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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report. Early edition, Conor
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Speaker 1: McGregor declares his run for president of Ireland. DoorDash rolls
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Speaker 1: Wikipedia revises pages on Trump's cabinet picks to highlight negative details.
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Speaker 1: Trump dismantles the Department of Education and the live action
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Speaker 1: Snow White turns out to be way worse than any
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Speaker 1: of us ever could have imagined. All this on Bongino Report.
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Speaker 1: early edition.
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Speaker 2: What is going on in Ireland is a travesty. Our
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Speaker 2: government is the government of zero action with zero accountability.
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Speaker 2: Our money is being spent on overseas issues that has
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with the Irish people. The illegal immigration
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Speaker 2: racket is running ravage on the country. There are rural
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Speaker 2: towns in Ireland that have been overrun in one swoop,
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Speaker 2: that have become a minority in one swoop. So issues
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Speaker 2: need to be addressed. And the 40 million Irish Americans,
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Speaker 2: as I said, need to hear this because if not,
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Speaker 2: there will be no place to come home and visit.
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Speaker 1: That was UFC fighter Conor McGregor in the White House
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Speaker 1: press briefing room earlier this week. I played that clip.
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Speaker 1: And since making those comments, Conor McGregor has thrown his
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Speaker 1: hat into the political ring by announcing his candidacy for
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Speaker 1: the president of Ireland. And he made this announcement on Instagram.
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Speaker 1: He was posing in a MAGA-inspired make Ireland great again cap.
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Speaker 1: So he's very much aligned with a Trump vision for
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Speaker 1: Ireland and the way that Trump puts America first. He's
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Speaker 1: going to put Ireland first. Very similar inspiration, it seems
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Speaker 1: to be. And McGregor stated that he's running mainly as
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Speaker 1: an opposition to the EU migration pact. And if you're
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Speaker 1: an American, you're probably wondering, What is the EU Migration Pact? Well,
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Speaker 1: the EU Migration Pact is an EU law that forces
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Speaker 1: EU member states, which of course includes Ireland, to accept
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Speaker 1: hordes of migrants or pay punitive fines beginning June 12th, 2026.
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Speaker 1: So essentially what this pact does is it strips European
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Speaker 1: nations of their autonomy to secure their borders and preserve
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Speaker 1: their cultural identity. It just says, you guys are done.
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Speaker 1: You're going to have to You're going to have to
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Speaker 1: facilitate this mass migration. You're going to have to accommodate
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Speaker 1: all these people from the third world. So MacGregor wrote
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Speaker 1: on X that he disagrees with this policy, with this pact,
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Speaker 1: but that any other presidential candidate they attempt to put
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Speaker 1: forward will fail to resist it, and that he promises
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Speaker 1: if he's elected, he'll put forth this bill to referendum
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Speaker 1: and leave the choice of agreeing to the pact up
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Speaker 1: to the people of Ireland directly. So he writes that
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Speaker 1: This is the future of Ireland with me as president.
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Speaker 1: All citizens of Ireland have a voice and a choice
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Speaker 1: in their future. Now, Irish political and media elites are
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Speaker 1: not happy about this at all. They weren't happy about
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Speaker 1: Conor McGregor coming to the White House. They definitely aren't
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Speaker 1: happy about him now saying he's going to run for president.
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Speaker 1: And we're getting hordes of headlines like this one. UFC's
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Speaker 1: Conor McGregor sparks outrage from White House visit. He does
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Speaker 1: not speak for himself. Ireland. And the prime minister of
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Speaker 1: Ireland actually wrote this on X. He even weighed in.
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Speaker 1: He said, Conor McGregor's remarks are wrong and do not
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Speaker 1: reflect the spirit of St. Patrick's Day or the views
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Speaker 1: of the people of Ireland. And likewise, the leader of
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Speaker 1: the Social Democratic and Labor Party wrote that Conor McGregor
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Speaker 1: has never been elected to anything. He doesn't represent the
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Speaker 1: Irish people. In fact, we're all pretty embarrassed by him.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just going to tell you guys what, all
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Speaker 1: that is garbage. Before the show today, I was talking
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Speaker 1: to Michael. I was getting ready. I was putting makeup on.
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Speaker 1: And he was like, have you seen these videos of
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Speaker 1: Conor McGregor and the amount of love that the Irish
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Speaker 1: people have for him? This is a garbage, garbage take
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Speaker 1: from the media. A narrative, really. Not a take. A
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Speaker 1: narrative from the media and from these politicians in Ireland.
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Speaker 1: Because Conor McGregor, obviously, he is a very talented mixed
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Speaker 1: martial artist. and a champion UFC fighter. The people of
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Speaker 1: Ireland love this man, especially, I think, the working class
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Speaker 1: people of Ireland. The UFC is huge. And there's all
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Speaker 1: these videos of UFC fights here in America, and all
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Speaker 1: of these Irish people have showed up just to support
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Speaker 1: Conor McGregor. He is beloved by the Irish people. So
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Speaker 1: to say that everybody's embarrassed by him or that he's
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Speaker 1: not popular in Ireland. He's just some lunatic, a really
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Speaker 1: bizarre assertion to be making from the media and from
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Speaker 1: these political elites in Ireland. The people love him. Now, McGregor,
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Speaker 1: many of you may not know if you're not Irish,
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Speaker 1: not plugged into UFC news, he has been involved in
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Speaker 1: some controversy in the past. He's gotten in a lot
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Speaker 1: of fights outside of the UFC, but also last year
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Speaker 1: he was found liable in a civil case for sexual
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Speaker 1: assault Now, he's appealing this decision, and he maintains that
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Speaker 1: he is innocent. But the reason that the media elites
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Speaker 1: are angry at Conor McGregor is not that he's been
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Speaker 1: accused of sexual assault or that he's punched people outside
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Speaker 1: of the UFC. It is because of what he said
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Speaker 1: at the White House. McGregor very obviously hit a nerve,
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Speaker 1: a true one. And I'm not Irish. I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to endorse Conor McGregor or anything. But it's obvious that he...
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Speaker 1: is speaking to an undeniable truth in Ireland. He's touched
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Speaker 1: a growing sore spot. McGregor shared this yesterday. It's the
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Speaker 1: search results for Dublin news, and what appears are two
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Speaker 1: side-by-side stories. And one side reads, Irish police reject McGregor's
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Speaker 1: Dublin is dangerous claim. And then directly next to this
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Speaker 1: article in the search results, you see an article that reads,
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Speaker 1: Man rushed to hospital after being stabbed in Dublin. And
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Speaker 1: this is kind of what we experience all the time
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Speaker 1: here in the United States as well. This narrative is
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Speaker 1: being pushed by the corporate media that are completely just
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Speaker 1: devoid of any truth. They fly in the face of
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Speaker 1: reality itself. And they hope that you won't notice it.
