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Speaker 1: I want to talk about grinder gate with with Mike Johnson,

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Speaker 1: and I don't do you want while while you set

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Speaker 1: it up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but but let me let me.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny how how viral thing can become

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Speaker 3: so top of mind for people.

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Speaker 2: But Mike Johnson's grinder profile. Yes, go ahead, Well.

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Speaker 1: We'll get if you if you work in a in

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Speaker 1: a political campaign in the in the Republican Party, at

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Speaker 1: some point in the campaign, right, someone in all the

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Speaker 1: years it was gonna come and say your opponent's gay,

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Speaker 1: there's some type of sexual something something. It's never it's

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Speaker 1: almost never true, but it's almost always true where it's

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Speaker 1: a far right Christian and the great Christopher Hitchens right,

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Speaker 1: had a had a had a great quote about this,

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Speaker 1: about the inevitability right of of where these guys wind up.

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Speaker 1: And he has some colorful colloquial colloquial phrase. But at

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Speaker 1: any rate, at the Charlie Kirk funeral, and this is

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Speaker 1: this is true, the grinder accounts exploded. The grinder accounts

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Speaker 1: explode at every Republican National Committee, at every uh sapack event.

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Speaker 1: Matt Schlap the Sexual Predators, h you know, is a

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Speaker 1: perfect example of this and so.

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Speaker 2: There's an accusation floating in my.

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Speaker 1: Well, there's an accusation floating on the on the internet.

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Speaker 2: Now about.

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Speaker 3: About and having a Grinder profile.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, dude, you know what this is. Uh.

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Speaker 3: This has been one of the great stories that comes

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Speaker 3: with all kinds of analytical data that would lean its

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Speaker 3: way into there's something here, because it's not just Seapack

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Speaker 3: in Florida last year where they saw an eighty six

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Speaker 3: percent uptick in Grinder activity. It's not just the Charlie

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Speaker 3: Kirk Memorial in Arizona Scottsdale where they saw seventy two

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Speaker 3: uptick in activity and Grinder's cool. They're like, yeah, well,

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Speaker 3: maybe release this information. If these guys keep going after

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Speaker 3: you know, LGBTQ rights and trans people and you know,

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Speaker 3: which is what I love about these gay dating apps.

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Speaker 3: They're like, oh, yeah, these guys are coming after us.

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Speaker 3: Wait till we tell you who's involved. Now, there was

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Speaker 3: an assertion made three days ago by a gentleman which

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Speaker 3: you can go to Dean Blundell dot substack dot com

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Speaker 3: and read about who said he had Mike Mike Johnson's

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Speaker 3: entire Grinder profile. Now the gentleman I actually do a

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Speaker 3: substack live with called the These five Stack. It's every

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Speaker 3: single day three o'clock. Here is gay and he is

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Speaker 3: also a former CBS producer who knows that Mike Johnson

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Speaker 3: has a different proclivity other than you know, being with

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Speaker 3: his wife. And so, you know, these are rumors that

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Speaker 3: have kind of curated themselves, and it's like a hockey

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Speaker 3: rumor that guy slept with that guy's wife, that's why

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Speaker 3: he got traded.

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Speaker 2: Da da da da dah.

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Speaker 3: But there's so much smoke behind Mike, Mike Johnson and

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Speaker 3: the Republican Party that it has spurned an entire other

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Speaker 3: conversation about you know, how many of these gay hating,

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Speaker 3: anti LGBTQ, anti trans people who are parroting Trump's bullshit

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Speaker 3: are secretly super into same sex relations. And it appears

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Speaker 3: after not just one, not two, but three different videos

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Speaker 3: that this gentleman has put out, which get you know completely,

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Speaker 3: you know, as he puts these videos out, each video

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: But he promised today he would release Mike Johnson's entire

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Speaker 3: grinder profile. Now, the government's shut down last night at

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Speaker 3: around midnight, if I'm not mistaken, and we're about fifteen

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Speaker 3: sixteen hours into a government shutdown, so we're not going

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Speaker 3: to find out what the issue is. We're not going

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Speaker 3: to see Mike Johnson copped anything. But what we are

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Speaker 3: seeing is the trigger for this, which is at Alita Grijalva,

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Speaker 3: who is the Democrat from Arizona who won that special election,

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Speaker 3: the discharge petition for the Jeffrey Epstein discharge petition, so

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Speaker 3: we can actually see, you know, these Epstein files. She's

