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“Liberation Day”: Trump Champions Economic Nationalism (Ep.174) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report.
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  Speaker 2: Early edition, Trump announces fair trade tariffs on a new
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  Speaker 2: American liberation day. The persecution of Syrian Christians escalates. Alec
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  Speaker 2: Baldwin says that.
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  Speaker 1: We are in a pre-Civil War era.
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  Speaker 2: Representative Jasmine Crockett admits that she is indeed a DEI hire.
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  Speaker 2: A Brown University student sparks a school-wide meltdown for exposing
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  Speaker 2: the collegiate bureaucracy. The Texas GOP honors Pakistan, a country
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  Speaker 2: that jails Christians and forces conversions. Elites are embracing designer
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  Speaker 2: babies and eugenics. And harem erotica is overtaking the men's
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  Speaker 2: adventure fiction genre.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition.
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  Speaker 3: My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Waiting for a
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  Speaker 3: long time. April 2nd, 2025, will forever be remembered as
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  Speaker 3: the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny
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  Speaker 3: was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make
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  Speaker 3: America wealthy again. Going to make it wealthy.
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  Speaker 4: Good and wealthy.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, President Trump said that it is Liberation Day and
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  Speaker 2: he stood in the Rose Garden and announced a 10%
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  Speaker 2: baseline tariff on all imports and a 25% tariff on
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  Speaker 2: foreign automobiles.
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  Speaker 1: And these tariffs are part of Trump's kind.
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  Speaker 2: Reciprocal approach, as he called it in the speech, kind reciprocal,
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  Speaker 2: meaning it's levies that are still lower than what other
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  Speaker 2: countries impose on us already. So contrary to what many
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  Speaker 2: are insisting, this isn't protectionism. in the pejorative sense. It
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  Speaker 2: is a demand for fairness. And it's already working. Israel
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  Speaker 2: has canceled all tariffs on American products this week, just
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  Speaker 2: a day after Canadian trade representatives indicated no retaliatory tariffs
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  Speaker 2: would be issued on America. Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum similarly
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  Speaker 2: said no tit-for-tat retaliatory tariffs would be imposed. And Ontario
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  Speaker 2: Premier Doug Ford offered to negotiate dropping trade barriers on
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  Speaker 2: both sides.
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  Speaker 1: So, so much for all the.
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  Speaker 2: Trump will spark a trade war hysteria. And let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about the fear mongering. I want to address it head
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  Speaker 2: on this morning because it's not just coming from the left. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the left, they hate Trump and that's old news. They
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  Speaker 2: will oppose anything that he does. But I think that
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  Speaker 2: the louder panic over Liberation Day is coming from the
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  Speaker 2: so-called free market Republicans and online economists, these online experts
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  Speaker 2: who still believe in that unilateral trade concessions are the
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  Speaker 2: golden path for prosperity in this country. And they insist
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  Speaker 2: that Trump's tariffs will destroy our economy. Like, we are
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  Speaker 2: headed down a very dark, dark path, according to the
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  Speaker 2: online economy experts and, of course, all the sort of
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  Speaker 2: old school GOP members. But what they're defending is a
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  Speaker 2: system of arbitrary, massive trade imbalances that have already gutted
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  Speaker 2: American industry. They defend a policy regime that treats Americans
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  Speaker 2: as consumers only, not as workers, as builders, or.
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  Speaker 1: Just as citizens.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking about this a lot lately. What does
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  Speaker 2: America first really mean? And this gets at the heart
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  Speaker 2: of how Trump defines America first. This is why Trump
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  Speaker 2: stood not just with his cabinet yesterday in the Rose Garden,
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  Speaker 2: but with United Auto Workers union members. This is a
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  Speaker 2: policy that doesn't just boost GDP, it raises wages, brings
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  Speaker 2: back jobs, and restores sovereignty. Here was journalist Bhatia Ungar Sargon,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that she does just an excellent job
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  Speaker 2: of framing this as something very positive for working class Americans.
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  Speaker 2: And take note that if you don't even know who
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  Speaker 2: Bhatia is, she is a former liberal. She is not
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  Speaker 2: a GOP card-carrying Republican.
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  Speaker 1: In any sense of the word.
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  Speaker 2: She is somebody who has seen what Trump has done,
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  Speaker 2: prioritizing the working class, and it has really resonated with her.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to how she frames this.
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  Speaker 5: I find so frustrating about the conversation around tariffs is
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  Speaker 5: that we all agree on the problem. We all agree
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  Speaker 5: that the deindustrialization of America led to the downward mobility
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  Speaker 5: of the American working class, deaths of despair, people working
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  Speaker 5: multiple jobs and not being able to afford the American dream.
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  Speaker 5: We all agree that it is deeply unfair for the
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  Speaker 5: American middle class to be bearing the burden of unfair
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  Speaker 5: tariffs from other countries. We all agree that it is
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  Speaker 5: great for the president to have leverage in order to
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  Speaker 5: demand reasonable things like that country stop allowing fentanyl to
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  Speaker 5: murder 100,000 Americans every year and that Mexico do its
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  Speaker 5: part to police its own border. And yet when somebody
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  Speaker 5: has the courage to show up and say to Wall Street,
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  Speaker 5: screw you. I am waging class warfare on behalf of
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  Speaker 5: the American working class. And you elites in Wall Street,
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  Speaker 5: you do what you need to do because I'm not
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  Speaker 5: going to stop fighting for the American working class. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 5: everybody is sitting around going, oh, no, the stock market. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: the stock market looks like that because the rich are
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  Speaker 5: punishing Trump for siding with the neglected and humiliated American
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  Speaker 5: working class over them. We have already seen these tariffs work, Pierce.
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  Speaker 5: The number of people crossing the southern border is at zero.
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  Speaker 5: Fentanyl is at record lows for the last 10 years.
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  Speaker 5: We have already seen $ 1. 2 trillion in manufacturing invested in
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  Speaker 5: this country since January 21st. So they have already worked.
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  Speaker 1: Batia, if you're listening, that was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That was the greatest thing I've ever seen on Pierce Morgan.
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  Speaker 2: And Michael was in my ear just now and he said,
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  Speaker 2: That's the quietest I've ever seen a Piers Morgan panel.
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  Speaker 2: And that show is notorious for people just going at
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  Speaker 2: each other like wild animals.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a free-for-all.
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  Speaker 2: And Piers Morgan loves it. He loves the drama of it.
