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Ep 950 | Everything You Need to Know About EXPLODING PAGERS | Guest: Dan Andros · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  Great show to,
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  uh,
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  to get to here,
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  but,
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  um,
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  I know so much to talk about.
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  Dan Andrews is going to join us in a minute to cover
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  the latest inane nonsense to come out of Whoopi Goldberg's mouth,
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  but I want to start
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  with a couple of,
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  uh,
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  assassination attempt updates on the Trump story.
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  By the way,
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  we should celebrate here.
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  Uh,
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  has it been two full days now?
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  Yeah,
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  2 days
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  without
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  an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,
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  right?
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  Because the assassination attempt was,
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  was it Sunday?
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  And then we got Monday and Tuesday,
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  and now it's Wednesday.
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  So who knows?
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  We're part of the way through today too.
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  Maybe we'll go 3 full days.
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  I can't wait to find out,
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  uh,
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  tomorrow.
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  So good job everybody.
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  If you happen to be an ACT Blue donor,
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  thank you for being restrained today.
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  Uh,
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  Trump is praising the Secret Service agent at the golf course,
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  but Butler,
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  a very different story.
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  And I,
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  this is the way I kind of look at this.
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  It,
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  it's,
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  you know,
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  golf,
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  it is a difficult thing to do,
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  to have to protect a golf course when someone is out there golfing.
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  That's not an easy situation.
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  The fact that they found this guy,
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  I think is really,
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  really impressive,
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  honestly,
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  um,
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  but.
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  Again,
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  if they had more resources,
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  this would be easier.
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  They would be able to search all the stuff in advance
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  and for some reason they don't have the resources they need.
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  The USSS
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  is making a pitch here
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  for more resources while Congress seeks to hold them responsible.
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  And look,
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  they're not perfect.
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  There's a lot of complaints.
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  We've gone through a bunch of them,
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  certainly on the Pennsylvania thing.
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  I think to a lesser extent here,
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  but there's still issues here.
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  But what we keep hearing from Joe Biden and Kamala
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  Harris is they have all the resources they need.
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  They have all the resources they could possibly want.
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  We want to make sure they have everything they possibly need,
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  but the Secret Service itself is saying we don't have what we need.
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  Like
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  I,
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  I,
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  I understand that we,
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  we,
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  there's all sorts of problems at the Secret Service,
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  but they should have all the,
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  it shouldn't be a resource issue.
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  That should not be the problem.
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  Now part of this might be a little CYA going on with the Secret Service.
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  I acknowledge that,
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  but
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  At this point,
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  when you've had two assassination attempts,
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  you better make sure.
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  I mean we almost had a 3rd 1 today,
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  it looked like,
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  uh,
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  by the way,
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  that was reported that there were explosives near a rally for Trump,
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  that was debunked.
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  So if you happen to hear that rumor,
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  and it wasn't even a rumor,
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  it was reported by major news sources,
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  but that was very quickly shot down.
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  You know,
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  we'll see if anything is a new development on that over the next couple of days.
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  DeSantis is tapping Florida AG office to
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  oversee the investigation into Trump assassination attempt.
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  This is a pretty good idea.
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  There's a little bit of an issue going on
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  if the Department of Justice is leading this investigation,
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  considering they also want to throw him in prison.
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  Are they maybe not the best people to investigate the assassins
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  of Donald Trump at this point?
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  I'd say yes.
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  DeSantis will do a good job with this.
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  He'll be on top of it,
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  and that's a positive development.
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  New Jersey Democrat igniting right wing
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  by saying,
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  I love how they frame this,
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  ignites right wing by saying assassination attempts stem from rhetoric,
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  the availability of assault rifles.
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  This is
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  Again,
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  listen to the framing of that.
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  It's the,
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  the,
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  this is a Republicans pounce type of moment.
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  It ignites the right wing.
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  It's not like they should be pissed off by it or it's an insane thing to say.
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  No,
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  it,
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  it got the right wing mad,
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  and that's what we're going to cover.
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  This,
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  by the way,
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  is Representative Mikey Sherrill,
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  and I will,
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  I will be,
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  I will be honest with you.
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  I do this for a living.
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  I talk about the Congress with you every day.
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  In my entire life,
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  I have never heard the name Mikey Sherrill.
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  I did not.
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  I know it was a representative,
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  or,
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  and I say it for a reason,
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  because I didn't know what it was.
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  I read it as Mike Sherrill,
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  and then later in the story,
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  it said,
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  she said,
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  so I have no,
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  I had no idea
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  if it was a man,
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  uh transitioning to a woman,
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  or if it was just a woman with the name Mikey,
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  or I didn't know what was going on.
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  In fact,
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  I really,
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  to be honest with you,
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  still don't know what's going on.
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  I think it's just a woman with the name Mikey.
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  Uh,
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  but
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  this is what the woman with the name Mikey said.
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  The assassination attempts
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  really seems to be the confluence of two very
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  bad things going on in the Republican Party.
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  On one side,
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  attempts to divide,
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  to enrage the population,
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  to put out false rumors and misinformation
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  again.
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  Like if Donald Trump is feeding misinformation to the right,
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  which I,
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  whatever,
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  if that's what you believe,
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  fine.
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  How does that make him get shot by someone on the left?
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  I,
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  I don't understand that.
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  Can you explain that?
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  I didn't think so.
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  She also says guns are bad,
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  and that's what she went on to say.
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  So
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  we have all that,
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  and that's all going on.
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  I want to make sure you know that we're on top of it,
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  and we're going to give you all the latest as we go through the week,
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  because we can't just let assassination attempts be a one day story.
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  That's what I keep saying,
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  there are other big stories to talk about,
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  but assassination attempts,
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  not a one day story,
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  so we're going to make sure we keep covering it.
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  But let's now explode.
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  Uh,
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  well,
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  we're not going to explode,
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  we may explode,
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  but I mean.
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  If you happen to be in Lebanon yesterday,
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  you know at any point you may explode.
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  But now we're going to turn and do
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  the exploding pagers because I think that's also a massive story.
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  That is also not a one day story.
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  We covered it a little bit yesterday,
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  but
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  there's a lot going on there.
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  Let me give you the background.
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  Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers
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  that has killed at least 9 people and injured thousands.
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  Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah
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  exploded near simultaneously Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria,
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  killing at least 9 people,
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  including
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  an 8-year-old girl,
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  and wounding several 1000.
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  Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel
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  for what appeared to be a sophisticated,
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  remote
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  attack.
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  Now,
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  uh,
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  there's a lot to know about this.
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  It's a
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  fascinating story from like.
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  At the base level,
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  like a James Bond level of holy crap,
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  how do they pull this off,
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  right?
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  Like that is a major thing.
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  You hear the stories of the eight year old girl who died.
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  There's also a line there to think about when
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  you're doing something like this that obviously not everyone
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  who's going to be holding the pager at the time is going to be the Hezbollah member,
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  right?
