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Calling out Michael Knowles, Pete Hegseth's Failure, and Trump vs Iran · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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Welcome back, World of Blaze listeners, and today I'm flying solo.
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No guests today.
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We will have guests, though.
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We will continue to have guests.
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Well, sometimes I don't put all the words together, but I think point made, right?
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With that being said, I also want to address something.
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Since we've moved our hosts, we stepped away from Sprecher for various reasons,
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And I've chosen to not insert the advertisements lately
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just because I felt it was taken away from the show quite a bit,
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especially with the type of content that we present.
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And I'm not saying we will never have advertisements again.
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Believe me, it will come at some point.
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But right now, I just want to focus on the content.
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And I want as little interruptions as possible.
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it'll be worth our time, which will also equal less interruptions, which means you don't have
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to hear as many advertisements. But again, for now, I am going down the road of, for the moment,
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no advertisements, but again, they will return at some point, I'm sure.
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I also want to thank many of our listeners.
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Look, I want to address a few things.
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We've seen a crazy uptick in downloads from other nations in the world.
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But before I move forward to recognizing those nations, I want to really, really make sure
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that Iceland knows that I appreciate them.
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When I first started this, one of the first countries, the first international countries,
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first countries in the world that supported this show was Iceland.
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I was amazed.
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I was like, wow, I got downloads out of Iceland of all places.
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And they continue to do so.
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In fact, I've seen multiple downloads.
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Now, I have trackers and software and different things that we pay for that I can literally
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see a map of the world.
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I have a heat map that'll actually show me where your downloads are coming from.
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So I know exactly what cities these are all coming from, the general idea of the locations
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where these things are being downloaded.
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No, I don't have your address.
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And no, I'm not going to stalk you.
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But just saying, I can see the info.
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I can see that there's activity.
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There's activity in and around certain areas.
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So I just want to appreciate Iceland by thanking Iceland for continuing to support us.
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And recently, I also want to absolutely thank Australia and New Zealand.
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In fact, New Zealand and Australia are now in our top 10 countries in which all of our downloads are coming from.
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Number one is the United States.
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Two is the United Kingdom.
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Number three, Canada.
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Number four in our top 10, Australia.
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Number five is Germany.
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Number six is Sweden.
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Seven, there's New Zealand.
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Number eight, Ireland.
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Number nine, Mexico.
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And 10th on the top 10 list is France.
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But making one of the number one cities by downloads is Australia, and that is Sydney.
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and in the number five slot of the top 10 cities is Melbourne.
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So we got two large cities out of Australia that made our top 10.
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Thank you, Australia.
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And again, special thanks to New Zealand
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and appreciate everything that you guys are doing out there
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and supporting the show and spreading the word.
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And if you haven't, please share this show with others.
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And if you haven't done this either,
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click the damn notification button.
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Look, if you're already subscribing or following the show,
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you got to click the notification
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so you know when new episodes are coming out.
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Now, before you run out and do that, and I have to admit, I skipped a week roughly just because we've been going through a few things.
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My other businesses needed attention.
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One of my warehouses was recently broken into and robbed to the tune of, I think, nearly 30 grand so far.
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Haven't counted out all the, or even acknowledged or found how much stuff has been missing, but so far we found around 30,000 or so.
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I don't need your sympathy.
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I'm not trying to get you to feel sorry for me.
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just letting you know, hey, other things have been going on that demanded my attention.
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But that being said, this episode is long overdue.
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And yes, I will be addressing the signal messaging debacle that involves Mike Waltz and Pete
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Hexeth, which I'll definitely get to.
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But first, I don't know if I have a bone to pick with this person or kind of disappointed,
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But listen, I don't usually call out other podcasters or media personalities really often.
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I mean, I do, but at least not really often on this show.
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I kind of save those antics and shenanigans from my other show I do with my brother, Random Thoughts with Manuel George.
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And that's where we get a little bit more loose, you know, kind of just talk shit, let things happen there.
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but I was listening to Michael Knowles and I,
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I can good admit this to everybody.
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Listen,
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I do check in with some of these guys in terms of listening.
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See,
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see what's going on in their heads,
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get a little,
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little idea for the pulse of things,
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but I'm not an avid listener.
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I'm not someone who goes out of the way to listen to somebody like Michael
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Knowles,
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Ben Shapiro,
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or whatever flavor of the day of the bastion of conservatism is because I
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just honestly don't agree with everything they say.
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And many times or more often than not, I find it to be quite mundane, monotonous, boring.
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And to be honest, when it comes to Michael Knowles, it's really, he seems more like he's
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more of a, more of a Bishop of the Catholic church than anything else lately.
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And again, he's not someone that I'm here to down.
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I am bringing this up because I'm just slightly disappointed, slightly disappointed.
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And I'm not attacking his belief in Catholicism either.
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is just the way he comes across.
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He's a highly intelligent person.
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You can't argue he isn't.
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He's well-read.
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But his recent, well, one of his recent episodes,
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he does put them out quite often,
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but one of his recent episodes I listened to
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where he was addressing Andrew Tate.
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He's brought him up before,
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but in this particular episode,
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I felt like or came across as if he was kind of defending him
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in a way for being a slave to his own sin.
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for not being able to help himself
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because it's just his character and who he is.
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And I'm sorry, but that's wrong.
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I got to call that one out
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because Andrew Tate is someone
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that I've talked about before.