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Speaker 1: You will ignore your surroundings, your senses, what you see, hear,
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Speaker 1: and smell. And you will just think, it must be
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Speaker 1: true because everybody's saying it. And when you have social
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Speaker 1: media democratizing information, suddenly you see Conor McGregor point this
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Speaker 1: out and say, look at how insane this is. Look
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Speaker 1: at how insane this narrative is. They can't even keep
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Speaker 1: it straight in the Google search engines. I want you
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Speaker 1: to listen to one Irish man's response to Conor McGregor's
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Speaker 1: White House comments. I think that this is really enlightening.
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Speaker 2: There are rural towns in Ireland that have been overrun
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Speaker 2: in one swoop, that have become a minority.
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Speaker 3: In one swoop.
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Speaker 4: So Irish media are losing their mind over this, saying
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Speaker 4: he doesn't represent us. Let's take one rural town in
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Speaker 4: Ireland called Liston-Varna. In 2018, Liston-Varna was 95% Irish. They
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Speaker 4: then had a vote on whether they wanted an asylum
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Speaker 4: centre in their town. 93% of them voted no. The
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Speaker 4: government forced it upon them Anyway, today, that town is
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Speaker 4: 36% Irish. It went from 95% to 36% in only
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Speaker 4: a few years. And the Irish media doesn't talk about it.
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Speaker 4: They pretend it's not happening.
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Speaker 1: As the annihilation of a unique community with a unique heritage,
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Speaker 1: just forced to give it all up. And how many
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Speaker 1: little rural towns are just like that? How many towns
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Speaker 1: are like that? here in the United States. We kind
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Speaker 1: of had a little glimpse into it with the Haitian
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Speaker 1: migrant crisis. They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs.
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Speaker 1: And this was coming from a small working class community
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Speaker 1: that had suddenly been overrun by people who are very
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Speaker 1: different from the native population. And again, you guys, this
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Speaker 1: gets tied into, oh, you're racist and you're xenophobic. And
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Speaker 1: it's not that You are hateful toward people from other places.
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Speaker 1: But when you have mass immigration to the point where
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Speaker 1: it overwhelms the populace that's actually there, you start to
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Speaker 1: lose the identity of those people. And the question is,
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Speaker 1: should that matter? And I think it does matter. I
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Speaker 1: think that that video is emblematic of the sentiment a
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Speaker 1: lot of people feel across the West. It's reverberating all
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Speaker 1: over the place. Here's another video. that really interestingly demonstrates
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Speaker 1: that same point. And the caption here reads, for those
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Speaker 1: of you listening before I play it, it reads, Conor
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Speaker 1: McGregor stated Ireland is losing its Irishness. Here's a video
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Speaker 1: of the St. Patrick's Day parade in Galway, not an
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Speaker 1: Irish person in it.
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Speaker 5: Take a look.
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Speaker 1: So if you're So if you're listening, first of all,
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Speaker 1: you're seeing people in Burkas and you're seeing Palestinians and
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Speaker 1: Ukrainians and Chinese and Pakistanis and Polish and people from
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Speaker 1: Guyana and Mexico and Bulgaria. Very few Irish people in
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Speaker 1: this parade. Now, I'm assuming this is some sort of
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Speaker 1: multicultural parade, perhaps, as this is not just like a
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Speaker 1: normal everyday parade from that area. Maybe it is. The
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Speaker 1: point is that there are a lot of people in
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Speaker 1: Ireland who are not actually Irish. Immigration into Ireland has
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Speaker 1: more than doubled. Over the past 20 years, with 22%
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Speaker 1: of the population now made up of non-citizens, and the
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Speaker 1: cost of accommodating asylum seekers in Ireland has reached an
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Speaker 1: average of 84 euros per day per person, while the
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Speaker 1: country's debt is among the highest in the world per capita.
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Speaker 1: You have over 100,000 Ukrainians that have flooded in the country, 30,000
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Speaker 1: asylum seekers accommodated on this island. Some of them aren't
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Speaker 1: accommodated on the island, I'll say, though, and they have
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Speaker 1: a homelessness crisis there now as well. We saw this
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Speaker 1: in places like New York City and in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: We have this neglect of the American people. Well, in
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Speaker 1: this case, they aren't just able to put them all
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Speaker 1: in hotels. They don't have, I guess, the resources for it.
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Speaker 1: So reportedly, there are thousands of male migrants living in
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Speaker 1: tent camps in Dublin because the city simply can't accommodate
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Speaker 1: all these people that they let in. Part of the
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Speaker 1: global revolt of men in the West is this reality
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Speaker 1: that's felt across Europe and, of course, here in America
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Speaker 1: as well, that the identity of our nation is being eroded.
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Speaker 1: The identity of the West, more generally, is being eroded.
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Speaker 1: And the priorities of foreigners, for whatever reason, sometimes even
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Speaker 1: illegal foreigners, are continually coming before the interests of actual
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Speaker 1: citizens on behalf of our politicians and Globalist priorities are
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Speaker 1: devaluing labor, straining resources. It's stripping away the dignity of
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Speaker 1: men who feel they have no home and no future.
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Speaker 1: So what do globalist leaders in Ireland decide to do?
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Speaker 1: They smear Conor McGregor and men like him as bigots.
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Speaker 1: And many of you in the chat, I actually want
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Speaker 1: to know if you guys can answer this question. How
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Speaker 1: many of you have heard of this new Netflix series
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Speaker 1: called Adolescence? promise it's a very relevant series to what
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Speaker 1: we're talking about with Conor McGregor. Adolescence right now is
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Speaker 1: number one on Netflix. It's a four-part British crime drama
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Speaker 1: that follows the arrest of a 13-year-old fictional British boy
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Speaker 1: who murders a female classmate. So 13 years old, little
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Speaker 1: white boy, working class, murders a female classmate. And the
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Speaker 1: series is a critique of the manosphere. We've talked about
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Speaker 1: the manosphere on the show a few times before, but
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Speaker 1: basically it's this echo chamber of male online influencers who
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Speaker 1: are speaking to disaffected men. This is not a fictional thing.
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Speaker 1: This is a real thing. The manosphere is very much real.
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Speaker 1: I guess Conor McGregor has been lumped in with the manosphere.
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Speaker 1: He's not a traditional social media influencer. He's not somebody
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Speaker 1: who's constantly online, but he is considered somebody who is
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Speaker 1: a role model for young men in the UK, in
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Speaker 1: Ireland as well. So left-wing elite, Ireland, UK, like United States,
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Speaker 1: all these places, this is like Andrew Tate is sort
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Speaker 1: of in the mix here. He's sort of one of
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Speaker 1: the more bombastic ones, but then you also have people,
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Speaker 1: People like Jordan Peterson have been lumped into the manosphere.
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Speaker 1: He's obviously much less controversial than somebody like Andrew Tate.
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Speaker 1: But they're saying that these voices that are messaging to men,
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Speaker 1: including Conor McGregor, they're deeply, deeply negative. Left-wing elites are
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Speaker 1: branding these men and the young men who listen to
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Speaker 1: them as toxic and even violent. Take a look.
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Speaker 4: That's the police!
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Speaker 1: What are you looking for?
