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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: episode of The Buck Sexton Show with me now, the indefatigable,

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Speaker 1: the formidable, the one and only Raheim Kassam. He is

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Speaker 1: the editor in chief of the National Pulse and the

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Speaker 1: host of Raheim Kassam Podcast, a man whose knowledge and

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Speaker 1: talents spans from global affairs all the way down to

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Speaker 1: the proper way to tie a windsor not. Mister Raheem Kassam,

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Speaker 1: good to have you answer. What an introduction, and not

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Speaker 1: least because you know, from a very arcane perspective, indefatigable

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Speaker 1: is how the British parliamentarian George Galloway of the far

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Speaker 1: left once described Saddam Hussein. So I'm delighted. I think

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Speaker 1: the word existed and was used in many other contexts

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Speaker 1: for a long time, like isn't there like an hms

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Speaker 1: indefatigable or maybe it's a long once or maybe that's

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Speaker 1: a bit probably too long to to paint on the

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Speaker 1: side of of a boat of a battleship. But raheem.

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Speaker 1: You know, we've been doing these conversations and the audience

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Speaker 1: response has been great because we're just getting really interesting

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Speaker 1: people on to talk about whatever is top of mind.

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Speaker 1: So one way I I like to start is just

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Speaker 1: to get you to tell me right now what in

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Speaker 1: the world of politics. We're going to cover a whole

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Speaker 1: range of things here. One of the world of politics

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Speaker 1: gets you the most fired up, like what are you

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Speaker 1: focused on? I don't know about focus. M That's a

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Speaker 1: word that escapes me. I'm kind of a scatter brain

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Speaker 1: in politics. It's like books as well. I'm reading fifty

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Speaker 1: at a time and I never finished any of them.

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Speaker 1: But something that has occurred to me, you know, there

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Speaker 1: are several things that have occurred to me a lot recently,

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Speaker 1: especially in you know, with the Biden classified documents thing

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Speaker 1: I still can't put my finger on who got Biden elected, right,

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Speaker 1: and that and that bothers me as a as a

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Speaker 1: as a point, like when you look at Trump, people

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Speaker 1: say Bannon. You look at Obama, people say Jim Messner

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Speaker 1: and David Plath and David Axel, Rod Bush, Karl Rove.

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Speaker 1: But there isn't one in Biden world, and I that

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Speaker 1: bothers me because of you know, so many different things,

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Speaker 1: so many different big question marks that were over the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty election in general. But for there not to

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Speaker 1: be somebody out there doing ted talks and being on

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Speaker 1: the front cover of Time magazine being called the you know,

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Speaker 1: the man who got the most votes for a presidential

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Speaker 1: candidate in American history is a pretty big thing that

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Speaker 1: you want to claim and and you know, a big,

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Speaker 1: but nobody seems to want to claim it, and that

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Speaker 1: bothers me. Yeah, well, there's certainly something going on right

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Speaker 1: now with his if a staff is on the way

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Speaker 1: out there. There have just been the news reports about

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Speaker 1: that that you're not gonna have ron Klain anymore because

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Speaker 1: people have been It's really, i think, in an addendum

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Speaker 1: in many ways to your to your point here, which

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Speaker 1: is not only who's respect who's responsible for getting him elected,

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Speaker 1: but who is the person who's really calling the shots,

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Speaker 1: who's really running things, you know, behind the scenes. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people, it said ron Klain, the White House

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Speaker 1: on who it is I think can matter a lot

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Speaker 1: or a little for an administration. Uh does any even

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Speaker 1: really remember the Trump White House chiefs of staff? I

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Speaker 1: don't think that, you know, No one said, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: the days of Ryan's previous and uh and the you

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Speaker 1: know omb yeah, omb budget guy before that. Um, But

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Speaker 1: so you have Clain on the way out and this

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Speaker 1: guy's zigns, I'm not sure how to say his name

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Speaker 1: even who was the COVID czar that we never heard about? Really,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be taking over, So who actually calls

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Speaker 1: the sharks for Biden? As he's leaving all the classified

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama and Susan Rice. I mean that that's kind

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Speaker 1: of one of the least well kept secrets here in Washington, DC,

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Speaker 1: is that most of most of what this regime is

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Speaker 1: you know. And Susan Rice was one of the names

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Speaker 1: that was floated. Now they're saying it's going to be

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Speaker 1: Jeff Zience. Jeff Ziens, by the way, an important character

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Speaker 1: you say this, this covidsar who was a COVID ZAR,

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Speaker 1: but really quietly, and you have to understand this point

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Speaker 1: Zion is still doing the bidding of big COVID behind

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Speaker 1: is honestly, it's like a It's like a path on

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Speaker 1: the back and a thank you for continuing to do

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Speaker 1: that on behalf of you know, big farmer, big government,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to, you know, whatever you want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, daub the apparat human time, interrrational, reasonable world,

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Speaker 1: where heim shouldn't the guy who was the Covids are

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Speaker 1: who said that a winter of death was coming for

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Speaker 1: anybody who didn't get vaccinated. That's a quote that you

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Speaker 1: were going to overrun the hospitals if you didn't get vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: These were things that he was saying in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: going into the winter period. You would think that he

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Speaker 1: and removed ignominiously from the public square. And yet he's

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Speaker 1: now White House Chef of staff. It's a promotion which

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Speaker 1: I think says a lot about how the Democrat apparatus

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Speaker 1: views COVID, even at this stage. Yeah, but I'll go

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Speaker 1: you one further. I mean, you know, again, as I say,

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Speaker 1: for and well done, old boy for for doing that.

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Speaker 1: But is it's worse than that? Right in any rational world?

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Speaker 1: You said in any rational world, Well, in any rational world,

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Speaker 1: the the person who put together the original COVID task

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Speaker 1: force should be susceptible to class action lawsuits from all

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Speaker 1: the people who lost their businesses, all the people who

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Speaker 1: lost their loved ones as a result of all of that.

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Speaker 1: And that person was Mike Pence. So you know, there's

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Speaker 1: the opening days of COVID. Let me ask and Jeff Zience.

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Speaker 1: Just just to conclude on the Jeff Zions point, you know,

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Speaker 1: with it. Yeah. No, absolutely. I mean it's it's like

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Speaker 1: being a commie at the highest level. Yeah, Raheem. You

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Speaker 1: I really, I really want to dive into your feelings

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Speaker 1: into a real problem here with his base, with his people,

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah? So typically there has been one

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Speaker 1: elements of it. And that was personnel, right, The personnel

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Speaker 1: the impact of that. But you're right to say that

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's doing Trump any good at all,

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Speaker 1: and it is in fact putting off some of his supporters.

