Let's Take A Break With Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book

evils of my morally bankrupt liberal ideology. And today we're going to read another section from that book, Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance. Katie and Cody, why don't you come onto the stage and take a bow? Hello? Hello, thank you, thank you so much. Oh it's too much, too much, thank you, thank you, thank you. You guys do it. We do it for you. Guplode from Joy Hi, more praise please, more praise? Oh guy? Okay, first question for the annal, who do you think is the bottom Obama

or Stalin um Obama? Obama? Obama? You think so? Huh, I've I've experienced your episode. Yeah. This is going to be the new Stalin Trotsky Debate, and it's about whether or not Stalin or Obama's a bottom. You haven't yet, so maybe there's more information. Well, yeah, I have yet. I've yet to learn about his habits, but I could see that I think Obama's you know, yeah, I do think that Biden or that not Biden Stalin. Sorry, they're both such similar people. I think that Stalin is probably

has the versatility to be a switch for sure. Yeah, who's to say, to be a fly on the wall of that fan fick. I mean, I have some good news about the way fan fiction works, Katie. I'm very excited to be back. Um. I was not able to attend the last chapters. Yeah that day, Yeah, yeah, you know you missed. Ben Shapiro still has not learned how to write a single sentence. Yeah, as far as I know. Yeah, to be fair, he got a little sleepy. M Yeah, maybe a sleepy on the third day when four days

to write this. Yeah, and on the fourth day he got sleepy. Yeah. You know, we had a we had a couple of different things in there, um, including President Mark Prescott, who's who's white? Obama getting to give his equivalent of the speech. George Bush gave it ground zero, which is bad when a Democrat does it. But it was good that George Bush did it. Um, simple maths and yeah, and actually we're going to start again with another President Prescott chapter as we as we turned into

six of the way through True Allegiance. So that's the only thing I really missed was that the president gave a speech. No, I mean, the black gangster character got angry that the Al Sharpton character didn't want to kill cops as much, so he started a secret plan to replace all of the cops with gangsters. Uh, cops aren't already gangsters. Change changing the force that move. Oh and Brett Hawthorne did a did what what what's the term when you you judge people based on their racest criminals? Um?

Oh yeah, racial profiling. And then it didn't help. And but the point was still that it's good to do. Yeah, didn't do what it was supposed to do. Um, and learned nothing. He learned. Yeah, bit is even bad at writing propaganda. Unbelievable, wrote a case against it. Still didn't

still see what he's doing. Yeah, because he kind of had the people who Bret Hawthorne was ordering to do racial profiling be like this is bad because it's racial profiling, and then the racial profiling doesn't work and it turns out they were right. But you're not supposed to walk away from the book thinking that it was a good it was a good try. We're glad he did it because we need to keep doing it, alright, alrightn we

love we love your commas. So, almost two thirds of the way into the book, here's President Prescott's chapter New York City, featuring a lot of other characters. Yeah, you could switch forward in time thirty what we're starting there,

We'll see where we land. Ben knows that the key to any like, really readable piece of fiction is that the reader never have any sense of grounding or understanding of where he is, much like yeah, yeah, yeah, this is this is I would describe Ben Shapiro as most like this true allegiance is most similar to, for example, the Dubliners. It's just like the Dubliners. That's surely that's what he's going for, really nailing the just this consistent inconsistency. Yeah,

I do. Now, thinking about Ben Shapiro trying to write James Joyce, I'm imagining Ben Shapiro writing about a character masturbating through a hole in his pocket and like getting stuck up, I'm not being able to write. Comes to uh, just a book full of just like the sea wordword. Okay, so the first chapter that we're going to read today is Ellen, who remember is Ben Shapiro's wife, um, but actually is Brett Hawthorne's wife, um. And he works for

Governor Bubba Davis, who is basically George Bush. I think that's what Ben's going for. Yeah, he's bushy in. He's he's bushy in and a perfectly rendered Texan been really has spent a lot of time in my home state. I can tell because he uses the classic Texan phrase Horne swaggled all. The Governor Davis's refusal to send the National Guard to New York sparked a firestorm across the nation.

He cited precedent, hadn't The governor of California refused a federal request to place National Guard troops on the border, but in the aftermath of the bridge attack, he didn't get much sympathy. Everyone knows that Texas thinks of itself as its own little country. Shouted one MSNBC commentator into the camera. Well that this was a man and not

a woman. Because this is how, this is how Ben yet has to be a man because he didn't write screeching, and it has to be a white man because he absolutely would have told us if it was a black man. So here's Ben Shapiro, who clearly knows how people talk on NBC, describing what NBC would say. Everyone knows that Texas thinks of itself as its own little country, but this time their hick governor has shown himself to be

deeply unpatriotic. You don't get to be a star in the lag of the United States and then go a while when your country needs you, which is like, first, actually a good point. Second, remember when a literal fascist won the presidency and every mainstream news outlet couldn't wait to go hang on at waffle houses and talk to Trump voters, uh, and lecture liberals about being in a bubble. Unfortunately still and still do every every day everything. But no,

MSNBC gets on and calls him a hick governor. Right, yeah, he's getting it right. So yeah, Heroically, Governor Davis refuses to send in the National Guard to help with a mass casualty event that's killed thousands of Americans. Uh, and the media lambasts him for it. The media ran with the story a president calling for love and unity and a southern secessionist governor looking like George Wallace. Never mind that Davis that's stood with the marchers of the Civil

rights era. He now stood on the side of the old South. The media through collade, which I love. So to make this guy, to make this guy a good guy, been just like has to invent that he marched with civil rights marchers, which is like the easiest way to get around, Like, I don't want people to think this guy clearly being a bigot is a bigot. I'll just say that he stood with Martin Luther King. Uh. It's

it's very funny. He's doing a good job und character, you see well, and it's it's also just an example of like how to not write a good book. Um, because if you're writing a good book, you should always be scared of giving yourself an easy answer. So, like, if you're trying to make this character into clearly a good, morally upright guy, your best way to end, Like you just kind of off handedly mentioned that he marched with

civil rights marchers. That's the laziest way to make him into a good person because again it's this whole show like tell, don't show thing that Ben has going on, because yeah, because the governor's actually being evil here, so Ben just says, but in the past he did really good thing, So what he's doing now is good because Martin Luther King like, it's that's what a good thing is. It would be considered unbelievably lazy if it wasn't the

person that we're talking about. It's very believably lazy. Yes, it's believably lazy. Again, if you wanted to make this more of an interesting book, have him actually have a point and be in the right and the federal government be wrong, but also have the governor be a guy with a problematic past to his battling with that and who like faces additional opposition because of bad things he's done in the past that maybe like gives the bad guys more like room to work with or something like,

make it an interesting fucking story. He saved a bus full of nuns and school children in the past. We don't need to see that way earlier, way earlier, No, but that way, we don't have to waste words on it. We can just tell you it's like how. It's like

how When they made the action movie Classic die Hard. Uh, they mentioned that John McClain had stood with the civil rights movements, that people would like him rather than painting him as a deadbeat husband and then making him likable through the things that he suffered and went through and sacrifices he made throughout the movie. You know, I'm gonna watch die Hard tonight. It's good sounds like good storytelling. It's a Thanksgiving movie. It's a Christmas movie, a Thanksgiving movie.

