Shawn Farash
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Letitia James, fraud with no victims. You've had case after case after case taken down off social media.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
demonetized banks are going after his uh uh supporters january 6th you know the intimidation tactics and all that and yet donald trump still won the primary teaching himself to be the next president of the united states and then someone took a shot at him and then another guy hid in the bushes and was going to take another shot at him you know so it's one of these things where you know if it when when the cancellation of somebody ultimately isn't enough and the idea of it not being enough that's baked in
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
it's not just about, we want them canceled. It's that you just said it. They want the person gone. They want them out of the picture. And the only way to get them totally out of the picture is not to erase them from the internet. It's to kill them. I hate to be morbid, but that's where it's gone. And so it's,
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
You know, maybe 10 years ago, somebody comes out there and sees what I'm saying on the Internet, says, oh, you know, we don't like what he says. Let's try and get him banned. Now it's we don't like what he says. Let's send cops with huge guns to his house so that any wrong move that happens could be the end. And that's the worst part.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I mean, I would never do that to somebody who I just disagree with.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
It's crazy. And I mean, the best thing I used to always love. So let's let's take it back. I used to be a sports radio like I loved it. Live growing up in New York. It's what I wanted to do originally. And then I got really into politics. I realized that, you know, since I'm a New York Jets fan, every time they lose, I'm upset. But it doesn't really impact how much eggs cost. Right. So.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Why don't we focus on the things that actually, because if New York Jets losing increased the cost of living, then I would have no money because they don't win ever. But, you know, you have a radio show like Mike and the Mad Dog back in those two used to butt heads all the time. And that was the best part. Somebody was right. Somebody was wrong. They were both yelling and screaming at each other.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
And you got to hear both sides give their opinion. Now it's like echo chamber. If you have this person on, you are bad. Right. And, you know, one of my favorite commentators, Dan Bongino, you know, he said that that there's there's two ways of thinking. Right. Generally, us generally and not everybody, because there's trust me, there are people I mean, on my side, I call him out all the time.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I go out. OK, so I disagree with what President Trump said. Doesn't mean I'm turning my back on him. That just means I don't agree with him endorsing a guy that I don't like. That's all. But but generally the way it is over on the right is I look at somebody on the left with a really bad idea, really bad philosophy, something I really disagree on. I don't automatically think that's a bad person.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I say that's a person. They have a bad idea. Somebody on the left generally will look at me who said, oh, I like Donald Trump or I want lower taxes or I want to lower inflation or we want to, you know, let's let's let's let's abolish the IRS. So let's have, you know, let's let's do immigration, strengthen the border. They will look at me and go.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
That's a bad idea because it came out of a bad person's mouth, right? So I'm not just a person with a bad idea in their eyes. I'm a bad person with an idea, and therefore my idea is bad. And so they wage war on it, and they really do. I mean, they come at you hard.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
No, it's funny because you talk about the guys from 1959 or even like these days, right? The folks that are in the Senate, the Chuck Grassleys, right? Who have just been there for too long. I'm sorry. You know, nothing against older people, but like my Mitch McConnell. Okay. Mitch McConnell can't stand up. No offense to anybody with a disability. That's not what I'm trying to do.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
But if a guy who can't, walk himself into the chamber as his health has degraded to this you know condition how on earth are we tasking somebody like that with with the the job and the duty and the responsibility of determining the future of our country when he doesn't know you know the future of you know what's going to happen after he takes a step too far down the stairs that's the problem
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
You know, I'm not – people talk about Republicans as the party of old white males, this, that, and the other. And, I mean, it used to look like that. But these – after 24, I mean, you have started to see where the real diversity is. The big tent has become –
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
The maybe not Republican Party proper, right, in terms of the RNC, but GOP voters, people who are open to more ideas and including more people, like real inclusion is happening with people that I call my friends. I know that I know folks who are African-American who have shown up to left wing rallies in their MAGA hat and have been ripped to shreds and called every racial slur in the book.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I used to organize protests on Long Island when there would be a counter protester coming in. I would tell a lot of people, hey. Leave him alone. First Amendment right. He's standing there with a sign. Who cares? It's not about him. Go enjoy the day. Right. Let's let's have a good time.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
You know, and even then, you know, I would get into it with a couple of them and I would talk to a couple of counter. It was never like racial slurs coming out of my mouth. I mean, there'd be a few four letter words. Not many of them were love. But, you know, it wasn't it was in the heat of the moment type of deal. Everybody has their, you know, little slip up here or there.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
But I mean, some of the things that they would say to friends of mine who are minorities, they'd be considered are just horrible to the point where, like, if Trump said something like that, it'd be wall to wall. Every publication, every, you know, mainstream media broadcast at six o'clock on the news would be Donald Trump. Use this racial slur. And it's just like it's wild to see it.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
