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TikTok Ban BACKFIRES (Ep.121) · V

• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition, live
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: from the Washington, D.C. Rumble Studio. Trump considers preventing the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming TikTok ban. The mother of a deceased open AI
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: whistleblower reveals some explosive information about her son's death, and
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: Trump appoints Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone to be his
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  Speaker 1: special ambassadors to Hollywood. All this on Bongino Report Early Edition.
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  Speaker 1: TikTok is scheduled to shut down in the U.S. on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: January 19th due to a federal ban unless the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court decides to intervene. And this action would affect millions
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  Speaker 1: of users with potential penalties for using VPNs to bypass
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  Speaker 1: this ban. So apparently they're probably serious about this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, on the one side, you have the Uniparty
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  Speaker 1: and everyone who's been essentially psyoped by the Uniparty who
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  Speaker 1: insists that the TikTok ban is necessary for national security
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  Speaker 1: and the privacy of American citizens. And then on the
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  Speaker 1: other side, you have hordes of regular Americans, especially young Americans,
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  Speaker 1: who love TikTok and are insisting that, hey, our government
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  Speaker 1: spies on us all the time and the deep state
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care about our safety or our privacy. And that
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  Speaker 1: has been my take for basically two years now. But
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  Speaker 1: before I get into the specifics, Gen Z TikTokers say,
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  Speaker 1: have responded to the upcoming ban by flocking to Xiaohongshu,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, but
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  Speaker 1: the English version of this app is called RedNote, and
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  Speaker 1: it is a popular Chinese social media platform. Close to
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  Speaker 1: a million new users have joined RedNote in just two days.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, Congress bans TikTok, and then Gen Z says,
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  Speaker 1: screw you guys, we're just gonna download another TikTok-like Chinese app.
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  Speaker 1: and they're also learning Mandarin while they're at it. Here
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  Speaker 1: is an example. So the government thinks that they cooked
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  Speaker 1: with this TikTok ban.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so.
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  Speaker 1: So he just said in Chinese, the U.S. government made
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  Speaker 1: a mistake, a big mistake in, and of course, Chinese.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening is two things. Young people are joking and
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  Speaker 1: they're calling themselves TikTok refugees on Red Note. And at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, it's a genuine non-comical revolt against the
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  Speaker 1: federal government who they accurately perceive as trying to control
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  Speaker 1: public discourse in the United States. Here's one person comparing
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  Speaker 1: the Red Note migration to the Boston Tea Party. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're good with that, Mikey. I think this
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  Speaker 1: will be a fun little generational translation, this next example
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  Speaker 1: for many of you Gen Xers. Here is one young
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  Speaker 1: TikToker comparing the TikTok red note flight to the last
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  Speaker 1: scene of The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: Dear Congress, we accept the fact that you're banning TikTok
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  Speaker 4: under the guise of protecting our data. But you're crazy
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  Speaker 4: if you think for a second we believe this is
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  Speaker 4: about our safety. You see us how you want to
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  Speaker 4: see us. Voters to manipulate, voices to silence, and a
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  Speaker 4: narrative to control. But what we learned is that each
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  Speaker 4: one of us is a dreamer, a storyteller, an influencer,
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  Speaker 4: a rebel, and a movement you can't suppress. Sincerely yours,
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  Speaker 4: the TikTok Club.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's kind of cheesy. It's kind of silly. But
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  Speaker 1: that's my Gen Xer translation for you guys. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: vibe of this revolt. All right, so. A few things
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  Speaker 1: that I need to explain about Red Note because the
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  Speaker 1: story requires some nuance. Red Note literally translates to Little
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  Speaker 1: Red Book. And in the 1960s, the Little Red Book
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  Speaker 1: was a central instrument of Chinese communist propaganda. It represented
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  Speaker 1: unwavering loyalty to Mao's regime and was a key tool
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  Speaker 1: for indoctrinating millions of during the brutal and destructive Chinese
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  Speaker 1: Cultural Revolution. This book wasn't merely a compilation of quotes.