Die Hard two is an Easter movie. Die Hard two is an Easter movie. Is it's it's covered in snow the whole time. It's another Christmas movie. Yeah. The President of the United States. Uh okay, so um. Bubba Davis turns to ubba civil rights hero basically Martin Luther King Jr. Bubba Davis turns to Ellen ben Shapiro's wife and asks her to be like the public face of his resistance to the federal government, and she refuses because the President of the United States, she told Davis, had brought her

husband home in one piece. He made mistakes. She knew he'd exile her husband based on lies, separated them for years. Slash the military, undermine the mission, she thought. But in the end, he brought Brett home and that was all that mattered to her, Which is, you know, actually a vaguely reasonable step for a character to take in this book. That's like a human being, Like, yeah, no, on that sentence, you know what been good on you? That was a

believable single paragraph Was it a single paragraph sentence? Yeah, okay, let's see here. Yeah, he'd exiled her husband based on lies. Comma separated them for years. Comma slash the military, comma undermine the mission, comma. She thought. Yeah, it's not a great sentence. The sentence structure isn't good, but the paragraph covers useful emotional Yeah, absolutely, it's it's it was an attempt um And just because he kept the sentence going

a little longer, that's fine. Yeah, okay, Bubba says. When she refuses, then I need you on the border. Somebody has to head up this outfit, and if I go down there, they'll accuse me of outright insurrection. You're competent, your husband is a well known military figure, and well damn it, you're a woman, and those sexists and the

press won't labor a woman an insurrectionist. Okay, so he gives his I guess press secretary control of the military forces he's placing on the border because as a woman, the press won't accused her of leading an insurrection. So which end of that is sexist? Is my question? The media been uh landing on their great question. Um, I think the media sexist because they won't call her an insurrectionist when she starts leading an insurrection. Yeah, the media,

you know, we'll see maybe you know. Yeah, Okay, So that in the next paragraph she's been there for a week. Um, so I guess all of this was just going back in time to ca. So this is so every time. It's like, by the way, this is a year later. And she had to admit that the border felt different. It felt safe for the first time ever. Military vehicles patrolled the Texas side of the river, with checkpoints set

up to funnel visitors and workers there after checking identification. Soldiers, many speaking Spanish, spoke with the locals, helping to oh my god, what a sentence. Soldiers Comma, many speaking Spanish. Commas spoke with the locals, Comma helping to direct them to the local ranches. Yeah, spoke with them to help them with. Yeah, I mean saying simple adjustments to get rid of all those commas. Yeah, it's it's it's just editor.

And also, I don't know if you ever spend a lot of time and places where there's tons of military vehicles and soldiers manning checkpoints, I can say from experience in multiple countries, you don't feel very safe. Tons of soldiers handling basic travel needs makes me feel like I'm in a dangerous place, because every place I've been like

that has been dangerous, interesting, interesting feeling. Yeah. Also spent a lot of time on the Texas border, and definitely a lot of terrible things do happen on chunks of the US Mexican border. It's a long border. Most of it's pretty empty, you know. Uh. Yeah. She'd been there for a week and there hadn't been any dead kids in the river. Every so often, a black helicopter had buzzed the troops on the American side of the border. Ellen thought it might be members of the same drug

cartel that had killed Vivian. She even thought that she'd seen one of the men wearing a bandana over his face. She told the generals of the guard that she didn't want to see any fire at the helicopters unless fired upon. Things were bad enough without starting a war. In the last few days, yes, she needed to tell the military not to shoot random helicopters out of the sky. In the last few days, the helicopters had buzzed closer and closer,

probing frauding American response. The Americans merely observed the guard had no intelligence capacities. Every soldier I know who's worked with guardsmen would agree with that statement, and fairness to Ben. The Feds hadn't been particularly responsive since Davis's big announcement, but Ellen had some private investigators do some digging. What they found shocked her. The city of Warez, they said, was won by the Warez Cartel, one of the most

dangerous criminal enter prices on the planet. It's leadership and passed down through the Careo Fuintes brothers, who had turned Okay, So he starts talking about cartel's cartel's cartels. Uh okay, And now he's just quoting two thousand six Guardian article about crimes of the wires cartels. Yeah, we've got Ben Shapiro writing a Daily Wire article about the cartels for his website. Alright, No, he actually cites the two thousand six article from the UK Guardian and wait a second, Yeah,

so what fucking world are we in? Yeah, that's a great question. The timeline in this is not super clear because Obama was also president in the past. Okay, I thought that they did find weapons of mass destruction. They did. How does this fucking Guardian article from our world still fucking exists. Well, I mean, you know, they found the w m D. Is in the Middle East, there's still cartels. I guess Middle Eastern history is completely different in Ben's world,

but everything is the same up until two thousand sixteen ish. Yeah, I don't care anymore. Yeah, uh yeah, the presence of American troops on the board. So basically she goes into how like it had been so dangerous. She cites a bunch of horrible things cartels did in Wirez, and then points out that since all the soldiers were now on the border, all of the violence in Wirez had stopped,

So it was it was that simple tools. Some people might note that the Mexican military is basically armed identically to the United States military and has not succeeded in any way, shape or form with crushing the cartels who are similarly armed. In a lot of cases, people might note that some people wouldn't be Ben Shapiro. Why would Yeah. So Ellen's job is to keep the peace on the border. Uh, she'd have to do better. She knew one incident gone

wrong could end Davis's dreams of a safe Texas. So, I guess everything's working great on the border because the army is there. Um, it's good. Yeah. So we have a little line break and then we're I guess in the have advanced an indeterminate amount of time in the future. It's still so far that could change any second. We don't know. Ellen's cell phone rang New York number. She picked up. Hey, sweetheart, Brett's rich baritone rumbled through the phone. Give me, give me a break. No, I can't wait

to hear Ben Shapiro write about these two love birds. Birds. I'm sorry, but we are. We are into the book. Need this description rich? Actually, I think you do, Hey sweetheart, says Brett's rich baritone. Hey babe, she said, miss you. His voice sounded thick over the phone. Almost hear already know you said it. Okay, sorry, okay, it's fine, Just a few days ago. They've been so close to re nighting. Now, with commercial air travel shut down in the crisis in

New York, it could be weeks, they both knew. But this was something new too. Bret never talked like this since the rescue from a Bret hadn't been himself. He never called her sweetheart called. She could imagine why, and she could imagine his face. She longed to reach out and touch it. Miss you two. How's Bill? He's hanging in there? Another pause? Are you okay? Bill? By the way, is their friend whose wife and young daughter were just killed.

