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Speaker 1: What's anonymous my queueses. Robert Evans hosted Behind the Bastards,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where we tell you everything you don't know

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Speaker 1: about the worst people in all of history. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: of course today is a very special day. We are

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Speaker 1: talking about Q and on one of the bastards behind

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Speaker 1: it uh and I'm I'm doing it with uh several

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Speaker 1: co hosts today the collective who hosts the Q and

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Speaker 1: on Anonymous podcast? You guys want to introduce yourselves. Travis View,

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Speaker 1: I am Jake Rocketanski and Julian Field is the third wheel.

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Speaker 1: I every car needs a third wheel, otherwise it would

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Speaker 1: be a bicycle. You can be our fourth baby doll,

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Speaker 1: and I will be defeat sticking through the floor. I

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Speaker 1: want to be the flint stone feed Now, now that

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Speaker 1: we're going with a fun car analogy, I want to

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Speaker 1: do something better. Come on now, Uh. We we we

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Speaker 1: have some weird similarities. Is that all of us are

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Speaker 1: people who started paying attention to different sections of eight

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Speaker 1: chan uh several years in the past for reasons that

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Speaker 1: are difficult to explain to anyone, including ourselves, and then

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Speaker 1: found our weird little obsession turned into meaningful news and

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Speaker 1: suddenly had to Field calls from the Washington Post and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Uh super weird, isn't it. We were doing the fun

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Speaker 1: Nazis and you were doing the real Nazis. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we were doing like the goofiest Knatzi used who believed

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Speaker 1: in like you know, underground tunnels and ye know, and

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Speaker 1: uh coming military trimbunals. It was fantastical and the body

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Speaker 1: count was relatively low, so that that that makes our

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Speaker 1: work I think a little bit more entertaining. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: imagine like a war where the only guy who died

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Speaker 1: was a mob boss. Yeah, pretty pretty good. And uh,

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Speaker 1: in case some listeners don't know, both the the neo

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Speaker 1: Nazis on h Chan who were responsible for all those

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Speaker 1: mass shootings and the people who are kind of like

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Speaker 1: driving the Q and on movement are are We're located

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Speaker 1: on eight Chan at different sections. There was the Q

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Speaker 1: research board, which is obvious what that was, and then

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Speaker 1: there's the poll board, which is where all the Nazis were.

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Speaker 1: There was a bit across pollination, but as not as

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Speaker 1: much as some people think. I know it was. It's like, um,

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Speaker 1: it's like those old Gary Larson cartoons, um, where they

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Speaker 1: would show you know, it would be like the skydiving

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Speaker 1: for for the for the real Nazis. They looked at

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Speaker 1: the Q and On board and they're like, nah, that

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Speaker 1: that looks like vulcans occultism, dude, we left that behind. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's funny. On the on the Q research board, on

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Speaker 1: every single thread, someone posted of some like really heavily

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Speaker 1: anti Semitic ship about like the Jewish question um and stuff,

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Speaker 1: and they actually wound up blaming me. They thought that

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Speaker 1: I was sort of seeding this information to try to

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Speaker 1: make them look the more anti Semitic they actually are.

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Speaker 1: I was not denied it. That's become common theme. They

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Speaker 1: also thought that we brought um, that we brought plants

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Speaker 1: to the Q and On rally a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago to make them, to make them look stupider and

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Speaker 1: and than they already are. My favorite is Jocas Aben

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Speaker 1: of the Lines Led by Donkeys podcast. He responded to

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Speaker 1: our tweet where where it was like me pictured with

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Speaker 1: all these Q and On influencers, and he was like

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Speaker 1: did they know that? Like you were the host of

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Speaker 1: qu on anonymous and then one of the influencers answered

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Speaker 1: did they care? But it was too late he had replied,

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Speaker 1: so he clearly showed that he cared. So sad and

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Speaker 1: I was like, clearly they did, and no answer to that.

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Speaker 1: That's adorable. Well, today we're here to talk about somebody

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Speaker 1: who is not adorable. Uh, we're here to talk about

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Speaker 1: Bill Mitchell. Um who is uh I don't know, iluminary

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Speaker 1: of the of the Q movement. That's not the right

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Speaker 1: term to use at all for Bill Mitchell. Nothing should

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Speaker 1: describe him as aluminary. How would you describe Bill Mitchell?

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Speaker 1: I think he's luminous. If you look at him, everything

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Speaker 1: is just like a pale light. It just fucking blows

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Speaker 1: I once uh, I think I once described him as

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Speaker 1: looking like a child who has a secret. Totally. Well,

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Speaker 1: have fun talking about him today. Um So, Billiam Mitchell,

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Speaker 1: which you can really see in his videos. Clearly a

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Speaker 1: guy who likes putting on a show. Jesus start superstar

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Speaker 1: kind of guy. Yeah. Yeah, if you haven't looked at this, dude,

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Speaker 1: you owe it to yourself. He has like the perfect

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Speaker 1: like Jean Claude van Damme if he didn't exercise. Is

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Speaker 1: he would look like Bill Mitchell. Yeah now Bill, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like I said, lifelong Republican. In the nineteen nineties, he

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Speaker 1: And clearly corporations and countries have the same goal. Uh,

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Speaker 1: maximizing shareholder value. Yeah now um. For the most part,

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Speaker 1: politics played a fairly minor role in Bill's life, and

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Speaker 1: he focused instead on his career running an executive recruitment

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Speaker 1: company website executive decision dot biz You've gotta be kidding me.

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Speaker 1: biz baby dot z Yeah, the classiest domain. Um. He

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Speaker 1: bragged that his bold, proactive style quote empowers clients to

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Speaker 1: In a BuzzFeed profile in two thousand sixteen, Charlie Warzel

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Speaker 1: a decade, paints a fuller picture across hundreds of questions

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Speaker 1: and answers. Mitchell reveals a successful recovery from colon cancer,

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Speaker 1: a frequent desired for feedback on whether or not to

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Speaker 1: color his graying hair, and endless mundane curiosities ranging from

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Speaker 1: more existential. What is intuition and how often is it correct?

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Speaker 1: Why not pick create a condom that covers just the

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Speaker 1: Matthew Whittaker should get together and team up. I love

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Speaker 1: that the guy has never tried just not pulling it

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Speaker 1: all the way down, just like you can test that

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Speaker 1: out yourself. Bill. I. I love that you say that

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Speaker 1: because it means that you and Bill had the exact

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Speaker 1: That is slander, sir. I like to pull my condom

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Speaker 1: feel you could get to know the man. Yeah, Charlie

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Speaker 1: He was there in two fifteen when Donald Trump, famous

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Speaker 1: to see. It's chilling to see the parallels with Jake. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: else are you gonna do? You're certain of something that

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Speaker 1: Charlie Warzel did, like put that together? I guess, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's that's so many tweets like I'm I I spent

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Speaker 1: I mean, how does he keep his figure? I mean

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Speaker 1: I would imagine that he would look like like the

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Speaker 1: fat people strapped to the floating chairs and Wally, you know,

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Speaker 1: just glued to his phone going like mag I'm I

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Speaker 1: don't think he eats. I think he subsists entirely on

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Speaker 1: the energy he gets from hot takes, hot takes in cocaine.

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Speaker 1: Uh So some of his best takes, collected by Mr Warzl,

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Speaker 1: are as follows. You notice how close. Trump stands to

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Speaker 1: this black man as he listens to him. No racist

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Speaker 1: whatever to that. If you think about it, Hillary putting

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Speaker 1: women into baskets maybe one of the most sexist things

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Speaker 1: ever set in a political campaign. Trump's ground game isn't

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Speaker 1: in a computer, It's in our hearts. Imagine poles don't exist.

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Speaker 1: Show me evidence Hillary is winning. Jesus was perfect in

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Speaker 1: the media of his day. Had him crucified. Paco's pilot

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Speaker 1: was Rupert Murdoch. Yeah, ponscious pilot was the Fox New World.

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Speaker 1: now that's not even a conspiracy. Jake Tapper is eternal,

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Speaker 1: He's fifty six to u. But unfortunately for Bill and

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Speaker 1: many other right wing grifters who hoped the Trump years

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Speaker 1: would bring them tremendous wealth and power, he proved to

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Speaker 1: be somewhat less adept once he moved on from simply

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Speaker 1: cheerleading a Trump victory and tried to build a brand

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Speaker 1: as a right wing thought leader. His first terrible mistake

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Speaker 1: in January of two thousand seventeen was attacking Pepe. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: did you guys know? Bill went to war with Pepe? Briefly?

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Speaker 1: I did not know, yeah, he really gave away his

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Speaker 1: sort of like his boomer tendency is there. This is

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Speaker 1: what happens when you give our topics to a real journalist.

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Speaker 1: He plays to us. So he tweeted on January second,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm really sick of this damn green frog.

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Speaker 1: Who the hell thought it was a good mascot? Uh? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The war on the mouse and Chuck e cheese Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bill um. Now, like anyone who attacks the kind of

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Speaker 1: things that are popular with Channers, Bill was delused in

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Speaker 1: a flood of hateful comments. Janners started making fake Bill

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Speaker 1: Mitchell tweets which portrayed him as a Hall of Cost denier,

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Speaker 1: because that's like the only the only thing in their

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Speaker 1: bag is like, well, let's make him into a Holocaust denier,

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Speaker 1: you know now, Rather than you know, analyze the movement

448
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Speaker 1: he'd become a part of and acknowledged that it had

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Speaker 1: a hateful side, Bill took a different tactic. He decided

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Speaker 1: to brilliam Holocaust survivor George Soros for the fake accounts.

