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#0144_ STORY INSPIRE: Dear Vladimir: A Candid Conversation · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: I wish you all a happy new year in Beijing,
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  Speaker 1: the capital.
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  Speaker 2: In 2019, we will harvest with cold water.
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  Speaker 1: In 2019, we will harvest with cold water. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show, live
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  Speaker 3: from our studio here in Kyiv, Ukraine, where we have
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  Speaker 3: moved the show. We followed Joe Rogan to the Ukraine,
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  Speaker 3: which was stupid in hindsight, but in the beginning it
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  Speaker 3: sounded very good because he said he was going to
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  Speaker 3: do a comedy scene in Eastern Europe, in Kyiv, which
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  Speaker 3: he said was what he did in L.A., and he
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  Speaker 3: said you could easily replicate that in Kyiv.
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  Speaker 1: That was the bitch, right? That was the idea.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, we do Kill Tony from Kiev, and then
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  Speaker 3: you come, and then everybody will move to Kiev, and
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  Speaker 3: it'll be fun. That's what we thought, but egg on
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  Speaker 3: our faces, because now we're here, and there's Russians with
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  Speaker 3: tanks encircling us, unfortunately. we'll start with a war report
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  Speaker 3: up front. Uh, it's, uh, not good, uh, there, but
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  Speaker 3: the Russians, uh, they underestimated the Ukrainians because the Ukrainians are, uh,
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  Speaker 3: they're tough people and they're not easily, uh, occupiable and
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  Speaker 3: they're not an easily occupied people.
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  Speaker 1: Um, you know, Jesse signal, uh, Herzog's, uh, uh, partner.
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  Speaker 3: They do an unimportant show and, uh, at an unimportant place, but,
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  Speaker 3: He had tweeted something to that effect, that it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a little tougher to occupy these people than
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  Speaker 3: you think.
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  Speaker 1: They're not friendly over there, really, right? They're just blowing
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  Speaker 1: up these tanks. And Putin's just trying to help these
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  Speaker 1: people and get the Nazis out of the country. And
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  Speaker 1: they're angry at this.
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  Speaker 3: And it's weird. They don't even, like, see the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 3: They're running around. They're attacking Russian soldiers. They're blowing up troops.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy because Putin's saying there's Nazis over there and
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  Speaker 3: we're just trying to get rid of them because we
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  Speaker 3: don't like the Nazis. And the Ukrainian people are, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody thought, you know, Putin and myself and others were like,
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  Speaker 3: when he goes in there, they're going to go, thank
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  Speaker 3: God someone noticed these Nazis here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get rid of them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and speaking from America, a country with no
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  Speaker 3: Nazis ever, never, No, we had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 3: building the Third Reich. We had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 3: commingling our financial systems with Hitler at all, at all.
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  Speaker 3: Don't even think it. And we are just we hate
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  Speaker 3: Nazism in America.
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  Speaker 1: We hate fascism. We hate it.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we do the military flyovers at the football games,
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  Speaker 3: because fascism to us is like no good. Um, but
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  Speaker 3: they do have some Nazis now, obviously I'm being a
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  Speaker 3: little facetious, Google it, but they do have some Nazis
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  Speaker 3: over there in that Azov battalion, which, um, uh, is
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  Speaker 3: not good because they're doing the Sikh hiling and they're
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  Speaker 3: into the, they're, they like, uh, the Azov battalion. And
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  Speaker 3: so Facebook is now allowing praise of neo-Nazi Ukrainian battalion
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  Speaker 3: if it fights Russian invasion.
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  Speaker 1: This is like the Patrice O'Neill bit. You have sexual
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  Speaker 1: harassment day.
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  Speaker 3: Facebook's just got to reserve a day for everyone to
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  Speaker 3: praise the Nazi of their choice. whether it's the Azov
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  Speaker 3: Battalion or someone in America, you should have a day
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  Speaker 3: to praise the Nazi of your choice on Facebook. There
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  Speaker 3: should be one day, just like Patrice said about sexual harassment.
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  Speaker 3: You would go in, you go, I can harass you today.
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  Speaker 3: I think you should be able to praise a Nazi
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  Speaker 3: on Facebook for one day out of the year.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fair.
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  Speaker 3: And it shouldn't only have to be the Azov Battalion.
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  Speaker 1: It could be your neighbor who showed you some weird,
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  Speaker 1: cool World War II photos.
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  Speaker 3: Uh paraphernalia that he's got and he's you know you
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  Speaker 3: could say hey man my neighbor chucks is a nazi
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  Speaker 3: and today's his day i respect the hell out of
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  Speaker 3: him he takes in my mail when i'm gone but
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  Speaker 3: he's literally a nazi not all of his ideas are
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  Speaker 3: great clearly but he's kind of a cool dude i
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  Speaker 3: think that's good facebook's now allowing up for people to
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  Speaker 3: just call for violence against ukraine against russians Facebook's allowing
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  Speaker 3: people to just basically, the social media company is temporarily
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  Speaker 3: allowing some posts to call for death to Russian President
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  Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's not right.
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  Speaker 3: According to internal emails and content moderators, they're basically saying,
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  Speaker 3: let them have it.
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  Speaker 1: Let him have it.
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  Speaker 3: As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we
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  Speaker 3: have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that
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  Speaker 3: would normally violate our rules, like violent speech, such as
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  Speaker 3: death to Russian invaders.
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  Speaker 1: We still won't allow credible.
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  Speaker 3: Calls for violence against Russian civilians. Now, who decides what's
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  Speaker 3: credible and what's not? There's a large chunk of Russians
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  Speaker 3: living in the Ukraine. So by allowing this type of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: you might be fomenting some type of Civil War.