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  Speaker 1: It was a weapon of ideological control. People were compelled
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  Speaker 1: to memorize the book, carry it around at all times,
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  Speaker 1: and they used it to justify unspeakable violence. It became
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  Speaker 1: a symbol of absolute submission to Mao's authority. And now
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  Speaker 1: Americans are flocking to a platform named after one of
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  Speaker 1: history's most notorious symbols of communist indoctrination. This is an
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  Speaker 1: lost on young people, I will say. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them understand this. They know this, including yours truly. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I downloaded Red Note on my phone. Why would I
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  Speaker 1: do that? Because the TikTok ban itself is a troubling
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  Speaker 1: sign that America is parroting communist Chinese tactics of social control.
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  Speaker 1: And downloading Red Note serves as a bold act of
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  Speaker 1: defiance against American leaders who have betrayed the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: American social media companies are full of former U.S. intel
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  Speaker 1: and NATO officials. Mike Benz has talked about this extensively.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg himself admitted that Meta created a special portal
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  Speaker 1: for the Biden admin and various left-wing NGOs to censor
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  Speaker 1: speech disfavorable to the federal government. The Twitter files also
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  Speaker 1: had something very similar pre-Elon Musk. Control of information is
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  Speaker 1: the central concern of the deep state. You guys remember
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  Speaker 1: that Google started as a DARPA grant. Tons of these
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  Speaker 1: big tech companies have roots in US intelligence. At first,
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  Speaker 1: the US government promoted free speech in the digital public
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  Speaker 1: square as a means of influencing foreign governments. And then
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  Speaker 1: something changed. They switched to cracking down on free speech
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  Speaker 1: and fearmongering about so-called disinformation after Brexit in the UK
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  Speaker 1: and the election of Donald Trump in 2016 because populism
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  Speaker 1: was rising in the West and US intelligence viewed that
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  Speaker 1: as a threat to their power. And get this, data
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  Speaker 1: from companies like Facebook has already been sold to China
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  Speaker 1: and other entities. American big tech companies are already selling
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  Speaker 1: our data. If the government cared about protecting American privacy,
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  Speaker 1: they would pass data privacy laws, not ban an app.
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  Speaker 1: But they had to ban the app because it's about
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  Speaker 1: social control. It is about control of the American mind,
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  Speaker 1: not privacy or national security. I want you to listen
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  Speaker 1: to cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency director Jen Easterly. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to listen to what she says one of
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  Speaker 1: the primary goals of her agency is. And by the way, CISA,
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  Speaker 1: this organization that she has is a subsidiary of DHS.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: The most important critical infrastructure, excuse me, critical infrastructure there is,
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  Speaker 5: is our cognitive infrastructure. And so building that resilience is,
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  Speaker 5: you know, part of the mission set in my view.
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  Speaker 2: George Orwell called and he wants us.
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  Speaker 1: To spoke in future. Cognitive infrastructure is your mind. An
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  Speaker 1: agency meant to protect American physical infrastructure buildings from terrorism
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  Speaker 1: is proclaiming that its primary goal is to control what
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  Speaker 1: we think. And you don't even have to take my
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  Speaker 1: word for it. That is the goal of this TikTok ban,
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  Speaker 1: controlling the minds of the public. Here is Democrat Senator
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  Speaker 1: Mark Kelly admitting as much. It has a national security issue.
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  Speaker 1: risk to it. You know, one is the data, one
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  Speaker 1: of the risks.
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  Speaker 6: The thing that I'm more concerned about is their ability
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  Speaker 6: to manipulate the population of the United States, especially in
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  Speaker 6: time of a conflict.
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  Speaker 1: The point of this ban is to control public discourse,
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  Speaker 1: which has always been the goal of the feds. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg just last week.
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  Speaker 6: Would call up our team and like scream at them
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  Speaker 6: and curse. They all tried to censor anyone who is
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  Speaker 6: basically arguing against it. And they pushed us super hard
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  Speaker 6: to take down things.
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  Speaker 1: We're told incessantly that this is a free country. We
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  Speaker 1: have the First Amendment. You guys are so lucky to
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  Speaker 1: live in America.
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  Speaker 5: Are we?
