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Met Gala Serves Luxury, Lectures, and Zero Self-Awareness (Ep.197) · V

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  Speaker 1: to these headlines today. The New Yorker publishes viral portraits
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  Speaker 1: of some of New York City's most insufferable liberal elite's
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  Speaker 1: The Met Gala flaunts wealth and fake virtue under the
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  Speaker 1: guise of celebrating black fashion. Trendy Aragua gang members beat
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  Speaker 1: up cops in Times Square. Antarctica is gaining ice, refuting
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  Speaker 1: yet another hysterical climate prediction. MSNBC is forced to admit
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  Speaker 1: its contributor lied about Kash Patel. A Pulitzer is awarded
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  Speaker 1: to a journalist who lied about the dangers of the
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  Speaker 1: abortion pill. And Harry and Meghan demand royal perks from
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  Speaker 1: British taxpayers after trashing the UK for years. All this
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  Speaker 1: on Bongina Report, early edition. Yesterday, The New Yorker ran
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  Speaker 1: a feature show. on portraits of prominent New Yorkers in
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  Speaker 1: their living rooms. And the images have been going pretty viral.
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  Speaker 1: Featured individuals include Alex Soros, Huma Abedin, Ella Emhoff, which
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  Speaker 1: is Doug Emhoff's daughter, AOC, Reverend Al Sharpton, among others.
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  Speaker 1: And the author, before we get to all these profile photos,
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  Speaker 1: she writes, or he writes, because it doesn't have a name,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the New Yorker kind of in general, what
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  Speaker 1: the living room is for ostensibly is is gathering. It's
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  Speaker 1: the most public-facing of a home's spaces, and as such,
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  Speaker 1: it bears a particular burden, that of showcasing to others
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  Speaker 1: what the occupants are, the quilt you drape on your couch,
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  Speaker 1: the paintings you hang on your walls. What you select
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  Speaker 1: for your mantle all are about as important to your
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  Speaker 1: adult self-conception as heavy eyeliner and chunky boots are to
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  Speaker 1: an emo teen's, which is to say, very. The signifiers
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  Speaker 1: might change, but the impulse remains the same. Let's throw
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  Speaker 1: up some of these portraits, Michael, if you will. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to drop a comment. If you had to
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  Speaker 1: describe these portraits in one word, what would it be?
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  Speaker 1: Do we have the photo, Michael, of all of them
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  Speaker 1: kind of together?
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  Speaker 2: We have like a little collection. Oh, we don't have
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  Speaker 2: the little collection of all of them? Oh, okay. No worries.
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  Speaker 1: I think that if you look through these, I think
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  Speaker 1: perhaps it was supposed to be aspirational. Maybe you would
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  Speaker 1: describe it as sanitized because these living rooms are highly
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  Speaker 1: curated to the point of feeling almost detached, like they're galleries.
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  Speaker 1: There's no visible mess. I wouldn't say a lot of warmth.
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  Speaker 1: Status objects a lot of times, designer furniture, perfect lighting.
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  Speaker 1: The people don't inhabit the space. They pose within it.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Soros and Huma Abedin posed against a gleaming skyline.
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  Speaker 2: Like Gotham royalty.
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  Speaker 1: You have Reverend Al Sharpton standing formally in front of
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  Speaker 1: a portrait of himself. There's Huma Abedin and Alex Soros.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Reverend Al Sharpton if you could, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: You can see he's got, I guess, portraits of himself
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  Speaker 1: hung up on the walls. He's honoring himself in his home.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's taste, power, self-branding. The furniture is modernist.
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  Speaker 1: The lighting is very cinematic. The expression's controlled and rehearsed.
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  Speaker 1: These rooms don't really feel very lived in. The vibe
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  Speaker 1: to me is very Hunger Games capital, opulent, aloof, almost post-human.
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  Speaker 1: But what do our homes look like? Think about your home,
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  Speaker 1: your grandma's home, your favorite aunt's home, mismatched throw pillows,
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  Speaker 1: family photos on the walls, grandma's china tucked away in
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  Speaker 1: a cabinet only to be brought out.
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  Speaker 2: On special occasions. It's warm. It's humid.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something very cool and a little unnerving
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  Speaker 1: about some of these portraits posted by the New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: And probably part of the reason I feel that way
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  Speaker 1: is there's a dissidence between values these figures claim to
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  Speaker 1: champion and the aesthetics that they are projecting. Many of
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  Speaker 1: them have built careers claiming to represent the working class.
