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  Speaker 1: Winter insurance spit true, I'm a check up things. Wait
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  Speaker 1: the aut Hey, everybody, welcome to motherfucking Conspiracy the Show.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Adam Todd Brown joining me as
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it can definitely be fine tuned to catch
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  Speaker 1: us calling Trump a fascist, I'm sure. But until then,
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  Speaker 1: let's get this money talk about Yeah, Ice, all the
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  Speaker 1: money we're raking in doing this podcast, fucking setting us up.
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  Speaker 2: We'd be better off if we just became Ice agents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, at least we'd have that signing bonus. All.
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  Speaker 1: That's good stuff to look forward to, provided we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get hanged in the Hague somewhay.
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  Speaker 2: Are you gonna spend your signing bonus on? I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: buy a fully loaded forward Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good choice. I would probably spend it on
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  Speaker 1: something stupid like graded sports cards, hoping they go up
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  Speaker 1: in value. Then that player will blow out as ACL
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  Speaker 1: the next day, and then I'm just out. That's a
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  Speaker 1: thing I've discovered investing in sports cards. There's a thing
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  Speaker 1: I call the Adam just bought a bunch of your
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  Speaker 1: rookie cards curse, and it befalls everyone I invest in.
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  Speaker 1: They get some sort of grizzly ass injury, or decide
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  Speaker 1: they've given up on sports, like Naomi Osaka. It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about sports cards.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about Yu gi oh cards. The only successful
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  Speaker 2: commodities trading. I've ever done is when I bought a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of Gateway to the Dark World structure decks and
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  Speaker 2: I sat on them for like five years, and I
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  Speaker 2: went back to my local card show and I flipped
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  Speaker 2: them off for it was at least double my money. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I do that with sports cards a lot. It's good times.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the broad View. That is what
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  Speaker 1: this week's episode is about. The Broadview six and Operation
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  Speaker 1: Midway Blitz, which vaguely rhymes but not enough. Operation Midway
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  Speaker 1: Blitz was an ICE slash CBP slash fucking National Guard FBI,
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  Speaker 1: basically an invasion of Chicago started September ninth, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and the original intent, as stated by DHS, was to
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  Speaker 1: arrest undocumented immigrants with criminal records, which, for the record,
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  Speaker 1: that's all they do. Connor show some respect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not out there targeting anybody who is darker
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  Speaker 2: than Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those school kids had it coming. They were a
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  Speaker 1: threat to this nation. Reminder, Trump sent an ICE along
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  Speaker 1: with National Guard troops to La DC and Chicago and
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  Speaker 1: all those other cities I think Memphis, Charlotte. At one
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  Speaker 1: point it came hot on the heels of him and
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  Speaker 1: Pete hag Seth's meeting in front of eight hundred top
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  Speaker 1: military officials, where Trump told them they should view being
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  Speaker 1: deployed to American cities as quote training grounds for our
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  Speaker 1: military end quote, and that some Americans are fighting a
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  Speaker 1: war from within, and that identifying the enemy would be
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  Speaker 1: difficult because they don't wear uniforms.
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  Speaker 2: Almost as if to say, just shoot whoever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, anyone who seems mad, just shoot them. And
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  Speaker 1: to the military's credit, it didn't really come to that.
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  Speaker 1: I even heard suggestions that the military would be used
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  Speaker 1: to protect protesters from ice, which I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: ever happened either. But at least the National Guard wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gunning down protesters in the streets.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the picture of the two spider mans pointing
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  Speaker 2: at each other. I mean, isn't that real.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's a low barred across to not murder
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  Speaker 1: protesters in the street. It's the kind of thing we
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  Speaker 1: claim we invade countries over. Just ask Iran, yes we cares.
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  Speaker 1: He cares so much about doing that. Yeah, we really
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  Speaker 1: are a humanitarian project, most moral military in the world,
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  Speaker 1: I say, yeah, absolutely so. When they announced the launch
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  Speaker 1: of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. DHS said the operation
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  Speaker 1: was to be carried out in honor of quote a
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  Speaker 1: Chicago area woman end quote named Katie Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Just say Roseville, this Roseville like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not even that Katie Abraham was killed earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the year by an undocumented drunk driver in Urbana, Illinois.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, that is clearly a tragedy. But Urbana is
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  Speaker 1: nowhere near Chicago. That is deep southern Illinois. You might
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  Speaker 1: as well be in Missouri. They probably had slaves in
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  Speaker 1: Urbana during the fucking Civil War.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you're going to say in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably that. But I mean, Illinois is generally a
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  Speaker 1: pretty progressive place for being in the heart of the Midwest.
