Real men were actors... and "condescending" & cringey (10-16-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] Oh, I saw this at the... oh, WSOCTV.com. Hollywood has come to the Queen City, and casting directors are busy looking for extras. Tona B. Dahlquist Casting. That's the casting firm. If you want to get into the movies, you want to be discovered.

[00:00:58] Well, actually, just be an extra. But I think you got to start someplace. So that is spelled T-O-N-A, Tona, or Tona. And then middle initial B. And then last name is Dahlquist. D-A-H-L-Q-U-I-S-T.

[00:01:16] So Tona B. Dahlquist Casting is accepting submissions for two movies. One is called Apopka.

[00:01:26] A-P-O-P-K-A. Apopka. Apopka. Which is fun to say. It stars Sidney Sweeney and Ben Foster.

[00:01:36] And then there's the second movie. That's called Roof Man. Which stars Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst.

[00:01:46] The casting agency says they're going to need more than a thousand people for filming, and all background actors will be paid.

[00:01:54] In August, WSOC-TV reported that another agency was handling casting for Roof Man, but that was for speaking roles.

[00:02:03] So now this is for people who want to get into films, but don't want to talk.

[00:02:07] To be considered for an extra, you've got to submit through the Tona B. Dahlquist Casting Firm.

[00:02:13] Production is seeking all types and all ages, including those who can portray everything from prisoners, birthday party kids, McDonald's workers, store shoppers, boxers, EMTs, and spectators.

[00:02:29] You can keep up with each movie's casting needs at the Facebook page for Tona B. Dahlquist.

[00:02:35] So the first movie, starring Sidney Sweeney and Ben Foster, called Apopka, is a biopic based on the life of legendary female boxer Christy Martin.

[00:02:51] I've never heard of her.

[00:02:53] But I don't follow boxing.

[00:02:55] So the second movie, Roof Man, is a true crime movie based on the story of serial robber Jeffrey Manchester, who broke into more than 60 McDonald's overnight by entering through their roofs.

[00:03:13] Manchester was convicted and sent to prison in 2000, but he managed to escape.

[00:03:17] He evaded police by hiding for months.

[00:03:21] Ha ha ha.

[00:03:23] Not in a McDonald's.

[00:03:24] No, no.

[00:03:25] In a Toys R Us and Circuit City store right here in Charlotte.

[00:03:32] How did he survive for months in the store?

[00:03:35] Well, he ate baby food.

[00:03:38] And then he got caught.

[00:03:39] Spoiler alert.

[00:03:40] Sorry.

[00:03:41] He was eventually caught and then sent back to prison.

[00:03:44] So those are the two movies being made.

[00:03:46] So if you are an actor and you got passed over for the Kamala Harris ad, you can maybe get into a movie.

[00:03:57] Oh, yeah.

[00:03:58] The Kamala Harris ad about real men.

[00:04:01] I'm a real man.

[00:04:03] Have you seen this ad?

[00:04:06] Okay, well, I can't show it to you because this is radio.

[00:04:09] But I can play it for you and you can hear it.

[00:04:13] And honestly, you get a lot out of the audio too.

[00:04:17] I mean, the video is kind of comical to watch because you can see the guys that are telling you that they are real men.

[00:04:27] Look, I am not here to make fun of these guys.

[00:04:32] That's not the point here.

[00:04:34] I'm going to go into the politics of this thing.

[00:04:37] But here is the audio from the ad that was put out to try to get dudes to vote for Kamala Harris.

[00:04:45] Or Kamala.

[00:04:45] Sorry.

[00:04:46] Sorry.

[00:04:46] I did not mean to be racist.

[00:04:48] Kamala Harris.

[00:04:50] I'm a man.

[00:04:51] I'm a man.

[00:04:52] I'm a man, man.

[00:04:53] I'm a man.

[00:04:54] I'm a man.

[00:04:54] I'm a man.

[00:04:54] I'm man enough to enjoy a barrel proof bourbon.

[00:04:57] Neat.

[00:04:58] Man enough to cook my steak rare.

[00:05:00] Man enough to deadlift 500 and braid the s*** out of my daughter's hair.

[00:05:04] You think I'm afraid to rebuild a carburetor?

[00:05:06] I eat carburetors for breakfast.

[00:05:07] By the way, that guy who eats carburetors for breakfast, he's like 400 pounds.

[00:05:13] So, I believe him.