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  Like
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  you put it out in a population,
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  who knows where these pagers go.
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  You're likely to have some collateral damage.
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  That is part of this.
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  We just don't know how much of it there was yet,
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  and we're starting to learn how it was actually accomplished,
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  which is fascinating.
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  Hezbollah pager attack details point to point
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  supply.
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  Chain infiltration
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  by Israel.
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  Many of the affected pagers were from a
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  new shipment that Hezbollah had received recently,
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  part of a nearly year-long process to swap out older devices.
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  The group,
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  I love how even terrorist groups have these IT things.
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  Like I know every time I launch my computer it's like your,
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  your organization is requiring you save password you save your password,
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  and you're like,
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  no,
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  stop it.
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  I want to just go online.
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  Even terrorist groups are leading with IT hassles,
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  and that's something that makes me feel a little bit better.
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  This was like the biggest IT hassle of all time though,
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  I will say.
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  Um,
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  anyway,
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  the group said they detonated in roughly unison at 3:30 p.m.
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  Survivors supported hearing the pagers beep and display a
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  series of numbers on their screens about 5 seconds before
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  they detonated.
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  That is an interesting detail to this.
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  If you think about it,
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  and you may have seen some of the videos
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  of pagers exploding like on the belt line or on the pocket,
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  as someone put it today,
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  um,
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  uh,
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  the ultimate,
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  birth control device for Hezbollah.
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  Um,
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  so yeah,
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  some negative injuries there.
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  But really what it was designed to do,
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  it beeped several times loudly,
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  and what do you do when you have a,
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  now I know it's 1990,
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  1994,
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  so you might not be doing anything with your pager these days,
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  but if you happen to be a drug dealer,
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  you'll understand.
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  If it's beeping like crazy,
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  you're going to pick up the pager and you're going to look at it.
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  And it was designed to be a message from Hezbollah's leadership.
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  So what are you going to do?
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  You're going to read that pretty closely.
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  And when that thing blows up,
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  where is it?
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  Right by your face,
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  right?
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  So lots of eye injuries,
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  lots of facial injuries,
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  obviously some deaths.
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  Really,
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  I mean,
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  an incredible attack to pull off,
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  but also a just gruesome one.
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  I mean it really was.
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  I don't have any sympathy
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  for Hezbollah members who are trying to kill people,
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  but
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  It is it is a gruesome,
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  gruesome thing.
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  The initial assessment is that the pagers detonated because
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  an explosive device was implanted in the new models.
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  The scenario indicates Israel found its way into Hezbollah's supply chain
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  to modify the devices
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  that were delivered.
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  First of all,
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  don't screw.
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  With Israel,
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  I think that's lesson number one.
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  But basically these pagers were
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  built and being shipped
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  to
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  Hezbollah
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  in Lebanon and I guess in Syria as well,
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  or at least some of them found their way to Syria.
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  In between that process they were intercepted and apparently
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  installed with
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  explosive devices,
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  and then some sort of hack was able to
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  potentially heat up the battery or put a switch on.
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  That was able to set off
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  all of these devices at the same time.
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  It had to be a switch because I mean the battery heating up might eventually do that,
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  but you wouldn't be able to time it exactly.
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  They were able to time it basically exactly so everyone got it at the same time.
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  The new pagers hadn't even reached all of Hezbollah's ranks,
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  and those carrying older devices were spared.
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  Some of those carrying the new devices were spared as well when they didn't
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  go off because the batteries were dead or they hadn't been turned on.
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  What's interesting about that part of it is
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  I think ideally if you're doing this attack and you're
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  trying to get to the upper levels of management,
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  you're going to wait for a while.
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  You want these things to kind of sift all the way through the organization.
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  They had to pull the trigger
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  almost literally a little early in this particular case,
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  and we think we know why now.
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  When the devices did explode,
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  those who immediately checked their pagers suffered
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  injuries to their hands and eyes,
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  while those who delayed suffered leg,
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  leg and waist injuries.
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  Ultimately,
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  the attack killed at least 12 people and injured roughly 2800.
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  And this is why though it seemed like it went a little bit early.
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  Israel conducted a Lebanon pager attack,
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  fearing Hezbollah was onto it,
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  onto the operation.
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  They said,
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  It was a use it or lose it moment,
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  one US official said,
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  describing the reasoning Israel gave the US
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  for the timing of the attack.
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  Now theoretically they haven't claimed responsibility yet.
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  Everyone kind of knows and assumes that this was
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  Israel,
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  and basically somehow Hezbollah was onto them,
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  so they were like,
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  Pull the trigger right now.
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  Let's see what we can do.
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  This obviously creates massive damage throughout
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  your organization if 3000 people.
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  Some of which will die,
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  some of which are in critical condition,
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  some of which will just have
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  holes blown in their legs.
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  It's going to be really hard to lead a battle
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  if that happens to be you and you're in Hezbollah.
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  Hezbollah is vowing to punish Israel after major explosions across Lebanon.
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  Lebanese.
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  Minister Zayad Makari
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  condemned the late afternoon detonation of the pagers,
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  handheld devices that Hezbollah and others in Lebanon
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  use to send messages as an Israeli aggression.
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  Hezbollah said Israel would receive its fair punishment for the blasts.
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  Now it's interesting because
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  Hezbollah basically only
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  changed over to pagers because they believed
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  the phones they were carrying were able to be hacked and listened to and monitored,
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  so they thought that was an operational risk.
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  The pagers didn't improve that situation,
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  let's just say,
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  and it's actually,
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  uh,
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  made it,
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  made a considerable amount worse.
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  So there's two levels to this,
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  because I think it's
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  easy,
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  and I,
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  and I don't know,
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  it's,
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  it's your initial reaction probably,
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  to look at this and say,
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  holy crap,
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  how the hell did they pull this off?
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  This is James Bond type stuff.
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  It is an amazing operation,
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  and it does show you,
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  you don't screw with Israel,
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  without any punishment.
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  Uh,
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  things are,
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  uh,
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  get negative for you and your life if you screw with Israel in this way.
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  Secondarily though,
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  Hezbollah is going to probably take some time.
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  They're going to have to assess what happened.
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  They're going to have to probably rebuild their ranks and do all sorts of things
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  to get ready for this,
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  but they're going to come back with something,
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  right?
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  Something terrible is going to happen in Israel probably as revenge for this,
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  and that's certainly what they're promising.
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  We've been able to avoid a wider war from what
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  we've seen with just Hamas and Israel so far.
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  Remember we had the Iran sending a bunch of rockets over.
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  Hezbollah has been attacking pretty much constantly.
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  They've been firing and trading
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  rockets back and forth and fire back and forth across the border.
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  You also have the Hamas thing going on.
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  We are getting closer and closer to an all-out war in the Middle East,
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  and that is,
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  while this is certainly a very highly effective act and it's hard to.
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  Certainly have any sympathy for Hezbollah members,
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  but also
• 13:52
  Have any real doubt as to if you were Israel,
• 13:55
  you'd probably do the same thing,
• 13:56
  right?