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My brother has.
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Shoot, almost everybody I know has at some point.
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Look, he's a public figure.
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No matter how you want to slice this up
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and try to digest it and take it in,
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he's a public figure.
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He says stupid shit publicly.
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He's just somebody who is in the limelight, as they say.
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And so if someone has an opinion about what he says or does, well, then that's just what it is.
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Everybody has an opinion because he's not hiding who he is.
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And he may try to say, well, it's all entertainment and fun, but is it really there, Andrew?
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And before I dive into a little bit about what Michael says, because I'm actually going to play clips from that episode, and you'll be the judge.
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And if I'm wrong, if I took this wrong, then correct me.
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And if Michael gets wind of this, good.
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I really don't care because I'm sure he's an amazing wordsmith with a large vocabulary and probably could debate me all day until I get tired and just say, fine, whatever, throw my hands up.
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But I'm not here to talk about Catholicism.
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I'm talking about the fact, at least the fact as I see it, and what you said, and what you said about Andrew Tate.
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And again, Michael, if I misinterpreted, fine, on me.
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But I'm still going to address it.
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I still am going to address it.
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But before I do so, I want you to hear a little bit about Andrew Tate, because Andrew's going out recently and just slapping lawsuits on everybody on social media who has an opinion or says something about him.
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for defamation, but defamation based on opinions that people have made or come to make based on
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things that he has actually done. And the argument Andrew always has is that, well,
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it hasn't been proven in a court of law. There's no evidence against him. Well, yes, there is,
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Andrew. There is evidence. It's all over the internet. It's everywhere. It's from YouTube to,
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I mean, anywhere there's a video format available, it's on X.
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It's everywhere.
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Everywhere you haven't been banned anyway.
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And so you do have a body of evidence, a body of work, which people can judge you by.
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And, but, you know, nonetheless, he's slapping a lawsuit on everybody he can to try to get them to shut up because he doesn't want to hear the noise, basically.
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And he's realizing there's nowhere else for him to run and shut people out.
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look, they're over it.
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They're over it.
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But here's a clip.
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It's a compilation.
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It's kind of long.
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I may not play the whole thing.
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I may chop it up a bit
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just so you don't have to sit
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through four or five minutes of this.
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But here's Andrew
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in his own words
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throughout the years.
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That teaches basically
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how I got girls,
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how I met girls,
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how I got girls to like me,
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how I got girls to fall in love with me
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to work on webcam for me.
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Because that's what I did.
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That was my MO was find girls,
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make them love me
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and make them work for me.
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And that's how I got rich.
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So that teaches everything I know from start to finish about not only getting girls, not only obtaining them, but retaining them.
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I used sex as a tool to make women love me so they'd obey me and live in my house and make me money.
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That's what I wanted.
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So I was a pimp in that sense.
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Like I was not trying to have sex with women.
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I was trying to get women to obey me.
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And I realized that's easier if they like to have sex with me.
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If they don't like having sex with me, it's pretty hard to make them listen to me.
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I don't mention webcam until after I've had sex with the girl.
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You, your bottom bitch, the new girl, you go out for fucking a nice dinner.
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Your bottom bitch is the one who does the selling.
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You don't do the selling.
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The girl has to hear it from a girl.
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And this is where your bottom bitch has to be trained.
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That's why I said it's so important to have a good first girl.
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So far, Andrew sounds like a winner, right?
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He doesn't sound like anybody who would ever do anything wrong.
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He just, you know, this just is who he is.
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It doesn't mean he's actually carrying any of these actions out or his beliefs out.
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He's just maybe entertaining.
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He's doing what he has to do to retain and maintain his followers.
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Possibly, maybe.
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But these are things that he has said throughout the years repeatedly and hasn't changed cadence,
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hasn't really changed his view.
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But here's more.
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They didn't teach you in self-defense?
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Here's a little move.
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When I grab you by your neck and you start annoying me trying to resist and I just...
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And then I grab you by your neck again. Then what the fuck you gonna do when your face is collapsed and your fucking cheekbones broken?
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You ain't gonna do shit but cry. I guarantee I changed the way you look at sex forever. You're gonna be fucking crying. I won't cry
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I bet you cry bitch. I bet you fucking cry. You're saying I wouldn't cry. You're challenging me to a fight
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You saying I can hurt you right your fucking mind I don even have to fuck you forget the sex part That a distraction My dick can stay in my pants I just start beating the shit out of you
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So, I mean, is it still performance?
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He's right here again on another video that was recorded that he actually released on his own social media platforms where he's talking about, you know, sex with it doesn't matter.
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I'll just beat you.
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I'll just beat a woman in submission so that, well, they'll do what I tell them because it's
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all about making that money, right?
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Okay.
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Here's a little bit more.
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If you don't believe me, here's his view on why he would even pursue a woman.
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I have to fuck her so she obeys me.
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I don't give a shit about having so many beautiful women.
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I fuck them so they listen to me so I can get what I actually want, which is not them.
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It's a means to an end.
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Every single Bond girl was exploited.
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That's exactly what I do.
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When I watch a Bond film and I see him basically pimp a bitch,
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to me that speaks to my heart.
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I've been there.
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I've done that.
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Anyone who's followed me long enough knows that I first made my million dollars
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with the webcam business.
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I have met beautiful women with a good personality and thought,
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she will make me money.
