Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What controversial statement did Tim Walz make about ICE?
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Don't take your guns to town, Bill. Leave your guns at home. When I listen to Michael Moles sing Johnny Cash, it makes me think of my own mortality. This could be the whole show. It's just puns. I'm in a bad mood. Should not have been nominated, by the way. Here we go.
Dark night. You know what? That is the most offensive thing you have said in this entire episode. Yeah, save it. Save it for the show. Friends like these cooties, enemies of friends like these cooties.
Three days ago, Tim Walz compared the ICE officers to Nazis, and then yesterday he collaborated with them. So I guess Tim Walz is now a Nazi collaborator. It's very unclear what's going on between Washington and Minnesota right now. We will get into it. We will get into all of the Oscar movies that you haven't seen. We haven't seen them either, but we have very, very strong opinions.
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guys do you know what that is called that's called a cold open and i can tell you speaking from nashville it's a very cold open here it's real chilly hence my sweater uh matt you you're always kind of lumberjacking wearing all of your flannel etc but drew ben you're you're in relative warmth no no no wait it's it snowed here i'm i was i'm close to dc and we had enough snow that i had to go out twice
and shovel my walks, and now my entire body hurts, and I have a cold. So I think that's my contribution to the weather.
Are you still corporeal, or is it just a ghost?
What's that?
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Chapter 3: What insights did Jennie Taer provide from her ICE ride along?
Speaking of Oscar movies right now. Had I not been rescued by my buddy and put up in a beautiful Airbnb with a podcast studio across the street. So I'm actually I'm feeling great. And because it's not candlemas yet, I'm still wearing my Christmas decorations. I'm feeling I'm feeling good. I think I might do the show from here forever. Did you, Matt, have you survived the snowpocalypse?
I'm in my element, man. Cold, dark, no one around, no one can access me. I love this. I would do this all year round.
One question I have, I know with the power going out in a lot of places, some people are trying to figure out things to do. Have you guys been sitting around with your family playing the new Pendragon board game?
Yes. If you would send me a Pendragon board game, I would actually play the Pendragon board game.
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Chapter 4: How are ICE operations being obstructed in Minneapolis?
I have the Andrew Breitbart question here. I don't mean to be cruel. It's tragic the guy was killed. But so what? Let's say you examine this film from every possible angle and it turns out the ICE agent was in the wrong. Does that mean we shouldn't deport people who are here illegally? I mean, they're here illegally. ICE is there to get rid of people who are here illegally.
No one is above the law, as we know, because they were charging Trump with littering and sending him away for life. So what difference does it make? I mean, let's say it was a bad shooting. They're just enforcing the law.
Why are these people who are organized by Marxist thugs all around the country and taking like nine counties out of all the counties in America and turning them into battle zones, why are they justified by a bad shooting? I'm not saying it was a bad shooting, but even if it was, who cares?
On your point, Drew, so was it a bad shooting? Because there's all this stuff and a lot of misinformation going around the Internet. One of the questions was, well, maybe he had been disarmed before the ICE agent shot. And but even in that case, would it necessarily have been an unjustified shooting? Only one of us went to Harvard Law School. I'm loathe to turn to him for an answer on this.
But then is there any does that mean it's a bad shooting? The cops got to go to jail or something?
I mean, so not necessarily. So the basic legal standard is the same in all of these cases, which is does a reasonable officer believe that he's an eminent threat of grave physical harm? And so the question becomes, did the officer who shot him know that he had been disarmed because there's this kind of scrum?
And then you can see that the gun appears to be removed by one of the agents, but not the agent who shot him. And then somebody yells gun and there may in fact be an accidental gunshot, an accidental discharge from Preddy's gun by the officer or the gun just went off.
So if you're an officer and you're standing there and you hear someone yell gun and then a shot goes off and you don't know that the gun has been removed from the guy, then you absolutely could fear for your life. You could fear imminent threat of grave physical harm. And so the shoot could absolutely be good. That's typically why you have full investigations under these circumstances.
As to Drew's question as to why this shapes the underlying sort of policy, the answer is that it doesn't, but this has been a chaos operation from the beginning for Democrats in an attempt to obstruct federal law. I mean, that's really what this is. This has been driven by Democrats from the very start.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Tim Walz's collaboration with ICE?
We already know it's all lies. You know, we know it's all lies. And if in this case, the cop was in the wrong, if he did something wrong, that's one thing, but it has nothing to do with the overall story, which is these guys came in 20 million strong. They all have to go.
They all have to go. And also to me, it's not even a close call. Like, You took a gun. Okay, this is another point that really annoys me. I see even some people on the right saying, well, hey, we believe in the Second Amendment, and we've got to be consistent here. I've seen some people draw comparisons between this and Kyle Rittenhouse. Hey, man, let's be fair. Two completely... I've actually...
diametrically opposite situations. Kyle Rittenhouse was there, was not interfering with any police officers, was not sabotaging police officer operations, was not resisting police officers. He was there because police officers weren't there and weren't doing anything. In this case, Alex Priddy Took a gun. OK, that part is fine. Like, yes, you can carry a gun in the United States of America.
I believe in the Second Amendment. But you took a gun explicitly to go commit crimes. OK, interfering with with the police, sabotaging police operations, obstructing what the police are doing, obstructing law enforcement is a crime. He brought a gun to do that. And maybe his intention was not to go kill the officers, but his intention certainly was all these people. None of them are protesters.
This is not a legitimate protest. Well, it was not a protest.