• 13:56
  You want to make sure you're taking out Hezbollah leadership,
• 13:58
  they're threatening you and they're trying to kill your people all the time.
• 14:02
  In addition to that though,
• 14:03
  it's important to understand this could get out of control quickly.
• 14:05
  It's the same thing I keep coming back to
• 14:07
  on Ukraine.
• 14:08
  Look,
• 14:08
  if I'm Ukraine,
• 14:09
  they cross my border,
• 14:10
  I'm going to do everything I can to take that land back,
• 14:12
  and I'm going to fight to the utmost of my abilities
• 14:15
  to try to get my land back and protect my people.
• 14:18
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• 14:20
  with our involvement,
• 14:22
  does this spiral into a situation where we're involved,
• 14:25
  where we end up in a global war or a NATO war
• 14:29
  where this is a situation where everything is much more
• 14:31
  inflamed and you and your children and my children and me
• 14:36
  have an issue where we might be seeing missiles start flying
• 14:40
  to avoid that is my top priority.
• 14:43
  My top priority is not the borders of Ukraine.
• 14:46
  I understand why it's their top priority.
• 14:48
  I understand it would be ours if Mexico invaded us.
• 14:51
  I would be really,
• 14:51
  really passionate about that,
• 14:53
  but I don't want this to inflame into something where we
• 14:56
  wind up getting hit with nuclear weapons or something
• 14:58
  of that sort.
• 14:59
  Russia is saying
• 15:01
  if we allow them to fire longer missiles into
• 15:04
  These long distance missiles into the territory of Russia
• 15:07
  that they will say that is an act of war,
• 15:10
  not by just Ukraine but by us,
• 15:12
  by other Western countries.
• 15:14
  These sorts of risks and the spiraling of these risks is a massive,
• 15:17
  massive problem right now,
• 15:18
  and we are in a situation looking at Israel
• 15:20
  and Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran where that could also
• 15:23
  blow up into a larger situation.
• 15:26
  Israel,
• 15:26
  I think,
• 15:27
  as they've
• 15:28
  shown.
• 15:29
  Over the past 24 hours is very capable of
• 15:32
  defending themselves and aren't asking us to come in
• 15:35
  and fight that war for them.
• 15:37
  However,
• 15:38
  things are getting out of control.
• 15:39
  Things are getting more and more chaotic.
• 15:41
  We are in a very risky situation,
• 15:43
  not only for of course the lives of you and everybody around you that you care about,
• 15:47
  but also a global economy.
• 15:49
  Oil prices,
• 15:51
  all sorts of different concerns wind up cropping up
• 15:54
  when you get into this type of situation.
• 15:57
  Hopefully we can figure out a way that
• 15:59
  the terrorists wind up not killing other people
• 16:01
  and
• 16:03
  the war doesn't escalate to those levels,
• 16:04
  but it's something you have to be on the alert for,
• 16:07
  and it also is something that you have to
• 16:08
  think about when you're picking your next president.
• 16:11
  You want Kamala Harris running the situation?
• 16:13
  You can have that.
• 16:13
  It's available to you.
• 16:15
  If you think Kamala Harris can micromanage multiple wars like this,
• 16:18
  hey.
• 16:19
  You know,
• 16:20
  the people around him,
• 16:20
  maybe you think it's Antony Blinken.
• 16:21
  I don't think Kamo's going to do it.
• 16:22
  Anthony Blinks,
• 16:23
  Blinken's got his head screwed on straight and he's gonna
• 16:25
  handle this.
• 16:26
  I've seen no evidence of that.
• 16:28
  What I've seen is catastrophic,
• 16:29
  chaotic,
• 16:30
  uh,
• 16:31
  spinning out of control since these guys got into the office.
• 16:35
  I'd like that to stop.
• 16:36
  I think somebody else,
• 16:37
  probably anybody else,
• 16:38
  but somebody else,
• 16:39
  uh,
• 16:40
  can,
• 16:40
  can at least bring us back to the situation we had between,
• 16:43
  you know,
• 16:43
  2017 and 2020,
• 16:44
  where a lot of this stuff wasn't happening.
• 16:46
  You know,
• 16:47
  we had some,
• 16:48
  some major threats.
• 16:49
  A lot of those went away,
• 16:51
  and we were in a period of relative
• 16:54
  peace and prosperity.
• 16:55
  That's probably a better choice than
• 16:57
  trying this out again for 4 more years for Kamala and
• 17:00
  crossing your fingers and hoping she doesn't screw it up,
• 17:02
  because have you ever seen her try to do something?
• 17:04
  That's usually the way
• 17:05
  it ends up.
• 17:06
  Alright,
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  Dan,
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• 19:17
  All right,
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  thanks for having me,
• 19:18
  Stu.
• 19:18
  Uh,
• 19:19
  I'm concerned about,
• 19:20
  uh,
• 19:20
  what's going on in the world of Taylor Swift these days,
• 19:23
  uh,
• 19:24
  and,
• 19:25
  you know,
• 19:25
  it's always a high,
• 19:26
  as you know,
• 19:27
  a huge swifty.
• 19:28
  Um,
• 19:28
  I know all of her songs are,
• 19:30
  are,
• 19:30
  are song.
• 19:31
  I don't know how many she has on it,
• 19:32
  but whatever amount she has is the amount that I like.
• 19:36
  Um,
• 19:36
  and,
• 19:36
  uh,
• 19:37
  but she's in the news today,
• 19:39
  uh,
• 19:39
  kind of related to Patrick Mahomes.
• 19:41
  Now,
• 19:41
  Mahomes' wife,
• 19:43
  Brittany is a,
• 19:44
  I,
• 19:44
  I guess a Trump supporter
• 19:45
  and has been praised by Donald Trump before,
• 19:48
  and.
• 19:50
  Yeah,
• 19:50
  I,
• 19:50
  I mean,
• 19:50
  I,
• 19:51
  you know,
• 19:51
  Taylor Swift came out and endorsed Kamala Harris.
• 19:53
  This is literally a surprise to nobody.
• 19:55
  Uh,
• 19:56
  Donald Trump got angry about this apparently and just
• 19:59
  messaged Truth,
• 20:00
  whatever he did,
• 20:02
  uh,
• 20:02
  and just said,
• 20:02
  I hate Taylor Swift.
• 20:06
  It was a very nuanced tweet.
• 20:07
  I don't know if you caught all the nuance in that,
• 20:09
  but apparently now Brittany Mahomes is sitting back and
• 20:11
  is like upset and doesn't understand whether she should
• 20:14
  continue to support Donald Trump publicly because it's causing
• 20:16
  all these problems because she's friends with Taylor Swift.
• 20:18
  Now this sounds like a terrible episode of a soap opera,
• 20:21
  but in reality it is like these are big public figures.
• 20:24
  I don't know why we're supposed to care about who they think
• 20:27
  we should vote for.