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Speaker 4: You're making a big mistake. He's only a kid.
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Speaker 1: Dad, I haven't done anything!
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Speaker 6: He's a good kid.
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Speaker 1: Jamie, I want you to listen carefully. What's going on?
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start off with asking you. Do you know
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Speaker 1: a girl called Katie Leonard?
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Describe each other as friends, then. Is she dead, then?
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Speaker 8: Why would you ask that?
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Speaker 1: Hmm? So, do you think it would be okay if
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Speaker 1: we speak about it? I haven't done anything.
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Speaker 5: You're a good dad, a great dad.
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Speaker 1: He hasn't been found guilty, he's been accused. banged by
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Speaker 1: a girl you sausage you're.
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Speaker 4: Not getting it woman okay that's you're not reading what
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Speaker 4: they're doing it's a call to action by the manosphere
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Speaker 4: 80 percent of women are attracted to 20 percent of
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Speaker 4: men you.
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Speaker 1: Didn't get the right there's uh the the uh those
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Speaker 1: time stamps on that were a little off there but
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Speaker 1: essentially what he's saying is all these women are not
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Speaker 1: attracted to men and he's been influenced by his phone
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Speaker 1: and by these sort of red-pilled influencers and he's driven
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Speaker 1: to violence and to just this really deranged behavior. And
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Speaker 1: so the message is that young white males are being
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Speaker 1: red-pilled and that it's deeply, deeply dangerous, that masculinity is
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Speaker 1: out of control to the point where it's very dangerous,
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Speaker 1: dangerous to the point where young men are apparently murdering
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Speaker 1: their female classmates. Here is Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister condemning
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Speaker 1: Conor McGregor's White House visit and drawing a connection between
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Speaker 1: McGregor and the series Adolescence. I promise you guys, they connect.
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Speaker 7: And let us be clear, the likes of Conor McGregor
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Speaker 7: and Andrew Tate should not be social media influencers. They
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Speaker 7: should be social pariahs. The program Adolescence has really provided
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Speaker 7: a glimpse into how toxic influences are filling a void
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Speaker 7: in young men's lives. In fact, I believe adolescents should
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Speaker 7: be compulsory viewing in all our secondary schools right across
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Speaker 7: this country. Social media has such an influence on young lives,
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Speaker 7: and that's why I think in Europe and Ireland we
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Speaker 7: need to be true to our values. These so-called influencers
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Speaker 7: are feeding young men a warped view of what it
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Speaker 7: is to be a man. And let us be clear,
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Speaker 7: the likes of Conor McGregor and Andrew Tate should not
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Speaker 7: be social media influencers. They should be social pariahs. Their
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Speaker 7: behaviour is wrong. It's retrograde. It's degrading. It's damaging. They're
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Speaker 7: normalizing behavior that is totally and utterly unacceptable. And everybody
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Speaker 7: in this house, we should speak with one voice in
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Speaker 7: relation to this, not social media influencers, social pariahs.
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Speaker 1: Social pariahs. They're dangerous and they're toxic. I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: Western elites fawn over a Netflix series like this in
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Speaker 1: my entire life. This is unprecedented. The ladies of The
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Speaker 1: View were talking about it not that long ago. Here
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Speaker 1: is one Labour member of the UK Parliament. So that
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Speaker 1: was just a clip from Ireland. This is the UK Parliament.
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Speaker 1: And Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressing this Netflix series directly.
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Speaker 3: Everyone is talking about Adolescence, the series by Knowsley's own
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Speaker 3: Stephen Graham and Christine Tamarco. It highlights online male radicalisation
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Speaker 3: and violence against girls. The creators of the show are
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Speaker 3: calling for screenings in Parliament and schools to spark change.
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Speaker 3: So will the Prime Minister back this campaign to counter
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Speaker 3: toxic misogyny early and give young men the role models
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Speaker 3: they deserve?
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Speaker 8: Yes, and at home we are watching adolescence with our children.
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Speaker 8: I've got a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl and
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Speaker 8: it's a very, very good documentary to watch or drama.
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Speaker 6: She.
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Speaker 8: This violence carried out by young men, influenced by what
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Speaker 8: they see online, is a real problem.
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Speaker 1: It's abhorrent.
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Speaker 8: And we have to tackle it.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Here's the question. And by the way, let me
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Speaker 1: just say that the reviews of this movie, and just
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Speaker 1: by looking at the trailer I can tell, The acting
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Speaker 1: seems to be impeccable. The cinematography is great. This is
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Speaker 1: a very well done series, clearly. It has been getting
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Speaker 1: rave reviews. Objectively, you can just tell that this young
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Speaker 1: actor is very talented, who plays the murderer. The question
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Speaker 1: that I want asked is, is there an epidemic of
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Speaker 1: British working class white boys stabbing little girls? Is this
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Speaker 1: something that happens all the time? And the answer to
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Speaker 1: that question is, of course, no. No. What I think
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Speaker 1: is another interesting question is, has Netflix ever made a
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Speaker 1: series about the Pakistani rape gang that victimized over a
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Speaker 1: thousand predominantly white working-class women and girls? No. Have they
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Speaker 1: made a series on the rise of no-go zones in
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Speaker 1: the UK or the rise of female genital mutilation in
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Speaker 1: certain pockets of the UK with a high concentration of
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Speaker 1: migrants from Muslim countries? And the answer to that is,
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Speaker 1: of course, no. Adolescence and the backlash against Conor McGregor
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Speaker 1: are one and the same. It's a desperate attempt to
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Speaker 1: smear men, particularly white men, who reassert masculinity and dignity
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Speaker 1: after decades of being told that their very nature is toxic.
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Speaker 1: Socially and economically, men have been sidelined. This is undeniable.
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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to go into UK and Irish dads.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about here in America. In the US, 5.7
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Speaker 1: million manufacturing jobs, mostly held by men, vanished between 2000
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Speaker 1: and 2023. 1.2 million prime age men exited the workforce
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Speaker 1: by 2023 due to opioid dependency. The top 10% of
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Speaker 1: male earners now claim 45% of total male income, up
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Speaker 1: from 35% in 1980. Men are three times more likely
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Speaker 1: to die from a drug overdose than women, and they
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Speaker 1: account for nearly 80% of suicides. Let me just repeat that.
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Speaker 1: Men account for nearly 80% of suicides in the United States.
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Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, Western men are not the enemy,
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Speaker 1: they are the forsaken. Left behind by a world that's
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Speaker 1: traded their dignity For globalist agendas and hollow promises, millions
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Speaker 1: of jobs lost, communities fractured, futures dimmed by drugs and despair,
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Speaker 1: men feel it in their bones. Forgotten, sidelined, erased. And
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Speaker 1: when they dare to speak, to stand, to reclaim their
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Speaker 1: worth like Conor McGregor just did, then they're branded toxic
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Speaker 1: and dangerous and pariahs. Not because they're wrong, but because
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Speaker 1: they're inconvenient. And the real threat isn't masculinity unleashed. It's
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Speaker 1: a system that's stripped men of purpose and even points
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Speaker 1: the finger at them for breaking. Elites churn out these
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Speaker 1: stories like adolescence to smear young men and boys, especially
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Speaker 1: white men and boys. But where is the series on
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Speaker 1: the real scars, on the rape gangs, the no-go zones,
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Speaker 1: the cultural decay they continue to ignore? They'd rather scapegoat
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Speaker 1: the disillusionment than face their own failures. This isn't about
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Speaker 1: boys stabbing girls. It's about a society stabbing its own
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Speaker 1: soul and blaming the wounded for bleeding. The question I'm
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Speaker 1: feeling constantly confronted with these days is, who are we?