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  Speaker 2: But everybody was silent because this woman was just so
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  Speaker 2: passionate and so articulate as she laid it out perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a trade war. It's a strategic recalibration.
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  Speaker 2: For decades, both political parties in this country insisted we
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  Speaker 2: had to accept foreign protectionism while giving away access to
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  Speaker 2: the American market for free. And that's how we ended
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  Speaker 2: up offshoring millions of manufacturing jobs, gutting entire towns, and
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  Speaker 2: becoming dependent on adversaries like China.
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  Speaker 1: It's a national security threat, frankly.
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  Speaker 2: And Trump is doing what past leaders have refused to do,
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  Speaker 2: and that is making foreign access to the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Market contingent on fairness. Not walls, but balance. Not isolation,
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  Speaker 1: but accountability.
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  Speaker 2: This policy is radical only because our political class has
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  Speaker 2: been so derelict for so long. The belief that free
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  Speaker 2: trade is always good, even if it's one-sided and destructive,
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  Speaker 2: is not economics.
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  Speaker 1: That's dogma.
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  Speaker 2: And we tried it their way, and it has failed. Millennials,
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  Speaker 2: the first generation to be worse off than their parents.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 2: Trump's not trying to freeze the world. He's trying to
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  Speaker 2: rebalance it so that American workers aren't competing on a
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  Speaker 2: tilted field against slave labor, currency manipulation, and foreign subsidies.
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  Speaker 2: Here was Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: So what's happened to the world is the global governments
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  Speaker 6: have backed taking our factories away from us. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: there's nothing about Taiwan that they should be making semiconductors.
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  Speaker 6: There's nothing about Korea. They should be making all of
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  Speaker 6: the appliances and the electronics of the world. What's happened
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  Speaker 6: is they had a policy of their governments to let's
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  Speaker 6: back our companies and let's take this business from America
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  Speaker 6: while America is not paying attention.
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  Speaker 4: So our factories went overseas.
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  Speaker 6: But what you're going to see is the most modern
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  Speaker 6: factories of the world come back here. We are going
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  Speaker 6: to start on one of the great training programs of
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  Speaker 6: the world to teach our employees what tradecraft is, how
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  Speaker 6: to build factories, and not the old kind of factories.
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  Speaker 6: I'm talking the most modern, the most high-tech factories. When
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  Speaker 6: you say HVAC, what we're talking about is cooling a
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  Speaker 6: high-tech semiconductor plant, probably one of the coolest jobs you
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  Speaker 6: can have.
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  Speaker 4: Right, mechanics, fixing robotics.
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  Speaker 6: That's what's coming to America. The coolest factories, the highest
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  Speaker 6: tech factories, they're all coming home and Donald Trump's bringing
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  Speaker 6: them home and he's gonna create a renaissance of high-tech
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  Speaker 6: manufacturing in America. That's why America's gonna win.
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  Speaker 2: Renaissance of high-tech manufacturing. When has a president talked like
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  Speaker 2: that in recent memory? Politicians are just so out of
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  Speaker 2: sync with what Americans actually want. from our leaders in
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  Speaker 2: this country. And somebody brought this up on X yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and I just, I didn't even, I was born in 1999.
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  Speaker 1: This happened in 1999.
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  Speaker 2: In 1999, left-wing activists protested the World Trade Organization in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: And they were opposing globalization and free trade agreements that
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  Speaker 2: they believed, rightfully, harmed workers, and of course, the liberals,
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  Speaker 2: but also the environment. We could throw up some of those, videos, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: of what that looked like. You don't have the video
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  Speaker 2: of of people protesting?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: Just so you can see kind of what it looked
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  Speaker 2: like in Seattle. I mean, people were furious And again,
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  Speaker 2: I was born in 99, so I didn't know about
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  Speaker 2: this until I heard about it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And there was so much just passion and outrage.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I mean, they're using just full-on police gear,
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  Speaker 2: riot gear, handling these people. And at the time, support
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  Speaker 2: for free trade was bipartisan, establishment consensus. And the only
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  Speaker 2: people opposing it were anti-globalization leftists. The pre-Bernie Bros. Now,
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  Speaker 2: two decades later, this is what's so ironic about it,
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  Speaker 2: two decades later, it is Republican President Donald Trump who
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  Speaker 2: effectively ended that era of American worker-last trade policy by
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  Speaker 2: challenging global trade norms and promoting economic nationalism. Who would
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  Speaker 2: have thought during these protests in 1999 that it would
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  Speaker 2: be the Republican Party and Donald Trump who would be
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  Speaker 2: standing up for American workers? Can you imagine if you
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  Speaker 2: went back in time and told them what would happen
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  Speaker 2: in the future? They would be beside themselves. They wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: believe you. And this is the Trump doctrine. Economic nationalism
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  Speaker 2: rooted in common sense. And it's been a consistent position
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  Speaker 2: of President Trump for years. Here was President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the 80s.
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  Speaker 4: And yet we let Japan come in and dump everything
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  Speaker 4: right into our markets and everything. It's not free trade.
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  Speaker 4: If you ever go to Japan right now and try
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  Speaker 4: to sell something, forget about it, Albert. Just forget about it.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost impossible. They don't have laws against it. They
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  Speaker 4: just make it impossible. They come over here. They sell
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  Speaker 4: their cars, their VCRs. They knock the hell out of
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  Speaker 4: our companies. And, hey, I have tremendous respect for the
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  Speaker 4: Japanese people. I mean, you can respect somebody that's beating
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  Speaker 4: the hell out of you, but they are beating the
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  Speaker 4: hell out of this country. Kuwait, they live like kings.
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  Speaker 4: The poorest person in Kuwait, they live like kings. And
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  Speaker 4: yet they're not paying. We make it possible for them
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  Speaker 4: to sell their oil. Why aren't they paying us 25%
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  Speaker 4: of what they're making? It's a joke.
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  Speaker 2: Trump asks the forgotten question. How do people earn money
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  Speaker 2: to buy those cheap imports if the industries that once
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  Speaker 2: employed them are gone? A nation that produces nothing of
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  Speaker 2: value cannot consume its way to greatness. So how do
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  Speaker 2: we measure success? Not just by stock market charts and
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  Speaker 2: abstract GDP growth, but by whether ordinary Americans are thriving, working, building,
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  Speaker 2: and owning their future again. And by the way, the
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  Speaker 2: goal is to see GDP growth. And Trump says that
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  Speaker 2: we will have growth as industry returns to this country.