• 20:28
  Does America actually like
• 20:31
  pay any attention to celebrity endorsements?
• 20:34
  Um,
• 20:34
  I hope not.
• 20:36
  Um,
• 20:37
  and I know there's,
• 20:37
  um,
• 20:38
  Swifties of all age ranges,
• 20:40
  but I mean,
• 20:40
  I would think that most of them are,
• 20:42
  you know,
• 20:43
  12 year old girls.
• 20:45
  So I,
• 20:46
  I don't know.
• 20:47
  I,
• 20:47
  I don't know if Democrats have tried to
• 20:50
  figure out a way to get the 12-year-old girl vote to be a thing.
• 20:54
  Um,
• 20:55
  wouldn't be shocked,
• 20:57
  but,
• 20:58
  but,
• 20:58
  uh,
• 20:58
  I just,
• 20:59
  I,
• 20:59
  you know,
• 20:59
  she already tried to do this,
• 21:01
  uh,
• 21:01
  in Tennessee,
• 21:02
  and I,
• 21:02
  I always forget the person's name that she tried to throw her support behind,
• 21:06
  uh,
• 21:06
  and it failed badly.
• 21:07
  Well,
• 21:07
  that tells you how well it worked out that we can't
• 21:09
  remember the name of the person she tried to support,
• 21:12
  right?
• 21:13
  And it was like,
• 21:13
  OK,
• 21:14
  if
• 21:14
  like it was
• 21:15
  like testing the waters,
• 21:16
  right?
• 21:17
  Like,
• 21:17
  let's,
• 21:17
  Taylor Swift is going,
• 21:18
  you know what,
• 21:18
  I'm gonna throw my weight in this,
• 21:20
  uh,
• 21:20
  state race here and see what happens and.
• 21:23
  It utterly fails.
• 21:24
  And if you can't turn a state race around like I.
• 21:28
  I guess maybe so.
• 21:30
  I,
• 21:30
  I don't know.
• 21:30
  I look,
• 21:31
  I'm I already have a very low
• 21:34
  view of the kind of
• 21:36
  general voter who's not paying attention.
• 21:39
  So I guess I wouldn't be entirely shocked,
• 21:40
  but I would be a little depressed if people are like,
• 21:43
  you know what,
• 21:44
  Taylor's doing it,
• 21:45
  so I think I should too.
• 21:47
  I mean,
• 21:47
  I hope people aren't thinking that way.
• 21:48
  I liked Patrick Mahomes's answer.
• 21:50
  It's like just
• 21:51
  make your own decision.
• 21:52
  I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do.
• 21:53
  You do what you're gonna do.
• 21:54
  Yeah,
• 21:54
  that's the way that we should be hearing from celebrities all the time in my view.
• 21:59
  Look,
• 21:59
  they have the right,
• 21:59
  of course,
• 22:00
  to speak their mind,
• 22:01
  but like I just don't understand what the,
• 22:02
  the benefit is.
• 22:03
  And
• 22:04
  on that note,
• 22:04
  let me,
• 22:05
  let me just go back and focus on the Trump part of this for just a second.
• 22:09
  Of what value is it to Donald Trump to tweet,
• 22:13
  I hate Taylor Swift?
• 22:15
  I,
• 22:15
  I don't think it's going to make him lose the election,
• 22:18
  but like,
• 22:19
  look at what it did with Brittany Mahomes,
• 22:21
  right?
• 22:21
  Like it,
• 22:22
  it makes people
• 22:23
  who like her
• 22:25
  just,
• 22:26
  you know,
• 22:26
  hesitant to embrace you that much more,
• 22:28
  and I,
• 22:28
  and I,
• 22:29
  I don't know,
• 22:29
  maybe this is just a one time situation with a friend of Taylor Swift's,
• 22:33
  but like,
• 22:34
  I don't know,
• 22:34
  the people that
• 22:35
  who really love her,
• 22:36
  and,
• 22:36
  and while you point out,
• 22:37
  you know,
• 22:37
  my daughter's 11 and absolutely loves Taylor Swift's music.
• 22:40
  Um,
• 22:40
  so I don't know if they went after the 11 year old girl vote,
• 22:42
  um,
• 22:43
  but that could be next around the corner,
• 22:44
  uh,
• 22:45
  but like,
• 22:45
  you know,
• 22:45
  she's been around a long time.
• 22:46
  I mean,
• 22:47
  we,
• 22:47
  you know,
• 22:48
  she,
• 22:48
  she is,
• 22:49
  there are a lot of people of our generation that
• 22:50
  are big Taylor Swift fans that have either grew up
• 22:53
  with,
• 22:53
  uh,
• 22:53
  you know,
• 22:54
  when they were younger as Taylor Swift fans,
• 22:55
  or have
• 22:56
  embraced her because their kids like her so much,
• 22:59
  and like I just don't,
• 23:01
  what is the.
• 23:02
  Point
• 23:03
  I ask this question because there's a lot of things
• 23:06
  that are happening on this campaign that I keep saying,
• 23:08
  what's the point?
• 23:09
  What's the point of flying around with Laura Loomer?
• 23:11
  What's the point of getting in the middle of
• 23:15
  crowd debates with Kamala Harris
• 23:18
  during
• 23:19
  your most public appearance with her?
• 23:21
  There's a lot of that strategy stuff that I feel like is going the wrong direction.
• 23:24
  Yeah,
• 23:24
  I mean,
• 23:25
  look,
• 23:25
  it,
• 23:25
  it's,
• 23:26
  I mean,
• 23:26
  it's going to be close,
• 23:28
  whatever the numbers end up being this,
• 23:30
  it,
• 23:30
  but just judging by the polling that I'm seeing,
• 23:32
  it looks like it'll be pretty close.
• 23:34
  And so what happens in a close election?
• 23:36
  Like,
• 23:37
  yeah,
• 23:37
  sure,
• 23:37
  you gotta rally your base,
• 23:38
  but I mean,
• 23:38
  do you really,
• 23:39
  does the MAGA base really need rallying at this point?
• 23:42
  I just,
• 23:43
  I don't know that you need to keep stirring up the red meat for your hard,
• 23:48
  hardest,
• 23:48
  most ardent supporters.
• 23:50
  It just doesn't seem like a winning strategy to,
• 23:52
  when,
• 23:53
  when you're trying to.
• 23:54
  Win by the narrowest of margins here,
• 23:57
  it seems to me you need to go to those people who are gettable,
• 24:00
  right?
• 24:00
  You're,
• 24:00
  you're not getting
• 24:02
  an ardent
• 24:03
  Harris supporter at this point,
• 24:05
  right?
• 24:05
  Like it's just not happening.
• 24:06
  But there are a lot of people who are kind of like,
• 24:08
  I don't know.