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  Speaker 1: People of that when they're like, oh the flyover States, motherfucker.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit is in the Midwest, Chicago is in the Midwest.
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  Speaker 1: Like all these huge cities with huge diverse populations.
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  Speaker 2: You've really got to get down to Metropolis before you
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  Speaker 2: find some real racist Yeah, have you ever been to Metropolis, Illinois?
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  Speaker 2: Giant Superman statue so you would probably remember it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think I've been to Metropolis, Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy, it's kind of an ironically named It's their tiniest
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  Speaker 2: town called Metropolis.
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  Speaker 1: I could, I could see that. I have to check
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  Speaker 1: it out next time I'm in Illinois. Haven't been back
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  Speaker 1: to Illinois other than doing comedy. I haven't returned to
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  Speaker 1: Illinois like to visit since I think the fucking nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: An interesting town where I'm from Peoria.
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  Speaker 2: Look it up. Oh, I know about it. Richard PRIs
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  Speaker 2: from there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I will never be the most famous comedian
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  Speaker 1: from the You're Screwed Illinois. There's absolutely no chance. But
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  Speaker 1: I also, I guess dedicating this operation to Katie Abraham
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  Speaker 1: makes sense because Operation Midway Blitz was described as Trump
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  Speaker 1: sending ice to Chicago, but it actually covered all of
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  Speaker 1: Illinois and neighboring Lake County, Indiana, which Lake County is
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  Speaker 1: where Gary, Indiana is, and if you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Gary is a wild fucking place.
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  Speaker 2: Wild fucking guy too.
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  Speaker 1: It's where the Jackson family is from, if nothing else,
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  Speaker 1: So argue with the wildness there.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that these ice agents were listening to
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  Speaker 2: Kanye West to get just pumped up for their trip
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  Speaker 2: to Chicago? You know, probably Blast and Homecoming and Touch
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  Speaker 2: the Sky.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't surprise me through the wire. All the fucking hits.
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  Speaker 2: Can't tell me nothing. The early stuff actually annoying ICE agents.
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  Speaker 2: They probably liked the They probably like a certain era
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  Speaker 2: of Kanye with the Heile Hitler era.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm sure. Yeah, his most recent stuff. Probably not
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  Speaker 1: the George Bush doesn't care about black people era, but
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  Speaker 1: bring that Kanye back.
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  Speaker 2: God.
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  Speaker 1: So, protests started over this operation pretty much as soon
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  Speaker 1: as it launched, probably in large part due to Trump
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  Speaker 1: posting an AI generated image of himself as an officer
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  Speaker 1: from the film Apocalypse Now with the caption Chicago is
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  Speaker 1: about to find out why it's called the Department of War.
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  Speaker 1: I could see how that would put a population on
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  Speaker 1: edge a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit via wrestling promo. That's his own kind of executive order.
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  Speaker 2: It's a post it's government by post.
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  Speaker 1: Truth Social should have a dot gov web address.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a state service.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's state media, is what it is. I know
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to not have that in this country, but
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  Speaker 1: that's absolutely what truth Social is. It is a mouthpiece
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  Speaker 1: of the American government, but so is Twitter twe The
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  Speaker 1: revolution is on threads and blue sky. You're on blue
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  Speaker 1: sky at all? Oh, I hate it the woke scolds.
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  Speaker 2: I was about to say, it's always kind of struck
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  Speaker 2: me as a bit like an MSNBC crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's an interesting place in the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the true revolutionaries are on threads.
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  Speaker 1: At least people don't make fun of you for using
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  Speaker 1: fancy words like on threads. I posted a picture of
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  Speaker 1: I bought a used iPod like the clip on kind
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  Speaker 1: with the touchscreen, and I didn't realize that the one
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  Speaker 1: I bought had words of encouragement from some dude's wife
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  Speaker 1: engraved on the back. And I posted about that, and
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  Speaker 1: I used the word emblazoned, and man, people were up
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  Speaker 1: in arms about me using that word.
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  Speaker 2: That's not even a five dollars word.
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  Speaker 1: No, someone actually said, who uses the word emblazoned. It's
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  Speaker 1: like people who are accurately describing a thing that's happening.
