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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | I close my eyes, and I drift away into the magic night. I always stay. |
0:18.4 | Welcome to Michael and I, so I'm Will Sloan, here is always with. |
0:21.9 | Luke Savage, hey everyone, welcome back. Just for posterity, just to put it on the record, |
0:26.8 | so future generations listening to this will understand the context this episode emerged in. |
0:33.2 | Last night Tim Allen was tweeting up a storm. I don't have any, like, particularly clever |
0:38.4 | take on this. I just want it on the record. He tweeted, finally, an honest progressive position, |
0:45.8 | quote, short-term demands among them of progressive income tax, abolition of inheritances and public |
0:51.6 | property, abolition of child labor, free public education, nationalization of the means of transport. |
0:57.7 | Guess who wrote this? Luke, do you have any, do you have any guesses? |
1:03.8 | Nancy Pelosi. Close, very close. It was Karl Marx, communist manifesto Wikipedia. |
1:10.2 | That was his next tweet, and Karl spelled with a C, which he corrected in the tweet after that. |
1:15.1 | So, okay, can you explain to me? I'm glad you brought this up because I mean, I saw those tweets |
1:20.4 | last night like everyone else, but I don't really understand what he's doing here. I mean, |
1:25.4 | because the first one I saw was the Karl Marx communist manifesto Wikipedia tweet. That just |
1:30.6 | looked like one of those tweets where, you know, somebody who's bad at computers types some, |
1:34.6 | like, types a search into the wrong field, and then they tweet it. |
1:38.4 | Right. I don't know what was happening, but the tweet after that, he says, |
1:43.5 | I am sure Mr. Marx would have made adjustments to his position, had he been exposed to our country's |
1:48.2 | advanced evolution of worker unions and our protection of child labor. So, I'm actually not sure |
1:54.0 | where Tim Allen stands on the issue of either child labor or Tim Allen coming out against |
2:02.2 | revolutionary socialism. They're taking a very fabian social democratic position. |
2:06.8 | The thing is, I'm not sure if, when he said finally an honest progressive position, |
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