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Speaker 1: Hmm, what's distracting us from the election. Yeah, there we go.

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Speaker 1: Welcome America to Behind the Bastards, the podcast about terrible people. Normally,

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Speaker 1: this week is not going to be anybody's favorite week ever.

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Speaker 1: Probably that might be. It's possible, but unlikely because of

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Speaker 1: the election, which it is right now. So we're we're

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Speaker 1: gonna try and ease a little bit of that stress

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Speaker 1: and pain by reading another few chapters from Benethan Shapiro's terrible,

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Speaker 1: terrible book True Allegiance, our favorite book, our our Bible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Cody and Eyes what I would describe as I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I was going to make a joke, but then I

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Speaker 1: good religion joke. So I don't have a joke. It's

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Speaker 1: just good. It's a good book. Yeah, we go to

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Speaker 1: it for wisdom. Like when I wake up and I

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Speaker 1: how to feel. I flipped through it and it inspires me.

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Speaker 1: I'm like stressed out, I read a few pages and

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Speaker 1: get relaxed. I get you some few nuggets star football

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Speaker 1: um and uh, and then I do it all again

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Speaker 1: the next day. Yeah. So we're gonna be dropping this

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Speaker 1: on election day so you can listen to it while

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Speaker 1: you're standing in line and or getting into gunfights with

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Speaker 1: fascist paramilitaries, whatever winds up being our reality. Yeah, whichever

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Speaker 1: all very happy, Cody. We should also the elephant in

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Speaker 1: the room, Katie is not here. Her dog is sick unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: in equal measure as she is at the dog hospital. Yes,

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Speaker 1: heart goes out to um Katie and Benny. We love you,

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Speaker 1: Benny and Katie. The good Benny Good as opposed to

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Speaker 1: the author of this book, Ben Shapiro. Yeah, the bad,

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Speaker 1: the good book, the book book. So when we last

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Speaker 1: because as a woman in Ben's book, she's not allowed

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Speaker 1: to actually make decisions. Yeah, would it's not a it's

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Speaker 1: not a fantasy novel, Robert, Come on, so our next chapter.

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Speaker 1: We're back in Detroit, Michigan for Levin. With Levin, or

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Speaker 1: at least we'll be with him for a few paragraphs.

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Speaker 1: Just do another character. How many tenses do you think

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Speaker 1: we'll get? Levin couldn't believe what he was hearing. Reverend

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Speaker 1: so yeah, Ben, use the fucking period, or like you

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Speaker 1: They talk about problems of inequality, problems of racial justice.

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Speaker 1: he said, me too. No, go get the pieces of

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00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 1: ship who did this so I can bomb them back

423
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: into the sixth century, which had He's just like writing

424
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: Independence Day like bad and worse. Yes, the thing that

425
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: a man would say after being comforted by a friend

426
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 1: for the loss of his wife and daughter, like I'm

427
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: sorry about your family. Yeah, me too, me too. Yeah.

428
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: Hey you know what, same same bro. It's like they're

429
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: talking about a car that got totaled, right, Like that's

430
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 1: what's like, Oh hey man, I'm sorry about your car.

431
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,880
Speaker 1: I know you really like that car. It's like, yeah,

432
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:50,400
Speaker 1: me too. Right, let's this is your wife and daughter. Dude. Yeah,

433
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a bomber. Yeah it's lame as hell, bro,

434
00:23:55,040 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: that's very clear out bom diam Okay. So uh. Now,

435
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 1: looking at the damage, Brett punished himself for not having

436
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: been able to warn intelligence sooner. If only he'd used

437
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: Morst code to tell them something was coming from a

438
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: CHAMMI if only he'd blinked the name Mohammed, Yes, if

439
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: only he'd blinked the most common name in the world,

440
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: that would a really key to men. If only I

441
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:26,959
Speaker 1: let him know, John did it. Ok Yeah, it's so

442
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: good in his name, in his heart. He knew it

443
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: wouldn't have helped. Yes, I agree. America had blinded itself

444
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: in the name of peace. Okay, okay, And Brett knew

445
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: that hope wouldn't buy peace anyway. He turned his back

446
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: on the Hudson, where the sunken bridge still lay, slumbering

447
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: under acres of water, the comb of the surface masking

448
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: the graves of thousands of Americans. The American public had

449
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: called the Iraq War two bloody comma, the Afghanistan War

450
00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: two costly semi colon combined, America had lost fewer than

451
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: seven thousand people period. Now Comma, on one day, they'd

452
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: lost far more than that. It' funny because Bill ben

453
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: is trying to justify the war on terror, and the

454
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: only way he could do it is by inventing a

455
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: fake terrorist. It's amazing. It's see in my book, they

456
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,240
Speaker 1: killed more people than we lost in the Wars that

457
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 1: we lost. It's like Slip Slippery Slope the novel. It's

458
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: so good. Oh I love it. But what if? What if?