That's what they spare for Bill. How's Bill? He's fine. In fairness to Ben, the way he wrote, Bill, he clearly was not broken up over the death of his wife and child. That is true. He's doing He's doing great. He's right back to work. Are you okay? Yes, that's a no, he laughed. So did she. Davis made a mistake not sending the troops. You know, I know, she answered, And I have a feeling something's coming here, something bad. I'm getting the same feeling. It's not over. Is it

a long pause? No, I don't think it is. Someone knocked on the door. To Ellen's office. I gotta run, babe. She said, take a bullet for you. Bret Hawthorne responds, take a bullet for you, sweetheart. She hung up. Every time, that's the only that's what they say at the end.

That's they're cute thing, take a bullet for you. And I've heard variations of this from a couple of different people who had family members who would end every conversation with I love you, you know, aunts and uncle's grandparents, and they were like, you know, it always seemed kind of silly to me until the day that like they died, and then I remembered the last thing that they said to me was that they loved me, And like, now I understand why they did, and that's legitimately like heartwarming

and a wonderful thing. Uh, take a bullet for you is not, No, it's not. It's so interesting to associate violence with love. It says a lot about Bim. But that's his equivalent of like, we just want them to know how they feel. So mentioned being shot. Every time you finish a conversation the last remember the last time what we spoke, I said, I fucking die in a rain of bullet fire. Yeah, for you, for them, Oh, get stabbed in the abdomen repeatedly for you, babe. You

can stabbed in the abdomen repeatedly for you. Fucking funk out my insides with searing hot metal for you, babe. For you, I'll pull my hamstring for you, baby. Yeah, I'll suffer hydrostatic shock as a high velocity around tears through my organs for you, babe. I love it. You too, of it, babe. And again, if you wanted to do like a fun cookie couple, you could have them do increasingly deranged versions of that to end their conversations. That's

what's happening. Show that shows like, oh they're playful and they know yeah, gets sodomized by a drill bit for you, pay you can have fun with it. They love each other. Look at how much fun they Yeah, that's this. They're kind of dark. They have this dark sensibility as opposed to I can't even read them saying that without like gagging time. Yeah, it has every time. There's a visceral reaction to it too. It's the only piece of Vins

writing that makes me feel anything. Okay, So she hangs up on Combat General Brett Hawthorne, and then she gets a slip of paper from a sergeant in the Guard that tells her it came from h Q. And we'll find out what that slip of paper says. But first, Cody, Katie, Yeah, you know what, We'll take a bullet for you, my man. No, that's not the answer. The products and services that support this podcast. Of course, we should really get sponsored by

body armor. Yeah. See if hesco will, Yeah that Robert throw some bucks at us where I'd prefer not to get shot for you, babe. So I wear Class four plates, stay out of danger and like be happy somewhere else. I'll attempt to stay safe as best I can for you, babe. Okay, we're back. So she's just gotten a letter from h Q. Ellen goes to the some command headquarters. Oh boy, we're

talking about journalists again. By the time she arrived at the mobile home, which is, I guess the mobile headquarters for the Guard, a small credit journalists had formed outside. As she stepped out of her car, the cameras clacked away. The focus of the nation was certainly in New York, she thought, but that didn't make the regional journalists any less hungry to get their footage on the national broadcast.

It's an awkward sentence. Yeah, she saw the boxes. She stepped inside the empty room sitting on a makeshift deft at table. Somebody had cold from the local rec center. That's an awkward way of tell you there's a box in the room. That's yeah, I read that again. Please she saw so this is her like she saw the boxes. She steps inside the empty room, comma sitting on a makeshift desk a table, somebody had cold from the local rec center. The box was card Yeah, that sentence. She

walked into a trailer. There was a makeshift desk, and on top of the desk was a box water log and cardboard or something that I wanted to do, like a search of how many commas are you used in this book? When we're done billions, that will break my machine. I only have four cores to compute that that with. I don't have enough ram in this machine. So yeah, the boxes cardboard, wet at the bottom, a wet plastic bags hat beside it. The box had been carved open at the top. She crept up on it. Why did

she creep up? Another real champion of a sentence? She crept up on it, Comma the pressure in her chest, screaming at her to not look inside, screaming, huh, there's a head. There's a head in the box. We're having our seven moment here, and it's the head of some National Guard motherfucker. Who oh, I guess a National Guard guy had been imprisoned in Mexico for months and she's just letting us know about this here because she finally got her head. Um, if you're I'm sorry, maybe dropped

that earlier. I don't know, Like you know, he wrote this book in one sitting. He wrote her all the way through and it's like and he got sleepy at this point. If you want to do this scene, you pick any moment in any of the pages before this, and you mentioned this fucking once. You have the governor have an angry phone call with the President about how this man is in danger and he's been kidnapped, and the President says, we're going to take care of it.

He's going to be fine, like they don't want to kill him. And you you show the president as like an unreasonable and and detached from reality, and the governor is caring about this guy. You established that like this is a major issue. And then when his head shows up in a box, it means more than nothing at all, more than nothing at all, than nothing at all, even just a little bit, a little bit should be the bare minimum, just a bare minimum, just like go back

and add a sentence. It's not yeah, it's fine, it's good. Yeah. Now the holes on his head that used to hold eyes stared through. Ellen written on his forehead and blue ink was one word terrorista. She held back the urge to vomit. Why hold that back? Sentence? Man, Yeah, this sentence, she turned away, thinking it was a genius move. She concluded, so offensive that there would have to be some response

from the Texas government. A crime directed not at the national government, that at an individual claimed by the Mexican government to be a criminal. Wow, that's was one sentence. It played directly to Davis's soft spot abandonment. He'd wanted to retaliate, he'd wanted to push across the border into Warez, and Prescott would want no part of it. Not while he was trying to woo the president of Mexico to endorse his job creation plan, and not while he had

the whole entire world unifying around him. Yeah, it might be bad to invade Mexico in a time like that. Oh my god, I just got what Ben's doing. So this book we have another nine eleven, and after the actual nine eleven, George Bush immediately invaded Afghanistan and started agitating to invade Iraq and playing the part of Iraq and Afghanistan in this book is Mexico. Bush was right to invade a country that had nothing to do with the terrorist attack, and Bubba Davis is right to invade Mexico,

which also had nothing to do with the terrorist attack. Yeah, excellent, I love it. Good stuff. Yeah. So Bubba calls Ellen and he's like, this is America, not Afghanistan. This ship can't happen at along my border. It's America's border, Bubba. But America won't do ship to protect it. They failed. Now it's my turn. She took a deep breath, Governor, She said, you do this and you could be looking at open conflict with Press Scott this time. No more

play acting, no more excuses. You think he's going to send his boys down here to shoot at our boys over us killing some drug dealers. I don't know, but neither do you. Everybody on Earth has called the president's bluff, said Davis. Everybody. He's caved every time. What would make this time different? You, she answered, he hates you. That won't make his cohne is any bigger. Girl, he laughed. Girl, Yeah,

this is this is how people talk. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing some dead criminals for a change. And the line goes dead, and then Ellen quotes Caesar, you know, and says ali Ayakta s stuff, which well, I think it should be s, but I'm not an expert on Latin, which means like, it's what Caesar said when he crossed the Rubicon. Because Ben Shapiro only knows about classical history and only the parts of classical history that are dramatic and stuff. Yeah, okay, the hero moments