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Speaker 1: I'm being attacked by thousands of accounts that didn't even

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Speaker 1: exist during the election, Almost no followers astroturfed Soros bs incredible. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: In another tweet, he called them soro spots. Um so, yeah,

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Speaker 1: very so. He decided to like counter accusations of being

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Speaker 1: extremely santi Semitic by being more dog whistley anti semitic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, he sure did. Yeah, he sure did, which

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Speaker 1: is a bold move. Um. Yeah. You gotta respect the

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Speaker 1: the ability to zig and zag. Yeah. And you can

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Speaker 1: see those the non tendencies starting to bubble to the surface.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And he he gets closer and closer to

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Speaker 1: that as the years go on. As the last three

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Speaker 1: years have played out, he's increasingly, uh, sort of sold

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Speaker 1: himself to the most extreme chunks of the American right wing.

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Speaker 1: In late two thousands seventeen, he started tweeting about Q

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Speaker 1: and On Now. Bill has always seemed less enthralled with

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Speaker 1: the specifics of the Q and On conspiracy or the

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Speaker 1: individual Q drops than he was with the cults recklessly

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Speaker 1: pro Trump version of reality. On one episode of his

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Speaker 1: radio show, he said this, what Q was trying to

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Speaker 1: do is motivate and encourage the base by what is

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Speaker 1: their hashtag? Trust the plan? What's the alternative to that question?

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Speaker 1: In doubt everything Donald Trump does. Constantly attack Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: from all these different sides. Every time he makes a

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Speaker 1: move that you and your linear small mind don't understand

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Speaker 1: that he and his strategic mind is setting up the

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Speaker 1: board for a win. But you don't get it. He

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Speaker 1: sacrifices his night because he's planning on checkmating your king

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Speaker 1: in five moves. But all of a sudden you go

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Speaker 1: out there and you're freaking out and pulling an end

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Speaker 1: culture on him. Is that what we should be doing?

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Speaker 1: What would make it better? Would that be a better world?

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00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 1: Would that make us more mega? What do you want?

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00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: What do you want? They're like, Oh, you're lowering us

484
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Speaker 1: into a false sense of security by giving you confidence

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Speaker 1: in Trump that Trump has got a plan to know

486
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Speaker 1: what the hell he's doing in all this? How does

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Speaker 1: that low anyone into a false sense of confidence? That

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Speaker 1: is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard in

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Speaker 1: the world. I can't he's successful because I can't remember

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Speaker 1: the first sentence. Well, basically, I think, I mean, correct

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Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. But basically, instead of when somebody

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Speaker 1: says trust the plan, instead of being like, well, what

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00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: what's the plan, he's like, well, he's like, what I mean,

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Speaker 1: what else are you gonna do? Not trust in not

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00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: trust the unknown plan, Like, what do you think? He's

496
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: just a senile boomer tweeting and random and yelling at people.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna what are you gonna think? What do

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Speaker 1: you think there's not some sort of preordained celestial influence

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00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: that's guiding all of this? Uh jeez, yeah, it's um,

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00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: it's quite something to watch now. In other tweets, Bill

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00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,120
Speaker 1: has described the Q and On movement as harmless fun

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00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: and having o downside, and it's worth noting that both

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Speaker 1: of those tweets were made after several separate Q and

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Speaker 1: On believers committed murders or other attacks in ques name.

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Speaker 1: Just this, just this. Last August, Bill tweeted, if Q

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Speaker 1: and on is wrong, it's harmless fun. If Q and

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Speaker 1: on is right, the deep state is screwed. I like

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Speaker 1: those odds. To be fair to Mitchell, he only checks

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Speaker 1: the news when he's not tweeting, so he hasn't read

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Speaker 1: the news in like ten years. I also like that

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Speaker 1: he like it's just more evidence he has no idea

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Speaker 1: what odds are, like, like fundamentally doesn't understand what the

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00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: word means. That makes it more powerful though ironically, Yeah, yeah,

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00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: it's he's like Han Solo. Yeah, he's so dedicating being

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Speaker 1: the anti anti Nate Silver. He doesn't even understand how

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Speaker 1: numbers work. When I you know, if he really is

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Speaker 1: the anti Nate Silver. One of my goals for the

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Speaker 1: next year because I expect albeit at an event we're

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Speaker 1: both Bill Mitchell and Nate Silver are present, I want

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Speaker 1: to try and mash them together. I think if they

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00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: make physical contact, they might explode and destroy us. All

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00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: let's save the greater universe. Yeah, that's my goal. Or

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00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: create free energy for all of us, or create free energy. Yeah,

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00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: that might be the solution to global warming. Is just

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00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: like tie Nate Silver and Bill Mitchell together and stick

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00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: them in some sort of crude reactor. Yeah, they're like,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like you know what positive and negative battery

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Speaker 1: that you just if you glue them together and sort

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Speaker 1: of yeah, stuff them under some sort of fission reactor. Yeah,

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00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: that this is the key to to like free energy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Nate Silver and Bill Mitchell mashed together like fucking Reese's

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Speaker 1: Pieces sixty nine. Baby. Now, someone with a charitable opinion

533
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: towards Bill might be inclined to suggest that he didn't

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Speaker 1: believe all the media hype about the q movements increasingly

535
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: violent rhetoric, but Bill's own rhetoric has grown increasingly violent

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Speaker 1: in the years since Trump's election. This past May, on

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Speaker 1: an episode of Your Voice America, he stated that Democrats

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Speaker 1: really have become the party of Satan. He asked his

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Speaker 1: followers to pray for their president to have the wisdom

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Speaker 1: of God as he fights against the dem on might

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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. At this point, we are fighting

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Speaker 1: against evil. He went on to add, this feels like

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Speaker 1: the last day. Sometimes it's because he's just alone in

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Speaker 1: his basement with his run out of food. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's remarkable. I I love the idea that the Democrats

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Speaker 1: are the party of the devil because it gives them

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00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: so much power than they actually have, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: being like the party that roughly forty people in the

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Speaker 1: United States are passionate about and the rest are just like, well,

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Speaker 1: they're not literal Nazis, so I guess this is the best.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's it's if only I wish Nancy

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Speaker 1: Pelosi would embrace Baha met like on an altar in

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Speaker 1: front of the Senate Like that would be such such

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Speaker 1: a great day. I'm here for that. Yeah, alas she

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Speaker 1: starts sacrificing chickens. Now, I'm going to quote from a

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Speaker 1: right wing Watch article on Bill Now quote Mitchell said

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Speaker 1: the fact that he has repeatedly called Democrats the party

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Speaker 1: of Satan on Twitter, and no Democrats have replied to

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00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: dispute the claim as evidence that he is right. Never once.

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Speaker 1: He said. It's like in their contract, they're not allowed

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Speaker 1: to deny it. I don't know, it's weird. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: sacrificed children. You know, people people with a contract with

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00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: Satan can't lie about their other contract with Satan. Well. No,

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Speaker 1: Satan is commonly known as the Prince of Truth. That's

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00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: what everybody calls him. Yeah, it's like with cops. If

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Speaker 1: you ask them, are you a cop? They have to say,

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00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: and they have to tell you if they worship Satan. Yeah, exactly,

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00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: both of those things are true about cops. So uh.

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Speaker 1: Less than a week before I wrote this article, in

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Speaker 1: September of two thousand nineteen, Bill Mitchell started trying to

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Speaker 1: sell Trump branded bullets to his four Twitter phone. He

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Speaker 1: retweeted a link to the Republican Legions store selling Punisher

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Speaker 1: Trump branded nine millimeter hollow points. He wrote, retweet if

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Speaker 1: you believe in the Second Amendment and the right to

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Speaker 1: bear arms. Right above a picture of the box, which

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Speaker 1: of course features a punish your skull with Donald Trump's

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Speaker 1: wig atop it. It's Donald Trump has ever fired a

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Speaker 1: gun in his life? I kind of doubt it. I

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Speaker 1: think he would be frightened and confused. Like, yeah, that's like,

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Speaker 1: that's like a picture of Louis Farrick, Louis Farrick Caannon

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00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: and just being like, retweet if you think black people

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00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: should be equal. Yeah, it's amazing. Um, the actual like

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Speaker 1: tweet itself. Like in the link to the store, you

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00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: can see, like the first few words available in the

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Speaker 1: store's website are, if you want to ensure your Second

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Speaker 1: Amendment rights remain intact, you're gonna need some ammunition, which

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00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: is not at all a call for violence. Boy, Now,

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00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: this was a clear violation of Twitter's terms of service,

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00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: since you aren't allowed to sell firearms and ammo via

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Speaker 1: the site. But more to the point, it seems to

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Speaker 1: be a pretty fucking clear call on Bill's part towards

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Speaker 1: violence against the president's enemies. That Republican Legion websites selling

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00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: the Bullet States America is on the verge of another

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Speaker 1: civil war and warns that conservatives are facing economic terrorism

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Speaker 1: from the left. Now that website Republican Legion is registered

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Speaker 1: to a guy named Richard Granville. Y'all, y'all know who

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Speaker 1: Richard Granville is. Yes, he is the CEO of Yippie

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Speaker 1: dot Com. He sure is. It's also Bill Mitchell's boss. Now.

