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JFK Files Drop (Ep.163) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition here
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Speaker 1: from the new Bongino, well, I guess, Silverlock studio. We
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Speaker 1: have thousands of JFK documents released, but not all of them.
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Speaker 1: Astronauts stuck in space finally returned to Earth.
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Speaker 2: The Closing Time band is furious.
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Speaker 1: Their song is now a deportation anthem. Left-wing women threaten
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Speaker 1: to leave their husbands for supporting Trump. The White Lotus
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Speaker 1: series delivers a major blow. to the transgender identity narrative.
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Speaker 1: Hungary's parliament bans public LGBTQ plus pride events and Jeremy
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Speaker 1: Boring steps down as the Daily Wire CEO.
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Speaker 2: All this on Bongina Report, early edition.
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Speaker 1: So thousands of JFK documents were released last night. There's
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Speaker 1: a ton of information for people to sift through. We're
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Speaker 1: still learning. Things are still being discovered. So I don't
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Speaker 1: have everything, obviously. It's been merely hours that these files
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Speaker 1: have dropped late last night or late last evening. So
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Speaker 1: historians and JFK researchers are digging for information.
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Speaker 2: Here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: It's not exactly what we were promised by President Trump.
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Speaker 1: President Trump said there were like 80,000 pages and it
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Speaker 1: was going to be completely unredacted. Now, per the Washington Post,
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Speaker 1: it appears many of these files have been previously released.
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Speaker 1: So it's not new information. We thought we were getting
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Speaker 1: a lot of new information. That was sort of the
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Speaker 1: public perception. That's not necessarily the case. It is older
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Speaker 1: information that was already released. Maybe now it just has
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Speaker 1: no redactions on the paperwork. So not all new, but
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Speaker 1: per Jefferson Morley, who is the vice president of the
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Speaker 1: Mary Farrell Foundation, which is a repository for files related
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Speaker 1: to the assassination, per this man Jefferson, what was released
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Speaker 1: yesterday did not include two-thirds of the promised files. Any
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Speaker 1: of the recently discovered FBI files, there's more FBI files
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Speaker 1: that were recently discovered, or the 500 IRS records. So
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Speaker 1: people are a little bit disappointed, right? We were promised
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Speaker 1: at President Trump that yesterday we were going to see
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Speaker 1: all these files.
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Speaker 2: They were all going to be released. It was going
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Speaker 2: to be amazing.
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Speaker 1: And it was going to be completely unredacted. And we
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Speaker 1: do not have all of the files. That's very obvious.
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Speaker 1: So there's not a lot of new information floating around
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Speaker 1: the internet right now. There's no bombshells, which people were
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Speaker 1: sort of expecting and hoping for. They were going to
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Speaker 1: get some real answers about the questions surrounding the assassination
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Speaker 1: of John F. Kennedy. We were going to get maybe
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Speaker 1: some real disclosure and put these conspiracies and all of
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Speaker 1: the public unrest finally to bed because we have the truth.
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Speaker 1: That did not happen yesterday. And if you look on X,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of attention around a guy named John
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Speaker 1: Garrett Underhill Jr.
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Speaker 2: Or just Gary Underhill.
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Speaker 1: And before this later disclosure, we actually knew that this guy, Gary,
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Speaker 1: was a World War II OSS veteran and an occasional
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Speaker 1: CIA contact who, after JFK's 1963 assassination, reportedly told friends
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Speaker 1: that he feared for his life and alleged that a
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Speaker 1: rogue CIA faction was involved in the murder of the president.
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Speaker 1: And then he was subsequently killed in 1960. Well, he
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Speaker 1: died by suicide in 1964. But people really believe that
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Speaker 1: he was murdered by the people that he was accusing
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Speaker 1: of killing John F.
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Speaker 3: Kennedy.
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Speaker 1: So these public records have have already been available. You
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Speaker 1: can find it in the 1967 interview with Jim Garrison,
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Speaker 1: scattered CIA memos, research archives in the 1990s. What happened
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Speaker 1: yesterday was that these 2025 JFK files digitized and centralized
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Speaker 1: the records that were already online related to Gary. So
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Speaker 1: it made it all much more accessible. So people were
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Speaker 1: kind of presenting this information online like it was brand new.
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Speaker 2: That's sort of been.
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Speaker 1: The bombshell that people are circulating around the internet.
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Speaker 2: It is not new. So if you hear about this,
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Speaker 2: this is not new information. It's centralized.
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Speaker 1: It's great that we have finally a much more clear
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Speaker 1: view of what's going on because all the files have
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Speaker 1: been released sort of in this massive dump. But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, again, this is not a bombshell like
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Speaker 1: it's sort of being presented like on the internet. So far,
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Speaker 1: we really don't have any new information. And there's a
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Speaker 1: lot to get through. I think it's been less than
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Speaker 1: a day since the release, so it's possible that more
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Speaker 1: can come out. But we have to understand that that
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Speaker 1: it's possible, and I said this yesterday, it's possible that
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Speaker 1: the really relevant documents, what really, what will get to
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Speaker 1: the bottom of this, have already been destroyed.
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Speaker 2: Because this is decades, this is decades.
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Speaker 1: Of waiting for information. So it's possible that, you know,
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Speaker 1: whoever wanted to protect themselves or a certain institution got
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Speaker 1: ahead and destroyed relevant documents ages ago.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps even right before this release.
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Speaker 1: I mean, remember, President Trump called for this almost immediately
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Speaker 1: when he took office. We're weeks into his presidency, and
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Speaker 1: now we're finally getting it. Who knows what's been destroyed
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Speaker 1: even in that interim? And I also told you guys
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Speaker 1: to continue to ask the question of what, not who.
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Speaker 1: Because the who is no longer being protected. Everybody that's
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Speaker 1: involved in JFK, most of them have died.
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Speaker 2: It is the what.
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Speaker 1: It is the what institutions are being protected by this.
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Speaker 2: Failure to have full disclosure. on John F.
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Speaker 1: Kennedy. I think that the prevailing conspiracy is that the
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Speaker 1: CIA was involved in killing the president. And there's a
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Speaker 1: fear that knowledge of this would deepen a legacy of
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Speaker 1: skepticism toward the government.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it would.
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Speaker 1: Really destroy any sort of legitimacy that the CIA or
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Speaker 1: other branches of the intelligence apparatus have among the American people.
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Speaker 1: So there's an incentive, of course, to keep things hidden
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Speaker 1: if that's the case. But we were promised by President
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Speaker 1: Trump disclosure. And I think that we deserve that. I
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Speaker 1: think we deserve it on JFK. We deserve it on
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Speaker 1: MLK and RFK and 9-11 and the Jeffrey Epstein documents.
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Speaker 1: And I'm still wondering, where are these Jeffrey Epstein documents?
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Speaker 1: We had that debacle with Pam Bondi. And I'm still
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Speaker 1: pretty upset about it. I want to know where those
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Speaker 1: documents are. Yeah, we were promised disclosure by this admin.
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Speaker 1: And in my book, we really haven't gotten it. And
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Speaker 1: we need to rebuild trust in our institutions.
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Speaker 2: And I don't want anarchy. I don't want chaos in society.
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Speaker 1: I don't want people to want to tear down our
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Speaker 1: institutions because there's such little trust. And that's why we
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Speaker 1: need the truth to come out so that we can
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Speaker 1: finally have answers, finally then begin to rebuild that trust back.
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Speaker 1: We can rebuild our institutions in a much more positive way.
