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Welcome to the Bogosity Podcast for the week
of January 25 2026, the podcast that lets it snow.
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This is your host, Shane Killian.
Let's fiberize the News of the Bogus.
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I mean, technology's great,
but there are limits,
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especially when government interferes
to try and save you from yourself.
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Driver assist features are amazing,
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but this might better be
called a driver desist feature!
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The government is currently demanding
automakers put in technology into their cars
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so that they'll shut themselves off mid-drive
if they don't like what you're doing!
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Hear it from Thomas Massie:
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MASSIE: And I regret that we
have to offer this amendment.
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What I'm going to describe will probably sound like a bad
science fiction movie, but that's what's written into law.
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Now, the reality is the technology doesn't exist,
but that doesn't keep legislators from imagining things
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that they would like to
do to infringe on civil liberties.
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But there is a law that states that every vehicle
manufactured is going to have to have a kill switch in it.
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The car itself will
monitor your driving,
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and if the car thinks that you're not doing
a good job driving, it will disable itself.
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So the car dashboard becomes your
judge, your jury and your executioner.
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Imagine this: we've got
a snowstorm coming.
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A mom takes her kids out,
they're going to the grocery store.
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It's snowing. They're trying to get some
groceries before the big storm hits.
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She swerves for a pothole. The neighbor's
pet gets in the way, swerves for that.
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A first responder goes by.
She pulls over.
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Her car says, "You've got one more swerve,
and then we're going to ground you."
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There it is. The next thing she has
to avoid, an icy patch in the road,
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the car has adjudicated her
as unsuitable for driving.
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It disables the vehicle,
and there she's stranded.
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My question is, how do you appeal your
sentence once your car has judged you
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to be incapable of driving? Once it's disabled
you and your children at the side of the road,
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how do you appeal that? Do you press a button
on the dashboard? Do you start talking to an AI?
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What if it really was
somebody who was drunk?
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Are you really going to send a police
car after this disabled vehicle?
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Do we have the resources to do that?
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There's going to be so many false
positives. The technology is unworkable.
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KILLIAN: This pretty much
speaks for itself, doesn't it?
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So Massie offered this as an amendment to HR7148,
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to amend Section 24220 of the 2021
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,
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which says in part that cars must,
quote:
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"passively monitor the performance
of a driver of a motor vehicle
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to accurately identify whether
that driver may be impaired;
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and prevent or limit motor vehicle
operation if an impairment is detected."
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We're not just talking about the car
detecting if you've had too much alcohol.
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As Scott Perry said in support
of Massie's amendment:
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PERRY: But here's what I
don't want to see in America:
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Everybody being punished for
the people that drink and drive,
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including the ones that don't drink
and drive! I happen not to drink,
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but I'm going to be forced to have this thing in
my car, and I'm going to tell you what's next:
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After what Thomas said,
after what Representative Massie said,
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the car is going to be the judge, jury,
and sentencer for your crime in the the car,
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the next thing is going to be, "well, we need to hook this
thing up to the government so we can dispatch the police."
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I'm just going to tell you
what's going to happen next:
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They're going to be shutting your car off when they
decide whatever they decide from wherever they decide it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know about what
you think about due process and the Constitution
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and the Fourth Amendment and the right to not be
imposed upon by illegal, unlawful search and seizure,
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but punishing everybody for this crime, whether they've
committed or not, if they're gonna commit it or not,
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should be unconstitutional.
This shouldn't really be a question.
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KILLIAN: Right, it shouldn't be! And yet, the
amendment failed 164-268, with 62% opposing it!
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Only four Democrats voted for Massie's
amendment, and 57 Republicans voted against it.
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Guess it shows you what
they think of us, doesn't it?
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Presenting: the greatest
game this side of Yuggoth!
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You are H.P.
Lovecraft's cat, and your name is Ni***
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...Right.
We can't say that on a podcast.
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Anyway,
that's the point: Your name is a joke.
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So now, you are out for revenge.
