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Trump’s Cryptic Putin Threat (Ep.155) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report, early edition. Trump
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  Speaker 1: issues a cryptic threat to Putin. TikTokers mock Democrats' cringy
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  Speaker 1: social media posts. Gavin Newsom shifts his stance on transgender policies.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's honored guest. Okay, you guys, listen, we're in the
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  Speaker 1: new studio. There's going to be hiccups, so my bad
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  Speaker 1: about that. There's probably going to be other instances of this.
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  Speaker 1: We're still figuring it out. The tech guys have been
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  Speaker 1: here since like 10 p.m., every night for the last
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  Speaker 1: week and a half. But back to these headlines, just
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  Speaker 1: bear with us. Trump's honored guest at his joint address
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  Speaker 1: of Congress faced bullying and expulsion from her sorority. Male
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  Speaker 1: feminist Justin Baldoni is criticized for being too nice. Can't
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  Speaker 1: do anything right if you're a male feminist. And Trump
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  Speaker 1: plays matchmaker for the stranded astronauts stuck up in space.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition. President Trump gave
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  Speaker 1: Putin a really ominous message yesterday. Let's play that, Mikey.
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  Speaker 2: When Zelensky inevitably comes back to the White House, what
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  Speaker 2: do you expect from him? And do you think you'll
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  Speaker 2: see him.
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  Speaker 3: In the next time? Well, I think what's going to
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  Speaker 3: happen is Ukraine wants to make a deal because I
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  Speaker 3: don't think they have a choice. I also think that
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  Speaker 3: Russia wants to make a deal because in a certain
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  Speaker 3: different way, a different way that only I know, only
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  Speaker 3: I know, they have no choice either.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so really ominous message. And he says, OK, Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to make a deal and they
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  Speaker 1: have no choice. And we know why that is, because
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. is bankrolling Ukraine's war effort. They really do
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  Speaker 1: have no choice. So no U.S., no Ukraine war effort.
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  Speaker 1: But then he says Russia has no choice either and
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  Speaker 1: Putin knows Why? And Trump doesn't elaborate any further. He
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  Speaker 1: just says, well, I know what it is. They know
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  Speaker 1: what it is. But he doesn't say anything else. And
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  Speaker 1: this is just classic Trump. This is Trump's MO. It's vague.
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  Speaker 1: It's cryptic. It's threatening. And by refusing to elaborate on
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  Speaker 1: why Russia has no choice, he forces Putin into this
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  Speaker 1: sort of psychological chess match, wondering what Trump might be
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  Speaker 1: planning next. This is the same playbook. that President Trump
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  Speaker 1: used with North Korea's Kim Jong-un. One day, he was
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  Speaker 1: just calling him Rocket Man and threatening to rain down
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  Speaker 1: fire and fury. The next day, he's meeting with him
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore. They're shaking hands like they're old friends. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like whiplash diplomacy. And it kept Kim off balance,
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  Speaker 1: de-escalated tensions, ironically, without really giving anything up. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of amazing. And then he also did this with China.
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  Speaker 1: Trump imposed massive tariffs on Chinese goods, sending Beijing into
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  Speaker 1: this economic panic. He sits down with Xi Jinping. and says,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, we have a great relationship. We're totally chill.
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  Speaker 1: And China never really quite knew what Trump would do next,
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  Speaker 1: whether he'd escalate, strike a deal, forcing them into really
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  Speaker 1: a defensive position constantly, as with the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows what to make of Trump. No one
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  Speaker 1: knows what he'll do next. It's completely unpredictable. Now, with Russia,
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  Speaker 1: the ambiguity of his statement is a message itself. He
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  Speaker 1: might be bluffing. There could be nothing there. But that's
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  Speaker 1: beside the point. Putin has to wonder. Is Trump hinting
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  Speaker 1: at something military, economic, some secret leverage only he knows about?
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  Speaker 1: Or is he just throwing words into the wind? The
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  Speaker 1: not knowing is what makes it effective. And what did
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  Speaker 1: Biden do in office? Predictable, bureaucratic, easily read by adversaries.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knew how Joe Biden was going to respond to
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  Speaker 1: Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Everyone knew. This is a total
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  Speaker 1: predictable thing. Because Joe Biden was not really running the country.
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  Speaker 1: It was a deep state. And we all know what
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  Speaker 1: the deep state wanted, right? To support a proxy war,
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  Speaker 1: a Western proxy war between Ukraine and Russia. So of
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  Speaker 1: course they were going to go in full support. And
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  Speaker 1: Putin knew exactly what Biden would do in Ukraine. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, it was sanctions, weapons, shipments, hands-off military approach.
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  Speaker 1: It was no mystery. But with Trump, this wild card
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  Speaker 1: factor alone forces a recalibration of how world leaders respond
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  Speaker 1: to the United States of America. And it's kind of awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And chat, you guys tell me what you think. You
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  Speaker 1: guys just watched the video. Was that a nice message?
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  Speaker 1: Did you view that as a nice message? I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say that was a friendly message? No. Would
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  Speaker 1: you say that perhaps Trump was being tough on Russia?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of sounded like he was being tough on Russia,
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  Speaker 1: I would say. And you wouldn't know that from the
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  Speaker 1: media coverage. We're still hearing that Trump is a Russian stooge,
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  Speaker 1: a Putin sycophant. Same thing we've been hearing for the
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  Speaker 1: last 10 years. It doesn't stop. That didn't sound like
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  Speaker 1: Trump was a Putin sycophant to me. And don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's just coming from left-wing corporate media personalities and outlets.
