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Thank you for that introduction.

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My fellow Toast Masters, today I'm here to
talk to

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you about someone or someone who has given
some positive

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influence on my life.

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But before I go into that, I need to go

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into the opposite.

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I need to talk about the biggest bully I know,

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both to myself and my home community in
Connecticut.

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A long time ago, I wasn't there, I was in

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college at the time, but in my home state, we

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had a terrible massacre, something we called
the Sandy Hook

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Massacre, where children were not only shot
dead, but they

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were so mutilated that pieces of faces were on
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ground.

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As our community mourned, a guy by the name of

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Wolfgang Halbig was a reporter who was coming
around and

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asking questions, but not just asking
questions pointedly, making accusations

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while seemingly to ask questions for some
media network we

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never heard of, something called InfoWars from
some far away

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place called Texas.

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To us in Connecticut, Texas is a very, very
far

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away place.

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Through time, I eventually began to understand
who Alex Jones

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in InfoWars was.

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And I tell you, Alex is a monster.

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Alex is the type of guy who will show up

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at people's houses with a bullhorn.

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His staff will show up to your houses.

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There's multiple videos of them doing this.

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He showed up to the January 6th Capitol on J6,

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and on the first No King's Day, Vance Luther
Bolter

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killed Minnesota former House Speaker Melissa
Hortman, a Democrat, and

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her husband Mark Hortman in their home in
Brooklyn, Minnesota.

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And his neighbor did confirm that this was
this guy,

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this assassin did listen to InfoWars.

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And the day before this, Alex Jones was going
off

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in a whole tirade about how we're in an active

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civil war right now, to a point where if you

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were listened to it and you actually believed
in Alex,

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then the only option you don't think it would
have

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left is to start shooting.

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Alex is a monster, and for a long time I

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feared this man.

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But there is an unlikely entity which actually
changed

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the way that I look at Alex.

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Rather than something to be feared or angered,
rather to

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just to look at with pity and just something
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if he's not really something to be taken
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Of all things, it's actually a podcast.

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It's a podcast called Knowledge Fight.

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And here's the way it works it's two guys.

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One guy who does a deep dive in fact checking,

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and another guy who's a comedian.

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So what they do, their formula, is to bring up

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clips of Alex.

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Alex will typically what he'll do is he'll
skim over

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headlines.

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He'll have stacks of papers on his desk.

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He'll go through headlines and things like
that one at

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a time real fast.

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And then the podcast will pause and say, hey,
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pull up this article and actually read through
and just

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see just how wrong Alex got this article.

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And he as he does this, the comedian will jump

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in and it will add like a light flavor to

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it.

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It's the type of thing where when you see
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so disgusting that comes from Alex Jones,
something that's so

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disgusting is the outrageous accusations that
Infowars makes, the podcast

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pauses it, fact checks it, and then the
comedian jumps

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in and it turns it into a funny type of

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thing.

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It's as if sometimes you notice how the Daily
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or some of these late-night comedy
individuals, they'll cover not

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deep dark stuff like Alex Jones, but they'll
cover general

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news stuff and they'll turn it into a little
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of comedy.

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These guys are able to do that, but to the

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extent of Alex Jones at Infowars.

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It was something that, for one, took a massive
monster

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that myself and a lot of my homestead
community never

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saw, and turns this into a thing where we just

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find Alex to be downright pathetic.

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Because we actually keep track of just how
wrong Alex

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Jones is.

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We actually keep tallies on that.

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They make fun of Alex by showing us how many

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times he believes that nuclear war is going to
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the very next week.

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They show how many times he reuses ridiculous
claims such

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as race specific bio weapons.

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And he also goes into the formula on how Alex

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Jones works

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Alex Jones claims that he's the tip of the
spear,

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one who's about to figure out what the
globalists are

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about to do next.

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And so therefore, if he makes a prediction
about something

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that globalists are going to do next, if said
prediction

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does not come true, he puts himself in a
situation

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and can say, hey, the reason that didn't
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because I called the globalists out.

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So he can make predictions, and even if they
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come true, he's put himself in a position
where he's

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always right.

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And he uses his hashtag Alex is always right
all

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the time because of the way he formulates
things.

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It's been a really interesting thing too,
because I've learned

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a lot about Texas history, things I never
would have

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known, such as the John Birch Society.

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I'm not sure if you're familiar with that, but
essentially

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a long time ago, there were these people who
coined

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the term globalist, and they would use this to
fling

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it at anyone who they believed political
opposition to be,

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but mainly to be unions and things like that.

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It was interesting to see how the father of
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Koch brothers was in the so-called John Burch
society and

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things like that.

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And apparently so was Alex's father.

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I also learned a lot about how the right uses

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language.

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Because Alex Jones invites Nick Fuentes on his
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lot.

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And this is something that we see.

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We realize that the word globalist or new
world order

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can mean different things to different people.

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To people like Alex, it means the John Burch
Society.

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To people like Nick Fluentes, it means the
Jews.

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But when Nick Fluentes first came on to Alex
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show, Alex would get very nervous because Nick
Fluentes would

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freely use the word Jew all the time until he

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finally started using the buzzwords.

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became uh they They became uh more
collaborative together.

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It's really interesting to learn all these
things, but most

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importantly, the way that these podcasters of
all people, this

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unlikely podcast, became an influence on a
positive influence on

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my life is because they took someone who I
hated

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the most, someone who just would make me grind
my

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teeth, and make me see just see how truly
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he is as a man rather than a monster.

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It is impressive to see how just ad hoc Alex

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can be with his lies, but it's even more
impressive

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to see the lies get called out, and also the

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way to turn it into comedy and to make it

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fun and knowledge flight is a podcast that I
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forward to every episode of.

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So, with that said, I thank those two Chicago
boys

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for uh stepping up and going against one of
the

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largest uh con artists that we have in our
country.

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Thank you for your time.