• 24:08
  But if you're out there going,
• 24:09
  ah,
• 24:10
  man,
• 24:10
  I hate Taylor Swift,
• 24:12
  uh,
• 24:12
  I,
• 24:12
  I don't know that you're gonna get these middle of the road people
• 24:15
  that are looking for an answer as to who they're going to support.
• 24:19
  It seems like you,
• 24:20
  I don't know.
• 24:20
  I would,
• 24:21
  I think the time would be much better used to
• 24:23
  keep pointing out that struggles that people are having.
• 24:26
  I thought,
• 24:26
  uh,
• 24:27
  in the debate,
• 24:27
  he started to get in on it.
• 24:28
  Of course,
• 24:29
  Muirler tried to immediately shift to
• 24:31
  race when,
• 24:32
  when Trump started getting some traction on this,
• 24:34
  but
• 24:35
  pointing out.
• 24:36
  Hey,
• 24:37
  there were no big global wars going on when,
• 24:40
  when I was
• 24:41
  in office,
• 24:41
  right?
• 24:41
  Like Russia wasn't invading Ukraine.
• 24:44
  Hamas didn't launch a full scale attack.
• 24:46
  As soon as I get out of there,
• 24:47
  the Abraham Peace Accords apparently get brushed aside
• 24:50
  and all these wars start breaking out
• 24:52
  like.
• 24:53
  Articulate these positions.
• 24:55
  Talk about how
• 24:57
  their policies have made it.
• 24:59
  Everyone's
• 25:00
  there are tangible things that voters are feeling right now,
• 25:02
  like the price of bread,
• 25:03
  the price of gas,
• 25:04
  trying to go anywhere,
• 25:05
  trying to buy anything.
• 25:07
  Tap into those things and remind people that
• 25:10
  how it was when you were in office,
• 25:11
  it was a little better.
• 25:13
  I think those sorts of things could really convince people.
• 25:16
  And,
• 25:17
  and,
• 25:17
  um,
• 25:17
  you know,
• 25:17
  I thought,
• 25:18
  and still I don't think we've talked since last,
• 25:20
  since the debate,
• 25:20
  but my favorite answer that he gave was when they started
• 25:23
  in about,
• 25:24
  wow,
• 25:24
  you,
• 25:24
  you talked about Harris's race,
• 25:26
  and he said,
• 25:26
  you know,
• 25:26
  I don't care what she is.
• 25:28
  That was the best answer because
• 25:30
  It just made it look so ridiculous that the left is focused on this
• 25:34
  when there are real things happening to
• 25:36
  American people that they're struggling with.
• 25:38
  I might remind you of the moderator's follow-up question after that,
• 25:41
  which was,
• 25:41
  Ms.
• 25:42
  Harris,
• 25:42
  your feelings on this,
• 25:44
  which I thought was a really tough question,
• 25:47
  yeah,
• 25:48
  on the race thing,
• 25:49
  um,
• 25:49
  yeah,
• 25:50
  and look,
• 25:50
  I,
• 25:50
  I,
• 25:50
  I think like people like at some level the Trump
• 25:53
  tactic of saying something,
• 25:55
  you know,
• 25:55
  arguably outlandish or offensive or whatever.
• 25:58
  But that has to tie to a larger issue,
• 26:01
  right?
• 26:01
  Like,
• 26:02
  even like you could argue with the pets thing,
• 26:04
  which wasn't exactly the right moment or the right delivery of that,
• 26:07
  but like,
• 26:08
  at least it draws attention to a real problem in,
• 26:10
  in Ohio,
• 26:11
  if you want to look at it in a positive way.
• 26:13
  The Taylor Swift thing,
• 26:14
  I,
• 26:14
  I,
• 26:14
  I'm not sure,
• 26:15
  uh,
• 26:15
  does that.
• 26:16
  Let me go,
• 26:17
  switch gears real quick to Whoopi Goldberg,
• 26:21
  which I,
• 26:21
  I apologize for doing,
• 26:23
  but like
• 26:23
  there's,
• 26:24
  there are,
• 26:25
  there are people who are not self-aware and
• 26:27
  then like 100,000 ft and then Whoopi Goldberg.
• 26:31
  She is the least self-aware person of all time.
• 26:34
  I want to play for you a clip
• 26:35
  of her on The View
• 26:37
  saying,
• 26:38
  uh,
• 26:38
  accusing Republicans of having.
• 26:41
  Really horrible language that's causing violence.
• 26:44
  Watch.
• 26:45
  And also
• 26:46
  let's stop this thing,
• 26:48
  you know,
• 26:48
  let's stop this both sides stuff.
• 26:50
  It's a bunch because it's,
• 26:50
  it's not correct.
• 26:52
  It is not both sides.
• 26:54
  It is one clear side,
• 26:56
  and you can point
• 26:57
  to many,
• 26:58
  many
• 26:59
  reports.
• 27:00
  You can point to all kinds of stuff that's been reported.
• 27:03
  You guys have to,
• 27:04
  you have to pull up.
• 27:05
  This is not us or them.
• 27:07
  This is you gotta stop doing what you're doing,
• 27:09
  JD,
• 27:10
  and what you're doing,
• 27:11
  Mr.
• 27:12
  T,
• 27:12
  because you are,
• 27:14
  you are,
• 27:14
  you are not helping the situation.
• 27:18
  Now he's,
• 27:18
  they're talking about language that has led to an assassination,
• 27:21
  to assassination attempts against Donald Trump,
• 27:24
  but
• 27:25
  apparently that's Donald Trump's fault.
• 27:28
  Yeah,
• 27:28
  I mean this is when you know you have fallen into
• 27:32
  the uh
• 27:33
  full vat of hackery and you just cannot get out of it.
• 27:36
  I mean that's just,
• 27:37
  I mean that is just pathetic,
• 27:38
  right?
• 27:39
  And I,
• 27:39
  and I know Trump says things as well,
• 27:41
  like about Biden and stuff,
• 27:42
  but
• 27:43
  I,
• 27:44
  regardless of whatever Trump has said.
• 27:47
  The obvious fact right now is people are shooting at Trump.
• 27:50
  OK,
• 27:51
  uh,
• 27:51
  so I don't know what,
• 27:52
  what else you can do with that,
• 27:54
  uh.
• 27:55
  You know,
• 27:55
  I don't want anybody else to shoot at any presidential candidates.
• 27:58
  I don't want any of that.
• 27:59
  But right now
• 28:00
  they're aiming at Trump,
• 28:02
  and we all know,
• 28:03
  Stu,
• 28:03
  what would happen
• 28:05
  if this were reversed,
• 28:06
  right?
• 28:06
  And if it,
• 28:07
  and if the two assassination attempts were on a Democratic
• 28:10
  candidate,
• 28:10
  it was on Harris or Biden or something like that,
• 28:12
  I mean.
• 28:13
  You got,
• 28:14
  we probably wouldn't even be on the air anymore,
• 28:15
  you know,
• 28:16
  as conservatives,
• 28:17
  as Christians.