where the hero of history Julius Caesar, destroys the democracy. Actually, so yeah, I get why Ben, yeah is on board. Okay, So next we have a solo Dad chapter. So that's yeah, Soli Dad, if you'll remember, is uh the only woman of color in the story and also a terrorist, but a good terrorist that's been like yeah, yeah, So she's hanging out with a bunch of her militia guys, one of whom the black man who is there to tell

her that everything that she's doing is good. Uh, and make Ben not seem racist, because look, there's a black man in the book, Ezekiel uh is hanging out with her and a bunch of guns, and one of Solidad's men is like, we need to talk. Sola Dad nodded. The men filed out of the living room into the outdoors. Ezekiel nodded at her. You need anything, holler, I'll be outside, he said. Aiden, who's the other guy, collapsed into a broken down sofa, breathing hard, and then he leaned forward,

staring at Sola Dad. We need to go to Detroit, he said, And in fairness, every time I've gone to Detroit it did start with an emotional converse station. Yeah. So uh yeah. She laughs at this because they're supposed to be staying off grid and hiding. But Aiden's like, Ricky needs my help. Ricky is the cop who shot the dead eyed black boy. Um, and I guess he's

a friend of Solo Odds, one of her militiamen. Um. Yeah, so Aiden informs us that those pieces of ship, which I think are Black Lives Matter activists, just took over the detention center. Um, and so yeah, he's worried. Okay, so Aiden's worried that the cop who killed the dead eyed black boy is going to get murdered by the BLM activists who took over the detention center where he's being held. Okay, all right, Okay, that's good. That's at

least relatively succinct. Okay, it's pretty racist, but succinct. Oh yeah, I mean it's it's clear. I'm not confused. Yeah. They sat listening to the commercials for carpet cleaner and gold then, which is accurate for Fox News, So I guess that's fair. Then the news came back on a newscaster speaking in somber tones. Is voice cut by static interference. The protesters gathered outside the detention center, chanting that they want their own trial. So it doesn't look like we're missing any

words there. There's just in the middle of there, because Ben doesn't even know how to write end static Like the sentence is complete, it has in the middle. Yeah, yeah, they're static in the middle of it. But the sentence that we get is the protesters gathered outside the detention center, chanting that they want their own trial. That's pretty I don't know, we're not missing much there. Weird choice anyway, Aden switches the radio off. He calls it an old

fashioned lynch mob because they're black people. Uh, and white people are the victims of racism. Yeah, they're not going home without a head on a pike. Uh. Cool. And apparently sol It ads like, why do you care about this guy? And he's like with ruins. He saved my life once, so now you want to return the favor. He nodded. But this isn't just about you anymore, she said, I've got forty guys out there who abandoned everything they had to come out here and try to be left alone.

You want me to put them in the middle of a ship storm. The storm is coming to you. They're distracted, but leave us alone for how long? Aidan grimaced. I'll bet Ricky thought they'd leave him alone, that he was doing the right thing when he shot that black boy. Oh my god, the dead eyed black child. Yeah, good lord. H Aidan then thanks Sola Dad for giving her a real something he'd been missing, a reason to fight. Uh. So that's good, that's great. Yeah, it's just a bad book. Uh,

it's just yeah, it's just a bad book. Okay, So she thinks. She goes through a little long dark Teatime of the Soul for a paragraph or so, and then she decides to head out at nightfall to Detroit. And then they're in Detroit, arrived in the evening, a chain of cars and motorcycles taking refuge in the abandoned Michigan Central Station, the old rail depot for the city. Uh that the Aiden guides them through because I guess he

knows Detroit everything is decayed. Uh and bulling. Um. And yeah, they hold up in an abandoned building and make it their their their HQ. There's homeless drunks uh still around the place. Um, because yeah, that's all of all of Detroit. Um. Yeah that's good. So um yeah, oh, we get a little rant about ben Shapira. For for years, the city had tried to rehabilitate the building. It had been bought, rebought, bought again. It considered bonds, taxpayer subsidies, anything to get

the building restored. Nobody had bothered Detroit was a disaster area. Investing money in the city would be a massive waste. Aidan had grown up in Detroit. He had said he knew the city well. His grandfather worked for General Motors, had a union job that was supposed to keep himployed all his life. Then foreign cars began flooding the American market, and the auto union contracts meant that American car companies

couldn't compete. Jobs started fleeing. As they did, the government of the city decided to raise taxes dramatically, and the people who still held jobs and the companies that still decided to stay in town, they left to mayor. After mayor took off, his promising to bring business back then pandered by crushing businesses that remained. The act space disappeared. So that's how Ben Shapiro thinks Detroit wound up where it wound up. Cool. Yeah, that's it. Is this like

a segment from his podcast. Yeah. He also notes that white families moved out to the suburbs, Black families couldn't afford the follow the city self segregated. Okay, it's as simple as that they decided to Okay, a masterful understanding. It's interesting with reality. Yeah, it's interesting what's happening here because he starts off by saying that, like Detroit is hopeless,

and like it can't be fixed. And then the only plight that's worth focusing on are like the this white kid whose dad lost his job and who yeah, like that's that's fun. Uh And yeah, this continues because Aidan and Ricky meet in Detroit and they think they're the only two white kids in town, and so they become best friends. Um, their parents went to church together, They fought back bullies together. Rickie was the straight arrow, Aidan the but juvenile delinquent, eager and ready to do anything

to make friends. Uh yeah, so two white boys against the uh bad black kids of Detroit. That's Aiden and Ricky the cop who shoots that little boy to death. That's good? That good good the good. Yeah, good was the word I was gonna use to I was like, what's the what's the right word for this? Ben would know good? Yeah, Okay, So yeah they become friends. But then Aiden is a juvenile delinquent and they grow apart. One day, Aiden's mother saw Ricky and church asked him

if he'd seen Aiden. Ricky lied to cover for him. Aiden, he'd said, was probably at the library. Then hands gripped into fists. Still wearing his Sunday suit, he went looking for Aidan. He found him in a Rundown tract house, surrounded by a couple of dropouts, high on weed and drunk off his ass. Aiden. Ricky said, your mom's looking for you. She missed you at church. One of the losers laughed, Yeah, mama's boy, your mom is looking for you. Shut up. Aiden slurred to him, Yeah, we'll tell her

I'm out here. I'm not gonna do that. I'd said i'd come and get you. Aiden laughed, high pitched wine that eventually tapered off into a snort. Well you tried, boy, scout. Now get back home to your mama. Ricky grabbed him by the scruff of his t shirt. Get your ass home, Aiden, or what Aiden sneered or this, Ricky punched him in the face. Aiden went down like a load of brick. Wow.