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  Speaker 1: Which is not what Mark Zuckerberg intended. He just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get his dick wet. He wanted a cool, exclusive.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, could anything be less exclusive than Facebook?
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  Speaker 3: But that's how you make billions of dollars, right? You
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  Speaker 3: give up the exclusivity, you let everybody in. You start
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  Speaker 3: it out.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, I just want hot singles that are going
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  Speaker 1: places that can communicate with each other. And then later on,
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  Speaker 1: you're fomenting a civil war in the Ukraine. And you
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  Speaker 1: don't even know how it happens, but it just does.
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  Speaker 1: What a life. Now, citing the Reuters story, Russia's embassy
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  Speaker 1: in the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Demanded that Washington stop the, quote, extremist activities of META.
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  Speaker 3: The temporary policy changes on calls for violence to Russian
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  Speaker 3: soldiers apply to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm reading an ad.
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  Speaker 3: The promo code is not applicable in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia,
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  Speaker 3: and Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Except for Donbass. Um....
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  Speaker 3: And so now the White House, because there's this propaganda
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  Speaker 3: in the war, everybody has their take on things, right?
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  Speaker 3: There's people in America that think that we have, of course,
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  Speaker 3: two groups of very rational people here. People that believe
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  Speaker 3: that Putin is cool because he's restoring the greatness to
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  Speaker 3: the white Christian nation of Russia, which, again, historically has
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  Speaker 3: been incredibly godless.
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  Speaker 1: But Putin, who's devoutly religious now....
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  Speaker 3: Who was a Soviet his entire life, but, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a godless Soviet. But some people believe that it's cool
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  Speaker 3: because we are the godless West and there's drag queens
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  Speaker 3: are reading The Cat in the Hat and we got
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  Speaker 3: all kinds of problems here and Putin's a strong man
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  Speaker 3: and he's not woke. That's some people. They go, we
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  Speaker 3: like him. Who cares that no one there has any
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  Speaker 3: money and they die at 60?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. They're not woke. And then we have the
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  Speaker 1: other people, the other half of that. Again, we have
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  Speaker 1: the people that are like, he's great. This is great.
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  Speaker 3: The deaths of women, children, men, everybody, elderly people, the
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  Speaker 3: displacement of people.
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  Speaker 1: It's all cool. And it's all justified because, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, they don't have to sit through everything. Oscar's speeches
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  Speaker 4: that bring up politics, you know, because he's not woke.
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  Speaker 4: So this is, it's ultimately not woke, right? To invade
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  Speaker 4: a country.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the least woke thing you could do, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: is to invade with tanks. And then the other group
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  Speaker 3: of people we have here, again, very rational, just go,
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  Speaker 3: we just need a nuclear war to show the support.
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  Speaker 3: Like we need a no-fly zone, which brings us into
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  Speaker 3: direct conflict with Putin.
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  Speaker 1: And those people are.
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  Speaker 3: Going, okay, maybe we'll do a 10-year civil war where
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  Speaker 3: we arm the Ukraine, not fight with them or for them,
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  Speaker 3: but we arm them with our weapons that they buy
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  Speaker 3: and we arm them and we just create Syria in
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  Speaker 3: Eastern Europe, you know?
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  Speaker 1: And then there's people that go, that's not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: We need nukes. We need to....
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  Speaker 3: Do a real nuclear exchange here we need to push
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  Speaker 3: Putin and see how far he can go isolate him
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  Speaker 3: sanction and put him put his back to the wall
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  Speaker 3: and let's see if he'll really push the button we
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  Speaker 3: got some sick fucks here so those are the two
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  Speaker 3: crews we have Putin's awesome uh this is great we
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  Speaker 3: love this thank god for this and then the other
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  Speaker 3: side of the people that go hey let's have a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear war to show our support for the Ukraine. Nothing
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  Speaker 3: shows our support more than a nuclear exchange. Both of
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  Speaker 3: those aren't helpful. And I was going to talk about
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  Speaker 3: this too. The White House is briefing TikTok stars about
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  Speaker 3: the war in Ukraine. With millions getting their information about
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  Speaker 3: the war from TikTok, the administration wants to get its
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  Speaker 3: message to the top content creators.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I talked about.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever you think of what Russia did here, whether you
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  Speaker 3: think it was justified by the expansion of NATO, Slavoj
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  Speaker 3: Zizek had a good point. He's like, this whole idea
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  Speaker 3: is like, yes, some of that led to it, but like,
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  Speaker 3: This whole idea that countries should have like a sphere
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  Speaker 3: of influence isn't like any type of principled leftism or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Not that this is a leftist show, but it may
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  Speaker 1: be today. It started out as a Nazi show and
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  Speaker 1: it may be a leftist show. And then by the end,
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  Speaker 1: it's a Nazi show again to cover all the internet.
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  Speaker 1: And then the beginning, we give you a little neoliberal, uh,
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  Speaker 1: sushi in the, in the, in the, in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: just a little like fun dating taps. And then we, we,
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  Speaker 1: we oscillate between fascists and, uh, communists. But, uh, So
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  Speaker 1: the TikToks, because here's what's happening in the Ukraine and
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  Speaker 1: people don't understand it.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing, it's not, conventional war is boring. No one cares.
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  Speaker 3: It held our attention for 72 hours at most. Couple
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  Speaker 3: of missiles, you see the tank, you got the cell
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  Speaker 3: phone video and then the people, all the refugees are
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  Speaker 3: running in the ratty little sweaters.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad and we hate it. No good. But after
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  Speaker 1: a while, it gets a little like, okay, it's taxing.
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  Speaker 3: What do you really want me to do? Well, been there,
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  Speaker 3: done that, we get it. It's dated. It's retro. War
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  Speaker 3: is retro. It's dated, frankly.
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  Speaker 1: It's not exciting in the sense that, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: images that are coming out of there, it's very European.
