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Tim Miller, Sam Stein, and Will Sommer give their takes on Kash Patel’s girlfriend, a country music “sensation,” over her bizarre Twitter rant about Michael Flynn, Candace Owens fights with MAGA media darling Nick Shirley, and comedian Druski mocks Erika Kirk in viral video.
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Hey everyone, we're back.
It's the trio here with Tim, here with Will, got myself Sam Stein, Managing at the Bullwork.
Tell us it's great to see you guys again.
We should do this more often.
We really should.
People are clamoring for it.
Yeah, we got to start selling merch.
And you seem like you've been a little down this week, you know?
And nothing has a better picked me up for somebody.
And just a little bit of time with the trio and the fevers.
I will say, one of the reasons I got down this week is because I made the mistake of
going into our Reddit community, which is 95% positive.
But then I found a few strays that I was taking.
People think I laughed too much.
Hmm.
Yeah.
I feel what's wrong with that.
A lot of complaints out there on the internet, so you've got to watch out for that.
A lot of complaints on there on the internet.
The internet should be a nicer place, I feel like.
Yeah.
But the internet is not a nice place.
It's filled with anger, insults, and conspiracists.
And that brings us to this episode because late afternoon yesterday, a series of tweets,
what was it?
13 or was it 11?
Well, 13.
All right.
So yeah, yesterday, FBI directors, girlfriend Alexis Wilkins decided to just go on a Twitter
rampage in which she threw a bunch of accusations against prominent conservative figures that they
may be foreign ops.
Before we get into the heart of it, I just want to step back and sort of emphasize how fucking
bizarre this is that the FBI director's girlfriend is doing this.
You don't normally do this and Wil touched upon it in his newsletter.
But if there were issues with foreign operations and foreign influences of some of the biggest
conservative voices like Candace Owens, Michael Flynn, and Tucker Carlson, there is someone
who could look into this and that would be the FBI director.
Yeah.
13 tweet thread about how she is not a Mossad honey pot is raising a lot of questions answered
by the 13 tweet Fred, which was retweeted by members of the Netanyahu family.
So.
No.
So.
Okay, let's back up a little bit because I don't know if everyone's going to know who Alexis
Wilkins is.
Why don't you start there?
Sure.
So Alexis Wilkins is the country music singer who is dating Cash Patel.
Cash is, yes, well, he's called her a sensation.
You know, she is, I would say she's going to be significantly younger than him, the problematic
age gap perhaps.
She's also.
No, no, no.
Well, a lot of problems.
Just fine.
Age gap's fine.
Just fine.
All right.
Well, the problem is the physical, the physical beauty gap is the problem, right?
Beauty gap is significant.
To most, she's hotter than cash.
I think it's fair to say.
And so, you know, they say that was so diplomatic, but, you know, so, so when Cash first started
saying that Epstein killed himself and all this, people started accusing her of being a
massage honey pot.
Now she's not Israeli.
She's not Jewish.
She's worked with some Jewish people in conservative media, but that is sort of the evidence
and now she's sued multiple conservative media figures for saying she works for the
massage.
And that kind of brings us up to this current moment.
So what is this current moment?
So she comes out with this week, a thread where basically she fed all of these tweets calling
her a massage agent and other kind of like generally divisive tweets from Tucker Carlson
from Candace Owens.
She fed those into, I would say chat GPT or Claude and then it kind of spits out this thing
and she, it's sort of one of these, wow, that's a great insight, Alexis, you know, you
made a really good point there.
And then she, so she posts that and says, you know, I've analyzed this and I have found
that all of these people are part of a foreign influence operation.
Yeah.
I just wanted to pick one of the tweets, for example, and Sam, thank you so much for starting
with us because I do just want to send an apologies to the people that went to the Tim
live stream on Tuesday night because on that live stream, I promised a dial, a monologue
about Alexis Wilkins at the end of the show.
I have a couple of glasses of wine during this stream was very long and I forgot about
the promise that I made and there was definitely some feedback about people who were waiting
anxiously for my takes on this.
So thank you for bringing it up and my apologies to make people wait 48 hours.