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Speaker 1: Um See, while that sweet deal working for Jared Kushner

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00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: never quite worked out, Bill was hired by Granville's company, Yippie,

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00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: which bills itself is essentially a conservative alternative to Google. Um,

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00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: and this gig that Bill has now is evidence that

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00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: Mitchell has fully embraced the tactic of shamelessly grifting his

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Speaker 1: audience for as much cash as he can convince them

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Speaker 1: to fork over those stupid Trump branded bullets, for instance,

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Speaker 1: cost for fifty rounds of nine millimeter, which is two

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Speaker 1: to three times as expensive as comparative like high end ammunition,

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Speaker 1: and like five times as expensive as like just normal

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Speaker 1: rounds of nine millimeter like I get him for like

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Speaker 1: eight or nine bucks for a box of fifty for

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00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: target rounds like ridiculously overpriced just ice cube. Leaning in, well,

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Speaker 1: it appears this man just wanted to make America great again.

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00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: Yeah so uh in selling Donald Trump bullets is actually

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Speaker 1: one of the least grifty things Mitchell has gotten involved

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00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,360
Speaker 1: with over the last year. In May of two thousand nineteen,

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Speaker 1: he started to go fund me, saying he wanted to

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Speaker 1: move his online show to Washington, d C, so he

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Speaker 1: could talk with movers and shakers of the conservative movement

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Speaker 1: on a regular basis. This is his best thing he's

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Speaker 1: ever done. I love this so much. It's it's kind

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Speaker 1: of brilliant. The money was billed as covering moving costs

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Speaker 1: and helping him set up a high end studio in

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Speaker 1: d C. On May six, he tweeted, this, one great

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00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: thing about living in d C will be that all

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Speaker 1: my political friends from around the country all eventually go there,

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Speaker 1: so I get to see everyone. Smiley face. Now, Bill

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00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: came very close to his fifteen thousand dollar fundraising goal.

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Speaker 1: He made fourteen thousand, two hundred and eighty dollars, and

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Speaker 1: then rather than moving to d C, he moved to

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Speaker 1: Miami instead. Fucking, king, king, king legend. That's an incredible grift. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: to be fair, those seven hundred extra dollars would have

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Speaker 1: made the difference. M Yeah, everyone knows it takes fifteen

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Speaker 1: grand exactly to move to Washington, d C. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: any anything less you you're trying to get to d C,

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00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: but you somehow just end up in Florida. It's like

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Speaker 1: the prices, It's like the price is right if you

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Speaker 1: overshoot him back too, you know, yeah, yeah, overshoot you

638
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: end up in New York, like yeah, yeah, So Bill

639
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: winds up in Miami and many of Bill's friends other

640
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,240
Speaker 1: conservative pundits attacked him for this. The right wing internet

641
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: descended on Bill Mitchell to accuse him of grifting his fans.

642
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: For his part, Bill expressed no contrition. I think he

643
00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: never explicitly. He's totally shaved about this. Like again, he's

644
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: he's as consistent about not giving a funk that he

645
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: grifted his fans as he was about claiming Trump was

646
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: going to win the election. So at least, like he

647
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: goes whole hog on all this ship. And he's a

648
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: fucking business guy. Like you think you think he could

649
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: just not take the fifteen k, like it just destroys

650
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: his reputation for fifteen k, Like you think he has

651
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: a bit more disposable cometan he could just return that

652
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: money and be like, sorry, guys, I'm going to Florida. Julian.

653
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: He sat there in front of his computer watching that

654
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: little green bar just freeze at, you know, just sweat,

655
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: and he just watching watching ethereum crash. He's like, fuck me,

656
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to keep these fifteen Huh. Miami's looking

657
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: pretty good, boys. Yeah. Well, to be fair, he he

658
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: fucking went to Washington, d C. To like try to

659
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Speaker 1: find a home. He tried the coke and he was like,

660
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,399
Speaker 1: fuck this, boys, I'm going to Miami. Ye yeah, yeah,

661
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: that's actually really close to what Bill claims. So he

662
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 1: claimed he never explicitly said on the go fund me

663
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: that this was for a move to d C, even

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Speaker 1: though he tweeted constantly about that being the reason for

665
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: the go fund me, and so since she hadn't written

666
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,439
Speaker 1: that into the go fund me itself, it was fine

667
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: for him to use the money for whatever the funk

668
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: he wanted. When other conservatives dragged him on Twitter, he

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00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: justified his decision by pointing out that Miami has better

670
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: weather than d C. DC gets maybe four nice months

671
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: a year, Miami gets ten, for sake. Yes, yes, yes, yes,

672
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: mem You're completely correct, yeah, you kind of have to

673
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: love that. Um, I don't know that just like shameless

674
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: level stealing from your fans. Yeah, just just total contempt

675
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: for the people who support you. I mean, I mean they,

676
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: I mean, like all the sort of like the grifters

677
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,919
Speaker 1: have it, but to this level where you just take

678
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: money for one thing and just not do it all

679
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: and just say fuck you and just walk away with

680
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: the cash and you still like a public figure. Yeah,

681
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 1: he's a king. Absolutely, it's an an Actually, I'm not kidding.

682
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: It makes me happy to think of this, Like, I

683
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: fucking love him for this. I think he's a positive

684
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: force on the in the universe. More people on the

685
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: right should take k to destroy their own reputation. Absolutely, Uh,

686
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: it's it's It's just beautiful. Um. And I have no

687
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: doubt that Bill spending it on a combination of nose

688
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: candy and cryptocurrency is a better use for the money

689
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: than I don't know, his fans buying more Trump branded

690
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: bullets with it. If you unscrew the top of the bullet,

691
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: there's a special holder for your cocaine. Are you suggesting, sir,

692
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: that Bill Mitchell has gotten into brown round round round? Yeah? No, no, no, no, no, no.

693
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Speaker 1: If I apologize, I take it back. I kind of

694
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: think he might be um Now. Bill also claimed that,

695
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: for reasons he could not divulge, being based out of

696
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: Miami would actually be better for his political journalism than

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00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: being based in d C. He tweeted, this is a

698
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: much better location for the show, based upon too many

699
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: reasons to explain. Here, better studio, much better distribution, far

700
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: far more reach, much more influenced. Wasn't even a close call.

701
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: This is the MAGA spot. But yeah, he's sucking right,

702
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: He's sucking right. Trump made maral Lago. It's more central

703
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: to the fucking country than washing the DC White House. Yeah,

704
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: you you can't say he's entirely off base in that,

705
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: even though he is absolutely grifting his followers. Him and

706
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein knew that this was a better place to

707
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: own a mansion. Jeffstein um Now in another defensive tweet,

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00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: They'll explained, during my work to relocate to d C

709
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: several trips, I was made an offer which will position

710
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: me to literally change the social media experience for everyone

711
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: in the Trump family. That's exciting, isn't it. Yeah? You

712
00:39:51,560 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: know what else is exciting? What God motherfucking pivots. This

713
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 1: is how I griffed my audience. So if you want

714
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: to buy some I don't know, Nancy Pelosi themed bullets,

715
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: that might be the next ad, although almost certainly not

716
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: daily cost just drops off bullets. It's just it's hard

717
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: to make a good punisher skull out of her hairstyle. Um.

718
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's the marketing team's really had trouble. Um.

719
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: Oddly enough, the Bernie Sanders m O sells incredibly well. Um,

720
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: but yeah, there you go, so products we're back now. Uh.

721
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: That offer, which Bill claimed was going to completely change

722
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: the social media experience of the entire Trump family was

723
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: his new job with Yippie, And so far the search

724
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: engine has had zero discernible impact on the social media

725
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: experience of the Trump family or the whier Internet. Uh.

726
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: In fact, it's kind of hard to even figure out

727
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: how to search with Yippi. Um, Like, it's not like

728
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: using yandek. There's something where you just like type it

729
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: in like it's it's it seems to be a pain

730
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: in the ass. Um they're gonna look back on this

731
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: era and be like Dan, it was crazy to watch

732
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: the two the two, uh, the two big entities. The

733
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: two titans, Yippie and Bing go head to head. Hippie

734
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: is so small that even Bing gets to make fun

735
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: of it. Um and and Bing is just three guys

736
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: in a basement in Redmond crying most of the day.

