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Speaker 1: poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break

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Speaker 1: free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller

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Speaker 1: starts right now in the air everywhere eight days a week,

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Speaker 1: enough on the overnight, So we welcome into the Friday

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Speaker 1: Podcast and we attempt every Friday on the fifth Hour

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Speaker 1: to have a conversation we do not do on the

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Speaker 1: overnight show. Interviews. We talked to crazy drunk people that

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Speaker 1: call the show up and lunatics we love. There are

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Speaker 1: family in the Mallard Militia. We don't do any interviews

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Speaker 1: the other shows do that, and how boring is that?

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Speaker 1: Who wants to listen to a tape? Show on a

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Speaker 1: will welcome in in a few minutes. This is a

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Speaker 1: political hour, political hour on the fifth hour, but we

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Speaker 1: are joined yet again by David Gascon. Not Gascon. Gascon,

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Speaker 1: you believe in fighting crime, unlike the other guy who's

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Speaker 1: got a very similar name to you. Yeah, I feel like, uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the pronunciation is one thing, and uh and the revolt

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Speaker 1: But I digress as I get my hands ripe and ready,

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Speaker 1: because I am preparing this lovely Friday morning for Benny

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Speaker 1: versus a penny tonight. We got a lot of things

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Speaker 1: on the menu today. We do have a lot going

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Speaker 1: you know the thing with your name and the new

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Speaker 1: district attorney in Los Angeles. It reminds me one of

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Speaker 1: my great, big, biggest supporters in Michigan was a guy

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Speaker 1: who had a goofy nickname and he used to call

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Speaker 1: he stopped listening years ago because it's a long story,

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Speaker 1: it's a long, convoluted story. But he was a huge

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Speaker 1: fan and his nickname on air was Johanna John. Alright,

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Speaker 1: I remember him, Yeah, yeah, and it was a great nickname.

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Speaker 1: It was fun, you know whatever. And then the whole

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Speaker 1: Middle Eastern terrorism thing took over. And then if you

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Speaker 1: Johadas John. So we had to change we had to

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Speaker 1: John because some lunatic was going around, you know, chopping

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Speaker 1: people's heads off in the Middle East, and it happened

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Speaker 1: And so this is guy we've had on before political

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Speaker 1: Reuben Report, he's got the he's all over social media.

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Speaker 1: free speech, would you have been like, what the funk

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Speaker 1: the sense what Dave is doing right, He's talking acknowledging

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Speaker 1: It's the Twilight Zone, Dave. Everyone's got there all mentioned

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Speaker 1: the end, because if you turn on CNN, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you, anyone listening to this, you turn on

429
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Speaker 1: CNN for fifteen minutes, you will either be dumber or angrier.

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Speaker 1: That did. And what I try to do is say, Okay,

431
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on in the world. The world's

432
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 1: pretty nuts. There's some serious stuff. But here's here's three

433
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Speaker 1: or four stories that I think you should kind of

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00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 1: know about. And if you give me twenty minutes, you know,

435
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 1: put it in your head and then and then walk away.

436
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,120
Speaker 1: And I think that that's a better way of approaching

437
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,120
Speaker 1: the news rather than what most people are doing, which

438
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 1: is just keeping everybody outraged. And politics is not everything.

439
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: It's just not Davis, we wind down and get ready

440
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 1: for one any prediction on when things might actually return

441
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Speaker 1: to normal as far as general rules and regulations, are

442
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 1: we just going to be stuck like this? I saw

443
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 1: Bill Gates said it's not I don't know how Bill

444
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: Gates has all the answers, but what's your Bill Gates?

445
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,719
Speaker 1: Bill Gates? This guy. First off, I saw that interview

446
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,639
Speaker 1: with Tapper, and it's like Bill Gates lives in a

447
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,480
Speaker 1: hundred fifty million dollar mansion in Washington, which has no taxes.