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  Speaker 1: But the hardest.
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  Speaker 2: Policy really is individuals, people over multinational corporations, global capital,
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  Speaker 2: cheap labor, open markets, endless growth, even if it is
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  Speaker 2: even if it means destroying entire American industries, is not winning.
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  Speaker 2: We don't measure success simply by stock indexes or trade volumes.
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  Speaker 2: We measure it by how actual people are doing in
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  Speaker 2: this country. All right, we're going to take a quick break.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to talk about President
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  Speaker 2: Trump dismantling another dogmatic view of the political left and
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  Speaker 2: right that has not been challenged, frankly, in decades.
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  Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know that this dogmatic view of free trade
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  Speaker 2: is not simply tied to economic policy, but foreign policy
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  Speaker 2: in general.
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  Speaker 1: Here was George W.
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  Speaker 4: Bush.
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  Speaker 7: What's interesting about our country, if you study history, is
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  Speaker 7: that there are some isms that occasionally pop up. One
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  Speaker 7: is isolationism, and it's evil twin protectionism, and it's evil
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  Speaker 7: triplet nativism.
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  Speaker 1: Isolationism, protectionism, nativism.
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  Speaker 2: Altogether, the dogmatic commitment to free trade is not merely economic.
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  Speaker 2: It is a pillar of a broader foreign policy ideology.
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  Speaker 1: Rooted in globalism. And leaders like George W.
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  Speaker 2: Bush treated free trade as a moral obligation tied to
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  Speaker 2: America's role as the steward of a liberal international order.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why Bush constantly criticized protectionism, and isolationism in
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  Speaker 2: the same breath. To him, tariffs weren't just bad economics,
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  Speaker 2: they were a rejection of America's global mission.
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  Speaker 1: And this ideology.
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  Speaker 2: Assumed that dismantling economic borders would naturally lead to peace, prosperity,
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  Speaker 2: and the spread of liberal democracy abroad.
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  Speaker 1: But in practice, what happened? It conflated the health.
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  Speaker 2: And multinational markets with national strength And it ignored the
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  Speaker 2: toll this approach took on American workers and industries. And
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  Speaker 2: we're not better off today. So in other words, this
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  Speaker 2: worldview was catastrophic. Under Bush, China was granted permanent normal
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  Speaker 2: trade relations status and later joined the World Trade Organization.
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  Speaker 2: Moves that devastated U.S. manufacturing while enriching the CCP. We
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  Speaker 2: were told, oh, this would destroy the CCP, right? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they would stop being communist now. No, there's still a
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  Speaker 2: horrible regime and they still use slave labor. that we
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  Speaker 2: can't compete with. At home, whole swaths of the country
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  Speaker 2: were hollowed out as factories closed, jobs were offshored, and
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  Speaker 2: once thriving towns were left to decay. And just as
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  Speaker 2: free trade was supposed to spread democracy and prosperity, so
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  Speaker 2: too were the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, framed as
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  Speaker 2: moral crusades for the liberal order. Both failed, Iraq and
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  Speaker 2: Afghanistan ended in chaos and retreat, just as free trade
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  Speaker 2: hollowed out American industry. So together they show that exporting
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  Speaker 2: values abroad while neglecting national interests at home is a
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  Speaker 2: losing strategy. Bush's legacy reveals that the marriage of free
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  Speaker 2: trade fundamentalism with interventionist foreign policy didn't make America stronger.
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  Speaker 2: It made us weaker, more dependent, less sovereign. And Iraq
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  Speaker 2: and Afghanistan are not the only examples.
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  Speaker 1: This week, LifeSite News.
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  Speaker 2: Sat down with the head of the German ring of
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  Speaker 2: Christian Solidarity International.
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  Speaker 1: He's a priest.
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  Speaker 2: And he recounted a harrowing report on Christian persecution in Syria. Today,
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  Speaker 2: with Assad overthrown and a former Al-Qaeda warlord in power,
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  Speaker 2: Christians in Syria have faced escalating religious persecution and coercion
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  Speaker 2: under the new Islamist regime. Christian children are forced to
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  Speaker 2: wear hijabs, recite Quranic verses in school, and face expulsion
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  Speaker 2: if they refuse. At military checkpoints, Christians are not allowed
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  Speaker 2: to pass unless they recite the Islamic creed, so essentially
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  Speaker 2: coerced into false conversion under threat of violence or beatings.
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  Speaker 2: Entire communities live in fear watching Alawite and Christian neighbors
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  Speaker 2: slaughtered in mass killings while knowing they could be next.
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  Speaker 2: Syria was once home to over two million Christians. It's
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  Speaker 2: now only a few hundred thousand left, and most of
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  Speaker 2: them see no future in their homeland. And this is
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  Speaker 2: an ancient Christian community. Same thing happened, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ancient Christian communities destroyed because the
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  Speaker 2: power vacuum allowed for Islamic extremists to then take over
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  Speaker 2: these regions. This is the brutal reality of regime change
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  Speaker 2: driven by Western globalist policy. And once again, Christians, other
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  Speaker 2: religious minorities, they are paying the price. It has not
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  Speaker 2: helped anyone.
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  Speaker 1: As well as us, right? We bankrupted ourselves with all
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  Speaker 1: these foreign wars.
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  Speaker 4: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Has routinely armed Islamist rebel groups in the name of freedom,
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  Speaker 2: destabilized secular governments like Assad's, and cheered as Western-backed uprisings
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  Speaker 2: swept through the Middle East. But rather than ushering in democracy,
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  Speaker 2: these interventionists unleashed jihadist terror, like what I just described
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  Speaker 2: in Syria. This isn't a detour from globalist agenda. It
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  Speaker 2: is the end game of it. This is what it
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  Speaker 2: looks like. This, what we're showing you right now on screen,
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  Speaker 2: the same people who told us that trade in China
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  Speaker 2: would liberalize the CCP also insisted that overthrowing Middle Eastern
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  Speaker 2: regimes would spread human rights. Has it spread human rights?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see the video I'm showing you?
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  Speaker 1: No, it has not spread human rights.
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  Speaker 2: And instead we got slave labor supply chains, fentanyl flooding
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  Speaker 2: the US, Islamist governments massacring Alawites, threatening Christians with extinction,
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  Speaker 2: Trump's economic nationalism, tariffs, border control, anti-interventionism isn't just a
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  Speaker 2: correction of bad policy. It is a moral and strategic
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  Speaker 2: reckoning with the catastrophic.