I was trying to do a little bit of a dramatic reading from the thread if you don't mind.
Yeah, go find chapter one, four out of 13 May, 2024, 10 days before the Butler assassination
attempt, Ivan Rayclin, former green boray, former defense intelligence agency, board member
of Michael Flynn's nonprofit, America, future posed directly to Elon Musk and JD Vance.
General Flynn would make Trump assassination proof, 166 retweets, 14 tightly clustered time
windows amplified within one second.
That what?
What?
What?
Like, what is happening?
The thread is unsensibly about how people, there's foreign influence into the
the effort by some conservative media members to smear her as a massage agent and a honey
pot and like she goes on this deep into these deep rabbit holes like raise many more questions
and the answer.
It's like, what is the connection with between Ivan Rayclin's tweet about the Trump assassination
to her?
Is she suggesting that there was an inside job related to the Trump assassination?
So what is her boyfriend doing?
Why is she tweeting about this?
Should not her boyfriend be looking into Ivan Rayclin and General Flynn?
I don't know.
It seems like yes.
Well, it's pretty remarkable that she took maybe a hundred tweets and fed them into an
AI and sort of got to the bottom of this foreign influence op.
I mean, this is the kind of stuff that previously we needed like a special counsel investigation
to prove.
Now, Alexis was able to do it.
I mean, she's pulling in Candace Tucker.
You mentioned Ivan Rayclin, you know, it's basically anyone who's like kind of one of
these insurgent right wing quasi anti-Trump figures.
Does she say what country it is?
No.
But, you know, she, she feels really confident that she's proved something here.
I'd like to move us ahead to a later chapter, chapter four, nine out of 13, because you
mentioned Will that she put some data into into, I would say, Groc, you keep suggesting
chapter four is eight out of 13, chapter four is eight out of 13.
Yeah, it's a two part.
It's a two part.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, it begins the first part of chapter four, the first section, chapter four section
one, reviews Jo Kance resignation and how he suspiciously was invited to a gala for
Catholics for Catholics, following his resignation, Catholics for Catholics is under suspicion
as part of the foreign influence op.
But then she goes on to lay out where all this data is coming from.
And she writes this, the data across all six chapters, 3,166,207 retweet engagements,
80% amplification rate, abnormal volumes of accounts, documents across multiple chapters
spanning 22 months.
The same accounts that were active before butler in 2024 are active again as Joe Kentis
fired in 2026.
This is not a series of separate events.
It is a single persistent infrastructure activated at each fracture point.
Yeah.
What?
So when you initially resented this article and I was looking at it, I don't know why I
did this because now that I'm reading about it, I was totally wrong.
But I took out the line that you said this was fed through a chat GPT.
This is the most chat GPT tech sort I've ever read in my life.
There is not an original edit at all here.
Even the presentation is completely chat GPT.
And I'm sort of curious, do you think she put any effort into this or just decided to
feed it and then post it?
And then secondarily, and I'll start with you Tim on this one.
How do you think the conversation went down between her and Cash before she posts is?
Do you think she actually alerted Tim, say, hey, honey, I'm going to like, I'm going
to throw out some tweets on the thread tonight.
Great question, Sam.
I just want to re-emphasize.
This was Grock.
You know, okay.
This is where the lowest bottom basement, where at the bottom basement here of the various
AI options.
Yeah.
I know that you guys are high class AI users.
She's on Grock.
Okay.
Did she show it to Cash?
I do.
I guess I imagine that the relationship between Alexis and Cash is kind of similar to the
relationship between JD Vance and Donald Trump.
I don't take Cash as saying no to Alexis very much.
So did she alert him to the fact that she was firing off a totally insane, a 13-year-old
13-point thread about a foreign influence operation that ties her Missot honey, Missot
honey pod allegation to Trump's assassination plot to the Joe Kent firing.
I don't believe so.
I assume not.
I assume she probably was like, hey, honey, I did some, I did a little bit of research on
the phone.
Research into us and I'm going to post about that.
He was like, great, babe, great.
Okay.
Let me know when you need to have the plane come pick you up.
I think that's probably what has this going on.
I got posted and Cash is like, what?
