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[01:21.840 --> 01:37.680]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show.
[01:44.480 --> 01:48.720]  As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday the 6th of February, year of our Lord,
[01:48.720 --> 01:54.560]  2026. Well, today we're going to have our Ask Me Anything questions. We're going to talk about
[01:54.560 --> 01:59.600]  that. And I thought it was kind of interesting. We could have a couple. We asked Grok and said,
[01:59.600 --> 02:04.080]  Grok, if you could ask me a question, what would it be? And I thought it had some very provocative
[02:04.080 --> 02:08.240]  questions. So we're going to talk about that as well. We're going to begin with the news and what
[02:08.240 --> 02:14.560]  is happening financially. We're also going to have an interview from 13 years ago where I talked to
[02:14.560 --> 02:20.320]  Dr. Noel Sharkey. He is a computer science, robotics, and artificial intelligence expert
[02:21.040 --> 02:28.160]  from the UK. And he's pretty well known on TV there because of robot wars and other things
[02:28.160 --> 02:32.240]  that he was a consultant to and I think was on screen with it. But we're going to talk to him
[02:32.960 --> 02:37.920]  about efforts to try to stop autonomous killing robots because they're on their way.
[02:38.800 --> 02:44.560]  And that's what War Pete wants, more lethality, regardless of who's in control.
[02:45.280 --> 02:54.080]  We'll be right back. Stay with us.
[03:07.920 --> 03:15.680]  Well, again, we're going to do some news here before we get into what is happening with the
[03:15.680 --> 03:23.280]  Ask Me Anything questions and our interview with Dr. Noel Sharkey. We've had the markets really
[03:23.280 --> 03:28.080]  in turmoil yesterday on Thursday, kind of along the lines of what I was saying. You know, we're
[03:28.080 --> 03:36.080]  seeing Bitcoin going down way below 70,000 and we're seeing the tech markets, stock market is
[03:36.080 --> 03:42.560]  shaky as well. It's very concerning when you look at the traps that have been laid for everybody
[03:42.560 --> 03:46.640]  and the state by state and the UCC code, as I pointed out yesterday, the great taking
[03:47.200 --> 03:53.040]  that is right there waiting for them to take everything from us. Meanwhile, we have, as I
[03:53.040 --> 04:00.720]  pointed out last week, was that last Friday was the premiere of the Melania film. And my comment
[04:00.720 --> 04:07.280]  yesterday was, I thought it was kind of interesting, all of these big name Christian
[04:07.280 --> 04:12.160]  people, of course, say big name, I mean, Robert Jeffries in Dallas has got a huge mega church,
[04:12.160 --> 04:17.120]  but he's always done whatever needs to be done to get a seat at the table with Trump.
[04:17.840 --> 04:21.200]  But I also saw people that I knew going to see Melania and it's like, how in the world
[04:22.080 --> 04:27.120]  could you go to see that if you know anything at all about what's going on with the Epstein
[04:27.120 --> 04:31.600]  files? And how could you miss that? How could you miss her involvement with all of that stuff,
[04:31.600 --> 04:36.560]  as well as Donald Trump's stuff? You know, it's kind of interesting. There was a movie theater
[04:36.560 --> 04:42.720]  in Portland and they put up, the guy said, well, we decided we would carry the film. That was last
[04:42.720 --> 04:48.240]  week. We decided we'd carry the film because when you look at what was available out there in terms
[04:48.240 --> 04:52.880]  of films that we could put in the theater, it was an absolute desert, he said. So we decided we'd
[04:52.880 --> 04:57.200]  put it up. And so to tease the movie in Portland, where they know people are not going to
[04:57.200 --> 05:04.000]  care much about Melania, they put up on the billboard, they said, does Melania wear Prada?
[05:06.080 --> 05:12.480]  Find out on Friday. Of course, you know, referring to the movie title, the double wears Prada.
[05:14.560 --> 05:21.040]  And so they got the film pulled by Amazon because of that. But look, we all know what was really
[05:21.040 --> 05:28.000]  going on with that film. We know it was a naked grift that was going on from Jeff Bezos to the
[05:28.880 --> 05:34.560]  Trumps. She got $28 million for that. As I pointed out last week, you look at the box office numbers,
[05:34.560 --> 05:40.240]  they were all amazing box office numbers. They spent $35 million promoting it. They spent $40
[05:40.240 --> 05:47.040]  million making it. Of that $40 million, 28 of it went to Melania. Don't tell me this isn't some
[05:47.040 --> 05:51.360]  play-to-play garbage that's happening with the Trumps. It happens with them all the time.
[05:51.920 --> 05:58.160]  And when you look at the kind of budgets you typically see, the documentary, even if you take
[05:58.160 --> 06:03.440]  out her $28 million cut, you're still talking about a $12 million budget for a documentary.
[06:04.240 --> 06:09.920]  The kind of thing that we used to shoot all the time. Just three guys with cameras.
[06:10.880 --> 06:17.520]  Anyway, it was really absurd how they threw money at this thing. And of course, the success of it
[06:17.520 --> 06:22.160]  has nothing to do with whether or not it's a good film or not. People are going to go to see it
[06:22.160 --> 06:26.400]  because they like Trump. And that's the bottom line. People are not going to go see it because
[06:26.400 --> 06:32.960]  they don't like Trump. And so it's not really about the film itself. Although you had Matt
[06:32.960 --> 06:38.080]  LaBosh say, is this the worst film of all time? And he says, well, I can't say that it is,
[06:38.720 --> 06:44.080]  because I haven't seen every single film. Because I've seen a lot of awful films,
[06:44.080 --> 06:48.720]  and he names a bunch of them. And of all the films that I personally have seen in my life,
[06:48.720 --> 06:55.280]  this is absolutely the worst. So the UAE Royal Investment and Trump Crypto Firm preceded major
[06:55.280 --> 07:02.320]  US AI chip access. Another pay-to-play. This is just the same type of thing that Bezos did.
[07:03.200 --> 07:10.640]  Right? So just days before Trump's inauguration, a secret foreign investment quietly reshaped the
[07:10.640 --> 07:15.040]  ownership of his family's new cryptocurrency venture. The buyer was tied to one of the most
[07:15.040 --> 07:21.760]  powerful figures in the UAE. Within months, that same figure's country secured sweeping access
[07:21.760 --> 07:28.000]  to advanced American artificial intelligence chips. And of course, this guy is known as the
[07:28.000 --> 07:33.840]  spy chic, because he is involved with technology and espionage and that type of thing. So I mean,
[07:33.840 --> 07:38.000]  nothing to see here, right? The arrangement detailed in the Wall Street Journal investigation
[07:38.640 --> 07:44.880]  is fueling renewed accusations that Trump is monetizing the presidency. Folks,
[07:44.880 --> 07:52.480]  there's no question about that. It really is nakedly exploited, as they put in here. He has
[07:53.040 --> 08:00.080]  never have we seen a person, a president, who has so nakedly exploited his position on such a scale.
[08:01.120 --> 08:08.800]  And again, the family fortune has ballooned by $4 billion in 2025. That number excludes profits
[08:08.800 --> 08:14.480]  from the family's pre-existing businesses. As a matter of fact, if people want to investigate
[08:15.840 --> 08:21.440]  Ilhan Omar or AOC, yeah, absolutely you should investigate them. What about Trump? How could you
[08:21.440 --> 08:26.640]  not look at this and say something is wrong? I mean, we talk about Obama, how this guy,
[08:26.640 --> 08:32.400]  who had never really had a job, he was a community organizer. Then he became a politician. He had
[08:32.400 --> 08:37.360]  various political offices and everything. None of them paid that well. How did he wind up being a
[08:37.360 --> 08:42.880]  multimillionaire? How does Trump, somebody whose net worth was probably about three or four billion
[08:42.880 --> 08:48.560]  dollars, not according to Trump, but according to the people who actually investigate these things,
[08:48.560 --> 08:54.080]  how could he double his net worth in just one year, the first year in office of the second term?
[08:54.720 --> 09:01.840]  Four days before Trump's inauguration last year, lieutenants to Abu Dhabi's royal secretly
[09:02.400 --> 09:08.240]  signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in the fledgling cryptocurrency venture
[09:08.240 --> 09:15.360]  for half a billion dollars. The deal involved World Liberty Financial, the president's own
[09:15.360 --> 09:22.880]  crypto venture. It was co-founded with his three sons and with Steve and Zach Witkoff.
[09:23.840 --> 09:27.680]  So according to the Wall Street Journal, the previously unreported deal was signed by Eric,
[09:28.240 --> 09:35.200]  one of the president's sons. Under the agreement, the buyers would pay half upfront, steering 187
[09:35.200 --> 09:41.280]  million dollars to Trump family entities. Now, what did they get for it? Well, at least 31 million was
[09:41.760 --> 09:47.280]  slated to flow to entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff, who weeks earlier had
[09:47.280 --> 09:54.800]  been named US envoy to the Middle East. Another 31 million, and again, does that ring any bells?
[09:54.800 --> 09:58.960]  I mean, here's a guy who's going to be the envoy to these people and they're buying influence with
[09:58.960 --> 10:05.520]  him, giving him 31 million dollars before he takes the office. Another 31 million went to an entity
[10:05.520 --> 10:13.680]  tied to co-founders Zach Folkman and Chase Harrow. Sheik Tanoon backed the investment. The
[10:13.680 --> 10:20.880]  Wall Street Journal describes him as the spy sheik, they said, that's his nickname, brother to the
[10:20.880 --> 10:26.560]  UAE's president, the government's national security advisor, as well as the leader of the oil rich
[10:26.560 --> 10:33.040]  country's largest wealth fund. He oversees more than 1.3 trillion dollar empire funded by his
[10:33.040 --> 10:38.720]  personal fortune and by state money, which again, you know, they just mix those two together just
[10:38.720 --> 10:46.000]  like China, just like the Trump regime. So it spans from fish farms to AI to surveillance,
[10:46.000 --> 10:50.480]  making him one of the most powerful single investors in the world. The deal marks something
[10:50.480 --> 10:55.280]  unprecedented in American politics, a foreign government official taking a major ownership
[10:55.280 --> 11:01.040]  stake in an incoming president's company. At the center of the controversy is not just a business
[11:01.040 --> 11:08.080]  deal, but access to technology that Washington treats as strategically sensitive. The previous
[11:08.080 --> 11:12.800]  administration was unwilling to share it with the UAE. As a matter of fact, Tanoon's efforts to get
[11:12.800 --> 11:18.720]  AI hardware had been largely stymied over fears that he was going to pass it along to China.
[11:19.840 --> 11:27.360]  And his company, the AI firm G42, had stoked alarm among intelligence officials and lawmakers
[11:27.360 --> 11:33.440]  over its close ties to Huawei and other Chinese firms. Remember, in Trump's first term,
[11:34.640 --> 11:42.960]  they wanted to roll out 5G and other things and 6G perhaps. They wanted to make sure that Huawei was
[11:42.960 --> 11:48.240]  not going to be involved in any of that. And they said, well, if they are so paranoid about the Chinese
[11:48.240 --> 11:52.720]  having the ability to surveil us, what do you think that tells you about the US government? Don't you
[11:52.720 --> 11:57.680]  think that they also are aware of the technology to surveil people with the networks that they're
[11:57.680 --> 12:00.720]  rolling out? Of course they are. They just want to be the ones who are doing the surveillance.