You become...the NecronomiCat!
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Using the Necronomicon,
you come to the present day to buy a gat.
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That's a gun. For a cat.
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It's a phat cat gat.
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But the Necronomicon is treacherous,
and it let in Lovecraft's monsters.
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Now, in a crumbling world,
you must fight!
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Build your team, buy guns and armor,
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buy items of dubious legality,
defeat the bosses of each level.
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Then take Lovecraft down!
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Play NecronomiCat!
The link is at cat.bogosity.tv.
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Yeah, we're doing cat.bogosity.tv,
not...that other one.
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What, you want me to get kicked
off the Internet or something?
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Here's a little story about how
idiocy ruins things for everyone.
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Larry Ellison is a rich
guy who bought a yacht.
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I know, big whoop, but if he weren't the cofounder of
Oracle, it's very likely no one would have said anything.
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But, you know how the left is.
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He purchased a 191-foot yacht from a Japanese businessman
named the Izanami, after the Shinto goddess of creation.
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And cue the screeching of
leftists about racist dogwhistles,
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because the English transliteration of
Izanami spelled backwards is "I'm a Nazi."
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It's like the backmasking
panic only 20 times dumber.
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Making it worse is the fact that Ellison didn't even
name it! That was the name it had when he bought it!
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And this Futurism article treats it
with no skepticism, of course. Quote:
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"Attention to detail doesn't
appear to be the family patriarch's strong suit.
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The name was reportedly inspired by a Shinto
deity in Japanese mythology of the same name,
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the female creator of
creation itself and death.
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But the moniker didn't stick
after Ellison was informed
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that the name spelled something
deeply embarrassing when reversed.
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It's the kind of joke the Succession writers'
room could only dream of coming up with.
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And it's especially awkward given
the family's strong ties to Israel."
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Here are some select quotes from X,
Bluesky, and Reddit users:
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"That is such a classic
billionaire blunder."
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"What a moron."
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"Almost too good to be true, LOL."
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"Poster boy for a wealth tax."
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"He knew. They're the real Nazis."
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"How you a billionaire and dumb?"
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"I am so tired, y'all."
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"'Reality' is just too on the nose,
we must be in a simulation."
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"He is portrayed as such an idiot in
The Dropout, seems pretty accurate!"
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"Letting you know what kind of
people are in our fascist oligarchy."
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"Trump's shadow president!"
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"Oh come on. Does anybody—anybody—
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believe Larry Ellison didn't know from the get-go
'Izanami' spelled backwards was 'I'm a Nazi?'
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They think because
77 million (if accurate)
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gullible ignorant selfish Americans
were so easily conned by felon Trump
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that the rest of the world is stupid."
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"Um...right as if he
did not know this..."
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I wonder how many of them would have noticed
it if the news hadn't pointed it out to them?
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I mean,
what does it say about that mentality?
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When Ellison bought the boat, Nazism was
probably the furthest thing from his mind.
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And if anything, shouldn't this whole fake
controversy be insulting to the Japanese?
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Maybe it's the ones who keep seeing Nazi
symbols everywhere who are the genuine Nazis!
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It's absolutely ridiculous that
Democrats are still trying to retain
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the ridiculous fiction of the Jan6 Capitol riots
being an insurrection led by Trump,
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and his contention of the 2020
election being an attempt to steal it.
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But that's exactly what we heard
from both the Democrats and Jack Smith
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as he was brought in to testify in
front of the House Judiciary Committee.
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But aside from the usual vomit-inducing pandering
the Democrats did, the Republicans pulled no punches!
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Going over everything would make this segment an hour
or two long, so we'll just hit a couple of highlights,
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starting off with Chairman Jim Jordan's questions
about Cassidy Hutchinson, aka "Clavicle Girl."
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You remember: she told the ridiculous lies about
Trump's driver refusing to take him back to the Capitol
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(which is illegal, by the way:
they have to obey his orders),
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and Trump reaching over and
grabbing the driver by the clavicle.