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  Speaker 1: I told you guys yesterday that alternative media isn't inherently
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  Speaker 1: better than the corporate press. I think it is better
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  Speaker 1: as a whole, but that doesn't mean that the individuals
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  Speaker 1: in it are all good actors and that we should
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  Speaker 1: all trust them. It's not what it means. And in
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  Speaker 1: the open alternative media sphere, you have the ability to
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  Speaker 1: choose who to trust. And some people are just as
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  Speaker 1: bad or worse in the corporate media. I promise you.
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  Speaker 1: The Free Press, founded by New York Times refugee Barry Weiss,
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  Speaker 1: if you know, you know, published this yesterday by neocon
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  Speaker 1: British writer Douglas Murray. And it's titled How MAGA Lost
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  Speaker 1: Its Way on Ukraine. And it's gone pretty viral among
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  Speaker 1: the political right on social media. And the article argues
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  Speaker 1: that basically because online MAGA is dumb, it started to
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  Speaker 1: believe that this Russian propaganda, that Russia is better than
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine because Russia isn't globalist and Russia isn't woke. And
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  Speaker 1: then because of the Hunter Biden and Burisma scandal, Trump impeachment,
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  Speaker 1: MAGA just assumed that Ukraine, on the other side, is
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  Speaker 1: just all around corrupt and bad. We just have this
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  Speaker 1: bad view of Ukraine. We don't really know much about Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: but we just hate it because of Burisma and because
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  Speaker 1: President Trump was impeached over that phone call to Zelensky.
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  Speaker 1: And then that Russia is just this great bastion of
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  Speaker 1: conservative principles or something because they're not woke. So Douglas
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  Speaker 1: doesn't argue why this is a wrong assessment that Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: is corrupt. He doesn't even go there. Ukraine is, of course,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. This is indisputable.
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  Speaker 1: He simply writes, by this stage, Ukraine is not just
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  Speaker 1: a country that the MAGA right has never visited. It
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  Speaker 1: is a fantasy country that they imagine they know everything about,
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  Speaker 1: and all of it is bad. Perhaps they will manage
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  Speaker 1: to wade their way out of the memes, or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they will find out the hard way that most of
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  Speaker 1: the American public may dislike woke, but they dislike dictators too,
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  Speaker 1: and that it is possible to keep both these dislikes
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  Speaker 1: inside one head and movement at the same time. So
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  Speaker 1: what's the ultimate argument here? MAGA likes dictators. MAGA loves Putin.
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  Speaker 1: We're crazy, crazy online lunatics who believe Russian propaganda and
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  Speaker 1: America as a whole will reject the MAGA base's view
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  Speaker 1: of Ukraine and of Russia because we're so stupid and
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  Speaker 1: America doesn't like dictators. But is that what the MAGA
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  Speaker 1: base views Ukraine and Russia and Is that how we
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  Speaker 1: view that? Is that what we believe? Does MAGA love Putin?
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  Speaker 1: Because I haven't heard anyone say that. I don't say that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I don't love Putin. The article
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  Speaker 1: quotes Steve Bannon saying that Russia is anti-woke, suggesting that
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  Speaker 1: this is somehow evidence for why Steve Bannon and the
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  Speaker 1: political right love Putin. But Bannon is right. Putin is anti-woke.
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  Speaker 1: But did Bannon ever say that he likes Putin? If
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  Speaker 1: he did, it'd be in the article. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the issue with neocons. In every conflict, there is a
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  Speaker 1: good and a bad, and we have to pick a
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  Speaker 1: side and we have to get involved every time, every time.
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  Speaker 1: It is in fact possible that both sides of this suck.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to like both. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: pick a side. Both sides can suck, have nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with America, and therefore we don't have to get involved.
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  Speaker 1: That's America first. This isn't that hard. But what warmongers
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  Speaker 1: like to do like Douglas Murray, is smear America first.
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  Speaker 1: They want to create a false narrative that MAGA loves
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  Speaker 1: dictators and they love Putin, and the real game here
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  Speaker 1: is to discredit America first by painting it as some
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  Speaker 1: kind of insane, dangerous, pro-dictator cult, rather than what it
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  Speaker 1: really is, which is a movement that prioritizes American interests
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  Speaker 1: over endless foreign entanglements. The neocon playbook hasn't changed. They
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  Speaker 1: take any skepticism for decades now, of interventionism and twist
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  Speaker 1: it into somehow support for whatever enemy they've decided that
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  Speaker 1: we have to fight. Wanting to avoid another costly, directionless
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  Speaker 1: war doesn't mean you admire Putin. Just like opposing Iraq
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean you loved Saddam Hussein. The reality is that
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  Speaker 1: most of the MAGA base doesn't see Ukraine as a
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  Speaker 1: beacon of democracy or Russia as this heroic alternative. They
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  Speaker 1: see war that isn't their fight. It's not our fight.
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  Speaker 1: You can't sell us in another foreign war while our
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  Speaker 1: own country falls apart. That's not dumb. It's rational. And
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  Speaker 1: it's why war hawks like Douglas Murray have to resort
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  Speaker 1: to cheap smears that they can't actually support, because they
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  Speaker 1: have no argument. This is an indefensible position. All right,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, female Democrat politicians uploaded what is being called
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  Speaker 1: the cringiest video of the year. This is how Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are planning to take on the political right. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how this is going to work. You guys tell me.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the strategy right now. Okay, so that
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  Speaker 1: was Congresswoman AOC, Lauren Underwood, Catherine Clark, Judy Chu, Jasmine Crockett,
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  Speaker 1: Susie Lee. And they're in these fighting stances. They got
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  Speaker 1: their fist in the air. Like this is an Avengers team.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to take on Trump. The ladies got it.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can imagine, this was not very positively
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  Speaker 1: received because I got secondhand embarrassment watching that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you guys, but I was embarrassed watching it.