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  Speaker 1: Consequences of globalist illusion.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's this narrative that the political right and
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  Speaker 2: the political left are wildly at odds with one another.
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  Speaker 2: That's at least what Alec Baldwin said yesterday. I want
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  Speaker 2: to address this narrative head on. But first, listen to
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  Speaker 2: what Alec Baldwin has to say.
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  Speaker 8: And boy, you can see now that we are in
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  Speaker 8: a pre-Civil War culture now. When they describe things back
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  Speaker 8: then politically, there are profound differences, of course, in terms
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  Speaker 8: of just history. And age and what life was like
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  Speaker 8: back then and cotton and slavery and Lincoln and Robert E.
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  Speaker 8: Lee and so forth. There's just so many watching this
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  Speaker 8: show really reminded me of how we are in a
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  Speaker 8: very similar state now. in a pre-Civil War culture, in
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  Speaker 8: a pre-Civil War environment.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Michael brought up a good point. This guy should probably
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  Speaker 1: be in jail. He shot someone. He killed a woman.
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  Speaker 2: Also, he's advocating for like all of these gun restrictions
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  Speaker 2: and Alec Baldwin didn't follow any of the basic gun
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  Speaker 2: safety rules and then killed a woman. And it's like, it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, like you can't obviously handle a gun, but
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  Speaker 2: other people who can should not be prevented from having
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  Speaker 2: it because idiots like you don't know how to use
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  Speaker 2: a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: But aside from that, I don't buy.
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  Speaker 2: This narrative that we are in a pre-Civil War era,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: that we need to have a separation between the left
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: and the right, the Republicans and the Democrats.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: And I say that because.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: So many Democrats that I talk to are actually pretty
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: reasonable when And I've met the crazy ones. I know
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the people that are burning Teslas to the ground right now,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: people who are involved in race Marxism, burning down American
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: cities in 2020, and toppling statues of the founding father.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Those guys exist.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Those guys are unhumans, and they're crazy, and you can't
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: have a conversation with them. But there are a lot
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: of people who vote for the Democratic Party who I
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: am able to have a conversation with. And I bring
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: this up a lot, you guys, because my family is
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a purple family.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Some of my.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: my aunts and uncles vote Republican, other ones vote Democrat.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: And even my Bernie bro grandparents, they're pretty reasonable. We
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: don't see eye to eye, but we have the same goals.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: We want America to be a strong, thriving country. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: on things like the war in Iraq and Afghanistan being
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: a disaster.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: We both agree on that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It was funny, my grandmother, she's now gone. She died
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: last summer, but she was A fascinating lady, and I
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: remember back before Obama was elected, she would stand on
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: street corners protesting the war in Iraq in her little hometown.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Nobody was paying attention. He'd be there with three other liberals.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: At the time, I think my dad was like, this
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: is just crazy. Obviously, we need to be in Iraq
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: and Afghanistan, as all Republicans felt at that time.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: It turns out she was right.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: And I think there's a lot of times where we're
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: seeing a sort of a reckoning among Republicans and Democrats
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: where there are things actually that we agree on that
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: we for some reason were pitted against each other with.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: And Trump has been really the ideological bridge here. The
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: real divide isn't so much Democrat versus Republican anymore. I
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: think it's populism versus globalism. Things are in flux and
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: it can feel chaotic, yes. And I think that plays
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: into the hysteria from somebody like Alec Baldwin, who by
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the way is probably one of these crazy individuals who
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I said you can't really have a conversation with. But
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: most working class Americans, regardless of party, are starting to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: agree on more than the media wants to admit. Some
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: may find Trump distasteful, that's true. And many didn't vote
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: for him for that reason because they don't like the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: way he is personality wise. But most of us want
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: secure borders, affordable groceries, honest schools, a government that puts
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: its own people first. And that unity scares the ruling class,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: which is why they keep feeding us the script that
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: there's an irreconcilable division in the country. But when you
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: listen to people and not pundits, you hear something different.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Oftentimes you hear common sense.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Most Democrats are not unhumans.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: And like I said, that unity scares the ruling class,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: which is why they keep feeding us the script about
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: reconcilable division. Because if working class Americans realize how much
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: they actually agree on faith, on family, sovereignty, fairness, it
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: threatens the whole game. The elites rely on chaos and
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: confusion to keep power centralized and unaccountable. Populist unity means
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: they can't divide and conquer anymore. It means their grip
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: on the narrative, the economy, and even our cultural institutions
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: starts to slip.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And it's slipping.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: By the way, guys, the hill is decided to write
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: a story about me yesterday, which was kind of fun
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: to see.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: So after the show, I tweeted this.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I said, my baby sister was born with two holes
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: in her heart and needed a very risky surgery. My
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: father at Sec Duffy knew he needed to be home
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: with his newborn daughter, my mother, and my eight siblings.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: So my dad resigned.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: What he did not do was demand an unconstitutional exception
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: that would allow him to vote remotely. He viewed his
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: job in Congress as a responsibility and a privilege, not
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: an entitlement. If you are unable to fulfill the duties
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: required as a member of Congress because you are a
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: parent of a small child, feel free to resign.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Many have before.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: And this is, of course, in reaction to a bunch
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: of Republicans, including especially Annapolina Luna. derailing the voting yesterday
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: and for the entire week, actually, because they want to
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: have parents of small children be allowed to vote remotely
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: in Congress.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: And I am very much against this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I think I explained in a lot of detail yesterday
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: why I'm against it. But I tweeted this out after
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the show. And so The Hill decided to do a
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: little write-up on it. And the headline reads, Sean Duffy's
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: daughter lays into Luna proxy voting push feel free to resign.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And that's like a quote from me.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: And I just want to say that the headline is
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a little bit misleading here because I didn't even mention
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Annapolina Luna in that tweet. And I'm going to reiterate
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: something that I said in the show yesterday. I disagree
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: with Annapolina Luna on this issue. I don't think that
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: she should be, however, primaried. I think this is just
