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NSA Perverts Caught & FIRED (Ep.148) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report, early edition. Federal
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  Speaker 1: agents are reportedly destroying documents related to Jeffrey Epstein as
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  Speaker 1: well as JFK, RFK, MLK. Tulsi Gabbard fires NSA employees
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  Speaker 1: involved in a transgender sex chat room that we covered yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: A journalist is detained by USAID in Cairo. Leftists accuse
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  Speaker 1: those who find Pamela Anderson attractive of transphobia. Carolyn Leavitt objects, obliterates,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, to Dan Bongino's media haters. European globalists declare
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  Speaker 1: that America is now the enemy of the West. And
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  Speaker 1: Kathleen Kennedy will be stepping down from her role as
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  Speaker 1: president of Lucasfilms.
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  Speaker 2: All this on Bongino Report, early edition.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to quickly recap what Dan announced on
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  Speaker 1: his show yesterday. I presume a lot of you have
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  Speaker 1: already heard this, but if you haven't, let's just.
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  Speaker 2: Do a little recap.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, Dan is leaving for a time to become the
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  Speaker 1: deputy FBI director, and we are entering a new stage
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  Speaker 1: here at this company. Dan and his wife, Paula, want
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  Speaker 1: this operation to be bigger than just Dan himself, just
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  Speaker 1: the Bongino brand.
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  Speaker 2: And so they are launching Silverlock, which is the next
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  Speaker 2: step to this vision. You can go to silverlock.com.
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  Speaker 1: Correct, Michael, if you want to figure out, see more
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  Speaker 1: about this new launch, this new chapter of this company.
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  Speaker 1: So while Dan is stepping away from his daily show,
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  Speaker 1: Silverlock will amplify strong voices in conservatism to continue shaping
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  Speaker 1: the culture, delivering great content. So that includes me, but
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  Speaker 1: that also includes Haley, who is going to be launching
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  Speaker 1: the Nightly Scroll really, really soon. and more that is
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  Speaker 1: yet to be announced. So Dan really believes, and this
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  Speaker 1: is what this is all about, you guys, he really
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  Speaker 1: believes that politics is downstream of culture. And so Silverlock
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  Speaker 1: is about creating that cultural impact.
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  Speaker 2: And what kind of impact?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's promoting faith, freedom, truth, all the good stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all the things Dan cares about that you guys care about.
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  Speaker 2: So this is just the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, a transition is happening, but the mission is going
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  Speaker 1: to continue in an even bigger way And so just
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  Speaker 1: stay tuned for what's to come. This is a really
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  Speaker 1: exciting time for all of us. We just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: recap that. I know Dan covered it yesterday, but I
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  Speaker 1: want all of my listeners to know as well that
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  Speaker 1: things are happening, things are changing.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, we reported how CNN read an article essentially amplifying
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  Speaker 1: threats from anonymous intelligence agents. Essentially, CNN became the mouthpiece
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  Speaker 1: for disgruntled CIA employees. And the agents basically said that
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  Speaker 1: if Trump dares to carry out mass layoffs in the CIA,
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  Speaker 1: agents will sell out America to our foreign enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Again, like I said, a threat.
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  Speaker 1: There is mass insubordination throughout the entire executive branch. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be honest with you guys, I'm worried.
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried for our friend Dan Bongino, as well as
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  Speaker 1: Kash Patel and Tulsi and Pam Bondi. They are dealing
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  Speaker 1: with agencies made up of tens of thousands of hostile workers,
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  Speaker 1: some of whom, poor CNN, clearly pose a national security
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  Speaker 1: threat because they're willing to go to China and Russia
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  Speaker 1: and sell out this country just because they hate Trump
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  Speaker 1: so much. I told you all two days ago that
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  Speaker 1: Dan is committed to radical disclosure and transparency.
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  Speaker 2: I heard this with my own ears. He told me that.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm worried that that the essential information on things
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  Speaker 1: like RFK, JFK, the Las Vegas shooting, Epstein, all those,
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  Speaker 1: all the information that we were promised, I fear that
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be destroyed by the time Dan gets there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why do I say that?
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  Speaker 1: Investigative reporter Michael Schellenberger wrote this on X yesterday. FBI
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  Speaker 1: whistleblower Atgo Bactual confirmed to me that a source inside
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  Speaker 1: FBI said FBI employees were destroying evidence on servers And
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  Speaker 1: that he informed Kash Patel, and I hope he and
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  Speaker 1: Atpan Bondi, John Radcliffe, Elon Musk, and Anna Polina Luna
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  Speaker 1: are preventing this. And then yesterday we had retired U.S.
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  Speaker 1: combat veteran and military TV analyst Douglas McGregor write this,
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  Speaker 1: breaking rumors now emerging that several generals are caught shredding
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  Speaker 1: documents and the FBI raided the homes of several CIA officers.
