01:00 Tucker Carlson sounds rattled, https://x.com/SethDillon/status/1832596724919021876
07:20 Alan Dershowitz leaves the Democratic Party, https://x.com/FreyjaTarte/status/183216299924463242
13:00 Ben Shapiro & Israel, it is more socially acceptable to be on Israel’s side rather than Russia, https://x.com/OwenShroyer1776/status/1832445348926910912
19:00 Why do progressives like Islam? https://fakenous.substack.com/p/why-do-progressives-like-islam
22:00 When you prank people, you hurt people, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-two-wrap-up-show-with-mark-schiff-and-daniel-lobell/id1732222323?i=1000666184631
26:50 MSM went out of their way to make JD Vance look bad, https://www.youtube.com/live/pa8q1_3CrR0
30:00 Nobody runs America, https://fakenous.substack.com/p/no-one-is-running-society
39:00 Has Kamala Harris Campaign Stalled Out? National Review’s Noah Rothman joins Hugh to discuss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akyuTTyFyG0
43:00 The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157360
49:15 The left’s takeover of mainstream Christianity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJJhjWFhAeY
1:01:30 SJJ: Confessions of a former WWII revisionist
1:17:00 Why does the left like Islam
1:19:00 Why are people poor? Lack of education or dysfunction?
1:31:00 Academic Agent has been a gateway to Nazi idiocy
1:54:00 SJJ came to online commentary once his sporting career was going down the tubes
1:56:50 Trump vs. Harris: State of Play, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOpWdipb-ls
1:57:00 Trump & Project 2025
2:06:00 The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157360
2:08:00 The Fund: Rob Copeland on Ray Dalio, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygBLcrbtIPA
2:16:00 Every emotion requires a certain alignment of the muscles, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=41127
2:23:00 The rules of war, https://fakenous.substack.com/p/the-rules-of-war-policing-terrorism
2:26:00 Why do 70% of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen? https://fakenous.substack.com/p/the-big-lie-is-anti-trump
2:30:00 Media vs DJT, https://x.com/Sassafrass_84/status/1832066639740690457
2:33:00 Yossi Klein Halevi Answers 18 Questions on the Iranian Threat, Anti-Zionism, and Israel’s Leadership, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0TDm47oMuU
3:00:00 “97% of converts who divorced in the State of Israel were irreligious” https://seforimblog.com/2024/05/abraham-rosenberg-r-chaim-heller-r-shlomo-zalman-auerbach-on-conversion-abortion-mercy-killings-and-new-pictures-and-videos-of-r-jehiel-jacob-weinberg/
3:35:30 Kip joins
3:38:00 Shmuley Boteach vs Candace Owens
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