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Speaker 1: a rare joy, made you feel like more of a man.

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Speaker 1: And with all the big boys telling him how he'd

422
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: be a boss in the neighborhood if he baited the cop,

423
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: he'd been enthusiastic. He probably looked forward to coming home

424
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: and telling his buddies how he told that cracker ass

425
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: pig to go to hell. Stared right at him and

426
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: cursed him to his face, made the pig back down.

427
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: Kindrick knew he was supposed to go for his toy gun.

428
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: They told him it would be a joke, that the

429
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: cop wouldn't do anything, that the cop would pussy out.

430
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: Of course, leave On knew better. No cop could sit

431
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: still when somebody went for the waistband. Police procedure dictated

432
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: what happened next, which ben, you're almost you almost got

433
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: something there. He almost realized something there. He got a

434
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: little too close and then back away. Maybe a system

435
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: in which the only possible response to a child pulling

436
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: out a toy gun is murder has some problems. When

437
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: I hate about this is that he is not aware

438
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: of it. He's like getting so close and he just

439
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: he thinks is okay for our cop to pull out

440
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 1: their gun in this situation is essentially what he's saying,

441
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: like we're tricking the cops into pulling their guns. No,

442
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: they they did it. They did the thing that they

443
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: shouldn't do. No, it's just like the his that we

444
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: talked about the last time. I think, just like the

445
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 1: conspiracy aspect of this is just so bizarre and like

446
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: weirdly insulting. Like you could, yeah, a competent writer trying

447
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: to have something similar happen. You know, have a have

448
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: a have a black gang leader who attempts to use

449
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: this as the Q two spark an uprising. Um, you

450
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: could you could just have them try to make use

451
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: of a normal police killing. Judge, have it happened, Just

452
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: just have it thing happened that happened that hand, be

453
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: just a normal tragedy that then a person takes advantage of, right,

454
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: Like that's like that's being closer to like what how

455
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Ben views everything anyway? So but why manufacture this weird

456
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: like everybody's been is such a bad writer that he

457
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: can't even effectively advance his own bullshit narratives because of

458
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: his incompetence, because like that's actually like an interest like

459
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: that would be baseline interesting in terms of like art

460
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: or like a novel, Like, wow, they're using this thing

461
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: to do this thing. I disagree with this, but like

462
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: this conflict there. Yeah, you could have like a like

463
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: a black Special Forces veteran turned gang leader who's like

464
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 1: has developed this deep hatred for the American Empire due

465
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: to having his friends die in the PTSD. He's accrued

466
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: and you know, he's he's trained in actually setting up

467
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: an insurgency, and then there's a murder by a police

468
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: officer of a black kid, and he uses it as

469
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: an opportunity to like you know, set something into motion

470
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: that will destroy this empire. And then you have an

471
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: interesting character and you have an interesting situation and you

472
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: can like you can actually have a story, right people

473
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: are engaged in like actually struggle with because like some

474
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: sort of like gray area and like the morality and

475
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: ethics in conflict with each other. But he's just like,

476
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: well what if, Like he's just gonna what IF's evil?

477
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: And he pays the people to die paid the boy

478
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: to die because a because an eight or nine year

479
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: old black boy living in the inner city, Uh, wouldn't

480
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: know that pulling a toy gun on a cop would

481
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: very easily lead to his death. Wouldn't know the thing

482
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Speaker 1: that literally every black boy in the entire nation knows

483
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: literally happened. Like didn't come out in like two sixteen. Yes,

484
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: yes it did, Cody like, it's oh my god, Yeah,

485
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: it's amazing. So and of course, because everything has to

486
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: be ridiculously contrived, Levon didn't just set up the boy

487
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: encountering the cop. He destroyed all of the other cameras

488
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: but one in the neighborhood that had the right angle

489
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: for the shot he wanted to have played on a

490
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: nightly tv UM one angle one tape, one million replays

491
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: on nightly news. The headline writers couldn't help themselves. Eight

492
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: year old unarmed black boy shot dead by white cop,

493
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: blared the free press. Murderer, screamed the headline on the

494
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: New York Daily News. O um Ben knows how headlines

495
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: is written. Well, the phrase one million replays on the

496
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: nightly news isn't a thing, you know, It's absolutely not

497
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: a thing. That's not how the nightly news replays on

498
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: nightly News is not. But I think what we're all

499
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: getting is that literally the only thing that Ben Shapiro

500
00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: understands is being Ben Shapiro, a boy who was plucked

501
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: out by right wing billionaires to write nonsense on the

502
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: Internet when he was a child, um, and only understands

503
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: writing right wing nonsense for the Internet and getting paid

504
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Yes, yeah, right, it was. It's that

505
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: in the combination of wanting to be like a TV writer,

506
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: um and not doing that, and because he's bad at it,

507
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: He's bad at everything. I just thought of all of

508
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: his like super fan boys that have read his books

509
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: and they're like, have you reach a Piro's book? It's

510
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: so good people, I'm I don't. I don't think a

511
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: single person has had that experience. I don't even think's

512
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: been Shapiro fans could possibly enjoy this fucking book. Um,

513
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: it's it's so bad. Uh yeah so and then Robert

514
00:32:50,960 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: hastily read the words with his eyes and then parcularly ocularly. Uh.

515
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: CNN headlined the case the entire day and the next

516
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: one as well. Over on MSNBC, the talking heads could

517
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: barely conceal their excitement. On Fox News, a few anchors

518
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: urged caution, while others talked of the legacy of racist

519
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: policing across the country. Um, the President obviously has to

520
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: get involved in this, and he tells Americans the time

521
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: has come for a great racial conversation in this country.

522
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: Too many black boys have been murdered merely for the

523
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Speaker 1: color of their skin. This must end, um, which is

524
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: obviously a bad thing to do. Controversial. Yeah, um, well,

525
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: you know the President Obama doesn't know that the kid

526
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: was paid money to die. No, of course not. It's

527
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: not his fault. So yeah, lev On is now waiting

528
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: um outside the Colman, a young municipal center named after

529
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Speaker 1: the former mayor of the city, a man who had

530
00:33:54,280 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: been a racial pro in his own right. Don't don't

531
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: racial prowess? Are that on? Urine? That's it's written out.

532
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: That's how that's written in the fucking buck. Oh boy, howdy,

533
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 1: um good, good god. So Levin says, old Coleman is

534
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: going to make one more sacrifice in the name of

535
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: racial justice. Uh if all goes according to plan. Um, yeah, boy, howdy.

536
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: So they're in front of the spirit of the Spirit

537
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: of Detroit statue, which Levon describes as looking like a

538
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: constipated Nordic man um. Yeah, behind Levan stood a solid

539
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: three thousand of his fellow Detroit's, mostly young black men.

540
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: Levin had sent out his boys to round up the crowd,

541
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: and they'd had an easy time of it. After the

542
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: media coverage, facing the crowd protecting the statue and a

543
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: platform set up just before it stood about a hundred cops,

544
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: Levon noticed a particular lack of weapons. He smiled to himself, then,

545
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: really understands how cops work. The unarmed cops showing up

546
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: to this event. Yeah, yeah, I was just last night.