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I have to f*** this bitch.
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I don't want to f*** her.
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I just need the money.
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Now this clip is interesting because Andrew's always,
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or at least lately has denied how he made his money.
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Oh, webcam business, that was just talk.
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I never really did any of that.
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But in this clip, he admits to making his first million through a webcam business.
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He even says that if anybody has ever followed me, you would know this.
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You know this is what I did.
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This is how I made my money.
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This is what I do.
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Yet, we still have somehow conservative media personalities, podcasters,
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who defend this guy, who give this guy oxygen, so to speak, and continuing to talk and host him.
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And they claim, well, hey, I have a right to talk to whoever I want, just like anybody else. But
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none of them ever push back on Andrew. None of them hold him to task. Nobody hold him accountable
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for anything because they're all afraid of getting sued. They're afraid of Andrew just throwing a
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lawsuit at him. But why would you have him on a show if you're not going to challenge the
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controversy in which he surrounds himself, why would you not challenge his statements that he's
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ever made instead of patting him on the back and acting like he's a leader of the free world?
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Like he is somebody that all young men should look up to and aspire to be when he absolutely
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isn't. Hell, he even just came to America. Finally, they let him come here. I'm not sure the
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complete details of why or how he was allowed or whatever, but he left Romania, came to
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the United States and immediately went on a podcast tour.
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He's had his opportunity on Patrick Bet David,
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which I am very surprised that he even hosted Andrew Tate.
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And during that entire episode, didn't even challenge Andrew Tate on anything.
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He just kind of let him run his mouth.
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And they just all nodded their head as in agreeance,
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which I think is horrible.
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You have Candace Owens, who's always supported him for whatever reason,
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saying, oh, he's just a victim of circumstance.
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He didn't really do anything.
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They're targeting Andrew because he's just Andrew.
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Well, that's bullshit.
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That's bullshit.
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The evidence is out there.
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The evidence in how he carries himself, the things he says.
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Now, that may not be physical evidence, but there are reports.
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There has been many people who've come forward that have spoken against Andrew.
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And this is even before he is, I mean, as famous as he is now.
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I mean, he's always been in the limelight, but he's, let's just be honest.
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He's probably more famous today than he's ever been.
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And people have come out.
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In fact, he couldn't even hold back.
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Apparently, one of his ex-girlfriends, while he was in the US, made a claim.
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I'll just say alleged, but Andrew Tate, his ex-girlfriend, Bree Stern, is suing him for
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sexual assault.
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According to her, he choked her during sex.
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It got out of control, went too far.
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Things that Tate always says he doesn't do.
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How many people need to come forward before we actually hold him accountable?
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Why do we even entertain this guy?
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Sure, it's a free world.
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Sure, Tate has not been convicted in a court of law,
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whether abroad or in the United States,
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but state of Florida is investigating him now.
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The United Kingdom wants to get their hands on him
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for things that he has allegedly done in the United Kingdom.
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And Romania, where he just went back,
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he went back to face the music
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as he still stands firm in the fact
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that he is somehow innocent.
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Maybe he is innocent.
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Maybe he is.
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It's yet to be determined.
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And if he is innocent, great.
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Then he's innocent.
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But he needs to denounce everything that he said and how he built his wealth.
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Because the messaging is either way, not good.
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Not good for anybody.
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Especially when you have young men who look up to him.
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Boys look up to him.
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This is not the way to carry yourself, Andrew.
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But again, let's get back to Michael Knowles.
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I did all that just so you get an idea of this person.
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So Michael Knowles recently, I'm not saying he's behind Andrew Tate 100%, but again, someone who has built their career on being a conservative with very, very stern roots in Christianity who claims to live their life by all principles of Catholicism.
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And Michael very well may.
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I don't know him personally.
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I really don't.
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And again, I don't listen to the man every day.
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I check in once in a while.
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I probably do what many of you do.
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I bounce around and hear this person, that person here and there.
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But I'm too busy in my own life to give too many of these guys my attention.
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And I have my own show to worry about.
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So with that being said, I'm going to play a little bit of what Michael Knowles says
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about Andrew Tate.
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And I encourage you to listen to his entire episode so that you can come to your own conclusion.
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I think it was episode 1,703.
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if you want to look that up,
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labeled my day at the White House
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with four cabinet members.
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And once you get past listening to his pontification
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and how amazing he is
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and how he is one of the many few
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of the new media personalities
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to be invited to the White House,
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he does go on to discuss Andrew Tate a bit.
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And I'm just going to play a little bit of the clip
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from where he is, in my view,
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kind of defending his actions
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because he's just a victim of his own addiction.
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His defense of that is,
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when a video came out of him hitting a woman
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and threatening a woman
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and saying all the things that have come out
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in these text messages,
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he says, oh, we're just playing around.
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That's our kink, basically.
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And I kind of believe him on this.
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He clearly, it's one thing for a man to hit a woman.
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That's horrific enough.
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But for a man to text about how excited he is to hit a woman and wait for the response back, that's clearly a deeper kind of pathology.
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So that's why I'm speaking about it because I don't think anyone, including Andrew Tate, would dispute the basic allegations of this case or this claim that's just come out recently within the last couple of weeks.
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The question is, is it good or bad?
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Hold on. So is that the question, Michael? Not the action, but whether it was a good or bad action
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based on whether or not it was a kink of his, whether he just has a sexual preference for
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choking and beating women. All right, let's continue this.
