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650 - Hammer Time feat. Brace Belden (8/1/22)

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined by special investigator Brace Belden to look into the increasingly bizarre saga of the Black Hammer group, which recently made news as subject of a police raid, a suspicious death among their group members, criminal accusations against their leader, and now accusations of being part of a foreign influence operation. We discuss all this as well as the political value of Being Normal. Dates + Ticket links to TrueAnon’s live shows: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tour-general-no-69113927 Dates + Tickets for OUR live shows (including the Ft. Lauderdale show now rescheduled to 10/30) are here: chapotraphouse.com/live Streaming tickets for our Pickathon fest set at Noon (PST) next Saturday, 8/6 are available at: https://frqncy.live/pickathon/?r=52e3

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Greetings friends, it's Monday, August 1st, it's Chapo Trepaus coming through with you

0:38.6

and joining us today is our good friend, post of the Truanon, for radio program podcast,

0:45.7

it's Grace Belden and I gotta say right up to that Grace, congratulations on being

0:50.3

named Lockheed Martin's employee of the month, let's give it up for Grace everybody.

0:54.8

You know, there's a very few companies that will take a chance, you know, on a veteran

0:59.7

like Grace, but you know Lockheed Martin, they were the one that stepped up.

1:03.4

Thank you, I really appreciate that. I mean, you know, I've been just kind of like a design,

1:08.0

modern guy my whole life and it's just, I'm thrilled to be recognized.

1:13.2

Yeah, and you're the Lockheed Martin employee of the month and you're also the inspiration

1:18.9

behind everyone's favorite webcomic mom life. You're eating those peaches every fucking day,

1:24.6

you're eating them in front of the kids as they're crying.

1:26.9

Well, you know, I started drawing those things just to like imagine not only would it like

1:30.8

to be, what would it be like to be married and have a kid, but what it would be like to

1:33.8

be a woman in that position. And I mean, I'm just thrilled that a lot of people have

1:38.8

recognized that. You're being recognized more and more for all the good work you're doing

1:43.0

Grace, but we didn't want to have you on today to talk about your work for webcomics

1:47.6

or defense contractors. We wanted to have you on today to talk about just like sort of

1:52.3

a development in the left political sphere. I mean, a lot of a lot of times people talk

1:56.4

to us. They're like, Oh, where's the left going? What do we do? What organizations out

2:01.5

there were supporting? And today, I'd like to talk about, you know, one salutary organization

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that I think has done a lot of good work or at least they're trying. And I'm referring

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