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  Speaker 3: It's very World War II. It's very period piece. Even
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  Speaker 3: the clothes they're wearing, nothing's new, nothing's modern. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: not really connected to it. I'm not connecting to it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not connecting to it. I'm like, okay, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: get it, what you're doing, and I understand the tanks
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  Speaker 3: and the weapons and the stingers and the... But it
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  Speaker 3: just feels more like a World War II film that
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see, and someone said I should have, but
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  Speaker 3: I didn't. And that's the problem, because there is no...
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  Speaker 3: Putin does not have a content strategy. He's got some
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  Speaker 3: of the alt-right on his side in America, and we've
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  Speaker 3: got some, you know what I mean, he's got a
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  Speaker 3: few people. But he doesn't really have a content strategy. Now,
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  Speaker 3: one thing you can say about America, we don't educate
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  Speaker 3: our people. They die on the streets. We don't give
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  Speaker 3: them retirement. We let billionaires pillage us, and then we
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  Speaker 3: worship them. We do a lot of horrible things. We
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  Speaker 3: have massive chaos everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: In the city.
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  Speaker 3: We have a crime problem that makes third world country
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  Speaker 3: murder numbers look good. We have organized gangs. We have
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  Speaker 3: militias storming our government buildings. We have congressmen insider trading,
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  Speaker 3: selling stocks. We have an insane amount of corruption. We
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  Speaker 3: have a nexus of national security agencies that are in
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  Speaker 3: bed with business people and private defense contractors inching us
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  Speaker 3: closer to nuclear war every single minute however we do
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  Speaker 3: content baby we make content as gary v says we
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  Speaker 3: don't slack off on the content and if you do
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  Speaker 3: you'll see it in your numbers and that's what we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing here with putin is that he went in there
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  Speaker 3: with tanks and missiles thinking it was going to matter
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't Because he doesn't have a content strategy.
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  Speaker 3: The physical world doesn't matter nearly as much as the
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  Speaker 3: digital world. I've been saying this on Joe Rogan. I've
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  Speaker 3: been ringing this bell, and no one listens to me.
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  Speaker 3: I can't get anything going on. The Nelk people have
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  Speaker 3: a Trump on. I'm getting dodged by Tulsi Gabbard. I
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  Speaker 3: can't even get Tulsi Gabbard. They're in Mar-a-Lago with Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even get Tulsi Gabbard here. And I promised
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  Speaker 3: her caviar and Russian vodka. And she won't come in.
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  Speaker 3: I sent that to her. I said, you come in
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  Speaker 3: here and do whatever pro-red thing you want.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. We do a whole thing for you.
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  Speaker 1: We bring her in, give her caviar, a little Russian vodka,
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  Speaker 1: and we play the Soviet national anthem on repeat.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I don't think she's a Russian asset, but it's
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  Speaker 3: just funny to imagine that she is. It's funny to
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  Speaker 3: think that she is, and I hope she is, because
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  Speaker 3: good for her. You got to do something. Hey, a
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  Speaker 3: career in this business ain't easy, okay? I've been doing
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  Speaker 3: it a long time. And whether she's a Russian asset
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  Speaker 3: or not, she's out there making content. Now, because, so
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  Speaker 3: Jen Psaki, who's an idiot, by the way, she's an idiot.
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  Speaker 3: She's a ginger. Everything about her is wrong. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why we, why don't they have a black woman
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  Speaker 3: doing press secretary that delivers.
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  Speaker 1: Like fun, like, you better recognize, like, why not that?
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we have like a fun black woman who's like,
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  Speaker 1: you better ask somebody like quick off the cuff, just
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  Speaker 1: burn you like only a black woman could do. But
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  Speaker 1: we got this pale white bitch who's like, well, actually
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  Speaker 1: in America, fun black woman is press secretary. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 3: Thursday afternoon, 30 TikTok stars, top TikTok stars, gathered on
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  Speaker 3: a Zoom call to receive key information about the war
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  Speaker 3: unfolding in Ukraine. National Security Council staffers and White House
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  Speaker 3: Press Secretary Jen Psaki briefed the influencers about the United
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  Speaker 3: States' strategic goals in the region and answered questions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine, can you imagine, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the questions? Like, they're answering questions. Can you imagine, like, um, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So, the, the account, what's, like, what's, what do they, like, do?
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  Speaker 5: What are they, where are they, like, big? Are they, like,
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  Speaker 5: are they, like, big on Insta, or are they, like,
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  Speaker 5: what are they, what are they doing? Who, like, are
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  Speaker 5: they sponsored? Do they have a brand deal? With Morph?
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  Speaker 1: When Morph kicked off James Charles, did they deal with
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  Speaker 1: the Ukraine?
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  Speaker 3: Is the Ukraine a cosmetics company? Is the Ukraine a
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  Speaker 3: company that will sponsor me? I mean, can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: these people and their questions? Because they're answering questions.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, can.
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  Speaker 3: there's gotta be something that Jen Psaki's is more important
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  Speaker 3: in her day than answering the questions of 15 year
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  Speaker 3: old brain dead TikTok idiots. There's gotta be something going on,
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  Speaker 3: but probably not. So they just wanted to brief the
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  Speaker 3: influencers about the United States, strategic goals in the region
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  Speaker 3: and answer questions about distributing aid to Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 1: So like, from what I understand, like this is about
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  Speaker 1: pipelines and ports and like, Jen Saki had a zoom
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  Speaker 1: call with us and she told us about like, she
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  Speaker 1: went into like a lot of really cool stuff about
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  Speaker 1: like spheres of influence.
