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y if I exaggerated that. Well, some terrible news from the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium. I hate to start with the bad news, but two hippos tested positive for a coronavirus at the Antwerp Zoo. When I read this, my first thought was that probably the cheetahs at the zoo are just going to treat it as a mild cold. But I do worry about the hippos. Cheetahs probably just shake it off, but the hippos, you kn…

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o notice now?

Maybe they'll just never see this news because it was in the Washington Times, you know, so they're not going to necessarily see it. But I feel like it's the beginning of a crack in the two-movie model. I've been telling you since 2015 or so that we're watching two movies, but they're playing at the same time on one screen. We're both looking at exactly the same stuff or similar stuff and completely different movies in our heads of what's going on. But I feel like they're starting to converge.

The only thing that can stop them from blending and merging at this point is Trump coming back. As soon as Trump comes back, it's boom, two movies again. But at the moment he's just out of the spotlight enough that the two movies are starting to merge. Now, not a lot, right? I'm talking about signs of something coming. They're definitely not merged. But I feel like the weight of the world is starting to nudge them in that direction. We'll talk a little bit more about that.

And I asked on Twitter, but I already saw the answer on the Locals. I said, "Has anyone called the Biden's Build Back Better 'Build a Smash and Grab'?" But apparently that was an obvious joke. Am I right? You've already seen that one. I hadn't seen it yet, but it's sort of an obvious joke. Have you all seen that one? I'm sure it's out there anyway.

Speaking of the fake news in the two movies, how many of you saw on social media video clips of a group of alleged right-wingers called the Patriot Front, all in matching uniforms and disguises with masks and matching hats, marching in Washington, D.C., with a bunch of American flags and stuff? How many saw that? Right now, when you saw it, did you say to yourself, first thought, first thought when you saw it, "Hey, there's a bunch of right-wing people dressed alike. It's another Charlottesville." How many of you thought that? Nobody. Nobody.

And if you went to CNN and then Fox News to find out about this group, what did you find? Because it's all over social media. If you consume any of the content on the right, it's all over the place. So go to CNN and see that story about the Patriot Front who all came out of a bunch of matching U-Haul vans and then got back in them and left. Do you see the story on CNN's website? No. No. Fact-check me on this, but I don't think CNN even covered the story. Why not? Why wouldn't they cover a story like that?

So I went to Fox News. I thought, okay, so CNN's going to try to ignore it because it's so obviously fake. So I went to Fox News because I thought Fox News would have some skepticism about it. It's not there. Now fact-check me on this. Check it right now. I don't believe either CNN or Fox News are even covering it. So did it happen? Did it happen? No, it doesn't matter that there's no violence. It just means, you know what it matters is that it's a scary bunch of people. Yeah, there's nothing on Fox and there's nothing on CNN. Explain that.

Why? Because you know Fox News would at least have a story that says it's obviously fake, right? Where is it? Where's the story? Did it even happen? Because if it's not being covered in the two most well-known news sites, did it even happen? Was there an event? And even if there wasn't an event, wouldn't it still be a story that so many peopl

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e thought there was an event that didn't happen? How in the world is this not being covered? Somebody says Microsoft covered it. You mean MSNBC? Somebody saw a live streaming. Who has the talking stick? I don't know what that means. Business Insider, Daily Beast, and Business Insider covered it. So do you remember my rule that if CNN and Fox News treat it the same, that means something? Fox News…

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