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  Speaker 2: People that feel like the word written is not strong enough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nuts. So back to these protests. They got significantly
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  Speaker 1: larger on September twelfth after ICE agents in frank Glenn
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  Speaker 1: Park shot and killed Silverado Viegas Gonzalez during a traffic stop.
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  Speaker 1: Silverado is a cool fucking name. I've never heard that before.
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  Speaker 2: For a guy. Yeah, he's a full truck of a guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've only heard that in relation to trucks. DHS
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  Speaker 1: claimed Gonzalez struck an agent with his car and dragged
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  Speaker 1: him before being shot, but bodycam footage from a different
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  Speaker 1: ICE agent later refuted that claim, showing no ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: were injured in the altercation. Go figure.
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  Speaker 2: They got another angle from his buddy f one fifty Ramiroz.
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  Speaker 1: About three weeks into the operation, on September thirtieth, ICE
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  Speaker 1: conducted a late night raid in the South Shore neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: You remember this shit, Yeah, this was pretty uh fucking disturbing.
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  Speaker 1: They used a fucking Blackhawk helicopter to repel agents down
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  Speaker 1: into a high rise apartment complex for clout.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't need to do that. They did this for
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  Speaker 2: Op Cloud.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was absolutely a showing off kind of thing. This,
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  Speaker 1: I believe is where that famous fuck them kids moment
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  Speaker 1: from ICE history happened where someone was like, hey, some
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  Speaker 1: of the people you got hog tied and zip tied
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  Speaker 1: in front of the building, those are kids, and an
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  Speaker 1: ICE agent said, fuck them kids. It's like, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: like to you fucking pedophile. After the raid was announced,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller said the building was filled with trend de
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  Speaker 1: Aragua gang members. DHS said they arrested thirty seven people
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  Speaker 1: during the raid. Later statements by DHS identified only two
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  Speaker 1: of those arrested as actual gang members. I wonder how
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  Speaker 1: much taxpayer money went into rounding up those two gang.
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  Speaker 2: Members for one nineteenth of their operation to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is where your tax dollars are going. Just
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, ICE has the largest budget of any law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement agency in the fucking world right now.
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  Speaker 2: One nineteenth is like a five percent success ratio. So
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  Speaker 2: for every twenty people they round up, one of them
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  Speaker 2: is actually a gang member or someone with a criminal record.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's absolutely how it has been going lately.
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  Speaker 1: They say they're out here arresting gang members and violent offenders.
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  Speaker 2: They're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're arresting the wives of military members. In shit, They're
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  Speaker 1: arresting landscapers and high school kids. It's fucking wild. So,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to mostly not rounding up violent criminals like
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  Speaker 1: DHS said it would, Operation Midway Blitz also resulted in
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of arrests for non immigration related offenses, and
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  Speaker 1: if you can believe it, the prosecution in those cases
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  Speaker 1: are not going well for the government. On March twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Sun Times reported that there have been thirty
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  Speaker 1: two known defendants accused of non immigration crimes in relation
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  Speaker 1: to Operation Midway Bloit. A lot of those people were
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  Speaker 1: accused of assaulting or resisting federal officers. Twenty of those
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  Speaker 1: defendants have already been cleared, with grand jury's refusing to
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  Speaker 1: indict at least three, and one defendant whose case actually
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  Speaker 1: went to trial was acquitted. And we'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: one in a second. So it's not going great or
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  Speaker 1: the government when it comes to trying to convince the
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  Speaker 1: courts that protesting is an act of terror, which is
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  Speaker 1: kind of what they're doing. Yay, we did in America.
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  Speaker 2: We're down to checks and balance. We only got one
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  Speaker 2: balance left.
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  Speaker 1: While three of the defendants at least signed deferred prosecution agreements,
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  Speaker 1: meaning they promised to abide by the law for the
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  Speaker 1: foreseeable future in exchange for not being prosecuted, the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority whose cases aren't still pending, we're just straight up
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  Speaker 1: dismissed by courts. I know it's a shocking allegation, but
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  Speaker 1: it could maybe lead one to believe that the government
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  Speaker 1: is not being depletely honest about the facts when sending
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  Speaker 1: these cases for prosecution in outlandish claim. I know, but
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  Speaker 1: on my government, Yeah, not my president at all. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about one of the most ill fated prosecutions that
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  Speaker 1: emanated from Operation Midway Blitz. Sorry to use such a
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  Speaker 1: big word like emanated for the Red's crowd out there,
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  Speaker 1: This is maybe the scariest of them all. That is
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  Speaker 1: the prosecution of Juan Espinoza Martinez. He was arrested on
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  Speaker 1: October six, twenty twenty five, in burr Ridge, Illinois, on
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  Speaker 1: charges of participating in an attempted murder for higher plot
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  Speaker 1: tarding then Customs and Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino. This
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  Speaker 1: is a guy who was prosecuted for sending a text
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  Speaker 1: message essentially. There is a quote in the indictment that
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  Speaker 1: DHS put out. It says HSI Chicago received a screenshot
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  Speaker 1: of a Snapchat conversation from a user named Wan appearing
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  Speaker 1: to place a two thousand dollars bounty for information quote
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  Speaker 1: Kuondo lo Agarin, which translates to when they catch him
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  Speaker 1: and a ten thousand dollars reward if you take him down.
