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    | title         = [[997: January 8, 2025]]
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    | episodeNumber = [[997: January 8, 2025|997]]
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    | text      = Hey, everybody. Welcome to Knowledge Fight. I'm Dan.
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    | text      = Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
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    | text      = What's your bright spot today, buddy?
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    | text      = My bright spot is twofold.
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    | text      = Okay.
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    | text      = One, uh, forgot to mention it but we, uh, we were recently on God Awful Movies.
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    | text      = Oh, yeah.
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    | text      = And, uh, we discovered a great auteur of the MAGA world.
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    | text      = (laughs)
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    | text      = Uh, if, I don't recommend that people go watch his show necessarily-
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = ... but I think it's fun to hear us discuss
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    | text      = a MAGA creator who we actually think has a accidental depth to him. (laughs)
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    | text      = Yeah, I don't want people to watch it, but I want people to watch it so they can think about it-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... way more than- than watching it. So, so don't watch it, but
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    | text      = think about what you might want to think about real hard.
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    | text      = Yeah, it was a lot of fun, so thank, uh, thank them for having us on.
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    | text      = Yes, thank you very much.
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    | text      = Um, and then the second fold is-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = ... we have a weird food thing.
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    | text      = Keeping up the 20-25s.
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    | text      = I like it.
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    | text      = Four-fives, five-fives.
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    | text      = Right, I like that.
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    | text      = Um, so I w- I noticed-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = ... Pringles.
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    | text      = They have some varieties out now. They have some new varieties.
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    | text      = All right.
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    | text      = I wanted to give them a test drive.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = So first one was a everything bagel.
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    | text      = Okay.
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    | text      = Trash.
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    | text      = No, I love an everything bagel.
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    | text      = I do, too. Does not-
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    | text      = It's one of my favorite bagels.
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    | text      = Doesn't translate to a Pringle.
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    | text      = It makes sense.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = How could it?
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    | text      = I f- I felt disgusted and I did not even finish the can.
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    | text      = Makes sense.
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    | text      = I am sure some people will enjoy it, but it was not for me.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = But I do like an everything bagel, and I actually think, um,
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    | text      = you know, it- it has an interesting flavor because of the poppy seeds-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... and the- the onion and all that. Uh, but, yeah, it doesn't work.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = And the other one is a Hot Ones, uh-
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    | text      = All right.
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    | text      = ... Los Cali, uh, Los, uh, Calientes.
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    | text      = Ah.
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    | text      = One of their hot sauces.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Um, and, uh, it's pretty hot.
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    | text      = I believe that.
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    | text      = It's- it's nice. Yeah. And that's not even like a crazy, crazy-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... hot version of their- their hot sauces.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = That's middle of the road in terms of a... It's a pretty hot chip. I like it.
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    | text      = Nice.
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    | text      = It's, uh, it's not bad.
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    | text      = Nice.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = They've, they've really taken over a lot of shit, the Hot Ones.
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    | text      = The Hot Ones, yeah.
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    | text      = Wow, did that go fast.
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    | text      = It did. And I- I- I also, I- I w- 'cause I saw this can-
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    | text      = ... I- I reflected on how long it's been since
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    | text      = I've watched one of them and how much I enjoyed it, uh, you know, a number of years back.
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    | text      = 10 years ago, yeah. Yeah, yeah. (laughs)
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    | text      = And also how much it's like, I don't really eat that crazy of spicy stuff anymore.
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    | text      = Right. Right, right, right.
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    | text      = Um, a- a- and I- I, you know, obviously some things are a phase.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = And, uh, maybe it was a little bit.
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    | text      = Hm.
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    | text      = But I had, uh, some crazy hot Nashville chicken the other day.
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    | text      = Okay.
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    | text      = Um, and I had, I- I experienced what I used to seek out.
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    | text      = And I- I- I- I kind of remembered it a little bit.
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    | text      = You enjoyed it?
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    | text      = Uh, not really.
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    | text      = (laughs) Okay.
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    | text      = But I remembered what I enjoyed.
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    | text      = Right, right, right. I gotcha, I gotcha.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = It was worth it, but it was not worth it. (laughs)
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    | text      = Well, I ha- I- I remembered that it was, it's basically like a feeling of, "I don't know if I can survive this."
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = "Can-"
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    | text      = Oh, okay.
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    | text      = It's a feeling of like-
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    | text      = And that's what you were seeking out.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah. It's- it's a- ingesting something that is like, "This might kill me or I
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    | text      = might kill myself because this will never stop."
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = And then getting through that.
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    | text      = The alleviating of that-
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    | text      = ... is- is really what I enjoyed.
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    | text      = There's so many problems I'm dealing with. This one I know I can endure.
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    | text      = I like the flavors of a lot of spicy foods too, but it is, I- I do realize,
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    | text      = having had that experience again, it was a little bit of like food-based-
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = ... uh, uh, jump, base jumping or something.
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    | text      = Flangulation, yeah. (laughs)
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = Um, so anyway, uh, cheers to the Los Calientes, cheers to the everything bagel.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = What's your bright spot?
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    | text      = Uh, my bright spot is, uh, I finished it. Uh, I posted it up on my website, uh, part one of, uh, my new book.
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    | text      = Nice.
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    | text      = There.
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    | text      = Do you have a name?
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    | text      = Uh, yeah, it's called The Institution.
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    | text      = Oh.
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    | text      = Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = Okay.
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    | text      = Um, and, uh, yeah, it's on my website, The Quiet Part Loud. There's a PDF and an EPUB.
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    | text      = All right.
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    | text      = You can have one or t- other.
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    | text      = Not both?
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    | text      = Um, you can have both.
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    | text      = You have to choose one.
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    | text      = Ah, I would, how would you, how would you-
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    | text      = You should force people to choose one.
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    | text      = I actually, uh, well, I actually did make them two different versions.
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    | text      = Oh.
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    | text      = Uh, I, well, I did the same thing-
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    | text      = Different endings?
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    | text      = No, not like that.
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    | text      = Oh.
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    | text      = But I did the same thing with, uh, The Quiet Part Loud, uh, was that all three versions and the audiobook
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    | text      = have small differences within them. I don't know why, I just like doing weird stuff like that.
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    | text      = Well, the audiobook would naturally have that-
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    | text      = Sure, it'd be, yeah.
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    | text      = ... 'cause you're reading it and it, you know-
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    | text      = Totally.
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    | text      = It would have some even just inflection differences they make.
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    | text      = Well, and also a, a guest turn, a guest star turn from you. Uh-
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    | text      = I know the, I remember that I produced it.
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    | text      = (laughs)
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    | text      = But I don't remember that I said anything in it.
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    | text      = No, there was a, there's a specific section that's in s- uh, Spanish from, uh, a specific region.
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    | text      = Uh, and you, I had you put in like, "Jordan is not going to try and accent on this." (laughs)
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    | text      = Completely forgot that I did that.
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    | text      = It was great.
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    | text      = But I mean, it's now going on my reel.
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    | text      = It was absolutely IMDb page.
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    | text      = So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.
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    | text      = All right.
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    | text      = Uh, we're gonna be talking about January 8th, 2025.
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    | text      = Okay.
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    | text      = Four-four, five-fives.
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    | text      = I think, here, how about we do this? You do four-four-
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    | text      = I'm trying to force you.
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    | text      = ... and I'll do five-five.
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    | text      = Nah.
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    | text      = Ah, fair enough.
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    | text      = We'll come up with something better.
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    | text      = Okay.
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    | text      = Um, but, uh, you know, this is, uh, the day after the, uh, fires in California spread-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | timestamp = 00:06:03.619
    | text      = ... a great deal, so we're gonna hear, uh, some of Alex's coverage of that.
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    | text      = Oof.
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    | text      = Which is good.
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    | text      = I believe you.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = I believe that this is the one where he turned it around. It's-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... it's too close to where Joe Rogan used to live.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Oh, boy.
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    | text      = Um, obviously, uh, you know, our hearts go out to everybody who was affected-
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    | text      = Absolutely.
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    | text      = ... uh, by, by the fires.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Totally.
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    | text      = And, uh, hopefully, uh, you know, there's- there's recovery efforts that can, uh, go smoothly.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = Um, and, uh, it is unfortunate that we have to listen to Alex be a real dick about this. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Oof, what a weird, what a weird turn for us.
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    | text      = Uh, but before we get into, uh, all of this, let's take a little moment to say hello to some new wonks.
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    | text      = Oh, that's a great idea.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So first, uh, this is the coffering for my dragon
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    | text      = queen. Without the coffee in her hand, she'll kill all the villagers in the land.
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    | text      = This is the coffering for my dragon queen. Without this coffee every morn, she'll eat all the babies born.
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    | text      = This is my coffeering. Thank you so much. You are now a policy wonk.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I'm a policy wonk.
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    | text      = Thank you very much.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Coffeering.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Coffer- coffeering, yeah.
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    | text      = I get it. I get what it's going for, I just don't know how to say it exactly.
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    | text      = It's like a coffering. Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Coffee offering.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | timestamp = 00:07:06.939
    | text      = Yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = Uh, next, Jordan, let's nuke this seventh dimension. Thank you so much. You are now a policy wonk.
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    | text      = I'm a policy wonk.
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    | text      = Thank you very much. The eighth is for Buckaroo Banzai.
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    | text      = Okay.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:07:15.759
    | text      = Uh, and happy birthday, Hannah, from
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:17.819
    | text      = Colorado Village Collective. Jace face says you smell. Thank you so much. You are now a policy wonk.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:22.439
    | text      = I'm a policy wonk.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:23.298
    | text      = Thank you very much.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:24.158
    | text      = And we got a technocrat in the mix, Jordan.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:07:25.439
    | text      = Ooh.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So thank you so much to, uh, to Steve, happy 40th from Amy Chen and the Dinosaurs. You are now a technocrat.
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    | text      = I'm a policy wonk.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:07:33.358
    | text      = Before you start, go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:36.238
    | text      = Someone, someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:38.858
    | text      = Daddy Sharp. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:44.319
    | text      = black accent. He's a loser, little, little titty baby.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:07:48.738
    | text      = I don't wanna hate black people. I renounce Jesus Christ.
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    | text      = Thank you so much.
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    | text      = Yes, thank you very much.
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    | text      = So we start off here on, uh, on the 8th, and, uh, you know, the problem's the left. Uh-
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    | text      = Obviously.
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    | text      = ... left is doing these fires. Um, and, uh, here's Alex, uh, doing his first, uh, pitch at being a dick.
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    | text      = Oh, God.
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    | text      = ... I, I guess, um... And that's a logical extension of what he's saying.
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    | text      = I- I mean, it makes sense. Like, he's going for
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:16:17.835
    | text      = socialism by fear of cannibalism, I believe is what's happening here.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Hey, and if so, I'm on board.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = If that's what it takes.
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    | text      = (laughs) Right, sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Whatever it takes to get you there, man.
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    | text      = So, um, Alex, uh, talks a little bit about Cloward and Piven.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:16:29.975
    | text      = Not Jeremy.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:16:31.514
    | text      = I know.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Not Jeremy Cloward.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Nope.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:16:33.955
    | text      = Anyway, e- it has something to do with the fire.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:16:37.274
    | text      = What is Cloward and Piven? Well, it's
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:16:39.155
    | text      = not the first time governments did this, but it put it into a cosmology and a political formula
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:16:44.534
    | text      = in the 1970s
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:16:46.316
    | text      = by two communist professors,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Cloward and Piven, the Cloward and Piven strategy, and they said, "We will overtake
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:16:55.735
    | text      = the social safety network
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:16:58.676
    | text      = and get people addicted to it and crank it up so high to make people dependent,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = and within a generation, we'll collapse America
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = and blame capitalism, and on its ashes bring in total communism."
