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 dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:34,479 your support. Alrightye, let's let's talk about the group chat, 10 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,200 not the text line, but the group chat. You know, 11 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:45,159 the group chat I'm talking about. Maybe you don't. Yeah, 12 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:48,320 I've been waiting. I've been sort of compiling stuff on 13 00:00:48,359 --> 00:00:51,679 this story ever since it popped two days ago over 14 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:56,000 at Politico. And a couple of things. Number one, I 15 00:00:56,039 --> 00:00:59,240 am not a registered Republican. I don't move in the 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,039 Republican park. These circles. I don't know who these people are, 17 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,200 these young Republicans. They seem to be apparently mostly from 18 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:12,239 the New York area, it seems like, So I don't 19 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:14,359 know who these people are. I don't know the structure 20 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:18,640 of the young Republicans and the different branches and whatever. 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,040 I don't follow all of that stuff. I don't know 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:28,760 the structure. However, I can say that in politics, just 23 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:32,760 like anything else, when a party, when a political party 24 00:01:33,599 --> 00:01:39,400 gains power, it attracts people who are in love with power, 25 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:43,079 and they don't really care about the ideology. They don't 26 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:49,159 care about the principles. They have maybe some sociopathic, psychopathic 27 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:55,480 tendencies personalities, right, so they don't really they don't really 28 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,079 care to advance the cause. They are there to advance 29 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:04,920 their own position, and they will use whatever philosophy or 30 00:02:05,159 --> 00:02:09,879 principles that are at play in order to serve themselves. Okay, 31 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,560 and this was I noticed this back in you know, 32 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,800 twenty five years ago, when the Republicans were ascendant in 33 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,919 the early two thousands, and they started attracting a lot 34 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:20,719 of these different people, and it was kind of like, wait, 35 00:02:20,719 --> 00:02:22,800 wait a minute, who are these people? What are they saying? 36 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,680 And that doesn't seem very limited government? D you know 37 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:29,680 that kind of thing. I've talked about the quote woke 38 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,840 right before on this program. And for people who aren't aware, 39 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:39,479 these are people that ostensibly call themselves members of the 40 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,319 right or conservatives or whatever, but they adopt the same 41 00:02:43,439 --> 00:02:48,800 tactics as the woke left. They view themselves as perpetual victims, right, 42 00:02:49,319 --> 00:02:52,520 they view themselves as oppressed. They do the same sorts 43 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,960 of things that the woke left does, silencing people, deplatforming people. 44 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:06,120 And there is a very wide strain of anti Semitism 45 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,000 that is running through that side of the spectrum this 46 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,360 and it's called the horseshoe political horseshoe theory, where it's 47 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,199 sort of like, you have your extremes and it bends 48 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,560 back towards each other. Which is why you're starting to 49 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:26,240 see people on the left quoting and embracing even Marjorie 50 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:32,759 Taylor Green because she's saying that Matt Gates, Tucker Carlson 51 00:03:33,159 --> 00:03:37,199 right there, sat Candice Owens. Because those people on the 52 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,039 right quote unquote the right are saying things the people 53 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,960 on the left also agree with. That's why it's woke, right. 54 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,400 They are emerging their meeting sort of at the top 55 00:03:47,439 --> 00:03:50,240 of the horseshoe or bottom, depending on how you're holding 56 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,919 the horseshoe. I guess all right, So the story from 57 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:56,879 the Politico headline, I Love Hitler, Laked messages expose young 58 00:03:56,919 --> 00:04:06,199 Republicans racist chat. This is like twelve pages long. It's 59 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:12,319 a very lengthy story thousands of pages of texts Okay, 60 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:18,600 that political apparently got from an internal private chat group 61 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,120 between that included a bunch of these Young Republicans. Leaders 62 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,920 of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would 63 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,759 happen if their telegram chat ever got leaked, but they 64 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:33,160 kept typing anyway. They referred to black people. I'm not 65 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,720 even going to say these things that they referred to them, 66 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,040 ask I'm not going to say it, but it's not good. 67 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:42,240 It is what you would think. It's all of the 68 00:04:42,319 --> 00:04:45,319 racial stereotypes and the words, the slurs that are used. 69 00:04:45,399 --> 00:04:49,240 They use those words and slurs. They mused about putting 70 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,639 their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping 71 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,360 their enemies and driving them to suicide, and lauded Republicans 72 00:04:56,439 --> 00:05:00,959 who they believed support slavery. Then they start naming a 73 00:05:00,959 --> 00:05:06,079 bunch of these people. William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans 74 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:11,160 vice chair, used variations of the N word more than 75 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:13,879 a dozen times. