Trump’s America 250 Event Is LITERALLY Falling Apart

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Bulwark Takes — “Trump’s America 250 Event Is LITERALLY Falling Apart”

Podcast: Bulwark Takes
Episode Air Date: July 3, 2026
Main Hosts: Tim Miller, Brendan Hartnett, Jared Poland
Episode Theme:
A raw, satirical debrief of the Great American State Fair in D.C., meant to honor America’s 250th, but quickly devolving into a mismanaged, sparsely-attended spectacle associated with Trump, conservative media, and numerous logistical fails. Tim and his field reporters, Brendan and Jared, roast the event with vivid firsthand accounts, hilarious commentary, and clips from on-site.

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Episode Overview

The Bulwark crew delivers a sharply comedic post-mortem on the disastrous “Great American State Fair” festival on the National Mall, centerpiece of the America 250 celebration under Trump’s second term. From malfunctioning tents to limp food and a galaxy of conservative personalities, the team chronicles what went wrong, who showed up (and who didn’t), and delivers a medley of bizarre, sad, and hilarious moments—culminating with a satirical award for the most absurd fair “lowlight”.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Scene: America 250’s (Dis)Organizational Woes

• Opening mishap: The episode kicks off with Tim Miller reacting in disbelief to a viral incident on the main stage—“Thank God the tap dancers from the 1950s were not hurt. So we can laugh at that together.” (02:00)
• Miller critiques the fair’s planning: apparent lack of competitive bidding, sloppy construction, “caulking issues… caulk was dripping,” and overall shoddy logistics. (02:40)
• “Very few people will be there to see it, but we will aggregate the highlights for you...” (03:15)

2. Firsthand Impressions — Field Reporting from the (Mostly Empty) Ground

[04:01] Brendan and Jared describe the desolate vibe:

• “It was a little more full than it appeared on TV … but it was still pretty sparsely attended.” (Brendan 04:04)
• The only meaningful attraction? “We waited in line for the Ferris wheel, which was free... that was really the only, you know, ride to do there.” (Brendan 04:07)
• “I left and I was kind of sad, a little bit for the country, but also, like, for the people who made a family vacation out of coming to D.C. in this terrible weather.” (Brendan 04:25)

Comparing to Real Fairs:

• “This was probably below the Hamilton County Fair I grew up going to, especially in terms of the quality of the food, but also in terms of the attendance.” (Jared 04:53)

3. Amenities & AC Failures: A New Low in Exhibition Booths

[05:28] Jared’s Notes:

• Opening night: “None of the events had actually opened up yet. So the only thing to do was the PragerU Freedom truck.”
• Heat issues: “A lot of the tents as you went in them, especially later in the day, were extremely hot.” (Jared 05:42)
• Broken air conditioners led to closed tents: “Puerto Rico tent… closed because their AC was out. Virginia was just closed indefinitely the entire day.” (Jared 05:55)
• Tim jokes: “I love that Puerto Rico was honored, though. That would have been news to Tommy Lahren that Puerto Rico is part of America.” (06:09)

4. Culinary Catastrophe: The Worst $53 Meal in America

[06:41] Tim probes the quality of “state fair food,” iconic at real fairs:

• “Food is usually great... Iowa’s famous for the fried stuff... pork chop on a stick.”
• Jared: “It was expensive and not worth the money and there weren’t a lot of options. We ended up sitting in the grass in the heat, eating our orange chicken, pretzels, and pizza, but none of it was really…” (Jared 06:52)
• Price for three: “$53 plus three waters.” (Brendan 07:06)
• Detailed roast: “This is 100% made in the microwave.” “The coleslaw is terrible.”
• Orange chicken inexplicably central to America 250: “They had a whole express hibachi section... there was multiple express hibachi options.” (Jared 08:35)

5. State Booths: Many Empty, Many Closed, Most Just… Chairs

[08:56] Describing the tent layout:

• Many state exhibitions were half-hearted: “Maine and Connecticut did not have anything inside of their tent other than chairs.” (Jared 09:15)

6. Inexplicable (and NSFW) Incidents

[09:17] Tim recaps a recent viral disaster:

• “There was Manny, a MAGA content creator, influencer, was arrested on live stream for wanking it to an acrobatics performance at this Great American State Fair.” (Tim 09:17)
• “Why haven’t they taped off the masturbating area? … You want to prevent anybody from getting any contaminants.” (Tim 10:46)