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  Speaker 1: So It's still unclear why Pam Bondi is holding up
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  Speaker 1: the documents that they do have on Epstein. Annapoli and
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  Speaker 1: Luna was talking about this earlier in the week that
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  Speaker 1: we've asked for just a status update on the declassified
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  Speaker 1: JFK and Epstein documents. We can't even get a status
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  Speaker 1: update from Pam Bondi. Really unclear what's happening there. But
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  Speaker 1: this is why it's essential that these documents get released
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  Speaker 1: to the public domain ASAP. The longer that we wait,
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  Speaker 1: the longer that these documents are left in limbo, the
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  Speaker 1: longer then that you have the opportunity for rogue agents
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  Speaker 1: to potentially destroy evidence.
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  Speaker 2: You don't want that. We don't want that.
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  Speaker 1: We just need to get this information that is declassified,
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  Speaker 1: that belongs to the American people, out in the open
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We needed the information out yesterday. And there's a review process,
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  Speaker 1: but like I said yesterday, it needs to be minimal.
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  Speaker 1: These are declassified documents that belong to the people. Redact
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  Speaker 1: the names of some of the Epstein victims, perhaps. That's
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  Speaker 1: about all the censorship that I'm cool with though, because
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  Speaker 1: otherwise it all should be public domain. We were promised
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  Speaker 1: radical transparency and we need radical transparency. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I tweeted this yesterday. We need full transparency on Malaysia
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  Speaker 1: Airlines flight 370. You guys remember that this happened a
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  Speaker 1: while back. I was little, I was littler back then.
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  Speaker 1: And looking back on it, it's just a crazy situation.
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  Speaker 1: You have this airplane that essentially just goes missing in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the ocean, nobody knows where it is.
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  Speaker 1: And we're told there's this like wild goose chase hunt
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  Speaker 1: to find the airplane. And they were unable to track
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  Speaker 1: it at one point. They just lost sight of it.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a really ridiculous assertion from our government.
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  Speaker 1: It makes no sense that a country with the most
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  Speaker 1: sophisticated global satellite surveillance technology just loses track of a
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  Speaker 1: commercial airplane. And not only did our government allegedly lose
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  Speaker 1: track of this airplane, but like so did Russia, so
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  Speaker 1: did China, so did Malaysia.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: All these places that have global surveillance, or at least
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  Speaker 1: had heavy surveillance in that vicinity of where the plane
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  Speaker 1: allegedly went missing, had the ability to know what happened
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  Speaker 1: to it. And for some reason, we're just told, can't
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  Speaker 1: find it, the plane's gone. So that's something I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see disclosure on. There are some wild theories about
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  Speaker 1: what happened to that airplane. But what I do know
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  Speaker 1: is that it's impossible that this plane just disappeared, and
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  Speaker 1: the US government has no idea what happened to it.
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  Speaker 2: So why are they lying?
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to take a quick break. When
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  Speaker 1: we come back, we're going to keep talking about the
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  Speaker 1: hostile bureaucracy, it is getting clearer and clearer that this
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  Speaker 1: fight is not going to be just about firing the
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  Speaker 1: bureaucrats who are completely rogue and overtly political. This is
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  Speaker 1: much deeper and much more serious, I think, than any
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  Speaker 1: of us really even gave it credit for. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be one of the greatest power struggles in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the.
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  Speaker 2: She just fired.
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  Speaker 1: Fired all of the perverts in the NSA involved in
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  Speaker 1: that infamous transgender sex chat room. And just for a
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  Speaker 1: little recap, there was a chat room exposed by Chris
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  Speaker 1: Ruffo via some whistleblowers within the NSA where we just
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  Speaker 1: learned intelligence officials were discussing on government time and the
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer's dime, polyamory, fetishes, how good it feels to have
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  Speaker 1: sex after transgender castration, just like totally inappropriate conversations that
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  Speaker 1: expose them all as perverts and not at all something
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  Speaker 1: that you should be discussing in the workplace, especially at
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  Speaker 1: the highest levels of government. These are people who have
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  Speaker 1: top security clearances and there's going on and on and on.
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  Speaker 2: About different fetishes. Like it was so wildly inappropriate.
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  Speaker 1: And this was permitted under the guise of DEI, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. So the news broke and Tulsi just really promptly,
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  Speaker 1: swiftly got rid of them all.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Not so good to see some of these transgender sex
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  Speaker 4: chats among the intel officials.
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  Speaker 5: What are we going to do about that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, Jesse, what we're going to do has already been done.
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  Speaker 6: There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community
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  Speaker 6: that contributed to and participated in this. What is really
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  Speaker 6: just an egregious violation of trust? What to speak of
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  Speaker 6: like basic rules and standards around professionalism? I put out
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  Speaker 6: a directive today that they all will be terminated and
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  Speaker 6: their security clearances will be revoked.
