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a lot done, which he is. The name of the Uzbek president is Shavkat. Shavkat. Shave the cat. All right. I like them already. All right, here's a story you all want me to talk about. Blaze Media has a pretty big breaking news scoop. So their investigative journalist Steve Baker of Blaze Media apparently he worked with some entities that can do gait analysis, which is the gait, how you walk. You k…

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guess. Where did she get promoted to? It's a place called the CIA. That's right. If she had moved to anywhere on the whole planet except the CIA, I think I would have just missed this. But really? Really?

All right. But now I'm going to give you my BS filter tests. Remember I've given you lots of ways to find out if something is real. What would you expect to see if this were real? Meaning that it was a real thing and you could tell by somebody's walk that it was them. What would you expect that you the public would be shown? I would expect I would see two videos. One video of the person walking on January 6, which is available, but then secondly I would expect that the public would have seen by now a video of her walking in her daily life so that you and I can look at it and say, "Yeah, that looks like the same walk." Now we don't have to be computers to recognize that somebody has a distinctive walk, right? But what would happen if the entire claim is based on comparing two videos and the best that you can get is you know that somebody talked to somebody who talked to somebody who saw the videos and says that they're the same person. And secondly, how did they know even who to look for? How in the world do you find that one person? If what you're doing is searching all the people in the world that you have some kind of gait analysis for, I don't know how they collected it. Maybe they collected it from public cameras or something. How in the world would you know who the person was to even check their walk?

So I'm going to put this down as not credible. Sorry. Sorry. I do think Glenn Beck is credible and I'm sure that this investigative journalist has a good reputation, Steve Baker. But if you can't cross the bar to show me the only thing I care about, which is the two videos next to each other, and how the hell did you get the one of them that wasn't from January 6? Like why would you even have any of that? So the questions are bigger than the answers. So I'm not buying this one. I'm going to say this does not make the sale.

Now if you're new to me, you think I just said it wasn't true, right? Is that right? Did anybody hear me say it wasn't true? I didn't say that. I use the word credible very carefully. Credible means, you know, maybe th

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e lawyer made the case. It doesn't mean it's true. It doesn't mean it's false. But this is not credible as presented. Do you remember when Dinesh D'Souza made some claims about the people dropping things off in dropboxes? And you remember what I said about that? If you can't show me at least a video or two of the same person dropping multiple things in these boxes, I don't think you really have a…

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