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the 76 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:20,279 New York State Young Republicans, referred to rape as epic. 77 00:05:21,199 --> 00:05:24,480 Peter Jijunta, who at the time was chair of the 78 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:27,000 same organization in New York wrote in a message sent 79 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,839 in June that everyone that votes know is going to 80 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:32,560 the gas chamber. Okay, let me stop right here and 81 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:39,720 say a lot of this stuff is done in humor. Okay, 82 00:05:40,079 --> 00:05:42,160 I don't endorse any of this. And by the way, 83 00:05:42,319 --> 00:05:44,360 they're like, oh my gosh, people are now losing their 84 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:48,800 posts in these organizations. And here's the thing I believe 85 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,560 they should. You're going to step up and you're going 86 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,959 to engage in this kind of political operation. You need 87 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,360 to understand that there are things that you need to 88 00:06:00,399 --> 00:06:05,800 say and make jokes about because it will be weaponized 89 00:06:05,959 --> 00:06:09,519 against you. And this is one of the other elements 90 00:06:09,519 --> 00:06:13,120 of the quote unquote woke right, is that there are 91 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:18,240 actors inside that I don't want to say movement, but 92 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:24,160 over there in that crowd that are pushing you, pushing 93 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:30,160 people to go there. When it comes to Nazism, racism 94 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,920 and all that. Right, they want you to say these 95 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,399 things and participate in these kinds of things because it 96 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:40,639 will remove you from the battlefield. That's the point. It 97 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:45,160 will make you toxic and now you're off the field. 98 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:51,279 There is a level of psychological warfare going on with 99 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,600 the with social media and if you don't understand that, 100 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,600 you do not belong in politics. Okay, And that, by 101 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:03,639 the way, how this obviously got leaked is some guy 102 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:07,560 I think his name is Gavin Wax. There are different 103 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,160 divisions inside the Young Republicans and some other groups or whatever, 104 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:15,639 and they were vying for power and that's where so 105 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:19,519 this one group that's where these texts came from apparently 106 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:26,279 got leaked to Politico by another Republican. Okay, So like 107 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,399 there's that level. And some of these people in the 108 00:07:28,439 --> 00:07:31,160 group chats say that they're not so sure that some 109 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:35,079 of these chats, some of these messages weren't doctored. So 110 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:41,480 I keep that in mind as well. The exchange is 111 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:44,560 part of a trove of telegram chats, and I'm not 112 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,600 going to go over all of the offensive stuff. I 113 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:49,000 will just tell you that there were really offensive things 114 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,720 in there. But there are also things in there that 115 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,160 I think were jokes that were obviously jokes, Like the 116 00:07:55,199 --> 00:07:58,079 headline that they pull is I love Hitler. That's what 117 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:04,319 they say. But this exchange was when the Kansas State 118 00:08:04,439 --> 00:08:08,600 chair informs this guy, Peter Jjunta, that one of Michigan's 119 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:11,040 Young Republicans promised him that the group will vote for 120 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:14,199 the most right wing person to lead the national organization. 121 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:21,519 He responded, quote, great, I love Hitler, So that's a joke. Like, 122 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,000 I get that, that's a joke. They're like, they're going 123 00:08:24,079 --> 00:08:25,839 to vote for whoever is the most right wing and 124 00:08:25,879 --> 00:08:27,920 he's like, well, can't get more right wing than Hitler. 125 00:08:27,959 --> 00:08:31,079 So I love him. You know, that's a joke. Some 126 00:08:31,199 --> 00:08:35,080 of the other stuff not so much. Not so much. 127 00:08:36,519 --> 00:08:39,279 The exchange is part of this trove that Politico got 128 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,639 spending seven months of messages coming from Republican these young 129 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,279 Republican leaders which by the way, I've never heard of 130 00:08:46,279 --> 00:08:49,600 any of these people, Okay, but Democrats in the media. 131 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,600 But I repeat myself, they want this to be a huge, 132 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,360 huge thing, right, They want this to be as big 133 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,360 as Jay Jones well, which they don't really of her, 134 00:09:00,519 --> 00:09:03,480 so no, but they are all in on this story. 