• 28:18
  Uh,
• 28:18
  I,
• 28:18
  it's just the,
• 28:19
  the,
• 28:20
  I mean,
• 28:20
  look at,
• 28:20
  they took January 6th,
• 28:21
  which
• 28:22
  obviously wasn't good,
• 28:23
  but it,
• 28:24
  they've stretched that into like a 4-year saga here,
• 28:26
  or however long ago it was.
• 28:28
  And
• 28:30
  I just can only imagine what they would be
• 28:31
  doing in the hyperventilating with the two assassination attempts.
• 28:35
  The most amazing thing to me,
• 28:36
  Stu,
• 28:37
  in the debate,
• 28:38
  one of them,
• 28:39
  was
• 28:40
  the fact that the moderators didn't even bring up.
• 28:43
  An assassination attempt.
• 28:45
  I mean,
• 28:45
  Trump mentioned it once,
• 28:46
  but can,
• 28:47
  can you imagine that?
• 28:48
  Could,
• 28:48
  could you,
• 28:49
  can you imagine
• 28:50
  that,
• 28:51
  that they didn't even think it was newsworthy enough to ask anything about it.
• 28:55
  They asked about January 6th a whole bunch of times,
• 28:58
  spent a whole bunch of time talking about January 6th.
• 29:01
  But couldn't even bring themselves to make 1.1 observation
• 29:06
  about an assassination attempt that happened just weeks before
• 29:10
  to one of the two candidates on the stage.
• 29:11
  It's just,
• 29:13
  it's just insane.
• 29:13
  That's a great point.
• 29:14
  I mean,
• 29:14
  and as you point out,
• 29:15
  like what would happen if something like this occurred the other way,
• 29:18
  you know,
• 29:18
  it's January 6th,
• 29:19
  right?
• 29:19
  You'd have multiple years of investigations,
• 29:21
  people going to prison,
• 29:22
  people being tried in public court of public opinion.
• 29:25
  It would never end.
• 29:26
  It would be the end of democracy.
• 29:28
  But like think about that moment as you bring that up,
• 29:31
  Dan.
• 29:31
  It's a great point because
• 29:33
  let's just say,
• 29:33
  God forbid,
• 29:35
  some right wing person took a shot at,
• 29:37
  you know,
• 29:37
  some Democrat
• 29:38
  and then they had,
• 29:40
  they went on stage.
• 29:42
  There would definitely be a question to Donald Trump.
• 29:45
  Your rhetoric caused this bullet to fly by somebody's head.
• 29:50
  I can't believe you did that.
• 29:51
  Why would you do that?
• 29:52
  There would be that
• 29:53
  he would need to answer for the assassin.
• 29:57
  There is nothing like that in that debate whatsoever.
• 30:00
  No,
• 30:01
  and,
• 30:01
  uh,
• 30:01
  you know what's insane too is that
• 30:03
  the ad I keep hearing whenever I get in my car,
• 30:05
  I usually turn on the radio and just see what's going on.
• 30:07
  And the ad I keep hearing because they're running the political ads is,
• 30:12
  uh,
• 30:12
  Donald Trump is a danger to
• 30:15
  democracy and it's like,
• 30:16
  and it's called Project 2025.
• 30:19
  And so they're,
• 30:19
  they're still running the threat and it's still a totally baseless
• 30:23
  claim that he has anything to do with Project 2025,
• 30:26
  which,
• 30:27
  of course,
• 30:27
  they didn't fact check,
• 30:28
  by the way,
• 30:28
  on the debate,
• 30:30
  but
• 30:30
  it's just,
• 30:31
  uh,
• 30:31
  they're still doing it and they,
• 30:33
  they don't care at all that they're labeling this guy.
• 30:36
  A threat to democracy
• 30:39
  and
• 30:39
  I'm fine with them calling on all sides to
• 30:42
  tamp it down.
• 30:43
  I,
• 30:43
  I've,
• 30:43
  I have no problem with that because I think,
• 30:45
  yeah,
• 30:46
  you should.
• 30:47
  Fine.
• 30:47
  Like,
• 30:47
  let's,
• 30:48
  let's just stick to the,
• 30:49
  to the
• 30:50
  talking,
• 30:50
  to the,
• 30:50
  the actual,
• 30:51
  um,
• 30:52
  issues that matter.
• 30:53
  Like,
• 30:53
  let me hear some policy points.
• 30:55
  I,
• 30:55
  I mean,
• 30:56
  if you look at a debate from even just Romney and Obama,
• 30:58
  they're talking about,
• 30:59
  you know,
• 30:59
  on page 6 here on this,
• 31:01
  uh,
• 31:01
  economic policy of yours,
• 31:03
  you know,
• 31:03
  they're going back and forth on this,
• 31:04
  and it's like,
• 31:06
  I'd like a little more of that.
• 31:07
  I don't mind the zingers once in a while.
• 31:09
  Like you gotta,
• 31:09
  you gotta do that sort of stuff,
• 31:10
  but I mean,
• 31:11
  the,
• 31:11
  the
• 31:12
  pie chart on it and the split is not very good right now.
• 31:15
  We've,
• 31:15
  we're heavy on the memes,
• 31:16
  low on the,
• 31:17
  uh,
• 31:17
  substance.
• 31:18
  Yes,
• 31:18
  I will,
• 31:19
  I will say that.
• 31:19
  And,
• 31:20
  and one more thing on Whoopi before we go,
• 31:23
  um.
• 31:23
  I was half expecting her to look into the camera and say,
• 31:26
  look,
• 31:26
  this isn't us doing this.
• 31:28
  This is you doing this.
• 31:29
  It wasn't me that starred in Sister Act 2,
• 31:31
  that was you.
• 31:32
  I mean,
• 31:32
  she is the most guilty person in the world of this type of rhetoric.
• 31:36
  We have a little montage for you here.
• 31:39
  Let's check it out.
• 31:40
  And I swear to God,
• 31:41
  if I see another Republican senator talk about their heart being broken,
• 31:45
  I'm gonna go punch somebody.
• 31:46
  You worried that you can't pay your bill?
• 31:48
  Wait till he,
• 31:49
  the other guy becomes president,
• 31:51
  and you won't have to worry about it because you'll
• 31:52
  be in some camp somewhere because that's his promise,
• 31:55
  and I know his
• 31:56
  grandchild was up on the thing and they're
• 31:58
  trying to humanize him and let's be truthful.
• 32:01
  About it because
• 32:02
  the Holocaust isn't about race.
• 32:04
  Trump,
• 32:05
  he tends to just,
• 32:07
  but
• 32:08
  can I mention I'm gonna be on day one,
• 32:10
  I'm going to be a dictator.
• 32:11
  I'm going to take all the journalists.
• 32:13
  I'm gonna take all the gay folks.
• 32:15
  I'm gonna move you all around and disappear you if that's the country you want,
• 32:19
  you know who to vote for,
• 32:20
  you know.
• 32:21
  They
• 32:22
  in their minds they wanna bring slavery back.