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We went over how the story was
cooked up between Hutchinson
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and Liz Cheney's office
(which is also illegal),
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how it contradicted her
previous testimony,
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and how it was also contradicted
by people who were actually there.
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She wasn't. She claimed to have
gotten the story second- or third-hand,
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and couldn't even verify
where she'd gotten it from.
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Because she'd just made it up.
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I think the segment speaks for itself,
so let's just let it play:
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JORDAN: Mr. Smith,
is Cassidy Hutchinson a liar?
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She was their star witness,
January 6th Committee,
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their star witness in one of those
staged and choreographed hearings
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they paid the former president
of ABC News to put together.
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She was, in fact, the only witness
at this special prime-time hearing,
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and she told some stories.
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I mean, these were some stories. She talked
about President lunged across the back seat,
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grabbed the steering wheel,
tried to drive the car to the Capitol.
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And I just want to know,
you think she was lying?
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SMITH: Uh, Chairman Jordan, my
a-assessment of-of that particular issue is that,
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with respect to, uh, the testimony about someone lunge—
uh, the President lunging towards, uh, the driver.
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Uh, my, uh, recollection of her testimony
about that is that it was second-hand.
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She said she'd heard
that from somebody.
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- You familiar with the name Tony Ornato?
- I'm sorry?
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- You familiar with the name Tony Ornato?
- Yes.
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JORDAN: White House Deputy Chief of Operations,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations? Right?
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Remember what he said about it?
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SMITH: As I sit here right now, I do not.
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JORDAN: Yeah, he said it didn't happen. How
about Bobby Engel? You familiar with that name?
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SMITH: Yes, I am.
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JORDAN: Secret Service agent who was actually
in the car that day? You know what he said?
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He said it didn't happen.
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And they both said the first
time they ever heard this story
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was when Ms. Hutchinson testified in the prime time
hearing as their star witness of the January 6th Committee.
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By the way, did you ever confirm her
testimony about this particular incident?
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SMITH: [awkward pause]
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Uh, we, uh, conducted, as I said before,
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our own independent investigation of all aspects
of the case that we thought was relevant.
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We, uh, attorneys from my office—
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JORDAN: Did you ever confirm it?
That's a simple question.
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SMITH: Well, uh, we interviewed her, I
should say, attorneys in my office before—
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JORDAN: Did you ever confirm the President leaping
across the seat, grabbing the steering wheel,
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this whole concoction she brought up in the
January 6th hearing? Did you ever confirm that?
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SMITH: Right. We interviewed
a-another first-hand witness,
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uh, who was in the car, uh, who did not
confirm, uh, that that had happened, but also—
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JORDAN: In your deposition to the
Committee last month, Mr. Smith,
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you said this: "My recollection
with Ms. Hutchinson
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was a number of the things that she
gave evidence on were second-hand hearsay."
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You remember making that statement
to us last month in the deposition?
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SMITH: I did, and I was referring
particularly to what we're talking about now.
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JORDAN: Yeah, and you also said Ms.
Hutchinson, regarding this particular claim,
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was a second- or even
third-hand witness.
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We ask you, if you were a defense attorney, how would you
handle cross-examining her if she was on the witness stand?
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And you said, "If I were a defense attorney
and Ms. Hutchinson were a witness,
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the first thing I would do was seek to preclude her testimony
because it was hearsay." You remember saying all that?
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SMITH: Yes, that's correct, sir.
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JORDAN: That's correct, right? Were you going to put
her on the witness stand if you ever got to trial?
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KILLIAN: Now, this should be
a no-brainer for any attorney:
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No! You do not put on a witness
to give hearsay testimony,
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with a very few exceptions—
none of which apply here.
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The answer should have
been an instant "No."
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Yet, after pausing for a few seconds,
listen to what he said:
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SMITH: Uh, we had not made final determinations as to
who we were going to call as a witness. We had a large...
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JORDAN: You were still considering her?
