1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free, write to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,679 your support. It is Monday at two o'clock and that 10 00:00:31,719 --> 00:00:34,200 means that we speak with ap Dylan, a reporter for 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,600 the North State Journal. You can read a reporting at 12 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:40,439 nsjonline dot com. She also publishes a substack dot com 13 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,439 newsletter called more to the Story, Ap, How are you today? 14 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:46,399 Speaker 2: I'm great, Pete. How are you doing? 15 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:50,359 Speaker 1: I'm doing all right myself. So you're like a machine. 16 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:53,520 You just keep cranking out content all the time. So 17 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:54,880 that's why I have you on so this way you 18 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:56,240 can do it all and then I could just ask 19 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,719 you about what you've written. So we I think we 20 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:04,200 spoke about the Act Blue fundraising platform for the Democrats 21 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:09,959 in the past, and the smurfing where people are surprised 22 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,439 to find out that they have been their name and 23 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:15,719 information has been used to make donations to Act Blue. 24 00:01:16,079 --> 00:01:19,680 They haven't actually lost any money, they're just seeing their 25 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,439 name appear on these donations. And then also there was 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,079 the the Act Blue platform. They failed to implement just 27 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:35,640 like your basic safety security safeguards for credit card applications 28 00:01:35,719 --> 00:01:37,760 or not applications, but the use of your credit card 29 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:41,359 to make a donation with the little CVV number on 30 00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:43,519 the back, you know, they're not they don't ask for that. 31 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,239 And so this is now first off, it's now gotten 32 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:52,599 the attention of the administration right and the House under 33 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,319 the Republicans had already drawn up a pretty lengthy report 34 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:01,079 about the problems that this Act Blue platform has had. 35 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,519 And so why should people care? I'll start there with 36 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,280 why should people care about whether this platform was protecting 37 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:14,680 the credit card security? And why people should care about 38 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:16,360 whether or not they were smurfing. 39 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 2: Well, the failure of Act Blue to use the credit 40 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,960 card verification code. They did that for quite some time 41 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,560 where they weren't verifying the credit cards, which means that 42 00:02:28,599 --> 00:02:30,719 anyone could buy like a gift card, you know, vius 43 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:32,879 a gift card and make a bunch of small donations 44 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:36,960 in someone's name from anywhere in the world, and that 45 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,400 money would get funneled to whatever candidate or whatever you know, 46 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,400 campaign that was being run, or even an individual donor 47 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:47,719 group that was running their money through there. So that 48 00:02:47,759 --> 00:02:50,360 means that foreign donations could have been coming into elections 49 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:51,759 and to campaigns. 50 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: And in fact, this was not new. I went over this, 51 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,120 I think a couple a week or so ago, that 52 00:02:57,879 --> 00:03:00,439 this tactic was not new. Obama did the same sort 53 00:03:00,479 --> 00:03:04,000 of thing they allowed. They did not click a button 54 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,800 basically to turn off donations from foreign sourcing, and that 55 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,199 allowed them to keep pulling in all of this money 56 00:03:12,039 --> 00:03:14,599 from foreign sources and not reporting it. And then, of 57 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:19,639 course he won and his FEC declined to pursue the 58 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,759 matter after he won. So it's not a new tactic, 59 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,680 but it essentially opens the door to foreign influence in 60 00:03:27,719 --> 00:03:28,599 our elections. 61 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 2: And yeah, and the House Oversight Committee did a report 62 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,680 on that that came out last December, right, And if 63 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:38,680 anyone goes to the House Oversite website, you can look 64 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:40,800 up the reports that they filed. There's a tab for 65 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,599 that and pull that down. And it went over a 66 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,599 number of different instances where they found hundreds and hundreds 67 00:03:46,599 --> 00:03:50,759 of donations under a particular universe the visual's name, and 68 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,719 that person didn't make those donations, you know, like a 69 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:55,960 little two dollars, like at least six or seven times 70 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,199 a day for you know, an entire six month period, 71 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,039 you know, totally some thing like fifty or sixty thousand dollars, 72 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:04,560 you know, And those are some of the more egregious ones. 73 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:06,199 There were ones that were there was a couple in there. 