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  Speaker 5: And like, I have a sphere of influence too. And
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  Speaker 5: that's like what I've always said. And it's just cause
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  Speaker 5: when I started making content, I was four and my
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  Speaker 5: parents really helped me. But then like by the time
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  Speaker 5: I was 12, I was like literally one of the
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  Speaker 5: biggest people on the platform and And my sphere of
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  Speaker 5: influence is huge because like I helped.
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  Speaker 3: So many other young creators and their journeys. And like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even talk about it because it's not important.
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  Speaker 3: White House has been closely watching TikTok's rise as a
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  Speaker 3: dominant news source, leading to his decision to approach a
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  Speaker 3: select group of platforms' most influential names.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get who they were? Yes. Do we know
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  Speaker 1: who they are?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so they list them throughout this article. So this
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  Speaker 6: is the first guy, Khalil Green.
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  Speaker 1: Khalil Green, okay. Are they, I mean, okay.
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  Speaker 2: But some of these guys have like 500,000 followers. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have shit.
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  Speaker 3: The real TikTokers are out here in LA. These are
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  Speaker 3: the people you need getting involved. You need the D'Amelio sisters.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need people doing news on TikTok. Mm-mm. You
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  Speaker 1: need to find these teenagers and people in their early
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  Speaker 1: 20s shaking their ass.
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  Speaker 3: You got to get them talking about the Ukraine. You
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  Speaker 3: got to get Tana Mongeau doing Ukraine on the tits.
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  Speaker 3: This doesn't help anybody. The briefing was led by Matt Miller,
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  Speaker 3: a special advisor for communications at the White House National
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  Speaker 3: Security Council, NSACI. The Washington Post obtained a recording of
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  Speaker 3: the call and in it, Biden officials stressed the power
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  Speaker 3: of these creators. Quote, we recognize this is a critically
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  Speaker 3: important avenue in the way the American public is finding
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  Speaker 3: out about the latest, said Rob Flaherty. So we wanted
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  Speaker 3: to make sure you had the latest information from an
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  Speaker 3: authoritative source.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: See, this is the game here with the misinformation.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Everybody's got to stop with the, you know, this is
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: the new thing now.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: They worked with dozens.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Of top TikTok stars last year to encourage the vaccination.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: So this is what's happening.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: So now whether you agree with the vaccination, what you're
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: seeing is the White House is co-opting our greatest minds
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: and using them against us. The White House is going
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to TikTok and using our greatest minds and polluting them
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: with propaganda. Now, whether that propaganda is good, bad, indifferent,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: whether it's warranted or not, this is what the White
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: House is doing.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: They are trying to co-opt TikTok... And this is something
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: we should watch. This is important.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: People don't think it's important, but this is the content
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: strategy that Putin lacks. You know, some of these Russian
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: TikTok stars should also be, he should be having a
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: call with the Russian TikToks. Can you imagine explaining that
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: to Putin? Going, I know you come from like another era.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: He's like, listen to me. Can you sit down for
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: a minute? I understand all of that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I understand your concerns about the convoy, but here's really
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: what it is.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: We need you to call into Red Scare. Red Scare,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: do you watch Succession? Do you watch, listen, it's the missiles,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: it's irrelevant. I'm asking you right now, are you unfamiliar
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: with Red Scare or are you just pretending to be.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Unfamiliar with it? I still, I still, I still, I still, Listen,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you need to call in there and get your point
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: of view across. Okay? Yeah, they're like, from here. Red scare.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: They like, one of them's families, like, from there. So, like....
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Now, and by the way, I want to speak about
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: these oligarchs, too, for a little bit, because this is
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: very troubling to me. I want you to Google Alisher Uzmanov.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: These people are being treated like second-class citizens.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Look at this man. This is a man after
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: my own heart. Look at this man. Okay?
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: This guy, and get his yacht up. He looks like
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Stavros a little.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: This guy's yacht. Look at this man's yacht. Look at
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: this yacht. Look at this.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Dilbar, the world's largest motor yacht, is owned by Alisher Usmanov.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: They are making these people flee on these yachts. Italy
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: has taken two of them, I believe, two of these yachts.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: And they are, you know, what's the term here?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: They're impounding them or they're confiscating them.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I would say impounding them.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: They haven't really, like, arrested anybody or anything, but, like,
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: they've just taken it.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Two days ago, here are the mega yachts belonging to
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Russian oligarchs. Let's go through the... Oh, no, it's Business Insider.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I don't even want to get... Well, I don't like them,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: but they wanted to run a hit piece on me,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and they didn't.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, right.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: They didn't, because the guy ended up quitting.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: But Italy seizes Russian oligarchs' $ 530 million mega yacht. There
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: we go. We're talking euros, but... I mean, let's talk
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: about this here because I don't know that I'm for this.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of the mega yacht.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: The problem with the mini yacht is there's never enough
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: outdoor space. Have you seen these yachts? Because a lot
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of the yachts, what you do is it's so luxurious inside,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: but there's not a ton of outdoor space. And when
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you were boating, you want a lot of sun and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you want a lot of space. And with a lot
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of the yachts, and you could spend... 80, 90 million
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: on a boat, and you still don't get the outdoor
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: space you need. What's great about a mega yacht is
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the proportion, the proportions of the boat, you do get
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: more outdoor space. Italy's financial police seized a $ 530 million
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: super yacht belonging to Russian oligarch Andrei Igorevich Melenchenko. A
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: spokesperson for the Italian government said today the vessel was
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: seized on Friday in the northeastern port of Trieste. among
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the world's largest.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: He's one of the oligarchs subject to sanctions following Russia's
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: invasion of Ukraine. According to the EU, he, quote, belongs
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: to the most influential circle of Russian business people with
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: close connections to the Russian government.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: As such, he is, in quote, in economic sectors providing
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: a substantial source of revenue to the government of the.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: But they're not taking these yachts to the Ukraine and
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: using them to launch attacks. These are not boats designed
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: for war. They're boats designed for pleasure. So my question is,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: this is clearly not military artillery. Are we just doing
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: this to make their lives difficult? Alisher Usmanov, he said,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: he was quoted, he goes, I'm not even what you'd
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: call an oligarch.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Get that up.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: He goes, I don't even know what this is. He goes,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I'm like confused here. I mean, this is great. I mean,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: this is here, right here.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Where does he say it? Right here?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Right here, yeah. Never?