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Speaker 1: What are Western values? We're living in an existential moment clearly.
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Speaker 1: And there are competing visions for the answer to that question.
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Speaker 1: I know what I was told growing up. It's pretty
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Speaker 1: different than what I think today. I want you to listen.
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Speaker 1: I came across this and it just, it brought back,
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Speaker 1: this is a little bit before my time. This is
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Speaker 1: a Disney video. It's a little bit before my time,
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Speaker 1: but it is something, a sentiment that I heard all
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Speaker 1: throughout my childhood. And I'm just now realizing how backward
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Speaker 1: it is. This was a public messaging campaign orchestrated by
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Speaker 1: Disney after 9-11. This is Disney's idea of what America is.
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Speaker 1: This is Disney's answer to the who are we question.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to what they say. Everyone should be
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Speaker 1: very sensitive to other cultures and religions. They're Americans too,
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Speaker 1: you know, and we shouldn't treat them any differently.
23:51
Speaker 2: That's what makes our culture so great is that we're,
23:54
Speaker 2: you know, we're mixed up. We're not the same people.
23:56
Speaker 2: Because you'll hear people saying things.
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Speaker 9: And sometimes people say things because they just don't know
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Speaker 9: what else to do. They just have to point a
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Speaker 9: finger and blame somebody.
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Speaker 2: But, you know, we've seen through history that that doesn't work.
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Speaker 1: Being an American means being very diverse. You learn so
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Speaker 1: much about everything. This country is based on bringing people
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Speaker 1: from all over the world. I have five different nationalities
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Speaker 1: in my background. I have different religions in my background.
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Speaker 1: And that's what this country is based on.
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Speaker 3: And we need to remember that.
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Speaker 1: We need to remember that. Everyone is welcome in this country,
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Speaker 1: and that's what makes it so great.
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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter what color you are or religion, we
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Speaker 5: all kind of have, you know, the same belief in love.
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Speaker 9: Now, more than ever, it's important for people like you
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Speaker 9: to express themselves every day.
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Speaker 1: Saw Whoopi in there and a lot of really famous
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Speaker 1: old-school Disney stars. And look, some of the stuff that
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Speaker 1: they said in there was nice. Like, oh, should you
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Speaker 1: hate other people for their religion or their skin color? Like, no,
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Speaker 1: obviously not. I'm a Christian. That's not okay. But the
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Speaker 1: question that I'm interested in is who are we? And
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Speaker 1: they tried to answer that there. And their answer was
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Speaker 1: that we're diverse. We bring people from all over the
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Speaker 1: world and we have, you know, the same belief in love,
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Speaker 1: whatever that means. The point of the ad was to not,
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Speaker 1: was to, you know, discourage discrimination against Muslims after 9-11
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Speaker 1: and I get that. But what I'm interested in is, again,
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Speaker 1: this question of who are we? After watching that video,
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Speaker 1: the answer seems to be nothing. Generations of young people,
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Speaker 1: especially millennials, but even Gen Zers, actually Gen Zers, of course,
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Speaker 1: have been fed this idea of just pluralism and the
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Speaker 1: liberal order of things. And now Gen Z is being
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Speaker 1: smeared as bigots because we're looking around and we're saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: none of that means anything. That literally meant nothing. What
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Speaker 1: do you mean we share a sense of love? That's
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Speaker 1: not a thing. You're not saying anything. It's complete nonsense.
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Speaker 1: And like I said, I'm not saying that you guys
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Speaker 1: should be discriminatory against people for their race and religion.
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Speaker 1: That was one element of that video. That's fine. But
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Speaker 1: they also tried to answer the question of what does
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Speaker 1: it mean to be an American, and their answer was nothing.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what they were trying to say. America
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Speaker 1: is an identity more meaningful than any of that gibberish,
26:29
Speaker 1: I think. But America's identity isn't like Ireland's or England's,
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Speaker 1: where culture and ethnicity are tightly interwoven. That's true. were
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Speaker 1: still far more than a mere patchwork of pluralism or
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Speaker 1: abstract ideas. America was forged with a specific Anglo-Christian bedrock.
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Speaker 1: Think the Mayflower Compact, the Puritan work ethic, a fierce
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Speaker 1: commitment to individual liberty rooted in English common law. This
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Speaker 1: isn't just freedom in some vague sense. It's a concrete
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Speaker 1: tradition of self-governance, biblical morality. a frontier spirit that shaped
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Speaker 1: everything from the Constitution to the homesteading impulse, gritty, God-fearing, independent.
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Speaker 1: Pluralism came later, but it's this deeper, unifying cultural spine,
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Speaker 1: not just a melting pot or enlightenment buzzwords that sets
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Speaker 1: us apart, that defines us. I think we were founded
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Speaker 1: as a Christian nation, not one to be sectarian, to
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Speaker 1: have lots of infighting between the Lutherans and the evangelicals
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Speaker 1: and the Catholics, but one that was, of course, rooted
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Speaker 1: in those shared Christian values that each of the denominations have.
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Speaker 1: And Matt Walsh made a really excellent point yesterday because
27:52
Speaker 1: we're constantly being bombarded with this question, this statement that
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Speaker 1: immigrants built this country, immigrants, they're the ones who, just
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Speaker 1: like it's the bedrock of this nation, Statue of Liberty.
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Speaker 1: And he made a really interesting point. He said, America
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Speaker 1: is not a nation built on immigrants. America was built
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Speaker 1: by settlers. There's a difference. Settlers ventured out into the
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Speaker 1: wilderness to build a civilization from scratch. The modern immigrant
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Speaker 1: comes to a place that is already built. Settlers planted
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Speaker 1: the trees. The modern immigrants came to eat the fruits.
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Speaker 1: If you cannot see the difference, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: else to explain it. And it's a really good point
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Speaker 1: because we're just being told that the people who are
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Speaker 1: here for two seconds, many of whom are illegals who
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Speaker 1: are being housed in in public complexes on the taxpayer's
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Speaker 1: dime or somehow building this country. And this is a
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Speaker 1: ridiculous assertion. They're not building anything. They're taking. And like
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Speaker 1: I said, you guys, all of us here, myself included,
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Speaker 1: were descended from immigrants to this country. But there is
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Speaker 1: a need for time and assimilation that is not being
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Speaker 1: respected by our leaders because they don't respect the people
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Speaker 1: that they're supposed to represent. This is the case in Ireland.