And she's like, honey, I've got a team there.
I know there aren't that many agents left at the FBI because I've fired any of all the
good ones, but like there are at least some people here that could have looked at this,
I think.
Yeah.
Or edited it.
This is unintelligible.
It's been embraced by the people who are opposed to people like Tucker Carlson and
Candace Owens who are acting like this is just this, you know, huge, you know, she's
really gotten the bottom of it.
You know, on the other hand, you know, it is kind of crazy that she went ahead and accused,
you know, some of the biggest right wing media figures of being foreign agents.
As we talk about, presumably without clearing it with Cash, also this is the same week
the Trump administration just settled with Michael Flynn for like $1.5 million.
Now she's also accusing him of being a foreign agent.
I mean, should we be paying, you know, someone to the FBI girl, director's girlfriend thinks
is a spy perhaps, you know, maybe not.
And I say, no, I would say I'm a hard no regardless of whether, well, we do know that Michael
Flynn was a foreign agent for the government of Turkey already, okay?
So she is now suggesting that he is also part of another foreign influence campaign, which
I think is probably the most reasonable of the things that she put forth.
That's not a big jump for me.
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You know, you just raised the point I kind of wanted to make, which is we're at this
place now in conservative media, or I guess the conservative media ecosystem writ large,
where basically everyone is accusing everyone else of being a foreign agent.
I mean, maybe they are, but this seems to be like the sort of modern day effort to smear
your enemy, just to say, hey, you clearly have foreign money behind you, and it's all
over the place, right?
Like, loomer accuses people of being on the take.
I guess Tucker's on the take, Tucker Katar, what is it, Tucker Katarislin?
And loomer is being accused of being on take by a number of different industries.
She's like tweeting out about like Venezuela and oil randomly all the time, and this just
becomes part of the conversation now.
And I guess none, if everyone's on the take, then no one can get smeared.
So I guess for Alexis, she's like, why don't I just get in on this?
If everyone's an op, then nobody's an op.
That's something to consider, Will.
Yeah.
No, I know.
That's true.
I mean, and you know, to the point that you made earlier, Sam, I mean, it is, I would
love to see Alexis just cut her off from any AI, give her 30 minutes to explain like what
she means here, and I don't think she could do it.
I would love it.
You can come on the trail, Alexis.
All right.
Let's move on because the next one is Candace Owens.
Before we go to Candace, can I just get a quick count, Sam, you follow the news a little
closer than I do.
So far has cash successfully indicted anyone that is involved in the op against his wife
or the op against Trump or part of the 2020 election fraud scandal, the biggest scandal
in history.
Has he, has he found a criminal yet?
No.
And why, and clearly that's starting to bother people, right?
Because they want to know why he's sitting on his hands.
He gets a lot of shit.
That's what was people were mad about, Dan Bongino for the last time we did a video where
what were they saying?
Don't be afraid to satan, Dan.
It's like they're all getting in Dan Bongino's face for not doing this.
So obviously there's a lot of anger over the lack of action there.
All right.
Candace, she perplexes me every single day.
But this one is kind of interesting because she's not going after Nick Shirley, who if
people forget Nick has had moments of infamy and fame.
He's gone after corruption in Minnesota, seems to have tried to do the same in California,
doesn't seem to care all that much about corruption in any red state.
But is now this anti-fraud warrior on the right.
And then suddenly I wake up today, or I come into the office and people are mad because
Candace is going after him.
And I don't get it.
Will, what is going on?
Yeah.
So there's an important context to get into here.
So basically, Candace's feud with Nick Shirley started on Monday or Tuesday, where basically
she's trying to prove that Andrew Colvette, Charlie Kirk's right hand man, that he could
not have been on this particular plane on the day of the assassination.
She's obsessed with planes, right?
Egyptian planes, whatever.
So she's trying to prove that he pre-recorded an interview with Nick Shirley to kind of
get his whereabouts.
I've been to find myself on top of Brazil's largest favela in a destroyed house interviewing
gang members of one of the largest gangs in Brazil.
Okay.
I'm just going to say I don't believe that at all.
I'm sorry.
I just, it's so stupid.
