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Speaker 1: much more coming up from the Buck Sexton Show. This

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show begins. No, welcome to the book Sex and Show. Everybody, Man,

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Speaker 1: we have a lot of stuff talk about today. Who

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Speaker 1: have and it's because of specialization, innovation and the micro

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Speaker 1: corrections that are only possible when people are self self interested,

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Speaker 1: when they actually benefit from making changes to make little

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Speaker 1: things better. You know, never it's all the stuff you

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Speaker 1: hear about, you know, the devils and the details. You know,

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Speaker 1: be a details guy. It's the details that count. We

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Speaker 1: see a computer, We see I have a Mac laptop

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Speaker 1: sitting in front of me right now. It's it's incredible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's more computing power than the entire NATO

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Speaker 1: Alliance would have had in nineteen fifty. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: more than we had when we went to the moon.

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting right with it right in front of me.

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Speaker 1: But don't think of it just as Apple as this

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Speaker 1: genius company that's worth a close to a trillion dollars now,

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Speaker 1: And think of it in all the people that worked

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Speaker 1: on this screen, all the man hours that went into

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Speaker 1: this keyboard that works, It works, it functions. If you

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Speaker 1: want an appreciation for how capitalism has made your life

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Speaker 1: better and why, the redistribution of wealth and the removal

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Speaker 1: of micro corrections in processes, the removal of incentives for innovation,

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Speaker 1: because remember, innovation is also about risk. Innovation is to

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Speaker 1: do something that may fail. You're not going to do

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Speaker 1: things that will fail if you feel like there's nothing

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Speaker 1: in it for you. See, capitalism harnesses what is true

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Speaker 1: of human nature and creates a system that produces benefit

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Speaker 1: fits for everyone without trying to negate that basic trait

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Speaker 1: of human nature. It's brilliant, it's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Right,

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Speaker 1: democracy is brilliant. It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. But

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Speaker 1: the Democrats don't even really the ones that are talking

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Speaker 1: in this way, the ones that are taking this radical

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Speaker 1: left attitude about you didn't build that, Obama voice this too,

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Speaker 1: You didn't build that. Obama had never built anything. He

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Speaker 1: built the cult of Obama. Didn't understand how to run

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Speaker 1: a business, didn't understand how to produce or create a

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Speaker 1: product other than himself. He was the product. He was

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Speaker 1: a politician, and now he's, you know, gonna be worth

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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars if he's not already by being

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Speaker 1: the product. But the rest of us can't do that,

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Speaker 1: and by the way, the rest of us don't really

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Speaker 1: benefit very much from that. You're surrounded every day by

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Speaker 1: the miracles of capitalism, so much so that it's hard

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Speaker 1: for us, even me as I sit here and talk

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Speaker 1: to you in this microphone that cost a couple of

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks. That is world class. I mean crystal clear

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Speaker 1: right in my computer that I'm in the same computer

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Speaker 1: now for five or six years. Never broken down on me.

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Speaker 1: I use this thing every day. This is my life's

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Speaker 1: blood in terms of my work is in this computer.

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Speaker 1: It never breaks down on me. Knock on wood. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go into a refrigerator full of food

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Speaker 1: that is shipped to me in timely fashion, in timely fashioned.

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Speaker 1: It's not spoiled. It's going to taste the way I

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Speaker 1: wanted to taste. These are all the miracles of capitalism.

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Speaker 1: Life was not this way before. Life involved everything you eat.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's okay. Maybe a little bit of risk to

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Speaker 1: it though every product you buy, you know, buy or beware.

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Speaker 1: You gotta hope that maybe you get lucky this time around,

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Speaker 1: trusting the craftsmanship of the individual making it. Just think

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Speaker 1: of what you do. I don't know if you have

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Speaker 1: quite the same amount of panic as I do and

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Speaker 1: this happens, but think about how when your phone goes dead.

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Speaker 1: When your phone goes dead, you feel like you are

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Speaker 1: Tom Hanks in the movie cast Away all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: and your only friend is the volleyball name Wilson. You know,

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Speaker 1: you just are out there with nothing. And that's because

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Speaker 1: we're all so used to things around us working and

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Speaker 1: being efficient, being effective, and there is a there's a

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Speaker 1: real human benefit to this. I have to spend less

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Speaker 1: time worrying about these things because other people worry about

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Speaker 1: them for me, because they benefit from them working. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get into the fundamentals of why the system works

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Speaker 1: as well as it does, and democrats are spitting on it.

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Speaker 1: Not all of them, not all of them, but even

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Speaker 1: the Pelosi's of the world, who have benefited enormously from

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Speaker 1: the very system I'm talking about. Belows he's a very

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Speaker 1: wealthy woman, married a very rich guy, very wealthy woman.

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Speaker 1: They're allowing this rhetoric of the war in the Ukazia

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Speaker 1: is that the more individuals are incentivized with clearly defined

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Speaker 1: rules and laws around them, sure, but the more individuals

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Speaker 1: are incentivized to pursue specialization and excellence in everything they do,

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Speaker 1: the better off we all will be as a society. Excellence,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is possible and everything. Excellence is possible

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Speaker 1: in high tech products that will change the world, that's possible.

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Speaker 1: And how you make a cheeseburger every day for customers,

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Speaker 1: it's possible. On how you open a door, how you

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Speaker 1: drive the truck that you're in right now that delivers

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Speaker 1: necessary goods to people all across the country. Excellence is

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Speaker 1: possible for all of us in everything that we do,

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Speaker 1: and capitalism tries to bring that out and celebrate it

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Speaker 1: in all of us, which is why it is such

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Speaker 1: a magnificent system that has produced so much benefit around

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Speaker 1: the world. And we have seen the other side of

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Speaker 1: this coin. We know what happens. We have the history

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Speaker 1: to prove it. When you rely on in elite of

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Speaker 1: all knowing, whether the revolutionaries or technocrats or whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to call them, to make these determinations for us.

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Speaker 1: We only need one kind of soap, We only need

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Speaker 1: one kind of shoe. This is the best shoe, and

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Speaker 1: we'll make it the best way. But nobody else should

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Speaker 1: be making shoes. We'll do it for you, and we'll

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Speaker 1: give it to you for free. We know what happens.

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Speaker 1: The shoes stink, well, not necessarily literally, but the shoes

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Speaker 1: are not good and there's not enough of them to

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Speaker 1: go around anyway. It's basic human nature and we're talking

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Speaker 1: about the building blocks of our society here, and I

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Speaker 1: just wish Democrats would stop playing games with something that

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Speaker 1: has meant so much to human beings around the world

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Speaker 1: for the last hundred years. We'll be right back. He

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Speaker 1: should step down and start his road to read. Being

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Speaker 1: governor of a state is not an entitlement. What is

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Speaker 1: clear is it's time for Governor Ralph Northam to step aside.

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Speaker 1: I think that the governor should resign. I think he's

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Speaker 1: shown himself sort of damaged in terms of his ability

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Speaker 1: to govern. Governor Northam is a man without a party

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Speaker 1: after his disastrous press conference, he has no credibility and

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Speaker 1: no ability to lead. Once I had picture where the

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Speaker 1: black face and the clansman came out, there is no

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Speaker 1: way you can continue to be the governor of the

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Speaker 1: Commonwealth of Virginia. He cannot serve. It's time for him

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Speaker 1: to resign. He should resign. So disturbing, so racist hasn't

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Speaker 1: resigned yet. Northam still governor Virginia. John, what do you think, man?

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Speaker 1: You think he's going to resign? He has to, he has,

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Speaker 1: he asked you, right, I mean, how well, what's he

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Speaker 1: hanging on for? Then? Maybe it's to give a little

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Speaker 1: more time for the lieutenant governor gets some stuff in

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Speaker 1: order here. But he's got all these people coming out

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Speaker 1: saying he needs to resign. It's the whole thing. It's

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Speaker 1: just amazing, dude. Did we play the thing where he

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Speaker 1: said that he might actually where he made it, seeing

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Speaker 1: that he might be willing to moonwalk? Did we already

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Speaker 1: play that? This is amazing? Guys. So he's at this

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Speaker 1: he's at this press conference, which was a just an

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Speaker 1: epic fail of a press conference. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: else to say. I mean, it was just as bad

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Speaker 1: of a press conference as you'll see anywhere anytime involving

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Speaker 1: a politician. You know, he says that it's not him

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Speaker 1: in the photo when it clearly is him in the photo.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is he's lying? I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know he's oj looking for the real killers at this point,

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Speaker 1: this just makes no sense. Why is anyone going to

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Speaker 1: believe this guy? But as if that wasn't bad enough,

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Speaker 1: he raised the idea because he said that he had

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Speaker 1: used shoe polish to do blackface to play Michael Jackson

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Speaker 1: in a dance contest. I mean, it's just the details

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Speaker 1: here are wow. He raised the possibility. It's the governor

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Speaker 1: of Virginia, folks, an important state. This is the governor. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the guy's at the top of the of the executive

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Speaker 1: hierarchy for that state. And here's what he said, play

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Speaker 1: Cliff nine. Yes, that's right. Inappropriate, My wife says, inappropriate circumstances.

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Speaker 1: So you had a reporter there. If you could see

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Speaker 1: the video, it's a little clearer, but i'll just talk

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Speaker 1: you through it quickly. You had a reporter there who said,

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Speaker 1: can you still moonwalk? And Northam is like well, and

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Speaker 1: he kind of like makes it like maybe he's about

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Speaker 1: to do it. And then his wife, who's next to him,

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Speaker 1: she's obviously going through a rough ordeal here. She's like,

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Speaker 1: no, no no, no, inappropriate circumstances, as in, don't Joe moonwalk

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Speaker 1: right now? You moron, what are you thinking? That's what

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Speaker 1: That's what we've come to here with this guy in

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Speaker 1: all these democrats that I think of, who wrote it

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Speaker 1: for Northam? Over Gillespie because Northam was the you know,

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Speaker 1: the sound choice, the reasonable choice, the not racist choice.

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Speaker 1: How does that feel now? That didn't age very well,

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Speaker 1: as the kids say, or just as people say, that

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Speaker 1: did not age well at all. We got the lieutenant

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Speaker 1: governor who would be lieutenant governor who ran with Gillespie

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Speaker 1: joining us here in just a moment. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think you really need to hear from him about what

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Speaker 1: it was like to run against Northam and to run

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Speaker 1: against Fairfax, and how those guys played the game and

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Speaker 1: how dirty they fought. And he wouldn't even shake He

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Speaker 1: wouldn't even shake his hand. Well, come back, we'll talk more.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people have heard of the AARP, and

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Speaker 1: Why AMAC? Well? AMAC was founded by an Air Force

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Speaker 1: is better for you and better for America, my fellow Virginians.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today, I released a statement apologize for behavior in

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Speaker 1: my past that falls far short of the standard you

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Speaker 1: set from me when you elected me to be your governor.