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Speaker 1: This is the case in the United States. This is
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Speaker 1: the case across the entire West. And if we're going
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Speaker 1: to fight this, we need to actually have a definition
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Speaker 1: of who we are. It needs to be deeper than
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Speaker 1: just our shared sense of love. I don't even know
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Speaker 1: what that is. I don't know what that is. But
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Speaker 1: it's got to be bigger than that. It's got to
29:23
Speaker 1: be deeper than that. And in fact, it is. I'm
29:24
Speaker 1: not just making this up. We have a rich founding
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Speaker 1: history that's rooted in centuries of Christian Western tradition. This
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Speaker 1: is not hard. This is not hard for us to
29:36
Speaker 1: articulate and we have to be brave enough to do it.
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Speaker 1: and not care if you're gonna be called a xenophobe
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Speaker 1: or a racist, it doesn't matter. Stand up for the
29:45
Speaker 1: truth because the identity and the soul of this nation
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Speaker 1: depends on it. Mikey, can I get a time check
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Speaker 1: from you? Don't know what that means. He'll tell me
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Speaker 1: in a second. 30 minutes. So we're 30 minutes in.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 5: Good.
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Speaker 1: All right. I wanted to share this story with you
30:06
Speaker 1: guys because it, I'm going to just be honest, it
30:08
Speaker 1: had me a little bit concerned. It had me a
30:11
Speaker 1: little bit concerned about the state of the economy. And
30:14
Speaker 1: I think it's going to get better under President Trump,
30:16
Speaker 1: but that this was even an option made me just go, whoa,
30:20
Speaker 1: are we really here yet? Because the Swedish fintech company
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Speaker 1: Klarna and DoorDash, the this service where you get food
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Speaker 1: delivered to your door, they've introduced a payment plan allowing
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Speaker 1: customers to finance their food deliveries through interest-free installments or
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Speaker 1: deferred payments. Now, okay, so it's interest-free, I guess, but
30:46
Speaker 1: I'm just going to make the point here, you guys,
30:47
Speaker 1: that financing for homes, cars, education, I think that they've
30:52
Speaker 1: really created a veneer of security and wealth for the
30:56
Speaker 1: middle class. But way too often, it is a mirage
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Speaker 1: built on debt rather than true ownership. Mortgages stretch payments
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Speaker 1: over decades, tying families to properties that they don't fully
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Speaker 1: own until late in life, if ever, while car loans
31:12
Speaker 1: lock them into depreciating assets that lose value faster than
31:16
Speaker 1: they paid off. Student loans, meanwhile, saddle college adults, young
31:20
Speaker 1: adults with college graduated young adults, with six-figure burdens for
31:26
Speaker 1: degrees that don't always guarantee the promise of income, especially
31:29
Speaker 1: if you choose a very stupid degree, which a lot
31:31
Speaker 1: of people do. Yes, Mikey? This is what the Biden
31:35
Speaker 1: economy leads to. This is what the Biden economy leads to.
31:38
Speaker 1: But this is also decades of a debt-driven society, this
31:46
Speaker 1: credit-driven lifestyle. And it mimics the trappings of prosperity, shiny SUVs,
31:52
Speaker 1: suburban homes, diplomas on the wall. But it rests on
31:55
Speaker 1: a shaky foundation of monthly payments and interest. And it
31:59
Speaker 1: leaves a lot of people one missed paycheck away from collapse. Really,
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Speaker 1: it does. And it's less security than a leased dream
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Speaker 1: where the middle class feels rich until the bills reveal
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Speaker 1: the truth. And now they want us to finance food.
32:16
Speaker 1: And I get that it's not the same interest payments
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Speaker 1: as if you were going to buy a house or
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Speaker 1: you were going to buy a car or student loan debt.
32:26
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it makes you go, whoa. Like,
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Speaker 1: I can't believe that we've gotten to this point where
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Speaker 1: people are actually suggesting that we finance food. Here's Tucker
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Speaker 1: Carlson on the top 1% having more wealth than the
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Speaker 1: middle 60%. Take a listen. This seems like a recipe
32:45
Speaker 1: for social instability and ultimately for revolution. Absolutely. That's what
32:49
Speaker 1: happens in other countries.
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Speaker 10: The distribution of wealth in America has gone just like this.
32:53
Speaker 10: Now what we have for the first time in American history,
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Speaker 10: the top 1% has more wealth than the middle 60%.
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Speaker 10: It's never happened before. We find for the first time
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Speaker 10: starting in 2000, we find that American children can no
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Speaker 10: longer expect to live longer than and be richer than
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Speaker 10: their parents. That was what we all thought. We're going
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Speaker 10: to be better off than our parents and we're going
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Speaker 10: to live longer. That is no longer true. When I
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Speaker 10: was in high school, top 1% had about 30 times
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Speaker 10: as much wealth as the person in the middle. Now
33:23
Speaker 10: it's 72 times as much wealth. These crises that I've
33:26
Speaker 10: talked about, this transfer of wealth, absolutely is why Donald
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Speaker 10: Trump was elected president.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. And I'll just say this, you guys.
33:34
Speaker 1: Sometimes we talk about wealth inequality in the country. Everybody
33:37
Speaker 1: assumes you're a Bernie bro. Like, no, guys, I am
33:41
Speaker 1: a hater of socialism and communism. It's the worst thing ever.
33:44
Speaker 1: You can recognize that we have massive wealth inequality and
33:47
Speaker 1: that the system is broken and not want collectivism to
33:51
Speaker 1: be the solution here. Not Bernie Sanders. But this breakdown
33:58
Speaker 1: is not healthy, clearly. I think we can all agree
34:01
Speaker 1: that the middle class has taken a beating. And this
34:06
Speaker 1: ties into the first segment of the show a lot.
34:07
Speaker 1: I think about how disillusioned people feel by a system
34:11
Speaker 1: set up for GDP growth over real people. And he's right.
34:15
Speaker 1: This is why President Trump won. It's why Gen Z
34:17
Speaker 1: is becoming right wing. The liberal order has led to
34:22
Speaker 1: destabilizing inequality. And we don't want chaos. We don't want
34:27
Speaker 1: revolution like Tucker Carlson was saying earlier. could happen. That
34:30
Speaker 1: would be the worst thing to happen. Almost everywhere that
34:33
Speaker 1: revolution occurs, it goes horribly. The only shining spot was
34:39
Speaker 1: the United States of America. That's the one place where
34:42
Speaker 1: revolution was a good idea. Very often, it goes very
34:45
Speaker 1: poorly for the people who spark it. So we need
34:47
Speaker 1: leaders authentically looking out for us and prioritizing American prosperity
34:51
Speaker 1: over corporations. And one way, we've talked about this before
34:54
Speaker 1: on the show, could be getting rid of all the
34:57
Speaker 1: migrants here on H-1B visas who are devaluing coveted jobs
35:02
Speaker 1: and creating a surf class of U.S. citizens who cannot compete.