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: one issue I disagree with her on. I don't want
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: her to be gone. I don't hate Annapolina Luna. And
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I think she's generally very good at her job. And
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: so I don't want there to be anything taken away
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: from that, that little write-up, just correcting the record for
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: those of you who listen to me on this show.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I don't think we should have congressional rules change. I
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: think it opens up for abuse. I think if you
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: want to stay home with your baby, you should quit
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and let somebody else take your job. But I don't
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: think that Annapalina Luna needs to go. I think she
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: does a good job. And I think this is what
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Dan says, right? Michael, he says like plus one, minus
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: one with some of these members of Congress. Is that
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: plus one, minus one? Or is it plus one minus two?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it feels like plus one minus two. But the
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: point is that you have these numbers and it's never
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: going to be somebody who's perfect. It's just never going
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: to be that way. It's always going to be plus
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: one minus one with these guys. And you can primary
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: them and replace them with somebody else and you may
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: get somebody worse. Unless you're Tom Tiffany from my district
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, Wisconsin 7th District. And then I agree with
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: everything that he does. Like that guy, he just You guys,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin 7th District, he votes awesome.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I wonder what Tom Tiffany voted on this
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: one issue. And I'm always happy. The guy is just awesome.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I couldn't have thought of a better person to replace
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: my dad. I didn't even know what to think when
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: he replaced him after my dad left Congress because of
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: this heart issue with my little sister. And he has
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: done such an incredible job. And it's so crazy. This
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: is what I was talking about with there being so
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: much more that we agree on than so many led
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: on because that district, the 7th District of Wisconsin, kind
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: of in the middle part of the state, a lot
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: of farmland, and it was represented by a Democrat, David Obie,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: for over 40 years. He was a very powerful Democrat.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: He was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. And suddenly,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: my dad gone into office, and that would have been 2010,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the district started to shift. Wisconsin started to shift as
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: these working class people in the state realized that the
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Democratic Party, but also establishment GOP, had abandoned them.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And so this was an.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Area of Wisconsin that was Obama twice and then switched
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: over for President Trump twice.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And it's just fascinating.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: To see there be so much actual consensus that is
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: unrecognized as we keep hearing all of this hysteria over
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: America has nothing in common. We are all just infighting constantly.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: And that was a picture of Tom Tiffany.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael. He's a great guy, a great replacement.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: And never, I think, would somebody like David Obie have
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: imagined while he was in office that his district would
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: be represented by somebody like my dad or somebody like
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Tom Tiffany.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: It's such a sign of the changing times. What I
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: will say is that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: At least no one in the GOP is as unserious
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: and embarrassing as, of course, the most stupid Democrat representative
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: in Congress, Representative Jasmine Crockett. I can't even believe that
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: she said this during a hearing yesterday, but she did.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Take a listen. Say because you've been gracious is this.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: When I first became a public defender, I had no
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: criminal defense experience. And I walked in and I told
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: my boss, Charlie. I said, listen, you should hire me.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: He said, why? I said, because I'm black. Charlie looked
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: at me like I was crazy.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Because that is a crazy thing to say. But we know, Jasmine,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: we know that you're a DEI hire.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I can tell.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: It's pretty obvious from the way that you behave. Crockett
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: shared this story about her early career as a public defender,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: where she confidently requested a job despite lacking any criminal
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: defense experience.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And she told her potential employer, who I guess hired her,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that they should hire her because she's black.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: So Crockett is literally admitting to being a DEI hire.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: She admits, I had no criminal defense experience. And then
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: she got her first job as a prosecutor after telling
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: her employer, hire me because I'm black. And what's most
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: disturbing isn't just that Crockett admitted openly to being a
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: DEI hire, it's that she sees nothing wrong with it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: This is a twisted system that rewards identity over competence.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: And ultimately it does real harm to minorities who actually
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: have earned their place through merit.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: There are black and brown people who have worked very.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Hard and become very accomplished because of excellence and because
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: of hard work. But when DEI comes, over the top
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: as the default, their achievements are immediately called into question.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Did they earn it or were they just checking a box?
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden said on the record that he would only
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: pick a black VP. And that's exactly what he did
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: with Kamala Harris. No open competition, no search for the
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: most qualified candidate, just race and gender.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And what was the result? Kamala Harris. And it hurt her.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: It did it hurt her.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think she is a DEI hire and
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I think she's very dumb, but all of America, Even
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: people who liked DEI knew that she was a DEI hire.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: And the approval ratings were consistently underwater. And the public
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: remarks that she made would veer into incoherence to the
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: point where some people sincerely believe that she's just constantly tipsy.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: DEI does not uplift minorities.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It diminishes them.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: It tells the world, we didn't earn our spot, that
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: we're here for optics, not excellence. And for those of
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: us who have actually worked and studied and sacrificed and
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: built something real, This is a deep, deep personal insult.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: And nowhere is DEI worse than the university system. And
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: part of why DEI has been able to thrive on
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: college campuses is because of how overblown the administrations are.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: At most universities, the administrators outnumber the professors. And at
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: some schools, the administrators outnumber the students.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: If you know your.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: History, for hundreds of years, universities conducted research and managed
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: classrooms without bureaucrats. And non-instructional functions were handled by faculty
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: department heads. It was kind of like these wonderful research
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: self-run institutions.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: It was kind of beautiful.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: And now we have all these administrators. And what do
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: the administrators do? Because I don't think, if you're somebody
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: who went to school, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, you don't
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: even know how bad things have gotten in the education system.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Like what have these administrators really done to the schools?