I'm not even going to tell you why I believe it's like it's like if you don't know that
that's stupid, that he infiltrated the gang in 48 hours, like it's just that's so dumb.
I'm so tired of dumb.
That's not how that works.
Okay.
You don't just go up to gangs on the street as a nice looking white boy with the camera
and say, hey, I just wanted to sort of like see what you're doing here.
What's going on?
Okay.
That's the stop.
That's stupid.
Of course, that's dumb.
I'm sorry, Nick.
I know you're young.
I hope, you know, whoever is your contact that has you infiltrating Antifa and infiltrating
El Salvador at the age of 23 years old, it just feels like Sean Penn young to me.
But to prove this was fake, she has to prove that Nick Shirley is also an intelligence
operative.
So she goes back through the Nick Shirley archives and she says, well, how could this guy go
to this Brazilian favela?
Because Nick Shirley, he goes to some favela and he's like, he's just 48 hours.
I like got in tight with the gang and he shows himself like dapping up these gang members.
Now what I think was going on, Nick probably went and paid some fixer who said, all right,
I'll get a guy in a mask who's going to tell you how cool it is to be in a gang.
But basically she's arguing this guy has to be in the CIA.
There's no other way he could do this.
And so that's why you know, you can't trust him.
As the only person on the trio who's been to a Brazilian favela, I'm not going to give
you any details on why I did that.
But you know, I had fun in my youth.
I can weigh in and say that it's a little easier than you think to get into the favela.
I don't know any Portuguese, but I don't think it's a ton of evidence that I'm a CIA plot.
I don't have any pictures to prove it, but you'll have to take my word.
I'm going to say this about this feud.
So I was interviewing pumps from I've had it podcast by hip news on yesterday's podcast.
And we, and they have a segment called hit it or had it at the end of the segment.
I was doing that with her with various figures.
And I brought up Candace.
And you could tell she was about to say hit it, which is a good answer.
And she was about, she was like, she's tempted to choose interested.
There's a lot of Candace is compelling her.
And I interrupted her and started screaming, no, no, no, please, no, please, no.
And I think that that little exchange tells you a little bit something about what Candace
strategy has here because I think over many trio videos, we've been trying to unpack.
Is she having a psychotic break?
Is this a strategy because it's not, it isn't a clear grip.
Like it's the easy thing to say is like, oh, this is a grip.
But it's like, well, they're a lot easier ways to grip in conservative media than like coming
up with elaborate plots about why Charlie Kirk was killed by the French Legionnaires.
Like it's more simple grip would have been like a trans chaser or whatever they call them,
you know, like a furry chaser, you know, he was a furry chaser that killed Charlie Kirk
and like the trans ideology is bad and it's all about trans.
Like that would have been a nice little single down the plate to grift in the conservative
media space, make the Charlie Kirk murder about trans because there was some evidence of
that.
She didn't do that.
You know, she went, she went for the grand slam, which was it was the French Legionnaires
and Brigitte McCrone and the penis and, you know, the underwater bee colony.
You know, okay, so that's, that makes you wonder, okay, what's happening here?
What's her strategy?
What's the game she's playing?
And increasingly, I think by going after Nick Shirley, by going after the Trump deep
state, I think she's, I think she's maybe considering that she can bring in, and I don't
mean this is an insult to pumps who ended up coming in and saying the correct thing about
Candace.
But maybe she can bring in conspiratorial mind of leftists who share her skepticism about
Israel and about the Trump administration and the Trump deep state, and she can take
her core base of, what are they called, well, Candace stands, uh, stand us, stand
us.
Thank you.
She can take her core base of stand, and add on to that some conspiratorial lefties and
then add on to that, some people that watch it my way, watch a car crash, you're just
like, what is happening?
This is so, I can't look away.
And, and she can build a new audience out of that that, that separates her a little
bit from the, the right wing grift audience.
So that's my new analysis.
What's happening?
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna counterpoint if that's okay, I'm not that confident about
this.
I'm, I'm, I'm positive in a theory.
I think she's had, I think she's had a break, like a true break with reality.
I don't think she's calculating that much.
This is just an outgrowth of Glenn Beck, right?