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  Speaker 1: We stand up for them. And yet their homes, glass towers,
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  Speaker 1: designer interiors, self-mythologizing decor are speak to a ruling class
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  Speaker 1: fully absorbed in its own image. And while they pose
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  Speaker 1: in living rooms that look more like concept art than
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  Speaker 1: places of rest, the American working class is drowning in
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  Speaker 1: housing costs, medical debt. Economic precarity worsened under the very
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  Speaker 1: governance and cultural influence of elites like these in the photos.
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  Speaker 1: Their spaces reflect a world where politics has become performance
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  Speaker 1: and care for the people is just another branding exercise.
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  Speaker 1: So there's nothing really aspirational here, just sort of cold
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  Speaker 1: theater and power.
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  Speaker 2: And that brings me to the Met Gala.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Met Gala is, of course, an annual invite-only
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  Speaker 1: fundraiser event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, often called fashion's biggest night out,
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  Speaker 1: where celebrities, designers, cultural icons, often now influencers, They attend
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  Speaker 1: this event dressed in extravagant theme-based outfits. And the theme
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  Speaker 1: for last night was.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to play a video explaining the theme
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  Speaker 1: for last night, but it's an honoring of black fashion.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: So the theme of the Met is super fine tailoring
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  Speaker 3: black style. And what does that mean? So it basically
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  Speaker 3: is talking about how black people, traditionally men, have used
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  Speaker 3: dress as armor and they've used it as a way
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  Speaker 3: to control how the world perceives them. Typically, that's done
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  Speaker 3: through tailored.
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  Speaker 2: Clothes like suits.
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  Speaker 3: But as time has gone on, we've seen kind of
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  Speaker 3: the evolution of the D & D and we see
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  Speaker 3: it in different iterations. It celebrates Black style, it celebrates
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  Speaker 3: Black identity, and it really embodies how Black people have
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  Speaker 3: used dress to grow, evolve, and liberate themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So in attendance was Zendaya and Rihanna and Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 1: and Whoopi and Lana Del Rey and like everybody, every A-lister, right,
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  Speaker 1: was there. And frankly, I thought that the outfits were
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  Speaker 1: somewhat better than previous outfits. Met galas, there were some
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  Speaker 1: people who just did not seem to get the theme
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  Speaker 1: at all, which is very annoying. Some people wore really
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  Speaker 1: unflattering outfits. Whoopi wasn't great, but sometimes they wonder, was
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  Speaker 1: that the outfit or is that just Whoopi?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just don't like her. So the
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  Speaker 2: outfits were fine last night.
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  Speaker 1: Now, as always, the Met gala tends to leave a
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  Speaker 1: bad taste in many people's mouths because it epitomizes the
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  Speaker 1: out-of-touch excess of the celebrity class, an elite group flaunting
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  Speaker 1: wealth and status and self-importance while preaching morality to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the country. It's not a mistake that no
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  Speaker 1: right-wingers were invited to this event last night. But the
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  Speaker 1: loser Democrat nominee, that not even Democrats were motivated to
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  Speaker 1: vote for the last cycle, was there. Draped in custom
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  Speaker 1: couture that costs more than most people make in a year,
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  Speaker 1: the attendees showcased not just fashion, but their own inflated
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  Speaker 1: sense of virtue. She is in debt from the campaign
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  Speaker 1: and she is out here celebrating, sipping champagne, partying with
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  Speaker 1: the elites of this country. I think this is where
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  Speaker 1: the most insulated from real hardship come together and truly
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  Speaker 1: piss off at least half of America in one night.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to dig into the theme.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit because that's part of why last night
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  Speaker 1: was so self-righteous. 2025 Met Gala theme was, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a celebrating of black style and the history of dandyism.
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  Speaker 1: It reeks of the same empty moral posturing that has
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  Speaker 1: made events like this so off-putting. Clearly, this is another
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  Speaker 1: case of an elite cultural institution using a theme celebrating
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  Speaker 1: a protected class in order to virtue signal. And yet
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  Speaker 1: all these people remain utterly detached from the real struggles
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  Speaker 1: faced by the very communities that they claim to honor
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  Speaker 1: and care about so much. For four years, Black residents
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  Speaker 1: on the south side of Chicago, where I used to live,
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  Speaker 1: pleaded with Democratic leadership to address the strains caused by
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  Speaker 1: housing waves of illegal migrants in their neighborhoods, consuming resources,
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  Speaker 1: displacing services, worsening already difficult conditions in that area.
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  Speaker 2: Schools taken over.
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  Speaker 1: And run by illegals, housing that, I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: a disaster. And None of the people at the Met
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  Speaker 1: Gala last night cared about the black people on the
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  Speaker 1: South Side who were begging Democrats to remove these illegals
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  Speaker 1: from their neighborhoods. The same goes for New York City.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of times these illegals are being
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  Speaker 1: placed and housed in minority neighborhoods, but they claim to
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  Speaker 1: care so much about minorities, and yet that issue, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a problem for them.