135 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:09,799 And like, I recognize the double standard, right, I recognize 136 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,720 that you guys are paying all this attention to these 137 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:17,679 no name young Republican guys and gals that were in 138 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:22,080 this group chat saying awful things, and you're you're demanding 139 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,159 you know that all the Republicans play defender disavow with 140 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,799 these no name people that nobody knows. But when it 141 00:09:29,799 --> 00:09:33,679 comes to Jay Jones, you're not holding any Democrats accountable. 142 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,600 You're not making them play defender dissavow. And when in fact, 143 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,960 you try to get Abigail Spanberger running for governor on 144 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,960 the ticket with Jay Jones, who wished murder on a 145 00:09:44,039 --> 00:09:46,759 Republican and the murder of his two children in front 146 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:51,679 of his family, nowhere to be found. When Spanberger's asked 147 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,559 about it, she refuses to say he should drop out, right, 148 00:09:54,799 --> 00:09:57,080 So they don't. They're not being held to that standard. 149 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,200 So now you've got people on the woke right quote 150 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,120 unquote woke right. You've got people over there that are like, well, 151 00:10:02,159 --> 00:10:05,480 you know what, Well, then we're going to defend our guys. 152 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:07,799 We're going to say they did nothing wrong, we don't care. 153 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:10,240 We're not going to give them up. We're not going 154 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:11,799 to throw them under the bus. We're not going to 155 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:14,759 disavow any of the things that they said. We're we're 156 00:10:14,759 --> 00:10:18,919 not playing by your rules. You're demanding that we do 157 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,840 this thing, and we're not going to do it. See. 158 00:10:22,879 --> 00:10:26,279 So here's the thing. I don't need anybody to tell 159 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,559 me to do that. I me personally, like, I'm going 160 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,120 to look at what they said and I'm going to say, yeah, 161 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,000 that's disqualifying. You shouldn't be around politics. That's just toxic crap. 162 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,600 You shouldn't say that. That's my opinion. You can have 163 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:46,039 a different opinion, but enter the woke right where now 164 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,600 it's like you have to take our position, Pete. You 165 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,200 have to say what we are telling you to say. 166 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:55,759 And that's when I start saying, you guys are sounding 167 00:10:55,799 --> 00:10:58,720 a lot like the left now because I don't have 168 00:10:58,759 --> 00:11:01,639 to say that, actually don't. I don't have to defend 169 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,120 these guys. I don't have to endorse what they said. 170 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:05,759 I don't have to get any of that on me. 171 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:12,279 I didn't do that. I wouldn't do that. See, that's 172 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,039 the fight that's now happening, and the left is urging 173 00:11:16,279 --> 00:11:20,759 and goading and rooting for this. That's what they want 174 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:23,720 to see happen because it's a convenient deflection away from 175 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,679 the J. Jones story, which by the way, is worse 176 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:31,279 than this right. So don't let here's the thing. If 177 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,200 you're like, I'm not going to pay any attention to 178 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,240 the chat, I'm not going to pay attention to this story. 179 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,840 You're going to say that, then you allow the left 180 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,240 off the hook too, because now you don't get to say, 181 00:11:40,279 --> 00:11:43,519 what about Jay Jones. You don't get to say that, 182 00:11:44,799 --> 00:11:46,759 which is precisely why the left is doing what they're 183 00:11:46,799 --> 00:11:50,159 doing and pushing this story. I don't have to pick See, 184 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,639 this is the thing. This is a false dichotomy. You know, 185 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,080 me with false choices. I do not like them. I 186 00:11:55,159 --> 00:11:59,519 resist them. This is a false choice. I can say 187 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,000 all of this is wrong. You shouldn't be talking like 188 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:07,440 this because it's not decent. It's just not decent. Be 189 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:14,120 a decent person. That's all. Minimum requirement, just minimum requirement. 190 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:16,799 You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense 191 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,240 of things, to understand experiences. 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See here again, this is a false choice 212 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,200 for me to have to quote pick a side. Okay, 213 00:13:32,799 --> 00:13:35,519 I can see what Politico is doing with the story, 214 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,960 and I can see what the what the internal divisions 215 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,480 are as told to the Politico reporter. This has to 216 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,120 do with an with an intramural fight inside the Young 217 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:52,559 Republican groups. Okay, there are personality conflicts. They are vying 218 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:57,159 for power. They want positions in these different caucuses or 219 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,480 conferences whatever they call them. Right, and so the lead 220 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:06,559 of all this stuff was meant to destroy their opponents 221 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,200 inside the Republican Party. Okay, so there's like this internecine 222 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,720 war going on among these people. I don't know any 223 