So it's interesting because we're getting Aiden's backstory here, but it's not being posted as him having a conversation with Solidad and telling her what happened. We're just reading this as if it's another like we've just to twenty years in the past. Is another scene without any sort of break. It's not like he's not remembering, Like we're not starting this chapter on Aiden and him like having remembering been written. He's not describing and he's not telling the story. It's

just a series of paragraphs that describes the scene. He's such a dogshit writer. I think, I seriously do not think anybody edited this book. No, they did not, would have been like, this is not how you write a book. Then did he self publish it? No? The publishing company is um, it's not great. It's it's no. And it reads one of those things where like it's like I'll kind of pay you if you like publicists for me. Yeah,

we're all I'm gonna. I want to. I've wanted to look into the publishing company for a long time because it is very clear that like, yeah, first first, this is first draft ship. Can we have a moment for how good? Thank you? So wonderful? So this quick? I'm sorry, I can't. Yeah, this is such a terrible scene. It's it's horrible. And what's funny also is that what happens here isn't even all that dramatic because like Ricky punches

him and then Aiden never gets high again. Uh, and he becomes a fed Uh Yeah, he's with the a T F right this is a a a low grade uh misrepresentation of something that was kind of similar that barely didn't maybe kind of happened to Ben or somebody he knew. I think it's just something Been assumes happens to take him back. It's like this, like yo, like this is this is what? Yeah, the tell there is that within the book because it's not aiden telling the story.

It's the author telling this story referring to that person as a one of the losers. That's all you need to know. Yeah, yeah, it's very insightful and it's it's interesting because this is clearly what Ben thinks drug addiction is, as opposed to he's actually what he's actually described as a kid smoking weed and drinking in a house, which is not an evidence of a serious problem. Most people in this country have something like that happen when their teens,

and it's generally fine. Like if you want to have this, be like, haven't get into heroin or some ship, have fucking ricky, like find him oh ding and turn him over and stop him from choking on his own puke. At least make it a life or death situation. If this guy's going to say he saved my life. No, he got high on weed. He got high on weed that one time and then got punched. One of the losers punched him. No, no, no, that was Ricky. His

friend punched him. Because that's how heroes. Heroes make solve all their problems with violence. That's what makes them heroes. But I'm sorry, Beta, Sorry, sorry once again. Yeah, okay, so that's why Aidan, the guy that we barely know, wants to save Ricky, the guy who shot that dead eyed black child, thinks it's disgusting and uncivil to punch Nazis. I bet he does, but not your pot spoken friends, not if it helps him become FEDS. Um. Yeah, so okay.

They go through like a plan. They talk about like how the fucking detention centers laid out and yeah, okay, so here's Aidan again. So here's the plan. We have to wait until the right time. We're not interested in taking out the police. They're armed, and they're scared, and armed and scared are just as likely to shoot us as anybody else. Bens on the virgins just dancing right around it, isn't he? That is why people are angry. Ben get there, just get there, man? Uh? Instead we

need chaos for the cover. Every riot has led by a few key characters been the riot nowhere. Everybody that they look like they're ready for war, but most of them to show their friends that they're brave. The authorities know that, so their chief task is to arrest the rabble rousers and let the rest sort of fade away. If that happens, we'll never get Officer of Sullivan out of there. I guarantee you that whoever is leading this thing is smart and capable. This is not amateur our.

Oh so it's we're getting into Ben's like the all if. It's like riots and protests are like nefariously organized because people couldn't spontaneously, you know, form up in large numbers and confront and out maneuver the police without having like

a leadership cast. Yeah, it's funny because an article dropped last week where like revealing, like so the Department of Home and Secured in the FBI were spying on Portland protesters during the protests and riots this summer, and we're like desperately trying to figure out who the leaders were and the exact like the exact like wording in the report was something along the lines of all we wound up with was a list of who was canceling who

on Twitter. It's very funny, beautiful. Yeah, it's the best thing that's ever happened. I have never been so happy reading a story that Yeah, yeah, it fucking ruled. Um. Yeah, Ben knows riots, absolutely knows him a riot, Ben Riot, Shapiroya. Okay, So one of them in the back pipes up, why don't we just grab him off the street when he's released, and Ezekiel, who's again the only black guy in this group, gafaws.

Have you seen us? We stick out like a KKK rally and Harlem, no chance they don't find us and at least neutralizes. No, here's what we're gonna do. Oh wait, and then he doesn't tell us what he's going to do instead of Aiden, The next paragraph is so after Ezekiel says here's what we're gonna do, Aiden takes out a garbage bag and pulls uniforms from it. Then he tosses to Sola, Dad and three of the other men who stepped forward to put them on. Now for the

rest of you guys, I've got something really special. Doesn't even tell them anything, just throws out uniforms and men start putting them on. Ben is a real bad writer. I mean everything, everything that he has a character say is like a cliche. I'm not thinking sure of the right word, but it's like an overused phrase, like a sentence structure that's like so obvious and overused. It's not like, yeah, it's not Cliches necessarily will stand out like a KKK

member in Harlem. Well, and it's also, of course it had to be the black guy who said that, because he would think of Harlem, um like right like. And it's it's also that he says, here's the plan, and then nobody explains the plan, and instead another character takes out a garbage bag full of uniforms and everybody understands it um. And the chapter ends with Aidan opening a duffel bag with T shirts in it, and we don't know what's on the T shirts, but everybody's jaw drops

and Solidad chuckles, Well, you've got to die sometimes. So I'm guessing my guess is that something racist is on them to draw attention and create a giant fight or something so that they can sneak in and free Ricky. That'd be my guess kind of like kind of like the start of the third die Hard movie. Actually, yeah, yeah, that's an arbor Day movie. Okay, you're quicker than me, Cody. Our next chapter is a lev On chapter. I think we have to take a break. Oh yeah, yeah, I

guess we should. You just took the words out of my mouth. I'm sorry, I apologize, welcome, I'm appreciative. I'm appreciative too, and you know who's most appreciatives the products and services that support this pod cast was gonna discast. I was so happy. All right, we're back and it's time for some mother fucking leave One, who is again the black crack dealing Osama bin Laden of the story basically, although there's also another Osama bin Laden who's basically Osama

bin Laden but named mom. There's a lot of a lot of Obama's Yeah absolutely not. Oh okay, so when we open, he's sleeping with uh oh wait, no, okay, sorry, I'll just I'll just start this for two days. Leave On stood in the cold. He had his men bring him food and clothing. He slept on the sidewalk. Next to him slept the mother of Kendrick Malone, the little kid that Ricky killed with them slept hundreds of others.

