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Jonathan Larson

Jonathan Larson

American composer and lyricist

Jun 30, 2026

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32:45
Rules at racetrack.com slash fuel hyphen your hyphen thirst.
32:49
I want to back up just a little bit and say that, and I think it's extremely important when we process these issues to keep in mind or to be aware of the fact that they didn't arise organically.
33:05
The grassroots of America basically did not care about this stuff.
33:09
I did a piece during the 2024 campaign where I basically backtracked, I reverse engineered, where did this come from as a driving issue? And the Trump campaign used it in their advertisements.
33:24
But what they used in their advertisements was a story that CNN, not Fox, that CNN did where CNN had gone back to the 2020 campaign and looked at Kamala Harris's campaign materials then, which included a survey which asked her about transgender rights.
33:45
And they just decided, we're going to resurface this.
33:49
There was no big raging debate.

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51:01
Would you like to pick one that you'd like to talk about a little bit or go off menu?
44:31
Right
44:31
...
44:32
I think what makes it really insidious is that most of it isn't made up.
44:36
Most of it does jibe with what people learned in high school and middle school about, about these events, about these people and all that.
44:46
So I think that's, like, most of it's n- most of it's normal and un- unobjectionable.
44:51
That's what makes the, the subtle tapestry woven throughout it all the more dangerous because it's not a radical break that a, the average history, you know, kid who's taking a history class would recognize and say, "What the hell's this?" Right? They have a, they have enough of the normal folks, and then you get to Muhlenberg and you're like, "Oh, I hadn't heard of this guy."
45:33
Yeah.
45:33
It matters to the project of, of rewriting America's history to give it overtly Christian elements which were footnotes at best, if they even existed.
85:38
Yeah
85:38
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85:38
Fucking News, but I haven't seen it anywhere else.
85:41
And the story basically was that if people remember the attack on the forward operating base in Kuwait, Iran, the Iranian attack that killed, uh, six, I believe they were all Army Reserve service members, uh, back in the early days of, of what I'm calling Iran War I. Um, and-What CBS reported was that they had requested, weeks before the, the US attacked, they had requested additional medical, uh, um, preparations, both personnel and supplies.
86:17
They needed an- uh, they, they needed at least one more ambulance.
86:21
They didn't have a fixed aid station.
86:22
They didn't have a doctor tasked to the base.

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96:58
Yep

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