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  Speaker 1: Good, good. This is exactly the kind of swift response
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  Speaker 1: that we need, that we needed. She fired over a
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  Speaker 1: hundred agents involved in this sex chat. And as Sean
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  Speaker 1: Davis writes, now the next step is to search their
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  Speaker 1: hard drives, charge and convict them.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just tell you guys, this story actually gets worse.
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  Speaker 1: Since yesterday, we actually found out that there were the NSA,
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  Speaker 1: DIA and Navy intel officials had chat rooms blasting libs
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  Speaker 1: of TikTok as a effing monster. arguing that Ben Shapiro
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  Speaker 1: should be expelled from the tribe for constantly spouting hate speech.
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  Speaker 1: They also had slurs against Italian Americans and called them
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  Speaker 1: terrible people. For some reason, the intelligence agencies don't like
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  Speaker 1: Italian Americans. CIA officials celebrated the death of Christian leader
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  Speaker 1: Pat Robertson. And Chris Ruffo says a reoccurring theme in
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  Speaker 1: the NSA chat rooms was hatred against Christians, conservatives, Italians, heterosexuals.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, there was insubordination with American intel officials
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  Speaker 1: rallying for opposition against Trump's cabinet nominees.
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  Speaker 2: So a completely.
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  Speaker 1: Corrupted, fully politicized organization that again, probably arguably more than
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  Speaker 1: any other part of the federal government should be apolitical.
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  Speaker 2: These are our intelligence officials.
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  Speaker 1: These people have vast amounts, more than anyone, of unchecked
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  Speaker 1: bureaucratic power to target certain groups in this country.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they have to be bipartisan.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's imperative that the intelligence apparatus is just
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  Speaker 1: committed to the truth and safety and security.
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  Speaker 2: That clearly is not the case.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Ruffo writes on X, there is a battalion of
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  Speaker 1: male to female transgenders within the American intelligence apparatus. They
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  Speaker 1: hate Americans and libs of TikTok. They fantasize about pseudo
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  Speaker 1: vaginas and butthole lasers. They are in charge of the
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  Speaker 1: most sophisticated spying machine in human history. And thank goodness
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  Speaker 1: that they're gone now. But this isn't the end of
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  Speaker 1: the story. The rot is going to be really hard
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  Speaker 1: to root out.
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  Speaker 2: This is a great place to start. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, all those people in the sex chat room needed
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  Speaker 1: to go, but there is still so much more to address.
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  Speaker 1: I have to share with you all this wild story
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  Speaker 1: from Egypt. American journalist Larry Alex Townton recently traveled to
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  Speaker 1: USAID's Cairo outposts which is just this like fortress-like.
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  Speaker 2: Compound on the Nile River.
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  Speaker 1: And you'd think that given Trump's orders regarding USAID, there
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be a lot going on at this Cairo outpost.
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  Speaker 1: But what happened to Larry suggests otherwise. This story is insane,
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  Speaker 1: you guys. So Larry was curious about Cairo USAID's response
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  Speaker 1: to Trump's orders slashing USAID's activities.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, what are they doing here?
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  Speaker 5: I wonder.
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  Speaker 1: So Larry goes out to this outpost, and he and
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  Speaker 1: his Egyptian driver encounter this militarized setup, completely devoid of
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  Speaker 1: any aid-related activity. And there's this tense exchange and refusal
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  Speaker 1: to show an ID again. Larry shows it to them.
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  Speaker 1: Then he asks about U.S. aid, and things get weird,
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  Speaker 1: and they get really hostile. And they ask to see
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  Speaker 1: his ID again and the ID of his driver. And
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  Speaker 1: so then he leaves. He tries to remove himself from
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  Speaker 1: the situation. A week later, Larry goes back. Security recognizes him,
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  Speaker 1: stops the vehicle, and then ensues a two and a
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  Speaker 1: half hour standoff with USAID security, Cairo police, and Egypt's
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  Speaker 1: secret police. They accuse Larry of terrorism, espionage. He refuses
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  Speaker 1: to surrender his phone or his passport, deletes evidence after
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  Speaker 1: sending videos to contacts and and contacts the embassy also
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  Speaker 1: to try and get some, US embassy to try and
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  Speaker 1: get some help, but that doesn't do anything. I want
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  Speaker 1: to play for you guys this exchange.
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 5: So he's in the car. He's being apprehended. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: You're fine. They're stopping my driver. They're telling me they
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  Speaker 5: want my phone because I have videoed the USAID facility
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  Speaker 5: and so forth. I've told them they can't have the phone.
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  Speaker 5: So now they're telling my driver he has to get out.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm continuing the video, and I can't see if
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  Speaker 5: I'm aiming this correctly, so hopefully I am. All right,
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  Speaker 5: I'm being detained by USAID Cairo. I'm outside of the gate.
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  Speaker 5: They've taken my driver's license, not mine, his. They've demanded
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  Speaker 5: my passport. They have demanded... I've got to put this down.