I mean, the Glenn Beck chalkboard era was like a big deal in the Obama era, and that
was just tracing all the little lines that connected all the people and, you know, all
their shady operatives and things like that.
And if you just didn't see it, you weren't really thinking deep enough.
And the reason she couldn't do the trans fury thing after Charlie Kirkers, because everyone
else was doing that.
And she had to have one level of distinction between the crowd.
And so she's got to go level deeper for her popular appeal.
I think she's got, I do think she has her finger on the pulse for that, which is she's,
she's glossed onto a bunch of these sort of, you know, murder mysteries and, you know,
Bobber detective things and, you know, like the, what was the one with a Boston cop and
his wife who died?
Like, she was like super into that.
And so she's got some cultural panache that no one else does, but I don't think that's
because she's trying to win over her lefties.
I just think she sees conspiracies around every corner.
Yeah.
So actually, Sam, I think I have a bit of information that may help settle this dispute
between the two of you.
Well, who do you side with?
Well, so what happens is, I think Sam may be more right at least in this case in terms
of the psychotic break because after this aired, Candace then said the next day, she was
like, I demand answers from Nick Shirley and she had to come out and say, well, never
mind.
Turns out I was totally wrong about the plane.
You know, we can leave Nick Shirley alone.
I got the planes mixed up.
It does really have anything to do with this boy.
So I guess, you know, I guess we're going to leave out there that he's a CIA agent, but
maybe we haven't nailed it down.
Hell yeah.
It feels fine.
I got my finger on the pulse here.
We're spitting out here.
Okay.
This isn't about wins and losses.
This is what I tell my eight-year-old girls, you know, it's about improving every week.
You know, it's good sportsmanship and good attitude.
Yeah.
I tell my kid that I tell my kid that too, but I'm dying on the sidelines if we lose.
All right.
Last one.
This one is hot.
I'm not sure how much I want to touch this one, but let's play the video.
These things been going viral this morning.
This is this is dress-key mimic King Eric or Kirk.
It is so hot.
It's uncomfortably hot.
Let's play it.
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That is fine.
Yeah.
This is rough for me.
Okay.
Now, as of now, this has 70 million views, okay?
In astonishing number.
I'm not going to address this.
I don't want to touch this at all.
Tim, thoughts?
I'll gladly address it.
Thank you for asking me.
Some right wingers, including Clay Travis, who just want to rage bait or out there being
like, this is white face because dress-key for people who don't know is a black comedian.
This is white face.
This is offensive.
If you could never do this, if you're a white person, it's just like, it's great content.
I mean, dude nailed it.
Dude nailed it.
Look at them side by side.
I've never seen anything like it.
And it is a miracle of modern artistry.
He should receive an Emmy for, do they give Emmy's out for hair and makeup, costume design.
He should win a costume design, Emmy for this.
It is brilliant.
I, more than maybe anyone, have been out here on the streets being like, poor Erica,
everybody's being too harsh on her, leave her alone.
The conspiracies about Erica are mean, like, just let her be.
Her husband died.
It's got to be hard.
Stop with the conspiracies, stop with the accusations.
And I stand by that.
This is, this is comedy, though.
This is comedy.
And you've put yourself in a public space and people can make jokes and do skits about
you.
That comes with the territory.
People make fun of you on Reddit, Sam.
It's just, it's part of the deal.
Yes.
If you're a minor notable, she's a major notable.
And so I got to say, you just have to hand it, I mean, is the execution is off the charts.
And you could see all the ways in which that could go wrong.
Do you remember in the free press gal trying to imitate John Oliver?
Yes.
She dressed up as John Oliver.
Yes.
And it was horrible.
It was horrible.
This kind of thing, the risk is high.
You're doing a high wire act, you're imitating someone, you're putting on a costume.
It can go really wrong.
And for Druski, it went extremely right and bravo to him.
I will say the power of techniques was a nice touch.
I did chuckle at the power of techniques.
But other than that, I didn't like it.
We're going to cut it there.
Too hot to touch.
Don't want to dust, don't want to step on any landmines.
Will Tim, thank you so much guys.
Appreciate another trio.
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