00:14:13,759 --> 00:14:15,519 of them, I don't care to know any of them. 224 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:18,879 Doesn't matter to me. But I can also see what 225 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:24,600 Politico is doing. Okay, together, this is the Politico article. Together, 226 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:28,480 The messages reveal a culture. See what they're doing. They're 227 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:31,840 broadening the lens. They're going to say, this is why 228 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:37,639 these six people and their messages that are vile. Even 229 00:14:37,639 --> 00:14:39,440 if it's an attempt at humor. Some of this stuff 230 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:42,000 is not an attempted humor. It's just not. And here's 231 00:14:42,039 --> 00:14:44,799 the thing. If you want to be a comedian, then 232 00:14:44,879 --> 00:14:48,080 go take your material where you're dropping N bombs everywhere, 233 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,000 you're calling people racial slurs, right, go ahead and take 234 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:56,799 this material to the comedy seller or your local comedy joint. 235 00:14:57,039 --> 00:14:59,240 Go ahead and use that material on a stage in 236 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,879 front of people. Do that there and see how it flies. 237 00:15:02,919 --> 00:15:06,399 If you want to test out this comedic value, if 238 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:11,320 you are in an organization, particularly a political one, whose 239 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,480 goal is to build coalitions and get people elected so 240 00:15:15,519 --> 00:15:19,879 they can then wield power, right, then this is not 241 00:15:20,039 --> 00:15:22,559 the way you behave. I don't care how old you are. 242 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,639 And some of these people are in their thirties, okay, 243 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,120 like the young Republicans. These are people that are like 244 00:15:28,519 --> 00:15:31,120 from their twenties all the way up to forty years old. Okay. 245 00:15:31,519 --> 00:15:34,399 So it's not like they're just you know, youthful indiscretion 246 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,519 they're fourteen year olds or something. That's No, that's not 247 00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:39,480 what's happening here. These are guys and gals in their 248 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:44,000 you know, mid twenties up to early thirties. In other words, 249 00:15:44,559 --> 00:15:47,399 they should know better not just by their age, but 250 00:15:47,519 --> 00:15:50,279 also by the mere fact that you are in a 251 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:57,480 professional organization where optics matter. Do not ever write anything 252 00:15:57,639 --> 00:16:02,279 in an email that you don't want to see published 253 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:06,840 on the front page of the paper. That those are 254 00:16:06,879 --> 00:16:11,159 words to live by. Okay, even Hunter Biden understood this. 255 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:13,559 You don't put it in an email. You talk about 256 00:16:13,559 --> 00:16:15,720 it over the phone. You want to try out this 257 00:16:15,759 --> 00:16:17,759 material with your buddy, you want to call them all 258 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:20,240 sorts of names in jests and stuff. Do it over 259 00:16:20,279 --> 00:16:22,600 the phone, say it to him. Although now you can 260 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,120 probably just record the conversations easily. But here's what Politico 261 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,639 is trying to do. They want to broaden this out 262 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:35,200 and smear everybody with this. The messages reveal a culture 263 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,919 where racist, anti semitic, and violent rhetorics circulate freely. Here 264 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:44,440 you go, and where the Trump era loosening of political 265 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,919 norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those 266 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,480 positioning themselves as the party's next leader. So there you go. 267 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,600 It's Trump's fault. Trump made these people make anti semitic 268 00:16:58,919 --> 00:17:03,639 and racisty comment. It's Trump's fault. No mention of j Jones, 269 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:10,279 no mention of the stochastic terrorism framework here that politico 270 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,799 is constructing right when it comes to Democrats, No, no, no, 271 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:19,640 See this is meant as an inoculation against Democrats. Focus 272 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,200 on this, everybody, Focus on these evil young Republican chats 273 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,359 so we don't have to talk about Jay Jones wanting 274 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,079 to murder his Republican opponents while he wins the attorney 275 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,480 general race in Virginia. So when I was a kid, 276 00:17:33,559 --> 00:17:36,400 my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my 277 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,319 mom and my dad took care of him as he 278 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,160 got worse. Forty years ago, there were no treatments and 279 00:17:41,279 --> 00:17:44,319 not much support for caregivers and family. But things are 280 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,960 different today because of the work of so many people, 281 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,559 including the Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina. It's a great 282 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,920 organization with awesome people with huge hearts. I've been a 283 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,880 supporter for twenty five years. This cause means a lot 284 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,160 to me. I participate in the annual walk to and 285 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:03,200 Alzheimer's and I'm leading a Charlotte team again this year, 286 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,480 and it's called once again Pete's Pack. You can sign 287 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:08,720 up and you can join the team and walk with us. 288 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,039 It's on October eighteenth, that truest field. Sign up at 289 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,680 alz dot org slash Walk and then you can search 290 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:18,680 for my team name Pete's Pack. There's also a link 291 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,359 at thepetepod dot com. There's also a link in the 292 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,680 description of this podcast. Also, I'll be am seeing the 293 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,559 Gastonia Walk on October eleventh, and so you can make 294 00:18:27,599 --> 00:18:29,799 a team and join that one too, or make a 295 00:18:29,839 --> 00:18:32,559 donation and help me hit my goal of five thousand dollars. 