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SMITH: We had a large choice
of witnesses in this case—
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JORDAN: Are you familiar with
what Washington Post reporters
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Carol Leonnig and Aaron
Davis said in their book?
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They did this book, 300-some pages book on Chronicle
and the whole investigation at the Justice Department.
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And here's what they said
on page 310, they said,
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"Jack Smith had wondered whether some of
Hutchinson's claims might be relied upon at trial.
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Still at one point, Smith told the elections team
he wasn't ready to give up on Hutchinson's account.
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Ultimately, however, Trump administration officials
uniformly fiercely disputed her accounts under oath.
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Prosecutors on your team told Smith they wouldn't want to
use Hutchinson as a witness in court, and Smith agreed.
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Are Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis
who wrote this, are they lying?
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SMITH: Uh, my recollection
is that I had certainly had
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not made any final determinations
about who we were going to call.
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JORDAN: And that's the point. That is the
point. The fact that they used her
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in a prime time hearing and you were won't
rule out using her or didn't rule out using her,
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putting her on the witness stand, when everybody
knows she wasn't telling the truth, that says it all.
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That's the degree the left and Democrats
were willing to go to get President Trump.
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Putting on the witness stand someone
everybody knows is making it up!
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Everybody knows that.
And you were willing to do it.
00:16:12.540 --> 00:16:17.260
By the way, you know how many times Cassie Hutchinson
was mentioned in their report, the January 6th report?
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Any idea, Mr. Smith?
00:16:18.976 --> 00:16:22.220
- I do not.
- A hundred and eighty-five times.
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Someone that the whole country
knows wasn't telling the truth,
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and you were still considering putting her on the
witness stand because you had to get President Trump.
00:16:32.540 --> 00:16:34.100
And everybody can see that.
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KILLIAN: Yeah, that's called,
suborning perjury!
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Smith had no credible response to this
or any of the other questions put to him.
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And as much as he and the Democrats tried
to make out like this wasn't political at all,
00:16:48.780 --> 00:16:55.100
one question after another after another just
confirmed that no one here was interested in justice,
00:16:55.100 --> 00:16:58.380
just in stopping Trump
from being elected.
00:16:58.380 --> 00:17:02.293
Smith even admitted several times
that none of the individual acts
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Trump and others
were accused of doing is illegal.
00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:11.020
They just kept falling back on conspiracy
and "attempt to steal the election."
00:17:11.020 --> 00:17:17.113
A lot of the members were also justifiably outraged
at having their own phone records subpoenaed
00:17:17.113 --> 00:17:20.246
and not even knowing about
it until three weeks ago!
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Including declaring the Speaker
of the House a flight risk!
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And here's another bit of outrage from the
Democrats. Listen to Joe Neguse of Colorado:
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NEGUSE: I don't know if your
counsel has made you aware
00:17:34.602 --> 00:17:38.780
that President Trump is live-tweeting,
live, I guess you'd call it truth-socialling,
00:17:38.780 --> 00:17:41.313
as we speak. Are you aware of this,
about this hearing?
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SMITH: No.
00:17:42.625 --> 00:17:47.020
NEGUSE: Let me read to you what
he posted an hour and a half ago:
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"Deranged Jack Smith is being
decimated before Congress.
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It was over when they discussed his
past failures and unfair prosecutions.
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He destroyed many lives
under the guise of legitimacy.
00:17:55.740 --> 00:17:59.420
Jack Smith is a deranged animal who
shouldn't be allowed to practice law.
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If he were a Republican, his license would
be taken away from him and far worse.
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Hopefully the Attorney General
is looking at what he's done.
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We have a word for this! It's called
weaponization! It's called corruption!
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KILLIAN: No, Neguse,
it's called freedom of speech!!!
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Neguse, Trump, Jordan, Jack Smith,
you, me, we all get to speak our minds!
00:18:24.860 --> 00:18:32.540
And here's Neguse calling it weaponization and
corruption based solely on the content of the speech!
