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🚨LATEST NEWS IN AMERICA
Recorded: Dec. 27, 2023 Duration: 3:11:34Space Recording
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Thank you so much for watching.
The, uh, I'll go out on a limb and I'll say it, the best news source on X. 100%.
The best news source on X. It's his birthday.
Who's killing my ears?
What's that, Waldo?
I said, who's killing my ears, man?
What the fuck?
Well, that's Marjorie on the soundboard.
That's Marjorie on the soundboard.
Goddamn.
Marjorie's fantastic with the, uh, with the, uh, the breaking news sounds.
All credit to Marjorie on the soundboard.
Uh, shout out Roz Alerts, best news source on X.
I'd definitely give him a follow if you haven't yet.
And if you haven't yet, I also send them a DM saying, Hey, happy birthday, Roz Alerts.
Roz Alerts.
Birthdays are always a nice time of year.
Roz Alerts, go ahead.
What do you want to say to the crowd?
Yeah, no, uh, thank you.
That really means a lot.
Um, almost 30, sheesh, but, um, yeah, just unboxed a brand new MacBook Pro, spent over
$7,000, but hey, that's all for Macs, so I'm pretty happy.
You spent $7,000 on a laptop?
Yeah, um, well, it's the new MacBook Pro.
What the hell did you get for $7,000?
Um, 8 terabytes with 126 gigabytes of RAM and 40 GPU or something like that.
Like, just went all out on it since I do, like, a lot of extreme editing and everything
on my old laptop, which is overheating, so this is definitely gonna come in handy, so.
Did you invite a lot of birds to your birthday party today?
Uh, I send an invitation out, but so far I haven't seen any pigeons yet.
What kind of pigeons did you invite, like, what kind of birds?
Like, is it only pigeons only, or eagles, or, like, what are we talking here, though?
Uh, pigeons, morning doves, probably about it.
Listen, the only reason, the only reason Waldo, the only reason Waldo wants to know that is
because he wants to get invited to your party, Roz.
He's gonna dress up as a pigeon, so just be careful about that.
Um, if you really want Waldo there, you'll never see him, uh, you'll never see him because
he'll be dressed as a pig.
So where is Waldo, it becomes a realistic thing.
Like, 128 gigabytes of RAM, holy shit, man, you're gonna be able to run every computational
operation of the entire world all at once on that computer.
Well, this is definitely gonna help the Roz alerts page up, so I can work on better graphics
and everything, uh, do more renderings and everything with 3D stuff and everything, so
that'll definitely help out the page a lot.
I was about to say, just think about what he could have gotten now if he spent that $7,000
on a Windows PC.
Like, for 128 gigabytes of RAM on a Mac?
Like, good lord, you could have got a terabyte of RAM on a Windows PC.
Oh, it's 8 terabytes for the whole storage and then 124 or something like that for, like,
RAMs, something like that.
But I'll say this, Malcolm, I'm, I'm, you might be able to, I don't care if you get a
10 billion terabytes RAM on a Windows PC, I got both a PC and a Mac.
The Mac is just so much better to use in every single way possible, my man.
Plus, I've been an Apple user for years and, like, since the beginning, so it's kind of
hard to switch to Windows.
I do agree, I wish there was a lot more applications that go to Mac, but you just have to get, like,
a Windows machine on your Mac, so it doesn't really bother me that much.
All of this is fair.
Roz, you just had money burning a hole in your pocket, didn't you?
You just couldn't wait to spend those ad rev checks.
You're like, it's my birthday, I'm going big, baby.
I mean, I spent $10,000 on my New Mexico trip, I bought, like, a whole brand new camera setup,
a whole Star Tracker thing, I'm a big photographer and everything, so if you happen to follow my
other page, CamRolls, I highly recommend, since I'll be posting photos, since I can finally
edit now.
But, yeah, the whole ad thing has been amazing, so.
Wait, what did you spend $10,000 on?
The trip to New Mexico for the annular solar eclipse thing, and new camera equipment, and
then, um, for, like, flights and hotels and everything like that.
Are you sure you didn't buy that camera for your OnlyFans account?
You went high air ballooning, too, right, Roz?
I mean, I didn't go hot air ballooning, they were, you have to book that in advance, but
probably next year I'll definitely go, but I'm already planning for the total solar eclipse,
which is happening in April 8th.
So that's.
So what did you buy?
Uh, flights, hotels, and lots of, uh, camera equipment.
Gotcha.
I, uh, this is a very serious space about potentially the most serious, uh, news item of the last
20 years, uh, but I want to actually sit on this for a second.
I hate my PC so much.
Every time I plug in headphones or change the input or change the audio output, it just never
works correctly.
It just doesn't.
I have to manually go into every piece of software on my computer and manually change.
When I go on my MacBook and I plug in my headphones or I turn on the AirPods, everything just knows
to switch to those, those headphones.
Everything knows to switch to, uh, it's the most, like, I, I'll pay 5,000 extra dollars to have
that experience.
PC just never gets it intuitively.
It's like the wild garden approach, man.
I mean, this is, uh, you know, we can arguably say this is why commons, China, all the trains
run on time there.
Right.
You know, they just keep it optimized for, and keep everything sort of locked out unless
you get special dispensation and approval.
Yeah.
But at the same time, it's like, do you need special approval just to like automatically switch
the inputs or outputs to a different headphone when I plug in a different headphone?
Like, are we talking about 22nd century technology here?
Like why can't, when I turn on my wireless headphones, why can't the PC just switch all
outputs to the wireless headphones?
Oh man, Alex, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna fight this war with you today.
I will concede to you, but I just like customizing.
I like feeling like I own my tech rather than my tech sort of, you know, taps me on the wrist
whenever I want to do something custom.
Like, oh, no, no, bad.
Sorry.
I like mine to work, you know, I feel like a Windows machine.
Wow.
Oh, shots fired.
He wants his PC to work.
You guys are, you guys are on some sea spots, man.
Like y'all have got the use protection when you're, you know, when you're sort of getting
down in dirt here.
Hey, my PC runs like a charm.
Real quick, just shout out to Malcolm.
Malcolm's come to my last few spaces, was excellent to talk with.
So I shot in the DM, I said, hey, would you be down to co-host sometime?
That's, that's the, the power.
Go to space, have some good conversation.
You make connections, you make friends.
And now I consider him a buddy of mine.
So everyone, you know, that's the power going to spaces and just saying hello.
Hey, Alex, Alex, can I call us for your next space?
Uh, don't call me.
I'll call you.
I bet.
Gotcha.
Your people, your people reach out to his people, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll be in contact.
Just, uh, keep the, keep the phone on standby.
You should be hearing something at some point, but, uh, don't reach out ever again.
I'm going to, I'm going to wait so close by my phone.
You have no idea.
Oh, something a dream.
I host the subscription spaces.
Sorry, Malcolm.
Go ahead.
No, no, no.
Continue.
Trust me.
I'm just here.
I'm, I'm ASMR at this point.
I mean, you do have a beautiful voice.
The most beautiful.
That's another, that, that, that doesn't hurt you when you have a nice deep voice.
It, uh, I feel like it helps you in every area of life.
Like I was born with the opposite.
I was born like with a really annoying voice and that's just been like a headwind of mine.
I've had to make up for it.
And like charisma, the last 33 years of my life, when you got a voice like Malcolm that's just deep and sultry, like you just got that tailwind going at all times, which always helps.
So props to you, Malcolm.
Malcolm, I have a question.
I like your voice, Alex.
You do?
Really?
Here's the issue is I, I was one of those kids in elementary school who I, I have like intense ADHD.
And like when the, the recess bell rang, I run outside and I would just at the top of my lungs yell as loud as I possibly could for the entire half hour.
And now my voice is just like permanently kind of raspy, um, because of that.
And so it's just, you know, don't yell at the top of your lungs for the first 12 years of your life every single day.
But your voice is very powerful.
That's because I yell.
That's because I'm used to yelling every time I talk.
Malcolm, have you ever thought about doing like voice acting for like movie trailers or like a radio host or stuff like that?
In a world where people need voice actors and movie hosts, one man applies for the job yet does not get a call.
Do the jobs exist?
Or is he just bad?
We don't know.
Tune in next time.
One thing about your voice is it's clear and articulate too, but it's just, you know, I think you could do it for NBC Nightly News.
All right, Alex, change the title to discovering and unlocking the mysteries of Malcolm's voice.
This is how it's going to be for the next, uh, let's see.
I like that.
No, don't do it.
The more we hear your voice, the more, I just feel like the more you talk and people hear your voice, the more the room will grow.
The more I talk and more people hear my voice, the room will shrink.
So I'm fine with this being all about your voice.
Um, let's, uh, let's do the most important story right now in 2023.
The most important story right now in 2023.
Listen, if you've never been to my space before, this is how it works.
We start the space off with a topic.
If it's interesting, we talk about it till it's not interesting anymore.
Then we pivot.
Um, so right now what's going on in the world that I find mildly interesting that I want to get people's, I, uh, thoughts on is right now there's protests shutting down LAX.
There's people out front of LAX shutting it down.
It's obviously Palestine, Israel.
I'm not having you come up here to give your take on Palestine versus Israel.
That's a war that'll go on.
Uh, space is verbal war that will go on forever.
Probably a real life war that'll go on forever too.
Uh, this is more around, I'm curious, people's thoughts and, and ideas around protesting, uh, if this is appropriate or not shutting down an airport.
Uh, you know, if you feel very strongly about something, maybe it is appropriate to do.
I'm not sure.
I want to get people's ideas and thoughts.
Uh, what are they thinking about it?
Are they blocking traffic?
Are they blocking traffic?
Is that like why it's shut down?
What's going on?
Um, they're blocking the entrance.
So people can't even get to the inside of LAX.
If I, if I had an important trip right now and there were protesters blocking the way, I would be so pissed.
I mean, I get it.
I'm sure that these people feel very strongly about whatever it is, uh, whichever side of the protests they're on.
And, and, and I, and I respect their right to protest and I respect their right to have a strong opinion, but get out of the way, man.
I got business to do.
Like, that's not cool.
What did I, what do I have to do with your protests?
Get out my way.
That's my opinion.
Yeah.
Shouldn't they like choose like government buildings or public square or something?
Like what if there's an emergency or whatever?
Like you can't block, you can't block it, man.
It's just not right.
Yeah.
I was going to say the same thing.
I mean, if you're protesting for this cause, go down to Washington, go down to Pennsylvania Avenue or your state capital, but it just reinforces that this Israel Hamas, uh, conflict is going to be, uh, in 2024.
I, I'm just going to throw, I try when I'm the moderator of conversation to be as, uh, unbiased as possible.
Politically, I try not to share my political opinions.
Um, so what I'm about to say is not political at all.
I just, for the record, I consider myself a radical centrist.
I'm right down the middle on, I shared, I, I, I'm an independent.
I share, I, I have, uh, opinions that fall on both the left and the right.
Uh, I do find it interesting that in the political sphere of X, a lot of the people that were for the trucking protests in Canada are against the blocking protests in front of this airport.
The, it's interesting over the years to watch the, the sway of politics in the world, right?
You know, in the, the early two thousands, some would argue the right was a little bit more pro war and now people probably in what's the year about to be 2024.
Some would argue the left is a little bit more pro war.
It's very interesting to watch how the, the political opinions of the sides shift in sway where I don't know what causes it.
I don't know what determines the, the group think to happen, but it's interesting to watch, uh, the way sides fall along, uh, of pro protest, anti protest, pro war, anti war.
I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on that as well.
Let's delete both political parties and force people to think about each issue independently.
That's my point of view.
Yeah.
Um, I'm definitely in favor of just doing the control X and forgetting to control P it like at this point.
But, uh, no, um, you know, when I was about to say just to a business call, but not important, but I know, I know, but no, I'm, I'm just asking though, do you end up tipping your Uber driver more?
If you tell them, Hey, ran through that cavalcade of protesters, um, you know, again, not, not advice, not application there.
I'm, I'm doing none of that.
Trust me.
We're not having that bad Malcolm.
Don't do that.
Um, but the question I really have is what if this is just an op to make people hate Palestine, people who don't really care about it, you know, average person.
It's like Penny said, maybe if, uh, maybe, uh, you got somewhere to be and all of a sudden, you know, Oh, Hey, these people are waving the Palestine flag talking about from, uh, you know, from a river to sea or whatever the chant is.
And they're pro Palestine.
Now they're blocking your traffic.
Now you all of a sudden hate them.
What if that's the case?
Does anybody think that kicking over to the room?
It's not even safe.
It's not even safe for me to hate the protesters because somebody might be pulling a psyop on me and it's actually the other, the other team I should be hating.
This is horrible.
What world do we live in, man?
I don't want it.
This is America and this is how it operates.
Doesn't it?
Does nobody else think like this to me?
Like I always think about that.
No, you're right.
You're right.
I also thought about it, but I didn't want to say it because, you know, I don't want to go all the way in conspiracy land, but, you know, it's a fact.
It does happen, right?
So we have to consider the possibility.
And I do think that, you know, this will damage them.
Like this reaction will damage them no matter what, because you are blocking traffic.
You are blocking people from traveling.
And unfortunately, it's always the common people who get, you know, the end of the stick.
So it really sucks.
Yeah.
But I did.
I did think that way, Malcolm.
Would you say then overall, Malcolm, would you say these protests are more damaging for the cause than it is?
Oh, by and large.
So look, I'm I'm friends with a lot of extremely pro-Palestinian people, personal friends with them, actually.
And I'm also friends with a lot of pro-Israel people.
And one of the things that you can always see is that when the sides tend to agree, that means that, OK, this is, you know, sort of the overt failure of optics.
And right now I've got a lot of pro-Palestine people saying, like, dude, like, why the F are you doing this?
You know, like, come on, this helps nobody.
Like, you guys are attacking Christmas.
What the heck?
I love Israel now.
And it's like, that's those are the vibes.
But, you know, again, I'm I'm more than happy to get other people's stakes on this.
Yeah, it's not about it.
Yeah, I was going to say it's not about Israel or, you know, Palestinians.
It's about, you know, everyday Americans trying to get through the airport without, you know, being squatted by these people.
And they're and they're stupid people blocking the entrance while people are trying to get to the airport to get back from their Christmas vacation or their New Year's celebrations.
So that's not the way to go.
And it's not going to be people to support your cause.
You're making an assumption, though, that Malcolm's wrong here and that these are definitely people that are stupid, right?
Like, they may be smarter than we think.
The idea that they're protesting Christmas and blocking an airport, like, maybe they are that dumb.
But also, maybe it is, you know, a PSYOP.
I don't know, man.
It must be a PSYOP.
I mean, everybody in this room probably understands that blocking that road, you are, you know, stopping other people from reaching their destination.
You understand that.
Any anybody with a brain knows that, right?
So in my opinion, nobody's that stupid.
It must be it must have been planned for some reason.
I don't know what you think.
Or they want to – I mean, it could be that they want to piss us off, right?
Like, any – all press is good press.
Yeah, but why?
It's – to take the other side here real quick, though, you know, if protests didn't bother anybody, if protests didn't get any notice, right?
If the protest took place on a desert island in Antarctica and no one knew what was happening and it didn't inconvenience anyone, then no one would know about the cause and the cause wouldn't have any impact, right?
So isn't that kind of the point of protests is to piss people off to a point?
You want to get attention, but it doesn't have to be pissing people off, right?
Like, you could shoot off fireworks or do a big parade or, like, you know, there's different ways where it's planned with the city, right?
You can protest and get attention.
Do a telethon on your favorite channel.
I mean, I don't know.
Whatever.
Run an ad in the newspaper.
But don't block – like, I got plans, man.
I planned ahead.
I work hard.
I got something I got to do.
You don't know how important it is to me, and now you're going to block me.
Don't mess with Penny's Penny, man.
No, don't do it, man.
Well, the reason why parades –
Don't mess with Penny.
The reason why parades and fireworks work, though, is parades slow down traffic significantly and fireworks are fucking annoying and make you turn your head and go, what the fuck is that?
Unless it's July 4th and they're awesome, right?
So the reason why protests work is they inconvenience you in some sort of – they distract you in some sort of way.
And, yes – and, again, this is me just kind of playing the opposite side here.
But the reason why protests work – the reason why this protest is working, look, we're doing this space.
We have hundreds of people in here talking about Palestine now, right?
You go on X.
Raw's Alerts tweets out, breaking LAPD and riot gear as pro-Palestinian protesters have blocked the entrance.
4.5 thousand likes in the first hour.
Half a million views in the first hour.
2.4 thousand retweets in the first hour.
Now people are talking about it.
If these protesters were in an island in Antarctica on top of an iceberg, I guarantee Raw's Alerts wouldn't be tweeting about it at all.
No one would be talking about it.
No one would be caring, right?
But now everyone's talking about it.
Thank you, Right Angle News.
Thank you, Right Angle News, for pinning that.
Continue.
Yeah, and look at what happened a day ago when pro-Palestine protesters were fighting with the cops.
That people – that exploded.
Over 20,000 likes.
Over 5.3 million views.
Over 8,000 retweets.
Over 5,000 comments.
So people are really watching this now.
And this all started from the – where pro-Palestine protesters blocked the entrance at the JF airport this morning.
So it's now happening to LAX.
So it's – people are going to get pissed off.
Well, my question is, and this is something I definitely have to ask you, Ross, because you've seen more than enough protests on things.
Do you think these people just don't have the information to know that, you know, protesting is all well and good.
But, you know, if you do a protest that – you know, it gets people talking, necessarily.
And, you know, in the attention economy, the more attention you have, the richer you are.
But, you know, if the conversation is on hating you, doesn't that kind of delegitimize your cause?
Like, do you think these people know that?
Or is this just sort of a tactical error?
Or that brings it back to, is this a psyop?
Because we've seen Israel has been losing the information war for, you know, the past few months, which is – that's unheard of, to be honest.
So I can't expect or believe that, you know, one side that's been putting out all the right things suddenly forgets what the heck they're doing, right?
Yeah, no, I agree.
I mean, if – I mean, I'm all free for protests if you're going to – but if you're going to block traffic and just cause people to get angry, the one thing I'm worried about is someone is going to get super pissed.
There's lots of road rage happening across the U.S.
So one person is going to get super pissed off and then is going to start shooting.
So then everyone's going to say, oh, yeah, oh, he was a white nationalist.
Oh, this was a whole different person.
He was a right-winger or whatever.
And then it's just going to be chaotic, so.
The stuff – the issue here is that everything becomes a PSYOP to a point, right?
One person acts out.
All of a sudden, they're a white nationalist.
The other side is protesting.
Okay, there's – this is real behind them.
And it's easy to kind of go in the PSYOP on a PSYOP on a PSYOP point, which, again, listen, a lot of this might be a PSYOP, especially, you know, with AI and content and being so easy to produce content nowadays with the election coming up.
There's going to be so much PSYOP content that's going to come out on X from AI that's just producing these mass events.