35:08
Speaker 1: And again, I just want to highlight how absurd it
35:10
Speaker 1: is that we're now suggesting people should finance food. That
35:15
Speaker 1: is such a sign that we are not in a
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Speaker 1: good place economically. Think about even what happened during COVID.
35:22
Speaker 1: one of the large, one of, if not the largest
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Speaker 1: redistribution of wealth where you had Amazon and Walmart stay
35:31
Speaker 1: open and main street shut down. And oftentimes those businesses
35:34
Speaker 1: never reopened the old, the people that the major corporations,
35:40
Speaker 1: they loved COVID. It was the greatest thing to ever happen.
35:42
Speaker 1: And they were never going to be forcibly shuttered like the,
35:45
Speaker 1: your local restaurant or your local gym. No, they were
35:47
Speaker 1: going to be fine because These are people with close
35:50
Speaker 1: ties to the government. These are people who are too
35:51
Speaker 1: big to be shut down. And then you had this
35:55
Speaker 1: massive transfer of wealth in this nation that has driven
36:00
Speaker 1: even further the destruction of the middle class. And I
36:05
Speaker 1: also mentioned that Michael and I grew up in the
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Speaker 1: most middle class city in America. It was named the
36:12
Speaker 1: most middle class city in America by, I believe, the
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Speaker 1: New York Times, Wausau, Wisconsin, And Wausau is an area,
36:22
Speaker 1: Marathon County, where Wausau's in. It went for Barack Obama,
36:28
Speaker 1: and then it flipped to President Trump, but it's been
36:30
Speaker 1: ruby red ever since because this is what's happened to
36:33
Speaker 1: the middle class. These people who have registered the way
36:36
Speaker 1: that industry has gone overseas, the way that foreign-born workers
36:40
Speaker 1: have taken jobs away, they recognize that the Democratic Party
36:44
Speaker 1: has abandoned them And they're going with something different. They're
36:47
Speaker 1: going with the populism presented by President Trump, the America
36:50
Speaker 1: First agenda. Again, this is an alternative to collectivism supposedly
36:56
Speaker 1: fixing the massive wealth inequality in this country. And we
36:59
Speaker 1: have collectivism try to fix the problem. Usually it doesn't
37:03
Speaker 1: make anybody better off. It just makes everybody else, everybody
37:06
Speaker 1: equally worse off. So, all right. I do want to
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Speaker 1: talk about this really interesting story from MRC Free Speech.
37:14
Speaker 1: And So, okay, shortly after President Donald Trump announced his
37:19
Speaker 1: cabinet nominees, Wikipedia started doing something weird. The editors significantly
37:25
Speaker 1: altered the pages of Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard,
37:31
Speaker 1: and Russell Vogt to emphasize, I guess, negative information. And
37:38
Speaker 1: these changes were, of course, timed during the confirmation process.
37:41
Speaker 1: So on purpose, people would look up the names of
37:43
Speaker 1: these potential candidates secretaries, they would get all this negative
37:48
Speaker 1: information on Wikipedia. So Pete Hegseth's page, for instance, saw
37:51
Speaker 1: the most drastic revisions with military awards reduced, medals stripped
37:57
Speaker 1: of images, and new sections like campaign to pardon war
38:01
Speaker 1: criminals and sexual assault allegation were all added alongside allegations
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Speaker 1: of misconducts and personal scandals. Patel's page was filled with
38:10
Speaker 1: accusations of dishonesty and conspiracy theory promotion. And Gabbard's entry
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Speaker 1: expended criticisms of her voting record, foreign policy stances, and
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Speaker 1: personal affiliations. All of these changes have been largely negative
38:27
Speaker 1: for these secretaries. And Brendan Carr, Pan Bondi, RFK Jr.,
38:32
Speaker 1: they also faced negative edits, I guess quite not at
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Speaker 1: the scale of the others. Wikipedia is one of the
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Speaker 1: most visited websites in the world. It appears on the
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Speaker 1: first page of 99% of Google searches and is the
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Speaker 1: number one result for a majority of all searches, according
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Speaker 1: to Search Engine Watch. So what I'm saying is this
38:54
Speaker 1: is like the site. If you search something, you are
38:58
Speaker 1: going to get Wikipedia, very powerful tool of information. And
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Speaker 1: this is likely a direct result of Google frequently using
39:07
Speaker 1: Wikipedia as a source for its knowledge panels, which often
39:11
Speaker 1: appear at the top of many basic online searches. And Google,
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Speaker 1: this is really interesting, but Google has given at least $ 7. 5
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Speaker 1: million to Wikipedia's parent company, Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia's fund,
39:25
Speaker 1: Wikimedia Endowment. So per MRC's Tom Olihan, it appears that
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Speaker 1: Google and Wikipedia have made a dual effort to influence
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Speaker 1: how Americans view the Trump administration. Past MRC Free Speech
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Speaker 1: America studies have shown how Google has elevated negative information
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Speaker 1: about the Trump administration officials And now it's clear that
39:46
Speaker 1: Wikipedia has been doing much the same. And again, there's
39:50
Speaker 1: a very close relationship between Wikipedia and Google. And look,
39:55
Speaker 1: I think this is a reminder. I think it's a
39:57
Speaker 1: reminder that big tech is not to be trusted. Google
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Speaker 1: donated $ 1 million to President Trump's inauguration fund. They want
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Speaker 1: to be on this admin's good side. But I don't
40:08
Speaker 1: think that we should reward the people who have spent
40:11
Speaker 1: years partnering with left-wing activists in the executive office to
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Speaker 1: censor right-wing voices. I think these people have monopolistic powers.
40:19
Speaker 1: I think they're way too involved and close with government
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Speaker 1: officials and various NGOs that were founded by former government officials.
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Speaker 1: This needs to end. And Mike Benz has a lot
40:29
Speaker 1: more information on this. All I'm going to say right
40:31
Speaker 1: now is it's a really good reminder that we still
40:34
Speaker 1: cannot trust big tech. All right, I have to get
40:37
Speaker 1: to the Department of Education because yesterday, President Donald Trump
40:41
Speaker 1: signed an executive order directing the dismantling of the U.S.
40:44
Speaker 1: Department of Education, aiming to shift education control back to
40:47
Speaker 1: state and local levels. Now, despite the significant spending of
40:51
Speaker 1: over $ 3 trillion since the Department of Education's inception in 1979,
40:56
Speaker 1: we've really seen no improvement in education. Here is President
41:01
Speaker 1: Trump signing this bill alongside a number of schoolchildren sitting
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Speaker 1: at their own little desks, practicing signing bills. executive orders
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Speaker 1: of their own in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 2: People have wanted to do this for many, many years,
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Speaker 2: for many, many decades.
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Speaker 11: And I don't know, no president ever got around to
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Speaker 11: doing it, but I'm getting around to doing it.
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Speaker 9: So thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: And you see the little kids, they all start to
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Speaker 1: hold up their little executive orders. It's so cute. I
41:34
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. I want you guys to
41:38
Speaker 1: listen to the president of the American Federation of Teachers,
41:41
Speaker 1: Randy Weingarten, demonstrate exactly why the Department of Education needs
41:47
Speaker 1: to go because we don't need any more power centralized
41:50
Speaker 1: with a few people that in the unions or in D.C.