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  Speaker 1: It was cringe. It was very, very cringe. And so
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  Speaker 1: the White House decided to respond with their own version
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  Speaker 1: of this trend. And the caption reads, America already chose
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  Speaker 1: its fighters last November. Take a look at this. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening, this is a very epic video. You're
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  Speaker 1: looking at Tom Homan, JD, Pete, Hegseth, Kash Patel, RFK Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: all these guys. And the video did not give me
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  Speaker 1: secondhand embarrassment, unlike that first one, probably because none of
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  Speaker 1: these guys are bobbing up and down, fists in the air,
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  Speaker 1: like they're pretending they're in a boxing match. More generally,
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  Speaker 1: probably it's because they aren't embarrassing humans. There's a difference
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  Speaker 1: between Pete Hegseth and Jasmine Crockett. Like, one of these
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  Speaker 1: people is humiliating to America, and it's not Pete Hegseth.
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  Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett is, again, she's the dumbest member of Congress,
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  Speaker 1: but all these guys, they're just clowning themselves. One is cool.
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  Speaker 1: One shows Trump's cabinet actually doing work, and the other
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  Speaker 1: shows Democrats making fools out of themselves on socials in
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  Speaker 1: this desperate attempt to reach young people. And it reminds
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  Speaker 1: me of that meme. Do you guys know that 30
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  Speaker 1: Rock meme? How do you do, fellow kids? That's what
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  Speaker 1: that is. It's like an old guy trying to act
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  Speaker 1: relatable to young people and it's totally falling flat on
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  Speaker 1: its face. The left really thinks that they can TikTok
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  Speaker 1: trend their way to political power. And it's not even
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  Speaker 1: landing with young people. Like, okay, so obviously it's a
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  Speaker 1: turnoff to anybody who's over 30, but they think, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll win the young people that we're losing so
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  Speaker 1: much traction with. Young people have not responded that positively.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how Jasmine Crockett posted this ahead of Trump's congressional address?
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  Speaker 4: But you guys know, I said, I love that video.
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  Speaker 1: Like I can't even hate on her because that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: how I would imagine Jasmine Crockett spending her time in
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  Speaker 1: the office. Like she's just making TikTok videos. Like this is,
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  Speaker 1: this is, this is what, this is what her work
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  Speaker 1: schedule looked like. It's like TikTok video, then another TikTok video.
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  Speaker 1: She takes a break. She scrolls on her phone. She
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  Speaker 1: does another TikTok video. This is Jasmine Crockett's work schedule.
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  Speaker 1: But this was, again, not very widely positively received. Lip
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  Speaker 1: syncing to Kendrick Lamar did not play out as well
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  Speaker 1: as I think she had hoped, Jasmine Crockett had hoped.
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  Speaker 1: And here is one young TikToker's reaction. And again, this
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  Speaker 1: is emblematic of kind of the reaction to the very
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  Speaker 1: cringy choose your character video as well.
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  Speaker 5: Folks, we gotta do better, man.
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  Speaker 6: Like, this was something that kids would do.
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  Speaker 4: Like, her children.
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  Speaker 5: You feel me?
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  Speaker 4: Like, why are you guys up doing this type of
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  Speaker 4: stuff and you guys are supposed to be elected?
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  Speaker 5: She's supposed to be an elected official.
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  Speaker 6: Like, an elected person, right?
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  Speaker 5: Or a person that works in the government? Shouldn't she
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  Speaker 5: be working with more maturity?
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  Speaker 7: Like, this is crazy, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is crazy. You know, Republicans weren't always cool. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that was not the vibe. I remember in 2008 when
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  Speaker 1: Obama first was running, and I grew up in a
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  Speaker 1: really left-wing area, and all the kids in class were, like,
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  Speaker 1: bringing Obama stickers in and, like, hanging up Obama signs
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  Speaker 1: in the classroom, and, like, the teacher allowed it because
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  Speaker 1: she was also very left-wing. It was not appropriate, I'll
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  Speaker 1: say that. Like, just not appropriate for the classroom in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of a presidential election. But all these left-wing
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  Speaker 1: students were, like, all excited about Obama. And I was
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  Speaker 1: the one kid who was like, I was eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, but I was like, John McCain. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean? This is not cool. It's not fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's like this old guy. Nobody was excited about John McCain.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody was excited about Mitt Romney. The political right really
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  Speaker 1: was like the, yeah, I can't say that, Mikey. He's
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  Speaker 1: talking in my ear and telling me to say things
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  Speaker 1: that's going to get me in trouble. Oh, you did. Oh, OK, great.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Michael. But the political right was never cool, never.
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  Speaker 1: And I always remember, I was kind of the person
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  Speaker 1: who loved to be a contrarian. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll support John McCain, even though all of you are
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  Speaker 1: supporting Obama. I'm eight, you guys. This is not that serious.
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  Speaker 1: But it was not cool. It was a stretch to
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  Speaker 1: make this seem cool. My mom brought cookies of John
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  Speaker 1: McCain's face and allowed me to hand them out to
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  Speaker 1: the class. And the kids took them, because we're eight
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  Speaker 1: years old. We didn't care about politics that much. They
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  Speaker 1: ate the John McCain cookies, even though they liked Obama.