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:17:09.634
    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:17:10.575
    | text      = And what did Ezekiel Emanuel say on Fox News
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:17:13.595
    | text      = 10 years ago, and others? He said, "Oh, Obamacare was always meant to
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:17:18.234
    | text      = treble prices and collapse the old system
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:17:21.075
    | text      = and bring in
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:17:22.454
    | text      = a government system, but it'll still be run by big corporations that make the profit.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:17:27.315
    | text      = They just socialize the profit for themselves and
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:17:30.075
    | text      = privatize the debt to you." So, when you see the fires... all over the Western world,
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    | text      = Lahaina
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:17:42.535
    | text      = years ago in Maui,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = and you look at what really happened there, and you look at what's happening in Los Angeles right now, at
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    | text      = every level, at every step of the way,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:17:56.615
    | text      = this is not mismanagement.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:17:59.255
    | text      = This is perfect
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = administrative, economic, industrial
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:18:05.835
    | text      = sabotage.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:18:08.355
    | text      = This is murder.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:18:10.214
    | text      = This is destruction. This is scorched earth. This is siege
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    | text      = by design.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:18:16.275
    | text      = So Cloward and Piven were two academics who put forth a theory
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:18:20.174
    | text      = in the 1960s. Their basic point was that the way that the current welfare state was designed was inherently
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = meant to not address the problem of poverty, but to put a Band-Aid on it. There are tons of social
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = safety net type programs that people are eligible for, but the state actively dissuades them
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = from knowing that they're eligible from the, uh, for them,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:18:38.275
    | text      = and tries to make them reluctant to sign up for these programs.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = They theorize that if massive welfare drives were organized, then people
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = who were eligible for public assistance would be more likely to sign
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = up for the help that they needed. In the process, it would create a burden that the existing welfare
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:18:52.974
    | text      = system could not handle because the idea that it's actually meant to handle that, uh, uh, is an illusion.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:18:58.994
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:18:59.134
    | text      = And that's an illusion that we understand and can maintain because the system hasn't been, uh, crushed by-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:19:05.894
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:19:06.154
    | text      = ... people getting the aid that they're eligible for.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:19:07.694
    | text      = It works until you go look for it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yes. By having people sign up for the assistance they were eligible for
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:19:13.214
    | text      = but the state could not provide, the welfare system would collapse, and from that collapse would come the
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    | timestamp = 00:19:17.674
    | text      = need to redesign what we consider welfare. The hope was
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    | text      = that the pressure that this would apply would revolutionize how
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:19:23.994
    | text      = we dealt with poverty, and ideally would bring about some
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = form of universal guaranteed income. This didn't happen, but
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = because it's an attack on the existing welfare state that's rooted in a desire to actually
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = help and provide more assistance to the poor, it's the scariest thing for people on Alex's side of things.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:19:41.575
    | text      = Attacks on social welfare programs are supposed to be about hurting
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    | timestamp = 00:19:44.434
    | text      = the poor and consolidating wealth among the
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = powerful, not improving the lives of people in a desperate situation.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:19:50.234
    | text      = So when there are people who are attacking
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = the system from the other side, they're even worse than the system.
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    | text      = Right. Yeah.
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    | text      = For him.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah. That makes sense.
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    | text      = Yeah. And I don't know what it has to do with, uh, the fires or anything, but I...
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    | text      = I was wondering about that particular
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    | text      = element of it, and I was wondering if it was because of Cloward and Piven that we got the 80% cannibal part.
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    | text      = I think that 80% of people are eligible to be cannibals.
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    | text      = I think that's a good point.
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    | text      = Do you wanna have a cannibalism drive? (laughs)
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    | text      = I think we should, 'cause that'll get the welfare state off of our backs.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = When there are fewer people to put a drain on it-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = ... we've eaten them.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = So Cali- California, the issue, uh, that Alex has identified-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = ... is that they didn't have these fire breaks.
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = But Texas does.
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    | text      = Oh, God.
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    | text      = Texas totally does.
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    | text      = Oh, God.
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    | text      = I live in an area that
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    | text      = has these big fire breaks put in by the
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    | text      = fire department, by the county, 'cause I live on, on the edge of the city,
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    | text      = and it's nothing but neighborhoods there, so you never
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    | text      = see big crowds on the greenbelt there,
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    | text      = on Barton Creek. When you get closer to the town,
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    | text      = you'll see thousands of people walking around, like, it's beautiful. But
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    | text      = where I live, there's just nobody there. You might see one person every
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    | text      = few months when I go walk down there almost every day. Beautiful creek, cliffs, hills, but there's huge...
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    | text      = 50-foot-wide roads
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    | text      = all the way down it, all the way out through the county, and it's got fire department little signs
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    | text      = in the middle of the neighborhood
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    | text      = where they come in and... fire hydrants,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:21:23.134
    | text      = because if there's ever a big wildfire and
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = it's coming through, they've gotta stop it there. It's a fire break.
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    | timestamp = 00:21:29.134
    | text      = Now, Texas hadn't been completely taken over by the
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = globalists, but there have been city council proposals to cut
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = the funding and, for the county and the city, and to stop
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    | text      = maintaining fire breaks, which are not expensive to do compared to the cost of the fires.
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    | text      = So when we get dry weather, we get hot winds, and the fires come in, they rarely destroy houses
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    | timestamp = 00:21:51.414
    | text      = because they run into
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = fire breaks, fire mitigation. So,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = the UN proposed in the '70s, they became a treaty in 1992, Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit,
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    | text      = Agenda 20... 21.
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    | text      = What?
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    | timestamp = 00:22:07.994
    | text      = Oof, too late.
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    | timestamp = 00:22:10.494
    | text      = And it said,
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    | text      = "We are not going to
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    | text      = touch..." And it's got thousands of things they're gonna do, but amongst it,
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    | text      = "We're gonna destroy the dams,
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    | text      = we're gonna deny farmers water,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = and we're n- uh, not going to
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    | text      = mar the earth with fire mitigation."
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    | text      = The word fire appears three times in the Agenda 21 report.
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    | text      = It's okay.
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    | text      = And at no time do they say they not wa- they don't wanna mar the world with fire mitigation.
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    | text      = What are you gonna do?
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    | text      = They actually even say, like, make more dams than, uh-
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    | text      = Psh.
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    | text      = ... you know, that... destroy the dams.
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    | text      = Alex is just making all this up and then pointing to the prop that he's created that's labeled Agenda 21.
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    | text      = He does this when he name-drops Cloward and Piven or the Club of Rome.
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    | text      = There's no actual information being conveyed here, and he's not even really citing a source.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = It's more deflection than a citation at all.
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    | text      = And also, Texas has had plenty of fires. Alex just ignores them-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:02.914
    | text      = ... in order to maintain this illusion.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:05.134
    | text      = Last year, there was the Smokehouse Creek Fire, which burned over 850,000 acres in 48 hours
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:23:11.815
    | text      = and would go on to spread to Oklahoma in over one million total acres of coverage, killing two people.
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    | text      = That was the largest wildfire in Texas history, but I guess it probably only happened 'cause
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:23:21.015
    | text      = Beto O'Rourke did fine at the polls.
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    | timestamp = 00:23:23.174
    | text      = That sounds right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:23:23.855
    | text      = This is bullshit.
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    | timestamp = 00:23:26.454
    | text      = There, uh, you know, like, you can have,
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    | text      = you can have all kinds of good preparation-
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    | timestamp = 00:23:32.414
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:32.835
    | text      = ... and things can still go bad.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:34.875
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:35.394
    | text      = You can do decent preparation and still have missed some points.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = You can have mismanagement
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    | text      = and
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:42.634
    | text      = have a complex situation. Uh, it, it doesn't-
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    | timestamp = 00:23:45.315
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:45.335
    | text      = ... have to be like this.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:46.174
    | text      = We're a giant ball of rock orbiting fire,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:23:48.714
    | text      = orbiting a black hole. What the fuck is... Anything could happen, I get that.
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    | text      = Right, yeah.
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    | text      = I don't understand how you can both be like, "Ah, the globalists are our number one enemy.
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    | text      = Also, city councils are a, a issue, an issue."
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    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:00.755
    | text      = They're an issue. Like, you can't have b- I don't feel like you can have both.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:03.835
    | text      = The city council doesn't wanna maintain the fire breaks-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:06.494
    | text      = Uh, bu- but-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:06.795
    | text      = ... 'cause of the devil.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:07.535
    | text      = ... what's the point of Cloward and Piven then if we've got city councils already on the job?
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:12.474
    | text      = Right.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:13.315
    | text      = I don't know.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:13.855
    | text      = Weird.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:14.454
    | text      = Also, h- how does the devil play into this? Second-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:16.575
    | text      = Good question.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:17.527
    | text      = Weren't we supposed to be having a catastrophic contagion?
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:21.086
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:21.247
    | text      = Wasn't that where we were?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:22.507
    | text      = Well...
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:23.067
    | text      = Weren't there aliens?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:24.126
    | text      = Ah...
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:24.807
    | text      = What's happening?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:25.708
    | text      = That different thing is happening now-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:27.208
    | text      = Right?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:27.208
    | text      = ... so we're exploiting that.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:28.288
    | text      = People were... Uh, their attention is over on something else, so you're trying to hijack that shit.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:32.307
    | text      = I mean, if you wanted-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:33.067
    | text      = Fuck you.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:33.086
    | text      = ... to argue that the devil created city councils, that's a conversation we can have.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:37.926
    | text      = Hm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:38.267
    | text      = But beyond that, I don't know what to tell you.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:39.646
    | text      = But you know that, that the devil says is, uh, think globally, act locally.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:43.166
    | text      = I think that's right. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:44.067
    | text      = Yeah. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:44.386
    | text      = It's, it's in the details.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:45.788
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:46.047
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:46.448
    | text      = The devil is.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:47.126
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:47.646
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:48.166
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:48.606
    | text      = Deviled eggs.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:49.208
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:50.047
    | text      = No, that was nothing.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:50.827
    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:51.507
    | text      = So, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:53.386
    | text      = there's a conspiracy here.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:54.767
    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:55.086
    | text      = Um, and it has-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:55.586
    | text      = There would have to be.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:56.067
    | text      = And it has to do with insurance companies.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:57.686
    | text      = Okay.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:58.047
    | text      = But it's not what you think.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:24:59.047
    | text      = I... (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:00.166
    | text      = Two months ago, all the major insurance companies
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:04.527
    | text      = started pulling almost everybody's insurance
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:08.007
    | text      = in the key areas and people are now noticing, wait, it's even the areas
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:13.767
    | text      = of all the dozens of fires in different parts of LA in the last 48 hours,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:17.487
    | text      = it's, it's, it's like key specific areas that just so happen-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:21.646
    | text      = Don't do this.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:22.067
    | text      = ... to have the fires.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:24.267
    | text      = Now, I'm not saying the Democrats went around and
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:26.167
    | text      = set all the fires, though back when they were trying to kick Trump out of office
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:29.067
    | text      = four years ago, Antifa got arrested all over the country, all over
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:31.926
    | text      = Canada, lighting fires that would barely make the national news.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:35.708
    | text      = And when it only made local news, people would try to post it on Facebook or X
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:39.846
    | text      = when it was Twitter and they'd, they'd be blocked.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:42.267
    | text      = They arrested hundreds of leftists setting fires all over the country.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:45.586
    | text      = Sorry?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:46.926
    | text      = To create a sense of doom, a, a, a sense of fear.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:51.567
    | text      = Came out that Hollywood ordered all the people that were getting money
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:54.707
    | text      = through their, through their
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:25:56.727
    | text      = ESG program, their, their, their, their corporate credit score. We want despair, we want
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:26:01.627
    | text      = depression, we want demoralization so people then associate that with Trump.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:26:05.886
    | text      = This is all a load of bullshit, but it would be
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:26:07.767
    | text      = really fun for Alex to try to substantiate some of these claims. Like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:26:11.106
    | text      = I wanna see the paper trail of these Hollywood payments that were given out to, like, thousands of
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:26:15.507
    | text      = leftists to start fires to create bad vibes for Trump.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:26:18.547
    | text      = I mean...
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:26:18.987
    | text      = (laughs) It's sad.
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    | text      = Jesus Christ.
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    | text      = There's a certain kind of pathetic that Alex embodies where
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = every event that happens just has to be filtered through this
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    | text      = prism. This can't just be a huge tragic fire. He needs to use it as fuel for his own
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    | text      = fire, which is all about how everything is an attack on
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    | text      = Trump, and by proxy, himself. I was curious about this insurance
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    | text      = conspiracy that Alex was talking about, and it turns out that
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    | text      = Alex is just repeating something that his mortal enemy Kamala Harris said recently.