[00:05:14] I ain't afraid of bears.

[00:05:15] That's what bear hugs are for.

[00:05:17] I'll tell you another thing I sure as s*** am not afraid of.

[00:05:20] Women.

[00:05:21] I'm not afraid of women.

[00:05:22] I'm not afraid of women.

[00:05:23] They want to control their bodies?

[00:05:25] I say go for it.

[00:05:26] Wait a minute.

[00:05:27] Wait a minute.

[00:05:27] What if the woman is pointing a gun at me?

[00:05:30] Can I be afraid of that woman then?

[00:05:31] I'd be afraid of that woman.

[00:05:32] If a woman is pointing a gun at me and saying she's going to kill me, I'd be afraid of her.

[00:05:38] Does that make me less of a man?

[00:05:39] Dang it.

[00:05:40] Does that mean I have to vote for Kamala now?

[00:05:42] I want to use IVF to start a family?

[00:05:44] I'm not afraid of families.

[00:05:45] They want to be childless cat ladies?

[00:05:47] Have all the cats you want.

[00:05:48] Woman wants to be president?

[00:05:49] Well, I hope she has the guts to look me right in the eye and accept my full-throated endorsement.

[00:05:54] Because I'm man enough to support women.

[00:05:56] Man enough to know what kind of donuts I like.

[00:05:58] Man enough to admit I'm lost even when I refuse to ask for directions.

[00:06:02] Man enough to not ban young women from reading little women.

[00:06:05] Or one of those pants books that the sisters like.

[00:06:08] I'm man enough to raw dog a flight.

[00:06:10] It sucked.

[00:06:11] Not worth it.

[00:06:12] I'm man enough to be emotional in front of my wife.

[00:06:14] In front of my kids.

[00:06:15] In front of my horse.

[00:06:18] I'm man enough to tell you that I cry.

[00:06:19] I love actually.

[00:06:20] Goodwill hunting.

[00:06:21] West side story.

[00:06:22] Fact.

[00:06:23] And predator.

[00:06:23] And I'm sick of so-called men domineering, belittling, and controlling women just so they can feel more powerful.

[00:06:30] That's not how my mama raised me.

[00:06:31] I love women.

[00:06:32] I love women who support their families.

[00:06:34] Women who decide not to have families.

[00:06:36] Women who take charge.

[00:06:37] And I'm man enough to help them win.

[00:06:44] I'm a man.

[00:06:45] I'm a man.

[00:06:46] I'm a man.

[00:06:47] I'm reminded of the anchorman scene.

[00:06:50] I'm not a baby.

[00:06:51] I'm a man.

[00:06:55] I'm a man.

[00:06:56] That's an ad.

[00:06:56] That's a real ad.

[00:06:58] A real ad with real men.

[00:07:01] I assume they identify as men.

[00:07:04] Otherwise, they might just be actors.

[00:07:06] And what are actors?

[00:07:06] They are paid liars.

[00:07:09] Oh, actually, it turns out they are actors.

[00:07:11] Oh, my gosh.

[00:07:12] Okay.

[00:07:13] So, yeah.

[00:07:14] National Review tracked down the real men from the real men ad.

[00:07:20] Ryan Mills writes, while the ad clearly has a tongue-in-cheek tone, it's been ripped online as the cringiest political ad ever created.

[00:07:30] An example of, quote, complete shocking incompetence and reason enough not to vote for Harris.

[00:07:38] And Chakra of Shockers, the stars of the ad, there's like four or five of them, they are improv and absurdist comedians.

[00:07:50] Winston Carter, who is the guy who eats carburetors, he's a, quote, farmer or alleged farmer that he's, well, he's acting like a farmer.

[00:08:00] You know, he's wearing a flannel shirt, a T-shirt, and he's standing in front of a field.

[00:08:06] He says he cries during love action.

[00:08:11] How come none of those guys, by the way?

[00:08:12] If you're such real men, then why didn't anybody say Brian's song?

[00:08:19] Hmm?

[00:08:20] Uh-huh?

[00:08:21] Right?

[00:08:22] Probably the first movie dudes ever cried to.

[00:08:26] Just saying.

[00:08:28] Um, Winston Carter cries during love actually.

[00:08:33] He appears to have been part of a comedy collective called Heckbender.

[00:08:36] Sorry, Heckbender.

[00:08:38] So not Hellbender.

[00:08:39] Heckbender.