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Speaker 1: Santis himself did. Since I alluded to it, I'll say it,

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Speaker 1: which is a course correction. And there's no reason that

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Speaker 1: Early days of of COVID, the governor of Florida was

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Speaker 1: the Chinese may certainly want to do this, but frankly,

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Speaker 1: interesting because in my book Enoch was right. I talk

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Speaker 1: about this right in nineteen forty eight, when the Canadians

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Speaker 1: effectively created their own form of nationality and said we're

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Speaker 1: not subjects anymore, we have Canadian citizenship. It changed everything

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Speaker 1: for the entire British Empire. And so we went from

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Speaker 1: subjects to citizens within the same period of time. But

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Speaker 1: what are you citizens off is the question? Because of

433
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Speaker 1: course we have England, we have Wales, we have Northern Ireland,

434
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Speaker 1: we have Scotland. Several of those make up Great Britain.

435
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Speaker 1: Several more of those together make up the United Kingdom.

436
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Speaker 1: You know, we have this kind of grand union of

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Speaker 1: different countries and entities that voluntarily come together, much like

438
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Speaker 1: your states. Right, And they say, okay, we are going

439
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Speaker 1: to vest our power in the nation, but what is

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Speaker 1: the nation? Well, the nation has to be more than

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Speaker 1: the sum of its politicians, right, It can't just be

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Speaker 1: some tech that are scribbled down. Because you know, you

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Speaker 1: have a constitution. Remember we don't have a written constitution.

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Speaker 1: We have an evolving constitution. Right. Our primary law is

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Speaker 1: our constitution. It's it's it's it gets very complicated, but

446
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Speaker 1: it's not dull. I assure you that I know, a

447
00:24:24,777 --> 00:24:26,977
Speaker 1: lot of people get sort of think, oh, you know,

448
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Speaker 1: what do I know about constitutional you know, import and

449
00:24:29,257 --> 00:24:31,617
Speaker 1: all of this stuff as it relates to politics. It's everything.

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Speaker 1: If you don't understand the way your country works, then

451
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Speaker 1: you can't really complain about how it works. And at

452
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Speaker 1: the end of all of the all of the questions

453
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Speaker 1: that are raised about what makes Britain Britain is the crown,

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Speaker 1: because the crown is the connection between the nation and God.

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Speaker 1: That's why, as you'll see when Charles is crowned, if

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Speaker 1: formally that they will touch his head with anointing oil,

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Speaker 1: and that is the head of the Church of mind.

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Speaker 1: Isn't the crown that the head of the Church of England.

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Speaker 1: Technically that's that's how this that is what signifies, which

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Speaker 1: I think not the man that really has the power

461
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Speaker 1: is Big Odds that has the power. I think Hitchens. Hitchens,

462
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Speaker 1: who was just a poor man's raheem becausam Christopher Hitchins

463
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Speaker 1: used to say that, yes, the Church of England built

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Speaker 1: on the family values of Henry the Eighth, which I

465
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Speaker 1: think it's pretty funny, but anyway, it was a Hitchens line. Um.

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Speaker 1: But yes, back to back to the Crown. By the way,

467
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that Christopher Hitchins can can can wax

468
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Speaker 1: moral um about anybody else's exploits. Well, he's certainly not

469
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Speaker 1: here anymore to defend himself, so there's that. But but

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Speaker 1: tell me this, um uh, Well, I was actually gonna

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Speaker 1: ask you something kind of silly for a second, just

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Speaker 1: to take us in a different direction. Do you do

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Speaker 1: you watch The Crown like every because I tried to

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Speaker 1: fight it as long as I can. But you know,

475
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Speaker 1: you have a girlfriend, I have a fiance. The ladies

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Speaker 1: love that show man. I don't know. I couldn't fight

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Speaker 1: it off anymore. I was like, all right, fine, honey,

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Speaker 1: we'll watch The Crown. And it's pretty engrossing for what

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Speaker 1: it is. Yeah. Actually, my girlfriend doesn't like the Crown,

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Speaker 1: and I think it calls She's just like a very

481
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Speaker 1: red blooded American patriot and finds it all very stuffy

482
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Speaker 1: and boring. And he did fight a war elevant not

483
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Speaker 1: that long ago, so we would pretty much never have

484
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Speaker 1: to pay any attention to that royal family ever. Again

485
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Speaker 1: here that that is the thing. So for Americans. That's

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Speaker 1: why I ask you, as a brit why do you

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Speaker 1: care as an Americans. I do not want to hear

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Speaker 1: it from people. It's bizarre the fixation they have with

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Speaker 1: the the British royal family. It makes no sense to

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Speaker 1: me at all, But for British people, I understand. Um,

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Speaker 1: so that's that's one air. So we've we've well, look,

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Speaker 1: I mean, The Crown is a good show. It's not

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Speaker 1: particularly true to real life, but it's it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: very entertaining. The interest in it, however, speaks to something broader,

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Speaker 1: I think, And I know you're not going to like

496
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Speaker 1: what I'm about to say, but I do think Americans

497
00:26:57,657 --> 00:27:02,457
Speaker 1: kind of miss something. They miss this this institution almost.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they want to be ruled from London, right.

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00:27:06,097 --> 00:27:09,217
Speaker 1: You maybe want your own monarchy, but people want something

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Speaker 1: that spirational and in a country where we have the

501
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Speaker 1: founding Fathers being torn down all the time, and there's there,

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Speaker 1: I think there is something that, look, we all love

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Speaker 1: like I'm sure there were. Of course, there's British Republicans

504
00:27:22,097 --> 00:27:23,777
Speaker 1: who want the an end to the monarchy and so

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Speaker 1: on and so forth, and that and that is only

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Speaker 1: unfortunately going to grow and grow with with Charles at

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Speaker 1: the helm Um. But everyone basically loved her Majesty the Queen.

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Speaker 1: They understood that her life was Yes, she gets to

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Speaker 1: live in nice, big palaces, but they understood that her

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Speaker 1: life was really service. And I was lucky enough to

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Speaker 1: be able to go to Windsor Castle and pay my

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Speaker 1: respects at her tomb recently. And and and we had

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Speaker 1: as a nation we could come together and celebrate, um

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Speaker 1: that that person doing such great things. UM. I just

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Speaker 1: offhand referred to her as as in terms of popularity,

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Speaker 1: the Dolly Parton of the of the United Kingdom, which

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Speaker 1: Clay thought. He was like, you're you're crazy. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get so so bashed or attorney. There was like a

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Speaker 1: big Tennessee newspaper that picked that up or you know

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Speaker 1: that he took that line. I don't they heard it

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Speaker 1: from me, or they just went with it. But she

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Speaker 1: was like the Dolly Parton of the United Kingdom. Everybody

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Speaker 1: loved her, which I thought was pretty funny. Um okay.

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Speaker 1: So see, we had Viri Lynn during the during the

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Speaker 1: Second World War, we had Viri Lynn and Viri Lynn.

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Speaker 1: People will know the song We'll Meet Again and actually

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Speaker 1: We'll Meet Again was one of the last songs that

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Speaker 1: was ever played on one of the Queen's Christmas addresses,

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Speaker 1: and so that I feel like Viri Lynn was kind

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Speaker 1: of our Dolly parton. I feel like the reason you

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Speaker 1: don't have a comparison is because of the very short

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Speaker 1: term nature of both your politics and your celebrity life.

