Alex Marlow
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470 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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The extent to which he has been addicted and the legendariness of some of the benders he went on for such extended periods of time, seemingly with unlimited amounts of cash and connections and ability to get what he wants and when he wants it. Are you surprised he's alive? Because frankly, I'm sort of shocked.
And he's a very clever guy, so he's going to figure out how to get money.
So here's what's going on, what happens. This is one of the things that disappointed me the most when I got to Washington, because I've been a Republican my whole life. It's sort of reluctant. I've never had deep respect for the Republican Party, but I've always hated the left. And it's always kind of guided me, and I always thought the best way to fight the left was via the Republican Party.
But one of the things growing up in California, going to Berkeley, et cetera, I'd always been... lectured to about the military industrial complex and how really we go into all these wars so that all these defense contractors can make money. And I thought, there's no way we're that immoral that we send working class men and women to die overseas in pointless wars in order for people to get rich.
And then I got to Washington and I realized that's exactly what's happening. And the reason why is because there's a banality to it, that we have these policies, we justify that we want to have robust policies, we want to have a lot of weaponry, we want to have a lot of material, and if we don't ever use them, then we don't need any more, and that dries up the business.
And you don't end up, if you've access to lots of government money, you don't end up voting against your own interests. And if your interests are financial and your family's interests are financial, you end up coming up with excuses to keep building up that military industrial complex.
And I was kind of shocked that this is real, but then you see stuff like Lloyd Austin, who was our past defense secretary, came literally from the board of Raytheon, one of our biggest government contractors. Tony Blinken, when he leaves as secretary of state, he has a business called West Exec, it's a consultancy.
It's essentially a go-between between government money and the defense sector, where he gets government money and he comes up with contracts with big companies to do our defense work. And this is partially why we're in so many wars is because there's so many people who are wetting their beak on these wars. It's very dark, but it's very real. And it's not just the defense industry.
There's all of these law firms, high-end law firms. A lot of them, they want to keep people tied up in legal battles because that's how they pay their bills. There's all these various versions of this. And it is this network of consultants that liaison between the mega-rich private sector and all that government wealth. It's a revolving door.
And it's exactly what Trump is talking about when we're talking about draining the swamp.
Hard to say. It starts with personnel. I think all these outsiders who think from an outsider's perspective, step number one is getting the right cabinet. And when you get people like Bobby Kennedy, you get a Pete Hegseth, you get a Tulsi Gabbard, you get these types of people who resent the way business is done in Washington.
and what I would assume be nodding along at stuff I'm saying right now, whether or not we disagree on other stuff is irrelevant. I think they would get that fundamental point is that this sort of public-private partnership is what's gotten so far out of hand, that they would start evaluating everything
And eventually, if they do that, I think they're going to end up finding a lot of places to cut and a lot of places that are only in place as wealth generation networks and not really designed to use the American government to try to make things better for the American citizens.
It very well could be. I don't think of it as on the right-left dichotomy, which is why some of these, Robert Kennedy, for example, who is a Democrat, might be the most exciting pick. For me, a lifelong Republican, because I know that he's actually going to use a scientific method. He's going to come in and say, is there actual facts that back up
these assertions, or are we just going to go with the flow? We're not going to go with the flow. We're going to, well, where's the science? That's what we're going to do. That's going to be our policy. That's all. That's all I want. I don't need to agree with them on everything. I just want to feel like it's evidence-based. We've gotten away from evidence-based. Can we do evidence-based?
That sounds good to me. Yeah.
There are these currents that flow in Washington and it takes a lot of willpower to say, no, we're going to push the current in the other direction. Trump's been the best at this in my lifetime. And him drafting many Trumps to put in his cabinet is the only way forward. It's the only chance we've got because a lot of the currents are going in the wrong direction. I think about...
what animates me as a person, what I get excited about in the news, what I think a lot of people get excited about, because I think this is how Breitbart be strong, is that I'm most interested in very strong individuals, individuals who are changing the world, who are going against the grain, who are distinguishing themselves, doing things that are unique.
I'm sure this resonates with you, Dr. Drew. No one said your career path. I mean, it's one of these things where at every turn, you feel like you're doing something, you're almost like a mini pioneer at all times. I love that. The next thing most important to me is family, strong families. The left comes from the other perspective. They go macro, macro, macro.
We want to have a world government, one of the world health organization. And then we want to have a big, strong state, a super state. We want to delegate as much power as we can to the federal government. And only then do we go to the state government. And then finally we go to the city government. And the last thing on your mind is the family and the individual.
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