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Speaker 1: That's what is to be gained from having disclosure. And
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Speaker 1: I think hiding the information, continuing to withhold documents when
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Speaker 1: you promised they were all going to be released yesterday,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Look very good.
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Speaker 1: It really erodes public trust in a way that I
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Speaker 1: don't think that President Trump wants. I don't think the
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Speaker 1: government wants. I don't think anybody wants, unless you have
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Speaker 1: something to hide. All right, let's talk about NASA astronauts,
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Speaker 1: Bush Wilmore and Sonny Williams, who successfully returned to Earth yesterday.
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Speaker 1: And these astronauts had problems with their Boeing spacecraft. They
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Speaker 1: extended their stay on the International Space Station for nine months.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was months longer than they were supposed
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Speaker 1: to be up in space. They were stuck there. They
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Speaker 1: splashed down in the Gulf of America. And when they did,
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Speaker 1: dolphins surrounded them to welcome them. And you guys can
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Speaker 1: see the dolphins are, if you're listening, they are just
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Speaker 1: splashing around in the water surrounding them, almost excited.
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Speaker 2: It's actually what a beautiful welcome for these astronauts. It's
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Speaker 2: truly beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine you're up in space nine months and
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Speaker 1: then you see a bunch.
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Speaker 2: Of dolphins surrounding you as you land on Earth?
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Speaker 1: Like how satisfying, how happy must these people be to finally,
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Speaker 1: these astronauts be to finally touch down on Earth? And
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Speaker 1: a lot of people have been talking about what a
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Speaker 1: victory this is for President Trump and talking about the
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Speaker 1: politics of all this. And I totally understand that. To me,
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Speaker 1: what captured my attention the most was how torturous it
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Speaker 1: must have been for them to be up there that long.
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Speaker 1: They could have been home ages ago were it not
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Speaker 1: for Biden playing politics.
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Speaker 2: Here's Elon Musk explaining.
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Speaker 1: Biden White House did not want to have someone who
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Speaker 1: was pro-Trump rescuing astronauts right before the elections.
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Speaker 4: So they pushed it.
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Speaker 1: OK, so obviously he's accusing the Biden admin of keeping
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Speaker 1: them up there because he was playing politics. And guys,
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Speaker 1: like I said, the story really had an impact me.
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Speaker 1: I said these astronauts had to have been tortured up there.
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Speaker 2: I believe that I think when people ask you.
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Speaker 1: Or in general, like, would you ever take the, take the,
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Speaker 1: take the, uh, the opportunity to live in a colony
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Speaker 1: on Mars or something like that?
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Speaker 2: I would never do that.
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Speaker 1: I would always like, absolutely not. I have no interest
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Speaker 1: in going up to space. I have no interest in
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Speaker 1: living on Mars or on a space station or anything
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Speaker 1: like that. Just, I mean, Guy and Michael are Star
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Speaker 1: Wars fans, so maybe they have a different take on this,
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Speaker 1: but I would love to just stay on earth forever
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Speaker 1: and never go to space.
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Speaker 2: I have zero desire because I'm in awe of space.
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Speaker 1: I think, I think it's, It's vast and it's unknown
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Speaker 1: to the point where I think people can't even really
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Speaker 1: conceptualize it. And the idea of space terrifies me. It's
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Speaker 1: not natural for humans who were designed perfectly for planet
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Speaker 1: Earth to go up in space. It's not natural. And
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Speaker 1: there's a physical impact on people, right? You have muscle atrophy,
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Speaker 1: bone density loss, fluid shifts that affect the cardiovascular system
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Speaker 1: and vision due to microgravity and radiation exposure.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is not good for the human.
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Speaker 1: Body, but there's not just a physical impact that space
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Speaker 1: has on humans.
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Speaker 2: This is why I don't want to go there. I
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Speaker 2: have no interest.
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Speaker 1: There's also a spiritual impact. that people report when going
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Speaker 1: up to space. Professor of religious studies, Diana Walsh Pasolka,
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Speaker 1: believes that space as an uncharted, mysterious frontier evokes a
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Speaker 1: kind of profound spiritual response in anybody who goes up there.
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Speaker 1: And her scholarship is really focused on the intersection of
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Speaker 1: science and spirituality. And according to Diana Pasolka, a lot
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Speaker 1: of astronauts have reported experiencing strange noises, spiritual encounters while
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Speaker 1: in space, And these experiences include unexplained sounds, feelings of
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Speaker 1: a presence, profound spiritual and mystical experiences that are really
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Speaker 1: difficult to articulate. There's a reason, an even deeper reason
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Speaker 1: than just national security, that astronauts have to sign NDAs.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen. This is Diana, by the way.
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Speaker 5: When astronauts go out into space, they experience different states
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Speaker 5: of mind that human beings aren't used to ever experiencing, right?
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Speaker 5: And the farther they get away from Earth, these are
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Speaker 5: highly trained individuals, right? To be an astronaut, you go
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Speaker 5: through so much incredible training that they might not even
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Speaker 5: recognize that they're having, say, a panic attack or something
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Speaker 5: like that. And in fact, Dr. Wiley, she told me,
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Speaker 5: don't even call it that, Diana. Please don't call it
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Speaker 5: a panic attack. They do not have those.
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Speaker 2: And I was like, all right.
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Speaker 5: But she said that she has this technology that she's
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Speaker 5: developed in order to ascertain if they're having this kind
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Speaker 5: of fear response or a response that could jeopardize the mission. Okay,
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Speaker 5: so they're farther away from Earth And they're feeling, they
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Speaker 5: get a feeling that it's not the ultra view effect,
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Speaker 5: which people have identified as looking at earth or space.
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Speaker 5: And you're like, wow, this amazing thing. You know, how
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Speaker 5: many people get this perspective? And so it's like this
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Speaker 5: kind of transformative perspective.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I can imagine it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, drop a comment if you can imagine the
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Speaker 1: kind of spiritual experience you might have if you're up
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Speaker 1: in space, you're looking down on earth. Like this was
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Speaker 1: never the intention for human beings. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: there's a reason that astronauts working with NASA or SpaceX
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Speaker 1: sign NDAs. It's not just about national security. It's because
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Speaker 1: they encounter unexplained phenomena in space. That's what Diana Pasolka
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Speaker 1: has repeatedly said. And I think there's a tendency to
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Speaker 1: separate science and space with the religious. There are UFO
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Speaker 1: encounters today, and they're were religious encounters of the past.
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Speaker 1: And people tend to say these are two separate things.
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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking of religious encounters of the past, Mary
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Speaker 1: in apparitions, Christ walking on water, the resurrection, Moses parting
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Speaker 1: the Red Sea. And my question is, perhaps the unexplained
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Speaker 1: spiritual forces of the past are still acting on humans
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Speaker 1: in the present. And we say, oh, it's UFOs now,
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Speaker 1: but wouldn't our ancestors have said something a lot different,
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Speaker 1: something much more spiritual and profound and transcendent? Here's how
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Speaker 1: Butch Wilmore said that he felt after these nine months
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Speaker 1: in space.
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Speaker 6: We're all the product of our life experiences and this
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Speaker 6: extended business trip of yours certainly qualifies. What is your
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Speaker 6: life lesson or takeaway from these nine months in space?
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Speaker 7: Well, in answer to your question, I can tell you honestly,
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Speaker 7: my feeling on all of this goes back to my faith.