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  Speaker 2: They're met with silence.
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  Speaker 1: This is the kind of disconnect that makes the Met
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  Speaker 1: Gala feel insufferable.
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely love fashion.
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  Speaker 1: And it sucks that I can't enjoy any of this
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  Speaker 1: or be interested in it because I know that it's
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  Speaker 1: just a stage for wealthy elites to drape themselves and
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  Speaker 1: borrow narratives they don't actually engage with or support beyond
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  Speaker 1: aesthetic appropriation.
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  Speaker 2: Working class people, black or otherwise, aren't.
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  Speaker 1: Seen as human beings with needs and voices, but they're
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  Speaker 1: seen as symbols to these people to be invoked and
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  Speaker 1: adorned and then discarded once the cameras are off. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the fashion that's the problem. It's the self-congratulatory theater audience.
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  Speaker 1: of it all playing out in couture while everyday Americans
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  Speaker 1: are viewed with contempt for daring to step out of
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  Speaker 1: ideological line. And by the way, speaking of the plight
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  Speaker 1: of real working class people, just outside the Met Gala,
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  Speaker 1: normal New Yorkers The people without penthouses and bodyguards are
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  Speaker 1: living in Gotham City, terrorized on the subway to work,
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  Speaker 1: robbed at gunpoint, the smell of weed on the dirty streets,
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  Speaker 1: a homeless guy on every corner.
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  Speaker 2: New York is a great place if you're rich. Anywhere
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  Speaker 2: is great if you're rich, frankly. But most of us aren't.
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  Speaker 2: This was just yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: A mob of illegal alien teens Suspected Trendyaragua members attacking
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  Speaker 1: NYPD officers in Times Square.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look at this.
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  Speaker 4: The two officers jump in to try to stop a
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  Speaker 4: couple of teen suspects from carrying out an apparent assault.
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  Speaker 4: But soon a gang jumps in to try to stop
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  Speaker 4: the officers from making the arrests. Video shows the officers
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  Speaker 4: being shoved, objects being thrown at them, and then the
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  Speaker 4: group flees. Several of the teen suspects in custody, one
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  Speaker 4: as young as 12, won flashing gang symbols. The suspects
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  Speaker 4: believed to be associated with the notorious TDA gang.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to throw up some of those image, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: if you could, of the Met Gala so people know
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about so they can see actually what
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  Speaker 1: the Met Gala was like last night. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to not forget that last night the Met Gala hosted
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  Speaker 1: none other than border czar Kamala Harris, former border czar
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  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. And instead of booed out of the country,
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  Speaker 1: she's been praised and honored by New York elites who
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about silly things like trendy Iraq. Well,
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced
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  Speaker 1: that panic buttons would be installed in bodegas across the
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  Speaker 1: city to alert police to crime occurring. That's how bad
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  Speaker 1: things have gotten, that regular corner stores need to have
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  Speaker 1: panic buttons.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Mayor says panic button that you'll immediately be able to hit.
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  Speaker 5: that is going to alarm the police and is going
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  Speaker 5: to be connected directly to the local precincts. When you
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  Speaker 5: do the combination, it's going to give you access to
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  Speaker 5: the cameras in the store to see what is taking
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  Speaker 5: place and how we could get an immediate response.
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  Speaker 2: I love fashion, but this is dystopian.
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  Speaker 1: One block has red carpets and $ 30, 000 dresses, and the
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  Speaker 1: next has bodega clerks praying that they make it through
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  Speaker 1: the night shift. The elites applaud themselves for raising awareness
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  Speaker 1: about systemic issues, and then they advocate to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of things like cash bail, decriminalize drugs, house thousands of illegals,
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  Speaker 1: including gang members, on the taxpayer's dime in minority neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: The chaos, be it cartel-linked violence or soft-on-crime-induced terror, is
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  Speaker 1: something they observe from tinted SUVs, And they're sky-rise apartments,
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  Speaker 1: not something that they actually live through. And that's the difference.
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  Speaker 1: That's what makes last night so insufferable.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, I love fashion. I would love to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy this event. But you can't when you consider the
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  Speaker 2: context of the people participating. Truly, it feels like the
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  Speaker 2: Hunger Games. It feels dystopian.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes you really turned off to everything that
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  Speaker 1: these people say and do. All right, we have big news.
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  Speaker 1: Antarctica ice is back. A recent study published in Science
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  Speaker 1: China Earth Sciences reveals that the Antarctic ice sheet gained
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  Speaker 1: mass at a rate of 108 gigatons per year between
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  Speaker 1: 2021 and 2023, reversing a decade-long trend of significant ice loss.