459
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: And then I'm right? Okay, good point. Yeah I guess,

460
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: I guess. Then you're right, man, yeah, yeah, then yes, yes,

461
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 1: bit well no, you still wouldn't have been right because again,

462
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 1: this terrorist attack was launched by Iran, one of the

463
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 1: yeah like okay, which none of like the actual interplay

464
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 1: with the terrorist makes a whole lot of sense in

465
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: this either, but still be right, I mean wrong. And

466
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: then you're it was one of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Okay, yeah, yeah,

467
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: they Yeah, that's why the yeah is justified because in

468
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: this book they are right. So it's okay. Saddam's revenge unbelievable,

469
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 1: which is normally a term for diarrhea. Um, yeah, I

470
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: mean it was. Yeah. So the airport felt like a mausoleum.

471
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: He gets sent to the airport, by the way, uh,

472
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: completely empty, completely deserted. The planes set at their terminals

473
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: like sleeping grasshoppers. That's a weird. Why that's maybe taking

474
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: other paths that what you are comparing plates to grasshoppers.

475
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: I mean they have wings, but so do things look

476
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: more like plane, right? Okay, Ben, I mean like it's

477
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: in the name they like they hop dragon flies. I

478
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: don't know. You also like just like, don't do the metaphors,

479
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: just don't do it. I guess that was assimilate, but like,

480
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,719
Speaker 1: come on, man. So Ben is with port authority in

481
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: security in the closed down airport looking to see like

482
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,719
Speaker 1: all the people who have entered the country and all

483
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: the flight manifests to see if this terrorist had come

484
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: into the country. Uh, he tells one of the officials,

485
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: I would access to the customs files if you don't

486
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: mind me asking, Sir murmured the official, is there somebody

487
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: we're looking for? Particularly, Brett said, yes, an Arabic looking

488
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: young man. Oh uh, which is clearly like he's trying

489
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: to justify racial profiling, but also like the least useful, Yes,

490
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: that will narrow it down to thousands. That's and like

491
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: that's that's the point, like that's why exactly, that's why

492
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: it's bad, why it's bad. But it's there's too me.

493
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: It's to me like a slightly better hack writer would

494
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: have had him like accurately described the man and then

495
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: had like some histrionic you know, official will be like

496
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: that's racial profiling, and being it's not racial profiling, just

497
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: to point out that he has you know, that he's

498
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: an Arab man and he has these features, and like

499
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 1: that's again, would still be a bad book, but that

500
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: would be like a competent, shitty writer. Yeah, a better

501
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: smarter person. Yeah, a better right wing grifter author. I've

502
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: done it that way. But Ben is again a complete

503
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:21,239
Speaker 1: failure of it's it's it rules. Honestly the best thing

504
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: about him. Yeah. Yeah. The official complaints that that's racial profiling,

505
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: which it is because the only detail Brett gave is

506
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 1: that he's Arabic looking looking looking. That's oh my god,

507
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: oh god, you're not doing the profiling. I am. Well

508
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: now I'm a party to it. Brett stared into his face.

509
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: I don't care. Just do it, sir. It's against regulations though.

510
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: Look Brett burst out, losing his patients. I don't give

511
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: a rat's ass at this point whether it's racial profiling

512
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: or not. Maybe you right, Maybe Mohammed is a light

513
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: skinned Norwegian woman or a Cherokee elder. Maybe he's a

514
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: Persian or Arabic, or maybe he's a I feel like

515
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: i'm listening to him talk right now, I know it's it,

516
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: it's good. Or maybe he's a Persian or Arabic looking

517
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: son of a bitch who hangs out with other Persian

518
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: or Arabic looking sons of bitches who look like Abraham

519
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: is Shami, which is you know, Ben, they're different ethnic groups.