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  Speaker 1: Because Mark Zuckerberg just described what China does. Censor speech
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  Speaker 1: the government dislikes. You know who else has censored TikTok
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  Speaker 1: by banning the normal version of the app? China. China
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  Speaker 1: has a special version with only CCP-approved content.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because they're communists. But at least they'll admit that they
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  Speaker 1: want to control the narrative on TikTok and all other
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  Speaker 1: social media platforms permitted in the country, for that matter.
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  Speaker 1: Our government... Instead, gaslights us into thinking this is about privacy.
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  Speaker 1: They lie to us. And you're going to see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of discourse in the coming days, probably right now,
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  Speaker 1: about young people being stupid and communist, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about history, all because they downloaded Red Note.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Gen Z-er. I downloaded Red Note. I want
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  Speaker 1: to save TikTok, and it's not because I'm communist or
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand the history of the Cultural Revolution or
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  Speaker 1: communism in general. Communism destroyed my family. My family lived
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  Speaker 1: through the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, and they
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  Speaker 1: were robbed and murdered by adherents of that bloody, evil ideology.
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  Speaker 1: An extended family member of mine was actually a Catholic priest.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about it on this show. He was forced
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  Speaker 1: to dig his own grave and then was buried alive,
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  Speaker 1: all because of the fact that he was a Catholic priest.
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  Speaker 1: Communism isn't just theft, it's demonic. And it's because I
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  Speaker 1: recognize the dangers of communism and that I oppose the
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  Speaker 1: TikTok ban. It's because I recognize it's an impediment on
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  Speaker 1: free discourse. The red-note migration is also a symbol of
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  Speaker 1: an entire generation that rightfully lost faith in our government's
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  Speaker 1: commitment to upholding the Constitution. The feds have completely abandoned
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  Speaker 1: the First Amendment, thrown it out the window, and young
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  Speaker 1: people know it. If you're a conservative, you know this
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  Speaker 1: better than anyone else. Here is a Gen Zer jokingly
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  Speaker 1: giving a farewell to her Chinese spy.
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  Speaker 5: Shout out to the Chinese spy looking after me all
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  Speaker 5: these years.
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  Speaker 1: It's been great. I hope you find another gig.
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  Speaker 3: This one goes out to you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. It's funny. It's a joke. It's a joke, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also an act of rebellion. One young person
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  Speaker 1: wrote on X, if the government bans Red Note, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to start printing out my browser history every
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  Speaker 1: night before I go to bed and dropping it off
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  Speaker 1: at the Chinese consulate the next morning on my way
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  Speaker 1: to work. Again, you guys, it's a joke. And it's
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  Speaker 1: also a powerful testimony to just how awake this generation
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  Speaker 1: is to our government's abandonment of the First Amendment and
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution. They would actively hand over their data to
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  Speaker 1: the CCP in spite of the federal government because they
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  Speaker 1: fully have lost trust in the federal government. And why
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  Speaker 1: should they trust the U.S. government? From my perch as
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  Speaker 1: a young conservative, the Biden admin has thrown pro-lifers behind bars,
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  Speaker 1: spied on traditional Catholics, spied on Tucker Carlson, directed the
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  Speaker 1: mass censorship of content and people the government dislikes. They
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  Speaker 1: even banned President Trump. What happened in 2021 after January 6th?
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  Speaker 1: He was banned on every single platform. And this is
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  Speaker 1: why Trump is considering saving the app via an executive order.
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  Speaker 1: Why would Trump allow the Deep State and Uniparty to
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  Speaker 1: unjustly ban an app that has been relatively good to
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  Speaker 1: Trump in favor of American apps that have actually banned him?