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Speaker 1: And again, it's hard to explain because I understand that

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Speaker 1: constitutionally you guys are reversed to it, but from an

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Speaker 1: institutional perspective, a lot of a lot of Britons like

536
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Speaker 1: myself look at it and go, I'm so comforted by that.

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Speaker 1: So this, this turns, this turns into the next. I

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Speaker 1: think it's an easy way to transition into something that

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00:29:05,537 --> 00:29:07,577
Speaker 1: to me is is related and you can take this

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Speaker 1: ever you want. Um which is I remember, I think

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Speaker 1: it was actually Andrew Tate before he was held in prison.

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Speaker 1: He has UK citizenship as well as American citizenship. I

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Speaker 1: think he said that England is a country that no

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Speaker 1: longer stands for anything, that won't and that won't defend

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Speaker 1: its values in as effectively in terminal decline as a society.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree with that diagnosis? And I asked because

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Speaker 1: as an American, I think a lot of people look

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Speaker 1: at Canada, Look at the UK. Look at Australia. I

549
00:29:39,137 --> 00:29:41,737
Speaker 1: was living in and now I've never been there, and

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Speaker 1: I don't profess to be an Australia expert. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was kind of like the United Kingdom with nicer

552
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Speaker 1: people in kangaroos, But turns out they're a bunch of

553
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Speaker 1: socialists who will do whatever they're told and embrace authoritarianism,

554
00:29:55,057 --> 00:29:59,057
Speaker 1: embraced the most insane COVID lunacy. And that really worries

555
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Speaker 1: me in a society that it can't actually be nimble

556
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Speaker 1: and adapt to reality as it happens, that it could

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Speaker 1: be overtaken by a mass hysteria. Same thing in Canada

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Speaker 1: under Trudeau. Is the UK a country, and so we

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Speaker 1: think that those places are just further ahead of America.

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Speaker 1: You know, there there are warning signs of what we

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Speaker 1: will turn into if we don't stand for certain values freedom, liberty, individuality.

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Speaker 1: Is the UK in terminal decline. What do you make

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Speaker 1: of that? Serfdom? I mean, what you're talking about is serfdom, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's the worst part of it is

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Speaker 1: almost the choice to be a serf, to be a

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Speaker 1: slave to your to your government, your bureaucrats, your politicians,

567
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Speaker 1: and forget that they are the ones who are either

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Speaker 1: supposed to represent your interests or as you guys once

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Speaker 1: did you know, they'll get tarred and feathered and tossed

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Speaker 1: overboard and serfdom is a very difficult thing in a

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Speaker 1: world that is increasingly relativistic morally and is increasingly secularized

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Speaker 1: because because government has become the religion. You know, in

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Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, the National Health Service which is failing,

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Speaker 1: I mean failing. They're having to set up temporary morgues

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Speaker 1: and mortuaries across the country because the National Health Service

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Speaker 1: is killing people. It is killing people by not showing

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Speaker 1: up in time when ambulances are called. It is killing

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Speaker 1: people because it is spending gargantu in sums of money.

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Speaker 1: You know, the National Health Services budget has doubled in

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Speaker 1: the last I think it's ten, ten to fifteen years.

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Speaker 1: The health has doubled. Do you think we have seen

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Speaker 1: commensurate rises in care as a result of that budget doubling. No,

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Speaker 1: we haven't. We've actually seen a worsening in care over

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Speaker 1: the last decade in the United Kingdom and the National

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Speaker 1: Health Service, you know, they call it the envy of

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Speaker 1: the world. I have never met anybody anywhere in the

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Speaker 1: world who envies our healthcare system. I've never met anybody

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Speaker 1: anywhere in the world who looks at my teeth and goes, well,

589
00:31:52,377 --> 00:31:54,977
Speaker 1: that's wonderful. I want to use the dentists that you're using.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, we've we've placed God with government

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00:31:59,457 --> 00:32:02,977
Speaker 1: in our societies. We've replaced you know this, this this

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Speaker 1: appeal to something greater than us and greater than the little,

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Speaker 1: particular particularisms of the lives, all little lives we lead

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Speaker 1: with bureaucracy and the boring nature of the things that

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Speaker 1: they tell us are moral, which are oftentimes wildly immoral things. Right,

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Speaker 1: I think of transgender you know, library drag queen our

597
00:32:27,017 --> 00:32:29,057
Speaker 1: or whatever they're calling it nowadays, is one of the

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Speaker 1: great examples of what is being deified. So it's like

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Speaker 1: a bathtub right where where we know that we have

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Speaker 1: to keep that tub full of warm water, that that

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Speaker 1: that that cleanses us, that nourishes us, that protects us,

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00:32:44,537 --> 00:32:48,337
Speaker 1: that keeps us warm. Meanwhile, our davos ali are constantly

603
00:32:48,377 --> 00:32:51,417
Speaker 1: pulling the plug and we're just constantly trying to trying

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00:32:51,457 --> 00:32:54,337
Speaker 1: to plug that hole with with all manner of things.

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00:32:54,337 --> 00:32:56,817
Speaker 1: Brexit as a good example of that, right that that

606
00:32:57,017 --> 00:33:00,857
Speaker 1: was the United Kingdoms electorate slamming their hand on the

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Speaker 1: drain and saying, well, well, well, well we need our own,

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Speaker 1: you know, system of government to keep us independent, to

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Speaker 1: keep us sovereign, to keep us safe, and to hold

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Speaker 1: our belief in something. But the problem with that is, sorry,

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Speaker 1: I know I'm break it because you're very close to

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Speaker 1: it and know Nigel, and so I want to put

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Speaker 1: a pin in that. But keep going. But just in

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Speaker 1: conclusion of all of that point, you know, you ask

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Speaker 1: about terminal decline, it's not that. It's not that we

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Speaker 1: the people of any of these western countries necessarily believe

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Speaker 1: in the terminal decline of our nations. Yes, of course,

618
00:33:32,817 --> 00:33:35,857
Speaker 1: some silly Marxists you know, have bought into it, but

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Speaker 1: they we can overcome those people. We are stronger than

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Speaker 1: them in very many ways. But but it's that every

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Speaker 1: time we get anywhere close to not just stopping that,

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Speaker 1: but actually turning the taps on and refilling the bathtub,

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Speaker 1: it's the it's the you know, we call them the

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Speaker 1: Davos Elite. Today it's it's Davos one day, it's Brussels. Another,

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Speaker 1: It's Capitol Hill another. All of those people and all

626
00:33:59,657 --> 00:34:02,497
Speaker 1: of those institutions are still just tugging away at that

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00:34:02,937 --> 00:34:07,417
Speaker 1: at that drain. Now, you did have a decline particular, right, right,

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Speaker 1: you did have a particular view of Brexit. Somebody who

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Speaker 1: you were on Nigel Farage's staff, you know Nigel very well,

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Speaker 1: you know the Brexiteers personally and in a close way.

