Speaker 1: wing vigilantes showing up to a BLM protest. Ben did
Speaker 1: predict one that got the media's attention, but oddly enough,
Speaker 1: few of the men wanted to talk to the media.
Speaker 1: That part's not accurate. One in particular bowed his head
Speaker 1: anytime the cameras came near Levin, denounced them for the cameras.
Speaker 1: Who are these white supremacists coming into a city white
Speaker 1: racism is ruined and accusing us of racism for standing
Speaker 1: up for our human rights, but secretly thanked God for
Speaker 1: bringing them. It kept the fight alive at least for
Speaker 1: another day. Okay, so become the Big Jim craft. Oh,
Speaker 1: we switched fewpoint characters. So we've got Big Jim and
Speaker 1: he's penning an up ed for the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: and hanging out in his house and stuff. Uh to do?
Speaker 1: The next step in Detroit, Big Jim knew would be
Speaker 1: to give leave on an option for withdrawal with some grace.
Speaker 1: He'd already pressed lev On, and he knew Levan was waiting,
Speaker 1: hoping for something big to happen, but that seemed unlikely.
Speaker 1: With the nation's attention riveted elsewhere, Big Jim climbs out
Speaker 1: of the shower. God, this is yes, this is just
Speaker 1: a random interlude with Big Jim. Here, wait a second. Uh.
Speaker 1: Suddenly he felt out of breath. He plunged forward, grabbing
Speaker 1: the sync with both hands, but he could feel the
Speaker 1: strengthen those hands weakening. He tried to push his fingertips
Speaker 1: into the marble. They wouldn't give. For some reason, a
Speaker 1: desperate need to hold himself up rushed over him, and
Speaker 1: as he felt his bulk dragging towards the cool floor,
Speaker 1: away from the fog the mirror, he had the odd
Speaker 1: thought that the floor was red. Then he realized it
Speaker 1: was red and slippery with his blood. He lost his grip.
Speaker 1: His face hit the uzing puddle hard. He never saw
Speaker 1: the man who fired the second round into his head.
Speaker 1: Oh so he's geting. He gets shot to death ship.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that was leave On. Um, yeah, that seems right.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, now we're back to leave On after
Speaker 1: killing Big Jim. Uh. And he's looking at the T
Speaker 1: shirt gang. So I guess that's the shirts that said
Speaker 1: they said fight the thugs. Uh. Because ben Ben wasn't
Speaker 1: even courageous enough to make the shirts really racist as
Speaker 1: like a direct promocation again like the die hard thing. Um, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: fight the thing A delicate dance. Yeah, so we wind
Speaker 1: up with a big belly. Oh Jesus Christ. Okay. There
Speaker 1: were eight of them. All to four had their hogs
Speaker 1: planted in the corners of the street, ready to move
Speaker 1: off at the first sign of trouble. Three of the
Speaker 1: other four planted themselves near the front of the crowd.
Speaker 1: Neither steps to the detention center. The lone remaining man,
Speaker 1: a white, bearded, big bellied bear in his mid sixties,
Speaker 1: stood the crowd. Yeah I think so, like like a
Speaker 1: A group of young protesters screamed obscenities at him. He
Speaker 1: stood his ground placidly. A buzz built at the back
Speaker 1: of the crowd, more white men, all wearing the same
Speaker 1: shirts pulled up on motorcycles saying nothing. The Credit protesters
Speaker 1: moved on them, expecting a confrontation. That's when Levin's phone
Speaker 1: rang and he gets the news that Big Jim is dead,
Speaker 1: and he screams out, they killed Big Jim to the cameras, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they killed Big Jim. Tear it down, all down, tear
Speaker 1: down this corrupt system. Um, and I guess everybody uh
Speaker 1: starts to go fucking nuts. Yeah, yeah, it's riot time yet, Shapiro. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Teenager with a tire iron grabs the white dude's beard
Speaker 1: and pulls him to the ground from his beard and
Speaker 1: then beats him with a tire iron in the belly.