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All in good fun, or was this abusive? And I guess my question is, what's the difference?
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I've made this point before when people are really ironic all the time. They're really ironic.
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millennials are guilty of an extreme degree of irony.
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And I think, well, if you're ironic all the time,
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then I think you're just kind of earnest.
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Okay, so is it okay because it's ironic?
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I'm trying to understand here.
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I'm trying to understand, Michael.
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What exactly is your point?
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See, maybe I misunderstood you, ma'am, taking this wrong,
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But so far, I'm not quite sure the point you're trying to make.
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And if you don't really have a good point to make about Andrew Tate in terms of whether or not this is good or bad, then why speak at all?
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Other than to get downloads and clicks and whatever, because he's such a controversial character.
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But let's continue Michael Knowles' opinion.
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If you do something ironically all the time, then that's just what you're doing, and that's just who you are.
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and and the story about tate it it gets to a much deeper political and spiritual problem which is
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he appears to be a slave to his own passions if this stuff is true if the things he said in public
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are true that he really gets off on hitting women and feeling that he owns them and branding them
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putting his name and tattoos on their bodies if all these things are true they obviously appear to
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be true, then he's got a problem. He's a slave to his own disordered appetites and passions.
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Oh, I see. So even if it's true and could be construed as wrong, he's just a slave to his
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own appetites and desires. He's just a victim of his own addiction. So therefore, what? We should
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be sympathetic. We should be more understanding. What's the point we're making here, Michael?
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I'm disappointed here. I mean, listen, you can listen to the whole episode. You can listen to
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that whole section, which starts at about 32 minutes in so that you can come to your
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own conclusion.
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Because I'm not here to beat up Michael Knowles here on a podcast, by the way.
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He's not in front of me.
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So we can't debate this.
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I'm not on his show.
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He's not on mine.
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We probably never will be on each other's shows, which doesn't hurt my feelings whatsoever.
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But the reality is there is an alarming pattern of conservatives kind of jumping to the defense of Tate.
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And while Michael's not outright saying, look, his actions are absolutely fine because they're all just allegations.
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No, Michael does go on to say, look, there's been a history here.
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A lot of it may be true.
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It could very well be true.
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It might even seem to be true based on his patterns and his history based on reports and tweets and everything else that he's done.
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But it goes on to justify what he's doing because, hey, the guy just has an addiction problem.
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This is all just a kink.
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He gets off on beating women because it gives him sexual gratification, because it allows him to feel like a bigger person, because he can control another.
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and make them bend to his will
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so that he can make money off of their sexual abuse.
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All right.
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Well, maybe I'm off.
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Maybe I'm wrong in that interpretation,
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but Michael, we expect better of you,
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especially since, let's just be honest,
24:27
since Dan Bongino pretty much hung it up
24:30
and he's now deputy director of the FBI,
24:34
everybody's turning to other podcasters,
24:36
at least in the conservative side,
24:37
for who's the next guy, who's the next leader.
24:39
and so far Michael's name's been coming up more and more
24:44
and Michael Knowles has become even more popular than he has been
24:50
just because of the void that was left by Mr. Bongino.
24:54
Whether you like Dan or not, it's not really the question here.
24:56
It's just a matter of fact that Michael Knowles is kind of stepping into that void.
25:02
And if that's the position that you want to be in, Michael,
25:05
and you want to be the bastion of truth and light
25:08
and Christian morality and lessons,
25:13
and that's how you want to project yourself
25:17
and claim how others should live their life,
25:20
we can't be justifying people's actions,
25:25
words even, messages, whatever it is,
25:27
that are based in abuse and hatred and manipulation
25:32
because they just can't help themselves.
25:37
Now, Michael does go on to use some biblical references and continues to say how the weight
25:45
of sin is a yoke upon you and et cetera, et cetera.
25:49
And he does say, hey, maybe don't do that thing that Andrew Tate does, right?
25:52
So he's not coming to his full defense, but I do feel like there's a bit of justification
25:57
like oh poor Andrew poor guy He can help himself He just addicted and if he just comes to God all will be forgiven and all will be right
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And according to the Christian faith, sure, sure.
26:10
Just come to God.
26:10
Everything's good, forgiven, but will humanity forgive him?
26:16
I mean, I'm not here to get into any spiritual and moral arguments as far as the principles
26:22
of Christianity are concerned, but the reality is actions and deeds have been done.
26:26
and this guy needs to be called out on it.
26:30
I mean, sorry, but let's just stop supporting Andrew Tate.
26:33
Let's just stop giving him the platform
26:36
to try to win hearts and minds over.
26:41
Or maybe we should give him the platform,
26:42
just let him talk and let him continue to expose himself.
26:46
I don't know.
26:46
Either way, Michael, I expected more of you.
26:49
I expected that you would have been a little bit more harsh
26:54
or stern upon someone such as Andrew Tate, who's in complete contradiction, contrast to
26:59
what you completely believe in and how you choose to live your life. But hey, Michael, again,
27:06
not here to beat you up. Just had to call you out on this one. And continue to do the good work.
27:13
I mean, listen, your show's doing great. And I'm sure you don't care what I have to say,
27:18
but I'm also not going to be one of those people who just toes a line, sits down,
27:22
and doesn't call people out on their shit because, well, it needs to be done.