Go ahead, Penny.
Yeah, if we're willing to, like, shoot missiles at each other, right, you don't think we're going to run PSYOPs?
Like, they're going to use every weapon that they can.
And social media is a big weapon and protest is a big weapon.
And you would think, you know, if you don't think about it much, that they would only use protests in the obvious way.
But flipping the script and running PSYOPs, like, any strategist is going to think of that.
And I'd be shocked if there's not at least some of that going on, right?
Like, why wouldn't you use that tool if you're trying to win a war and it's available?
And it's, like, it's sneaky, right?
It makes all the sense to me.
So are you saying that they're taking advantage of the fact that most people read headlines and don't have attention spans to trick us into supporting something or being against something?
The media would never do that.
They would never.
The government would never.
I can't imagine such things.
Real quick, I want to get you guys.
We have a lot of requests to come up.
I'm going to start rotating shortly and bringing people up.
If you want to add something, feel free to request to come up.
Also, feel free to comment on the space as well, your opinion.
Do you believe this protest that's blocking the airport, is that a good or bad thing?
Does that take you away from the cause?
Would this cause you, if you are in traffic, to support the side more, do that?
And also, feel free to repost the space.
At the moment, we're at seven reposts.
If we get to 50, I'll fly out to LAX right now and report live from LAX.
So we're at seven now.
Feel free to share out the conversation, share out the space so we can get more opinions.
I want to, the beauty about spaces is that you can hear from every side.
It's not just one side talking.
Like, if you go on Fox News or CNN, it's all just one side giving you their opinions.
The beauty of space here, you get a lot of different perspectives.
So if you got different perspectives, if you think we're fucking idiots, feel free to come up, request, and fight against us.
I want to throw it to some people who had their hand raised, who were very respectful.
Terrain Walker, you're up here.
What are your thoughts?
Do you think this protest is helping or hurting the cause?
I think the first thing is that people got to figure out exactly what the cause is.
And I'm speaking to somebody who has been on the ground for a lot of protests over the last four or five years.
I agree with what the other person spoke.
I think it was Penny who said that, you know, if you, a protest is supposed to disrupt your daily life.
But I think we also have to understand that the average person's politics really, very rarely extends outside of their front lawn.
And you can inconvenience people.
But once you've inconvenienced people and you've got their attention, you've got to be able to inform the people who you've inconvenienced, whether they're pissed off or whether they support you or not.
And I'm just going to sit back and see if they, if whoever's running this protest has any sort of list of things that they want to see done outside of just creating a disturbance.
Because I've seen this before where you get a lot of attention, you get a lot of media attention.
And then when it's time to like go to the press and say, this is what we hear about, nothing really happens.
Or you end up with people painting lines in the street and dancing and doing electrics live.
I don't think I'll make some assumptions. I'll make some assumptions. Their signs read ceasefire.
Do you think that is enough of a request for action?
It's a no, but I think it's a request. It gives you an understanding, but that doesn't tell me what side they're talking about.
Are they in favor of the IDF? Are they in favor of Palestine?
When you say ceasefire, what does that mean? Because that's a very it's a it's a definite term.
But what do you feel that it term in with what you want to see done?
How do you see that happening? What's the ceasefire process?
Is it a drawdown? Is it a rebuild? Is it bringing in like aid to Palestine?
Is it bringing in going back to the 1948 borders? That's what I mean.
What is the plan after you have a ceasefire? You see what I mean?
Yeah. Yeah. And I want to take it. I want to take it from there to, you know, first off, good to have you in here, Brother Terrain.
Again, I do a lot of work with Terrain Walker. He's a digital storyteller, a journalist, you know, works on a lot of works on a lot of stories and a lot of just tales that happen, you know, more on the granular side, you know,
especially in the black community. So, number one, again, welcome to the space, my brother.
Number two, you know, I think that's the question we have to ask.
Do these people have an adequate redress of grievances? Because, you know, a lot of people have been calling for the ceasefire.
Even the U.N. has been calling for the ceasefire. You know, America and to a smaller extent, UK and Israel have been standing by themselves in this.
So, do we think that they're asking for something realistic?
Well, how do you – go ahead, Terrain.
I will say this. I think, like somebody else said as well, we're in the middle of seeing something that has never happened before when it comes to media storytelling.
You have people, and I'm talking about the Palestinians, with almost no media infrastructure.
But regardless of however you fall on the side of wherever this conflict goes back to, the fact that they've been able to get their story and get the majority of the world to be empathetic to their plight and be sympathetic to their story is phenomenal.
That's amazing in itself. And if you had that much attention and if you had the world's attention in that way, then it's on you.
The game is really yours to lose. You can come and say this is what the situation is.
This is the history. This is the backstory. And I'm giving you all that because I believe in context, but I'm saying that if you don't have this opportunity and take this a moment to be able to move the public into a place where you say you have some hard, concrete things you want to see done, then it's on you, if that makes sense.
Well, I'm curious. We got Roz Alerts on stage, who's one of the best citizen journalists on X.
Roz, I don't know if you know this, if you have this information or not, but do you know exactly what their demands are?
Are they demanding just a straight up ceasefire? Is there any other demands other than them blocking and yelling ceasefire?
I think pro-Palestine protesters are demanding Israel to stop firing missiles and destroying their city and town.
But breaking for news, he knows a lot more about the protests and everything.
So if you could bring him up on stage, then he would not be good for that.
What is the tag?
Breaking for news.
Are they, they're in the space right now?
Yeah, they're listening.
Breaking for, if you can request to come up, there's 500 people in here.
I'm struggling to find you.
I'm scanning.
That'd be perfect.
Perfect.
I'm on PC, so it's a little different.
You know, we're second class citizens on the X hierarchy, unfortunately, next to Android users.
So we got him up.
Good.
Breaking for news, first of all.
Happy to follow you.
Happy to, nice to meet you.
Do you have details on the demands of the protesters?
So thank you for having me.
And thank you, Roz, for bringing me up.
If you are looking at just the particular incident at LAX and not the protests we've been seeing since the October 7th attack, you'll see that they pretty much blockaded the road temporarily.
And LAPD had to come in with riot gear and make several arrests.
We don't have those exact figures yet.
It's too early to tell.
But the demands typically fall under the category of ceasefire now, which indicates that they want Israel to put down their weapons, even though there's been no statement from Hamas that they would do the same, which Israel would not do offensively.
They wouldn't put down their weapons if they would continue to be attacked if they would continue to be attacked.
Now, Israel is also facing a multi-front war.
Currently, Hezbollah in the north has gotten involved.
And the situation in the Red Sea with the Houthi rebels and other Iranian-backed proxies is making the situation much more dangerous and could escalate further.
The protests here in New York, where I am, also in places like Washington, D.C., have been alongside and met with some anti-Semitism, some of the phrases that are being said.
But as we discussed in a space earlier this week, it's important to differentiate that here in the United States, hate speech is actually protected by the First Amendment.
So everything that they're saying, as long as it's not directly threatening an individual at that very moment, is protected.
And they should be allowed to continue what they're doing, regardless of how we would feel personally.
So is there any give to this get from the protesters, as in, right now, Hamas still has hostages?
Is there, is the ask purely to just stop, just get the ceasefire?
Are they saying, hey, can we release hostages and we'll do the ceasefire?
Is there any meeting in the middle here?
Is it purely just ceasefire?
So at this point, it's purely ceasefire.
And we've actually seen several attempts to renegotiate additional deals for hostages in exchange for terrorists imprisoned by Israel.
And those negotiations have been turned down by Hamas, not Israel.
Israel's willing to continue those temporary pauses in the fighting, which doesn't benefit them militarily,
because Hamas uses that time to re-up and re-activate all their military personnel and equipment that they need.
You see, they're still 80-plus days into this war able to fire, fire, excuse me,
those long-range rockets at places like Tel Aviv and places that are not within the Gaza envelope.
So I would say that right now they're calling for a general ceasefire.
It would coincide with, I mean, I'm trying to find a way to explain this objectively.
There are a lot of people who participate in these protests who we've seen throughout the years also participating in things like requests for climate action
and declaration of a climate emergency or the 2020 BLM protests and riots that took place there.
So it's a consistent theme that we're seeing mostly from the left.
There's, of course, people on the far right who are also taking Hamas aside or are anti-Semitic in some way.
But what we're seeing today specifically, both at JFK International Airport and in front of LAX,
is the attempt to disrupt people's day-to-day lives in a big way, right?
Missing flights or having to be rebooked on a later flight if they miss it in an effort to kind of raise awareness for their cause.
Interesting. Thank you for that information. Malcolm, what do you got?
Got a quick piece of information because it also came out that the USS Kearney actually stationed over there by Israel
shot down about 12 drones and five missiles that were actually fired by the Houthi rebels.
Now, they weren't fired at the USS Kearney, but they were actually fired at Israel.
So we were actually intercepting it on behalf of Israel.
So the question is, especially with our involvement seemingly coming at a much higher tip than it was initially at the beginning,
are we getting to a point where people are going to start looking at a ceasefire with a little bit more favorability?
Maybe because, you know, just the prospect of possibly being dragged into a war.
Like, what's the take on that?
Oh, let me throw it to, I'd be curious, your thoughts, live Storm Chaser.
Let me throw it to you.
Hey, Alex, I appreciate you having me up.
Look, you know, I'm all for, you know, protests and supporting, you know, what inspires, you know,
for your voice to be heard.
But, you know, I've worked about 10 years in the airline industry as a gate agent, along with working as a ramp guy.
And, you know, while working there at the airport, you know, I would see, you know,
the law enforcement issue tickets, you know, for those who are temporarily parked or waiting or drop off,
you know, of loved ones, but we allow blocking of roadways to the, you know, in and out of, you know, airports.
And, you know, the frustration likely is there because the delays quickly stack up,
especially when you're dealing with an international airport.
You know, LAX is an extremely busy airport.
And so you have to look at rebooking.
So I think in this case, for airport travelers and those at the airport who have to deal with angry passengers
because they've now missed their flight or a missing connection,
I don't think it gives a positive feedback in what they're trying to convey.
Now, whether this is a psyop, I'm more or less speaking from, you know, as an ex-airport employee.
And I can assure you that those at LAX were definitely feeling frustrated.
Interesting.
Yeah, if anyone has evidence of psyop, right, it seems like there was evidence of people infiltrating January 6th
and a couple other protests.
Was there evidence of psyop and infiltration when it came to the BLM protests?
Because I know, as Breaking just said, Breaking 4 News, that there is a lot of overlap between those protesters as well.
If anyone has that, feel free to request to come up.
Terrain, I'm going to throw it back to you, though.
Yeah, I can definitely speak on that.
Can you give me that question again just so I can have the proper framing?
Yeah.
Feel free to also just give your general opinion.
But when it comes to the psyop hypothesis, is there any evidence of this at all?
Because I know there was – there's a lot of overlap between the protesters for this cause and BLM and the climate change
and a lot of other protests we've seen recently, and a lot of people said there's infiltrators in those protests as well.
I wonder if there's any sort of evidence around that for here.
Well, I don't have any evidence that that's happening, but what I can say is this.
And in the interest of full disclosure, I was on the ground reporting and doing –
and reporting from a lot of the protests that were going on, honestly, from 2014 up until 2020.
I think what happened was – what happens is you have a moment.
You have something that galvanizes public attention, whether it's the young black male killed by the police that outrages everybody
and then you have an organic movement of people either out into the streets
or it becomes a real thing where people – the public becomes aware of it, so you get a mass movement going.
Once you get a mass movement going, opportunists show up.
That doesn't matter what your cause is.
Anytime there's a mass movement with a lot of mass media attention,
you're going to have opportunists and it's just going to happen.
Now, sometimes that can be a good thing.
Sometimes that can be a bad thing.
But I can tell you in my experience just watching what happened with some of the protests against black people being killed by the police,
there was an organic real movement that happened and then the infiltrators began to come in.
Now, some of those infiltrators may be government agents.
Some of those people may be some of the opportunists that I spoke to earlier.
I know that's what happened with a lot of the Black Lives Matter organization protests.
It's not the Black Lives Matter movement, but the organization around that.
There were a lot of actors who came into that energy and came into that outrage for their own gain.
And again, like I said, anytime that happens, anytime you have a major world event that's political,
you're going to have these people who show up.
And because people are either really passionate about what they believe in or because they don't have time to really vet people,
that leaves the door open for people to come in and maybe move a movement to go any way they want it to.
That's just the way human nature works.
That's just the way mass politics works.
So anyway, I gave you all that to say I don't have any definite proof of it, but I wouldn't doubt if it is happening right now.
The thing I think is different with this case is that the people who are really focused on Palestinian liberation really don't have a lot of effort.
They've been very good at keeping their movement really laser focused on the goals that they say they want,
whereas with the Black Lives Matter movement, that didn't happen that much.
So I'm waiting. I'm just basically waiting it out to see what happens.
Yeah, it's it's no matter what kind of movement you have now with the way that speed of information can travel,
it's going to be impossible not to have people, bad actors, get into these movements and try to mess things up for everyone.
I'm sure there's almost an every movement from the last several years.
There's been some bad actors and whether it's January 6th or the Black Lives Matter protests or whatever it is,
I wouldn't be surprised. These people throwing tomato soup on paintings are big oil hired by big oil to send them in and piss people off.
Can you I don't know if there's any protest that's pissed people off more over the last years than people throwing tomato soup on paintings.
So I don't know.
Think about Occupy Wall Street. Think about Occupy Wall Street, right?
Occupy Wall Street started as an anonymous rebellion against the banks and the banking system, which is very authentic, very real, very realistic protests.
They started to shut down Wall Street that got usurped by the DNC and the operatives and the organizations within it that then distorted it.
OK, so it no longer was about occupying Wall Street.
It became political example.
Everything that is good, everything good that is created by us will be usurped by the evil powers that run this world.
Count on it.
Count on it.
What didn't they end up occupying?
I forgot all about those protests.
The occupying protests were super annoying.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
They dragged out the noise.
So look, I was anonymous, right?
So I mean, I didn't unmask until like, I guess, early 2018.
But I had created, I mean, hundreds and thousands of anonymous videos and texts and things.
And I had gone into things and I was an executive at Microsoft.
I was doing this and watching this take place.
Occupy Wall Street was about addressing what I had always spoken of, which was the evil that basically what made the United States the whore of Babylon, which was the dollar system, the federal banking reserve system associated with BIS, Bank of International Settlements.
It's all banking.
Everything is banking.
This is all about money.
The entire fucking system is about money.
And once you realize that, now you start to follow that money.
And so when we created Occupy Wall Street to try to shut down their trading of people like BlackRock, Vanguard, to try to slow these people down.
It was usurped by governmental agencies and taken over because they have millions of dollars of marketing dollars, right?
Anons were just us talking to one another.
We were just us talking to each other.
These people had millions and millions of marketing dollars to usurp what we were doing and send in infiltrators, FBI, CIA, shit.
I identified more of these people than I can even imagine.
That's why I live in Mexico today, because I know who these sons of bitches are.
So I want to make sure I understand that correctly because I'm a little ignorant there.
But you said why would agents want to infiltrate Occupy Wall Street?
What advantage would that have there?
What are they getting out of it?
Because they want to curve the message.
So the message is about the banking system.
But they took over Occupy Wall Street to be against politicians.
So they made it political, not banking.
Yeah, kind of a...
Makes sense?
They changed the narrative.
Kind of a progenitor to the same sentiment that gave rise to the crypto space where people really wanted a decentralized system away from central bank.
Like, that was pretty much the fourth part.
And then the central bank comes in.
And then the central bank comes in and provides you the CBDC.
You're going to have all of that.
They're doing all of this.
It's the same shit.
I mean, I don't know why people haven't, like, triggered onto this.
How can you not see what they're doing?
They do it every time.
It's like I'm watching the same movie over and over and over.
And everybody is expecting a different result of the movie.
I'm like, the movie ends the same every time.
Eric, you're in too deep.
God damn it.
You're in too deep.
But no, just to go ahead and latch on to your wavelength, your frequency, I want to ride your wave a little bit there.
Because this is going to be a little bit of my personal opinion.
I know as a co-host, I don't want to expose too much personal opinion.
But here, I'm thinking that when you look at what happened with Ukraine, the right was largely against involvement in Ukraine against Russia.
We didn't want to send our dollars.
We didn't want to send money.
We didn't want any involvement or troops on the ground.
So now you try in something like Israel and, you know, you get a little bit of fracturing with the right because there are some more evangelical fundamentalist types that are, you know, what we can say sort of dispensationalist Christian, you know, sort of that sort of evangelical brand.
So they have this love for Israel, which sort of separates them from the anti-war sentiment that was forming up on the right.
So now you get a lot of people that are sort of cheering for the war.
What happens next is that you then, because you're not getting as much traction as you thought you would by, you know, saying, okay, we're going to be sending money to Israel.
There's still some opposition.
Now you bring in the big bad enemies of the left, you know, these groups that a lot of people know are funded by Soros and a lot of these NGOs and you bring in groups like, you know, the climate revolutionaries and, you know, some of the BLM types or the former people that were involved with BLM that really grifted off of that movement that everybody hates.
And you put them on the Palestine side, you know, it's kind of like the South Park episode.
Remember where the KKK was like, oh, well, we figured out that anybody that we cheer for will, you know, is going to lose.
So let's go ahead and cheer for these guys that we don't like.
So they'll lose.
And, you know, it's kind of that thinking.
And that's where I kind of look at it is that, you know, this just seems like a way to get the right who has largely been anti-war and anti-interventionalist, you know, very populist to suddenly start cheering for the MIC and want more war and want more, you know, war spending.
But what's everybody else's take on that?
Well, yeah, breaking, can I just say this?
So here's my concern about all of this.
OK, so I listened for probably about 20 minutes before I spoke up here.
And Marjorie was, you know, kind enough.
And Alex and everybody in here, Penny, 2X, lots of respect for everyone in here.
Roz, here's my whole thing.
When I come into a space and I listen to things that are espousing what the CIA wants you to espouse about Israel.
OK, I'm I'm the guy.
I was the CEO of an Israeli intelligence firm.
OK, in Iran and Israel.
I am Semitic, Jewish and Askenazi Jew.
So I'm confused like a nun on a honeymoon.
I always say I I know Israelis.
I've had very powerful Israelis on the board of directors of my companies.
I know that country.
I know the agendas.
So here's my only thing is that when we come in and I hear mainstream media talking points about Israel and what Israel is facing.
It shows me that no one that is talking about those things has ever been to Gaza, OK, has ever seen what Gaza is, has ever understood what Gaza is.
So let's just go from there and realize that there is.
And I'm not saying this is not a political statement.
I'm on one side or the other.
I just want to emphasize to everybody that the level of propaganda on all sides is controlled by the same people.
OK, the same people feeding you Palestinian propaganda are the same ones feeding you Israeli propaganda.
They are all the enemy.