737
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: Uh yeah now um. Back in August, Bill Mitchell was

738
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: briefly booked to be a speaker at the Digital Soldiers Conference,

739
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: a one day Q and AN event that was supposed

740
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: to be held in Atlanta this September. It was Bill

741
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: I P R I P. It was billed as an

742
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: event to help organize patriotic social media warriors for a

743
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: digital civil war against censorship and suppression. Event was organized

744
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: by Bill's boss, Richard Granville, who firmly denied the event

745
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: was in any way tied to Q and ON, despite

746
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 1: the fact that the logo for the event was literally

747
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: an American flag with all of the stars shaped into

748
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: a giant Grandville, we want our fucking thousand dollars back

749
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: for our fucking plane tickets, asshole. Did you actually book

750
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: plane tickets for that thing? No? Good, we did, we did,

751
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 1: we did, solid Griffin. Wow, Well, I hear Atlanta's lovely

752
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: in September Now, Grandville claimed that the three stars making

753
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: up q's tail were actually a reference to Michael Flynn,

754
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: a three star general, and had nothing to do with

755
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: Q at on, which is solid lie man. The file

756
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: name on that image was Q dash flag dot j peg. Amazing, amazing. Yes,

757
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: and I've heard, I've heard the three stars stand for

758
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: the Holy Trinity. Yeah, what are those again? Jake, the Father,

759
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: the Son, and the Holy Ghost? Yeah you did, except

760
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: isn't it Holy Spirit? Holy Ghost? Like a Catholic boy gratulation,

761
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: Good job money, You're not Jewish anymore now. Thankfully that

762
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: event was canceled, and as of late, Bill seems to

763
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: be making a moderately concerted effort to slightly distance himself

764
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: from the Q movement. This may have something to do

765
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: with all of the mash shooting. Spawn by eight Chance,

766
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: the website which also hosted the Q research board. On

767
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: September eighteenth, Bill tweeted this, The media loves to say

768
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: I'm this big que and on guy, I'm really not.

769
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: I don't follow QUE post regularly and never have. I

770
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: agree with their premise that we should trust the plan.

771
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: Is it mirrors slow walker? Hashtag slow walker in many

772
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: ways and the Q people, I actually know love Trump.

773
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: That's it. But you literally cannot read a media article

774
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: about me that doesn't begin Bill Mitchell major Q and

775
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: on conspiracy theorist. It's comical because it's such bullshit. Q

776
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: does Q I do me? Now? Have y'all ever heard

777
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: of hashtag slow walker? Yes? Yes, I actually have not

778
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: tell me about this. Slow Walker is essentially Bill Mitchell's

779
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: bargain basement rip off of Q and on. Uh. It's

780
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: it's him trying to make his own Q and ON.

781
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: The basic idea is that Trump and Jeff Sessions were

782
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,439
Speaker 1: putting together a slow, deliberate plan to unravel the deep state,

783
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: and originally Bill thought this was all going to come

784
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: to fruition. During the mid terms, he came to have

785
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: come up with this idea via quote the holmesy and

786
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: method of deduction. I do believe he was smoking a

787
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: pipe of some sort when he came up with this idea,

788
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 1: but I don't think it was tobacco. Now, when the

789
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: mid terms came and went and Jeff Sessions left, you

790
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: may have expected Bill to have pulled back from his

791
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: pet conspiracy theory. If so, you don't know Bill Mitchell.

792
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: He never pulls back from any theory, and early September

793
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, he quote tweeted President Trump, absolutely nothing

794
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: is more important than going back and getting to the

795
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: bottom of the origins of the investigation. We had an

796
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: administration using America's spying apparatus to spy on a political

797
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: opponent at the height of a presidential election, so Mitchell says,

798
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: to this, President Trump says, the Muller investigation was one

799
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: of my great achievements. And then he says this, I mean,

800
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: could he foreshadow the closing act of this hashtag slow

801
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: walker play any harder? Buckle up, Democrats? It gets rough

802
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: from here. Based upon this statement, I am now more

803
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: convinced that hashtag slow walker and hashtag trust the Plan

804
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: are a hundred percent real. Else why would Trump call

805
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: the in Mueller investigation his greatest achievement? Yeah that's it. Uh.

806
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: Jold Cola tastes really good as well as Coca cola. Yeah,

807
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Uh, It's just amazing. Now. There really is

808
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: so much more I could say about Bill Mitchell, but

809
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 1: I feel like the right place to end this little

810
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: rite up is by discussing what I think maybe his

811
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: very worst take of all time, which is There's a

812
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: lot of competition for that, but this one is just

813
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: staggeringly good. Back in February of this year, on an

814
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: episode of Your Voice America, Bill declared that racism was

815
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: not a huge problem in America and said white privilege

816
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: does not exist. Out He wasn't just saying that out

817
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: of his ass. He had evidence for this statement, and

818
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: his evidence was this deeply compelling anecdote about something he'd

819
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: experienced that very weekend quote. I stopped by the grocery

820
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: store and did some grocery shopping. I went around, did

821
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: some various things, drove around in the car, so far

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00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: and so forth, interacted with people. I saw Black Americans,

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00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: I saw Hispanic Americans, I saw Asian Americans. And you

824
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: know what I didn't see all day, not once, not

825
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: one time, racism. I saw no racism. I saw no

826
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: black people being asked to get in the back of

827
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: the line. I saw no Hispanic people being denied service.

828
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 1: I saw no racism anywhere. You know why, because racism

829
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: is not a huge problem in America today, I'm sure

830
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: some liberals heads are exploding, asking how could Bill Mitchell

831
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: say that racism is not a huge problem in America?

832
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm saying it. Racism is not a huge problem in America.

833
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: They talk about white privilege. I'm still waiting to be

834
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: able to cash in on my white privilege. Where is it.

835
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten anything in life that I didn't work

836
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: hard for when I go to check in the Yeah,

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00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: it's fun, grand piece of ship, guys, Guys, I think

838
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: this is a clear example of blues clusion deduction. I

839
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: mean he did he tweeted two hundred and seventy times

840
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: a day to get that fifteen grand Yeah. His fingers

841
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: are just a pulp. Uh. And that is my write

842
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: up of Bill Mitchell. Beautiful stuff. Wow, he is such

843
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: a beautiful boy. Yeah, he's an incredible piece of shit.

844
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I what what stuns me most about is

845
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: like he was trying to deny that he is a

846
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: q and on guy. I mean he interviewed Praying Medic

847
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: on his show. Yeah, you don't get more que and

848
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: on than that, and he's basically come up with this

849
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 1: like bullshit, like parallel theory that's exactly the same where

850
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: he's like he's like que and on a little too obscure,

851
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: and and then he comes up with kind of like

852
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: a like an off brand Stephen King novel sort of

853
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: title like slow Walker, Like it's just the unbelievable bullshit. Yeah,

854
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty it's pretty amazing. Um, I like, I

855
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: don't even know what else to say. Uh that that's

856
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: all I've got on fucking Bill Mitchell. Um, you know

857
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: I think that it's really it's Bill Mitchell is like

858
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: you know, the the election of President Donald Trump was

859
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: like it was like this. It was like the lamentation

860
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: or the lament configuration was like solved and released all

861
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: of these demons into the media world. And Bill Mitchell

862
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: just one of those demons that are just still with us. Yeah,

863
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 1: we opened Pandora's box and Bill Mitchell bled out into

864
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: the reality, and now we can't get rid of him

865
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 1: until we build some sort of Ghostbusters like device back. Dude,

866
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,800
Speaker 1: I was literally I was literally about to make a

867
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 1: reference of the roof of the firehouse blowing off after

868
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: after Walter Peck shuts down. Then I was literally about

869
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: I was waiting for everybody stopped talking to make a

870
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters reference. You were gonna make a references your favorite movie?

871
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 1: We are spirits, my friend, we both thought about Ghostbusters

872
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: at the same time. We both love Bill Mitchell and

873
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:15,479
Speaker 1: fucking James Comey is absolutely Walter Pett doubt in my mind,

874
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: also not at doubt in my mind that he has

875
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: no dick. This man has no dick. Oh boy, alright, guys,

876
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: well that's the behind the bastard portion of this, this

877
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: wonderful hybrid episode. Shall we move on to the Q

878
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 1: and On Anonymous portion? Yes? Absolutely, that was incredible. Jake

879
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: is about to take you down a notch. Oh boy,

880
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: are we doing the story now? All right, let's do it. Jesus,

881
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: Jesus God. All right, well, let's explain what this is

882
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: for my listeners who may not have listened to Q

883
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: and On Anonymous yet, but hopefully we'll be soon. Yeah.

884
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: So Jake writes these radio plays. Now, I'm sure he

885
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: would say that their masterpieces. They are in fact, just

886
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: the mented product of a rotting mind. But they make

887
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: us all giggle a lot. Yeah. I tend to usually

888
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: write them, but like two or three in the morning,

889
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: like Julian texted me yesterday and he was like, hey, man,

890
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: do you think we could lay the story into the document,

891
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: So so Robert can take a look at it before

892
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: we kick off tomorrow. And I was like, oh, it

893
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: won't be complete until three thirty four possibly am in

894
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: the morning. And in your defense, I absolutely did not

895
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: read it. Uh, it was good busy doing dangerous drugs

896
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: last night. That's good. No, it's it's actually better for

897
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: everybody if nobody knows what's coming in the story. It's

898
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: been The only really advantage that I have is the

899
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: element of surprise. Yeah. Yeah, I feel the same way

900
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: about my episodes. I didn't. I wanted to drop that

901
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: Bill Mitchell selling bullets. Oh my god, she was amazing. Well,

902
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 1: what's great actually is is some of the very things

903
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: you've touched on in your portion make an appearance in

904
00:50:56,280 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: this story in one way or another. So, without further ado, Uh,

905
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: let's do it. Yeah, what's the name of the story.