296 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:34,720 If you do, I really appreciate it. There are a 297 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,319 bunch of other walks all over the Carolinas. You can 298 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,079 go to alz dot org slash Walk for all the 299 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:43,720 dates and locations. We're closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. 300 00:18:43,759 --> 00:18:45,559 Can you help us get there? Will you walk with me? 301 00:18:45,799 --> 00:18:49,680 For a different future, for families, for more time for treatments. 302 00:18:50,039 --> 00:18:55,279 This is why we walk. Talking about the the Young 303 00:18:55,359 --> 00:19:04,599 Republicans group chat. Yeah, and I got a message here 304 00:19:04,599 --> 00:19:09,400 from the hellion on the text line, who says, my 305 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,240 young video game friends are ruthless on Discord, which is 306 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:19,400 a messaging and voice app. I mean, they say awful 307 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:22,359 things to each other. It's all in fun. They hope 308 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:29,079 somebody leaks theirs. Yeah, then keep it on Discord, use 309 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,559 your you know, gamer tag, use some anonymous name and 310 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,880 do it there. But again, hanging out with your friends 311 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,480 in a gaming chat room and dragging each other with 312 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:47,720 all sorts of offensive slurs, that's a different setting than 313 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,839 a group chat with all of the state party chairs 314 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:56,960 and vice chairs and all these poohbahs in your political organization. 315 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:02,440 And they knew this. By the way, Let me go 316 00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:09,680 to the end of the Politico article, which, like seven 317 00:20:09,759 --> 00:20:13,240 pages in Politico, does acknowledge. Many of the slurs, epithets, 318 00:20:13,279 --> 00:20:16,240 and violent language used in the chat often appear to 319 00:20:16,279 --> 00:20:19,039 be intended as jokes, and I agree with that they 320 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:25,440 were sure. In one instance, one of the members said 321 00:20:25,799 --> 00:20:30,279 about bombing the Young Republican National Federation's convention in Nashville 322 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,920 and said, just kidding for our assigned FBI tracker. Right, 323 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,920 So he makes a joke about blowing up the place 324 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,640 if they don't win their local, their you know, organization's 325 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,920 election or whatever, and then makes a joke that the 326 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,079 FBI is monitoring the group chat. In another, he considered 327 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,359 the totality of the thousands of messages he and his 328 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,920 peers had written and what would happen if the public 329 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,319 saw them come to light. Quote, if we ever had 330 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:07,279 a leak of this chat, we would be cooked. Yes, correct? 331 00:21:08,079 --> 00:21:12,079 Why would you say that? Because you know what you're 332 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:15,759 saying would not be received well. And when you are 333 00:21:15,799 --> 00:21:19,160 in the business as these people are, of building a 334 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,440 coalition and trying to persuade people that yours is the 335 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,640 better philosophy, yours is the better way of governing, and 336 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:31,079 you are the better candidates to lead people, then this 337 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:36,279 sort of thing does not resonate with everybody. It's damaging 338 00:21:37,519 --> 00:21:41,599 and hence we are seeing the damage. This is what happens. Correct, 339 00:21:41,759 --> 00:21:44,559 you were correct, You're cooked. A lot of these people 340 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:47,799 now have been dismissed, They've been relieved of their duties. 341 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:55,640 Some have apologized, right, they've been condemned by various Republicans, which, 342 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,400 by the way, the best response to this I saw 343 00:21:58,759 --> 00:22:03,720 was out of Virginia. The Virginia Democrat Party put out 344 00:22:03,759 --> 00:22:09,480 a statement calling on the gubernatorial nominee for the Republicans win. 345 00:22:09,559 --> 00:22:14,839 Some seers sears must call on all young Republicans implicated 346 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,640 in racist text scandal to step down from their positions, 347 00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:27,480 and she responds, easy, they absolutely must step down. Now 348 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,680 it's your turn, Abigail, Right, because Abigail Spanberger has not 349 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,799 called for j Jones to step down. Like the Virginia 350 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:37,839 Democrats are just awful at this They're just terrible at 351 00:22:37,839 --> 00:22:43,359 this game. See, and this is proof that they don't 352 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,480 really hold this standard for themselves. They just want the 353 00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:51,119 standard to be applied to their political opponents. And that's 354 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,200 what