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: He goes, he goes, listen, I was never what you
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: could call an oligarch. The Russian billionaire had worked with
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Putin in his Premier League plans and making a fortune
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: in the 90s.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And this is from January. So this guy, and this
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: wasn't even during the war. Right.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: But he's like, hey, man. He's got like $ 17 billion.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: He's like, I don't even know what this is about, bro. Like,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: I love this guy. Let's get another image of him.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's great.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: He's phenomenal. And what is my beef? Like, I don't
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: know that I have a beef with him. And I
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: don't know that we have to take his yacht. I mean,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: this is a guy.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Is there a person out there that I'm going to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: get along with better than this guy? This is the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: problem with politics. Is there someone that I would have
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a better time at a dinner with than this man?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: The answer is no. This guy or Zelinsky at a dinner?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: No brainer. No brainer. They're freezing the guy's assets. He's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: probably got a little on the side, I hope. God,
• 24:29
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• 24:32
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, she's around, I guess. What are we talking about here?
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  Speaker 1: Me and these. I mean, are they not the best?
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  Speaker 1: All right, go away. By the way, so Zelensky right now,
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  Speaker 1: he keeps calling for the no-fly zone, calling for jets.
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  Speaker 1: He's calling for things that you go, hey, man, we
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  Speaker 1: can't do any of this. And he still just won't stop.
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  Speaker 1: And we support Ukraine. They should be able to determine
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  Speaker 1: their own future or a sovereign country. And I think
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  Speaker 1: the invasion is monstrous. But I also believe that, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't keep asking for World War III. You got
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  Speaker 1: to take a deal here, buddy. Take a deal.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you're not going to like the deal. but
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  Speaker 3: that's okay. Take a deal. And by the way, I
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  Speaker 3: want you to get up something right now because everybody's like, Oh,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: what do we do? What do we do? I want
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: you to get up a word document right now because
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I believe in the power of the sternly worded letter.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I've always believed that.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Think of when you were coming home, you don't want
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a teacher tucked a letter in your pocket or your
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: backpack that had to go to your mother.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: How terrified were you on the bus? You were terrified.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: And then you got home. Maybe you were a latchkey
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: kid and you got to it's like going home with
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the report card when there is a note that you
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: know your mother has to read from the teacher and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you can't even open it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: You don't know what it really says. And sometimes you
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: know what it says because you watch the teacher write it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: And you're like, if I don't give it to my mother,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I'm more than fucked because the teacher is going to
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: call because the teacher will tell you I'm calling to
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: make sure she read it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Dear Vladimir Putin. Right now. Because enough's enough. Dear Vladimir Putin. Hey, buddy.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Now, what hey, buddy does is right off the bat,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: he's wondering.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Am I really his buddy? Because when someone says, hey, buddy,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it's kind of aggressive. Do you know what I mean? Sure.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Like your brother says it nice. He was like, hey, buddy.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But a lot of people don't. Hey, buddy.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like kind of an aggro move, right?
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: So you go, hey, buddy. So right off the bat,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: right off the bat, he's on the defensive.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, buddy. Next line. Okay. The war in Ukraine. You
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: don't do that, Ben. You indent. Oh. Don't you know
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: how to write?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Well, we already did deer, so then we, did we
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: do another indent.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I guess? Yeah, well, because Hey Buddy's its own thing.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Hey Buddy, the war in Ukraine is ridiculous. Okay.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: This is not your best moment. In fact, it's literally
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: one of your worst. It's not so much the bombing
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: or the shelling.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Ben, can you fix it?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: It's not so much the bombing or the shelling of
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: heavily civilian areas.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: If anyone understands that, we do. LOL.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Because you want to also build rapport. If anyone understands that,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: we do.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: LOL.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: The reality is that this is now fucking with everybody's money.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: And we know that was never your goal. But that
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: is what is happening. So please cut it out before
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: we're all broke and no one has enough money to kill. Signed,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Barry Weiss. Signed, Barry Weiss.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Read it back.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Dear Vladimir Putin. Hey, buddy.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: The war in Ukraine is ridiculous. This is not your
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: best moment. In fact, it's literally one of your worst.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: It's not so much the bombing or the shelling of
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: heavily civilian areas. If anyone understands that, we do.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: LOL.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: The reality is that this is now fucking with everybody's money.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: And we know that was never your goal. But that
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: is what is happening. So please cut it out. Before
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: we are all broke and no one has enough money
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: to kill. Signed, Barry Wise.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: You're telling me that has no effect? I doubt it.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: You're telling me that has no effect if it goes
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: over there and he realizes what he's doing? He's fucking
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: with everybody's money. We're all trying to build death machines here.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: We're all trying to do it. We're all trying to
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: run Ponzi schemes in the financial sector. We're all trying
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: to bilk sick people for insulin money. We're all trying
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: to fuck over the poor. And we're all trying to
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: do this, and this guy's getting in the way now
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: because he's fucking our money up. With the gas prices high,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: how are we going to drive all the kids to
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: the private prisons? You know how much it costs now
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: to drive a group of kids to a private prison?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: You know... The cost of everything's going to go up,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: not just gas, plastics, metals.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: The restraints that we put those kids in ain't cheap.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: The materials to make the restraints that we put our
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: children in when we ship them to a private prison
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: are not free. So this is fucking everybody's money up.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: When we fly some mission to go bomb someone, is
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: that gas on the house?
