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Episode Two Hundred Sixty Two: The Slippery Soap · The Death Of Journalism

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Speaker 1: Welcomed episode two hundred and sixty two, The Death of
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Speaker 1: Journalism podcast. My name is John Zigler. I'm your host
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Speaker 1: on today's show. Illegal immigration is literally dividing the country.
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Speaker 1: More signs Trump really thinks he is a king, a
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Speaker 1: major change in leadership at CBS News. Have Taylor Swift
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Speaker 1: and the Kansas City Chiefs both suddenly finally run out
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Speaker 1: of gas. NFL announcer Mark Sanchez ends his career in
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Speaker 1: bizarre fashion. Plus updates on a bunch of compelling stories
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Speaker 1: that we have discussed recently, including the latest appeal by
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Speaker 1: Jerry Sandusky and the impending end of tackle football. As
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Speaker 1: we tape this podcast, there is no sign that the
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Speaker 1: partial federal government shutdown is going to end anytime soon.
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Speaker 1: And basically what we have so far is a situation
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Speaker 1: where what if they had a government shut down and
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Speaker 1: no one seemed to really give a damn. Other than
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Speaker 1: some flight camp installations and delays in several prominent airports
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Speaker 1: across the country, there has been no real discernible impact
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Speaker 1: on real life as of yet, and it appears as if,
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Speaker 1: and this is very unusual given the history of shutdowns,
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Speaker 1: It appears as if Republicans and Donald Trump are currently
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Speaker 1: winning the narrative battle because they've been able to I
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Speaker 1: think rightfully pinpoint that a large part of this showdown,
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Speaker 1: this shutdown, this stalemate is over the issue of healthcare
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Speaker 1: for illegal aliens. Now, it's a complex issue, but I
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Speaker 1: actually do think Republicans in the real world are in
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Speaker 1: the right on this, and I think it appears as
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Speaker 1: if they're winning the narrative, which is why they're in
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Speaker 1: no hurry to end the shutdown. Now. Hopefully eventually it
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Speaker 1: will get resolved, but as of right now, there's no
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Speaker 1: end in sight.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: The issue of illegal immigration is rearing its head on
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Speaker 1: multiple fronts, one of which is this battle over ice
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Speaker 1: and the fault lines that have really been exposed and
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Speaker 1: exacerbated in this Republic of the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: And I have talked often about how concerned I am
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Speaker 1: that we're going to be able to maintain ourselves as
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Speaker 1: the United States of America as we approach our two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence next year,
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Speaker 1: and how the Blue States and the Red States are
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Speaker 1: incredibly divided, increasingly so, and what we're seeing here with
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Speaker 1: this battle over the use of the National Guard, and
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Speaker 1: Trump's efforts in Portland and Chicago and California, and the
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Speaker 1: effort to try to protect Ice and allow Ice to
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Speaker 1: do what they're supposed to do. And how we have
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Speaker 1: seen liberal politicians in blue states simply oppose the federal government,
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Speaker 1: openly bragging about it, the Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson declaring
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Speaker 1: that he believes that the right wing in this country
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Speaker 1: wants a rematch of the Civil War. And what we
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Speaker 1: have here is blue states and blue state politicians where
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Speaker 1: they are free to be in favor of illegal immigrants
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Speaker 1: and against any enforcement of illegal immigration because of the
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Speaker 1: nature of their voter base and their chosen judges going
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Speaker 1: up against Red states and eventually presumably the United States
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. And in the short run, the Blue states
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Speaker 1: win all these battles because they get to pick their
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Speaker 1: own super liberal judges who make these sometimes insane rulings
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Speaker 1: against the Trump administration, many of which end up getting reversed.
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Speaker 1: But it takes time to go through the system, and
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Speaker 1: it takes a long time to get to the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 1: But there's no ramification, there's no accountability for the blue
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Speaker 1: state politicians who are openly defying the Trump administration and
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Speaker 1: the federal government. And look, you can disagree, and some
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Speaker 1: of these legal issues are important, and I'm not detigrating them,
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Speaker 1: I'm not discounting them.
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Speaker 2: I understand that this is.
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Speaker 1: Not totally clear cut. But the far bigger issue than
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Speaker 1: the legal ease over what the presidential authority is or
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Speaker 1: is not, is that we are seeing increasingly openly, brazenly
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Speaker 1: states that are blue just pretending as if they're not
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Speaker 1: really part of the United States of America. I talked
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Speaker 1: about this extensively a month or two ago when we
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Speaker 1: were having these alleged illegal immigration raids in southern California
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Speaker 1: where I live, which I think were greatly overblown in
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Speaker 1: the media. But I played a clip of a Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles City council woman who was questioning the LAPD police
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Speaker 1: chief and basically telling the police chief that they should
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Speaker 1: not consider themselves part of the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: That's a paraphrase, but I don't think that's an inaccurate
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Speaker 1: paraphrase of what happened. And this is happening more and
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Speaker 1: more and more and more openly, more and more brazenly,
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Speaker 1: and it's really problematic. And I think this goes way
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Speaker 1: beyond the issues of ICE, of the National Guard and
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Speaker 1: the illegal immigration. This goes fundamentally to who we are
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Speaker 1: as a country, and we're seeing it play out in
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Speaker 1: real time, and it's so obvious that this is where
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Speaker 1: we're headed. We are headed for a divorce. You cannot
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Speaker 1: exist as the United States of America when it is
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Speaker 1: so clear cut. This is not just disagreements. This is
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Speaker 1: an issue over who has the authority to do what
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Speaker 1: and to enforce the law, and whether or not we
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Speaker 1: even have.
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Speaker 2: Such a thing as citizenship.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's can't get more basic than that, do
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Speaker 1: we have citizenship in this country or not? And in
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Speaker 1: the Blue States the answer is clearly no. The Red
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Speaker 1: States it's clearly yes. And so to me, I think
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Speaker 1: the far larger, more significant issue in the big picture,
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Speaker 1: in the long run, is what this says about the
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Speaker 1: fractures in our republic, in our union, much more so
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Speaker 1: than the intricacies of the law and the battle over
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Speaker 1: who has the authority to call the National Guard and
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Speaker 1: what the role of ICE is. To me, that's all
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Speaker 1: somewhat insignificant in comparison to the big issue. But the
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Speaker 1: issue of illegal immigration clearly is significant in all this,
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Speaker 1: and we've had a situation that I'm not yet commented
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Speaker 1: on on this podcast that is really extraordinary on so
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Speaker 1: many different levels that clearly relates to the issue of
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Speaker 1: illegal immigration. And that is this bizarre tale involving the
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Speaker 1: now former superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa schools. And I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing most people listen to this podcast are aware of
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Speaker 1: this story, but if you're not, this is bonkers, even
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Speaker 1: by the standards of twenty twenty five. So there was
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Speaker 1: this guy named Ian Roberts who happened to be, although
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Speaker 1: it's not a coincidence, an African American man who was
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Speaker 1: the superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, making at least
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Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars a year, and he was arrested
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Speaker 1: by Ice because it turned out he was an illegal immigrant.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't just that he was an illegal immigrant.
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Speaker 1: When he was arrested, he had thousands of dollars in
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Speaker 1: cash and a firearm and a knife on him. He
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Speaker 1: lied about his education. His official bio said he completed
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Speaker 1: programs at Morgan State, but Morgan State said no. Roberts
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Speaker 1: did not receive any degree or certificate from Morgan State University.
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Speaker 1: He went by the heading or the title of doctor.
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Speaker 1: He never got a doctorate degree. He's an illegal alien,
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Speaker 1: but he had a driver's license, is registered to vote
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Speaker 1: and had a voting record. He refused to answer where
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Speaker 1: he was born, his country of origin, and he used
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Speaker 1: multiple birthdays in multiple states. And this guy somehow became
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Speaker 1: the superintendent of Des Moines, Iowa schools. It's just you
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Speaker 1: can't make this shit up. I mean, and let's be clear.
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Speaker 1: Let's be clear why this happened. When this happened, because
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Speaker 1: academia is totally broken. But the main reason is because
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Speaker 1: Roberts is a good looking black guy. And being a
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Speaker 1: good looking black guy in liberal academia, even in Iowa,
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Speaker 1: is kryptonite for everyone around this person. No one is
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Speaker 1: going to question a good looking black guy in academia.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to do it.
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Speaker 1: If they speak well, they look good, they're a black guy.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this is awesome. And any concerns we have,
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Speaker 1: any red flags that come up, we're just going to
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Speaker 1: ignore them, or we're going to be terrified of bringing
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Speaker 1: them up because if your suspicions are wrong, you're done.
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Speaker 1: You're a racist.
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Speaker 2: It's over.
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Speaker 1: So no one is going to bring up any sort
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Speaker 1: of concerns. No one's going to vet this kind of
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Speaker 1: a person. And this is the reality of actual, real life.