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    | text      = Quote, "Many insurance companies have canceled insurance for
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    | text      = a lot of the families who have been affected, uh, and will be affected, which is only going to delay
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    | text      = or place an added burden on their ability to recover." It's so weird that he's not crediting her. It
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    | text      = feels like his audience would find that context interesting.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Alex is playing these games because the angle that he wants the audience to come
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    | text      = away with is that these fires were set on purpose as part of an elaborate globalist plot. The idea
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    | text      = that insurance companies canceled policies in the affected areas two months ago
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    | text      = is clearly meant to be evidence of premeditation, and it would only tarnish his, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Alex's ability to implant these ideas in the audience's head
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    | text      = if he brought Harris into the conversation, so it doesn't work for the conspiracy.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:27:25.067
    | text      = What happened here is not that insurance companies have canceled all these
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:27:29.406
    | text      = policies in advance of the fires that they're planning to set. It's that insurance companies are
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    | timestamp = 00:27:33.866
    | text      = businesses that seek to maximize profits.
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    | text      = It's been an existing problem that homeowners insurance in California is super expensive for people to get
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    | text      = because a lot of companies can't profit off it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:27:45.247
    | text      = California's a state with some decent
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = consumer protection regulations, so the insurance
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = companies are limited in what rates they can charge. And given, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = that the risk is fairly high in California
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:27:55.747
    | text      = with the incidences of fires and earthquakes, insurance companies know that insuring homes in the
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:28:00.967
    | text      = state with a, i- i- has the potential to lose them a lot of money. So State
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:28:05.406
    | text      = Farm announced last March that they wouldn't renew approximately 72,000 existing policies in California
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:28:11.346
    | text      = and stop selling new homeowners insurance policies in the state. It was not
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:28:15.586
    | text      = profitable for them as a business, so they chose not to do it. Now, there's been a big fire
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:28:20.567
    | text      = and the ability to exploit this decision, uh,
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    | timestamp = 00:28:23.727
    | text      = is there, so you see people like Alex weaving a conspiracy out of it. But
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = if you'd asked them a couple months ago when this wasn't as hot a topic, why would they have any
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    | text      = problem with State Farm choosing to do this, or with any insurance company deciding
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = where they wanna do business and where they feel they
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = can't make a profit doing that? Are insurance companies supposed to be benevolent, self-sacrificing
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:28:45.186
    | text      = entities that exist outside of a profit motive?
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Definitely not to Alex. Absent a giant fire to exploit emotionally, Alex would
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = strongly defend an insurance company's right to do business how they want.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:28:57.866
    | text      = In California, it's illegal for them to cancel a policy while it's active for no reason, but
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:03.267
    | text      = what authority should force an insurance company to reenter existing policies
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:07.727
    | text      = or enter new ones that they don't want to?
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:29:11.047
    | text      = Alex's ideology hits a brick wall here because he has no answer
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:29:14.247
    | text      = for this. Insurance companies abandoning people
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:16.767
    | text      = when, uh, uh, they can if it looks costly to provide the actual product they sell
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:29:21.426
    | text      = is the free market that he supports. This is bullshit.
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    | timestamp = 00:29:24.406
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:25.307
    | text      = Yeah, I mean, it's... Okay,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:28.326
    | text      = we've, we've gone down this road before.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:29:31.126
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:31.166
    | text      = It's already been tried whenever you had to pay a fire department if your house was on fire to put it out.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:29:37.787
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:38.146
    | text      = And they wouldn't put it out because you didn't pay
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:40.287
    | text      = them, but they would hang out next door in case the fire spread.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:43.967
    | text      = That's not a functional way of doing things.
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    | timestamp = 00:29:46.386
    | text      = Hm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:46.886
    | text      = And second, this whole thing is getting to Spanish Inquisition levels of, like,
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    | text      = "Oh, are you saying something that's reasonable? You're probably
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    | text      = blaspheming God. We're gonna have to kill you."
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:56.247
    | text      = No, like, for sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:29:56.987
    | text      = "Hey, this sounds reasonable." "It's an attack on Trump." Like, well, okay. That's it.
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    | timestamp = 00:30:02.166
    | text      = Well, and, and it, and it's, it's, it's absolutely, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:30:05.027
    | text      = ludicrous to imagine Alex containing these positions.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:30:07.426
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Like, it's... I understand that it is really, really monstrous right now
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = to
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:30:14.507
    | text      = defend the actions of these insurance companies-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:17.567
    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:17.686
    | text      = ... canceling these policies-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:19.027
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:19.247
    | text      = ... because people who were affected by it maybe now don't have insurance and their house burned down.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:30:23.906
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = It's monstrous to defend that, but you must if you are Alex.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:28.767
    | text      = That is the problem with it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:29.967
    | text      = Because the belief itself is monstrous. It was before the fires
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = and it still is. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:36.846
    | text      = No, well, it's easier, though, whenever there's, th- whenever
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:39.886
    | text      = you don't... You know, it's like, uh, insurance. It always works until you need it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:43.886
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:44.227
    | text      = And insurance companies not providing it when you need it, but taking your money when you don't.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Seems, seems like, uh, it's almost a scam.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = It kind of counteracts what it's supposed to be.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:54.807
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:30:55.086
    | text      = And moments like this really make that clear.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:30:58.307
    | text      = Um, and Alex
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = doesn't have a problem until it looks bad.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:02.106
    | text      = Yeah. Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:02.787
    | text      = So
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:03.326
    | text      = fuck 'em.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = I mean, their, their, their position is, like, you know, insurance is a scam except for sometimes it's not.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So I guess that's, I guess that works.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Great.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:11.946
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So at this point, Alex seemed to be hitting, like, uh, just his, like, the check marks.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Just, like, there's a list of, like-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:17.926
    | text      = ... people you gotta demonize.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:18.967
    | text      = These people.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:19.527
    | text      = So we've already talked about the leftists.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:20.866
    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Uh, but now what about, uh, people who are, uh, experiencing homelessness?
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Obviously.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:24.547
    | text      = What about them?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = It's their fault.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Why do the insurance companies know? Well, they know high winds are coming.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:30.586
    | text      = All this brush has grown up.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:33.487
    | text      = There's walking dead, 70,000 homeless
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:36.267
    | text      = that love to set fires, a large percentage of them, a large minority of them, so
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:41.047
    | text      = they're out running around enjoying themselves.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:45.166
    | text      = Those, some of those psychotic, drugged out homeless have the same
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:48.247
    | text      = spirit as the globalists. They're just the
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:51.067
    | text      = non-player character level of it, zombieing around on the ground. But up above,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:57.007
    | text      = the globalists get all the disaster money, all the control.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:31:59.767
    | text      = Yeah, man. So, uh, that's f- fucked up.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:03.047
    | text      = Uh, you just got a bunch of unhoused people who like to run around and set fires.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:32:07.547
    | text      = (laughs) Fun.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:07.926
    | text      = I mean...
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:09.287
    | text      = Hm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:09.547
    | text      = I don't even know where to start.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:11.267
    | text      = No.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:11.787
    | text      = Nope.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:11.987
    | text      = You start and end with fuck you.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:13.227
    | text      = Yep, yep, yep.
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    | timestamp = 00:32:14.307
    | text      = So we get down the checklist even further and now what about, uh, uh, calling, uh, people DEI hires?
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    | text      = Great!
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:20.487
    | text      = How about that?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:21.186
    | text      = How about it?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:22.007
    | text      = So you have the LA mayor cutting-... 17-plus million dollars
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:27.247
    | text      = last year out of the funding for the fire
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:29.106
    | text      = department, cutting hundreds of millions out of other fire mitigation,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:36.646
    | text      = and they literally spent it on DEI hires, and they have the new
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:41.367
    | text      = fire chief that came in last year going, "I'm a lesbian, and my main mission is DEI." We have the clip.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:32:49.587
    | text      = And they're not read into this. They believe that their main job is being politically correct.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:54.727
    | text      = They don't need to know how to put out a fire. They don't need to have any responsibility.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:32:58.307
    | text      = When they get asked on the news, "Hey, why, why is the mayor in Africa on a junket? Wh- why,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:33:04.768
    | text      = why aren't you releasing the water from the reservoir?" And the woman says, "That's not my job."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:33:11.567
    | text      = So you put a bunch of inept people in at the grassroots that don't know what's going on.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So the, uh, fire chief in Los Angeles is a woman named Kristin
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Crowley, who is a lesbian, uh, so this has
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:33:21.507
    | text      = naturally become a point of attack for the folks on the right, who are definitely
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:33:24.366
    | text      = not primarily motivated by their deep-seated bigotries. When
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:33:27.707
    | text      = Crowley said that the whole water thing wasn't her job, she's right. That is a higher-up-the-ladder state
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:33:32.846
    | text      = government issue that isn't part of her job. As she put it, quote, "When a firefighter
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:33:36.826
    | text      = comes to a hydrant, we expect there's going to be water."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:33:40.047
    | text      = Crowley is the first fire chief in LA who's a member of the LGBTQ community
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = and the first female to hold that position as well.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = She'd been a firefighter for 22 years when she was appointed in 2022, and a
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = part of the backdrop of what was going on at the time was that the previous chief, Ralph Ta- uh, Terrazas,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:33:57.126
    | text      = had recently gotten into some trouble about allegations that he'd allowed a, quote, "pervasive racist and
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:34:02.586
    | text      = sexist culture" to exist within the LA Fire Department.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:34:05.446
    | text      = Great.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:34:06.166
    | text      = The president of the Los Angeles Women in the Fire
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:34:08.987
    | text      = Service organization, Chris Larson, sent the mayor a letter saying, quote,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:34:13.106
    | text      = "Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas has ignored, downplayed, denied, or actively obstructed any investigation
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    | text      = into the cultural problems within the LAFD."
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    | text      = There were multiple reports of sexual assault and rape occurring at firehouses, and many
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    | text      = felt that these reports were not handled seriously enough. In October 2021, the
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    | text      = LAIST, uh, released an investigation that found that there was endemic hazing and harassment
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    | text      = that were directed at female firefighters in the department
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    | text      = and that the institution did not seem all that interested in addressing it.
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    | text      = The accounts they uncovered along with the push
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    | text      = from the LA Women in the Fire Service group, uh, led to a little bit of public pressure
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    | text      = to stop ignoring this shit. So Terrazas, uh, retired and Crowley was elevated to this position.
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    | text      = When she came into the role, she spoke about a lot of improvements she'd
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    | text      = like to make to the department, including but not
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    | text      = recruits had to endure. Naturally, the right wing, who are definitely
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    | text      = not just fundamentally bigots, took this as an attack on white men and now
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    | text      = Alex, uh, doesn't even consider her a person, but DEI hire. So
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    | text      = this just feels like a right-wing grievance checklist that we've gone down. We've got the
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    | text      = fire breaks, uh, storyline. We've got the, uh,
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    | text      = Clarendon Piven. We've got the Agenda 21. We've got the attacking, uh, the left-
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    | text      = ... attacking, uh, uh, homeless people-
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    | text      = ... attacking, uh, uh, LGBTQ people having a job.
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    | text      = And I, I just, I think, like, this feels dull.
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    | text      = I, I mean, yeah, if, if you recall, I said we wouldn't make it out of the witch era.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = I think, I, and how about this? Maybe we go back. We go further back, all right?
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    | text      = How about we try some virgins? Okay?
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = We just have some vestal virgins, all right, and then when shit like this happens,
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    | text      = they gotta go. That way we don't scapegoat poor people
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    | text      = and, and the disenfranchised, you know? We're prepared for this scenario-
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    | text      = This is-
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    | text      = ... so we don't have to exploit people.
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    | text      = This is dumb and bad, but also, I think, too advanced for Alex. (laughs)
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    | text      = I think you're right too. Goddamn, we're not making it out of the trees, man.
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    | text      = But the, I also just, I feel like this is dull in a way that's like, I don't feel energy
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    | text      = here. Like, I don't feel passion behind what Alex is saying.
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    | text      = Like, I, I think that he's, uh,
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    | text      = I, is this his version-
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    | text      = He doesn't have the spirit.
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    | text      = Is this his version of being, like, a-
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    | text      = Respectable?
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    | text      = Yes, exactly.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Is this-
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    | text      = A respectable newsman?
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    | text      = This is his version of a compassionate version of Alex not like-
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    | text      = Well-
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    | text      = "I'm not gonna go too hard screaming about-"
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    | text      = There's-
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    | text      = "... how bad these people are. There's an emergency."
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    | text      = There's a problem that I, I kind of feel
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    | text      = from some of this. Like, you know, he's gotten, he's lost a bit of weight.