I mean, it's worth establishing this was not a protest happened afterward, but this was not a protest.
He was simply there. Yeah. They are coordinating. I mean, we talked about this on my show. Now other people have gone into these signal chats where they coordinate with each other. They give license plates. They show up. And it is explicitly to obstruct law enforcement.
So if you take the gun and then your intention is to go commit crimes and then you end up getting shot in the process, to me, it's not even a close call. It's not even controversial. I mean, it might be controversial to a lot of people, but the substance of it, it's not controversial. This is clearly all on you. And I agree with what Ben said that,
This is to the to the people, especially on the right. Again, there are some on the right who are saying, well, I believe in enforcing immigration law, but I don't like the way this is happening. Well, there is no way to do it. That won't be ugly because it's easy enough to say, let's let's enforce our immigration laws. But the problem is we have millions of people here. illegally.
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts view the current state of the Oscars?
Leave your guns at home. Look, you can take your guns to town, but if you are going to obstruct law enforcement, you're going to put yourself intentionally in a very provocative situation where you will be committing crimes. Probably not the best idea to roll up with your cig in two magazines. By the way, his parents were interviewed by CBS News, a generally liberal news outlet,
And they made the point, probably they shouldn't have admitted this, that he was not a regular carrier of guns. You know, he had his CCW, but this was a guy who never took his gun out, really. And all of a sudden, he rolls up there with a weapon that has a hair trigger.
The New York Post has reported that he had a broken rib from his last conflict with ICE agents. So he was already out there getting into violent scuffles.
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Foot off out the door, yeah.
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Chapter 7: What are the major Oscar-nominated films discussed?
Those officers are given the power to make arrests of US citizens who are trying to get in the way of their own arrests of illegal immigrants. And then, of course, you know, they're not put into immigration detention. They're handed off to people like the U.S. Marshals and the U.S. attorney prosecutes them.
So, yes, they have the authority to do this and they are making arrests of people who are openly getting in their way.
You know, Jenny, what do you think is the even riding along with the ice officers? And what is the morale like given the situation? And what are their thoughts on ice leadership? Because obviously, we've seen some turmoil inside ice leadership or patrol leadership.
The president has deployed Tom Homan to Minneapolis, it seems that he is moving Greg Bovino, at least out of the out of this realm, you know, to another area of the country. What are people feeling down on the ground there?
Right. So I think this was perfectly, you know, came to light when I had Border Patrol agents messaging me yesterday, some of my sources saying that they're happy that some of them are getting to leave because this has been really hard for them to go through, to be in these environments where
They're not only just having to assess the threats that are present when you're making an arrest already, but now there's this added threat of outside organized agitators who are communicating on radios or 3D printing whistles. I mean, I saw some of that, too, that they're handing out to try to obstruct these arrests. So they're happy to see a change. And that change has been that
The Trump administration has taken figures like Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino out of Minneapolis and had sent him back to the border. He's been relieved of his duties as the commander of at large operations. He was the face of these aggressive immigration operations in cities like New Orleans, now Minneapolis. He was in Chicago.
And he was representing Border Patrol, which Border Patrol has a role in immigration enforcement. Traditionally, it's been along the border in border towns. They're not used to operating in these urban environments and they're more indiscriminate.
They were brought in when Secretary Noem, according to sources and her close aide, Corey Lewandowski, decided that the operations should focus more on numbers, that they should have more
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Chapter 8: What criticisms are made about recent films and their themes?
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I want to hear about what this change in strategy means from the red-blue political level. Is this a win for Trump? Is this a loss for Trump? Did Walsh get something? But before we talk about the present, Mr. Walsh, I want you to tell us about the past.
Yeah, we have a new show that I'm really excited. I'm obviously very excited about, you know, it's called Real History. So we just debuted last week, the first episode of this series where we just look at historical episodes that are much, much talked about, but not talked about honestly, especially by the school system and the media and all of our institutions.
And first episode, we talked about slavery, giving the... the real kind of history of slavery, the real context for it, and what slavery in America looked like as opposed to other parts of the world. And we've just filmed a couple other episodes as well that I'm even more excited about, and that might prove to be even more controversial, which I think is great. So stay tuned for all that.
Can we just jump right back to the subject at hand? Because you asked about... is it a political win for Trump? I think that for sure, and this cannot be stressed enough, it is a massive, massive, massive loss and failure if Trump scales back at all in the slightest bit in response to what's happening in Minneapolis.
I don't think it's exaggerating to say if he does that, it's the end of his presidency. It could very well be the end of any hopes for Republicans even in the next presidential election. What message does that send? The only message that sends to the left is like, okay, well, Here is the formula.
If we don't want actual deportations, mass deportations, if ICE shows up in your city and you think they're doing too much, well, just get all your buddies together, get out there in the street, start rioting, cause chaos. Yeah, bring your gun with you, go out there and sabotage, and that's the way to get what you want.
We saw what happened in 2020 when the left was just allowed to basically run roughshod over the entire country. That's exactly what they did for months. And many people died and billions of dollars of damage. And that's all that we are ensuring. And also keep in mind that as many other people have pointed out, it's the wintertime right now.
And so one of the reasons why this hasn't completely exploded like powder keg style the way that it did in 2020, I think is that it's because of the weather. And as we get into the summer months and it gets warmer, if Trump doesn't clamp down on this, and that means not only keeping up the deportations, keep ICE, keep doing what you're doing, but also we need mass deportations.
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