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Speaker 1: This goes way beyond this isolated circumstance involving the superintendent
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Speaker 1: of Des Moines Schools. And I've seen it in my
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Speaker 1: own experience. Not directly my own experience, but people in
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Speaker 1: my orbit have talked about very similar situations. I have
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Speaker 1: a lot of family members, including my wife, who are
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Speaker 1: school teachers. I've even referenced on this podcast previously that
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Speaker 1: there is a black male in southern California who is
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Speaker 1: basically going around year to year, hopping from school to
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Speaker 1: school as a principal. Not quite as superintendent, but a
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Speaker 1: principal is a pretty big deal. And this is not
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Speaker 1: an exaggeration. They hop around from school to school as
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Speaker 1: a principal, and they do not show up for their job.
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Speaker 1: And that's, by the way, at best, because there's some
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Speaker 1: concerns that they might be up to some behavior that's
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Speaker 1: highly inappropriate. At best, I'll just leave it at that
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Speaker 1: because I don't want to get anyone in trouble. So
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Speaker 1: at best, at best, this person does not show up
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Speaker 1: for their job. And I'm not exaggerating. They don't show
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Speaker 1: up well over fifty percent of the time, and they
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Speaker 1: just keep getting rehired and rehired. As principle, they just
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Speaker 1: get shuffled along. Ironically, one year they got put into
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Speaker 1: a DEI program. They couldn't even hack it in the
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Speaker 1: DEI program, even though they're literally the ultimate DEI higher
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Speaker 1: and the superpower is blackmail, so no one's gonna question it,
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Speaker 1: no one. You know, you can't fire the person, and
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Speaker 1: they're always going to get hired because there is such
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Speaker 1: a desire among liberal academia to have someone like that succeed.
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Speaker 1: It's the ultimate virtue signal. We've got a blackmail principle
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Speaker 1: or we got a blackmail superintendent, doesn't matter that they're
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Speaker 1: a freaking illegal alien who's lied about their entire background.
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Speaker 1: So to me, that story was so telling on so
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Speaker 1: many levels, really having not that much to do with
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Speaker 1: illegal immigration. Now I want to shift gears to President Trump.
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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about President Trump on this podcast,
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Speaker 1: and I try so hard to be fair to Trump,
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Speaker 1: but I'm really getting tired. I'm really getting tired of
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Speaker 1: a lot of Trump's antics. I think we're heading in
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Speaker 1: a very dangerous direction with a lot of this stuff.
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Speaker 1: My greatest concern about a second Trump term was that
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Speaker 1: he would be a king, that his cult would see
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Speaker 1: him as this king like figure, godlike figure, no one
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Speaker 1: would ever tell him no, all of his worst impulses
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Speaker 1: would come to fruition, and unfortunately, I think we're seeing.
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Speaker 2: A lot of that.
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Speaker 1: There's several stories that have occurred in the last week
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Speaker 1: that I think back up that fear. But I want
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Speaker 1: to start my discussion on this episode about Trump with
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Speaker 1: something that happened involving the Epstein case, and that is
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Speaker 1: that Glainne Maxwell, who was convicted in federal court of
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Speaker 1: essentially enabling Epstein's crimes, engaging in sex trafficking on his
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Speaker 1: behalf and allegedly of others, although none of those others
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Speaker 1: wherever actually mentioned. And I've said many times that I
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Speaker 1: don't know whether or not Glene Maxwell was actually guilty
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Speaker 1: of the essence of what she was accused of, but
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Speaker 1: I do know that her trial was a complete and
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Speaker 1: total joke. And we had Michael Tracy on this program
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Speaker 1: in two different parts a couple of weeks ago, and
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Speaker 1: I think he backed that assertion up with a lot
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Speaker 1: of good facts and analysis, and so Maxwell has been
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Speaker 1: appealing this bogus conviction. Again, I want to make clear,
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Speaker 1: as I've said one hundred times, Epstein guilty. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure about Maxwell's guilt. I'm positive her trial was a joke,
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Speaker 1: and she has been appealing, and she appealed her case
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Speaker 1: to the US Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: refused to take the case. Now, I have no idea
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Speaker 1: about the legalities and the legitimacy of her appeal. From
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Speaker 1: that perspective, it's a complex argument. It wasn't an argument
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Speaker 1: of innocence. It was an argument of dealing with the
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Speaker 1: plea deal that Epstein had been given and whether or
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Speaker 1: not that might have basically polluted the case against Maxwell.
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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing. But the US Supreme Court decided they weren't
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Speaker 1: going to take it. Now, I don't know if they
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Speaker 1: didn't take it because the appeal had no legal merit,
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Speaker 1: or whether they just didn't want to touch this hot potato,
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Speaker 1: or maybe a little bit of both. But regardless, Maxwell's
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Speaker 1: appeal was not taken by the US Supreme Court. So,
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Speaker 1: as you might expect, Trump was asked about this, and
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Speaker 1: he was asked about this by Caitlin Collins of CNN,
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Speaker 1: and the reason I'm playing this clip really is very
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Speaker 1: little to do with the Epstein situation, which we have
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Speaker 1: obviously covered quite a bit on this podcast. I probably
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Speaker 1: would at least mention this regardless of Trump's response. But
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Speaker 1: one of the other problems I always had with a
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Speaker 1: second Trump term is that this is a guy who
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Speaker 1: is approaching eighty years old.
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Speaker 2: He's going to be eighty very soon.
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Speaker 1: And we saw what happened with Joe Biden once he
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Speaker 1: got into his eighties, and he fell off a cliff mentally.
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Speaker 1: And I have the same concern, not because of any
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Speaker 1: anti Trump biases, because I've spent a lot of time
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Speaker 1: around very successful men, very busy men in their eighties,
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Speaker 1: and inevitably they hit a wall. Now sometimes it's eighties,
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Speaker 1: sometimes it's at eighty three, sometimes it's eighty five. Usually
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Speaker 1: it's not much further than that, but they hit a
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Speaker 1: wall and they start to degrade mentally. And I have noticed,
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Speaker 1: and I've not been in the camp of a lot
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Speaker 1: of people who are saying, oh my god, Trump has
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Speaker 1: lost his mind, because with Trump, it's very very difficult
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Speaker 1: to discern, you know, what is him joking what is
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Speaker 1: him just being Trump? What's him not being very smart?
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Speaker 2: It's there's a.
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Speaker 1: Lot of potential explanations for things that when it came
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Speaker 1: to Biden, you go, oh my god, he's losing his mind.
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Speaker 1: So it's much more difficult with Trump. He's a he's
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Speaker 1: a very slippery soap, not slope a soap, you know,
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Speaker 1: slippery bar of soap. It's very difficult to pick up
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Speaker 1: because there's always a plausible denialbility factor when it comes
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Speaker 1: to Trump and his mental acuity. He has a lot
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Speaker 1: of excuses. Oh, he's joking or you know whatever.
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 1: There's all sorts of reasons people can come up with
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Speaker 1: for why this is not an indication that Trump is
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Speaker 1: starting to lose it mentally. And it's important to point
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Speaker 1: out the clip about the play comes in the context
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Speaker 1: of the I think it was the day before most
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Speaker 1: two days before Trump made a speech in which he
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Speaker 1: went on this rant about Osama bin Laden and how
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Speaker 1: he deserves credit for at least partially credit get credit
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Speaker 1: for capturing Osama bin Laden because he warned about bin
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Speaker 1: Laden a year before nine to eleven. Even references telling
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Speaker 1: he'd hegseth or about this. Although that might have been
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Speaker 1: something that was taken out of context, which is another
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Speaker 1: example of how it's very difficult to nail Trump down
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Speaker 1: on this because he speaks so poorly at times. You
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Speaker 1: don't know, does he mean that he just told Hegseth
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Speaker 1: about this story recently, or did he tell Hegseth about
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Speaker 1: this story twenty five years ago when Hegseth would have
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Speaker 1: been like in college. You never know for sure. But
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Speaker 1: the point is that Trump went on this rant that
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Speaker 1: he deserves credit for the capture of Osama bin Laden
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Speaker 1: because no one else was ever talking about Osama bin Laden,
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Speaker 1: and he wrote about it a year in advance. Now
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Speaker 1: I've not seen any evidence of that. It's possible that
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Speaker 1: that's the case.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. That's not even the point.
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Speaker 1: The point is that Osama bin Laden was well known
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Speaker 1: as a threat to the United States for many years
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Speaker 1: before nine to eleven. I mean, my best friend in
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Speaker 1: the world, Cyrus d Usta, made a movie for ABC
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Speaker 1: called The Path to nine to eleven, which basically tells
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Speaker 1: the story of essentially almost ten years that led up
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Speaker 1: to nine to eleven, where bin Laden was central to
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Speaker 1: that entire narrative. I mean, there was a previous World
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Speaker 1: Trade Center bombing during the Clinton administration early in the
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Speaker 1: Clinton administration. You know, as a New Yorker, Trump should
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Speaker 1: know about this. But the point is that rant was
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Speaker 1: so bizarre, even by Trump's standards, that it made me think, Okay,
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Speaker 1: is this narrative that is really only gaining traction left
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Speaker 1: that Trump is starting to lose his mind?