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    | text      = Uh-
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = ... he's trying to hang out around, like, the A- uh, America First, uh, Conference.
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    | text      = Great.
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    | text      = Uh, he's friends with Tucker. I think that there's a feeling of, like,
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    | text      = "I'm pretty fucking close to power." Like-
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = ... the problem is me. The problem is the way that I blow up, and the, the problem is
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    | text      = the thing that makes me entertaining-
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    | text      = Right, right, right.
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    | text      = ... and valuable as a commodity.
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    | text      = I need to, I need to take it down-
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    | text      = ... and be more serious, thus gaining-
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    | text      = 'Cause maybe then I can actually become the next Rush Limbaugh as opposed to being
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    | text      = Alex Jones for the rest of my fucking life.
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    | text      = I can't imagine-
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    | text      = There's a, there's a feeling that I have a little bit of that.
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    | text      = I can't imagine the possibility of that level of Piven.
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    | text      = Hmm. Jer-
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    | text      = I, I just-
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    | text      = ... Jeremy Piven.
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    | text      = I just can't, mm-
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    | text      = Clarendon Piven? (laughs)
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    | text      = Twice. He went twice.
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    | text      = Tried it twice, didn't work the first time. Now we got it the second time, but ha!
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    | text      = I don't think it worked either.
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    | text      = Um,
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    | text      = so I think that there is a respectability mask that he's trying to put on a little bit-
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = ... um, by not blowing up and not being as entertaining
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    | text      = a- and just kind of being like, eh, we're going through the motions of right-wing grievance stuff.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = And I think that's stupid. Because for one, you will never escape this box, Alex.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = You are destined to die in this box.
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    | text      = You built it.
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    | text      = And
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Because you get to do stuff like this.
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    | text      = Uh, the Thalian socialist H.G. Wells
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    | text      = was the head of the, their society...
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    | text      = back in the
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    | text      = earlier 20th century, first parts of that. He wrote more nonfiction books than fiction.
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    | text      = And he said, "I put in my
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    | text      = fiction books allegories of what's really happening."
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    | text      = Like The Time Machine, there the Morlocks were the Eloi.
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    | text      = And one of his
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    | text      = proteges, 'cause they had their Nebula Awards and the rest of it,
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    | text      = where they would push members of their futurist
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    | text      = transhumanist cult
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    | text      = to make sure they were the top science-fiction writers-
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    | text      = Really?
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    | text      = ... so that they could get their ideas into the culture-
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    | text      = Does that sound true?
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    | text      = ... through entertainment
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    | text      = to pre-program people with... predictive programming is what it's called.
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    | text      = Hm.
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    | text      = And if you read the Foundation series of Isaac Asimov-
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    | text      = Oh, God.
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    | text      = And they've made a m- TV show on Netflix. I watched a little bit of it, but it was just too
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    | text      = woke version of it, so I, I just couldn't watch more than a few episodes.
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    | text      = Too woke.
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    | text      = And-
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    | text      = Too woke.
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    | text      = In it-
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    | text      = Foundation's too woke.
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    | text      = ... they, they've done the math with their supercomputers
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    | text      = in the
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    | text      = 20th century, this is written, these books are written in the '50s,
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    | text      = the late tw- early, early 21st century
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    | text      = is when it's set,
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    | text      = and they decide, this cult, to create a breakaway civilization and then sabotage civilization
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    | text      = and short-circuit it,
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    | text      = because in their permutations, then it allows civilization to survive in the long run. But if they don't
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    | text      = derail it up front, then it will race forward, go intergalactic, but then collapse,
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    | text      = interstellar, intergalactic. Now,
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    | text      = then you go read another-
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    | text      = Planetary.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:40:10.206
    | text      = ... member of their cult, Arthur C Clarke's books.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = It's all the same stuff.
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    | text      = Yeah. Yeah, read some more of that shit.
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    | text      = I mean...
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    | text      = So I've tried to figure out another way to say this.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = I really sat and thought about it, 'cause I don't want it to be this simple.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = But these are the thoughts of a complete idiot.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = This is...
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    | text      = ... outrageous.
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    | text      = Yup.
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    | text      = If you follow out his thought, then you have
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = H.G. Wells secretly revealing the globalist plans through his sci-fi books. And then, in order to make
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    | text      = sure that the culture is heavily influenced by this globalist ideology,
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    | text      = starts the, the Hugo Awards or it, was, uh, the Nebula Awards.
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    | text      = It was the Nebula, yeah.
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    | text      = So he can handpick the top people in the sci-fi world.
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    | timestamp = 00:40:47.302
    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:40:47.342
    | text      = Isaac Asimov's Foundation series gives away the globalist plans, but the TV
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:40:51.583
    | text      = version was too woke for Alex to watch.
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    | timestamp = 00:40:53.483
    | text      = Wild.
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    | text      = The, uh, Nebula Awards were started in 1966.
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    | text      = Yup.
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    | timestamp = 00:40:57.643
    | text      = And w- run by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, which wasn't founded by H.G. Wells-
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    | timestamp = 00:41:02.043
    | text      = Nope.
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    | timestamp = 00:41:02.224
    | text      = ... partially because he died in 1946.
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    | timestamp = 00:41:04.364
    | text      = Yup, I knew that.
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    | text      = Alex might be confusing the Nebula Awards and the Hugo Award, but that one didn't start until the ni- uh,
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    | timestamp = 00:41:10.543
    | text      = 1953, and also had nothing to do with H.G. Wells.
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    | text      = I'm pretty convinced Alex has these mixed up
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    | text      = because Foundation didn't win a Nebula. But the original trilogy won
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    | text      = Best All-Time Series in 1966 at the Hugo Awards.
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = The first Nebula Award for Best Novel went to Dune.
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    | text      = (clicks tongue) Sounds right.
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    | text      = Yeah, which is great for Alex. But what about the other winners? Like in 1966, uh, or
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    | text      = '67 and '68, excuse me, uh, Samuel Delany won Best Novel, but I've never heard Alex talk about any of his shit.
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    | text      = You've never heard of the, uh, Sammy Delany? Oh, uh-
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    | text      = Not from Alex.
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    | text      = He's, uh, m- Zany Delany. That's what they call him.
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    | text      = Two years in a row, won the Nebula.
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    | text      = Yeah, I mean, obviously.
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    | text      = He must've been a huge part of the cult.
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    | text      = He's probably a big part.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Asimov wouldn't, uh, win one until 1973, and it wasn't for Foundation.
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    | text      = No.
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    | text      = Um,
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    | text      = so yeah, I don't know. Uh, this is an idiot.
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    | text      = Asimov's, Asimov's main problem was having written too many goddamn books.
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    | text      = And too woke.
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    | text      = Uh, well, I will say this, Asimov's problem, not wokeness.
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    | text      = What?
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    | text      = Current Fo- Foundation, again, also not wokeness.
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    | text      = Too woke for Alex.
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    | text      = Different, different reasons.
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    | text      = Uh, but yeah, and also that's not the plot of Foundation at all.
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    | text      = Well, but also, uh, when Foundation won Best, uh-
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    | text      = All-Time Series.
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    | text      = Yeah, in 1966-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... you know who got snubbed?
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    | text      = Who?
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    | text      = Uh, JRR Tolkien.
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    | text      = Ooh, that's right.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Asimov, I remember reading
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    | text      = something where he said he was really, really surprised by that, because he
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    | text      = expected so many other... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = Huh, how about that?
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    | text      = Edgar Rice Burroughs stormed the stage and, uh, had a yay moment. (laughs)
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    | text      = Oh, y- oh, did he?
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    | text      = Yeah. (laughs)
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    | text      = Okay. All right.
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    | text      = Like all, all respect to Asimov, but, uh, Tolkien had the greatest series of all time. (laughs)
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    | text      = Greatest series of all time. Greatest series of all time, goddamn hobbits.
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    | text      = Yup.
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    | text      = What are you gonna do with these, these fall of Rome, uh, allegories? Fuck you.
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    | text      = So this, this is, um, fun, and, uh, uh, you know, Alex just trying to defend why he thinks
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    | text      = reading sci-fi books as a kid, uh, counts as research.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = And that's cute. Um, but in the same way that, like,
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    | text      = it just feels dull, him talking about the fire stuff-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... it feels empty for him to
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    | text      = deliver this in a non-crazy, cryptic way.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = I, what I think is so weird is, like, he has an almost, uh, I don't know if it's an accidental or if it's, like, a
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    | text      = there's no way for me to have a coherent position at all, but L. Ron Hubbard is not brought up.
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    | text      = And it's like, that man
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    | text      = threw so many fucking words at sci-fi-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = ... that you, how can you not include him as a guy who, like, he wasn't an influence-
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    | text      = But he was a little bit of an outsider to some of those awards.
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    | text      = Sure, and he was an outsider in the same way that you, like, slam your shoulder through a door-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = ... and everybody's like, "Please get out of here," and you're like, "I'm L. Ron Hubbard."
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = But a- a- also, like, i- I mean, there's the insanity of that.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = But then there's also, like, there's a
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    | text      = br- like, a great diversity of, uh, sorta ideologies that are espoused by people who are in sci-fi.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = You know, you have people like an H.G. Wells. Uh, you also-
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    | text      = That wasn't a great diversity. (laughs)
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    | text      = But you have people like Philip K. Dick.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = You know, like what-
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = ... what's his position? Where is, where is he coming from on a political spectrum?
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = What are you talking about?
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    | text      = I don't know. Getting high.
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    | text      = You get people like Frank Herbert.
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    | text      = He was there.
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    | text      = You have people like, uh, Starship Troopers guy.
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    | text      = Yeah, I mean-
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    | text      = Heinlein.
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    | text      = ... I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't scratch any of them too hard.
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    | text      = No.
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    | text      = You wouldn't like what you'd find. (laughs)
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    | text      = Some of them are more, like, authoritarian-
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    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... fascist-y types than others.
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    | text      = Sure, j- no, there's definitely gradients. (laughs)
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    | text      = Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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    | text      = That's the diversity. (laughs) Le- not so much the-
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = ... women weren't allowed.
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    | text      = So Alex, uh, I, I, I just think he sounds better when he's saying like, uh, "Ugh,
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    | text      = sci-fi movies are real," when he's drunk.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = And I think that when you're sober and, uh,
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    | text      = kind of talking like a normal person trying to pitch this-
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    | text      = ... it becomes too clear that you're an idiot.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Uh, it's not fun idiot.
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    | text      = There should be a, there should almost be like a, "Hey, this is the aside where bong rip-"
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | timestamp = 00:45:16.182
    | text      = "... let's go."
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    | text      = Right, like him on Rogan talking about this shit-
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    | text      = Totally, yes.
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    | text      = ... like while he's drunk and like, "Yeah."
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    | text      = Hell yeah.
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    | text      = That's fun.
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    | text      = 100%.
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    | text      = This isn't.
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    | text      = No.
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    | text      = But he, he, he insists on, uh, going along.
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    | text      = Gotta keep going.
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    | text      = Then you go read another member of their cult, Arthur C. Clarke's books, and it's all the same stuff.
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    | text      = Oh, yeah.
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    | text      = "We gotta have a world government. We gotta kill everybody. We can't have free market competition.
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    | text      = It'll create too many competing technological
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    | text      = bases, and those technological bases will then war with each other in the future.
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    | text      = And so we have to have a total tyranny to get rid of most people
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    | text      = and create kind of a
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    | text      = Hunger Games
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    | text      = world, where you have very small, compact, high-tech
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    | text      = city-states, and everybody else that's allowed to live
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    | text      = in small numbers are agrarian and basically kept artificially, like Amish.
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    | text      = And then we're seeing, those of us that are allowed to survive, as a nature preserve.
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    | text      = So you have the Elysian fields of the demigod-"
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    | text      = Oh, God.
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    | timestamp = 00:46:19.342
    | text      = "... elites,
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    | text      = who then will transcend to an Olympian level of godhood-"
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = "... once they achieve immortality through technology.
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    | text      = This is their official plan."
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    | text      = Official?
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    | text      = "And they use Greek mythology as the allegory, as the model."
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    | text      = Sounds true.
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    | text      = "And then they will leave s- a few of us
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    | text      = as
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    | text      = wild humans, and then just like in the Greek legends,
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    | text      = they'll land in their ship or whatever, and, and we'll
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    | text      = think they're Zeus, and they'll come out in a white outfit and
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    | text      = have sex with our women and do whatever they want." This is their plan.