[00:08:43] Well, it's a comedy collective.

[00:08:45] Um, they released a low budget 2016 movie called Spaghetti Man.

[00:08:53] Carter was a co-star of the movie.

[00:08:56] And it was about a superhero who wears a paper bag on his head and shoots spaghetti out of his hands.

[00:09:11] Not a joke.

[00:09:12] Not a joke to quote Joe Biden.

[00:09:14] Waylon McQueen.

[00:09:15] He's an actor with Los Angeles' Upright Citizens Brigade.

[00:09:20] Which is another comedy group.

[00:09:23] He plays the rancher with the pickup who cooks steaks rare and ain't afraid of bears.

[00:09:29] In addition to, which is stupid by the way, you should be afraid of bears.

[00:09:33] It'll keep you alive.

[00:09:35] Okay?

[00:09:37] In addition to performing with the Upright Citizens Brigade, McQueen teaches improv.

[00:09:42] Charging $75 an hour for a two-hour session.

[00:09:46] Or sorry, $75 for a two-hour session.

[00:09:50] So he's not making $75 an hour.

[00:09:51] He's making like $37 and a half.

[00:09:55] Um, who else do we have here?

[00:09:59] Landry Itewoo.

[00:10:00] An actor and a model.

[00:10:02] He plays a gym rat in the movie.

[00:10:04] He's the guy who's like, I could deadlift 500 pounds.

[00:10:07] Right?

[00:10:07] That guy.

[00:10:08] And, uh, in this case, casting does not appear to be too far off.

[00:10:11] He's a Chicago-born actor whose credits include the sitcoms South Side, Arrested Development, and Everybody Hates Chris.

[00:10:20] He's also a celebrity trainer and a fitness model for the P90X workout program.

[00:10:25] Other actors in the end include Mike Leffingwell, another Upright Citizens Brigade comedian,

[00:10:32] and Tony Ketchum, who's a character actor whose credits include The X-Files, and a movie called Ghost World.

[00:10:40] Oh, also an Aerosmith video.

[00:10:43] Uh, the ad was not produced in conjunction with the Harris campaign.

[00:10:47] It was directed by Jacob Reed, a director and visual artist affiliated with the Creatives for Harris Collective.

[00:10:54] Reed is a former producer for the rabidly anti-Donald Trump late night host Jimmy Kimmel, who wore blackface.

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[00:12:07] So did that ad of the real men resonate with you?

[00:12:13] No?

[00:12:14] Well, maybe you're not a real man.

[00:12:17] A CNN panel on Monday criticized that ad on CNN.

[00:12:23] I know.

[00:12:24] They called it condescending, inauthentic, and that it does not resonate with male voters.

[00:12:31] So, 0 for 3.

[00:12:35] Matt Gorman, a former senior advisor to the Tim Scott campaign, so a Republican,

[00:12:41] he said,

[00:12:42] We've talked a lot about our issues with women as a party and struggles to win them over the last couple of years.

[00:12:48] Democrats have a serious problem with men.

[00:12:50] And if you notice, too, when they're trying to appeal to men, they're doing it in the context of women.

[00:12:57] It's like, I'm not afraid of a woman.

[00:13:00] Like, that's not a message to men.

[00:13:04] Think about it.

[00:13:05] He's exactly right.

[00:13:07] This message doesn't resonate with dudes.

[00:13:11] It does resonate with chicks.

[00:13:15] Can I say chicks?

[00:13:16] I think I just did.

[00:13:17] Gals.

[00:13:18] It resonates with women.

[00:13:21] It's what women want to hear a guy say.

[00:13:23] But it's not what guys say.

[00:13:28] He says, I think that's what they're struggling with.

[00:13:31] They just simply don't have a real message and no authenticity to it.

[00:13:35] All right.

[00:13:36] Well, what did the Democrat on the panel say?

[00:13:37] Well, they had former Biden White House Director of Message Planning.

[00:13:44] That's quite the title.

[00:13:46] White House Director of Message Planning.

[00:13:51] Gosh.

[00:13:52] Message Planning.

[00:13:54] Hey, everybody.

[00:13:56] I'm going to send out this email.

[00:13:58] Let me call up Megan Hayes because she is the Director of Message Planning.

[00:14:03] Megan, how are you doing?

[00:14:05] All right.

[00:14:05] Yeah.

[00:14:06] Good to talk with you.