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  Speaker 1: Even Pinterest banned Trump. Pinterest, you just post photos and
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  Speaker 1: cute outfits. They had to ban Trump. TikTok CEO, Shu
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  Speaker 1: Chu has been invited to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a sign that there could be a deal reached
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  Speaker 1: thanks to Trump, and I think that would be a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. The TikTok ban is about much more than
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  Speaker 1: an app. It is about whether Americans will continue to
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  Speaker 1: tolerate a federal government that seeks to control public discourse
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  Speaker 1: under the guise of national security. The revolt of Gen Z,
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  Speaker 1: both serious and satirical, is a loud and clear rejection
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  Speaker 1: of this overreach signaling a generational awakening that I think
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  Speaker 1: is actually a good thing. Okay, speaking of horrors that
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: aren't supposed to be happening in America because we live
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  Speaker 1: in a supposedly free and just country with respect for
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  Speaker 1: the rule of law, the mother of the deceased opening
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  Speaker 1: eye whistleblower has spoken out on Tucker Carlson's podcast. Now,
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  Speaker 1: OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was found dead by suicide in
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  Speaker 1: a San Francisco apartment. We've talked about this a lot
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  Speaker 1: on the show. The 26-year-old left OpenAI earlier last year
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  Speaker 1: and was set to testify in a series of lawsuits
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  Speaker 1: related to OpenAI's alleged misuse of copyrighted data in training
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  Speaker 1: its artificial intelligence models. The lawsuits claim OpenAI used large
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: amounts of Internet data including copyrighted content, to train its
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  Speaker 1: models without proper permission or compensation to the copyright holders.
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  Speaker 1: And these copyright holders are not just journalists. For instance,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: the New York Times is one of the plaintiffs, but
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  Speaker 1: also original content creators, artists, and musicians alike. Balaji apparently
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  Speaker 1: held unique and relative documents that were set to be
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  Speaker 1: used in the New York Times' current lawsuit against OpenAI.
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  Speaker 1: That is, until he, of course, passed away. The medical
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: examiner's office ruled that his death was a suicide, and
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  Speaker 1: the San Francisco Police Department never investigated the case as
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  Speaker 1: a homicide. That was Mother's calling foul play. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: she told Tucker Carlson.
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  Speaker 2: So he, um.
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  Speaker 2: He was quoted saying that OpenAI was committing crimes and
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  Speaker 2: a month later he was dead.
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  Speaker 7: That's not just it. On November 18th, New York Times
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  Speaker 7: named my son as custodian witness. Custodian witness is very,
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: very important. He had the documents against OpenAI. That was
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: on 18th. 22nd, he just came back from vacation from L.A.
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  Speaker 7: and Catalina Island the same night. They have attacked him
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  Speaker 7: and killed him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, these are real. I mean, she's just saying
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  Speaker 1: straight up he was murdered. Serious, serious allegations. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to listen to her describing the security issues within
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  Speaker 1: his apartment, her son's apartment.
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  Speaker 2: From the surveillance footage about your son's last moments, is
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  Speaker 2: there any evidence anyone came in or out of the apartment?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 7: Actually, even when our attorney concluded it's a suicide, even
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  Speaker 7: at that moment, I mentioned to the attorney, look, there
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  Speaker 7: are three entrances to this building. One of them is gated.
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  Speaker 7: It has CCTV. Other two entrances don't have CCTV. And
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  Speaker 7: why are we ignoring that nobody came in, nobody went out?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just incredible. Somebody said she had an
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: independent autopsy. Yes, she did. We're going to get into
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that in just a second. I want you to now
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  Speaker 1: listen to her description of the crime scene because it
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  Speaker 1: raises some serious, serious alarm bells.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying the official explanation is he shot himself once
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  Speaker 2: in the head.
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  Speaker 3: He died.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. But these photographs show that that's not at all
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  Speaker 2: what happened because there's blood all over the apartment. There's
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  Speaker 2: blood on the door, on the floor, in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: There's blood everywhere. So that right there, just employing common sense,
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  Speaker 2: tells you that the person from whom that blood came,
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  Speaker 2: your son presumably, did not have a fatal brain injury,
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  Speaker 2: at least when he was bleeding. I mean this is–
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  Speaker 2: something was going on in the apartment, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: The second thing that jumps out is that there is
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a tuft of hair that's not hair. It's from a wig.
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  Speaker 2: It's from a wig.
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  Speaker 7: And there's a clip scene.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so tell us what that is for people who
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  Speaker 2: don't know. It's part of a clip-in wig.