I'm seeing from a lot of people on the right, 355 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,079 including I'm sad to say, Matt Walsh. They seem to 356 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:04,119 want this standard now to be obliterated for themselves, he said, 357 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:07,079 lining up to publicly denounce people on the right at 358 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,599 the behest of leftists to hate you and what you 359 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,759 dead is pathetic behavior. Yeah, I'm not denouncing any of 360 00:23:13,799 --> 00:23:16,279 their behavior in these texts. I'm not denouncing these people 361 00:23:16,319 --> 00:23:18,599 because the Left is asking me or demanding me, or 362 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,400 requesting it of me. I don't need them to do that. 363 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,119 Why would I need them. I don't listen to anything 364 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,240 the Left tells me to do anyway, Why would I 365 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,240 listen to them on this? I have my own agency. 366 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,559 I can make this decision for myself. It's not a 367 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:36,480 matter of what the left wants me to say, it's 368 00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:40,559 what I want to say. Se because if I say this, 369 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:45,160 that means I have a consistent standard. And if you've 370 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,759 listened to me for any period of time, you know 371 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:53,440 that I constantly argue and advocate for a consistent application 372 00:23:53,559 --> 00:23:57,599 of standards. So when somebody on the left says, hey, 373 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,240 I would like to murder my political opponent's kid, or 374 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:03,279 somebody should do that in order to affect his policy positions, 375 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,480 and I denounce that, I say that's unacceptable. You're creating 376 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,400 a permission structure for this kind of behavior and this 377 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,920 kind of talk. You shouldn't be saying this stuff. You 378 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,880 should be shunned. This is not decent. You should be shamed. 379 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:21,039 When somebody on the right says something similar, I can 380 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:25,160 also say, yeah, a consistent application of my standard is 381 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,799 that this is not decent. You should be shamed. That's 382 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:34,960 not acceptable. Matt Walsh says the right doesn't stick together. 383 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:38,440 That's our biggest problem. By far, I don't know. I 384 00:24:38,519 --> 00:24:42,559 kind of think the infiltration of antisemites into the right 385 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:46,119 wing influence fear. I think that's a problem. I don't 386 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,759 think it's that we don't stick together. He says conservatives 387 00:24:49,759 --> 00:24:52,640 are quick to denounce each other, jump on dog piles, 388 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,680 disavow attack their allies. I said a few weeks ago 389 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,400 that we all need to band together in the wake 390 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,119 of Charlie Kirk's death, and the answer I got back 391 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,359 from a lot of people on the right was basically no. 392 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,440 I was not aware of this call. I did not 393 00:25:06,519 --> 00:25:09,559 see the rejections to band together on anything. I'm not 394 00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:12,599 sure what he's talking about there, but okay, guys, then 395 00:25:12,599 --> 00:25:15,599 we'll just lose instead. This is again another false choice. 396 00:25:16,039 --> 00:25:18,839 You're giving me, a false dichotomy. I have to now 397 00:25:19,079 --> 00:25:22,799 endorse Groyper's I have to now allow Nick Fouentes to 398 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,559 be some sort of a freaking spokesperson for conservatism when 399 00:25:26,599 --> 00:25:29,799 the guy's a raging anti semi twink like, I don't know, 400 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,319 I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to 401 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,200 allow that guy to speak for me. But if I don't, 402 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:39,240 then that means I want to lose. That's absurd, that's stupid. Okay, 403 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,880 that is a false choice being foisted upon me. That 404 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,079 is a tactic of the left, hence the term woke. 405 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,559 And by the way, this is what has hollowed out 406 00:25:50,599 --> 00:25:57,279 the Democrat Party. This inability to police your own, to 407 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:04,960 weed out the worst of actors out of your party. 408 00:26:05,039 --> 00:26:08,039 That is why the left is in trouble right now. 409 00:26:08,079 --> 00:26:10,160 That's why the Democrat Party is in so much trouble 410 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,160 right now. And they are, by the way, for people 411 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,519 are like, we just keep losing. Republicans have the White House, 412 00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:21,920 they have the House of Representatives, they have the Senate, 413 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,200 They've got more than half of all the legislative seats 414 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,799 across America. They're doing pretty good. Republicans have been doing 415 00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:33,000 pretty well, okay, And the further the left goes off 416 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,920 the rails, the more the Republicans benefit. Why on earth 417 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,680 would you want this to be associated with you? Why 418 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:48,079 it doesn't make any sense. If the only principle is 419 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:52,160 to win and that's it, then what's the point of winning? 