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    | text      = You go, "Wow, that's Great- that's Clash of the Titans." Yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = (laughs)
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    | text      = And then see, it was, um-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... it was,
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    | text      = they made movies like Elysium, you know, all of it
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    | text      = recently, like 10 years ago, with Matt Damon.
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    | text      = Wow.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I think he listened to our live episode.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = And,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:47:12.322
    | text      = and, and Plato came up with all this plan,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = the depopulation, all of it, 2,300 years ago.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = So they're following his plan.
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    | text      = What?
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    | text      = And
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    | text      = I'm saying, Musk is saying, Trump is saying, "We need to abandon that plan."
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    | text      = Yeah, that's all Elon Musk and Trump and Alex Jones are saying is, "Don't, don't follow Plato." (laughs)
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    | text      = I, I...
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    | text      = This-
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    | text      = You know what? I like, I like having it boiled down into those terms.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = I like that.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = That's very simple. I can engage with that.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = Elon's plan is, "Let's not follow Plato." Agreed.
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    | text      = Sure. (laughs)
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    | text      = I'm, uh, w- I guess we are in agreement. Now what?
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = "What's our next step forward?" is my question.
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    | text      = I don't think we're gonna agree with Elon on that one.
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    | text      = I have a strong doubt.
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    | text      = S- I, I, I just think that this
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    | text      = is... the- these are the thoughts of a lunatic.
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    | text      = No, okay.
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    | text      = And when they're being presented, uh, kind of calmly-
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    | text      = Ugh.
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    | text      = ... it just sucks.
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    | text      = There's a secret society that invented Plato, created his plan, and has, uh,
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    | text      = slowly pulled it out from, "Blankety-blank, let's not worry about it," now-
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    | text      = They used the Greek mythology as a, as a overlay to his plan.
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    | text      = Na, da, da, da, we've already used that with Plato. Now we've got Elysium-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | timestamp = 00:48:23.702
    | text      = ... great movie with Matt Damon, done and done.
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    | text      = I don't understand how you don't understand.
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    | text      = Yeah, I do understand, though. That's the problem.
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    | text      = (laughs) I think, I think that is the problem. (laughs)
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    | text      = I've listened to too much of his show.
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    | text      = I think that is very much the problem.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = I do not hate you because I do not understand, sir. I hate you twice as much because I do.
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    | text      = Well, the issue is that like when he's doing his, like, uh,
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    | text      = "As I tell you, the big enchilada," and that kind of stuff-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... it's like, "Ah, this guy has access to secret information-"
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = "... that he's not telling me."
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = But when he actually just, like, has
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = these sentences and lays out, like, "This is what they're planning. They're gonna use Greek mythology,"-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = ... it's like, "Okay.
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    | text      = You're an idiot. You're dumb." As opposed to someone who's withholding-
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    | text      = Right.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:49:05.472
    | text      = ... some kind of, uh, some sort of, uh, mysterious wisdom-
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    | text      = Right.
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    | timestamp = 00:49:09.590
    | text      = ... that is pro- maybe too much for my brain.
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    | text      = Right. And you could also always be like, "Well, you know, he was shit-faced." If he wasn't shit-faced, he
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    | text      = might be able to present it more rationally-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = ... but he wouldn't do it because he was rational.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = So you'll never get the imaginary version that makes sense.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = You'll only get the drunken version that's enjoyable to listen to.
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    | text      = Yeah. And I, I recognize that this is a little bit of a be careful what you wish for kind of thing-
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    | text      = Well, there's that.
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    | text      = ... because I did constantly say that Alex needs to stop drinking so much. (laughs) And now we have-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:49:39.371
    | text      = ... what appears to be a sober Alex, and it sucks.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Yeah. I mean, listen, that is far from my first, uh, transition from a fun drunk (laughs) to a sad sober.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = But what you gonna do? It's better for you.
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    | text      = So look-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = ... the globalist plans.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Plato's plans.
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    | text      = Oh my God. Don't say it's all Plato's pla-
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    | text      = It-
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = That, that, that's insane.
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    | text      = Well, he wouldn't, he wouldn't defend that.
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    | text      = Okay, fair enough.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Uh, he just, it felt good in the moment.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = It did feel good. Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = So they've been stopped. The globalist plans are done. And now it's time-
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = What?
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:50:08.710
    | text      = ... to take over space.
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    | timestamp = 00:50:09.690
    | text      = All right.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = If you expose that evil project, then they'll never be able to execute it, 'cause they've gotta be
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    | text      = operating in secret and posing as the saviors-
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    | text      = Sounds true.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:50:18.891
    | text      = ... during each successive intensification of the strangulation.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = And we've achieved that where they'll never get away with it now. So they need to
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = stop, be honest about it all. We gotta educate the public, come up with a new plan
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    | text      = that is through free will and through adoption by the general
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = public because it's the best plan. And we've gotta colonize space immediately.
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    | text      = We gotta be honest about the super technologies, and we've gotta just move forward.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:50:46.030
    | text      = And, and that's
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    | text      = what my mission is here.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = And that's why I'm listened to
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = by the bad guys and the good guys at the highest
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:50:54.170
    | text      = levels, is because this is not a child's program here. Okay? This is for big boys.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = This is big boy talk.
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    | text      = It's Plato's plan.
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    | text      = And I don't say that to our main audience, who are great people. I say it to the left-wing people
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    | text      = and the crazy racist right-wing people in all of you folks.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = We're all going to kill each other if this doesn't stop.
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    | text      = "This is big boy talk. We need to colonize space." I, I, I think that, um, I, you know,
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    | text      = obviously I only have an undergraduate degree. I only have a bachelor's.
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    | timestamp = 00:51:22.731
    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = But, uh, I know that when I was in college-
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = ... I never would have respected a professor who told me it was big boy talk.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = I never would have taken that seriously. I would have been like, "You're overcompensating."
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = "Uh, this is kind of inappropriate for, you know,
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    | text      = context."
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    | timestamp = 00:51:40.610
    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = So when I hear Alex say that, I just really feel like
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = it's not big boy talk.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = When you say it's big boy talk, it can't be.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:51:50.110
    | text      = Mm-mm.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:51:51.210
    | text      = No.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:51:51.530
    | text      = It's little boy talk.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = I have heard big boy talk out of people who do science.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:51:56.490
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:51:56.911
    | text      = And I can't understand a word of it. None at all. None at all.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = They just, "Oh, we're at the Large Hadron Collider. It's 99.9% speed of light."
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Cool. Done. And then if they get into big boy talk, I'm out.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:09.831
    | text      = This is like really defensive little boy talk-
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:12.610
    | text      = Yes.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:12.690
    | text      = ... is what it is.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:13.451
    | text      = Yeah, it's somebody who wishes that they thought that 99% light speed was the big boy talk.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:17.630
    | text      = It's little boy sci-fi talk.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:19.851
    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = (laughs) And, uh-
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:21.971
    | text      = ... that's fun.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:23.010
    | text      = Hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:23.530
    | text      = I guess.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:24.190
    | text      = I don't think it is.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:25.490
    | text      = No, it's not.
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    | text      = I'd prefer big boy talk that I can't understand. There's at least something fun in that where I'm like, "Oh,
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:30.371
    | text      = it's like listening to a foreign language. I understood that word."
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:32.791
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = "That's a cognate." Yeah.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:34.451
    | text      = Yeah. So anyway, Alex just wants us to not kill each other, uh-
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:38.811
    | text      = I think that's nice.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:39.630
    | text      = ... because if not, we will end up going the way of Plato's Atlantis.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:44.311
    | text      = Oh my God.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:44.951
    | text      = The Carnegie Endowment after World War I-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:46.670
    | text      = It's supposed to be real.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:48.351
    | text      = ... first put out their internal report in late
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    | timestamp = 00:52:53.650
    | text      = 1920.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:55.331
    | text      = The report began, uh, public by the mid '20s.
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:52:59.210
    | text      = And they said, "We can't have another war like World War I. We've gotta come up with a plan to end all
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:03.650
    | text      = war." And the, the, the, the Carnegie Endowment went out
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:06.550
    | text      = to a bunch of top scientists for a few years, and they came back
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:09.751
    | text      = and said, "You have to end the human condition as it is. You have to end men and women. You have to
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:14.451
    | text      = end men being competitive. You have to end competition, because you'll always get different power
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:19.251
    | text      = groups and structures that'll be basically on par with each other
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:22.751
    | text      = in competition, 'cause you know, they'll, they'll rise to a level, and then
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:26.951
    | text      = just like two bulls will wanna fight for
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:28.751
    | text      = over who gets to mate with the cow, it goes to basic biology, we will continue to have
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:33.871
    | text      = wars because that's the final extension of competition.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:37.871
    | text      = And so we have to go ahead and make men feminine and make women, uh, useless and
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:43.590
    | text      = just destroy society and go ahead and cull back most the population, uh, bare minimum, or
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:49.751
    | text      = civilization will get out of control
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:51.610
    | text      = and we'll have an Atlantean type situation
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:53:53.510
    | text      = where the technology gets distributed and then we blow each other up."
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    | text      = And so that b- b- b- but see, then
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    | text      = they didn't even follow that plan.
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    | text      = So it's a-
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    | text      = Why?
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    | text      = What? You can't just say that.
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    | text      = Um,
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    | text      = I'm gonna get into all the fires, all the latest, all the angles. I've got fireproof everything.
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    | text      = That's what-
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    | text      = But so much other huge news today. Trump's incredible
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    | text      = golden age of America, which means the golden age of the world. It's that,
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    | text      = you gotta reach for the stars and, and have optimism and you'll do it, or we all just kill each other.
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    | text      = Okay.
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    | text      = And the globalists think they can control that and have us
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    | text      = low level kill each other and collapse and that that won't suck them in,
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    | text      = not gonna work. So we're gonna go to break.
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    | text      = Start the next hour, but I thought it was important today just to explain how things really work.
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    | text      = And I've got a lot more to say, but I wanna go through the technicals coming up next hour.
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    | text      = Uh, please remember, today is the last day for everybody at our great sponsor, thealexjonesstore.com.
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    | text      = Oh, God.
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    | text      = All the incredible supplements, all the greatest patriot gear.
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    | text      = (sighs)
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    | text      = That every time you buy a product as low cost as $9
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    | text      = or as, you know, high cost for three bottles of Ultimate Sea Moss, you know, 50 bucks or whatever,
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    | timestamp = 00:54:58.811
    | text      = you get entered 10 times in the sweepstakes for the incredible off-road t- turbo diesel du- uh, Ford Tremor.
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    | timestamp = 00:55:04.911
    | text      = Hey, another truck, d- to give, raffle and a truck.
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    | text      = That-
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    | text      = 'Cause things are good.
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    | text      = That was, that clip w- f- I feels similar to being hit by said truck.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = That was very, uh, I mean, I went through the gamut there
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    | text      = of all different types of anger. Not th- no other feelings, just different types of fury.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah. No, it was great.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = The UN, uh, the UN and the, the globalists and all them, uh, p- put out this report-
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | timestamp = 00:55:30.210
    | text      = ... that competition must end in order-
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    | text      = Makes sense.
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    | timestamp = 00:55:32.451
    | text      = ... to not make Atlantis happen.
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    | text      = Obviously.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Or maybe that was some sci-fi shit that I read.
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    | text      = Could be.
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    | text      = And hey, we're giving away a truck.
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    | timestamp = 00:55:39.431
    | text      = There we go.
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    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:55:40.431
    | text      = Nothing makes me angry about all of that. Put all that together in a row, no problems there.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = What a fucking asshole.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = That is, that's, it, contextually, that's worse.
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    | text      = Hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So worse.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So Alex comes back and, uh, y- as promised, he gets back to the fires.
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    | text      = Great.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:55:56.150
    | text      = Uh, and he, he's bringing Cloward and Piven back into it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Well, now that I can, now, uh, now that I've heard that, I trust
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    | timestamp = 00:56:01.231
    | text      = that he's gonna treat this with the same level of respect it deserves.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Quite a bit.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = It's all Cloward and Piven. It's all done by design.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:56:09.610
    | text      = And Trump released a statement, Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign the water
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = restoration declaration put before him
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = that would've allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snow melt from the north
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    | text      = to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas
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    | text      = that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.