• 32:25
  They're OK with it because this requires
• 32:28
  you recognizing
• 32:30
  that we're all in danger here.
• 32:32
  Uh,
• 32:32
  see,
• 32:32
  Dan,
• 32:32
  it's not her doing it,
• 32:33
  it's you doing it,
• 32:35
  right?
• 32:35
  Yeah,
• 32:36
  JD needs to tamp it down and,
• 32:38
  uh,
• 32:38
  wow,
• 32:39
  I did not,
• 32:39
  I see,
• 32:40
  thankfully I'm not up on my,
• 32:42
  uh,
• 32:42
  the view
• 32:43
  topics.
• 32:44
  I haven't watched that,
• 32:45
  uh,
• 32:45
  praise God in a long time,
• 32:47
  but,
• 32:47
  um,
• 32:48
  I mean just.
• 32:49
  Imagine listening to that every day and you're,
• 32:52
  I,
• 32:52
  I don't know how you,
• 32:53
  I mean,
• 32:53
  you're thinking slavery is coming back and.
• 32:56
  Oh my gosh,
• 32:57
  I mean,
• 32:57
  that's just,
• 32:58
  uh,
• 32:58
  yeah,
• 32:58
  what would you be,
• 32:59
  I
• 32:59
  look,
• 32:59
  I,
• 32:59
  it's the type of rhetoric that would have someone who's like,
• 33:02
  wow,
• 33:02
  slavery's coming back.
• 33:03
  They're gonna put us in camps.
• 33:04
  What do I do about that situation?
• 33:05
  It's a logical,
• 33:06
  it's a logical,
• 33:07
  look,
• 33:07
  Stu,
• 33:08
  you and I both,
• 33:08
  I know,
• 33:09
  have never blamed the actions of crazy people on
• 33:12
  the rhetoric,
• 33:13
  right?
• 33:13
  Like it's the,
• 33:14
  it's ultimately the crazy person's fault,
• 33:16
  but
• 33:17
  you have to understand
• 33:19
  the playing field
• 33:20
  and at least try to make an effort,
• 33:22
  right?
• 33:22
  I understand you have to.
• 33:24
  Point out where you think they're gonna be your
• 33:26
  opponent's gonna be really bad for the country,
• 33:28
  right?
• 33:28
  I get that you have to do that and just because some nut thinks,
• 33:31
  oh well,
• 33:32
  I better kill him then,
• 33:33
  I mean,
• 33:33
  that's
• 33:34
  obviously not 100% your fault,
• 33:36
  but you,
• 33:36
  you can't be throwing gasoline on the fire intentionally,
• 33:39
  especially after two attempts now.
• 33:42
  You've got to at least try to do better,
• 33:43
  and you just think that if you happen to be the person who has been
• 33:47
  throwing that gasoline on the fire for years and years and years and years,
• 33:50
  no standing,
• 33:51
  you wouldn't be out there blaming JD Vance for being the cause of these problems.
• 33:55
  100%.
• 33:56
  Dan Andrews,
• 33:57
  managing editor of CBN News,
• 33:58
  be sure to check him out on CBN's.
• 34:00
  Quick Start podcast.
• 34:01
  It's there for you every morning.
• 34:03
  Wonderful,
• 34:03
  uh,
• 34:04
  news podcast.
• 34:05
  Get you all,
• 34:05
  uh,
• 34:05
  caught up.
• 34:06
  When are you gonna come on this podcast,
• 34:08
  by the way?
• 34:08
  I'm,
• 34:08
  I mean,
• 34:08
  I,
• 34:09
  I've,
• 34:09
  I,
• 34:10
  I have almost nothing to do,
• 34:11
  Dan.
• 34:11
  I'm,
• 34:11
  I'm available to you at any moment of the day.
• 34:14
  You let me know,
• 34:14
  all right?
• 34:15
  We're gonna make it happen.
• 34:16
  Dan,
• 34:16
  thanks for coming on the program.
• 34:18
  Yep.
• 34:26
  I want you to imagine for a moment that you're about to
• 34:27
  make the biggest financial decision most people make in their lives,
• 34:30
  either buying or selling a home.
• 34:32
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• 34:55
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  I was just talking to my friend who's a real estate agent and she was saying like,
• 35:00
  oh look,
• 35:00
  you know,
• 35:00
  it's.
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  It's all about like,
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  you know,
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  not only
• 35:04
  having a a situation where you know how to file the right paperwork,
• 35:07
  it's about knowing all those additional things.
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  Uh,
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  I worked with her when we sold our house and she was like,
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  hey,
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  you know that repair you're going to do,
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  and uh I don't remember which one it was,
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  that's not going to
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  it's not going to help your sales price.
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• 35:39
  Uh,
• 35:39
  new polling out from the Atlanta Journal Constitution shows
• 35:43
  Donald Trump with a lead in a swing state,
• 35:46
  the state of Georgia.
• 35:48
  Uh,
• 35:49
  interesting too.
• 35:51
  You kind of look at this graph and uh they,
• 35:52
  they've,
• 35:53
  I've got a little graph here for you.
• 35:55
  Uh,
• 35:55
  chartapalooza here on Studios America for those on podcast,
• 35:59
  what you see
• 36:00
  is a line of separation between Trump
• 36:03
  and uh Joe Biden,
• 36:05
  excuse me so much,
• 36:06
  um,
• 36:07
  for going back,
• 36:08
  you know,
• 36:08
  it's been 67 point leads,
• 36:09
  and there's larger leads,
• 36:11
  and it definitely has tightened up since Biden dropped out of the race,
• 36:15
  but what you've also seen is Trump go up.
• 36:18
  Since
• 36:20
  Biden left the race,
• 36:20
  which is kind of an interesting dynamic
• 36:22
  anyway,
• 36:23
  right now what we see is Trump 47,
• 36:25
  Harris 44.
• 36:27
  If you remember,
• 36:27
  of course,
• 36:28
  in 2020,
• 36:28
  Donald Trump lost Georgia narrowly
• 36:31
  under circumstances that many
• 36:34
  found controversial,
• 36:35
  but a 3 point lead,
• 36:36
  it's about the same as when
• 36:38
  Harris dropped
• 36:39
  or came into the race.
• 36:40
  It's about maybe from a 4 point to a 3 point lead.
• 36:43
  Not much change that we've seen.
• 36:46
  And that includes
• 36:48
  not only the
• 36:49
  the rise of Harris and all the glowing adoration,
• 36:52
  but
• 36:52
  this is post-debate
• 36:54
  polling,
• 36:55
  so really not much tightening we see we see in Georgia.
• 36:58
  Good news for Donald Trump
• 36:59
  there.
• 37:00
  Another poll as well
• 37:02
  comes out of Gaza,
• 37:03
  and I found this fascinating.
• 37:06
  A poll is finding shrinking support in Gaza for
• 37:09
  Hamas' decision to launch the October 7th attack.