7. Trump-Branded Passport Booths: Peak Absurdity

[11:03] Jared: “They were giving out in the Department of State booth to get your Trump passport… Not only did they have a giant display of the Trump passport, but they had these little mini ones…”

• Tim: “The new passport… is sending the message 'welcome but be good'… seemed like [Trump] didn’t know what a passport was.” (11:19)
• Final verdict: “He looks scary. Yeah, he looks kind of scary, I would say.” (Tim 12:18)

8. Trump’s Speech & The Exodus

[14:02] Jared: “Right before the speech started, it was pretty packed… After, a bunch of people leaving… people filing out… just kind of hot and disappointed… A lot of people were there to see the spectacle, see the flyovers. But... people in the back were heading for the exits.” (Jared 14:16)

• “They didn’t need to hear the same old shtick about him listing out all the states that he’s won.” (Tim 14:26)

9. Conservative & Religious Sideshow

• Empty evangelical tents, faith-based sponsor “Faith and Freedom” section, and the “David Tent” (w/ U.S. & Israeli flags plus baptism pool): “It’s like a 24/7 evangelical revival kind of vibe...” (Jared 15:43; Brendan 16:28)

10. D-list Celeb Power Hour: Dean Cain, Dr. Oz, and “Prime Time” Irrelevance

[17:19]

• Dean Cain “training as honorary ICE agent.”
• About speeches: “There’s a ton of people here,’ he says to 17 people.” (Tim, sarcastically 17:52)
• Missed appearances: “We missed Usha Vance... a bookmark competition where a bunch of kids made bookmarks. So, like, it was sweet.” (Jared 18:28)

11. The Main Attraction? Michael Knowles Debates a 10-Year-Old on Witch Trials

[19:47]

• Michael Knowles of Daily Wire debates a child: “The one area where the Salem witch trials went a little far is, I would say, they weren’t organized enough … If it were more formalized, with, like, a grand inquisitor…” (Knowles 19:47)
• Tim: “So honoring 250 with Michael Knowles talking about how he wishes the Salem witch trials were bigger, badder, had more women burned...” (20:11)
• “That’s the biggest crowd we’ve seen there. Like maybe 42 people. They’re watching this debate.” (Tim 20:47)

12. “Lumberjack Off”: The Unexpected Highlight

[21:20]

• Chainsaw contests, axe-throwing drew the largest crowds (relative to the rest): “It was, it was in the rodeo pen and they had just like a full lumberjack competition... We just stayed for the chainsaws.” (Brendan 21:47; Jared 21:47)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Thank God the tap dancers from the 1950s were not hurt. So we can laugh at that together.” —Tim Miller [02:00]
• “I left and I was kind of sad, a little bit for the country... this is what their family trip was going to be for the summer...” —Brendan [04:25]
• “This was probably below the Hamilton County Fair that I grew up going to...” —Jared [04:53]
• “$53 plus three waters.” —Brendan, on the meal [07:06]
• “This is 100% made in the microwave.” —Brendan [07:37]
• “Maine and Connecticut did not have anything inside of their tent other than chairs.” —Jared [09:15]
• “There was Manny, a MAGA content creator… arrested on live stream for wanking it to an acrobatics performance at this Great American State Fair.” —Tim [09:17]
• “Why haven’t they taped off the masturbating area? ... want to prevent anybody from getting any contaminants.” —Tim [10:46]
• “They had a giant display of the Trump passport ... they had these little mini ones that you could get to order your Trump passport.” —Jared [11:03]
• “Right before the speech started, it was pretty packed… After, a bunch of people leaving… people filing out… just kind of hot and disappointed.” —Jared [14:16]
• “There’s a ton of people here,’ he says to 17 people.” —Tim [17:52]
• “If it were more formalized, built up a little bit more maybe with like A grand inquisitor or something. That would have been a better way to do it...” —Michael Knowles, debating a child [19:47]
• “That’s the biggest crowd we’ve seen there. Like maybe 42 people. They’re watching this debate.” —Tim [20:47]
• “It was, it was in the rodeo pen and they had just like a full lumberjack competition… We just stayed for the chainsaws.” —Brendan [21:47]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 02:00 — Viral onstage disaster recap (timeless physical comedy)
• 04:01 — Firsthand reporting on the fair’s dreariness and empty vibe
• 06:41 — Food disappointment review
• 09:17 — The infamous MAGA livestream arrest
• 11:03 — The “Trump passport” booth saga
• 14:02 — Trump’s speech, crowd dwindles
• 15:43 — Evangelical/Religious tents on the Mall
• 17:19 — Dean Cain’s ICE recruitment drive
• 19:47 — Michael Knowles debates a 10-year-old about the Salem witch trials
• 21:20 — “Lumberjack Off," the accidental main event

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Tone and Style

• The episode is irreverent, gleefully snarky, and takes open pleasure in schadenfreude.
• The Bulwark team pulls no punches, balancing deadpan descriptions with outright mockery.
• Abounds in vivid, quote-worthy banter and unexpected comic asides, backed up by specifics.