547
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,359
Speaker 1: Two hundred people surrounded up, or not surrounded, hung out

548
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: outside of Portland Police Union headquarters. And yeah, they they

549
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: they had a ton of weapons and used them on us,

550
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: because that's what cops do. Yes, yeah, I like, I

551
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 1: don't know the first thing I thought when you said

552
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: reference calling his boys. I mean just Ben's never had

553
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: boys to call. He wishes a group of boys he

554
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: could call. He would love to, He would love to,

555
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: but unfortunately Ben Shapiro is incapable of doing anything but

556
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: writing garbage for the Internet. Ben's boys are Dennis Praeger,

557
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: that's who. That's who Ben's calling up. Yeah so uh yeah,

558
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: so leave on smiles when he notices how unarmed to

559
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: the cops are. There's media all over the place interviewing

560
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 1: the odd protester here. Yeah, the crowd's gonna beat up

561
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: a lot of people, including when he smiled. Did it

562
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: say he smiled quite happily, lipally lipwards? Yeah? Yeah. So

563
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: he says that a couple of reporters are getting caught

564
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: in the melee. Is just how it's going to have

565
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: to be. If they were too well behaved, the media

566
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: would dismiss them. A bit of blood got them hot

567
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: under the collar. A bit of blood made the story hot.

568
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: The way the media worked, the only way they pay

569
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: attention was if somebody did something extreme, then they defend

570
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: the action, blame it on the overwriting anger at an

571
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: unfair society. I have to diagram the sentence out you

572
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: lost me a little. I am reading a sentence to

573
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: you one. Sometimes it's like is this one? Is like?

574
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: The way the media worked, Comma, the only way they'd

575
00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: pay attention was if somebody did something extreme, dash and

576
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: then they defend the action, Comma, blame it on overwriting

577
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: anger at an unfair society period. Okay, thank you for

578
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: doing that. Oh my god, that's a sentence. Thinking that's

579
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 1: a sentence. This is a real illuminating look into how

580
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: he views the current moment in time as an editor. Editor.

581
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: Oh my god, for this book to be like written

582
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 1: down and then sold in incredible. Um. Yeah. So Levin

583
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 1: had his men ringing the edges of the crowd, ready

584
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: to prevent any non approved persons from getting too close

585
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: to the media members. No footage of fools, he'd promised

586
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: the Reverend. Uh, and he intended to keep his word tonight.

587
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: Levin intended to be the face on the news. Already,

588
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: he'd done his best Malcolm X impression early Malcolm, not

589
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: that late stage. Islam means peace, pussy ship for the networks.

590
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: If we don't get what we want, he said, if

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00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: we don't get justice for Kendrick, the city is going

592
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: to burn. We've been burning silently for too long. Our

593
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: poverty burns beneath the surface. Our ignorance burns beneath the surface.

594
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: We've been left for dead in this city, just like

595
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: black boys have been left for dead all over this country.

596
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: And this country must pay a price if there is

597
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: no justice, Ben Shapiro, Yeah, sorry, yep, oh god, okay,

598
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: next sentence. So the last thing that Levan says, uh,

599
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: and we're just left to assume he's talking to the

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00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: media now because Ben doesn't actually make that here. But

601
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 1: but we we can put that together. Uh bye bye. Yeah. Yeah,

602
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: So that sentences and this country may must pay a

603
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: price if there is no justice. End of Levan sentence.

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00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: Next paragraph. The sexy blonde with the short skirts seemed

605
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: turned on at that point. First we're hearing of her

606
00:38:52,400 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: breathily blonde. What breathly? She asked, Oh, you're so bad

607
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: at writing, And what will justice look like? So he

608
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: threw in a line. That's just the next sentence, So

609
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: he threw in a line just for good measure, justice

610
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: will be done when people like you live in the

611
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: mud you've made for us. Only then can we lift

612
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 1: each other up. Her eyelashes flooded, fluttered. That ship was magic.

613
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: Leav On new he'd learned it at the university to

614
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: white co ed's majoring in journalism, where a cinch just

615
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: drag them off their civilized perch and let them experienced

616
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: life outside their self proclaimed white privilege. And they let

617
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: and they let you know that you'd be doing them

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00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: a favor. This is amazing. It's amazing. Yeah, it's it's

619
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: you can't even begin to unpack how bad that is.

620
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: The writing awful, what it says about him awful. Every

621
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: other sentence in this is so fascinating on sony levels,

622
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: and like I just want to give it to like, like,

623
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: is his wife read this? Like do people in his

624
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 1: life know like his his his wife didn't. She definitely didn't.

625
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: She's a doctor. She has things enough time. Yeah, exactly.

626
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: I think it's very clear that Ben's editor didn't have

627
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: time to read this stuff to do. We are the

628
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 1: first people to read this. So the mayor shows up

629
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,720
Speaker 1: at the Nordic Man statue to to address the crowd.

630
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Speaker 1: Real quick, you're saying it's his part of the chapter, right,

631
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Speaker 1: it's not his chapter because it's his chapter. It's his chapter.

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Speaker 1: It is, okay, so it's not a bouncy thing. Who

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Speaker 1: knows that the next paragraph this is a Ben Shapiro book. Yeah,

634
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Speaker 1: so we meet the mayor. Mayor comes up here. He

635
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Speaker 1: got his job after the last guy went to jail

636
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Speaker 1: for being corrupt. Um. Yeah, yeah, now he raped his pipe,

637
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: tasty white forehead with a handkerchief. He adjusted his glasses.

638
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: He looked down at his notes. I his voice broke.

639
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: I have just met with area leaders as well as

640
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 1: civil rights leaders across the country. Why is the mayor

641
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: meeting with him across the anyway? Uh? And I can

642
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: say to all of you that our investigation will be

643
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: full and fair, and that justice will be done. What justice,

644
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: leave On shouted at the top of his lungs. The

645
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,240
Speaker 1: shout rang out like a gun report and the cold

646
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: night air. Justice will be done, the mare continued. Officer

647
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: Ricky O'Sullivan has been suspended from duty pending a full investigation.

648
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: This deeply troubling incident has stirred the conscience of Americans

649
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: from border to border. But I promise you justice will

650
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: not rest until the tragedy of Kindrick Malone. What Justice?

651
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: What justice? Lev On was chanting now at the top

652
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: of his lungs. A few scattered voices joined in. Mayor

653
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: Burns momentarily flustered, clutched at the pages of his prepared remarks.

654
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:47,800
Speaker 1: The voices grew pounding, angry, steady, What justice, What justice?

655
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: What justice? Trying to be heard over the chant also

656
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 1: terrible chant, trying to be heard over the chant, The

657
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: mayor continued. Now Reverend Crawford began nodding softly, until the

658
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: tragedy of Kindrick Malone has answered. For with truth, we

659
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: must cover all the facts. Burns suddenly stumbled backwards as

660
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: a rock struck him in the scalp, almost in slow motion,

661
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: his arm. Yes, scalp was a weird choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

662
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: in a scalp, and almost in slow motion, his arms

663
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: stretched for air, circling in a nearly comic pinwheel. He

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00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: teetered on his heels for a few things, almost a

665
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: number of things. Yeah. So he falls, um and Ben

666
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: lets us know that he has a large butt, h

667
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: and he falls on it. Um. And then yeah, a

668
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: bunch of people. The whole crowd starts throwing ship Molotov

669
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: cocktails start being tossed. Uh, sail over the smash into

670
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: the statue and get on the cops. People get lit

671
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: on fire, the cops shoot tear gas everywhere. Um. Yeah,

672
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: now we have a big, old, big old riot. This

673
00:42:51,480 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: is not the first time he's described people being burned alive. Yeah, people,

674
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of burning alive. At the end of that,

675
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: that's the most violent thing because he hasn't ever seen violence. Like,

676
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: he's like, it's gotta go, it's gotta go wild. Yeah.