They are all your enemy.
These situations are used against us to divide us against one another to to break us.
They're breaking everybody down.
You need to separate yourself.
That's the whole point of Christ's message.
And this is not a religious message at all, because I despise.
Right.
OK, but Christ's message was very Christ's message was very clear.
Separate yourself from the law and the church.
He never castigated anybody that was part of the citizenry.
He only went after the political leaders and the religious leaders because they're the ones that are guilty and manipulating everything before your very eyes right now.
Hold them accountable and stop coming after people that are just trying to live and love and be at peace with one another.
That's my biggest problem right now.
So when I come in and I hear that, don't believe what you hear.
Please do not believe what you hear about Israel.
Don't don't know.
How do you I'd argue that there's a tremendous amount of misinformation, both positive and negative on both sides.
But we're in the middle of equally as much as a ground and air war is an information war.
I have ads on my time.
It's only an information war, bro.
This is not a war.
OK, Hamas is not a military operation.
These people are making caduce of rockets.
They're like glorified fireworks.
But they're you know, they're they're they're they're spoken of like they cause massive destruction.
No, they cause you to be fearful because if one hits you, you'll die.
But if one hits your house and you're not right where you're not going to die.
These things are not like deadly weapons.
These people are defeating the tanks and Israel is suffering great casualties right now in this.
But this is a guerrilla warfare operation.
Make no mistake about it.
This is about a people that are oppressed and they are going against their oppressors, just like you in this country, in the United States.
Well, I'm not in the United States, so I can't say that.
But just like you will go against your country when they oppress you to the point and they will call you terrorists.
They already are.
They've already labeled you as terrorists in the United States.
They've already set the plan.
They've already laid out the plan.
And now they're teaching people to believe that you are terrorists by utilizing people that are oppressed, that are rising up against a radical, radical, fucking crazy, radical regime that has oppressed these people now for 75, 80 years.
And if you don't know any history about it, I suggest you learn a little bit about it because it's not what you think it is.
And these people are not entitled to.
Do they know about Ariel Sharon?
The Bible doesn't entitle anybody to any land anywhere.
I don't give a shit who you read.
Real quick, I want to make one thing clear.
I don't want this to be too much.
It is going to be inherently a very political space because it touches on Israel versus Palestine.
That is, it's impossible for this not to be a politically charged space.
I just don't want the space to boil down to who's right and who's wrong.
I want to keep conversation a little bit more focused on the protests, the impacts of the protests and where we go from here.
I understand it's going to be very hard.
It's a very blurry line between the two.
I just want, I don't want this to devolve into an Israel versus Palestine things.
I can, I can guarantee you this.
There will be, there will be no resolution to that conversation.
There hasn't been resolution.
No, brother.
And I'm not trying to bring it in that way.
I'm just saying in order for us to eliminate that, we also need to realize collectively, all of us, that there is bullshit on all sides.
So let's not come into a space and have a logical conversation about anything unless we can separate ourselves from the propaganda of all sides and be completely non-biased and go, hey, and let's ask questions of it.
Rather than stating it, rather than us, anybody coming here and stating it like it is fact, like it is, because the, yeah, the crazy thing is, is that this dogmatic factual statements of people is ridiculous in these times.
Okay.
So let's not be dogmatic.
Okay.
Now, Derek, real quick.
I want to go ahead and take the opportunity to ask Ross again, just get the situation on the ground because he's, he's been very good with providing us information.
You know, he's got that big fancy MacBook right now.
That's pretty much computing everything at the moment.
So Ross, what are you seeing on your end as far as the protests go?
Have they dissipated or are they picking up?
They mostly likely dissipated, but at least 12 people have been arrested and they're going to be charged with riots.
Riots.
Riots purely for what?
Breaking or blocking the traffic?
Well, they were throwing objects at police officers.
Rocks, spare, um, equipment, uh, cones.
Uh, they were graffitiing and all that kind of stuff.
Well, why does, why does this evolve?
I'm curious.
Is there, are the police trying to move them?
Are the police, what are the police doing in which they're deserving of rocks being thrown?
Or is it just the police are around so they get rocks thrown at them?
Um, they just do that.
They do not like the police.
This is kind of mixed with the Black Lives Matter group and other activists.
The dude, are the, were the police just out of curiosity?
Are they, are, were they trying to move or are they just letting them block the entrance?
Is that like, what is the stance on the law enforcement side on this?
Well, before law enforcement arrived, um, multiple protesters were blocking the LAX entrance.
But when police arrived and that's when, um, protesters and law enforcement started to clash.
And that's when they start to vandalize, um, destroy different things, throwing items, um, rocks, cones, stuff like that.
So they made like a little barrier.
It's kind of like the, um, what was the, um, Portman thing?
Um, the auto zone or something.
Really?
Get in the zone, auto zone?
Yeah.
So they had like.
That's a joke.
Um, I'm reading the, uh, I'm reading the, the comments on the space.
Uh, Sklannan sent a video of protests happening at JFK International Airport.
Uh, he also said some similar actions were done at Chicago or O'Hare.
Is this happening at a lot of different, uh, airports around the country?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah.
This is happening.
A lot of, uh, different airports, LAX, JFK, O'Hare, um, and multiple others.
So, but you see, it seems like they're targeting the most major ones.
It takes a level of coordination to make that happen at four different airports.
Is there precedent of this happening, Roz, for, for, like for, you know, the Black Lives
Matter protests?
Was this happening there too?
Or is this kind of like a new step forward when it, when it comes to protesting?
This is kind of like a new step forward because I haven't seen any other protesters do this
in other countries like UK or anything else.
So this is definitely a new tactic for sure.
Hey, before we move on, before we move on, I want to take an opportunity to send everyone
down to the purple pill in the bottom right.
Hit repost.
We got Roz breaking news here.
Roz is amazing.
And he's, I mean, this is the first airport blockage that Roz has seen.
It's a crazy space.
Love, Alex.
Everyone follow Alex.
Everyone follow Malcolm.
Everyone follow Marge.
Hit the subscribe button on everyone that's got one.
Yeah.
Repost a thousand times.
So that what, what were you going to do today, Alex?
So if we get the repost number up, I'm flying to LAX.
How many reposts are we at?
We're at 36.
If we get to a hundred, I'm flying LAX, staying, keeping on the space the entire time.
And I'm going to, I'm going to join the protest.
I'm going to get in, in the protest.
I'm going to block the streets and I'm going to report live from blocking the streets on
how everything's going.
So we get to, I'll get a, we get to a hundred X sends me a bigger revenue check.
And I use that check to fly to LAX on the spot and get in the protest.
So let's get that going.
Also shout out everyone who's been leaving comments.
We have 124.
We're having good, people don't talk about this enough.
We have good citizen journalism going on in the comments of spaces.
Shout out to, what was their name?
I just scrolled past it.
That talked about New York and Chicago hair is like, oh, Sclannon.
Shout out to Sclannon for sending the video on the JFK protests and the Chicago hair protests.
Thank you for contributing to the conversation in the replies.
I read the replies throughout the entire space.
There's a lot of interesting perspectives in here as well.
Jared 69036156, because I guess Jared 6903615 was taken.
So he had to add the six on the end says, Alex, I think you mentioned a good point.
The purpose of the protests are to be a little disruptive to get the so-called point across.
However, maybe not during holidays.
The protesters are certainly making headlines, as Malcolm rightly pointed out.
But here's the thing, Jared 69036156, is if the point of protests are to be disruptive,
isn't doing it during the holidays work towards that cause even more?
Right.
Doesn't that make it even more disruptive?
It's hard to say the point of protests are to be disruptive and then say, oh, no, don't be disruptive this way, though.
I like what Touraine added to that, right?
Which is if you're going to be disruptive, like be disruptive, but you better have your demands.
What do you want as a result of disrupting all of these people?
It's impossible to get what you want just by disrupting.
You need that second step.
But how do you do that?
Something as complex as a protest like that, where you're out in the streets blocking traffic, you got signs.
How do you give those types of demands?
It's really easy to do.
If you have people who are organizing a protest, it doesn't take that much to be able to create maybe like 10 to 12,
a list of 10 to 12 demands that are specific to whatever location you're in.
It's not that hard.
But the thing I want to mention is, back to Derek's point and also to Malcolm's point,
is something that happens in American society.
And I hate to say this, but it's the truth.
The American public has the attention span of a net.
And a lot of times when these news stories come across people's feeds,
they can only see things from the day that something happens.
It's like everybody's talking about the situation that happened in Gaza with Israel happened on October 7th.
But I'm realizing there's a this what happened on October 7th is tied to a chain of events that goes back to 1948.
That goes back to 1923.
It goes all the way back to the Sykes-Picot Treaty, which put this situation in place in the first place,
all the way back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War One.
And some of the false promises that were given from the British foreign office, of course,
and the French to King Faisal and Prince Faisal, I'm sorry.
Basically, look at the movie Lawrence of Arabia at the end of it.
You'll get what I'm talking about.
And I'm saying all that to say that these things always come in a historical context.
But because people don't really study history, they think things happen the day they happen.
And you have to look at the backstory to any story, any sort of political action that happens to understand what's going on.
And basically to your point, it's not that hard to do.
But all you got to do is you have if you have capable leadership and there's an actual direction to what you're trying to accomplish, it can be done.
But I think a lot of times, sometimes these things happen on the spur of the moment and then things get disorganized.
Or, like I said earlier, a lot of opportunists come in and they can redirect whatever your movement is into whatever channel they want it to happen.
And I don't know that that's going to happen now.
It remains to be seen.
But this is the pattern.
Yeah.
So real quick, because, again, you made some really great points.
And, you know, I definitely think, you know, I agree with you, Brother Trane, on that one, that, you know, there's a lot of history that gets obscured.
But, you know, I want to take a quick second to kick it to breaking.
See, you had your hand up.
So what do you have for us?
Yeah, I just wanted to add that the incident outside of O'Hare International Airport actually occurred over the weekend, even closer to the Christmas holiday.
And what these demonstrations that we've been seeing, their aim is to disrupt.
And they've been doing just that, not only in front of airports, but in trying to interfere with the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting or disrupt holiday shopping.
We know from the NYPD and Mayor Eric Adams that they're expecting potential disruptions or attempted disruptions at the New Year's Eve festivities, as well as New Year's Eve festivities across the country.
Their slogan is Flood X.
Flood the Christmas tree lighting.
Flood New Year's Eve.
Flood the airport.
And the reason for that is because the Hamas October 7th terrorist attack against southern Israel was called the Flood, where they had milling it.
Al-Aqsa Flood.
Correct.
So that's an homage to that.
And that's what we've been seeing play out.
And we've seen two more incidents of these kind of airport blockages today in New York and in Los Angeles.
Yeah, so.
Can I ask a question?
Can I ask a question?
How would they get anybody's attention if they didn't actually disrupt something?
Like, that's the whole point of that, right?
The actual disruption is why it gets the attention they require.
So, of course, they're going to disrupt something.
I mean, why would somebody not disrupt something and want to protest?
Nobody would ever hear about it.
Yeah.
I mean, that's very.
I completely agree.
Go ahead.
No, no, I was about to say, yeah, no, that's I mean, that's pretty much very interesting because it's like, yeah, the point is to make a disruption.
And it's like, you know, there's balance to this, which is balancing the amount of disruption with, again, your redress of grievances that you want to bring to the forefront with also balancing just how angry that you make people.
Because, you know, if any of those things get out of balance, what's going to end up happening is that you're going to have people not only lashing out at your cause, but there's going to be a lot of attention and it's going to go to the opposite direction.
That's the risk.
And so I think that's the risk.
That's always the risk in a protest.
OK, the protest is to disrupt.
Disrupt.
OK, a protest is to piss people off, to bring attention to the statement that you're making.
If you are not disrupting something, you're not protesting.
I don't know what people don't understand about protest.
Protest is, oh, I'm going to go in.
I'm going to stand peacefully in front of the Capitol.
I'm going to say my piece.
Nobody will ever hear it unless you are breaking something up, breaking something down, disrupting, doing something disruptive.
No one will ever hear your words.
So, of course, this is going to escalate.
And if you think it's escalated beyond right now, wait.
Just wait.
Adam was throwing a thumbs down during that while you were talking, Derek.
Adam, you want to unmute and tell us why you were thumbs downing there?
Well, I agree with a lot that Derek says.
I just disagree with, you know, the idea that, you know, protests have to be disruptive.
Why can't they be constructive instead?
Because the people don't listen.
Because your leadership doesn't listen.
Hold on, Derek.
That's it.
Let's get some ideas.
I'll let him finish.
Yeah, yeah.
For sure.
For sure.
For sure.
No, no, no.
I love these ideas.
And I don't want to disrupt you.
I'm sorry for disrupting you and interrupting.
You're so disruptive, Derek.
Why are you protesting?
I apologize.
I apologize.
I get the people going.
Let me not be a protester right now.
I'll refrain from protesting.
Go ahead, brother.
I love you.
God bless you, bro.
Yeah, so in that regard, you know, me as I come from a Muslim Christian background.
I've got Muslim relatives, Christian relatives.
Me, I was raised Muslim.
I found the Bible.
You know, after, you know, just, just I don't read Arabic, so I can't read the Quran.
So, I, you know, I was kind of agnostic theist at that point, and I found the Bible.
I got baptized, you know, I read through it, and now I've just become a person, like, I've
elevated to this person that's not elevated or de-elevated, not to, you know, talk on anybody
with religion, but I'm just a theist in my personal view.
I've taken the teachings of all religions, you know, from the Ten Commandments, so on and
so forth, but regardless of any of that, you know, when I see this, this, during Christmas,
these people interrupting and blocking roads, you know, I don't, I don't agree with it.
It ticks me off, because I have Muslim relatives, and these people that are out there doing this
do not represent them.
These people screaming out, you know, pro-Hamas, pro-Hamas.
No, my, my family is not pro-Hamas, so these people can go, go speak for themselves.
It really ticks me off, you know, I'm, I'm neither pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli.
I'm pro-American, and, you know, I, I, I want peace over there.
I want peaceful solutions, constructive things, but, you know, that's, that's all I'd like
to say there in that regard.
It's just, I see this, and it just ticks me off.
If I get, you know, sentiments and feelings after 9-11, how Muslim people were demonized,
and, you know, I hear a lot of this stuff, and, you know, there's moderate Muslims.
Not everybody's, believes in Sharia law.
That's something by clerics and things like that.
You know, my, my family is very moderate Muslim, you know, in that regard.
So, you know, to see these people coming here, like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, trying
to push Sharia law, which does, is incompatible with our constitution, they could go take that
stuff elsewhere.
It doesn't, it's not compatible with our constitution.
They don't belong here.
Stay in your own country.
One last, one last.
Adam, how do you, though, you're saying you don't like the way they're protesting.
What's a better, what's a better way to, to protest here?
How do they improve this?
How do they do this without being disruptive?
How do you share that message?
That was going to be my last point, is, okay, you have the right to protest, and you have
the right, uh, freedom of speech, right?
But people also have the right to move freely without being obstructed, and they are violating
other people's constitutional rights.
So they're violating other, you know, blocking roads.
Somebody has to get to a hospital, you're blocking their constitutional right to get to
that hospital and get life to you.
That's civilian.
So that's, that's civilian oriented.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's civilian oriented.
Yeah, I know.
So I appreciate that.
Let me just say this.
That's civilian oriented disruption.
Okay.
So civilians disrupting other civilians is very different than your government disrupting
your movements.
Okay.
So these are civilians protesting government on behalf of you.
There is a big difference when the government shuts down shit, and they debank you, and
they make sure you can't go to other places when your government is doing that.
It is very different when citizens are doing that.
Citizens are doing that to bring attention to very egregious crimes.
Just look at who funded, who funded the people that infiltrated Black Lives Matter protests that were mostly peaceful.
The United States government.
And NGOs.
The United States government.
Soros.
The United States government and NGOs.
I don't look at Soros as a Jewish person.
I look at him as a demon.
He's not a religion.
Let me ask you something real quick.
Let me ask you a question.
You said you're a Christian, correct?
No, I'm just a theist at this point in my life.
I went through an evolution.
Which one?
Well, I call my own evolution, you know, my personal evolution.
No, no.
A theist means you believe in some religion, correct?
Yeah, I believe in God.
I believe in God.
I believe in the Ten Commandments.
I believe in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Okay.
I believe in Muhammad and all that stuff.
All right.
Okay.
I do have a moral background, you know.
I got that part.
I got that part.
So, Jesus is a part of your thing, correct?
Not atheist.
Just atheist.
I got that.
I got that.
So, Jesus is a part of your doctrine, correct?
Some of your belief systems?
Well, yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I just need a yes.
I just need a yes.
We died for our sins.
You know, we're not perfect.
We're not human.
I got that.
I got that.
Hold on.
You know, let Bricky go on with this because I think I have a response.
All right.
So, my question is, if you believe, if Jesus is a part of your theism,
you are aware that Jesus was considered a protester and a disruptor at the time that
he lived, if he lived, correct?
Flip the table.
But was he blocking airports, though?
The biggest.
Was he blocking airports?
He was doing more than blocking airports.
No, I'm going to respond to that.
Well, first of all.
He was doing more than blocking airports.
He was blocking the banking system.
Hold on.
He was completely disrupting the whole power structure.
He was disrupting the political power structure.
He was disrupting everything.
Everything.
Political power structure and banking more than it.
Look.
He went in there and overturned the tables of the money changers, for fuck's sake.
Okay?
This guy was destroying the monetary systems.
Copy?
All right.
Let me get my point out, all right?
What I'm saying is this.
For sure.
If I'm, what I'm saying is, if you believe in a, if you believe, if you say you're a theist
and Jesus is a part of that theism, I'm saying if you are basically putting part of your
religion and part of your beliefs in the hands of somebody, if they existed, as I said,
somebody who completely disrupted the political, economic, and social fabric of the time that
he lived in.
So you can't say that protesting should only be when something makes you comfortable.
And you can't say the way somebody protests.
Where do you take the grievances, though?
Did he take them to the citizenry, or did he take them to the bankers and the government?
Did you read the scripture in the Bible where it says he went to the money changers, which
were the banks of that time, and completely destroyed them?
Yeah, and he flipped the tables, yeah.
He went to the...
I'm just saying, no, I'm making this point to say that because some of the things you
say you believe in are tied into things that are tied to historical protests.
That's all I'm saying.
I just wanted to make that point so you can understand that.
All right, real quick, breaking news, breaking foreign news is going to be leaving the next
five to 10.
I want to get one more question to him before he goes.
Breaking foreign news, I'm curious.
So for those who don't know, breaking foreign news is a citizen journalist in New York City.
He's been on the ground for most of the major events that have happened in New York.
He reports closely with Biden, reported closely with Trump, sat behind Hunter Biden during his
plea deal.
He's really on the ground with a lot of stuff going on here.
Breaking foreign news, question for you.