41:55
Speaker 1: at the Department of Education, this needs to be given back.
41:58
Speaker 1: This power needs to be given back to parents, to communities.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to what Randy had to say.
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Speaker 9: COVID was a terrible time for us. And as you know,
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Speaker 9: because I was on your show a lot and other shows,
42:12
Speaker 9: I wanted schools to be reopened as early as April
42:17
Speaker 9: of 2020. The issue was the fear and the issue
42:21
Speaker 9: was the safety issues. But COVID has really hurt in
42:24
Speaker 9: so many ways. But this has been a Republican talking
42:27
Speaker 9: point for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Notice that Republican talking point. Yeah, it's not a Republican point.
42:34
Speaker 1: talking point. We're talking about real children. Women like Randy
42:44
Speaker 1: stunted the education of children in this country, the development
42:49
Speaker 1: of an entire generation, especially special needs children. People don't
42:53
Speaker 1: talk about that very often. My little sister has Down
42:56
Speaker 1: syndrome and she lost some critical time of early development
43:03
Speaker 1: that she could have had with specialists and therapists to
43:05
Speaker 1: get her going to make sure that she was on track.
43:08
Speaker 1: I mean, they really need to be hands-on with Down
43:12
Speaker 1: syndrome children to make sure that they're meeting millstones, that
43:16
Speaker 1: they're not staying stagnant. You have to keep pushing them
43:19
Speaker 1: because they need a little more support than regular children.
43:22
Speaker 1: So many kids were just abandoned in this time. Thousands
43:28
Speaker 1: of students never returned to class after the schools reopened,
43:31
Speaker 1: they just went missing. No one knows what happened to them.
43:35
Speaker 1: The isolation sparked by these lockdowns and these school closures
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Speaker 1: brought us suicide, depression, and anxiety among young Americans who,
43:44
Speaker 1: I have to point this out, more likely to die
43:48
Speaker 1: from the seasonal flu than COVID. It was completely ridiculous
43:52
Speaker 1: to lock them inside over this. Here's Stephen Miller articulating
43:56
Speaker 1: exactly why This is such an incredible thing for the
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Speaker 1: American people. We are ending the indoctrination of the children
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Speaker 1: of this country by patently insane people at the Department
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Speaker 1: of Education that is now gone. Take a listen.
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Speaker 11: The Department of Education here in Washington, D.C., is overwhelmingly
44:17
Speaker 11: staffed by radical left Marxist bureaucrats who are in every
44:22
Speaker 11: way hostile to Western civilization, hostile to American interests, and
44:27
Speaker 11: hostile to our founding documents and culture. And so they
44:30
Speaker 11: are using their position and influence inside the Department of Education.
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Speaker 11: to try to force agendas like radical gender ideology, like
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Speaker 11: critical race theory, like diversity, equity, and inclusion, and all
44:42
Speaker 11: kinds of anti-America curricula and policies on the American people,
44:47
Speaker 11: on our students, on our children. So it's taking away
44:51
Speaker 11: from parents the ability to control and direct the education
44:55
Speaker 11: of their own kids, of their own families. So we're
44:58
Speaker 11: going to do, under President Trump's leadership and direction— is
45:02
Speaker 11: to return that authority to the greatest extent possible to
45:05
Speaker 11: the local level where parents can control outcomes while at
45:08
Speaker 11: the same time making sure that no federal funds are
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Speaker 11: used to support racism, to support gender ideology, or support
45:16
Speaker 11: other ideas and principles that are offensive to the American taxpayer.
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Speaker 1: And they are offensive to the American taxpayer. And he
45:23
Speaker 1: is so articulate. And this is something for parents to
45:28
Speaker 1: be so hopeful about. You're finally going to have some agency.
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Speaker 1: control what's happening in the classroom. I mean, the policies
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Speaker 1: of some of these schools out of control, but especially
45:42
Speaker 1: the Department of Education, now we have that roadblock out
45:45
Speaker 1: of the way, is such a win for children and
45:49
Speaker 1: for parents. I gotta share this with you guys. This
45:52
Speaker 1: is on the topic of winning. This is Ana Navarro.
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Speaker 6: Police departments in South Florida are signing cooperation agreements to
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Speaker 6: be deputized as ICE. I keep thinking, okay, this is
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Speaker 6: going to change the way folks, they're gleeful. Everybody I
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Speaker 6: know who voted for Trump is gleeful and supportive of
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Speaker 6: everything he's doing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gleeful. America took the white pill, Anna. Things
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Speaker 1: are looking up. We're ignoring your toxic negativity and the
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Speaker 1: good vibes are just flowing in. I love how she's
46:29
Speaker 1: just shocked by this. She's like, I can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's so happy with what's going on. It's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we are. That's how out of step you are with
46:37
Speaker 1: regular Americans, Anna. You have no idea what people want
46:40
Speaker 1: in this country. Continue to cope and seethe. All right.
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Speaker 1: Disney's live action Snow White film starring Rachel Zegler is
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Speaker 1: opening in theaters today with one of the worst ratings possible.
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Speaker 1: for a live action film from the company ever. As
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Speaker 1: of Thursday afternoon, the film has a rotten rating on
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Speaker 1: Rotten Tomatoes with a score of 47% among 106 reviews.
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Speaker 1: And critics have not held back, those who have been
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Speaker 1: able to see the film before its release, and they
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Speaker 1: are calling it full of distracting flaws, a pointless and
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Speaker 1: awkward live action automation, something that might just put you
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Speaker 1: to sleep. Those are some of the descriptors for this movie.
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Speaker 1: And one critic writing for the New York Post summed
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Speaker 1: it up pretty sharply. He said, the timeless classic, a
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Speaker 1: groundbreaking achievement for animation, has been turned into another pointless
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Speaker 1: and awkward live action automation that vanishes from your mind
47:43
Speaker 1: the second that it's over. It was just like a
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Speaker 1: completely forgettable film. Nobody wants this. It wasn't good at all.
47:49
Speaker 1: And unless this movie somehow pulls off a miracle overseas,
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Speaker 1: which feels sort of unlikely, it's hard to see it
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Speaker 1: escaping the label of another Disney remake flop. The trouble
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Speaker 1: for this film started early on. I've been following it
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Speaker 1: really closely. I don't know if all of you have,
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Speaker 1: but Rachel Zegler has made a lot of divisive political statements,
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Speaker 1: first of all, voicing pro-Palestine views, which was a little
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Speaker 1: bit uncomfortable because her co-star Gal Gadot is a former
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Speaker 1: IDF soldier, so they're not talking right now, which is
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Speaker 1: a little bit problematic for the promotion of this movie.
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Speaker 1: And then there was the post-election moment where Rachel wrote
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Speaker 1: F Donald Trump and may Trump supporters never know peace.