520
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: Persians and Arabs don't care for this. Yeah, it's like

521
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: being like, yeah, he's a Mexican or an African person,

522
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, like like like that, like it's that level

523
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: of racist, Like it's he's a person from one of

524
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: two massive land masses, you know, again making the case

525
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: for why racial profiling is bad. Like he's doing all

526
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: of the work for us. It's just incredible. Yeah, I

527
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: mean it is. It is like it it's that racist.

528
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: It's his racist as being like he's an African looking person.

529
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: It's like, well, but that's a giant land mass that

530
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: includes a wide variety of different ethnic groups. Like yeah,

531
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: I know he's Persian or Arabic. Thank you, Ben. That

532
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: narrows it down. You got it, You got it. You

533
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: definitely understood what we said, yeah, and responded accordingly. Yeah,

534
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: it's great because this is supposed to be like how

535
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: him explaining like how racial profiling is really necessary to

536
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: stop terrorism, but all it actually is is like showing

537
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: that all Been wants is racial profiling. He's not saying

538
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: like this isn't It's usually pointed as like, well, look,

539
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: you know, if if if we get a solid tip

540
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: that like a terrorist is a man of you know,

541
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: Afghan descent, you know we can't. You're saying we can't

542
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: like look for people who are of Afghan descent who

543
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: are in the area, and like that's wrong, and like

544
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: that's again, is a wrong line of argument. But there's

545
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: at least more it's at least more of an argument

546
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: than Ben who is saying, like, let's profile all of

547
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: the Persian or Arabic looking sons of bitches. He's not

548
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: He's not actually saying anything. There's no argument here. He's

549
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: just saying I want it, so I'm gonna have my

550
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: character yell about it and be proven right by the

551
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: circumstances that I write in the book and also been

552
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: again the lack of research here. One of the things

553
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: that Brett notes is that there would be hundreds, maybe

554
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: thousands of possible leads men who had flown from the

555
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: Middle East through some point in the days that would

556
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: be ten. The Middle East is large, been there's so

557
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: many people who come to the US and leave the

558
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: US towards like heading there. It's every big, it's very big.

559
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: Is the Middle East a country? To him? Is that?

560
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: Like what? He like? Yeah, I think it is. I

561
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: think the Middle East to him is like like it's

562
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: a single place as opposed to a massive Again, it's

563
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: like somebody is saying he looks Africans, like, well, okay,

564
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: does he look like he's from Morocco or look like

565
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: like like there's all all white light of countries and

566
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: there's thousands of ethnic groups. Like it's a massive area,

567
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: like very big continents. Yeah, it's it's I mean of

568
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: which you know the Yeah, it's it's it's great, it's

569
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: it's very it's everything in this book is so good,

570
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: and okay, here's the best part. Uh. He realizes that

571
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: there's too many names to search through, point making the

572
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: point that everything he's done at this so far is useless.

573
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: So he calls a contact of his name to Hassan

574
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: Abduel to find a cafe to go meet a contact

575
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: who presumably is going to know about this guy, which

576
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: is kind of been maybe making the point, uh that

577
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: that racial profiling doesn't work, but didn't work because he

578
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: needed to go contact because there be too many people

579
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: that instead, you reached out to an individual who had

580
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: pertinent information maybe about an individual who you were looking for,

581
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: as opposed to again looking for Persian or Arabic sons

582
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: of bitches. So the whole point of that section was

583
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: just for him to be racist, right and then not

584
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,959
Speaker 1: realize that he's making the case against it. Yeah, well

585
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: he did it. You did. You got to do the

586
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: racism scene. I guess, I mean one of the many.

587
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: The whole book is a racism seen. Um. Yeah, so

588
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 1: he sits down from this guy. Oh, I guess that's

589
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: his friend from high school. Um, his his his black

590
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,719
Speaker 1: friend who I think converted to Islam, the one who

591
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: taught him how to be funny to the bully with

592
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: no name. Yeah, the Jersey list football player. Yeah just

593
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: call just call your friend first instead of saying look

594
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: for an Arab looking guy. Oh cool, So Ben's friend.

595
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: The one positive Muslim person that we've met so far

596
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: was was buddies with Anwar al al Laki, who is

597
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: like one of the uh who's like a fucking very

598
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: hardcore Islamic preacher um who uh is seen as having

599
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: an influence on you know, terrorists. Uh so, And then

600
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 1: he's he's he's now helping Brett out because on September eleven,

601
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: he'd seen the uh yeah, okay cool, so so so

602
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: Ben's Ben's one uh positive Muslim like character was also

603
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: friends with a with a with an extremist still terrorist,

604
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: still terrorist, Jason Yeah. After September eleven, Hassan spoke to

605
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: Brett and Brett set up a covert meeting with the

606
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hassan Abdul became a mole. His

607
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: jobs changed over the years, as did his location. His

608
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: responsibility into the Bush administration had been to provide leads

609
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: on possible terror suspects attending mosques in prominent urban areas.