448
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 1: By the way, he always tells you tax the rich

449
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: and increased taxes, but he happens to live in a

450
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Speaker 1: state with no taxes, a hundred fifty million dollar mansion,

451
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: which I don't begrudge him, by the way. You know,

452
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 1: I believe in capitalism, but think about the amount of

453
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 1: chefs and staff and landscapers and all of the people

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Speaker 1: that he's got working for him in his little fifed

455
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: him And meanwhile, he's telling these other people that you

456
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 1: can't go to work and you can't make a living

457
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: and everything else. So you know, these are not great people.

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Speaker 1: And and then I think we again, we keep sort

459
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Speaker 1: of thinking that just because the politician says something, or

460
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 1: because the tech guy says something, that that means they're right.

461
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: But it's just not the case. But as far as

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Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, the lockdowns have have been effective at

463
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Speaker 1: breaking the American spirit in many ways, and I think

464
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that want to keep that going.

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00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: You know, when Biden tells you, I want a hundred

466
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Speaker 1: more days of a of a federal mask man end date,

467
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,719
Speaker 1: and people are like, oh, well that makes sense. I mean,

468
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, look, it was ten months ago they were

469
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: telling us two weeks to flatten the curve, and now

470
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Speaker 1: he's asking us for a hundred more days for masks

471
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Speaker 1: in two months from now. None of it makes any sense.

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00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: There's no science behind it. Why should rancher in Montana

473
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Speaker 1: have to wear a mask in the same way somebody

474
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Speaker 1: walking around Times Square in New York City? Ship Dave,

475
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Speaker 1: what you mentioned that small businesses being closed down our

476
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Speaker 1: micromage and the larger ones not so much. Who are

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Speaker 1: some of the reporters that you've looked up to are

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Speaker 1: looked for with regards to answers and why um or

479
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: what they've done to attack or question people in power

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Speaker 1: that I've tried to trample over individuals rights. O. Man,

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Speaker 1: that's a great question, and the answer is there are

482
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Speaker 1: not many. There are not many, you know, off the

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Speaker 1: top of my head, just thinking of a reporter who

484
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: I think is doing really good job. I mean, I

485
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Speaker 1: think Andy no has done a great job of in portland'

486
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Speaker 1: you know, talking about what's going on with Antifa and

487
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: some of the unrest that's up there. There aren't that many.

488
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Speaker 1: I think the best you can do to stay in

489
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Speaker 1: form is trying to find a couple of people that

490
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Speaker 1: can that can kind of filter the news for you

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Speaker 1: in a way that that as I said before, it

492
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Speaker 1: doesn't make you crazy, doesn't make you dumber or angrier.

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Speaker 1: So that that's what I try to do. There's a

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Speaker 1: couple of people that I respect in that space. I

495
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: think Ben Shapiro does a nice job of it from

496
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Speaker 1: a conservative perspective. I think Glenn Beck from a more

497
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: libertarian perspective. But you've got to find a small group

498
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Speaker 1: of people that you basically think you can trust and

499
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: guess what, they're going to get some stuff wrong along

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Speaker 1: the way, including me, And and that's not really the

501
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 1: key thing. The key thing is are they are they

502
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Speaker 1: doing their best to not manipulate you that that's what

503
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do? That really is it? Yeah? I

504
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Speaker 1: mean one that I look at the most is Katherine Herridge.

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Speaker 1: She came from Fox. Now she's over at CBS, but

506
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: she really lays things out, highlights things on our tweets

507
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,399
Speaker 1: and and responds reports accordingly. But it just seems like

508
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Speaker 1: when you are in d C and you're you're in

509
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Speaker 1: that that melting pots, sometimes you get you get stuck

510
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 1: in all the residue and it just it reeks when

511
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: you're when you're reporting the news or at least trying to, well,

512
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Speaker 1: that is what happens. You know, these people that are

513
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: the pure creatures of d C. It's like, you know,

514
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: politics is not everything. And I think they've tricked a

515
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: lot of people. This is what the progressives have done

516
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: really well. They've tricked everybody to thinking that politics can

517
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: solve all of your problems. But politics cannot make you happy,

518
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: politics cannot give you purpose. Politics cannot give you a

519
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,959
Speaker 1: reason to wake up in the morning. Politics if if

520
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 1: you're really thinking about it, it's sort of an unnecessary

521
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: offshoot of being free, meaning that we're born free and

522
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 1: then you need some structure so that we're not killing

523
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Speaker 1: each other. That that pretty much is what politics is.