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Speaker 1: I believe you deserve to hear directly from me. That

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Speaker 1: photo and the racist and offensive attitude that represents does

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Speaker 1: not reflect that person I am today, or the way

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Speaker 1: that I have conducted myself as a soldier, a doctor,

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Speaker 1: change the decisions I made, nor can I undo the

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Speaker 1: harm my behavior calls then and today. But I accept

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Speaker 1: responsibility for my past actions and I am ready to

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Speaker 1: do the hard work of regaining your trust. So there

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Speaker 1: you have Governor of Virginia, Democrat, despite CNN listing him

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Speaker 1: as a Republican when this verse broke interesting, you have

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Speaker 1: Governor Northam talking about this photo in the year book

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Speaker 1: that came up from nineteen eighty four from a medical

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Speaker 1: school in Virginia that he attended. Originally apologized, then he

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Speaker 1: said he wasn't sure that it was him in the photo.

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Speaker 1: Now he says he's not in the photo, but he

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Speaker 1: did blackface another time. It's just nonsense. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is crazy stuff that we're seeing from the Democrats in

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Speaker 1: a desperate scramble to maintain the governorship of a very

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Speaker 1: important state. Well, I want to bring on somebody who

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Speaker 1: can shed a particular light on what's going on in

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Speaker 1: Virginia and Virginia politics and knows some of these players personally.

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Speaker 1: We are joined down by Bishop E. W. Jackson. He

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Speaker 1: is with us now. He was the GOP nominee for

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Speaker 1: lieutenant governor in Virginia, and he can tell us a

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Speaker 1: bit about his own experiences and his thoughts on this

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Speaker 1: whole matter. Bishop Jackson, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. All right, So, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you, I mean, is this at

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Speaker 1: all a surprise to you that this has come out

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Speaker 1: about northumb I mean, I can go back pretty easily

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Speaker 1: and see that Northam was running some very incendiary ads

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Speaker 1: and very clearly going after his opponent, which was at

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Speaker 1: the top of your ticket for the Republican side of

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Speaker 1: things in Virginia, with the accusations of racism. Now it

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Speaker 1: turns out that Northam has a racist pas, what do

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Speaker 1: you make of this? Bishop, I may be the one

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Speaker 1: person in the Commonwealth of Virginia who is not surprised,

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Speaker 1: although anybody was following our race fostly saw that and

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Speaker 1: were shocked that the mainstream media absolutely dismissed it. And

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Speaker 1: we know that had it been a white conservative refusing

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Speaker 1: to shake the hand of a black liberal, it would

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Speaker 1: have been front page news the very next day. It

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Speaker 1: would have been a major scandal. But I'm not surprised

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Speaker 1: because look, I was on the campaign trail with the

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Speaker 1: man who saw him and had to interact with him

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Speaker 1: many times, and I was told, well, he's a nice guy,

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Speaker 1: he's a Southern gentleman. He is the only person that

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Speaker 1: I've ever run against who I found treated me with

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Speaker 1: and I've never said anything personal. I don't do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't attack people personally. We kept it strictly on policy.

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Speaker 1: But when he refused to shake my hand for the

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Speaker 1: first time ever running for any office, I thought, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm dealing with a bona fide racist and

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00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: this man does not want me to touch him. And

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00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: so this came out and I thought, yep, exactly what

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Speaker 1: I suspected. And now the tickets have co home to roost.

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Speaker 1: Here you are, you're talking about this instant that occurred

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Speaker 1: after debate. You're a well known politician the state of Virginia.

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Speaker 1: You're also a former Marine Corps veteran and a black

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Speaker 1: American who is trying to represent his state, in his

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Speaker 1: community and his fellow Americans. And this guy won't shake

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Speaker 1: your hand. You rightly point out that if you just

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Speaker 1: changed a little bit here in terms of political affiliation,

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Speaker 1: it's a big story. Did the Virginia never mind, the

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00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,359
Speaker 1: national press, pay much attention all the fact this guy

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00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't even shake your hand. They paid virtually no attention

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Speaker 1: to it whatsoever. I mean, I had a lot of

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Speaker 1: republic who and conservatives asked me what was that about?

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Speaker 1: Why would he not shake your hand? And I mean,

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Speaker 1: if not, is it for people who have seen the take?

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Speaker 1: They can get it on if they haven't seen. They

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00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,360
Speaker 1: can get it on YouTube. All they guys can do

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00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: is google Northam versus Jackson and handshake or something like that.

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Speaker 1: But I reached out and he did not even acknowledge

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Speaker 1: my presence, and so then I tapped him on his

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Speaker 1: arm because see me, And when I did, he absolutely

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Speaker 1: acted as if I was not there. Even at the

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Speaker 1: end of the debate. He never looked at me and

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Speaker 1: smiled or acknowledge me in any way. So yeah, it

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00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 1: was definitely a really despicable way of behaving. And I'd

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Speaker 1: never seen anybody do anything like that on the campaign trail.

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Speaker 1: And is it it fair to say that the way

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Speaker 1: that Northam ran against Gillespie, who was a well known

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Speaker 1: guy in Republican circles, And look, I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people that know ed, and they all say he's

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Speaker 1: also just really a really nice guy and a good guy.

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Speaker 1: And they worth those campaign trashed him as a racist.

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Speaker 1: Well I know ed too, I had attest to that

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Speaker 1: it is a nice guy. Northom portrayed him as a racist,

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Speaker 1: basically a child predator who was out hunting down kids

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Speaker 1: in a pickup truck with a Confederate flag on the

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Speaker 1: bat and has minority kids running and panic that this

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00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: man is out to get them. And this is how

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00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: he depicted Ed Gillestie as a racist child predator. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was so despicable that I when it, I just thought,

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Speaker 1: you know, that is beneath contempt. And he'll say, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: that wasn't really me. But he didn't dennounce it either.

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Speaker 1: He didn't say there's no place for that kind of

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Speaker 1: rhetoric or communications in politics. He was happy to endorse

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Speaker 1: it with his silence, if not with his approval. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to hear it. This guy to me,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and the thing is, to me, this

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Speaker 1: represents so the dirty little secret of the Democrat Party,

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00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: which is they use race to try to sneer Republicans,

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Speaker 1: to sneer Conservatives and manipulate black people. But behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: the very thing they're accusing others of is a very

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Speaker 1: thing that Stayed themselves are guilty of. We're speaking to

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Speaker 1: Bishop Earl Walker Jackson, who is a politician. He was

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Speaker 1: the lieutenant governor on the lieutenant governor ticket rather running

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Speaker 1: with Ed Gillespie against Northam and also against the current

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Speaker 1: Lieutenant governor of Virginia Justin Fairfax, who has also gotten

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Speaker 1: into some hot water in the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: So I want to ask you, Bishop. You know, here

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Speaker 1: we have an allegation of sexual assault from a while ago,

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Speaker 1: about fifteen years ago. I believe Washington Post says that

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Speaker 1: they were approached with this and they refused to run

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Speaker 1: it because they couldn't verify it. Now that's the same

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Speaker 1: Washington Post that ran with a lot of stories about

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Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh. I want to know what you think about

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Speaker 1: this allegation. How should we How should the people of

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Speaker 1: Virginia and across the country gauge this allegation against Lieutenant

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00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: Governor Justin Fairfax, also a Democrat African American at the

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00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: bottom of the ticket with Northam. What do you think

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Speaker 1: we should do about this, Lieutenant Governor? Well, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make this about me, even just

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00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: to point out the double standards when they were investigating me,

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00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: and they did extensively when I was running against out

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Speaker 1: Ralph Northam. They ran bad stories and speculated, well, we

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00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 1: can't verify all of this, but we think you all

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00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: ought to know because we think the man is a liar.

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00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: We think there's something wrong with him. So this mindset

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00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: that they had, I mean, I say, if they'd investigated

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Speaker 1: Ralph Northam at the depth to which they investigated me,

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00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: he would have never have been elected. I would have

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Speaker 1: been elected lieutenant governor. I believe that. But nevertheless, yet

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00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: the Democrats are great at hypocrisy. I don't know whether

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00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: these allegations are true or not true, but there is

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Speaker 1: a pattern within the Democrat Party for doing the very

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Speaker 1: things that they accuse other than doing in order to

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Speaker 1: further their own political agenda and and quest for power.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see what this all proves to be. I

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00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: don't want to come to a conclusion yet, but it

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Speaker 1: would not surprise me because if Democrats are expert at anything,

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Speaker 1: if Liberals are expert at anything, it is hypocrisy. Can

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Speaker 1: I ask you, can ask you, Bishop, what kind of

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Speaker 1: for the folks listening across the country, what kind of

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00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: media hostility, and what kind of oppo research from the

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Speaker 1: media and from groups that are hired specifically to do

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Speaker 1: opa resent What kind of stuff were you up against

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00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: running for lieutenant African American Republican would be lieutenant governor

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Speaker 1: in the state of Virginia, and look I say all

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Speaker 1: the time, I owe my country a great deal. I

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00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: love this country, and so I don't tap myself on

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Speaker 1: the back, like you know, I'm some great somebody. But

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Speaker 1: but I start as a foster child. I grew up

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Speaker 1: in the poverty. And what the Washington Post did, what

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00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: the what the mainstream media did. They never gave me

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Speaker 1: any credit for having gone from that to Harvard Law School,

784
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Speaker 1: having practice law, having nothing. They went and investigated my background.

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Speaker 1: They tried to prove that my so called foster care

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Speaker 1: was a middle class home, that it really did have

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Speaker 1: an indoor fass room, and it did not, and it

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00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: was not a middle class home. They tried to prove

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Speaker 1: that I hadn't gone to Harvard Divinity School. They tried

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Speaker 1: to prove that I'd never been a chaplain for the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox. They went about their business trying to disprove

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Speaker 1: my background, to show that I was not sort of

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Speaker 1: a Horatio Alger story, somebody who started for nothing and

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00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,240
Speaker 1: had made something of himself. They were trying to tear

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Speaker 1: me down every turn. That's what I faced. You know

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Speaker 1: what Ralph Norton faced. He faced puff pieces that about

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Speaker 1: how great he was, and oh the compassion, and he's

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Speaker 1: a great pediatrician. They didn't talk about his radical views

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Speaker 1: on a portion. They didn't say anything about this stuff

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Speaker 1: that I believe they probably knew, saying I just don't

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Speaker 1: believe if they could investigate me that way, they either

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00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: knew or they simply chose not to know what Ralph

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00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: Northam had really did and what he really was. Bishop Jackson,

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Speaker 1: before we let you go, should Ralph Northam resign? Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: he would resign. Look, we're not going to get any

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00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: bargains in justin Fairfax by any stretch of the imagination.

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00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,880
Speaker 1: He's got his own problems. He's another race vader as

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Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. I saw him do it in

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Speaker 1: an LG campaign against Joe Vogel, accused her of racism

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Speaker 1: because she questioned his experience. Well, that's you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's a fair question. Do you have the experience to

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Speaker 1: be the head of the state Senate and so forth?