74 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:07,719 I think there were over one hundred thousand dollars in 75 00:04:07,759 --> 00:04:10,800 donations over one to two year period. So that's a 76 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,400 lot of money flowing into that into there. And the 77 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,759 Trumble administration, President Trump went and signed a memorandum it 78 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:20,480 said we're gonna we want to see this investigated. So 79 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,600 it's hinted it off to Pambondi, the US Attorney General, 80 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:25,360 to look into, right. 81 00:04:25,639 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: And one other point is that it allows the Democrats 82 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:31,959 to celebrate in tout we have all of these small 83 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,079 dollar donations when in fact they're being made under like 84 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:42,040 straw donors. They those people aren't actually making the donations. 85 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,040 You can't even track it. Yeah, so there's that. There's 86 00:04:46,079 --> 00:04:50,120 also in your piece, this is at this at your 87 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,120 sub stack more to the story. You then make a 88 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:59,879 connection with Democracy Green, all right, what is Democracy Green? 89 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 2: Democracy Green was a sort of a green group that 90 00:05:04,439 --> 00:05:08,800 received money under the Biden administration through the Inflation Reduction Act. 91 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,079 It was part of the Green Deal items that were 92 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:13,040 in there, and I think they got twenty million dollars 93 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,839 to do something with removal of lead pipes and homes, 94 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,879 and there was another function there. And the Washington freebee 95 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:22,800 Can actually looked into this a couple months back and 96 00:05:22,879 --> 00:05:25,319 they found that this group based here in North Carolina. 97 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,879 Actually their their address on all their filings is where 98 00:05:28,959 --> 00:05:31,480 in Fuquave Arena and was Southern Way County. And it 99 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,720 turns out it's just a double wide house on a 100 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:38,480 piece of property. This group has no background in doing 101 00:05:38,519 --> 00:05:41,600 any of that kind of work. And in fact, one 102 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,959 of the women running, a woman named Wiggington. She her 103 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:49,319 she's the CEO for this thing, and she's also got 104 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,920 this very long resume of other organizations that she's involved with, 105 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:57,639 including multiple organizations that were doing get out the vote stuff. 106 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:03,199 Speaker 1: So well, that's my kind of adjacent to wetland restoration, right, 107 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:07,720 I mean, voter registration wetland restoration very similar. 108 00:06:07,959 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly and you know, so I took a look 109 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:11,040 at them, like, wait, what does this have to do 110 00:06:11,079 --> 00:06:12,759 with the other thing? And then I saw her. She 111 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,639 had done a bunch of different events where she was 112 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:19,480 talking about redistricting, including one with Wiley Nickel, yeah, running 113 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,959 for Enco Senate against Tom Tillis, and a couple of 114 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,720 other redistricting get out the vote things. Another one had, 115 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:31,319 you know, a current Supreme Court Associate Justice Alison Riggs 116 00:06:31,399 --> 00:06:35,600 was the speaking the keynote person at this event, is 117 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:37,360 before she was actually on the Court, before she was 118 00:06:37,399 --> 00:06:39,480 appointed to the Court of Appeals by Brod Cooper and 119 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:43,120 then again appointed up to the Supreme Court. So I 120 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,120 found that very interesting that this person who's involved with 121 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:49,439 the Democracy Green is also doing all these vote, get 122 00:06:49,439 --> 00:06:51,519 out the vote things. So it begs the question where 123 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:53,560 did the money for this twenty million dollar project that 124 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,040 they have no experience in doing actually go. 125 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty million for environmental and climate grants and the 126 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:07,839 grant was for wetland restoration and lead pipe removal from 127 00:07:07,959 --> 00:07:12,040 Holmes and the Washington Free Beacon did the story that 128 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,079 found the group has no capabilities to fulfill the grant's purpose. 129 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:22,639 It also has shady finances and is cited as a grift, which, yeah, 130 00:07:22,639 --> 00:07:25,360 that raises some red flegs. I did like whereas it. 131 00:07:25,399 --> 00:07:29,000 According to her personal website, her name is Lea Misha 132 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,879 Whittington and she is the president and CEO of Democracy 133 00:07:33,879 --> 00:07:37,279 Green Now. Her family members are also leaders of the group. 134 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:41,079 This Sanja Whittington co founder Robert Winnington junior co founder. 