For a lot of these protests that are happening here, what has the police response been like?
Are they letting them do their thing?
Has there been a lot of clashing?
Are the protesters clashing with the police, even though the police aren't doing anything?
What's kind of the dynamic between the police and protesters been?
Sure.
So I think that you have to analyze it in a city-by-city basis, right?
What we saw from the LAPD today, for example, in full riot gear, making arrests swiftly is
something that we haven't been seeing, for example, in New York City.
Obviously, the protesters today in front of JFK were arrested within the hour.
But I'm talking about more of those large protests that kind of march around lower Manhattan
and Midtown that occurs probably biweekly.
So the NYPD has, from what I've heard from them, speaking to them and others, they're
nervous to intervene for two reasons.
Number one, following 2020, they don't have the support from the community that they feel
confident to make these kind of arrests without facing serious backlash and criticism.
What would the arrests be for these protests, right?
They have a right to protest.
They have a right to freedom of speech, including hate speech.
And they also have a right to demonstrate peacefully throughout the city.
What we do see with these protests, and I've seen it firsthand as I cover the protests in
person, is lots of vandalism, sticker placing on businesses, spray painting of public property,
including train stations and bus stations that they've been to.
At one instance in front of the Port Authority bus terminal, they broke the windows of a police
cruiser and spray painted free gauze all over it.
So those kind of crimes have not been, they've not been arresting for those crimes.
And so one reason is, as I just said, they don't feel that they have the support that they
need from the community and maybe from their higher ups who would defend them for making such
arrests.
And number two is they feel that arresting people for these low level violations, vandalism,
graffiti, et cetera, would escalate the situation.
And what we saw just a few days ago at one of these protests where multiple NYPD officers
were actually hurt was it was because of an arrest that they made that riled up the crowd.
And one thing led to another and police officers were assaulted.
So that's something that goes through their head.
Are you saying that police are concerned about having unjustifiable arrests?
No, what I'm saying is that the police who are arresting these people for graffiti and for
vandalism have to take into account the 5,000 other very angry protesters who may see that
arrest and say that it's such a low level offense, even though we would like to see it prosecuted,
that it doesn't make sense to do that at that point.
We've seen the NYPD coming out with those new, the new drone technology that they've been utilizing
to kind of look back at these protests, kind of study the behavior.
In New York City, we have one specific group that organizes most of these protests.
It's called Within Our Lifetime.
They're very educated on the legalities of protests, freedom of speech, et cetera.
So they kind of want to trip the NYPD up.
And the NYPD also wants to study them from the air.
And so they deploy these drones and they're able to go back and kind of find some people,
although most people are wearing those face coverings, and see if they want to press any
charges after the fact.
But what I am saying is that the NYPD has been hesitant to make arrests on scene in an effort
to calm tensions and to avoid escalation.
That organization you mentioned, are they behind other protests from the past?
Are they dedicated to Palestine and Israel?
What's their history?
You know, it's a good question, and I'm not going to pretend that I know a lot about them
other than what they post on their social media accounts.
They do stand up for free Palestine because their mantra is that within our lifetime,
Palestine will be free, according to them.
And so that's where their main focus is.
But they do participate in other, as I mentioned earlier, a lot of these protesters are the
same people you may see at a Black Lives Matter rally or climate protest, et cetera.
But their main goal in that organization itself is to stand up during times of conflict in the
Middle East.
So breaking, I don't mean to keep you if you got it wrong, but one last thing, if I make
sure I understand this correctly, it seems like the NYPD at the moment do not feel like
they have the support of the leadership in NYPD to make arrests.
And so they're playing more of a passive role.
But at the same time, they just happen to also be getting the brunt of assault and pushback
from protesters as well.
Well, yeah, I mean, the NYPD, if you have opportunities to be with them at these high
profile events or protests and stuff, they're really incredible, the way that they deploy
and the resources that they have.
And so what I'm saying is that when you have a community who doesn't have your back or is
constantly looking for ways to criticize, it kind of instills a little bit of fear.
And that's not something you want from your police officers in your police department.
And so the two components that I mentioned, one being their emotional state and feeling
that maybe if they make this arrest for graffiti, that someone will post them on TikTok or Twitter
or Instagram and kind of bash them.
Plus, more importantly, the fact that they want to avoid escalating an already charged situation.
And by making such arrests in the moment for putting those stickers on businesses or spray
painting as they march along, that it would create a much different situation than the
peaceful protests that have been happening.
That's unfortunate.
I got to jump off.
I just want to say thank you for allowing me the mic.
Derek, of course, my man, always welcome up.
I always appreciate your input.
Thank you, as always, for coming, Derek.
It's unfortunate.
I'll touch on one thing breaking, which is it's unfortunate the NYPD feel that fear.
I've lived in New York for a while.
There's clearly a lot of issues going on with the city right now.
There's the amount of crime that's taken place over the last two years has skyrocketed.
There's a level of fear, I think, on the subway system that's never been there before.
I've seen so many crimes take place on the New York City subway over the last couple of years.
And I'm born here.
I've lived here the last decade.
There's clearly a very big need for law enforcement in New York City at the moment.
The fact that they feel any sort of fear or feel like they're not getting the support they need is very unfortunate,
because there is a major problem going on in New York City right now.
I don't know if you agree with me or not, since you're a citizen journalist in NYC,
but I've seen countless—not countless—I've seen multiple muggings.
I don't want to be hyperbolic here, but I've seen multiple muggings on the subway over the last couple of years.
I've had friends who've gotten mugged.
It's unfortunate the NYPD isn't getting the support they need at the moment.
I am going to now throw it to Nico.
I brought Nico on stage.
Nico, I want to give you a chance to talk.
We've talked about a lot of different things here, the protests going on,
if the protests are helping people's cause.
I want to get your opinion.
I'll throw it to you.
Thank you, Breaking 4 News, by the way.
Alex, my brother, I like your content, but Jesus Christ, 35 minutes to wait my turn?
Come on, dog.
I'm just busting you.
Nico, hey, listen.
Here's what I'll do.
You kill it with whatever you're about to say.
You got a free pass to my stage.
Moment the space starts every time.
The pressure's on you.
It's all good, Alex.
I appreciate you.
You do a great job.
I always learn from your content.
I'm going to keep it short.
I mean, a lot of people touch on the subject as far as what they're doing in LAX.
You know, back in the entrance, I mean, they're just ludicrous, right?
What if somebody has a medical emergency or somebody has an emergency in general?
In New York, what's going on right now, right off Van Wick Expressway,
shutting down the expressway.
I mean, this is not a civilized protest.
Again, what if someone has a medical emergency, somebody's mother, there's a baby, right?
It's not right.
There's people getting off their cars, walking alongside the expressway to go to JFK.
I don't agree with that.
As far as the whole, you know, Israel and Hamas terrorist situation, what's going on right now, okay?
Israel is at war.
What Hamas terrorists did, it's an act of war.
They attacked.
They invaded.
They raped.
They slaughtered.
They kidnapped innocent women and children, okay?
Israel right now is at war on six fronts, okay?
You got Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and also Islamic regime, Iran, IRGC, okay?
You have the Hamas terrorists.
You got the Houthis, IRGC, and then Boko Haram.
What they just did in Nigeria, it's all connected with these terrorist organizations.
The first few hours when Israel got attacked, over 3,000 rockets were launched at Israel.
For what?
That's an act of war.
As of October 7th, up until now, more than 10,000 rockets has been launched at Israel.
And it's still going on.
Things are escalating in Lebanon, and things are escalating even more with the Houthis.
They're trying to get involved, too.
So what I think is, okay, what needs to be done, these Hamas terrorists, they need to
lay down their arms, okay?
That's a good starting point.
As far as the peaceful Palestinian women and children who want peace with Israel, who do
not support Hamas terrorists, I support them as well.
But what's going on right now, it's an act of war, and it's in it for the long run, okay?
So everything else in between, mis-propaganda, one side says this, one side says another thing.
We all have access to technology and what's going on.
And all I can say is, do your own research and see what's going on.
Thanks, Alex.
Appreciate you.
What's the best way, Nico?
First of all, Nico, really appreciate you.
Really appreciate you bringing different perspectives.
Really well said.
Next space, request come up.
You're instant up.
Instant up, Nico.
Apologies for your 35-minute wait.
What's the best way in your eyes to do your own research?
You said find your own information, do your own research.
I'm going to be honest.
I really think we're in the middle of an information war right now.
I think it's almost impossible to find unbiased information.
How do you find unbiased information, Nico?
Okay.
Doing your research is, let's say you're coming into a space, all right?
Take for what you hear and learn and then just research this, investigate this.
Look at different, you know, resources, news outlets.
See who's doing what.
See what's inconsistent with what's going on on the ground over there, right?
If you just listen to mainstream media, it's going to be one-sided.
You're not going to get the full scope.
But just do research, compare the information that you have with what's going on on the ground.
Got it.
I appreciate it.
It's a good call.
I mean, I think one of the issues with X is there's going to be a tremendous amount of misinformation.
Community notes only can do so much at any given time.
It's impossible for it to stay on top of everything.
So I think that's a really good point, Nico.
I appreciate it.
Feel free to stick up if you want to add anything else.
Roz, I want to throw it back to you real quick.
And I know you're primarily focused on American news.
So if this strays outside your boundaries, feel free to let me know.
It's not a big deal.
But Roz, I want to kind of dovetail on something Nico said, actually.
He mentioned a lot of, you know, Israel is being attacked by a lot of other fronts as well.
I've been hearing stories over the last 24 hours about other countries potentially entering the fray.
Do you have any information on that, Roz?
Has Iran or other countries entered the fray here?
I do not, sadly.
My main focus is just on the United States.
But hopefully Roz Global will be launching earlier in 2024.
So soon to come.
Roz Global.
Are you hiring for Roz Global?
Yeah, I'm looking for a few people since I'm going to be mainly focused on Roz alerts.
But if you're interested and very passionate about covering world news, let me know.
Got it.
I also read, this might be unrelated, that we are doing isolated attacks on Iraq.
I think this is breaking over the last couple hours.
Is this anything that's been on your radar?
Not currently.
My main focus was just on the protests and the airports, but nothing at the moment.
Okay.
Got it.
I'm going to throw it back to you shortly, Roz.
Appreciate you, bud.
Adam K., I'm going to throw it to you, though.
Hey, thank you.
Yeah, I just wanted to put the shoe on the other foot.
How would you like it during Ramadan if people were blocking you from getting to your mosque
and while you're trying to go celebrate your holiday, your religious holiday?
You know, this is very disrespectful, in my opinion.
And I come from that background, so, you know, I have the right to, you know, voice my opinion
on this, you know, think about that.
And as far as going back to the historical context of everything, you know, throughout
history, there have been conquerors and there are people that have been conquered.
That's a fact of the matter.
That's, you know, there's no changing to that.
Palestine, I don't see a country called Palestine.
There is no country called Palestine.
There's two pieces of land separated with a country between it and with Palestinians on
each side.
That is not a country.
That is not sustainable.
I just want to jump in.
I don't want to go too much into this because I think this could very quickly piss off a
lot of people and get into a conversation I don't think we want to get into.
But the only thing is, I just hope that we could reach for peaceful solutions.
You know, that's all the only thing that I hope for is peace and prosperity for humanity.
And we're all God's children.
And I'd like to see that going forward.
We got to deal with now, not the past.
The past is the past.
If we deal with ourselves properly and humanely in the current present time that we're in,
you know, that's what we could focus on rather than just disputing, oh, this happened in
the past, that happened in the past.
Okay, how do we move forward?
You know, that's the good, that's all I have to say there.
I think the one person who's brought us closest to peace.
Thank you, Adam.
Thank you for having me up.
I'm going to drop down.
Marjorie, thanks.
Thanks for sending me the mic.
And God bless you all.
Much love.
All right.
Can you guys hear me now?
Yes.
Loud and clear.
We haven't heard that beautiful, deep voice in a while, Malcolm.
So I'm glad we got that fixed.
I just want to say real quick.
I think the one person who's brought us closest to peace in this world is Bruno.
I think Bruno is probably the one who brought us closest to Middle East peace.
If you get that joke, then you understand true comedy.
Anyway.
The XMash.
They're slap sticking.
I like it, man.
It's too bad that type is a complete side note.
It's too bad that type of comedy just doesn't exist anymore.
Just unfortunate.
That was the height of comedy, in my opinion.
Anyway.
Terrain, I want to throw it back to you.
You got your hand raised.
Yeah.
I just wanted to say that whatever comes out of this situation, if there's a ceasefire, if there's some sort of end of hostilities, what I think the only way you're going to get any real resolution from this outside of making everybody feel good until the end of the year is that there is a real serious peace conversation that has to happen between Palestinians and Israelis.
And it has to be met with actual recompense for what's been going on and recompense for the damages there.
Because regardless of what happens, if the ceasefire happens tonight, Palestine is still going to be devastated.
Over 21,000 men, women, and children are going to be dead.
And there has to be some way forward for there to be a secure Palestinian state and a secure Israeli state.
I don't think Israel is going to go anywhere, but the Palestinians aren't going to go anywhere either.
And that has to be the baseline of anything that happens going forward if you want to see some sort of lasting, workable framework to maybe bring these things to the end so we're not back in the same place in another 10 years.
I got to run, actually.
Thank you, Alex.
Thank you, Malcolm.
Thank you for bringing me up and letting me speak.
I'll be listening and everything, but I got another thing to do in another hour, so I got to take off.
Appreciate you, Terrain.
Really, thank you for coming by.
Really great points.
I appreciate you.
So stop by literally any time, my man.
Thank you, Paul.
Also, again, good having you in here, Brother Terrain.
Now, one thing I did want to also mention, because this is also news that came, I think, around 2.20 central time.
But apparently, Iran and Russia have officially pinned their trade agreement to eventually or basically change the trade of the respective national currencies to being the real and ruble.
And now this was coming, you know, this was kind of brewing back in 2022.
But I think now that they are finally, you know, just sort of inking this deal, I think one of the things that's being made clear is that the United States is slowly finding a lot of the inroads that we're making in a lot of these areas.
Especially, you know, we look at Iran's proximity to what's happening right now over in Gaza and, you know, just with Hamas.
We're currently seeing that this conflict, the longer it drags on, has great implications and, you know, just a lot of blowback on our place in the national stage.
And so, again, I just want to ask, you know, hey, is there any benefit for us to, again, start, you know, stay involved or, you know, be as heavily weighted in this?
You know, at least to the point where we're seeing protests in our own country about something that, you know, really technically shouldn't involve us.
Like, is there any benefit or are we really just sort of shooting ourselves in foot here?
Can I comment on this, Alex?
Yeah, for sure, Nico. Go right ahead, man.
Okay, Malcolm, I'm going to give you my opinion, my brother.
What's going on between Russia and the Islamic regime, the IRGC terrorists, is nothing new.
The KGB, a.k.a. the Kremlin, helped put the Islamic regime in power since 1979.
Okay, the Kremlins are the puppet masters.
The IRGC, the Islamic regime reports to them.
Anything that they say to them as far as propaganda, misinformation, act of war, terrorism, it's all coming from the Kremlin to the IRGC.
Now, if they made this news public, it just, you know, just, I don't know, just another news outlet or news propaganda.
But they're working together.
They're in bed with the Chinese communist, CCP, what's going on over there.
These three are the reason why there's so many terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
And it's not going to stop.
The only way it's going to stop is if we get rid of the Islamic regime.
And we're not.
The Biden administration has been, for the past year and a half, ever since the Iran revolution with the Masa Amini situation happened,
they've been trying to fund the IRGC.
It's all over the news.
You can Google it, you know, and look it up.
What is the solution to this?
Well, we need to first go to the octopus, the octopus, the head of the snake, and it's the Islamic regime.
If you look at the Trump administration, they annihilated and crippled the regime.
How many wars did we see in the Middle East?
How many terrorist organizations were attacking?
That happened because Trump eliminated the Islamic regime.
What do you mean by that?
So, I don't know if anybody knows or how involved they are in the geopolitical Middle East, you know, wars.
Keep it simple.
Keep it understandable for everyone.
Here you go.
So, one of the head honchos, one of the top military commanders by the name of Qasem Soleimani, okay,
Trump made an order and took him out.
Is this the Iranian?
Yeah, the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.
Yep, the IRGC, the Islamic terrorist regime, yes, took him out.
Now, other than that, they put so many sanctions on Iran's oil reserve, gas, and everything else.
The economy got crippled.
Why is that such a great thing?
Well, they couldn't fund these terrorist organizations such as the Houthis, such as the Hamas, and all these, you know, Boko Haram, you name it.
Right now, look what's going on.
It's a nightmare in the Middle East.
All we're seeing is poor women and children getting slaughtered, all right?
I am against war.
Nobody wants war, right?
But what's going on right now, it just, I hope it doesn't get worse.
So, I want to real quick go through some of the comments.
Thank you, everyone who's replying.
We have 216 comments on this face right now.
Real quick.
Marian.
Yeah, go ahead.
I was about to say, real quick before you do that, again, Nico, Nico, man, I love your voice, dude.
Everybody talks about my voice, but, man, we got to have Nico doing some more reads here.
God, let him get in on those legendary resets one time.
One time for the one time, right?
Appreciate you, Malcolm.
Appreciate you, brother.
Nico, you do have a little bit.
Is that a New York accent you got there, Nico?
What accent's that?
Beautiful New York accent.
New York on the way, baby.
Beautiful New York accent.
I've been here for a long time.
I love hearing that accent.
Anyway, real quick, just going through some replies.
We have 217 of them.
If you have any questions or want to add anything to the conversation, hit the purple pill and
add it below.
I'm going to keep going through these comments as we go here.
But Marianne says, NYC flyer being shared.
It looks like there's going to be a big protest on December 31st here in New York City called
Shut It Down for Palestine.
A lot of flyers going around the city.
This is going to be a really interesting one.
It looks like they're organizing a big one for December 31st, which is Sunday.
Let's see what else we got here.
Ruragunian, this is all manufactured, just like Antipa was.
This is all by the same people.
They are playing chess.
It is.
I don't want to say it's all manufactured by the same people.
I do find it fascinating, though, how there is a lot of overlap between all the different
protests and a lot of the same people and organizations behind them are going to all
these protests.
I think it's just a notable footnote to this story.
Who cares what their demands are?
They are breaking the law and need to be treated as such, says Ruragunian.
I assume that's in reference to the protesters blocking the airports.
Black Mambas says, I'm 100 percent sure.
This might be Kobe.
I'm 100 percent sure Antifa has their hand in these protests.
And then Brit says they better be glad they're not at our airport.
Those of us in the Midwest don't play that crap.
It's all gas.
No brakes around here.
I would be interested to see if what the protests would be like if they're in just like a Midwest
airport with people trying to get out of there for Christmas.
Probably be very different tone than New York and L.A.
Alex, Alex, Alex.
Go ahead, Malcolm.