677
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, things start to go crazy, random gunshots

678
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: in the crowd, media members jabbering madly into their microphones,

679
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: ducking playing war correspondent, and then Reverend Jim Crawford standing

680
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: tall and proud and his immaculately tailored suits. So the

681
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: fucking al Sharpton guy gets up and yells at everybody

682
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: to stop, and the street, the whole street goes quiet,

683
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: and the riot stops. Uh. And that's apparently the moment

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Speaker 1: that lev On engineered was starting a riot that would

685
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Speaker 1: then be stopped instantly by this reverend because everybody at

686
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Speaker 1: the riot new to take this one man's queue to

687
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: stop rioting when they started rioting, because that's the way

688
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: riots were been, has been to riots. Guys. He understands

689
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: crowd psychology. He went to college. He did go to

690
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: a college. He did at hand. You know who else

691
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: went to college? Yeah, the products and services that support

692
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: this podcast. We are we are back. We have returned. Um,

693
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: oh good god, we have returned. Uh returnally they have

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Speaker 1: come back. We're in Tehran, Iran, America has fallen. The

695
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Speaker 1: transformation from Dar Alhab to darl Islam has begun. Mohammed

696
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 1: watched transfixed already, Sorry, go ahead. He brought him a

697
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: Shami's eyes glowed brightly, as they always did when he

698
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: was excited. What it's literally just describing him for a yellow,

699
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: snaky eyes. It was a your quality that attracted many

700
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: of his followers. They saw in that glow of fiery hope,

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00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 1: warm and consuming hope for a better world. The teacher,

702
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: they said, brought hope. That's good, Ben, he brought hope.

703
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Speaker 1: They brought a fiery hope. The teacher brought hope. Thank

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00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 1: you for telling us that three times a different yet

705
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: you were repeating yourself. No, no, no. They saw in

706
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: that glow of fiery hope, warm and consuming new sentence,

707
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: hope for a new world, new sentence. The teacher, they said,

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00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: brought hope. Oh oh that that last one. Really maybe

709
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: it's bad, you know, He's probably like, this is good,

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00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: this is good. You you inserted as many hopes as

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Speaker 1: possible you have to. Really, that's good writing. Really, people

712
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: love it when you when you repeat the same very

713
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: basic point repeat three times in the space of two sentences.

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00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: That second one wasn't like egregious, like okay, you're like

715
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: being repentitive and it's not great, but it's not like, well,

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00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,760
Speaker 1: you know, be a scholar of literature, and I think

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00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: you know he's a big fan. You all know that

718
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: that that famous Ernest Hemingway, uh short story for sale,

719
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,720
Speaker 1: baby shoes never worn because the baby's dead. The baby

720
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to wear the shoes. The baby

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00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: never wore the shoes that were bought for it. That

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00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: that one the perfect the perfect story. Uh. I don't know,

723
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: talking too much or whatever. Okay, so here's I assume.

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00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: I assume this is the teacher talking. Ben just jumps

725
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: right into the quotations and we're kind of left to

726
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: figure out that it's the teacher talking. But he didn't

727
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: say the teacher anyway, it's bad writing again. Today's attack

728
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: is ensured that the crippled and weakened infidel giant that

729
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: was the United States will never rise again. That's one sentence.

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00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: The imptinus and degradation of that perverse country has been

731
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: wiped away, and the glorious reign of Allah has begun.

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00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:05,280
Speaker 1: Another sentence, Those that rejected allaw followed vanities, and allaw

733
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: has destroyed them. Today America has seen that those who

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Speaker 1: reject Allah and hinder men from the path of a

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00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: law their deeds will allaw render astray. God damn it.

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Speaker 1: Bit that's a sentence. Today, Comma America has seen that

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00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: those who reject Allah and hinder men from the path

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Speaker 1: of a law dash their deeds, will Allah render a

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00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: straight That's a sentence. Been, sentence is not a sentence?

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Speaker 1: Unreal m Um, What do these fucking people have to

741
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: do with this? Hey, Ben, here's the thing that you

742
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: might do as a writer writing about, you know, in

743
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: Islamic extremist emir preaching. Listen to a single speech by

744
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: one of these guys of which there are thousands on

745
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: the Internet to understand how they actually talk, or just

746
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: or just take from one of them, take from just

747
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: literally altermate a little bit. So times that like writers

748
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: can do that, Ben, But no, he's got a pretty

749
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:11,959
Speaker 1: good handle on how Islamic extremists talk. Okay, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: this goes on for a little while. Uh oh my god.

751
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,959
Speaker 1: A drop of sweat rolled down a Shami's craggy face

752
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,760
Speaker 1: and embedded itself in his scraggly beard. Shami had lost

753
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: weight in his three years in the mountains of Tora Bora,

754
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: but he was finally putting it back on now that

755
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: he was ensconced in his complex in Tehran. The government

756
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: had granted it to him out of gratitude for his

757
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: prior efforts against the Great Satan, with a yearly stipend

758
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: that enabled him to live comfortably, which is funny because

759
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: of the whole Iran was fighting against Islamic anyway, whatever, whatever, whatever,

760
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: the actual history of Iran and Afghanistan does not matter

761
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: at all because Ben doesn't know it. Um. There are

762
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: so many things that have been offensive in these few

763
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: brief chapters, and this is just so offensive to be

764
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: writing about something that he knows nothing, not a single

765
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: solitary goddamn thing about it. Yeah, no, no funny jokes here,

766
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 1: just well yeah yeah, yeah, so uh yeah, the the

767
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: he does some he does some evil Muslim talking and well,

768
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: actually no, we're just we just continue to describe, uh,

769
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: his his fucking room and ship. And it's it's bad.

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Speaker 1: I just can't stand the the adjectives. I can't know.

771
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Speaker 1: They're horrible. They're horrible, like the watery sweat dripped down

772
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: his craggy face, and it was scraggly beard in his

773
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 1: pointed chin. Just like just whatever, it doesn't matter who cares, Yeah,

774
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: pointed at the camera Mohammed, his youngest recruit, an attractive

775
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,479
Speaker 1: boy of seventeen, struggling to grow with scraggly beard. Only

776
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: wave then knows how to describe a Muslim beard. Have

777
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: you seen any of these guys? They're not scraggly beards.

778
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 1: They have really fucking big beards. Bed it's kind of

779
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: the thing. It's, oh my god. Also like he really

780
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: wanted to grow scraggly beard, that's the goal. No, he's

781
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: a fucking little kid. He wants to grow a beard

782
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 1: any bear any and he's he's an Islamic extremist, which

783
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: means he wants one of those big, full beards that

784
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,839
Speaker 1: they put like fucking orange dye in, because that's what

785
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: they fucking do. There's a million pictures of these guys

786
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: scraggly Is it something he would the kid would think?

787
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: It's what then thinks of their beards? Yeah, because because

788
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: a full beard is something been considers manly and is

789
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: probably angry that he cannot grow himself and so Islamic

790
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: extremists have to have scraggly beards like the ones that

791
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 1: ben gross. That's my that's it. Well, like I mean

792
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: is that it's a lot of it comes down to

793
00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: that one tweet of his right are uh Israelis like

794
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: to build stuff, Arabs like to live in sewage and

795
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: bomb crap. He thinks they all live in dirt, so

796
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: they look like dirt and they have scraggly beards because

797
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 1: that means there they live in dirt beds. Right, these

798
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: bugget beards their premitive fire. Yeah, uh, it's it's amazing. Um. Okay,

799
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: So he's talks to Mohammed about how they're going to

800
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: the weapons we got from the infidels in Iraq will

801
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: be deployed, um, which I think is Saddam's weapons of

802
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,359
Speaker 1: mass destruction, which you, if you remember, will emplay. So

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00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: these are um, these are Sunni extremists who were in

804
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: Afghanistan presumably with al Qaeda, and are now in Shia Iran,

805
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: which did, to be fair happen a few times, but

806
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: it was never a particularly comfortable arrangement for anybody involved. Um.