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  Speaker 5: They have demanded my phone. Again, we've not entered into
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  Speaker 5: the facility. We've taken no pictures of the facility on
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  Speaker 5: this particular occasion, but they did know who I was,
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  Speaker 5: that I was the guy who was here last week,
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  Speaker 5: and I decided to come back to just take one
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  Speaker 5: more look. I had no intention... of entering, and we didn't.
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  Speaker 5: But this time, they were laying in wait for us.
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  Speaker 5: They blocked the car, and now they've suggested that I'm
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  Speaker 5: some sort of terrorist. And they know better than that.
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  Speaker 5: They know that I have no such intentions. I'm quite Googleable.
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  Speaker 5: And they were very aware of my viral tweet from
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  Speaker 5: last time. But again, that's what's going on here. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if I go dark, you'll know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: So what's really interesting is throughout this exchange, they kept
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  Speaker 1: trying to get Larry to go into the compound.
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  Speaker 2: Larry was just up there. He's trying to get away.
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  Speaker 2: They're holding him up for two and a half hours.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to leave and they're apprehending him and they
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  Speaker 1: want him to go inside the compound. And Larry in
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  Speaker 1: this article in the Federalist seemed to suggest that he
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  Speaker 1: was afraid for his life in this moment, because if
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  Speaker 1: you guys will recall, Um, the, the, uh, the, the
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  Speaker 1: embassy in, uh, the embassy in Turkey was really infamously
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  Speaker 1: took in a journalist who, and I believe it was
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  Speaker 1: an American journalist who then never, ever came out. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and it was assumed this is, this was the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Saudi Arabia embassy in Turkey. And this, this journalist
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  Speaker 1: had been really critical of Saudi Arabia. So Michael, will
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  Speaker 1: you look that up? I believe it's an American journalist.
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  Speaker 1: The point is that he was afraid the second that
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  Speaker 1: I step in there, I have no idea what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen to me. Why do they want me to
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  Speaker 1: come into the compound? Why are they trying to force
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  Speaker 1: me inside? It didn't make any sense. And so he
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  Speaker 1: was really afraid for his life, given that history. And
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  Speaker 1: so then after some negotiations, there was a call made
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  Speaker 1: to a higher up official, according to Larry, and he
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  Speaker 1: and Muhammad were eventually released. The next day, Egypt's secret
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  Speaker 1: police visited the car service that he used. They interrogated
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  Speaker 1: Mohammed about the writer's activities and searched the vehicle. But
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  Speaker 1: by then, Larry had already left Egypt. He just got
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of the country. Larry writes in The Federalist,
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  Speaker 1: Had the USAID office on my first visit simply said
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  Speaker 1: something like, yeah, President Trump is slashing the USAID and
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  Speaker 1: we are in the process of closing shop, there would
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  Speaker 1: be no story here. But the fearful reactionary response smells
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  Speaker 1: of corruption. This was the Streisand effect, initiating calls from
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  Speaker 1: high in our government to ask, what the hell is
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  Speaker 1: going on at USAID in Egypt? Oh, so he's a
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  Speaker 1: Saudi journalist.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. So this was a Saudi journalist. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: you guys.
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  Speaker 1: And he was brought into an embassy in Turkey for
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. And it is very likely that he was murdered.
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia says that didn't happen. He was highly critical
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  Speaker 1: of the royal family in Saudi Arabia. I'll just say,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm very critical of an agency or a government
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  Speaker 1: and I'm in a foreign country, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: go into their embassy when they're trying to force me inside. Like,
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  Speaker 1: why are you trying to force me inside your embassy,
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  Speaker 1: or in this case, your compound, if you don't like
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  Speaker 1: me and you don't like the work I do?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of suspect.
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  Speaker 1: And in the case of that Saudi Arabian journalist, he
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  Speaker 1: never came back out. This is basically the entire federal
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  Speaker 1: bureaucracy right now. I want you to watch this video
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  Speaker 1: of Representative Jasmine Crockett summing up the entire sentiment of
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  Speaker 1: this permanent state.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen. If you could speak directly to Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 2: what would you say? F * * * off.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you guys believe that she's a member of Congress?
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  Speaker 1: So trashy, so inappropriate. The bar is on the floor
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  Speaker 1: for class. And frankly, this applies to all Democrats. You
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  Speaker 1: guys remember Tom Fetterman showing up to the inauguration in
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: gym shorts, Maxine Waters screeching that to Elon Musk, nobody
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  Speaker 1: elected your ass.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I'm sorry, like you're an old lady.