Hey, I hate to interrupt you guys, but we have some some grave breaking news.
Is that the breaking news?
I thought we had like a better.
There we go.
I got to put on my somber face.
Look, we need spaces for it.
We need video for spaces to drop so I can go ahead and, you know, do this and, you know,
come on with my stack of papers.
But for now.
All right, guys.
So it's come to my attention.
One of our members in the space has something important.
It's Raw's Alert's birthday.
So I need everybody in space to wish Raw's Alert's a happy birthday.
One, two, three.
Happy birth.
No, I'm not going to do that.
Okay.
Anyways.
No, no, no.
But seriously, no.
Let's go ahead and do it.
Oh, I got happy.
I was.
I got happy for a second.
Malcolm, can you sing?
Like you have such a.
No, no.
Not at all.
Does that translate to sing?
I can sing maybe one or two notes very good.
And then after that, we're done.
You know, you're off on your own.
Damn.
That's disappointing.
That's disappointing to hear because you have such an incredible talking voice.
I was really hoping it would convert to singing.
Thank you, Malcolm.
Oh, well, Rock, Rock, you have the stage.
Yeah, no.
Thank you, Malcolm.
I got a little excited for the birthday sing.
But hey, that's on you.
But I really appreciate it.
Thank you, Alex, for the really kind message.
I just saw it.
Thank you, dude.
And if you're listening and yeah, can't believe I'm reporting news on my birthday.
But I'll probably leave the space in about 30 minutes because I got to go to a special birthday dinner.
Uh-oh.
Where are you going?
Where's the dinner?
It's a fancy bar restaurant.
So, it's going to be nice steak with lobster and oysters and all that stuff.
All right.
So, build out your ideal order right here.
You know, let us see it.
And trust me, we got an Italian in the room.
So, I think he knows food.
So, you're going to be under the microscope, right?
Build it out.
Come on.
We want to see if Ross Alerts has some raw taste.
Yeah, I'm more of like a meat person.
I'm not too big on Italian.
But I do like their raveau leaves and some pasta.
But, yeah, definitely a huge meat lover.
Steak, ribs, all that fun stuff.
Definitely a seafood person, too.
Ross, I don't know where you're out of.
But if you're in New York City, send me whatever restaurants.
I'm not going there to meet up.
I grew up on Long Island.
Oh, there you go.
Me, too.
I'm in Hassell.
Nassau County or Suffolk?
I grew up in Manhasset.
Well, not grew.
I wouldn't call it growing up.
I was born there and raised there for three years.
Then I went to New Jersey.
So, Manhasset.
Oh, man, what a small word, Alex.
You know, I am well familiar with those areas.
And let's just say all three of us were probably neighbors.
Yeah, I grew up in the Suffolk area near West Hampton.
I'm sad I didn't get that accent, though, Nico.
I'd do anything to have an accent like that.
That's a room-owning accent, Nico.
Quick room reset.
Let's do that.
We currently have a lot of really big protests going on across the country at the moment.
LAX is completely shut down.
We have protests at O'Hare in Chicago, protests at JFK.
What's interesting about these protests, and different than many others, is they're completely
shutting down these airports and streets, making it impossible for people to get in.
Police have started making arrests in LAX.
They're not making as many arrests in New York City.
The NYPD hasn't had as much support as LA has for making those arrests.
So we have protests shutting down multiple airports across the country.
Right now we have an esteemed panel of incredible speakers up here giving their opinions on if it's
appropriate or not to shut down the airports if the protests had gone too far, or is this
how protesting has worked?
Do you do it by pissing people off?
Is that how you spread the message, or does that take away from your message?
Anything you want to add, feel free to come up on stage.
Request.
We're cycling through.
We have a good amount of requests, so we'll get to you eventually.
I promise.
Want to add anything?
Hit the purple pill.
Add it below.
We're at 74 reposts.
If we get to 100 reposts, I'm going to get into an Uber and Uber over to JFK to see what
the protests are all about and report live from JFK.
So if we get 26 more reposts, I'm going to get what will probably be a $500 Uber because
somehow Uber has slowly just raised their price over the last three years, so they're
10 times more expensive than taxis.
They did the old bait and switch where they were half the price of taxis so everyone would
use it and then get used to using Ubers.
And then all of a sudden, overnight, they just 10x their price.
If I want to go down the street, it costs me $75.
Uber is the biggest sham in the history of mankind.
I'm going back to taxis, but that's besides the point.
But if you want me to spend $500 on an Uber to go three blocks, feel free to hit the purple
pill.
Step one, hit the purple pill.
Step two, hit the repost.
That'll get this shared out so we can keep having good conversation and I can spend $500
on an Uber.
Just 16 more reposts to do that.
I appreciate you.
We have on stage Reverend Damien Jones.
I assume REV is Reverend.
Yeah, it says preacher in the bio.
Reverend.
Is that a crazy thing for me to say, Penny2x?
That's Reverend, correct?
You unmuted.
I assume you unmuted to call me an idiot.
I'm itching to call you out on your own bait and switch because you were supposed to go
to LAX, Alex, and now you're just going to go to JFK.
What's that point of going LAX, Penny2x?
What do you guys want to go to LAX?
I just want to provide an update.
At least 36 protesters were arrested.
Where?
At LAX.
Okay, so specifically at LAX, 36.
How many were protesting total?
Was it in the hundreds?
Most likely.
And then there was 26 arrests in New York City.
26 in New York City.
That's interesting.
And those were at specifically JFK?
Yes.
Interesting.
Okay, so it does seem they're cracking down on them.
It's going to be interesting to see what the parameters of this protest on Sunday will
Apparently, there was a lot of flyers being passed around for a big protest on Sunday,
on New Year's Eve.
Is there any other information, any other big protests going on across the country now?
Anything outside the airports that are of note at the moment?
Nothing at the moment.
Okay.
And then the arrest specifically at the airports, what are the charges behind those?
Why were they arrested?
Is it just disorderly conduct or what's going on with that?
For the LAX one, I know I was watching the live feed and they were saying at least 12
are going to be charged with riots for destroying property, making a barricade situation, vandalizing,
throwing objects at police, but not sure about the rest.
What property is being destroyed?
Are they doing damage to the actual airport?
They made a whole barricade.
They destroyed construction equipment through cones, stuff like that.
Logistically speaking, and maybe this is a lot more simpler than I'm making it out to
be in my head, I'm always curious how these group of protesters make it to in front of an
airport, walk there and then just barricade up.
Is there like any science to them getting in position at these airports or are they just
like walking on the sidewalk to the airport and then they go, okay, here we go, block
the street?
I don't know if there's any advanced strategies here.
You're breaking up, by the way, Ross Alerts.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, usually they get together at like a meetup spot and then they all walk together at the
airport.
So usually that happens.
But the LAX is right in near the city of Los Angeles.
So they could meet up like a, like a block away and then they could have done that.
So is there primary communication channels they're using?
Are these, I don't know if this is even known by anyone at all, but are these organized in
Facebook groups?
Are these organized in Telegram channels?
Any insight into that?
Um, I feel like some are on Twitter or X, uh, definitely Telegram.
Signal is a big platform.
What's Signal?
Oh, you've never heard?
It's like a...
Go ahead.
Yeah, no, you can go, Malik.
Man, oh, no.
Signal, it's a secure, end-to-end encrypted, uh, messaging app that can actually serve as
your text messenger.
So it's, uh, sort of an alternative.
It's like Telegram.
If Telegram just put all segs in just the user-to-user messaging basket.
Is it, what's, what's the difference between them and, uh, I thought that's what Telegram
was.
What's the difference between Signal?
No, Telegram, uh, I mean, Telegram's turned into more of a social network, kind of like
a, uh, it's kind of like the back channels of like what a X would be.
So they've just got kind of like networks.
It's mainly used for, you know, live, now doing live broadcasting calls and having, you
know, sort of community group chats, but largely just a news feed, you know, where
Signal sort of focuses more on, hey, I want to message you, but I don't want anybody to
see this message and I can actually set it to my default on Android, you know, because
iPhone users, you guys don't have those magical powers, but, uh, you know, on Android, I can
actually make that my default text messenger.
So it's, uh, pretty cool the way, the way it works.
It's an encrypted messaging service, Alex.
It's hard to break into.
And that's the, uh, messaging service that a lot of the J sixers were using as well.
Interesting.
Okay.
I'm going to need to do more research on this.
That's interesting.
Is there a, uh, Roz, is there links between all of these protests as in, can this all
be tracked to any two or three organizations for all these protests across LAX, Chicago,
New York, are these individual organizations running these, any insight there?
It's really hard to say, but I feel like it's a lot of groups are coming together.
So I'm sure there's one group saying, Hey, we're going to do this.
If you want to join us, tell this group and so on.
So it spreads like wild player.
Yeah.
I hope you don't mind me barraging you with questions here, but, uh, yeah, no, I don't
mind.
Excellent.
Excellent.
And again, for those in the space, uh, Roz has been amazing here.
One of the best educators, uh, citizen journalists on all of X, definitely throw him a follow.
So, uh, he, he definitely deserves it.
It's also his birthday.
So all he wants for his birthday is a, uh, is a follow as well.
Uh, but Roz, um, typically these, these people getting arrested at the protests, uh, what
happens after the arrest?
Are they being locked up for a good amount of time?
Are they typically let go quickly and handed a fine?
What typically happens after they're arrested?
It usually depends.
So you see, they would go to a holding cell and really depends on the charges.
If they are, we're just blocking traffic, then they would just get a ticket or so on.
But if they were destroying property and so on, then they would probably get booked into
jail and wait for a sentinems.
But you see, they dropped the case.
So it really depends on what they do and so on.
Interesting.
Cause I, I know in New York, uh, there are a lot of people being let out for very, very
serious crime.
So I imagine the punishment for destruction of property or things like that's probably
not too major.
We have major issues in New York right now when it comes to, uh, violent offenders getting
released really, really quickly.
Um, I was watching the news, I think a week ago, someone who assaulted like 28 people
was arrested and let go immediately.
Uh, again, it really is.
I don't, this is not political at all.
I think a lot of people can objectively say if someone assaults 28 people, uh, is arrested
28 times, probably should not be let out again.
Uh, the 29th time.
I don't know, but I assume a lot of these people getting arrested probably, and I'm not saying
they should be locked up for a long time.
I'm not saying that at all, but I just assume based on what I'm seeing in New York on the
ground at the moment, uh, not a lot of people are being locked up for any sort of amount
of time.
So just want to throw that up there.
Uh, we have a bunch of hands.
Jackie's been waiting for a while with her hand up.
She's been waiting so long that she started sending the waving emoji to me.
And while I typically hate it when people send me waving emojis with their hand up to
get my attention, I typically either ignore them or kick them off stage because I know
Jackie so well and she's talked on so many of my stages, uh, and because she subscribes
to me, I'm going to ignore the fact that she was waving at me and let her speak.
If you subscribe to me and pay me, I will literally let you do whatever you want.
So, uh, Jackie, go right ahead.
It's so true.
So glad you called yourself out on that.
Yeah.
So I just had a couple of things I wanted to, to pipe up in on, uh, number one is that
I live 30 miles South of LAX and have been in this area for, um, over 40 years.
And so I'm pretty familiar with what goes on in the LA politics in the LA area.
And it is very similar to what you just described, Alex, is that the police are not well supported.
They are afraid to arrest people.
They are afraid to escalate anything.
They are being watched.
They are being punished.
And, um, they are basically handicapped and doing their jobs because if they do end up
arresting someone, they're back out on the streets because of the no cash bail.
And so while they are arresting people at the LAX airport right now, there must be pretty
serious things going on there for them to even risk any kind of an arrest.
Okay.
I'm looking for pictures and things.
I can't find any local news that's on until three o'clock here, but if they are busy arresting
people, then that means that there's got to be some sort of a serious situation going on
down there.
Um, but regardless of what happens, if they are arrested, the same thing will happen is
they'll be out within 24 hours and there will likely be no prosecution.
The, um, DA here, George Gascon is, um, very, very much a liberal progressive DA funded by
George Soros and his whole department of, of, uh, prosecutors that he's brought in as of
that same ideology.
So, uh, no one gets arrested.
There's a lot of smash and grabs.
Um, people are taking the law into their own hands.
I would add one thing about that is maybe a week ago or so they shut down, these protesters
for pro-Palestinians shut down the 110 freeway right through the heart of LA at the, one of
the worst traffic times.
There's no good traffic times in LA anymore, by the way, folks, the freeways are always jammed.
And so these protesters sat down in the middle of the freeway.
And you want to talk about people coming together of all races, all nationalities, they got out
of their cars and hauled these folks off the road because the one thing they weren't going
to stand for is having the traffic block.
So there was a vigilante group, multicultural, multi-ethnic that just got rid of these people
on the freeway.
They said, hell no, we're not letting you block the freeway.
So I thought that was fascinating.
I wonder how much more that's going to happen, um, because you, you start to seeing these
stories come out more.
There was the one guy, I forget where it was.
If someone wants to jump in and tell me, there's the one guy who got out of his car and just
shot a protest.
I saw that.
Yeah.
He, he, he definitely neutralized their carbon and they, they went carbon neutral for sure.
That footprint is out.
That was a, and I mean, this is the most respectful way possible.
That was an iconic picture of the guy.
Uh, I mean that with, with all respect, uh, but that was an unbelievable picture that came
out.
You wonder how much, like at some point, you know, you're going to, you risk with these
protests is you're going to get someone who actually needs to travel, whether it's for
a funeral or something that to them is much bigger than life itself.
Uh, and you're going to cause something crazy to happen.
Um, yeah.
Our question I want to ask again, Jackie, because you're kind of over there, but, um,
the public sentiment, does it seem like it's reaching a breaking point?
Like are people getting fed up to the point where they're starting to snap or is, you know,
there's still a little bit more appetite for tolerance.
No, they're getting fed up to the point where they're snapping.
So I'll give you another example, a guy protecting his family from robbers.
They broke into his house.
He shot the guy, legitimately shot the guy and the police took away his gun and his, his,
uh, concealed carry permit.
So that caused a big uproar.
I saw that.
Um, people, did you see that also?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And store owners taking the law into their own hands.
They are full on shooting people that are trying to smash and grab now.
They feel like they have to protect themselves and people are getting fed up.
The crime is out of control and they're not having it anymore.
In fact, um,
Real quick.
I just want to add in one story that I'm gonna let you take Jackie.
You're, you're, you're, you're doing an excellent job.
Um, I think the worst thing I saw was, I think it was three weeks ago.
I saw it on the news.
Uh, there was a guy who went into the subway, uh, and beat, uh, I think it was like an old
homeless woman to death with like a broom.
I think it was.
Uh, and then he was out on bail that night after beating a woman to death with a broom.
Um, that was the craziest thing.
I think they did go back and arrest him a few days later after there was outrage.
Um, but that is, there's a serious problem, uh, in New York at the moment that the system
is completely, completely broken where violent offenders, uh, basically were able to get out
back on the streets for free.
Um, basically within hours of committing whatever crime outside of, I mean, I guess I was gonna
say outside of murder, but that person basically murdered somebody.
Um, it, it really, it really is a major issue.
I personally, uh, try to avoid the subway at all costs at this point, unless I absolutely need to.
Uh, I, I will sooner pay $50 for an Uber across the bridge than I would get on, uh, the subway
and pay $2.75 just because you, you truly do feel, uh, in danger on the subway nowadays.
I just want to step, step in real quick.
It's just not New York City.
It's all major cities like Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia,
all major cities.
Yeah, I, uh, uh, thank you, Ross, for, for jumping in and saying that, but I do only have
my own biased view.
I do not leave New York City really at all.
I am a professional tweeter who sits in his apartment all day and just looks at the computer
screen.
So I do not, I'm not as familiar with what's going on in other cities, but that is a really
good point.
It does seem to be what's going on and I don't want, I, it's probably impossible to pin it
all down to one thing.
I'm sure it's political policy.
I'm sure it's also just the state of the economy and the state of, um, mental welfare in the country
as well.
I think there's a clear starting point from New York City specifically where there was a
return when COVID started is really where you really started feeling in danger on the
subway was when COVID started.
So I'm sure it's a mix of a lot of things, political, uh, and what is going on in the
world.
But there, there really has been a major shift in these cities over the last few years.
Yeah, agreed.
I'll just make one last comment on the state of crime.
Uh, you know, I'm going to be 69 years old on Friday and I'm in the process of getting
my threat assessment training and my concealed carry and I'm going to get strapped because
I will be damned if I'm going to feel at my old age, vulnerable to the point where I can't
go anywhere.
I can't do anything.
And I'm going to let my freedom to roam my area, my beautiful area, which is gorgeous
here, by the way, uh, and feel afraid.
I don't want to feel afraid.
I'm over it.
And so are you in New York, Jackie?
No, I'm in Los Angeles.
I'm in Orange County, just South of Los Angeles.
Are you allowed to carry a concealed carry there?
You bet.
I am in Orange County.
It's much easier to get it, but once you get it, you can, you know, conceal carry.
I don't think you're allowed to conceal carry in New York unless I'm missing or it's
extremely difficult to do.
I don't think you are either.
And it's really kind of sad about that, but I'm going to protect myself.
And like I said, I'm going to be, I'm going to maintain my liberties.
So I'm in the process of doing that.
So that's the last thing I want to say that just one more thing, Alex, if I might on, on
the, um, on kind of the whole situation.
When you look at what's going on in the world and in the United States here and you stand
back on maybe 30,000 feet up and say, okay, we're about to elect one of the most powerful
positions or the most powerful position in the world that could control the destiny of
the world.
When they say that America gets a cold, the world sneezes.
So you got to wonder when you see all the things that have been happening, a person like me
stands back and wonders when you see all the entrapment that's gone on in the Gretchen
Whitmer and you see all of the conspiracy that's gone on in our three letter, um, agencies and
you see the shit they've been putting out at us on all these psyops.
And then last week you hear Catherine Herridge, uh, on face the nation say, gee, there's going
to be a black swan event.
I got to wonder how much is who's pulling the strings here on all this.
This is a global power play.
There are folks out there that are saying this is a 3d chess game that has been war gamed
out to the max.
And there are just a group of people who know how this is going to end.
I'm just paranoid enough now to maybe believe that I don't know what to believe, but I'm
just going to throw that out there and see what people think.
How much of this is being gamed by a powerful group of people and do they know the end?
Uh, I think there's probably multiple powerful groups of people going on.
It's not just one.
I I'm sure with what we're seeing, uh, is there's multiple powerful groups fighting
for our brains.
Malcolm.
Yeah, listen, listen, that's exactly what always happens is that again.
And we had just talked about this a little bit earlier, but you always get one organic
movement, you know, something with legitimate cause and emotional recognition behind it.
And then these people in order to make this movement happen, you know, you got to have
people on staff.
You got to have people working.
You got to have funding to produce some material then, or, you know, pallets of bricks in some
cases.