906
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:08,439
Speaker 1: The title of this story is called the Third Meme

907
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:15,200
Speaker 1: War Wish Jesus Christ, Jake Rapatanski, and Robert Evans. It's

908
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:22,600
Speaker 1: good job weight on that the food War. I say again, God, yeah,

909
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: Robert is not responsible for this word. Yeah, Robert has

910
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,359
Speaker 1: nothing to do with this. I did not ask him

911
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 1: if any of this was okay. He has he is

912
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: free to delete it from any portion of his program.

913
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: The groan of the heavy doors on the forty seven

914
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: woke Evans up from a shallow slumber. Based on the

915
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: flaming projectiles rocketing past the windows, he knew they were close.

916
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: The hull of the aircraft shuttered as he watched the

917
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,840
Speaker 1: soldiers on board check and double check their gear. It

918
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:51,839
Speaker 1: was the third Meme war in about as many years,

919
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,279
Speaker 1: a war Evans would rather not have covered, but here

920
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: he was watching Agent Postso and his ragtag group of

921
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: wife and child strap pandola's with air paybies to their

922
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: flat jack. Forgive me, forgive me, Robert, Robert, Hey Bill Mitchell.

923
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 1: I'll be your your handler. Once we hit the beach,

924
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 1: stick with me and you'll you'll, you'll taste that, the sweet,

925
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 1: sweet smell of exercising your god given first Amendment freedom

926
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,919
Speaker 1: of speech. Mitchell leaned his head back and clucked towards

927
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: the ceiling of the helicopter. Evan's heart sunk into the

928
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 1: bottom of his chest. Should have stayed in fucking Iraq,

929
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: Evans muttered under his breath. Mitchell busied himself trying to

930
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: load a large spy gate infographic into a giant bazooka.

931
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: He wasn't having much success. Evans led on an audible side.

932
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: He should have never taken a gig. Everyone warned him

933
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: not to, but somebody was paying big money to make

934
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: a three and sixty degree documentary of the third memor.

935
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: Evans had initially thought the job was a hoax, since

936
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: memes are usually most effective in two D, but after

937
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: the first check cleared, he didn't ask any questions. Sometimes

938
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: you take the job, sometimes you take the paycheck. Plus,

939
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: the Digital Soldiers were up against the seemingly unstoppable yet

940
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: fascinating foe. They called them the Shadow Bands. The Shadow

941
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,959
Speaker 1: Bands had emerged from caverns deep within the earth around

942
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: November of large amalgamust creatures set to transcend time and space.

943
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: No one knew how many there were, or if they

944
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: could be stopped at all. In three years, the best

945
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: the Digital Soldiers could do was attempt to fire their

946
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: memes past the creatures. With patients and good aim, they

947
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: had a chance at hitting a normy and red peeling them.

948
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: Evans looked down at this small recorder in his hand.

949
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: He pressed the small circular button and watched the levels

950
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: begin to jump across the small orange screen. He extended

951
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: his arm in Mitchell's direction. So what is it you're

952
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 1: hoping to accomplish here today? Evans asked, Ah, Well, you see,

953
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: I got all these spygate posters, epic Times, that fantastic content.

954
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: General Vander Steel needs these memes to go viral. Charlie

955
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,359
Speaker 1: Companies trying to get it trending on Twitter, and we'll

956
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: be at the shores of Reddit in uh. He glanced

957
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 1: at his wrist, although as far as Evans could tell,

958
00:53:56,160 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 1: Mitchell wasn't wearing a watch. Eighteen hundred hours, Mitchell quipped, happily,

959
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 1: he looked like a child who had been told that

960
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: he could pick out He looked like a child who

961
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 1: had been told he could pick out one toy toys

962
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: r us melting crying, Evan's watched. He stuffed a handful

963
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: of NPC memes into his pockets, just in case Mitchell shouted.

964
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 1: A giant explosion rocked the helicopter. Evan shielded his eyes

965
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: a blinding spout of light or through the damage. Shall

966
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: soldiers shrieked if they were sucked out into the soft

967
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: orange clouds. Evan scripts recorded tight eyes wide as he

968
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,760
Speaker 1: watched Agent posts. So abandoned his family and checked himself

969
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: from the rear of theall We've got a drop now,

970
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: Mitchell screamed, before snorting a giant rail of cocaine off

971
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: the back of his hand. He clipped a large metal

972
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: hook through a tether on Evan's utility belt, and then

973
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: they were in the air. It was chaos. Smoldering projectile

974
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: sit by them as they tumbled through the air. See

975
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,760
Speaker 1: it's a real war, Mitchell called out, as nearby soldiers,

976
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: also in freefall, made high speed contact with debris and shrapnel.

977
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: What screamed to perplex Evans was this motherfucker really trying

978
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 1: to argue? Some point. As the pair hurtled towards a

979
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 1: war zone on some god forsaken message board, Bill Mitchell

980
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: was no longer paying attention to him. Instead, he held

981
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: his phone out in the air, playing that Your Voice

982
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: America theme song as loud as the volume would go.

983
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: Evan's stomach heaved as the jolt from the parachute shook

984
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,280
Speaker 1: its way through his bones. He gripped the ropes tightly

985
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: and watched the ground rush towards him an alarming speed.

986
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: The impact wasn't as bad as he had feared. The

987
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 1: shock from the descent made it hard to process anything really.

988
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: All around him, soldiers were hurling themselves through sands, firing

989
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:48,200
Speaker 1: off golden papers. Automatic downvote fire ricocheted off the ground

990
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: beneath him. A hand reached out and grabbed his shoulder

991
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: and spun him around. It was Mitchell. He was screaming

992
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: in Evans's face, but he couldn't hear a word. Mitchell's

993
00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: breath smelled like cocaine goldfish crackers for really. His ears

994
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: began to adjust and the sounds of the battlefield came

995
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: into focus. Do you want some cocaine? Mitchell yelled, but

996
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: before Evans could answer, the sand beneath their feet began

997
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 1: to quake. Waterfalls of sand poured into the ground under them,

998
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: and a giant, shimmery creature on six legs scuttled to

999
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:21,760
Speaker 1: its feet, towering over the two men. Evans froze shut open.

1000
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: Mitchell yelled. A couple of soldiers nearby concentrated poorly written

1001
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 1: complaints towards the monster. When a handful of them made contact,

1002
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,720
Speaker 1: Evan watched this. Their petty strong man arguments were absorbed

1003
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: directly into the monster's galactic looking skin. Mitchell ran right

1004
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 1: towards the creature. This is very unfair. The creature immediately

1005
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: shredded Mitchell in too a thousand pieces. Evans stared at

1006
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: the back. Evans stared at the blood soaked sand where

1007
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 1: Mitchell was standing just a moment ago, as the monster

1008
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: approached him, tentacles rippling, then blackness. The groan of the

1009
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: heavy doors on the forty seven woke Evan's up from

1010
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 1: michelle slumber. This time, he shot up and clutched his chest,

1011
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: fighting for quick, shallow rez. The hull of the aircraft

1012
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: shuttered as he watched the soldiers on board check and

1013
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: double checked their gear. You're okay, familiar voice piped out.

1014
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: It was Mitchell again, struggling with the oversized spike. Infographic

1015
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: agent Posto and his ragtag group of wife and child

1016
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: again strapped Bandola's with rare paypaste in their flat jackets.

1017
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: Evans couldn't believe it. We're staring at the surprisingly handsome

1018
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: man with thick, silvery hair, who moments ago had just

1019
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: been turned to pulp right before his eyes. Evans looked

1020
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: down at the small recorder in his hand. He pressed

1021
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: the circular button and watched the levels begin to jump

1022
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 1: on the orange screen. He extended his arm in Mitchell's

1023
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: direction again, his hand shaking a little. So, Bill, are

1024
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: you afraid of dying today? Evans asked, Bill, stop fiddling

1025
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: with the memes. He thought, long and hard. Let me

1026
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: tell you someone, Look, here's the deal. At one point

1027
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: in my life, yes, I might have feared debt, But Son,

1028
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,439
Speaker 1: believe me what I tell you that that went away

1029
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: the day that Donald J. Trump might bread that it

1030
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: was elected into office. He is an extra celestial angel

1031
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: who will ride down on a cloud of matter and

1032
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: and carry my wounded soul directly into the arms of

1033
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ himself, and I will sing with the angels

1034
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: and kings from now until he turnity. A giant explosion

1035
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: rocked the helicopter. Evan shielded his eyes again as a

1036
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: blinding spout of light poured in through the damaged hull.

1037
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: Soldiers shrieked as they were sucked out in the soft

1038
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,479
Speaker 1: orange clouds. Evanscript is recorded tight eyes wide, has watched

1039
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: agent posts, so once again abandoned his family and eject

1040
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 1: himself from the rear of the helicopter. It was all

1041
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: the same as before the free fall the parachute the

1042
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: battlefield like a bad case at Desia. Who again the

1043
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: shadow Band emerged from the blood soaked sands. Evans watched

1044
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: his Mitchell once again attempted to argue with the creature.