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Speaker 1: We were told, I mean, if you were somebody who

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Speaker 1: was reading you know, the Economist or the editorial page

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Speaker 1: of the New York Times, that Brexit was going to

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Speaker 1: lead to calamity. Right, I'm not sure if it was

635
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Speaker 1: going to be that all the Brits would be starving,

636
00:34:32,217 --> 00:34:34,297
Speaker 1: but you know, bad things were going to happen from it,

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Speaker 1: and then it was madness. What has been the report

638
00:34:37,457 --> 00:34:40,057
Speaker 1: card since Brexit? I mean, what has gone on? How

639
00:34:40,097 --> 00:34:42,257
Speaker 1: would you view it now that some years have passed

640
00:34:42,337 --> 00:34:45,657
Speaker 1: since that event that seemed to shock the international elites

641
00:34:46,057 --> 00:34:49,217
Speaker 1: and create this moment of maybe we're not all going

642
00:34:49,257 --> 00:34:55,137
Speaker 1: to be taking orders from bureaucrats in Brussels. Actually, now,

643
00:34:55,337 --> 00:34:57,257
Speaker 1: this is this is where it gets really interesting. Because

644
00:34:57,257 --> 00:34:59,897
Speaker 1: I talked earlier about how kiss Stamol wants to replace

645
00:34:59,937 --> 00:35:02,897
Speaker 1: the House of Lords with with a Senate. Well, why

646
00:35:02,937 --> 00:35:04,777
Speaker 1: does he really want to do that, Because what he

647
00:35:04,817 --> 00:35:07,617
Speaker 1: intends to do is pass primary legislation in the House

648
00:35:07,617 --> 00:35:10,617
Speaker 1: of Commons to rejoin the European Union, and he knows

649
00:35:10,617 --> 00:35:12,777
Speaker 1: it will be easier to pass in an elected Senate

650
00:35:12,977 --> 00:35:15,577
Speaker 1: to rejoin the European Union than it would pass through

651
00:35:15,657 --> 00:35:18,937
Speaker 1: the House of Lords in our current constitutional format. So

652
00:35:18,937 --> 00:35:22,497
Speaker 1: so right now in the British press on an almost

653
00:35:22,577 --> 00:35:24,657
Speaker 1: daily basis, and I go through it on an almost

654
00:35:24,737 --> 00:35:25,897
Speaker 1: daily base. Well, now I go through it on a

655
00:35:25,937 --> 00:35:29,297
Speaker 1: daily basis. You see, you know, when are we going

656
00:35:29,337 --> 00:35:32,697
Speaker 1: to rejoin the EU? Should Britain rejoin the EU? Brexit

657
00:35:32,817 --> 00:35:36,537
Speaker 1: is least less popular than ever before, and as the

658
00:35:36,617 --> 00:35:42,937
Speaker 1: older generation that predominantly voted for Brexit is dying out unfortunately,

659
00:35:43,297 --> 00:35:48,097
Speaker 1: and as the Conservative part Conservative Party continues to govern

660
00:35:48,217 --> 00:35:52,417
Speaker 1: as a center left party, Brexit is being watered down,

661
00:35:52,497 --> 00:35:55,497
Speaker 1: it is being neutralized. There are all sorts of things

662
00:35:55,497 --> 00:35:57,737
Speaker 1: that are blamed nowadays on Brexit that that have nothing

663
00:35:57,777 --> 00:35:59,937
Speaker 1: to do with Brexit, but the British public sort of

664
00:35:59,937 --> 00:36:01,497
Speaker 1: looks at it and they're told it by the Sun

665
00:36:01,497 --> 00:36:04,577
Speaker 1: newspaper and the Times newspaper and the Murdoch Press and

666
00:36:04,337 --> 00:36:06,457
Speaker 1: and Sky News and the BBC, and they're told it

667
00:36:06,457 --> 00:36:07,697
Speaker 1: and they go, oh, yeah, I guess it must have

668
00:36:07,697 --> 00:36:11,497
Speaker 1: been Brexit. What a bad idea. So I think unfortunately

669
00:36:11,497 --> 00:36:13,857
Speaker 1: we're looking at a campaign now to return to to

670
00:36:13,897 --> 00:36:17,617
Speaker 1: the European Union within the next five years, and and

671
00:36:17,737 --> 00:36:22,137
Speaker 1: they may well win that campaign. Is Britain salvageable as

672
00:36:22,177 --> 00:36:28,337
Speaker 1: a great country with a great tradition and a great people, Well,

673
00:36:27,977 --> 00:36:31,777
Speaker 1: you've described almost no longer exist. There is no one,

674
00:36:32,257 --> 00:36:35,337
Speaker 1: you know, one British people anymore. In a lot of ways.

675
00:36:35,457 --> 00:36:38,937
Speaker 1: I am evidence of that. You know, my parents were well,

676
00:36:38,977 --> 00:36:41,337
Speaker 1: my father was born in Tanzania, my mother was born

677
00:36:41,337 --> 00:36:44,577
Speaker 1: in India. My lineage goes back to India. Um and

678
00:36:44,777 --> 00:36:46,937
Speaker 1: and a lot of people who are of my ilk

679
00:36:47,737 --> 00:36:51,057
Speaker 1: chose not to assimilate, and they chose not to you know,

680
00:36:51,097 --> 00:36:54,377
Speaker 1: have traditional British values, and they chose not to learn

681
00:36:54,457 --> 00:36:56,937
Speaker 1: the language as as as fluently as I did, and

682
00:36:56,977 --> 00:36:59,777
Speaker 1: they chose to kind of not have I wouldn't say

683
00:36:59,857 --> 00:37:03,457
Speaker 1: like a dual loyalty, but certainly like a dualism right

684
00:37:03,697 --> 00:37:07,337
Speaker 1: inside themselves. That that that, you know, and I don't

685
00:37:07,377 --> 00:37:09,337
Speaker 1: like this. I don't like. I just I mean British

686
00:37:09,337 --> 00:37:11,977
Speaker 1: of the American people. You know, the American people as

687
00:37:12,017 --> 00:37:16,377
Speaker 1: one people exist. It's not about any racial, ethnic or

688
00:37:16,417 --> 00:37:20,057
Speaker 1: religious identity. It's about your identity as an American. Bamba.

689
00:37:20,137 --> 00:37:25,257
Speaker 1: The Constitution and our culture are shared history. So right,

690
00:37:25,297 --> 00:37:29,417
Speaker 1: So is the UK salvageable in as that or is

691
00:37:29,417 --> 00:37:35,737
Speaker 1: it breaking apart? I'm leading up to Yeah, go ahead,

692
00:37:35,777 --> 00:37:38,897
Speaker 1: go ahead. Sorry, I just I like to flesh those

693
00:37:38,937 --> 00:37:41,297
Speaker 1: things out, you know. And you the reason I say that,

694
00:37:41,297 --> 00:37:45,377
Speaker 1: it's because you do it too, right, African American, Asian American,

695
00:37:45,457 --> 00:37:49,697
Speaker 1: and everybody gets sort of segmented into these little identity groups,

696
00:37:49,697 --> 00:37:52,817
Speaker 1: and we've done that as well. Unless there is a minister,

697
00:37:53,897 --> 00:37:58,057
Speaker 1: a real sort of philosopher king that comes along and

698
00:37:58,057 --> 00:38:02,297
Speaker 1: and reminds the country that it is one country in

699
00:38:02,337 --> 00:38:06,777
Speaker 1: a very Disraelian sense, right, one nation. Conservatism was was

700
00:38:06,857 --> 00:38:13,177
Speaker 1: the longest running strain of conservative thought in the United Kingdom. Ever,

701
00:38:13,937 --> 00:38:16,657
Speaker 1: unless somebody comes along and reminds the general public of

702
00:38:16,737 --> 00:38:19,577
Speaker 1: that and indeed forces them to believe in it, right Like,

703
00:38:19,617 --> 00:38:23,137
Speaker 1: I don't mean, I don't mean through coercion, I mean

704
00:38:23,377 --> 00:38:27,857
Speaker 1: through argument, you know, gets them to believe in that goal.