610
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: For the past few years, he'd been stationed in New

611
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: York City at the mosque he posted as a borderline radical.

612
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: He spoke regularly about the injustices of the wars in

613
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: Iraq and Afghanistan. But during okay, so yeah, he's he's

614
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: he's been a he's been working with the FBI. Hadda YadA, YadA,

615
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,919
Speaker 1: um because he found out that all Muslims are terrorists.

616
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: And then we've been points out that under the election

617
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: of Mark Prescott, who is white Obama, the FBI no

618
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: longer monitored mosques um and that that is clearly a

619
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: bad thing. Yep. Cool. Wait Wait, I figured what years

620
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: was written seen is when it was published. I guess

621
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: he probably wrote or during a weekend in give him

622
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: the care he gave to editing this. Yeah. Yeah, So

623
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: he gives the information about this terrorist he's looking to

624
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: to his contact. I says, it's not a lot to

625
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: go on. How do you know he's coming to New

626
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: York as opposed to some other city. Had you know

627
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: he wasn't involved in the original attack. Is the government

628
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: even locked down the bastards who planted the bombs? I

629
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: don't know, Hassan. All I know is there's something more

630
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: to this, and I know that he is religious the

631
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: way a Shami spoke to him. If he's here, the

632
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: only way to find him will be through the mosques. Ah.

633
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: That's good. Uh. They talk some more. He's got to

634
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: convince his friend, who's angry because the FBI isn't profiling

635
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: Muslims anymore. Somehow, somehow darker. Yeah it is. I'm gonna

636
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: read the last bit of this because it's very strange writing.

637
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 1: You don't want to need to convince me, white boy.

638
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: I just need to know why I'm doing this. And

639
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: it isn't for your president, believe me not. At Brett

640
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 1: neither am I. Hassan nodded a lot of nodding. Here,

641
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: I'll be in touch when I've got something for you.

642
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: He turned towards the door, then turned back. There's good

643
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: and bad and everyone, he crooned, a smile, suddenly creasing

644
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: his lips. We learned to live, We learned to give.

645
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: Brett left each other what we need to survive together alive.

646
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: I think they're singing a song here, yes, yep, okay,

647
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's a song. Yeah, like a thing that

648
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: they did together, like it's in it's like a friend

649
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: thing that they do. Yeah, yeah, that's that's fine. I

650
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: guess like like they're like they're little yeah spoken handshake,

651
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: I guess yep, yep, yeah, okay. You know Sophie, you

652
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: know who won't surveile Muslims pointlessly? Uh and because of racism,

653
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: that's not ship these products and we're back. Oh, yeah,

654
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yep, all right, you know I do you know,

655
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, Cody, all right, we're back to New York City.

656
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: I mean that could have that could have just been

657
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: like you reading the book, you know, Comma, you know Dash,

658
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,720
Speaker 1: you know, so New York City President Prescott iconic moments.

659
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: These were the moments that Mark Prescott had always wanted.

660
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: FDR standing before Congress declaring war on Japan, John F.

661
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: Kennedy in Berlin, Reagan at the Berlin Wall, George W.

662
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: Bush and the wreckage of the World Trade Center. And

663
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: now Prescott standing on the precipice of the Hudson Oh

664
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: my god, what a sentence. And now Comma Prescott Comma

665
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: standing on the precipice of the Hudson River. Comma with

666
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: the Coastguards still dredging the waters, Comma with the wreckage

667
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: of one of America's greatest public works projects mangled behind him. Period.

668
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: We got there, we got through it. Oh my good,

669
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: damn it. Wow, Ben, what a sentence. There are a

670
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: lot of Oh you could have yeah, just generally, just generally,

671
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,959
Speaker 1: like if you like, go just go through an open

672
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: and you're listening because you're a huge fan um and

673
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 1: you appreciate feedback. Just go through and remove half the

674
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: commas and your sentences will be better. Um. I also

675
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 1: find it very very funny that uh, Ben seems really

676
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: really hyper focused on this idea of Obama only wanting

677
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: these like moments, these publicity moments. He's like, I want

678
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: to look like FDR, I want to look at this

679
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: um and has Uh I don't. I don't know if

680
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 1: you know anything about the current president, Robert, I don't.