1045
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: Kevan snapped too, No, no, it kills you, he shouted

1046
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:50,439
Speaker 1: towards Mitchell. Instinctively, Evan sprang to his feet and hooked

1047
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: a hand under one of Mitchell's elbows, dragging him away

1048
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: from the creature, who had turned its focus on other

1049
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: nearby soldiers trying to drop moebs into our politics. Evans

1050
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 1: and Mitchell duck behind the wreckage of falling craft. Much

1051
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: of the hull was still intact and made for some

1052
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: good cover. Mitchell seemed perturbed, What are you doing? I

1053
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: was fully ready to sacrifice myself to the shadow Band

1054
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: so that other conservative minded figures would be able to

1055
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: post these very educational epic Times infographics were even links

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00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: to some of our most popular y v A episodes.

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00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 1: Evans stuck into his pocket and produced a crumpled pack

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00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: of cigarettes. He pinched one in between his teeth and

1059
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: pulled it out of the package. Unable to find his lighter,

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00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: Evans held a cigarette next to a smoldering piece of

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00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: melting steel and puffed until the cherry glowed read. He

1062
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: exhaled deeply and glanced increduously at Mitchell. So what's the

1063
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: deal with that? The whole falloon gong thing, Mitchell smiled wide.

1064
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: Fallon God is the deal. It's the deal for everything.

1065
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: Just then, a group of Normies ran past the wreckage,

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00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 1: not noticing Mitchell. He sprang to his feet. Wait wait,

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00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: he shouted. The three turned around, not sure what to

1068
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: make of this middle aged limo driver looking guy aiming

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00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: a large Mazuka directly at them. The original contents streaked

1070
00:59:58,160 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: through the air and deployed a couple of inches from

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00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: the Normies, reflecting a soft blue glow off their stunned faces.

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01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,360
Speaker 1: But the hell is this ship? Yeah, of course our

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01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies are corrupt, But the fact that these

1074
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: people think Trump's the solution fucking blows my mind. This

1075
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: is a very informative graphic. The three wandered away, heading

1076
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: towards various sub credits. What out of three eight bad?

1077
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: Mitchell shouted as he shimmied his shoulders and going. In particular,

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01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: his nervous energy was giving Evans the fear. Come on,

1079
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: Mitchell yelled, We're not too far from the rally point camp.

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01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: Donald will regroup there, Evans gathered himself slowly death by

1081
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: shadow bands. Seemed preferable to spending any amount of time

1082
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: in the Donald, but with nowhere else to go, he

1083
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: began to reluctantly follow Bill off the beach. Come on, slow, both,

1084
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 1: I'm four times your age and I'm moving way faster

1085
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: than you. Bill smirked. Evans blinked in a similar manner

1086
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: to a popular meme, what are you like A hundred yes, yes.

1087
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: Mitchell kiggled his face resembling a plastic jackal lantern. Evans

1088
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: rolled his eyes. Well, you're on a lot of cocaine,

1089
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: Mitchell's lit off. That reminds me, he squawked. He reached

1090
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,840
Speaker 1: into one of the vest pockets and produced a rather

1091
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: large baggy of cocaine. Come on, man, lamented Evans, but

1092
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: it was no use, Mitchell lendo. Mitchell, Oh god, dude,

1093
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: his face exploded. He's gonna cry that, I wrote. He's

1094
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 1: gonna cry again Mitchell. Mitchell leaned over and picked up

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01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: a large seashell and used it to scoop a healthy

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01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,760
Speaker 1: portion of cocaine out of the bag. He then lifted

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01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: the shell to his nose and inhaled deeply. At first

1098
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: a look of pure ecstasy rushed across his face, but

1099
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: it quickly turned to horror. Mitchell Clutch, Just Mitchell Clutch,

1100
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: just Jez too much cocaine. He collapsed face first into

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01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: the sand, dead. Before Evans could even process what he

1102
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: had witnessed, let alone comprehend that he'd also recorded it,

1103
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: all of it in three hundred and sixty degrees. A

1104
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: small platoon was on him. Hey, this guy killed Captain

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01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: Bill Hey. Hands where I can see him? Evans calmly

1106
01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: tried to explain to the frightened soldiers what had happened. Look,

1107
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: I I didn't touch him at all. He overdosed on drugs.

1108
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: Check his pockets. But the guys weren't even listening. They

1109
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: had their rifles raised, their trigger, fingers shaking. Come on, Chad,

1110
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 1: let's ducks this fool many killed Bill Fine, let's waste

1111
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: them blocking. The gunshots seemed to echo off into eternity,

1112
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: then blackness. The groan of the heavy doors on the

1113
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 1: c H forty seven woke even stopped from a shallow slumber.

1114
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: The hull of the aircraft shuttered as he watched the

1115
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,040
Speaker 1: soldiers off board check and double check their gear. You okay.

1116
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:33,240
Speaker 1: Familiar voice piped up. It was Mitchell again, struggling with

1117
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: the oversized spy Gate infographic. Evan's mind raced, his eyes

1118
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: darted around the hull of the forty seven Again. He

1119
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: watched his agent posts so asked his wife to take

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01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: a picture of him holding a gun. Before Evans realized it,

1121
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: he was shouting above the roar of the churning rotors.

1122
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: We got aboard, We're about to get ahead. Mitchell and

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01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: Posto looked at him like he was crazy. Evans decided

1124
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: to go for broke. Look, I'm living to stay over

1125
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: and over again. At first I thought maybe it was

1126
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,680
Speaker 1: a dream or some ship, but it's not. It's exactly

1127
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: like Groundhog Day, Holiday, asked Bill Mitchell. Evans looked exasperated. No,

1128
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 1: the Bill Murray movie. Have you not seen it? All

1129
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: three shook their heads. No, Evans real What about Edge

1130
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 1: of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise? Have you seen that? All

1131
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: three nodded excitedly, muttering praises of the film and cruises

1132
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: natural knack for comedy. Boom, A giant explosion rocked the helicopter.

1133
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 1: Evans shielded his eyes. His blinding spout of light poured

1134
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: in through the damaged hull. Soldiers shrieked as they were

1135
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: stoped out in the clouds. Evan scripted his recorder tight

1136
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,479
Speaker 1: as he watched Agent Posto abandoned his family the third

1137
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: time and eject himself from the rear of the helicopter.

1138
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: Everything was the same, but different. This time. Evans moved

1139
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: with ease, With one hand on the camera and one

1140
01:03:39,920 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: planet firmly on Mitchell's shoulder. He guided them past the

1141
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: roving shadow bands and armies of thoughts armed to the

1142
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 1: teeth with Russian propaganda. It was the perfect take. After

1143
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,120
Speaker 1: some time, Mitchell and Evans arrived at Camp Underscore. Donald

1144
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: Evans immediately noticed the three young soldiers who had murdered

1145
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,560
Speaker 1: him just moments ago. They were quietly stacking boxes of

1146
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,919
Speaker 1: ammunition with Sunday Gunday pictures and build a Wall memes.

1147
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:05,200
Speaker 1: Mitchell was yammering on excitedly. So you see the fallon

1148
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: Gung religion. The human soul can actually and I know

1149
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: this sound unbelievable, but I've seen it. It could travel

1150
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: back in time and inhabit the consciousness of its past self.

1151
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: But short of a cosmic loophole, if you will Kevans

1152
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 1: slumped down next to a pile of coats and bricks

1153
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,160
Speaker 1: and lit up a cigarette. Mitchell sat down next to you.

1154
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's what's happening to you. The same

1155
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: thing happened to me a couple of months ago. Except

1156
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: for me, I had to relive a torid love affair

1157
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: with and and vander Steel for through three whole days

1158
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: in a hotel room. Evan's unscrewed his camera from its mount.

1159
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: He reached in his bag and pulled out a dusty laptop.

1160
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 1: He began to scrub through. The footage came out perfect,

1161
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: spicy memes streaking across the chaotic beach as digital soldiers

1162
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 1: were picked off in the dozens by large shape shifting

1163
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 1: creatures rat All of a sudden, a voice shouted, throwing

1164
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 1: the entire camp in a panic strike. Everyone ran for cover,

1165
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: ducking into large tub skilled with videos of Joe Biden

1166
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: touching young girls, climate change denial flags, and large wooden

1167
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 1: crates bursting with vaguely anti semitic grounds. From behind a tent,

1168
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 1: Evans watched as a large bomber flown by Seth Abramson

1169
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: rained down a four hundred and thirty seventh thread tweet storm.

1170
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: The digital soldiers watched in horror. As the norm He's

1171
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 1: wrapped their arms around the tweets and proudly showed them

1172
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 1: to their friends. In the distance, the shadow bands were

1173
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: spinning rapidly toward the camp that Donald had become overrun.

1174
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 1: The last thing Evans saw was Bill Mitchell holding his

1175
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: phone to his ear, trying to listen to Your Voice

1176
01:05:27,600 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 1: America theme song one last time. However, the signal wasn't great,

1177
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: and it appeared that Mitchell's fine off leisure would be

1178
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: plagued by buffering issues. Blackness, the growing of the computer

1179
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,240
Speaker 1: fans woke Evan's up from his deep slumber. He glanced

1180
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: around his apartment. His eyes landed on the digital clock

1181
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 1: displayed near the bottom of his laptop screen. Three am. Ship.