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Speaker 2: Is there something to this?
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Speaker 1: And I'm very hesitant to accept this because I think
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Speaker 1: Trump generally is sharp.
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Speaker 2: But I think he's still at his best.
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Speaker 1: He can be funny, and obviously with his fans, he's
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Speaker 1: a very effective communicator. So We're nowhere shaped no way,
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Speaker 1: shape or form we in biden Land with regard to
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Speaker 1: Trump's declining mental acuity, at least not yet. But his
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Speaker 1: response to Caitlin Collins, I was disturbed by because here
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Speaker 1: he is in the Oval office, it's in a press conference.
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Speaker 1: This is not a situation where he's not expecting questions,
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Speaker 1: or if it's outside and he can't hear things because
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Speaker 1: a helicopter or wind or whatever. This is an environment
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Speaker 1: that is very conducive to Trump understanding.
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Speaker 2: What's going on.
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Speaker 1: The question is very straightforward. It's about a US Supreme
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Speaker 1: court case involving a character who is central to one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest controversies of the entire year that has
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Speaker 1: been a massive issue for his administration. Now I don't
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Speaker 1: think it should be because I think it's way overblown.
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Speaker 1: I don't think Trump had anything to do with this.
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything in the Epstein files that's
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Speaker 1: credible that implicates anybody other than Jeffrey Epstein. But regardless,
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Speaker 1: the perception is this is a massive news story, and
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Speaker 1: the person he's being asked about, Glenn Maxwell, is a
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Speaker 1: former friend of his, about whom he has been asked
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Speaker 1: many times. And if you don't believe that they were
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Speaker 1: formerly friends, I actually think that there's an argument that
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Speaker 1: Maxwell was at least as close to Trump, if not
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Speaker 1: closer than Trump, than Epstein was. In fact, it's logical
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Speaker 1: to me that Maxwell was the conduit between Trump and Epstein.
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Speaker 1: At least as many pictures online of Maxwell alone with
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Speaker 1: Trump at different events than there are of Trump and Epstein,
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Speaker 1: and it's clear that they had a rapport a friendship.
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Speaker 1: There's one event where there appears to be some sort
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Speaker 1: of you know, design design event, a beauty pageant type
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Speaker 1: of deal, where they're sitting next to each other with
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Speaker 1: no one else with them. So the point here is
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Speaker 1: he's being asked about a major news story and the
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Speaker 1: central figure is someone who is a friend of his
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Speaker 1: and a US Supreme Court ruling. Now I get he's
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Speaker 1: a busy guy. He may not have heard about the
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Speaker 1: US Supreme Court ruling that I'm going to give Trump
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Speaker 1: wide latitude on. But it is obvious when you listen
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Speaker 1: to this clip that at least for the first portion
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Speaker 1: of the answer, he does not know who Gleane Maxwell is.
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Speaker 1: Even says I haven't heard that name in quite a while,
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Speaker 1: which is just preposterous. It's like saying you haven't heard
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Speaker 1: the name Taylor Swift in quite a while. It's absurd
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Speaker 1: And to me, I don't think you see this is
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Speaker 1: where oh he's just he's playing he's trolling. No, he's
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Speaker 1: not playing controlling here, He's trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: Caitlyn Collins is asking him. And then he references because
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Speaker 1: he's asked about giving her a pardon, and he says
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Speaker 1: something to the effect that he may you have to
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Speaker 1: think about it. But that got completely taken out of
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Speaker 1: context because in my opinion, he doesn't even know who
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Speaker 1: the hell Khlaiyne Maxwell is. He doesn't even understand what
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Speaker 1: the question is. He's just giving a very generic answer.
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Speaker 1: Because this happens all the time when Trumps asked about pardons,
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Speaker 1: because sometimes there might be a case where he actually
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Speaker 1: finds it compelling and he wants to take a look
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Speaker 1: out at it, which I guess is a positive, right.
22:36
Speaker 1: I mean, he wants to find out the facts, but
22:38
Speaker 1: in this particular case, he should probably already know the facts,
22:42
Speaker 1: given the incredibly large nature of the story and his
22:46
Speaker 1: personal connection to Maxwell. Anyway, without further ado, here's what
22:50
Speaker 1: happened when Trump was asked about potentially pardon Glange Maxwell.
22:56
Speaker 1: And you know, you could be the judge for yourself.
22:59
Speaker 1: But to me, this is a situation where we're darn
23:02
Speaker 1: close to biden Land because Trump does not have any
23:05
Speaker 1: idea what the hell he's talking about.
23:08
Speaker 3: The Supreme Court is back and yeah, and they rejected today.
23:11
Speaker 3: I don't appeal by Blayne Maxwell to overturn her conviction.
23:15
Speaker 1: That means her only chance of getting out of prison
23:17
Speaker 1: is a pardon from you.
23:18
Speaker 3: Is that something you're who are we talking about? Billaine Maxwell?
23:23
Speaker 3: You know, I haven't heard the name in so long
23:25
Speaker 3: I can say this that I'd have to take a
23:27
Speaker 3: look at it. I would have to take a look.
23:29
Speaker 3: Did they reject that she.
23:31
Speaker 1: Wanted to appeal her conviction, said that they were not
23:33
Speaker 1: going to hear her appeal.
23:35
Speaker 3: I see, well, I'll take a look at it. I'll speak,
23:37
Speaker 3: I will speak to the DJ. I wouldn't consider it
23:40
Speaker 3: or not considered. I don't know anything about it, so
23:42
Speaker 3: but I'll speak. I will speak to the I don't know.
23:47
Speaker 3: I mean, i'd have to speak to the DJ. I'll
23:49
Speaker 3: look at it. I'll I have a lot of people
23:51
Speaker 3: have asked me for pardons. I call him puff Daddy
23:55
Speaker 3: has asked me for a pardon, and she was convicted
23:57
Speaker 3: of child sex trafficking. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to
24:00
Speaker 3: have to take a look at it, and I have
24:01
Speaker 3: to answer, DOJ. I didn't know they rejected it. I
24:04
Speaker 3: didn't know she was even asking for it.
24:06
Speaker 1: Frankly, now you may think I'm overreacting to that clip.
24:12
Speaker 1: I don't think I am, because this is a situation
24:16
Speaker 1: where Trump should not have any concerns or worries about
24:21
Speaker 1: having a coherent answer. And to me, he had no
24:27
Speaker 1: idea what the subject was. He was just trying to
24:30
Speaker 1: get through the answer and give as generic a response
24:34
Speaker 1: as possible. There were many people in the media who
24:38
Speaker 1: pretended that that meant that he is considering a pardon
24:42
Speaker 1: for Glainne Maxwell. I don't think that's the case at all.
24:45
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any chance Glainne Maxwell gets a pardon,
24:48
Speaker 1: even though I think she actually deserves one because her
24:51
Speaker 1: trial was a complete joke. I think the only chance
24:54
Speaker 1: she has is if Trump decides someone reminds him who
24:58
Speaker 1: she was, and he looks into the case and on
25:02
Speaker 1: his last day at office, then maybe he could pardon
25:06
Speaker 1: Gleainne Maxwell. But he's not going to do it anytime soon,
25:10
Speaker 1: that's for damn sure. But it was concerning to me
25:13
Speaker 1: that he didn't seem to have any understanding of who
25:17
Speaker 1: she was. He clearly had no idea about the Supreme
25:19
Speaker 1: Court case, which, again, being president, he's not going to
25:23
Speaker 1: know everything's happening in the Supreme Court immediately. I get that,
25:27
Speaker 1: but I just think I don't want to overstate this.
25:30
Speaker 1: Maybe I already have, but I think we're seeing signs
25:35
Speaker 1: as Trump is about to hit eighty that we're going
25:38
Speaker 1: to have a mental acuity problem. Going forward, and we
25:41
Speaker 1: may already have it, and it really hasn't very little
25:44
Speaker 1: to do with Trump. It's just basic human reality that
25:49
Speaker 1: men in their eighties start to lose it, especially when
25:53
Speaker 1: they're an off under an awful lot of stress, and
25:56
Speaker 1: they're extremely busy, and they have a lot of things
25:58
Speaker 1: that they have to remember and keep in mind, and
26:03
Speaker 1: they're being pulled in a million different directions. Highly unusual
26:06
Speaker 1: for people in their eighties. But when it happens to me,
26:10
Speaker 1: you know, bad things are going to occur because you're
26:13
Speaker 1: not going to be able to maintain your mental acuity.
26:16
Speaker 2: Well into your eighties.
26:18
Speaker 1: And I think we're starting to see signs of that now.
26:20
Speaker 1: How much of that concern and how real it is?
26:26
Speaker 1: You know?
26:27
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm right?
26:28
Speaker 1: And is that impacting other aspects of his presidency already?