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: No. Okay? When the police are doing ride-alongs in different
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: neighborhoods looking for people to kill, they have to have
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: gas as well. Do you understand that? Are you not
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: with that or is something wrong with you? Okay? When
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a realtor... drives a young.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Couple around so she can trick them into buying a
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: house they can't afford, and they take out a mortgage
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: that they can't pay back, and they spend the next
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: 10 or 20 years of their life mired in hopeless
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: depression and addictions to just drag themselves out of bed,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: to go to the jobs they hate, to spend the
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: money to pay that mortgage while their children are literally
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: masturbating on OnlyFans for money. Who puts the gas in
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: the car to get that going?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So what I would like you to do, Mr.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Vladimir Putin, is realize how hard it is for everybody
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: to participate in the society that we've set up here
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: with a high price of fuel. It's unfortunate.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I want to read about this thing. A guy got
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: fired for reading a book about butts. Really? Okay. Yes,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he read a book about butts to a couple of
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: second graders, and they fired him. It's in the New
• 35:21
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• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I am. Or you're getting hit.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: No, I did it all.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Did you subscribe to the Cleveland Plain Dealer?
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: That one I did not. The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: It's a real paper. I'm sure it is. When I go,
• 35:39
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• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Eat at Sliman's where they get you a corned beef
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: sandwich at 8 a.m. and then they have the Cleveland
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Plain Dealer there, you could get corned beef hash or
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: you could get a Reuben and they give you the
• 35:51
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• 35:55
  Speaker 3: of pancakes at Sliman's on.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Toby Price, an assistant principal at an elementary school in Mississippi,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: read a book called I Need a New Butt to Children.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Read the book to a glass of second graders over Zoom.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I'm a firm believer that reluctant readers need the silly,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: funny books to hook them in. And they fired this guy.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: This is what I mean, things are starting to get crazy.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: It was Read Across America Week, and the second graders
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: in the Hines, Hines, Hines, who cares, school district in
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Mississippi that's underfunded were waiting for an administrator to read
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: to them. The administrator has forgotten it was her turn,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: said Toby Price, the assistant principal at Gary Road Elementary
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  Speaker 3: School in Hines County.
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  Speaker 1: Who was in his office at the time, he decided
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to fill in. So Mr.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Price, 46, quickly grabbed the book, quote, I Need a
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: New Butt by Dawn McMillan, one of his children's favorites,
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: and began reading it to the roughly 242nd graders over Zoom.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Later that day on March 2nd, the district superintendent, Delicia Martin,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: called him into her office and told him he was
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: on administrative leave.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Mr. Price said he was fired two days.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Later, accused of violating the standards of conduct section of
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the Mississippi Educator Code.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Now, they probably think it's a trans book in Mississippi.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: What do you mean you need new butt? You got
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the butt that God gave you. Trans people aren't even
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: getting new butts. But.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: She said the book was inappropriate. The superintendent called the
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: book inappropriate. She particularly took issue with the references to
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: farting in the story and how, quote, the book described
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: butts in various colors, shapes, and sizes. Example, fireproof, bulletproof, bombproof.
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  Speaker 1: And Ms. Martin called Mr.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Price unprofessional for having selected the book. This guy's been
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: an educator for 20 years. He has hired a lawyer
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: and he's going to fight this. But this is how
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: crazy it's getting out there. This is a little wacky.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Can you get this book up? I need a new butt.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: And let's see how bad this is. Maybe I'm wrong.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: This is one of those things where I could have
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: egg on my face when we get to page three
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: of the book and we realize it is crazy. I
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: need a new butt. A young boy suddenly notices he
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: has a big problem. His butt has a huge crack.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: So he sets off to find a new one. So
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: here's the, it's a silly book.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. This isn't a.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Young boy finds out he has a big problem that
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: he doesn't want his cock anymore. It's that his butt
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: is a crack, which all butts do. That's the bit.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Will he choose an armor-plated butt, a rocket butt, a
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: robot butt? Find out in this quirky tale of a quirky.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Tale of a Tale. Get it?
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Which features hilarious rhymes and delightful illustrations. Is there any
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: way we can read a little bit of this? Is
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: there a preview? Let's preview it.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: So here's the cover here.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: So this is the book that this guy was fired
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: for reading to the kids, which I don't understand.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: I Need a New Butt by Dawn McMillan, illustrated by
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Russ Kinnaird. Okay, there's a boy, he's looking at his butt,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: and he goes in the mirror, I need a new butt.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Mine's got a crack in it. The CIA put crack
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: in black communities in the 80s and then denied responsibility
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: for it.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, this now is a little different than what
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I was led to believe. I thought this was mainly
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: a fun book about butt cracks. All right, let's go
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: to page two. I'm sure it gets better. Okay. Did
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I do it on a slide? He's going down a
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: water slide.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Where he got the crack in his butt.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Or on the banister inside. Or when I jumped my BMX.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Or with the fart that happened next. Of course, the fart,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: that's what blew my butt apart. Split the thing clean
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: in two. Now I wonder what to do. I don't
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: really trust the Jews. This is not, see, this is
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: the problem. They sneak in, they sneak in these little things.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I need a new one, a green one or a
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: blue one, but not a brown one. See, I don't, again,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: obviously I'm, being silly and stupid. This is a fine book.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: And can you believe this guy got fired for this?
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: He was fired for reading a dumb, silly book because
• 40:30
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• 40:31
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• 40:50
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And, it doesn't need to happen. Nobody thinks it needs
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• 46:30
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  Speaker 3: if it's not major gender dysphoria, a lot of them
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  Speaker 3: will end up just kind of being gay, perhaps. They
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: will not feel the need to physically alter themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Some will.