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  Speaker 1: So previously from 2011 to 2020, the ice sheet was
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  Speaker 1: losing ice at 141 gigatons per year. But per the
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  Speaker 1: New York Post, well, and this is interesting, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: because they've been telling us that obviously the ice is melting,
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  Speaker 1: that global warming is on the rise, that the Earth
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  Speaker 1: is going to end immediately. So per this New York
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  Speaker 1: Post article reporting on it, quote, while this development is
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  Speaker 1: a glimmer of hope, scientists caution that it may not
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  Speaker 1: signal a long-term trend. And this is interesting because how
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  Speaker 1: many times do the climate alarmists, the climate cultists try
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  Speaker 1: to fearmonger about the earth heating up and exploding on us.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's because they just have to keep
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  Speaker 1: the climate hysteria going. So we have good news. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the ice isn't melting in Antarctica. And they still have
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  Speaker 1: to come in and say, well, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: glimmer of hope, but it's probably not signaling a long-term trend.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's three.
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  Speaker 1: Years, right, of it being better than it was before,
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  Speaker 1: and they still have to put a damper on it.
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  Speaker 2: And there is a reason for that. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: get into the reason in a second.
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  Speaker 1: But just as like a recap, almost all of these
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  Speaker 1: climate predictions tend to be totally false, totally off base.
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  Speaker 2: My dad always told me growing up, as we were talking.
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  Speaker 1: About global warming, I'd come home from school with global
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  Speaker 1: warming propaganda because that's where they get them.
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  Speaker 2: They fear mom and children especially.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, you know, when I was a
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  Speaker 1: little boy, The scientists said we were going to go
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  Speaker 1: through an ice age. And there was all this climate
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  Speaker 1: hysteria around a global cooling period.
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  Speaker 2: And then suddenly the 1980s roll around.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in high school, and they flip the narrative completely,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's global warming. And you have Al Gore's
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  Speaker 1: 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth, predicting catastrophic sea level rises.
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  Speaker 1: The disappearance of polar ice caps by 2014. None of
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  Speaker 1: that came true. It was like, you can't have it
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  Speaker 1: both ways.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have a global cooling. There's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a global warming. The world's going to end by 2014. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that didn't happen. They're just wrong over and over and
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  Speaker 2: over again.
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  Speaker 1: And I was doing some fact checking. I was asking
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  Speaker 1: chat GPT last night. I was like, oh, did I was,
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  Speaker 1: I was asking about this 1970s prediction and they like
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  Speaker 1: chat GPT had a note essentially telling me, but just
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  Speaker 1: so you know, like global warming is real. climate denialism
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  Speaker 1: is a very dangerous ideology.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just like, why?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: It is. And I like that you brought that up, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: because it's deeply religious.
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  Speaker 1: That is the way they view this entire climate hysteria.
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  Speaker 1: It is a religious movement that if you dare to
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  Speaker 1: deviate from, you will be punished. You will be denounced
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  Speaker 1: as a heretic. The Arctic ice caps remain. The sea
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  Speaker 1: level rise has stayed within historic norms. In 1989, the
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  Speaker 1: UN claimed that entire nations would be submerged by 2000
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  Speaker 1: if emissions were not mitigated.
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  Speaker 2: That didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: All of these dire predictions have been used to justify
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  Speaker 1: control rather than reflect scientific reality. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: they hold onto it so strongly, because it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the climate.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about.
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  Speaker 1: Stewardship and environmentalism. I'm somebody who grew up in the
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  Speaker 1: Northwoods of Wisconsin. I love nature. I love clean water
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  Speaker 1: and clean air. And I care about the environment. I
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  Speaker 1: think as Christians, you're called to be stewards of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what this is. This is not about stewardship.
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  Speaker 1: These people attend the climate conferences in Davos, the U.N.,
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  Speaker 1: COP28 or COP29 or whatever COP it is in private jets.
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  Speaker 1: This is a vehicle for disempowering individuals and consolidating control
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  Speaker 1: in the hands of global corporations and institutions. Take carbon taxes,
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  Speaker 1: emissions regulations. These policies and ideas disproportionately burden small businesses
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  Speaker 1: and working class families. Well, multinational corporations with the resources
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  Speaker 1: and the lawyers to comply or offset their emissions, they thrive.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing with COVID, right?
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  Speaker 1: The people that got screwed over the most by COVID
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  Speaker 1: and that hysteria was not Walmart or Amazon, but the
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  Speaker 1: small businesses on Main Street, the restaurants that closed down,
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  Speaker 1: the small gyms.