[12:01.440 --> 12:08.320]  But Huawei was what they were focused on to stop. And so here you have a guy who is one handshake
[12:08.320 --> 12:13.520]  away from Huawei. Trump's election opened the door for him, writes the Wall Street Journal.
[12:13.520 --> 12:19.600]  After the election, Tanoon met multiple times with Trump, Steve Witkoff, and other US officials.
[12:20.560 --> 12:26.240]  During a March White House visit, the Sheik told officials that he was eager to work with US on AI
[12:26.240 --> 12:35.040]  and on other issues. G42 celebrated the shift, saying it accelerated projects including Stargate
[12:35.040 --> 12:43.040]  UAE. Isn't it interesting? This guy, he doesn't just do the same types of things as Trump,
[12:43.040 --> 12:48.400]  we're going to merge our corporate and government fortunes together, and I'm going to profit off of
[12:48.400 --> 12:53.280]  this. They also both had this Stargate thing. Remember that's the thing that Trump did, I think
[12:53.280 --> 13:01.120]  it was his first day back in the Oval Office. Oracle, Cisco, NVIDIA, and the SoftBank Group.
[13:02.080 --> 13:09.280]  And Trump was talking about AI plus mRNA technology. And so again, America's got a
[13:09.280 --> 13:14.080]  Stargate project. They're talking about a $500 billion AI infrastructure project. UAE is going
[13:14.080 --> 13:18.720]  to do the same thing and we're going to give them the chips, which they'll then turn over to
[13:18.720 --> 13:26.000]  China most likely. What wasn't publicly known was that Tanoon's emissaries had signed the deal to
[13:26.000 --> 13:35.600]  purchase 49% of World Liberty that January. So yeah, don't need to look at this. I'm sure
[13:35.600 --> 13:40.080]  there's nothing there, don't you think? Well, this is a report from New American. They said they
[13:40.080 --> 13:47.520]  concluded that the World Liberty Financial operates in a legally permissible but ethically
[13:47.520 --> 13:53.680]  questionable space. This sure looks like a violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause.
[13:53.680 --> 14:00.160]  And more to the point, it looks like a bribe, said Washington University law professor.
[14:00.160 --> 14:06.640]  The transaction, she said, should be a five alarm fire about the federal government being for sale.
[14:07.520 --> 14:12.400]  Well, that pretty much is everything about the Trump administration.
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[15:54.560 --> 16:00.000]  Trump. He's done this now on both the Venezuela extrajudicial killings that are going on there,
[16:00.640 --> 16:06.720]  as well as the out of control ICE, as well as now this statement from Trump that he's
[16:06.720 --> 16:12.640]  going to nationalize the elections. Rand Paul said, that's not what the Constitution says.
[16:13.520 --> 16:21.520]  And so you had Caroline Levitt come out and she was asked about this
[16:21.520 --> 16:23.440]  canceling elections. Here's what she had to say.
[16:52.480 --> 16:56.640]  Are you as tired as I am of these snarky women who work for Trump? And I'm talking
[16:56.640 --> 17:01.120]  about Pam Bondi as well. When she goes to be interviewed, not interviewed, but questioned
[17:01.840 --> 17:08.080]  by the Senate, she goes in with a paper of talking points. So she just rolls that rather than
[17:08.080 --> 17:13.120]  respond to any of the questions as we saw Pam Bondi do. Pam Bondi looks up and say,
[17:13.120 --> 17:17.040]  who's this guy? Oh yeah, here he is. Okay, here's my smear against you. I've got
[17:17.040 --> 17:20.320]  personal ad hominem attack against you. And I'm not going to answer your question.
[17:20.960 --> 17:25.520]  I'm going to answer your question, quote unquote, with an attack on you personally.
[17:25.520 --> 17:31.440]  That's exactly the same play as Caroline Levitt. Are they being coached by the crook at the top?
[17:32.240 --> 17:36.960]  This is the Trump regime's tactic. We don't respond to questions. We attack you personally
[17:36.960 --> 17:42.560]  if you ask us a question. And so why is he joking about not having an election? Why would that even
[17:42.560 --> 17:48.560]  be funny? It's not funny. It's especially not funny when you got somebody who runs roughshod
[17:49.040 --> 17:52.720]  over the constitution and the rule of law, who has no respect for that whatsoever.
[17:52.720 --> 17:58.640]  And then we've got that crook, Bannon, who was pardoned by the other crook, Trump. His others
[17:58.640 --> 18:02.240]  say, no, no, we really are going to run him for a third time. We're going to manipulate the
[18:02.240 --> 18:08.160]  constitution. There's things we can do and on and on. I'm so sick and tired of these people
[18:08.800 --> 18:12.560]  who flaunt this stuff. And that's why when Rand Paul says, well, you know, we got something
[18:12.560 --> 18:17.440]  called a constitution. And he says, that's not what the constitution says about elections.
[18:18.400 --> 18:25.360]  He said, the U.S. Supreme Court limits states in some ways, such as barring them from setting
[18:25.360 --> 18:30.960]  different rules for some issues, including things like term limits. But he said, the constitution
[18:30.960 --> 18:36.640]  gives states the powers to determine the time, the place, and the manner of elections. The
[18:36.640 --> 18:41.600]  Supreme Court, he said, did rule that, for example, Washington state can't set term limits on federal
[18:41.600 --> 18:47.920]  officials if Georgia doesn't. It has to be a uniform election law. But as far as the time,
[18:47.920 --> 18:54.080]  place, and manner of elections, that under the constitution is a state activity. So I'm not
[18:54.080 --> 18:58.000]  for nationalizing it, he said. And again, when we look at how does Trump want to nationalize it?
[18:58.000 --> 19:04.400]  Well, he wants to, and again, Bannon was all excited about having ICE show up at the polls.
[19:05.200 --> 19:09.920]  You don't need to have ICE at the polls. If you want to do ID, you can do ID. You don't have to
[19:09.920 --> 19:15.920]  have these intimidating thugs and their camouflage and their body armor and their fully automatic
[19:15.920 --> 19:21.680]  weapons pointed at you. What's that about? Give me a break. That would be the best thing they could do to
[19:21.680 --> 19:29.280]  energize the base for the opposition. That would ensure a major blue wave if people have to walk
[19:29.280 --> 19:37.120]  past armed masked stormtroopers guarding the thing. That might be the thing that'd get me to vote for
[19:37.120 --> 19:43.280]  change. Paul added the Democrats tried to implement sweeping national election reforms
[19:43.280 --> 19:48.080]  when Biden was in office, but the Republicans blocked it in the Senate when he did that.
[19:48.080 --> 19:53.040]  He said, I was against Nancy Pelosi's bill, which would have nationalized it, but I would also be
[19:53.040 --> 19:57.520]  against any bill coming from this administration that would nationalize the election.
[19:57.520 --> 20:03.040]  See how that works? If you're doing something because of principle, because of the constitution,
[20:03.040 --> 20:07.200]  because the rule of law, or because of ethics or morality or something, it doesn't matter
[20:07.200 --> 20:13.840]  who is in office. You oppose it both times. If you are going to act differently based on who is in
[20:13.840 --> 20:23.680]  office, that's how we get people like Mike Johnson that are there. Again, Trump has frequently and
[20:23.680 --> 20:32.480]  absurdly claimed that he lost Minnesota because the Somalis showed up and voted. Folks, not even
[20:32.480 --> 20:39.920]  Ronald Reagan could carry Minnesota. He won 49 states, including places like Hawaii and California
[20:39.920 --> 20:45.360]  and New York when he ran, but even Ronald Reagan couldn't win Minnesota. He didn't lose it by much.
[20:45.360 --> 20:50.160]  He only lost it by two or three thousand votes, I think, but even Ronald Reagan couldn't carry.
[20:50.160 --> 20:55.040]  There's absolutely no way that Trump would have won in Minnesota, but what is his response?
[20:55.040 --> 20:59.200]  Oh, okay. Well, we got all these Somalis who were brought in. Yeah, they were brought in. They didn't
[20:59.200 --> 21:03.120]  cross the border. They were brought in as part of the refugee program. We had a six billion dollar
[21:03.120 --> 21:08.240]  budget for that last year and the previous years. Trump and the Republicans want to increase it to
[21:08.240 --> 21:13.360]  five by another five billion, so he's almost going to double it. It's an 80% increase. Why would you
[21:13.360 --> 21:19.200]  do that if you say the Somalis are the problem? Well, because the real problem is Trump who is
[21:19.200 --> 21:25.680]  trying to create conflict unnecessarily. That's what this is all truly about, and I'm very suspicious,
[21:25.680 --> 21:32.480]  really, about national involvement and IDs for elections. Again, that is a state issue. We have
[21:32.480 --> 21:38.880]  had national involvement for ID in terms of stopping it, prohibiting it, saying, well,
[21:38.880 --> 21:44.720]  you can look for picture ID just like you would have to do if you even cashed a check at the
[21:44.720 --> 21:51.680]  grocery store. You can require picture ID, but if you're one of these southern states, because we've
[21:51.680 --> 21:55.760]  had these Jim Crow laws in the past, we're not going to allow you to do that. We're going to say
[21:55.760 --> 22:02.480]  somehow that is racist to do it. Patently absurd, and it is federal involvement in the time, the
[22:02.480 --> 22:09.600]  place, and the manner of the election, and the federal government should get out of that and
[22:09.600 --> 22:14.560]  butt out of that. But the issue is, and I've talked about this many times, you look at North
[22:14.560 --> 22:21.440]  Carolina, for example, in the 2012 election, I was already in Texas. My brother-in-law was back in
[22:21.440 --> 22:26.240]  North Carolina. He had a friend. When you went in to vote, you would just give them a name and
[22:26.240 --> 22:30.560]  address, and they had these big computer printouts, and they would go through and find your name and
[22:30.560 --> 22:34.320]  your address, and that was all that's required. You just need to go in with a name and address,
[22:34.320 --> 22:38.800]  and they didn't know who you were. And they kept saying, well, we're not having any voter fraud
[22:38.800 --> 22:44.720]  because of that. It's like, oh, really? You're not? And so he had a friend who said, I went to vote,
[22:44.720 --> 22:48.000]  gave him my name and my address. They looked it up and said, you've already voted.
[22:48.000 --> 22:53.840]  He says, no, I haven't. That was on election day. He said, no, I haven't. I said, yeah, you have.
[22:53.840 --> 22:58.960]  And this other person here at your name and address, same last name, same address, has already
[22:58.960 --> 23:04.560]  voted as well. He says, that's my mother. She's been dead for a while. And so while all that is
[23:04.560 --> 23:09.360]  happening, the Democrats in North Carolina would say, well, there's no cheating going on with this.