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Final Takeaway

The Bulwark’s dispatch from the “Great American State Fair” offers a devastating (and hilarious) postmortem on an event that’s symbolic of the current state of Trump-era spectacle politics—a failed festival marked by empty tents, logistical flops, lukewarm food, celebrity has-beens, and surreal conservative moments. The fair, intended to unite and celebrate, instead becomes a punchline, perfectly cataloged for the audience’s nourishment and amusement.

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[A]

Hey, everybody. Tim Miller from the Bulwark. I grabbed my guys, Brendan and Jared from Bulwark hq, who have been down monitoring and video the disaster, the comedic disaster that is the Great American State Fair. And we have some really hilarious clips for you. Sometimes it's important just to point and laugh. You know, sometimes pointing and laughing is soul nourishing. And so we, we did that for you. We had a funny discussion, the three of us, and right before we were about to provide it to you all, a new video happened. Something else happened at the Great American State Fair that is so funny. I had to do an opening bit so that we could all watch it together. So buckle up, here it comes. There's a performance on the main stage where Donald Trump will be speaking on Saturday at the Great American State Fair. Oh, my God. Thank God the tap dancers from the 1950s were not hurt. So we can laugh at that together. Boy, that is something else. It doesn't seem like when they were doing the contracting for the Great American State Fair that they had an open bid process where they brought the best and the brightest to our National Mall to make sure that everything was safe and that it looked nice. There was also some caulking issues. Some caulking. Caulking. The caulk was dripping. Anyway, who knows what joy is the Great American State Fair will bring us next? Very few people will be there to see it, but we will aggregate the highlights for you on this here bulwark YouTube page. All right, subscribe to our feed. We got a Fourth of July sale. Subscribe to the Bulwark altogether. Bulwark plus get. I don't know. I think it's 14% off. It's good. It's a deal. Go to the bulwark.com subscribe or you can do it on YouTube. Appreciate everybody. Up next, me and Brendan and Jared here with my guys, Jared Poland and Brendan Hartnett. They're doing the real work here at the Bulwark. They're out in the field, they're meeting people. They're rapidly responding to the news. They're briefing me on what's happening in the conservative media. They're doing everything a lot of hats. And among the things they've been doing was going down to Great American State Fair. It's not been that great. It's been pretty sad, actually. And so I wanted to kind of pull together some of the saddest clips from the Great American State Fair. So if you at all, like, are like JBL and get just joy and get fulfilled and get nourishment from sad things happening to Trump, this is the video for you. Before we get to the low light reel, boys, I would like to just hear your impressions being down there. How are things looking? Crowds, you know, the Mounties, etc. Brendan, why don't you. Why don't you start?

[D]

The first thing I'll say is that it was a little more full than it appeared on tv. I was kind of surprised by that. It's a really big space, so, I mean, there were a decent number of people pretty spread out, but it was still pretty sparsely attended. I mean, we waited in line for the Ferris wheel, which was free, even though freedom's not free. But we waited for the Ferris wheel for about 15 minutes, probably, and that was really the only, you know, ride to do there. So I can't imagine there are that many people. I think the main takeaway was I was just. I left and I was kind of sad, a little bit for the country, but also, like, for the people who made a family vacation out of coming to D.C. in this terrible weather. And this is what their family trip was going to be for the summer was coming to the Great American State Fair.

[A]

Have you been to actual state fairs, Brendan? Have you been to any? Are you a state fair man, Jared? Are you. Have you been to the. What. What's the big state fair? Mississippi.

[B]

So I did not go to that state fair because I didn't grow up in Mississippi. I grew up in Tennessee. But, like, in college, I knew a lot of people went to that state Fair. But like, growing up, the county fair was a big thing. And I would say this was probably below the Hamilton County Fair that I grew up going to, especially in terms of the quality of the food, but also in terms of the attendance.

[A]

Neshoba County Fair is what I was thinking about. I think I hear that's fun. Below the Hamilton County, Tennessee Fair. As far as amenities at the Great American State Fair, boy, that's a tough hit. Do you have any other just big picture observations, Jared from from roaming about.