Speaker 1: Um and a bunch of other guys try to break
Speaker 1: into the detention center, screaming, give us O'Sullivan, Um, give
Speaker 1: us the child murderer. Cut off the beginning of that video. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sounds like he did. That, sounds like this is
Speaker 1: VERI yeah, no, no, But the right wing guys would
Speaker 1: just standing there placidly like they always do, the placid
Speaker 1: bear of a man who, if this were a reality,
Speaker 1: would have had like bear mace canisters in both hands.
Speaker 1: Think I do think ben is a writer that uses
Speaker 1: the thesaurus. Search on Google is just like, what's an
Speaker 1: word for calm placid? That sounds good. I'm a writer
Speaker 1: behind Leave on the Street exploded them a writer, m
Speaker 1: dash a man who writes things. Comma writing is what
Speaker 1: I do? Period, he wrote, he wrote writing late behind
Speaker 1: lev on the Street exploded into chaos, protesters and writers
Speaker 1: merging into one throng. That's a weird way to say that.
Speaker 1: The bearded white bear had disappeared into the center of
Speaker 1: the crowd, his body trampled, kicked, stump, spit on. Hundreds
Speaker 1: of people gathered in a circle to watch, to participate.
Speaker 1: At the outskirts of the riot, motorcycles rev their engine,
Speaker 1: fending off rocks and bottles. One of pulls out a
Speaker 1: handgun and fires it into the air, scattering the crowd
Speaker 1: near him, but drawing a few slat of debris from
Speaker 1: all quarters. YadA, YadA, YadA. Levan gets handed a crowbar
Speaker 1: and he starts beating the windows of the detention center
Speaker 1: and he breaks in, but the room's empty, and he
Speaker 1: has a bunch of his men come in and they're
Speaker 1: all trying to find O'Sullivan. Uh oh, and now we
Speaker 1: have another viewpoints which the attention officer unlocked the cell
Speaker 1: holding Ricky o soul then and it creaked back on
Speaker 1: its hinges. Oh. Sullivan backed up quickly into the corner,
Speaker 1: his bulk filling it. You leave me alone, he said
Speaker 1: to the masked woman in a police uniform. She wore
Speaker 1: a bandana over her face and her gun was pointed
Speaker 1: at the head of the detention officer. Follow me, Sola
Speaker 1: Dad said, okay, so they're just in the solo. Dad's
Speaker 1: gotten in there. We don't need to here, they just
Speaker 1: it just happened, guys there. Yeah. She also threatens to
Speaker 1: murder Ricky if he doesn't come with her, which is
Speaker 1: odd for a rescue um. Yeah, and then she tells
Speaker 1: him that the crowd wants to hurt him after threatening
Speaker 1: to kill him. Uh okay, Oh wait, no, she's she's
Speaker 1: saying that the crowd will kill you if you don't
Speaker 1: come with me. Okay, I guess that makes more questions.
Speaker 1: You have been just wrote it badly shocking. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh so she and Ricky take off and they get
Speaker 1: out just ahead of the rioters. So we have a
Speaker 1: viewpoint switched to Sola Dad and Ricky in the middle
Speaker 1: of Levan's chapter. Oh, and then we're back to Aiden,
Speaker 1: so we have another viewpoints switched to Aiden, then Levan
Speaker 1: in the present of the past in the president. I
Speaker 1: don't think we're hearing about his past. Aiden's waiting for
Speaker 1: them in a garage with a swat van. We don't
Speaker 1: seem to know how he got the squad van. M yeah,
Speaker 1: Soladad pounded on the barrier to the van's driver's compartment. Go,
Speaker 1: she screamed, Go, let's get the hell out of here,
Speaker 1: not without Ezekiel. Aiden replied, what, He's not here, He'll
Speaker 1: be here any moment. Now. Two of Leban's men had
Speaker 1: reached the van. One began slamming on Aiden's window while
Speaker 1: the other tried to pry open the back of the van.