Every day, local businesses shipped out supplies for the group, eager to be seen as caring for the plight of the righteous protesters. And still they didn't release Ricky Osla. And perhaps they thought that the crowd would dissipate. Perhaps they were waiting for federal intervention. Intervention that wouldn't come. The President had already declared that this was a local matter, and the resources of the state had already been redirected to the disaster area in New York City. There would

be no cavalry, and so they waited. Each day, members of the media crowded around leaf On to hear his words. But each day the number of media dwindled, the attention span of the nation ran shorter and shorter these days. Well, yeah, there's just been a giant terrorist attack and the governor of Texas is invading Mexico. So I guess people occupying a detention center might not be the top story in the nation at the time. Yeah, fair enough. So what

newspapers they have access to in there? Yeah, So leave On decides that the time has come for action because the media is not paying attention anymore, but action required provocation. So far, the authorities had been smart. They had hold up, put nobody on the street, waited for the ire to burn itself out, you know, like we saw the cops do this year. Oh yeah, They hadn't at any statements other than to praise the peacefulness of the protesters and

suggest their sympathies for the protesters cause. Okay, So yeah, then knows how the cops work. That's how they would handle an occupation of a detention center. Jesus. Okay, So Big Jim is offering to negotiate the uh yeah, negotiate the stalemate. He said that Levin could become a player by accepting the verdict demanding change from the Feds and being granted an informal say in the appointment of officials

up to and including police officers. He said that Levin should just let O'Sullivan go show that he was the bigger man. Already, Big Jim had gone on national television urging the President to send more federal officials to talk about the future. Um the nation's eyes had been riveted on Detroit, But with the Big Jim's in premature of legitimacy, the Detroit. Federal solution was gradually drawing the steam out of the kettle. La la, okay, just just just boring ship.

And then they arrived, like a blessing from the skies. They came. There weren't many of them, but they were enough white men, writing motorcycles, planting themselves in the midst of the newly minted tent city, and they wore t shirt fight the thugs. That okay, so he's got right wing vigilantes showing up to a BLM protest. Ben did predict one that got the media's attention, but oddly enough, few of the men wanted to talk to the media.

That part's not accurate. One in particular bowed his head anytime the cameras came near Levin, denounced them for the cameras. Who are these white supremacists coming into a city white racism is ruined and accusing us of racism for standing up for our human rights, but secretly thanked God for bringing them. It kept the fight alive at least for another day. Okay, so become the Big Jim craft. Oh,

we switched fewpoint characters. So we've got Big Jim and he's penning an up ed for the Wall Street Journal and hanging out in his house and stuff. Uh to do? The next step in Detroit, Big Jim knew would be to give leave on an option for withdrawal with some grace. He'd already pressed lev On, and he knew Levan was waiting, hoping for something big to happen, but that seemed unlikely. With the nation's attention riveted elsewhere, Big Jim climbs out of the shower. God, this is yes, this is just

a random interlude with Big Jim. Here, wait a second. Uh. Suddenly he felt out of breath. He plunged forward, grabbing the sync with both hands, but he could feel the strengthen those hands weakening. He tried to push his fingertips into the marble. They wouldn't give. For some reason, a desperate need to hold himself up rushed over him, and as he felt his bulk dragging towards the cool floor, away from the fog the mirror, he had the odd thought that the floor was red. Then he realized it

was red and slippery with his blood. He lost his grip. His face hit the uzing puddle hard. He never saw the man who fired the second round into his head. Oh so he's geting. He gets shot to death ship. I'm guessing that was leave On. Um, yeah, that seems right. Uh so yeah, now we're back to leave On after killing Big Jim. Uh. And he's looking at the T shirt gang. So I guess that's the shirts that said

they said fight the thugs. Uh. Because ben Ben wasn't even courageous enough to make the shirts really racist as like a direct promocation again like the die hard thing. Um, okay, yeah, fight the thing A delicate dance. Yeah, so we wind up with a big belly. Oh Jesus Christ. Okay. There were eight of them. All to four had their hogs planted in the corners of the street, ready to move off at the first sign of trouble. Three of the other four planted themselves near the front of the crowd.

Neither steps to the detention center. The lone remaining man, a white, bearded, big bellied bear in his mid sixties, stood the crowd. Yeah I think so, like like a A group of young protesters screamed obscenities at him. He stood his ground placidly. A buzz built at the back of the crowd, more white men, all wearing the same shirts pulled up on motorcycles saying nothing. The Credit protesters

moved on them, expecting a confrontation. That's when Levin's phone rang and he gets the news that Big Jim is dead, and he screams out, they killed Big Jim to the cameras, Uh, yeah, they killed Big Jim. Tear it down, all down, tear down this corrupt system. Um, and I guess everybody uh starts to go fucking nuts. Yeah, yeah, it's riot time yet, Shapiro. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Teenager with a tire iron grabs the white dude's beard and pulls him to the ground from his beard and then beats him with a tire iron in the belly. Um and a bunch of other guys try to break into the detention center, screaming, give us O'Sullivan, Um, give us the child murderer. Cut off the beginning of that video. Yeah,

it sounds like he did. That, sounds like this is VERI yeah, no, no, But the right wing guys would just standing there placidly like they always do, the placid bear of a man who, if this were a reality, would have had like bear mace canisters in both hands. Think I do think ben is a writer that uses the thesaurus. Search on Google is just like, what's an word for calm placid? That sounds good. I'm a writer behind Leave on the Street exploded them a writer, m

dash a man who writes things. Comma writing is what I do? Period, he wrote, he wrote writing late behind lev on the Street exploded into chaos, protesters and writers merging into one throng. That's a weird way to say that. The bearded white bear had disappeared into the center of the crowd, his body trampled, kicked, stump, spit on. Hundreds of people gathered in a circle to watch, to participate. At the outskirts of the riot, motorcycles rev their engine,

fending off rocks and bottles. One of pulls out a handgun and fires it into the air, scattering the crowd near him, but drawing a few slat of debris from all quarters. YadA, YadA, YadA. Levan gets handed a crowbar and he starts beating the windows of the detention center and he breaks in, but the room's empty, and he has a bunch of his men come in and they're

all trying to find O'Sullivan. Uh oh, and now we have another viewpoints which the attention officer unlocked the cell holding Ricky o soul then and it creaked back on its hinges. Oh. Sullivan backed up quickly into the corner, his bulk filling it. You leave me alone, he said to the masked woman in a police uniform. She wore a bandana over her face and her gun was pointed at the head of the detention officer. Follow me, Sola Dad said, okay, so they're just in the solo. Dad's

gotten in there. We don't need to here, they just it just happened, guys there. Yeah. She also threatens to murder Ricky if he doesn't come with her, which is odd for a rescue um. Yeah, and then she tells him that the crowd wants to hurt him after threatening to kill him. Uh okay, Oh wait, no, she's she's saying that the crowd will kill you if you don't come with me. Okay, I guess that makes more questions. You have been just wrote it badly shocking. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh so she and Ricky take off and they get out just ahead of the rioters. So we have a viewpoint switched to Sola Dad and Ricky in the middle of Levan's chapter. Oh, and then we're back to Aiden, so we have another viewpoints switched to Aiden, then Levan in the present of the past in the president. I don't think we're hearing about his past. Aiden's waiting for them in a garage with a swat van. We don't seem to know how he got the squad van. M yeah,