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  Speaker 1: But again, the right was not cool. George Bush, John McCain,
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  Speaker 1: Mitt Romney, no, no, these are not cool guys. And
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  Speaker 1: then Trump comes along, he changes it all. Democrats seem
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  Speaker 1: convinced that they can meme, dance, and virtue signal their
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  Speaker 1: way into relevance with young voters, and they're losing traction.
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  Speaker 1: The grip that Obama wokeness had on young people is gone.
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  Speaker 1: Millennials who were really formed politically by that era They
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  Speaker 1: are out. They are set in stone. I think that
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  Speaker 1: they are still trapped in that Obama era of woke.
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  Speaker 1: But people that are my age who are politically awakening now,
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  Speaker 1: it's completely different. We are trending rightward. Young men up
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  Speaker 1: 30 points for President Trump compared to 2020. That's massive.
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  Speaker 1: Things are radically changing. The rights messaging generally leans into substance,
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  Speaker 1: leans into showing leaders actively engaging in governance rather than
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  Speaker 1: posturing for social media clout. And Trump, he'll go on podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: He'll use alternative media. He doesn't. He does a great
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  Speaker 1: job of it. But it's not unserious. It's not foolish looking.
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  Speaker 1: He is just going to where the people are at.
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  Speaker 1: They're using social media, this Trump team, but they're doing
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  Speaker 1: it in a way that's respectable. So the Trump admin
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  Speaker 1: is using it not in a discrediting way. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: If anything, these failed attempts at virality reveal how little
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  Speaker 1: confidence Democrats have in their actual policies resonating with real Americans.
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  Speaker 1: When your strategy hinges on TikTok theatrics instead of tangible results,
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  Speaker 1: you're not campaigning, you're coping. And judging by the reactions,
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  Speaker 1: even the younger audience is viewing this as pandering and
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: they're not buying it. And on that note, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about Gavin Newsom and his new podcast, which is called
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  Speaker 1: This is Gavin Newsom. I can't believe that that's the
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  Speaker 1: podcast name. But yes, this is Gavin Newsom. And this
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  Speaker 1: new podcast is apparently being launched, well, it has launched,
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  Speaker 1: and it's aimed at reaching MAGA supporters. And this man
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  Speaker 1: really should be running the state of California instead of podcasting.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say, admittedly, that a Gavin Newsom podcast
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  Speaker 1: reaching out to the political right is a better strategy
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  Speaker 1: for Democrats than Jasmine Crockett's TikToks. So Governor Gavin Newsom
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: decides to invite none other than Charlie Kirk on his show.
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  Speaker 1: And guys, here's how you know that the left is
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  Speaker 1: cooked right now. Because Gavin Newsom's son is a fan
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  Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk. I repeat, Gavin Newsom's son is red-pilled.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Last night, trying to put my son to bed, he's like, no, Dad.
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  Speaker 5: I just, what time? What time's Charlie going to be here?
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  Speaker 5: What time? And I'm like, dude, you're in school tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: He's 13. He's like, no, no. This morning, wakes up
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  Speaker 5: at 6 up. Then he's like, I'm coming. I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: he literally would not leave the house.
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  Speaker 7: Did you let him take off school?
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  Speaker 1: No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Of course not. He's not here for a good reason.
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  Speaker 5: But the point is the point. Come on, you canceled
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  Speaker 5: school for like two years. Once one, it takes one day.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. He's so quick. Charlie is so quick.
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  Speaker 1: And he did shut down schools. We lost schools. In
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  Speaker 1: some cases, two years of education in this country. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: by the way, after the schools reopened, hundreds of thousands
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: of students never returned. They just lost the system. Totally
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: unaccounted for. And yet Gavin Newsom can't let his son
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: take off one day to go meet Charlie Kirk. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: think Charlie said he was going to invite him to
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: some turning point political action events. That's amazing. That's incredible.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And what's not incredible, by the way, is the suicide, depression,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and anxiety that was sparked by Gavin Newsom's lockdowns. And
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: what's so interesting is he's just like a regular guy. Like, oh, yeah,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I'm a regular guy. My son, he disagrees with me politically.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He likes you. It's totally chill. He's trying to paint
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: himself as a reasonable guy, and he's not reasonable. And
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: it's true that COVID red-pilled a lot of young people.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: People like Gavin Newsom took away prom, sports, a college experience,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: social clubs, force them to wear masks, take an experimental jab,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: sometimes to the detriment of their health. And it's even
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: broader than that. This vibe shift that I'm talking about
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: that's wrapped up Gavin Newsom's son, Charlie Cook articulated this
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: really well. Why don't you take a listen to this?