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Speaker 1: But he oh, that was a racial play. So but

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Speaker 1: you know what, Ralph Northam doesn't deserve to beat to

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Speaker 1: sit in the seat that Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson.

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Speaker 1: There's so many other illustrious leaders to stay in. He

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Speaker 1: needs to go. All right, Bishop, we really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Oh, thank you

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Speaker 1: completely uncorroborated. And the fact that they would run a

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Speaker 1: story on an uncorroborated allegation from now fifteen years ago

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Speaker 1: tells you exactly what this smear is all about. The

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Speaker 1: story because it was not credible, because it was uncorroborated,

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Speaker 1: And so this person then went into hiding and laid

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Speaker 1: low and the weeds to have someone manipulate the press

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Speaker 1: and to come out a year ago, fail at getting

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Speaker 1: that into the media, then go away, and then when

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Speaker 1: they think they have an opportunity at maximum media attention

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Speaker 1: point to come back again with the same false, uncorroborated

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Speaker 1: allegation tells you everything you need to know about the

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Speaker 1: falsity of it, about you know, the person who's making

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Speaker 1: the allegation, and also about the environment that we're in.

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Speaker 1: What a week for Virginia politics. Pretty crazy stuff going

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Speaker 1: on here. Okay, you know you have Northam his governorship

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Speaker 1: on life support. I think he thinks, and he may

856
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: even manage to make it through. But you have to

857
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 1: add into that now that you have Lieutenant Governor Fairfax,

858
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: who would be the man to be elevated to the

859
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,839
Speaker 1: governorship if Northam did in fact have to resign, which

860
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: you've had I think Pelosi and Schumer and a lot

861
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: of big Democrats saying he resigns. He should resign because

862
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: they know that this is this is a liability for

863
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: the Democrats. It's too big of a liability that they

864
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: can't explain this one away. They don't have a means

865
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: of making it anything other than obvious that there's a

866
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: double standard in play here. So they're willing, i think,

867
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: to let Northam get sacrifice. But Northam and the Democrats

868
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: and the far left pro abortion progress, they're fighting to

869
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: the very last here. But now you have Fairfax, who

870
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: was accused of a sexual assault. Now he says it

871
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: was consensual. This this is a classic he said, she

872
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: said situation. From what we have so far, we don't

873
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: have that much information to go on here. What we

874
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: have is that this website, the same one that initially

875
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: posted the Northam photo, Big League Politics, ran an update

876
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: that quote Stanford fellow hints at possible justin Fairfax sex assault.

877
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: And this is the same this is the same site

878
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: that broke the Northam story, which is clearly true. I

879
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: mean Northam. Northam had racist, racist crap on his face

880
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: and his Facebook on his yearbook page, and now he

881
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: was just telling lies in a desperate attempt to hold

882
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: keep his job. Okay, Northam's a liar and it's pathetic.

883
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: But that that same website now has put out this

884
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 1: other story. Now, this is very interesting because I would

885
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: generally want to take the position of we should wait

886
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,919
Speaker 1: for there to be evidence. We shouldn't we shouldn't take

887
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 1: actually against people without proof, and they should have an

888
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: ability to respond to charges, both criminally and in the

889
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: so called court of public opinion. I don't like that phrase,

890
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: even because public opinion is not a court. But he

891
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: should be able to respond to this. And here's my problem.

892
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: The Washington Post knew about this allegation of a sexual assault.

893
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: It sounds like, you know, sexual assault is a broad

894
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: enough term. It could be a rape. I don't know,

895
00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: but certainly some form of sexual assault. Washingtonst knew about

896
00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 1: this a year ago, did not run it, didn't go

897
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: with the story presented to them. A woman named on

898
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: the record said this happened. They didn't want to run it.

899
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 1: They said it's uncorroborated. And I can't help but look

900
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: at this story and say, where was that streak of

901
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: caution and journalistic integrity from every major newspaper in the

902
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: on the East Coast and really across the country except

903
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: for the Wall Street Journal when it came to Brett Kavanaugh. Uncorroborated,

904
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: just bizarre, incredible in the sense of hard to believe,

905
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: allegation after allegation, with information contradicting or contravening the stories presented,

906
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 1: and the Washington Post had not an iota of the

907
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: skepticism shown during the Kavanaugh hearings, as they did obviously

908
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: when it came to Fairfax and a Democrat, as an

909
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: African American Democrat as lieutenant governor of Virginia. So this

910
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,280
Speaker 1: is the problem I have. We see this once again

911
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: with Northam. The standard that the left has created for conservatives,

912
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:17,800
Speaker 1: for Republicans is doesn't matter how old it is. Racist

913
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 1: stuff gets you fired. Racist stuff gets you kicked out

914
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:25,920
Speaker 1: of public life. Do I think that's a good standard. No,

915
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: But do we have any prayer of changing that standard

916
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: without the left having to live under it too, I

917
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 1: don't think so. So Northam's got to go now. You

918
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:42,360
Speaker 1: also have a standard set up during the Cavanaugh debacle,

919
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: when the Left was trying so desperately to destroy him.

920
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: The standard was women have a right to be believed.

921
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: The standard was an allegation is enough to destroy someone's career,

922
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,439
Speaker 1: to stop them from holding a job, and to ruin

923
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: their life. That was the standard the left was operating it.

924
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: Or now, because Avenati is a clown, and because the

925
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:14,280
Speaker 1: third accuser against Cavanaugh was clearly a liar, a vicious, evil,

926
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: deranged liar, it didn't work. But the standard the press

927
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: was operating under at the time was the allegation is enough.

928
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 1: Women have a right to be believed. So if we're

929
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:32,279
Speaker 1: going to take the same approach with Northam, which is

930
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: that we have to make the left live under its

931
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: own rules, as we do with Fairfax, why should the

932
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: media get a pass for bearing this story? Why was

933
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: this never reported? Woman accuses politician of They're not saying

934
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: it happened, They're saying there's a woman who's making the accusation.

935
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: How is that not a news story? This is how

936
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: the left cheats. This is how the media helps Democrats.

937
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: When we are seeing it in more than one major instance.

938
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: Do not forget it. And we shouldn't get to a

939
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: place where there are people yelling from the rafters that

940
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: because you have been successful, you are a bad person

941
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be punitive to you. That's to me,

942
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: the antithesis of the spirit of the country. I agree

943
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: with Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks, and I have

944
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: found this whole circumstance of Schultz getting just piled on

945
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 1: by Democrats very illuminating with regard to the direction and

946
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: trajectory of that party and how it feels about entrepreneurship

947
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: and success and innovation. But I want to bring on

948
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: somebody who actually does all those things, innovation, entrepreneurship, and success,

949
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: and who also served as country and Special Operations. That's right,

950
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: it is our friend, the foundered CEO of Black Rifle Coffee,

951
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: Evan Hayfer, is in the house. Evan, thanks for making

952
00:57:56,600 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: the time for us. Fuck, man, it's great to tie

953
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: do you haven't talked to you for too long? Yeah?

954
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: I know, man, I'm glad we get to catch up here.

955
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: Off the catch up in person. Soon, tell me what

956
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: your thoughts are man as somebody who's running a rapidly

957
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: growing successful company, great American brand obviously a partner here

958
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: on the show, which we tremendously appreciate, But when you

959
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: hear the demonization of success that's coming from very powerful

960
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 1: quarters and very mainstream voices with regard to running a

961
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: business and growing a business, what do you think about? Well,

962
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple different things that we have

963
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: to really just unpack, which is demonization of success. Literally

964
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: have to define where does the success come from? And

965
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 1: how has the person been successful? Right? And I think

966
00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: growing a business and when you have a business, for instance,

967
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: like Black Rifle Coffee or Coffee Company X one, you

968
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: have to work through a lot of complex problems in

969
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: order to get to what anybody would define as success

970
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: and not only succeeding. You can't just put place a

971
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: number on it and say, well, we've defined because we've

972
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 1: made millions of dollars? Well, are we an ethical company

973
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: that supports our community in a way? When I say this,

974
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 1: I promote American values. But that's part of being a

975
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: successful company is not only having a successful transaction with

976
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: my customers, but also I need a company that promotes

977
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: American values and constitutional beliefs, the fabric in DNA of

978
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:35,560
Speaker 1: this country. So I think when people demonize Schultz, and

979
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 1: I think for the wrong reasons, by the way, which

980
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 1: is probably one of the only things we would agree

981
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: on for success. This is this narrative where if you

982
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: have wealth in this country, you're evil. And I think

983
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: that's such a simplistic way to look at things. And

984
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: I think the progressive millennial looks very much at wealth

985
00:59:55,960 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: and success as evil and they just want to demonize it. Now, Ivan,

986
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: your special operations vet as people listen to the show,

987
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: and who know Black Rifle know from part of your story.

988
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: So you're you're a guy who's used to getting told

989
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: to do the near impossible and to do it with

990
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: limited stuff and with a smile. Right now, you're in

991
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: the private sector. Though, if, for example, that to expand

992
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 1: a little bit on the stuff that we're hearing, you

993
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: know what would happen to your business If if o'cazio

994
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: Quarte has got to show up to Black Rifle Coffee

995
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 1: and just said, you know what, Evan, I just think

996
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:32,000
Speaker 1: you should pay whatever you're paying your workers. Just pay

997
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: them double. Now, I know you treat your guys well,

998
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: but what would happen if you just got a mandate

999
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: from the government to just pay everybody double what you're

1000
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: paying them right now? What would that do to your business? Oh,

1001
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: we would have it would destroy the business. Because you know,

1002
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: and this is the progressive pipe dream from people that

1003
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: have little to zero experience building successful businesses and or

1004
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: working through capitalism in order to achieve financial successes. They

1005
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: think that because you have or you have made one dollar,

1006
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 1: that dollar goes right back into your bank account. They

1007
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 1: have no concept of reality when it comes to running

1008
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: a business in one providing payment for services rendered and

1009
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 1: compensation for a fair job. So if you have a

1010
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: barista or somebody that's serving coffee, there's a wage out

1011
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: there that you can pay in order to that's a

1012
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: fair wage based on market to get a qualified barista

1013
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 1: to come in and serve coffee. If you double that wage,

1014
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: just arbitrarily based on government, a government mandate that has

1015
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 1: zero knowledge or complexity to how businesses run, this is

1016
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 1: how you would literally collapse an entire economy within a category.

1017
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: So it would be the same thing if there to

1018
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: increase a tax burden on the small business without fairly

1019
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: looking at how to adjust or comprehend what's called the

1020
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: P and L. Right, there's just no way a government,

1021
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:07,919
Speaker 1: when I say this, a government elected official, zero business experience,

1022
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: has the ability to look at salary or compensation and

1023
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 1: make an arbitrary decision. They that would be a catastrophe.

1024
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: It would be a nightmare. What I call it dumpster fire.