420 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,599 What do you get right? If you've abandoned all your 421 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,119 principles just for the power, then you're just in it 422 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,920 for the power. And that's not why I do this. 423 00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:08,599 That's not what I'm about. So that's you know, this 424 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,039 is where I get off. You know, here's a great idea. 425 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,920 How about making an escape to a really special and 426 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,160 secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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So there 452 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,680 is this way of thinking that there are no enemies 453 00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:52,440 to the right, Okay, and this is why, like you 454 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,359 can't criticize or you shouldn't criticize anybody to your right 455 00:28:57,279 --> 00:29:01,079 because they're part of this coalition, you know, this movement. 456 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,839 No enemies to the right. I'm just going to keep 457 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:06,759 criticizing and targeting the left. No enemies to the right, 458 00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:12,680 And that's just a stupid philosophy, it is. It's just stupid. 459 00:29:13,359 --> 00:29:15,759 Of course, you can criticize people to your right, to 460 00:29:15,799 --> 00:29:19,000 your left, on the right, on the left, if people 461 00:29:19,039 --> 00:29:22,759 are behaving badly, you can criticize them, Absolutely you can. 462 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,119 But this idea that oh I can't. I can't criticize 463 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:33,759 Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Candice Owens, Tucker Carlson. I can't 464 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:36,440 criticize any of them because they're to the right. Well, 465 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,920 if you do that, Pete, you're going to destroy the 466 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,680 coalition and the whole movement and all of this. Yeah, no, 467 00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:44,519 I but don't. I don't want to be associated with them. 468 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,559 I find some of the stuff that they say to 469 00:29:46,559 --> 00:29:50,119 be abhorrent and if and a lot of it sounds 470 00:29:50,119 --> 00:29:52,279 like it would be coming out of the mouths of 471 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,160 jeeh hottists and leftists. So no, I'm not going to 472 00:29:55,319 --> 00:29:58,160 So when a left, when a registered Democrat says this stuff, 473 00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:01,559 I criticize it. But because they're registered Republican, I'm not 474 00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:08,079 supposed to pound sand Man. Seriously, pound sand That's what 475 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,200 having no principles is if you think that your principle 476 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:12,799 is no enemies to the right, that means you have 477 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,359 no principle except that because nothing matters as long as 478 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:19,400 somebody identifies as on the right, now you don't criticize them. 479 00:30:19,599 --> 00:30:23,759 That's dumb anyway, Joel Berry says, the rules seem to 480 00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:26,960 be that you're not allowed to attack anybody further right 481 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,279 than you, but people further right than you are allowed 482 00:30:30,319 --> 00:30:34,559 to attack anybody on the right they want, Which makes sense, 483 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,119 right if you think about it. Let's say I am 484 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,960 at this position and you are to the right of me. 485 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,799 That means I can't criticize you, But you being to 486 00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:47,279 the right of me means I am to the left 487 00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:51,119 of you, which means you get to criticize me. See 488 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:56,799 what I mean. It's a stupid principle, He says. They 489 00:30:56,799 --> 00:31:00,640 can call decent defective conservatives all sorts of names and 490 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,920 lists a bunch, but they could accuse you of plotting 491 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,559 to murder Charlie Kirk. But if you so much as 492 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,880 question their poor behavior, you are met with impassioned please 493 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,920 for unity. See the unity goes both ways, though it should. 494 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:17,720 That seems to be less of an appeal to unity 495 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,640 and more of a play to hand over the reins 496 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,640 of our entire movement to the most extreme and depraved 497 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,079 actors who claim to be on our side, quote unquote, 498 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,200 which seems unwise. This is why I called it a 499 00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:35,200 psiop There are people with sociopathic and psychopathic personality types 500 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,160 that embed themselves in any kind of an organization at 501 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,559 any level, and they will seek to gain control of 502 00:31:44,599 --> 00:31:48,440 it for their own personal use. And there are people 503 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:52,880 in the conservative movement on the right wing, these influencers 504 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,480 and stuff. There are people of that personality type I 505 00:31:56,519 --> 00:32:02,640 can only assume that are seeking to to cannibalize what 506 00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:08,279 Charlie Kirk built. They want his audience, they want his influence. 