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Speaker 1: And I always liken it to Game of Thrones. It's

525
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: like Game of Thrones was a constant quest for power,

526
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: which is what politics is. The last scene of Game

527
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: of Thrones, I hope I'm not blowing it for any everybody,

528
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: but the last scene is a bunch of guys sitting

529
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Speaker 1: around the table and everyone else that's you know, he

530
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: is dead, and they're not that thrilled about it. You know.

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00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: It's like that, that's how it ends. Because politics is

532
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: about crushing people. I want to free people. So in

533
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: a weird way, I'm less interested in politics now than

534
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: I've ever been, which is a bizarre thing as a

535
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: as a guy that talks about politics a lot, just

536
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: don't ever say bend a knee, all right, exactly exactly. So,

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00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: So Dave Well, I want go back to Trump here.

538
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: So if he doesn't, if he doesn't pull a rabbit

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00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: out of his hat here and he's done for now

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00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: as president. What ends up happening? I know there's been

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00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: some reports about the deep state charging him with crimes

542
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: and all that, and you think that's actually gonna have mean,

543
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: that's kind of been an unwritten rule, right the president.

544
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: You don't you don't charge the president. Is what would

545
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: Trump be in legal jeopardy? You think, well, I hope not,

546
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: because you're right. It would break precedent that I think

547
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: would lead us to a seriously dangerous place. Look, every

548
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: administration done some shady stuff. You know. The truth is

549
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: that if you if you remove the impeachment that ended

550
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,639
Speaker 1: up sailing and in essence was a sham. If you

551
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: remove that, Trump didn't have scandals. There were there were

552
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: made up media things about leaks and people saying he

553
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: eats too much ice cream and his steak well done

554
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: and like, you know, some nonsense, but there weren't major

555
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,359
Speaker 1: scandals in terms of selling arms illegally to somebody, or

556
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: entering a war out of nowhere or the rest of it.

557
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: So the idea that they'd go after him for crimes

558
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: is pretty dangerous. But what that would ultimately lead to

559
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: is Okay, if you guys want to open up that door. Well, congratulations,

560
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: you're not always going to be in power. And then

561
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 1: if a Republican comes in after Biden will congratulations, Biden

562
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: will spend his eighties in jail, and and that's just

563
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: then we'll basically be of an Ana Republic. So I

564
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: really hope that if Trump does not, you know, pull

565
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: off this second term somehow, that they don't go that route,

566
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: because it would set us down a pass that would

567
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: be deeply, deeply dangerous. If Joe Biden wins Dave and

568
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: he's elected, do you see him serving out his full term? No? God, no,

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Speaker 1: I mean everyone knows that. You know, It's like this

570
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: guy's got dementia. We all know it. I keep saying,

571
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: the scandal is a non scandal. The scandal is that

572
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: everyone knows something's wrong with him. He can barely read

573
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: a teleprompter. They're using him as a puppet basically. You know,

574
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's talking about the twenty fifth Amendment to basically

575
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: get rid of him and install Kamala. And the real

576
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: sickness about that will be not only did they use

577
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,719
Speaker 1: this guy, not only did they use them, but nobody

578
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: talked about it. Aren't you supposed to care about this,

579
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: like all of these people that are supporting him that

580
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: knows something wrong, like Barack Obama must know something's wrong

581
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: with Biden at this point watch videos of Biden from

582
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: five years ago to now. It is it is very

583
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: obvious in his speech patterns, the mumbling, the fumbling, and

584
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: the rest of it that something's not there. On top

585
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: of the fact that he just broke his foot, he

586
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: has a cold last week. It's like they're going to

587
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: try to drag him out. But Kamala Harris, let's not

588
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: forget Kamala Harris was pulling at zero amongst her own

589
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: party when she dropped out. So all of these people,

590
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: these eighty million people supposedly voted for Biden, they're going

591
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: to end up with a lady who was pulling zero

592
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: within their own party. Something doesn't seem right about that.