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That shows you how little he
cares for his oath of office.
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That shows you the absolute disdain
he has for the First Amendment.
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That shows you the level of
hatred he has for you and me,
00:18:45.580 --> 00:18:53.340
that he thinks that we don't get to speak our minds
unless it's a pre-approved opinion of the ruling class.
00:18:53.340 --> 00:18:57.420
And listen to how Becca Balint of
Vermont tried to turn that around:
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BALINT: Trump has said that you, Mr. Smith,
should be investigated and put in prison.
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He called you a disgrace to humanity,
a radical left Marxist, a criminal.
00:19:07.735 --> 00:19:15.540
In fact, Trump has used the words "deranged
Jack Smith" 185 times on Truth Social.
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KILLIAN: Is it just me, or is counting up the number of
times Trump said a thing on Truth Social the deranged part?
00:19:23.260 --> 00:19:26.180
Anyway,
back to the pre-scripted softball question:
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BALINT: How do you think that these statements have
impacted you, your staff, and your investigation?
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SMITH: With respect to me, I think the reports, I'm
sorry, the statements, uh, are meant to intimidate me.
00:19:40.220 --> 00:19:42.940
Uh, I will not be intimidated.
00:19:42.940 --> 00:19:49.980
Uh, I think these statements are also made, uh, as a
warning to others what will happen if they stand up,
00:19:49.980 --> 00:19:53.580
and, uh, I am, as I say,
I'm not going to be intimidated.
00:19:53.580 --> 00:19:59.913
KILLIAN: So if you and I don't like a federal
prosecutor, at least one beloved by the Democrats,
00:19:59.913 --> 00:20:05.740
speaking out against him and
calling him names is "intimidation."
00:20:05.740 --> 00:20:10.895
That just explains so much of what
we saw under Jack Smith, doesn't it?
00:20:10.895 --> 00:20:17.100
But I think Smith should get himself checked by a doctor
because he seems to be suffering from selective amnesia.
00:20:17.100 --> 00:20:22.140
Every time he talked with a Democratic committee
member, he had an answer at the ready,
00:20:22.140 --> 00:20:24.780
almost as if he'd been
following a script.
00:20:24.780 --> 00:20:30.620
But when questioned by the Republicans, he
never seemed to be able to remember anything.
00:20:30.620 --> 00:20:35.900
Also, I couldn't help but notice that when
answering Democrats he spoke loud and clear,
00:20:35.900 --> 00:20:40.300
but when answering Republicans
there were long 5-10 second pauses
00:20:40.300 --> 00:20:44.540
and he spoke softly enough to barely
show up in the audio waveform!
00:20:44.540 --> 00:20:47.820
I had to really juice it up for you!
00:20:47.820 --> 00:20:50.460
This is just so sad and pathetic,
00:20:50.460 --> 00:20:55.180
made more worrying by the thought that,
unless something really comes of this,
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there's nothing stopping prosecutors from doing
this crap to anyone else, including you and me.
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And now it's time to etymologize
this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
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This is the fourth podcast in a row that
we've given one of these to RFK Jr.
00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:31.007
after giving him Idiot of the
Year in 2025. Will it never end?
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As was completely predictable and predicted as
soon as the anti-vax garbage started back up,
00:22:37.820 --> 00:22:40.140
we have a new measles outbreak.
00:22:40.140 --> 00:22:43.820
Measles is kind of a canary in a
coal mine with this sort of thing.
00:22:43.820 --> 00:22:47.580
Since the basic reproduction
number is somewhere around 15,
00:22:47.580 --> 00:22:53.340
meaning that without vaccines an infected
person will go on to infect 15 others,
00:22:53.340 --> 00:22:58.140
you need 94% immunity
to achieve herd immunity.
00:22:58.140 --> 00:23:03.580
When you count in the people who can't get the
vaccine and people for whom the vaccine doesn't work,
00:23:03.580 --> 00:23:08.940
that doesn't leave room for a lot of people just
deciding not to get it because they're idiots.