27:28
Anyway, good luck to you, Michael, and on your continued endeavors.
27:34
Now let's move on to matters of national security.
27:38
Leaked messages.
27:40
People who are included in sensitive chats and conversations that shouldn't be included.
27:45
And of course, I'm sure you figured out that I'm talking about the signal chat debacle
27:51
that included Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, and a reporter from The Atlantic somehow.
27:59
Well, so what is Signal?
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Well, Signal is an end-to-end encrypted application that is approved for communication.
28:09
Actually, it's been approved to be used by departments in the government.
28:13
It's an application that has been used by our military.
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In fact, many different organizations and militaries throughout the world from different
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countries, obviously, territories, et cetera.
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And the reason that is used is because it's considered to be one of the more secured apps
28:30
out there or applications.
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I can tell you for a fact that, well, I have people who serve in the military that I know
28:37
personally.
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And the conversation of this chat app, Signal, has come up before.
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I know the Marines use it.
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And while people question how and why that Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic was added in this chat, it does happen.
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I've been told by various individuals who served in the Army and Marines and other branches that they would somehow be included in chats in Signal that they don't feel they should have been included in.
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there would be newly enlisted people grouped in with officers who are communicating and talking
29:15
about various different things. And now they may not all be necessarily sensitive secret information,
29:19
but definitely is an example of where not all individuals should be in the conversation,
29:25
but somehow have been inadvertently added. So is signal something that government officials
29:33
truly do use? Yes, absolutely. In fact, here is our Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
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speaking of this herself. The Signal Message app comes pre-installed on government devices.
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In December of 2024, SISA stated, quote, we strongly urge highly targeted individuals to
29:52
immediately review and apply best practices provided in the guidance to protect mobile
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communications, including consistent use of end-to-end encryption. And they named Signal as an
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app as an example of such an end-to-end encrypted messaging app. Ideally, these conversations occur
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in person. However, at times, fast-moving coordination of an unclassified nature is
30:15
necessary where in-person conversation is not an option. So there you have it. Tulsi goes on to say
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that these apps or this app in particular, the Signal Messaging app is pre-installed in government
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devices is a recommended app to be used for when you can't have those face-to-face conversations.
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But she does go on to say that we need better guidance when it comes to highly targeted,
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sensitive individuals, when it comes to messaging and when it comes to using this app in particular.
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So there is kind of an admission that, yeah, we can use this, but it's not recommended.
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It could be a problem.
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And in this case, recently, it has become a problem.
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Pete Hegseth has gone on to defend himself because why wouldn't he try to defend himself?
31:08
He feels that he himself didn't do anything wrong.
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So the question has come up, you know, how did this journalist, this editor of the Atlantic
31:16
Journal or the Atlantic, how did they get invited?
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How did Jeffrey Goldberg get invited to the conversation?
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How was he added?
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So it goes on to say, well, it was Mike Walsh,
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National Security Advisor Mike Walsh who did it.
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And then Mike Walsh goes on to point fingers and go,
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it wasn't me, it was one of my staffers.
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So Hexeth is pointing at Waltz,
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Waltz is pointing at his staffer,
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and nobody wants to take responsibility,
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which is ridiculous.
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I just can't understand how when you're at this level that you can come to the conclusion
31:58
that you could just pass the buck and not take responsibility, especially when it comes
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to Pete Hegseth.
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Pete, you are the Secretary of Defense for the United States of America, one of the most
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powerful nations, if not the most powerful nation in the world, with one of the or really
32:17
the most powerful military in the world.
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You can't just pass the buck here.
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You're the CEO, my friend.
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You're the one.
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The buck stops with you.
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You have to take responsibility.
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But instead, he goes on to blame the shenanigans,
32:32
again, not on his staff or anybody else,
32:34
which he really shouldn't.
32:35
He should just blame it on himself and take responsibility.
32:38
He goes on to try to discredit said editor,
32:43
reporter of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg,
32:46
by saying this guy pedals in garbage.
32:47
he's nothing more than a misinformation hack.
32:52
Here's that clip.
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You share how your information about war plans against the Houthis in Yemen
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was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic.
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And were those details classified?
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So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist
33:11
who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again
33:15
And to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax.
33:25
So this is the guy that pedals in garbage.
33:28
Wow, Pete, not the response we expect from the Secretary of Defense of the United States.
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What's the proper response here?
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Well, Pete, I would say maybe we have no words.
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We apologize for this leak or alleged leak.
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We have no idea how this happened.
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We're going to look into this and make sure this never happens again.
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We take our national security and security of our military that are out in the field conducting operations seriously.
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and we will do everything in our power to make sure that these secrets and these communications
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never see the light of day outside of anyone who is authorized to do so.
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That's it.
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Something similar to that.
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I mean, I know it's not perfect.
34:25
I didn't write it out and polish it.
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That was on the fly here just off the top of my head.
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And if I can do that, I'm very sure that Pete Hegsitz is more than capable of making an even
34:33
better response that is acceptable.
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and he needs to apologize.
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He needs to apologize.
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The other thing he needs to do is just shut the fuck up.
34:42
Listen, Pete, you fucked up.
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Your department fucked up.
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There's no other defense other than,
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I'm sorry, we fucked up.
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We're not going to do it again.
34:49
We're going to make sure that we make sure
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that this never happens again, period.
34:53
Now, we can argue whether or not
34:55
this was top secret information.