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Speaker 7: It's bound in my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He
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Speaker 7: is working out His plan and His purposes for His
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Speaker 7: glory throughout all of humanity. And how that plays into
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Speaker 7: our lives is significant and important. And however that plays out,
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Speaker 7: I am content because I understand that. I understand that
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Speaker 7: he's at work in all things. Some things are for
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Speaker 7: the good. Go to Hebrews chapter 11. Some things look
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Speaker 7: to us to be not so good, but it's all
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Speaker 7: working out for his good, for those that will believe.
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Speaker 7: And that's the answer. So thanks for asking.
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Speaker 1: I think for astronauts, microgravity, these astronauts, microgravity may have
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Speaker 1: withered muscle and bone, but the spiritual toll touches something
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Speaker 1: really eternal, a confrontation with the unknown that mirrors life.
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Speaker 1: the awe and terror of standing before God himself, right?
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Speaker 1: You're out in space, you're seeing just the vastness of
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Speaker 1: the universe. And I think Wilmore's own reflections hint at this.
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Speaker 1: He's a man who was for nine months suspended between
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Speaker 1: heaven and earth. What does that feel like? And I
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Speaker 1: really think that the more we develop technologically, the harder
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Speaker 1: it will be to avoid spiritual questions.
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Speaker 2: It will confront us.
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Speaker 1: Technology might give us tools to leave Earth, but it
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Speaker 1: also drags us face to face with the mystery of
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Speaker 1: life itself, which is what people have been wrestling with
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Speaker 1: for centuries for all of human history.
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Speaker 2: What's out there? What does it mean? What is the
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Speaker 2: purpose of life?
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Speaker 1: And I think Wilmore and Williams didn't just bring back data,
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Speaker 1: they carried something unspoken, just a reminder that the deeper
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Speaker 1: we go, the less we can pretend that the spiritual
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Speaker 1: stays neatly.
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Speaker 2: Tucked away, like just at church.
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Speaker 1: It's like, no, like we're constantly being confronted with these questions.
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Speaker 1: And I think even more topically, you guys, it was
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Speaker 1: egregious that these two were left up there for political reasons.
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Speaker 1: I think that this was a really unnatural thing. They
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Speaker 1: didn't expect it. And to be up in space for
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Speaker 1: nine months, horrendous. And I'm just glad that they're finally home.
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Speaker 1: All right, who remembers this video from a few days ago?
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Speaker 8: The Trump administration, they dropped this video of their deportation
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Speaker 8: of criminals to the song Closing Time, saying to the
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Speaker 8: illegal gang members, you don't have to.
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Speaker 2: Go home, but you can't stay here. You guys are out.
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Speaker 2: You're done.
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Speaker 1: You're going back to wherever you came from or somewhere else,
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Speaker 1: but you are done staying in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: It was a great video, beloved, viral by this country, and, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll say most of the country, because the band that
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Speaker 1: produced the song Closing Time, Semisonic, is not too happy
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Speaker 1: about this, and they wrote on X yesterday, we did
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Speaker 1: not authorize or condone the White House's use of our
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Speaker 1: song Closing Time, in any way, and no, they didn't ask,
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Speaker 1: meaning they, the administration, the song is about joy and
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Speaker 1: possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely.
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Speaker 2: And I'll just say, what's not.
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Speaker 1: Joyful and hopeful about deporting the people who have been
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Speaker 1: terrorizing American citizens? I'm pretty joyful about the situation. I
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Speaker 1: think it's a pretty great thing. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: the issue here is. And it's funny because now the
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Speaker 1: ban has responded. The internet has decided to brand Closing
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Speaker 1: Time the official deportation song. Wade Scott responded to the
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Speaker 1: band on X, writing, Sorry, can't hear you. I'm listening
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Speaker 1: to that song about mass deportations.
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Speaker 9: And U.S.
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Speaker 1: Customs and Border Protection shared the White House post and
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Speaker 1: captioned it, It's closing time. We are making America safe again.
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Speaker 1: Here's what Carolyn Leavitt had to say.
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Speaker 2: I think it sums up our immigration policy pretty well.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
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Speaker 2: This is a lesson. This is a lesson. If you're
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Speaker 2: mad about something. And OK, you know what?
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Speaker 1: I answer all these questions as an older sister because
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Speaker 1: I just know. But not everybody has eight younger siblings.
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Speaker 1: So I'll just tell you guys, if your little sister
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Speaker 1: or your little brother is being annoying and they're teasing,
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Speaker 1: they're picking at.
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Speaker 2: You just to just to just to piss you off.
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Speaker 1: If you act like you're really upset about it, that
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Speaker 1: only makes it that much more fun. That only makes
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Speaker 1: them want to pick and poke.
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Speaker 2: At you more.
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Speaker 1: This is a great life lesson that I learned from
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Speaker 1: being the oldest of nine kids.
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Speaker 2: And so this.
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Speaker 1: Band, they try to say, we're going to not have
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Speaker 1: this song be a part of our, or this deportation
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Speaker 1: attachment be associated with their song. We're going to call
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Speaker 1: out the Trump admin. They didn't ask for our permission.
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Speaker 1: We do not approve of this. And then it becomes
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Speaker 1: that much more fun to label Closing Time a deportation song.
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Speaker 1: They did this to themselves. I think perhaps these band
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Speaker 1: members must have been only childs because otherwise, This is
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Speaker 1: common sense.
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Speaker 2: This is common sense, guys.
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Speaker 1: You do not inflame the internet by making it that
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Speaker 1: much more fun to make fun of you. You don't.
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Speaker 1: If you act mad, this is just what's going to happen.
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Speaker 1: So very dumb move on this band. And I will
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Speaker 1: continue to be labeling Closing Time as the deportation song.
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Speaker 2: By the way, can we talk?
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Speaker 1: About Alec Baldwin for a second. You guys know who
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Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin is, and I don't have a lot of
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Speaker 1: sympathy for this guy because you know that there was
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Speaker 1: this massive controversy, not controversy, I mean tragedy, where he
19:25
Speaker 1: fatally shot a cinematographer on the set of Rust in
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Speaker 1: 2021 after not checking if his prop gun was loaded.
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Speaker 1: And he probably should have been charged and convicted of
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Speaker 1: at least involuntary manslaughter.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't. New Mexico dropped the case.
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Speaker 1: And so Alec Baldwin now, he's not behind bars. He
19:45
Speaker 1: now has the time to go do things like show
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Speaker 1: up at the red carpet with his wife. Hillary Baldwin,
19:51
Speaker 1: or Hilaria Baldwin, as she likes to call herself. And
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Speaker 1: what happened on the red carpet this week made me
19:57
Speaker 1: truly feel sorry for this man. And again, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I don't feel sorry for this man in any other circumstance.
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Speaker 1: He killed a woman. He didn't face any consequences for it. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: he's advocated for massive restrictions on guns for people who
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Speaker 1: actually use proper gun safety, know how to use them.
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Speaker 1: The hypocrisy from this man was astounding, but I did
20:20
Speaker 1: feel bad for him on the red carpet. And once
20:23
Speaker 1: you guys watch this, you'll understand why. Here is Alec
20:26
Speaker 1: Baldwin being interviewed alongside his wife, Hillary.
20:30
Speaker 6: The Ilaria show.
20:31
Speaker 2: No, no, I think we're gonna see, you know? We're
20:34
Speaker 2: gonna see how it feels to have it be out there.
20:36
Speaker 6: It's gonna be great.
20:37
Speaker 3: You're a winner.