681
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: Who do we have? We have a president? We do?

682
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: We do? Um? He one could argue, um is like

683
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 1: the worst uh at this exact thing, the most obvious

684
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: about this exact thing that Ben cannot get out of

685
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: his mind about President Barack Obama. Sorry, I'm sorry, President

686
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: Barack's saying Obama Barry Sato. Do you remember that? Do

687
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: you remember when that was the thing on the right

688
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: wait no, oh boy, oh man, yeah it was. It

689
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: used to be ah like yeah. They were convinced that

690
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: that that was his should be his real name for

691
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: reasons that I don't know. I don't even remember. I

692
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: used to know why, like yeah, used, yeah, it's stopped

693
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: once everything got so much like worse once Trump became president.

694
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: But like that used to be like a whole if

695
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: you'd go to like Free Republic where all of like

696
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: the really old like worst fascist Republicans were back before

697
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: that was the norm in the party. They would all

698
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: call him Barry Satara. It was very silly. Um, yes,

699
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: and I suspect been abolutely. I'm that's a that's a

700
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: tab I'm opening for later. Yeah, yeah, can take a

701
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: look into that. So the president is obvious, is very

702
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: excited because a bunch of people are dead, so he

703
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: gets to give a speech. He's wearing a windbreaker instead

704
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: of the suit like George Bush did, which is like yeah,

705
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: as if it's like a ploy as opposed to like, yeah,

706
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: you're head and do a disaster area, you wouldn't wear

707
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 1: a nice suit to like an active disaster Like it's

708
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: it's one of those things like you don't even like

709
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna like give Bush it for that,

710
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: Like he wasn't doing it for a look. He was

711
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: doing it because he was headed to a disaster area

712
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: and you're gonna wear not a fine suit for that,

713
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, if you did wear a fine suit, he

714
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: would be called like a coastal elite fancy man. He's

715
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: wearing a suit to a thing. You shouldn't have won

716
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: a suit too. Nonsense utter nonsense. Also been capitalized his windbreaker,

717
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: which is weird to me. It doesn't seem like a

718
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: like a proper noun. But okay. That is also super

719
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: concerned about his editor, like I don't think there is

720
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: I really don't think he had one. There's like, there's

721
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: no way, there's no way he had one. Like it's

722
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: like that that that would be I would be I

723
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: would be surprised if we would. We would have to

724
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: hunt his editor down. Um with extremes. Be fired. I mean,

725
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: Ben should be fired. That person should be Comma fired,

726
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 1: Comma right, Comma away, Colma period, m DA. But also

727
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:06,800
Speaker 1: windbreaker windbreaker is not capitalized like never never ever unless

728
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: it's like the name of a boat, right right, yeah,

729
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: or like like the brand of of of the windbreaker. Yeah,

730
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: if it's a windbreaker. Yeah, yes, I don't know why,

731
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: but that's my favorite part of this book. Yeah, very cool. Um, Yeah,

732
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: I'm upset that the president didn't wear a suit. I

733
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: guess at the thing, um and really wants that photo ops,

734
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: the photo op. President Barack Obama always came about photo ops. No,

735
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: presidents after him, caring more about he's the only president

736
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: who like who like got his picture taken. Ever, it

737
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: never happened again. That was the single time that it occurred.

738
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 1: And they would never again like create events just to

739
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 1: just to have these sort of photo opportunities. Yeah, never uh. Yeah,

740
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: he would never like have people tear gased in order

741
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: to take a picture with the Bible, right, Like that

742
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: would be bad. That's that's ridiculous, Robert, that's like you

743
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: should be you should that's an Obama thing. Yeah, classic. Yeah.

744
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 1: The President gives a speech. All right, I'm gonna read

745
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: a speech my fellow Americans. He said, We've experienced the

746
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: greatest single attack on American soil in our history. Two

747
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: days ago. We lost thousands of American lives, women, women, children.