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  Speaker 2: That closed down. What happened was anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Who was a small business, anybody who was an individual
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  Speaker 1: or a family-run organization were destroyed while major corporations were
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  Speaker 1: able to thrive. It was the greatest transfer of wealth
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  Speaker 1: in American history. The Paris Climate Agreements favor conglomerates that
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  Speaker 1: can afford green tech investments while smaller competitors are squeezed out.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have ordinary citizens pressured to abandon personal
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  Speaker 1: freedoms like gas-powered cars. gas-powered stoves, or affordable energy in
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  Speaker 1: the name of saving the planet. And yet, again, private
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  Speaker 1: jets and mega yachts of the elites are basically under
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  Speaker 1: no scrutiny.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this is about, controlling what people do.
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  Speaker 1: Think about the idea of a smart city where, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you won't need to commute to work because we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a 15-minute smart city. And of course, a
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: smart city is equipped with mass surveillance technology like we're
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: in George Orwell 1984.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: These are all connected. It's not an accident.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: This is why they have to hold onto the narrative
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: so strongly. It's about centralizing power and using fear of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a fabricated crisis to erode individual rights and to funnel
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: wealth upward.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: That's always what it's about. Funnel wealth upward.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So just have this in your arsenal when your kid
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: definitely comes home from school with some sort of climate
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: hysteria propaganda if you send them not to a classical education.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: The Antarctica ice sheets are fine, so everybody can chill
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the F out about it. Tell your kids that. This
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: is the same way my dad said, you know, Evita,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: when I was a little boy in the 1970s and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: they told us that there was going to be a
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: global cooling in a mass ice age, it didn't happen.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And now we're in global warming hysteria. You got to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: remind your kids of the context here in the past
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: year because they are going to come home with this
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: kind of propaganda. Even if you send them to a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: good school where they're not getting it, they're going to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: hear it on TV or on their smartphone or somewhere.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: This is push purposely on.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Children to terrify them and to prime them for giving
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: up essential liberties in the name of this contrived crisis.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: So keep that in mind.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: By the way, the media has played a huge role
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: in allowing the climate hoax to carry on. There's zero
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: pushback on the entire climate hysteria, none from the corporate media.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: And in fact, they actively gaslight the American people by
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: smearing those who point out how all these predictions have
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: failed to materialize as spreaders of disinformation or whatever.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: This is what they do, right?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: If you are somebody who points out the obvious, like,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: hey— This COVID vaccine, it's not preventing anybody from spreading
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: or contracting COVID.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're a disinformationist. You're a liar.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: The vaccine totally works, 100% correct. You guys are just
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: spreaders of disinformation. You want grandmas to die.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: This is what they do. Gaslighting, lying, it's their thing.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: All of you listening know that.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Now, speaking of the media lying, yesterday, MSNBC was forced
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to issue an on-air correction against for a Monday interview
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: with a contributor who claimed that FBI Director Kash Patel
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: had been seen more frequently at nightclubs than at his
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: office at FBI headquarters. Can't even make this stuff up.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: And now let's circle back to a segment from Friday's show.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: Frank Fugluisi was on that morning during this hour discussing
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: the work of administration officials. At the end of that segment,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Fugluisi said that FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly been
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: more visible at nightclubs than at his office at FBI headquarters.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: This was a misstatement. We have not verified that claim.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: We will be right back.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, just so you guys know, Michael has told me
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I have to make a note that this was said by,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the correction was said in reaction to something that Frank
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Fugazi said.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: If you know, you know, you know, you know. The
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: real ones. The Dan Bongino favorite bands.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Eight, eight.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Eight, eight, right? Right, eight, eight.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, so this is a, where can they go to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: find the full context of this, Michael?