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  Speaker 1: A third text says lk on him, which is a
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  Speaker 1: reference to Latin King's gang being the ones who put
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  Speaker 1: out the call for the hit. Does that sound like
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  Speaker 1: someone calling for a hit or someone saying, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: heard this gang put out a hit on someone.
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  Speaker 2: I know that when I was wrong with the Latin Kings,
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  Speaker 2: we were a lot more discreet than this.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing in these text messages where this guy is like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I will give you ten thousand dollars to kill Greg Bovino.
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  Speaker 1: I will give you two thousand dollars for information about
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  Speaker 1: where Greg Bovino is. He is literally just telling people
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  Speaker 1: a thing he heard.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's almost like, can you get arrested for being
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  Speaker 2: invited to a cockfight? I was just invited. I didn't go,
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  Speaker 2: I just got the invite.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And what's really unfortunate here? And just another sign
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  Speaker 1: of how don't ever think it's too crazy that the
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  Speaker 1: government might have people in your circle of influence somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: The reason this guy got found out is one of
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  Speaker 1: the friends he texted, it turns out, was a government informant,
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  Speaker 1: and that person passed this information on to his government
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  Speaker 1: handlers and now here. This guy is on trial for
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  Speaker 1: murder for hire because he sent a couple text messages.
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  Speaker 1: They're everywhere. Fucking spies are everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Ops man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they I bring it up all the time, Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice. They have a sixty thousand strong team of
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  Speaker 1: spies in the United States that they've been building for
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  Speaker 1: more than a decade. Only Newsweek ever reported on it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we just don't care.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how many Okay, roughly three hundred million people fight
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  Speaker 2: about sixty thousand. That's one spy for every five thousand people.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good coverage.
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  Speaker 1: And then you take those five thousand people and whittle
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  Speaker 1: it down to how many would the government actually want
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  Speaker 1: a spy on, not all five thousands, So then it
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  Speaker 1: becomes way easier to cover everyone you would want to cover.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those people are going to be babies, some
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  Speaker 1: of them are just going to be people you know
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to spy on. So yeah, sixty thousand
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  Speaker 1: is a lot. It's more agents than the CIA has undercover,
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  Speaker 1: and those motherfuckers cover the whole globe. So yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: you ever get that sink and feeling that someone knew
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  Speaker 1: who showed up in your life might be a fed
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  Speaker 1: fucking go with it. What's it cost to cut that
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  Speaker 1: person out of your life? Nothing? Nothing at all.
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  Speaker 2: Should listen to every paranoia and stay isolated and alone
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  Speaker 2: kind of it is the safe way to go.
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  Speaker 1: You have enough friends. So this case actually made it
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  Speaker 1: all the way to trial, which is rare for these
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  Speaker 1: and a jury deliberated for all of four hours before
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  Speaker 1: returning a not guilty verdict. This is a quote from
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  Speaker 1: Martinez's lawyer sending a message about gossip that you heard
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. It's not murder for hire and quote.
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  Speaker 1: And despite that, the government did still smear this guy
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  Speaker 1: as being a depraved gang member after word of this
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  Speaker 1: prosecution came out, because if you can't find him guilty,
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  Speaker 1: at least try him in the media. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get deported.
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  Speaker 2: Also, if wanting to know sketchy should makes you a
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  Speaker 2: depraved gang member, then aren't we all depraved gang members?
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  Speaker 1: So one of the prosecutions that is still pending is
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  Speaker 1: that of the Broadview six. And once you got a
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  Speaker 1: number after your name, you're a pretty big deal, like
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago was it the Chicago eight?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was well, I know, no, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: of the Central Park five, right.