507 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:12,079 They are trying to hijack the movement that Charlie Kirk 508 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,680 was building, to the point where some of them are 509 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:19,680 accusing Charlie Kirk's own friends of somehow or another being 510 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:27,240 a part of an assassination on him, which is nuts. 511 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:34,079 It's just nuts. Tim Poole YouTuber, he did a breakdown 512 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,119 of all of the conspiracy theories the other day, all 513 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,519 these conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's murder, and he said 514 00:32:42,559 --> 00:32:44,680 something that I have said for a very long time, 515 00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:51,000 which is when you hear hoofs, think horses, not zebras right, 516 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,319 and the idea that all of these people around Charlie 517 00:32:57,359 --> 00:33:00,759 Kirk that were helping him, that were being helped by him, 518 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,920 that built this movement, that loved him, that were friends 519 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,440 with him, that they somehow or another were involved in 520 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,640 his murder. And you got all these people that are 521 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,759 quote on the right that are spinning out all of 522 00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:17,039 these these fantasies. I'm just asking questions, what do you 523 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:23,519 think it means? Israel did it? That is toxic. That 524 00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:27,200 is the wedge they are using to drive into the 525 00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:32,000 MAGA coalition, that is the SSIA. Recognize that for what 526 00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:40,400 it is. A writer ag Hamilton, he says, it's basically 527 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,720 a rule that the right can't have standards, and those 528 00:33:43,759 --> 00:33:47,799 who object and insist on standards are the problem. Growing 529 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:50,720 the tent is about finding people who have shared values 530 00:33:50,799 --> 00:33:55,839 but some policy differences. It's not about inviting people in 531 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:00,160 who have completely different values and will alienate half the 532 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:05,279 people in the tent. Right. The reason the tent exists 533 00:34:05,599 --> 00:34:10,400 is because it unifies people around certain principles. And if 534 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,119 you are advocating the abandonment of those principles, then you 535 00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:16,960 shouldn't be in the tent. This is my argument with 536 00:34:17,079 --> 00:34:20,199 like the woke leftists that infiltrate the churches first, like 537 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,480 you saw the Presbyterian Church. They just took down the 538 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,719 Methodist Church. Right, They get inside these churches and they 539 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,519 rip them apart from the inside. Rather than just going 540 00:34:28,519 --> 00:34:31,239 off and starting your own church, just start your own church. 541 00:34:32,039 --> 00:34:34,360 No no, no, we want to go in and take 542 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,320 over yours. We want to gut it. We want to 543 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,760 wear its skin as a suit, and we want everybody 544 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,559 to pay homage and tribute and respect to us as 545 00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:48,440 we parade around in the skin suit of this formally 546 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:56,079 respected institution. Callin Wright with the Manhattan Institute noted that 547 00:34:56,119 --> 00:35:00,719 the left got taken over by wokeness due to the 548 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,079 very same idea that there are no enemies to the 549 00:35:03,159 --> 00:35:07,360 left sentiment. Everybody on the left had to be protected. 550 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,039 They could never say no, no, no, no, that's too far. 551 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,159 No no, no, they're too radical. What have I been 552 00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:14,360 saying all this time? Democrats, you got a problem inside 553 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,320 your party. You need to root this crap out, and 554 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,639 they're not doing it. What do you think that's doing 555 00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:28,559 to them. Obviously, it's not helping them. Moderate liberals weren't 556 00:35:28,599 --> 00:35:31,320 even allowed to criticize the woke, but the woke were 557 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,679 allowed to call everybody else on the left racists and 558 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,880 transphobes for expressing even minor disagreements with them. Think jk Rowling, 559 00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:45,480 who came out against the transgender stuff. She's of the left. 560 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,400 But because she said no, there were only women and 561 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,519 men and women's spaces should be protected, what happened to her? Right? 562 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,679 Pilloried by the more radical leftists because there are no 563 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,519 enemies to the left and she was to the right 564 00:35:58,519 --> 00:36:01,239 of them on one issue. Do you think that that 565 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:05,159 has helped liberals? Do you think that's helped democrats? It 566 00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:09,480 has not. We're seeing the same kind of cancer now 567 00:36:09,679 --> 00:36:12,199 in the right, and I know a lot of people 568 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,079 on the right one to think that it couldn't possibly 569 00:36:14,079 --> 00:36:16,320 happen to us because we have principles. They will use 570 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:21,760 those principles against you. That's how they operate. It is 571 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:29,280 a personality defect. Do not let it consume you. All right, 572 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,639 that'll do it for this episode. 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