1025
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: Evan Hayfer's CEO of Black Rifle Coffee. As you're listening,

1026
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: you better already be drinking black Rifle. If you're not, though,

1027
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: you know where to go to get it, folks. Um Evan,

1028
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,840
Speaker 1: you know did to your point? Also about about taxes,

1029
01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: I mean we hear a lot from from the Democrats

1030
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: these days. They say the taxes only only went to

1031
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 1: the rich. But what is a change in You know,

1032
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: you're dealing with operating expenses, with the reality of running

1033
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: a rapidly growing business, but a business that still has

1034
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 1: to deal with what is the cost of stuff? What

1035
01:02:46,040 --> 01:02:49,439
Speaker 1: are you paying stuff? You know, the numbers matter. What

1036
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: does a what does a drastic reduction in the corporate

1037
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:56,280
Speaker 1: tax rate mean? For for example, black Rifle? Well, I

1038
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 1: think people have this this you know, I don't want

1039
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: to say people, and I think I want to define progressive.

1040
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: Millennials have this idea that you're once again when we

1041
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: go back to this dollar where hey, if you if

1042
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: you pull a dollar in from a transaction, you just

1043
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: keep this dollar. And they think if you make thirty

1044
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: cents on that dollar, that just goes back into your

1045
01:03:18,640 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: bank account, and then wealthy people just pile it up

1046
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 1: in big pools of gold and they jump off their

1047
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: diving boards into it. That's just such a flawed interpretation

1048
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 1: of business and it's such a naive perspective. What happens

1049
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: is if the government takes less of our money, that

1050
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: money is reinvested into the company. So I get to

1051
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,360
Speaker 1: hire more people because my ability to scale and grow

1052
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 1: a business also is one of our missions and our

1053
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: mandates is to continue to emancipate and provide opportunity for veterans.

1054
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 1: So I want to scale my business. I want to

1055
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 1: create more gross revenue because that means more jobs for veterans.

1056
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 1: So what I do is I take that the ten

1057
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: percent difference if the government was to decrease my tax burden,

1058
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,959
Speaker 1: I rolled that back into my company in a way

1059
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: that makes the most value for the company and creates

1060
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: the greatest amount of impact for my mission, which is

1061
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: to employ and empower veterans. And you know this is

1062
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 1: just a simplification or a summation of what you just

1063
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 1: said would be. You know what to do with that

1064
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:26,960
Speaker 1: dollar better than the government does. Oh absolutely. You know,

1065
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: this year we've been really fortunate. We've we've given back

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Speaker 1: into veteran and veteran entrepreneur causes plus law enforcement causes

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Speaker 1: to the tune of about four hundred thousand dollars this year,

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Speaker 1: which is three times as much as I gave back

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Speaker 1: last year, which is also when when I say this,

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Speaker 1: we've every year we've been able to give back more

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Speaker 1: than I've ever taken out of the company. Like individually,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a huge when I say that. For

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Speaker 1: the company to be able to do that, that's one

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Speaker 1: of our charters. And I know what to do because

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Speaker 1: I'm an ethical steward of my customer's dollar. I know

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Speaker 1: what to do with that dollar. I also know great

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Speaker 1: nonprofits where people put their money to work. Evan Hey

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Speaker 1: for Everybody's CEO of Black Rifle Coffee obviously one of

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Speaker 1: our favorite sponsors here on the show, but also a

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Speaker 1: company that's doing great stuff and somebody who's on the

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Speaker 1: front lines of growing a great American brand. So we

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Speaker 1: talk about what is the reality of wages and taxes

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Speaker 1: and policies that either can be pro growth and capitalistic

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Speaker 1: or trending toward the AOC socialistic side. We've got somebody

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Speaker 1: who can actually talk to us about what that means

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Speaker 1: like day to day. Evan, Tell your guys, I'm coming

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Speaker 1: down to San Antonio sometimes to shoot some guns, to

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Speaker 1: drink some coffee. All right, man, you've got to get

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Speaker 1: down here. Buck. We miss you. Man, You're welcome anytime.

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Speaker 1: You know where the guns and the coffee are. They're

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Speaker 1: always a black rifle coffee. I'm into it, my friend.

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Speaker 1: I'll be talking to you soon. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us, Evan. Hey for a black rifle. So I

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Speaker 1: don't have to tell you that the Super Bowl is boring.

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Speaker 1: You probably watched it and realize, yes, the right team won,

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01:06:02,160 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 1: the Patriots with a better team, no question. But the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl has that experienced in terms of it brings

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Speaker 1: people together. I watch it with my family, Miss Molly.

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Speaker 1: We had a great time, eat a lot of delicious barbecue.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun. Okay. And this is

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Speaker 1: also where I know, if I start talking sports, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna say, Buck, you talking about football and trying to

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Speaker 1: analyze it in any serious way is like listening to

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Speaker 1: an Eskimo talk about how to you know, surf? You

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01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: know that it's just not really part of the part

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Speaker 1: of the equation that all said. The ads and the

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Speaker 1: politics of the ads. I found so many of the

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Speaker 1: ads to be smarmy, a little weirdly, condescending, trying way

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Speaker 1: too hard. I mean that Andy Warhol ad for I

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01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: guess it was was it burger king was just garbage,

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Speaker 1: just was not good. Wasn't a good ADU. There are

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Speaker 1: many ads that were not good ads, but the war

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01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:04,240
Speaker 1: dumpster fire of all in terms of the ads that

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Speaker 1: were running during the Super Bowl. In my opinion, which

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Speaker 1: I guess I always share with you on the show,

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Speaker 1: is is the Washington Post. Add that I remember the

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Speaker 1: Washington Post. It's got a sugar daddy with the owner

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Speaker 1: and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who funds the Washington Post. Now, so,

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Speaker 1: whether the Washington Post is even a successful venture or not,

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Speaker 1: it's it's hard to say because so much of what

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post does is going to be subsidized in

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Speaker 1: some way by its association with Jeff Bezos, And there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways to hide stuff on the books.

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Speaker 1: But journalists are obsessed with themselves, and people who say

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Speaker 1: to me, will buck your journalist. I do not claim

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Speaker 1: to be a journalist. I'm not a journalist, and I

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Speaker 1: view my role as as actually kicking out from under

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Speaker 1: them this phony, this phony foundation of journalists are the

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Speaker 1: firefighters of democracy. Journalists are these incredible, brave truth tellers. No,

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Speaker 1: journalists are very much like Hollywood actors. It's a big industry.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of money in it, but it's full

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Speaker 1: of incredibly vain, venal, self loving, self interested, thin skinned

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Speaker 1: bad people. There are a lot of bad people in

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Speaker 1: this industry. You know. This is why I'll say the

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Speaker 1: same thing about Hollywood. But that doesn't mean you know,

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Speaker 1: I think you know, Jimmy Woods, for example, is a

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Speaker 1: great actor and a hilarious political commentary guy. I think

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Speaker 1: there are you know, there are other actors. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just because I make fun of Hollywood doesn't mean I'm

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01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: not going to give all props in respect to Gary

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01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: Sinisee for all the very real work that he does

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Speaker 1: helping veterans and recognizing it. He's also a successful actor,

1143
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: but a guy who puts his money where his mouth is,

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01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you can criticize an industry,

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01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you're indicting everybody in it. Journalists or

1146
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:04,719
Speaker 1: terror journalists are very annoying, bad people for the most part.

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Speaker 1: They have a skill set that's not in any way unique,

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01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of just sucking up and trying

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01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 1: to make the right friend group and they just sort

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01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 1: of go from there. That's why this Washington Post ad

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Speaker 1: was just almost too much to stomach. I mean it was.

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Speaker 1: It was an appalling exercise in self licking ice cream

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01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:32,639
Speaker 1: cone five million dollars worth. How many unemployed BuzzFeed writers,

1154
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:37,599
Speaker 1: how many unemployed huff Post bloggers could you pick up

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01:09:38,320 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 1: for five million dollars for a sixty second ad. Here's

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Speaker 1: the let's just listen to this, this pompous, stupid ad

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Speaker 1: played twenty four. When we go off to war, when

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Speaker 1: we exercise our rights, when we or to our greatest heights,

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01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:10,679
Speaker 1: when we mourn and pray, when our neighbors are at risk,

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01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:18,640
Speaker 1: when our nation is threatening, there's someone to gather the

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Speaker 1: facts to bring you the story, no matter the cost,

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01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 1: because knowing empowers us, Knowing helps us decide, Knowing keeps

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Speaker 1: us great. We don't need journalist for any of that.

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Speaker 1: We don't. Information now travels with such frequency in such

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Speaker 1: a volume. The idea that we have to have these

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Speaker 1: gatekeepers to provide this kind of information, I mean, you're

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01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 1: sure you need some people to be but there'll always

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Speaker 1: be people that are sharing this information won't bear another.

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Speaker 1: We do not need a professional class of journalists so

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Speaker 1: that we are an informed democracy. We have plenty of

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01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:20,679
Speaker 1: ways of getting information from, whether it's citizen journalists or

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Speaker 1: you know, this idea that we have to have all

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Speaker 1: these people. There's a lot of great local journalism that's done.

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Speaker 1: We don't need the Washington Post to exist, folks. This

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Speaker 1: is really what it comes down to. We don't actually

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Speaker 1: need this class to be in place to try to

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Speaker 1: tell us what the truth is because they lie, because

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Speaker 1: they're biased, because they're self interested in this whole process

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Speaker 1: in a way they'reffused to accept, and just a few things,

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Speaker 1: you know, when they had the whole opportunity to tell

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Speaker 1: us about the threats that face us, and they could

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01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 1: have picked They could have picked nine to eleven to

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Speaker 1: show us something. You know from nine eleven, you know

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Speaker 1: what they picked. That's right, Oklahoma City the favorite terrorist

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Speaker 1: attack of the progressive left, because it's the terrorists stack

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01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: that they point to you to say, see, the threat

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01:12:07,080 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 1: from mean white nationalists is just as bad as a

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Speaker 1: threat from radical Islam. They play this game all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's pathetic, it's so weird. No normal person would ever

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Speaker 1: think that this is the case, but they will do it.

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Speaker 1: They did it in this ad, and there's just a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of stuff that you see from

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Speaker 1: their own little montage here where you say to yourself,

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Speaker 1: a hold on a minute, why do we need to

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Speaker 1: support media organizations? I would note that have been around

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Speaker 1: for a long time. What does that really mean? That's

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Speaker 1: just a perception issue, right. If we were to look

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Speaker 1: at the way the media has operated over time, you'd

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Speaker 1: say to yourself, shouldn't some of the really old newspapers

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Speaker 1: Since newspapers are going away and it's all online and

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Speaker 1: digital now, shouldn't they give way to other organizations? Isn't

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Speaker 1: it the natural order of things that the New York Times,

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Speaker 1: which was about to go under but was saved by

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Speaker 1: Carlos Slim. Oh, that's right, and they had a remarkable

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Speaker 1: turn toward open borders editorializing. All of a sudden, the

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Speaker 1: New York Times went from caring about the African American

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Speaker 1: and white working class and the downward pressure on wages

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Speaker 1: from mass illegal immigration to there's no problem with that

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Speaker 1: at all. We're a melting pot immigrants through the jobs

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Speaker 1: Americans won't do right around with Carlos Slim took a

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Speaker 1: huge stake in and effectively saved the New York Times.