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a few things. First of all,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: they make the day-to-day lives of students and professors a
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: lot harder. So if you want to dual enroll in
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: a course or you want to take an independent study,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: you have to go through like five different administrators. And
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: the only person you should really need the approval of
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: is of course the professors involved in this dual enrollment
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: and then a department head. But again, you have all
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: these barriers to just doing things.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: That are.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Should not be this difficult.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: And the administrators are also responsible for DEI, these diversity
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: and equity offices.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: These aren't professors running them. These are professional bureaucrats.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: They are the reason for the mandatory sensitivity training that
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: students have to go through the moment they get on campus. Yeah,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I had to sit through like hours of sensitivity training
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: at UChicago.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: It was horrible.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I also had to do an online, I had to
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: do multiple online courses. Every year I had to do
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a sensitivity online course. And then of course my freshman
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: year I had to be there in person. And they
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: wouldn't let you go to class unless you like, I
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: don't know if that was a real threat, like if
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: they really wouldn't let you go to class, but they said, oh,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: you want people to go to class if you don't
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: like complete this training in person, where they just like
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: lectured you about diversity and equity for hours. The administrators
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: also mandate racial quotas that diminishes the quality of professors.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: So they'll say, okay, physics department, you guys have to
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: have this percentage at least of black and brown people,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: or this percentage at least of gender or sexual minorities.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And then of course, what does that do?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: That means that you're not hiring the most qualified person,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you are trying to fill these diversity quotas.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: So it diminishes the quality of the instructors.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: And these administrators also create the speech codes on campus
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: that chill free speech, making it against school rules to
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: believe in things like biological reality.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Otherwise, well, you're guilty of hate speech.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Studies also show that university bureaucrats are even more left
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: wing than the professors. So leftist faculty outnumber their conservative
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: counterparts six to one. But leftist campus bureaucrats outnumber conservative
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: students 12 to one. There's just like a crazy number
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: of insane left-wing bureaucrats who are running these schools who
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: never even used to be part of the university system
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: until really recently. My biggest gripe with the administrators is
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: what happened during COVID. We had these communist reporting systems
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: where they would say, okay, if you, well, it was
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: a requirement actually. So I had to sign a document
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: that said, basically, I agree that if I see somebody
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a professor or a student violating school COVID rules, like
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: not wearing a mask properly or not being socially distanced
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: or whatever, then I agree to report them to the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: university system so that they can discipline the professor or
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the student who I'm reporting. They mandated a communist style,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: a CCP style snitch list. They were also responsible for
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: the vaccine and booster mandates, the mask mandates. All of
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: the horrible things that happened during COVID on college campuses,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: including expelling students for refusing to get boosters, that all
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: was because of the administrators, who also, by the way,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: are a huge reason why college is so expensive today.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: You have to pay for all these people's jobs with
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: your tuition dollars.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: So of course, this is why the education system is
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: so incredibly expensive, way more unaffordable than it used to be.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: And now why am I bringing all of this up?
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: because I have an incredible story to share with you.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: This is truly the greatest thing that I have seen
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: all week. A Brown University student, his name is Alexis Shi,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: he created a public database mapping the university's 3,805 non-faculty employees,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: and he sent each one an email.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And in the email, he asked a simple question. What
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: do you do all day? That's what, what do you
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: do all day to each of them?
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: And this email, of course, hilariously is a spinoff of
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: what the Elon Musk Doge team sent to federal workers
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: requesting that they outline their job duties. And now she
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: said he compiled this database using publicly available information, including
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: job postings, student newsletter, LinkedIn profiles. And then he used
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: ChatGPT to rank administrators by their operational importance. And he
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: said his investigation was driven by concerns over rising tuition costs,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: which again, I pointed out, he's very right to be
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: concerned about it because fees have risen over $ 93, 000 at
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Brown University and the school runs a $ 46 million annual
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: budget deficit.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: So it's a fair question to ask these administrators, what
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: do you do all day?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I'd say the people responsible for making tuition wildly more
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: affordable should be able to answer this question.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Here was Alex.
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: You got that right. Last week, I sent about 3,805
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: emails to administrators all across Brown University to answer a
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: simple question. Why is our tuition rising to $ 93, 000 a
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: year next year? And by the end of the decade,
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: it's easily going to reach six figures. And I'll tell
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: you where that money's not going. It's not going to
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: the facilities, that's for sure. I'm in the basement of
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: of my dorm right now at Brown University. And this room,
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: this floods whenever it rains. This room floods. And we've
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: got a fan going in the background. We've got these
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: wet floor signs all around. There's a plastic tarp on
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: the floor that I'm sitting on right now because this room,
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: they can't keep the basements from flooding. And we all
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: know that those professors are criminally underpaid.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: So where does the money go?
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: It goes to about 3,805 administrators. That's more than twice
• 37:51
  Speaker 9: as many as the number of faculty that's on staff.
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: It's also about one for every two undergrads. Brown's not
• 37:58
  Speaker 9: a big state school. It's only got about 7,200 undergrads.
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: And so I think it's ridiculous.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: By the way, I just want to bring this up
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: because I think Jordan Peterson said this, and it was
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: a really good point. We have a lot of Marxist
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: professors on campus, like a lot of Marxist professors. And
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: this is like decades of cultural Marxist infiltration into the
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: school system.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: But there's also something to be.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Said about not paying professors very well to where they're
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: struggling to be professors. And then them siding with Marxism
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: in every case because they love the idea of redistribution.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: We should be paying our professors well.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: We should be not paying them criminally low wages because
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: we have to fund over 3,000 administrators who do absolutely
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: nothing all day. And they do do nothing because Alex's
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: email that he sent to over 3,000 got only 20 replies,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: including a classy, F you. And another one that reads,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: stick an entire cactus up your ass. One of the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: administrators responded to him with that. And then Brown told
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: all the employees not to respond since things, you know,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: they didn't want the students to expose how stupid these
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: administrative roles are. And things then escalated really fast. Alex's
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: social security number was leaked. His site was hacked from
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: a Brown IP address. His inbox was flooded with porn spam.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: And within two days, he was under investigation by the university.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And he won't even believe what he's under investigation by
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: the university for. Emotional psychological harm, misrepresentation, invasion of privacy,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: and violation of operational rules. This kid used publicly sourced
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: data to ask Very fairly, the administrator's, what do you
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: do all day? And he's being investigated by the university
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: for emotional psychological harm and violation of operational rules. What
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: does that even mean, violation? What rules did he violate?
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: And then an associate dean, whose job, by the way,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Alex's motto flagged as a redundant job, like a completely
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: pointless role. This dean ordered Alex to return any confidential
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: information that he had collected. But of course, as Alex
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: pointed out, All of this came from public sources.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: This is just ridiculous. He just poked a little.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Bit this Leviathan and it came out and attacked him.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: And this story is so incredible because it exposes the
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: rot at the heart of modern academia and overgrown hyper-political
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: bureaucracy that reacts with venom when held to account. Alex
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: did what every concerned student should feel empowered to do.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Ask a basic rational question about where your tuition dollars
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: are going, especially when those tuition dollars are now totaling
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: over $ 93, 000 a year. I mean, that is insane. The
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: school runs a massive deficit. The people are complaining constantly
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: about student loan debt. And I know that it's really
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: difficult for a lot of older people who paid off
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: their student loans or who didn't have any at all.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: to sympathize with young people who chose to take out
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: these loans, but the reality is if you want an education,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to take out an exorbitant amount of
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: loans because our education system is so expensive because we
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: have all of these bureaucrats who have no role in
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: the university system.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be there. They don't do anything.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Obviously, it would be easy for them to just respond
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: to Alex's question. Oh, well, my job is very justified.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Here's why.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: And instead of receiving transparency, this kid got threats, vulgar insults,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: and a full-blown investigation for emotional harm. Also, fun fact,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Brown has an endowment of $ 7.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: 2 billion.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just absurd the amount of money that
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: they're fleecing from these kids and then justifying all of
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: these roles that do absolutely nothing.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: It's absurd.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: And the reaction from a corrupt system terrified of scrutiny
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: is really what happened here. And what's most obscene is that, again,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the reaction, the university telling employees don't reply, and then
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Alex's social security number reportedly getting leaked, his email flooded
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: with porn, all of.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: This because he asked, what do you do all day?