135 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,879 But on her personal website she describes herself as the 136 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:51,240 eco architect is a revolutionary environmental injustice disruptor on the 137 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,360 underground railroad of environmental liberation. I'm not sure, Like, if 138 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,759 you were playing the woke bingo game, I think you 139 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:01,680 would win. Oh my gosh. 140 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:04,079 Speaker 2: That's why I grabbed that quote off over there, because 141 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,000 I thought to myself, well, that just packs it all 142 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:06,879 in in one sentence. 143 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: It's impressive. It really is impressive. Now, I would also 144 00:08:10,279 --> 00:08:15,560 point out she also listed her experience with Blueprint NC. 145 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:21,720 Blueprint Yes, Blueprint n c R old pals over at 146 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,519 Blueprint North Carolina. 147 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 2: She was a point into a border commission too by 148 00:08:25,879 --> 00:08:26,800 Governor Roy Cooper. 149 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:31,439 Speaker 1: Shocking. Yes, absolutely, commission. You also have a piece at 150 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:36,559 your substack about the librarian who wrote a letter to 151 00:08:36,879 --> 00:08:42,320 state Representative Aaron Pare about House Built six point thirty six, 152 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,559 which is designed to, you know, let parents have a 153 00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:48,440 say in whether or not the dirty books get to 154 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,360 be on the bookshelves in their you know, kindergartner's library 155 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:56,120 and such. And she makes this argument that because she 156 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:00,679 is an expert in the librarian science is or whatever 157 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,919 they call it, that she knows best, which I think 158 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,440 is probably news to parents. They were not aware of that. 159 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,080 I'm assuming well. 160 00:09:10,799 --> 00:09:13,399 Speaker 2: You know, as I wrote in the article, but parents 161 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,720 are the experts on their own children, and therefore they 162 00:09:16,759 --> 00:09:19,840 should have say about what's good or bad for their 163 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:23,080 child to be doing in the classroom. I don't think 164 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,200 a lot of folks understand just how bad some of 165 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,720 these books are. I've looked at a number of them, 166 00:09:27,879 --> 00:09:32,799 and they are, in my opinion, pornographic and overtly sexual, 167 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:35,120 the kind of thing that you couldn't put on the 168 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:37,759 news and. 169 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,519 Speaker 1: You can't read at the school district board meetings. 170 00:09:40,919 --> 00:09:42,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't read them at school district bard meanings. 171 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:45,440 But yet we've got school boards defending them actually being 172 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,279 on the shelves. Now, you know, if parents want to 173 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:49,799 go buy this thing off of Amazon for themselves. That's great, 174 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,399 but it's not necessarily the most appropriate thing to be 175 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:54,000 in a public K twelve library. 176 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of the things I've been on a 177 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,000 mission to try to get at least one of the 178 00:09:59,039 --> 00:10:02,799 reporters up in to use the word curate instead of 179 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,799 book ban because the word is curate. That's what we're 180 00:10:05,799 --> 00:10:10,120 describing here, is to curate the material, as all libraries do. 181 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 2: Yes, but you know, we've got groups out there, like 182 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,360 the American Library Association who have outed these books and 183 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:21,960 actually given them awards, and the school boards or these 184 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,919 panels that are viewing these books are using that as 185 00:10:24,919 --> 00:10:27,720 a shield to keep them on the shelves. You know, Oh, 186 00:10:27,799 --> 00:10:29,960 it won this award or it was you know, approved 187 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,679 by the American Library Association. Yeah, well, Lottie does. The 188 00:10:32,759 --> 00:10:36,159 leader of the American Library Association a year ago was 189 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,399 the overt socialist who basically said it was their mission 190 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,279 to go in and change my hearts and minds in libraries. Right, 191 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,639 So there's a problem. 192 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,399 Speaker 1: Track it back too, I did this last week. You 193 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:53,279 track it back to also the lack of American white 194 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:58,200 men who get published writing fiction for young men. They 195 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,720 there's like their blacklist did in the industry. So you've 196 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,399 got the whole funnel basically controlled by leftist woke and 197 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,399 so there's just their books aren't being they're not being written, 198 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,000 and they're not being published for the libraries to even 199 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,960 put on the shelves. It's crazy. So one other, one 200 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,639 other story you got real quick North State Journal Online. 201 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:23,000 The Wait County Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. You guys, 202 00:11:23,039 --> 00:11:26,840 congratulations up at Wake County. You're now spending over a 203 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:29,960 million dollars for the DEI office. That's exciting stuff. 