705
00:38:28,177 --> 00:38:31,497
Speaker 1: Then then no, there isn't a United Kingdom anymore, and

706
00:38:31,857 --> 00:38:35,057
Speaker 1: nor should we pretend that they will be. You cannot

707
00:38:35,137 --> 00:38:40,217
Speaker 1: have a cohesive nation if everybody is taught that they

708
00:38:40,217 --> 00:38:43,537
Speaker 1: are part of a different group than their next door neighbors.

709
00:38:44,337 --> 00:38:46,297
Speaker 1: Is it more left wing as a country now in

710
00:38:46,337 --> 00:38:49,057
Speaker 1: its totality than the US? I mean, you have a

711
00:38:49,097 --> 00:38:51,417
Speaker 1: means of comparison here. You know, one thing that I

712
00:38:51,417 --> 00:38:54,137
Speaker 1: think people have recognized about Canada is if you take

713
00:38:54,177 --> 00:38:59,017
Speaker 1: the most you know, beta male low t Marxist leadership

714
00:38:59,097 --> 00:39:03,257
Speaker 1: in America, that's actually much more common and much more

715
00:39:03,257 --> 00:39:07,137
Speaker 1: powerful in the context of Canada and Trudeau and Trudeauism. Right,

716
00:39:07,657 --> 00:39:10,057
Speaker 1: So is that also true about the UK? Right now?

717
00:39:10,137 --> 00:39:12,337
Speaker 1: Are they even? Are they more awoke? I don't even

718
00:39:12,377 --> 00:39:14,097
Speaker 1: know how much that term is used over there and

719
00:39:14,097 --> 00:39:17,617
Speaker 1: then we are here. Oh it's used. It's used way

720
00:39:17,657 --> 00:39:20,297
Speaker 1: too much over there, and it's it's used in a

721
00:39:20,337 --> 00:39:25,457
Speaker 1: really cringe way. So so they don't say, like somebody goes,

722
00:39:25,897 --> 00:39:29,617
Speaker 1: you know, woke In the UK, woke is the is

723
00:39:29,657 --> 00:39:33,377
Speaker 1: the adjective that describes the movement. So there'll be like

724
00:39:33,537 --> 00:39:37,497
Speaker 1: editorials in the Telegraph that says we must end woke,

725
00:39:38,017 --> 00:39:41,817
Speaker 1: you know, as if that's like Antifa, um, and it

726
00:39:41,817 --> 00:39:44,217
Speaker 1: gets up, it gets on my nerves. Just from a

727
00:39:44,337 --> 00:39:47,817
Speaker 1: from a from a linguistic perspective. To answer your question,

728
00:39:48,777 --> 00:39:53,857
Speaker 1: I think, governmentally, bureaucratically, we are far more of a

729
00:39:53,937 --> 00:39:55,817
Speaker 1: left wing country and you should look to us as

730
00:39:55,817 --> 00:39:59,137
Speaker 1: a warning of how not to run your country. Culturally.

731
00:39:59,457 --> 00:40:02,617
Speaker 1: You know, I've been here for six years now. Culturally,

732
00:40:02,657 --> 00:40:05,017
Speaker 1: I think America is more left wing. People in the

733
00:40:05,097 --> 00:40:10,537
Speaker 1: United Kingdom are more, you know, more inclined to say, well,

734
00:40:10,617 --> 00:40:13,817
Speaker 1: let's let's take a beat on that and think about that,

735
00:40:13,897 --> 00:40:17,497
Speaker 1: and think about its implications to our culture, to our neighbors,

736
00:40:17,497 --> 00:40:21,457
Speaker 1: to our society. The America seems every time somebody comes

737
00:40:21,537 --> 00:40:25,417
Speaker 1: up with a you know, a progressive new thing, seems

738
00:40:25,457 --> 00:40:28,097
Speaker 1: to just slam its foot on the accelerator and go, yeah,

739
00:40:28,137 --> 00:40:30,257
Speaker 1: that's the new thing, and that's what we're going for now,

740
00:40:30,897 --> 00:40:34,617
Speaker 1: whether it's BLM or what have you, or the transgender stuff.

741
00:40:34,657 --> 00:40:36,857
Speaker 1: I mean, America, we have to we have to accept this.

742
00:40:37,217 --> 00:40:43,057
Speaker 1: America is the single largest exporter of cultural Marxism in

743
00:40:43,097 --> 00:40:46,217
Speaker 1: the world today, and that is a deeply, deeply shocking thing.

744
00:40:46,577 --> 00:40:48,577
Speaker 1: And of course, when you guys sneeze, we all catch

745
00:40:48,577 --> 00:40:50,577
Speaker 1: a cold. That stuff is now in Britain, it is

746
00:40:50,617 --> 00:40:52,497
Speaker 1: now in Australia, it is now in Canada, it is

747
00:40:52,497 --> 00:40:54,737
Speaker 1: all across Europe. You know, the French actually have the

748
00:40:54,777 --> 00:40:58,737
Speaker 1: lowest tolerance for this stuff of almost any European nation.

749
00:40:58,777 --> 00:41:01,577
Speaker 1: I mean, apart from these deeply social conservative nations like

750
00:41:01,897 --> 00:41:06,657
Speaker 1: Poland and Hungary. The French look at American political cultures

751
00:41:06,977 --> 00:41:08,737
Speaker 1: as they do most as they do look at most

752
00:41:08,737 --> 00:41:10,777
Speaker 1: things American. Right, but we're going to I think it's

753
00:41:10,817 --> 00:41:12,817
Speaker 1: our political culture. But yeah, they look at a lot

754
00:41:12,857 --> 00:41:14,897
Speaker 1: of it. But but but on this one they're right. You know,

755
00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:17,697
Speaker 1: on this thing. They're not just being French about it,

756
00:41:17,737 --> 00:41:21,337
Speaker 1: They're actually being smart about it. And so you've got

757
00:41:21,377 --> 00:41:24,257
Speaker 1: to know that when the French are right about something

758
00:41:24,377 --> 00:41:27,657
Speaker 1: in critique of you, you've really got a problem. May

759
00:41:27,697 --> 00:41:29,737
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00:42:54,897 --> 00:43:00,497
Speaker 1: Like that is like, yeah, I find that utterly, utterly baffling,