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  Speaker 7: Like there's some kind of plastic band or something that
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  Speaker 7: fits the wig on the head. We can see that
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  Speaker 7: coming out behind the door.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: And that's obvious evidence that No crime scene investigators or
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  Speaker 7: police can miss. They just ignored everything that showed murder
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  Speaker 7: and they picked up everything that showed a cover up suicide.
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  Speaker 2: But how could they ignore? So your son did not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was a 26 year old man with
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  Speaker 2: short hair from pictures. He's not wearing a wig. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: He's not. And these hairs are not his. This investigator's
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  Speaker 7: analysis looked at the hair from the autopsy pictures, but
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: my son's hair and this hair, this is not his hair.
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  Speaker 2: And the portion of the wig, the clip-in wig, has
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  Speaker 2: blood on it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So as a non-forensic investigator myself, I look at that
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  Speaker 2: and I'm saying, where did this come from? And there's
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: blood all over the apartment. Right there, I would say
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  Speaker 2: this is Maybe it's a suicide, but you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to tell me how, because what is that?
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  Speaker 7: It's not a suicide. It's a homicide, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my heart breaks for this mother. I tend
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: to agree with her, just based off of the evidence
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that she herself has presented on this podcast. And that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't even scratch the surface of what was discussed in
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: this episode. The case is insane. The angle that this
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  Speaker 1: young man supposedly shot himself is not a suicide angle.
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  Speaker 1: He would have had to shoot himself downward, a very
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  Speaker 1: bizarre way of trying to kill oneself in the head.
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  Speaker 1: He had another head injury not caused by a bullet,
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  Speaker 1: and that injury suggested he was attacked from behind. He
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: had food out on the table when he was supposedly killed.
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  Speaker 1: So he just decided to commit suicide mid-meal, supposedly. And
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  Speaker 1: he had no previous web searches related to suicide or
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: how to kill himself. And not to say the obvious,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: but whistleblowers about to testify don't kill themselves.
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  Speaker 5: They don't.
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  Speaker 1: This is not something that happens. There are always red flags.
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  Speaker 1: There is usually always foul play when this type of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: situation occurs. All right, switching gears here. Trump named John
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Voight and Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone as special ambassadors
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  Speaker 1: to Trump. Hollywood, promising to bring back another golden age
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: of Hollywood. According to Trump, the men will serve as
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: special envoys for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, bringing Hollywood,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: which has lost much business over the last four years
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to foreign countries, back bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And then somebody posted, POV, you're meeting Trump's special ambassadors.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's Sylvester Stallone playing Rambo and Mel Gibson
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  Speaker 1: playing William Wallace from Braveheart. Yes, Michael says it's a
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: great account on Twitter. What is it called? Autism Capital?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Is that what it is? That's the name of the handle? Yes,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: he has some funny content. Apparently, Mel Gibson wasn't aware
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  Speaker 1: of this appointment, and he wrote in a statement that
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: he got the news at the same time as all
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  Speaker 1: of you and was just as surprised. Nevertheless, I heed
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  Speaker 1: the call. My duty as a citizen is to give
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  Speaker 1: any help and insight I can. So he's accepted his
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  Speaker 1: mission from President Trump, and I think this is an
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  Speaker 1: excellent idea. First of all, Trump is right. Many of
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  Speaker 1: you may not know, but Los Angeles' share of U.S.
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  Speaker 1: films and TV jobs have dropped to 22% in August
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  Speaker 1: from about 33% two years earlier. Hollywood's jobs are being
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  Speaker 1: outsourced to other countries. So the films are conceived in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. They technically are from U.S. companies, but
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  Speaker 1: they are made and or edited elsewhere, other parts of
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  Speaker 1: the world. And this is because it's cheaper to outsource films.