Speaker 1: Hold on, Aiden shouted, throwing the van in reverse. The
Speaker 1: man at the back of the van screeched his head
Speaker 1: banged against the iron of the door. Sola Dad felt
Speaker 1: sick to her stomach at the bump as the wheels
Speaker 1: hit him, but Aiden kept backing up until there were
Speaker 1: just a few inches of room between the rear doors
Speaker 1: and the elevator next to the stairwell. Ezekiel's coming Aiden said,
Speaker 1: any second. Now, the man at the driver's table. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the guy pounding on the window cracks it. Aiden
Speaker 1: pulls out a twenty two caliber handgun, rolls down the
Speaker 1: window slightly and fired. The bullet hit the man in
Speaker 1: the shoulder, knocking him to the ground. Which that's like
Speaker 1: the smallest possible handgun generally, like that twenty two is
Speaker 1: like the smallest of the bullets. Yeah, which is not
Speaker 1: to say that it can't kill people. But it's interesting
Speaker 1: that this bullet knocks a man to the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a presumably a large thug, another bear of a man.
Speaker 1: We have we have we have to we have to assume,
Speaker 1: we have to assume. Okay, So the elevator doors open
Speaker 1: after this, and Ezekiel's they're sitting on the floor, his
Speaker 1: mouth open, breaking hard blood ran down the side of
Speaker 1: his police uniform. Sola Dad leapt out of the back doors,
Speaker 1: grabbed him by the arms. Stay with me, Ezekiel, We're
Speaker 1: almost out, almost free. He grunted through another arm over
Speaker 1: her shoulder. Oh, Sullivan grabbed him by the collar and
Speaker 1: hoisted him into the van. Uh duh, So yeah, they
Speaker 1: confront He has to gun the engine and drive through. Uh,
Speaker 1: people with handguns who are threatening him. Shots are fired,
Speaker 1: but they don't hit anybody. Um, dadda yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get through this boring action. Uh, boring. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: really boring action. Um okay, Yeah, they get out, they escape. Great.
Speaker 1: Uh and now we're back to Oh we do finally
Speaker 1: get back to leave on. Um, so he's here's about
Speaker 1: O'Sullivan's escape. The street fights are have died down that
Speaker 1: we were being told the police had fled the detention center. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's bodies in the street bleeding. It looked like a
Speaker 1: war zone. He turned to face the reporter, the camera
Speaker 1: directly in his face. She'd asked him a question before
Speaker 1: he found out O'Sullivan was gone. He'd completely forgotten it.
Speaker 1: What did you ask? He murmured, What comes next? She asked,
Speaker 1: The mayor is vowing to keep order. Levin looked out
Speaker 1: over his burning city, his burning city. We don't need
Speaker 1: the mayor to keep order. He's just as corrupt as
Speaker 1: the rest. We're in a war now. You saw them
Speaker 1: out there on their motorcycles with their racist T shirts.
Speaker 1: White supremacist killed Reverend Jim Crawford tonight. No pretty words
Speaker 1: are going to bring him back. So here's what American
Speaker 1: needs to know. Detroit is now in our hands. We
Speaker 1: will have justice, and it starts with the mayor, but
Speaker 1: that's not where it ends. We want to work with
Speaker 1: the police officers who will serve justice. If they weren't,
Speaker 1: we'll have our own forces of justice. Brothers will not
Speaker 1: burn down brothers businesses. There will be no looting, no violence.
Speaker 1: That's not what Big Jim would have wanted. We're going
Speaker 1: to build something new in this city, something better. On
Speaker 1: these ashes. Wherever Ricky O'Sullivan is, we'll bring him back
Speaker 1: to justice too. This is the beginning of a new era.