593
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: But I don't know if you can say that, Dave,

594
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: because if you do, that's misogynistic. Oh well, I mean

595
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: it goes without saying that I'm a misogyn has been right,

596
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: And uh, what's the media game here? Because Biden is

597
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: not good television. Trump's good TV. Biden he's not very

598
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: entertaining for for the news media, like what do they

599
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: shift to? They can't continue covering politics the way they've

600
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: been covering it, can't they? Because if if Biden is

601
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: the president, he's pretty boring. Well that's the thing. You

602
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: can't even see the way they're shifting right now, where

603
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, he's been the quote unquote president elect

604
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks now, and where are the

605
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: any critical pieces about him or the administration? Everything is

606
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: a fluff piece. Everything is Oh, he brought in Pete

607
00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: Boodage as transportation sectre terry, and he's gays and it wonderful.

608
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: None of it, None of it feels real because it's like, man,

609
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: you guys look for any excuse for four years to

610
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: destroy the president. Now you have your guy in and

611
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: you're just gonna puff them up the whole time. But

612
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: I think you're right, Trump, whatever Trump does, will still

613
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: be the show. And maybe in a weird way in

614
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: one we're in the sort of show must go on

615
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: version of democracy where it's like, not really that important

616
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: what happens, it's just what we're paying attention to that matters.

617
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: And and in that regard, I think we'll still be

618
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: paying attention to Trump. Dave, By any chance, did you

619
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: get a chance to to watch the interview online with

620
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: the Overstocked CEO Patrick Byrne. So I actually didn't see

621
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: it yet, but I was when I was in d

622
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: C last week. I actually pumped into him at the

623
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: Trump Hotel and we chatted for about a half hour,

624
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: So I know I know a bit about some of

625
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: the stuff. They're interesting. What is like, what's your overall thoughts,

626
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: even without watching it, Like, what's your overall thoughts about him?

627
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: And maybe some of the things that he did talk about. Yeah,

628
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: so sort of on the blue Sky version of it,

629
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: because I didn't see the full interview, so I don't

630
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: want to get into like the nitty gritty of the details. Look,

631
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: I happen to like Patrick Byrne. I think he's a

632
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: patriot and a true American, and he's trying to do

633
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: some work to uncover some stuff that the media will

634
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: not touch. You know, this is one of these weird

635
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: situations that I talked about all the time where it's like, man,

636
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: you know, if the media would just do their job,

637
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: if they would just report honestly, if they would look

638
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: at both sides equally, if they would do journalism in essence,

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Speaker 1: just do the thing that's in the very title of

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Speaker 1: the job. Right, If you would just do that, well,

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Speaker 1: then other people wouldn't have to be doing things. But

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Speaker 1: instead you've your own failure has breeded a thing where

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Speaker 1: you've got now got all these YouTubers who are sitting

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Speaker 1: you've got people like Patrick Byrne, who's a who's a

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Speaker 1: businessman and uh, you know, ran overstock dot com and

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Speaker 1: he's big on bitcoin everything else. He's putting in his

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Speaker 1: own money and resources to uncover some election fraud stuff

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Speaker 1: because nobody else will do it. So I I stand

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Speaker 1: with anyone that's trying to uncover truth. Uh, and we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happened. Well, Dave, thanks for coming on. And

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Speaker 1: you've got you've got the book still the holiday Christmas

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Speaker 1: is right around the corner here. What a great stocking stuffer, right,

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Speaker 1: don't burn this book, great stocking stuffer. Yes, don't burn

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Speaker 1: the stocking that this book is in. I should have

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Speaker 1: said don't burn the door that the book is in,

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Speaker 1: but don't burn the stock that's right. And the Reuben

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Speaker 1: Report of course online. Thank you to appreciate it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: one more thing, guys, Guests gone, You've got to consider

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Speaker 1: changing your name because it's not going to be very

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Speaker 1: safe here in l A for you soon enough, once

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Speaker 1: the people wake up to this clown. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Miller Show weekdays at

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