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Proves the point that these administrators aren't just useless, they're
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: hostile to accountability and actively make students' lives worse. And
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: remember this, we don't need student debt forgiveness. We need
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: to fire 99.9% of all these bureaucrats and restore the
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: universities to its original purpose, which is learning, teaching, and
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: the truth. And by the way, I think if the
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Trump admin really wants to have an impact on the
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: university system and on the exorbitant amount of tuition that
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: it costs to get an education in this country, then
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: they would withhold funding until the schools, say, have one
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: administrator to 100 students.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe not even that.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Like I said, there were virtually zero administrators at universities
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: for hundreds of years. But these guys got to go.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about Texas. Again, Texas is back
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: in the news. We talked about it yesterday with this Islamic.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Commune that I guess they're trying to create in the
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: middle of Texas.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Yesterday, the Texas House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: March 23rd as Pakistan Day, recognizing the contributions of over 80,000
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Pakistani Texans. And this was authored by Representative Suleiman Lanani.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: And the resolution celebrates the cultural, professional, and economic impact
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: of the Pakistani community.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Here is Suleiman.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Ms. Speaker.
• 43:38
  Speaker 10: Members, I'm honored to recognize Pakistan Day at the Capitol,
• 43:42
  Speaker 10: and the Pakistan Day is actually found on March 23rd,
• 43:46
  Speaker 10: but we're celebrating it earlier today. Pakistani Texans contribute to
• 43:50
  Speaker 10: the economic and cultural success of our state, bringing connections
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: between Texas and Pakistan through education, business, and civic engagement.
• 44:01
  Speaker 10: Recognizing this day here in the Texas House is not
• 44:04
  Speaker 10: just about honoring history, but about celebrating the deep cultural
• 44:08
  Speaker 10: and economic ties that unite us.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: On this occasion, we celebrate the heritage, achievement, and impact
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: of all Pakistani American community, and we reaffirm our commitment
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: to diversity, mutual respect, and collaboration.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Speaker.
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: I move for adoption.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: The question occurs in the adoption of the resolution. Is
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: there any objection?
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: The chair is none.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: The resolution is adopted.
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Now, of course, this comes amid the growing controversy over
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: the real estate project that we covered yesterday. The epic city,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: which Texas officials have criticized as a potential Sharia city.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: There are plans to, of course, create this over 400
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: acre Islamic settlement in the middle of Texas. And only
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: five lawmakers voted against this Texas recognized Pakistan day. What
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: are Republican lawmakers doing in Texas right now? Texans in
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: the chat, what the heck is going on in your state?
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Don't mess with Texas and we're like, bleed red. This
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: very obviously is not only a waste of time, but
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: it is very dumb and clearly progressive. America should not
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: be passing legislation celebrating foreign countries or various minority groups.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: This is clearly wrapped up in diversity obsessions of the left.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: The guy said it in the soundbite I just played.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to celebrate the diversity of Texas. The goal
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: of the legislature in Texas should be to promote assimilation
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: of Pakistanis who happen to be here.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I want to celebrate you Pakistanis becoming Americans because you're
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: here in this country. Pakistan Day resolution is pointless pandering
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: and it's wrapped up again in progressive identity politics, which
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: we should be opposing at all.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: At all fronts. Also, Pakistan, and this is an.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Important point, a country where Christians are jailed and lynched
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: for their faith, where young girls are kidnapped and forcibly converted,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: and where blasphemy laws terrorize religious minorities. So it's pretty
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: absurd for Texas lawmakers to officially honor a nation that
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: actively persecutes Christians, given that we are a Christian country.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: That's how we were founded.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Republicans need to get a whole lot braver, a whole
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: lot smarter. I don't know what's going on in Texas,
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: but this was really Really stupid of them. Stop voting
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: for this crap. It doesn't mean you hate Pakistanis. It
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: means you aren't playing into these little identity politics games
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the left likes to force on everyone. Again, this is
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: just empty pandering. It's a symbol that even in Texas,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Republicans are afraid to stand firm on basic principles. We
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: should not be normalizing foreign national pride in American legislatures.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't even make sense. What is the benefit
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: to America to promote Pakistani pride. We don't need more
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: celebrations of cultural enclaves. We need a unified American culture
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: rooted in shared values. And let's be honest, if the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: resolution had been about honoring a Christian European country, it
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: never would have made it to the floor. That's how
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: deep the diversity cult has wrapped itself in even red
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: state priorities. Texans didn't elect Republicans to rubber stamp progressive symbolism.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: They didn't.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: All right, I want to cover this New York Times
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: article from earlier this week. So the New York Times
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: published this piece, it's titled, This Baby Was Carefully Selected
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: as an Embryo. And the article explores the rapid rise
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: of polygenic embryo screening, a technology that allows prospective parents
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: to assess embryos for risks of various diseases and traits
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: from heart disease and autism to height and intelligence. And
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: this approach goes beyond traditional single gene testing and instead
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: uses complex statistical models to generate probabilistic risk profiles. And
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: this technology is now being embraced by Silicon Valley elites
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: who envision a future where sex is for recreation and
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: baby making is outsourced.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: To these labs.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: It's very sort of dystopian and I would say brave
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: new world. Like it's increasingly parents are encouraged to view
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: embryos not as people, as children, but as data points
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: to be optimized. And it's subject to selection based on
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: perceived utility or desirability. So in other words, children are
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: becoming commodities with this kind of technology. And the founder
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: of one of these embryo companies called Orkin is cited
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: in the piece. And once the article was published, she
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: came out on X and she shared the article with
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: this caption. She said, when I was in elementary school,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: my mom started going blind. Retinitis pigmentosa she had and
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: no family history, no treatments, no cure. I got lucky,
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: she didn't. It let me build at Orchid Inc. So
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: my baby and everyone else's gets to win the genetic lottery,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: avoid blindness and hundreds of severe genetic diseases. I guess
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: the suggestion is that it'd be better if her mom
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: wasn't born because her mom has this horrible thing where
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: she goes blind eventually. And I bring up Brave New
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: World because in 1932, Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: was released. And in it, Huxley imagined a world where
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: babies are no longer born, but they're manufactured, optimized, and
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: sorted by genetic desirability.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: And back then, 1932, it.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: Was just creepy science fiction. And today, it is human
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: life that is being reduced to a spreadsheet.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: It's real. It's here.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: What did the founder of ORCID say? She said, I
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: got lucky.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: My mom didn't. So my baby and everyone else has
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: got to win the genetic lottery.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Let that sink in.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: She's not just saying she wants to prevent a specific illness.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: She's saying some people win and some people lose the
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: genetic lottery. And now we can pre-select winners. That's eugenics.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: That is just straight up eugenics. It's the commodification of children.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: Future people are not data points, optimized, ranked, filtered, like
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: resumes in a job application. Instead of getting rejected from
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: a job, you're discarded before you're even born. And this
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: isn't just ethically disastrous, but it's anti-human. It replaces wonder
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: with control, love with utility, turns the mystery of life
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: into a.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Product design problem. Really scary stuff.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Do I have time to cover erotic books, Michael?