204 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know all these DEI you know, pieces 205 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,759 of legislation and the Trump administration, you know, calling DEI 206 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,440 and education. That got to me thinking, well, you know 207 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,200 what about county offices? What about county level things? And 208 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,360 you know, Wake County is you know, a booming thee 209 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:51,799 High area actually from the Raleigh City Council all the 210 00:11:51,799 --> 00:11:54,320 way to its border commissioners, and it's in its county 211 00:11:54,399 --> 00:11:56,840 level offices. And I took a look at the Longhold. Yes, 212 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:01,039 they have a DEI office. Their website is down and 213 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:04,080 being revamped. I was being told like an access that 214 00:12:04,159 --> 00:12:07,639 after I began my record's request, the fight suddenly went down, 215 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,759 but you know, iwayback machine everything, so it's on the 216 00:12:10,759 --> 00:12:12,799 way back machine and you can see that they have 217 00:12:12,879 --> 00:12:16,799 like four or five employees there and their salaries are 218 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,679 the bulk of the one point one seven million over 219 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,879 you know that million dollars for this current twenty twenty 220 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:27,120 five budget. That just kind of blew my mind. What 221 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:29,600 are these people being paid in two right? 222 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,039 Speaker 1: And are they going to now be running a foul 223 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,759 of federal law state laws that are trying to crack 224 00:12:35,799 --> 00:12:39,200 down on this very kind of operation. We'll have to 225 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,639 leave its interesting though, Yeah, no, I agree absolutely. You 226 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:45,480 can read or work at nsjonline dot com. The headline 227 00:12:45,519 --> 00:12:47,720 on that one is Wake County DEI Office spent nearly 228 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,000 one point two million dollars AP. Dylan, thanks for your time. 229 00:12:51,039 --> 00:12:54,159 As always, we appreciate you. Thank you, Pete, take care 230 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,000 all right? So spring is here a time of renewal 231 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,960 and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and especial days 232 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,320 for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that are 233 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,360 going to last a lifetime. 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So Democrats tossed him out 253 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:29,320 and picked another white dude to run the party. On Saturday, 254 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:38,000 they picked their new chair Wesley Harris. Harris defeated Cromer 255 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:46,039 and Vilma Leak, a Mecklemberg County commissioner, black woman. They Yeah. 256 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:50,480 He beat Chromer and Leak with seventy six percent of 257 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:54,519 the vote and pledged to unite the party. The Democrat 258 00:14:54,559 --> 00:15:00,639 Party picked Wesley Harris as chairman at their annual convention. 259 00:15:01,519 --> 00:15:03,559 He will lead the party through the twenty twenty six 260 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:07,159 midterms as it looks to defend its dominance in local races, 261 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:10,879 improve Democratic margins in the General Assembly, and counter the 262 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:16,080 Trump administration sweeping policy shifts. Despite the record setting fundraising 263 00:15:16,799 --> 00:15:23,320 that the previous chairman was able to realize, increased staffing 264 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,840 and publicity about efforts to get voters to the polls, 265 00:15:26,879 --> 00:15:31,879 in twenty twenty four, voter turnout in Mecklimberg County heavy Democratic, 266 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,399 Mecklimer County once again trailed the rest of the state 267 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,759 as Democrats failed to flip the battleground state for Kamala Harris. 268 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:47,600 Days later, the county party's then executive director, Manifa Drayton 269 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:51,240 resigned with a letter that compared her experience to that 270 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,919 of quote professional black women during the Jim Crow era. 271 00:15:55,919 --> 00:16:04,200 This yeah okay. Harris announced his campaign to challenge Cromer 272 00:16:05,399 --> 00:16:08,360 in February. He sent an email to supporters saying that 273 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,120 his statewide race gave him a front row seat to 274 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,960 the dysfunction that has led our core voters to lose 275 00:16:15,039 --> 00:16:19,399 trust in our ability to lead. I forget, what did 276 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:26,480 Harris run for? Yeah, forget it's it's in the article. 