And so they start auctioning off, or sometimes the benefactor just sort of swoops in and gives
them money and let some rip, or maybe they'll give them money with a couple of directions.
And then next thing you know, you have a co-opted movement.
You know, you've got a movement that no longer is moving in the direction.
It might be like maybe a one degree trajectory shift to the left, but that one degree trajectory
shift comes with some massive implications.
And so that's usually what we end up have and, you know, end up getting with these movements
is that they start getting funded by some of these people.
Sometimes they get blank checks, you know, just sort of written to them.
Hey, Alex.
I got to go.
I'm getting ready for dinner, but I just want to say thank you for having me up.
So, and thank you for the best birthday wishes.
I really appreciate it.
All right, guys, let's sing them off.
Happy birthday, Roz.
Guys, thank you.
Everyone on stage, wish Roz a happy birthday all at once.
One, two, three.
Happy birthday, Roz.
Happy birthday, Roz.
Enjoy your dinner, bud.
Thank you all.
Thanks for all you do, brother.
Take care, my man.
DM me with how good the oysters are.
Anyway, Michael, we have Michael on stage.
Good to be speaking again.
We talked last week, Michael.
Just to recap you on what we've been going on, we have protests breaking out across the country.
The big ones are at the major airports, JFK, LAX, Chicago, O'Hare.
They're shutting down the airport so people can't go in and out.
Really, the discussion up to this point has been, are these types of protests helping or hurting the messages?
Are people losing patience with these types of protests?
How much damage are they doing?
Are they actually helping the cause?
I want to give it to you, Michael.
I really respect your opinion.
We had a great conversation last week.
I'm grateful for you being up here.
What's your perspective on all this, my man?
I think it's necessary because you have to look at it from the lens of opportunity.
And, you know, we can all sit here and pretend like our country is in great hands and, you know, everything is headed in a great direction.
But in reality, right, you've got to understand that that is the opportunity when you see people riled up, you see people unhappy.
None of us believe in our elections anymore.
You haven't seen anyone of note being prosecuted.
The Epstein list is still, you know, who the hell knows.
So we have to ask ourselves, is there justice in this world, in this country?
Or are we just pretending like we're comfortable enough, you know, to get by?
Because I'm hearing a lot of conversations so far that I really like the premise of, which is that these are funded, that these are, that there could potentially be something else behind the veil.
And, you know, it could also simply just be that people aren't okay with, you know, genocide or people being killed the way that they are.
We've got to ask ourselves, are we really okay with that happening?
Because if we are, then when we don't work towards a solution and, you know, pretty quickly, things could really get out of hand, you know, because you don't ever want to worry about something until it directly affects you.
And from what it sounds like, Alex, it's directly affecting yourself, Malcolm, Marjorie Taylor Greene told me if I don't get in here that she's going to chop my head off.
No, I'm just kidding.
But in all reality, right, it's true.
We have to work towards solutions.
And it's easy to get emotional, but there she goes.
It's easy to get emotional.
But I think if we work towards solutions and come together, that's going to be what will be best, right, moving forward.
Because you can't assume that all these people are coming to this country to kill us, because that's certainly not what it is.
You can't assume that they're protesting.
You know, I'll ask this.
Does anyone know what is the demand of the protests?
It seems that they are for a ceasefire.
Am I right, Malcolm?
They are currently just demanding a ceasefire.
You know, however realistic or unrealistic that is, especially given the fact that there aren't terms, we don't know.
So we should probably get some more reporters, right, to ask, stop and ask these protesters.
Say, like, what is it that you are looking to achieve from all of this?
Because that's the one thing that gets lost on you.
You see the protests, you hear about them happening, but you don't ever get to, like, interviews where, hey, what's going on?
What are you guys looking to achieve from this protest?
Well, and just to provide a little pushback then, I think we also got to take it to the room.
I know we have Damian Jones and a couple of other people up here.
But I think that at this point, you know, they're just sort of fresh.
And this is me looking at this with earnest intentions, you know, not trying to stoke the PSYOP or, you know, that these people are funded by X, Y, and Z.
But I think that they're just sort of, yeah, basically Soros.
But there's so many other NGOs, and, you know, you should look at that up.
But I think at this point.
Is that what they want is the mic, Malcolm, though?
Is that what they, like, Michael, you recommended they get the, you know, the journalist golf to ask them questions, give them the microphone.
Is that what they want?
I feel like every time, it doesn't seem that way.
Now, here's the thing, though.
Again, if we're to look at it, Ernest, I think that they're saying, okay, you know what, we finally want this situation over here, which represents the colonial powers.
You know, if you go back to the whole establishment of Israel, you know, post-League of Nations, where Britain was basically sitting with an idea to give the region of the Levant to France and, you know, to honor their proposal to Hussein bin Ali and his son, Faisal.
You know, when you get back there and then they stab them in the back, I think a lot of people, even though they don't understand that, they understand that this is, quote, unquote, colonialism or the remnants of colonialism, which that was what World War I was basically fought over was, you know, kind of colonialism and national independence.
They're just looking at it as, okay, we need to strike a blow against these colonial powers and, quote, unquote, decolonialize that area or decolonize that area.
And so that's really the issue is that I think that's where their understanding sort of stems from.
But they don't understand this ain't the way you do it.
You know, you're not going to convince the average anti-war American that, you know, this situation is horrible and do that by.
Well, but the problem is, you know, when you get money into their hands and you get funding and you get these people organizing things like flash mobs and meetups and whatnot, they're going to do what they're going to do, which unfortunately tends to be counterproductive.
So that's true.
That's if I'm looking at it genuinely and not that these people are like paid actors.
I love it.
I love that he knows his background and history.
Why do you think he's up here co-hosting?
I don't just choose any random people to co-host.
Actually, no.
Actually, no.
He found me outside of a steakhouse and he said, hey, man, you want to co-host here?
Take this iPhone.
And I threw it away because, of course, iPhone's ick and pulled out my Android.
Malcolm knows what he's talking about.
Well, I'd have been here way quicker.
Malcolm knows.
I'd have been here way quicker if you had known about the history of colonialism.
I mean, it's important to know this stuff because this is what I think a lot of these protests are centered around.
You think of the colonialist powers and how they got to where they're at.
And it seems insane that we could ever reform or reformat the powers that be.
But this is a good conversation.
I'm glad I'm up here.
Thank you for having me.
Michael, I'm curious, though.
I want to kind of sit on the point Malcolm just made.
I want to get your thoughts.
It seems like your perspective was when there's wrong going on in the world, which I understand from your perspective, you've got to rattle the cages as much as you can.
And so that makes the airport protests and riots appropriate.
Is there a line, though, kind of as Malcolm just said, where if you pass that line, you actually start to alienate the general public and actually pushes you against your cause?
Well, I think we've just been so programmed to be so docile.
If you look at the history of corporations and unions being dissolved over time, it's very rare that people actually do something that causes enough stir to create change.
But to Malcolm's point, yeah, absolutely.
You know, remain remain civil, remain calm, remain lawful and never go to too far of an extreme.
But just remember, too, you know, things aren't all that great in this country right now and nor are they around the world.
But, you know, it's always good to ask questions and never, you know, take things at face value.
But, you know, you talk about the colonialist powers and you talk about the history of all of this.
And, you know, I think we are at a turning point moving forward.
You know, what is the solution?
And, you know, you look at the totality of all of it and how crazy things seem to be getting.
Would we prefer to just not have a choice to who leads the nation?
Would we prefer to feel unsafe in our own country?
And these are the questions that I think are amazing that people are asking and that we're digging deeper into.
What do you think, Alex?
What what do you feel safe when you're when you're getting out and about?
It's it's addressed that question very specifically with no context.
The answer is no, I do not feel safe in New York City at the moment.
I talked about this earlier.
There's been a an incredible rise in tension.
I believe in the city.
I'm moving out of the city come June because of this.
The I was hanging with my friends yesterday.
I was in the space.
Greg Lund, I think he's gone out.
But we were in the city and he grew up here and we were talking.
And there's a very distinctive change in tone and tension in the city.
That's really unfortunate.
I think four or five years ago is a very beautiful place to be.
But I no longer feel safe here.
It is.
There's a tension when you go on the subways.
There's a tension when you walk in the streets.
That's hard to put your finger on.
But I do not believe the city feels like a safe city anymore.
That's great.
Alex, let me just say this is let me just say this is let's remember that the people that we are looking at, the calendar was reset.
Right.
Somehow they clocked down to AD and started AD.
And now these people gave us our new dates, our new calendars.
Don't think that they don't actually have resets in mind when they proved it to you by changing the freaking calendar.
They zeroed everything out and started again with AD.
Right.
Period.
What do you mean by that?
Maybe AD, what are you saying?
Well, think about the calendar change.
Right.
Oh, got it.
Got it.
We were.
Where do we where do we live today?
Right.
There's the there's different calendars that people adhere to.
I'm not trying to bring this into some esoteric thing, but just help people understand.
And these are people that reset society already once before by zero a zeroing out the calendar and saying everything that existed beforehand no longer exists.
It's all a new calendar.
And they started a new calendar.
And that's the calendar that we're on today.
Who are you referring to specifically?
Because, yeah, you know, that's a very specific, very specific calendar.
Who are these people?
Yeah.
Well, it's it's look, it's the same.
It's the same people that Christ was battling.
Then it's not a single religion.
It's a government and a religion.
OK, it's the Romans and the Pharisees.
You have the two parts of the equation.
They pretend like they're at odds, but they're never at odds.
They're always cooperating.
Derek, what is this?
What is this in context of the conversation?
How does this relate to the conversation?
In context of the conversation is because everything that we are dealing with right now is in context of what people are doing to you.
Right.
So if you don't understand the context by which you are being commanded and controlled by, like if if a military is controlling you and you don't know,
know that military's agenda, well, you're always going to be naive as to how to oppose and how to offend and how to defend yourself within it.
You're never going to be at all.
You're never going to be in a power position.
You need to know who these people are and what their agenda is.
And for some reason, I sit and listen to these spaces.
And with all the ancient studies that I've done, it's like this stuff is not rare, man.
This is not unknown.
Yes, yes, yes.
Derek, Derek, for those of us who know, we know for those of us who don't know, it's up for you guys to learn.
But the first thing that we're going to learn about today is whether or not America is losing its patience with the riders, because as you guys have heard, JFK, O'Hare, LAX, a couple of others currently amidst a shutdown.
I think some of them are clearing up.
A lot of people have been arrested, but pro-Palestinian protesters or protesting groups have been shutting down airports, blocking traffic.
And I think right now we are asking the question and we had Raw's alerts here giving us a great bit of spiel.
Unfortunately, he had to go eat some top quality food that I can never dream of.
But again, he had to go.
So now we are currently discussing is America losing its patience right now?
Are we at a breaking point or can this continue?
Because we've already heard the police in New York don't even have any power to really arrest these people, especially with a cashless bail system.
So is this intentional sabotage or is this just sort of the coming of an age, you know, a possible reset?
So, yeah, I'll tell you what, they're they're definitely pushing the limits of my patience.
Right. And probably, I mean, maybe intentionally, it feels a lot like this is bringing a head to the problem and trying to confront it, you know, as we speak, as opposed to waiting any longer.
I'll tell you, if I was traveling today, I'd be pissed.
Those protesters are lucky that I'm not trying to get into an airport or maybe I'm right.
I'd probably end up in jail or something.
You're very lefty centric, Penny.
So that's interesting.
I may be left to you.
I would call myself center to most, right?
When I hear anybody speak, I get pissed off.
You have a Penny.
That's their goal, right?
Their goal is to piss you off because if they don't piss Penny off, then they don't succeed.
Why?
Why they got to piss me off to succeed?
Because you have a voice.
They need you to spend your pennies.
No, because you have a voice.
They need everybody to be pissed off.
Otherwise, nobody hears about the situation.
It's real simple.
It's the law of protest.
I'm not saying it's right.
Look, I'm not saying that these people are right for doing it.
I'm saying that if they want to achieve their goal of protest and bringing light, like bringing awareness to what they want to say, you're going to have to piss people off.
If they want to bring awareness, Derek, and they want me to use my platform to bring awareness, they better let me know in clear terms what it is that they want me to bring awareness to because right now what I feel like is just pissed off.
And like, yeah, like they're not going to get any good press with me, which they're they're not trying to get good press from you.
They want you to be pissed off.
See, because good press is bad press, right?
Bad press is good.
Same thing.
They want you to be pissed off.
You're going to give them everything you need because everything they need because you're pissed off.
So now they pissed off Penny 2x.
Now Penny 2x is saying, fuck these people.
Now people are aware of what they're doing.
I want to take it to the room real quick because that brings me to my point.
Because we've seen this playbook being used over and over again.
And, you know, the first few times it's like, OK, yeah, that's cool.
That's novel.
But then after using he started abusing it a little bit too much, I think people are starting to get a little tired.
So the question I have is, are we reaching our breaking point as America?
So first off, let's take it to the hands.
I can't see hands because I'm a second-class citizen on PC.
Let's go to Reverend.
Let's go to Reverend.
I had him waiting for a little bit.
I want to get to Reverend, then we'll go to G after, if that's all right.
Reverend Damien, great to have you up here.
We've covered a lot of different topics here.
I want to get your opinion, though.
Feel free to go in any direction you want.
But do you feel there is a line that can be crossed where you start to lose the people's support if you piss them off enough?
Alex, first, let me say thank you for giving me a mic, Malcolm, Marjorie, all the other good people in the room.
I didn't mind waiting that long.
It's been a really good conversation.
Let me just say this before I start.
I'm going to take off my clergy hat as I give these comments, right?
I want to speak as a tax-paying American, okay?
I think that was Jackie or somebody who brought it up earlier kind of about the protest.
And I think one of y'all brought up that video of the guy who got shot in Brazil.
I posted that video about a month ago, and I got like 30 million impressions.
It went viral.
And my philosophy is this.
I believe in protest.
I do.
I think people should be able to lift their voice and their American right to do so.
But I am vehemently against protesting in the street.
I'm against protesting at somebody's house, right?
I'm against protesting at airports because I think it's extremely selfish, okay?
So, what happened to that guy in Brazil that got those folks that got shot who were in the street?
I believe if you're protesting the street, you ought to be run over, right?
Because it's extremely selfish to block the road when somebody may be trying to get to work to feed their family.
They may be trying to pick up medicine for their sick child or sick parent.
They may be going to a job interview.
They may be going to pick up their child from daycare or whatever.
People have lives, right?
And so, I think it's so tone deaf and so selfish and just so maniacal for people to think whatever they have going on is so important where they have to block a moving road.
Now, if you get the proper permits to block the road and you got police escorts or whatever, hey, that's your business.
But to just block the roads, that for me is maniacal.
And if you get run over or shot or killed or murdered, then that's your business.
You took that chance to do that, right?
And so, I don't feel sorry for people that go out and do that because there's a way to protest.
If you have something you want to lift your voice about, there's a way to do it.
If you want to reach out to your congresspersons, write a letter, send an email, voice yourself on Twitter.
There's a way to say, there's a lot of ways to do it, hold up something.
But two days after Christmas, like, I just dropped my boyfriend off at the airport here about two hours ago.
And so, the airport is packed.
People are trying to go back home to their everyday lives.
So, to disrupt people's regular lives like that, if they're trying to get back home with their children and their kids, it's so selfish, first and foremost.
Secondly, I believe that as Americans, we ought to mind our business.
Whatever's going on over there in the Middle East, we ought to mind our business.
We got enough going on in this country.
We have enough issues going on in this country if it ain't poverty, if it ain't taxation, if it ain't rampant crime throughout our neighborhoods, if it ain't grandmothers being mugged at the gas station.
We got a lot going on here.
Inflation is through the roof.
And so, we got our own issues here that we need to worry about.
And so, if I were to support any level of that type of protest that we're seeing today in Chicago, in New York, in L.A., I would want to see those type of protests to get Joe Biden out of office.
So, I join that protest.
Yeah, Malcolm, let me just say here.
Yeah, but let me just say really quick.
These protests are a precursor to a larger protest, which is civil war.
So, would you rather have civil war immediately, or would you rather allow these protests and these types of protests to do their job where disruptions are implemented and things are brought to the attention of people?
Otherwise, we're going to end up in civil war.
And if you think that these protests are a disruption to your life, you've got another thing coming.
But you've got to ask yourself whose bombs are being dropped on these people.
Why are they protesting?
Why are they taking it to such an extent?
Because, you know, you can't.
Because genocide is taking place.
Genocide is taking place.
Hold on now.
Orderly file, guys.
Let's go.
Single file, orderly.
Come on now.
All right.
Let's let Damien finish, and then we'll go ahead and go to the sidebar with Derek and Michael.
And then we've got to keep going.
We've got G waiting.
Yeah, I'll be.
Got a couple.
I'll be done here in 30 seconds.
Thank you for that, Malcolm.
But I'll tell you one thing.
If we're going to protest, I would love to see people really lifting their voice and banding together in this country.
Because the biggest issue that we're dealing with right now is this illegal immigration problem.
And so if you want to hold up and lift your voice and band together about how to make America better or whatever the issue is, we've got immigrants floating in this country.
So let's come together to stop that type of madness.
I appreciate you guys giving me a mic.
No, I totally agree with him.
I just wanted to chime in and say, right, we're asking ourselves, why are these protests happening?
But and then we pretend like it's not American bombs that are being dropped on these people.
So we've got to look at things in reality and stop pretending like what's happening isn't happening because they don't want those bombs dropped on them either.
But Joe Biden just shipped I don't know how many new warheads right over there.
And we're pretending like these people are just so upset because, you know, they're here to protest and, you know, try to draw attention to us.
Yeah, they are trying to draw attention to us because bombs are being dropped on them, you know, and I know this as being a Lebanese American.
You know, they're dropping bombs near my grandmother's house.
And it does get scary.
It gets you uncomfortable.
But maybe that's the point is to let us know, you know, that this is not OK.
We shouldn't be OK with this happening.
But anyways, I digress.
Real quick, I want to do one quick thing.
Then we're going to go to G, then Bluer.
I want to go through some of the comments.
We've gotten a ton and ton of replies on this space so far.
I want to go through a few of them.
Thank you, everyone, for submitting your replies.
We have 358 of them.
So I don't want them to go unnoticed.
A few things here, though.
An old blue bear says I'm in Dallas, Texas, and I won't let my wife go outside to walk the dog without me.
It's gotten that bad in the past two to three years.
So it seems that it's almost in every city now.
They're facing the same.
Is Dallas, is that a blue or red run city?
Does anyone have that top of mind, that information?
I think it's purple.
It's purple?
Yeah, kind of.
The mayor was a Democrat.
He flipped to a Republican here about two months ago.
Oh, how convenient.
Flipped Republican two months ago.
Interesting.
All right.
So Dallas seems like they're going through the same thing.
Becky says, if the news is announcing the protest and what they're going to do.
What's that?