[23:09.360 --> 23:13.920]  I said, he's got to go public with this story. And he said, no, he doesn't want to get involved
[23:13.920 --> 23:19.440]  with it. But North Carolina had one of the longest, and still does, I think, perhaps the
[23:19.440 --> 23:26.640]  longest voting period. It was one of the longest. And so you could just go anywhere you want and
[23:26.640 --> 23:31.280]  just give them a name and address, and you could vote. And then mark it down as that's done. So,
[23:31.280 --> 23:36.240]  yeah, we do need to have some ID. My concern, however, is when the federal government gets
[23:36.240 --> 23:41.200]  involved in it, what does the federal government want to do when it's got ID, right? It's always
[23:41.200 --> 23:49.280]  looking for some excuse to have a national ID, a biometric ID. Look at what TSA is doing.
[23:50.000 --> 23:52.880]  And look at even some of the other Republican areas. You know, we've got
[23:53.600 --> 24:00.560]  Republican states like in Florida. They said, we're going to have mandatory e-verify.
[24:02.320 --> 24:06.800]  Well, I've got to get the federal government to say that I can have a job. I've got to be vetted
[24:06.800 --> 24:09.920]  by the federal government. How easy is it going to be for them to say, well, we don't like this
[24:09.920 --> 24:15.280]  politics. You can't have a job. Or we're going to get rid of anonymity on the internet because
[24:15.920 --> 24:21.760]  we've got kids who are going to porn sites. Well, there's always different ways, different things
[24:21.760 --> 24:26.720]  that we could do to solve these different problems. But their solution is always a federal
[24:26.720 --> 24:33.040]  national ID, a biometric ID, you name it, things like that. So I'm suspicious about what the Trump
[24:33.040 --> 24:37.840]  regime, which is head over heels in love with surveillance and artificial intelligence. I'm
[24:37.840 --> 24:42.800]  very concerned about anything that they would do with the election. Just get the government,
[24:42.800 --> 24:46.800]  the federal government out of the local elections. They, under the constitution,
[24:46.800 --> 24:50.720]  don't have the right to say anything about the manner of the place or the time of the elections.
[24:50.720 --> 24:55.920]  So let the states have photo ID in order to vote and they can handle it themselves.
[24:57.600 --> 25:04.320]  Rand said, the Republicans should say, we want to take over. I'm sorry, this is Trump saying it.
[25:04.320 --> 25:08.000]  The Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting,
[25:08.560 --> 25:13.360]  the voting in at least as many as 15 places. Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,
[25:13.360 --> 25:18.320]  said Trump. Well, those statements received pushback from a lot of high profile Republicans,
[25:18.320 --> 25:24.720]  not just Rand Paul, also the Senate majority leader, John Thune, pushed back. He told reporters
[25:24.720 --> 25:30.400]  that voters should be required to show ID to prove their citizens, but he does not support
[25:30.400 --> 25:36.400]  the federal government seizing the power to run elections. He says, I'm supportive of only
[25:36.400 --> 25:42.080]  citizens voting and showing ID at polling places, but I'm not in favor of federalizing elections.
[25:42.080 --> 25:48.800]  So no, that's a constitutional issue. I'm a big believer in decentralized and distributed power,
[25:48.800 --> 25:54.000]  said the Senator. I think it's harder to hack 50 election systems than it is to hack one.
[25:54.560 --> 25:58.880]  In my view, at least, that's always a system that has worked pretty well. Perhaps that's
[25:58.880 --> 26:04.000]  one of the reasons why Trump wants to. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause
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[27:25.920 --> 27:45.040]  Nationalize it. If you've got one central location, it makes it a lot easier to rig the election.
[27:46.160 --> 27:49.680]  That's a pragmatic reason why we should not be doing it. But of course,
[27:49.760 --> 28:00.960]  I've never seen such open naked corruption in terms of self-enrichment by a politician,
[28:00.960 --> 28:07.280]  not just the president, by any politician. And I've never seen such open naked contempt
[28:08.160 --> 28:11.680]  for the Constitution and the rule of law as the Trump regime has.
[28:11.680 --> 28:17.760]  And the whole thing of, here is a legitimate problem, and here's the government solution of,
[28:17.760 --> 28:26.800]  oh, let's add in the ID. It's exactly what we see with the Somalis and with the fake pandemic and
[28:27.680 --> 28:31.440]  everything else, as you just mentioned. That's right. Yeah. So the Supreme Court
[28:31.440 --> 28:38.480]  is still thinking about Trump's tariff usurpation. And he likes to brag about how he's lowered taxes,
[28:38.480 --> 28:44.400]  but as I've pointed out, the increase in taxes that he, the figures that he's come up with,
[28:44.400 --> 28:50.640]  even if you go lower figures than he's come up with, it's still a bigger tax increase that
[28:50.640 --> 28:58.080]  happened under FDR. So he has added these new taxes and he hasn't done anything to eliminate
[28:58.080 --> 29:05.360]  the income tax. And these small changes that he's made in the income tax code are wiped out by the
[29:05.360 --> 29:10.640]  tax increases that he's had with tariffs. As I pointed out, if you adjust it for inflation,
[29:10.640 --> 29:15.760]  even adjusted for inflation, I know we're talking about dollars that are not the same as they were
[29:15.760 --> 29:23.840]  in 1933. But even when you adjust it for the devaluation of the dollar, it's three times
[29:23.840 --> 29:31.360]  as much as what FDR added in terms of taxes. But he likes to present himself as a tax cutter,
[29:31.920 --> 29:37.680]  just like he attacks country after country and tries to present himself as the peace president.
[29:38.320 --> 29:43.360]  So according to Trump, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey endorsed a very serious violation of law
[29:43.360 --> 29:48.640]  last week when Frey said, Minneapolis does not and will not enforce federal immigration law.
[29:49.680 --> 29:56.240]  But it is Trump whose understanding of the law is seriously impaired, says Reason, because of the
[29:56.240 --> 30:03.760]  noncommandeering act, not act, but the principle that has been established, you know, it's really
[30:03.760 --> 30:09.920]  the nullification principle that has been there all along. There was a Supreme Court case, remember
[30:09.920 --> 30:13.680]  the one that we talked to, Sheriff Mack was involved in it, based on the Brady bill.
[30:14.480 --> 30:22.000]  And that established with the Supreme Court back in 1997, the noncommandeering principle that you
[30:22.000 --> 30:30.720]  cannot force local and state law enforcement, not just law enforcement, but you can't force them to
[30:31.200 --> 30:38.640]  enforce federal law in any way, shape or form. And so guess who wrote that decision?
[30:39.600 --> 30:47.360]  The conservative legal hero, Antonin Scalia. So there you go. I'm going to argue with Scalia,
[30:47.360 --> 30:52.720]  of course. Every time I think about Scalia, I think about the pillow over the head thing
[30:52.720 --> 30:57.600]  at the Cibolo Creek Ranch. I was thinking about that when I saw the Zorro Ranch. That was
[30:58.400 --> 31:03.760]  that was one thing that I have seen, that I cannot unsee what was going on at that ranch,
[31:03.760 --> 31:08.320]  how strange everything. And I said, I didn't see anything happen. It's just the really,
[31:08.320 --> 31:14.480]  really bizarre aspect of that ranch was unbelievable and very occultic.
[31:15.280 --> 31:20.480]  Anyway, the continuing silence from the Supreme Court on these terraces led to worrying speculation
[31:20.480 --> 31:24.160]  among some of the president's critics that the longer it takes for the court's terrorist
[31:24.160 --> 31:27.520]  decision to come out, the better it is for the White House. I said this from the very beginning.
[31:28.000 --> 31:32.640]  When Trump was saying, well, it's going to be a real mess if you try to undo what we've done.
[31:32.640 --> 31:38.160]  So you just better leave it alone, right? That's not an argument. That's not a legal argument.
[31:38.160 --> 31:44.560]  He doesn't have a real emergency. And even if he had a real emergency, the way that he's done this
[31:44.560 --> 31:51.920]  is still not called for in the law. This is just a repudiation, a prevarication, a usurpation.
[31:52.640 --> 31:58.560]  And so now he's trying to say that you need to leave this in because it's going to be too
[31:58.560 --> 32:03.680]  difficult to undo it. And as they point out in this thing that what should have happened
[32:03.680 --> 32:08.000]  since this is being discussed, they should have said, well, we're going to put a moratorium on
[32:08.000 --> 32:13.600]  the collection of tariffs. But instead, they allowed the government to continue to collect
[32:13.600 --> 32:19.200]  the tariffs. And when you look at the questioning, it was pretty clear that justices understood
[32:19.280 --> 32:24.320]  that this is a tax, that tariffs are always taxes. And yet the fact that they couldn't
[32:24.320 --> 32:31.600]  come to an immediate decision is very troubling because it says that, I think, in my opinion,
[32:31.600 --> 32:38.960]  some pressure is being put on. If you remember, Roberts, everybody believed that the Obamacare
[32:38.960 --> 32:44.000]  stuff was going to be shut down by the Supreme Court. And the argument that they wanted to
[32:44.000 --> 32:49.600]  put forward was not that this was some new usurped federal power, but that this was,
[32:49.600 --> 32:57.200]  in fact, a tax or something. So he bought into that argument, and then he wrote the opinion to
[32:57.200 --> 33:06.960]  shut down Obamacare. And then he wrote the opinion to allow it. So he did a complete 180. The same
[33:06.960 --> 33:12.960]  guy wrote both the dissenting opinion and the concurring opinion in the case, which shows me
[33:12.960 --> 33:17.520]  that somebody got to him at the very last minute. Anyway, Trump claims his tariffs have brought
[33:17.520 --> 33:24.960]  America back. Here are three things that he got wrong. This is from reason as well. Number one,
[33:24.960 --> 33:31.680]  the trade deficit. I guess we'd call this three blind lies. Three blind lies. So the number one
[33:31.680 --> 33:39.040]  lie is the trade deficit. He claims that it has slashed our monthly trade deficit by 77%. But the
[33:39.040 --> 33:43.600]  Census Bureau reported last week that the trade deficit actually increased, not decreased, by
[33:43.600 --> 33:50.880]  nearly 37% in November. Through the first 11 months of 2025, the trade deficit was 4% higher
[33:50.880 --> 33:57.040]  than it had been in 2024. The opposite of what Trump is claiming. But of course,
[33:58.400 --> 34:06.080]  part of this is because the tariffs actually did not get started when Trump announced them. There
[34:06.080 --> 34:12.000]  was a delay in them. And then even as there was a delay, he kept adjusting the rates down and that
[34:12.000 --> 34:17.280]  type of thing. So as they point out, the other lie is who pays the tariffs. Lie number two.