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  Speaker 1: Like, why are you talking like that? It's just not appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: It's gotten out of control. And speaking of out of control,
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  Speaker 1: I have to share with you guys a cultural story.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back to some politics in a second, but
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  Speaker 1: I have to share with you this cultural story. The
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  Speaker 1: hate surrounding Pamela Anderson right now is patently insane. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't know, Pamela Anderson is, of course, famous for
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  Speaker 1: playing CJ Parker in Baywatch, and she was also a
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  Speaker 1: Playboy model back in the 1990s. Now, Pamela has made
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  Speaker 1: the decision recently to go makeup-free. She says she wants
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  Speaker 1: to feel more genuine, and that includes embracing the natural
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  Speaker 1: aging process. And frankly, I actually kind of really respect
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  Speaker 1: her for this, In today's culture, older women are under
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  Speaker 1: just impossible pressure to stay youthful through surgeries and fillers
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  Speaker 1: and heavy makeup. It's kind of out of control. And
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I just think women should be allowed to age gracefully.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of what Pamela Anderson is doing. Okay,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: so what happens? Pamela shows up to the SAG Awards
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: over the weekend in her late 50s, and she's makeup free,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: and she actually looks absolutely stunning. I promise you guys,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: it is crazy. She's just glowing, and news outlets rightfully
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: described her as ethereal. a term typically used to describe
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: something angelic, otherworldly in beauty.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And she did. She looked ethereal. She looked gorgeous.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: But now some leftists are angry at these news outlets
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and just regular people for saying that Pamela Anderson looked beautiful.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Now, why are they angry?
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Because apparently recognizing and appreciating Pamela Anderson's beauty is somehow
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: racist and transphobic.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, take a listen.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: I need y'all to see the inherent transphobia And thus
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: anti-blackness that is embedded within this compliment. The excitement around
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Pamela Anderson not wearing makeup at a time where anti-trans
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: legislation and transphobia is heightened. I need you to get
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: that this is also signaling Pamela Anderson is a real woman. look,
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: she doesn't even have to wear makeup. And she doesn't
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: have to wear makeup. And when she doesn't, she's ethereal
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: doing it. Queerty is calling Dylan Mulvaney ethereal as well.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: And we know Dylan Mulvaney is a trans woman. So
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: I was like, hmm, that's interesting. What is the definition
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: of ethereal? extremely delicate and light in a way that
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: seems too perfect for this world. See, the gag is
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: anti-blackness and transphobia are intrinsically linked. Okay? So whenever you
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: see the presence of transphobia, anti-blackness is deeply embedded. Because
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: when you look at how Cynthia Erivo's outfit was described
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: last night, L... who also said that Pamela Anderson was ethereal.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: So essentially, commenting on how stunning and ethereal Pamela Anderson
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: looks is somehow deemed problematic. Praising her natural beauty without
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: makeup will make transgender-identifying men... who wear heavy makeup to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: cosplay as women, it'll make them feel bad. So we
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: can't say that women without makeup look beautiful because it'll
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: make the men who wear all this heavy makeup and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: pretend to be women and frankly take womanhood as a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: costume as somehow a slight on them.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: It'll make them feel bad.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Apparently, highlighting how beautiful a real woman is, is offensive
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to the people who view womanhood as a costume. And
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: it gets even more absurd because ethereal has now been
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: labeled as a racially charged term, supposedly because it's associated
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: with lightness, and therefore it's inherently anti-black. The term ethereal
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: has been used for centuries to describe things or people
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: of exceptional, delicate beauty. It has nothing to do with race.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: We don't have.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: To racialize everything. It has nothing to do with race.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: But now, somehow, acknowledging the beauty of a white woman
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: is being twisted as something harmful. And this is a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: reflection of how deeply divided we become on matters of beauty, sex,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and race. White straight people aren't allowed to just exist
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: without it becoming a problem. White straight women aren't allowed
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to be beautiful and ethereal in this modern culture.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: And it's absurd.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: It's wrong. If it offends you, that Pamela Anderson looks
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: beautiful without makeup on, perhaps you're an anti-white racist and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: a woman hater. That's the conclusion I'm going to draw. Yeah,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: this is the person who said it wasn't ethereal and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that somehow that was bad. And frankly, Cynthia Erivo, it's like, fine.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I thought her outfit was interesting.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It was cute.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: We have to say that she's also ethereal too.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Otherwise, we're all racist. It's just ridiculous. It's kind of
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: giving like, you.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Know, when there's a bully in school and like somebody
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: is told, oh, you look beautiful. And then like that
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: really insecure person feels upset about it because they already
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: kind of have that inherent insecurity.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: And so they lash out and they're.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Mean to the girl who was told, oh, you look
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: beautiful because they feel bad. Nobody said that about them.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: It's just like, it's not transphobic. It's not anti-black. You
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: are projecting your insecurities on Pamela Anderson and everybody who
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: just said objectively, this woman's beautiful.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: White women are allowed to be beautiful.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And it's not a controversial thing, and it's not problematic,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and if you think it's problematic, you're probably a racist
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: yourself and against white people. All right, you guys know
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: that the media is trashing our good friend Dan Bongino
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: They're calling him.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Unqualified, totally admitting his extensive experience in law enforcement, all
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: of course to undermine his credibility as the next deputy
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: FBI director. Well, yesterday, Caroline Levitt epically obliterated This entire
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: media construed narrative to discredit Dan.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure if anybody in this room has listened
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: to Mr. Bongino when he talks about the past corruption
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: at the FBI, when he talks about his experience serving
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: for the United States Secret Service. This is a man
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: who loves his country and who has honorably served our
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: country in ways that many people have not. He understands
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: the depth of the corruption at these institutions, which the
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: American people reelected President Trump to shake up. And I
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: think it's quite despicable to see many networks in this
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: room who have had chyrons on their television screens labeling Mr.