20:38
Speaker 1: Oh my God, when I'm talking, you're not talking.
20:39
Speaker 10: I'm sorry.
20:40
Speaker 2: No, when I'm talking, you're not talking. This is why, yes,
20:42
Speaker 2: we'll have to just cut him out of the show.
20:45
Speaker 1: Okay, so Hillary was asked by Extra TV about the
20:49
Speaker 1: possibility of a second season of their family reality series,
20:53
Speaker 1: The Baldwins, and Alec interjects.
20:56
Speaker 2: And says about his wife, she'd be great. He compliments her.
21:00
Speaker 2: He's being nice.
21:02
Speaker 1: And she was unbelievably rude. Like, unbelievably rude. Who treats
21:07
Speaker 1: their spouse like that and in front of cameras? Like,
21:10
Speaker 1: how humiliating for Alec. He's just like, don't talk while
21:14
Speaker 1: I'm talking. And then she's like, block him out of
21:16
Speaker 1: the camera.
21:16
Speaker 2: Like, who does that?
21:19
Speaker 11: I don't know.
21:19
Speaker 2: Guy, would your wife do that to you?
21:22
Speaker 7: No.
21:23
Speaker 2: He says no. What about Vince?
21:24
Speaker 10: No.
21:24
Speaker 7: No. No.
21:29
Speaker 5: She should be careful.
21:30
Speaker 2: He killed a woman. That's a good point. Vince says
21:32
Speaker 2: she should be careful because he killed a woman. Listen,
21:36
Speaker 2: that's a really good point.
21:38
Speaker 1: She better watch out because he could kill her and
21:42
Speaker 1: then the state of New Mexico would just let him
21:44
Speaker 1: right off the hook again. But listen, you guys, I
21:47
Speaker 1: think it is an egregious way to treat your spouse.
21:50
Speaker 1: And just to be clear about Hillary Baldwin, this is
21:54
Speaker 1: a certifiably insane woman.
21:56
Speaker 2: Like certifiably insane. insane woman. Her name is Hillary.
22:00
Speaker 1: She calls herself Hilaria Baldwin. This is a white woman
22:04
Speaker 1: who grew up in New England. But if you listen
22:06
Speaker 1: to that clip, you'll notice that she has this Spanish accent. Like,
22:11
Speaker 1: like she's not a white woman who grew up in
22:13
Speaker 1: New England with an English speaking family.
22:16
Speaker 2: So here she is. Here's, here's Hillary Baldwin.
22:20
Speaker 1: Compare that video that you just watched with Hillary Baldwin
22:22
Speaker 1: talking completely normally, no accent.
22:26
Speaker 2: I've said my piece.
22:27
Speaker 3: I'm going to, I'm so tired. I'm going to go
22:30
Speaker 3: back to my family because I've been not a very
22:32
Speaker 3: good mommy, spending a lot of time focusing on this
22:36
Speaker 3: and I just want to be left alone. So I
22:38
Speaker 3: love you and I'm going to sign off for a
22:40
Speaker 3: long time.
22:40
Speaker 2: No, no accent, zero accent. She's completely native speaker English.
22:45
Speaker 2: Totally fine. Because again, she grew up in Massachusetts. She
22:50
Speaker 2: did not grow up in Mexico or Spain or whatever.
22:53
Speaker 2: She grew up in New England.
22:55
Speaker 1: And yet here she is, compare that video with Hillary,
22:59
Speaker 1: forgetting how to say the word cucumber.
23:01
Speaker 2: Very few ingredients. We have tomatoes.
23:03
Speaker 3: We have, um, how do you say it in English?
23:07
Speaker 4: Cucumber.
23:07
Speaker 2: Cucumbers. We have, um. How do you say it in English?
23:10
Speaker 2: What do you mean? How do you say it in English?
23:11
Speaker 6: Cucumber?
23:12
Speaker 2: Like you grew up in Massachusetts. You are a white woman.
23:16
Speaker 1: This is part of the, you know, those, that's like
23:17
Speaker 1: trend of white women who pretend like there's some sort
23:20
Speaker 1: of minority to be a protected class because they want
23:23
Speaker 1: to seem like victims all the time.
23:24
Speaker 6: Crazy.
23:26
Speaker 1: This is a certifiably insane woman. And I ought to say, men,
23:29
Speaker 1: if you're listening, you got to be careful out there.
23:31
Speaker 2: You have to be careful. And I hate to say
23:32
Speaker 2: this about.
23:33
Speaker 1: My sex, but there's a certain demo of women in
23:37
Speaker 1: the modern world who are just insane, particularly after this election.
23:43
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to another certifiably insane woman
23:46
Speaker 1: insisting that her marriage is in big trouble because her
23:49
Speaker 1: husband supports Trump.
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Speaker 11: Hi.
23:53
Speaker 1: Hi.
23:56
Speaker 4: This is my first TikTok, so I'm kind of nervous
24:00
Speaker 4: to post this, but I'm just wondering if there's anyone.
24:04
Speaker 2: Else out there like me who is.
24:08
Speaker 4: Married to a MAGA. I have been thinking about leaving
24:16
Speaker 4: since the election, and we ended up going to counseling, which.
24:25
Speaker 4: Honestly really doesn't help because I'm not going to change
24:28
Speaker 4: my views and he's not going to change his views.
24:33
Speaker 4: I don't really see any other way out of this
24:36
Speaker 4: except for divorce.
24:38
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do.
24:41
Speaker 4: It's painful.
24:42
Speaker 2: I still love him.
24:46
Speaker 4: And I honestly did think that once.
24:53
Speaker 8: This.
24:54
Speaker 4: crazy person took office and all of these things started
24:59
Speaker 4: happening to our country which they are now he my
25:02
Speaker 4: husband would see it and he would say damn.
25:06
Speaker 5: Maybe not even admit he's.
25:07
Speaker 4: Wrong but just damn no i'm not on this side
25:13
Speaker 4: but he appears to be doubling down.
25:14
Speaker 1: She needs to go to therapy and potentially get a
25:18
Speaker 1: divorce because her husband supports president trump and keep in
25:22
Speaker 1: mind That's not an outlier. There's a lot of videos
25:26
Speaker 1: like this of women saying that they want to break
25:30
Speaker 1: up with their boyfriends or divorce their husbands because their
25:32
Speaker 1: husbands or boyfriends support President Trump. And my main question is, OK,
25:38
Speaker 1: why are we sharing this on the internet? If you
25:40
Speaker 1: think you're going to leave your husband and you're going
25:43
Speaker 1: through this crisis, I'm going to get a divorce because
25:45
Speaker 1: this is such a big deal. And your first thought is,
25:48
Speaker 1: let me just take out my camera. And let me
25:51
Speaker 1: do a front facing video about why I'm going to
25:55
Speaker 1: potentially divorce my husband. And then ask the internet, what
25:58
Speaker 1: do you guys think? What's your take on my marriage?
26:00
Speaker 1: Should I divorce him? Like who does that? That is
26:02
Speaker 1: an insane thing to share with random.
26:05
Speaker 2: People on the internet. People are just way too comfortable
26:08
Speaker 2: on the internet.
26:08
Speaker 5: Seriously.
26:09
Speaker 1: Who shares this information with random people online? Like shouldn't
26:15
Speaker 1: this conversation be between you and your husband? And not
26:19
Speaker 1: to mention what a crazy thing it is to say
26:22
Speaker 1: I'm going to blow up my marriage, potentially ruin the
26:26
Speaker 1: lives of my children because my husband supports President Trump.