807
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: And they have are getting access to through kind of

808
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: an unclear providence, the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam

809
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 1: Hussein had spirited out of Iraq and into it was

810
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: either Iran or Syria. None of it makes any sense

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Speaker 1: to anyone who like has even the vaguest level of

812
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:58,479
Speaker 1: understanding Middle Eastern politics. But this is what's happening. Um,

813
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: yeah Mohammed, Yeah, yeah. Also, if Iran is on board

814
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: with this sort of thing, they have chemical weapons, Like

815
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,360
Speaker 1: you don't have to have, Saddam, but whatever you have

816
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: to have, Saddam have had the weapons, because then it

817
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 1: justifies the war in a rapt Yeah, Mohammed bit his

818
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: lip a Shami sad, I see that you are worried.

819
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: He said, do not fear, does not the current does not.

820
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: The Koran say those who have said our Lord is

821
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: a law and then remained on our right course, the

822
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: angels will descend upon them, saying, do not fear and

823
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 1: do not grieve, but receive good tidings of paradise. Not

824
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: a super relevant quote, ben, just like picking something. Yeah, yeah,

825
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: it's like it's like literally a quote saying like, yeah,

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00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: if you're on the right course, God will will make

827
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: you feel good about it. Um, But not a particularly

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Speaker 1: I don't know It's not the kind of thing that

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Speaker 1: you would quote to somebody in a moment like this.

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00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: I don't think I did. It just demonstrates him not

831
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: caring enough to do real research. So he googled a

832
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: single passage from the Koran that he felt like was

833
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: vaguely appropriate and threw it in there. Um so yeah,

834
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Speaker 1: uh do do do? The sound of the afternoon wasn't

835
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: wefted into the room. He took a deep breath and

836
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: then pulled us disposable cell phone and dialed. A man's

837
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: voice answered at the other end. He spoke with a

838
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: thick Russian accent. Yes, he said, yes, in a thick

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Speaker 1: Russian accent. Tomorrow, as Sham said, then hung up abruptly.

840
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: That's their conversation. He turned to Mohammed. Go Mohammed, and

841
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,760
Speaker 1: Allah will go with you. As Mohammed left, a Shami

842
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 1: knelt on his prayer rug. When he got up, he

843
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: turned to the door and smiled. They're standing before him

844
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: was a large American man in a military uniform. He

845
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: wore a blindfold. Welcome, General Thorn. Yeah, we're well, no,

846
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: actually we're back to We're back to Mohammed because he's

847
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: sipping some classy cafe. Yeah, of course, I would like

848
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: to just point out just another tip to Ben. Um.

849
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: You didn't need to say he pulled out a disposable

850
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 1: cell phone. Um, And then the conversation you say he

851
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: pulled out a cell phone. You have the conversation happen.

852
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: And then you see him throw the cell phone away, yeah,

853
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: and crush it underfoot indicate to the reader maybe he

854
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: hands it yeah, yeah, he just Yeah, you could have it.

855
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: Even if you want this guy to be really cool,

856
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: you can just hold the phone out and an underly

857
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: nose to take it and destroy it immediately, because like

858
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 1: that's just the operation this guy has going. But yeah,

859
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: Ben's bad at writing. Um, so let's get to this

860
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: next part. Mohammed glanced nervously around cafe in the dairy

861
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,240
Speaker 1: as he sipped his Nana t It was a classy

862
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 1: joint and everyone wore a suit. It was a business

863
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: cafe located in the lower level of a hotel. It

864
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: wasn't the kind of place that would kick up any

865
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: sort of fuss in a western city, but in Teo

866
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: Ron it was a rarity. Ben doesn't know a goddamn

867
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: thing about this part of the I've been to Iran.

868
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 1: I've been to places that are much poorer than Iran

869
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, and they have a fun lit

870
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: of cafes like that. You know why, because it's a

871
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: huge fucking part of culture in the Middle East to

872
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,839
Speaker 1: sit at cafes and drink motherfucking tea. It's an enormous thing.

873
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 1: They do it all the time. They have tons of them,

874
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: They're all over the place. But no, this is one

875
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: of the only nice cafes in Tehran, a city that

876
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: prides itself on its fucking tea. Anyway, fucking no, No,

877
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: I don't think you understand, Robert. Um, they live in

878
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 1: dirt there, they live in dirt. Yeah, they live in dirt.

879
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: And philth clearly yours, Robert. Maybe maybe the people with

880
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 1: the scraggly beards go to wherever you're talking about. But

881
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: this is a real fancy place. Yeah, it's the last

882
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: non Islamic cafe in the city. It brags about that,

883
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 1: the last non Islamic cafe in Tehran. Um, that's the

884
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: last one, the last one. Yeah, yeah, So yeah, they're

885
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 1: doing He's having some sort of meeting there. Um, some

886
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: guy named Andre I'm guessing that's the Russian um. It

887
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 1: also had the benefit of maintaining a solidly anti regime reputation.

888
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: Not a great thing. I I don't so like. What

889
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: do you what do you think Iran has been? Like?

890
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: Is it is it so oppressive that like this is

891
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: the only non Islamic cafe or is it open enough

892
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: that you can have a solidly anti ri like a

893
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: reputedly anti regime cafe exists in the city and it

894
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: be fine? Um? Yeah, intellectuals and writers hung out in

895
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: packs and talked treason. What do you think, goddamn it

896
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: be consistent about your wrongness about a place I don't like. Goddamn, Okay,

897
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: this is intellectuals and writers hung out in packs and

898
00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:52,280
Speaker 1: talk treason. For that reason, regime informers populated the place.

899
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: It was the last location Western intelligence agencies would watch.

900
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: The last location that we're going to watch. Is this

901
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: cafe filled with pull talking trees and against that's the

902
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: last place to watch? What do you how? God, everything

903
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: is so wrong about his conception of the fucking world

904
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: of just like reality and like how like not even

905
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: because it's not even like having specific knowledge about the region,

906
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: although that's clearly a problem. If wrong, if you say

907
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: this thing regardless of where it is, and then you

908
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: say this other thing. They contradict each other, and you

909
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: think the CIA like you think. Okay, So let's let's imagine.

910
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: Let's imagine in Ben's world, the undercover CIA operatives who

911
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: exist in Tehran talking about where they should spend their resources,

912
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,720
Speaker 1: scoping out. Hey, there's this famous anti regime cafe, the

913
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 1: only non islamict cafe in the city. Lots of trees

914
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,919
Speaker 1: and its intellectuals go there. Probably not worth our time,

915
00:57:52,000 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: right track, Yeah, that sounds like being spies. Just unimportant.

916
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: Just don't use the word reason two words after you

917
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: use the word treason. Yeah yeah, also bad um, God

918
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: damn it. Ben. So yeah, they're they're they're meeting this

919
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: cafe because nobody's nobody's going to suspect that the cafe

920
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: trees and his people gather is where terrorists will gather. Um. Yeah.

921
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: Mohammed had complete faith in a Shami. A Shami was

922
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: the man who had taught him the emptiness of secularism,

923
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: the beauty of belief. He was a master strategist who

924
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: had launched several substantial attacks on targets ranging from embassies

925
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 1: to hotels to restaurants in America, Europe and Israel. He

926
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:40,439
Speaker 1: is with Allah and I am with him. Mohammed thought.