Soladad pounded on the barrier to the van's driver's compartment. Go, she screamed, Go, let's get the hell out of here, not without Ezekiel. Aiden replied, what, He's not here, He'll be here any moment. Now. Two of Leban's men had reached the van. One began slamming on Aiden's window while the other tried to pry open the back of the van. Hold on, Aiden shouted, throwing the van in reverse. The man at the back of the van screeched his head

banged against the iron of the door. Sola Dad felt sick to her stomach at the bump as the wheels hit him, but Aiden kept backing up until there were just a few inches of room between the rear doors and the elevator next to the stairwell. Ezekiel's coming Aiden said, any second. Now, the man at the driver's table. Okay, So the guy pounding on the window cracks it. Aiden pulls out a twenty two caliber handgun, rolls down the window slightly and fired. The bullet hit the man in

the shoulder, knocking him to the ground. Which that's like the smallest possible handgun generally, like that twenty two is like the smallest of the bullets. Yeah, which is not to say that it can't kill people. But it's interesting that this bullet knocks a man to the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a presumably a large thug, another bear of a man. We have we have we have to we have to assume,

we have to assume. Okay, So the elevator doors open after this, and Ezekiel's they're sitting on the floor, his mouth open, breaking hard blood ran down the side of his police uniform. Sola Dad leapt out of the back doors, grabbed him by the arms. Stay with me, Ezekiel, We're almost out, almost free. He grunted through another arm over her shoulder. Oh, Sullivan grabbed him by the collar and hoisted him into the van. Uh duh, So yeah, they confront He has to gun the engine and drive through. Uh,

people with handguns who are threatening him. Shots are fired, but they don't hit anybody. Um, dadda yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda. Okay, let's get through this boring action. Uh, boring. Yeah, it's really boring action. Um okay, Yeah, they get out, they escape. Great. Uh and now we're back to Oh we do finally get back to leave on. Um, so he's here's about O'Sullivan's escape. The street fights are have died down that we were being told the police had fled the detention center. Uh,

there's bodies in the street bleeding. It looked like a war zone. He turned to face the reporter, the camera directly in his face. She'd asked him a question before he found out O'Sullivan was gone. He'd completely forgotten it. What did you ask? He murmured, What comes next? She asked, The mayor is vowing to keep order. Levin looked out over his burning city, his burning city. We don't need the mayor to keep order. He's just as corrupt as

the rest. We're in a war now. You saw them out there on their motorcycles with their racist T shirts. White supremacist killed Reverend Jim Crawford tonight. No pretty words are going to bring him back. So here's what American needs to know. Detroit is now in our hands. We will have justice, and it starts with the mayor, but that's not where it ends. We want to work with the police officers who will serve justice. If they weren't, we'll have our own forces of justice. Brothers will not

burn down brothers businesses. There will be no looting, no violence. That's not what Big Jim would have wanted. We're going to build something new in this city, something better. On these ashes. Wherever Ricky O'Sullivan is, we'll bring him back to justice too. This is the beginning of a new era. The blood you see here tonight that will be repaid in freedom. So tonight I call for the people in my city to join me. It's time to rise up and claim our freedom. In the distance, the sun began

to rise. So I guess we went through a whole night already. Um Son began to rise. Yeah, Okay, we're at the end of part three, the end of now you know, we're into part two. Now we're in part three, the end of the beginning. Oh God, is that the name of that. Yeah, I think this is a Brett Hawthorne chapter. Okay, Okay, we'll go a little further. We

gotta we gotta talk to Brett. Okay at the beginning. Yeah, So it starts with Brett getting a phone call from his friend Hassan, who's again his Muslim friend who he went to school with, who worked for the FBI to inform on other slams, but then stopped working with the FBI when White Obama decided that Muslim terrorists were fine just to catch everybody out Obama. Um okay, so uh yeah. Hassan calls him uh and is worried and tells him to get over quickly. Clearly, something is bad has happened.

So Brett picks up his service weapon and slid it in the small of his back, because all professional gun users know that holsters are not worth using for you gotta put him in a cool place, Robert Light in the back of your pants. Yeah yeah, Uh. Closing the door to the hotel room, he glanced down the hall stealthily. What you glance stealthily all the time, Cody. I don't know why nobody who wasn't drunk or having an affair would be coming down the hall at two am, he figured,

but better to be paranoid than blithe. Sure enough, a buzz cut man in a black suit waiting at the elevator Federal, thought Brett. There was only one reason for him to be waiting. The President wanted to see General Brett Hawthorne. And there was only one reason the President would want to see General Brett Hawthorne to stop his investigation. I like the Federal. Uh yeah, so I guess they they had both met at some point previously that I don't think we saw. Um yeah. And Brett doesn't want

to have another meeting with the president. Um yeah. He's the last thing Mark Prescott wanted. Brett figured was bad publicity right after a terror attack. Islamophobia in the top ranks. That's how the headlines in the nation would read, and Prescott read the nation. The man in the black suit locked eyes with Brett began walking towards him. After years of writing the bureaucratic Bowl, Brett had one key rule.

Better to ask forgiveness than to seek permission, which is why he was relieved to see a door at the stairs and the other end of the hallway. Unfortunately, he was on the second floor. So he turns back and he uh takes the stairs half the flight at a time, his knees throbbing behind him. He hears the door slam open and the man's voice, he's running. We'll grab him in the lobby. Brett had no such intention. So we don't know why these guys are chasing him. Really, but

I can take him. Yeah, Brett knows how to run. He's great at running. And he gets onto the street without the Feds catching him. Yeah. So he makes his way to where Hassan lives, which is a neighborhood nobody wants to walk at at night. Um. Yeah, well he's black, of course, he lives in a bad neighborhood. Jesus come. Yeah, he lives in an old building refurbished with cheap appliances and cheaper flooring. Uh so that's great. They self segregated, Robert,

that's Ben's favorite kind of uh god. Um okay. So Hassan gives him a thumb drive h and shows it to Brett. Uh, and I assume it opened quickly. Hassan slid it a thumb drive loaded onto his laptop, set the machine on the coffee table for Brett. Do you know this man? And then a video file popped up. It showed a young slim Muslim man wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt. YadA YadA. Uh do you recognize him, Brett does. It's Mohammed um and he asks Hassan how

he found it. Um oh, okay, I guess Hassan has backdoor access to most of the security cameras in New York mosques. What. Yeah, that's how we got this picture. Here's the development. Yeah. No, it took him years, that's all. He says. He's got it. He has all the security camera footage. Um. So yeah, the footage is four days old. It's too oh god, Um, it was taken four days ago. Hassan anticipated Brett's disappointment. I know, too long. But finding a man named Mohammed in a Moscow, New York is

like finding a Jew named Goldstein in a synagogue here. Yeah, there is. Uh So the guy that Mohammed's talking to is under FBI surveillance. Uh. We talk about this new terrorist who's been introduced for a little while, and I don't care. Uh. Yeah, apparently this other terrorist has given opening prayers that the New York Stock exchange. Uh. So that's great, Um, because prominent Muslims are all tied to terrorism.

I forgot about that. Yeah, sorry, I forgot. So Brett travels to the house of this m mom who's been hanging out with the terrorist. Uh. The m mom actually lived on a rural compound off the road. In the dark, Brett missed the turn off twice. The gravel clanked off the underside of the cheap Toyota Hassan had borrowed from a friend. The woods showed black against the early glimmers of rising sun. Blah blah blah blah. So it's daytime. Um,

there's prayers going on. Uh. He shows up at the m mom's house end is told that the office doesn't open until nine am. He says, tell him, the teacher sent me the mention of a Shami's nickname, who I guess is the terrorist mastermind that we heard about earlier. Okay, so obviously they don't respond to a random white dude who's clearly military walking up and saying that he was sent by a terrorist. Uh they say that name. Yeah, Um, But the mom's like, that's all right, I know this man.