Speaker 1: The blood you see here tonight that will be repaid
Speaker 1: in freedom. So tonight I call for the people in
Speaker 1: my city to join me. It's time to rise up
Speaker 1: and claim our freedom. In the distance, the sun began
Speaker 1: to rise. So I guess we went through a whole
Speaker 1: night already. Um Son began to rise. Yeah, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: at the end of part three, the end of now
Speaker 1: you know, we're into part two. Now we're in part three,
Speaker 1: the end of the beginning. Oh God, is that the
Speaker 1: name of that. Yeah, I think this is a Brett
Speaker 1: Hawthorne chapter. Okay, Okay, we'll go a little further. We
Speaker 1: gotta we gotta talk to Brett. Okay at the beginning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it starts with Brett getting a phone call from
Speaker 1: his friend Hassan, who's again his Muslim friend who he
Speaker 1: went to school with, who worked for the FBI to
Speaker 1: inform on other slams, but then stopped working with the
Speaker 1: FBI when White Obama decided that Muslim terrorists were fine
Speaker 1: just to catch everybody out Obama. Um okay, so uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Hassan calls him uh and is worried and tells him
Speaker 1: to get over quickly. Clearly, something is bad has happened.
Speaker 1: So Brett picks up his service weapon and slid it
Speaker 1: in the small of his back, because all professional gun
Speaker 1: users know that holsters are not worth using for you
Speaker 1: gotta put him in a cool place, Robert Light in
Speaker 1: the back of your pants. Yeah yeah, Uh. Closing the
Speaker 1: door to the hotel room, he glanced down the hall stealthily.
Speaker 1: What you glance stealthily all the time, Cody. I don't
Speaker 1: know why nobody who wasn't drunk or having an affair
Speaker 1: would be coming down the hall at two am, he figured,
Speaker 1: but better to be paranoid than blithe. Sure enough, a
Speaker 1: buzz cut man in a black suit waiting at the
Speaker 1: elevator Federal, thought Brett. There was only one reason for
Speaker 1: him to be waiting. The President wanted to see General
Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne. And there was only one reason the President
Speaker 1: would want to see General Brett Hawthorne to stop his investigation.
Speaker 1: I like the Federal. Uh yeah, so I guess they
Speaker 1: they had both met at some point previously that I
Speaker 1: don't think we saw. Um yeah. And Brett doesn't want
Speaker 1: to have another meeting with the president. Um yeah. He's
Speaker 1: the last thing Mark Prescott wanted. Brett figured was bad
Speaker 1: publicity right after a terror attack. Islamophobia in the top ranks.
Speaker 1: That's how the headlines in the nation would read, and
Speaker 1: Prescott read the nation. The man in the black suit
Speaker 1: locked eyes with Brett began walking towards him. After years
Speaker 1: of writing the bureaucratic Bowl, Brett had one key rule.
Speaker 1: Better to ask forgiveness than to seek permission, which is
Speaker 1: why he was relieved to see a door at the
Speaker 1: stairs and the other end of the hallway. Unfortunately, he
Speaker 1: was on the second floor. So he turns back and
Speaker 1: he uh takes the stairs half the flight at a time,
Speaker 1: his knees throbbing behind him. He hears the door slam
Speaker 1: open and the man's voice, he's running. We'll grab him
Speaker 1: in the lobby. Brett had no such intention. So we
Speaker 1: don't know why these guys are chasing him. Really, but
Speaker 1: I can take him. Yeah, Brett knows how to run.
Speaker 1: He's great at running. And he gets onto the street
Speaker 1: without the Feds catching him. Yeah. So he makes his
Speaker 1: way to where Hassan lives, which is a neighborhood nobody
Speaker 1: wants to walk at at night. Um. Yeah, well he's black,
Speaker 1: of course, he lives in a bad neighborhood. Jesus come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he lives in an old building refurbished with cheap appliances
Speaker 1: and cheaper flooring. Uh so that's great. They self segregated, Robert,
Speaker 1: that's Ben's favorite kind of uh god. Um okay. So
Speaker 1: Hassan gives him a thumb drive h and shows it
Speaker 1: to Brett. Uh, and I assume it opened quickly. Hassan
Speaker 1: slid it a thumb drive loaded onto his laptop, set
Speaker 1: the machine on the coffee table for Brett. Do you
Speaker 1: know this man? And then a video file popped up.