26:32
Speaker 1: Is that an explanation for why we're seeing a lot
26:34
Speaker 1: of crazy things? I'm not sure. I actually think a
26:39
Speaker 1: lot of the crazy things we're seeing are just basically
26:42
Speaker 1: Trump's natural personality not being restricted by anyone around him,
26:47
Speaker 1: because he is essentially acting as and being seen as
26:52
Speaker 1: a king, no one around him will tell him no,
26:57
Speaker 1: and in a second term, not having to worryorry about reelection.
27:01
Speaker 1: Hopefully Trump feels free to do whatever he can get
27:05
Speaker 1: away with, and because no one in his inner circle
27:08
Speaker 1: will even think about telling him no, he can get
27:11
Speaker 1: away with anything. And we've seen it with all sorts
27:13
Speaker 1: of crazy social media posts. But there's several stories I
27:17
Speaker 1: want to just go through very quickly, which to me,
27:21
Speaker 1: if this was a Democrat, every right wing media personality
27:26
Speaker 1: would be talking about how we have a monarchy, how
27:29
Speaker 1: our president thinks that they are a king, how they
27:32
Speaker 1: are way exceeding their authority as president of the United States.
27:36
Speaker 1: And instead we've gotten crickets on all of these stories.
27:41
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to blabor any of them. I'm
27:42
Speaker 1: just going to go through them real quick. Trump put
27:45
Speaker 1: out a social media post about Al Sharpton, as if
27:49
Speaker 1: anyone gives a fuck about Al Sharpton these days. But
27:52
Speaker 1: you know, Al Sharpton bothers Donald Trump because Al Sharpton,
27:56
Speaker 1: I guess, according to Trump, back in the old days,
27:59
Speaker 1: pretended to be a Trump fan. Now, of course you
28:02
Speaker 1: know he's super liberal. He's got a show on MSNBC.
28:07
Speaker 1: It's got bad ratings according to Trump, which I have
28:10
Speaker 1: no problem believing. He writes that he has one of
28:14
Speaker 1: the lowest rated shows in television history, and he says
28:18
Speaker 1: that Universal NBC Brian Roberts, the chairman, is afraid to
28:22
Speaker 1: take him off the air because it wouldn't be politically correct.
28:25
Speaker 2: I have no problem believing that one hundred percent.
28:28
Speaker 1: They like the fact that they have a Blackmaile celebrity
28:31
Speaker 1: on their air who's a liberal, So I'm quite sure
28:35
Speaker 1: that he's being treated differently than everybody else. So I'm
28:38
Speaker 1: totally fine with everything that Trump has said, even though
28:40
Speaker 1: it's probably not appropriate for normal president of the United
28:44
Speaker 1: States to be posting about publicly, but okay, this is Trump.
28:48
Speaker 1: Then Trump writes, this is just one of the many
28:52
Speaker 1: reasons that the Federal Communication Commission should look into the
28:57
Speaker 1: license of NBC, which shows almost exclusively positive Democrat content. Likewise,
29:06
Speaker 1: ABC fake news about the same thing, ninety seven percent
29:11
Speaker 1: negative to Republicans. And that's a line that no president
29:17
Speaker 1: should ever cross, especially under these circumstances that Trump clearly
29:21
Speaker 1: had no hesitation to cross, because he's already done so
29:25
Speaker 1: when it comes to the entire Jimmy Kimmel mess, and
29:28
Speaker 1: that is using the Federal Communications Commission to threaten media outlets,
29:33
Speaker 1: in this case, trying to get them to do a
29:36
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel. Well that got reversed and fire a media
29:41
Speaker 1: personality because you don't like what they say. That is
29:46
Speaker 1: so absurd, so wrong. And yet this got zero attention
29:50
Speaker 1: because we're so damn desensitized to all of this Trump insanity,
29:55
Speaker 1: and nobody in the right wing media will say anything
29:57
Speaker 1: about this. But if a Democrat president ever said, hey,
30:01
Speaker 1: you know what, there's somebody on Fox News I really
30:04
Speaker 1: hate and I think that the Fox affiliates across the
30:06
Speaker 1: country should have their licenses looked at by the Federal
30:10
Speaker 1: Communication Commission, people would rightfully be running around with their
30:14
Speaker 1: hair on fire. But with Trump, nothing crickets. But that's
30:20
Speaker 1: just one of several stories that are very king like
30:23
Speaker 1: that have occurred in the last week. Maybe the most
30:26
Speaker 1: king like story, and to me, potentially the most offensive,
30:31
Speaker 1: is that the US Treasury confirmed that there are coins
30:38
Speaker 1: being considered to celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday
30:43
Speaker 1: that are actual currency one dollar coins that have depicted
30:50
Speaker 1: on them on both sides of the coin. Donald Trump.
30:54
Speaker 1: One is a profile picture on one side of the
30:57
Speaker 1: coin that says Liberty and seventeen seventy six to twenty
31:02
Speaker 1: twenty six, which kind of sort of implies that that
31:05
Speaker 1: might be the duration of the country as it is
31:09
Speaker 1: birth date and death date, which is certainly possible at
31:12
Speaker 1: this point.
31:12
Speaker 2: But okay, I get it.
31:13
Speaker 1: We're celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. And the
31:16
Speaker 1: other side of the coin says fight, Fight, Fight, and
31:20
Speaker 1: it has Trump in front of the American flag in
31:23
Speaker 1: what appears to be somewhat of a depiction of his
31:27
Speaker 1: reaction to getting shot last year. And this is been created,
31:36
Speaker 1: this potential coin, the design for it, the drafts have
31:41
Speaker 1: been approved and verified by the US Treasurer as being legitimate.
31:48
Speaker 1: This is under consideration as a one dollar coin in
31:53
Speaker 1: honor of America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Now, let's
31:59
Speaker 1: be clear, this is not legal. There is a law,
32:04
Speaker 1: it's a very well thought out and intentioned law that
32:09
Speaker 1: you cannot have a living person on actual US currency.
32:17
Speaker 1: So this is open and shut.
32:20
Speaker 2: Now.
32:20
Speaker 1: When asked about this, Trump administration officials have been desperately
32:25
Speaker 1: trying to avoid the issue, and they've muddled what the
32:28
Speaker 1: rules are for a commemorative coin that comes from the
32:33
Speaker 1: US mint that doesn't have any currency value, and what
32:38
Speaker 1: the proposal for this is, which is a one dollar
32:41
Speaker 1: coin an actual currency. Now I would be against this
32:45
Speaker 1: as a commemorative coin celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
32:50
Speaker 2: I mean, it's.
32:51
Speaker 1: Completely ridiculous, It's totally wrong, and every Republican who's worth
32:58
Speaker 1: their salt others should understand why. Because we don't have
33:03
Speaker 1: kings in this country? Can you obviously not see the
33:07
Speaker 1: problem with celebrating the anniversary of the declaration of into
33:12
Speaker 1: fucking pendence? What was what was the decoration of independence?
33:17
Speaker 1: We were declaring our independence from Great Britain? Why because
33:22
Speaker 1: we didn't believe in fucking kings? So how are we
33:25
Speaker 1: going to celebrate it with a coin that has our
33:28
Speaker 1: current president who's acting like a king on both sides
33:32
Speaker 1: of the coin? Are you fucking kidding me? So, even
33:36
Speaker 1: as a commemorative coin, it's wrong, But as an actual
33:39
Speaker 1: one dollar currency coin, it's illegal. And I don't know
33:44
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen here. And of course you know this
33:46
Speaker 1: is classic Trump fan reaction. Those that have a semblance
33:51
Speaker 1: of a clue as to why this is a bad idea,
33:54
Speaker 1: they just presume oh, Trump is trolling everybody, Isn't that
33:57
Speaker 1: fucking hilarious? Of course they don't care about the fact
34:00
Speaker 1: that somebody has put resources into creating this draft for
34:06
Speaker 1: this coin. We don't care about that because it's all
34:09
Speaker 1: about owning the libs. It's all about the troll It's
34:14
Speaker 1: all about how hilarious this is. And of course then
34:17
Speaker 1: there's other people just don't give a fuck because they
34:20
Speaker 1: view Trump as a king, whether they admit it or not.
34:23
Speaker 1: But if this happens, this would be so far over
34:26
Speaker 1: the line, so in such a clear and obvious fashion that,
34:31
Speaker 1: you know what, even though it seems like a strange
34:33
Speaker 1: hill to die on, if that occurs, that would be
34:37
Speaker 1: the point where I think I'm out. I'm out completely.
34:40
Speaker 1: On the second Trump administration, I was never a fan
34:43
Speaker 1: of it.
34:44
Speaker 2: I had concerns about it.
34:45
Speaker 1: I helped my friend Steve Cortes as a consultant for
34:49
Speaker 1: a pro Trump super pack because I was helping out
34:51
Speaker 1: a friend and I didn't want Kamala Harris to be president.