[00:14:06] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:14:07] Kids are fine.

[00:14:08] Okay.

[00:14:08] I want to send out this message to all of the people on staff.

[00:14:12] Can I send it out like another hour or so, hour and a half?

[00:14:18] Message planner Megan Hayes said that the messaging is condescending and urge Democrats to find a better messaging strategy for male voters.

[00:14:29] Yeah.

[00:14:33] I don't know.

[00:14:34] It might be too late for that.

[00:14:36] She said the message is condescending.

[00:14:37] Yeah.

[00:14:38] And I know it's my party and it's but it just comes across as condescending.

[00:14:43] And that ad seemed like a joke to me.

[00:14:45] It's not the way like if a man talked to me like that, women would be up in arms.

[00:14:51] The message is just so condescending.

[00:14:54] And I think that the authenticity point is a really good one that if Democrats really want to go after men, they need to figure out a better way to talk to them.

[00:15:02] And they need to figure out a better way that's more genuine to who they are in their message.

[00:15:08] How do they wait?

[00:15:10] How do they know that these are men?

[00:15:13] Did they just assume the gender of all of these actors?

[00:15:22] So hard to keep it all straight.

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[00:16:43] There is a writer for Compact Magazine, compactmag.com, Batya Ungar-Sargon.

[00:16:51] I believe she is also, she may be one of the editors or something over at Newsweek, if I recall correctly.

[00:16:57] She had a piece that is related to the problems Democrats are having with the dudes, which prompted that ad to be made.

[00:17:08] I'm a real man.

[00:17:10] I'm a real man.

[00:17:11] I'm a real man.

[00:17:13] And she said this week Kamala Harris released her opportunity agenda for black men, promising targeted loans, protection of crypto assets, and weed legalization.

[00:17:28] She knows the way to a black man's heart, apparently.

[00:17:32] It's kind of, I don't know, racist-y?

[00:17:37] A little bit?

[00:17:38] Like, hey, black guys, how about some forgivable loans, which are just payments, and you're going to need crypto, and we're going to help you set up your weed operation, make it legit.

[00:17:56] But this is, this was her outreach to black men.

[00:18:01] Oh, okay.

[00:18:04] Oh, yeah, I did get a message asking me, isn't that illegal?

[00:18:09] To offer somebody a bunch of money to vote for you?

[00:18:13] Yes, it is.

[00:18:14] Not sure that there's, no reasonable prosecutor would take the case, to quote Jim Comey, against Hillary Clinton.

[00:18:24] So maybe that's where we are on that, but back to the piece at Compact Magazine.

[00:18:32] Unger Sargon says it's just the latest sign that her campaign knows it is doing historically poorly with men, and not just the white working class men that the Democrats have gotten used to losing.

[00:18:42] Polls show her lagging Donald Trump nationally by as much as 16 points with men, while outperforming him consistently with women.

[00:18:50] Just 70% of black men said that they are planning to vote for Harris.

[00:18:54] 70%.

[00:18:55] Okay?

[00:18:59] That's according to a New York Times-Siena College poll.

[00:19:02] Hispanic men, Trump is leading.

[00:19:10] 55 to 38.

[00:19:12] Yikes.

[00:19:13] The reason she says that men of all races are reluctant to support Harris is not, as Barack Obama accused black men of being sexist, it's not because her campaign, it's not because of her, it's not because they're sexist, it's because her campaign is not for them.

[00:19:32] It's for women.

[00:19:34] It's for women.

[00:19:34] Specifically, college-educated women.

[00:19:36] And this includes the messaging that is ostensibly about or focused on men.

[00:19:42] Right?

[00:19:42] That's why you pick a guy like Tim Walls with his over-exuberant waving constantly.

[00:19:48] Constantly, constantly waving, even when he's supposed to be loading a shotgun.

[00:19:52] He's just constantly waving and acting like a cartoon character.

[00:19:58] Harris' appeals to men are actually designed to reassure college-educated women that the Democrat Party exists to advance their interests.

[00:20:12] That's why the ad fails.

[00:20:16] Over at, well, hang on a second.

[00:20:19] Is that what I want to?

[00:20:20] Hmm.

[00:20:22] Yeah, okay.

[00:20:22] We'll do this one next.

[00:20:25] Daily Caller, News Foundation.

[00:20:27] Oh, no, sorry.

[00:20:28] I already read that.

[00:20:29] Yeah, this is it.