[34:18.320 --> 34:23.760]  Trump wrote in his op-ed piece on the Wall Street Journal that foreign producers and middlemen are
[34:23.760 --> 34:30.400]  paying at least 80% of the tariff costs. In fact, the paper that he cited concludes that, quote,
[34:30.400 --> 34:39.600]  tariffs led to both rapid and gradual retail price increases. The study that whoever wrote
[34:39.600 --> 34:45.840]  this for Trump, the study that they referenced by the Harvard Business School found that the,
[34:45.840 --> 34:50.960]  quote, prices began rising within days of the March announcements and continued to increase
[34:50.960 --> 34:57.600]  steadily over subsequent months. They also said imported goods rose roughly twice as much
[34:58.240 --> 35:01.520]  as domestic goods relative to pre-tariff trends. Do you get that?
[35:02.400 --> 35:10.000]  So we've had inflation of domestically produced things. And we've had, even with that inflation,
[35:10.000 --> 35:16.240]  we've had imported goods go up by twice that amount. And as we talked about this before,
[35:16.240 --> 35:19.680]  when people say, oh, look, we haven't seen a huge difference in this kind of stuff yet.
[35:20.880 --> 35:27.120]  In the past, when tariffs have been applied, they have been slow to be passed on. Because the first
[35:27.120 --> 35:32.400]  instinct of the businesses is going to be to try to not raise prices. That's the competitive
[35:32.400 --> 35:37.520]  advantage, of course, to try to compete on price. But then after a while, what they realize is that
[35:37.520 --> 35:42.320]  they can't compete on price. They can't swallow. If they get hit with a tariff that's 10% or 20%
[35:42.320 --> 35:46.960]  or something, they have to pass that on eventually. Because they don't operate, most businesses don't
[35:46.960 --> 35:51.120]  operate on a profit margin that's going to allow them to absorb those types of costs.
[35:51.760 --> 35:56.480]  They have to be passed on to the consumer. That's why the minimum wage increases that are mandated
[35:56.480 --> 36:01.680]  by Democrats are inflationary. They have to be passed on in prices. And that's why corporate
[36:01.680 --> 36:08.720]  income tax. We've always understood, I thought as conservatives, that you don't tax corporations.
[36:09.280 --> 36:12.960]  When you tax corporations, they pass that on. It always works that way.
[36:13.680 --> 36:20.160]  And so prices for imported goods are up 9.7% from their pre-tariff trends,
[36:20.160 --> 36:26.880]  while domestic prices are up 4.5%. Those increases have added an estimated 1%
[36:26.880 --> 36:31.760]  point to inflation as measured by the consumer price index. And it always lags. It's going to
[36:31.760 --> 36:36.160]  get worse. So the next time Trump is complaining that the Federal Reserve won't lower interest
[36:36.160 --> 36:40.800]  rates, remember that the main reason the central bank is keeping interest rates higher is that
[36:40.800 --> 36:46.560]  inflation is still over 2%. But it would be significantly lower if not for Trump's tariffs.
[36:47.120 --> 36:51.200]  And then the third lie, economic collapse. He said in his op-ed piece,
[36:51.200 --> 36:55.600]  when I imposed historic tariffs on nearly all foreign countries last April,
[36:55.600 --> 36:59.440]  the critics said my policies would cause a global economic meltdown.
[37:00.080 --> 37:04.640]  He said that meltdown didn't occur. So that must prove that the president was right
[37:04.640 --> 37:10.720]  and his opponents wrong. Well, this is not a gotcha moment that the president seems to believe it is.
[37:11.280 --> 37:16.800]  Reason says Trump repeatedly backed down and eased tariff threats in the face of negative
[37:16.800 --> 37:22.720]  shocks from both the stock market and the bond market. The Liberation Day tariffs,
[37:22.720 --> 37:28.000]  announced on April the 2nd, were postponed a week later after a huge stock market sell-off,
[37:28.000 --> 37:35.120]  and those were later imposed at a lower rate. A threatened 130% tariff on Chinese goods
[37:35.200 --> 37:41.360]  never materialized. No wonder TACO, Trump Always Chickens Out, entered the political and financial
[37:41.360 --> 37:48.880]  lexicon last year. Yale Budget Labs data shows that Trump raised the average US tariff rate
[37:49.440 --> 37:56.640]  from less than 3% to more than 25%. But those rates declined in the second half of the year
[37:56.640 --> 38:01.840]  and settled at around 17%. That's still very high, but not as high as it could have been.
[38:02.400 --> 38:07.680]  So it makes sense that the consequences were less severe and delayed, of course, as well.
[38:08.240 --> 38:13.920]  So if the bar for success is, I didn't crash the global economy,
[38:15.520 --> 38:21.520]  then congratulations, I guess, he says. It's not something to brag about, and it certainly
[38:21.520 --> 38:26.640]  doesn't excuse Trump from the economic damage that his lower, less extreme tariffs have done.
[38:26.640 --> 38:31.680]  And again, the levels of the tariffs are not nearly as damaging, no matter what they are,
[38:32.320 --> 38:37.840]  as is on again, off again, constantly changing chaotic environment that keeps people who are
[38:37.840 --> 38:41.200]  in business from being able to know what the costs are going to be from one day to the next.
[38:42.160 --> 38:47.040]  Tariffs are effectively a wealth transfer mechanism. It takes money from consumers
[38:47.040 --> 38:54.480]  and businesses, and it gives it to preferred businesses to help protect them. No wonder he
[38:54.480 --> 38:59.040]  loves tariffs, because that really is kind of his business model, right? I'm going to reward my
[38:59.040 --> 39:06.160]  friends. Chronic capitalism. And of course, punish his enemies that he hates. So yeah,
[39:06.160 --> 39:10.240]  in Trump's case, the sectors of the economy that are supposed to be benefiting from the tariffs,
[39:10.960 --> 39:15.920]  manufacturing and other forms of industrial production are not even realizing those benefits,
[39:15.920 --> 39:19.600]  because higher prices on raw materials make it more difficult to manufacture things.
[39:20.160 --> 39:26.560]  For example, American businesses are now paying much higher prices for aluminum than manufacturers
[39:26.560 --> 39:32.480]  elsewhere in the world. That's a good way to discourage manufacturing in America not to promote
[39:32.480 --> 39:38.640]  it. Trump is clearly unwilling and unable to understand these tradeoffs. It's hopeless to
[39:38.640 --> 39:44.560]  believe that he'll ever change his mind. It's really up to others to stop him. Not going to be
[39:44.560 --> 39:47.760]  anybody in his immediate circle that's going to stop him for anything, is it?
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[41:40.640 --> 41:54.560]  And of course, then we have the, in terms of Trump's contempt for the rule of law on the
[41:54.560 --> 42:01.600]  Constitution, when the Trump administration went to the federal district court judge Richard Leon,
[42:02.640 --> 42:08.560]  expressed shock. The judge expressed shock on Tuesday that the Trump so-called Justice
[42:08.560 --> 42:13.360]  Department was asking him to break new First Amendment ground. We're going to punish
[42:14.000 --> 42:19.920]  Mark Kelly because of what he said. And what did he say that was so offensive? That's the amazing
[42:19.920 --> 42:24.080]  thing about this. Just go back to the very beginning. And it was a comment that Lance had.
[42:24.080 --> 42:28.640]  He said, why don't they just say, we're not giving any illegal orders. Instead, they said,
[42:28.640 --> 42:34.640]  how dare you say to people to not follow illegal orders. We're going to come after you for saying
[42:34.640 --> 42:39.360]  that. Why didn't they want to just defend it by saying, well, our orders are not illegal?
[42:39.360 --> 42:46.880]  And shame on Mark Kelly and the other senator who has retired CIA, who, when they were asked by
[42:46.880 --> 42:54.400]  people what laws, what illegal orders has Trump given, they couldn't think of any. Are you kidding
[42:54.400 --> 42:59.200]  me? You know, what we saw happening in Venezuela, you can't think of anything that violated the law.
[42:59.200 --> 43:04.080]  I can't think of anything that complied with the law and any of that. Why are we there? What are
[43:04.080 --> 43:07.440]  we doing? Why are we shooting people in the first place without knowing what they've got on their
[43:07.440 --> 43:12.080]  boat? Why are we circling back and murdering people in the water who have been shipwrecked?
[43:12.080 --> 43:17.440]  Everything about that operation was criminal and illegal. But Mark Kelly and this other person
[43:17.440 --> 43:23.200]  can't think about it. But then the real farce about all this stuff is that Trump and Warpete
[43:23.200 --> 43:27.680]  couldn't just say, well, I didn't, we didn't do anything illegal. If they'd taken that approach,
[43:28.480 --> 43:32.160]  Mark Kelly and these other people would have backed down because they backed down when they
[43:32.160 --> 43:39.040]  were challenged by news anchors to name something. Meanwhile, the judge says, you're asking me to do
[43:39.040 --> 43:45.680]  something that the Supreme Court has never done. Isn't that a bit of a stretch? The Trump
[43:45.680 --> 43:52.240]  administration tried during the hearing to argue that the diminished speech rights that apply to
[43:52.240 --> 43:57.200]  active duty military meant to preserve obedience and discipline should apply to Kelly, who is now
[43:57.200 --> 44:04.400]  retired. That's never been done before, said the judge. Leon seemed particularly perturbed about
[44:04.400 --> 44:09.600]  Kelly's situation, specifically that under the Trump regime's new proposed rule, retired members
[44:09.600 --> 44:13.440]  of the military serving in Congress could be punished for criticizing the Pentagon.
[44:15.040 --> 44:19.600]  In what world does that make any sense, right? If you are not in uniform anymore,
[44:20.400 --> 44:25.120]  how does that mean that you can't exercise your free speech rights to criticize the president?
[44:25.680 --> 44:30.000]  I mean, we saw the contempt for the constitution the Biden administration had
[44:30.000 --> 44:37.200]  coming after J6 people because you have a specifically enumerated right in the First
[44:37.200 --> 44:42.640]  Amendment to redress your grievances against the government, right? So they came after people and
[44:42.640 --> 44:50.080]  punished them for that. Here we have Trump doing that, doing it to a senator even. It was not in
[44:50.080 --> 44:54.800]  the military, you know, trying to punish him for this. So in other words, they're saying that if
[44:54.800 --> 44:59.280]  you were ever a part of the military, you have permanently given up your free speech rights.
[44:59.280 --> 45:04.080]  That's right. That's right. That's like saying that if somebody's ever been convicted of a felony,
[45:04.080 --> 45:09.520]  they can never own a gun before, again, right? Even if it's some kind of a minor nonviolent
[45:09.520 --> 45:13.520]  felony, because we've got felonies all over the place. It's like Harvey Silverglate's book,
[45:13.520 --> 45:16.640]  Three Felonies a Day, you know, there's felonies you don't even know about.
[45:17.200 --> 45:20.400]  You join the military to protect other people's rights. You give up your own, but
[45:20.880 --> 45:25.840]  you can protect others, presumably. Or, you know, in Washington state, you get convicted of a
[45:25.840 --> 45:31.680]  felony because you got an illegal 3D printer. So now you can never own a fire gun. Not just
[45:31.680 --> 45:37.280]  you can't print a so-called ghost gun, you can never own a firearm because it's a felony.