791
00:43:00,577 --> 00:43:03,697
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Um, that there is so

792
00:43:03,777 --> 00:43:07,137
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793
00:43:07,217 --> 00:43:12,297
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794
00:43:12,337 --> 00:43:15,657
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795
00:43:15,657 --> 00:43:20,697
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796
00:43:20,817 --> 00:43:25,457
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00:43:25,497 --> 00:43:27,337
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798
00:43:27,377 --> 00:43:29,217
Speaker 1: to speak for you in this regard, but I regard

799
00:43:29,257 --> 00:43:32,737
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800
00:43:32,777 --> 00:43:36,057
Speaker 1: we're not very good at being popular in the things

801
00:43:36,057 --> 00:43:39,737
Speaker 1: that we promote culturally. So that's why this year, I'm

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00:43:39,777 --> 00:43:42,017
Speaker 1: pleased to say, and I think you may be getting

803
00:43:42,057 --> 00:43:44,697
Speaker 1: the exclusive here on this right now, that the National

804
00:43:44,737 --> 00:43:46,857
Speaker 1: Pulse is going to be moving into that territory. We

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00:43:46,897 --> 00:43:49,537
Speaker 1: are going to be moving into print magazine territory. We

806
00:43:49,577 --> 00:43:52,537
Speaker 1: are going to be moving into documentary territory. We are

807
00:43:52,617 --> 00:43:55,177
Speaker 1: we are just widening the scope of the things that

808
00:43:55,217 --> 00:43:59,017
Speaker 1: we present to as many people as possible, because because

809
00:43:59,057 --> 00:44:01,977
Speaker 1: I was reading this Michael Anton essay, actually I think

810
00:44:01,977 --> 00:44:04,937
Speaker 1: it was in I Am seventeen seventy six magazine, which

811
00:44:04,937 --> 00:44:09,177
Speaker 1: is a great magazine about about Tom Wolfe and about

812
00:44:09,217 --> 00:44:13,897
Speaker 1: the the the vacuums that he saw around him culturally

813
00:44:13,897 --> 00:44:17,017
Speaker 1: and how he just chose to fill them, right. He

814
00:44:17,137 --> 00:44:20,937
Speaker 1: just told the stories that he saw before him that

815
00:44:20,937 --> 00:44:23,417
Speaker 1: he knew weren't being told anywhere else. On fire of

816
00:44:23,417 --> 00:44:25,697
Speaker 1: the vanities, so on and so forth. And we've got

817
00:44:25,737 --> 00:44:29,257
Speaker 1: we've got real bonfires of the vanities going on in Washington,

818
00:44:29,337 --> 00:44:34,057
Speaker 1: DC right now. We've got we've got neighborhoods, predominantly black neighborhoods,

819
00:44:34,057 --> 00:44:36,777
Speaker 1: by the way, which are being totally left to rack

820
00:44:36,857 --> 00:44:39,737
Speaker 1: and ruin by a black mayor of Washington, d C.

821
00:44:40,217 --> 00:44:42,697
Speaker 1: But nobody's telling those stories for the sake of history.

822
00:44:42,937 --> 00:44:45,137
Speaker 1: Nobody's telling them for the sake of the next generation

823
00:44:45,257 --> 00:44:47,737
Speaker 1: learning from the mistakes. And so that is the thing

824
00:44:47,777 --> 00:44:52,297
Speaker 1: that really really baffles me constantly, how we are not

825
00:44:52,377 --> 00:44:55,257
Speaker 1: better at this yet. So, for example, because I think

826
00:44:55,297 --> 00:44:56,817
Speaker 1: this comes up a lot on the right in the

827
00:44:56,897 --> 00:45:00,697
Speaker 1: context of how is it that we thought the outcome

828
00:45:00,737 --> 00:45:04,297
Speaker 1: here would be any different when we've been playing for

829
00:45:04,457 --> 00:45:07,177
Speaker 1: this make believe neutral space in a lot of institutions

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00:45:07,177 --> 00:45:11,177
Speaker 1: for a long time, and for example, even in classrooms,

831
00:45:11,217 --> 00:45:14,097
Speaker 1: they'll say, oh, well, there you're pushing your right wing

832
00:45:14,177 --> 00:45:17,497
Speaker 1: conservative values. Someone's values are going to be in the classroom.

833
00:45:17,537 --> 00:45:19,337
Speaker 1: I think the right has at least woken up to

834
00:45:19,377 --> 00:45:24,697
Speaker 1: that reality because of you know, transgender drag, Queen Story Hour,

835
00:45:24,777 --> 00:45:27,337
Speaker 1: and all these things that have become and CRT, which

836
00:45:27,377 --> 00:45:31,897
Speaker 1: is explicitly in many context anti white, explicitly racist in

837
00:45:31,937 --> 00:45:35,457
Speaker 1: the way that it's presented in classrooms. People have realized

838
00:45:35,497 --> 00:45:37,297
Speaker 1: that there's not this oh, we're just gonna have neutral space,

839
00:45:37,417 --> 00:45:39,697
Speaker 1: neutral space. When you have a left wing that says

840
00:45:39,777 --> 00:45:43,697
Speaker 1: that you know, algebra and higher math class being taught

841
00:45:43,737 --> 00:45:47,217
Speaker 1: as racist, you're going to you have to address the

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00:45:47,217 --> 00:45:49,217
Speaker 1: battle as it is and not as you wish it were.

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00:45:50,257 --> 00:45:52,977
Speaker 1: So there are some places colleges, universities, for example Rheim,

844
00:45:53,017 --> 00:45:57,377
Speaker 1: that the the left will not allow there to be

845
00:45:58,057 --> 00:46:01,937
Speaker 1: any who do not think like them, but given the

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00:46:01,977 --> 00:46:04,617
Speaker 1: creative areas right, So, you know, if you're in the

847
00:46:04,617 --> 00:46:08,057
Speaker 1: political science department at a lot of different universities, you're

848
00:46:08,057 --> 00:46:10,257
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849
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Speaker 1: never going to get tenure for sure if you're a conservative.

850
00:46:12,457 --> 00:46:14,297
Speaker 1: So they operate at like a country club that won't

851
00:46:14,337 --> 00:46:17,737
Speaker 1: allow in the you know, the undesirables, the conservatives in

852
00:46:17,817 --> 00:46:20,937
Speaker 1: the creative side. Though, why don't we have? You berentioned

853
00:46:20,977 --> 00:46:22,697
Speaker 1: Tom Wolf? By the way, Bonfire the Vanity is one

854
00:46:22,697 --> 00:46:24,457
Speaker 1: of my favorite novels of all time. Took place in

855
00:46:24,457 --> 00:46:26,057
Speaker 1: the Upper East Side where I grew up, and I

856
00:46:26,057 --> 00:46:27,737
Speaker 1: read Tom Wolf when I was in the eighth grade.

857
00:46:27,857 --> 00:46:31,257
Speaker 1: I've read that book in the eighth grade. Why don't

858
00:46:31,257 --> 00:46:34,417
Speaker 1: we produce great novels? Why don't we have It's amazing?