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: One of the things we saw in the last couple
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: of years that the Democrats completely ignored, and your side was... Basically,
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: not acknowledging it was happening was the crisis that young
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: people were experiencing. It's the first time in America's history
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: that a 30-year-old is going to have it worse off
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: than their parents. It's a breakdown of the social compact.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: They are the most alcohol addicted, most drug addicted, most suicidal,
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: most depressed, most medicated generation. in history. And the message
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: that was largely being fed to a lot of young
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: people was lower your expectations. You're not going to have
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: the same American dream that your parents would have. And
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: we saw this as an opportunity, especially with young men.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Instead of lying to young people, the political right in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: recent years including President Trump and Charlie Kirk, they validated
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the genuine feelings of young people, that something's been stolen
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: from you. This is not the America of your parents
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and your grandparents. And you know what? A lot of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: right-wingers are genuine in not only acknowledging these concerns, but
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: also doing something about it. There are some of you,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: some of you in the chat, you're like, oh, you
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: guys are just lazy. You guys just spend too much
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: money on Starbucks coffee. No, you guys. We all can
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: admit America has changed dramatically. Like, millennials are the first
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: generation to not be better off than their parents were
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: compared to the previous generation. So there is definitely something
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: different happening in this country. There's been a shift. And
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the American dream really has been slowly taken away from
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: future generations. And the political right in recent years, not
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the John McCain, Mitt Romney years, but in recent years,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: has acknowledged those feelings in a really profound way. that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: has brought into the fold a lot of right-wingers. OK, Michael.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Brought in a lot of right-wingers in unprecedented numbers. That's OK, Michael.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You can keep talking. I prefer Michael talk to the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: audience than he just talk to me and say something,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: give his two cents. You guys, I know you prefer that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Good job, Mikey. I love it. I love it. You
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: guys are in the show. And it's actually amazing that
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: we can switch like this. You guys can get the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: full picture. I know there was always these complaints when
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I would do a show and then Michael would say something.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And he always said something very insightful. But then there's
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a pause, right, because you can't hear what he's saying.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Now he can talk. And you guys know what's going on.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: You guys are inside. This is what's so amazing about
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: this new studio. So I'm excited about it. There's going
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to be probably some more hiccups still. We're figuring it out.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: But it's going to be awesome. It's going to be awesome. OK.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about why Gavin Newsom is doing this.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: This podcast is going to be, is, a stage where
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom performs as a normal person, which he is not.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: It's like a skin suit he's wearing as a normal person,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and on the inside, it's like a monster. And he's
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: trying to create this idea that he has mass appeal.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It's a strategic rebrand before... A presidential run. We all
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: know what this is about. This is a presidential run
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: for Gavin Newsom. And how do I know? I will
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: tell you. Gavin Newsom has signed some of the most
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: radical transgender laws in the history of this nation. Laws
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: allowing California to take custody of children for gender transitions
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: without parental consent. Male inmates in women's prisons based on
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: so-called gender identity. And this is why California has to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: give out condoms and birth control to female inmates. They're getting...
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: in some cases, sexually assaulted by these female-identifying men that
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom allowed in the women's prisons. Also prioritizing so-called
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: gender affirmation over parental rights in family court and medical decisions.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: That's all Gavin Newsom, California. And yet suddenly Gavin Newsom
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: is saying this.
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: So, like, you right now should come out and be like,
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: you know what? The young man who's about to win
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: the state championship in the long jump in female sports,
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: that shouldn't happen. You as the governor should step out
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: and say no.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: No, and I appreciate... But, like, would you do something
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: like that?
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: Would you say no men in female sports?
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Well, I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: agree with you on that. So that's easy to call out,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: the unfairness of that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: That's easy to call out?
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: What?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Gavin, give me a break. You're the most radical trans
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: insanity governor in the country! Does he think we're dumb?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Do we not know what Gavin Newsom has done in California?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And honestly, here's my thought. It's pretty transparent that none
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of this is genuine. The guy is a radical who
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: wants to appear moderate because he wants to be president.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: He doesn't believe it's unfair. Clearly he doesn't. Otherwise, he
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be letting children gender transition without parental consent. We
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: know what this is about. And it's not about a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: genuine change of heart. And let's not help Gavin Newsom
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: 2028 happen. Why are we helping him? Charlie Kirk went
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: on his show, and I love Charlie Kirk. I don't
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: think he should have done this. And I hope nobody
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: else on the political right does Gavin Newsom's show because
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: he's using right-wingers to rehabilitate his image and do to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: America what he did to California. Let's not help him.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And by the way, speaking of trans insanity, remember that
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: young woman, Peyton McNabb, who was given a traumatic brain
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: injury from this trans-identifying man in volleyball. Yeah, here she
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is on screen. She was honored by President Trump. She
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: was at this joint address that he gave. And first,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: here's the moment that a man spiked a volleyball into
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: then-high schooler Peyton McNabb's face. This is what caused the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: brain injury.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: I mean....
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And there are so many instances of this, of young
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: women getting really hurt because they're playing sports with men.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And it seems like a pretty traumatic event that would
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: justify some opposition to trans insanity. You'd think that everybody
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: would give her a break for not liking the transgender insanity,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: but apparently I'm wrong about that. McNabb's sorority, Delta Zeta,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: actually expelled her on May 20th, 2024, after finding her
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: guilty of violating the sorority's anti-bullying policy, and of engaging
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in moral, I'm sorry, I can't even read that, you guys,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It's just moral misconduct. And the bullying violation
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: involves any activity reasonably perceived as being dehumanizing, intimidating, hostile, threatening,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: otherwise likely to evoke fear or physical harm, emotional distress.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: This is kind of what this is all about, right?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And so accusing her of bullying and also accusing her
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of disrupting the sorority. So whatever that means. And what
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: did she actually do? What did she do to deserve
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: this expulsion from her sorority? Well, she calmly confronted a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: man in a dress in a woman's restroom, recording him,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: she said, out of fear for her safety. And she
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: posted this video on X to warn other women. Here
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: is this disturbing, bullying event that the sorority expelled her for.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Going to the bathroom.
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: Why are you in the girl's bathroom?
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: I'm a trans girl.