[45:37.840 --> 45:44.320]  Well, he says, how is a member of the Armed Services Committee supposed to do his or her job?
[45:44.320 --> 45:49.120]  The judge asks the lawyers of the Trump regime. In other words, if a
[45:51.440 --> 45:57.840]  congressman or a senator is on the Armed Services Committee, how can they be punished for criticizing
[45:57.840 --> 46:05.040]  what the Pentagon is doing if you're going to do this type of thing to Mark Kelly? It's absolutely
[46:05.040 --> 46:11.920]  insane. So he said, and after the trial, Mark Kelly was there, he said,
[46:11.920 --> 46:16.960]  Hegseth censured me, and he's now trying to demote me for things that I said and for doing
[46:16.960 --> 46:24.400]  my job as a U.S. senator. He said, this isn't happening in isolation. Since taking office,
[46:24.400 --> 46:31.280]  this regime, he used the word administration, I use the word regime, has repeatedly gone after
[46:31.280 --> 46:38.960]  the First Amendment rights of many Americans, not just him. And so that's where we stand with the
[46:38.960 --> 46:42.880]  law. We're going to take a quick break, and we're going to come back with your
[46:42.880 --> 46:46.800]  Ask Me Anything questions. So stay with us. We will be right back.
[47:12.880 --> 47:35.600]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[47:35.600 --> 47:50.960]  Okay, and here are the Ask Me Anything questions received. This one is from Will,
[47:50.960 --> 47:55.920]  I won't say last name, Will L. He said, I hope this day finds you well. Can you cover the
[47:55.920 --> 48:01.840]  situation in Western Canada where the government is removing landowners to return land to the First
[48:01.840 --> 48:08.080]  Nations, quote unquote. It's relevant with the Billie Elish nonsense that's happening. Of course,
[48:08.080 --> 48:14.800]  that's a singer at the Grammys, and she was saying that we're living on stolen land, so he had people
[48:14.800 --> 48:20.720]  show up in front of her multi-million dollar mansion and say, you stole that, so I want it back,
[48:20.720 --> 48:25.440]  or whatever. Okay, let's understand the principle that's involved here. And the founding fathers
[48:25.440 --> 48:31.680]  understood this. It's just plain common sense, really. Thomas Jefferson is famous for the quote
[48:31.680 --> 48:42.000]  the earth belongs in usufruct to the living, right? And what do you mean by that? Okay, it is
[48:42.880 --> 48:48.800]  basically, when you look at that term, we don't use that anymore. Perhaps it's used in legal circles,
[48:48.800 --> 48:58.960]  I don't know. But the sense of that word usufruct is actually his quote was, that's a construct of
[48:58.960 --> 49:05.200]  his quote to Madison in a letter, what he said was, the dead have neither, let's see, I wrote
[49:05.200 --> 49:11.840]  this down, I have trouble reading this. They have neither power nor rights over these things, right?
[49:12.480 --> 49:17.600]  And in essence, what you're talking about is something that is basically usufruct. It is
[49:17.600 --> 49:21.520]  enjoying the fruits and benefits of a property without actually owning it.
[49:22.880 --> 49:28.560]  And so far as it's compatible with it not being destroyed or injured. And so when we look at this,
[49:28.560 --> 49:31.680]  what does that mean? Well, you know, you can't take it with you, right?
[49:33.040 --> 49:39.360]  And so if you want to go back and say, we're going to eradicate all the property records of things
[49:39.360 --> 49:44.800]  that people have done to transfer this down through, you know, periods of time, people have
[49:44.800 --> 49:48.720]  gone out and they've used their money to buy this property and everything. But we're going to ignore
[49:48.720 --> 49:55.040]  all that. And we're going to go back and look at who originally owned this and give it to their
[49:55.040 --> 49:58.400]  descendants rather than all the different things that have happened. Yeah.
[49:58.400 --> 50:03.840]  And even the term first nations itself is propaganda. They love to set these terms
[50:03.840 --> 50:09.360]  to control the dialogue. No, they weren't the first nations. It's as though before the white
[50:09.360 --> 50:14.080]  man came, they just lived in perfect peace and harmony. No, they took it from the people that
[50:14.080 --> 50:18.640]  had it before them, who took it from the people that had it before them. It was a lot of war
[50:18.640 --> 50:24.720]  amongst the tribes before the white people got there. And, you know, we got there in the middle
[50:24.960 --> 50:28.720]  of it. We have recordings of their views. They had slavery, they had conquests,
[50:28.720 --> 50:33.040]  they had all of these different things that happened. What they didn't have was registries
[50:33.040 --> 50:39.360]  of deeds, which we have. We have an orderly way to transfer this stuff and they want to just bring
[50:39.360 --> 50:44.800]  chaos to us. And of course, the questioner put first nations in quotes. And so, you know,
[50:44.800 --> 50:50.400]  we understand that's their term and we know what's meant by it. But again, just understand that,
[50:50.400 --> 50:54.400]  you know, we're all here as caretakers of land. How do we get this? And why is it that people
[50:54.400 --> 51:02.000]  want to throw all these boundaries off and just create chaos? Well, they've got their own agenda
[51:02.000 --> 51:06.240]  and it doesn't have anything to do with justice or social justice or anything else.
[51:06.240 --> 51:12.160]  Justice is to allow the people who have worked for these things and have legally transferred this.
[51:12.160 --> 51:19.280]  We have a system for ownership and this is just trying to turn the apple cart over and pursue a
[51:19.280 --> 51:24.240]  position of theft. But again, the dead have neither power nor rights to the land.
[51:25.360 --> 51:30.880]  The earth belongs and usufruct to the living. In other words, we're here as caretakers temporarily
[51:31.440 --> 51:35.360]  and we will pass on and then there has to be an orderly way for that to pass on.
[51:36.000 --> 51:41.120]  And we need to leave that alone. Well, another question here from Charlie says, so you need to
[51:41.120 --> 51:47.120]  do some good news segments every show. Two hours of straight bad news is too depressing. Find
[51:47.120 --> 51:56.160]  something positive, please. Well, when I talk about the news, quite frankly, the news,
[51:57.280 --> 52:02.320]  the news that we have here at this point in time is all really bad, quite frankly. I mean,
[52:02.320 --> 52:08.320]  I could tell you a story about somebody who, a police officer who gives a pair of shoes to somebody
[52:08.320 --> 52:12.880]  who needs them on the, that's homeless. And there have been stories like that. That's happened
[52:12.880 --> 52:18.640]  several times. But it really, my purpose in this show is to try to warn you about things
[52:18.640 --> 52:24.160]  that are coming down the pike, like this great taking, you know, where they have gone through
[52:24.160 --> 52:30.480]  and surreptitiously change the UCC code so that you don't really own any stocks or securities or
[52:30.480 --> 52:36.880]  bonds. And it is now you just have an entitlement to it that can easily be wiped out if there's a
[52:36.880 --> 52:43.440]  major financial crash, which we have already seen one in our lifetime in a recent lifetime in 2008.
[52:43.440 --> 52:48.400]  You have something like that happen again, and they've already set everything up to take
[52:48.400 --> 52:53.120]  everything away from you. So my purpose in this show is to warn people about things like that,
[52:53.120 --> 52:58.640]  to warn people about things like the lockdown and the so-called pandemic and the vaccine and
[52:58.640 --> 53:04.720]  things like that. So I know that's bad news, but there is some good news. And that's why when I do
[53:04.720 --> 53:10.240]  talk about Christian aspects, I'm not talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, there is good news
[53:10.240 --> 53:13.920]  that, you know, we are just here for a short period of time. We're not going to take any of
[53:13.920 --> 53:19.600]  this stuff with us. And there is something better that is coming that is far better that's coming.
[53:19.600 --> 53:27.760]  And it is a free gift of grace. This is something that Jesus paid it all. And you need to understand
[53:27.760 --> 53:31.840]  that. Look into that, because you're not going to live forever. You've got these people like
[53:31.840 --> 53:36.880]  Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump who think they are but they're not. And I think this is also from
[53:36.880 --> 53:44.640]  Charlie. He said, I'd like to see a real DK coin in silver. Alex Jones sells a tenth of a gram of
[53:44.640 --> 53:51.840]  0.999 gold for $100 and says, you're not paying $2,000 an ounce like you're getting a better deal.
[53:53.280 --> 53:59.120]  He says today's value of a tenth of a gram is something like $16. So it is a 500% markup. Well,
[53:59.760 --> 54:05.280]  so a couple of things here. I'm not interested in getting into gold and silver right now,
[54:05.280 --> 54:10.800]  because as I pointed out, in terms of selling it, having an inventory that I've got to turn over
[54:10.800 --> 54:16.640]  and so forth, I'm interested in getting gold and accumulating it as an individual, because I think
[54:16.640 --> 54:21.360]  that that is one of the few things that we can do to prepare financially. However, I don't want to
[54:21.360 --> 54:28.000]  get into doing what Tony does, because this is a crazy market right now. If you look at how volatile
[54:28.000 --> 54:33.280]  it was, we were just talking about that yesterday. Yes, Lance? Well, in a sense, you can get a David
[54:33.280 --> 54:37.760]  Knight Show silver coin. It just won't save the David Knight Show. You get your silver through
[54:37.760 --> 54:43.520]  the Wise Wolf program. The Wise Wolf program, yeah. Still getting David Knight Show silver,
[54:43.520 --> 54:48.480]  in a sense. And it's at a great price, not the absurd markup. That's right. Yeah, I looked at
[54:48.480 --> 54:53.280]  that. I thought, okay, so what are we doing? Well, first of all, you change from ounces to gram,
[54:53.280 --> 55:01.200]  right? Typically, the gold and silver is priced in ounces. So one-tenth of a gram, if you say,
[55:01.200 --> 55:08.720]  we've got $5,000 gold, he's right. That'd be about $17, and they're charging $100 for it.
[55:09.360 --> 55:14.880]  So that sounds about the right markup for Infowars. I got to say, the silver that I liked
[55:14.880 --> 55:19.680]  from Infowars was the stuff that you could swallow or brush your teeth with. That was the best silver
[55:19.680 --> 55:27.440]  that they had. So in defense of Infowars, I will say that because the market is so incredibly
[55:27.440 --> 55:32.960]  volatile, I mean, if you're going to put something up on the website and just have it stocked as
[55:32.960 --> 55:37.520]  far as inventory, and you're going to sell it out to people, you better put it in something crazy,
[55:37.520 --> 55:43.440]  like a 500% markup, or you're going to lose a lot of money on it. So again, this kind of volatility,
[55:43.440 --> 55:47.120]  it's not something I would want to be a retailer in, as I said to Tony yesterday.