Oh, you do?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Blue, are you hot micing on me, buddy?
You hot micing on me.
I'm going to press mute on you.
Becky says, if the news is announcing the protest and what they're going to do when it happens,
that means it's not organic and a planned operation.
I don't know.
Lockjaw.
I'm just a truck driver, so maybe I got a different look on things.
But someone said protests sometimes need to be disruptive to make their point.
MLK protested and turned it into a movement and never raised his hand.
Didn't MLK block a bridge one time?
Wasn't that right?
Yeah, they marked across a couple of bridges.
Montgomery and a couple of other places.
Selma.
This isn't unprecedented.
No, it is not.
No, no, they had permits for that.
They had permits to do that.
They didn't have permits.
They didn't have permits.
What the hell are you talking about?
They didn't have permits.
They didn't even issue permits.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Whoa.
Did they have permits?
There were no permits at that fucking time for protesting.
Permits didn't come until the fucking 80s.
So permits for protests didn't come until the 80s.
So let's not talk bullshit here, okay?
Protesting is protesting.
It's your right to retrieve the grass.
You need to be able to address your government in a way that you see fit.
All of you.
Every single one of you.
Anybody that says that there are rules to this shit is crazy to me.
Yeah, we do need it.
And that's another thing that I think that, you know, people on the right kind of get a little bit wrong, especially when they look at it from the normie perspective.
And I'm not on the right.
I'm not on the right.
I'm not on the left.
Just so you know, man.
I don't have a political.
Definitely.
I don't do that shit.
I'm just saying, me as a human being, man, I'm going to address my grievances of the government and the people that are oppressing me or holding sport over top of me as a human being?
Are you kidding me?
I'm going to do my thing.
That's one thing I definitely want to make clear is that, again, I think when people on the right look at it and they say, oh, you're you're being a rabble rouser, just, you know, basically dispossessing other people.
You have to look at it from the standpoint of, hey, you might one day be in those situations as well.
And look at it with those eyes, which is what is it?
What would you do that would be acceptable if you had an issue that you thought were important or, you know, basically life or death or, you know, maybe certain people?
That's if we're looking at it as if it's organic, but not to get too caught up.
Alex, continue with the comments.
Let's let's keep on.
Keep it going hot.
Yeah, real quick.
I just did some fact checking and by fact checking means I Googled and clicked on a few links.
So this is by no means 100 percent certain, but it doesn't look like there was a permit.
They tried to obtain a public permit for the march, but learned in no uncertain terms that a permit would never be granted.
In fact, the officials learned the plans of the march and filed a complaint seeking a court order to stop it.
So based on me clicking on a few links on the Internet, this is off Harvard site.
Take that what you will.
It appears that there is precedent for this type of protest.
Bridges and airports have been blocked before.
And I think I think it's safe to say MLK was pretty successful in his protests.
That's what got shot in the head, right?
Well, yeah, kind of got a bullet for it.
Not ready for that, Derek.
I'll go through these.
We'll go through these last few comments here.
Not Dave.
I mean, it is what it is.
But how sad is the world becoming?
It's the same over here in Australia, in our cities, says not Dave.
Baz says protests work.
And Jody Williams says Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I absolutely love you.
Thumbs up emoji.
Specifically, the white skin thumbs up emoji.
You really see the white skin emoji being used.
Anyway, I keep questioning all the yellow hands.
Let me just ask Alex.
Let me just say that all of the yellow hands.
It's like, look, you know, let me raise my hand here.
OK, so what?
Oh, geez.
This is a new phone.
So when I raise my hand, it matches my skin tone.
It's not yellow.
What the hell is this yellow hand?
I'm just asking.
Infiltrators.
No lies matter.
I don't need this.
It's nondescript.
I'm sorry.
I just thought it was funny.
It's like, what's with all these yellow fucking hands, man?
The yellow emoji unites us instead of divides us.
We can all be the yellow hand emoji.
It unites it.
Marjorie just went from white to black hand.
I don't know.
One hand.
Oh, see, I started in trend.
I started in trend.
It's great.
We are so off the rails.
Continue, though.
This is great.
I know.
I'm sorry, guys.
Hey, I have to jump off here, but I love you guys.
I love this space.
Love it.
Malcolm, Alex, Penny, Michael, Stacey, Patriot.
Everybody in here.
Rock and roll.
I have to jump off.
I love you all.
No, seriously.
These are good conversations, though, man.
No, I appreciate you.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
You always come up, and whether you agree with Derek or not, throw him a follow just because he comes up and he's not afraid to share his opinion, which is what X is all about.
Not just that.
I don't hate you because you have a different opinion of mine.
I don't hate you.
It's like I only dislike you if you attack me.
I won't attack you.
So let's all just try to figure this stuff out together, have a really good, in-depth conversation, figure this shit out.
We've got the greatest minds in the world aggregated here.
What are we doing with it?
That's my question.
No, I love it, man.
Appreciate it.
We're going to do this again soon, Derek, so come up again.
I'll be in contact in the background with you.
Thank you to everyone who's submitting comments.
We have 393 of them.
I'll keep reading them throughout the space, so don't stop submitting.
We are at 120 retweets.
I'm going to order my Uber to JFK.
If we get to 200, what am I going to do?
You're flying Malcolm out to basically service security.
If we get to 200 retweets, I'm flying Malcolm out to JFK.
He'll be my security.
I'll get right in the middle of that protest, and we'll find out what's really going on here.
And then next week, will you infiltrate it, Alex?
Will you infiltrate the movement?
I will 100% infiltrate the movement.
I will create the posters.
I will get inside, and I will report live.
Hopefully, they'll have video spaces out.
I'll video space in, or I'll just live stream.
We'll see.
But how about this?
We get to 1,000, I'll infiltrate.
I'll infiltrate 100%.
I like that idea.
Gain their trust from the inside.
I'll run for leadership in the organization and organize the protests myself.
With hair like that, I think they'll let Malcolm in anywhere.
I mean, if it looks like that all the time, my goodness.
Hair like that, with a voice like that, you can convince anyone of anything.
All right.
We'll keep it popping.
We'll keep it moving here.
Thank you for everyone who retweets me.
We've got seven retweets since I offered to infiltrate.
So thank you.
We're going to get this to 200.
Keep sharing it out.
We're having a really amazing conversation here from all sides.
The more people in here, the more different perspectives we can get.
So I appreciate everyone who's here and listening.
I'm going to throw it to G.
I love it when people are known by one letter on X.
We got G up here.
I have a lot to say, and I'm here to make it everyone's problem.
That sounds like a perfect candidate to have someone on a stage on a space.
G, I'm going to throw it to you.
Appreciate you coming up and raising the hand.
Do you believe these protests are helping or hurting the cause?
First of all, did you see any of the information I sent you, Alex?
To answer your question directly, no.
Where did you send it?
Through the DMs?
Yes, go check it out.
Do I feel it's helping?
Absolutely not.
I could go in further.
Do protests help?
Absolutely.
However, in my opinion, this is a bigger issue.
First of all, it's not just, you know, about genocide.
These happened way before, you know, anything really kicked off and where we should be concerned.
In my opinion, I do believe, like the good reverend, I want my country focused on my country.
Do I think this is helping them?
Absolutely not.
People are getting fed up.
It comes to a point where there could be an emergency situation and it hinders anyone from getting help.
So the more you inconvenience people on a level such as what's been happening at its frequency,
I don't see how that could be beneficial to your cause.
You're just going to turn people against you, especially when, like I sent you, Alex, when your agenda doesn't seem to be genuine.
It seems to be a lot of things encompassing a Palestinian, pro-Palestinian protest, which, in my mind, isn't just that.
So I don't think it's helping.
I am one of those New Yorkers that is tired of it.
And my question is, how is it that people who were peacefully walking up to the Capitol got flash banged and all that,
but yet we have serious protests, inconveniencing big cities, most of them blue, and nothing is being done to disperse it, anyone doing any violent or inappropriate acts,
especially, as you know, Alex, because in your space it's been discussed, and I really appreciate that.
The conversation's been awesome.
They're going through the revolving door.
Nothing is happening to these people.
The last time we had something like this happen, which was 2020, said protesters, and many of them, got a payout of $10,000.
What precedent is this setting?
What do you mean by that?
Who's getting payouts of $10,000?
Some of the protesters from 2020 got payouts.
The BLM process?
Yeah.
You weren't aware of that?
Why did they get payouts of $10,000?
For, I don't know, I don't remember, but basically, you know, as if they shouldn't have, their rights were violated?
I don't know.
I mean, I guess it's okay to loot and burn down cities, and you get hit up on the back end with a little stipend to keep you going?
I don't know.
But it happened.
Wait, so was it the government?
Go ahead, Penny.
Was it the government that paid them?
Was this, like, some court handout that they got?
Like, yeah, and then even a five-star hotel accommodation in New York?
Yeah, really.
Walk into our country illegally, break our laws, and end up at a five-star hotel.
Michael, any—
Because we felt sad for them?
No, no, no, because what do you mean for, like, the last—for the last, like, six years, all these—well, we'll say Democrats, right?
But I want everyone to understand it's not just Democrats or, you know, both Democrats and Republicans support this agenda.
But they're telling people to come, you know, come across the border and we'll accommodate you and just come here and everything will be hunky-dory.
But you've got to stop and ask yourself, why are they doing this?
Come across the border as in migrants are coming across the border on, hey, join this protest?
Well, I mean, you saw Ashley St. Clair and Penny and several others highlight they're just being flown around the country.
Yeah, so to—I mean, pretty much to go ahead and add a little bit of context.
I mean, first thing is the people getting paid out.
New York City did pay out about 13.7 million to 1,300 people.
Take that with a grain of salt, but I've got a couple of sources here.
That was back in 2020, I believe, or at least that's when they were paid out.
So now, as far as migrants and people getting flown out and, you know, housing these nice hotels, I actually did a nice little video about that.
Pretty much, you have people who are essentially trying to clean up the issue at the border by sweeping it under the bed within the Biden administration.
So if the border processing centers ever get overloaded to the point where it becomes a humanitarian crisis, to the point where you have mass kidnappings making the news and they can't ignore it, then it's going to become a problem.
So what they're doing right now is they're trying to traffic these people, essentially use these airlines and just throw money at the problem and fly them out to the sanctuary city so that they can essentially be housed on taxpayer dollar because that is the way it is in a sanctuary city.
And it gets them off the border.
It keeps that place from becoming a hotbed and a hot point because good Lord knows if Biden and his borders are, who's never been to the border, and end up, you know, on the receiving end of a controversy, it's going to be worse than kids in cages.
So that's why they're doing that.
Well, good Lord knows also, Malcolm, Catholic Charities has their hands elbow deep in all of this.
Indeed.
But, you know, they approach that from a humanitarian side of things, whereas the Biden administration is approaching it from a pragmatic.
At this point, they're here and it's like, what do you do?
Do you let them ball up and, you know, just kind of, you know, starve in a box or do you at least give them a fighting chance?
And keep in mind, this isn't me saying that's good.
This is me just saying that the problems reach critical mass.
The time to solve the problem was yesterday.
And, you know, the time to address the problem was about three weeks ago.
So we're here and you got to do what you got to do before the body start piling up at the border.
I'm watching a video of a few of these protesters and they're all wearing the Panda Low Nike Dunks.
Is there any shoe that has jumped the shark more than the Panda Low Nike Dunks?
I mean, come on.
Well, that's a year ago.
There are specific games that wear those.
Really?
I'm joking.
I'm being here for this situation.
I just feel like everywhere I go in New York City, 90% of the city wears the Panda Low Nike Dunks.
It's like, come on.
Can you at least try out a different color?
How unexplorative are these guys?
Well, I mean, look, let's be honest.
If you're going to start.
Let's be honest.
If you're going to have a single-minded protest where, you know, you're just following the rest of the crowd,
your fashion sense is probably going to track in some kind of way, right?
Yeah, I'm just saying.
I work at Congress.
I bought the Michigan State Nike Dunk Lows, the dark green ones.
It's like, you can try out a couple of the other colors.
You don't got to go with the Panda.
Did you just say Michigan State while a Michigan alum is on your panel right now?
Well, they're not by Michigan State.
They're just the Michigan State dark green, which is my favorite color because it matches my Boston Celtics fit very well.
Gotcha.
That works for them.
That's why I got them.
Anyway.
What's the retweet count at?
Oh, yeah.
True.
I got a retweet count at 144.
If we can get this to 150.
Wait, can we get permanent what you're actually saying?
Because I want to actually force you to go infiltrate these people.
If we get to 1,000.
Listen, what am I going to have to do?
Uber to JFK?
Fuck.
During rush hour?
Let me check to see what the traffic lights.
Is it JFK at the moment during rush hour?
Yeah, I'm looking at a one-hour drive from Brooklyn to JFK at the moment.
How quickly can you get Malcolm out to where you're at?
Malcolm, where are you at?
Oh, God.
Deep South Bama.
Deep South Bama?
I can probably get you out here quick.
And we just meet halfway.
You come out of the airport.
I go towards the airport.
Or just hit up Elon.
Get on a Starship.
He'll be there.
I would say this.
If video spaces become a thing in the next week, I'm 100% down.
Yeah, definitely.
It's got to drop next week, though.
That's the thing.
It's got to drop while all this is going on.
Even if it's not at the airport.
If they do it in the streets, I'll go to the streets.
Ball drop.
New Year's Eve, bro.
Oh, I hear it won't catch me.
Hey, Alex.
Hey, Alex.
Can I ask you a question real quick?
For the New Year's Eve here, so, Alex, it's supposed to be pretty lit, if you haven't heard.
What's going to be lit?
New York City.
New York City's lit?
Lit with protesters.
And you will understand the intention and the direction that these protests are going.
Remember, Christmas Eve and Christmas, they made sure.
They hit the spots.
Midnight Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Everywhere they went, there was a purpose, and they followed through on their word.
Well, listen, here's what we'll do.
I don't know how interesting an audio space of me in the middle of a protest will be,
but I can tell you a video space of me at the protest will be supremely interesting.
So, once video space is – this is not even a bait to get retweets, which I've been doing all night.
No, I'll join you.
I've been baiting for retweets.
But I will go there.
What's that, Michael?
I will join you.
I'll go out there.
If you're willing to actually go – because I'm of Arab – I'm a Semite, right?
So, I get along.
I'm in Detroit, Dearborn area, so I get along with many cultures and peoples.
Lebanon is right on the border of Israel and Damascus, Syria.
That's where I grew up.
So, I know the religions very well, and I would accommodate you as long as Malcolm's there.
You would fly out to New York?
Yes, I will.
Malcolm, you in?
Oh, man.
I'll see.
I can definitely check my schedule.
I would love to, though.
All right.
Well, at the very least, for those people here, when the video spaces drop, which Elon
said there was a chance before end of the year, so he has, like, four more days to do
it, I personally guarantee I'll be at the protest to report.
And Michael says he's joining me as well.
So, that is going to be an unbelievable space.
If you want to be a part of that, I'm not joking.
That's going to happen.
That's happening the moment video spaces drop.
Make sure to click on my profile.
I'm Alex Finn, the one with the really disgusting, gross, cringe profile picture.
You click on the profile, and then you tap on the notifications button.
Turn on the notifications button.
Me, Marge, Malcolm, Penny2x, Michael, who else is on stage that normally comes to us?
They're not up here now, but Roz Alerts, a few of the others.
We do these spaces a few times a week.
They're absolutely fire.
We cover current events.
It's always great conversation.
Turn on notifications.
Hit my profile.
Turn them on.
You'll be alerted next time these start, and you'll be alerted when video spaces drop.
We'll be there in person.
Me and Penny are planning an in-real-life meetup soon.
So, maybe we'll plan an in-real-life meetup around some sort of special event we can report
from as well.
I am so in for that, Alex.
What a cool way to get together for the first time in person.
Bring our phones and do a video space together at a breaking news event.
That would be awesome.
Hey, in for Penny.
Sorry, I had to make that horrible joke.
No, I like it.
Sometimes you need to lighten things up when we're talking about protests in Israel and
Palestine.
No way.
Sometimes you got to lighten the mood up a little bit.
But I appreciate it.
Michael, I'm excited to do some live reporting.
That's going to be fucking much.
And video too, right?
I think Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would do video at a million followers.
250,000, she'll allow us to hear her voice and find out that it is actually MTG the entire
time.
Get Marjorie to a million followers.
Marjorie will do it live with us video on as well.
I will leave it.
Make sure to do that.
Let's do this.
We got a few hands on stage.
I want to make sure we get to these hands.
We're going to go first off to Patriot Storm 17.
I have a feeling this will be a faster one.
I'm sorry.
Can y'all see my hand?
No, I'll only be asking because I was like next after Reverend and I'm afraid that y'all
maybe y'all can't see my hand or I don't know if I'm glitching.
You know what?
That girl, Casey, I typically hate when people jump in and say, hey, it's my turn now.
But you know what?
I kind of like the cut of your jib.
So I'm going to pass.
It is her time now.
Yeah, it is your time.
You take your time.
I like that spot.
You go ahead.
Thanks.
And then my phone is probably going to cut me off.
I'm afraid I'm glitching.
So I'll probably end up getting shut down with this.
But thank you.
I appreciate your patience.
And I just want to just say just a couple just real quick.
I won't take too long.
But I definitely do not think that these airport riots are organic.
I think that you can organically find people who just want to do something.
And yeah, there are people who are upset about what's happening over in the Middle East.
But it's very easy to organize a bunch of people who are just like, I'm about it.
I'm just going to do whatever.
But this is very organized.
I didn't forget, you know, the Summer of Love 2020 in Philly when Pallet Jacks was showing
up in Center City at 9 o'clock at night.
There's nobody in Philadelphia, no Normie in Philadelphia that's that organized to get
the Pallet Jacks of Bricks to show up for these, quote, protests.
So I definitely, in my, like 80% of me knows that this is coordinated.
And I think it's for other reasons, possibly to get, number one,
the American people to be more accepting of going into some sort of war later.
So I don't know, you know, and it probably starts from here.
And then I don't know what the next thing is that might escalate.
I'm sorry.
Yes, my mind does go there because the patterns that I dealt with this government and, you
know, after a while, the PTSD, whatever you want to call it, I just remember.
What do you mean?
Go to what you're trying to say.
What do you mean by that?
I mean, even if you want to talk about, like, simply the same one, right?
Weapons of mass destruction.
I'm not saying that Iran didn't have weapons.
But of mass destruction, I mean, we know that they were exaggerating a lot of things.
And not even just that.
Yeah.
And not even just that.
I mean, look what they did with COVID.
Me as a registered nurse watching the world go crazy over a respiratory virus that, in
fact, was already here.
And it just was like another form of it.
I understand getting worried, but we shut down businesses.
That's not how you end a virus.
So that's what I mean.
Like, after a while, I just, you know, you just look ahead like, OK, here we go.
Playbook.
Let me pull up the chapter, see which part of the playbook this is.