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: But you're not a girl. Oh, we're doing one of these.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: Interesting. Never heard of this before.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know what to say.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you feel that way.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I pay a lot of money to be safe
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: in the bathroom.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Me too.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Weird.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Do you think that's okay?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: That was it. That was why she was expelled from
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the sorority.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Over that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And I'll add, not by her sorority sisters, but by
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Delta Zeta's chief learning officer. His name is Will Frankenberger,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a man who publicly espouses left-wing gender ideology and who
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: led this disciplinary hearing and all of the procedures. And guys,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I hate sororities. I hate them. In my experience, sororities,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: in their zeal to comply with progressive social movements, they
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: seem to lose sight of the very values that they're
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: supposed to champion, right? Sisterhood, safety, community, common sense. And
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: all that goes out the window for sororities these days.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: The way McNabb was treated by Delta Zeta has been
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: repeated time and time again. I actually tried to join
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a sorority at one point. I was a sophomore in college.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And I learned later, after I got denied, that they said, well,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: she's in college, Republican, so we don't think that her
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: values align with us. So I didn't get in. Natalie Winters,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: who went to the same school as me, University of Chicago,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: she's Steve Bannon's fill-in host at The War Room, she
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: actually was allowed into a sorority. And then I think
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: she was eventually expelled or bullied out because of very
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: similar circumstances. She actually criticized, I believe, trans insanity. And
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: they were like, nope, you got to go. You don't
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: align with our values. These are very, in my opinion,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: sororities are very hostile and controlling environments. They might not
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: have been that way. I mean, maybe you guys, some
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: people are crazy about their sororities or obsessed with them.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I don't get that. But if you are, you're probably
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: coming at it from a place of what sororities once were.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: What were sororities like in the 80s? I'm sure they
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: were great. What are they like right now? Not a fan.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: And it probably depends on the school you go to,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: but the problem is the vast majority of schools these
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: days are radically left wing. And also young women tend
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to be radically left wing. This is the difference between
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: young men and young women these days. The political divide,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the political gender gap divide is just getting bigger and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger every second. It's to the point where
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I think ideological purity over the protection and well-being of
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: women has left young women like McNabb abandoned and punished
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: by her sisters or the higher-ups at the sorority simply
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: for asserting the right to feel safe in a space
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: meant for women. It's kind of absurd when you think
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: We have to talk about Justin Baldoni and Blake Lashley.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And the guys in the studio, they probably aren't happy
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: about this. I've told Michael about this controversy many times,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and he's sick of hearing about it. Guy told me
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that his wife is sick of hearing about the Justin Baldoni,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Blake Lively drama as well. But we are going to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: cover it on this show. I haven't done it yet,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: but we're going to do it now. There is a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: new development in this scandal controversy between Justin Baldoni and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Blake Lively. I'm going to give you guys all the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: context you need before I get into it. Here's a
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: little rundown. So Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively recently starred
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in this movie. It's this romantic drama about this young,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: naive woman, played by Blake Lively, who falls for an
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: older neurosurgeon, played by Justin Baldoni. And Baldoni's character is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: actually eventually physically abusive toward Blake's character. So it's sort
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: of this survivors break the cycle of abuse story. By
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the way, there's a power dynamic to this too, right?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Like the Blake character is supposed to be really young.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: The Justin character is supposed to be older.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I thought Blake looked older than her co-star in this.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I was like, it's completely inappropriate for Blake Lively, who's
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like almost 40, to be playing this woman in her
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: young 20s, early 20s. It didn't make sense to me. Yeah, Michael,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: how do you do fellow kids? It's very similar. Like Blake,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like pick a role that's more appropriate.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: But she was picked for this role. And I don't
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: recommend watching this movie. I watched it. I made Michael
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: watch it with me. He hated it. I didn't think
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: it was that great. I didn't hate it as much
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: as he did, though. Pretty cheesy delivery. Blake is not
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: believable in this role at all, like I said. But
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: what's really entertaining is not the movie, but the lawsuits
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that have come after this movie. So August 2024, the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: film drops. By December, Blake's like, hey, Justin's harassed me
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: on set, threw in these extra sex scenes. He made
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: me feel really uncomfortable. And she's also at the same
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: time accused Justin Baldoni of slut shaming her. So it's
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: kind of this weird paradox where she's like, he made
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: me feel really ugly. Or I'm sorry, not slut shamed her,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you guys. Fat shamed her. Fat shamed her. She says,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: he made me feel ugly and fat after I just
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: had a baby. But then also, he's super into me,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and he's sex obsessed, and he's a maniac, and he
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: just can't keep his hands off me. So she's saying
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: both at the same time. Doesn't make a lot of sense.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Blake files a complaint with California's civil rights, claiming he
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: retaliated with a smear campaign to Trasher. Text leak, the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: New York Times drops a bombshell about Justin's PR squad
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: allegedly plotting to bury Blake Lively. So there's just this
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: PR battle going on. They're both accusing each other of
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: trying to destroy one another. And by 2025, it's just
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: this full legal cage match. Justin slaps Blake and Ryan Reynolds,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Blake Lively's husband, with a $ 400 million defamation suit in January, screaming, no,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: she's ruining me. And then somehow Taylor Swift is in
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the mix because of course she is. Blake's accused of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: flexing rewriting scenes, hijacking edits, banning Justin from his own premiere,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: all while cozying up to Sony. So he's saying she
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: tried to just take over this movie, and she's saying
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: he sexually harassed me, and they're both saying that they
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: both tried to destroy each other PR-wise. The whole thing
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: reads really like petty Hollywood brats and not a sexual
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: harassment situation. But the more we learn about Blake's harassment accusations,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the less sincere this all becomes. So for example, Blake
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: said Justin just barged in on her while she was
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: breastfeeding her recently born child. But then text messages in
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: this case revealed that actually Blake casually invited Justin Baldoni
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to her trailer while pumping breast milk. And this is
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a quote. This is a text that she actually sent
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to Justin Baldoni. I'm just pumping in my trailer if
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: you want to work out our lines. It doesn't seem
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: like he was barging in on her. Blake Lively specifically
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: said it in her sexual harassment filing as an instance
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: of harassing behavior, a scene of the unscripted physicality of
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: shooting a slow dance scene. She said Justin was inappropriate.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He took it too far. He made her uncomfortable. But
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: then Justin Baldoni's legal team released a nearly 10 minute
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: long unedited footage of this scene. And here is the
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: exact moment that Blake Lively cited in her lawsuit as
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: making her so uncomfortable and being so inappropriate. And you
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: guys tell me if Blake Lively looks uncomfortable here.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: I feel so nosy.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I even think of noses.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: And my nose is so big.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Yes. I was hoping that we could address this. It's
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: not too late. Just got to shut down.