Speaker 1: It showed a young slim Muslim man wearing jeans and
Speaker 1: a long sleeve shirt. YadA YadA. Uh do you recognize him,
Speaker 1: Brett does. It's Mohammed um and he asks Hassan how
Speaker 1: he found it. Um oh, okay, I guess Hassan has
Speaker 1: backdoor access to most of the security cameras in New
Speaker 1: York mosques. What. Yeah, that's how we got this picture.
Speaker 1: Here's the development. Yeah. No, it took him years, that's all.
Speaker 1: He says. He's got it. He has all the security
Speaker 1: camera footage. Um. So yeah, the footage is four days old.
Speaker 1: It's too oh god, Um, it was taken four days ago.
Speaker 1: Hassan anticipated Brett's disappointment. I know, too long. But finding
Speaker 1: a man named Mohammed in a Moscow, New York is
Speaker 1: like finding a Jew named Goldstein in a synagogue here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is. Uh So the guy that Mohammed's talking to
Speaker 1: is under FBI surveillance. Uh. We talk about this new
Speaker 1: terrorist who's been introduced for a little while, and I
Speaker 1: don't care. Uh. Yeah, apparently this other terrorist has given
Speaker 1: opening prayers that the New York Stock exchange. Uh. So
Speaker 1: that's great, Um, because prominent Muslims are all tied to terrorism.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. Yeah, sorry, I forgot. So Brett
Speaker 1: travels to the house of this m mom who's been
Speaker 1: hanging out with the terrorist. Uh. The m mom actually
Speaker 1: lived on a rural compound off the road. In the dark,
Speaker 1: Brett missed the turn off twice. The gravel clanked off
Speaker 1: the underside of the cheap Toyota Hassan had borrowed from
Speaker 1: a friend. The woods showed black against the early glimmers
Speaker 1: of rising sun. Blah blah blah blah. So it's daytime. Um,
Speaker 1: there's prayers going on. Uh. He shows up at the
Speaker 1: m mom's house end is told that the office doesn't
Speaker 1: open until nine am. He says, tell him, the teacher
Speaker 1: sent me the mention of a Shami's nickname, who I
Speaker 1: guess is the terrorist mastermind that we heard about earlier. Okay,
Speaker 1: so obviously they don't respond to a random white dude
Speaker 1: who's clearly military walking up and saying that he was
Speaker 1: sent by a terrorist. Uh they say that name. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: But the mom's like, that's all right, I know this man.
Speaker 1: And he shows up and he he invites Brett in
Speaker 1: um An Jammari Hassan had told Brett before Brett left
Speaker 1: for Jersey was no one to be trifled with. He'd
Speaker 1: been rumored to have deep connections to various Middle East
Speaker 1: based charities with their own connections to major terror groups.
Speaker 1: He fronted for a variety of Islamic human rights organizations
Speaker 1: dedicated to fighting Islamophobia, and it was in that guy's
Speaker 1: that he'd become a go to face for Prescott. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this guy is fighting Islamophobia, and obviously all organizations
Speaker 1: that are fighting Islamophobia are fronts for terrorists. That's that's
Speaker 1: what's been right here. That's until logical conclusion. Yeah for
Speaker 1: Ben Okay, this is fun. The very next sentence states
Speaker 1: that the Prescott tenure had seen several small, lone wolf
Speaker 1: attacks each time Prescott had cited on Maria's evidence that
Speaker 1: the moderate Muslim community was alive and well in the
Speaker 1: United States. It's fun to note that of the way
Speaker 1: in the book is the first time we learned that
Speaker 1: the US has been beset by lone wolf Islamic terrorist
Speaker 1: attacks during this president's administration. Um, yeah, this is three, Yeah,
Speaker 1: part three. We are more than two thirds of the
Speaker 1: way through the book. We're almost three quarters of the
Speaker 1: way through the book. Um, yeah, context, But yeah, he's so.