That's how I feel.
That's me personally.
What's the link to the protest, though?
What's the link to the protest?
Do you think this is all in a way organized to do what?
So, again, it makes the Palestinian cause look bad.
It does.
And what I'm seeing is, you know, I'm a conservative and I respect the truth wherever it lands.
I understand that we have a lot of cultural issues in our country, and we do, where, you
know, people are talking about, oh, we need to decolonize America.
Like, please get out of here, OK?
I like the way it is here, you know, like.
Wait, wait, wait, but I don't think they mean decolonize in that sense.
I think they do.
No, no, no, no.
Yeah, I'm about to get there.
Just give me a second.
You know what I mean?
But what I'm saying is, like, our culture issues should not be, like, put on top of
what Palestinians go through.
I'll put it that way.
Like, I noticed that people say, like, oh, yeah, they're saying, you know, Palestinians,
they just say that they're colonized.
That's like how they say it here.
Like, no, no, no, no.
We have our own separate issues, and their issues should not be taken so lightly.
I'm just going to say that.
And so for me, it makes the Palestinian cause look bad because, I mean, yeah, of course,
I know if I'm going to the airport, there's a bunch of people at the airport and stuff
like that, and I need to get somewhere.
God forbid there's a funeral or something.
Hell yeah.
I'm going to be like, yo, I don't give a damn what y'all walking and talking about.
Get out of my way.
Right?
So I don't think that people who really have an empathetic feeling towards this cause would
want to be a part of this kind of destruction.
So I just, I definitely think it's organized.
I mean, come on, they made it to the airport.
Like, when you ever hear people that organized, they make it to the airport.
Like, that's, wow.
I mean, okay.
And so, you know, I'm just saying that the truth falls where it lands.
And then I'm going to end with this.
You know, shout out to Nico.
This was earlier.
He said something.
He said that, yeah, you know, the Kremlin funded, you know, the Arabs back in the past.
And this is why.
This is them doing this.
You see what I mean about the deception?
Like, we have to make sure we have our facts.
Because, in fact, it was, you know, the U.S. funded the Mujahideen that turned into the Taliban.
You know, we've been funding these terrorists for a long time.
We've created our own problems.
For all of this forever war, for all of the dead soldiers, for all of the dead civilians,
for all the broken soldiers with PTSD, everything else.
God bless these brave men and women who went and fought for their country because that's
what they believed they were doing, right?
Are we any safer for it?
You know?
So, these are questions that I think we need to really look into very deeply with the upcoming
year.
Thank you for letting me speak.
And, you know, you guys have a great rest of the day.
I'm glad my phone didn't hang up.
You know, Casey, I appreciate you.
I just threw you a follow.
I love everything you have.
It's not even that I agree or disagree with any of it.
It's I love how passionate you are and well-researched you are.
The energy was good, right?
Yeah.
Same thing.
Well, the playbook would be what?
The Democrat Marxist Socialist Playbook?
Is that what we're saying?
And when I say Democrat, guys, I'm talking historically speaking.
Like, you know, you look at the, what is his name?
Saul Alinsky.
So, the Alinsky model is really what I'm gearing towards.
So, I don't want you guys to think I'm talking like Democrats today, right?
Like, this goes way back.
These people have been doing this thing for a long time where they take brown peoples
or foreign peoples who don't speak the language.
They put them on ships.
They bring them to, you know, they did it in Germany.
They did it here.
They colonized.
You know, it's the colonizers.
But anyways, I digress.
It's interesting.
And I'll digress a little bit as well.
But it's interesting to watch this whole series of events unfold because, I think, as you
said, Michael, this really isn't a left or a right issue.
And it seems with Biden at a historical low, the lowest all-time approval rating for a president
at the end of a year, all-time in the history of this country.
Do you see how we're not even thinking about Biden right now?
We're like, how do we get these brown Palestinians to stop preventing me from getting on a plane?
And I get it, right?
And they're like, well, how do we get you fucking Americans to stop bombing my grandma and my
whole family off the face of the earth?
So we've got to look at it realistically, but also stay within, you know, non-emotional
perspectives if we can.
For sure.
It's just the point being is it's just interesting to see this event unfold just in the perspective
of the upcoming election where this is an event where it seems to be a lose-lose for Biden,
which no matter which way he goes on this issue, he seems to be alienating all sides with his
decision-making on this.
I don't know.
And obviously this is a little dehumanizing of a grave, you know, disgusting situation
going on and putting in the perspective of a political game.
I 100%, but I'm taking it from the perspective of just from a political 2024 is coming up.
We have an election.
The election will change the face of the world.
It's just interesting to see and look at these events from the perspective of that upcoming
election.
Well, Alex, if you could, if you could procure a hundred million voters that didn't actually
vote for you, would you be worried about campaigning or how, how things look or seem?
Well, that's a, that's a whole different conversation in and of itself, Michael, isn't it?
I don't know.
He seems to be, I mean, it's interesting to watch this.
Now Trump, I think leads in like seven swing states.
It's, it'll be interesting to see if he goes from leading in a tremendous amount of swing
states to losing.
That would be, if he thinks he lost the last, if he thinks the last election was stolen,
it's going to be interesting to see what he thinks of this one.
If he loses it after leading in almost every single swing state, but that is a space for
another time, Michael, that is a space for another time in which I promise you, we will
have that conversation.
I want to get to these hands.
We have four hands raised.
We'll go, we'll go in this order.
We'll go Patriot, Ryan Zink, bluer than Stacey.
Patriot, the floor is yours.
Hello, everybody.
How y'all doing?
Shout out to Marjorie for throwing me a mic.
What's up, Michael?
How you doing?
I can't help but notice that this, like somebody said it earlier, these protests to me start
with genuine intent, but they seem to always get hijacked around election years.
It just kind of wreaks the same feeling as the summer of love to me.
You know, like I think the protests start off with genuine intent, but then you get infiltrators
that come in and try to destroy things just to cause chaos and confusion.
It's just, it looks like it's a pattern.
I mean, you know, and I'm not trying to put my tinfoil hat on, but it just, it just, it's
almost the same thing, but it's having an opposite effect.
It's making people up north, uh, kind of pushing people away and pushing people to the other
side of things.
Like it's making a lot of people want to vote the opposite direction this time.
Last time this happened in 2020, it seemed like people went to the democratic side to,
you know, vote.
But now it seems like all this chaos is bringing people more to the right side, but it just
seemed like it's, it's infiltration always, it always start off with good intent and then
it's, it's some type of infiltration and it just seems like, you know, the same thing
from 2020.
That's, that's all I've been, you know, thinking about the last couple of days.
Cause I haven't had much to say about it, but it just, it just kind of, you know what
I'm saying?
It just kind of seemed the same.
Uh, Mike, Michael Corey pretty much touched on what I was going to say, uh, in the beginning
when he first started speaking, but, uh, that's all I got for now.
Um, and if I have something else, I'll raise my hand again.
Cause I kind of lost my train of thought like long time ago.
Cause it gets all these amazing speakers.
So, uh, yeah, I'll just sit here and chime in when I can.
Patriot.
No, I think you bring up a really good point, uh, which is, it does seem the tone and the
way these protests and the events are viewed again, you know, there's a lot of inhumane
things going on in the world.
So I don't want to simplify all this down to, oh, this is protest and people don't like
the protests.
Uh, so this is, this is with all due, this is with all due respect to people being impacted
by these global events, but just taking a step back from a pure media and tone perspective
of what I see, it seems the tone of, of the way people view these protests are different
than the way people viewed the protests in 2020.
And if there is this, this conspiratorial playbook going on of, oh, let's rile things
up right before an election.
It does seem it's like it's having different reactions now.
Um, so I think that is an interesting point, Patriot.
Uh, I was, I was just going to say, uh, thank you for having me up here.
I really had a lot more to say, but I got lost in the sauce cause I was listening to
all the amazing speakers up here, man.
Um, I love to chime in in these spaces and it's great.
And you can definitely, I think I'm in a group chat with you and Marjorie and all the people,
right?
So y'all could just send me a link and I'll come to these spaces every time and support
and share it out, man.
I like these conversations a lot.
So I appreciate you for having me.
And like I said, I'll chime in again when I can.
Um, but let me be clear when I, I don't, I don't want to stop, stop shining the light
on the positivity that this could bring if it wasn't hijacked, you know what I'm saying?
Like it, it could bring some, like, I think they, they're, they're, they're in the right
for what they're doing.
Like they want to ceasefire.
I think what the Palestinians want to ceasefire.
Who want to ceasefire?
Somebody want to ceasefire, right?
All right.
Right.
So I think, I think, I think that's pretty, that's a pretty noble thing that they're protesting
about and it's, it mostly be peaceful, but then when it gets riled up, you get what I'm
saying?
It just seems like what, let me ask you this, Alex, what side was, was, was riding when
this happened last time?
January 6th.
What side was it though?
Who, who infiltrated?
Well, Ryan can answer that.
Antifa, the Democratic March of Socialists.
Um, so, so we've seen it, well, that's, that's actually three times.
So we've seen it during George Floyd, then we've seen it January 6th, and now we've seen
it again.
What's the common denominator?
And only one side ever gets arrested, right?
The righteous are the only ones who get arrested.
Exactly.
So that's what I'm saying.
So the common denominator is you got four, three times that we publicly seen this happen
and it just so happens it's always around election cycles and it's the same stuff.
Our side don't touch stuff.
We don't go around and break shit up.
We don't go around and, and torture statutes and statues and all this stuff.
We don't do that.
Y'all know we don't do that.
And I'm not trying to be divisive right now, but I'm just saying, let's keep this in perspective
real quick.
You got three times the same actions.
Who's doing it?
Who's, who's behind it?
Same plan worked every time is what you're saying.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Michael.
We have actual news sources.
Now we got X where before Twitter would kick us off.
I'm still kicked off from my old account from January 6th.
Right.
So good point.
Very good point.
I don't think that type of conversations could happen on old Twitter.
That's what really makes us, uh, no matter what he's doing to the algorithm, I don't care.
The fact that Elon's enabling conversations like this when you really couldn't have them
before.
What does Al Gore have anything to do with this house?
Oh man, that's hilarious.
Uh, I want to do this.
I, I have to leave in five minutes.
I want to throw it to Ryan Zink.
I apologize to Blue or Popcorn, uh, as well as to Stacey.
You two, I have screenshotted both your profiles.
Uh, I'm going to DM you both directly for the next space.
I'm going to make sure you come up first and are able to speak immediately.
I deeply apologize, but we've been here for three hours and, uh, I'm on the verge of starvation.
I need to eat something.
Oh man, Tom Ridley does fly.
Shoot.
Three hours.
Doesn't it?
It's unbelievable.
Three hours.
This conversation.
It honestly feels like it was like less than an hour.
Shoot.
I saw my boy Kanye.
He was going to jump in.
Oh well.
I can't bring people up anyways.
Kanye West?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kanye 2024.
No, I'm joking.
Listen, if you can get Ye up here, I'll, uh, I'll extend another five minutes.
I would, I'd be down for Kanye for president, but let's jump to Ryan, huh?
Yeah, let's, let's do this real quick before we do that.
I just want to send some thanks.
Thank you to everyone who's come up and spoken so far, no matter what side or opinion you
have.
Uh, I appreciate you coming up, sharing your opinion.
That's what makes this platform so great.
Uh, thank you, Malcolm and Marjorie for co-hosting.
Thank you for the speakers who've been up here for so long.
Michael, Reverend G.
Uh, thank you, Penny2x.
We, we, uh, collaborate a lot on different pieces of content.
I'm always, uh, it's always an honor to collaborate with you on, oh, he's gone.
Uh, appreciate you, Penny.
And, uh, let's throw it to the final one.
Ryan, Ryan, what's going on, my man?
All right.
Well, hello, everyone.
My name is Ryan Zink.
I'm a J6 defendant who is also on the ballot in Texas to run for Congress.
And I wanted to make a few inferences on what I know from my research about First Amendment
and, uh, why there's this alienation because protesting is a bipartisan issue.
It is.
It's Republican, it's Democrat, it's independent, it's everyone because the, the, the difference
between not being able to say what you have to say and being heard and being told what to
do is the action of slavery.
And if you look at the, the way that everything has developed all the way down through the
past couple of years, January 6th was the Reichstag fire of 1933.
When you go back and you look at this, it implemented three key things.
It implemented that they were able to suspend the right to assemble, freedom of speech, freedom
of the press, and other constitutional protections.
It permitted the regime of the Nazi party to arrest and incarcerate political opponents
without specific charge to dissolve political organizations and confiscate private property.
And it also gave them the authority to overrule state local laws and overthrow state and local
governments.
So if you look at what we're in right now, like with Trump being removed off of the ballot
in Colorado, this is specifically what's happened.
Now on January 6th, I only spoke.
I never went into the building.
I never assaulted anyone.
I never moved to barricade.
I never did anything.
But because I was there, I'm now a felon and I have two other misdemeanors because my
freedom of speech, freedom of assembly was taken from me.
So whenever we look at the total encompassment of like what it means to protest essentially and
as the Democrats like to call a democracy, which is a constitutional republic, it is expression.
Your expression is being divided by the media because what we all are at the center of the
day, at the very core of things, is that we are people.
And to divide and conquer is the best way to keep us silent, to keep us cooperative, and
to keep us under the thumb of those that would not have us expressing our own ideals and ideologies.
And to do that in itself, one, is extremely dangerous because even when you go back to the
British king and parliament about how they made new ways of government in order to oppress
the people, you will see that that is why the Constitution clearly states, as it was brought
up a little bit earlier in this space, where Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion or prohibiting free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or the freedom
of press or the right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition the government for a redress
of grievances.
The problem with some of these protests that we're seeing that are like blocking airports
is some of these people are not Americans.
Some of these people are here illegally.
That creates a problem in itself because Congress can pass litigation against them preventing this
type of speech.
But where does the line get drawn?
What do we, at the end of the day, as people, have to say to where we all have to come together
to oppose a certain issue or the federal government or certain rulings?
You know, the protest of democracy in recent times was what we, you know, can look at as
far as revolutionary expansion is communication.
Whenever these people are protesting, just like on January 6th, they are expressing something.
They are trying to convey a message.
And with that message for a majority of the research that I see is there's a ceasefire
that's wanted.
At the end of the day, a protest for something to stop is a call for peace.
And that is, you know, never going to be achieved with, you know, the American industrial war complex.
And this is one of the reasons that I'm running is because we have got to define people because there's no there's
nothing else that's left.
If we lose America, if we lose this here, we've lost everything because we're the last place to turn.
We're the last place that freedom of speech still exists.
Do you think that in Afghanistan or Iran or any of the other countries, let's even go further south.
Let's go to Africa and certain parts of South America that a platform like Twitter would be able
to house its network so that we can speak on these platforms.
Absolutely not.
You're not going to get that there because there is a totalitarian regime in a majority of these
places that silences that authority to speak and say something.
And that's what we have to do.
Make it a bipartisan issue to stand up and be people and to come together to defeat this.
Because a majority of all of these protests, like with me, with January 6th, I am being
persecuted by an unelected bureaucrat, Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland, that both of these men,
they were not elected.
They were placed into these positions by Joe Biden.
It's a majority of what they're doing is illegal, first of all.
And then you get into the stuff like with Jack Smith and Trump and all of those other,
you know, persecutions from the DOJ.
It's astonishing what we can't accomplish when we're not standing together to find what
a real issue is, as opposed to when we're all fighting amongst each other and they can
just take everything from us.
And that's that's what I have to say.
I appreciate you, Ryan.
And I think that deserves a lot more conversation.
There's a lot of things I want to say about that.
But I do have to jump.
Ryan, if you don't mind, we're going to run this again either Friday or next week.
We'd love to have you by again so we can continue that exact point you brought up.
I appreciate you come up and speak.
And I appreciate all the speakers who came up.
Sincerely, shout out Malcolm and Marjorie for co-hosting.
Everyone throw and follow.
Shout out Penny2x, one of my favorite creators to collaborate with.
Definitely throw Penny a follow.
Michael, thank you for coming up to speak.
Everyone else, G, I appreciate you.
By the way, did we plug the subs?
I was just about to say.
Plug the subs.
Oh, yeah, sorry.
You're fumbling the bag.
I know.
Out of all the things I forgot about, the thing that makes us money.
The fuck?
Money over everything.
Forgot about that.
Subscribe.
It's the money calling.
Your favorite creators.
I don't know what Malcolm does full time.
He might be doing, I assume, content training full time.
He's going to be defending you while you go infiltrate these new movements.
What do you mean?
Yeah, that's going to be a kickoff to my new PMC bodyguard business.
I'm going to have mercenaries.
You've got to pay top coin to get me, though.
You're going to be the new BlackRock.
Listen, I'm 155 pounds dripping wet.
I am going to need Malcolm when I do this.
I did some bench press to say, trust me, it was not an impressive amount of weight.
In order to support me, Malcolm, and Michael doing some citizen journalism and going to
protest very soon, subscribe.
Hit our profiles.
Hit the subscribe button.
You support people that do content creation full time, 100% of the time.
Well, swap me out with Penny because I don't have a subscription service set up.
But Penny is a dual agent because he's pretty big as well.
He hides behind that bronze veneer and that honest Abe look.
But he's actually a pretty big hunk in real life.
He's very sexy.
I've seen the face reveal.
He's a very sexy man.
We're going to meet up, me and Penny2x, once video spaces come out.
And we're going to do some citizen journalism in his neck of the woods, which is a lot less
stressful than my neck of the woods.
So we'll have to find someone in Southern California.
I guess we'll go to Los Angeles and do that.
Yeah, that's what we'll do, Penny.
We'll go to LAX, right?
We'll find plenty of problems in LA, I'm sure.
That's no issues.
Oh, that sounds fun.
Perfect.
We're going to do this again very, very, very, very soon.
I know Penny's got his space tomorrow, so hit the notification bell, hit that ugly monkey
on my PFP, hit the notification bell.
We'll be doing more of this very soon.
You'll be notified.
This was an excellent conversation.
Ketabell, Dan, thank you for always coming at the worst possible time, two minutes before
we break free.
Hope everything at X is going well.
Keep the servers running so we can keep doing space like this.
Dan?
I'm actually off for the week, and I was busy watching my kids.
But then I saw all capital letters that American was unraveling, and I had to join.
See?
Title game unmatched.
Get on my level.
Shout out Malcolm.
He ran the titles beginning to end.
I did not set one title.
He did it all, and they were fucking spectacular.
I was watching.
They were spectacular.
Dan, I'm going to leave you the last word here.
Any advice you want to give to the audience?
So I kind of gave the advice yesterday, but don't fall for it.
And sorry about the echo.
I'm in a bathroom now with my daughter.
She had to go potty, and I had to take her.
My advice is don't make New Year's resolutions.
Instead, just over the year, incrementally add to the goal that you're trying for.
Systems over goals.
Okay.