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: Bongino as a far-right podcaster. He is not. He is
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: a former law enforcement agent He is a former Secret
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: Service agent who put his life on the line to
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: protect this country. And that is why the President of
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: the United States has entrusted him for this important role.
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: He's also an outsider to this Washington swamp. And we
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: often see that when outsiders are appointed to such coveted positions,
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: a lot of people in this city get very, very nervous.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: And they should be, because Dan Bongino and Kash Patel
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: and Attorney General Bondi are focused on rooting out the
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: corruption at these agencies and ending the weaponization of government
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: once and for all.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, so mic drop. I mean, she just, she put
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: it so perfectly. I could never have said it better myself.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Dan is a patriot. He's dedicated his life to service.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: He's entirely qualified and capable of doing this job. And
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: all the critics really, like Carolyn Levitt said, hit the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: nail on the head.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: They're scared. That's what this is about.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It's a dirty trick. If you're not in the club,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: then that inherently means you're unqualified. And this is what
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they've been doing to Trump for a decade now. Oh,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: he doesn't know anything about politics.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: He's unqualified.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: He can be president. It's what they do. They did
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to Pete, to my dad, to Tulsi, to RFK Jr.,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: literally everyone in this admin. By the way, speaking of
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the press room, Carolyn Leavitt announced yesterday that the White
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: House Correspondents Association will no longer be responsible for determining
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: which outlets get privileged access to the briefing room and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: to the White House. The White House press team is
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: now going to determine the rotations and which outlets get
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: access on their own. And this announcement just comes days
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: after the Associated Press sued the Trump White House for
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: denying the Associated Press access to the briefing room, Air
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Force One, and other exclusive areas. Now, why did Trump
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: exclude the AP? Well, because the AP refused to use
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Gulf of America instead of Gulf of Mexico. And so
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: he said, well, if you guys aren't going to do that,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: you're just not going to have any access. And so
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: this really upset the AP. They just think that they're
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: entitled to access to the president. And so a federal
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: judge ruled in favor of the White House on Monday saying, yeah,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the White House can deny you access.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: This is their right.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Turns out nobody, no corporate media outlet has the right,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: has the entitlement to to White House access. It's just
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: not a thing, especially over other journalists. Here was Caroline explaining.
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: As you all know, for decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists,
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: the White House Correspondents Association, has long dictated which journalists
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: get to ask questions of the president of the United
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: States in these most intimate spaces.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: Not anymore.
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: I am proud to announce that we are going to
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: give the power back to the people who read your papers,
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: who watch your television shows, and who listen to your
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: radio stations. Moving forward, the White House press pool will
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: be determined by the White House press team. Legacy outlets
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: who have participated in the press pool for decades will
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, so this is great news. The White House Correspondents
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Association is why no one for four years asked Biden
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: a single tough question. As Molly Hemingway writes, the WHCA,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: White House Correspondents Association, conspired to keep their favorite outlets
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and reporters in charge of the narrative and to shut
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: out any fresh reporters or outlets from their cartel. They
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: are a massive reason why the White House Press Corp
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: has been so unimpressive.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: In the last few decades. This is excellent news.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: This is this admin taking back the narrative and saying,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: we're going to give alternative media, we're going to give
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: right-wing media the ability to also have a seat at
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the table. And the corrupted corporate media is no longer
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: going to have a monopoly on access to this admin.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent news.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: It's also why we're able to discredit this already, this theory,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: oh damn, Bongino, he's not qualified. Sean Duffy, PDX, we're
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: able to dismantle all of these narratives before they even
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: get started. Because finally, we are allowing the democratization of
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: information to flourish in this country, including at the White
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: House with who has access to the president.