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  Speaker 1: There's also from the sixties. There's a really good Netflix
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  Speaker 1: movie about it. I believe it's called the Chicago either
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Eight or the Chicago Nine because there was
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  Speaker 1: a certain number and then one of them got dropped
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  Speaker 1: off the prosecution at one point. But it's a similar
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  Speaker 1: thing where the government was trying to sort of make
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  Speaker 1: up charges in relation to protesting to make it seem
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  Speaker 1: like it was terrorism. There's a Netflix movie about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good star Sasha Baron Cohen, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: a comedy.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So the Broadview six Broadview is the name of an
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: ICE facility in the Chicago area where a lot of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: protests related to Operation Midway Blitz have happened. It's the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: spot where in twenty twenty five, journalist and congressional candidate
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: kat Aboo Gazela was violently slammed to the ground by
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: ICE agents on video during the protest. Wasn't her last
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: high profile interaction with the government. In October twenty twenty five,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the DOJ brought federal charges against her and five other
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: activists in relation to a protest outside the Broadview facility
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that happened on September twenty six, twenty twenty five. According
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to the indictment quote, the defendants and others allegedly crowded
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: together in the front and side of the government vehicle,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: stood in its path, banged on the car and windows,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and pushed again to hinder and impede its movement. The
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: conspirators broke one of the vehicle's side mirrors and the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: rear windshield wiper, and etched a derogatory message into the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: body of the vehicle end quote. That derogatory message pig.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: What's especially wild about this is that this obviously spontaneous
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: act of protest was charged as a conspiracy. As if
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: these six people planned in advance to crowd around this
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: one vehicle to make it move a little bit slower
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: for a while. That would be such an insane amount
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of coordination and planning for a thing that just happens
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: naturally at these protests.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: It's an expression of love, like blowing a kiss. Yeah
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: it just did. You do it when you feel like
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: doing it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: The five others who were charged in this Michael Babbitt
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: sixty two, Andrew Martin twenty seven, Catherine Sharp twenty nine,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Brian Straw thirty eight, Joscelyn Walsh thirty one. This is
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a quote from Kat a Boogazela in a statement to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the Intercept. This is a political prosecution and a gross
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: attempt at silencing dissent, a rite protected under the First Amendment.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: This case has he had another attempt by the Trump
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: speak up. That's why I'm going to fight these unjust charges.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: End quote that does seem like what this is. This
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: is I think not just the Trump administration trying to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: prosecute people for protesting, but also trying to scare other
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: people into not protesting it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Thim really is thinking that one of these guys was
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: sixty two. He should have just been like, what, how
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: could I possibly know for thirty year olds?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: When would that happen?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I guess there is some connection between four of these people.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I think they all sort of worked on Kat's campaign
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But just the idea that this would
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: be a conspiracy, that you would get together and plan
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: something like this, that's insane. If you're getting together to conspire,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you're going to do some real shit. You're not just
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: going to stand in front of a car and bang
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: on the hood for a little while. It's not like
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: they even stopped the car from leaving. They just made
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: it a little more difficult or a while, which would
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: be an insane thing to conspire to.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Just kind of what a protest is. You go block
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the freeway and you make it a little more difficult
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to use the freeway for a while.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of the most common protesting tactics you see.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And in her statement to the Intercept a boogaze La
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: also called out the irony of the Trump administration prosecuting
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: people for violence at protests. Here's a quote. As I
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and others exercised our First Amendment rights, ICE has hit, dragged, thrown,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: shot with pepper balls and tear gas hundreds of protesters,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: myself included, simply because we had the gall to say,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: masked men abducting our neighbors and terrorizing our community cannot
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: be the new normal. End quote, and just a reminder,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: broadview is also where ICE agents shot a pastor in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the head with a pepper ball while standing on a rooftop.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Well, he was praying, So yeah, you never know what
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: he could have been summoning a gin to attack us.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or what if Jesus came back and intervened on
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that guy's behalf?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That would have been fair.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to put a stop to that with
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a fucking pepper bomb to the head. So in February,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a federal judge set the trial date for the Broadview
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: six as May twenty sixth, with jury selection starting that day.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: The judge agreed with both sides that a questionnaire should
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: be sent out to potential jurors beforehand. Here's a quote,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: it would be kind of nice to have a pre
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: screened pool coming in that Tuesday end quote.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Well gee.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: She also mentioned that it would be good to know
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: how jury selection worked. In a different Midway Blitz related prosecution,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Juan Espinoza Martinez. That was actually a bit of unfortunate
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: foreshadowing for the prosecution, seeing as how Jan Espinoza Martinez
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: is the one defendant who has actually gone to trial