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  Speaker 3: Some are probably genuinely 100% trans. But if a six-year-old
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  Speaker 3: wears a dress, they could be experimenting, they're having fun,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they end up being gay.
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  Speaker 1: It may not be.
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  Speaker 3: Something that is really indicative of how they want to
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: live the rest of their life. I think that's a
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: pretty rational, sane position. I don't think it's a crazy, turf,
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  Speaker 3: insane position, which again is... You know, another word that
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: we've made up to just, you know, if you recognize
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: any biological difference between a man and a woman, you're
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: a TERF. And again, the vast majority of people do
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: recognize those differences. And that isn't at all a rejection
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: of trans identity or trying to hurt trans people.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Now, there are some people that make it their entire brand.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: They speak about nothing except the differences between men and women,
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: which is, you know, it's maybe a little suspect, a
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: little sus, where it's like the only thing you talk
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: about over and over again.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: And they do it on both sides by the way. Well,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: where are the trans people in the Ukraine going to go?
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: And it's just every single minute is trans, trans, trans.
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  Speaker 3: Are there detransitioners in the Ukraine? What about them? What
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: about the people who cut their tits off in the
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Ukraine and want their tits back? And you go, why
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: is this every day, all day, every minute, every minute?
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Every second of the day we're doing this over and
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: over again because I guess it's just this is some
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: people's beat. And I understand.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: And there's people that have written really interesting stuff about it.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: And I understand that, and it does seem to be
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: more and more of the culture. It's more and more
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: of an issue. People are fighting about it more and more,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: and I'm a very who cares person on this because,
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: number one, I don't have children. Number two, if I
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: had children, I would not want them altering their bodies
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: until they were old enough, really, to fully make that
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: conscious choice. And I've said that before. I don't think
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: that's a trans... exclusionary point of view. Now, are there
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: parents that would disagree with me and go, no, my
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: child genuinely feels that going through puberty would be abuse
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: and because they are super trans, there should be a
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: council to just decide if your kid's really trans. Like
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: there should be like a council of people that go like,
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: you are legit. There are some kids that are trans.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: If there's like a four-year-old with like a beard and
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: she's like, yeah, bro, what up? I'm like, all right,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: just let her not have the tits. But a lot
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: of them, you feel like they're just experimenting.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: You know, I could have been trans when I was young.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Like I was, I had like very like feminine, uh, qualities,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people do. I still do.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Most men I know have feminine qualities now, like, and
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: they have sex with women.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: So this idea that reducing everything to this very... simplistic
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: understanding of everything. I just, I just, I get a
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: little worried when the pharmaceutical companies get in bed with
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: everybody and they go, they need these and that and
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: the hormones and the pills. And some kids do. Some
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: kids are genuinely trans and there needs to be a
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: way to decide that. Like, why doesn't JK Rowling, instead
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: of just, again, with the man, woman, man, woman, do
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: a new Harry Potter book about a council of people
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: who decides which wizards are trans or not when they're children.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: You know that hat where you go to Gryffindor or Slytherin?
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: The sorting hat.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: Because the sorting hat knows you better than you know you. Well,
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: we need a sorting hat for trans kids to find
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: out who's really in and who's out.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Because you can't get to tits back, right?
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: You could get implants.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Can't you just get it back anyway? Yeah. Can't you
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: just explain to the kids if you don't want titties,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: but you might get the titties later.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: But then the problem is you take all the hormones
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: and you're like, oh. But I think if you stop
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: taking them, it'll wear off too.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. Maybe these hormones and pills aren't
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: nearly as effective as I think they are. Yeah, you
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: have to keep taking them. It's a regimen, I believe.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for the trans experience.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: So let's say you're a kid, and you transition kind of.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: But I guess that does fuck up your body if
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: you don't go through natural puberty, for sure.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. But my whole thing is this. I'm
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: almost a fan of the take a tit, leave a
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: tit model. You ever see the take a book, leave
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: a book? It's our last episode.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: But do you ever see what I mean here, take
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: a book, leave a book, where usually the crazy old
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: librarian witch women will put out a bowl of books
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: like outside of their homes or outside of some place
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: of business or something, and there'll be a take a book,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: leave a book.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: And the idea there is that you take a book
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: and replenish it with a book that maybe you finished
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: to promote reading in the community. I'm almost a fan
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: of the take a tit, leave a tit, where– Can
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: we make it easier and cheaper for people to just
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: get tits whenever they want or take tits away?
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Because the problem is how expensive this all is. Isn't
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: that the issue here?
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: Isn't it expensive because you can't just walk in there
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: and get the poon made into a peen. It's a
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: little bit of dough. Mark Norman had a great joke.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: He's like, you call a lot of these people brave.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Caitlyn Jenner's brave. She's just rich.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: It was a Mark Norman joke.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: It was a brilliant joke where it was like, It's not,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: some people just don't have that ability is my point.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Because insurance doesn't cover these procedures often, right?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: But my thing is it gets messy when it's kids
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: because kids don't know what they're doing. You know, they
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: don't know. The kids don't really know. And they might
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: regret it. Some of them might regret it. Some of
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: them do regret it, right? There's all these detransitioners. Katie
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: Herzog's written 15 novels about detransitioners. And they've been translated
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: into many different languages.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: She wrote a war and peace style novel in Russian
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: about detransitioners. It was war and peace, but what if
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: everyone had detransitioned? They were trans and then went back.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: So that's my whole thing on this. I think kids
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: need to be kids. I think adults need to leave
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: kids alone. We have a weird society now where adults
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: are all over children and telling them what to do
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: and who to be and how to believe. I think
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: children need to figure out who they are. I think
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: kids are going to figure out if they're gay, if
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: they're trans, they need to figure that out with their,
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: with their own life.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that we need to impose a value
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  Speaker 1: system on children, uh, that are too young to completely
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: understand what decisions they're making.