[B]

I was there night one, opening night for the Trump rally. First thing that I realized when I was there was that none of the events had actually opened up yet. So the only thing to do was the Prageru Freedom truck. I actually found out that was the only place that had, like, really good air conditioning when we went back yesterday, because a lot of the tents as you went in them, especially later in the day, were extremely hot. On a couple of occasions, the tents actually lost ac. I saw a bunch of cool Puerto Rico bags that were America 250 Puerto Rico bags. I was like, I'm tired of carrying my stuff. I want a bag. Walked over to the Puerto Rico tent and they were closed because their AC was out. There were a couple tents that were closed. Actually, Virginia was just closed indefinitely the entire day.

[A]

I love that Puerto Rico was honored, though. That would have been news to Tommy Lahren that Puerto Rico is part of America. A lot of. There are a lot of MAGA commentators who are confused about that during the Bad Bunny performance, as I recall. Let's go to the clip. So I guess we'll start first just with. Yeah, when I think of state fair. I've been to many state fairs. As a former campaign junkie, I've been to Colorado, Iowa, been here in Louisiana, several state fairs. Food is usually great. I mean, Iowa's famous for the fried stuff, the fried Oreos, etc. Pork chop on a stick. You can remember the picture of Pete Buttigieg, like, really gnawing at that pork chop on a stick. That's the Iowa State Fair. It's yummy. How is the state fair food on the mall?

[B]

It was expensive and not worth the money and there weren't a lot of options. We ended up sitting in the grass in the heat, eating our orange chicken, pretzels and pizza, but none of it was really.

[A]

What'd that run you?

[D]

$53 plus three waters.

[A]

53 bucks for an orange chicken, a pizza and a pretzel?

[D]

Let's pop a squat. So we have solid $53 worth of put three waters, a pretzel, Orange chicken,

[B]

chicken with colesino and rice, and a personal pepperoni pizza. It tastes like microwave chicken.

[D]

This is 100% made in the microwave.

[B]

The coleslaw is terrible. I don't know what it is, but it's not good.

[D]

Let's see. Let's try the.

[B]

You gotta try some of that.

[D]

I do not. I'm good. It's Trader Joe's orange chicken. I. I'm clocking it right now. Am I wrong?

[B]

It's definitely just like whole, like wholesale chicken.

[E]

It's.

[B]

I mean, the chicken's fine. The rice is fine. This salad is disgusting.

[D]

No coleslaw. Try the pretzel.

[B]

I think the pretzel is probably the best thing. I am a sucker for a pretzel at any.

[D]

They're calling the YouTube community a mukbang.

[B]

This actually might be the worst pretzel I've ever had. Taste it. It's like stale.

[A]

Why was orange chicken part of the America 250 State Fair?

[B]

They had a whole express hibachi section. There was multiple express hibachi options.

[A]

So there wasn't like a Chinatown. It wasn't like a little Chinatown. Got it. Okay. Anything, just help me. Peter. This is the tents. Each state had a tent, or there's one tent, and the states had exhibits within.

[B]

So it's like one continuous tent divided up into partitions. And the states that, like put a lot of effort into their booth, they typically got like a whole section. But then there were some states we went to, like Maine and Connecticut that had sort of like half and half section. And specifically Maine and Connecticut did not have anything inside of their tent other than chairs.

[A]

So that's nice a place to sit for Janet Mills. Let's go to some of the videotape. Brendan, we're going to start with you. You are back at the scene of the crime. The masturbation. The pocket pool. The Uncle Sam pocket pool. I'm sure anybody who's here on the YouTube feed is familiar, but if you aren't, there was Manny. A MAGA content creator, influencer was arrested on live stream for wanking it to an acrobatics performance at this great American state fair. You went back to see. To try to kind of get a sense of what the energy was like in the space where Manny had cranked the weasel. What did you see? Let's turn that on. What is happening?

[D]

I couldn't tell you.

[A]

Brendan, you told me there are more people there than you thought. What Are you talking about Brendan?

[B]

To be fair, this section's away from where all the states are. But if you're going into the state tents, like some of them were kind of packed, especially earlier in the morning when it was a little bit cooler.

[A]

Can we pull that back up one more time? Matt, what was a single act, like a one man band kind of situation?

[D]

Something like that. I don't know. It was not a good display for the National Endowment for the Arts.