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: In the men's genre. All right, let's do it. The
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: men's book world.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know a lot about because I don't read
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of men's books, but I read this fascinating
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: sub stack yesterday, and it is titled, Men's Adventure Fiction
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: on Amazon Has.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: A Harem Romance Problem, and It's Getting Worse.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Now, let me just preface this by saying that when
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: my dad was middle school age, he was not an
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: avid reader. He never really was as a young guy.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: And my dad... was just kind of like an outdoors kid,
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: like just constantly playing outside, just doing things that are athletic.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: And he's just, he was not, he was not stuck inside.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: He was not stuffy. He was not reading.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: And then something changed for him. And this is a
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: story that my dad tells, told us a lot growing up.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: So he was, he was in eighth grade going into
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: his freshman year. So that's somewhere between eighth grade and
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: freshman year. And he was riding a three wheeler with
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: one of his buddies and they hit a jump. And
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: when they hit the jump, He missed the peg on
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: the three-wheeler to like rest, like land his leg on.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: And his leg got caught underneath the machine. So he
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: was kind of like halfway off it. And he ended
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: up fracturing his leg and he needed a full cast.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: And then there went his summer.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: He couldn't do any of the things that he wanted
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: to do that summer because he had this full cast.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: And so all of his friends were trying out for
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: football and they were swimming in the lake and just
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: being boys outdoors. And then suddenly my dad was wildly
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: limited by what he could do. So he sort of
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: stuck inside. And so he started to read for the
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: first time. And that summer he read, like literally he says,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: every single Louis L'Amour book.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: And I looked it up.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: There's like over a hundred of them. Like he was
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: just like, I'm just going to read every single Louis
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: L'Amour book. Like he was obsessed with them. And from
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: then on, he became just like an avid reader. It
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: really changed his life. He said for the better that
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: he broke his leg and he was forced to read
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: that summer. And Louis L'Amour is really what men's adventure
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: fiction used to be like gritty Westerns, And there was
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: classic action tales, stories about heroism and grandeur like The
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings. And the subsect details how the
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: men's adventure genre is currently being flooded with these erotic
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: fetish-based harem novels. And these books, they feature these AI-generated
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: covers of like half-dressed supernatural women, so like elves, demons,
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: cat girls. And the storyline's centered around a male protagonist
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: who accumulates a harem of submissive female characters.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: And this includes titles like trailer park elves. We could
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: throw that up there, Mikey. No, we don't have that.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: We don't have the trailer park elves one. We have
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Red Elf Ranch.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Okay. And then we have Elf Date, a spicy elf
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: dating fantasy.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: This is what has become of.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: The men adventure genre, apparently, that is now dominating books
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: on Amazon's bestseller list. And in the male adventure category,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: you are not seeing so much the traditional adventure authors.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: We're good with that, Michael.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Now, of course, this trend mirrors what happened in women's fiction.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: It's not just a men's problem where the fantasy genres
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: have been totally overtaken by these romantic titles, like essentially
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: romance novels disguised as fantasy. And they have a lot
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: of pornographic elements. And the broader concern is that Amazon's
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: lack of oversight in category management is allowing erotic books
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: to dominate charts where they don't belong. And it's damaging
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: the visibility and credibility of legitimate genre fiction.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: And in J.R.R.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Tolkien's essay on fairy stories, it's a great essay, you
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: should all read it, Tolkien argues that fantasy and adventure
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: help us to recover a sense of wonder and provide
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: consolation in the face of human suffering in the real world.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: And male-centered adventure stories like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: provide archetypes of masculine virtues. So like courage, tempered by humility, strength,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: use for protection, leadership, rooted in service. These are not
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: about domination or indulgence, but about calling men to rise
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: beyond themselves. They teach that struggle has meaning, that evil
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: can be resisted, that goodness is worth preserving, even at
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: great cost.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: And today, so many.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Genres are flooded with shallow or cynical content, and we
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: need long-form storytelling that strives for the noble and the
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: beautiful and the true, a well-written uplifting adventure doesn't just entertain,
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: it inspires. And it reminds readers, especially young men, that
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: their lives can be stories of honor, purpose, self-giving heroism.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: So surrendering long-form adventure stories to bizarre fetish-driven erotica degrades
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: the cultural imagination that used to be just defined by
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: the adventure genre. And instead of forming minds with models
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: of courage and responsibility, this is instead encouraging detachment, passivity,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: and distorted views of relationships. And a society that trades
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: its heroic myths for pornographic spectacle is going to lose itself.
• 55:35
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• 55:37
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  Speaker 5: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
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  Speaker 5: to be joined by Daryl Dike.
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  Speaker 1: Arguably, your most impressive quality cannot be measured. You're a
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  Speaker 1: guy who is the definition of grit.
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  Speaker 2: Injuries have ended plenty of careers, but instead you decided
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  Speaker 2: yours would only be a chapter instead of the ending.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Daryl.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: That's a good intro right there.
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  Speaker 5: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: The U.S.
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