277 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:31,360 Someplace he lost that that statewide seat. It was a 278 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:37,279 Council of State race. It wasn't auditor treasurer. I think 279 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:40,960 he ran for treasurer. But so he says that gave 280 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:44,080 him a front row seat to the dysfunction in his 281 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:47,039 own party. There was a lot of disappointment on November fifth, 282 00:16:47,039 --> 00:16:48,840 he said, But the thing that stung the most to me, 283 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:51,480 the one that was the most personal, was seeing Mecklenberg 284 00:16:51,519 --> 00:16:55,919 County drop the ball yet again. Vill Maleak, a fixture 285 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:00,240 in local politics for decades, announced her own candidate see 286 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,640 at the convention. So she's just like, yeah, Ron, what 287 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,000 the heck? Harris ultimately got seventy six percent of the 288 00:17:08,039 --> 00:17:10,480 votes precincts. Get here you go. This is my favorite 289 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:15,000 part of the article. Precincts get different numbers of votes 290 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,119 based on how many votes were cast for the Democratic 291 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,960 nominee for governor in each precinct in the last election, 292 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,359 according to state party rules. This is why I call 293 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,640 it the Democrat Party and not the Democratic Party. They 294 00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:36,279 wait their votes. So if you are in a precinct 295 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:42,880 that has, you know, one hundred percent Democrat voters for 296 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,039 the governor, then you get a bigger share of votes 297 00:17:47,079 --> 00:17:54,680 to cast for the chairman. Yeah, some, I guess some 298 00:17:54,759 --> 00:17:58,839 Democrat voters are more equal than others. In his acceptance speech, 299 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,839 Harris called for or more civil debate within the party. 300 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:08,200 So there's going to be an intensive training and education 301 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,799 project on how exactly to be civil if you are 302 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:17,680 a Democrat debating. That's going to be a large enterprise. 303 00:18:20,039 --> 00:18:23,720 Notice also that it's just how to be civil within 304 00:18:23,759 --> 00:18:27,160 the party. See, you guys got to be able to 305 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,920 switch it off. You know, when you're arguing with Democrats, 306 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,599 you can't be calling them Nazis and fascists and bigots 307 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,240 and sexists and racists and all of that stuff. We 308 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,160 need you to reserve that solely for the Republicans that 309 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:46,039 you're debating, because that really works very well, in case 310 00:18:46,079 --> 00:18:50,599 you haven't realized, it works really well, the ad hominem attacks. 311 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,440 It's a go to to win debates. Just call people 312 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,359 a bunch of names and then you win. That's what 313 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,640 I understand the tactic to be. Harris repres vent parts 314 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,400 of southern Mecklenburg from twenty nineteen through twenty twenty four 315 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,680 in the North Carolina House. He ran here it as 316 00:19:06,759 --> 00:19:10,720 unsuccessfully for state treasurer. 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That's why her questions were, you know, 346 00:20:53,599 --> 00:21:00,119 unusually more stupid because she stayed up too late the 347 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,079 night before, probably at the White House Correspondence Association dinner 348 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,480 because she was one of the well, I don't know 349 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,440 if she was one of the MC's or what, but 350 00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:19,960 she introduced Alex Thompson. Alex Thompson is a reporter for Axios, 351 00:21:20,559 --> 00:21:26,000 and he was the recipient of a prestigious award that 352 00:21:26,079 --> 00:21:30,039 also carries with it a monetary prize of twenty five 353 00:21:30,279 --> 00:21:35,240 hundred dollars. And so she gave the following intro to 354 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:42,039 Alex for his award winning now work covering the Biden administration. 355 00:21:43,599 --> 00:21:48,279 Speaker 3: The judges said Thompson's aggressive reporting on President Biden, especially 356 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,200 leading up to and after the Trump Biden debate, revealed 357 00:21:52,319 --> 00:21:56,240 the president's cognitive decline was impacting his ability to do 358 00:21:56,279 --> 00:22:00,759 his job. Information the White House tried to conceal Ladies 359 00:22:00,799 --> 00:22:03,960 and gentlemen. The White House Correspondence Association is pleased to 360 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,119 give the Aldo Beckman Award to Alex Thompson. 361 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,839 Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of the word hutzba the audacity 362 00:22:13,559 --> 00:22:20,279 you gave Alex Thompson an award for his aggressive reporting 363 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:24,920 on the cognitive decline of Joe Biden before the debate. 364 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:33,319 Please Alex Thompson then gets up there takes his award, 365 00:22:34,079 --> 00:22:38,160 thanks a whole mess of people. And I feel the 366 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,519 need to point it out because I feel like it's 367 00:22:39,559 --> 00:22:43,759 a little relevant here. But the aggressive reporting on Biden's 368 00:22:43,759 --> 00:22:50,319 cognitive decline occurred after the debate, after when the coup 369 00:22:50,559 --> 00:22:51,319 was launched. 370 00:22:52,559 --> 00:22:56,359 Speaker 4: To my bones, I believe that reporting and the White 371 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:02,640 House Corresponds association is as necessary as ever. President Biden's 372 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,880 decline and it's cover up by the people around him 373 00:23:08,079 --> 00:23:11,319 is a reminder that every White House, regardless of party, 374 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:13,720 is capable of deception. 375 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: It the cover up wasn't just with the people around him. 376 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:21,640 So this is them saying, oh, look like we just 377 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,240 couldn't figure the story out because they covered it up 378 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:29,920 so well, please. We could tell we were making jokes 379 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,960 about it in Biden's first run in twenty twenty. Well, 380 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,160 I guess that would be a fourth run for president. 