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Recall how yesterday we covered Dan Crenshaw threatening to kill
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: This was a crazy story.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: He was caught in a hot mic. And a lot
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: of the tension between Tucker Carlson and Dan Crenshaw is
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: centered around Dan Crenshaw's obsession just like sick obsession, was
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: sending more and more money to Ukraine. And Crenshaw really
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: hates that Tucker Carlson would dare to disagree with him
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: on this issue, that Tucker Carlson would dare not be
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a neocon. So Dan Crenshaw says, I might kill him
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: if I see him.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Well, J.D.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Vance wrote yesterday an incredible tweet that wasn't about the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Dan Crenshaw, Tucker Carlson spat but I think is really
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: pertinent to that spat and also just to the environment
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: that we're in right now in the midst of this
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: charged time surrounding the peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Here was what J.D.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Vance wrote yesterday. He said, and my desire to bring
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: it to a rapid close. Quote, you are trying to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: abandon my country, and I don't like it. Sir, I replied,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: your country is the United States of America, and so
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: is mine. I always found it offensive that a new
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: immigrant to our country would be willing to use the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: power and influence of their new nation to settle the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: ethnic rivalries of the old. Yes.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, J.D.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: He goes on to write, One of the most important
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: parts of assimilation is seeing your country as the USA.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: It's part of the bargain.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: If you're welcomed into our national family, you ought to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: look out for the interests of the United States. I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: know many immigrants who have the right perspective, who have
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the right perspective, and I'm grateful for them. For example,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I met many Ukrainian Americans during that campaign and since
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: who agreed with my views, or at the very least.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Asked the right question. What is in the best interest
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: of the United States?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: What J.D. just articulated there, and he really is a
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: thought leader of the new right, you guys. He really
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: has it down. This is crucial to America first. What
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: is in the best interest of this country and her people?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: That is a central question that we should always be
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: asking with every decision made. It's also the problem with
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: mass immigration, mass amnesty. It's a liability to have people
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: in this country voting and impacting how we run things,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and they're not totally loyal to America. And this concept
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: of nationalism and subsidiarity is causing a lot of confusion
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: in Europe because they no longer hold Western values. And
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: not only that, I think they view it as just
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: inherently diabolical and evil to, if you're in the UK,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: put the UK first, Britain first, Germany first.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: That's a bad thing.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: That conjures up emotions from World War II, presumably. And
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: so they have a lot of aversion to having an
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: honest discussion about what is actually good for their respective countries.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: They are totally globalist. They're totally liberal.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: It's I'm going to share with you, this is a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: real article from the UK-based Financial Times.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: The title is, The U.S. is now the enemy of
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: the West.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: We're the enemy of the West, you guys. And the
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: article argues that the U.S. is abandoning its historical role
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: as a global leader of democracy and liberal values, essentially
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: because America is prioritizing national self-interest over globalism and also
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: promoting authentic Western values. rooted in Christianity. Therefore, America is
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the enemy of the West, the enemy of Europe. The
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: article reads, the U.S. has decided to abandon the role
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: in the world it assumed during the Second World War.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: With Trump back in the White House, it has decided
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: instead to become just another great power indifferent to anything
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: but its short-term interests, especially its material interests. So Europeans,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: will need to create far stronger cooperation embedded in a
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: robust framework of liberal and democratic norms.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: They're so lofty.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Why Europeans are so morally superior constantly?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: It's really annoying.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: But you know what's not morally superior? Throwing people behind
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: bars for thought crimes. Fueling a war in Ukraine that
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: can't be won. We are fighting people at home and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: abroad who couldn't give a crap about what happens to
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the people in this country, the human beings who live here,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: our friends and our neighbors, they could care less.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: That's Dan Crenshaw.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Way more interested in what happens in Ukraine than the
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: people ODing on fentanyl here at home. We have to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: secure Ukraine's borders, but he doesn't give a crap about ours.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: But I care. You care. And we have to keep
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: protecting this national nationalism. We have to keep protecting ourselves financially, culturally,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: if we stand a chance, at turning from the path
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of civilizational suicide that Europe is currently on. Speaking of
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the culture, Kathleen Kennedy will be stepping down from her
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: role as president of Lucasfilm, and to that I say,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: good riddance. The Star Wars franchise has turned into utter
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: slop since Disney bought the rights. There's no male leadership.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: The galaxy is basically just one big matriarchy because there's, again,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: no strong male characters. And by the way, several of
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: those strong female leaders happen to all be like queer
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: and they have gay people kissing and a ton of
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: left-wing social commentary just baked into all the plots. It
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: has gotten out of control. And it's been really hard
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: on Star Wars fans. I really feel for them. I'm
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: sort of like a peripheral Star Wars fan. I would