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Speaker 1: Look at the Washington Post with Jeff Bezos. What does

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post turn into without Bezos's infusion of cash?

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Speaker 1: And also, why do we like to tell ourselves or

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Speaker 1: why do journalists like to constantly tell us that they

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Speaker 1: are independent when we know that they have their bread

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Speaker 1: getting buttered from certain people with certain kinds of ideologies.

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Speaker 1: It's just the whole thing was just pathetic. We don't

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Speaker 1: need journalists to tell us how great they are. Apparently

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Speaker 1: they need to tell themselves how great they are though

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Speaker 1: in a Super Bowl ad. By now most of us

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Speaker 1: have started racking our brains. What do we do about

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Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of stuff that has been

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Speaker 1: said about me that's absolutely not true. There's points that

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Speaker 1: I wanted to make really, just because it's all four points. Good.

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Speaker 1: I was bruised, but my ribs were not cracked. Good

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Speaker 1: and we're not ready. I went to the doctor immediately,

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Speaker 1: Frank Acid Drew movie. I was not hospitalized. Both my

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Speaker 1: doctors in LA and Chicago needs to perform because they

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Speaker 1: has taken care obviously, and above all, I fought back.

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Speaker 1: Jessie Smollett or Smollett is now becoming a household name

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01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:05,000
Speaker 1: because of this story that has been getting a lot

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01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:08,640
Speaker 1: of media attention that he as he is an actor,

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Speaker 1: he's in the show Empire, and is African American and

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Speaker 1: is gay, and he claims that he was attacked by

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Speaker 1: two redneck maga hat wearing racists. The claim was that there,

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Speaker 1: and the story has been shifting here and there, of course,

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Speaker 1: but the claim is that these two guys came up

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Speaker 1: to him and attacked him, sprayed some chemical on his face,

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Speaker 1: and then put a noose around his neck. I mean

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01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: didn't tighten it and try to actually strangle him, but

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Speaker 1: put a noose around his neck in a hate crime attack.

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Speaker 1: The President heard about this, he said, sounds horrible. It's

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Speaker 1: the most horrible thing. Everyone's saying. It's a horrible thing.

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Speaker 1: So let me preface this by saying, if somehow this

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Speaker 1: were true, then of course it is a terrible thing.

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Speaker 1: Assaulting anybody on the street. Assaulting any in the street

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Speaker 1: because you don't like the way they look, or you

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Speaker 1: don't like what their ethnicity is, or because you are

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Speaker 1: anti gay, any of these things disgusting, disgraceful conduct that

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Speaker 1: should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

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Speaker 1: Let's just put that out there. Okay, Now, let's look

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Speaker 1: at the details of this case. Because that was Jesse

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Speaker 1: Smollett gave a performance this weekend. He could tell people

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Speaker 1: are all, oh, he's some kind of a hero now,

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Speaker 1: and he said he fought back. Well, so far, there

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Speaker 1: have been a few problems with this whole narrative. For one,

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Speaker 1: he wore the noose, this rope around his neck and

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Speaker 1: wore it when he went home, and there was another

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Speaker 1: person present when he called the police when he went home. Now,

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Speaker 1: if somebody put a noose around your neck. I understand

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Speaker 1: wanting to keep it for evidentiary purposes, but you're just

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Speaker 1: gonna keep wearing it again. I'm not saying it just

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Speaker 1: qualifies the story, but it raises questions also that two

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Speaker 1: guys would in Chicago be carrying a noose on them

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Speaker 1: and then they happen to find this African American gay

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Speaker 1: actor on the street and then threw a noose around

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Speaker 1: his neck and gently bruised his face and threw some

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Speaker 1: weird chemical on him as yet undescribed or unknown, and

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Speaker 1: yelled this is Maga country. Strikes me as a very

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Speaker 1: implausible thing. Implausible does not mean impossible, It just means implausible. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's add to that police asked for access to his

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Speaker 1: phone and with his manager during the sixty second window.

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Speaker 1: It's only a sixty second window where he claims he

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Speaker 1: was attacked, and all this happened when he happens to

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Speaker 1: be away surprise from surveillance cameras. The two people identified

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Speaker 1: his subjects of interest in the surveillance cameras. Already, it

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Speaker 1: has since been shown that they are local. They are

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Speaker 1: local vagrant and not considered to be suspects in this attack.

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Speaker 1: So yet another thing to cross off the list, but

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Speaker 1: Smollett claimed that he was on the phone with his

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Speaker 1: manager at the time of the attack, and so police

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01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: wanted to know if they could look at his phone

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Speaker 1: and see if maybe this, you know, there's some corroborating

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Speaker 1: information information, And he said, no, you can't have access

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Speaker 1: to my phone. Now, I know people are rushing in

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Speaker 1: to say, what if he has uh, you know, naughty

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Speaker 1: pictures on there or you know, civil liberties and blah blah. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but you know he's not a suspect. He is a

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Speaker 1: victim and a complainant here right, He's the one who

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Speaker 1: was saying he was attacked. Usually when someone is the victim,

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Speaker 1: they don't say, oh no, you can't. You can't come

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Speaker 1: into my home and look for evidence get a warrant. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're saying somebody burglarize your home and the cops

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Speaker 1: want to take evidence, don't you let them in. I

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Speaker 1: think that that's the people say, oh, Buck, would you

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Speaker 1: tell people, because I got some heat, including from some

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Speaker 1: journos over the weekend, would you tell some people that

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Speaker 1: the Mueller probe should just have access to their phone.

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Speaker 1: First of all, the Muller probe party has whatever communications

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Speaker 1: they've done if they want it. And second of all, no,

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Speaker 1: because they're suspects, they're targets of the probe. When you're

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Speaker 1: the victim of something, you have to share the information

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Speaker 1: necessary to try to get the bad guys right. So

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Speaker 1: that's highly suspect to me. Now, let me tell you

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Speaker 1: what I think the possibilities are here. Based on the

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Speaker 1: evidence so far, I see the three possibilities. One is

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Speaker 1: that this bizarre but hateful attack really happened and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff. I give that a one in a hundred

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Speaker 1: shot right now. I'm not saying zero, one in a hundred.

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Speaker 1: It would be the shock of my you know, of

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Speaker 1: my decade if this were true. Maybe highly unlikely, though

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Speaker 1: another possibility, this is completely fabricated. He made this whole

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Speaker 1: thing up for attention, and it's effectively a very a

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Speaker 1: very easy way to raise his national profile. Tournament is

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Speaker 1: some kind of a hero. And even if he gets caught,

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Speaker 1: remember all you to do is say, well, I was

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Speaker 1: raising awareness about a real problem. And as sure as

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Speaker 1: you know, night follows day the media will come out

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Speaker 1: and say, well, maybe he lied, but he did it

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Speaker 1: for a good reason. So he's still a hero. Even

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Speaker 1: though he lied that the media has done this before

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Speaker 1: with hate crime hoaxes, just raising awareness. I want to

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Speaker 1: put out there a third possibility because this one, this one,

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Speaker 1: I see as being a little even, maybe a little

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01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: more likely. Maybe maybe he did have some little scuffle

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Speaker 1: on the street. Maybe he exchanged words with some people man,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they didn't like the way he or something else.

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Speaker 1: But maybe there was just some quick exchange and then

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Speaker 1: he decided to add all these other details on top

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Speaker 1: of it, knowing that as long as there was some

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Speaker 1: basis for this, he was on pretty solid ground reporting

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Speaker 1: it to the police. Maybe he did get you know,

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Speaker 1: someone did smack him in the face or something because

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01:22:18,200 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: he exchanged words with them. But it was an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to tell this whole story about MAGA oppression and the

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Speaker 1: bad Trump people and MAGA hats and all this, and

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01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 1: he just took it. So it's essentially taking a kernel

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Speaker 1: of truth and making this whole, this whole creative and

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01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:37,799
Speaker 1: very useful story up from that about Trump and the attack,

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Speaker 1: or rather the Trump supporters in the attack and all

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Speaker 1: the rest of it. That's how I see this. But

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Speaker 1: this whole thing is crumbling with every passing day. The

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01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 1: evidence is pointing more and more toward fabrication. We will

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Speaker 1: have to see, we will have to see what comes

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Speaker 1: out of it. But I'm not going to let this

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Speaker 1: one slide because I despise hate crime hoaxes, and the

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Speaker 1: media lets it go time and again because they're all

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Speaker 1: rooting for it and they all go along with it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna follow up on the story, and if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, I will eat humble Pie here on the

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Speaker 1: show too, if this really happened. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: How stupid can cultural appropriation get? It's not an easy

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Speaker 1: question to answer, all right, because cultural appropriation starts off

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Speaker 1: being stupid. It is an idiotic idea. It does not

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Speaker 1: make any sense. All culture relies on appropriation, and no

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Speaker 1: one really has a claim to any culture. It's just

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Speaker 1: like saying someone has a claim to a taste, or

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Speaker 1: a color scheme, or you know, you name it. It

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Speaker 1: simply is idiocy to claim that there is such a

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Speaker 1: thing as cultural appropriation. And yet, sure enough, we find

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Speaker 1: ourselves in a circumstance where there are people who not

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Speaker 1: not only think the cultural appropriation is real, but are

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Speaker 1: willing to be complete maniacs about it. Lots of stories

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Speaker 1: that we could point to on this one, but I

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Speaker 1: just want to start with or dive into this topic

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Speaker 1: with the following Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon is a town

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Speaker 1: that I remember spending a weekend in and I love

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Speaker 1: the food vibe there. They have these pods where you

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Speaker 1: drive to what's essentially a parking lot or an area

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Speaker 1: of town where there's just food truck after food truck,

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Speaker 1: and they really helped popularize at a national level the

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Speaker 1: whole food truck concept, where you have not just one

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Speaker 1: food truck maybe outside your place of work, but a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of them, and it creates a kind of

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Speaker 1: makeshift on the move food court. It's a cool idea

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Speaker 1: and when it's done well, it's really pretty fun. And

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Speaker 1: it's one of those little things about Portland culture that's

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Speaker 1: spread across the country. That's high five Portland. But our

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Speaker 1: friend Andy no who writes for Quillette and has also

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Speaker 1: done some other pieces in the Wall Street Journal, he's

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Speaker 1: the one who goes up and asks Antifa, Hey, why

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Speaker 1: are you Antifa? And when they answer, you have to

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Speaker 1: think to yourself, Oh, these people are maniacs. That's good

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Speaker 1: to know. And he writes about how insane things are

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Speaker 1: in his hometown when it comes to food. For example,

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Speaker 1: a woman named Sally Krantz opened up a beast stroke

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Speaker 1: called Saffron Colonial that featured historical recipes from the British Empire.