And he shows up and he he invites Brett in um An Jammari Hassan had told Brett before Brett left for Jersey was no one to be trifled with. He'd been rumored to have deep connections to various Middle East based charities with their own connections to major terror groups. He fronted for a variety of Islamic human rights organizations dedicated to fighting Islamophobia, and it was in that guy's

that he'd become a go to face for Prescott. Okay, so this guy is fighting Islamophobia, and obviously all organizations that are fighting Islamophobia are fronts for terrorists. That's that's what's been right here. That's until logical conclusion. Yeah for Ben Okay, this is fun. The very next sentence states that the Prescott tenure had seen several small, lone wolf attacks each time Prescott had cited on Maria's evidence that the moderate Muslim community was alive and well in the

United States. It's fun to note that of the way in the book is the first time we learned that the US has been beset by lone wolf Islamic terrorist attacks during this president's administration. Um, yeah, this is three, Yeah, part three. We are more than two thirds of the way through the book. We're almost three quarters of the way through the book. Um, yeah, context, But yeah, he's so.

This guy is a well established media personality. He's a moderate Muslim, but he also criticizes Israel, which should be another hint that he's secretly a terrorist. Um yeah, so, so said the mom. What can I do for you, General Hawthorne. I'm so glad you made it back to us in one piece. Allah must have protected you from harm. Indeed, he must have said Brett, I come here seeking your advice and help and let Yet you mentioned the teacher.

Why would you think I know such a monster? No reason, Brett said carefully, But I am looking for a man, and I think that, given your prominence, he might approach you. I'm approached by many Muslims, I am blessed by Allah and having a wide following in a grand platform. How would I know the man you seek? His name is Mohammed, Brett explained. Just am astounded by this man writing everybody else's religions and racial experiences, etcetera, etcetera. Yeah, it's it's great.

So the mom says, he doesn't know this seventeen year old named Mohammed Um okay uh, and Brett doesn't believe him. Are you implying that I'm lying to you? Know? Said Brett. I'm flat out telling you that you're lying. I know you know such a man. So either you can continue spatting this line of bullshit and I can have you detained in question, or you can tell me the truth. Omari laughed out loud. No, I don't think you have

that sort of pull. General. You may be a hot shot with a particular segment of the population, but as you say, I am somewhat well connected. Gentlemen, please come in. The door behind Brett opened and came the federal agent from the hotel, his face impassive, and other black suit clad fed stood next to him. Brett pushed himself to his feet and mom, I believe we'll be talking again. Omari stood as well, looked Brett in the I no,

I don't believe we will. Let's there we go. Yeah, okay, So the FEDS, the FEDS, and this guy who's an anti islamophobia Muslim terrorists are all in bed together because the President likes this terrorist because he's a moderate Muslim, and I, yeah, there you go. It's good. Ben Shapiro, Shin Bapiro. Alright, well I think that's gonna do us for for for this week's episode. Yeah, the way in our next chapter is another prescott it. Yeah, we got

ten percent more through it. It's dense. It's a dense one. Well, it's all those commas. They take up a lot of space. I am excited because, Yeah, this next chapter starts with Brett Hawthorne and the President having a conversation. Um, oh boy, I think this is gonna be a good one. Yeah, I think this is gonna be a real good one. Um. How many of you you think we have left one

to Jesus? Probably probably three or four? Right, Okay, we've got on set one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight more chapters including uh well we have actually I guess uh six more named chapters and then the end of the beginning and epilogue, and we haven't about the author. You know what, I might sneak ahead to that right now, spoilers what Yeah, well, there's about the author I want

to I want to know. Oh boy, howdy. So it starts with like you know, he's an editor at large at Breitbart News, the editor of Daily wire List, some of the political books he wrote. Shapiro was also a nationally syndicated columnists since age seventeen, a graduate of u c l A and Harvard Law School, and the host of the Morning Answer on kr l A It's seventy in Los Angeles and Katie five ninety in Orange County. Rush Limbaugh says Shapiro isn't just content to have people

be dazzled by his brilliance. He actually goes out and confronts and tries to persuade, mobilize, motivate people. Glenn Beck called Shapiro a warrior for conservatism against those who use fear and intimidation to stifle honest debate. I've never known him to back down from a fight, Sarah Palin says, especially when he's wrong. He got a palm yeah. She says that Americans should consider Ben's advice about how we must stand up and push back twice as hard against

this bullying. Sean Hannity says to join Ben Shapiro and fight back against liberal bullying. Michelle Malkin says Shapiro is infused with the indomitable spirit of his friend and mentor Andrew Breitbart. Even the liberal Washington Post in the aftermath of Shapiro's devastating destruction of Pierce national Television. Oh my god,

this has a sentence been absolutely wrote. Even the liberal Washington Post, in the aftermath of Shapiro's devastating destruction of Pierce Morgan on National Television, conceded that Shapiro was a foe of extraordinary polemical ability. It's got his thinking little fingers all over it. Yeah, well, this way to write rogues.

Gallery of endorsements he's got there. He brutally destroyed Pierce Morgan, the Liberal Washington I will say this, if he had literally destroyed Pierce Morgan, I would be more positive towards shape absolutely if he found his philactry. Yeah. Um, he's referring to a debate he had with Pierce Morgan about guns. Yeah, and uh, that conversation is the entire basis throughout his other book, Uh ten or eleven, I forget ways to beat the Left. It's like this his destruction of the

left book. How did he beat the leftist? Um he used for his example of a leftist through the entire book. Is Pierce morgana leftist? Yeah? He knows, he understands politics. Well, yeah, I mean Pierce Morgan is definitely, like I would say, the most prominent maoist in the country right now. You know, very famous left wing voice Pierce Morgan, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan good friend of the current president. Yeah, and leftist Piers Morgan. Well, I feel like the only thing to

say is head Babs, want to plug your plug? Yeah, because I take a bullet for you. Yeah, this is Robert's job. It's not our show, it's his show. No, I want your pluggable, But Katie, you go, you go, no, you shows. We've got a show called some More News on YouTube check us out and Patreon, uh dot com, slash some more News, our podcast called even more News. We also co host another podcast called The Worst Yere Ever. And I'm Dr Mr Cody on Twitter. Katie's Katie Stole. Yeah,

it's good job. Been Shapiro hero. Yeah, you can find me nowhere at all, um, I've never heard of the internet. I'm actually alone in a forest shrieking this. I'm just channeling Been Shapiro's words and I don't know who I'm talking to right now. So you're definitely calling them bib Yeah, yeah, I mean I take a bullet for him. God, I can't even say that without like starting to wretch a little bit. I'd get even I answer for you, bag. Yeah, I'd lay down in front of a combine for you,

babe and getting churned up into moach. Babe, do you love me? Yeah? Sure? Why not? That's the episode. That's the show. That's the episode.