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  Speaker 3: I've said it a million times. I'm just wondering if
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: there's a happy medium. I'll take a tit, leave a tit.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Is there a happy medium? What about instead of the operation,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: let them dress. What about realistic prosthetics?
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Give them a cock. That's like a,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: like a fake cock. Oh, Right?
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Like Mr. Potato Head or something?
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Like, yes. Instead of doing anything medical, give them jelly
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: tits or a fake cock or something. No, I'm dead serious.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: It's funny because you can laugh at it. But instead
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: of doing something that's irreversible, why don't you give them
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: like a more realistic bot, like a.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: Suit to wear? Is that not a good idea? Like, oh,
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: you think you're a dude? Here's a fake cock. Now
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: in a few years, you might want a real cock
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: or you might take this off and go, I don't
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: want the fake cock anymore.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: It's not a bad idea. Has anyone pitched this? Probably.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: But it's a happy medium, right?
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: If your son wants to be a chick, instead of
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: doing something irreversible medically, do like a Ms. Doubtfire every
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: morning where you make him into the woman he wants
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: to be. If you had a son, it kind of be,
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, unless you're really homophobic and I'm sure
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: not every dad would be thrilled about, not every dad
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: would be thrilled about making their son, doing their son
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: drag every morning, but it could be fun. You buy
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: him little, um, the leopard coat and, uh, you know,
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: you don't want to make it buffoonish, but they shouldn't
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: be without style. Now, is that a happy medium? Um,
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: And the dad might not like it as the dad's
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: putting the wig on and doing the makeup. And the
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: mom might go, listen, you think this is, you don't
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: like this? Well, the other option is something irreversible medical
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: that we can't afford. And the dad goes, I guess
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: you're right. And he adjusts the wig and he puts
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: the lipstick on.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, literally, who cares?
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: I'm one of the most progressive people when it comes
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: to gender because I don't care men, women, hermaphrodites. I've
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: had friends that I consider hermaphrodites even though they're not.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: I have friends where, like, I know women with, like, beards.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: I've been friends with, like, women with beards.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Mignonis used to talk about, like, Italian women in Long
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Island are all kind of trans. They're like, ugh.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: They're all very masculine. This whole idea of disgendered is
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: this rigid thing. I do find antiquated and outdated. So
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: I'm just wondering if there's a happy medium or if
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: there is not a happy medium.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I don't really know.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Anyway, let's plug some of these dates because this is
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: the end of the tour. It's the end of the road.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: And then I'm transitioning to someone who's not on the road.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: Brea Improv on Sunday. Come out, California, in the mall
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: at Brea. We're having fun. Wednesday, March 16th, some tickets
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: available for Toronto. March 18th, Baltimore, Maryland. Saturday, March 19th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thursday,
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: March 24th, Nashville, Tennessee. Saturday, March 26th, Denver. Special taping,
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: early show, late show. Wednesday, March 30th, Glasgow, Scotland. Saturday,
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: April 6th, go to Scotland. Buy those tickets. We're not
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: doing great over there, please. April, Saturday, April, Dublin, early
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: and late shows in Ireland. Then Monday, April 4th, the UK. Wednesday,
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: April 4th, the UK. I'm sorry, Monday, Wednesday, April 6th, UK.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: April 6th, late show in the UK. Here are some
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: new dates. Thursday, Jacksonville, Florida at the Florida Theatre.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Friday, April 15th, Charlotte, North Carolina.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: April 16th, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 17th, Dallas, Texas. April 18th, Austin, Texas.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: God help us. April 21st, the Chicago Theater, the home
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: of Lightfoot.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: The great Friday, April 22nd, Houston, Texas, Saturday, April 23rd, Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday,
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: April 24th, Northfield, Ohio.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: And that is it. And those are the dates. And
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: then we're going to Australia, by the way. This is
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: a big news. We don't have the tickets on sale yet,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: but we're going the last week of April to, in
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the first week of May, to Australia. Please. It's going
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: to be very, very exciting.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: But timdilloncomedy.com, we have all the links there for you
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: guys to get tickets for the UK and US shows.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: And when we put Australia on the line, we will be....
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: We will have that for you as well. So we're
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: very excited about all of that, and then we're wrapping up.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Then we're going to spend spring to summer and really
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: the fall chilling out on the internet, maybe building some
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: new material, and then we'll hit you guys later with
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: more material, better, you know.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: A live show.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: We're going to do the live podcast a little bit
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: this summer, a very small mini tour of the.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Live podcast this summer. Tiny little tour.
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: Five or seven cities, probably in August, and we're just
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: going to be doing the podcast live. We're going to
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: plan those shows out so me and Ben can come
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: see you there.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate you listening. This is a great
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: letter that should be sent to Vladimir Putin immediately if
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: we have an interest in ending the war, which... We don't.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: We probably don't because everybody likes World War. What is
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: it good for? Absolutely nothing. That's what they say. Tim J.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Dillon on Instagram and Twitter. Please follow me.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Patreon.com slash the Tim Dillon Show if you want bonus content.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: We upload one Patreon a week, and we are doing
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: our higher tier, the Rothschild tier. We're doing that episode
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: this week. You guys will have it. We apologize for lateness.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: The problem is, of course, we've been on the road.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: When the road slows down, everything's a lot easier. We
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: hope that everybody is doing well. We hope that you're
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: not too affected by the economic realities that are emerging
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: because of this Ukraine crisis. It's affecting all of us,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: whether you're an oligarch or a young detransitioned child. Everybody
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: needs the gas to get up and do what we
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: do in this country, which is go through the drive-thru
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: at Raising Cane's.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: Good night.