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Speaker 1: Rachel Zegler is basically Disney's worst walking PR nightmare. But
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Speaker 1: the real misstep, the one that cuts the deepest, is
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Speaker 1: the reimagining of Snow White through the modern woke lens.
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Speaker 1: And Rachel herself proudly warned us about this shift back
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Speaker 1: in 2023. Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in
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Speaker 5: 1937 and very evidently so. There is a big focus
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Speaker 5: on her love story.
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Speaker 1: With a guy who literally stalks her. Weird, weird.
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Speaker 5: So we didn't do that this time.
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Speaker 1: So no prince or a different kind of prince?
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Speaker 5: We have a different approach to what I'm sure a
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Speaker 5: lot of people will assume is a love story just
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Speaker 5: because we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap,
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Speaker 5: great dude. It's one of those things that I think
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Speaker 5: everyone's going to have their assumptions about what it's actually
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Speaker 5: going to be, but it's really not about the love
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Speaker 5: story at all, which is really, really wonderful. And whether
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Speaker 5: or not she finds love along the way is anybody's
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Speaker 5: guess until 2024. All of Andrew's scenes could get cut.
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Speaker 5: Who knows?
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Speaker 1: It's Hollywood, baby. Well, it seems like she delivered on
49:38
Speaker 1: this This ethos of the movie, although Andrew's scenes were
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Speaker 1: not cut, he's still in it. According to Jack Posobiec,
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Speaker 1: this remake ditches the prince entirely. He's not in the movie.
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Speaker 1: And instead, Snow White falls for a bandit who pushes
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Speaker 1: her to lead a people's rebellion against the white fascist queen.
49:56
Speaker 1: And then there's the name change, of course. Snow White's
49:59
Speaker 1: title no longer reflects her famously fair skin because she's
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Speaker 1: not fair skin. This is not a white woman. Rachel
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Speaker 1: Zegler is Hispanic, like myself. And so now the name
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Speaker 1: Snow White is tied to a snowstorm at her birth.
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Speaker 1: And it's an obvious tweak given that Rachel Legler is,
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Speaker 1: of course, brown. They couldn't keep the original without confronting that.
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Speaker 1: And Disney cast Rachel in the wake of the George
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Speaker 1: Floyd rioting. And they were assuming, I think, that America
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Speaker 1: wanted diversity swaps and anti-white racism and just all of
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Speaker 1: the worst of the worst of woke. And that is
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Speaker 1: not the case because America doesn't want another girl boss anthem, clearly.
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Speaker 1: The classic heroine's journey begins Snow White's journey has been
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Speaker 1: stripped away. And this is a pattern that Hollywood repeats
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Speaker 1: over and over again. Women taking on men's quests, slaying
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Speaker 1: dragons and conquering kingdoms and leading a people's rebellion against
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Speaker 1: a fascist white queen. But in that pursuit, Disney and
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Speaker 1: other Hollywood elites erase what makes a heroine's path distinct
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Speaker 1: and beautiful. In the original tale, from the Brothers Grimm
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Speaker 1: to Disney's 1937 animated Gem, Snow White doesn't win through force.
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Speaker 1: She earns the dwarves' loyalty with her gentle spirit, her
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Speaker 1: nurturing touch, her willingness to tend to their home. And
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Speaker 1: her power lies in her kindness, her innocence, emotional connection,
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Speaker 1: feminine virtues that inspire others to protect and restore her.
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Speaker 1: And that's a stark contrast to the masculine hero's journey.
51:31
Speaker 1: It's a journey... Snow White's on just an entirely different one.
51:35
Speaker 1: But essentially, New Snow White seems to say to be
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Speaker 1: a strong woman, you have to be like a man.
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Speaker 1: It doubles as another jab at men, a quiet message
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Speaker 1: woven into culture that we don't need you. That's what
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Speaker 1: it's saying to men. No prince, no need to be rescued.
51:51
Speaker 1: A woman can save herself. It's kind of like that
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Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus song where she sings, I can buy myself flowers.
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Speaker 1: I can hold my own hand. The whole song is like,
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Speaker 1: I don't need you. Get out of my face. And
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Speaker 1: imagine how that lands for men who long to step
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Speaker 1: up and take responsibility, only to hear again and again
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Speaker 1: and again, you are not necessary, I don't need you,
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Speaker 1: get out of my face. You can even hear this
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Speaker 1: shift in the music. Here is Rachel Zegler singing in
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Speaker 1: the new film compared to the original Snow White. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so Rachel's voice is striking. It's intense. It's powerful. It's clear.
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Speaker 1: It's beautiful in its own way. She's a good singer.
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Speaker 1: But it is worlds apart from the original Snow White's light,
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Speaker 1: delicate tone and the sweet, bell-like clarity that it has.
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Speaker 1: One signals strength through command and the other through grace.
53:13
Speaker 1: And then there's the look of the film. And I'm
53:16
Speaker 1: glad Michael's playing that right now because you can see
53:18
Speaker 1: that the colors are just dull. Everything's flat. The dwarves
53:22
Speaker 1: are AI generated. We can throw that picture up there, Mikey.
53:26
Speaker 1: The costumes look cheap. The whole thing is sterile. It's
53:29
Speaker 1: partly due to digital camera because it's much less beautiful
53:34
Speaker 1: and much less vibrant in the post than actual film.
53:39
Speaker 1: But I think there's a broader creative drought here. Compare
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Speaker 1: this Snow White, this recent Disney Snow White, to a
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Speaker 1: low-budget German TV movie Snow White from 2009. Mind you,
53:53
Speaker 1: low-budget German TV version of Snow White. You tell me
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Speaker 1: which film looks aesthetically more beautiful. I mean, if you're listening,
54:31
Speaker 1: first of all, the German version features an actual white woman.
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Speaker 1: So there's no white erasure there. And it's so much
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Speaker 1: richer and so much more alive. And the costumes are
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Speaker 1: just much more beautiful. It doesn't look fake. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: look like AI. And Disney, with all of its billions,
54:48
Speaker 1: seems almost afraid of beauty. This obsession with digital effects
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Speaker 1: and AI, it is draining the magic from fantasy. It
54:56
Speaker 1: all circles back to something bigger, preserving the heart of
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Speaker 1: Western folklore. I think when we've divorced it from that,
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Speaker 1: we just automatically get ugliness. These stories, Snow White, with
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Speaker 1: its roots in the stories of Echo and Narcissus, Cain
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Speaker 1: and Abel, the fall of man, they build on each other.
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Speaker 1: There's a weaving of shared cultural tapestry. And when the
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Speaker 1: left reworks these tales, it's not just a movie gone wrong.
55:23
Speaker 1: It's the unraveling of the values and the essence that
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Speaker 1: hold the tapestry together. People deserve stories that feed their
55:29
Speaker 1: hunger for beauty, tales that lift them up with wonder,
55:32
Speaker 1: not drag them down with lectures. Disney's Snow White could
55:35
Speaker 1: have been a gift to a generation aching for something beautiful.
55:39
Speaker 1: And instead... It's clearly just another lame reminder of how
55:42
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