34:55
Speaker 1: But there was never any good scenario for the twenty
34:58
Speaker 1: twenty four election to me, philosophically, from a principal perspective,
35:03
Speaker 1: if that actually happens.
35:05
Speaker 2: A large part of me still thinks there's no way
35:07
Speaker 2: this can happen.
35:08
Speaker 1: This can't be real. Even in the Trump administration. This
35:12
Speaker 1: cannot happen. But if it does, I'm sorry. That is
35:16
Speaker 1: a line that cannot be crossed. Even though it's totally symbolic,
35:18
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean very much in the larger scheme of things.
35:22
Speaker 1: To me, it would be very, very significant. So I'm
35:24
Speaker 1: not just no, I'm not just hell no. I'm absolutely
35:28
Speaker 1: fucking not on the idea of a Trump coin celebrating
35:32
Speaker 1: the two hundred.
35:33
Speaker 2: And fiftieth anniversary of the origins of the United States
35:36
Speaker 2: of America.
35:37
Speaker 1: But Trump is a king, doesn't stop there. A large
35:41
Speaker 1: part of the whole king concept is that because of
35:46
Speaker 1: who Trump is and who he has around him, as
35:50
Speaker 1: I've already said, nobody wants to say no to him, okay,
35:55
Speaker 1: and this filters down and occasionally they will find somebody
36:02
Speaker 1: who will go, wait a minute, no, I'm not going
36:05
Speaker 1: to do this. And the way that this administration has
36:09
Speaker 1: reacted to those people very much like a mob organization,
36:14
Speaker 1: like a mafia outfit, is to me incredibly troubling and
36:20
Speaker 1: sends all sorts of bad precedence and is an incredibly
36:25
Speaker 1: slippery slope. And there's at least two stories that are
36:29
Speaker 1: remarkably similar that go right to this point. Here's a
36:33
Speaker 1: story from October third from Reuters. An FBI agent was
36:38
Speaker 1: relieved of duty for declining to arrange a purp walk
36:43
Speaker 1: of the bureau's former director, James Comy in front of
36:47
Speaker 1: news media cameras after Comy was federally charged last month.
36:51
Speaker 1: Four people briefed on the matter said last Friday that
36:57
Speaker 1: FBI agent relieved of duty for declining to arrange a
37:01
Speaker 1: perp walk. Why because this is all about Trump embarrassing Comy,
37:07
Speaker 1: who by the way, pled not guilty today at his
37:11
Speaker 1: arraignment for what I believe to be highly suspect charges
37:15
Speaker 1: of perjury that don't even make any sense, that are
37:17
Speaker 1: never going to stick in a court of law. And
37:21
Speaker 1: this is classic, in my opinion, has all the signs
37:26
Speaker 1: of retribution and hypocrisy because of what happened to Trump
37:30
Speaker 1: with the law fair in between his first and second terms.
37:35
Speaker 1: And this is because Trump hates Cally. I went into
37:38
Speaker 1: great detail in a unique commentary in the last episode of
37:42
Speaker 1: the podcast. If you did not hear it, I urge
37:44
Speaker 1: you to take a listen to it if you're open
37:45
Speaker 1: minded on the subject, because I think you'll get some
37:47
Speaker 1: insight that no one else provided on the nature of
37:50
Speaker 1: the call Me Trump relationship and why it inevitably broke down,
37:54
Speaker 1: and what's really going on here with Trump's obsession with
37:58
Speaker 1: destroying James Comy and making his life as ministerable as possible.
38:02
Speaker 1: But here we have an FBI agent, apparently Corney Reuters,
38:05
Speaker 1: relieved a duty for declining to give the king what
38:08
Speaker 1: he wanted. Then we have, and this is a New
38:11
Speaker 1: York Times report, Trump wanted to give King Charles one
38:16
Speaker 1: of President Eisenhowerd's swords. Obviously General Dwight D. Eisenhower World
38:23
Speaker 1: War Two. Trump wanted to give King Charles, with whom
38:26
Speaker 1: he recently met, one of Ike's swords. The Eisenhower Presidential
38:31
Speaker 1: Library said it could not provide one because it is
38:36
Speaker 1: government property and illegal to give it away. Now the
38:41
Speaker 1: library director has been fired. Now my guess is Trump
38:49
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with either of these actual decisions,
38:53
Speaker 1: but somebody that wanted to make sure they stayed in
38:57
Speaker 1: Trump's favor were the people that actually facilitated these actions.
39:05
Speaker 1: The relieving of duty of an FBI agent and the
39:07
Speaker 1: firing of the library director because Trump's a king and
39:12
Speaker 1: everyone wants to stay in favor with the king, which
39:16
Speaker 1: of course is particularly ironic given the fact that this
39:19
Speaker 1: story deals with King Charles, who is nowhere near as
39:23
Speaker 1: much of a king as Donald Trump as because Charles
39:26
Speaker 1: has no real power, or hardly any real power, and
39:29
Speaker 1: Trump has an increasing amount of power. And where does
39:32
Speaker 1: that power come from. It comes from the people around him,
39:36
Speaker 1: terrified of pissing him off and very eager to please him,
39:41
Speaker 1: even when it comes to firing people who did nothing
39:45
Speaker 1: but try to defend the law or basic common decency.
39:51
Speaker 1: I mean, and yet again, I'll say one more time,
39:55
Speaker 1: there's no concern about this in the right wing media zero.
39:59
Speaker 1: In fact, you even mention of you know, this seems inappropriate.
40:03
Speaker 1: This seems kind of like a monarchy. This seems like
40:07
Speaker 1: what we fought a revolutionary war against. Then you got TDS,
40:12
Speaker 1: you got Trump derangement syndrome. No, I don't have Trump
40:15
Speaker 1: arrangement syndrome. I'm simply looking at reality and understanding that
40:22
Speaker 1: if a Democrat president did anything close to these things,
40:26
Speaker 1: people would be going rightfully batshit crazy. Especially in the
40:31
Speaker 1: right wing media. By the way, as an aside on
40:35
Speaker 1: the issue of the British monarchy and when it comes
40:39
Speaker 1: to the death of journalism, I have to mention maybe
40:43
Speaker 1: the most bizarre major news interview of twenty twenty five
40:49
Speaker 1: occurred just a few days ago, and that was with
40:54
Speaker 1: Prince William, obviously the heir to the throne, probably King
40:58
Speaker 1: of England. Fairly soon as King Charles is getting on
41:01
Speaker 1: in years and has cancer. Prince William did an interview
41:07
Speaker 1: that was very significant. It's very rare for him to
41:09
Speaker 1: do a one on one sit down interview where he
41:12
Speaker 1: said some very significant things. The interview, and I'm not
41:17
Speaker 1: making this up, was with Eugene Levy. Eugene Levy, the
41:24
Speaker 1: Canadian actor comedian Eugene Levy, who, by the way, seemed
41:29
Speaker 1: as shocked as I am that he was picked to
41:32
Speaker 1: do this interview with Prince William. I mean, now, I
41:37
Speaker 1: have no idea why Prince William decided to do a
41:40
Speaker 1: major sit that interview with Eugene Levy.
41:42
Speaker 2: And you know, Eugene.
41:43
Speaker 1: Levy seems like a nice enough guy, but he's literally
41:46
Speaker 1: an actor and a comedian. Now, as far as the interview, itself.
41:51
Speaker 1: I found it kind of fascinating because Prince William outlines
41:55
Speaker 1: how his reign will be different than any other previous
41:59
Speaker 1: monarch of England. And I'm sure that to a lot
42:06
Speaker 1: of people what he said sounded really great. You know,
42:09
Speaker 1: he wants to bring change to the monarchy, he wants
42:11
Speaker 1: to bring transparency, He basically wants to bring it into
42:15
Speaker 1: the twenty first century. And I'm sure that all sounded awesome,
42:19
Speaker 1: especially I don't know, I don't know if this is
42:21
Speaker 1: a liberal conservative issue, but in my mind, you know,
42:24
Speaker 1: liberals would think, oh, that is awesome, because they always
42:26
Speaker 1: love progress and change is inherently good, and so this
42:32
Speaker 1: is this is great, a younger generation taking over the
42:35
Speaker 1: British monarchy. And my thought was, wow, Prince William just
42:41
Speaker 1: outlined that he's going to end the British monarchy. Now,
42:45
Speaker 1: some people might think that's great. I actually think weirdly
42:49
Speaker 1: the British monarchy, even though I don't like them and
42:52
Speaker 1: I have a lot of problems with it, and obviously
42:54
Speaker 1: I'm very much anti kings here in America, I think
42:58
Speaker 1: for Great Britain it actually works. It's a complicated situation.