00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:16.460
In 2025, there were 2,242 confirmed
measles infections in the United States,
00:23:16.460 --> 00:23:19.580
the highest since 1992.
00:23:19.580 --> 00:23:26.940
That's compared to a mere 285 cases
in 2024, an increase of over sevenfold!
00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:30.700
And yes, low vaccination
rates are what's driving it.
00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:35.660
Measles had previously been declared
eliminated from the US in 2000.
00:23:35.660 --> 00:23:40.940
After a fairly big outbreak in Texas
where over 760 people were infected,
00:23:40.940 --> 00:23:44.700
we're now seeing no end to
the South Carolina outbreak.
00:23:44.700 --> 00:23:53.660
Starting in October, South Carolina has accumulated 646
cases as of the 20th, 171 of them since the new year.
00:23:53.660 --> 00:23:58.460
There are also some other clusters
like 216 on the Utah-Arizona border,
00:23:58.460 --> 00:24:03.020
100 cases in New Mexico,
90 in Kansas, and 40 in Ohio.
00:24:03.020 --> 00:24:10.278
All in places where the vaccination rate has
dropped below 90%. Work it out, people!
00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:15.580
Each case costs something like $43,000 to treat.
00:24:15.580 --> 00:24:21.420
To make matters worse, officials are warning that
the cases are growing beyond their ability to trace.
00:24:21.420 --> 00:24:25.260
You can't just assume you don't have
measles because you're asymptomatic.
00:24:25.260 --> 00:24:30.300
The disease is contagious for four
days before the first symptoms appear.
00:24:30.300 --> 00:24:36.460
For example, they were able to determine that
an infected person, unaware they were infected,
00:24:36.460 --> 00:24:40.940
spent four hours in the South
Carolina State Museum in Columbia.
00:24:40.940 --> 00:24:47.420
The measles virus is airborne and can linger
for two hours after an infected person leaves.
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If you're in that area for those six
hours and you're unvaccinated,
00:24:51.820 --> 00:24:55.420
the chances are 90% that
you'll become infected.
00:24:55.420 --> 00:25:00.700
And you'll be going around another four
days spreading it before you realize it.
00:25:00.700 --> 00:25:04.220
Whereas the MMR vaccine
is safe and effective,
00:25:04.220 --> 00:25:11.100
and just so you know, the total number of autism
cases caused by the MMR vaccine is zero.
00:25:11.100 --> 00:25:17.580
Whereas measles is far from the harmless childhood
illness the anti-vaccers make it out to be.
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Children can die, and even if they live they
can wind up blind, deaf, immunocompromised,
00:25:25.100 --> 00:25:31.260
or with permanent neurological damage
including intellectual disabilities.
00:25:31.260 --> 00:25:36.300
Hey, Bobby, how's that whole Make
America Healthy Again thing going?
00:25:36.300 --> 00:25:40.380
So all of that makes RFK Jr.
this week's Biggest Bogon Emitter.
00:25:52.940 --> 00:26:00.628
And now let's overintellectualinstitutionalize
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:10.300
Been awhile since we gave one to Rand Paul, but he deserves
it this week for basically turning against Section 230.
00:26:10.300 --> 00:26:15.020
That's the one that says that websites aren't
responsible for the actions of their users.
00:26:15.020 --> 00:26:17.100
You know, basic common law.
00:26:17.100 --> 00:26:19.980
Also basic common sense.
00:26:19.980 --> 00:26:25.820
It's also exactly what stops politicians,
Attorneys General, and ambulance-chasers
00:26:25.820 --> 00:26:30.300
from getting big payouts from tech
companies over speech they don't like.
00:26:30.300 --> 00:26:33.740
And Rand Paul has traditionally
been a voice for free speech.
00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:37.820
He was one of just two Senators
who voted against FOSTA,
00:26:37.820 --> 00:26:42.620
for example. But now he's written an
op-ed in The New York Post titled:
00:26:42.620 --> 00:26:49.580
"I've changed my mind— Google and YouTube can't be
trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in."