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    | text      = He wanted to protect an essentially workless fish
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = called a smelt, that's not even indigenous I should add-... by giving it less
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    | text      = water, it didn't work. Of course they weren't protecting the fish, it was the
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    | text      = excuse. But didn't care about the people of California. Now the ultimate
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    | text      = price is being paid. I will demand that this incompetent governor
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to flow into California. He is to blame for this.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:56:50.175
    | text      = On top of it all, no water from fire hydrants, not fighting... not firefighting planes. A true disaster.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:56:58.315
    | text      = Yeah, people ask at the newscast, "Why aren't there firefighter planes?" They have all over the, the West.
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    | text      = And they said, "Oh, uh, Biden's in town, the airspace is closed."
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Only commercial aircraft are allowed to fly. Not emergency aircraft of the government.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = And so the reporters had to get on a plane flying out of California
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = to even get the footage we have.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = They have an administrative list of a few hundred things you gotta do to make sure it's this bad, and
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = every one of them, they perfectly did. This is not incompetence, this is perfect administrative warfare.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:57:33.735
    | text      = So Alex was just reading some dumb shit
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Trump posted on Truth Social, including an allegation that Governor Newsom refused to sign, quote, "The
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:57:40.576
    | text      = Water Restoration Declaration." The governor's office responded in a statement saying, quote, "There is
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = no such document as the 'Water Restoration Declaration.' That is pure fiction."
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = What Trump is talking about is water being redirected from the north of the state, from the
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    | text      = Bay-Delta, to the south, which has had very low rainfall.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Experts on the subject have been pretty clear that directing water
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:58:00.414
    | text      = from the north of the state to the south of the state would have no real effect on
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:58:03.795
    | text      = this firefighting effort. This is all just playing politics.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:58:06.094
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Biden was in LA on January 7th to commemorate the
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    | text      = opening of a couple of monuments, so
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    | text      = there was a restriction on the air space around where he was. However, this didn't apply to
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    | text      = firefighting aircraft who could still fly
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    | timestamp = 00:58:18.454
    | text      = just as normal, coordinating with air traffic control. The issue was really that flying was, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = not always possible, because there were, like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:58:25.894
    | text      = 80 mile an hour winds. When you have that kind of severe weather, you run into two problems with air-based
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    | text      = responses. The first is obviously that flying
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:58:33.635
    | text      = conditions are less safe, but the second is that you can't really deploy
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = air-based solutions effectively. If you drop water, it's gonna be blown off
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:58:41.454
    | text      = target from where you're trying to get it. It
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = sucks, but in these conditions, at points, the aircraft option was
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    | text      = more dangerous and less likely to be effective than just grounding the planes.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = However, at other points, planes were lying around and dropping water
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = and none of it had anything to do with Biden being in town. This is
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:58:58.295
    | text      = all just Alex repeating bullshit to exploit the understandably
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:59:01.574
    | text      = strong feelings that people have around the fire. And that's sad.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:59:05.155
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:05.635
    | text      = That sucks.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:06.215
    | text      = Yeah. It is, it is like... There's this, there's this weird phenomena of being alive in 2025
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:14.855
    | text      = where
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:16.675
    | text      = it feels like we've been through so many of these, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:21.275
    | text      = uh, horrific events in the past 20 years, that, like, there are extremely competent people
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 00:59:29.175
    | text      = in all kinds of positions, all over the place, who have thought this through, man.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:35.574
    | text      = Like, and then there's, then it's... But it's also still okay to just be Alex Jones being like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:40.275
    | text      = "They're a bunch of fucking idiots."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:41.934
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:42.135
    | text      = "Nobody's done anything right. There're people actually
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    | timestamp = 00:59:44.315
    | text      = trying to destroy you." And it's like, man, it's, it... The vaccine was built in a year. You know? Like...
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    | timestamp = 00:59:49.474
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:49.474
    | text      = ... there's extreme competence all over the place.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:52.414
    | text      = Yeah, and if everybody had done everything exactly the way that, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 00:59:56.735
    | text      = th- Alex would have wanted in response for the fire, it would have been
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:02.014
    | text      = some leftist set the fire or...
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:04.235
    | text      = Totally.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:04.554
    | text      = ... there would be some other way for him to exploit things and, and... It's not about competence.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:10.195
    | text      = No.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:10.195
    | text      = It's about bottom-feeding.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:11.534
    | text      = That's ex-... And that's, and it... That is like
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:13.755
    | text      = the... Well, the response to this is never going to be like, "Oh, shit,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:17.175
    | text      = these extremely competent people did a good job."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:19.175
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:19.434
    | text      = "Let's listen to what they have to say
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:21.675
    | text      = to not be here again." They're like, "Hey, thanks for your work. We're gonna continue
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:25.574
    | text      = doing the same dumb shit we've been doing."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:27.255
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:27.474
    | text      = 'Cause clearly, uh, we're... Uh, uh, Alex has a better point than, I mean, it's, argh!
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:32.574
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:32.775
    | text      = Argh!
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:33.474
    | text      = Yeah. It's infuriating.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:34.394
    | text      = It is infuriating.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:35.355
    | text      = Uh, but you know what's not?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:36.954
    | text      = What?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:37.494
    | text      = The Joker.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:40.195
    | text      = Okay.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:41.454
    | text      = (sniggers)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:41.474
    | text      = That's why the Left loves the Joker. That's what they are.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:43.735
    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:44.315
    | text      = They wanna burn things, they wanna blow things up, they wanna hurt civilization.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:48.014
    | text      = They wanna watch the world collapse.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:50.054
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:50.074
    | text      = That's the Great Reset.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:51.054
    | text      = Mm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:51.155
    | text      = That's the WF. That's the nihilistic new order.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:53.375
    | text      = You look at their prototype, the French Revolution. This is in the PhD level
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:00:57.494
    | text      = political science, where they teach the real political system of the world. Where does Left come from?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:02.954
    | text      = Well, it wasn't ever used as a political...
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:04.554
    | text      = Don't...
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:05.514
    | text      = ... description until the French Revolution.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:07.675
    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:09.394
    | text      = Right after ours.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:10.554
    | text      = Oh, fuck me.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:11.554
    | text      = And...
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:12.135
    | text      = This is not PhD stuff.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:13.215
    | text      = This is, this is the way it really works.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:14.974
    | text      = He said, he said this is a back cover of the
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:01:15.195
    | text      = Illuminati. It's in his letters. That's a real thing, not just your pop culture.
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    | text      = And they wanted a nine-day week and they wanted to end the family and
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    | text      = they wanted to destroy civilization. And then that became communism. If you look up the Jacobins
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    | text      = and the history of communism, that's, that's where it comes from.
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    | text      = And the Left today...
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    | text      = PhD level shit.
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    | text      = ... is the Jacobin movement.
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    | text      = you go watch a movie like The Joker, and you go, "Why would he wanna do all this?"
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    | text      = Well, he's a psychotic,
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    | text      = and he's miserable,
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    | text      = and he wants to make you miserable.
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    | text      = But that's the, the attitude of their minions and their operatives. On top of them
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    | text      = are the really evil people that want to destroy civilization
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    | text      = and pose as the saviors to control it and vertically integrate it.
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    | text      = Like Harley Quinn.
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    | text      = do you want the Joker...
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    | text      = That's better than Jeremy Piper. (laughs)
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    | text      = ... to be our symbol of civilization, which will mean we won't have one,
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    | text      = or do you want Batman?
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    | text      = (laughs) I don't want Batman.
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    | text      = And that's the story. If the rich-
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    | text      = I don't.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... aristocracy, real aristocrats,
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    | text      = uh, who, uh, in the old aristocratic system were trying to build civilization...
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    | text      = No bless or peace.
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    | text      = ... Bruce Wayne
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    | text      = or the Joker?
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    | text      = See, everything in Hollywood is telling you what they're doing.
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    | text      = They think you're stupid.
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    | text      = And now who's the hero in their movies? The Joker is the good guy now.
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    | text      = When?
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    | text      = So where is an aristocracy that wants to not blow the Earth up?
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    | text      = Donald Trump?
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    | text      = (laughs)
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    | text      = Elon Musk is the old style
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    | text      = of the Renaissance, which is the new style,
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    | text      = aristocracy.
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    | text      = So Alex continues to fail his media literacy test, uh,
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    | text      = jumping from adolescent and young adult sci-fi over to comic books.
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    | text      = He, like, legitimately couldn't sound stupider if he tried.
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    | text      = (laughs) The term Left as well as Right, as political labels
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    | text      = do start with the French Revolution, they had to do with where people sat in the National Assembly...
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = ... with the supporters of the monarchy sitting on the
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    | text      = right and the people who were more opposed to the royals on the left.
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    | text      = Great.
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    | text      = So seating arrangements in the French National Assembly
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    | text      = led to the creation of Jacobins and communism because they tried to make a nine-day
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    | text      = week and destroy the family. And you like the Joker.
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    | text      = Whatever.
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    | text      = He's your hero.
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    | text      = Fine.
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    | text      = You love the Joker.
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    | text      = Like, it's, it's... It doesn't matter what the wor- it... The, the divide exists
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    | text      = outside of whether or not you believe it is the Left or... It could be the
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    | text      = Right or the Left, it doesn't mean anything. It's about the dis- divide.
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    | text      = But it's PhD stuff...
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    | text      = Oh, my God.
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    | text      = ... to know where the w- where the term comes from.
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    | text      = Oh, my God.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = It's PhD stuff also to understand that the world is either the Wayne family or the Joker.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = These are the only things that are options. I think that, uh, maybe a more sophisticated analysis...
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    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... of a lot of Batman literature...
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = ... is
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    | text      = to say that neither are good. And that is, that is a point that is driven, uh, by
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    | text      = a lot of the content.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = That, uh, the Joker, uh, represents a system that is not good.
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    | text      = Yep.
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    | text      = And, uh, the system that the Waynes, uh, tried to perpetuate, though well-meaning in many
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    | text      = ways, leads to the creation of super villains.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Um...
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    | text      = Yep. Yep, yep, yep.
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    | text      = I don't know if Alex thinks. (laughs)
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    | text      = It is... You know, I think one of the things that's interesting about it is
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    | text      = I do think that there is something to be said about his sci-fi, uh, but
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    | text      = not at all in the way that he's describing they're, they're anything like that.
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    | text      = But the way that sci-fi always has this element of
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = reducing groups to characters. And so there's main characters and then there's just the people.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = You know? So in most sci-fi, because you're dealing with
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    | text      = vast interstellar distances, you can't have everybody has a character, everybody has a name.
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    | text      = No, sure.
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    | text      = Yeah. So you wind up creating a system wherein
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = there are real people who are characters and that's who's important.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = So, in, in Alex's conception now, we need aristocracy to grow the
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    | text      = thing. That doesn't mean that aristocracy governs well or
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    | text      = anything like that. What he means is that the main characters can kill as many of the poor people as they want
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    | text      = so long as main characters proliferate.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = You know? And that's kind of the problem with sci-fi is not so much the,
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    | text      = the government aspect of it, but the dehumanization aspect of it, removing people as people
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    | text      = and only having like eventu-... Goddammit, if you read any modern
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = sci-fi, there's a fucking royal in everything.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = It's infuriating.
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    | text      = But I th- I think that there's another aspect to Alex's, uh, sci-fi stuff that
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    | text      = I feel like we, we should probably touch on and explain.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Which is that it often does mirror real world dynamics.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = And that they have to.
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = Because you have to make things relatable.
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    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = And science fiction
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = by its definition involves things that you can't relate to.
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = So in order to give the reader something that connects to something they can understand-
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = You, y- like a real science fiction novel should be unreadable.
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    | text      = Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = It should be in-
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    | text      = Absolutely.
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    | text      = ... in glyphs that you can't interpret. (laughs)
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    | text      = If you watch Star Wars, like the ship battles are ship battles.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = They're, like they're, they're in an
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    | text      = ocean, not like they can move in any direction they want with limitations based on ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = The, the speeders are in like an airba- they're in dogfights.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = Not like three-dimensional gravity
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    | text      = defying, you know, everything along these lines, you know, all of that stuff.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Aliens talk to each other.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:06:53.367
    | text      = And then us.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Like, that's fine.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Because th- and, and I think that Alex mis- misunderstands some of those things, uh, being,
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    | text      = uh, relatable to human stuff as being like-
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    | text      = A plan.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = That's what they're trying to turn us all into as opposed to we're trying to have something.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I think he's dumb.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I think so too.