927
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: I also enjoy that it's like country, continent, country is

928
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: where this guy's attacks have been. We don't need to specify,

929
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: Like you don't say something like he was the master

930
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 1: strategist behind the Paris bombing of two thousand eleven, or

931
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: you know the nightclub attack in Spain that claimed thirty

932
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: one lives. We don't, because why would you like a writer? Yeah? Yeah,

933
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: so the kids kids waiting for this Russian. He's got

934
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: a satchel um Yeah, like what, it's got a shaving

935
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: kid that he bought just to avoid suspicion for some reason.

936
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: But he had also tossed it immediately. I don't know

937
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: why been is telling us all this. Um. Okay, so

938
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: he's got a bunch of money either. Yeah, this guy

939
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: is Russian guys late. They're having a trying to have

940
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: him meeting. But this Russian guys fucking late. Um oh god, Okay,

941
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: here we go. Had android been followed by the Americans,

942
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: had he been taking it out of play by the Israelis?

943
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: What if every minute he stayed here the Zionists were

944
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: drawing closer. He had heard the stories about the Jewish devils,

945
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 1: about how they had blown the heads off of nuclear

946
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,080
Speaker 1: scientists with their head rest bombs, about how their computer

947
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: specialists had stifled the Iranian nuclear program. If they knew

948
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: what he was planning, the sons of pigs and monkeys

949
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: would surely take him out of play, using out of

950
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 1: play again twice in a paragraph too. That's fun, um

951
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: so to culturally sure? Absolutely? Um? Yeah, so okay, I

952
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: guess this guy comes in eventually. Uh do do do? Stupid?

953
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 1: The Russian? The first thing, The Russian says, he's surprised

954
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: because the Russian short uh. And the Russian says, you

955
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: expected Dolf Lundgren perhaps, And of course Mohammad doesn't know

956
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 1: who that is. Um. Also not really sure that a

957
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: lot of Russians know who don't He's not like, he's

958
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: not like a famous guy in Russia. I don't think,

959
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: but maybe I'm wrong on that one. I don't know

960
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 1: much about Russian culture. He's Swedish. H he played a

961
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: Russian in a movie, so so a Russian would use

962
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: Dolf as his immediate go to cultural touchstone for a

963
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: tall person when talking to in his Iranian. You're like

964
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: talking about Iraqi and you're like, oh, yeah, like the

965
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: villain from True Eyes or something like that would actually

966
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: work because they've all seen every American action movie. Fucking imaginable.

967
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, um, bad example, bad example. He's Swedish. What

968
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Yeah, I unreal, Uh yeah, nonsense,

969
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 1: it's not often I get to eat well in this country.

970
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: Oh boy. Yeah, so the Russian says, yeah, you can't

971
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: can't eat well in Iran, a country that famously has

972
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: no cuisine. Um, god, he is such a low opinions Yeah, yeah, okay,

973
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: So they go outside and he hailed a cab, you know,

974
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of just bullshit stuff that Ben is trying

975
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:49,120
Speaker 1: to make it seem like an exciting spy thing but

976
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: is actually incredibly boring. Oh and then the chapter ends

977
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: with nothing, uh, nothing happening, nothing happening other than this

978
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:00,280
Speaker 1: guy giving him a suitcase. That's the whole thing. Gets

979
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: a suitcase from this Russian. That's the whole chapters. Yeah,

980
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: that's just the people. Yeah, no one burnt alive in

981
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:16,840
Speaker 1: this chapter. What the unreal? So we have I'm very excited, guys.

982
01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: We have just now entered having finished finished that chapter.

983
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: We have now entered part two collapse. Oh my goodness.

984
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wait a second, what wait a second? This

985
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:33,560
Speaker 1: is we're entering part two. We we have just part

986
01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: to Cody from like a storytelling perspective. Another word for that,

987
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: the term might be like act too. Yeah. So you're saying,

988
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: is act one ends with a briefcase being delivered? Yeah? Yeah,

989
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: and and that boy heading to the airport with the briefcase. Yeah,

990
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: that's a cliffhanger. And ran them insults about Iranian cuisine,

991
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: which is fantastic by the way, Um, anyone saying that

992
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: threshold into advantace deeply frustrating. Also, Part one is before

993
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 1: Part two is collapse. Great words to choose, Oh my god,

994
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 1: don't match at all. Two and a half episodes have

995
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: been us getting through before and now chapter one after

996
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: collapse is and you're all going to be excited for

997
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: this bread Hawthorne. Yeah yeah, we are we doing that today?

998
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 1: Or is that going to be next time? I feel

999
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 1: like we've got to if we've got the time, we've

1000
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: got to roll through a little bit of a little

1001
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: bit of a bread h Right. These are protagonists, um yeah,

1002
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: and because Ben is such a good writer. He's been,

1003
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: he's been like teasing. It's like, pretty soon we're gonna

1004
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 1: get a second chapter with I. He'll bite the empty

1005
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 1: magazine of his gun again tomorrow. The word hung in

1006
01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: the air for a moment, spoken in Arabic, not meant

1007
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,479
Speaker 1: for his ears. Brett was sure of that. Oh God,

1008
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 1: all three separate sentences. He couldn't see a thing dash

1009
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: The blindfold over his eyes prevented him from seeing the room.

1010
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: But the next words confirmed Brett's worst fears. He recognized

1011
01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: the voice God, that's a bad sentence. But the next

1012
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 1: words confirmed Breat's worst fears semicolon. He recognized the voice

1013
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: fucking horrible. So it's bad. You mentioned they're like bring

1014
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: the words, but it's the voice that's the thing that Yeah, God,

1015
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: damn it. How can you be this bad at writing? Yeah,

1016
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: you be this bad at writing. It's like literally bad.

1017
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:51,440
Speaker 1: Like it's not even like you read like sometimes you

1018
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 1: read like, well that's mediocre, that's something special. This is

1019
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: just bad. It's one thing. Like it's like it's one

1020
01:04:57,680 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: thing to write a book, and it'd be like, oh, well, yeah,

1021
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:01,360
Speaker 1: you know. The story structure was kind of a mess.

1022
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: The character development wasn't super fluid, Like you know, that's

1023
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:06,479
Speaker 1: just a thing. It's hard to write books. Anyone who's

1024
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: going who tries, he's going to try to write fiction,

1025
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:10,440
Speaker 1: You're gonna have books where it's like, okay, yeah, you

1026
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: know your character to revelment wasn't great, or like you know,

1027
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 1: the pacing wasn't you know, it was off here, off here.

1028
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: But like this is just the very basic technical facts

1029
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 1: of how he writes sentences are so bad. Yeah, it's

1030
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: like this bizarre like disjointed, like so like nothing matches up,

1031
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 1: subjects don't match up, and like unclear, like it's it's

1032
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 1: like vaguely clear, like what the intention is. But if

1033
01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 1: you take a second, like, well that doesn't make any sense.

1034
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:42,240
Speaker 1: If if if a junior, if I were teaching like

1035
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 1: a creative writing class for junior high school kids and

1036
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: someone turned this in, um I would I would have

1037
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: a conversation. I would have to sit down with them

1038
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 1: and talk about things. Right, I don't wanna say like

1039
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 1: it's not like a it's not like a shame thing,

1040
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: but it's like this is actually okay, we're gonna so

1041
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 1: like there's some some structural things that need to be altered.