[A]

Why haven't they taped off the masturbating area? You'd want to make sure that you want to prevent anybody from getting any contaminants. Okay. Jared, you visited the passport booth. Is my understanding. Is that a real one or a replica?

[B]

No, but this is an advertisement that they were giving out in the Department of State booth to get your Trump passport. And I actually joked with Brendan when we were walking in. I was like, I wonder if they have the Trump passport. Not only did they have a giant display of the Trump passport, but they had these little mini ones that you could get to order your Trump passport.

[A]

Did they do a. When Trump sent the bleat, I've been discussing this this week. He said that the message that the new passport is sending is welcome but be good or something to that effect. And, and that was confusing to me because the passport is what you get if you're leaving the country, not coming. And it seemed like he didn't know what a passport was. Was that message repeated anywhere at the, at the booth or was that just. Was that just Donald Trump freelancing?

[B]

I think that was just Donald Trump freelancing. I didn't see it. I also didn't read very closely the display, but it is possible that it was on there.

[A]

Huh? Was, was, were people intrigued by the concept or how'd it look up close and personal? Look. Oh, here we go. He looks scary. Yeah, he looks kind of scary, I would say.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't know why, why do we want a scary man on the passport? I don't, I don't understand.

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[A]

Jared, you also visited a podcast, a live taping of a podcast. Actually, before we get to live taping a podcast, as you mentioned, you've been there a couple times. You're taking my slot on the Nicole Wallace show a couple days ago because you were there on the first night and you saw everybody leaving during the speech. So I guess the speech was that the most full it's been. Was for the Trump speech.

[B]

Yeah, 100%. Right before the speech started. It was pretty packed.

[A]

So if you're using that as a baseline. All right, so you saw, you were there a bunch of people leaving, people filing out. They were just kind of hot and disappointed, I guess, or just bored.

[B]

I think they were leaving mostly. Like a lot of people were there to see the spectacle, see the flyovers. But like, they weren't necessarily like the biggest Trump supporters. I mean, the front row Joes were up in the front, but like people in the back were heading for the exits.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, they didn't need to kind of just hear the same old shtick about him listing out all the states that he's won. So. So using that as a baseline now, you go back and you're there for a live performance of the Ashley Davis Podcast. Not one that I'm not familiar with. Don't really see that in the, in the rankings in the charts. When I, when I see how I'm doing compared to Candace, which I only check once a day, the Ashley Davis Podcast. But I don't, I don't know, maybe it's, it has a stealth following. Let's take a look. And since a lot of people here

[C]

may not be familiar with us, why don't we go each round real quick and introduce ourselves.

[B]

I'm in living colors.

[A]

Glad to be here. What time was that.

[B]

So that was at 5 o'. Clock. It was from the 5 to 6 o' clock hour. I showed up.

[A]

5 o', clock, that's like prime time.

[B]

Yeah, it was prime time. I showed up about three minutes before, sat in the grass, and I was the only person there when they started, but a couple people piled in. I went and walked around after I took that video, came back 30 minutes later. The crowd was the same.

[A]

Oh, well, there was a bunch of other religious stuff there, I guess. It's okay, I guess. But what was, like, the sense of that? I mean, did you guys kind of see that around?

[B]

So there's the David tent that is always on the mall that was there, and you could walk in. It's like a 247 evangelical revival kind of vibe. But I also stumbled into the Faith and Freedom tent, which is like one of their sort of like ad sponsor tents. And you had like a Hillsdale College booth. It looked like there's a podcast set up in there for some evangelical podcast. So there was like a whole section set up for the Faith and Freedom there on the mall.

[A]

Then there's this other guy, David. I don't know if you guys saw this. Who posted inside a tent that had the US Flag and the Israeli flag. Just kind of a strange choice for the Great American State Fair was also an empty tent. Did you see that?

[B]

Yeah, that's that David tent that I. That is the David tent.

[A]

Yeah. Got it.

[D]

There's also a pool in the back to get baptized, which I wanted to do, but I was told it would be inappropriate.

[A]

Okay. Have you ever been baptized, Brendan? Are you?

[D]

Technically, yes, but I am.

[A]

What do you mean, technically? This is kind of a yes or no, I guess.

[D]

Yes. I'm not a religious person at all, nor is my family, so.

[A]

Okay, well, there you go. Israeli flag and orange chicken at the Great American State Fair. I want to go next to. They seem to have some sensitivity about the emptiness of the fair. Dr. Oz and my man Dean Cain, my guy. Me and Dean had a. It's been a minute since we had our debate. I. He became an ICE agent. Can we once again watch Dean Kane, you know, doing the training session to become an ICE agent. It's my favorite video.