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    | text      = But also he's a real bootlicker and you can tell that through, uh, this, uh, this-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = That's a dangerous combination, dumb and bootlicking and famous. That's no good.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Trump and Elon Musk are our-
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    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... our Bruce Wayne's-
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    | text      = No. No.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = ... parents and shit. It's crazy.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So do we want
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    | text      = conquest-based society
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = or Renaissance-based society? Do you want golden age or do you want dark age?
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    | text      = Who do you think paid for the Renaissance?
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    | text      = Those are the two paths.
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    | text      = Those are the two, and, and, and
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    | text      = you have to know how the world works, you'd have to be engaged to build a golden age.
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    | text      = Don't.
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    | text      = And then because the golden age produces so much freedom
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    | text      = and property and innovation, you've got to
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    | text      = not give your kids everything, you've got to have hard competition,
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    | text      = you've got to be in shape, you've got to be in
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    | text      = sports, you've got to be well-read, you've got
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    | text      = to be intellectual, you've got to have historic understanding
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    | text      = or you will create decadent slob children,
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    | text      = and then the parasites will come in to the future generations and take over and you go back to warlords.
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    | text      = That fast.
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    | text      = And Trump is the ultimate example with his kids that are amazing
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    | text      = of having all that wealth and all that power and producing very good children.
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    | text      = Oh, my God.
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    | text      = Trump
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    | text      = gets it.
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    | text      = Elon Musk gets it.
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    | text      = And so I admire that
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    | text      = because they're prime examples of the leaders we need as examples to us.
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    | text      = That's what we're talking about here.
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    | text      = Do you want Batman or you do w- or do you, or do you want the Joker? It, it really comes down to that.
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    | text      = Do you want Batman heading up the ship
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    | text      = or do you want the Joker
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    | text      = and his gang?
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    | text      = It's that simple, people.
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    | text      = Is it?
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    | text      = George Soros.
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    | text      = Yeah, right, yeah. Okay.
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    | text      = Wow. Great.
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    | text      = So I, I just think that this... (sighs) I, I don't know how else to
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    | text      = like really sum it up other than like this is disappointing.
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    | text      = I mean-
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    | text      = He's, he's b- rounding off some edges of himself-
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    | text      = ... to fall in line and be sort of obsequious to Trump and Elon Musk.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = And I think that makes him so much less interesting.
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    | text      = Like I don't think that Sandy Hook and his behavior around that can kill his legacy.
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    | text      = Sure.
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    | text      = In terms of him being this, uh, like, you know, the next generation of Bill Cooper-
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    | text      = Sure, sure, sure, sure.
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    | text      = ... and, you know... I, I, I think that obviously to right thinking people and to people who care-
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    | text      = ... it hurts his legacy.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = But it doesn't really hurt it within the conspiracy community and all that shit.
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    | text      = I think him doing this kinda stuff, it makes him really soft and, and, and not a renegade at all.
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    | text      = And I think that, uh, sucks for him.
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    | text      = I- I think, I think in, if... Okay, so r- removing the comic book
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    | text      = and stuff and let's go to a different genre of movie.
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    | text      = It makes sense if you think Trump is Immortan Joe, right?
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = And you're the spokesmers- person 'cause, 'cause in this situation
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = there's like 10 people who get to drink water. So it's like, "Yeah,
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    | text      = I wanna be one of the guys who drink water." We are not in that scenario-
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    | text      = Yet.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... yet, yet.
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = But this is bad.
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    | text      = No, no, what Alex is doing, i- it makes sense if you think Trump's Hitler, right?
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = I mean, like this-
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... makes total sense-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = ... if you are scared for your life-
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = ... or something.
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    | text      = But not if you're, think he's Stalin, in which case you're,
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    | text      = Alex, you're getting removed from the picture, buddy. You're not gonna make it out of that picture alive.
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    | text      = Yeah, it's, it's, it's interesting, um, the kind of maneuver that he's,
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    | text      = that he's trying to make.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Whatever it is, it seems sad.
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    | text      = Yeah. (laughs)
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    | text      = Um-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... and I, I don't respect it.
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    | text      = Yeah, I was, uh, I was thinking the other day, like I feel a bit like,
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    | text      = uh, an Italian fisherman during Mussolini's rise just like
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = on the dock somewhere, and it's a nice day for me somehow but I'm looking over and I'm like,
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    | text      = "This whole place is going to hell." I don't know what to tell you.
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    | text      = Inflation's out of control. I don't know what t- I don't know what to do, you know?
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = I just, I...
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    | text      = B-
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    | text      = And he's, he's just
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    | text      = Yeah. (laughs)
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    | text      = (laughs) He's talking about how Trump's Batman
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = and the alternative is the Joker and how we all love the Joker so much.
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    | text      = I mean, yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = And it's still just like, "Ugh."
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yeah, you're gonna have to put some face paint on if you wanna pull this one off.
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    | text      = Right.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yeah, and you know who really embodies like Heath Ledger's Joker?
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    | text      = Who?
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Uh, Klaus Schwab. You know? (laughs)
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    | text      = Yep, yep, yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Two, two peas in a pod.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Couldn't be more like, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = the Joker.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So Alex, uh, has, uh, been given God's blessing-
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    | text      = Sure.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... uh, to take over space.
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    | text      = Okay. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = And to them they think people like you and me are dumb
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = because we're not predators.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Uh, no, we're smart, buddy.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = If we tried to be predators, we'd be a lot better than, than you. We
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    | text      = are good people. We build civilization, you damn snake. You are a parasite, jackass.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = We like to have a civilization where people are strong and healthy and good
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    | text      = because we believe in ourselves and we believe in others and we are so dominant.
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    | text      = ... that we aren't threatened by other people doing well, we want our children and our future children
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    | text      = to live in a world with other good people they can marry and live with and have children.
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    | text      = We believe in our species.
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    | text      = We are the leaders.
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    | text      = You are the enemy.
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    | text      = We are the dreamers of dreams.
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    | text      = We are civilization.
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    | text      = We are the inheritors of God's providence.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = We have been given the manifest destiny to create-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = There's no way of knowing. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... the heavens.
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    | text      = You
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    | text      = are the problem.
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    | text      = So yeah, God has given, uh, Alex and his dipshit friends the
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = mandate and inheritance to colonize the stars...
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    | text      = Yep.
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    | text      = Jesus Christ.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yep, yep.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah. You know that Mandate of Heaven?Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = That one, that one goes back a long way.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = People have been getting the Mandate of Heaven for a lotta stuff over the years. I'm,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I'm starting to think that they're not always telling the truth about it.
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    | text      = See, here's the issue.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Not with the Mandate of Heaven thing, I totally-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = That's always-
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    | text      = ... agree with what you're saying.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = No, I, you're right. There is the Mandate of Heaven-
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    | text      = But-
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    | timestamp = 01:13:55.574
    | text      = ... on what you're saying.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I'm crystallizing this point.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Okay.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = And
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = w- Alex's dumb shit like this-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:14:02.435
    | text      = ... like where D- God has chosen us to, uh, uh, c- colonize the stars-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I don't even like hearing you repeat it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:14:08.034
    | text      = Uh...
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:14:09.375
    | text      = "I'm fighting against, uh, the spirit of the Joker-"
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:14:12.135
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:14:12.355
    | text      = "... and Trump is Batman."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:14:13.515
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:14:13.854
    | text      = All this stuff, like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = it kind of needs to come from someone who seems nuts.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = It needs to because it's nuts.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:14:23.475
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = So when he's out here, like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = seemingly tortured by the burden of the
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = information that he's carrying, like some kind of a Lovecraftian protagonist-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:14:34.555
    | text      = ... like, it makes sense for him to seem nuts.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = When he's just delivering this kind of normally,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = it, it doesn't hit.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = I think it, I think it goes back to something that we've, we've kind of hit
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    | timestamp = 01:14:46.935
    | text      = on a bunch of times, which is, uh, you know, the, the,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:14:50.795
    | text      = when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro kind of thing. Like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = before, sounding crazy while looking professional
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:14:57.835
    | text      = was the trick, because it felt like that was almost a, a dark commentary on how crazy everything was
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    | text      = while people still tried to act like it was normal.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = Now everything's fucking nuts, and he is not stepping up his game.
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    | text      = He's not. He should be the Joker at this point, right?
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    | text      = I think so.
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    | text      = But I think that, um... Th- this is what I just get the
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    | text      = sense of, and what I feel. I don't have anything to base this on-
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = ... but I just get the sense of, like,
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    | text      = him realizing that he can make a lot of money
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    | text      = with his alexjonesstore.com and all of these, like, little shells that he's set up-
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    | text      = ... and ways to avoid the bankruptcy-
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    | text      = ... and all that, but it's not that much.
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    | text      = No.
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    | text      = He can make a good amount of money, eh, but he's also pretty adjacent to the power structure-
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    | text      = ... that is ascendant and going to be coming in. He's close
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    | text      = enough to Elon Musk. He's had the guy who sounds like him on the show a couple times.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Um, I think he's making a pitch.
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    | text      = I feel like-
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    | text      = I feel like he's trying to do a job interview-
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    | text      = ... or something like that.
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    | text      = All right.
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    | text      = That's what it feels like.
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    | text      = ... that does make sense.
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    | text      = And it just d- and I don't, just don't think it, it, it, it works.
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    | text      = You know, I feel-
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    | text      = It's not a good fit.
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    | text      = Here's where, here, uh, here's what I feel like I would do if I was Alex.
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    | text      = I would try and go the, like, drug kingpin on the run way.
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    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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    | text      = You know? Like, I don't own anything in my own name, you know? Like, uh, but I have so much attachment, like,
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    | text      = everybody around me is throwing around millions of dollars like it's pennies, you know? Like-
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    | text      = ... he can live on the best life without anybody even knowing it's his shit, you know?
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    | text      = True.
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    | text      = What is he doing
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    | text      = this for? (laughs)
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    | text      = I, I think he has no joie de vivre.
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    | text      = I think you might be right. There's just nothing he's got to live for.
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    | text      = No!
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    | text      = (laughs)
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    | text      = Except space-
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    | text      = And no matter how many times-
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    | text      = ... and fighting against, uh, Batman.
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    | text      = No matter how many times you tell us how great your kids are, you have to spend
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    | text      = time with them to prove that you love them.
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    | text      = Yeah.
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    | text      = Anyway.
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    | text      = Eh.
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    | text      = Um...
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    | text      = (laughs)
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    | text      = Alex, uh, goes on to, uh, talk about, uh, uh,
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    | text      = how these fires, they're like how that ERCOT failure from, uh, you know-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = The one that was totally because of the globalists.
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = When, uh, there was that blizzard in, uh-
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    | text      = Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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    | text      = ... in Texas.
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    | text      = I remember that one.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Um, and then he gets off track.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Administrative murder, and then
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = it was like
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    | text      = three years ago in Texas.
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    | text      = Under the federal laws and regulations,
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    | text      = uh, that Biden put in,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = the states are told and the, and the power
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    | text      = collectives, most of them private with their own collectives. ERCOT here-
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    | text      = Makes sense.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = ... in Texas, it supplies three states pretty much completely.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Total re- gives power to five other states.
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    | text      = And they said, uh, five days before, governor sent a letter to the feds and said, "We need you to
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    | text      = give us an emergency authorization to up
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = power at our coal plants and, and, and natural gas. We got this Blue Norther coming."
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    | text      = They said, "Nope.
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    | text      = We'll, uh, give you million dollar an hour fines,
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    | text      = an hour, for anybody that ups the power,"
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    | text      = and they feed into the collective grid,
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    | text      = "and, uh, we'll also consider criminal charges if you do." So they
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    | text      = let the Blue Norther come in. Almost all the power went
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    | text      = off the first day, and then two days into the blackouts, they said, "Okay, you can up power now."
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    | text      = 'Cause imagine, you're the globalists, you've got all these controls and you can
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    | text      = just flip off the power here, flip off the power there, let fires get out of control here.
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    | text      = You can defund the police everywhere
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    | text      = and then have the city councils hire their own private security, like in the case of
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    | text      = many different areas around the nation like Minneapolis and St.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Paul. And it's all just a flagrant, raw, insane
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    | text      = exercise of power.