1042
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 1: Here about if I were worried about like embarrassing the

1043
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:06,240
Speaker 1: students in front of the other students, I'd be like,

1044
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:09,120
Speaker 1: this is actually a good example of a sentence we

1045
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: should look at and like, what is wrong with this sentence?

1046
01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: And you know, why isn't this doing the job this

1047
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: sentence needs to do. Every sentence needs to do a job.

1048
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: Let's look at why this one isn't functioning. And you

1049
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 1: can kind of do that with every other sentence. You

1050
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 1: can do that with every single sentence in this book. Yeah, welcome,

1051
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: General Hawthorne, said Ibrahama Shami in a clipped accents clipccent.

1052
01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: But what is damn? Yeah, Bret's captors forced him to

1053
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 1: his knees. He felt them hits God damnit sentence one.

1054
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: Brett's captors forced him to his knees period sentence to

1055
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:58,600
Speaker 1: he felt them hits stone what his captors his? That

1056
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: is oh man? Then he felt a sweaty hand remove

1057
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: the blindfold. That was a sentence, And that was a sentence.

1058
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: That's a sentence, a great sentence, but a functional sentence. Yeah,

1059
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: before him stood the world's most well known terrorists since

1060
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden period smiling. That's the next sentence after that,

1061
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 1: it's just God. Then oh my God, put the puck down,

1062
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:31,080
Speaker 1: Like that's all I can think about when he does. Yeah,

1063
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: I think if Chuck Palinuck listened to this episode like

1064
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 1: he would, he would he would feel compelled to correct

1065
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 1: some things in the world. But yeah, I hope you

1066
01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:49,479
Speaker 1: weren't too mistreated on your journey here, a Shami said,

1067
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: turning his back to him. We wouldn't want a famous

1068
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: were hero victimized by how did you put it in

1069
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 1: your interviews? Barbarians? Brett kept his mouth ship. He knew

1070
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: how this would go, and he knew that the taunting

1071
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 1: presaged something far more frightening. Instead of listening to a

1072
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: Shami's monologue, Brett quietly scanned the room for tools, anything

1073
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: he could use. He almost didn't notice when a Shami

1074
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:15,959
Speaker 1: turned back around thrust his face just inches from his own. God,

1075
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 1: damn it, that's a bad sentence. He almost didn't notice

1076
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 1: when a Shami turned back around, Comma, thrust his face

1077
01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 1: just inches from his own. Chee Christ Yeah, okay. Brett

1078
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 1: could smell his breath the faint vestiges of Cello koresh

1079
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: still on it. General Hawthorne a Shami said, I know

1080
01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: you and that you are a resourceful man. I also

1081
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 1: know that your country is a paper tiger and that

1082
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 1: your president is a weakling. Weaklings watches the world burns

1083
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 1: around them, thinking they are safe because they have a

1084
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: mirror and they are lost in the reflection. But the

1085
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:57,720
Speaker 1: fuck is that ship. That's fucking nonsense. His fucking nonsense.

1086
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: Which one of you just snorted, Adora party, I think

1087
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:08,599
Speaker 1: I think this chapter might kill Cody. I don't know

1088
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: that he's going to make it out of this, I

1089
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: just said Katia text. I was like, I think this

1090
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:14,680
Speaker 1: is the happiest I've seen Cody and Robert in like

1091
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 1: a mom. This is really cleansing my soul. A bit

1092
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 1: hard to have a profound thought and articulated so much,

1093
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: so great. This is why your country will lose. Finally,

1094
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: Brett spoke, America doesn't lose. We just convinced ourselves not

1095
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:39,880
Speaker 1: to win. You will lose. We don't have to take

1096
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:43,120
Speaker 1: beheadings to frighten people into joining us. Quite a pair

1097
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 1: a lot of things being expressed there. Ben, Oh my god,

1098
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: A Shami, to Brett's surprise, laughed up roariously clapped his

1099
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 1: hands into light. That was one sentence. A Shami to

1100
01:09:57,240 --> 01:10:01,720
Speaker 1: Brett's surprise, A Shami kama. To Brett's surprise, Comma laughed uproariously.

1101
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 1: Comma clapped his hands in delight. Period. Fucking hell. Oh

1102
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: you Americans, you don't understand it all. You're delightfully out

1103
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 1: of touch. I mean delightfully until you stop start dropping

1104
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: incendiaries on our children. You spend your life's fat and

1105
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:18,320
Speaker 1: happy eating at McDonald's, imagining yourself superior because you have

1106
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:21,080
Speaker 1: clean shopping malls and manicured front lawns. Have you ever

1107
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:23,400
Speaker 1: been to a shopping mall in this part of the anyway?

1108
01:10:23,439 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: But while you sleep, But while you sleep, while you

1109
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 1: watch your reality television. Your children abandoned like you Americans

1110
01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 1: in your food and your your streets. You Americans have streets,

1111
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: and we don't like Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, your children

1112
01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 1: abandon you. No matter how many patriot missiles she sinned

1113
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: against us, YadA, YadA, YadA. You see, we offer something

1114
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: you do, not a reason to die. We need not

1115
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:54,400
Speaker 1: frighten anyone. You do the frightening, because you see, people

1116
01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: are not frightened to die or to be killed. Down

1117
01:10:56,479 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 1: deep down, deep they are afraid of dying without that

1118
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 1: death meaning any thing. They are afraid that they will die,

1119
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 1: and that a life of playing Xbox and watching your

1120
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:07,240
Speaker 1: American movies and eating your American food and worshiping themselves

1121
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: will end in the ground and their lives forgotten. And

1122
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:13,639
Speaker 1: of course they are right. Their lives are meaningless, Brett scoffed,

1123
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: and yours, I suppose, are meaningful. Slaughtering women and children.

1124
01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 1: A Shammi grabbed Brett by his face, squeezing his jaw

1125
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,679
Speaker 1: until it hurt. Brent Brett clenched his teeth and stared

1126
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:29,640
Speaker 1: into his eyes. Oh my god, Ben, Bret Brett clenched

1127
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: his teeth, referring to Brett's teeth and stared into his

1128
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:39,040
Speaker 1: eyes referring to a Shammie. God damn it, bit, God damn.

1129
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,720
Speaker 1: Like it's sort of like it washes over you and

1130
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:46,520
Speaker 1: you're like, surely it'll makes sense fine, but like, ah,

1131
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: we will do anything for a law. That is our

1132
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: strength and your weakness. Brett whispered, there, you're wrong. You

1133
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: don't know me, and you don't know my countrymen. We

1134
01:11:55,240 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 1: live for something. We live to kill bastards like you. That, yeah,

1135
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: that's what makes America great is murdering strangers in the desert. Yeah,

1136
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:07,720
Speaker 1: Ben gets it. I mean for some people. Yeah, I

1137
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: guess it is. He's nailing it, like it's just amazing you.

1138
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, this is the way it is, and

1139
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 1: it's actually good. Actually yeah, because the guy, the bad guy,

1140
01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: is saying like you live for nothing, like by killing you,

1141
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:24,759
Speaker 1: we live for something. And Brett says that's not true.

1142
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: We live for killing you, and that's like it so good.

1143
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 1: Oh God, It's like like he he can't. He will

1144
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: never be able to realize what he just did. In

1145
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 1: the hands of like a minimally competent author, you could

1146
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:38,800
Speaker 1: have this be trying to say something where it's like, oh,

1147
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 1: both of these men are the same kind of man

1148
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:46,600
Speaker 1: who feel and yet a mirror of paragraph earlier, like

1149
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: you're you're already evoking this idea, but he doesn't even

1150
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: know that he's doing it. Yeah, you have like things

1151
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:56,720
Speaker 1: are complicated. I want like a minimally competent writer, not

1152
01:12:56,760 --> 01:13:00,160
Speaker 1: even a good writer, like just a writer who had

1153
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:05,880
Speaker 1: like a second thought, yeah, a single additional just like

1154
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: and that thought would be like what if I wanted

1155
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 1: to try to make this mildly interesting, just like the

1156
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 1: bare minimum of an interesting scene. Oh God, I like it.