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  Speaker 1: that labor, whether it's acting or video editing. If Trump
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  Speaker 1: could bring back those jobs to the states, that would
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  Speaker 1: be huge, amazing for our economy, amazing for California, which
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  Speaker 1: is bleeding people constantly. Although I think it would probably
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  Speaker 1: take some cooperation from Gavin Newsom, who seems to be
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  Speaker 1: hellbent on destroying his entire state. And then there's another
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  Speaker 1: piece to this, this Make Hollywood Great Again movement. The
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  Speaker 1: movies that Hollywood are putting out as of late, they've
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  Speaker 1: been crap. Everybody knows it. They're not quality, quality films.
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  Speaker 1: The content is slop. It's not creative. It's not beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It's not inspiring. Rocky is honestly one of my favorite movies.
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  Speaker 1: Michael doesn't love it. Michael, why don't you love Rocky?
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  Speaker 1: Michael says it's too cheesy. I think it's great. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a wonderful movie. I think it celebrates the
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  Speaker 1: human spirit, resilience, grit. The soundtrack is awesome. An even
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  Speaker 1: better boxing movie, I would say, is Cinderella Man. It's
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  Speaker 1: another favorite of mine. And of course, Mel Gibson has
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  Speaker 1: starred and produced some really incredible films, including The Passion
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, which I love. Braveheart is one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite movies of all time. Here is Mel Gibson and
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  Speaker 1: why I think that he will be a great in
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  Speaker 1: this ambassador role. Here he is on the Joe Rogan podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I think, look, I think we're looking at a world
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  Speaker 3: where And in the next film I'm going to do,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to try and tackle this question. That there
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  Speaker 3: are big realms, spiritual realms. There's good, there's evil, and
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  Speaker 3: they are slugging it out for the souls of mankind.
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  Speaker 3: And my question is, why are we even important? Little
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  Speaker 3: old flawed humanity, why are we important in that process
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  Speaker 3: where the big realms are slugging it out of? And
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  Speaker 3: I think there's bigger things at play here. And institutions
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  Speaker 3: that purport to touch on the divine are necessarily going
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  Speaker 3: to be affected by that slugfest that's going on between
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  Speaker 3: good and evil.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes good gives up ground.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe not on purpose. Maybe there's some deception involved
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  Speaker 3: or self-deception.
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  Speaker 8: Co-opted.
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  Speaker 3: Every morning when I wake up, I actually pray that
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  Speaker 3: I don't deceive myself.
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  Speaker 1: I think that this new Mel Gibson movie is going
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  Speaker 1: to be incredible. Of course, The Passion of Christ was
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  Speaker 1: also incredible. And I think Mel Gibson gets it. Media
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  Speaker 1: is storytelling. For all of human history, stories have been
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  Speaker 1: the lens through which humanity has made sense of the world.
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  Speaker 1: The triumphs, the tragedies, the mysteries of existence. Stories are
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  Speaker 1: not merely distractions to numb the mind and siphon off
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  Speaker 1: a few bucks for major corporations. They are deeply meaningful.
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  Speaker 1: What we see here and internalize shapes our understanding of ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: each other, the world around us. Mel Gibson understands this truth,
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  Speaker 1: not just in theory, but in practice. He recognizes the
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  Speaker 1: profound purpose and the transformative power of storytelling. He clearly
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  Speaker 1: has a sincere yearning to grapple with the same existential
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  Speaker 1: questions that our ancestors confronted millennia ago. When our ancestors
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  Speaker 1: gathered around at the fire, crafting mythologies and narratives to
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  Speaker 1: explain creation and humanity's place within it, they were doing
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  Speaker 1: the same work Gibson seeks to continue today. His stories
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  Speaker 1: aim to uplift, to inspire, to probe the depths of
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  Speaker 1: the human soul. Contrast that with most of today's media landscape.