[C]

And so this time, Dean Cain isn't flying there. He's going through that obstacle course and training to be an honorary ICE agent.

[A]

He was working hard out there. There he is. He's crawling. Dean's raw athleticism there on display. I guess he's on a leave of absence from his Work doing mass deportations. Him and Dr. Oz were on the stage. Let's take a look at that.

[B]

It's a huge space and it's just

[E]

going to get more and more crowded as the week goes on.

[B]

Kind of packed compared to the Ashley Davis podcast.

[A]

Like Stacy Garrity. That woman's gonna be next governor of Pennsylvania. There we go. There's a ton of people here. He says to 17 people. And you know who's coming? The ladies. Who? The lady is about to get schlonged in the governor's race by Joe Shapiro by 30 points. How did you guys miss Dean? You just didn't. You didn't see that on the calendar. You got a lot of other stuff happening.

[B]

It was a different day. So we had Ashley Davis. They got Dean and Oz.

[D]

We missed Usha Vance. Usha Vance was there in the morning. About an hour before we got there.

[A]

We found out a lot of buzz about that.

[B]

They put out a tweet, but it was like a bookmark competition where a bunch of kids made bookmarks. So, like, it was sweet. I've never heard a sweet thing.

[A]

Okay, I want to close. I'm just going to be honest with the viewer. We decide what type of content we want to make. Generally, it's something that made me laugh really loud or made me mad. And I'm like, we have to do something about this. We built this whole video around this next or the purpose of this video was. I was adamant that I had to Discuss on the YouTube for you guys, this next clip we're about to show you. This is Michael Knowles, the Daily Wire. Michael Knowles, who is renowned homophobe who is also in a gay porn at one time, you know, just interesting life choice. It's got a soft core. Porn is maybe accuracy is important. At the Bulwark, he was in a amateur movie where he's in bed with another man. Take that for what it's worth. Michael, for some reason, on his podcast Live at the Mall, it's according to our friends at Media Matters for America that got this video. He's debating a 10 year old. Is that right? About the Salem witch trials? Let's give this a watch.

[B]

But the one area where the sale of witch trials went a little far is I would say they weren't organized enough. So you had these, like random judges, you know, kind of burning these ladies. I'm not. I don't know if they were guilty or not. But I think more. If it were more formalized, built up a little bit more maybe with like A grand inquisitor or something. That would have been a better way to do it. I am so impressed.

[A]

So honoring 250 with Michael Knowles talking about how he wishes the Salem witch trials were bigger, badder, had more women burned. I don't know. I mean, you wonder why the crowd isn't that big. Jared. I don't know. You seem to be mulling this, Joe.

[B]

It's just an interesting debate to be having with the 10 year old. Like I would like to have a little bit more context as to how this debate started and how he got the 10 year old on stage. Do we have the video of the crowd as well? Because once again, this was another. Okay, here we go.

[A]

You can hear the 10 year old there. Well, that's, that's the biggest crowd we've seen there. Like maybe 42 people. They're watching this debate. I'm hoping the 10 year old mogged him. If anybody out there has the full video of Michael knowles debating the 10 year old of the Salem witch trials, please email it to us. We do have a tips line. Theborg.com tips theborg.com tips Guys, what else I missed? Any other lowlights? You didn't see any other, anybody else spanking it on the mall or you know, anything else worth noting for the audience?

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I mean we did see a lumberjack off, which. Yeah, I mean that was interesting. That was my first time.

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Tell me more.

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I think the technical term is a lumberjack contest.

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What do they contest?

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There were four guys with saws and chainsaws, to be specific, Chainsaws and wooden rods and they were going to town just chainsaw in the wood.

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It was also one of the most well attended events that we attended while we were there. It was, it was in the rodeo pen and they had just like a full lumberjack competition. It was I think a bunch of like semi pro lumberjacks is how they build it. And they did like ax throwing and chainsaw stuff. We just stayed for the chainsaws. But there was axe throwing later on in the Lumberjack Off.

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We'll leave it at the lumberjack Off. Thanks guys. Jared and Brendan, appreciate you for your intrepid reporting. I hope this brought everybody a little joy as we head into the holiday weekend. As mentioned at the top, we have a promotion. Fourth of July promotion. Go, go do it. Sign up the bulwark dot com. Subscribe or subscribe to the feed right here on YouTube. We'll be seeing you guys soon.

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