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and he was acquitted. If convicted, the protesters here could
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: face up to six years in prison for the conspiracy
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: charges in eight years for the intimidation charges. Who knew
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: intimidation carries that kind of prison sentence. So like, if
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like Connor, I'm going to punch you in the stomach,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you don't shut up, I go to prison for eight
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: years for that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, every woman I ever met
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: could go to jail for eight years.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: That does seem like a long, long sentence for something
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: like that. In the article will link to about the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: trial date, it's noted that it will happen well after
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the March seventeenth Democratic primary in Illinois that has obviously
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: since coming gone, And sadly kat Abugazela did not win
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that primary. So I don't know. Does she still get
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to run? I don't even I don't know how that works.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe she gets to run as an independent, was it?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I guess so if it was a primary, would
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: have for the nomination of her party. So yeah, yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: maybe she wants to run as a wig.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so joined the Green Party or something.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: No one's using the no one's using the wig brand.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: You can honestly have it mean whatever you wanted. You
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: could take the whole ip in any direction you felt like.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm surprised, just because of the old timey connotations
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that there hasn't been an offshoot of the Trump faction
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that it's like we're the Whig Party again.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Mahwah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, even though it hasn't gone to trial yet,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the Broadview six case already seems to be falling apart
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: under the considerable might of how fucking weak it is.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Shortly after the trial date was set, prosecutors agreed to
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: narrow the scope of the case and remove language from
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the indictment alleging that the six conspired to injure the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Ice agent in the vehicle they surrounded. They were also
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: accused of conspiracy to prevent the agent from discharging his
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: duties and conspiracy to injure his prop That's the.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Most American thing I've ever heard in my life. Injure
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: your property like property has it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: The first of those two is likely to stay in
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the indictment, but prosecutors did indicate they'd maybe be reviewing
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the injure his property language also, and that's probably because
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: video of this incident has come out and it shows
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: none of what they say happened. In that same hearing,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the prosecution admitted that the scope of the conspiracy was
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: just that one day of the protest, and that it
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: happened as a spontaneous thing with no evidence of explicit agreement.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe I just have a loose grasp of the definition
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: of words, but I think they're describing the opposite of
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: a conspiracy. I think a conspiracy has to have some
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: level of planning an agreement to be a conspiracy.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: They're describing as spontaneousy whatever.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: That is also the lead prosecutor in the case, Assistant
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: US Attorney Sherry Mecklenberg, withdrew from the case on February.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Mecklenburg, sorry, I just said that this sounded like a
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: good name to shout with contempt in.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Your bodycam footage of the incident that was released during
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: these preliminary hearings is also likely to hurt the prosecution's case.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Shows that the defendants were walking back and forth across
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: a public sidewalk, doing something called a jericho walk, which
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is apparently a very common protesting tactic, when the suv
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: chose to drive directly into the crowd. It shows no
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: evidence that the crowd tried to surround the vehicle. That
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: just happened naturally because a car was driving through them.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: The video even shows kat A Boogazela warning other protesters
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to move when they'd inadvertently crossed over into private property.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Some of the defendants are literally seen walking or running
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: away from the car. So someone's lying here and I
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: think it's the government.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Sounds pretty open and shit.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. In March, things got even worse for the prosecution
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: when they had to drop charges against two of the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: six odd view defendants. That would be Catherine Sharp, a
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: former candidate for Cook County Commissioner, and Joslyn Walsh, a
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: musician and garden store owner who had no connection to
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: any of the defendants at all. Both were cleared of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: any wrongdoing in the charges were dismissed without prejudice, meaning
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: they can't be refiled again.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Is Joslyn Walsh single? She sounds cool, She's a musician,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: she's into playants, Yeah, pecifcally involved.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: She did bring a guitar to the protest, never mind. Yeah,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: which don't bring uninvited acoustic guitars to gatherings.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: No one, Yeah, any gathering, Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Unless it's like an acoustic show.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, then you're under the shade of your own particular
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: freak flag. But not none of my gathering toots.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: No thanks, or unless you're famous like I remember Springsteen
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: showed up and played some acoustic songs at a protest once.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: That's fine, Springsteen ain't listening, Yeah.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Exactly so. Even the former lead prosecutor, Mecklenburg Berg, who
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: left the case in February, admitted in front of the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: judge presiding over the case back in January that the
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: charges are at least a little politically motivated, which is
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: probably why she's not on this case anymore. I would guess, I.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Would hope maybe that old Mecklenberg's got half a crumb
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: of principles after all.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Could be so with that, the four remaining defendants in
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: March asked the judge to force prosecutors to hand over