381 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,839 But we could tell then they had him locked in 382 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,920 the basement for COVID reasons and all of that. We 383 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,160 could tell he had he had issues, and it got 384 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,000 worse and worse and worse. I was talking about it regularly, 385 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,079 and I would I would constantly point out I'm not 386 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,400 attacking him. It's this is not something like if you 387 00:23:58,559 --> 00:24:03,119 had ever had somebody in your family suffering from cognitive decline, 388 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,240 these types of dementia related issues. It is a very 389 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:13,079 difficult thing, and somebody needed to be there to say that, 390 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,240 and nobody in that White House Press Corps did. 391 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 4: But being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. 392 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:28,880 We myself included, missed a lot of this story, and 393 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,680 some people trust us less because of it. 394 00:24:31,039 --> 00:24:34,519 Speaker 1: Yes, right, Steven Miller, writer at The Spectator, says, the 395 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:36,920 only people who somehow missed the story just all happened 396 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,640 to be in the same room with Alex Thompson Saturday night. 397 00:24:41,559 --> 00:24:43,599 Like all of those people were the only people that 398 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,200 couldn't see this was happening. 399 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:50,839 Speaker 4: We bear some responsibility, true, for faith in the media 400 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:55,079 being at such lows. 401 00:24:55,799 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, I bear some responsibility. Let's move on, now, 402 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:01,799 let's move on. 403 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 4: I say this because acknowledging errors builds trust and being 404 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,119 defensive about them further erodes it. We should have done better. 405 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,559 I believe our mission is vital in a world where 406 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:23,559 people are struggling to figure out what's true and people 407 00:25:23,599 --> 00:25:26,000 with power are not telling the truth. 408 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:30,039 Speaker 1: Right, So now that we've gotten past that part where 409 00:25:30,039 --> 00:25:32,000 it's like, yeah, yeah, we had some roll in it. 410 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,680 I mean we were lied to, they covered it up, 411 00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:37,680 they weren't truthful to us, and we bear some of 412 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,680 that responsibility. But now let's move on and really stick 413 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,960 it to the next administration, right, a renewed sense of purpose. 414 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:48,920 Let's really go after who's in the office now, Oh 415 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,359 it's Donald Trump. Well, I guess we're going to have to, 416 00:25:51,599 --> 00:25:54,359 you know, just redouble our efforts here because it's our 417 00:25:54,559 --> 00:26:02,079 new restated mission or something. Steven Miller pointed out, Yeah, 418 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:05,960 we noticed Biden's weird wandering off three years before his 419 00:26:06,079 --> 00:26:12,480 AID suddenly started umbrella in him. That's when Axios reported it, 420 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,440 and the first Alex Thompson like they're they're pointing out, 421 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,920 where is it here? I've got a yeah, here's the 422 00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:24,200 tweet that that is being held up by like his 423 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:31,079 colleagues in the Beltway media. That back in June eighteenth, 424 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:35,920 twenty twenty three. Okay, so this is like a year 425 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,799 before the debate, but still two and a half years 426 00:26:38,799 --> 00:26:44,640 into the presidency. He says Biden's weird phrases are sometimes 427 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,799 weaponized by the GOP to insinuate the eighty year old 428 00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:51,960 president is in mental decline. But Biden has been using 429 00:26:52,039 --> 00:26:54,720 these unique phrases for years, even as some of his 430 00:26:54,839 --> 00:27:00,279 aides remained confused by their meaning. This is the they 431 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:03,240 gave the award to. He's pointing out in June of 432 00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:10,400 twenty three that the GOP is weaponizing Biden's malapropisms and 433 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,799 him biting his wife's hand while she's giving a speech, 434 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,680 remember that one. Yeah, that was all just brushed aside. Oh, 435 00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:21,680 that's just Joe being Joe. Oh you know, he's just 436 00:27:21,759 --> 00:27:28,160 a he's his uncle Joe. He's Oh, that's just his way. Yeah. No, 437 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:33,960 people were noticing it, and what God. Alex Thompson. The 438 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,279 praise from his colleagues was a story he wrote about 439 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:43,160 how they had to surround Joe Biden literally with people 440 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,160 when he would walk to the helicopter. Remember that we 441 00:27:47,279 --> 00:27:50,680 covered it. The only reason you do that after you 442 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,839 put him in some new nikes or actually like some 443 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,640 morthodic shoes to help with his balance because he was 444 