748
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: But let our enemies here this. We remain strong. We

749
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: remained unbowed, We remained unbroken, unwavering, unshaken. We stand together,

750
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 1: and our unity is our power. Today, our enemies rejoice

751
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: in our tragedy. Tomorrow they will see us rebuilding from

752
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: these ashes, restore what was once what once was, rebuild

753
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: our America better, stronger than it was before. They hope

754
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: that their destruction would cause us to question ourselves, question

755
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: our course. They hope that we would surrender our philosophy,

756
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: our way of life. They were wrought. Yeah, yeah, there's

757
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: a a boring president, doesn't seem very's yeah, yeah, like

758
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: why even right all this out if it's also okay,

759
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: So it's not even saying anything about him president or

760
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: like anything. It's just like the yeah, the basic president

761
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,760
Speaker 1: ship like okay, okay. So he's he's giving his speech

762
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: and he's about to hit the big moment that he's

763
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: been excited for, and then someone in the crowd screams,

764
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: you did this. Prescott was momentarily startled. Then he began

765
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: in times of grief, we do not walk alone yet. Yeah,

766
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: He's continues. Then someone interrupts again and yells, you did this,

767
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: Mr President? Uh? And suddenly yeah, he sees a loan protester.

768
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: It was a woman overweight, wearing fair faded jeans and

769
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 1: a T shirt with holes in it. Her hair hair

770
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: crop short. You did this, Mr President. My husband is

771
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: at the bottom of this river because of you, Mr President.

772
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, he gets uh, he gets distracted from this.

773
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: He tries to continue his speech. She says she owes

774
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: him all answers. Doesn't really not really clear why it

775
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: would be the president's fault. I guess because he he

776
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: pulled out of Afghanistan. Um. Yeah, I've been wondering what

777
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: they're yeah saying about what he did other than just

778
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: like be the president while this happened. Yeah, um, or

779
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 1: like is it just like it seems to also just

780
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: be another like that that uh you shout a liar

781
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,280
Speaker 1: during the State of the Union at Obama, right, Yeah,

782
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: that's what he's doing. Yeah. Uh. So he lets the

783
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: woman speak, being the monster that he is, and she's

784
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,720
Speaker 1: she's very grief stricken, and she talks about her husband,

785
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: who of course served in Vietnam and then was a

786
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: bus driver. I guess, uh, And oh god, he's doing

787
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: the Obama thing again. Okay, So she asked him, how

788
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 1: could you keep us safe? She stared at him, eyes glowing,

789
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: and then he suddenly saw a way forward. He leaned forward,

790
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: let a tear roll down his cheek, and hugged her.

791
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: She tried to pull away. Initially, he held her tighter.

792
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: Finally he felt her sob against his chest, the tension

793
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: to go out of her body. The cameras flashed around him.

794
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: The moment time stood still. This was the image he'd

795
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: been seeking ever since his election. Compassionate, caring, straight. Yeah,

796
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: he does it a second time. And you already because

797
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: all of all of the villains in this are Barack Obama.

798
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: Is that been wrote a book with multip bad guys

799
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: and all of them are Obama Obama, Oh my god.

800
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: And like the worst thing about they're all Obama. And

801
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: the bad thing about them is that they cry. Yeah. Yeah,

802
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 1: they let out a single tear. Um. I cannot believe

803
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 1: he did that again with a different person so close

804
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: to the other time. It has not been that long,

805
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: Like at least spread them out. You know, wait a

806
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: couple of chapters, don't I would have forgoten, wouldn't We

807
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: would have forgotten about it. Yeah, because there's so much

808
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: terrible ship going on. Just like spread it out, man. Yeah.

809
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 1: And then this president, who is again a monster, admits

810
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: that he and the government made mistakes week week. Yeah. Yeah,

811
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: it's it's great. Um. He says that, like also some

812
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: of the mistakes were that we struck out in aggression

813
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: in the Middle East, which like inspired more anger against

814
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: us and maybe helped make the attack. We go to

815
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: war to protect ourselves, but we end up weakening ourselves.

816
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: And an objectively true statement, what uh can you keep making? Amazing?

817
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: Even the guy you've said you're going to vote for

818
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: President Donald J. Trump says that we weakened ourselves by

819
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: invading Iraq in Afghanistan part of why he got elected.

820
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: That's it's it's such simple, ship, It's it's amazing. Really, like,

821
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: I love everything that happens in the world. Um, it's

822
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: so good, Ben, keep it. Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna

823
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: where America is going to rebuild. We're gonna raise this

824
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: bridge again, gonna be handered by the past. Our swords

825
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: will be beaten into plow plowshares. He motioned over to

826
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: the thousands of American troops now working along the shoreline.