43:03
Speaker 1: They're kind of like the mascots of the country. I
43:06
Speaker 1: mean that effectively, that's what the Royal family is. They're
43:08
Speaker 1: the mascots of Great Britain, and they bring in a
43:12
Speaker 1: lot of money, and they're a connection to this country
43:15
Speaker 1: that is no longer anything close to what it once was,
43:19
Speaker 1: to a pass that was clearly very glorious, was once
43:23
Speaker 1: by far the greatest power that had ever existed in
43:27
Speaker 1: the history of man. So there's a tremendous history there,
43:30
Speaker 1: and the monarchy is really the last link that England
43:35
Speaker 1: or Great Britain has to that. And if you're William
43:39
Speaker 1: and you're going to all of a sudden change everything
43:42
Speaker 1: and be much more open and transparent and be more
43:45
Speaker 1: a man of the people, guess what's going to happen.
43:48
Speaker 1: Whatever magic is still in existence is going to dissipate.
43:54
Speaker 1: When I saw this interview, I thought, you know what
43:56
Speaker 1: this is like Santa Claus deciding that they're gonna be
44:00
Speaker 1: far more transparent. Then they're gonna they're gonna, you know,
44:04
Speaker 1: be out there a lot more, and they're gonna give
44:06
Speaker 1: kids a tour of the South Pole, and they're gonna,
44:10
Speaker 1: you know, give up all the secrets about the elves
44:13
Speaker 1: and the reindeer, and I thought, you know, what's gonna
44:16
Speaker 1: happen in that circumstance. No one's gonna believe in Santa
44:20
Speaker 1: Claus anymore, not even seven year olds. It's not gonna
44:24
Speaker 1: happen because transparency kills the magic, it kills the mystery.
44:30
Speaker 1: And if you don't unders understand that that's part, a
44:33
Speaker 1: huge part of what you're selling as the British royal family,
44:36
Speaker 1: then you probably shouldn't be king. So, uh, that's my prediction.
44:41
Speaker 1: My prediction is will you will be very popular with
44:44
Speaker 1: the people, but probably end up ending the British monarchy
44:48
Speaker 1: as we know it because without that mystery, without that magic, uh, there,
44:53
Speaker 1: there's nothing to sell because now you're you're just a
44:57
Speaker 1: you know, you're just a normal person, just like you know,
45:01
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wait a minute, Santa Claus isn't real.
45:04
Speaker 1: I've seen with my own kids, once they realize Santa
45:07
Speaker 1: Claus isn't real, they don't give a shit about Santa
45:09
Speaker 1: Claus anymore. Even if they have suspicions that Santa Claus
45:12
Speaker 1: isn't real anymore, they don't really seem the care. So
45:16
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the same thing with the British monarchy.
45:18
Speaker 1: But from an immediate perspective, I found it fascinating that
45:21
Speaker 1: ug Levy I did not have that on my Bingo card.
45:26
Speaker 1: Then the British Monarchy, the interviews that basically sets out
45:31
Speaker 1: how the British monarchy will eventually end after all these
45:36
Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of years, was done by a Canadian comedian.
45:43
Speaker 1: What a strange world we live in now. One of
45:45
Speaker 1: the things that I often talk about on this podcast
45:49
Speaker 1: is how if you watch closely enough, the truth always
45:52
Speaker 1: comes out.
45:53
Speaker 2: And I want to.
45:55
Speaker 1: Put that on display one more time on a completely
45:58
Speaker 1: different subject, and that is the issue of right wing
46:02
Speaker 1: commentators and influencers that really frustrate me and what's really
46:08
Speaker 1: going on with them, and how they're not really in
46:11
Speaker 1: this for the truth, that they are in this for popularity.
46:16
Speaker 1: The truth is not the coin of the realm. Being
46:19
Speaker 1: popular with the Trump cult base is what really matters,
46:24
Speaker 1: and making money is what matters. So popularity and money
46:30
Speaker 1: are really the driving forces. And to me, the three
46:35
Speaker 1: major MAGA commentators that drive me the craziest because of
46:41
Speaker 1: the fact that they are all very talented, they're all
46:44
Speaker 1: very smart at times, but they also say things that
46:48
Speaker 1: are utterly absurd, totally wrong, and I'm not even sure
46:53
Speaker 1: they really believe them, because they are manipulating their audience
46:56
Speaker 1: from their own personal gain. Are Tucker car Carlson, Candace Owens,
47:02
Speaker 1: and Megan Kelly. Now they're all slightly different, but in general,
47:07
Speaker 1: and I've even tweeted this recently, of all of the
47:11
Speaker 1: Maggot commentators, there's no greater disparity between the really smart
47:16
Speaker 1: things that those three people say and the really dumb
47:20
Speaker 1: or inaccurate, totally wrong things that those three people say.
47:25
Speaker 1: See to me, like you know, a Sean Hannity or
47:28
Speaker 1: a Dan Bongino, somebody like that, I don't have any
47:31
Speaker 1: expectation for it, because they're fucking idiots. There really are morons.
47:36
Speaker 1: They're just not intelligent people. They're not talented, they're not smart,
47:41
Speaker 1: and they're just gonna give the cult what they want.
47:44
Speaker 1: But I think Megan Kelly and Tucker Carlson and Candace
47:48
Speaker 1: Owens are three very smart, very talented people who at
47:54
Speaker 1: times have said things that are absolutely fantastic, and at
47:59
Speaker 1: times they have said things that are very productive, very truthful,
48:04
Speaker 1: very productive, but all three of them have also gone off.
48:07
Speaker 2: The deep end to various degrees.
48:09
Speaker 1: Now, I would say Megan Kelly has probably gone off
48:11
Speaker 1: the deep end, less than Tucker Carlson, certainly less than
48:14
Speaker 1: Candace Owens, who is absolutely batshit crazy, especially in the
48:19
Speaker 1: wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, which she is not so
48:24
Speaker 1: subtly blaming on Israel, and that's created a whole controversy.
48:29
Speaker 2: With him the Charlie Kirk universe.
48:31
Speaker 1: But you know, I have no willingness to believe anything
48:36
Speaker 1: that Candas is saying, especially after she claimed that the
48:39
Speaker 1: wife of the President of France is a man and
48:41
Speaker 1: might be the President of France's father, that there's a
48:44
Speaker 1: lawsuit involving that, which I can't wait to see come
48:47
Speaker 1: to fruition because I think Candas is going to get
48:49
Speaker 1: destroyed on that. You know, she doesn't believe in the
48:52
Speaker 1: moon landing. And I've talked about.
48:55
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson quite a bit.
48:56
Speaker 1: I think I've been very prescient about how Tucker is
48:59
Speaker 1: no longer credible and he's losing his mind, although occasionally
49:03
Speaker 1: he has moments of lucidicity.
49:06
Speaker 2: If that's a word. He's lucid at.
49:07
Speaker 1: Times, and Megan Kelly, again, most of the time, I
49:12
Speaker 1: enjoy her commentary. A lot of times she's dead on,
49:15
Speaker 1: but when she's wrong, she's really really wrong. And my
49:17
Speaker 1: biggest problem with Megan Kelly is that she is a
49:21
Speaker 1: shape shifter who is able to mold herself for every
49:26
Speaker 1: moment in what she perceives, and she's very good at
49:29
Speaker 1: perceiving this what is in her own personal self interest
49:33
Speaker 1: in the moment, and I think she is the most
49:36
Speaker 1: duplicitous of all the major MAGA commentators in this regard.
49:42
Speaker 1: The reason I'm mentioning this now is that Megan Kelly
49:45
Speaker 1: did an interview on a podcast where she was somewhat
49:48
Speaker 1: confronted over this issue of support for Israel and the
49:54
Speaker 1: perception that two people that she has been rather easy
49:58
Speaker 1: on and at times been allied with, Tucker Carlson and
50:01
Speaker 1: Candace Owens, have become anti Israel. And I thought this
50:07
Speaker 1: clip was really interesting and very very telling about what's
50:11
Speaker 1: really going on, which is why preface this commentary with
50:15
Speaker 1: the phrase, if you watch closely enough, the truth will
50:18
Speaker 1: always come out, if only by accident, because Megan Kelly
50:22
Speaker 1: reveals in this clip to me, the Israel part of
50:25
Speaker 1: this is not that important.
50:26
Speaker 2: What's important here.
50:27
Speaker 1: Is Megan Kelly acknowledges that if it's in her self interest,
50:33
Speaker 1: if she likes somebody likes she likes Tucker and she
50:37
Speaker 1: likes Candas, and for whatever reason she perceives it in
50:40
Speaker 1: her self interest to not attack them, she will not
50:43
Speaker 1: attack them. She's admitting it openly as a way of
50:47
Speaker 1: trying to justify why she hasn't been critical of them
50:51
Speaker 1: when it comes to their attacks against Israel. And to me,
50:57
Speaker 1: I thought this was a smoking gun situation involved who
51:00
Speaker 1: Megan Kelly really is, especially when it comes to her
51:05
Speaker 1: excuses for Candace Owens, which if a man ever said
51:10
Speaker 1: them about a woman, I think there would be some
51:13
Speaker 1: very significant problems in the backlash. But here was Megan
51:16
Speaker 1: Kelly talking about Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and why
51:21
Speaker 1: she does not attack them.