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That is mute.
34:59
That point doesn't matter
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because the reality is the messages have been leaked.
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There are times.
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Pete Hegg says, team update, time now, 1144 Eastern.
35:09
Weather is favorable.
35:10
Just confirmed with CENTCOM.
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We are a go for mission launch.
35:14
Okay, well, look, maybe this is no longer a secret, but maybe it is.
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If an unauthorized individual was invited to the party in this conversation,
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could he have easily talked about this at the time that this was happening?
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how fast do you think that that message could have spread to where all of a sudden it's like,
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hey, attack is happening now. Get ready. Make sure that everything is prepared and that nobody
35:42
is there and that we don't take any casualties or we can come up with countermeasures right away.
35:47
No, there's a screenshot here that I have. Look, you can search social media everywhere for this.
35:53
it's been leaked. Goldberg has also leaked these things. I don't even know if it's actually in the
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Atlantic in a release, but he's spoken about it and he's released some of the information.
36:05
And I also got to call out Goldberg here. Look, Jeffrey Goldberg, you're not in the clear.
36:08
You knew you were not supposed to be a part of this. Wouldn't you as an American citizen,
36:13
someone who is concerned for the safety of America, its militaries and others,
36:18
shouldn't you have chimed in and said, whoa, wait a minute, guys, I don't think I should be a part of
36:23
this conversation so that they could have been aware and readjusted. And maybe you could have
36:28
excused yourself, but no, you chose to stay on the chat to view everything you could to get all
36:35
the information because the slimy little fucktar journalist in you couldn't put America first
36:41
either. You had to put yourself first because what you did after the fact was say, well,
36:47
hey, I'm not going to spread this around. I'm just asking questions and blowing the whistle here.
36:53
Look, we have a breach. There's something going on. Then later, you leaked more information about it
36:57
because by then, it was deemed to not be classified info. Look, the action has already
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happened. The operation is done. So now you're like, you know what? Whatever. Here you go, guys.
37:08
Look, we have a problem here. And now you're going on a little bit of a speaking tour and
37:11
getting interviewed about it. No, because the slimy journalist in you who wants the clicks
37:17
and likes couldn't help yourself either. My opinion, my opinion, Jeffrey, come at me. I
37:22
don't really give a fuck. But Peter Hegseth, Mr. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense Hegseth,
37:29
you need to do better too. You need to take response of fucking ability. You need to apologize
37:33
to the American people. You have to realize that this is an issue. You can't just discredit it
37:39
because of some journalists who claim to be a misinformation propagandist who was behind
37:45
various hoaxes that they reported to not be true was in on this.
37:50
Like you can't, there's no level of words or operations of discrediting an individual
37:56
you could take at this point because you can't deny the information that was leaked was not
38:02
true because it happened.
38:03
The operation happened.
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There are too many people involved that know that these things happened.
38:10
And so where are you at, Peter?
38:12
Listen, Pete, a lot of people trusted you.
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A lot of people were behind you being put into this position.
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Don't let America down.
38:22
You got to be better.
38:23
You got to be the guy that is not afraid to take the brunt of the blow.
38:30
you need to defend yourself, but you also need to realize when there has been a wrong,
38:38
and you need to assure the American people that you're not going to stand for this,
38:42
and it will never happen again, but you didn't do that. You kept digging yourself a hole by trying
38:47
to defend yourself and discredit others for the incident, when in reality, the buck stops with you,
38:54
my friend you are the guy who needs to speak up and needs to write the ship and correct the error period Do that Shut your fucking mouth
39:09
Move forward.
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And all should be well.
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All should be well.
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But correct the mistake and don't ever make it again.
39:21
Now, let's move on to other matters of concern.
39:24
tensions are rising globally over various conflicts between various nations and of course
39:31
the U.S. is involved in most of them as people expect the U.S. to offer their support
39:37
but let's let's talk about another issue that has come to light that is escalating and that is one
39:46
between the U.S. and Iran.
39:49
So Iran refuses to negotiate and come to a deal on its nuclear program.
39:57
You see, there has been a longstanding deal,
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or at least there has been some sort of arrangement
40:06
regarding Iran's nuclear program ever since,
40:09
I think it was the 80s or late 70s, somewhere in there.
40:13
When the Islamic regime change happened, extreme Islamic regime change anyway.
40:20
So here we are.
40:23
And today around it's like, no, no, no.
40:25
You know, we're not going to comply.
40:27
We're not going to do anything to make a deal with the United States of America.
40:32
And the more recent agreement, I believe, was penned in 2015.
40:38
And I believe every so many years, we kind of just check in on this agreement.
40:41
But the whole premise is, look, we don't want or most of the world doesn't want Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
40:54
They want to limit their nuclear capabilities.
40:58
Why?
40:58
Well, because most of the world believes that Iran is crazy enough to just use them.
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Just willy nilly.
41:07
Like, hey, we're going to use this nuclear weapon because we can.
41:11
Now, the agreement that was finalized in 2015 was between five permanent members of the United Nations.
41:23
So there's China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US.
41:26
I think it was US and Germany together on this.
41:29
And it also involved other members of the European Union.
41:33
So most of the world really wants to keep Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities under control.
41:40
which at the time included China and Russia.
