SIO512: NO It Was Not Staged. Stop Being Joe Rogan.
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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It wasn't staged. None of them were staged. Yes Trump was shot in the ear. I thought you all were doing a bit, but apparently you weren't. This isn't good and you should stop doing it, please. In discussing this current shooting, I found that way too many of you think that it was a hoax and even more think that Trump wasn't shot in the ear. So, let's go through the Butler shooting and see why YES HE F-CKING WAS.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only. This is episode 512. I'm your host Thomas |
| 0:09.3 | Smith and I need to have a talk with you. I got to have a talk with everybody. |
| 0:17.0 | Because I think maybe there's still places where weirdly weirdly, as negative as I tend to think I am, somehow I'm still an optimist. |
| 0:27.0 | And I found out that one place I'm an optimist is that I thought everyone was joking about the attempts being staged and Trump's ear and all that. |
| 0:35.9 | I thought you all were doing a bit. I'll be honest. I thought I thought you all were doing a bit. |
| 0:38.2 | I'll be honest. I thought most of you were just doing a bit. Yeah, there's going to be a few people |
| 0:43.0 | saying dumb stuff, but I thought you were doing a joke. Thought you were doing a joke. It's not a |
| 0:49.2 | good joke. I don't like it. I don't like anything that erodes our ability to know what the truth is, |
| 0:54.1 | especially on the left, where we can control it somewhat. That's who I'm speaking to, |
| 0:58.9 | broadly speaking. It's not a good joke. A joke I don't like. It's a dumb joke. It plays into |
| 1:04.9 | all the things that I've been spending my entire career fighting against, which is misinformation, |
| 1:10.5 | conspiracy theory, |
| 1:11.7 | bad reasoning. |
| 1:13.5 | So it's against all those things. |
| 1:15.6 | So not a joke I'm a fan of, but I did think it was a joke. |
| 1:18.3 | I thought people were trying to troll the conspiracy-believing MAGA and troll Trump by, |
| 1:25.2 | you know, being silly about the ear and the Butler, Pennsylvania attempt. |
| 1:32.6 | I don't, I no longer think that's true. |
| 1:36.1 | I think that maybe it started that way. |
| 1:38.2 | Maybe some people still are doing it ironically. |
| 1:41.0 | But based on just posting a few statuses about this latest assassination |
| 1:48.3 | attempt, I can't believe the numbers of people that are pushing back pretty hard on me |
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