51:23
Speaker 4: I know what Hamas does, trust me, and I've been
51:25
Speaker 4: covering it. But that doesn't mean that the devastation and
51:28
Speaker 4: destruction can go on forever. Israel's now taken out Hesbalah,
51:31
Speaker 4: It's decimated himas it had a war with Ron that
51:34
Speaker 4: we almost got dragged into, you know, in more full flower,
51:37
Speaker 4: it's time to wrap it up in this American's view.
51:40
Speaker 4: I am entitled to that opinion, and I will not
51:42
Speaker 4: be shamed out of it by being called an anti Semite. Now,
51:45
Speaker 4: as for my decision to platform Tucker, too bad, Too
51:50
Speaker 4: fucking bad. I love him, we're friends. I don't think
51:52
Speaker 4: he's an anti Semite at all, but I don't really care.
51:56
Speaker 4: I think Tucker's a very important, valuable voice in the
51:58
Speaker 4: national conversation.
51:59
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled. I don't know her.
52:02
Speaker 4: I don't really know her that well, although I will
52:05
Speaker 4: tell you we recently had a very nice exchange before
52:07
Speaker 4: all this, and I was just reminded in my own
52:10
Speaker 4: head that Candace is a young mom of like three
52:13
Speaker 4: young kids. She's under a lot of pressure, she's got
52:16
Speaker 4: a big show. She's been under attacked. She since she
52:20
Speaker 4: came onto the public airwaves, and she's been under attack constantly.
52:24
Speaker 4: And it's my prerogative if I say to myself, that
52:28
Speaker 4: is not someone I wish to attack. I do not
52:31
Speaker 4: feel that wave. I don't want to do it. Then
52:33
Speaker 4: I felt this way, and now that people have made
52:35
Speaker 4: my attacking her the stakes of my relationship with whatever
52:38
Speaker 4: person is saying this, I'm gonna have to say goodbye
52:40
Speaker 4: to that person. I won't do it now. It's like
52:43
Speaker 4: a point of pride. It's literally the same thing as
52:46
Speaker 4: the BLM folks trying to make you raise your fist.
52:48
Speaker 4: The answer is no.
52:50
Speaker 1: Now to me, you might not think that was significant.
52:53
Speaker 1: I found that to be very very tallic about what's
52:56
Speaker 1: really going on, especially when it comes to Megan Kelly,
52:59
Speaker 1: because I know there are a lot of people that
53:01
Speaker 1: like Megan Kelly. I like Megan Kelly, or at least
53:03
Speaker 1: I want to like Megan Kelly. But I've seen firsthand
53:07
Speaker 1: where she let clearly lets her personal biases impact her commentary.
53:14
Speaker 1: I mean, the worst example that I've talked about previously
53:17
Speaker 1: is how she tried to destroy my friend Matt Lower
53:21
Speaker 1: on sex abuse allegations that were totally bogus, and then
53:26
Speaker 1: bent over backwards to protect her buddy Pete Hegstat because
53:29
Speaker 1: it was in her self interest to do so in
53:31
Speaker 1: a situation where there was far more evidence of an
53:36
Speaker 1: actual sexual assault involving Pete Hegstat than there ever was
53:40
Speaker 1: against Matt Lauer, and she clearly, I mean, she could
53:43
Speaker 1: not have been more diametrically opposed on those two situations
53:47
Speaker 1: because her self interest was diametrically opposed. Her self interest
53:52
Speaker 1: was to go after lower to help justify why she
53:56
Speaker 1: got canned from NBC, which was really because she sucked
53:59
Speaker 1: at that job. In her were terrible, So she took
54:02
Speaker 1: it out on Matt Lauer because she likes the narrative
54:04
Speaker 1: that NBC is anti female and that everyone was protecting
54:07
Speaker 1: Matt Lauer, which was ridiculous, which was exactly the opposite. Well,
54:12
Speaker 1: Pete Hegstatt comes along, and she likes Pete, and she
54:15
Speaker 1: knows Pete, and you know, Pete's Trump favorite and a
54:19
Speaker 1: MAGA favorite, and so she gets used by heg sat
54:23
Speaker 1: to help him get through his confirmation process by getting
54:27
Speaker 1: her blessing because she's known as somebody as being, you know,
54:31
Speaker 1: very much opposed to this whole issue. Everyone is opposed
54:35
Speaker 1: to the issue of sexual assault, obviously, but this is
54:37
Speaker 1: a huge part of Megan Kelly's persona.
54:40
Speaker 2: She is perceived as.
54:42
Speaker 1: Having a lot of street cred on this issue, partially
54:45
Speaker 1: because of her attacks on Matt Lawer, ironically enough, and
54:48
Speaker 1: so therefore when she gave her blessing to Pete Hegsat,
54:51
Speaker 1: that might have been the difference between him getting confirmed
54:53
Speaker 1: and not getting confirmed. And that's just one example of
54:57
Speaker 1: the way that she does things, and to me, it's
55:00
Speaker 1: emblematic of the larger problem within the.
55:02
Speaker 2: Right wing media ecosystem.
55:05
Speaker 1: It's so incestuous, it's all about grifting. Many of these
55:09
Speaker 1: people are frauds, even the ones that are the smartest
55:12
Speaker 1: and the most talented, like Megan Kelly, like Tucker Carlson,
55:17
Speaker 1: and like Canda owns Now. There's been a major development
55:21
Speaker 1: in the mainstream news media that's gotten a lot of attention,
55:25
Speaker 1: and understandably so, and that is that Bari Weiss has
55:30
Speaker 1: sold her news organization, The Free Press, to Paramount for
55:36
Speaker 1: a ridiculous amount of money. I like one hundred and
55:38
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, which I don't even understand that valuation.
55:42
Speaker 1: This is not an area where I'm an expert, but
55:44
Speaker 1: I have enough knowledge to be very confused and skeptical
55:48
Speaker 1: about that number. That makes no.
55:50
Speaker 2: Sense to me.
55:51
Speaker 1: This seems like the biggest boondoggle since what Dave Portnoy
55:54
Speaker 1: pulled off with Barstool Sports. I mean, it's just insane
55:58
Speaker 1: that in this environment Paramount would consider The Free Press,
56:02
Speaker 1: basically just a website to be.
56:04
Speaker 2: Worth that much money.
56:05
Speaker 1: To me, it seems like the second part of this
56:08
Speaker 1: equation was what really drove the deal. It's obvious that
56:13
Speaker 1: the leaders at Paramount really liked Bari Weiss and really
56:16
Speaker 1: wanted her to bring when to bring her into the
56:19
Speaker 1: fold at CBS News in a very powerful position, and
56:24
Speaker 1: therefore she had the leverage, I guess, to be able
56:27
Speaker 1: to do a heck of a job negotiating this deal financially,
56:30
Speaker 1: because not only does the Free Press get purchased, but
56:34
Speaker 1: she becomes editor in chief of CBS News. Now, is
56:39
Speaker 1: she going to be one hundred percent in charge? It's
56:42
Speaker 1: hard to say. It's basically a co leadership situation, although
56:47
Speaker 1: she is reporting to the ultimate boss at Paramount, which
56:52
Speaker 1: seems to give her the upper hand at least as
56:54
Speaker 1: long as she's in good favor. And so Bari Weiss
56:58
Speaker 1: is going to be effectively calling the shots at CBS News.
57:04
Speaker 2: Now.
57:04
Speaker 1: Who is Bari Weiss and why does this matter? Bari
57:07
Speaker 1: Weiss is somebody who used to be an opinion editor
57:11
Speaker 1: at the New York Times, And you know, I didn't
57:14
Speaker 1: know a lot about her, but you know, if you're
57:16
Speaker 1: an opinion editor at the New York Times, you're clearly
57:19
Speaker 1: a liberal to begin with. And there was nothing about
57:21
Speaker 1: her that seemed like she was a conservative, but she
57:24
Speaker 1: had a falling out of The New York Times. She
57:27
Speaker 1: left and or was fired, and that's when she started
57:31
Speaker 1: the Free Press and where she really got on my radar.
57:34
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget this. This would have been some
57:37
Speaker 1: point in twenty twenty one, I think, probably late twenty
57:40
Speaker 1: twenty one, where she was a panelist on HBO's Real
57:45
Speaker 1: Time with Bill Maher And she became the first member
57:50
Speaker 1: of the liberal elite media that I could remember. And
57:54
Speaker 1: I was someone who was watching this as closely as
57:56
Speaker 1: possible during the entire COVID paddock, searching desperately someone within
58:01
Speaker 1: the liberal media elite to step forward and go, what
58:04
Speaker 1: the fuck are we doing here? This is insane. We've
58:08
Speaker 1: got to stop this. And Barry Weiss was the first person,
58:12
Speaker 1: to my knowledge to do this. I even tweeted about
58:15
Speaker 1: it at the time. I said thank you to barr Weiss,
58:18
Speaker 1: And the reaction of liberals was hilarious because they immediately
58:22
Speaker 1: attacked barr Weiss's liberal credentials. Oh no, she's not a
58:26
Speaker 1: member of the liberal media elite, you know, which basically
58:29
Speaker 1: means she's not insane.