[55:47.520 --> 55:54.400]  I don't know how he does it. I mean, he's operating, literally, folks in a hyperinflation
[55:54.400 --> 55:58.880]  environment. It's bad enough that it's going up very rapidly, but then you've got these places
[55:58.880 --> 56:04.400]  where it retrenches, and we just saw over the last weekend how it dropped significantly. So it's
[56:04.400 --> 56:09.840]  really difficult to do things in a volatility market like that. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
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[56:43.040 --> 56:48.880]  drove hours to find a doctor who tried everything, but she needed a private hospital,
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[58:08.160 --> 58:14.560]  So anyway, this is from Rick D. He said, what are your thoughts on the Epstein document that claims
[58:14.560 --> 58:21.360]  Joe Biden died in 2019 and was replaced by an actor in a mask? I've noticed that Biden's
[58:21.360 --> 58:27.920]  earlobes change from time to time. His height also changes. There's a photo of Biden at
[58:28.880 --> 58:35.200]  Colin Powell's funeral, and there seems to be a square tab on his ear. And he sent some photos
[58:35.200 --> 58:42.960]  of that. And yeah, there was a guy who did an AI synopsis. You've seen the AI things. I think
[58:42.960 --> 58:48.960]  I showed you one where you've got a guy doing selfies, and he runs up to a movie set, and you've
[58:48.960 --> 58:56.000]  got some actors there, like maybe Harrison Ford on the set of Indiana Jones. So he runs up,
[58:56.000 --> 59:02.240]  and he does a selfie next to Harrison Ford. And then he runs over to another area. And there's
[59:02.240 --> 59:05.600]  another classic movie that's over there, and he does another one. He keeps doing that over and
[59:05.600 --> 59:10.880]  over again in different places. Well, somebody did that with Jeffrey Epstein. And one of the scenes
[59:10.880 --> 59:17.200]  that they had, they had a group of politicians, and one of them was Joe Biden. And then they had
[59:17.200 --> 59:21.520]  a Joe Biden that was absurdly tall, like eight feet tall right behind him. And that's what they
[59:21.520 --> 59:26.320]  were trying to refer to. But I've seen some pictures of Joe Biden and some things that look
[59:26.320 --> 59:31.840]  like masks on his neck and everything. Look, I can't say one way or the other. I have no way to
[59:31.840 --> 59:38.960]  know whether that is true. I know, however, that that is not anything that I would put past them.
[59:39.600 --> 59:44.240]  They would certainly be capable of doing that. They might actually be technically capable,
[59:44.240 --> 59:49.600]  but certainly they would be morally capable of pulling off a hoax like that. I don't believe
[59:49.600 --> 59:56.480]  that Trump was shot in the ear because of the rapid healing that he had and the no scar that.
[59:56.480 --> 01:00:00.480]  So there's a lot of things like that that I am suspicious of, but I'm not going to major on that
[01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:05.440]  because I can't prove it one way or the other. I just have my suspicions. That's what I think.
[01:00:06.160 --> 01:00:11.280]  And so it might very well be that they replaced Joe Biden. But unfortunately,
[01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:18.560]  I think as bad as the Biden presidency was as authoritarian and totalitarian as his policies
[01:00:18.560 --> 01:00:23.120]  were. And I said this a long time, you know, when he was running for office, I said,
[01:00:23.120 --> 01:00:28.080]  Joe Biden is absolutely one of the most totalitarian senators I've ever seen in my life.
[01:00:28.080 --> 01:00:32.720]  He was always involved with war on drugs, and he pushed that along against the Constitution for
[01:00:32.720 --> 01:00:38.000]  the longest time. Yes, Lance. I would just be careful about these really salacious things,
[01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:42.880]  because at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if he was an actor in a mask or just a
[01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:47.920]  senile old man who was reading whatever he was told to read. I don't think anyone really thinks
[01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:55.440]  that Biden was the mastermind behind the Biden presidency. So at the end of the day, it's kind
[01:00:55.440 --> 01:01:00.800]  of- But Biden himself, you know, when he was sharp and articulate and when he was talking on his own
[01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:06.400]  as a younger senator, had nothing but contempt for even the concept of individual liberty.
[01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:11.360]  And that was apparent from the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas. He absolutely
[01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:15.120]  despised Clarence Thomas because Clarence Thomas had written about natural rights.
[01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:20.720]  That's the basis of the Declaration of Independence, you know, the thing that he was
[01:01:20.720 --> 01:01:26.720]  talking about. And the people around Biden, the Biden regime, were equally totalitarian,
[01:01:26.720 --> 01:01:32.800]  authoritarian. So if Biden was alive or dead, whether he was signing the stuff or was auto-pinned,
[01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:37.360]  that was the group that was around him. And again, do you really think that most of the stuff that's
[01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:43.600]  happening is Trump? He's the front face of this, and he's the person that they use to create
[01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:51.680]  chaos and conflict. But I'm not going to make a- I'm not going to plant a flag in this and say,
[01:01:51.680 --> 01:01:56.560]  well, he was absolutely dead. Because look, if you jump into things like this, as Lance was saying,
[01:01:56.560 --> 01:02:00.720]  get into something that's really salacious like that and major in that, first of all,
[01:02:00.720 --> 01:02:04.240]  you're missing some of the more subtle, dangerous things. Like I was talking about,
[01:02:04.240 --> 01:02:08.480]  good example of the UCC stuff and how they've manipulated that. So you're going to miss that
[01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:14.160]  if you're focusing on these salacious things. And if you get it wrong, that discredits everything
[01:02:14.160 --> 01:02:19.120]  that you said, basically. So you have to be careful not to go places where it's not verified. And
[01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:22.560]  there's a lot of stuff that's out there that is like that.
[01:02:22.560 --> 01:02:26.880]  And I do have that Epstein AI video that you mentioned, if you want me to play it.
[01:02:27.680 --> 01:02:31.120]  No, that's okay. Well, yeah, go ahead and play it. I guess we can go ahead and play it.
[01:02:31.120 --> 01:02:37.360]  It's a really creepy video here. There's a lot of
[01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:42.800]  Easter eggs that they've thrown out here. By the way, that reminds me of Cibola Creek Ranch.
[01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:47.920]  That's what made me think of all of those masks on the wall of faces that people that he partied
[01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:53.360]  with. I mean, there were crazy masks on the wall of Cibola Creek. And of course, the pizza party.
[01:02:53.440 --> 01:02:59.600]  Here we are.
[01:03:12.560 --> 01:03:13.600]  I don't know who that guy is.
[01:03:16.080 --> 01:03:19.600]  There's Bill Gates. He's got a sore on his lip. I wonder what that refers to.
[01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:23.760]  There's Prince Andrew and Kevin Spacey and all these guys in a hot tub together.
[01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:29.520]  There's the Pope, John Paul. And of course, that refers to something came out as well. And the
[01:03:29.520 --> 01:03:31.040]  Dalai Lama. That's right.
[01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:42.720]  There's Gawain Maxwell. She's in the recording studio where they're editing the videos that
[01:03:42.720 --> 01:03:47.760]  they have taken of people. And here's his cryogenic experiments. They're in the recording studio.
[01:03:47.760 --> 01:03:50.000]  There's his cryogenic experiments there, I guess.
[01:03:53.440 --> 01:03:56.400]  Yeah, let's see up to here.
[01:04:02.560 --> 01:04:07.520]  There's Jerome Powell and Bernanke and the Federal Reserve people, his Wall Street connections,
[01:04:08.080 --> 01:04:10.800]  his Bitcoin manufacturing facility right there.
[01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:22.400]  His involvement with terrorist organizations through the intelligence agencies.
[01:04:26.560 --> 01:04:31.520]  There's the giant Biden, standing right in front of him as a normal-sized Biden.
[01:04:35.040 --> 01:04:40.080]  And then here's all the clowns and Cash Patel to all the influencers like Libs of TikTok and
[01:04:40.080 --> 01:04:45.120]  DC Drano and all the rest of them with their Epstein documents. Remember that? That was about
[01:04:45.120 --> 01:04:50.160]  a year ago. And there's Trump being carried in on a, what do you call that thing, where they got
[01:04:50.160 --> 01:04:53.920]  four guys carrying it. There's a seated chair there. Sinan, is that what that's called?
[01:04:56.480 --> 01:05:00.640]  There's Netanyahu flipping the switch. Got the owl up there, the occultic stuff. I guess he's
[01:05:00.640 --> 01:05:09.920]  going in the tunnels with them. I don't know what the significance of him pointing to his
[01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:17.280]  wristwatch is there. But here he is. He's back at the temple. Yeah, crazy stuff. No Name asked me,
[01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:23.840]  so see if you can interview Bradley Dean and or Tim Brown from Sons of Liberty. And I've been
[01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:29.680]  interviewed several times by Bradley Dean. I've had him on as well. And he's doing a podcast now,
[01:05:29.680 --> 01:05:36.880]  I think. He used to be on Genesis Radio and that folded. So now he's doing a podcast.
[01:05:37.440 --> 01:05:43.680]  Jay Fletcher says, Espein was deeply involved in the quote unquote science community. CERN,
[01:05:43.680 --> 01:05:48.240]  prestigious medical schools, astrophysicists, computer scientists, stem cell research.
[01:05:48.240 --> 01:05:55.200]  The list is long. He seems to have a steering hand on modern science. What was he or they up to?
[01:05:55.200 --> 01:06:02.160]  Well, I talked about that yesterday. The fact is that he's heavily involved in a lot of these
[01:06:02.160 --> 01:06:07.200]  different things because they have been able to use science to control, manipulate, and of course,
[01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:11.040]  make a lot of money with things. But it's control and manipulation. When you see what he was doing
[01:06:11.040 --> 01:06:17.520]  with the emails in terms of gates and how they were going to profit from the pandemic, how they
[01:06:17.520 --> 01:06:23.760]  were going to be able to use, we've got to restructure these things so that we can make
[01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:27.520]  money off of your charitable organizations and actually take money out of that for profit.
[01:06:28.160 --> 01:06:32.640]  But it's also the transhumanist aspect of it and the genetics aspect of this.
[01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:42.320]  That is really, truly an evil. Let me just interject here because I stopped yesterday before
[01:06:42.320 --> 01:06:48.880]  I got completely finished with what was truly happening with the transhumanism aspect of it.
[01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:52.240]  Going back to J.D. Hall and what he had to say, I thought it was very interesting because I've
[01:06:52.240 --> 01:06:58.960]  talked about how transhumanism is a religion. It's the religion that was there right there in
[01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:09.360]  Genesis when Eve has the forbidden fruit and disobeys God. I'm going to live forever and I'm
[01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:16.560]  going to become like God. And that really is the basis of transhumanism. But I never thought about
[01:07:16.560 --> 01:07:23.360]  the fact that they have an eschatology, the end time study. And their eschatology is called the
[01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:28.480]  singularity, which I thought was kind of funny. And then of course they also have a salvation
[01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:35.600]  narrative, defeating death through technology. It has a priesthood, the Silicon Valley futurists
[01:07:35.600 --> 01:07:41.760]  and the tech billionaires. It has rituals, biohacking and genetic modification, and I would say
[01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:51.760]  abortion as well. It also has sacred texts from Kurzweil and Yuval Harari and Elon Musk. So yeah,
[01:07:51.760 --> 01:07:56.800]  it is something of a religion, isn't it? The Epstein files prove that it merges seamlessly
[01:07:56.800 --> 01:08:03.600]  with ancient pagan worship. The same people funding AI research were funding temple construction.