26:33
Speaker 1: And my advice here is if you're a right-wing guy,
26:35
Speaker 1: you're a young right-wing guy, you're looking for love, stop
26:38
Speaker 1: hiding your political views. A lot of guys, young guys,
26:41
Speaker 1: they're scared that they won't be able to get a
26:44
Speaker 1: girl if they seem conservative enough This happened all the
26:49
Speaker 1: time at the University of Chicago where I went to school.
26:52
Speaker 2: I'd meet these guys.
26:53
Speaker 1: They'd be like, oh, yeah, I support what you're doing
26:55
Speaker 1: and the writing and the activism on campus. It's so great,
26:58
Speaker 1: but I can't support you publicly. And I knew why
27:01
Speaker 1: they were afraid. They didn't have to tell me. They
27:04
Speaker 1: want to get girls, and all the girls are left wing,
27:06
Speaker 1: and they're afraid that they won't be able to get
27:09
Speaker 1: a girlfriend if they come out as Republicans or conservative.
27:15
Speaker 1: And my question is, if you're one of those guys,
27:16
Speaker 1: what are you missing out on? That woman, Hilaria Baldwin,
27:22
Speaker 1: you're better off not being a beta. Owning your beliefs
27:26
Speaker 1: and attracting a woman who actually shares your values. Because
27:30
Speaker 1: then you get some crazy woman contemplating divorcing you in
27:33
Speaker 1: front of strangers on TikTok. So just attract a woman
27:37
Speaker 1: who actually shares your values by being a confident man
27:40
Speaker 1: and just saying what you believe.
27:42
Speaker 2: That's my advice.
27:43
Speaker 1: All right, I want to talk to you guys about
27:45
Speaker 1: this scene today. from White Lotus. You guys know I
27:49
Speaker 1: am a fan of the White Lotus series on HBO.
27:52
Speaker 1: And this one scene is going really viral because it
27:56
Speaker 1: very powerfully slaughters the sacred cow of transgenderism, the sacred
28:02
Speaker 1: narrative cow of transgenderism. That transgenderism for men really isn't
28:08
Speaker 1: an identity.
28:09
Speaker 2: It's a fetish.
28:11
Speaker 1: And for some quick background on the scene I'm going
28:13
Speaker 1: to play for you guys, it's with one of the
28:15
Speaker 1: main characters, Rick, and he meets up with an old friend, Frank,
28:19
Speaker 1: at this swanky Bangkok hotel bar. And Rick is on
28:23
Speaker 1: a revenge quest to kill a man he believes murdered
28:26
Speaker 1: his father, and his old friend is giving him a
28:30
Speaker 1: gun to do the job. And that kind of part
28:32
Speaker 1: of the story, it's pretty irrelevant. Just know that these
28:34
Speaker 1: two friends, they're meeting together after a long time. And
28:38
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to how this old friend, Frank,
28:41
Speaker 1: reveals why he's now sober, what he's been through. He's
28:46
Speaker 1: a devout Buddhist, and he's given up on his partier lifestyle.
28:51
Speaker 1: And this is why he says he's changed his ways.
28:54
Speaker 1: And before you play this, Mikey, content warning. The dialogue
28:58
Speaker 1: here is pretty explicit. We're talking about some really heavy stuff.
29:01
Speaker 1: So if you want to skip, you can, feel free.
29:02
Speaker 2: If not, take a listen.
29:05
Speaker 9: I realized I could fuck a million women. I'd still
29:07
Speaker 9: never be satisfied. Maybe, maybe what I really want is
29:12
Speaker 9: to be one of these Asian girls.
29:20
Speaker 1: Really?
29:20
Speaker 9: You know? Not really.
29:27
Speaker 8: No, really.
29:28
Speaker 9: Really?
29:29
Speaker 8: Really.
29:32
Speaker 9: So, one night I took home some girl, turned out
29:37
Speaker 9: to be a lady boy, which I'd done before, but
29:40
Speaker 9: this time instead of the lady boy, the lady boy, me.
29:46
Speaker 9: And I got in my head what I really wanted
29:49
Speaker 9: was to be one of these Asian girls getting by
29:54
Speaker 9: me and to feel that. So I put out an
29:58
Speaker 9: ad looking for a, white guy, my age, come over
30:02
Speaker 9: and fuck me. Found a guy looked a lot like me.
30:09
Speaker 9: Then I put on some lingerie and perfume, made myself
30:13
Speaker 9: look like one of these girls. I thought I looked
30:17
Speaker 9: pretty hot. Then this guy came over and railed the
30:19
Speaker 9: shit out of me. Then I got addicted to that.
30:22
Speaker 9: Some nights, three, four guys would come over and rail the.
30:25
Speaker 10: Shit out of me.
30:27
Speaker 9: Some I even had to pay.
30:29
Speaker 2: Are we our forms?
30:30
Speaker 9: Am I a middle-aged white guy on the inside too?
30:34
Speaker 9: Or inside, could I be an Asian girl?
30:41
Speaker 2: Right.
30:44
Speaker 4: I don't know.
30:49
Speaker 9: Guess I was trying to fuck my way to the answer.
30:58
Speaker 9: Then I realized I got to stop the drugs, the girls,
31:01
Speaker 9: you know, trying to be a girl. I got into Buddhism.
31:05
Speaker 1: So you guys listen to the friend's reaction there. Well,
31:08
Speaker 1: if you're listening, you can't see it, but the friend
31:10
Speaker 1: is just like shocked. What is Frank saying right now?
31:14
Speaker 1: Just completely stunned by this insane.
31:19
Speaker 2: Story that he's telling.
31:21
Speaker 1: And a lot of people's reactions in the comments to
31:23
Speaker 1: this scene and on Lion as well is, gosh, why
31:27
Speaker 1: can't movies be more wholesome?
31:28
Speaker 2: This is just gross.
31:29
Speaker 1: It's disgusting and gay and demonic. And yeah, okay, I
31:32
Speaker 1: agree with all that.
31:34
Speaker 2: But I actually really appreciate this scene.
31:36
Speaker 8: I do.
31:37
Speaker 2: I really appreciate this scene because.
31:40
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, it's actually honest about human sexuality
31:43
Speaker 1: in a way that our culture right now is not.
31:46
Speaker 1: And what I mean is that this is a scene
31:49
Speaker 1: not to be clutching pearls over. Transgenderism in men is
31:53
Speaker 1: primarily a fetish, not an identity. I'm talking about autogynephilia,
31:57
Speaker 1: which is when men experience sexual arousal from imagining themselves
32:01
Speaker 1: as female. That's what that man was describing in the video.
32:05
Speaker 1: Does that mean that men with these desires are women? No,
32:09
Speaker 1: obviously it doesn't. That's not what he was saying. It
32:13
Speaker 1: means that certain men.
32:15
Speaker 2: Have a particular very bizarre fetish.
32:18
Speaker 1: So this scene destroys women. This entire notion that transgenderism
32:24
Speaker 1: is some sort of biological condition, it destroys it. And
32:28
Speaker 1: so for White Lotus to explicitly address something like autogynephilia
32:32
Speaker 1: in this format is groundbreaking because again, this is something
32:37
Speaker 1: we aren't traditionally allowed to discuss, otherwise we'll be called
32:42
Speaker 1: a bigot. You'll deny the identity of a transgender person.