1182
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: It was way too late. He had record some weird

1183
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: Q and on podcasts at eleven am. That was only

1184
01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: six hours from now. He glanced down at the key

1185
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 1: word he had dozed off with his hand pressed firmly

1186
01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 1: on the mouse pad on the screen. Www dot Reddit

1187
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: dot com was refreshing over and over and over again.

1188
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 1: The end just you've outdone yourself. It's beautiful. I say again, God, Yeah,

1189
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: what a TRAVISI what a Travis underscore views? What the

1190
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: Travis under score views. I do always like hearing the

1191
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: phrase spicy means, especially when I've turned them into some

1192
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: sort of ammunition is to be. And Evans was definitely

1193
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: the one who you know, fell asleep at his keyboard

1194
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: last night at three am trying to trying to write

1195
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 1: something for today's podcast. There's always looked, there's always a

1196
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: little bit of truth and everything that I write. You know, Robert,

1197
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: you are the first non qa A host to play somebody,

1198
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: let alone yourself in one of Jake's stories. How does

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01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: it feel? Uh, it feels like being Tom cruise Um,

1200
01:07:12,840 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 1: which feels vaguely like living inside of a carburetor. Yeah,

1201
01:07:19,480 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: that's that's how I would describe it. Yeah, Well, we

1202
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 1: look forward to your appearance on Oprah where you you know,

1203
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 1: jump to your feet on a couch and try to

1204
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: explain foulon gong to the audience. I'm looking forward to

1205
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:32,320
Speaker 1: that too. Actually, Travis, you have some serious questions that

1206
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,240
Speaker 1: you wanted to uh, you know, your head with your

1207
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: friend Robert. Yeah, I want to ask about how you

1208
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 1: covered the the Portland, Oregon protests and counter protests last

1209
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: month on August seventeen, what was the qul On presence.

1210
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, this was the first one of

1211
01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 1: whom I actually saw some I think because it was

1212
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:52,959
Speaker 1: a larger demonstration. But there were a number of people

1213
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: with Q and on shirts and several Q and on

1214
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 1: uh signs. There was a guy with a Q and

1215
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: on patch on his body armor. Um. Yeah, Yeah, there

1216
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: was definitely a lot of people trusting the plan there

1217
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: that day. You think there's any cross poll nation between

1218
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: q and On and other sort of broad sort of

1219
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: like a far right kind of organizations or movements, Yeah,

1220
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,560
Speaker 1: it kind of depends. I think that the the the

1221
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: actual like neo Nazi and fascist far right tends to

1222
01:08:21,040 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: view the Q and honors is goofy, kind of like

1223
01:08:23,280 --> 01:08:27,679
Speaker 1: cannon fodder. Um, Like they're they're they're just they're they're

1224
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: not thought of highly Yeah, but there's also this kind

1225
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:33,680
Speaker 1: of understanding that they're kind of useful idiots, and some

1226
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: of them can be uh, I don't know the term

1227
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:37,680
Speaker 1: they use as usually like jew pilled or something like that,

1228
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:41,640
Speaker 1: convinced that this deep state is really just the collective

1229
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 1: Jewish race. Um. So there's that sort of attitude. Uh,

1230
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:49,840
Speaker 1: there's also this like, yeah, it's generally pretty dismissive. And

1231
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot more CUE believers among like

1232
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: the the Proud Boy Patriot Prayer set, because they're sort

1233
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: of less uh less into the Nazi ship. Um. But again,

1234
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,799
Speaker 1: and like they're all kind of useful idiots to the Nazis.

1235
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:06,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a it's a a constellation of

1236
01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: of idiots who mostly act as like ablative armor for

1237
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: the hardcore of actual fascists. Yeah, beautiful. I love that,

1238
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 1: and it does it does really fit with the idea

1239
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 1: that Q and on is a grift and a belief

1240
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:23,919
Speaker 1: system with very little intent. But they are basically Nazis

1241
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: without even knowing it. Yeah, I don't think. I think

1242
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 1: a lot of them don't even come into it from

1243
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: like a bad place. They just Um, I can't get

1244
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:35,240
Speaker 1: into the head of someone who gets drawn into it.

1245
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: But it's like a cult, you know. Once you once

1246
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 1: you get pulled into that, like it becomes your entire

1247
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: media ecosystem, and eventually your family stops talking to you, um,

1248
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: and then you kind of have nothing else but this stuff.

1249
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:49,759
Speaker 1: And so like there's a mix in the Q community

1250
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: of like people I would describe as like cultists who

1251
01:09:52,360 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 1: had a lot of sympathy for because they're clearly have

1252
01:09:54,439 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: been pulled into something bad that's ruining their lives. And

1253
01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:59,439
Speaker 1: then there's the grifters who are profiting off of them.

1254
01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: And then sort behind the grifters are the people who

1255
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 1: I think recognize this movement as an opportunity to further

1256
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: they're much more radical goals. Um, So yeah, it's it's

1257
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: it's a complicated melange of gross bullshit. Yeah, that's a

1258
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 1: good way of putting it. Um. I also want to

1259
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:21,559
Speaker 1: ask about um, your your your podcast, Uh it could

1260
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 1: Happen here, which is excellent and if you, if any

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Speaker 1: listener hasn't heard it yet, you should go check it out.

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Speaker 1: And it's about the possibility of a second American Civil War.

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Speaker 1: And although although that podcast mostly focuses on rural rural

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Speaker 1: Americans and the militia movement, do you think that Q

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Speaker 1: and on might have a role in sparking like a

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Speaker 1: serious domestic conflict. Yeah, I think, like any cult, um,

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Speaker 1: and I do consider it a cult. Like, there's a

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Speaker 1: significant chance for much more violence than we've seen. There's

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Speaker 1: already been a couple of cases that you could sort

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Speaker 1: of call an insurgent attack. You know, the guy parking

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Speaker 1: is fucking armored truck on the hoover Damn. That could

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Speaker 1: have very easily been a much more serious incident. Um.

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Speaker 1: Like That's there's a lot of people who like I'll

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Speaker 1: say this, one of the positive things about the que

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Speaker 1: and On as a cult is that it's not as

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Speaker 1: inherently nihilistic as like what the guys on eight Chance

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Speaker 1: pull Board believe. That's sort of like like like exterminationist

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Speaker 1: fascist ideology. Like there's obviously little strains of that through

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Speaker 1: corners of the community, but mostly these people they don't

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01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: want the world to end. Um. They just believe in

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01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 1: this sort of like magical period of American renewal that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to bring on. UM. So I

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01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:42,040
Speaker 1: think at this point you're less likely to see outright

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01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: violent attacks on them. Most of the attacks are going

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01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,360
Speaker 1: to be based on people trying to like fulfill some

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Speaker 1: aspect of the conspiracy or like do something like that

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01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: guy who shot the mob boss, thinking that it would

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01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 1: like that guy was like what he was basically like

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Speaker 1: thought he was tried before the citizens arrest of it

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01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 1: it turned bad, wound up shooting and killing him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a exactly the kind of attack we're going to

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Speaker 1: see now. I what worries me is that, you know,

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01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 1: there's a decent chunk of these people that believe way

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01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 1: too hard to give up um when you know, at

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Speaker 1: some point, presumably Donald Trump will stop being president. He'll

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Speaker 1: either lose the election or there will be another election

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Speaker 1: and he won't win. And you know, obviously if Trump

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Speaker 1: makes some sort of like dictator play to stay in power,

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01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: these people would back him. Um. But I think the

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Speaker 1: more likely and worrying thing is that if Trump loses

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Speaker 1: the election um and decides to step down, you've got

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01:12:33,200 --> 01:12:36,520
Speaker 1: this sizeable group of people who aren't going to understand

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01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: what's happening um, and who then might actually be pushed

1304
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: into because like then their lives will still be fucked

1305
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: like this this beautiful, Like there's a bunch of them.

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Speaker 1: We think they're going to get hired by the CIA

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01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,200
Speaker 1: or whatever, like when Trump reveals that the plan has

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Speaker 1: been real all along. Wait wait, wait, wait, Robert, because

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01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 1: I spoke to Joe M and D M S. And

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Speaker 1: he says, the c I A M. The FBI will

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01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:58,080
Speaker 1: be dissolved, but that the n s A is working

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01:12:58,160 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: with the Q and on people, so they're very select

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01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 1: and uh CIA is clowns in America, they're the bad guy.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, whatever, like whatever happens, it won't be these guys,

1315
01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 1: like their lives won't change for the better. And I

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01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,759
Speaker 1: think there will never be this moment where like everything

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01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:13,680
Speaker 1: gets fixed for them, which is what a lot of

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01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: them are hoping for. It's like this messianic kind of movement.