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: We've got to call an insurance month and just deal
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: with that.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: Cut.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Just kidding.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: No, it's true.
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: That's why we hired Jenny Slate, too.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: She's like tapping his chest. Like, what do you mean?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: She doesn't look uncomfortable at all. What is so inappropriate
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: about this scene, too? Like, the whole thing makes no sense.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: She doesn't seem uncomfortable, like I said. And here's the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: real kicker of the story. This is why I'm sharing
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: it with you guys. It's actually really kind of culturally
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: relevant on a much broader scale. Justin Baldoni has spent
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: years building his brand as a woke dude bro. Teary
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: TED Talks, men can cry too, the whole bit. This
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: is Justin Baldoni. Here he is actually discussing Me Too.
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: Your strength, your bravery, your toughness, Can we redefine what
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: those mean and use them to explore our hearts? Are
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: you brave enough to be vulnerable, to reach out to
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: another man when you need help, to dive headfirst into
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: your shame? Are you strong enough to be sensitive, to
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: cry whether you are hurting or you're happy, even if
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: it makes you look weak? Are you confident enough to
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: listen to the women in your life, to hear their
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: ideas and their solutions, to hold their anguish and actually
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: believe them, even if what they're saying is against you?
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: And will you be man enough to stand up to
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: other men when you hear locker room talk? When you
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: hear stories of sexual harassment, when you hear your boys
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: talking about grabbing ass or getting her drunk, will you
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: actually stand up and do something so that one day
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: we don't have to live in a world where a
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: woman has to risk everything and come forward to say
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  Speaker 8: the words, me too.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I got a question for the producers box. Do you
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: guys feel that you're brave enough, you're man enough to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: cry and be sensitive to show that you're vulnerable? Mikey.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I like that message. I think it was really more
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: like Michael needs to listen to me all the time,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: just believe everything I say and take my side no
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: matter what, because I am a woman. And therefore, that's
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the right thing to do. That's true. He doesn't cry
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: that much. But you have to be brave enough and
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: man enough and strong enough to cry. That's the message, Michael.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: And this whole thing, really, it aged like milk. Me
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Too did. But this specifically for Justin Baldoni, it aged
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: like milk. Me Too's a boomerang. And it has whacked
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Justin Baldoni right in the man bun. So this is
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: from the New York Post this week. Justin Baldoni accused
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: of toxic positivity by former employees amid Blake Lively lawsuit. Quote,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: it felt phony. So former employees at Justin Baldoni's company
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: have accused him of performing toxic positivity, according to people
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: who worked with him at Wayfair Studios. He said his
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: bright demeanor felt insincere. You guys, I just.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: You can't do right by these people. He's too nice.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: That was the complaint here. And this is, of course,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: all amid these accusations from Blake Lively that he was
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: a sexual harasser. You can't win. Feminism, Me Too, it
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: chews you up. It spits you right out. There's a
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: campaign by Blake to destroy this man who thought that
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: he was this incredible feminist ally. But we all saw
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: this coming. The second Believe All Women hit the table,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it became a free-for-all. I mean, think about how absurd
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: it is. I'm like, Michael, every conversation that we have
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: to have, right, believe me because I am a woman. Like,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: you have to take my side because I am a woman. Like,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: it's the same logic of some woman says, you know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I was sexually harassed or raped or whatever it is,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: and we have to believe them right off the bat. And,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: of course, obviously it's true sometimes, but not all the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: time because women aren't saints. Women are people. Men and
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: women are just people who are capable of doing really
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: evil things and lying. And it kind of seems like perhaps...