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: Do you know?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: For the Dan Bongino, Frank Fugazi lore, right? Is there
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a podcast?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll find the starting clip right now. Okay.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Dan Bongino has some beef with this guy.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It's pretty funny. But they had to issue a correction.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And usually, I think MSNBC, CNN, they just.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Like to libel people and they just let it slide.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And I think, honestly, it only underscores how little accountability
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: actually exists in the mainstream media. The overwhelming majority of narratives,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: especially on topics like climate, election integrity, COVID, are constructed
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and enforced with a near religious fervor where dissent is
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: not debated but demonized.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: They're like the Pharisees.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: They truly, truly will not allow any kind of dissent because,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: like I said, it's blasphemy. When truth becomes a moving
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: target and media outlets operate as ideological enforcers, rather than watchdogs,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: it's no wonder that trust continues to erode. So that
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: MSNBC correction wasn't a slip of integrity, it was a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: slip in their usual armor of denial and their lies.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Because that's usually what we're used to with these people.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: These are organizations that no joke are left and right,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: rewarding one another for lying. They're giving each other prizes
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: for being bad journalists. And that brings me to my
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: next story. Back in 2022, Amber Nicole Thurman, 28-year-old medical
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: assistant and mother from Georgia, died due to a botched
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: abortion and medical professionals failing to treat her. Because of
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Georgia's six-week abortion ban, Amber traveled to North Carolina for
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: her abortion. She took the prescribed abortion pills and She
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: suffered a complication involving retained fetal tissue, leading to a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: severe infection. Upon returning to Georgia, she sought emergency care
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: at the hospital, where doctors delayed properly treating her for
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: 19 hours. She went into septic shock and died. After
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: this happened, and before the 2024 election, journalist Kavitha Sarana
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: wrote a piece in ProPublica, a very left-wing news organization,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: where she hinted, without evidence, multiple times that the doctors
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: tasked with performing the newly criminalized procedure, that's the quote,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: newly criminalized procedure, were afraid to do so due to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Georgia's pro-life laws. So she's falsely saying that, suggesting that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: because of pro-life laws, the doctors were afraid to treat her,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and that's why they waited 19 hours, which is totally
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: ridiculous and fake. And then this journalist also falsely claimed that,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and this is a quote from the article, complications from
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: abortion pills are extremely rare.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: This is just not true. This is just a brazen lie.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you some stats.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: The abortion pill, mifepristone, is responsible for a 500% increase
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: in abortion-related emergency room visits for complications such as hemorrhage, fast,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: weak pulse, shortness of breath, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, vomiting, pain
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: across the back, arm, neck, abdomen, and a myriad of
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: other risks, including death. Even the FDA admits in the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Mifepristone label that one in 25 women who down the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: drug will end up in the hospital.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: One in 25. So it's not very safe. This is
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: not a safe drug.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And by the way, the Biden admin did loosen restrictions
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: on taking the abortion pill. Now, despite all of this dishonesty,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: in an attempt to make people think pro-life laws are
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: killing women, Serrana was awarded, just this week, a Pulitzer Prize.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: She was awarded for that slop she wrote, weaponizing this
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: woman's death against pro-life laws when really she was killed
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: by an abortion pill and by bad doctors who failed
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: to treat her because they waited 19 hours.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Did the Pulitzer Prize.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: once regarded as a pinnacle of journalistic excellence, would reward
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a piece riddled with political insinuations and flat-out misinformation is
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a testament to how far this institution has fallen. The
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: whole piece was emotional manipulation masquerading as reporting. All these
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: journalists' awards have become hollow relics of a dying prestige class.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a self-congratulatory echo chamber propping up its own relevance while
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the public trust evaporates. All that Pulitzer is today, frankly,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: is a participation trophy for people who say the right things,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: who say the leftist thing. They toe the leftist line.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: They defend the democratic establishment. And these people, no joke,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: confuse applause within its own ranks as some kind of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: moral authority over the American people. And in their desperation
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to remain arbiters of truth, they have become the architects
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of their own irrelevance.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I want to talk with you guys about.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: The dying prestige class a little more. But before I
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: do that, I want to talk about Harry and Meghan,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. And some of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you guys don't like to talk about the royal family.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I do think that.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: There is something deeper and relevant about this obnoxious couple.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And they are a deeply obnoxious couple. We've been talking
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: about privilege today, and I think no one better encapsulates
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: privilege than these two, Harry and Meghan. So a UK
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: court recently ruled against Prince Harry in his legal attempt
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to reinstate police protection during visits to the UK. This
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: is very distressing to the Prince Harry that this ruling
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: took place. Here was his reaction during an interview with
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: the BBC.
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: Relationship has changed with the UK.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Do you feel let down by your country?
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: That's a big question. At this point, I'm feeling very
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: let down. It's the minority of people. especially those that
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: read the tabloids and the press themselves. The press themselves
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: have incited so much hatred towards myself, my wife, and
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: even our children. Um, that that's quite, that's, that's, that's
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: hard to forgive. Um, you know, there are, there are
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: decisions that have been made. There are things that have
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: happened that since 2016 especially, throughout my whole life, but
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: let's just stick since 2016, there are things that have
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: happened that I can now forgive. I have moved past that.
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: I can forgive my family's involvement, my father, my brother,
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: and my stepmother. I can forgive the press to a
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: large extent as well for so many things that have happened.
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: What I'm struggling to forgive and what I will probably
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: always struggle to forgive is that a decision that was
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: made in 2020 that affects my every single day. And
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: that is knowingly putting me and my family in harm's way.
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: Everybody knew that they were putting us at risk in 2020.
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: And they hoped that me knowing that risk would force
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: us to come back. But then when you realize that
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: that didn't work, do you not want to keep us safe?