1157
01:13:17,479 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: So the Shami sends General Hawthorne away, turns to his

1158
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 1: goons and has him taken to a cell, and like

1159
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 1: through crack in the window, Brett sees a tower, um

1160
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 1: and it lets him know exactly where he is in

1161
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:33,679
Speaker 1: Tehran Um because of that dirty scene. Briefly, I recognized

1162
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:37,759
Speaker 1: the dirty tower from my dirty nap, the filthy, filthy tower,

1163
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:43,879
Speaker 1: the scumb tower. Come next to the dirty tower, mud street.

1164
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:50,000
Speaker 1: Goddamn it. Uh. They came for him in the middle

1165
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 1: of the night, the better to keep him off balance.

1166
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 1: He'd been trained for such techniques, but too long ago

1167
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 1: to matter, and he'd awoken groggy, head pounding, nauseated by

1168
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:00,720
Speaker 1: the casual beating. Hand it out to him by one

1169
01:14:00,760 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: of a Shami's Lackey's quite a sentence there, ben Um.

1170
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: No marks to the face. Of course they're wanted. They

1171
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 1: wanted their victims looking fresh and clean before they saw

1172
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 1: it off their heads. But the big bearded kid had

1173
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: worked his torso over pretty well and ground the bones

1174
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: of his arm against one another to boot yusef. He'd

1175
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 1: heard one of the others call Umn. He wouldn't forget

1176
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 1: that anytime soon. Every time Yusef had bawled up his

1177
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 1: fist and driven it into his mid section, Brett had again,

1178
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 1: every time Yousef bawled up his fist, Yusef's fist and

1179
01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:34,920
Speaker 1: driven it into his midsection, Brett's mid section, like God,

1180
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: so frustrating us. Also like I love, like we we

1181
01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: make sure they're they're they're nice and clean to remind

1182
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 1: us of what we hate. Yeah, Ben a man who's

1183
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 1: clearly watched again a single video of one of these executions,

1184
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:57,639
Speaker 1: like uh, they'd taken his uniform from him, forced him

1185
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:00,919
Speaker 1: into an orange jumps suit, the unifor him of their victims.

1186
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 1: When he'd gone to the bucket that served as a toilet,

1187
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: he'd noticed his urine had turned red, like Ali, he

1188
01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: thought to himself after the thriller. But Ali had survived that.

1189
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 1: Talking about fucking Mohammed Alie, I guess pissing blood. Okay,

1190
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:15,639
Speaker 1: I don't. It hasn't been established that Bret's a big

1191
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali fan. I think that's just coming out of nowhere.

1192
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:23,200
Speaker 1: But okay, this is the literary device that's happening. Yeah,

1193
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: because be's a literary Yeah, so uh, Brett's plans not

1194
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: to survive. He'd formed a plan after seeing the Azadi Tower,

1195
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 1: engaging the distance from it, realizing that uh, that map

1196
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 1: that he got earlier had I don't know, So he's

1197
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:41,480
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really follow Ben's plan here. Um,

1198
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 1: but it seems like, uh, he blinked a message to

1199
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: the boys and intelligence when he did his video, and

1200
01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: he's hoping that uh Jesus Christ. Um, he hoped that

1201
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: the boys and intelligence picked up on the message that

1202
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:57,800
Speaker 1: he'd be sending. So he's, oh, he's planning to as

1203
01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: he's being executed, blink out the core ordinance of where

1204
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:05,280
Speaker 1: the this terrorist's headquarters are in Tehran so that it

1205
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 1: can be bombed. Yeah, based off I see the tower

1206
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,639
Speaker 1: where I am, I know where I am in relationship,

1207
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: I memorized in my head what the geographical coordinance are

1208
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: and I can now blink them. Yes, Yes, I love

1209
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 1: I love stories. Yes. He just hoped that the boyson

1210
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: intelligence picked up on the message he'd be sending, and

1211
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 1: he prayed that the film editor or whatever cave dweller

1212
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: familiar with windows movie makers using for this particular production

1213
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 1: didn't chop up the film do badly. Fucking hell whatever

1214
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 1: whatever fucking dirty MSPaint fucking like Oh god, uh so, yeah,

1215
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: they joke, because the terrorists joke is that kick him away.

1216
01:16:53,320 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 1: You all out of your hole and downloaded whatever stev

1217
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 1: hell monster to edit this. Oh god. Um. So they

1218
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: tell Brett that he's going to be in a movie now,

1219
01:17:09,840 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 1: and Brett muttered, through gritted teeth, fuck you and your mother.

1220
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: Yusef smiled. Brett smiled back. Also your goat, he added,

1221
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 1: God damn it, ben Um. The door at the end

1222
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:25,160
Speaker 1: of the hallway swung open, waiting before a green flag

1223
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: sat a sham me, his face bared normally in these videos,

1224
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,680
Speaker 1: Brett new the terrorists like to swatch their faces and

1225
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:34,400
Speaker 1: black scarves to prevent identification. For the jihad video of

1226
01:17:34,400 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: a major American general, a shami wanted to take personal credit.

1227
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:40,639
Speaker 1: Yusef and his buddy deposited Brett next to a Shami

1228
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 1: on his knees. General said a Shami, looking down at Brett,

1229
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: I hope your accommodations were not too primitive. I must

1230
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: say you look somewhat the worse for wear. No, said Brett,

1231
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 1: glancing at Yusef. Nothing I couldn't handle ah. Ever, the

1232
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 1: tough American, Well, the good news is that you're suffering

1233
01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 1: will not last much longer years either, bit, said Brett.

1234
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:04,839
Speaker 1: But I will not suffer a Shami said placidly. Remember

1235
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: I serve a lot, and no matter what happens, he

1236
01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: will be with me. I only hope he's with all

1237
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 1: the different pieces of you after we nail your ass

1238
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:15,679
Speaker 1: with the hell Fire missile. Any plans I don't know about, general,

1239
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: Brett smiled back. Maybe maybe not. You'll find out soon enough.

1240
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:24,360
Speaker 1: They get down to the business of of of killing

1241
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:26,760
Speaker 1: Brett Hawth. Oh boy, testicles come up here. Let's see

1242
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 1: what happening. UM, let me be perfectly clear. You will cooperate.

1243
01:18:31,160 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: If you say anything we don't wish you to say,

1244
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: I will personally cut off your testicles. If you do

1245
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: anything we do not wish you to do, I will

1246
01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: cut off your testicles and then I will slash your

1247
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 1: throat after letting you bleed. Yeah. Yeah, because this guy's

1248
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,240
Speaker 1: begin to cutting testicles off of people. Um, he could

1249
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 1: have said it them like this is this is one

1250
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 1: of those situations where like he could have used the

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Speaker 1: non specific and then the second time I cut them

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Speaker 1: off like simple stuff. So they film it and I

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01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: guess they're not killing him. Um. Yeah, so that's nice. Um.