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Speaker 1: The social justice left said this was racist and was

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Speaker 1: glorifying colonialism, and they just piled on with all the

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Speaker 1: negative reviews and said don't go to this place and

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Speaker 1: threatened boycotts. Her suppliers ended up even boycotting her, and

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Speaker 1: she had to change the name of the restaurant to

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Speaker 1: the British Overseas Restaurant Corporation. So there are some others here.

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Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, you had Collie Wilgus and Liz Connolly

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Speaker 1: who were told that they were stealing Mexican culture because

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Speaker 1: they were selling burritos from a truck. That's right, folks,

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Speaker 1: if you are not Mexican, the social justice left thinks

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Speaker 1: you should not be able to sell burritos from a truck. Now,

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Speaker 1: if we're going to go down this path of stupidity,

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Speaker 1: I would want to know what the rules are for

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Speaker 1: the sandwich named for the Earl of Sandwich a British dude,

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Speaker 1: Does that mean that no one is allowed to sell sandwiches?

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Speaker 1: In fact, should we all walk into any subway sandwich

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Speaker 1: shop where there's not a British person or an Anglo

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Speaker 1: Saxon person selling them and say, you're appropriating our culture.

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Speaker 1: Why is it only a one way thing here where

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Speaker 1: it's only non white cultures get this special protection where

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Speaker 1: people who are themselves white aren't allowed to quote appropriate it.

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Speaker 1: You notice how it doesn't go in the other direction.

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Speaker 1: This is only a one way thing somehow, at least

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Speaker 1: that's the way the social justice left, because if they

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Speaker 1: say it's all about oppression and oppression rhetoric and all

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Speaker 1: this other stuff, this is how they view it. Then

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Speaker 1: there was again this is Andy No, he's doing great

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Speaker 1: work these days going after the social justice loons, and

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Speaker 1: this is all in this Wall Street journal piece. He writes.

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Speaker 1: An anonymous Google spreadsheet began circulating warning about restaurants that

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Speaker 1: serve ethnic cuisine. Quote. These white owned businesses hamper the

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Speaker 1: ability for people of color to run successful businesses of

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Speaker 1: their own by either consuming market share with their attempt

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Speaker 1: at authenticity, or by modifying foods to market to white palettes.

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Speaker 1: That's right. End quote. Okay, you've got people that are

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Speaker 1: spreading around that if a white person sells food that

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Speaker 1: is not American food, they're boxing other people out of

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Speaker 1: the food selling market. I mean, this is just the

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Speaker 1: level of stupidity, but also obvious hostility. Here is something

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Speaker 1: that we shouldn't just skip over. Now it gets worse

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Speaker 1: here you go. Last month, Lillian Green, an equity director

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Speaker 1: at the State Education Department, entered back to Eden, a

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Speaker 1: vegan bakery for a few minutes after closing time. She

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Speaker 1: recorded videos accusing the bakery of refusing to serve her

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Speaker 1: because she was black, using the hashtag living while Black.

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Speaker 1: Miss Green, a doctoral student, took to Facebook to demand

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Speaker 1: that Back to Eden fire the clerks. The bakery apologized

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Speaker 1: and issued a thirty four hundred word apology and offered

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Speaker 1: Miss Green a job training the remaining employees in racial

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Speaker 1: include civity. This is the real doozy from this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing is just appalling. These people lost their jobs,

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Speaker 1: they were closed. How many times have any of you

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Speaker 1: walked into an establishment right after closing time and yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe you're frustrated because you know they could probably sell

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01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: you that last donut or whatever. But how many times

1483
01:30:17,080 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 1: you walked in they say, sorry, we were closed, We're

1484
01:30:19,439 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 1: going home. It's happened to me over a dozen times,

1485
01:30:24,160 --> 01:30:27,080
Speaker 1: at least, probably a few dozen times with the course

1486
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 1: of my life, and I never thought it was anything

1487
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:31,800
Speaker 1: other than these guys are paid or gals are paid

1488
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:33,200
Speaker 1: by the hour. They want to go home, and I

1489
01:30:33,240 --> 01:30:35,120
Speaker 1: get it. You know, it's a little and I'm not

1490
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: gonna lie. I've been a little annoyed sometimes and I'm like,

1491
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:39,400
Speaker 1: you can't give me the thirty seconds and make an

1492
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:42,639
Speaker 1: extra few bucks. But it's happened to me. I don't

1493
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:46,160
Speaker 1: make some big deal of it. But Lillian Green, the

1494
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:50,320
Speaker 1: equity director who went right to Facebook, almost like she's

1495
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 1: learned these tactics and this was all planned, went right

1496
01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 1: to Facebook and got people fired from their jobs that

1497
01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:00,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure they needed to pay their bills. But this

1498
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 1: is the part of it that's really so interesting. They

1499
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: said that they didn't even think that the employees were racist.

1500
01:31:07,560 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 1: They just sacrifice them this you know, look it's a

1501
01:31:10,560 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 1: vegan bakeries. You can imagine like litty people who working

1502
01:31:13,280 --> 01:31:15,639
Speaker 1: in your patty like yeah, man, like di ver see

1503
01:31:15,640 --> 01:31:19,720
Speaker 1: the inclusive niece and like I don't want like you

1504
01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:21,439
Speaker 1: have a cookie and list I know, like did the

1505
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:24,559
Speaker 1: ingredients for the cookie? Like were they happy in life?

1506
01:31:24,640 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: Like were they like a happy cookie? They wrote the

1507
01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:32,280
Speaker 1: bakery wrote in this thirty four hundred World apology the following,

1508
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:35,880
Speaker 1: in this situation, it doesn't really matter that the two

1509
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:39,559
Speaker 1: staff members working are not themselves racist, because the call

1510
01:31:39,640 --> 01:31:42,639
Speaker 1: they made to deny Lillian's service caused her to feel

1511
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:45,479
Speaker 1: like she had been discriminated against. This is a co

1512
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:49,200
Speaker 1: owner of it. Okay, he wrote, Sometimes impact outweighs intent,

1513
01:31:49,640 --> 01:31:51,680
Speaker 1: and when that happens, people need to be held accountable.

1514
01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:54,439
Speaker 1: End quote. Okay, this is the Left showing you what

1515
01:31:54,479 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: they really think and how they really operate. This is

1516
01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,639
Speaker 1: the Left saying, you know what, even though we know

1517
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:03,640
Speaker 1: that they weren't being racist, and we don't think that

1518
01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:07,360
Speaker 1: our employees were being racist, because somebody felt that they

1519
01:32:07,400 --> 01:32:10,559
Speaker 1: were being racist, we have to punish the people who

1520
01:32:10,600 --> 01:32:13,120
Speaker 1: didn't do anything wrong and think they were doing anything

1521
01:32:13,160 --> 01:32:16,160
Speaker 1: wrong because of the hurt feelings of the person who

1522
01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 1: felt that there was racism. This is nuts, This is crazy,

1523
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:29,320
Speaker 1: And there's case after case of this, these excesses from

1524
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:34,640
Speaker 1: people who are very clearly trying to capitalize on the

1525
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:39,760
Speaker 1: victimology that is so pervasive on the left. You know,

1526
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:41,800
Speaker 1: we're all starting to have enough of this. I know

1527
01:32:41,840 --> 01:32:43,519
Speaker 1: I've had enough of this I don't really want to

1528
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,320
Speaker 1: keep having to read stories about people that are acting

1529
01:32:46,320 --> 01:32:49,680
Speaker 1: in bad faith, that have a huge chip on their

1530
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 1: shoulder about something, and that have that will meet out

1531
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: real consequences to people. Because of this, the social justice

1532
01:32:59,120 --> 01:33:00,920
Speaker 1: left is insane. We have to fight against them, and

1533
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:05,400
Speaker 1: we have to stamp their lunacy out of our culture.

1534
01:33:05,439 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: There is no such thing as cultural appropriation. It is

1535
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:15,519
Speaker 1: not a concept that exists. Culture is to be shared

1536
01:33:15,560 --> 01:33:19,320
Speaker 1: and mixed and spread and adopted by any human being

1537
01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:22,080
Speaker 1: who wants to. That's the reality, and we are so

1538
01:33:22,120 --> 01:33:25,120
Speaker 1: far away from that right now. And this is not

1539
01:33:25,160 --> 01:33:28,320
Speaker 1: a fight that we should give up. Because culture is

1540
01:33:28,360 --> 01:33:30,800
Speaker 1: one of those things that should be free flowing and

1541
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 1: people should be able to choose what they want and

1542
01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:35,120
Speaker 1: what they don't want. But it also is something that

1543
01:33:35,160 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 1: allows us all the freedom to choose, and it brings

1544
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:45,000
Speaker 1: us together when we do choose food, manners of dress,

1545
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:49,280
Speaker 1: stories from history, whatever it may be. Culture is a

1546
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 1: very important part of maintaining our society and the openness

1547
01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: of our society, and therefore the openness to various cultures

1548
01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:02,040
Speaker 1: is a central part of it. It is a hallmark

1549
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:05,519
Speaker 1: of America that we are a place with so many

1550
01:34:05,520 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: different cultures that are welcomed and yes, that are taken

1551
01:34:07,960 --> 01:34:12,200
Speaker 1: by people who want them. I'm starting to worry that

1552
01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:16,920
Speaker 1: some of the largest American cities are going to start

1553
01:34:16,920 --> 01:34:21,360
Speaker 1: to really feel the full brunt of the left wing

1554
01:34:21,439 --> 01:34:23,880
Speaker 1: stupidity that has been inflicted on them. You got you

1555
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:26,759
Speaker 1: gotta keep in mind, you know, it's hard to mess

1556
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 1: up some of the cities. You've had such a huge

1557
01:34:30,439 --> 01:34:33,439
Speaker 1: decrease in crime nationwide, right, and there are a few

1558
01:34:33,479 --> 01:34:36,639
Speaker 1: cities that are outliers here, but you've had this massive

1559
01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:40,040
Speaker 1: drop in crime rates in places like New York and

1560
01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:43,360
Speaker 1: and and across the country. You know, Chicago, Baltimore some outliers,

1561
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 1: to be sure, but overall, violence crimes way down from

1562
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 1: what it was thirty thirty or so years ago, or

1563
01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:54,439
Speaker 1: even yeah, twenty years ago. And I just am starting

1564
01:34:54,439 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 1: to see these stories that to me look like the

1565
01:34:56,520 --> 01:35:01,400
Speaker 1: Canaries and the coal mine of general been decay. I mean,

1566
01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:05,400
Speaker 1: it's tough to beat in terms of warning signs that

1567
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 1: a city is not being well run. It's it's tough

1568
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 1: to see something like this and not think, oh, gosh,

1569
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:15,400
Speaker 1: this is only going to get worse. A typhus epidemic

1570
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Okay, Typhus is an infectious disease that

1571
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:27,720
Speaker 1: is now making its way through particularly the homeless population.