Speaker 1: This guy is a well established media personality. He's a
Speaker 1: moderate Muslim, but he also criticizes Israel, which should be
Speaker 1: another hint that he's secretly a terrorist. Um yeah, so,
Speaker 1: so said the mom. What can I do for you,
Speaker 1: General Hawthorne. I'm so glad you made it back to
Speaker 1: us in one piece. Allah must have protected you from harm. Indeed,
Speaker 1: he must have said Brett, I come here seeking your
Speaker 1: advice and help and let Yet you mentioned the teacher.
Speaker 1: Why would you think I know such a monster? No reason,
Speaker 1: Brett said carefully, But I am looking for a man,
Speaker 1: and I think that, given your prominence, he might approach you.
Speaker 1: I'm approached by many Muslims, I am blessed by Allah
Speaker 1: and having a wide following in a grand platform. How
Speaker 1: would I know the man you seek? His name is Mohammed,
Speaker 1: Brett explained. Just am astounded by this man writing everybody
Speaker 1: else's religions and racial experiences, etcetera, etcetera. Yeah, it's it's great.
Speaker 1: So the mom says, he doesn't know this seventeen year
Speaker 1: old named Mohammed Um okay uh, and Brett doesn't believe him.
Speaker 1: Are you implying that I'm lying to you? Know? Said Brett.
Speaker 1: I'm flat out telling you that you're lying. I know
Speaker 1: you know such a man. So either you can continue
Speaker 1: spatting this line of bullshit and I can have you
Speaker 1: detained in question, or you can tell me the truth.
Speaker 1: Omari laughed out loud. No, I don't think you have
Speaker 1: that sort of pull. General. You may be a hot
Speaker 1: shot with a particular segment of the population, but as
Speaker 1: you say, I am somewhat well connected. Gentlemen, please come in.
Speaker 1: The door behind Brett opened and came the federal agent
Speaker 1: from the hotel, his face impassive, and other black suit
Speaker 1: clad fed stood next to him. Brett pushed himself to
Speaker 1: his feet and mom, I believe we'll be talking again.
Speaker 1: Omari stood as well, looked Brett in the I no,
Speaker 1: I don't believe we will. Let's there we go. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So the FEDS, the FEDS, and this guy who's an
Speaker 1: anti islamophobia Muslim terrorists are all in bed together because
Speaker 1: the President likes this terrorist because he's a moderate Muslim,
Speaker 1: and I, yeah, there you go. It's good. Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 1: Shin Bapiro. Alright, well I think that's gonna do us
Speaker 1: for for for this week's episode. Yeah, the way in
Speaker 1: our next chapter is another prescott it. Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: ten percent more through it. It's dense. It's a dense one. Well,
Speaker 1: it's all those commas. They take up a lot of space.
Speaker 1: I am excited because, Yeah, this next chapter starts with
Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne and the President having a conversation. Um, oh boy,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a real good one. Um.
Speaker 1: How many of you you think we have left one
Speaker 1: to Jesus? Probably probably three or four? Right, Okay, we've
Speaker 1: got on set one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight more chapters including uh well we have actually I
Speaker 1: guess uh six more named chapters and then the end
Speaker 1: of the beginning and epilogue, and we haven't about the author.
Speaker 1: You know what, I might sneak ahead to that right now,
Speaker 1: spoilers what Yeah, well, there's about the author I want
Speaker 1: to I want to know. Oh boy, howdy. So it
Speaker 1: starts with like you know, he's an editor at large
Speaker 1: at Breitbart News, the editor of Daily wire List, some
Speaker 1: of the political books he wrote. Shapiro was also a
Speaker 1: nationally syndicated columnists since age seventeen, a graduate of u
Speaker 1: c l A and Harvard Law School, and the host
Speaker 1: of the Morning Answer on kr l A It's seventy
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Katie five ninety in Orange County.