And I think a lot of people are waking up to it. I mean, Jasmine Crockett, who's the de facto face of the Democrat Party now.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
just made an example she thought she was making like a point i've been saying it for the last couple of months i was like you know you hear about all these illegals that are in the country want to you know send them back out of the country because there's laws you didn't follow them and it's like okay the the excuse has been oh if we deport the illegals who's going to pick our food and i'm like that's really no different than like 1860s if we free the slaves who's going to pick the cotton and she just said that she was like no we're not going to pick the cotton
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
We're not going on those farms. And I'm like, holy moly, like you're you're literally the mask is off like Scooby Doo. You don't have to pull it. She pulled it off and was like, it's me. Crazy.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Well, I have to say this, right? Because you look at the tariffs and we're leveling the playing field. You know, we're leveling the playing field like Chris Christie levels a beach chair. You know, he sits down, it's gone, and he has a lot of problems. He's got a big problem. And, you know, Lizzo lost a lot of weight, but the weight that she lost, he found, apparently.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
But you look at it, and we still have tariffs on Ireland, by the way, because if you didn't hear about it about a month ago, Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland. I called Ireland. I said, if you send her back 4,000% tariffs, so we're not going to let it happen. But you look at it, you look at what is going on. You know, we have a problem with China.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I spoke to President Xi of China, who looks a lot like Winnie the Pooh. And I said to him, Winnie, we're going to slap a tariff on every single wonton and egg roll and chopstick that comes into our country. We're not going to let it happen. It's not going to happen for free. And we're even going to slap a tariff on. Remember Fang Fang? That was Eric Swalwell's girlfriend, right?
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
The Chinese spy, the spy who loved me. We slapped a tariff on her, too. I called a Chinese tech out. And Eric Swalwell is very unhappy. He said, now I can't afford Fang Fang. It's horrible. But we paused the tariffs on the good people.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Yeah. I'm sorry that I, you know, I, I got into the weave, you know, when I do Trump, he does that whole thing where he goes out way out.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Then he comes back.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I don't know if it was all about China the whole time. I think it may have been about, I think China was the big fish and the little fish was fair trade deals with all these other countries. Because we weren't in a great position. There were tariffs on us from the 75 plus other countries that once the United States decided to say, hey, we're going to assert ourselves here.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
We're going to throw our weight around. You want access to our market. You're getting access to our market for free. We can't have that. I think China was always the big fish. And once China started to retaliate and Donald Trump decided he was going to ratchet it up and they retaliated again and then he ratcheted up again and then you have tick tock.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Obviously, there's a deal that's on pause now because right. You know, we're not going to we're not going to give you this win while you're while you're treating us like this. I think this was a great time to pull the trigger on a 90-day pause and essentially align the rest of the world against China.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Because our biggest problem is the trade issues that we have and the jobs that are being shipped out to China. I think it's very hypocritical for people to criticize. You have Bernie Sanders, $15 an hour minimum wage. He wants to treat the workers fairly.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
But every time Donald Trump talks about ratcheting up tariffs with China, he's got a problem with it because A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Meanwhile, the shoes that he wears are probably put together by a Vietnamese or a Chinese toddler, right? So it's unfortunate that this type of double standard exists. China exports to us five times more than we export to them.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
So the tariffs that we're putting on China are going to impact them a lot more than they're going to impact us. I happen to think that Scott Besant is I think he is brilliant. I think he is probably right now to this day, my favorite Trump cabinet pick because of how he has been and just how strong his messaging, how sharp he is.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
And I think that, you know, look, the 10 percent reciprocal that's going on during this 90 day pause, you still generate, you still raise a little bit of revenue off of it. But I do think the ultimate big fish the whole time was China. The little fish was fair trade deals with a number of countries where Looks like we're going to get those. So I think it's a win-win for the administration.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
And I see a lot of people on the left kind of scrambling to say, well, he caved. Well, didn't you want him? You were just five minutes ago when the stock market was having a problem. You're like, he needs to stop. Then he stopped. He caved. So again, he can't win. You know, I think it was a... brilliantly played move.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
And I do think there was a certain level of, you wanna call it chess deception, pre-planning. I think there was a level of that that took place here considering the players involved.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
That's exactly what I was going to say. It's like Nolan Ryan is one of my favorite baseball pitchers. He was predictably unpredictable. He didn't want to crowd the plate because he throws 100 miles an hour, but he couldn't locate it. So you had to be real careful.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
That was the name that I used on, believe it or not, TikTok when I first started going viral for the Trump stuff. That was my username. So that's where that came from.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Hey, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. What happened? So it was about tomorrow. It'll be four weeks ago, March 13th. I was sleeping. My wife and I just pulled up a bunch of fence posts out of the yard. We just moved into the house about a month and a half ago. And I'd heard about the...