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:02,359 having gait problems. He was having issue walking and he 445 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,599 was shuffling and like he wasn't. Yeah, they would do 446 00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:09,680 these like little trots out to the to the chopper 447 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,279 and stuff. But people started realizing, as he's walking, he's 448 00:28:13,319 --> 00:28:16,359 looking worse and worse and worse. So they slapped new 449 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,240 shoes on him and then surrounded him with a bunch 450 00:28:19,279 --> 00:28:25,400 of aids. Why to stop him from falling. Maybe probably though, 451 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,119 to stop the media from getting video of him. And 452 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,240 because they did that, oh well, we just can't possibly 453 00:28:33,319 --> 00:28:37,920 tell that his gait has deteriorated. I don't know what. Gosh, 454 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,720 they were just so adept at at fooling all of 455 00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:44,720 us intrepid reporters. You should quit your job then. If 456 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:49,000 you were that easily duped, then you should not be 457 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:52,319 doing the job that you are doing. All right, if 458 00:28:52,319 --> 00:28:54,079 you're listening to this show, you know I try to 459 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,920 keep up with all sorts of current events, and I 460 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,160 know you do too. And you probably heard me say 461 00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:02,519 get your news from multiples. 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Literally, 483 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:27,519 none of this performative distancing matters, none of it, and 484 00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:30,440 as of now, not a single one of these reporters 485 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:35,680 wants to answer it. It is the biggest scandal in 486 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:42,240 American politics in my view. You may disagree, other scandals bigger, worse, whatever, 487 00:30:43,359 --> 00:30:48,480 but you have a president who is in cognitive decline. 488 00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:51,160 They said they have put up all of these safeguards 489 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:56,039 around him to keep it hidden, even though they couldn't. 490 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:05,599 And the reporter class, the press Corps is now pretending 491 00:31:05,839 --> 00:31:09,519 like they were deceived the whole time and had no idea. 492 00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:13,319 These are the same people, by the way, who labeled 493 00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:17,519 anybody on the right who was pointing this out. They 494 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:21,160 called it cheap fakes. The White House Press secretary called 495 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,359 the video of Joe Biden wandering around aimlessly, they called 496 00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:31,079 it a cheap fake, and that was then regurgitated by 497 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,200 these very same reporters in the Press Corps. And now 498 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,839 they want to pretend that, okay, some mistakes were made, 499 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,759 we just couldn't see it. Forest for the trees whatever. 500 00:31:44,599 --> 00:31:46,440 And now they want to let's turn the page on 501 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,880 that chapter and let's just, you know, focus on some 502 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,960 other stuff. I want to give credit to a guy 503 00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:57,880 named Sam Fragoso. He apparently runs a podcast called Talk 504 00:31:58,039 --> 00:32:06,440 Easy with Sam Fragoso, and he got Elizabeth Warren on 505 00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:10,319 his podcast. I have no idea what this guy's politics are. 506 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:13,440 I assume they are of the left, because I doubt 507 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,720 she would go on this podcast if he wasn't. But 508 00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:20,440 I don't know that, and it doesn't matter. What matters 509 00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:26,279 is he actually asked her the questions and tried to 510 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:32,039 hold her more accountable for her lies than anybody in 511 00:32:32,079 --> 00:32:36,039 that DC Press Corps. For all the awards they give themselves, 512 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,680 they don't do this. They're not asking that La Times 513 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,640 reporter how her question ended up in the President's hand 514 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,519 before she asked it. That's uncomfortable. That's awkward. That's almost 515 00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:52,200 as awkward as a Bill Belichick interview on CBS. It's awkward. 516 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:55,400 They don't want to do it because they know the answer. 517 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,119 They know how it got there. There's only one way 518 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,440 it gets there. She gave it to them, They picked her, 519 00:33:03,079 --> 00:33:05,440 she wrote it, She gave it to them, and then 520 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,440 they called on her and for her, her journalistic integrity 521 00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:13,160 was worth the price of her standing up and getting 522 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:18,720 to ask the President that question. So kudos to Sam Fragoso. 523 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,960 And here's how it went. I highly urge you look 524 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,920 at the video clip. If you can find the video clip, 525 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:28,640 it's out there on the YouTube's because her facial expressions 526 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:34,759 during this exchange lay bare her lie. 527 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,279 Speaker 5: Do you regret saying that President Biden had a mental acuity. 