32:44
Speaker 1: And notice how he finds religion and sobriety and peace
32:49
Speaker 1: once he quits this behavior. It's not presented in the
32:53
Speaker 1: series as something fulfilling and beautiful. Like he's just living
32:55
Speaker 1: out his true self, his identity, he's embracing it. That
32:58
Speaker 1: was not the message of that scene. It was presented
33:02
Speaker 1: as kind of creepy and horrifying. Like it was a
33:05
Speaker 1: curse on this man, like a personal sexual failure. He's
33:10
Speaker 1: acting on his base desires and it's left him really unfulfilled.
33:16
Speaker 1: And another thing to consider, is that the mainstream media
33:20
Speaker 1: is constantly depicting extreme sexual behavior, like all the time.
33:24
Speaker 1: We're just saturated with sexual content. And yet this particular
33:28
Speaker 1: subject has been off limits for a really long time.
33:33
Speaker 2: And that scene from White.
33:34
Speaker 1: Lotus exposes a contradiction that while society endlessly preaches about
33:39
Speaker 1: living your truth, certain truths continue to remain unspeakable, even
33:45
Speaker 1: related to sex and identity. And that is until moments
33:49
Speaker 1: like this, where it slips through the cracks and it
33:51
Speaker 1: forces a conversation about the reality of transgenderism that activists
33:55
Speaker 1: have really worked tirelessly to suppress for a very long time.
34:00
Speaker 1: All right, speaking of dismantling carefully constructed left-wing social norms,
34:05
Speaker 1: this week, Hungary's parliament voted 136 to 27 in favor
34:07
Speaker 1: of a new law that bans public LGBTQIA plus pride events.
34:17
Speaker 1: citing child protection as the rationale, and protests erupted during
34:22
Speaker 1: this session. You can throw that up there, Mikey, with
34:25
Speaker 1: opposition lawmakers using smoke bombs.
34:27
Speaker 2: To be permanent as a protest. We'll deal with that, Mikey.
34:31
Speaker 1: You can see the smoke all over in the room.
34:33
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play the video. He's talking in Hungarian.
34:35
Speaker 1: We don't know Hungarian. Now, of course, Hungary is getting
34:39
Speaker 1: pushback for this, but can you imagine if this was
34:41
Speaker 1: happening in the UK or Germany? I mean, there is
34:45
Speaker 1: something happening here. I think there's a sign that populism
34:49
Speaker 1: is growing, that Hungary felt bold enough to make that step.
34:52
Speaker 1: We might not be there here in America or in
34:54
Speaker 1: the UK, but there is a growing sense of a
35:00
Speaker 1: desire to return to Christianity and populism.
35:03
Speaker 2: And I want you to listen to J.D.
35:05
Speaker 1: Vance really destroying the entire premise behind globalism.
35:09
Speaker 2: I think J.D.
35:10
Speaker 1: Is kind of at the helm as a thought leader
35:13
Speaker 1: in the West, decrying populism. the effects of globalism on
35:18
Speaker 1: the people, the effects of modernism on the people.
35:22
Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
35:24
Speaker 11: Cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch, and it's a crutch
35:28
Speaker 11: that inhibits innovation. I might even say that it's a
35:30
Speaker 11: drug that too many American firms.
35:32
Speaker 2: Got addicted to.
35:33
Speaker 11: Now, if you can make a product more cheaply, it's
35:37
Speaker 11: far too easy to do that rather than to innovate.
35:41
Speaker 11: And whether we were offshoring factories to cheap labor economies...
35:44
Speaker 11: or importing cheap labor through our immigration system, cheap labor
35:49
Speaker 11: became the drug of Western economies. And I'd say that
35:52
Speaker 11: if you look in nearly every country from Canada to
35:55
Speaker 11: the UK that imported large amounts of cheap labor, you've
35:58
Speaker 11: seen productivity stagnate. And I don't think that's not a
36:02
Speaker 11: total happenstance. I think that the connection is very direct.
36:06
Speaker 1: So he's arguing that cheap labor has acted as a
36:10
Speaker 1: harmful drug for Western economies. It's stifling innovation. and hurting
36:15
Speaker 1: American workers, and it's humane, but not only is it
36:19
Speaker 1: bad for the people, but it's that key point that
36:22
Speaker 1: actually it hurts the bottom line. You get stagnant skill
36:26
Speaker 1: development among American workers, and it's fostering a short-term profit
36:30
Speaker 1: focus over long-term growth and real progress. And we can
36:35
Speaker 1: apply these negative effects of profit obsessions to not just
36:38
Speaker 1: the economy of Western countries and globalism, but also specifically art.
36:45
Speaker 1: And this brings me to my next story, which I'm
36:47
Speaker 1: pretty excited about because there's something really deep here. So first,
36:53
Speaker 1: Jeremy Boring, co-founder of The Daily Wire, stepped away from his.
36:56
Speaker 2: Role as co-CEO.
36:59
Speaker 1: Caleb Robinson, who shared the helm since 2019 with Jeremy, will.
37:05
Speaker 2: Now lead this role alone.
37:08
Speaker 1: And Boring is apparently going to transition into an advisory position.
37:12
Speaker 1: He's going to steer the company's creative endeavors, it seems.
37:16
Speaker 1: And so he'll still stay as the host of The
37:19
Speaker 1: Daily Wire backstage alongside Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan,
37:23
Speaker 1: Michael Knowles. And this is a pretty unusual move. Although
37:27
Speaker 1: I will say Jeremy Boring is an unusual CEO. He's
37:30
Speaker 1: pretty public in his interactions. Usually CEOs are behind the scenes.
37:35
Speaker 1: Jeremy is not very behind the scenes. He's constantly on Twitter.
37:38
Speaker 1: He's constantly in videos and just making himself sort of
37:42
Speaker 1: the public face of The Daily Wire alongside, of course,
37:45
Speaker 1: Michael Knowles and Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh. So he's
37:49
Speaker 1: not being fired and completely removed from the company, which
37:52
Speaker 1: is usually what happens when a CEO steps down. He
37:56
Speaker 1: is lingering in the fold. And this has sparked a
37:58
Speaker 1: lot of whispers, rumors circulating about why. And we don't
38:04
Speaker 1: work at The Daily Wire. I can't be sure why.
38:06
Speaker 1: This is Silverlock, not The Daily Wire. But some say
38:09
Speaker 1: that the company has overstretched as pouring funds into TV
38:13
Speaker 1: and movie projects that matter deeply to boring, but have
38:17
Speaker 1: not been so successful. And again, guys, I'm just telling
38:21
Speaker 1: you what the rumors are online. I don't know if
38:23
Speaker 1: this is true, but I want to talk about it.
38:25
Speaker 1: So the question is, without Jeremy on top, will that vision.
38:29
Speaker 2: Of creativity endure?
38:31
Speaker 1: And like I said, I can't say, I'll confess though,
38:34
Speaker 1: that I did once subscribe to the Daily Wire, Daily
38:37
Speaker 1: Wire Plus. I did once subscribe, and you guys will
38:40
Speaker 1: probably never guess why I subscribed to the Daily Wire.
38:42
Speaker 1: I subscribed for this series they did called Convicting a Murderer,
38:47
Speaker 1: and it was this indie project that the Daily Wire
38:49
Speaker 1: picked up, and it was narrated with commentary from Candace Owens.
38:53
Speaker 1: Candace Owens really didn't say that much in this documentary.