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    | text      = And again, it doesn't matter where you are, in Europe, Australia, the UK.
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    | text      = I mean, it came out that in Europe proper and Australia in the last few days
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    | text      = that they have the exact same policies whereby illegal alien migrant rapes a child,
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    | text      = they don't dep- they don't charge them because they would be deported, and according to their, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = regulations, this is not even a law, they've decided it's immoral
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = to deport an illegal, so they're allowed to rape.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:19:18.114
    | text      = Here it is. Victoria magistrates taught to give
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = light sentences to avoid having criminal migrants deported.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:19:24.534
    | text      = I have the newscast. It's in the biggest newspapers in... And they're saying it's good.
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    | text      = So Alex's retelling of what happened with the Texas
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    | text      = snowstorm is completely false. That is just an entirely
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:19:34.435
    | text      = fictitious retelling of events as filtered through
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:19:36.895
    | text      = this weird Infowars prism that... None of that's accurate.
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    | text      = But also, what does this, uh, have to do with the, the deportation policies of Australia? Why do we jump from
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = energy reliability issues to a completely disconnected topic?
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    | text      = So Alex is reading a headline about some reports about a presentation at a
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    | text      = judicial professional development meeting that discussed ways
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    | text      = to avoid deportation being an additional penalty people might face on top of jail time.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:20:03.574
    | text      = The article Alex is talking about includes commentary from a former
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    | text      = Victorian Supreme Court justice named Kevin Bell who said, quote,
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    | text      = "Magistrates are required to consider all considerations and not give undue weight to one or the other.
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    | text      = So if this training creates the appearance that a particular outcome,
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    | text      = uh, that is that offenders likely to deportation must be given a light sentence,
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:20:24.215
    | text      = I think that's very unlikely it would be followed."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = The Judicial College of Victoria already includes a recognition that the possibility of
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = someone being deported can make a sentence more onerous
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:20:34.734
    | text      = and reflects an additional consideration for a magistrate, but that doesn't mean that they
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = have to give immigrants lower sentences.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:20:41.635
    | text      = Their manual is clear. Quote, "This depends on the personal circumstances of the offender
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = and a court should not consider the possibility
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    | text      = of deportation as a mitigatory factor unless it will actually be a hardship for the offender.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = Moreover, it will be given limited weight in cases where the offending is particularly serious."
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = This very article that Alex is using as his source quotes the manual saying that it is, quote,
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    | timestamp = 01:21:06.414
    | text      = "error for a sentence, uh, sentencing court to artificially lower a sentence
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | text      = in order to avoid the consequences of the Migration Act."
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    | timestamp = 01:21:13.534
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:13.795
    | text      = This is all a bunch of bullshit, but it's also a tangent-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:21:16.875
    | text      = Like, this doesn't mean anything could... Like, when you're talking, he's talking about energy issues.
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    | timestamp = 01:21:21.454
    | text      = Yeah.
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    | timestamp = 01:21:21.494
    | text      = And then he just jumps off into an entirely other, uh-
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:21:25.115
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:25.494
    | text      = ... flagrant emotionally charged subject-
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:28.854
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:29.195
    | text      = ... that he's mishandling the information around.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:31.275
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:31.395
    | text      = Just fucking bullshit.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:32.435
    | text      = It's like, it's like a, it's like a karate movie
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:35.975
    | text      = and the part where the guy suddenly drops down and does the spin kick and trips you.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:21:40.694
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:40.954
    | text      = Like, that's what it felt like. It felt like he was talking
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:21:43.274
    | text      = to me and then all of a sudden, I was on the ground on my back, like, "What the fuck
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    | text      = just happened here? I've been tripped, you, uh, very good at karate man." Except for he's bad at it.
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    | text      = Yeah, it feels more like, uh, that b- that Indiana Jones moment, uh-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:56.414
    | text      = Oh, where, uh, he's doing all the (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:21:59.135
    | text      = and then you shoot him.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:21:59.875
    | text      = Yeah, but it's reversed.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:00.795
    | text      = But it's reversed.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
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    | text      = Like, it's the villain shoots the Indiana Jones.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:04.114
    | text      = It's, but also, but also the villain is doing a bunch of stuff with the gun at the same time.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:07.534
    | text      = And then Batman's there.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:08.676
    | text      = Yes, exactly. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:10.034
    | text      = Everyone likes a joker.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:10.854
    | text      = He is the villain and he's Indiana Jones and the guy and, uh, the giant guy getting chopped up by the plane.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:22:17.335
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:17.595
    | text      = Let's put it all together.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:18.875
    | text      = So, uh, Biden, uh, wants-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:21.114
    | text      = How is this possibly his fault?
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:22.975
    | text      = Well, he wants people to not fight fires.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:24.935
    | text      = That sounds right. That sounds true.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:22:26.494
    | text      = Biden is in California,
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:29.475
    | text      = the zombie, the crypt keeper, and he's sitting there with Air
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    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:32.614
    | text      = Force One and all the rest of the aircraft that, uh, follow him around, a bunch of, uh, presidential
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:22:38.954
    | text      = ospreys, you name it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:41.454
    | text      = And he's just sitting there
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:44.475
    | text      = today
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:46.074
    | text      = and they're impeding any of the emergency air traffic, aircraft, that's on the news still,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:52.954
    | text      = from going in and fighting the fires while he's, while the airplane sits there.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:22:59.654
    | text      = Every administrative thing they can do,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:02.975
    | text      = like Nero reportedly sat and watched Rome burn after he started the fires
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:07.354
    | text      = 'cause he wanted to expand his palace.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:07.975
    | text      = That was Plato's plan, actually.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:10.494
    | text      = That's on record in Roman histories.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:23:12.534
    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:13.694
    | text      = It's being done. Now, the commercial flights are allowed to fly,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:16.755
    | text      = so the news had to get up and take flights to other cities
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:20.814
    | text      = because their emergency choppers, everything is not allowed to be in the air because his lordship
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:26.774
    | text      = is there. If Trump was there, obviously the president, he would have
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:31.675
    | text      = instantly lifted the flight ban. But Biden doesn't give a crap.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:35.194
    | text      = And they've been talking about this flight control since yesterday afternoon.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:38.914
    | text      = And here we are the next day, there's the flight restriction map
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:43.574
    | text      = on screen for TV viewers
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:45.515
    | text      = and it's funny to them. And they're like, "Well, they're just idiots." Uh, no they're not.
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{{TranscriptBlock
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    | timestamp = 01:23:49.354
    | text      = So I, I, I, I'll be perfectly honest with you, this was
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:52.335
    | text      = not the end of the episode, but this is where I was like, "Fuck you."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:54.814
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:54.994
    | text      = I was, I was done.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:55.954
    | text      = Yeah, this is a lot.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:23:56.795
    | text      = 'Cause I mean, like, you're just passing along bad information about this fire and creating, uh,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:02.515
    | text      = sensationalism and, and nonsense, while at the same time
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:06.975
    | text      = explaining that science fiction movies and books are real.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:11.654
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:12.055
    | text      = Uh, and it's the plots of my enemies
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:14.675
    | text      = and you gotta be a Joker or Batman.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:17.975
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:18.475
    | text      = All this, it's just, it's, it's stupid.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:21.774
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:21.875
    | text      = It was just stupid.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:23.614
    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:24.395
    | text      = And
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:25.795
    | text      = I, I don't know how else to put this.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:28.414
    | text      = It's a fucking weasel.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:29.895
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:29.914
    | text      = Like, this is so pathetic.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:32.034
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:32.534
    | text      = There's, like, uh, I think in 2016, he was less of, like, a pathetic, uh, entity than this.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:41.895
    | text      = I agree. I agree.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:42.555
    | text      = We've been through this already.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:44.154
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:44.555
    | text      = Trump dropped the mother of all bombs and then-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:46.295
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:46.395
    | text      = ... shoved ISIS up our dirty assholes.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:48.135
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:48.475
    | text      = We've already been over this.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:49.654
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:49.954
    | text      = He had a failure of an administration that was infested with globalists and all this. He had to make
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:54.574
    | text      = excuses for four fucking years and then pretend that he won the, the election in 2020
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:24:59.255
    | text      = secretly. Like, we've already done this.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:01.494
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:01.755
    | text      = Stop it.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:02.814
    | text      = Yeah. Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:03.574
    | text      = Stop pretending that he's, like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:05.494
    | text      = a model of, uh, like an Adonis who's, knows how to raise kids and we all-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:09.734
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:10.175
    | text      = This is just... Ugh.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:13.515
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:14.715
    | text      = There's a lot of, uh, there's a lot of reruns on the, on the screen these days.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:18.954
    | text      = Mm-hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:19.255
    | text      = I'm not, uh, I'm not stoked about that. It feels like, uh, it feels like everybody is like,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:25.175
    | text      = "I don't know. I, we can't change the channel."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:27.295
    | text      = Hmm.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:27.614
    | text      = "I guess we're just watching reruns."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:29.954
    | text      = I-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:30.194
    | text      = "Fuck."
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:30.935
    | text      = I, I find that
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:32.954
    | text      = unacceptable.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:34.055
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:34.694
    | text      = And I think we need to do whatever we can to not
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:38.375
    | text      = be, be in that.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:39.875
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:40.015
    | text      = And if Alex insists on being in reruns-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:42.255
    | text      = Ugh.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:42.395
    | text      = ... and pretending that the last eight years didn't happen,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:45.574
    | text      = I'm not saying I'm not gonna listen to him.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:47.875
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:48.135
    | text      = But I'm gonna be more hostile, I think.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:49.774
    | text      = I think that's a good call.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:50.895
    | text      = 'Cause this-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:51.694
    | text      = I think that is a good call.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:52.994
    | text      = This makes me really mad.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:54.194
    | text      = I think it's, I think that's a good call. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:25:57.574
    | text      = I just can't hear... I can't, I can't,
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:00.994
    | text      = I cannot hear someone calmly explain to me that sci-fi is real-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:04.954
    | text      = No.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:05.175
    | text      = ... while trying to exploit a tragedy that is affecting people we
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:09.154
    | text      = know and b- you know, people, friends of friends and, you know, like, it's just-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:12.595
    | text      = Yep.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:13.414
    | text      = Fuck off, dude.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:15.034
    | text      = I mean-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:15.755
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:16.154
    | text      = Get bent.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:17.534
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:18.314
    | text      = Anyway.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:18.975
    | text      = Yep. (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:19.475
    | text      = We'll check in and see if his tune changes a little bit.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:21.975
    | text      = Right.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:21.975
    | text      = Or if we get back to catastrophic contagion-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:24.395
    | text      = I, we-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:24.814
    | text      = ... being released on us.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:25.875
    | text      = Oh, God.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:25.994
    | text      = Or if the Ebola comes out of Denver.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:28.234
    | text      = Oh, God.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:28.715
    | text      = Or if the aliens arrive.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:29.875
    | text      = This world.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:30.814
    | text      = Yeah.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:30.954
    | text      = I w- Get some new storylines, man.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:33.055
    | text      = He tried.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:33.534
    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:33.774
    | text      = He, no.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:34.154
    | text      = I know. That's the worst.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:35.574
    | text      = That's not the problem.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:35.835
    | text      = But no.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:35.835
    | text      = That's not the problem. He can get too many-
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:36.515
    | text      = It's the worst part.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:36.835
    | text      = ... new storylines.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:37.555
    | text      = It's the worst part. Yes. Exactly.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:39.515
    | text      = Brr.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:39.914
    | text      = (laughs)
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:40.875
    | text      = Anyway, we'll be back.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:41.774
    | text      = Oh, God.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:42.255
    | text      = And until then, we have a website.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:43.255
    | text      = Indeed we do, introspectfight.com.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:45.255
    | text      = Y- Yep, we'll be back. But until then, I'm Neo, Leo, DZX Clark and The Mysterious Professor.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:50.234
    | text      = Woo, yeah. Woo, yeah. Woo. And now, here comes the sex robots.
}}

{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:55.234
    | text      = Andy in Kansas, you're on the air. Thanks for holding.
}}

{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:26:58.414
    | text      = Hello, Alex. I'm a first-time caller. I'm a huge fan. I love your work.
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{{TranscriptBlock
    | name      = Unknown Speaker
    | timestamp = 01:27:02.534
    | text      = I love you.
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