58:31
Speaker 2: I mean, so.
58:34
Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for Barry Weiss for
58:36
Speaker 1: being willing and able to do that. I've followed her
58:39
Speaker 1: work a lot more since then. We've played a couple
58:42
Speaker 1: of clips over the years in this podcast from interviews
58:45
Speaker 1: that she has done. I think she's smart. I don't
58:49
Speaker 1: think she's brilliant. I mean she doesn't even believe in
58:51
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment, which goes to this other issue, which
58:55
Speaker 1: is freaking hilarious and rather telling that a lot of
58:58
Speaker 1: left wing media responses to her being named as the
59:03
Speaker 1: other in chief of CBS News have described Barry Weiss
59:07
Speaker 1: as quote center right, center right. Now. This is a
59:14
Speaker 1: way for them to create a narrative that fits their agenda,
59:21
Speaker 1: which is, you know, somehow paramounted, which just fired. Stephen
59:25
Speaker 1: Colbert has become captive of the pro Trump forces, and
59:30
Speaker 1: so they need her to be center right. Bari Weiss
59:33
Speaker 1: is not center right. She is by and large a liberal.
59:38
Speaker 1: She was not an insane person, although she was at
59:41
Speaker 1: the beginning. In fact, she even acknowledged her mistakes, which
59:44
Speaker 1: I really respected. But she was not great on COVID
59:47
Speaker 1: at the beginning, but then she learned eventually, and unlike
59:51
Speaker 1: her liberal friends, she was willing to come out and
59:53
Speaker 1: say it on HBO that this is insane what we're
59:57
Speaker 1: doing here, And so the idea that she's center right
1:00:01
Speaker 1: is absurd. If you think Barry Weiss is center right,
1:00:05
Speaker 1: then you are beyond a left wing lunatic. I don't
1:00:09
Speaker 1: know how I would describe her. I mean, she's to me,
1:00:13
Speaker 1: she's in the category of a Bob Costas, or a
1:00:17
Speaker 1: Jon Stewart, or a John Fetterman or a Bill Maher,
1:00:22
Speaker 1: you know, somebody like that who is a rational liberal,
1:00:25
Speaker 1: which I'm fine with. I mean, that's the best you're
1:00:28
Speaker 1: ever going to do, especially this date and age. And
1:00:31
Speaker 1: to have them be the head of CBS News, I
1:00:34
Speaker 1: think is generally a positive. At the very least, the
1:00:37
Speaker 1: next time we're in a moral panic, you know, and
1:00:40
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of group thing going on in the
1:00:42
Speaker 1: mainstream news media, my hope is that CBS News will
1:00:46
Speaker 1: at least take a moment before they jump in because
1:00:50
Speaker 1: Bari Weiss is in a very important and prominent, powerful
1:00:53
Speaker 1: position there. I think that's positive. Now, is this going
1:00:57
Speaker 1: to change the world. No, I don't think one person
1:01:00
Speaker 1: is going to completely change the world at CBS, and
1:01:02
Speaker 1: I think the world as it exists today cannot be
1:01:05
Speaker 1: changed by even a CBS News you know, even as
1:01:09
Speaker 1: powerful as CBS once was and as powerful as sixty
1:01:13
Speaker 1: minutes once was, we don't live in.
1:01:15
Speaker 2: That world anymore.
1:01:16
Speaker 1: Not one major mainstream legacy news outlet is going to
1:01:21
Speaker 1: be able to really change the landscape. The only way
1:01:24
Speaker 1: that the legacy media still has any legitimate power, and
1:01:28
Speaker 1: we certainly saw this during the COVID panic, is when
1:01:30
Speaker 1: they all act in unison, that's the only time, and
1:01:35
Speaker 1: so having one of them be less insane than the
1:01:38
Speaker 1: others because Bari Weiss is in charge, is a positive.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's.
1:01:43
Speaker 2: A game changer.
1:01:44
Speaker 1: Unless unless the next shoe drops, and that next shoe
1:01:50
Speaker 1: is something that I've already referred to somewhat bizarrely connected
1:01:55
Speaker 1: to me, although maybe only in fantasy, and that is,
1:02:00
Speaker 1: there is still the story out there that Paramount may
1:02:04
Speaker 1: now go ahead and purchase Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns CNN.
1:02:12
Speaker 1: Well if that happens, which I have been told reliably
1:02:15
Speaker 1: is a high likelihood, although not a certainty. But I
1:02:19
Speaker 1: was also told that we would know more information about
1:02:22
Speaker 1: that by now, and things have gone completely silent there now.
1:02:26
Speaker 1: Sometimes silence means you're about to have a major deal.
1:02:29
Speaker 1: Sometimes it means that something has gone wrong and the
1:02:33
Speaker 1: deal is not going to happen. I don't know which
1:02:35
Speaker 1: direction we're headed on this, so I honestly don't I've
1:02:38
Speaker 1: not heard anything recently. It's possible that either direction could
1:02:42
Speaker 1: could be where we're heading. So this is, you know,
1:02:44
Speaker 1: certainly is not a dead situation. There's there been no
1:02:47
Speaker 1: major reporting saying that Paramount is no longer in the
1:02:51
Speaker 1: hunt to try to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery. But if
1:02:55
Speaker 1: Paramount does do that, and I am told that even
1:03:00
Speaker 1: though that would create in theory all sorts of regulation
1:03:05
Speaker 1: problems that you know, in a rational world, a presidential
1:03:09
Speaker 1: administration might go, whoa, whoa, whoa what what?
1:03:11
Speaker 2: What?
1:03:11
Speaker 1: This is too much? You're going to own way too
1:03:13
Speaker 1: much in the media realm, you know, this is this
1:03:16
Speaker 1: is something that we can't approve of. I've been told
1:03:19
Speaker 1: that the Trump administration would look favorably upon this move,
1:03:24
Speaker 1: essentially because they like what Paramount is doing. And maybe
1:03:27
Speaker 1: Bari Weiss's is part of that equation. I don't know,
1:03:31
Speaker 1: But if that sale of Warner Brothers Discovery to Paramount
1:03:38
Speaker 1: does happen, the most logical next step would be for
1:03:43
Speaker 1: CBS News and CNN to merge. I mean, that's just
1:03:48
Speaker 1: the way things happen in this day, and that's why
1:03:51
Speaker 1: media properties buy other media properties to try to consolidate
1:03:55
Speaker 1: and cut waste and cut costs, especially with the business
1:04:00
Speaker 1: model as broken as it currently is. And if that happens,
1:04:04
Speaker 1: now Bari Weiss becomes the most powerful person in news
1:04:08
Speaker 1: because if you're running both CBS News and CNN, and
1:04:14
Speaker 1: you know, presumably that's the way this would work. This
1:04:18
Speaker 1: is all conjecture, speculation, but I think it's it's educated
1:04:21
Speaker 1: and logical. Then now we're cooking with oil. If you're
1:04:26
Speaker 1: someone who thinks that the barr Weiss hire is a
1:04:30
Speaker 1: game changer, doesn't completely change the world, But you combine
1:04:34
Speaker 1: CBS and CNN, even with both of those outlets not
1:04:38
Speaker 1: having great ratings, they have enormous credibility.
1:04:41
Speaker 2: Together, they have a wide.
1:04:43
Speaker 1: Reach, and they would become really the most powerful, you know,
1:04:49
Speaker 1: brand in news, and that would be really interesting to
1:04:53
Speaker 1: see what kind of influence barr Weiss would have at
1:04:55
Speaker 1: that time.
1:04:56
Speaker 2: But we're not there yet.
1:04:57
Speaker 1: We're not there yet, but obviously, you know, if in
1:05:00
Speaker 1: fact that happens, I'll have a lot to say about it,
1:05:04
Speaker 1: partially because it will officially end what I've known for
1:05:08
Speaker 1: a couple of years now was never going to come
1:05:10
Speaker 1: to fruition, which was the whole black Swan situation, where
1:05:13
Speaker 1: I had been promised in great, great, great absurd detail
1:05:16
Speaker 1: that I would be given a job as an executive
1:05:20
Speaker 1: and an on air person at CNN and you know,
1:05:23
Speaker 1: should paramount by Warner Brothers discovery. Something I'm actually rooting
1:05:27
Speaker 1: for is to get me some sort of psychological, permanent
1:05:31
Speaker 1: closure of that.
1:05:32
Speaker 2: Because I don't think there's any other scenario where I'll
1:05:34
Speaker 2: get it. I'll obviously have further.
1:05:36
Speaker 1: Comment on that, and I know that a lot of
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Speaker 1: you have had questions about that whole black Swan situation,
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Speaker 2: I've not yet done.
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Speaker 1: So I've been holding off because I've anticipated news on
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