hink you can completely succeed at that.

I'm not talking about any one person. There's a universe of maybe 20 to 50 people who might send me things on any given topic and I just assume that they have some connections or some affinity for different countries.

All right. Are there any major media outlets that are captured by our CIA? What do you think? Are there any major media companies that are not captured by the CIA, do you think? And what would it be? Somebody says CNN. Okay, that I hope that's a joke, right? Because CNN would not be on the top of my list of non-captured entities.

Yeah, I don't know the answer to that because it's always a matter of degree, right? It's not so much that something is completely captured and something is not. I think it's all a matter of degree. And I would say that the independent political voices such as myself, I think we're trying to be independent for the most part. I mean I speak for myself. But we have to be influenced. You can't turn off influence. If somebody tries to influence you and they're good at it, it's probably gonna work.

My friends with Bob Dole. That is the weirdest question in the world. I've never met Bob Dole but how weird.

All right. Black Lives Matter, BLM, is threatening an uprising against what they call the racist vaccine mandates. Did you see that coming? The racist vaccine mandates. Because I guess since the black population has low vaccination rates it would be a bigger burden on them if vaccination mandates are required. BLM might actually go to the streets about that.

But here's the weird thing. Can Black Lives Matter agree with the Republicans this aggressively? And what happens if they do? What would happen if, just I'm going to put this out here, this could actually happen. Imagine a Black Lives Matter rally against vaccine mandates. So just imagine that happens. And then imagine that conservatives say we're in, we're in. And there are just as many conservatives that show up. Clearly conservatives, like you could just look at them and go, okay that's probably a Trump supporter there. And watch them march at the same time with Black Lives Matter because they have a shared idea on this one topic.

Could that happen? Could it? Why wouldn't it happen? What would stop it from happening? Would anything stop it from happening? In fact I would say that the main reason that Black Lives Matter will not go to the streets is that Republicans will join them. It's the main reason. I don't think it's going to happen because the Black Lives Matter, their whole deal kind of falls apart if they go to the street and 5,000 conservatives join them and just say we're with you. Boom, we're with you. That's it. No arguments, no fighting. We're with you.

Now I'm not sure this is the fight that I would recommend anybody be in. That's a separate topic. But it could be strange bedfellows. And I would tell you that the next thing that Black Lives Matter and conservatives might agree on is school choice and the problems with the teachers unions. Again there's pretty much complete agreement that we need more school choice. It's a conservative thing and it's a black interest thing, right? Both would benefit, maybe in different ways, but both would benefit from that kind of a change to society.

I could see them getting together twice. And the way to do it is to just say that reparations means fixing schools. It's the best you can do. I mean some people would like reparations to be some kind of cash payment but since that's never going to happen, why don't you do what you can do? What you can do is fix the biggest source of systemic racism which is the teachers unions. And the Republicans would be all over that.

So Black Lives Matter and Republicans maybe haven't figured it out yet but they're on the same side on the biggest issue which you could call reparations, you could call it systemic racism. That's what Black Lives Matter would call it. But the Republicans would call it where is my freedom? Why can't I go to a school I want to go to or take my kids to an optional better school?

So they'd have different reasons for why they want school choice but both of them would be getting a better school, right? I mean I guess it's the same reason in the end, better school. But you would describe it differently in terms of why you want better schools.

I don't know. We might be, I've been predicting for some time that there would be a strange coming together of Black Lives Matter and conservatives. That it was almost inevitable. I feel like it's inevitable that the black population in this country is going to start courting conservatives partly because they agree on so much. You've got at the very least there's a religious connection, right? Highly religious black population, pretty religious Republicans, very religious. There's a lot they could come together on.

And I feel like it's going to happen because as soon as Black Lives Matter realizes that Republicans are not against them or let's say not against black people but rather pro-freedom and pro-competition and all those things, I think they can figure it out. They can get together.

So I'm going to keep that. That will be my most counter-intuitive prediction of all time. Although I got a few good ones lately. I'm going to say that Black Lives Matter will explicitly, so I'm going to put this in the form of a prediction: Black Lives Matter will explicitly join forces with Republicans on at least one topic, maybe more, because if the first one works you would do more. But there'll be at least one topic where they, I'll go even further. I'm going to make it physical.

Here's my prediction: Black Lives Matter and conservatives will march together in the street within two years. That's my prediction. Within two years Republicans and Black Lives Matter will march together on some topic. Within two years.

All right. The debate ove