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Yeah, yeah. We all get a chance. We try. So let me go to the next one here. We really do. Look, we try and call balls and strikes on this show. And I do have kind of one thing that's a big leg up on most people in this space, and I can't claim credit for it. It's Just that I pretty much had no other options. I've been here the longest, and you can go back and see a blue bed sheet and me in 2008 on YouTube in 2006. And I've always believed these things. And I was always fighting against legacy media and the corruption they're in. And early on, I would always really make the case there are no gatekeepers anymore. And that's a wonderful thing, because we used to think the cream would rise to the top, but then we realized that that wasn't the case. It was often the people who would play ball, the people who owed favors, and they were being paid back. But I will tell you this. There's no value in what we once called new media if it just becomes exactly that which we are replacing. Meaning corrupt, meaning chasing headlines, meaning trying to tell people exactly what to think or risking exclusion rather than helping people think more effectively. More critically, if we withhold resources or warp or edit or lie about resources rather than providing resources and references, I always believed that that was the stark contrast. But that's not always the case right now. And so this brings us to some of these conversations right now regarding Israel. Look, I've caught a lot of flak because there are serious criticisms that need to be discussed. Aipac, I agree. I mean, yeah, it's a problem. It's the largest PAC contributor to Congress. And I also know that Qatar, that, China, that they lobby with more money overall, but they do it in different ways. It's not a pac. There is a specific hold. There is a specific influence that is very unsettling, that is exclusive to aipac in many ways. They're the largest PAC contributor to Congress. $127 million. Now, another criticism, and I think, like, this is a. I just think they should, you know, they need to pick a Lane in 54. AIPAC was founded by a registered foreign agent, Isaiah Kennan, and it was specifically founded to avoid Farah. That's not something that's in dispute. Now we can discuss whether it's Americans who, you know, a coalition of Americans who want to look out for the interests of Israel, which I also think is kind of antithetical to America. First, I agree with that. I don't think that any other nation should come before the United States. And that's why AIPAC rubs me the wrong way. If we look at Israel and what people see, you know, that Israel is the number one destination that's paid for. As far as congressional travel, I have been offered those trips. I don't know if it came through these official organizations. I have declined. And here's the crappy part though. I would love to go to Israel as a Christian to visit the historical sites. I don't like that I have to. You know what though? I, since I've been impartial my whole life, I have to be careful that people don't accuse me of not being impartial. Personally, I would love to go sometime has nothing to do with the Israeli government. I also have a problem with the fact that a lot of congressional representatives get a paid for trip. You know, it's kind of like juul or these social campaigns, influencer campaigns, these products they get created and they go, hey, here's a party, let's invite some influencers, let's give them some cool places to take pictures. That rubs me the wrong way. I don't like that Israel is ambiguous on whether they have nuclear weapons. I don't like that they have in many ways here. And President Trump thankfully called it out, undermined our strategy in Iran. We can have a vested interest, a shared interest in a non nuclear Iran, in an impotent Iran, but we also need to take our own self interest into account how we approach it and Israel has put that at risk. That's a problem. I mean President Trump wrote it. Does this seem like he's the one who's being led or he's leading the dance? This is why I like that President Trump spoke forcefully on it and I'd like him to do it more often when Israel acts up. He wrote the United States knows nothing about this particular attack and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape or form, none of those things involved with it, nor did it have, nor did I have any idea that it was going to happen. No more attacks will be made by Israel pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pash field. Great. Those are all not only legit criti, not only legitimate criticism, say that five times fast, but ones we've issued here and caught flack for from people saying that we must be paid by Qatar. I will take an oath and like I've said, I will open the books to any other influencers or shows out there. We don't take any money from a foreign lobby, never have, not even nonprofits. We're supported by mugs, not a foreign caliphate or a pac. That being said, new media can't replace old media in being just as dishonest. It's of no value. So we need to separate legitimate criticisms that are really a conversation is necessary regarding those and I'm really bothered by people who say we can't have those conversations. That's a huge problem. Let's separate that from the lies that are going on as well. I'm just as upset about lies circulating on social media. Even if they, even if those lies would support my line of arguing. It's just as much of an affront to what we do here and always was to those on the right, conservatives, nationalists. That brings me to this clip. It's gone viral. Netanyahu again has a lot of problems. He has a vested interest in keeping this conflict going. And I don't know where it ends from, but I don't think it ends well once this is all said and done. But people have clipped this comment from him out of context and ginned up outrage. And so I want to show you what has circulated and then give you the context as well as the original author he was quoting so that you can be made aware that there are people lying, just like cnn. Here's the first clip.