[01:08:03.600 --> 01:08:08.480]  The same network pursuing genetic superiority through breeding programs was engaging in
[01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:12.480]  ritualistic abuse documented by victims and investigators. This isn't a coincidence.
[01:08:13.120 --> 01:08:18.640]  This is convergence. And all false religion ultimately serves the same principalities,
[01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:24.400]  whether you call them Ishtar, Malik or progress and evolution. And just remember, you know,
[01:08:24.400 --> 01:08:32.880]  when we've got Donald Trump and his mania about building monuments to himself, this 250 foot
[01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:38.000]  monument, this arch that he's got, arch that he wants to put up, would be the largest arch
[01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:44.880]  of anybody that's out there. And he wants to make it 250 feet because it'll be taller than any of
[01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:49.520]  the other ones. And he says it's going to be because we got like 250th anniversary of the
[01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:54.480]  Declaration of Independence. It's like, he probably ought to put up a fallen arch, I think,
[01:08:55.360 --> 01:09:00.240]  because that's what has happened. This nation has fallen from the principles that were there.
[01:09:00.240 --> 01:09:10.720]  There's a whole lot of bioengineering stuff in the Epstein files. Most of it's very dark,
[01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:17.760]  but there is one that's kind of funny. He was involved in a project to create pigs with different
[01:09:17.760 --> 01:09:22.480]  non-cloven hooves in order to make, quote from Epstein, kosher bacon.
[01:09:24.160 --> 01:09:28.720]  Yeah, because it's defined as something with a cloven hoof you can't eat. So let's make pigs
[01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:35.520]  that don't have cloven hooves and then we can enjoy bacon. I guess he doesn't want to get
[01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:40.640]  involved with the imitation bacon that's out of soy, right? I'll leave that to the soyum,
[01:09:42.160 --> 01:09:47.760]  the goyum. So evidently he did have some religious beliefs there, right? He's got to
[01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:51.680]  have it kosher bacon because we're going to have pigs that don't have cloven hooves.
[01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:57.840]  Yep, email from 2015 as reported by AF Post.
[01:09:59.680 --> 01:10:04.320]  So this is Stable Nuclei. He asks me, do you wear pants before 12 p.m.?
[01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:12.160]  He says, I do not, to answer my own question. Take it easy and God bless. Well, I do wear pants and
[01:10:14.240 --> 01:10:20.400]  this is not Anchorman here. I guess everybody, because of Anchorman, everybody's wondering.
[01:10:20.400 --> 01:10:23.200]  So what's the guy that's sitting at the desk? What is he really wearing? Well,
[01:10:23.200 --> 01:10:28.480]  hate to disappoint you, but I do wear pants before 12 p.m. I guess I could aspire to being
[01:10:28.480 --> 01:10:34.000]  retired someday and maybe not wearing pants before 12 p.m. But as it is right now, I do
[01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:40.240]  put them on one leg at a time, actually. Could you give your opinion on weather manipulation?
[01:10:40.240 --> 01:10:45.680]  For instance, Maryland had snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, single digits at night,
[01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:51.360]  while Alaska and Greenland had temperatures in the mid to upper 30s. Well, I've said before,
[01:10:51.360 --> 01:10:55.840]  I don't spend a lot of time on it, but I said before that I think that there's a tremendous amount of...
[01:10:56.640 --> 01:11:02.560]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion
[01:11:02.560 --> 01:11:08.720]  really feels. A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner with an amazing organization
[01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:14.960]  called Compassion International. Why? Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need. It was a
[01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:21.760]  nice idea, sure, but I had no idea just how much that simple act would change my life as well.
[01:11:22.320 --> 01:11:27.520]  I sponsored Nadia and got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes,
[01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:33.360]  going from starving literally alone on the streets to getting the health care and education
[01:11:33.360 --> 01:11:40.320]  she needs to reach her God-given full potential. I got to be a part of that change and the light
[01:11:40.320 --> 01:11:46.960]  of that compassion not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me. That is the power of
[01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:54.480]  compassion. The light of Christ shines on all of us. Feel it for yourself and change literally a
[01:11:54.480 --> 01:12:00.720]  child's life. Change the world and you also change yourself. You can sponsor a child today.
[01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:05.760]  Visit Compassion.com. That's Compassion.com.
[01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:46.000]  Manipulation of the weather that is happening. I believe that the chemtrail thing is real. I've
[01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:51.760]  seen convincing evidence of that myself. Of course, they had geoengineering conferences on a regular
[01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:57.680]  basis decades ago. They said, yeah, we can do all this stuff. We just have to decide who gets to
[01:12:57.680 --> 01:13:03.520]  set the thermostat. Some people want it colder. Some people want it warmer. As he's pointing out,
[01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:09.280]  we got these temperature inversions. It's hard to say. I just got to say that when we look at
[01:13:09.280 --> 01:13:14.480]  the schemes that they want to do now in terms of doubling down and making them really, really
[01:13:14.480 --> 01:13:19.760]  obvious and putting a bunch of stuff in the stratosphere and blocking out the sun, how
[01:13:19.760 --> 01:13:24.000]  dangerous is that? It's almost like these people are trying to terraform the planet so that we
[01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:29.920]  can't grow food, isn't it? Trying to shut off sunlight, trying to kill CO2 that plants need.
[01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:34.880]  Everything that they're doing mitigates against that. Of course, when they do the geoengineering,
[01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:40.480]  then they can claim that it was manmade, which it was, not made by us, but they use that as a
[01:13:40.480 --> 01:13:48.160]  pretense to ban the things that we have. Another thing to tie in with what we were talking about
[01:13:48.160 --> 01:13:52.240]  with Biden and the really salacious stuff. When you're talking about weather manipulation,
[01:13:52.240 --> 01:13:57.760]  you should focus on the conferences, the points where they talk about what they are capable of
[01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:02.560]  rather than looking at a specific freak weather event because there have been freak weather events
[01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:08.400]  for long before there was weather manipulation. That's right. I mentioned it frequently, that
[01:14:08.400 --> 01:14:13.840]  AMA conference that I went to in Austin where everybody's struggling to predict the weather
[01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:18.880]  and all of them are talking about, well, we looked at these factors and measured these things and then
[01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:22.880]  gave these kind of weights to these different things and it didn't quite work out.
[01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:29.680]  In that environment, you had this Soros-funded group that was trying to tell the weathermen,
[01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:36.880]  you have the influence to tell people that climate change is real. Most of you don't believe that
[01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:42.320]  climate change is real, but you need to reconsider this because it is real. Manmade climate change,
[01:14:42.320 --> 01:14:47.600]  you need to start talking about global warming. I thought it was interesting because they admitted
[01:14:48.240 --> 01:14:52.480]  that the vast majority of meteorologists didn't believe in the climate change stuff because
[01:14:53.200 --> 01:14:58.400]  they know how variable the weather is and so they were trying to convince them and they did
[01:14:58.400 --> 01:15:05.520]  convince some of them, unfortunately. John Hunter says, Rick Jackson just announced that he's running
[01:15:05.520 --> 01:15:10.480]  for governor in Georgia. While he's not perfect in any way, I do think he's the best candidate in the
[01:15:10.480 --> 01:15:15.120]  race. What are your thoughts on his candidacy? And he gave me his website. He said, I work for
[01:15:15.120 --> 01:15:20.000]  one of the companies that he founded and I want to hear an outside opinion. Well, just briefly,
[01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:24.240]  I don't want to get into too much detail about it because I'm not involved in that election,
[01:15:24.240 --> 01:15:29.520]  but I did go to the website and take a look at it. He's an interesting guy. He's a businessman
[01:15:30.160 --> 01:15:38.240]  and his personal story is very impressive. It's a success story. By the way, when people run,
[01:15:38.240 --> 01:15:42.960]  first thing they do is he's got one tab here that's about him, his personal story and
[01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:47.120]  what he's doing and how he got there. And then he's got another tab that's got some
[01:15:47.120 --> 01:15:52.400]  policies that he thinks are important. And I kind of say, you know, when we had the situation where
[01:15:52.400 --> 01:15:58.960]  they had a tremendous amount of out of state money that came in to support this guy who's running
[01:15:58.960 --> 01:16:05.600]  against Frank Nicely, and because Frank Nicely had worked very hard to try to stop out of state
[01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:11.840]  money from coming in Tennessee. So because that lost in the legislature, he got hammered by that
[01:16:11.840 --> 01:16:17.200]  in the next election. And the guy that they put up, I have never ever seen anybody running for
[01:16:17.200 --> 01:16:21.840]  political office that doesn't tell you anything about their background. I thought that was the
[01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:27.760]  most suspicious thing I'd ever seen in my life because he didn't tell you, you know, what he did
[01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:34.880]  for a living now or ever. And so the guy was a completely, you know, you knew less about him
[01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:42.320]  than you know about ICE agents. And so when you look at Rick's story, it is a very impressive one.
[01:16:42.320 --> 01:16:48.720]  He said he grew up in foster care, five different foster homes, 13 schools. He lived in the projects
[01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:53.280]  in Atlanta and never knew his father, raised by a mother who was struggling with alcoholism.
[01:16:53.280 --> 01:16:59.440]  And this guy became very, very wealthy. He's got companies that generate over $3 billion in revenue.
[01:17:00.160 --> 01:17:05.120]  And so he said he worked his way out of this. When he couldn't afford to stay in college,
[01:17:05.120 --> 01:17:10.720]  he took a straight commission sales job, later bought the company that he worked for. So again,
[01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:17.200]  hats off to him. That is an amazing success story. When I look at what he's chosen to talk about
[01:17:17.200 --> 01:17:24.080]  that he did, he talks about helping Brian Kemp in Georgia with the COVID situation. And evidently,
[01:17:24.080 --> 01:17:28.800]  his businesses have something to do with medicine in some way, shape or form, which
[01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:34.160]  to me, that would be a bit of a red flag anymore after this point, especially if somebody brings
[01:17:34.160 --> 01:17:44.160]  it up in the context of COVID. But anyway, he also worked to help foster youth, people,
[01:17:44.160 --> 01:17:48.080]  youth who are in foster homes and that type of thing because of his background. But he does have
[01:17:48.080 --> 01:17:53.360]  some good things. They're kind of standard Republican stuff, promising to cut taxes or costs,
[01:17:53.360 --> 01:17:57.360]  secure the state and make government work for the people, that type of thing. It's kind of
[01:17:57.360 --> 01:18:02.400]  boilerplate Republican rhetoric that's there. But he does talk about freezing property taxes.
[01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:07.440]  That is something that is important. I don't know specifically what his plans are. I mean,
[01:18:07.440 --> 01:18:15.120]  you know, we have, what's the guy's name in Indiana, ran for governor as a libertarian.