[00:20:30] So I read, they had the write-up of the CNN panel that was calling it cringy and condescending.

[00:20:38] Surveys have shown a widening gap between Harris and Trump, with a recent poll finding Trump 51 to 40 lead among men.

[00:20:46] 51 to 40 percent.

[00:20:48] Harris is 53 to 38 among women voters.

[00:20:54] Now, Washington Examiner.

[00:20:57] Historically, more women have voted for Democrats and men for Republicans, at least during the past three decades.

[00:21:02] But this election's gender gap between Harris and Trump of approximately 30 points, depending on the poll, is historic, according to Democrat strategist and pollster Selinda Lake.

[00:21:15] The 2024 gender gap is rivaled by that between 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump when it was 26 points.

[00:21:26] Harris is actually doing worse than Hillary Clinton.

[00:21:32] And that is saying something.

[00:21:34] Holy cow.

[00:21:37] But the gender gap this election has also been exacerbated by the perceived role of government, especially when it comes to the economy and safety net programs.

[00:21:46] She told the Washington Examiner, quote,

[00:21:48] Women think that their family might someday need support.

[00:21:53] Men think it's a good day when the government hasn't done anything bad to you.

[00:21:59] Abortion is really animating women.

[00:22:01] And finally, women are much more turned off by Trump's divisive and toxic style.

[00:22:07] Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy agreed that, quote,

[00:22:12] There is little doubt the abortion issue is driving is the driving issue in this disparity.

[00:22:19] A slight structural advantage for Harris since women are comprised or women comprised 52 percent of the electorate four years ago.

[00:22:27] Fifty two percent of the electorate were female.

[00:22:31] So they have a structural advantage.

[00:22:33] Harris does.

[00:22:34] The polls have tightened, though, with Trump erasing her edge and reclaiming the lead.

[00:22:38] I went over that the other day.

[00:22:40] But the combination of Trump and abortion may drive up the turnout Harris needs among Democrat women.

[00:22:47] Right.

[00:22:48] Republican strategist.

[00:22:50] Oh, sorry.

[00:22:50] Hang on.

[00:22:51] I'll get to that part in a second.

[00:22:52] Let me do this part.

[00:22:53] Another challenge for Harris, according to the Washington Examiner, is the replacement value of the lost gender.

[00:23:02] All right.

[00:23:03] This is according to Suffolk University Political Research Center director David Paliologos, which he asserted is also unprecedented this election.

[00:23:13] The replacement value.

[00:23:15] For example, if Trump picks up an additional white dude, Harris has to offset that pickup with a white woman, white man, white woman.

[00:23:26] Right.

[00:23:26] They are electorally speaking.

[00:23:28] Right.

[00:23:29] You can trade one for the other and still be even.

[00:23:32] But for every additional Hispanic man that Trump picks up, Harris has to add two Hispanic women in order to protect her structural two to one advantage.

[00:23:48] Among all Hispanic voters.

[00:23:51] Right.

[00:23:52] Right.

[00:23:52] So if you have this big advantage and you lose one, you've got to pick up some extra in order to to realign that that structural imbalance.

[00:23:59] Right.

[00:24:00] It gets even worse when you look at black voters.

[00:24:04] Every additional black man that Trump picks up, Harris has to find 13 additional black women in order to protect her 13 to one landslide ratio.

[00:24:19] Among all blacks that Biden won in 2020.

[00:24:22] And if she can't find 13 additional black female voters, then she has to find them somewhere else.

[00:24:31] You can't make a flat statement.

[00:24:34] When you talk about race across the board.

[00:24:36] He said the vast majority of people have made up their minds, but there is still a sliver of undecided and the election could be determined by that sliver of the undecideds.

[00:24:46] Concerns about the gender gap are punctuated by Harris's campaign schedule.

[00:24:50] She went to Erie, Pennsylvania for a rally to speak with black men and black owned businesses about her opportunity agenda for black men.

[00:24:58] Right.

[00:24:58] Right.

[00:25:00] They.

[00:25:02] It says they usually go to one candidate.

[00:25:04] He's talking about policy proposals and criticism that her events and policy proposals are not important or tokenism because undecided voters do not tend to split evenly.

[00:25:16] They usually go like en masse.

[00:25:19] They break a certain way.

[00:25:21] We have seen this before.

[00:25:22] Right.

[00:25:23] They break all for one candidate, more so for one candidate than the other.