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Speaker 1: And when that collapses, assuming it collapses fully, UM, then

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Speaker 1: I think some of them might start, might be moved

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Speaker 1: to violence. That's what I'm really worried about for for Q,

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01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: and I definitely think, you know, they would be part

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Speaker 1: of any sort of insurgent movement if Donald Trump got

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Speaker 1: unseated in the next election and it was like a

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01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:39,799
Speaker 1: contested sort of thing. Um Like, I could very easily

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Speaker 1: see a lot of these people, like they all have guns,

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Speaker 1: like picking up weapons and becoming part of like a

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01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 1: movement like that. UM. Now, thankfully a lot of them

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Speaker 1: are boomers, and I don't think would make particularly potent infantry,

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01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: but I think those would become like informants. They would

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01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 1: be like telling on the neighbor that's hiding the illegal

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Speaker 1: aliens and that, Yeah, they definitely would or you know,

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Speaker 1: you you also have like a sizeable chunk of people

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Speaker 1: who might carry out attacks or something if they really

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01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,680
Speaker 1: started to feel like that was the only way to

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Speaker 1: to save things. And I think it would probably be

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01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 1: pretty targeted towards like democratic lawmakers or news you know, journalists,

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01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:19,519
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Like, Yeah, I very much worry about

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01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: what could happen in this movement. It's really like a

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01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:25,680
Speaker 1: tiger by the tail. Uh. And obviously the Trump administration

1341
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:28,479
Speaker 1: hasn't even addressed any of this happening because they want

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01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:31,559
Speaker 1: these votes. They also know that it would be toxic

1343
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:35,599
Speaker 1: to like their sane, rational voters to like even address

1344
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 1: Q and On, so they're they're never going to disavow them.

1345
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Speaker 1: And yeah, I just don't know where all this can

1346
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:48,599
Speaker 1: end without something terrifying happening. It's very it's very dangerous. Um,

1347
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 1: I'll say that it's really dangerous. And I think like

1348
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 1: the number of people who are true believers in Q

1349
01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: and On is way larger than anybody wants to give

1350
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 1: credit for at this point. Yeah, that's really my my

1351
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: you really talk about really my nightmare scenario. There's uh,

1352
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 1: the psychiatrist um Robert J. Lifton in his book UM

1353
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:10,799
Speaker 1: destroying the world to save it. It's all about am Sharikio.

1354
01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 1: He has this concept called forcing the end, where where

1355
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:18,880
Speaker 1: basically this sort of cultish apocalyptic movement they get to

1356
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:22,879
Speaker 1: a point where they're impatient about their prophecies being fulfilled

1357
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 1: and so they take action to make it happen. And

1358
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:29,679
Speaker 1: so really my nightmare scenario is the Q and community

1359
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 1: they get to that in patient point where they stop

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01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:35,599
Speaker 1: trusting the plan, stop trusting that the white hats will

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01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 1: take care of everything for them, and they'll force at

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01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 1: the end that they envision will happen. Right, They'll think

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01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:43,439
Speaker 1: that the deep state is one and that and that

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01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: you know Q is actually the entire time been preparing

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01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 1: them to take up arms and and actually you know,

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01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 1: do battle on the streets of you know, their suburb

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01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, and that's that. Like I think um

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Speaker 1: Shinriko is a really good comparison to make Q and on.

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01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:01,560
Speaker 1: It's like um Shinriko was this Japanese cult that was

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01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: made up of like a lot of scientists and like

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01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:07,639
Speaker 1: like literal geniuses and stuff who like believed that. Yeah,

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01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:10,400
Speaker 1: they kind of basically believed that, like the world needed

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01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: to be destroyed in order to bring on like sort

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01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: of a utopian vision, and they carried out a saren

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01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:18,639
Speaker 1: gas attack among other things in the Tokyo subway. Um

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Speaker 1: And I think Q and on has a lot of

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01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: similarities to oum shinriko UM. But I guess one of

1378
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: the saving graces is there's not a lot of genius

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01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: of physicists and chemists uh and engineers who are who

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01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:34,760
Speaker 1: are well, probably a lot of engineers actually, um, Yeah,

1381
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,679
Speaker 1: probably a lot of people who could build fertilizer bombs,

1382
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 1: but not a lot of people who could synthesize sarin gas. Uh.

1383
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: So I guess we've got that going for us. Yes,

1384
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: I also want to talk about your writings about um

1385
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 1: about eight chan. You've written some of the most thoughtful

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01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:51,320
Speaker 1: work I think about eight chan for a belling cat.

1387
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 1: Now that eight chan is down, where do you think

1388
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,839
Speaker 1: sort of like these on like these isolated neo Nazis

1389
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 1: are going to do. Are they just gonna congregate another

1390
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 1: place or have they just been sort of just mostly

1391
01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 1: neutered since since eight chan is offline, I think UM

1392
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: a significant chunk of them are going to move on

1393
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 1: to other things. One thing we know about sort of

1394
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 1: fringe sites like eight chann is when they get shut down,

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01:17:12,760 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: it does seem to have like a long term impact

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01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: on UM the total membership. There's a lot of people

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01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 1: who are kind of more casual and who might have

1398
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: gotten pulled into like the more extreme parts of of

1399
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: the kind of ideology there, who I think might just

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01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: find something else to do and maybe never get further radicalized.

1401
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 1: So I do think it's good that it stays down.

1402
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 1: That said, most of those people, or at least a

1403
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:38,080
Speaker 1: very sizeable chunk of them, like, aren't just not Nazis anymore.

1404
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 1: They're just going and that we've seen a d asp

1405
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,840
Speaker 1: of sites like endo chan um, and we've seen some

1406
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 1: of them filtering under Reddit and onto four chan um.

1407
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:47,839
Speaker 1: Some of them have made like fake mass shooting threats,

1408
01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:50,720
Speaker 1: and I suspect we will continue to see that, And

1409
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,640
Speaker 1: I like it's it's not over by any means, Like

1410
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:57,000
Speaker 1: they've been neo Nazis on the Internet have been trying

1411
01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: to recruit people and like sort of convert large digital

1412
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 1: communities to their beliefs for a long time now. UM

1413
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:06,799
Speaker 1: and I don't think they're going to stop just because

1414
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: one of their more radical hubs got shut down. When

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Speaker 1: we covered Turning Point USA, we noticed that some neo

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01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,559
Speaker 1: Nazi organizations like Identity Europa which is now rebranded as

1417
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: the American Identity Movement, they they were talking about infiltrating

1418
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: Republican student organizations to better see their ideas and recruit people.

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01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on that, Well, this is again,

1420
01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 1: this has been going on for a while. You know,

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01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 1: if you look back to UM, there's you've you've got

1422
01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:32,840
Speaker 1: two kind of strains of the white nationalist movement. There's

1423
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,560
Speaker 1: the Van Guardis and there's the main streamers UM and

1424
01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 1: the the the main streamers who are kind of like

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01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,680
Speaker 1: one of their early leading dudes was a guy named

1426
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:43,880
Speaker 1: Willis Karto Um who formed a group called the Liberty

1427
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 1: Lobby and who uh like basically started off like this

1428
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:51,360
Speaker 1: neo Nazi group, the National Alliance, which like distributed the

1429
01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: Turner diaries and was like a big part of like seating.

1430
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: This most recent surge of Nazis got its start actually

1431
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: as a youth group for Republican presidential candidate UM, and

1432
01:19:02,520 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 1: it was then just overtime converted into this more extremist force. Um.

1433
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,400
Speaker 1: And so like there's been a lot of like, uh,

1434
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: you know, even going back to the days of George

1435
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 1: Lincoln Rockwell, a lot of like a very clear, concerted

1436
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: effort to try and like convert normal conservatives to more

1437
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 1: explicitly fascistic views. They definitely see that as like where

1438
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: they can pull people from. Um. So what aim h

1439
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 1: slash Identity Europa is trying to do with turning point

1440
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: USA like is nothing new. UM. I do think that

1441
01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: they've gotten better at it over time, in large part

1442
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 1: by sort of like hiding their power level, as they

1443
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 1: say it, which is why I think the work of

1444
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,880
Speaker 1: you know, media collectives like Unicorn Riot, of like leaking

1445
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 1: these groups internal chats and showing how they talk among

1446
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 1: themselves now open they are about the Nazism when they're

1447
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: not out in public. I think that's very important because

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01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 1: it kind of makes it impossible if you do your research,

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01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: to believe the lies that these groups say. Um. You know,

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01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:56,479
Speaker 1: the problem is that like none of the mainstream media

1451
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:58,840
Speaker 1: ever focused that much on any of this stuff, uh,

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01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: and so they can assistently get it all wrong. Um.

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01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: But that's why a lot of us keep talking to

1454
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 1: them about like the nature of this kind of undercover

1455
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: effort to uh red pill enormies. This me more if

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Speaker 1: you will. That's right? Um, okay, cool, that's really really

1457
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: interesting stuff. Well, um, thanks so much for coming on

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01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 1: our podcast, and I guess we're thanking you for being

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01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 1: on your podcast. These crossover episodes are so bizarre. I

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01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:34,599
Speaker 1: do like it though it's a crossover. The crossover. Uh,

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01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: this has been Behind the Bastards slash the Behind the

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,160
Speaker 1: Bastards Q and on Anonymous crossover episode, I have been

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Speaker 1: Robert Evans. Uh. Now y'all want to plug your plug

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Speaker 1: doubles before we we right out into the sunset. Absolutely.

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01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:50,519
Speaker 1: You can find us Q and on anonymous on any

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01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:53,880
Speaker 1: of your podcast platforms. You can also follow us on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at Q and on Anonymous. You can follow me

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Speaker 1: at Travis underscore View, I'm at Real Rocket tan Sky,

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Speaker 1: and I'm at Julian Field with two ease, and you

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