859
00:46:34,417 --> 00:46:36,497
Speaker 1: People will say that show is conservative, or people will

860
00:46:36,537 --> 00:46:39,777
Speaker 1: say The Top Gun Maverick is conservative. I say it's

861
00:46:39,817 --> 00:46:42,777
Speaker 1: not conservative. It's just a movie the way movies used

862
00:46:42,777 --> 00:46:45,977
Speaker 1: to be entertaining, good guys, bad guys, and not a

863
00:46:45,977 --> 00:46:49,697
Speaker 1: lot of radical political theory thrown in there. Why can't

864
00:46:49,697 --> 00:46:51,737
Speaker 1: we Why aren't we capable? It seems of doing more

865
00:46:51,777 --> 00:46:54,657
Speaker 1: of that? Are we capable of doing more of that? Yeah?

866
00:46:54,737 --> 00:46:58,657
Speaker 1: And it's like every single time a left wing celebrity

867
00:46:59,217 --> 00:47:02,257
Speaker 1: or journalist comes out on our side just a little bit,

868
00:47:02,497 --> 00:47:05,737
Speaker 1: we all go nuts and hand them the football and say, right,

869
00:47:05,857 --> 00:47:10,617
Speaker 1: you're you're the quarterback now. Whether it's whether it's Wise

870
00:47:10,737 --> 00:47:13,897
Speaker 1: or Ricky Gervais or or you're on Musk or whatever.

871
00:47:14,097 --> 00:47:16,337
Speaker 1: You know, we we we leave the people who have

872
00:47:16,417 --> 00:47:19,177
Speaker 1: been fighting on our side, and we hand the ball

873
00:47:19,217 --> 00:47:22,217
Speaker 1: and the control of the game over to somebody very

874
00:47:22,257 --> 00:47:24,537
Speaker 1: recently on our side. And then and then when they

875
00:47:24,537 --> 00:47:26,257
Speaker 1: when they turn an ass or when they you know,

876
00:47:26,297 --> 00:47:29,297
Speaker 1: express that they weren't quite signed up for the entire thing,

877
00:47:29,377 --> 00:47:32,017
Speaker 1: then we go, oh my goodness. Some of us were

878
00:47:32,017 --> 00:47:36,617
Speaker 1: warning about about the Kanye situation before Kanye went totally

879
00:47:36,897 --> 00:47:40,937
Speaker 1: you know, whacko. Right, and and and here's look, here's

880
00:47:40,977 --> 00:47:45,497
Speaker 1: a message to people who because it's Jermaine to your question,

881
00:47:45,937 --> 00:47:48,377
Speaker 1: is not you and I I mean, we we do

882
00:47:48,417 --> 00:47:50,777
Speaker 1: this on a daily basis, right, We are literally creating

883
00:47:50,817 --> 00:47:54,137
Speaker 1: content every single day that millions of people see. But

884
00:47:54,137 --> 00:47:58,017
Speaker 1: but there's there's a lot more to the conservative cultural

885
00:47:58,137 --> 00:48:02,737
Speaker 1: movement than the podcast. As the talking Heads the political strategists,

886
00:48:02,777 --> 00:48:07,257
Speaker 1: all of that. It actually really behooves the ordinary American

887
00:48:07,337 --> 00:48:11,737
Speaker 1: to step into this space, because only you, who is

888
00:48:11,777 --> 00:48:14,057
Speaker 1: not living in DC, who is not living in New York,

889
00:48:14,097 --> 00:48:16,297
Speaker 1: who is not living in Miami, who is not living

890
00:48:16,297 --> 00:48:20,137
Speaker 1: in these big cities, can talk about the experiences that

891
00:48:20,177 --> 00:48:24,697
Speaker 1: you're having in your states, in your counties, in your towns,

892
00:48:24,777 --> 00:48:27,177
Speaker 1: in your villages, in your you know, I don't care

893
00:48:27,377 --> 00:48:30,737
Speaker 1: whether you live in a in a relatively new suburban district,

894
00:48:30,937 --> 00:48:34,057
Speaker 1: whether you live in a you in the desert. If

895
00:48:34,057 --> 00:48:37,817
Speaker 1: you're not putting pen to paper and memorializing the experiences

896
00:48:37,857 --> 00:48:40,377
Speaker 1: that you're having, then why do you suppose that anybody

897
00:48:40,377 --> 00:48:43,817
Speaker 1: will do that for you? Right? And here's the thing,

898
00:48:43,937 --> 00:48:47,777
Speaker 1: a lot of those people, we're not great writers, they

899
00:48:47,777 --> 00:48:50,657
Speaker 1: were not great thinkers. What they were able to do

900
00:48:50,737 --> 00:48:53,057
Speaker 1: is observe the world around them and just write enough

901
00:48:53,497 --> 00:48:56,737
Speaker 1: down so that somebody somewhere could pick over it at

902
00:48:56,737 --> 00:48:59,297
Speaker 1: some point in the future and go, ah, this is

903
00:48:59,297 --> 00:49:02,017
Speaker 1: what was going on in these areas. It wasn't all Biden,

904
00:49:02,057 --> 00:49:04,377
Speaker 1: and it wasn't all LGBT, and it wasn't all this.

905
00:49:04,737 --> 00:49:06,737
Speaker 1: We need historians to be able to see that stuff.

906
00:49:06,737 --> 00:49:10,457
Speaker 1: And it is completely completely on the shoulders of ordinary

907
00:49:10,497 --> 00:49:12,377
Speaker 1: Americans to make sure that that stuff stays in the

908
00:49:12,417 --> 00:49:18,617
Speaker 1: historical record. The second part of this is, Um, you

909
00:49:18,737 --> 00:49:22,057
Speaker 1: talked about the somebody's values is going to be in

910
00:49:22,097 --> 00:49:25,177
Speaker 1: the classroom, right, and that and that's so called that

911
00:49:25,257 --> 00:49:28,497
Speaker 1: fake neutral space. Well, that fake neutral space comes from

912
00:49:28,737 --> 00:49:32,057
Speaker 1: comes from secularism, it comes from science, and it comes

913
00:49:32,097 --> 00:49:35,377
Speaker 1: from the expert class. The expert class that we all

914
00:49:35,417 --> 00:49:38,457
Speaker 1: know were the people behind COVID, were the people saying

915
00:49:38,457 --> 00:49:40,377
Speaker 1: that there'll be a third World War if, if you know,

916
00:49:40,377 --> 00:49:42,817
Speaker 1: Britain leaves the European Union. They're all saying that Donald

917
00:49:42,857 --> 00:49:45,337
Speaker 1: Trump would would you know, accidentally press the nuclear button

918
00:49:45,377 --> 00:49:48,057
Speaker 1: instead of the diet coke Buttonum, these are the people

919
00:49:48,097 --> 00:49:52,177
Speaker 1: who need challenging and we should you know, the you

920
00:49:52,217 --> 00:49:54,937
Speaker 1: know the Chad meme where it's just you know, the

921
00:49:55,017 --> 00:49:59,217
Speaker 1: guy and he just says, you know, yes, that's it. Yes. Well,

922
00:49:59,257 --> 00:50:02,497
Speaker 1: when the left accuses us of oh, well you just

923
00:50:02,537 --> 00:50:05,857
Speaker 1: want your philosophy in the classrooms, yes, oh you just

924
00:50:05,937 --> 00:50:10,817
Speaker 1: want you know, anti abortion measures, Yes, you just don't

925
00:50:10,817 --> 00:50:13,257
Speaker 1: want me you know, a man dressed up in a

926
00:50:13,297 --> 00:50:16,857
Speaker 1: skirt going into the girl's locker room, Yes, you know

927
00:50:17,177 --> 00:50:20,057
Speaker 1: those are the answers. It's you don't have to equivocate

928
00:50:20,097 --> 00:50:22,137
Speaker 1: about those things. And we spend too much time equivocating.