[00:25:28] And that's that's what we're looking at in the final weeks here before the election.

[00:25:33] I'm not a baby.

[00:25:34] I'm a man.

[00:25:36] I need to get that audio clip.

[00:25:39] Let me go to the phones here and talk with John.

[00:25:41] Hello, John.

[00:25:42] Welcome to the program.

[00:25:43] Hey, Pete.

[00:25:44] Hey, how are you thinking?

[00:25:46] I was wondering one of the one of the angles about that real man ad is who thought this was going to work?

[00:25:54] The guy who made it, I think.

[00:25:58] I suppose.

[00:25:58] But, you know, the left and right, that's his voting patterns.

[00:26:01] But we see the world differently, especially in the realm of economics.

[00:26:06] I mean, the left thinks a dollar is just something you print and then suddenly it's worth a dollar.

[00:26:12] And we don't see things that way.

[00:26:14] Right.

[00:26:15] So in the same vein, if you've got an American male that believes in his bones that women are not suited to be president,

[00:26:23] that ad is not going to do anything for someone like that.

[00:26:27] No, it's not going to shame them into it.

[00:26:30] Right.

[00:26:30] If they are if they are, in fact, a sexist and they're like women are incapable of being president.

[00:26:35] Right.

[00:26:36] That ad is not going to change their mind.

[00:26:38] It's right.

[00:26:39] And that's and that was the point that one of those writers was making.

[00:26:42] Um, uh, for for Compact magazine is that that ad, the target for that ad is actually women, not men.

[00:26:50] Right.

[00:26:51] Yeah.

[00:26:52] Yeah.

[00:26:53] Yeah.

[00:26:53] So thanks a bunch.

[00:26:54] All right, man.

[00:26:54] Appreciate the call.

[00:26:55] That is John.

[00:26:56] Thank you, sir.

[00:26:57] By the way, I came across this moments ago from John Lott over at Real Clear Investigations.

[00:27:05] When the FBI originally released the final crime data for 2022, they did in September of 23, it reported that the nation's violent crime rate fell by 2.1%.

[00:27:18] Maybe you've heard Joe Biden's latest clip.

[00:27:22] I heard it in the newscast.

[00:27:23] He was touting that the crime went down.

[00:27:25] He said something like, and like he's using this data from the FBI.

[00:27:33] Remember, this is also what David Muir fact checked Donald Trump on during the debate on ABC News.

[00:27:42] Right.

[00:27:44] Of course, crime has gone up, Mr. President.

[00:27:47] Oh, sorry.

[00:27:48] Crime has gone down, Mr. President, because Trump was saying that crime is out of control and ABC fact checked him in real time.

[00:27:55] And this is a Democrat Party talking point.

[00:27:58] But get this.

[00:27:59] The FBI just revised their numbers.

[00:28:04] Wait.

[00:28:05] What do they think?

[00:28:06] They're like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the jobs reports like you just go back and.

[00:28:11] Well, apparently they did.

[00:28:12] They go back.

[00:28:13] They released new data, which shows violent crime did not actually drop by 2.1%.

[00:28:21] It actually went up by 4.5%.

[00:28:25] So missed it by that much.

[00:28:28] Just 6.6% off.

[00:28:31] Didn't go down 2%.

[00:28:33] It went up 4.5%.

[00:28:35] The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

[00:28:41] The Bureau, as been in the center of partisan storms, made no mention of these revisions in their 2024, September 2024 press release.

[00:28:50] Real clear investigations discovered the change through a vague reference on the FBI website that said,

[00:28:59] The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in the CIUS 2023.

[00:29:06] That was it.

[00:29:07] That was the only indication that something had changed.

[00:29:09] There's no mention that the numbers increased.

[00:29:11] You only see the change if you download all of the new crime data and then compare it to the file that was released last year.

[00:29:22] And when you do that, you realize that the FBI juiced the stats.

[00:29:28] I'm as shocked as you are.

[00:29:29] The actual changes in crimes are extensive.

[00:29:34] There were more than 80,000 more violent crimes than in 2021.

[00:29:41] More murders, like 1,700 of them.

[00:29:44] More rapes, almost 8,000 more rapes.

[00:29:47] 34,000 more robberies.

[00:29:49] 37,000 more aggravated assaults.

[00:29:52] And so now the question arises, should the FBI's 2023 numbers be believed?

[00:29:58] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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