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: Whether you're the government, whether you're the royal household, whether
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: you're my dad, my family, Despite all of our differences,
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: do you not want to just ensure our safety?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: For some context, if you don't follow the Harry and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Meghan drama, the question is, forgive what? Like he was like,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going to forgive my parents and the media.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: And I was like, forgive what?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Like this guy and his wife abandoned their duty in
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the royal family, which fine, maybe you don't want to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: be part of it anymore.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: They abandoned it. Okay.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: After having a beautiful house, renovated on the taxpayer's dime
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: at a gorgeous wedding.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: On the taxpayer's dime, fine, they leave the family.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: The problem is they trash the family. They trash the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: entire UK, frankly, as a bunch of racists. And now
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Harry's like, well, now I can forgive them for what
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: they did. It's like, bro, you have been making money,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: making millions of dollars off of calling your family and
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: your country racist and evil.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And this is the point.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: About Harry demanding security from the UK government, which means
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: from the British taxpayers. He and Meghan Markle are reportedly
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: worth an estimated $ 60 million. For $ 60 million!
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Can you guys believe that?
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: This man lives in America, trashes the royal family and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the UK itself, and he's complaining that the British taxpayers
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: are not providing him with security.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Pay for it yourself, dude.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: You're worth $ 60 million, which, by the way, you made
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: off of trashing the British people and your family. How
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: could he possibly feel entitled to taxpayer-funded security at this point?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even believe that it was a question he
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be paying for his own security. Like, you quit
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the royal family. You're entitled to nothing from the British people.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: You left. You came to America.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Frankly, I don't want him here at all. I wish
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: he would go back to the UK, but unfortunately, he's here.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: So why is the UK going to pay for his security?
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: You leave.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: You contribute nothing to that country. In what world would
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: you be considered worthy of taxpayer-funded security?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It's absurd. It's just mind-boggling.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: And Harry and Meghan have this tendency of being extremely,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: extremely elitist.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: In the way that they operate day to day.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was not that long ago where Harry
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and Meghan said, well, we're only going to have two
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: children because we care about the environment and the climate. Now,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: a couple of things are layered there. One, they're feeding
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: into this antinatalist, climate alarmist perspective where we're trying to
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: stop people from having children because allegedly it's bad for
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the environment. But also, Harry's brother and wife, Kate Middleton-
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: have more than two children. So it was a jab
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: at them. Like, oh, we're so moralistic. We're going to
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: virtue signal about how we're only going to have two
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: kids while you all have more than two. And that's
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: really disappointing because it's harmful to the environment. Do you
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: see how like backhanded and evil.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: These two are? Like, it's just mean. He's not his
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: brother's keeper. He's not a family guy.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: And yet somehow he feels entitled to titles, to security.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to being a part of a family that he has
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: trashed for years. There's something so deeply unhuman about it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: You see this with leftists a lot when we talk
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: about the heat map and where people's priorities are. And
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: it seems like those closest to Prince Harry, which should
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: be his father, his brother, his aunts, his uncles, it
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: should be his family that.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Is his priority.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And instead, it's connections, Oprah Winfrey interviews, going to special
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: galas and events and having a beautiful home. It's all
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: these things that don't really matter and virtue signaling about
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: left-wing causes. And instead of actually healing their own home,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: they're incapable of doing that because they're cancerous in their
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: own families. Apparently, Meghan Markle is still using her Royal
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Highness title, something that Prince William reportedly says. He will
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: officially strip from her and Harry once he's king, and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I think he's right to do so. Prince Harry and
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Meghan Markle, perhaps the most pampered avatars of modern victimhood.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: They embody the same elite narcissism that runs through the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: living room portraits in that New Yorker profile. The Met
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Gala red carpet. Harry and Meghan have an almost comical
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: level of entitlement, but not out of step. with the
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: broader class of elites who believe their activism and self-styled
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: moral authority should exempt them from the rules that the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: rest of us live under. Harry and Meghan take private
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: jets all the time, and yet they're saying, oh, well,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: we're not going to have more than two kids, and
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: we're going to have conversations about the environment. Prince Harry's
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: going to be part of the Aspen Institute, where he
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: says the Constitution and the First Amendment specifically are bonkers.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: These people.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Have no I think respect ultimately for the working class people,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the regular people that they claim to care about so much.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: They're completely divorced from reality. And they're bad people if