827
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: Our bravest and finest men will be put to work rebuilding.

828
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: No more nation building abroad. Thousands upon thousands of those

829
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: men and women are coming home, to coming to New

830
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,720
Speaker 1: York to rebuild, to revitalize. It's time to build ourselves

831
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 1: up here at home. What a horrible thing I am.

832
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: This is It's just this is beautiful art. I can't

833
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: even Yeah, yes, Ben, good idea, good idea, bring them.

834
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: The worst thing we could do is stop fucking around

835
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: in other countries with our army and instead use them

836
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: to I don't know, fix the bridges that are falling

837
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: things and create stuff for for each other. Like what

838
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: what I what is the problem he just wants for

839
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Speaker 1: It's this weird revenge ship he wants to like, h

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Speaker 1: it's weird revenge ship. It's also like weirdly, I also

841
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: think he's making attacks at FDR here for like the

842
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: works project progress as the Nazi stuff, which from one

843
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: of the best things that the government ever did was

844
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: be like what if we what if we took all

845
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: these starving people and gave them jobs to make parks

846
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: and roads and ship No, yes, thank you, make parks

847
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: and stuff that people still camp in every single day

848
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 1: called yeah it's amazing. Um. Yeah. Safety does not come

849
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: through the fear of a gun or the height of

850
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,720
Speaker 1: our walls. Safety comes from love, yes, love for each other. Again,

851
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: this is the bad guy, um because when like I'm waiting,

852
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: like I really I know it's not going to happen,

853
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: because of course it's not because I I know who

854
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: wrote this, but like I'm waiting for like the actual

855
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: evil thing, right, like what's the thing that he does

856
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: where And we're a normal person would read this and go, oh,

857
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: that's a villain because like you did, like that's like

858
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 1: a thing you would do in like a good thing

859
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: is have this? Characters like oh, they seem like pretty

860
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 1: good actually uh and then like oh they turned. They

861
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: were revealed that he's going to like embezzle all of

862
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: this money or something from his his program and whatnot,

863
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: like something he wants to build bridget he wants to

864
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: use you S troops to like improve infrastructure at home

865
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: and not waste money in foreign wars, thus making him

866
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: the devil. It really, it really doesn't seem like it

867
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: was gonna be a turn. It seems like this is

868
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: what we get, Like what chapter is this? I think

869
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: there's going to be a very sudden turn that makes

870
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: no sense. But we are like two thirds of the

871
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: way through the book at this point. Oh okay, so

872
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: the the end of the book there will be like

873
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: I'm I actually want to do the jenocides. Yeah, I'm

874
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: here to kill all white people or something. Yeah yeah great,

875
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: so yeah the president. The next scene is the president

876
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 1: relaxing in his hotel room watching TV. Uh. The coverage

877
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: was nearly universally a static. The one guest commentator on

878
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: Fox News had the goal to ask whether the president

879
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: and he leads on the perpetrators? Again, no one, no

880
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: one would have a problem with that question after a

881
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: massive terrorist attack, like it would be the thing we'd

882
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,280
Speaker 1: be talking about. Yeah. Ben famously hates presidents that spend

883
00:49:54,280 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: all their time watching Fox News. Yeah my god, all right, yeah, alright, alright,

884
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 1: So the President's concerned, or the President's aid is concerned

885
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: that bread Hawthorne is in New York. Uh, YadA, YadA, YadA. President,

886
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 1: what should I care? Uh? And the AID says, well,

887
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: he's digging around flight manifest and he's asking to see

888
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,880
Speaker 1: pictures of Arabs. First Jesus Christ. The president says racial

889
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: profiling right after the love speech, and they say the

890
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: media will probably figure it out pretty soon. I mean,

891
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: these things have a way of leaking. Yeah, okay. Also, like,

892
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: kudos to Ben for writing that line, which I think

893
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: is actually like racial profiling after the love speech. It's

894
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: such a it's so childish, What a childish way to

895
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: frame anything. I love it. Yeah, yeah, it ends on

896
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: the president watching his speech and like the last line

897
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: from his speech, vengeance is God's we know. Our job

898
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: is to build again a monster, the literal devil, a

899
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: guy who wants to rebuild bridges team us. He must

900
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: be stopped. Pretty if he were allowed to continue on

901
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: his path of evil, eventually we would choke to death

902
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: on all of the bridges. There he that's his evil planning.