41:43
Now, I don't know if China's changed their tune lately,
41:46
but while China does look to keep their partnership with Iran solidified
41:51
and continue to make money with Iran
41:55
and improve their efforts in commerce between the two countries,
42:00
even China knows that Iran may just be crazy enough to use nuclear weapons.
42:03
Now, China's a nuclear power.
42:05
So is Russia and so is the U.S.
42:07
And for the most part, while the US and China may disagree and we don't like each other and everybody thinks Russia is a dangerous country ran by a tyrannical, murderous dictator or authoritarian presence in Vladimir Putin, the reality is all these countries, China, US, and Russia, are using nuclear warheads and nuclear weapons as more of a deterrent to keep things from getting out of control.
42:35
because it's like, hey, you got a big dick?
42:37
I got a big dick.
42:37
Look, we all got big dicks.
42:38
We're all swinging seven to 10 inches here.
42:40
What are we doing?
42:41
Do we really want to do this?
42:42
Do we really want to start going to war
42:43
on a very nuclear level here?
42:46
Do we want to do that?
42:47
No, no, we don't.
42:49
We don't.
42:49
But Iran seems to not be able to be trusted
42:53
when it comes to this.
42:54
So fast forward and here we go.
42:58
Trump is trying to come to the table with Iran
43:01
to make a deal,
43:01
a deal that would minimize or take away sanctions on Iran so that they're able to trade openly
43:09
on all the markets, including that with the US, I believe. But the problem is, is Iran saying,
43:15
nah, fuck that. We're not doing that. We're not going to do it. We're not going to comply. We're
43:20
not going to come to a deal. We don't want to talk to you. We don't want to engage with you.
43:23
We don't care. We're going to do our own thing. We do not comply. We don't give a damn.
43:28
and Iran's a sovereign nation.
43:30
They have a right to do whatever they want.
43:33
And so Trump has threatened Iran.
43:36
Reading from Reuters, a report released March 30th,
43:39
Washington March 30th,
43:41
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday
43:43
with bombing and secondary tariffs
43:45
if Tehran did not come to an agreement
43:47
with Washington over its nuclear program.
43:50
In Trump's first remarks,
43:51
since Iran rejected direct negotiations
43:54
with Washington last week,
43:55
he told NBC News that U.S.
43:58
and Iranian officials were talking but did not elaborate.
44:02
Trump goes on to say and is quoted saying that if they don't make a deal,
44:06
there will be bombing.
44:07
Trump said in a telephone interview,
44:09
it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.
44:15
And so Iran has responded.
44:18
This coming from the Telegraph.
44:20
It says that Iran has warned that it will target British forces
44:25
in the Chagos Islands.
44:26
if Donald Trump attacks the Middle Eastern nation.
44:29
After Mr. Trump threatened military actions against the regime
44:33
if it did not make a deal with the U.S. over its nuclear program,
44:37
a senior Iranian military official told The Telegraph
44:39
that Tehran would strike the joint U.S.-U.K. naval base on Diego Garcia
44:45
in response to any U.S. attack.
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There will be no distinction in targeting British or American forces
44:51
if Iran is attacked from any base in the region
44:54
or within the range of Iranian missiles.
44:56
he added when the time comes it won't matter whether you're an american british or turkish
45:03
soldier you will be targeted if your base is used by americans iranian state media said that tehran
45:11
would strike the diego garcia facility with ballistic missiles and suicide drones and
45:16
retaliation for any u.s hostile action against the iranian nation it warned iran possesses adequate
45:22
weapons for such an attack from its mainland, such as newer versions of the Khoromashir.
45:29
I can't even pronounce it correctly.
45:30
But anyway, certain newer versions of this missile that have an intermediate range and
45:36
the Shahed 136B Kamikaze drone with a range of 4,000 kilometers.
45:43
So there you have it.
45:45
Iran is putting their foot down.
45:48
They're threatening the US directly.
45:51
And I get it.
45:52
They don't want to be under the U.S.'s thumb.
45:54
They're a sovereign nation.
45:55
They have a right to control themselves, their own programs, whatever.
45:59
But the U.S. isn't the only nation concerned with Iran's capabilities if they develop a
46:04
nuclear weapon.
46:06
The world is concerned.
46:07
We know that Iran will wipe Israel off the face of the earth if they can.
46:12
And they've already said they're not going to make any distinction against any country.
46:16
I mean, they're going to use the U.S. as an excuse, but it sounds like they just want
46:19
to start going to war with somebody.
46:22
Now, can we afford this war?
46:25
Can anybody afford another large-scale war in the Middle East?
46:29
In fact, I have a feeling that if this happens, if this pops off, as they say, that this will be a very large-scale war in the Middle East that can drag in Russia and China.
46:43
See, the tensions here are real because both Russia and China are allies of Iran.
46:49
And if that's not enough, China is an ally of Russia.
46:54
Russia is still fighting Ukraine.
46:57
We still can't come to a deal there.
46:59
The UK and France are completely supporting Zelensky.
47:04
And we may very well be dragged into a war there as well,
47:08
if anything, to back up our allies and quite possibly save their ass.
47:15
Maybe.
47:16
I'm not going to take anything away from the United Kingdom or from France, but let's just
47:21
be honest.
47:23
Russia is a formidable force.
47:26
But if all of Europe stands together, they may have a chance.
47:29
But in the end, we know the US is going to have to step in.
47:32
And the US rightly should.
47:35
We need to protect our allies.