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Speaker 3: ready to sign off on this, but Mike Johnson's been

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Speaker 3: low playing this. So this gentleman who was like, hey, listen, Mike,

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Speaker 3: done is it's a little fire under people when it

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Speaker 3: comes to the relationship that Republicans have with demeaning the

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Speaker 3: lgbt QQ sorry Q LGBTQ community, with going after trans writes,

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Speaker 3: can you, let you know, point zero zero one percent

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Speaker 3: this gentleman has kind of up the ANNI and now

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Speaker 3: three times he said, hey, listen, I'm gonna come up

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Speaker 3: with these receipts to this point, I don't know that

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Speaker 3: he has, but I've been doing this with you for

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Speaker 3: an hour, and uh.

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Speaker 2: It has shaken the.

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Speaker 3: Republican Party to the point where, you know, from what

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Speaker 3: I understand, people in the GOP are now going around going, hey,

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Speaker 3: you know, delete your Grinder accounts, get rid of any

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Speaker 3: gay dating apps that you might have. We need to

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Speaker 3: present a united front because this is such a pervasive

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Speaker 3: issue in the Republican Party. Because you've got a whole

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Speaker 3: bunch of people in the Republican Party who serve at

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Speaker 3: the pleasure of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This

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Speaker 3: is antithical to the platform of the Republican Party, who've

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Speaker 3: been going after this community for a long period of time.

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Speaker 3: And Mike Johnson's no stranger to that. His wife, if

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Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, has said several times she is a

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Speaker 3: professional at converting gay people back to being straight.

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Speaker 2: So listen, I'm not gay.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand you know, how conversion therapy works. I

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Speaker 3: can tell you that if you're born gay, according to

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Speaker 3: my gay friends, you are gay. And my understanding is

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Speaker 3: that Mike Johnson has some skeletons he's trying to hide.

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Speaker 2: So be that as it may.

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Speaker 1: It's just it works the same way, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: as it does you know for us as a straight

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like you like what you like, right, like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a right. So the the idea that

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Speaker 1: you know, Mike Johnson's crackpipe wife is going to like

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Speaker 1: That's why all this conversion therapy, you know is is

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Speaker 1: torture and all this I'll say I'll say this about

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Speaker 1: on a serious level. So all the dehumanization and all

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Speaker 1: of that of people who are like you if you

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Speaker 1: on what we see from the release of the information

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Speaker 1: just psychologically right, I mean the wow, right, it's deep, right,

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Speaker 1: the equation, the bigger issue is he's second in line

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Speaker 1: to the office of President of the United States, and

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Speaker 1: he's got a big secret and like he's in effect

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Speaker 1: being blackmailed by this guy. Right, you do something right,

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Speaker 1: like through an official act, right, or not do it

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Speaker 1: and there's a consequence. And the consequence is your secret's

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Speaker 1: going to be exposed. And that is a national security ganger, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's why, right from a counterintelligence perspective, they don't

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Speaker 1: like anybody having secrets. And so Mike Johnson, I think

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Speaker 1: we're about to find out if he's a guy, right

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Speaker 1: with a lot of secrets. And there's no small number

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Speaker 1: over the last twenty years of Republican members of Congress,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's poor. And to remember that Denny

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Speaker 1: Haster was a Speaker of the House. He was a

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Speaker 1: you know it wouldn't surprise.

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Speaker 2: Me at all.

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Speaker 1: If you look at you know, the kind of the

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Speaker 1: But let's let's keep an eye on that one.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but you've hung out, like you've worked with

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Speaker 3: some of these guys.

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Speaker 2: What is And I asked Zev this this morning. He's gay.

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Speaker 3: He's my podcast partner at Substack, zeb Shalev, and I

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Speaker 3: said to him, you know, what, what is it about

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Speaker 3: the GOP?

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Speaker 2: What is it? Is it?

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Speaker 3: You know, the the bent and the performance they have

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Speaker 2: What is it? Like?

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Speaker 3: Why do we have the match slaps and the Mike

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Speaker 3: Johnson's allegedly uh and all the alleged Lindsey Grahams of

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Speaker 3: the world. What is this proclivity that they're trying to

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Speaker 3: hide because I don't understand it, Like, this is the

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Speaker 3: party of Family. This is the James Dobson focus on

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Speaker 2: So to me, this is like.

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Speaker 3: It's not revisions history, but at the same time it

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