1572
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 1: But it's a disease that gives you incredibly high fever,

1573
01:35:32,520 --> 01:35:37,439
Speaker 1: terrible pain, headaches, and it's really really rough if you

1574
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:41,320
Speaker 1: catch it. Now they are able to treat this, but

1575
01:35:41,479 --> 01:35:45,120
Speaker 1: it's one of these diseases that, similar to the bubonic

1576
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:48,000
Speaker 1: plague or the black death back in the day, it

1577
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:51,760
Speaker 1: travels on the fleas that live on rats. Well, you

1578
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:55,360
Speaker 1: might say, why would we have in Los Angeles a

1579
01:35:55,479 --> 01:36:00,480
Speaker 1: typhus outbreak, which is a disease that's really generally aotiated

1580
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:07,320
Speaker 1: with extreme deprivation and poverty and trash. And you know

1581
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:09,240
Speaker 1: how I feel about trash. You know everything you need

1582
01:36:09,280 --> 01:36:13,120
Speaker 1: to know about a society's wealth and its level of order,

1583
01:36:13,360 --> 01:36:16,320
Speaker 1: and obviously it's cleanliness based upon how it deals with

1584
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:19,760
Speaker 1: and what its trash situation is. Trash, sewage the very

1585
01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:23,519
Speaker 1: basics of civil society in a modern country these days.

1586
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:28,799
Speaker 1: But they're having this outbreak of typhus and Los Angeles,

1587
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:31,000
Speaker 1: it's from the fleas on the rats. The rats make

1588
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:34,120
Speaker 1: their way around the human population. Because of these ten

1589
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:36,760
Speaker 1: cities you have, you and by the way, you know,

1590
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:39,000
Speaker 1: you had one hundred and twenty four cases last year

1591
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:41,120
Speaker 1: in La County. But that's one hundred and twenty four

1592
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:43,760
Speaker 1: cases they found. You probably have a few times that

1593
01:36:43,880 --> 01:36:46,920
Speaker 1: in cases that they haven't found yet, or in cases

1594
01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:50,679
Speaker 1: that were misdiagnosed or people just you know, didn't necessarily

1595
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:54,680
Speaker 1: get it dealt with the way they should have. But

1596
01:36:54,760 --> 01:36:58,360
Speaker 1: the mayor is now putting millions of dollars together to

1597
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:00,960
Speaker 1: clean up the streets because the rats live on the

1598
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,720
Speaker 1: trash and the streets. People live in the streets and

1599
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:06,600
Speaker 1: large numbers in these tense cities in La. Now you know,

1600
01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:09,920
Speaker 1: the way that La deals with its homeless this crisis

1601
01:37:10,280 --> 01:37:14,400
Speaker 1: is obviously not sufficient, and the way that it's cleaning

1602
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:16,760
Speaker 1: up the trash on its streets is not sufficient. You know,

1603
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:20,400
Speaker 1: they call an area of downtown Law the Typhus Zone.

1604
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:23,000
Speaker 1: This is the second biggest city in the country. And

1605
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:24,160
Speaker 1: for those of you who are like, hey, you know,

1606
01:37:24,160 --> 01:37:27,240
Speaker 1: it doesn't really it doesn't affect me. You're you're starting

1607
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:31,600
Speaker 1: to see diseases popping back up that had been eradicated.

1608
01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 1: You're seeing diseases at the southern border coming in with

1609
01:37:35,080 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 1: people who have serious health needs have no vaccination history whatsoever,

1610
01:37:40,760 --> 01:37:44,599
Speaker 1: and you know, then you're seeing measles outbreaks occurring. People

1611
01:37:44,640 --> 01:37:47,559
Speaker 1: are moving away from vaccination, even of diseases that have

1612
01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:50,639
Speaker 1: a very very high cure rate because or prevention rate

1613
01:37:50,680 --> 01:37:54,920
Speaker 1: because of vaccination. You know, this is this is sketchy stuff.

1614
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:56,360
Speaker 1: And I can talk to you about what I think

1615
01:37:56,400 --> 01:37:58,320
Speaker 1: is going on in New York too, after having been

1616
01:37:58,360 --> 01:38:00,679
Speaker 1: there of the weekend, and just you know, it takes

1617
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:04,559
Speaker 1: a while to see how liberal policy is destructive and

1618
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:08,719
Speaker 1: how it is eventually always doomed to run the same

1619
01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:12,120
Speaker 1: cycle of failure. But I think that we're just beginning

1620
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:15,440
Speaker 1: to really see it happening in places like La San Francisco,

1621
01:38:15,479 --> 01:38:18,120
Speaker 1: where they have the poop patrol to pick up human

1622
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:21,000
Speaker 1: feces on the streets. You know, this is where we

1623
01:38:21,040 --> 01:38:24,080
Speaker 1: need somebody to come in who's really about law and

1624
01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:28,200
Speaker 1: order and cleanliness is a part of that. The show

1625
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 1: ain't over yet, folks. It's time for roll call, roll

1626
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 1: call recarn on the rung call. It's the most exciting

1627
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:46,720
Speaker 1: roll call sound you'll ever hear. I think it's a

1628
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:49,280
Speaker 1: decent possibility at least all right, maybe not, Maybe it's

1629
01:38:49,280 --> 01:38:52,360
Speaker 1: just the weirdest but I believe I have your attention,

1630
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:55,360
Speaker 1: and it was more clever than most of the Super

1631
01:38:55,360 --> 01:38:58,840
Speaker 1: Bowl commercials that we were forced to sit through over

1632
01:38:58,840 --> 01:39:03,600
Speaker 1: the weekend. My guys, where were they clever commercials? Only Microsoft?

1633
01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 1: For me, I didn't see all them, be fair. I

1634
01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:08,320
Speaker 1: was in my family and Miss Molly, so we weren't

1635
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:11,519
Speaker 1: watching every single one of them. But the Microsoft one

1636
01:39:11,560 --> 01:39:14,000
Speaker 1: really was very warm and heartfelt. I like that one.

1637
01:39:14,320 --> 01:39:17,080
Speaker 1: There are a couple others that were okay. Actually there

1638
01:39:17,160 --> 01:39:20,040
Speaker 1: was a food, a frozen food commercial. I forget what

1639
01:39:20,080 --> 01:39:21,479
Speaker 1: the name of the frozen food was, but it was

1640
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:25,479
Speaker 1: really it was really good, and I'm a big frozen

1641
01:39:25,479 --> 01:39:27,320
Speaker 1: food person. By the way, people say, oh, that means

1642
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:29,200
Speaker 1: you must not like No, it means that I know

1643
01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:33,799
Speaker 1: what good frozen food. To get all right into your thoughts.

1644
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:39,080
Speaker 1: Via the roll Call session, Joe writes, Viva la Dubstep,

1645
01:39:39,560 --> 01:39:43,040
Speaker 1: let's do this team, Oh Joe, I agree with you.

1646
01:39:43,080 --> 01:39:46,160
Speaker 1: Dubstep can be kind of fun. In fact, Maddie Duppler,

1647
01:39:46,200 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: who's a long time friend of mine from Media World,

1648
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: I have always had different names for her because we've

1649
01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:54,840
Speaker 1: just gotten along very well, and I'm a big fan

1650
01:39:55,840 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 1: and I used to call her Dupples and now I

1651
01:39:59,520 --> 01:40:02,599
Speaker 1: call her up step and she is okay with this

1652
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:05,320
Speaker 1: because she agrees that dubstep has its or dubstep rather

1653
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,559
Speaker 1: has its place. But yes, we will keep that role

1654
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:10,679
Speaker 1: call coming. We are working on new they call it imaging,

1655
01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:13,200
Speaker 1: which is always so weird because it's not visual, it's audio.

1656
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:16,160
Speaker 1: But we are working on some new imaging for the show.

1657
01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:19,960
Speaker 1: We are hoping that will be out relatively soon for

1658
01:40:20,000 --> 01:40:25,160
Speaker 1: your listening enjoyment. Brian Right's buck hope you had a

1659
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:28,160
Speaker 1: good week weekend. Was laughing at your and Crystal's end

1660
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:32,120
Speaker 1: of show chitchat on Disney's Frozen Ugh with two young kids,

1661
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:35,040
Speaker 1: I share crystal sentiment. Keep up the great work on

1662
01:40:35,080 --> 01:40:38,880
Speaker 1: that shows. It is as it is, forcing real conversations

1663
01:40:38,880 --> 01:40:42,479
Speaker 1: to open liberals eyes. As I am your age, Disney

1664
01:40:42,479 --> 01:40:45,439
Speaker 1: classics like Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and Aladdin

1665
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:48,200
Speaker 1: will always have a special place. If you're looking for

1666
01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:50,360
Speaker 1: a really good new Disney movie to check out with

1667
01:40:50,400 --> 01:40:54,000
Speaker 1: Miss Molly, watch Coco. It's a special movie with a

1668
01:40:54,160 --> 01:40:56,479
Speaker 1: great message and music. Now that I've had to watch

1669
01:40:56,479 --> 01:40:58,640
Speaker 1: it twenty five times and I'm still not sick of it,

1670
01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 1: you will love it okay, Coco sounds kind of cool.

1671
01:41:03,400 --> 01:41:05,920
Speaker 1: Miss Molly will probably like that, so I will have

1672
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:08,680
Speaker 1: to check it out. Although Crystal also did show me

1673
01:41:08,760 --> 01:41:13,599
Speaker 1: something called baby Shark tark tract stratractor shark, baby shark structure,

1674
01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:16,280
Speaker 1: which if you watch it, it's on YouTube. It has

1675
01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:20,040
Speaker 1: been watched, and I do not exaggerate over two billion times.

1676
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:23,120
Speaker 1: I assume that there are kids around the globe who

1677
01:41:23,200 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 1: sit around just watching Grahampa Sarratt tract. I assume that

1678
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:31,519
Speaker 1: that is happening based on the number of views. I

1679
01:41:31,600 --> 01:41:34,320
Speaker 1: cannot tell you strong enough unless you have no choice,

1680
01:41:34,320 --> 01:41:37,439
Speaker 1: because if your kids do not watch the baby Shark

1681
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:41,240
Speaker 1: movie or YouTube video, whatever it is, because you will

1682
01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:44,920
Speaker 1: have baby Shark stuck in your head, you will not

1683
01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:47,719
Speaker 1: be able to get rid of baby Shark from your head.