528 00:33:39,279 --> 00:33:41,480 He had a sharpness to him. You said that up 529 00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:43,039 until July of last. 530 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,599 Speaker 6: Year, I said what I believed to be true. 531 00:33:46,519 --> 00:33:48,119 Speaker 5: And you think he was as sharp as you. 532 00:33:52,359 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: At this point, she does like this gag, shrug, kind 533 00:33:56,559 --> 00:34:02,160 of a reaction, like like incredulous that you would even 534 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,480 compare the way I'm acting now to him. And then 535 00:34:06,519 --> 00:34:10,880 she kind of catches herself because that's the lie. She 536 00:34:11,079 --> 00:34:15,039 was telling everybody this. She was saying these things a 537 00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:16,159 year ago. 538 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,599 Speaker 6: I said, I had not seen decline. 539 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,039 Speaker 1: At this point, he raises his eyebrows. Cox's head to 540 00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:29,599 his side, to the side, and he's like really, like 541 00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:33,079 he's given her this look like really, one eyebrow arched. 542 00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 6: You know. 543 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,199 Speaker 1: You had not seen any decline, really, and I hadn't 544 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:39,239 at that point. 545 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,599 Speaker 5: You did not see any decline. From twenty twenty four 546 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:44,840 Joe Biden to twenty twenty one Joe Biden when. 547 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 6: I said that, you know, the thing is heap. Look, 548 00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:55,400 he was sharp, he was on his feet. I saw 549 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,920 him live event, I had meetings with him a couple 550 00:34:59,000 --> 00:34:59,320 of times. 551 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:05,079 Speaker 5: Senator on his feet is not praise. He can speak 552 00:35:05,119 --> 00:35:07,320 in sentences is not praise. 553 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 6: Fair enough, fair enough. 554 00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 1: Look, he's exactly right, though you're not giving him a 555 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,480 compliment by saying, Wow, look at that, he didn't fall over. 556 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,039 That's amazing. Good for him. Ooh, he strung together words 557 00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:25,000 in a coherent sentence. That's amazing for the leader of 558 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,559 the free world. Oh man, look how spry he is. 559 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:33,760 That's not a compliment. Kudos to Sam Frogoso. 560 00:35:35,199 --> 00:35:35,599 Speaker 2: It is. 561 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 6: The question is what are we going to do now? 562 00:35:40,159 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 5: Okay? 563 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,800 Speaker 1: And that's it. Move on, move along. So we had 564 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,679 our moment, we had our accountability moment, and now what 565 00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:53,159 do we do now? She said, I think people ask 566 00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:56,599 about age. They've got every right. This was oh, hang on. 567 00:35:56,679 --> 00:36:02,800 This was from a previous interview on a podcast called 568 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,760 Hassan Minhaj doesn't know came out in July, but it 569 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,400 was recorded in April. And that's what this guy Fragoso 570 00:36:11,519 --> 00:36:14,559 was referring to. That Warren had said Biden was sharp 571 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,119 and that he quote knows what he's talking about. And 572 00:36:18,159 --> 00:36:20,400 she said, you know, people have every right to ask 573 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,079 about the age, and voters can ask about anything they 574 00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:25,840 want and make their decisions based on anything they want. 575 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,559 That's the deal, she said, quote, it's a sharpness and 576 00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:34,400 a pointedness about what he is trying to accomplish. It's 577 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,599 like messaging. You can have other issues you want to 578 00:36:37,639 --> 00:36:39,960 look at, but the heart of it is what does 579 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:45,000 he deliver and is he delivering? So, in other words, 580 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,679 all of your concerns about his cognitive decline are irrelevant 581 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,559 because some other people are running the show. Don't worry 582 00:36:53,599 --> 00:36:56,679 about it. What is he delivering on it? And by 583 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,559 he I mean Jill Biden, sorry, doctor Biden, and Hunter 584 00:37:01,639 --> 00:37:07,119 Biden and Jill's chief of staff and whoever was running 585 00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:11,519 the auto pen right they're delivering. Shut up about it. 586 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,400 Look if he can beat Trump again and be you know, 587 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,119 out to lunch mentally, it doesn't matter who cares. What 588 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,840 matters is we got a bunch of leftist crazies surrounding Joe, 589 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,679 so people can't videotape him on the way to the helicopter. 590 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,800 But also then we can protect him, shield him, and 591 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,760 then we can also do all of this stuff that 592 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,159 you say you want, So just shut n't what the 593 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:40,320 cognitive stuff. That's what happened, and media is gonna they're 594 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,880 gonna just move right past it, all right. That'll do 595 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,480 it for this episode. 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