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  Speaker 1: It's sequel after sequel. It's lazy. There's no depth, no
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  Speaker 1: respect for the craft. Consider even social media today. What
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  Speaker 1: does mindlessly scrolling through endless algorithmically generated content offer? Gen
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  Speaker 1: Z aptly calls it brain rot or doom scrolling, and
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  Speaker 1: for a good reason. It's not only an egregious waste
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  Speaker 1: of really precious time, it's coercive to the soul. The
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  Speaker 1: unpredictability of what might appear on that endless feed is
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  Speaker 1: not a feature, it is a flaw, an assault on
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  Speaker 1: our mental and emotional health. well-being. Is this really good
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  Speaker 1: for young people or anyone for that matter? And so
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  Speaker 1: while I oppose a federal TikTok ban on principle, I
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  Speaker 1: unequivocally support parental-imposed bans on TikTok. Parents have a duty
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  Speaker 1: to protect their children's minds and souls from the toxic
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  Speaker 1: digital void. I certainly wouldn't let my kids have TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: But let's not fool ourselves. The federal government doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to ban TikTok because they're concerned about the well-being of
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  Speaker 1: the American people or young people specifically. Quite the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: A dumbed-down and distracted populace serves their interests. This is
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  Speaker 1: why they're perfectly fine with YouTube shorts and Instagram reels,
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  Speaker 1: which are the same thing as TikTok. Doomscrolling on those
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  Speaker 1: platforms is permissible because they have a say in the content,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the federal government has a say. An increasingly authoritarian
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  Speaker 1: government thrives on passivity, and nothing fosters apathy better than
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  Speaker 1: a populace addicted to trivial distractions. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: justify the creation of a permanent underclass of low-wage workers,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, you'd better hope they're too consumed with doom
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  Speaker 1: scrolling to ask any tough questions. Questions like, why is
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  Speaker 1: big tech importing waves of cheap labor through H-1B visas?
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  Speaker 1: Why is Hollywood outsourcing jobs and creativity to foreign markets?
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  Speaker 1: What happens when ordinary Americans realize they can't compete in
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  Speaker 1: a system rigged against them? This brings us to Trump's
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  Speaker 1: vision for making Hollywood great again. It's not about censoring
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  Speaker 1: dissent or suppressing unfavorable speech. It's about uplifting the American
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  Speaker 1: people by fostering a media culture rooted in meaningful depth
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  Speaker 1: and purpose. I think intent matters. Storytelling, true storytelling, has
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  Speaker 1: always been about answering life's biggest questions, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we need to return to that. We need creators, leaders,
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  Speaker 1: citizens who understand that media isn't just about entertainment, it's
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  Speaker 1: about shaping the soul of a nation. Both the Red
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  Speaker 1: Note Revolt and the Make Hollywood Great Again Envoy underscore
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  Speaker 1: a broader truth. The solution to cultural and ideological decay
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  Speaker 1: is not censorship or suppression, but the creation of something better.
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  Speaker 1: The harmony lies in understanding that a truly free and
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  Speaker 1: flourishing society requires both the protection of individual liberties and
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  Speaker 1: and the cultivation of stories that enrich the soul of
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  Speaker 1: the nation. The purpose of the ban is obviously not
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  Speaker 1: to solve the underlying cultural or national security problems. Similarly,
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  Speaker 1: producing shallow, uninspired media cannot nurture the cultural renaissance that
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  Speaker 1: Americans are so obviously yearning for. Why else would they
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  Speaker 1: vote under the banner of Make America Great Again? The
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  Speaker 1: path forward requires leadership and creativity that focus on building,
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  Speaker 1: not banning, inspiring, not dictating. We cannot only resist authoritarianism,
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  Speaker 1: we have to actively champion the best of what America
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  Speaker 1: stands for. Christian morals, authentic justice, respect for individual life
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  Speaker 1: and property, the pursuit of metaphysical truths. And in this way,
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  Speaker 1: the Gen Z TikTok rebellion and the revival of a
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  Speaker 1: nation's artistic spirit, make Hollywood great again, becomes two sides
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  Speaker 1: of the same coin, united in a shared desire to
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  Speaker 1: reclaim the soul of our nation and our culture. And
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  Speaker 1: that's all I have for you all today. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for tuning into this show live from the Rumble studio. Mikey,
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  Speaker 1: thank you much for putting this on as always. And
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  Speaker 1: we will see you guys next week. The Dan Bongino Show.
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  Speaker 8: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
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  Speaker 8: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
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  Speaker 8: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue. That is it.
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  Speaker 8: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
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  Speaker 8: will win. It is not complicated.
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