38:56
Speaker 1: She was sort of a part of it to make
38:58
Speaker 1: it Daily Wire-esque. And the series dismantles Netflix's take on
39:02
Speaker 1: Steven Avery, who is this Wisconsin man that Netflix previously
39:07
Speaker 1: framed in a different series as wrongfully convicted. And this
39:10
Speaker 1: Daily Wire series proves that Netflix pretty much lied about
39:15
Speaker 1: this whole thing, and that Steven killed this young, innocent
39:18
Speaker 1: woman in 2005, and he was not an innocent man.
39:22
Speaker 2: The series is wild, layered, riveting. I loved it, probably because.
39:26
Speaker 1: I'm a Wisconsinite, and I realized that I probably have
39:30
Speaker 1: a connection to the place.
39:32
Speaker 2: And I'm just very interested in the story.
39:34
Speaker 1: I've also seen Matt Walsh's What is a Woman? And
39:36
Speaker 1: I've seen Matt Walsh's Am I a Racist? I thought
39:38
Speaker 1: both of those were sharp and worth watching.
39:40
Speaker 2: I thought they were very good films.
39:42
Speaker 1: So everything that I've seen from The Daily Wire, I've
39:44
Speaker 1: actually really liked. Now, not everything The Daily Wire has
39:48
Speaker 1: done has landed.
39:49
Speaker 2: Take Lady Ballers.
39:51
Speaker 1: This is their satire about a men's basketball coach dominating
39:54
Speaker 1: women's sports by having his team identify as female. I
39:59
Speaker 1: haven't seen this, but I'll tell you, it was not
40:02
Speaker 1: very positively received online.
40:04
Speaker 2: Take a look.
40:06
Speaker 4: Lady Ballers.
40:08
Speaker 3: Man up.
40:11
Speaker 7: Like a girl.
40:13
Speaker 4: I'm with her.
40:17
Speaker 3: This is my truth. Heroes.
40:23
Speaker 2: Day one of being a girl athlete.
40:26
Speaker 9: I love being a girl.
40:27
Speaker 10: Two sheroes.
40:29
Speaker 11: We could dominate every woman's sport.
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Speaker 6: Running, swimming, soccer.
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Speaker 5: I said sport, Felix.
40:37
Speaker 2: There's Jeremy. Ladies basketball, boys. In this movie. Nobody watches.
40:41
Speaker 1: So people called it lazy. They said it was low-hanging
40:43
Speaker 1: fruit on the trance debate. There was very similar commentary
40:47
Speaker 1: about Mr. Burcham, which is sort of their family guy-esque
40:50
Speaker 1: cartoon they produced. The consensus was that this was pandering
40:56
Speaker 1: and not that clever. And again, I haven't seen either
40:59
Speaker 1: of these shows. This has just been the public perception.
41:02
Speaker 2: And now.
41:04
Speaker 1: We don't know if these apparent misfires were tied to
41:07
Speaker 1: Boring's exit or if money's tight, as some claim. What's
41:11
Speaker 1: clear is Daily Wire has been trying to fill a
41:14
Speaker 1: real void.
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Speaker 2: We need art.
41:17
Speaker 1: We need real stories being told, not just critiques.
41:20
Speaker 2: We don't.
41:20
Speaker 1: We don't need just people commenting and being negative all
41:24
Speaker 1: the time. The Daily Wire has tried to shape culture
41:27
Speaker 1: through creation, not just commentary.
41:29
Speaker 2: And that's rare.
41:30
Speaker 1: And that's a very good thing.
41:34
Speaker 2: Here's a rub. The best art, left or right, doesn't preach.
41:39
Speaker 2: It reveals.
41:41
Speaker 1: I think about Braveheart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Rocky.
41:46
Speaker 1: These don't shout conservative values.
41:48
Speaker 2: They live them.
41:49
Speaker 1: So when creators chase a point over a story, it
41:52
Speaker 1: kind of feels forced. It kind of feels like propaganda.
41:56
Speaker 1: And I'd probably nod along to Lady Baller's message, but
42:02
Speaker 1: I'd still want more than a megaphone dressed up like entertainment.
42:07
Speaker 1: I don't think I would be as entertained by that.
42:09
Speaker 1: I think people want more. I think people need more.
42:12
Speaker 1: And this week, First Things wrote about American Catholic patrons
42:17
Speaker 1: sparking a new renaissance. They're funding sacred art, music, theater,
42:21
Speaker 1: not for profit, but to revive beauty and worship in culture.
42:26
Speaker 1: As they say, true art inspires, not just sells. And
42:29
Speaker 1: maybe they're onto something because I wonder if these corporate gears,
42:32
Speaker 1: the profit margins, the desire for mass appeal, that could
42:36
Speaker 1: be what's stifling the daily wire. And I know for
42:39
Speaker 1: a fact that Gen Z is starving for meaning and
42:42
Speaker 1: tradition and the sacred and the true. And you can
42:44
Speaker 1: see that we're a spiritually sick generation just by looking
42:49
Speaker 1: at how every aesthetic piece of life has become worse.
42:53
Speaker 2: Take a look. This is the TikTok of the guy talking.
43:00
Speaker 2: Do we have that?
43:02
Speaker 10: Why is everything new so ugly? From cars to houses,
43:08
Speaker 10: interior design. It's almost as if something being modern has
43:12
Speaker 10: become synonymous with it being gray and boring and utterly lifeless.
43:17
Speaker 10: Like this god awful gray flooring you see everywhere these days,
43:21
Speaker 10: instead of just like nice quality hardwood that had personality
43:25
Speaker 10: and artistic expression in the space. You can truly look
43:29
Speaker 10: at just about any product on Earth and the way
43:31
Speaker 10: it was made like 50 years ago is visibly more
43:33
Speaker 10: interesting than the way it is made today.
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Speaker 2: So I agree with that completely.
43:37
Speaker 1: Just if you look at modern objects, a home, a stereo,
43:43
Speaker 1: a living room, it's like all the life has been
43:47
Speaker 1: sucked out of it. This is not just a movie
43:51
Speaker 1: Hollywood problem. This is a like massively expansive cultural problem.
43:56
Speaker 1: Even if you look at corporations, they've all rebranded to
43:59
Speaker 1: be minimalist and modern and there's no color and there's
44:03
Speaker 1: no life. And it's soul crushing. Like people want something more.
44:09
Speaker 2: Just day to day.
44:10
Speaker 1: And if you look at the Daily Wire's animated kid shows,
44:14
Speaker 1: Chip Chilla, this was inspired by Bluey. I want you
44:17
Speaker 1: to just look at this aesthetically. I mean, it's not horrible.
44:20
Speaker 1: It's not ugly.
44:21
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's ugly.
44:23
Speaker 1: Um, but what I say, it's exceptionally beautiful animation.
44:28
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
44:29
Speaker 1: I don't, I'm not sure I would say that. And
44:30
Speaker 1: I want you to look at then Mr. Burcham.
44:33
Speaker 2: Could we look at that one, Mikey? I mean, this
44:36
Speaker 2: is like not at all beautiful.
44:38
Speaker 1: I would say this, I almost feel like this is
44:40
Speaker 1: purposely ugly and I know that they're trying to copy
44:42
Speaker 1: a certain aesthetic.
44:45
Speaker 2: I just don't want this aesthetic. I want you to.
44:47
Speaker 1: Compare those two animation styles with Studio Ghibli. This is
44:53
Speaker 1: a Japanese animation studio. If you're listening, I suggest you
45:28
Speaker 1: go to rumble.com slash Evita. You can take a look
45:31
Speaker 1: at this actual clip and see just how breathtaking these
45:35
Speaker 1: aesthetics are.