00:26:49.580 --> 00:26:54.380
Even though 230 has nothing to
do with "doing the right thing."
00:26:54.380 --> 00:26:59.820
Someone posted a video to YouTube accusing
Paul of taking money from Nicolás Maduro.
00:26:59.820 --> 00:27:04.300
It's stupid and insane, but nothing the
government can do anything about.
00:27:04.300 --> 00:27:08.367
And yet, he seemed to be
channeling Jack Smith, writing:
00:27:08.368 --> 00:27:15.900
"This untruth is essentially an accusation of treason,
which then leads the internet mob to call for my death.
00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:21.820
I will not sit idly by and let them host
a provably false defamatory video,
00:27:21.820 --> 00:27:28.140
which is now part of a widespread harassment
campaign. I am now receiving death threats.
00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:35.434
The arrogance of Google to continue hosting this
defamatory video and the resultant threats on my life
00:27:35.434 --> 00:27:41.260
have caused me to rethink Congress'
blind allegiance to liability shields."
00:27:41.260 --> 00:27:45.740
The thing is, if the video actually
rises to the level of defamation,
00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:49.100
there are all sorts of options
open to Paul to address it.
00:27:49.100 --> 00:27:52.860
In fact, by his own admission,
he did just that, quote:
00:27:52.860 --> 00:27:58.860
"The individual who posted the video finally took
down the video under threat of legal penalty."
00:27:58.860 --> 00:28:04.682
His excuse? Quote: "Yet, the defamatory
video still has a life of its own
00:28:04.683 --> 00:28:10.304
circulated widely on the internet and
the damage done is difficult to reverse."
00:28:10.304 --> 00:28:15.927
Yeah, that's still something to take up with the
people who made the video, not YouTube.
00:28:15.928 --> 00:28:22.216
Here's a weird quote: "Historically, such false
accusations were rarely published in newspapers
00:28:22.216 --> 00:28:28.620
because they were conscious of significant liability
for publishing untrue, defamatory accusations.
00:28:28.620 --> 00:28:35.461
Liability protection now encourages bad actors, many
of whom are actually paid for their bad actions."
00:28:35.461 --> 00:28:40.550
That's not Section 230 that does that;
that's New York Times v. Sullivan!
00:28:40.551 --> 00:28:47.580
The fear is that without protections such as Sullivan the
government might set itself up as the arbiter of truth,
00:28:47.580 --> 00:28:51.180
which is a big part of the
corruption of the Joe Biden era.
00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:54.860
Paul should think twice
before following his example.
00:28:54.860 --> 00:29:00.460
Google shouldn't be an arbiter of truth, either,
and it shouldn't be required by law to act as one.
00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:05.691
The way you deal with it is exactly what
the Supreme Court said: actual malice.
00:29:05.691 --> 00:29:13.420
Show in court that they knew or should have known that it was
untrue, or they acted in reckless disregard for the truth.
00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:18.860
There's also a fine line between this
Paul-Maduro fake video and parody.
00:29:18.860 --> 00:29:23.980
It's one of those cases where, even if he got what
he wanted, he still wouldn't get what he wanted.
00:29:23.980 --> 00:29:27.900
As we saw with the Prodigy case
that was the impetus for Section 230,
00:29:27.900 --> 00:29:35.260
the only practical alternative available to
companies would be never to moderate anything at all.
00:29:35.260 --> 00:29:38.220
There was a point where
Rand Paul understood that.
00:29:38.220 --> 00:29:42.460
Maybe he's someone else who should
get checked out for selective amnesia.
00:29:42.460 --> 00:29:48.722
So all of that makes Rand Paul
this week's Idiot Extraordinaire.
00:29:55.660 --> 00:30:00.060
Well, that wraps up this "It's a damn good thing
you don't know how much he hates your guts"
00:30:00.061 --> 00:30:01.980
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