• 37:12
  Now you might say,
• 37:13
  wait,
• 37:13
  wasn't that when they just murdered and raped 1000 people?
• 37:17
  Was there a high level of support?
• 37:19
  Yes.
• 37:21
  Kind of was in Hamas.
• 37:22
  Now
• 37:23
  something about a military
• 37:26
  basically destroying your entire civilization
• 37:29
  to kill your leadership,
• 37:31
  it gets people to turn a little bit.
• 37:33
  Maybe this is a lesson that if you shouldn't,
• 37:36
  I don't know,
• 37:36
  try the October 7th thing
• 37:38
  again because maybe there's consequences you don't want to live with.
• 37:42
  And that's exactly of course the message Israel was attempting to send
• 37:45
  with those particular
• 37:47
  responses.
• 37:48
  poll conducted in early September,
• 37:50
  so it's a little old,
• 37:52
  um,
• 37:52
  by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 57%
• 37:56
  of people surveyed in Gaza
• 37:57
  said the decision to launch the offensive was incorrect.
• 38:00
  Only 39% said it was correct.
• 38:02
  You're like,
• 38:03
  wait a minute,
• 38:03
  40% of the population thought October 7th was OK?
• 38:08
  Yeah,
• 38:08
  and by the way,
• 38:09
  if you've ever looked at any Palestinian polling at all,
• 38:12
  that's really,
• 38:13
  really good.
• 38:14
  That is a legitimately positive development
• 38:17
  in Gaza.
• 38:18
  And
• 38:19
  they're not fans of Jews
• 38:20
  over there,
• 38:21
  and sometimes you see 90% support for terrorist attacks
• 38:25
  in that region.
• 38:25
  The fact that we're only looking at 39% is a miracle
• 38:28
  in Gaza.
• 38:29
  By the way,
• 38:30
  still.
• 38:31
  35% of people support Hamas generally.
• 38:34
  That is down from 38%,
• 38:36
  so they're not all that popular there.
• 38:38
  Fascinating though,
• 38:39
  the West Bank,
• 38:40
  64% of people in the West Bank still support October 7th,
• 38:45
  64%.
• 38:46
  Now you might see that they didn't get the ramifications
• 38:49
  of it.
• 38:50
  It was it was Gaza that got the ramifications.
• 38:53
  The support in the West Bank is holding up because they
• 38:56
  haven't had to deal with the raids and explosions and such
• 39:00
  that have happened after it.
• 39:01
  So
• 39:02
  this stuff does work
• 39:04
  if you respond
• 39:06
  harshly against attacks like this,
• 39:08
  there are,
• 39:08
  you can at least move some people,
• 39:11
  but generally speaking,
• 39:12
  still far too high levels of support in both regions for the October 7th attacks.
• 39:27
  We all know the left has quite an expansive
• 39:31
  endgame when it comes to them getting power.
• 39:32
  A big part of this is court packing.
• 39:34
  They want the Supreme Court to go away.
• 39:36
  The Supreme Court keeps getting in the way.
• 39:38
  They want to do this stuff on Supreme on
• 39:40
  ruining religious liberty.
• 39:42
  They want to do stuff on forcing,
• 39:43
  you know,
• 39:43
  bakers to bake cakes.
• 39:45
  They don't.
• 39:45
  Making coaches stop praying,
• 39:50
  not to mention things like student loans.
• 39:51
  They want to do all this stuff,
• 39:53
  but they keep getting stopped by the Supreme Court.
• 39:54
  So what do you do?
• 39:55
  Well,
• 39:55
  you pack the court.
• 39:56
  First Liberty Institute is calling
• 39:59
  calling all this out.
• 40:00
  They are saying this is a Supreme Court coup.
• 40:02
  That's what they're trying to do.
• 40:03
  In the Biden administration and the Harris
• 40:06
  administration
• 40:06
  right now,
• 40:07
  if we unite our voices and take action together,
• 40:09
  we can still do something about this.
• 40:10
  It doesn't have to happen.
• 40:12
  We can stop the left's plan to take control of the Supreme Court.
• 40:15
  The future of the court and of preserving
• 40:17
  an independent judiciary is literally in our hands,
• 40:19
  and that's why the First Liberty Institute is taking action.
• 40:22
  They need you to join up though.
• 40:23
  This is a great organization.
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  a million patriots like you and me stand up for the Supreme Court.
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  We can do something about this.
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  Send a real message
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  Make sure the judiciary stays independent just as our founding fathers intended.
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  So say no to the left's Supreme Court coup.
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  protect the future of our constitutional rights and republic
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  for our children and our grandchildren.
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  Go to supremecoup.com/stew,
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  It is supreme coup,
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  Progressives are hoping Harris's border shift is temporary,
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  and I've got incredible news for all progressives.
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  All of her views are temporary.
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  I think was it Jim Garrity they used to
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  say every Obama policy comes with an expiration date.
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  I mean with Harris,
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  like you're,
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  you're out of the bin that's like been out of the refrigerator
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  for like a month.
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  This stuff's all gone bad,
• 41:22
  and I will say in all seriousness as well.
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  The,
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  the border shift isn't even real,
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  let alone temporary.
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  It is not real.
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  She will not even support the very crappy bill
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  that we've been talking about when she becomes president,
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  if she does,
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  God forbid.
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  We have a new Disney Plus series,
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  Agatha All Along,
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  that is touted as the gayest project Marvel has ever done.
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  What a title.
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  Congratulations.
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  If you didn't think they were,
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  they're like doubling and tripling and quadrupling and quintuping down,
• 41:47
  they are.
• 41:48
  And then of course we in other woke Hollywood news,
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  John Leguizamo was ready to
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  lead a dramatic TV series,
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  so he helped create a platform to stream it.
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  Now good,
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  take,
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  take the initiative,
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  uh,
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  go ahead,
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  John Leguizamo,
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  and do the thing that you wanted to do.
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  Um,
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  but,
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  uh,
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  he's always complaining about Hispanics not having roles,
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  I guess,
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  in,
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  in,
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  uh,
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  first of all,
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  uh,
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  he got Luigi
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  in in the,
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  in the Super Mario Brothers movie.
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  He's not Italian,
• 42:13
  so he got that.
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  And also,
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  like,
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  he was given a leading role.
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  He was,
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  they,
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  we provided as a society,
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  a leading role,
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  and you know what he did with it?
• 42:21
  He did the pest.
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  That's what he did with it.
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  The freaking pest.
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  By the way,
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  go back and watch that movie.
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  We should do a whole monologue on John Leguizamo one day,
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  and specifically.
• 42:31
  The pest,
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  where we're talking about like blackface
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  and like Asian stereotypes throughout the movie,
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  I guess that's OK,
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  and he can be seen as a racial hero or something,
• 42:42
  uh,
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  but don't preach to me
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  when you were the star
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  of The Pest.
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  Got something cool coming up for you tomorrow.
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  It's kind of an effort to be able
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  We'll have that for you
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