45:35
Speaker 2: Truly, it is beautiful.
45:38
Speaker 1: And Studio Ghibli is not just a machine, like a
45:41
Speaker 1: corporate machine. They really operate like a workshop. So the
45:45
Speaker 1: profits of some big films... like Spirited Away or Boy
45:51
Speaker 1: and the Heron will fuel the art, not reverse. So
45:55
Speaker 1: unlike the Daily Wire or Disney, Ghibli doesn't have the
45:58
Speaker 1: same kind of profit incentives. And so they've had some
46:02
Speaker 1: major financial successes, like I said, Spirited Away, Boy and
46:05
Speaker 1: the Heron. And these wins create a buffer in the
46:08
Speaker 1: studio to focus. So the studio's focus isn't on maximizing
46:12
Speaker 1: margins for shareholders. The studio's founder, Hayao Miyazaki, has routinely said, actually,
46:18
Speaker 1: he prioritizes artistic vision over guaranteed commercial success. So instead,
46:23
Speaker 1: Ghibli operates more like a craftsman's workshop than a corporate machine.
46:27
Speaker 1: So profits exist to sustain the art. Profits exist to
46:31
Speaker 1: sustain the art, not the other way around. I also
46:35
Speaker 1: think you need patrons, like I was talking about with
46:36
Speaker 1: that First Things article. And if you look back in
46:40
Speaker 1: human history, like the great cathedrals of the past built
46:43
Speaker 1: by the Catholic Church and funded by wealthy lords or merchants.
46:47
Speaker 1: They weren't moneymakers. You weren't making money off of a
46:49
Speaker 1: beautiful cathedral, if we could throw that out there, Mikey.
46:52
Speaker 1: They were gifts, beauty for God's glory. It was a
46:56
Speaker 1: taste of eternity for everyone. There was no profits from
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Speaker 1: this church. It was just for the sake of God's glory.
47:05
Speaker 1: And I think we need that incentive a little bit,
47:07
Speaker 1: at least, in film, in animation, not just in the
47:12
Speaker 1: way that we invest in sacred art or scripture.
47:16
Speaker 2: We need it also in culture.
47:18
Speaker 1: We don't need conservative film or music projects, but we
47:22
Speaker 1: need conservative artists free to chase the profound.
47:26
Speaker 2: And it's no shade to the Daily Wire.
47:28
Speaker 1: They've tried where others have not. And maybe the Daily
47:31
Speaker 1: Wire could use this time to focus, to fund one
47:34
Speaker 1: bold swing instead of a dozen safe bets. Because what
47:38
Speaker 1: I know is this, the hunger for soul deep art
47:41
Speaker 1: is real. Creativity blooms when artists, not corporations, hold the reins.
47:48
Speaker 1: When they're free to hunt the sacred, costs be damned.
47:53
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for today, you guys. I'm in
47:57
Speaker 1: the real studio right now, and there's this thing that
47:59
Speaker 1: has to happen where the guys have to quickly switch
48:05
Speaker 1: my studio and all the cameras over to Vince. And
48:08
Speaker 1: if you stay right here in the stream, it will
48:11
Speaker 1: take you directly to Vince.
48:12
Speaker 2: Vince's show.
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Speaker 1: Do I have some time for some questions you guys,
48:15
Speaker 1: or Mikey, do you, do you, do you need me to,
48:18
Speaker 1: we have some time for some questions. So I did
48:20
Speaker 1: ask on my, on my, uh, Instagram account yesterday, if
48:25
Speaker 1: anyone had any questions, I'll answer them at the end
48:27
Speaker 1: of my show.
48:27
Speaker 2: And I'll probably do this routinely.
48:29
Speaker 1: So if you want to keep in touch with my
48:31
Speaker 1: Instagram account, keep refreshing it. You can always ask a
48:33
Speaker 1: question and I might answer it at the end of
48:35
Speaker 1: the show, but I did save some for today. And
48:39
Speaker 1: I'll just, I'll just read a couple of these. Somebody asked,
48:42
Speaker 1: are you the oldest out of all of your siblings?
48:44
Speaker 1: The answer to that is yes. I am the oldest
48:47
Speaker 1: of all of my siblings and the oldest of nine.
48:49
Speaker 1: I'm 25 and my youngest sister is five years old.
48:53
Speaker 1: So we are 20 years apart. It is a massive
48:57
Speaker 1: age gap, but it's a lot of fun. And I'll
49:00
Speaker 1: say coming home for holidays, for any kind of event,
49:04
Speaker 1: it is so wonderful to be in a full home
49:07
Speaker 1: with all of these people. You never feel lonely. You know,
49:10
Speaker 1: I actually do feel sorry for people who are only
49:14
Speaker 1: childs because it's hard, you know, to go back and
49:17
Speaker 1: you see your parents and it's not a full house.
49:19
Speaker 2: And maybe they don't know what they're missing.
49:21
Speaker 1: But I am always very grateful that I come from
49:24
Speaker 1: a large family. Somebody else asked, are you married? And
49:27
Speaker 1: somebody else asked, who's your husband? There were a lot
49:29
Speaker 1: of Michael questions.
49:31
Speaker 2: And there he is. There's Michael.
49:33
Speaker 1: And yes, Michael, I am married to Michael. We met
49:36
Speaker 1: in middle school in eighth grade. And he is my
49:40
Speaker 1: producer on the show, so he's always behind the scenes.
49:43
Speaker 1: And now that we're in the new studio, you'll be
49:46
Speaker 1: able to hear Michael a lot more chiming in on
49:49
Speaker 1: the show, giving his take on things, which will be awesome.
49:53
Speaker 1: Somebody said, I know you're in Florida, but would you
49:56
Speaker 1: ever go on Tim Pool? And that's a great question
49:59
Speaker 1: because I'm actually going on Tim Pool next week, next Friday, actually.
50:03
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to do that. I'm going to
50:05
Speaker 1: bring Michael with me, and we're going to go– do
50:08
Speaker 1: Tim Pool, which I hear is, it's like a two
50:10
Speaker 1: hour long stream, which I don't know if I've ever
50:13
Speaker 1: been on camera for that long, but I'm excited to
50:15
Speaker 1: do it. And I enjoy Tim Pool and Tim Pool,
50:17
Speaker 1: by the way, is a part of this rumble, um, this,
50:21
Speaker 1: this rumble pass along where we're feeding into each other's shows.
50:25
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to, uh, to see, to, to, to
50:28
Speaker 1: see Tim Pool in person, to actually go to a set,
50:31
Speaker 1: see what it's like. And, um, and yeah, and to
50:33
Speaker 1: have him be a part of this, this Rumble project.
50:36
Speaker 1: It was massive yesterday.
50:38
Speaker 2: This show was the number one stream in the country.
50:41
Speaker 1: And then we fed into Vince. Vince was the number
50:43
Speaker 1: one stream in the country. Then Crowder, and he was
50:45
Speaker 1: number one stream. And then I believe The Quartering, and
50:49
Speaker 1: they were the number one. So it was a massive
50:51
Speaker 1: success for Rumble, for Chris at Rumble. And like I said,
50:55
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be part of this. All right.
50:58
Speaker 2: Are we good? Are we good, guys? We're good. All right.
51:01
Speaker 2: I will see you all tomorrow.
51:04
Speaker 1: For now, stay in the chat and you will get
51:06
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