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh says Shapiro isn't just content to have people
Speaker 1: be dazzled by his brilliance. He actually goes out and
Speaker 1: confronts and tries to persuade, mobilize, motivate people. Glenn Beck
Speaker 1: called Shapiro a warrior for conservatism against those who use
Speaker 1: fear and intimidation to stifle honest debate. I've never known
Speaker 1: him to back down from a fight, Sarah Palin says,
Speaker 1: especially when he's wrong. He got a palm yeah. She
Speaker 1: says that Americans should consider Ben's advice about how we
Speaker 1: must stand up and push back twice as hard against
Speaker 1: this bullying. Sean Hannity says to join Ben Shapiro and
Speaker 1: fight back against liberal bullying. Michelle Malkin says Shapiro is
Speaker 1: infused with the indomitable spirit of his friend and mentor
Speaker 1: Andrew Breitbart. Even the liberal Washington Post in the aftermath
Speaker 1: of Shapiro's devastating destruction of Pierce national Television. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this has a sentence been absolutely wrote. Even the liberal
Speaker 1: Washington Post, in the aftermath of Shapiro's devastating destruction of
Speaker 1: Pierce Morgan on National Television, conceded that Shapiro was a
Speaker 1: foe of extraordinary polemical ability. It's got his thinking little
Speaker 1: fingers all over it. Yeah, well, this way to write rogues.
Speaker 1: Gallery of endorsements he's got there. He brutally destroyed Pierce Morgan,
Speaker 1: the Liberal Washington I will say this, if he had
Speaker 1: literally destroyed Pierce Morgan, I would be more positive towards
Speaker 1: shape absolutely if he found his philactry. Yeah. Um, he's
Speaker 1: referring to a debate he had with Pierce Morgan about guns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, that conversation is the entire basis throughout his
Speaker 1: other book, Uh ten or eleven, I forget ways to
Speaker 1: beat the Left. It's like this his destruction of the
Speaker 1: left book. How did he beat the leftist? Um he
Speaker 1: used for his example of a leftist through the entire book.
Speaker 1: Is Pierce morgana leftist? Yeah? He knows, he understands politics. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Pierce Morgan is definitely, like I would say,
Speaker 1: the most prominent maoist in the country right now. You know,
Speaker 1: very famous left wing voice Pierce Morgan, Piers Morgan, Piers
Speaker 1: Morgan good friend of the current president. Yeah, and leftist
Speaker 1: Piers Morgan. Well, I feel like the only thing to
Speaker 1: say is head Babs, want to plug your plug? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I take a bullet for you. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: Robert's job. It's not our show, it's his show. No,
Speaker 1: I want your pluggable, But Katie, you go, you go, no,
Speaker 1: you shows. We've got a show called some More News
Speaker 1: on YouTube check us out and Patreon, uh dot com,
Speaker 1: slash some more News, our podcast called even more News.
Speaker 1: We also co host another podcast called The Worst Yere Ever.
Speaker 1: And I'm Dr Mr Cody on Twitter. Katie's Katie Stole. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good job. Been Shapiro hero. Yeah, you can find
Speaker 1: me nowhere at all, um, I've never heard of the internet.
Speaker 1: I'm actually alone in a forest shrieking this. I'm just
Speaker 1: channeling Been Shapiro's words and I don't know who I'm
Speaker 1: talking to right now. So you're definitely calling them bib Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I take a bullet for him. God, I
Speaker 1: can't even say that without like starting to wretch a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'd get even I answer for you, bag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd lay down in front of a combine for you,
Speaker 1: babe and getting churned up into moach. Babe, do you
Speaker 1: love me? Yeah? Sure? Why not? That's the episode. That's
Speaker 1: the show. That's the episode.