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Thanks very much. Appreciate you having me.
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It wasn't all Dr. Drew or anything. Why would I screw myself? What am I, Dr. Drew?
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
The incidents that were happening to other conservatives around the country, specifically saw people posting about it on X. I even made a post about it that day that said the rise of left-wing violence is unacceptable. You have the Tesla situation. People are getting swatted, et cetera, et cetera. And my wife woke me up frantically saying, Sean, there's cops in our yard with guns.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
And I sat straight up and I said –
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
okay we're being swatted and and she didn't know what that meant i had heard about it um i've heard it happen to other voices people in you know in in media uh politicians have had it happen to them and we've heard stories about you know in the gaming community uh this has happened to several people uh in in the gaming community too i don't i don't do that i don't even have a game console that'll connect to the internet um but i knew it was going on when she you know woke me up when i sat up but she didn't know what that meant i said we just got to sit down and
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Wait for instructions. It was terrifying in a way because, you know, when I practice gun safety, I like firing guns. I'm a big Second Amendment enthusiast, right? You don't point the barrel of a gun at something you don't intend to shoot. So I knew that if I'd given them a reason to pull the trigger, it very well may be pulled. So we sat, you know, we stayed calm.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I received a call from the sheriff's department and they told me that they got a bizarre 911 call, my address. They said that I had murdered both of my parents and that I was prepared to commit suicide by cop. And I told them on the phone, I said, look, that's not true. And I'm willing to demonstrate whatever I have to do to show you that that's not the case. So you tell me what you want us to do.
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We'll do it and get this resolved and then talk about next steps. And that's how it went. We came out of the house with our hands up. The guns were drawn at us, you know. And by the way, the police who were involved with this were very professional. Absolutely. They were deliberate. They were clear. They were calm. That's what you need in a situation like that.
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If you have jumpy people, both the people in the home who are dealing with it and the people outside of the home who want to go home that night, you get a totally different situation. But they were very calm. We sat down and explained what I had heard. One of the officers had said to me, You know, is this something that's going to be on the news? And I laughed.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I said, no, it's going to be on social media, but you'll never see this on the news or much of the mainstream media. And, you know, they thought that was unfortunate. They were all upset that their resources and their time were being wasted on what was clearly a false call. I told the officers that were going into the house.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I said, the scariest thing you're going to see in there is a cat who might hiss at you. Just don't shoot her. That's it. You know, and and then we figured it out from there. It was wild, though.
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Right. You know, what was explained to me was that they had to show up. They couldn't get a call like that and not show up. And so they showed up and they showed up in full force. And the scariest thing, you know, not just that us, you know, we sit there and every time there's flashing lights outside the house, we're like, oh, is it happening again?
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
But the neighborhood, this neighborhood that we moved into a month and a half before this happened, it's pretty quiet. It's a neighborhood in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, south of the main city. It's a Republican county, a red county. That doesn't really matter. The politics of it is it's very quiet out here. Something like this has never happened. There's never been a police presence like that.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
this neighborhood the former owner of the home was uh from what we were told from everybody on the block a very nice woman um never had a problem like this nobody on the on the block has ever had a problem like this and so you know take take our side of this out of the equation for a minute There are people who couldn't come home while this was going on. The block was shut down.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
And just recently, one of the neighbor's son, who's a riot, he was running around. He had like an Amazon box on. Amazing kid, really funny. But we asked them, I said, you know, what were you thinking when that was going on? I wanted to hear what he said. And this is what really makes me upset. He said to us that he was hiding under his desk about to cry because he didn't know what was going on.