47:36
We need to jump to their defense, especially with such a major threat.
47:39
But if that happens, then now we got to look at China jumping in.
47:43
Iran has already sent drones and other capabilities to Russia in support of the war on Ukraine.
47:49
North Korea is also backing Russia currently with troops over there fighting against the Ukraine.
47:56
So anything right now can trigger a world war.
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And now Iran is saying, look, we're not involved in this whole Ukraine debacle.
48:09
I mean, they're not directly saying it, but stick with me.
48:13
They're not really involved in that directly, but now they're saying, you know what?
48:17
Fuck you, US.
48:18
We're not going to comply.
48:19
We're not going to talk.
48:20
We're not going to negotiate.
48:21
We're just going to bomb you.
48:22
If you so much as dare look in our direction, we're going to bomb your allies and anybody
48:31
who has a US base that you choose to use in attacking Iran.
48:37
Now, why is this such a big deal?
48:41
Well, Iran uses proxies to attack the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East.
48:48
We're talking the Houthis, for example, who have attacked merchant ships in the Red Sea.
48:53
And in response, the U.S. has, well, they've bombed or missiled the Houthis in Yemen.
49:00
And Iran has been vocal in all this.
49:03
And Iran is now saying, you know what?
49:05
we're going to start being indiscriminate and just bombing U.S. bases and their allies that
49:10
have U.S. bases if the U.S. attacks Iran. And they're using this whole nuclear program
49:19
negotiation as the excuse. But we all know that they've just been itching to do this anyway
49:24
and have been indirectly doing so through its many terrorist organizations or their proxies.
49:30
So Iran is at the point now that they're making direct threats against the U.S.
49:37
So will President Trump follow through on his promise?
49:41
Is he going to start bombing Iran?
49:44
Is he going to indiscriminately go after Iran and wipe them off the face of the earth?
49:48
How many innocent people will be killed in this exchange?
49:53
And what's hard about the Middle East, from my understanding anyway, outside looking in
49:58
with many of these conflicts is the terrorist organizations and groups
50:02
who carry out these attacks integrate themselves into society.
50:09
They're so intertwined, it's hard to target them.
50:12
It's hard to attack them directly because they put themselves right into the
50:19
general population because in their mind, they won't get blown up or attacked
50:26
because they know that nations like the U.S. would prefer not to go after
50:31
and kill innocent civilians.
50:35
So how is Trump going to handle this?
50:38
I mean, we can do strategic strikes.
50:42
We have the technology's capabilities to carry them out very accurately.
50:46
And we can use special forces to target high-ranking individuals in Iran.
50:54
I mean, we've used the SEALs to take out Osama bin Laden.
50:58
I'm sure that if the U.S. really, really, really wanted to, I mean, really wanted to,
51:03
they can take out heads of state of Iran.
51:08
I'm not sure what the right move here is.
51:11
There's a lot of back and forth, a lot of talk, a lot of posturing.
51:14
But the world is really a powder keg.
51:17
I mean, think about it.
51:18
we've got the Ukraine-Russia situation where that, I mean,
51:23
we're just a hair's breadth from walking into World War III there.
51:29
And now we have Iran popping off over here in the Middle East.
51:34
Not that they have ever been silent or peaceful necessarily,
51:41
but they're directly threatening the U.S. and its allies.
51:44
And then we got to still think about the fact that we got China over here, who is a ally of Iran, an ally of Russia. And either of these conflicts can draw all three of these nations together around Russia and China to come together to fight the United States and its allies.
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Yeah.
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crazy times, crazy times.
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And I'm just delivering the information here.
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I don't have an answer.
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I'm not in that position to give you an answer on what's right or wrong here,
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but I want to make everybody aware of what's happening.
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And I want you to think on it a bit because there is a real threat looming here
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that we all may have to face that I don't believe is going to be landlocked.
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It's not going to stay local to any nation where the war is being fought.
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This may reach over into the United States itself on our own soil.
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And we have to be aware of that and be prepared and be ready.
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There are people that are smarter than me when it comes to these things and making these
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assessments, but I have to go with my gut on this.
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And I have to say, be ready, be prepared, stay vigilant, keep your head on a swivel,
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and don't be afraid to call things out if it just doesn't look right.
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because I think we're under a real threat to our safety and security on our own soil.
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And we are definitely under a constant threat and security situation abroad with our allies.
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We're getting closer and closer to a large-scale confrontation
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that for years everybody has been trying to avoid.
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And maybe it's unavoidable.
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Maybe it's unavoidable.
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And I'm hoping that a lot of this is just a bunch of hot air and talk and posturing.
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But when you look at what's happening here, and getting back to China, by the way, who's
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increased their military exercises and bullying out in that Asia region Plus you know what going on again as I said with Iran and what going on with
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the Ukraine-Russia war.
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I have a feeling that, I mean, this is just such, this whole situation is literally a
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hair's breadth.
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I mean, a hair's breadth.
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Think about that statement.
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a hair's breadth away from a globally catastrophic incident that will affect all of humanity.
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And I hate to end this show on such a downer and such a down note,
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but we got to look at the realities.
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We got to be smarter.
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We got to be prepared.
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We got to be able to recognize the signs that may lead to our own downfall
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and maybe that of the entire planet.
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I mean, this is very scary times right now.
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And with that, I will leave you and hopefully not leave you with nightmares.
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