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🗓️ 18 May 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Here's some audio footage of my appearance at the Yale Political Union in defense of secession. In particular, this is the part in which I replied to critics. I think you'll enjoy this.
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0:54.8 | This will be a short-ish episode. I have some audio now from my appearance. This is now a month |
0:59.6 | and a half ago at the Yale Political Union, but I need to set it up for you before you listen |
1:06.1 | to it. First of all, I want you to know my audio guy is on vacation for several days, so today through episode 913, I have a friend filling in who is quite capable, but congratulations to Chris that he's able to take some time off. |
1:23.4 | I want you to know that the audio is not of top quality. And the reason is the microphones weren't working. |
1:30.0 | And also, if you Google or if you go to YouTube, you type in Yale Political Union, almost nothing comes up. |
1:35.6 | Little clips here and there. |
1:37.0 | But they really don't go out of their way to record these things. |
1:39.8 | So they did have an official so-called recording, but it's not much better than what you're about to hear. |
1:44.7 | And that official recording did not include my rebuttals, which are sort of central to the whole thing. |
1:51.0 | The rebuttals, as far as I'm concerned, are the whole thing. |
1:54.0 | Because the format was, I get up there and speak for 20 to 30 minutes in defense of a resolution. |
2:02.2 | And our resolution was in favor of the right of American states to secede in arguing that this was a desirable thing. So I made |
2:08.1 | the case. Then people from all different perspectives, students at Yale, get up and give speeches |
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