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01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:09,480
Speaker 1: They take him back to his cell. Uh. And so yeah,

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Speaker 1: he gets down on his knees. He does something he

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Speaker 1: hasn't done for years. He gets down on his knees

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Speaker 1: and praise Um Jesus, uh dear Lord. He whispered to

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Speaker 1: the darkness, thick with the stinch of feces and urine, oppressive,

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Speaker 1: with the smell of sweat. You know what he's saying. Yeah, yeah,

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01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:31,880
Speaker 1: that's just breat Hawthorne has been shipping so much in itself.

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Speaker 1: Can't stand it. I love, I can't, Okay, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: it's good smell smell, the smell of ship and pisses overwhelming, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But then what does he say at the second time,

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01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 1: that's even in there for a day by the way,

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01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, I can't. I just

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01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: can't breathe with all my days worth of piss and ship.

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01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: But like then the second thing he says is the

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Speaker 1: impressive sweat. What you're worried about the sweat? You mentioned

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01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: the piss and the ship, but like, the sweat is

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Speaker 1: the thing that so Brett Hawthorne starts to pray. I

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Speaker 1: know I haven't spoken with you for a while, but

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Speaker 1: I need you now. I may never forgive you for

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01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: what you did to my Ellen while you took our

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Speaker 1: baby from us. They say you have a logic all

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Speaker 1: your own, and I reckon that's the case, since I

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01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: sure as hell can't understand you were the things you do.

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01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: I know I've tried to do the right thing as

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01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:31,080
Speaker 1: I see it, and I haven't broken too many of

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01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,519
Speaker 1: the lessons I learned in Sunday School. And you know

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01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:35,839
Speaker 1: better than anybody that I've never been one for prayer.

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01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: I always thought that some people treat you like a

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01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,479
Speaker 1: gumball machine, like if they pray just the right way

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01:20:40,479 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: and say just the right things, that you'll give them

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01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: what they want. And then when when this whole world

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01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 1: is about something bigger than what any of us want,

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01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 1: it's about what you want. And I do hope that

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01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: I've done at least a few things the way you

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01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 1: want them. Really trying to get my head around this

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01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: here is like you're anoy do bad things. Also, it's

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01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,839
Speaker 1: dumb when people pray to you about their own personal

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01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 1: off because clearly what matters is what you the guy

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01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 1: that I've just said, I don't understand why you're so

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01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:10,640
Speaker 1: mean wants I don't know, but that's my issues with Christianity.

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01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:12,879
Speaker 1: I mean again, it's just like he's just like typing

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01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:16,280
Speaker 1: so he can, like I'll get to a profound thought. Surely. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say now, I'm not praying for myself.

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01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,760
Speaker 1: I'm praying for Ellen because after all this, she's going

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01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: to be alone. Lord, and I just wanted to be happy.

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Speaker 1: You took her children away from her. Maybe I took

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01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 1: myself away from her, but however it worked out. Now

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01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:31,639
Speaker 1: she'll be on her own. Please let her find someone else.

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01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:33,759
Speaker 1: Please let her be happy for once in her life.

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01:21:33,880 --> 01:21:36,639
Speaker 1: Please let my sweetheart go on with her life. Let

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01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: her understand what I've done and why I've done it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Lord in advance. Amen. Brett closed his eyes

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01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:46,640
Speaker 1: and dropped into an uneasy sleep. And that is the

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01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 1: end of the chapter. Thank God. Oh goddamn, so unpleasant, unbelievable, shocking,

1308
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: goat prayer, bread, painful, painful prose. I don't think I've

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01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 1: ever been it put in such physical pain as a

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01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:15,920
Speaker 1: result of the writing that somebody has that I have read. Yeah,

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01:22:16,320 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: and briefly for a second there, I kid you not.

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01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:23,599
Speaker 1: My brain went, Robert, why are you doing this to us?

1313
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 1: That's the only reasonable feeling when you read been Shapiro's

1314
01:22:31,439 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: work for even a moment. Oh it was fun though.

1315
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:39,400
Speaker 1: We had fun. We did. We had a good time.

1316
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:43,719
Speaker 1: And we've got so much more of this book left

1317
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: to look forward to. Yeah, we're barely amount of it.

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01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:54,559
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what collapses. Yeah, part three,

1319
01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 1: maybe there's a part four even, you know, if we're lucky. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to. I we're gonna have

1321
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:07,559
Speaker 1: to go through all this, this entire book. You're right

1322
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:11,599
Speaker 1: that we do have to. We're gonna have to go

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01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 1: through it, really, really go through this book. I'm going

1324
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:20,599
Speaker 1: to have to absorb more of it with my ears.

1325
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: And I feel, I feel, I feel fundamentally changed. Is

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01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: a human being? Um, you know, I was. I was

1327
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: feeling kind of broken down from all of the relentless

1328
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:37,879
Speaker 1: uh police violence. Uh. Getting maced in the face directly

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01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: last night wasn't super fun. Um it's been. It's been.

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01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:45,559
Speaker 1: It's been tough, and I feel rejuvenated in a way

1331
01:23:45,560 --> 01:23:48,840
Speaker 1: that I didn't know was possible. It looks like life

1332
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 1: has been breathed back into you. That glow, that yellow

1333
01:23:54,240 --> 01:23:58,560
Speaker 1: glow in your eye that you get only comes from

1334
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: trying to diagram a sentence and figure out what the

1335
01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: fuck Bin Shapiro mid when he was writing it. So, uh,

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01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: do you guys want to plug your plug goobles? Yeah?

1337
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 1: Check out our show together, Worst You Ever, and check

1338
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: out and check out Cody and Katie's podcast Even More News.

1339
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:22,760
Speaker 1: Yeah on most Fridays, right right, Katie Fridays. Yep, that's

1340
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:27,640
Speaker 1: right Fridays, and our YouTube show comes out sometimes sometimes

1341
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 1: it's called some More News. Um, we've got a Patreon Google.

1342
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: Our names were on the internet Twitter wise, Patreon more

1343
01:24:36,680 --> 01:24:41,680
Speaker 1: like Treon and that was really good. You can fight,

1344
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: you can. You guys can follow Katie and Cody on

1345
01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 1: the Twitter and Instagram at Dark Dr Mr Cody and

1346
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 1: at Katie Stoole. You can follow this podcast at Bastard's

1347
01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 1: Pod on Twitter and Instagram. You can follow Robert and

1348
01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:55,840
Speaker 1: I Right, okay, we have a t public store where

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01:24:55,880 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: we have new Uh what is it? What is the new?

1350
01:24:58,360 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 1: The new the new merk? We are, Robert, what did

1351
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:03,760
Speaker 1: we get it to say? Oh, it's a it's a.

1352
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:06,840
Speaker 1: It's a face mask that says f d A guaranteed

1353
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 1: to prevent all diseases. Um. So that is it is

1354
01:25:09,880 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: a legal guarantee that the FDA will back um. And

1355
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,520
Speaker 1: if they don't, they can attack me in my mountaintop

1356
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 1: compound with fire bombs from the sky and that's amazing.

1357
01:25:21,840 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 1: You can also gets or whatever they sell website to

1358
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:31,320
Speaker 1: get the shirt and you go to like the grocery

1359
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 1: store and someone like you can't come in here without

1360
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:35,040
Speaker 1: a mask, Like, we'll look at my fucking shirt. It's

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01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: FDA approved. Could I have this with? If it weren't

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01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: FDA approved? Note, they would raid the mountaintop compound of

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01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:45,000
Speaker 1: whoever produced this and burn seventies something children to death

1364
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:51,800
Speaker 1: and his basically getting very Alex Jones. Um. Anyways, that's

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01:25:51,840 --> 01:26:03,439
Speaker 1: the episode. That is the episode Your Hands E E