903
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: He wants to make too many bridges. He wants to

904
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: drown us in bridges. Yeah, he wants to murder us

905
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 1: in bridges. He wants to choke us in an endless

906
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: river of infrastructure that allows us to safely drive without

907
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: our bridges collapsing like the devil would do at the

908
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: devil in a single tier for all the all the

909
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: bridges that caused that. I can't even Yeah, well, Cody,

910
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: we're three more chapters in. That was three chapters. Like,

911
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: decide if that was too long or too short. For

912
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: three chapters, I feel like I've lived a thousand years. Oh,

913
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,760
Speaker 1: this is an attorney. We're never gonna leave. We're stuck here. No,

914
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: this is we're We're stuck in true Allegiance forever. We

915
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: will never escape True Allegiance. It is. It is the

916
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end, and

917
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 1: like Ben sentences, it never never conclude. It never actually

918
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: never comma. M Dash concludes like a sentence should do

919
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: second to m Dash, but because Ben doesn't like to

920
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: use comma, periods comma, which which would conclude that meanwhile,

921
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 1: I can't wait until um the president either turns comically

922
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: way too evil to be believable or continues down this

923
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: this path of just like basic good stuff. You know

924
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: what I love, Cody? What's that the written word? I know?

925
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: I know that about you? Yeah. So have your feelings

926
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: on Ben's novel changed? We're now sixty of the way through.

927
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: I it's changed in that I get more of it.

928
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,360
Speaker 1: Can I say more of more of it? Yeah, my thoughts,

929
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: but more yeahs and flows. It's really it's really, uh,

930
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: it's really something to behold. I because you think you

931
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: think it doesn't end, you think it doesn't stop. You

932
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: think like, oh, surely he can't like show his ass anymore.

933
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: Surely the mask couldn't possibly slip anymore. Surely he couldn't

934
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,799
Speaker 1: write another just awful, awful sentence. It's amazing. I like

935
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: I want to collect and frame all of the bad

936
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: sentences in this and then send them to Ben Shapiro

937
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: via a registered career and like, here, here are the

938
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:30,120
Speaker 1: sentences you wrote that are not They're not sentences, Ben,

939
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 1: but I want to do immortalize them. Here are some

940
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: not sentences for you to check out. Fire your editor

941
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: or hire an editor, whichever one you didn't do. Yeah, higher,

942
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: and fire a series of editors until you get someone

943
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: who's willing to tell you to use a fucking period.

944
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: Been It's okay. That's my message at the end of this.

945
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: I don't hate Ben Shapiro. I don't want ill to

946
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,760
Speaker 1: befall him. I want him to know that it's okay. Ben,

947
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 1: It's okay to conclude a sentence. You can do it.

948
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: You can do it. We believe in you and of

949
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: sentence Cody. You got any pluggable stepluck, Sure, why not?

950
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: I got a YouTube channel called some More News. We

951
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: got a Patreon dot com slash Some More News, and

952
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: a podcast called even more News. But also cos the

953
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: podcast with Robert Evans, it's called Worst You're Ever Um,

954
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: we have Some More News actually has a movie that

955
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: we released a couple of days before. You listen to

956
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: this and check that out. It's fun and about a

957
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: lot of stuff, and I don't know Dr MSR Cody

958
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: on Twitter all that all that jazz, you know. I

959
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 1: do want to make one note before we roll out.

960
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: There is some evidence that Ben Shapiro has improved in

961
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: the second half of his novel, that he's learning as

962
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: he's writing. Um, which is that we went through three

963
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: whole chapters and he never randomly switched from a perspective

964
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: character to a completely different character in a wild, last

965
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,879
Speaker 1: jarring transition. That is true. He is growing. That's why

966
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 1: he such a skilled writer, because he does it for

967
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: the first third of the book. So then you expected

968
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: to keep but you're like, Okay, when's this gonna happen?

969
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: And then he doesn't do it. That's surprising. It's a

970
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: twist exactly. I thought you were even worse as a

971
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: writer than you are, but you've gotten slightly better. Oh,

972
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 1: it's good times for everybody, all right, Well, the episodes over.

973
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 1: Please continue voting and or engaging in gunfights with Baptist paramilitaries.

974
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: Have a have a good election day, and remember a

975
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 1: tourniquet should be placed above the bleeding wound and then

976
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:32,280
Speaker 1: tightened until the bleeding stops. America strong