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: records that might show the White House improperly influence this indictment.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Here's a quote from a court filing. The record readily
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: shows how the Trump administration and its allies have expressly
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: targeted mis Aboogazela on numerous occasions in response to her
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: public criticisms of it and its aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: End quote. The motion came one day after the charges
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: against Sharp and Walsh were dropped. Motion also noted that
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Laura Lumer, a far right influencer who for sure has
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: access to Trump praised the agent who body slammed cat
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Abugazela during the September nineteenth protest outside the Broadview Facility.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It also pointed to allegations that Abougazela had been added
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: to Trump's enemies list. According to some media reports, Man,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: what a feather in your cap. I know President's enemy.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: All you did was you went for a walk in
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the park, you bought your reusable water bottle, you went
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: to go walk three miles because you don't like the
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: government or whatever, and now you're an enemy of the state. Yeah,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: that's kind of amazing.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be bummed if I'm not on the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: enemy's list. I gotta at least be on like the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: second team. I'm the.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: B tier foes.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I gotta at least be a benchwarmer on
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: that list.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: You gotta be on the nuisance list.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I told you, I'm convinced Trump mentioned me at a
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: campaign rally once.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, you did. You did break that down for me once,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: and I believe you, and.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I fucking stand by it. So I know I'm on
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the radar, But am I on the list? That's what
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I need to know. And if not, put me on
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the fucking list already.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: What the hell you've been downgraded from a nuisance to
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: a bother.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Here's another quote from the court filing. No defendants scratched
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the vehicle. No defendant etched the word pig onto the vehicle.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: No defendant pulled the wiper blade off the vehicle. The
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: one commonality among these four defendants is that, via social
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: media platforms and public statements, they were all outspoken critics
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Then, in early April, it came to
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: light that the ICE agent whose vehicle was involved in
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the incident texted a Facebook post about the charges to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: unidentified associates. He texted the post along with the words
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: well we'll see how long I stay unnamed. Someone wrote back,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: You're going to be famous, brah, and he texted back
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: only among the lefties. They also found that days before
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the indictment was made public, the same agent texted senior
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: ICE officials to let them know that quote several public
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: office holders and political candidates were indicted in this case
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: because of my testimony. He also added quote of note.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Among the six defendants, there is a US congressional candidate,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a forty fifth Ward Committee person, and a Oak Park
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: slash Oakbrook Board of Trustees member. So that makes it
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: seem like someone somewhere told someone that they should be
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: trying to identify and target political candidates.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Did you seem to have had that idea?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, this is a quote from the defense motion put plainly,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: one would have to be living under a rock to
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: not recognize that in these unprecedented times, the current administration
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: has repeatedly placed its heavy thumb on the scales of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: justice in an effort to use the department's formidable criminal
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: apparatus as a weapon against those views as its political enemies.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I think that's right. Unfortunately, the judge in this case
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: ultimately dismissed the motion that claimed the Trump administration exiit
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: undue influence in the prosecution. But the fact that those
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: text messages were released and the content of those messages
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: does not bode well for the prosecution. That's because text
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: messages sent by a Customs and Border Patrol agent were
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: instrumental to another failed prosecution that stemmed from Operation Midway Blitz.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That would be the prosecution of Merimar Martinez, a woman
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: who was shot five times by a CBP agent in
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Chicago last year. She was accused of using her car
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to assault a federal law enforcement officer before the case
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: was ultimately dismissed in November. That dismissal made a whole
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: lot more sense when the judge in the case agreed
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: to release evidence from the case in February, including text
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: messages from the agent who did the shooting. That would
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: be CBP agent Charles Exum. Wasn't wearing a body cam
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: during the shooting. Go figure. Text to and from Exom
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: show him describing the big time support he got after
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the shooting. In one exchange, he said, quote, everyone one
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: has been including Chief Bovino, Chief Banks, Secretary Nome, and
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: el Hefe himself. According to Bovino end quote, I'm guessing
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: el Hefe is Trump. If you call any American president
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: el Hefe, you are the biggest dork walking the fucking planet.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Presidents work for us. We pay their goddamn salaries. We
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: decide who they are. You should not be fawning over
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: any fucking president, not Obama, not Biden, not Trump, not Clinton,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: maybe Clinton a little bit. That guy sure was a charmer.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: You're allowed to be persuaded by Bill Clinton. It's your
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: only human.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, who among us has not been. But don't
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: love any president this much. God, they don't love you
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that much. Yeah, exactly. He also sent a text to
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: a group of friends that said I fired five rounds
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and she had seven holes. Put that in your book, boys,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: What does that even fucking mean?