1684
01:41:47,960 --> 01:41:51,200
Speaker 1: It'll just be baby shark tract trak. I'm telling you,

1685
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:52,559
Speaker 1: I wake up in the middle of the night now

1686
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:56,920
Speaker 1: and I can't stop baby Shark tractor. It won't stop,

1687
01:41:57,640 --> 01:42:03,600
Speaker 1: the sounds won't stop. Steve Wright's crazy uncle remembers a

1688
01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:06,599
Speaker 1: grade school diddy. Whether it's cold or whether it's hot,

1689
01:42:06,640 --> 01:42:10,479
Speaker 1: We're gonna have whether whether or not today's Hillary Bernie

1690
01:42:10,479 --> 01:42:13,439
Speaker 1: aoc version is whether it's cold or whether it's hot.

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Speaker 1: It's global warming warmer or not. Steve, you definitely get

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Speaker 1: the rhyming prize for today's edition of Roll Calls, So

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for that. Michael buck Northam said

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Speaker 1: he didn't use much shoe polish on his face for

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Speaker 1: Michael Jackson because it is hard to get off. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the stench of racism is hard to get off Michael's.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine that this guy, I mean, as

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Speaker 1: we go to air, he still is the governor of Virginia, don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how democrats can think that anyone's going

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Speaker 1: to take them seriously on any of their stuff. But

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Speaker 1: maybe they just figure that embracing their hypocritical stances for

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Speaker 1: purely weaponized political gain, right to weaponize these standards that

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Speaker 1: society you're supposed to operate under for discourse, but to

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Speaker 1: do it in a clearly and overtly partisan fashion. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they're just embracing it. You know, they're going to lean in,

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Speaker 1: if you will, to being these little progressive authoritarians who

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Speaker 1: don't live by the rules they make the rest of

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Speaker 1: us live by. I think that's what's going on. Chris

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Speaker 1: rights big fan here, I will try to be quick

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01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:23,960
Speaker 1: like you. The New York abortion bill troubles me greatly.

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01:43:24,439 --> 01:43:26,800
Speaker 1: I have not heard anyone the right point out this fact.

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Speaker 1: Most of my life. I listen to Democrats say how

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Speaker 1: the Republicans are going to kill people with their policies,

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Speaker 1: but the fact is they're the only ones that have

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Speaker 1: killed anyone and all of the people. It is the

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Speaker 1: ones who can't take it up for themselves. Will you

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Speaker 1: please point this out on your podcast Shields High. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Chris, what you're getting at is something that

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Speaker 1: I have heard conservatives make as a pitch before, which

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Speaker 1: is to say that the Democrats often talk about how

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Speaker 1: they are doing everything that they can to help life afterbirth,

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Speaker 1: when I think it's fair to say that there's no

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Speaker 1: good faith effort on their part to understand why we're

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Speaker 1: trying to protect life up to the moment of birth,

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Speaker 1: and we do not advocate for any policies that end

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Speaker 1: innocent life after birth. So it is in fact the

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Speaker 1: Democrats who are looked, though the others have said, other

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01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:22,559
Speaker 1: other major conservative figures have already said that Democrats are

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Speaker 1: the party of death, and I think that that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a tough one for them to argue around. Scott writes, Hey, Buck,

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Speaker 1: here's a challenge for Okazio Cortez. Why don't you put

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Speaker 1: it to the billionaire donors you supposedly hate and double

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01:44:36,400 --> 01:44:39,799
Speaker 1: down on your Green New Deal and legislate for banning

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Speaker 1: private jetliners. Let's see how that goes over before you

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01:44:42,760 --> 01:44:46,719
Speaker 1: propose banning my automobile in ten years, Shields forever high

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Speaker 1: here up in New Hampshire. Scott. Yes, Scott, the Green

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01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:53,600
Speaker 1: New Deal is going to collapse under its own obvious

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01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:58,040
Speaker 1: and imminent hypocrisy. So we don't we know that's the case.

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01:44:58,080 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 1: We don't have to worry about the Green New Deal.

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01:44:59,680 --> 01:45:02,519
Speaker 1: We're from the perspective of what they promise it will

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01:45:02,560 --> 01:45:04,680
Speaker 1: be and all that. But the issue that we have

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01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:08,000
Speaker 1: to tackle is they'll always come up with the same

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01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: old justification for why it's not working, which is that

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01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:16,360
Speaker 1: it's not implemented properly. What's the problem with communism, it's

1745
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:19,880
Speaker 1: not implemented properly. What's the problem with the Green New Deal?

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01:45:20,080 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 1: It will not be implemented properly. These people do not

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01:45:26,080 --> 01:45:29,519
Speaker 1: learn that is one of the defining characteristics of the

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Speaker 1: contemporary progressive in America. They don't look back to history

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01:45:33,320 --> 01:45:36,400
Speaker 1: and say here's what worked, here's what didn't, here's what

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01:45:36,479 --> 01:45:39,920
Speaker 1: we know, here's what we wish were So they just say,

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Speaker 1: give us power, let us make all the decisions, and

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01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:44,680
Speaker 1: we will make your pain go away. We will make

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Speaker 1: everything better. There's a lot of history of government action

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Speaker 1: that shows that that's a false promise. But unfortunately, there's

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01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:56,760
Speaker 1: also a very deep seated part of the mind of

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01:45:56,800 --> 01:46:00,080
Speaker 1: any human's mind that wants to believe somebody who says

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Speaker 1: I will take away all of your pain, I will

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01:46:02,800 --> 01:46:06,960
Speaker 1: make everything better. Just surrender your autonomy, surrender your own

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01:46:07,320 --> 01:46:11,240
Speaker 1: decision making and your property and other things to me

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Speaker 1: or to us, to the collective, to the collective good.

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Speaker 1: That is the promise, the soma of progressivism, Karen writes.

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01:46:23,360 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi says a border wall is immoral. I thought

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Speaker 1: the Dems didn't believe in legislating morality. Boom, Karen, that's right.

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Speaker 1: You're not backing down here, letting it be known you

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01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:38,639
Speaker 1: will hold the Democrats to their words. Justina hey Buck

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Speaker 1: a few days behind. I want to tell you my

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Speaker 1: hometown of Illinois. Mole in Illinois was negative thirty three

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Speaker 1: on Thursday Morning without Windshill love your show, Shields High,

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Speaker 1: well justin I'm assuming you have not turned into a

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Speaker 1: human popsicle, So I'm glad that you managed to brave

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Speaker 1: those exceptionally cold temperatures. It certainly sounded like a rough

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Speaker 1: time in some parts of the Midwest for folks. I

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01:47:02,760 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: know that much, and I'm just glad that it's pasted.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a beautiful day here in DC. It's

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Speaker 1: practically t shirt weather, so I'm hoping that we're we're

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Speaker 1: only in early February. I'm hoping we're through the worst

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Speaker 1: of it. Jonathan, right buck, I'm an iHeart listener, usually

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Speaker 1: listening to yesterday's episode while you're alive with today's. I

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01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:26,240
Speaker 1: have no problem listening to your past shows. Figure to

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Speaker 1: let you guys know you can share this knowledge with

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Speaker 1: the masses Oss Squad, Jonathan, Thank you, Jonathan Shields Hot ps.

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Speaker 1: I remember you griping on Kate Hudson a while back. Oh.

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01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:39,799
Speaker 1: While I do agree with you on most of these points,

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01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:43,760
Speaker 1: I submit to you the movie Fools Fool's Gold. It's

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01:47:43,800 --> 01:47:47,320
Speaker 1: a rom com of sorts, pairing her up with Matthew McConaughey,

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01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:50,320
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart, and Donald Sutherland round out the cast. It's

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01:47:50,320 --> 01:47:53,840
Speaker 1: worth a watch if you haven't already watched it. Don't

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01:47:53,880 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 1: take it seriously and you'll be entertained. Jonathan, I don't know, man.

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Speaker 1: I am not a Kate Hudson fan. I really I

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01:48:03,680 --> 01:48:06,719
Speaker 1: feel very strongly that it's always everything I've ever seen

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01:48:06,800 --> 01:48:09,840
Speaker 1: her in is pretty much a waste of time. But

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Speaker 1: I like to pretend at least that I have an

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01:48:12,000 --> 01:48:15,000
Speaker 1: open mind about things. So let's just say that I

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01:48:15,040 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 1: will give it some thought. Scott, kicking up some noise here,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to give you some perspective of a DoD worker.

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Speaker 1: I've heard you say that federal workers are ninety percent liberal.

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01:48:26,120 --> 01:48:28,759
Speaker 1: That may mostly be true. However, I've been a DoD

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01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,360
Speaker 1: federal worker for twelve years. I want you to know

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Speaker 1: the percentage i'd flipped a ninety percent conservative. Could you

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Speaker 1: imagine liberals making weapons of war for a war fighters

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Speaker 1: ha shields high Scott, Scott, You're correct when I say

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Speaker 1: federal workers, I always, at least in my head, and

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01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:47,320
Speaker 1: I probably should be more specific about this. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about federal bureaucracy outside of defense. I'm talking about people

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Speaker 1: outside of the military. The military I always categorize in

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01:48:56,200 --> 01:49:00,759
Speaker 1: a different part of my brain. So that's yes, you're

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01:49:00,840 --> 01:49:04,880
Speaker 1: right that DD has a much more conservative skew than

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01:49:05,080 --> 01:49:07,360
Speaker 1: say what you'll get in the general federal government. But

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01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:10,919
Speaker 1: I can tell you that by and large, the federal government,

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Speaker 1: the civilians that run all these different agencies, they are superlibs,

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Speaker 1: libs and libs and more libs. Let's see who we

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Speaker 1: have up next. There so many great things, Richard. It's

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Speaker 1: Buck Happy Happy, hello from a Yankee man in a

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Speaker 1: southern land. Check this out. If you look at the

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Speaker 1: other designs from the others in the yearbook, the Northam yearbook,

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Speaker 1: it's clear each person submitted the pictures they wanted in

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Speaker 1: the yearbook. So he thought this was a good idea.

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Speaker 1: He is so prideful. It doesn't look like he will

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Speaker 1: step down. How is it that this election, this didn't

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Speaker 1: come out during the election? Shields High You know, Richard,

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Speaker 1: you know, you raise a very good point here, which

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Speaker 1: is clearly the OPPO research into Northam was not nearly

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Speaker 1: as thorough as the OPPO research into his opponent, and

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Speaker 1: there was there were racial attacks on his opponent. I

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Speaker 1: believe it was Ed Gillespie in the general election. And

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Speaker 1: also there were some never trumpers who are showing us

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Speaker 1: more and more, not all of them, but some of

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Speaker 1: them are showing us their true colors here by openly

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Speaker 1: advocating for Democrats and Democrat causes. They just want to

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Speaker 1: burn the Republican Party down and start over again, I guess,

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Speaker 1: but there was there's always this disparity between the resources

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Speaker 1: that you'll get when it comes to opposition against the

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Speaker 1: while there is a conservative media, there's not nearly the

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Speaker 1: same depth and breadth of conservative media. We just don't

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Speaker 1: we don't have as much money, and all that stuff

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Speaker 1: matters when it comes to OPO. So Democrats have a

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Speaker 1: back from NYCL. Though it was lovely over the weekend,

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