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: you look at the way that they treat their own families.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Meghan still uses.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Her royal title while playing the oppressed woman of color
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: in America, performing grievance for profit, protected by wealth, media adorations.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Layers of contradiction are in that. They are not just
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: detached from working people. They market that detachment as virtue.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Their saga dovetails with the curated sterility of the New
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Yorker's portraits and the sanctimony of the Met Gala. It's
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: all the same performance. An elite class, cloaked in progressive language,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: insulated from consequences, and obsessed with optics over substance, whether
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: it's Soros or AOC striking a pose in a cold,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: modernist loft, or climate activists taking private jets to Davos
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: The common thread is that they play at caring about
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the working class while living like feudal lords. They don't
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: want borders, accountability, affordability, because those are concerns of people
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: who don't have private security, who take public transit, who
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: need safe neighborhoods and functioning hospitals. And while they call
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: for redistribution, they consolidate power. While they preach justice, they
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: entrench hierarchy. And that's the real scandal. Not that these
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: people are rich, but that they shape policies that make
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: it harder for anyone else to rise. Democrats talk about
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: eating the rich all the time. But it's Democrats who
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: ultimately are the rich. Coastal, credentialed, increasingly contemptuous of the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: working class that they claim to uplift. What regular people
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: want isn't unreasonable. Affordable homes, decent schools, safe neighborhoods, a
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: shot at stability. But it's precisely those basics that have
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: been decimated by the cultural and political influence of this smug,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: out-of-touch elite. They live in glass towers and gated communities
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: while the rest of America lives with the fallout. And
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: no amount of curated compassion or activist gowns can disguise
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the truth that the ruling class isn't just indifferent to
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: working Americans. They are the reason we're struggling.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: At the same time, I.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Don't want to leave anyone with a bitter taste. There's
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: something Sacred, I think, about the quiet pulse of American
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: life that no red carpet or penthouse can imitate. It's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the clink of coffee cups at the diner where the
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: waitress knows your name. The hum of a Friday night
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: football game under stadium lights. Cracked pavement outside the hardware store.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: The faded flags fluttering over front porches. Dusty lights flickering
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: through blinds in a kitchen that smells like pot roast
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: and pine soul. This is the rhythm of a people
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: who endure, who mend what breaks, who keep going not
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: for likes or headlines, but for each other.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Americana isn't just nostalgia. It is rootedness. It's ritual.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: It's the everyday beauty of lives not curated, but lived.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: They're fed images of glittering elites. They're sleek homes. They're
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: designer costumes. They're faux compassion wrapped in Instagram captions. And
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: it's easy to resent them. Maybe even envy what they have.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: But envy is actually poison. It eats at your soul.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: It hollows out what makes us human. Frankly, I think
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  Speaker 1: more than anything, we should pity them. Because if you
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  Speaker 1: look closely, for all the wealth and attention, there's no
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  Speaker 1: joy in their eyes. Do you think Prince Harry and
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Meghan Markle are happy? These seem to be some of
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the two most unhappy people I've ever seen in my life.
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  Speaker 2: It's all performance.
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  Speaker 1: Real meaning isn't found in spectacle or status. It's in land,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: in lineage, in labor, love. The dreams don't live where
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the cameras point. It lives in small towns, rusted pickup trucks,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: church pews, little league bleachers. In a world that sells illusion,
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  Speaker 1: we have to remind ourselves to cherish the simplicity and
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  Speaker 1: honesty of the America we're part of, the heart of
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  Speaker 1: this country. And with that, I appreciate you all for
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  Speaker 1: tuning in today. Big shout out to Michael, as always,
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  Speaker 1: for putting the show together.
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  Speaker 2: Check my phone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, big announcement from Michael. All emotes have been imported
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: to the Bongina Report. So you guys can use the
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: special emojis that Dan used to have now in the chat.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, try it out. Let's see. How do you
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: do it, Mikey? Am I crazy?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: You guys might have to refresh it. I'm not seeing
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: it either. So if you refresh, you might be able
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: to use the new emojis. But we'll have to use
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: them all next week.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have to find what.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: And maybe we'll add some emojis too, some Evita or
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Haley-specific emojis so they're not just Dan Bongino.
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  Speaker 2: But that's big news.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to be using that next time. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for tuning in to this show.
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  Speaker 1: Here live on Rumble, 9 a.m. Eastern time, five days
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  Speaker 1: a week. Follow me on Instagram and X. My user
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  Speaker 2: And I'll see you all tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Soccer Podcast.
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  Speaker 6: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: to be joined by Daryl Dike.
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  Speaker 2: Arguably, your most impressive quality.
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  Speaker 4: Cannot be measured.
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  Speaker 2: You're a guy who is the definition of grit. Injuries
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  Speaker 2: have ended plenty of careers, but instead you decided yours
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  Speaker 2: would only be a chapter instead of the ending. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the show, Daryl.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good intro right there.
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  Speaker 7: That's good.
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