03:00 Why did Kamala change her media strategy? Because she knows she’s losing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2QEhCjHQS8
13:00 Vice President Kamala Harris grilled on pivotal issues as election nears on ‘Special Report’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DaR2CVNNk
35:00 Why Democrats are panicking
38:00 Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks no longer identifies as a Democrat after she was assaulted by a homeless man with an erection and liberals mocked her for reporting it
43:30 US intelligence about Israel’s plans to attack Iran leaked, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeV9eZUNerM
45:30 US investigating leak of Israeli attack plans for Iran, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_TBI7fet5A
58:00 The center and left in Israel put the highest priority on the release of Israeli hostages, while the right prioritizes the security and overall interests of Israel
1:07:00 Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145795
1:28:00 Council on Foreign Relations on Israel’s wars, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSA5r4K2Jg8
1:32:30 Israel’s remarkable string of victories, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6FIYNGBVk
1:35:00 Wendy Brown: “Just as nothing is more corrosive to serious intellectual work than being governed by a political programme (whether that of states, corporations, or a revolutionary movement), nothing is more inapt to a political campaign than the unending reflexivity, critique and self-correction required of scholarly inquiry.” https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/01/wb/
1:42:00 Former IDF General: Israel Societal Collapse Imminent, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ6K-Kq6hhs
1:44:00 Kip joins to discuss the Jewish holiday of Sukkot
1:47:30 Reality is another word for God
1:49:30 Sex vs scholarship
1:55:00 Kamala’s 89 days running for president, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_Joe_Biden_from_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election
1:58:45 60-40 breakdown of Americans who take more from the government than they contribute
2:06:00 How you work out is usually more important than what you work out or whether you work out
2:10:30 Positional release aka strain-counter-strain therapy, https://gadibody.com/
2:12:00 Aydin Paladin, https://www.youtube.com/@AydinPaladin
2:21:00 You can kill your way to ending a terror organization
2:36:40 The Significance of the Sinwar Killing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxndHH7qiYk
2:52:00 Daily Caller documentary Selling Sex: https://sellingsex.dailycaller.com/home62483690
3:10:00 NYT: Harris to Court Moderates With a Onetime Right-Wing Provocateur, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/us/politics/harris-charlie-sykes-wisconsin.html
3:13:00 The right wing talk radio playbook, https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/11/talk-radio/
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