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: not call myself like a Star Wars fan, but I
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: have an appreciation for Star Wars. I'm able to recognize
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the kind of cultural impact that it's had and how
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: good the George Lucas storytelling was at the time. So
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: what gets me is that Star Wars really is, like
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: it or not, an epic piece of art. George Lucas
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: elevated filmmaking to a brand new artistic medium with digital technology.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: It was a pioneering force. I want you to listen
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to renowned feminist cultural critic Camille Paglia on her take
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: on the revenge of the Sith and George Lucas's movies
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: bridging popular culture, and high art.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: I was watching TV and the Star Wars films again
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: and again and again being shown on a cable TV channel,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: and I became obsessed with this great finale of Revenge
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: of the Sith from 2005, a film that George Lucas directed.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: And it's the last film made in the Star Wars series,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: but it narratively belongs in the middle. And I thought,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: my goodness, this is so powerful. This is like grand opera.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: It's like landscape painting from romanticism. It's like apocalyptic destruction
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: of industrial culture and politics, everything going with this unbelievable
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: dance theater of the longest duel ever filmed in movies.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: It's passionate engagement, you know, on a lava river between
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: these two men. So I became overwhelmed. So I'm saying, okay,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: and I will defend this to this death, is that
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: this long finale of Revenge of the Sith is the
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: most powerful and the most significant work of art in
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: any genre, including literature, in the last 30 years.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: So she makes the point that essentially there's nothing happening.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: in literature, there's nothing happening in poetry and in painting
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: or in sculpting. Like we've just kind of abandoned these
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: mediums of art. And she says, Star Wars is actually
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the most innovative and artistic and beautiful and deep. And
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: it makes sense because really the true creative, most of
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the art world has been taken over by propagandists, but
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the real creators, the real artists, are gravitating toward technology,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: toward video games and movies and TV shows. So Polly
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: also delves into the emotional depth of these films. Anakin
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader, she says it's a masterful
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: blend of myth and emotion. She likens it to classical
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: drama with its intense familial conflicts and moral ambiguity. She
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: sees the film's digital visuals as enhancing all this storytelling,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: giving the characters a inner turmoil, a vivid, almost painterly
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: backdrop that elevates their journey beyond just mere cinema and
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: into a modern epic. And she also notices this about
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  Speaker 1: George Lucas that's really important to our modern times.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 8: Lucas correctly perceives that politics are cyclical. and that there
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  Speaker 8: is never a final solution to anything involving the construction
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  Speaker 8: of human societies, that they're in a continual process of
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  Speaker 8: construction and of self-destruction.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so she.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, the original Star Wars and the prequels,
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  Speaker 1: like all good art, reveal deep truths about our society,
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  Speaker 1: about the human condition, about how we organize ourselves as
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  Speaker 1: a people. And all this is to say that the propaganda...
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  Speaker 1: heavy Kathleen Kennedy iterations of Star Wars tramples on this legacy.
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  Speaker 2: South Park did a.
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  Speaker 1: Spoof on how Kathleen Kennedy is running things at George
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  Speaker 1: Lucas Films and Lucas Films.
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  Speaker 2: And I have to say, this is very accurate. Take
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  Speaker 2: a listen.
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  Speaker 7: Is there a problem, people? We were just discussing ideas
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  Speaker 7: of what to do with the new Prince Eric movie.
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  Speaker 7: Put a chick in it, make her gay.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we should go a different route than we did
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  Speaker 3: with Indiana Jones.
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  Speaker 9: Indiana Jones, put a chick in it and make her.
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  Speaker 7: Name it gay.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, yeah. Well, let's try that.
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  Speaker 2: Again. So the joke is, Kathleen Kennedy, just everything. Put
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  Speaker 2: a chick in it and make her gay.
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  Speaker 1: Like, that's the ethos of Star Wars under Kathleen Kennedy.
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  Speaker 2: That's all she cares about. And it's just so tired.
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  Speaker 2: It's so ridiculous. We all know what she's doing. It's
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  Speaker 2: not art. It's propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: And we are living through a period of great social
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  Speaker 1: upheaval and reform.
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  Speaker 5: We are.
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  Speaker 1: taking our failed institutions, Hollywood included, and dismantling them and
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  Speaker 1: reimagining them. And Lucas's stories, the original stories, weren't about preaching.
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  Speaker 1: They were about archetypes and universal struggles. The empire wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just evil. It was bureaucracy, stagnation, the dark side of
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  Speaker 1: unchecked power, mirroring real world institutions like the ones we
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  Speaker 1: have now that fail to lose sight of their of
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  Speaker 1: their purpose. Imagine Star Wars reclaiming that spirit now in
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  Speaker 1: 2025 as society wrestles with its own empire moments, corrupt governments,
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  Speaker 1: broken media, cultural divides. We need a Star Wars in
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  Speaker 1: 2025 telling stories of flawed heroes rising against oppressive systems,
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  Speaker 1: not through lectures, but through epic, emotional, resonant journeys. Lucas's
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  Speaker 1: digital innovation could push boundaries again, blending cutting-edge tech with
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  Speaker 1: timeless myths to reflect universal truths about humanity. And who knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Kennedy's exit isn't just a magic bullet. It is
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  Speaker 1: a chance to hit reset. But Lucas's legacy proves Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars can be much more than just feminist, progressive slop.
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  Speaker 1: It can be art that speaks to our moment. And
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  Speaker 1: let's hope that whoever takes the helm at Lucasfilm remembers that.
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