929
00:50:22,297 --> 00:50:24,377
Speaker 1: We want to be liked too much. Forget about it.

930
00:50:24,417 --> 00:50:25,697
Speaker 1: We're not going to be liked by the other side.

931
00:50:25,737 --> 00:50:28,537
Speaker 1: You're gonna be liked by your own side. I think

932
00:50:28,897 --> 00:50:31,697
Speaker 1: personally that I am going to use twenty twenty three

933
00:50:31,697 --> 00:50:34,577
Speaker 1: to write more than I've ever written before because there

934
00:50:34,577 --> 00:50:36,577
Speaker 1: are so many things going on out there. I am

935
00:50:36,577 --> 00:50:38,937
Speaker 1: going to do a tour of the United States and

936
00:50:39,257 --> 00:50:42,777
Speaker 1: document in documentary format what is going on out there

937
00:50:42,817 --> 00:50:46,177
Speaker 1: in the real United States, because very few people are

938
00:50:46,217 --> 00:50:49,217
Speaker 1: telling the stories of ordinary Americans, and I think these

939
00:50:49,257 --> 00:50:52,337
Speaker 1: are the times especially that those stories need to be told.

940
00:50:53,097 --> 00:50:56,337
Speaker 1: And and you know, history is not written by the victors.

941
00:50:56,777 --> 00:50:59,577
Speaker 1: History is written by those who bother to write it.

942
00:51:00,017 --> 00:51:03,617
Speaker 1: So let's write it. Raheim Kasalm, everybody check out the

943
00:51:03,697 --> 00:51:07,017
Speaker 1: Raheem Kassam podcast and also go to the National Pulse

944
00:51:07,097 --> 00:51:10,737
Speaker 1: and keep an eye out for all these projects. As Raheem,

945
00:51:10,777 --> 00:51:12,897
Speaker 1: you're promising some cool stuff that people are going to

946
00:51:12,937 --> 00:51:15,497
Speaker 1: be looking for it. So thank you, my friend, for

947
00:51:15,937 --> 00:51:18,097
Speaker 1: coming and hanging out. And we'll have to do like

948
00:51:18,137 --> 00:51:21,817
Speaker 1: a podcast after dark session at some point with some booze,

949
00:51:22,177 --> 00:51:25,217
Speaker 1: some lifestyle tips. What's the one what is the one

950
00:51:25,257 --> 00:51:29,137
Speaker 1: thing raheem that the American that American men listening to this,

951
00:51:29,537 --> 00:51:31,217
Speaker 1: if you could get them to either do more of

952
00:51:31,417 --> 00:51:34,897
Speaker 1: or less of one thing, what would it be? Well,

953
00:51:35,017 --> 00:51:38,097
Speaker 1: you know, every year is dry January for me, and

954
00:51:38,097 --> 00:51:41,377
Speaker 1: it's it's a real it's it's a hardship for thirty

955
00:51:41,417 --> 00:51:43,857
Speaker 1: one days. Um, and I'm going through that. It's the

956
00:51:43,897 --> 00:51:45,537
Speaker 1: tail end of it right now. I'm going through it.

957
00:51:45,897 --> 00:51:49,857
Speaker 1: But you know, for me, I've undertaken a lot of

958
00:51:49,857 --> 00:51:51,817
Speaker 1: different things in the last couple of years. I was

959
00:51:51,857 --> 00:51:54,937
Speaker 1: I was about forty pounds heavier, um, not but twenty

960
00:51:54,937 --> 00:51:58,297
Speaker 1: four months ago. Um, I've I've lost all that way.

961
00:51:58,377 --> 00:52:01,497
Speaker 1: I've changed a lot of the things in my life. Um. Honestly,

962
00:52:01,537 --> 00:52:04,137
Speaker 1: the things that that's made the world of difference to

963
00:52:04,177 --> 00:52:09,137
Speaker 1: me from a from a physical perspective is deadlifting, running

964
00:52:09,177 --> 00:52:12,497
Speaker 1: and the stem masta quite frankly that it sort of

965
00:52:12,497 --> 00:52:14,457
Speaker 1: shed all of the weight for me. And the other

966
00:52:14,497 --> 00:52:16,937
Speaker 1: part of it for me is um, you know, I've

967
00:52:17,097 --> 00:52:19,817
Speaker 1: very much switched. I used to be a seven eight

968
00:52:20,017 --> 00:52:22,257
Speaker 1: nine points of beer and night kind of guy. You know,

969
00:52:22,297 --> 00:52:25,017
Speaker 1: no dinner. It was just beer for me, and I've

970
00:52:25,137 --> 00:52:29,017
Speaker 1: very much switched that out from martinis a little bit

971
00:52:29,017 --> 00:52:33,137
Speaker 1: more sophisticated, a little you can you can drink fewer

972
00:52:33,217 --> 00:52:35,537
Speaker 1: of them, and still you know, have that little buzz.

973
00:52:36,337 --> 00:52:40,977
Speaker 1: I actually think they are far better a measure of

974
00:52:40,977 --> 00:52:43,377
Speaker 1: a man than a than a than a cous light

975
00:52:43,577 --> 00:52:46,137
Speaker 1: as well. And then the other thing is ignore the

976
00:52:46,217 --> 00:52:49,377
Speaker 1: advice from the nutrition experts who are trying to get

977
00:52:49,377 --> 00:52:51,937
Speaker 1: you to eat crickets and all of that nonsense. The

978
00:52:52,017 --> 00:52:55,537
Speaker 1: best breakfast you can have is steaking eggs, and frankly,

979
00:52:55,577 --> 00:52:57,737
Speaker 1: the best every meal you can have your steak and eggs.

980
00:52:57,857 --> 00:53:01,257
Speaker 1: So get on that trade. I actually totally agree. So

981
00:53:01,297 --> 00:53:03,417
Speaker 1: there you go, everybody. Raheem my friend, thanks for being

982
00:53:03,457 --> 00:53:05,057
Speaker 1: with us, thanks for giving us your time, and we'll

983
00:53:05,057 --> 00:53:07,257
Speaker 1: have you back soon. Just thank you. Puck