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Is he maybe a I don't even want to speculate.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. In an email hours after the shooting, Greg Bovino
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: wrote to Charles ExHAM, quote, I'd like to extend an
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: offer for you to extend your retirement beyond age fifty seven.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: In light of your excellent service in Chicago. You have
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: much left to do. End quote. That's pretty fucking grim.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: This is your big congratulations. Would you like to work more?
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly, which I bet this guy would well exim. Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I bet he would love to keep shooting brown people
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: in the streets at the behest of el he fa.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably right where he wants to be. This
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: is his glory days.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Also, video of the shooting was included in the evidence
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: that was released, and it shows Marra mar Martinez doing
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: none of the things she was accused of. This woman
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: was a school teacher who was on her way to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: donate clothes to a local charity when she happened to
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: drive into an area where a protest was happening and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: got shot by the government. After the evidence was made public,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Martinez issued a statement saying, quote the mental scars will
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: always be there as a reminder of the time my
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: own government attempted to execute me, and when they failed,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: they chose to vilify me. End Quote at your government
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: at work, everybody.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: Could not have been doing anything more wholesome either. She
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: might as well have been going to give sponge baths
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: to the homeless.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I believe there's video where the ICE agent
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: who shot her before it happens, he was filming her
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: driving behind them and was like, she's following us. How
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: do you know you're not just going the same direction.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, they get these guys so amped up in
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: conditioned to respond with forrest that they're like jumping at shadows,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: ready to fucking blow someone's head off twenty four hours
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: a day.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What color do you think the thin line on
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the ice flag is going to be when those fuck
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: faces eventually developed their own version of the thin blue line.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: It's going to be like a light blue kind of
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: ice color.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I think I could see that like a teal yeah, very.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Uh, kind of like a pastel, sort of fruity color.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My favorite will always be the thin red line
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: that's firefighters.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Who do you think is mad at you firefighters?
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah? And it's like we already liked you. You don't
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: need to come up with this float like everybody who
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: hates firefighter.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No one's mad when the fire department shows up
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: to put out a fucking fire.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: No one's ever like the fight the fucking firefighters shot
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: my cousin.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: These fucking fascist stopped my house from burning down. No
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: one says that. Fucking Relax, but Ice, we do fucking
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: hate you. Oh we hate you so much, so so much,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and this kind of shit is part of the reason why.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: So that's where we are with the Broadview six, which
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: is now the Broadview four. Like we said, their trial
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: starts next month. I feel like it's not gonna go
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: well for the government, but anything could happen, you never know, you.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, I never thought I'd be sitting around just
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: rooting for our court system, but you know, here we
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: are tough times.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it does seem like that's the one thing
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: keeping this from being as bad as it could be.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Well, we don't have a real opposition party in this country,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: but we do have a judiciary, it seems on some
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: some level, and.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: It seems like even the judges Trump appointed in a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: lot of cases are like, okay, this is like much. Yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: so that's a good sign for now at least, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: we'll see how this case unfolds. But until then, that
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: is our episode. We did it, Connor, thank you so
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: much for doing the pod. As always, what do we
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: gotta plug before we get out of here? Ah, there's
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: new subscription levels patreon dot com, slash on pops go
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: check those out, Connor, what do you want to plug?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I want to plug the Midway Blitz promo video that
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: the government put out of them rating the quote unquote
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: trendy Arragua house in the middle of the night because
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: you paid for it, you know, as the government made
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: this video with your money, you might as well watch it. Yeah,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: see what they've been up to.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: It is such a fucking debacle. We almost did a
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: whole episode about that because of just how pointless that
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: whole operation was. But it would have just been us
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: for an hour going man, this was stupid. This didn't
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: make any sense.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like to. I think if I grew up
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: as I think, if I was an eighth grader in
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: a house where the only eight Tyson Chicken products, I
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: would probably think it was the coolest thing ever.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but alas we did not, and hey, that is
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: all we got. Connor say goodbye to the people.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Goodbye everybody.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Goodbye everybody. We love you.