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Based on the evidence, the text messages, and the video,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Blake Lively's lying here. Turns out it's less of a
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: sacred mantra and more of a loaded gun. Anyone can
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: grab it, point it, and fire. That is what Me
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Too is. Justin's out here flailing, trying to dodge the bullet,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: but the guy who swore he'd lift up women got
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: taken down by that very movement he pandered to. You guys,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: drop a comment. Tell me who's been following this controversy
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys want to hear more
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively updates. I'm following it because I
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: love this story. For some reason, every woman apparently is
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: just like captivated by Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. And
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know. The men might not agree in the chat.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Certainly Michael doesn't. Guy probably doesn't either. But I love
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: this story. I think it's so fascinating. Guy hates it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Guy hates this story. That's okay, you guys. Everybody has
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: their own cup of tea. So, but. I do think
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: it says something about Me Too and the way that
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: it has really just destroyed all these male feminists. If
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: you're a male feminist, if you're a guy who wants
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to get women, please don't be a male feminist. There
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: are better ways to attract women than being an insincere
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: male feminist, because you're just going to lose. That movement,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: it eats you up, it spits you out, because it's
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: based on something ridiculous, a ridiculous premise that we should
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: believe all women all the time no matter what. That
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: is a ridiculous thing to say. All right, I got
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: to end on this. So astronauts, Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmar,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: have been stranded on the International Space Station for the
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: better part of a year. This is a crazy story,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you guys, and it's been happening for a while. We
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: covered it months ago, and they're still stuck up there,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: stuck up in space. Wilmer and Williams initially embarked to
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the International Space Station in June on a Boeing Starliner.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be just an eight-day mission turned
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: into a nine-month nightmare after their spacecraft suffered from numerous
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: technical issues, and NASA has decided it's too risky to
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: bring the astronauts home. SpaceX has intervened, Elon Musk's SpaceX,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And it's set to bring back William and Wilmore and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Williams to Earth aboard its Crew 9 return flight on
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: either March 19th or March 20th. So pretty soon here.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: And Trump addressed this whole issue yesterday in the Oval
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Office during a press conference. And you guys, you can't
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: make this up. This man, the words that come out
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of his mouth, never predictable. This is one of the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: best examples of just Trump being Trump.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: But this President won't let it happen. We're going to
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: get them out. We're coming up to get you. I've
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: authorized Elon. I said, can you get them out? Because,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: you know, they've been left up there. I hope they
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: like each other. But maybe they'll love each other.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: But they've been left up there.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: Think of it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: And I see the woman with the wild hair, good,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: solid head of hair she's got.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: There's no kidding.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: There's no games with her hair. But... And, you know,
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: there's a danger up there, too. They can have some
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: failures up there that would be very bad.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: You got to get them out.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: So I've authorized Elon a week ago. I said, you know,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: we have two people up there that Biden and Kamala
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: left up there. And he knows it very well. I said,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: are you equipped to get him? He said, yeah, he's
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: got a Starship. And they're preparing it right now. And
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: so Elon is going to go up and....
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: This is a crazy hair. I can't believe it. I
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: can't believe she does have crazy hair. But again, this
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: is like Trump, just like no filter. He's just like talking.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: He's just saying it as it is. And then he
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: seems to suggest that these two are going to fall
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: in love, I guess. They're going to fall in love.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Star-crossed lovers, I don't know. Wild hair, I don't know. Honestly,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: it's just this rawness from President Trump that people love
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: about him. They love it. I think in the age
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: of social media where everything is just like so fake,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: So like plastic, even thinking like plastic surgeries, right, and fillers,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: like nothing feels real anymore. AI and the way that
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: everything is so curated and not honest. That's what's so
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: great about President Trump is like this guy is just
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: like full honesty. He's an entertainer. He's culturally relevant. He
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: understands how to work the internet. And at the same time,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: there's a realness to him. And the media has sort
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: of seized on this clip from President Trump. saying it's
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: horrible and it's wildly inappropriate. How could he do this?
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: And that's pretty infuriating because Trump is brash, but what
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: he's saying is true. What he's saying is true. And
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: people can lose their minds over it being inappropriate. But honestly,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: it is way better that President Trump make these comments
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and be honest than what Joe Biden did to these astronauts,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: which is leave them up in space for political reasons.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Are you still rescuing those people that are stuck in
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: the space station?
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's coming up in a couple weeks.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Whoa.
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: They've been up there for.
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: How long, Jamie?
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: They were supposed to be there for a couple days, right?
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Actually, for like four weeks.
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: They were supposed to be up there for like eight days.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: And they've been up there for like eight months. So
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: a little longer than expected.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: Fuck.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What is it going to be like for those
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: people when they get back?
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: They're going to be a wreck for a long time, right?
• 43:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, as long as you stay up there, you get...
• 43:34
  Speaker 9: You know, sort of in zero G, you get increased
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: bone loss. So it ended up being like this political
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: football and sort of hotly contested topic.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: And we offered to bring them back early.
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: This offer was rejected by the Biden administration.
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 43:54
  Speaker 9: For political reasons.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: That's so crazy.
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: There's no way that they're going to make anyone who's
• 43:58
  Speaker 9: supporting Trump look good.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: What do you think they would have done if they
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: had won?
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: How would they get those people back?
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: No, they can only get them back with a spacecraft.
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: But they pushed the return date past the inauguration date.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: So they would have let you do it.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: But after the.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: And so it would have been them authorizing you.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: To do it.
• 44:26
  Speaker 9: There isn't anyone else to do it.
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: NASA can't get them.
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: The only the spacex dragon spacecraft.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Can you believe that you have these people who are
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: stuck in space for months for a supposedly eight day
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: long trip right like this is insane that they've been
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: up there that long and that the biden administration wanted
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: to keep them up there until after the inauguration didn't
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: want it to seem like a Trump win somehow because
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Elon was lying to President Trump. That's really an evil
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: thing to do. I think that's a really evil thing
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: to do. And Trump is brash, it's true. And you
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: can't script President Trump and that's why people, they eat
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: it up or they lose their minds over it. That's
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: why the media is screaming this is inappropriate, that Trump said, oh,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: maybe they'll fall in love. But honestly, it's the same
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: brash Trump they've always known, while the real outrage should
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: be Biden. leaving the astronauts in space for political reasons.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: That's not America first. That's not what a real leader
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: would do. So we've got to keep it into perspective,
• 45:32
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