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I don't care. You want to come after me. I mean, I prefer you don't. But my goodness, this kid who is full of life, I mean, just a bundle of energy, a really nice boy, just... I couldn't imagine the kid that I saw running around with a box on, having a blast, cowering in fear because some lunatic decided, let's play a practical joke, or if they think it's a joke, it's not.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Let's call a SWAT team to Sean's house because we don't like what he says on the internet. We don't like who he voted for. So it's more than just the people who are being SWATed. The surrounding area, too, is still feeling the impacts from it almost a month later.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
It's Farage. And the thing is, it's funny. It looks like Farage probably was pronounced that way at some point. I've been called worse. So I usually just let it slide, you know, but yeah.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Yeah, I'm not so sure it's the impersonation of Donald Trump that got them upset. That's what, you know, essentially brought a lot of eyeballs to my pages a few years ago. But I've been able to branch it out beyond, you know, beyond that. I think it's overall because there are other people who impersonate Trump who don't get swatted. Right. I mean, Shane Gillis does a great job.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
He doesn't get swatted. Right. I haven't heard him get get swatted. He's got a much bigger platform than I do. I happen to do it better than he does. That's OK. He's a good guy. I see. I would love to go and do a Trump off with fun. I think Shane is wild.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Yeah, that's right. I think he's wildly hilarious, by the way. But I think it was more than just impersonating Trump. I think the reason why that was used in a lot of the headlines is that's how a lot of people know me. That's how a lot of people will associate my name to what I do and where to find me and whatnot. But I think it's far beyond that. I think it's far beyond that.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
I think it's more about... You know, being active and encouraging people to to join the movement, to to join up with, you know, MAGA, so to speak, you know, to to participate in elections, to push back against some of this left wing insanity that we see out there, whether it's men and women's sports or all sorts of crazy the border, you know, any of that or just.
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supporter and being vocal about it. I used to live in New York. So having a Trump bumper sticker on my truck was basically a license to have something thrown at it at any point in time. I was on Long Island. It's a more Republican area of New York than New York City. But there's crazy people.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
You have to be crazy to live on Long Island with the traffic, so there's a lot of crazy people that are over there. I don't think it was just the impersonating bit that got them to do this. I think it was that I talked about it earlier in the day. I have a platform on X. I use it a lot, a pretty good presence there, and I think they saw it.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
You know, that my wife and I online talk about, you know, we just bought a house, this, that. Easy to find with public tax records. And they did what they did. And I hope they get caught.
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Comedian Trump Impersonator Targeted By Swatting Attack, Guns Drawn In Front Of Family w/ Shawn Farash & Viva Frei – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 474
Thank you. Well, I didn't talk to them like Trump, but for the people in the chat, you're all beautiful people, I have to say that. You know, a lot of beautiful people. Tremendous people, really, when you look at it. And Dr. Drew is a great doctor, by the way. We love him a lot more than Anthony Fauci, right? Bad guy. Dr. Drew's a great guy and a handsome guy, believe me.
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Absolutely. I'm so happy you brought that up because this has been a revelation, something that I've been thinking about, kind of just reflecting on for a while. I've never been a fan of cancel culture. Even folks on the left, on the right, in the middle, if I disagree with you, it doesn't mean I want you taking off the internet.
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You know, if you're somebody who's making a living commenting on things, and I may passionately disagree with that person, as long as you're not inciting violence, I don't really have a problem with you per se. I disagree with your opinion. That's what this country is supposed to be founded on. We can agree to disagree. We can hash it out in debate. And this is why I can't stand cancel culture.
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You know, I see a lot of people calling for this person to be banned, that person to be banned, this one to be deplatformed, this one to be demonetized. And I'm like, I'm not so sure that's the right way to go because... that's not gonna solve all your problems. And that's the point, right?
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When you have cancel culture, when it first broke out into the scene, the idea was, well, we will de-platform, de-monetize, we'll ban, we'll censor, and that'll be the end of it. But that wasn't the end of it. You know, I love Star Wars. It's like Obi-Wan Kenobi says, if you strike me down, I'll become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
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And a lot of times the people who were banned came back with a vengeance. They now have a chip on their shoulder. They're now more powerful than if they were to just been left alone and challenged on their ideas all alone. Right. So I don't I never want to be the reason why somebody is deplatformed and then comes back in the future and is supremely powerful and just levels me. That's number one.
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But number two, it's all fruit of of the poisonous tree. of cancel culture, in my opinion. So canceling somebody wasn't enough. De-platforming somebody wasn't enough. Lawfare wasn't enough. Censorship, shadow bans, et cetera, that's not enough. So what next? Because their problem isn't solved and their problem ultimately lies in they don't like whomever the subject is, whether it's Donald Trump.
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Take Donald Trump for an example. They did the Lawfare 2020. A lot of people don't like what happened in that election. A lot of questions about that. You had state attorneys general, district attorneys throwing ridiculous cases at him. You had the case in Manhattan with E. Jean Carroll. I mean, they specifically changed the statute of limitations so that she could bring the case.