[01:18:15.120 --> 01:18:21.600]  He had a very specific way to limit property taxes. Donald Rainwater, that was his name.
[01:18:22.160 --> 01:18:26.400]  And his idea was, okay, let's just fix it at something like 7%. And you pay it once,
[01:18:26.400 --> 01:18:32.320]  just like you do when you buy a car or something, you pay it once. And so you could either take that
[01:18:32.320 --> 01:18:38.400]  7% and pay it all up front and fold it into your 30 year mortgage, or you could pay it over seven
[01:18:38.400 --> 01:18:44.640]  years, 1% a year for seven years, and then you're done. You pay it at the closing and you're done,
[01:18:44.640 --> 01:18:51.040]  or you pay it over a seven year period and you're done. And I think that's really wise. I think it
[01:18:51.040 --> 01:18:56.640]  is criminal that we can't own property and we can't own property as long as we are under the
[01:18:56.640 --> 01:19:02.240]  idea of property taxes. So at least he's looking at that. He's saying to freeze it, not to end it.
[01:19:02.240 --> 01:19:07.360]  It's also talking about cutting the state income tax, again, cutting it rather than eliminating
[01:19:07.360 --> 01:19:11.840]  it. But if you look further into his policies, he's saying that he wants to cut it in half and
[01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:19.440]  four years and eliminate it by eight years. So again, I don't have any problem with most of stuff
[01:19:19.440 --> 01:19:25.360]  that he's got here, but I do have concerns when he talks about making government education more
[01:19:25.360 --> 01:19:31.200]  efficient. When you start talking about education, there's even a role of the government. You'd lose
[01:19:31.200 --> 01:19:37.120]  me at that point, personally, as you all know, if you've heard me speak. He says, use technology
[01:19:37.120 --> 01:19:43.840]  and AI to eliminate wasteful spending and improve services. I could get behind a candidate who would
[01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:51.520]  say, let's eliminate AI from government. Let's prohibit government from using AI because it's
[01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:58.160]  going to be used to surveil us. It's going to be used to propagandize us. It's going to be used to
[01:19:58.160 --> 01:20:04.240]  audit us and everything that we do. And so I'd like to see a prohibition of AI completely from
[01:20:04.240 --> 01:20:10.160]  government. It reminds me of that old, I think it was from IBM back in the 80s or 90s. They had a
[01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:16.080]  message like a computer can never be held responsible for its decisions, so therefore
[01:20:16.080 --> 01:20:21.280]  a computer can never make a management decision. That should apply double to government.
[01:20:21.280 --> 01:20:27.680]  Absolutely. I agree. Absolutely. That should be the case. So again, that's my take on it. I'm sorry
[01:20:28.240 --> 01:20:33.120]  if other people are not interested in that, but I was kind of interested to see what a politician
[01:20:33.120 --> 01:20:36.080]  would do. He goes on to say, the other thing I like to add is that I have it on good authority,
[01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:42.160]  is Christian faith is genuine. Well, I hope it is. Certainly he's had an excellent,
[01:20:44.160 --> 01:20:50.240]  brought himself up from rags to riches and good for him, but I don't know about his politics that
[01:20:50.240 --> 01:20:54.560]  are there. Steven says, David, did you watch? Before we move on to the next question, I wanted
[01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:59.680]  to say we aren't looking at the chat for tips and comments today since we're just focusing on the
[01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:05.600]  AMA, but come Monday we'll be back to reading out your comments and tips. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
[01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:11.200]  I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels.
[01:21:11.200 --> 01:21:16.640]  A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner with an amazing organization called
[01:21:16.640 --> 01:21:24.160]  Compassion International. Why? Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need. It was a nice idea, sure,
[01:21:24.160 --> 01:21:31.680]  but I had no idea just how much that simple act would change my life as well. I sponsored Nadia
[01:21:31.680 --> 01:21:37.760]  and got to watch her life change right in front of my eyes, going from starving literally alone
[01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:43.520]  on the streets to getting the healthcare and education she needs to reach her God given
[01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:50.080]  full potential. I got to be a part of that change and the light of that compassion not only illuminates
[01:21:50.080 --> 01:21:57.760]  in her, it illuminates now in me. That is the power of compassion. The light of Christ shines
[01:21:57.760 --> 01:22:04.560]  on all of us. Feel it for yourself and change literally a child's life, change the world,
[01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:11.680]  and you also change yourself. You can sponsor a child today. Visit Compassion.com. That's
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[01:22:44.480 --> 01:22:51.040]  Yes, yes. This is from Steven. He said, did you watch Matt Trohala's sermon titled A Nation in
[01:22:51.040 --> 01:22:56.800]  Turmoil? He totally praises and supports ICE actions and called Alex Preti an evil criminal.
[01:22:57.360 --> 01:23:01.200]  So as I always appreciated, Matt's hardline stance against tyrannical government and
[01:23:01.200 --> 01:23:04.960]  tyrannical law enforcement, especially admired his doctrine of lesser magistrates,
[01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:10.080]  but it seems that he has done a 180 on the issue of ICE and their thuggish tactics on the streets
[01:23:10.080 --> 01:23:16.640]  of America. I'd like to get your thoughts on this. Well, I did not see the sermon, so I'll just go
[01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:22.400]  with your take on it because I've seen a lot of people who have, they want to support law
[01:23:22.400 --> 01:23:30.720]  enforcement and order, and this looks very leftist and radical anarchist on first inspection. I'll
[01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:37.840]  just say that when I've talked to Matt in the past, and again, Matt and I are 100% on the same
[01:23:37.840 --> 01:23:43.360]  page when it comes to what's really important, and that is our relationship with Christ,
[01:23:43.360 --> 01:23:47.280]  and I really respect what he does with that. He's a pastor. He's very busy with that. He's very
[01:23:47.280 --> 01:23:53.760]  busy with pro-life organization, the mission that he has there. And so I can just assume that
[01:23:53.760 --> 01:23:57.840]  based on the conversation I had with him, when all this stuff was kicking off at the very beginning
[01:23:58.400 --> 01:24:03.440]  in Venezuela, I said, do you want to talk about that? Because I thought that was just a moral
[01:24:03.440 --> 01:24:07.840]  outrage, and I still do think it's a moral outrage from the very beginning. I think I was in September
[01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:11.520]  or something, and Matt came on and he goes, well, I don't really know about that,
[01:24:12.240 --> 01:24:19.120]  and I haven't followed that at all. And so I understand that Matt doesn't get into current
[01:24:19.120 --> 01:24:25.360]  events in the level of detail that we typically look at this. That's not his main area of
[01:24:26.560 --> 01:24:31.920]  involvement. Like I said, he's more involved as a pastor, as somebody who's trying to operate on
[01:24:31.920 --> 01:24:36.000]  a pro-life mission and things like that. So I certainly understand that, and there's been
[01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:43.280]  a tremendous amount of stuff on the internet, on social media that you see from people who
[01:24:43.280 --> 01:24:47.760]  are cheering this that really surprised me about that. And so I imagine that if Matt is just kind
[01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:53.280]  of glancing at this, maybe that's what he's picking up on, and maybe he's gotten a skewed
[01:24:53.280 --> 01:25:00.320]  picture of that. But as you know, I don't appreciate what ICE has done at all. I think it is tyrannical,
[01:25:00.320 --> 01:25:04.480]  and I think it is very evil. And we could have a difference of opinion on it. I just,
[01:25:05.360 --> 01:25:10.160]  based on what I know about Matt, I just think that probably it's just a current event
[01:25:10.160 --> 01:25:17.360]  that he was listening to people that maybe he trusted, and these people are pushing Trump in
[01:25:17.360 --> 01:25:23.040]  terms of all this stuff. Well, those are the ask me anything questions that we got, and we also
[01:25:23.040 --> 01:25:28.400]  thought it'd be kind of interesting to ask Grok something about me. Do you have any questions
[01:25:28.400 --> 01:25:32.640]  for me, Grok? Because I had looked at Grok, you know, it has a summary for different profiles,
[01:25:32.640 --> 01:25:38.960]  and I thought when it summarized what I had, what I was about and things that I said on
[01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:48.160]  Twitter and on X, I thought it was actually pretty perceptive. You know, when you think about Grok,
[01:25:48.160 --> 01:25:53.600]  I thought it was kind of aptly named by Elon Musk because it comes from the novel,
[01:25:53.600 --> 01:25:59.920]  Robert Heinlein novel, Strangers in a Strange Land. And the essence of Grok, what it really
[01:25:59.920 --> 01:26:06.560]  means in terms of definition, is to acquire an intuitive understanding to know without having
[01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:15.200]  to think. That is kind of the way that AI operates. It kind of has this intuitive thing by looking at
[01:26:15.200 --> 01:26:20.560]  statistical stuff, and it doesn't think, but it seems to know certain things. It seems to know
[01:26:20.800 --> 01:26:26.000]  things about me as well. So here's, I think you'll find this interesting because if you've
[01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:30.400]  listened to the program, you kind of know where I am. It's interesting to see the questions that
[01:26:31.280 --> 01:26:35.520]  this AI would ask me. So number one, you've been consistent for years and warning about
[01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:41.760]  technocracy, transhumanism, and centralized control via institutions like the NIH, CDC,
[01:26:41.760 --> 01:26:48.240]  and emerging AI surveillance systems. So what do you see as the biggest, single biggest tipping
[01:26:48.240 --> 01:26:54.320]  point moment right now in 2026 where these agendas could accelerate irreversibly?
[01:26:54.320 --> 01:27:00.720]  And how should everyday people respond practically? Well, I would say that that's one of the reasons
[01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:06.560]  why I've covered these issues with what is happening here domestically. I think that is
[01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:12.960]  the biggest issue. And I know that a lot of people disagree with me on the ICE issue, but I think the
[01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:16.720]  federalization, the militarization of the police is something that has been happening for a very
[01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:21.760]  long time and that it is being accelerated. And we're seeing a convergence of a lot of these
[01:27:21.760 --> 01:27:26.640]  different things, these technologies. When you look at the amount of money that DHS is spending,
[01:27:26.640 --> 01:27:31.760]  I think what they spent on surveillance or something, I forget exactly which aspect of it.
[01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:37.120]  I think it was on surveillance equipment, but it was more than they had spent combined in the last
[01:27:37.120 --> 01:27:43.760]  decade on this stuff. And so this is rapidly accelerating under Trump. And I think they know
[01:27:44.080 --> 01:27:49.280]  and they're trying to create, not only in the US, but in every Western country, they're trying to
[01:27:49.280 --> 01:27:56.560]  create with this massive migration. They're using that as a tool of chaos and conflict and division.
[01:27:57.360 --> 01:28:01.520]  And that's exactly the way they're playing that here. So I think that that is really
[01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:06.080]  the aspect that we see here. So I'd say how do people respond to this practically?
[01:28:06.080 --> 01:28:11.760]  Well, you need to prepare for chaos domestically, for war domestically,
[01:28:12.480 --> 01:28:17.840]  because we have all these countries are trying to get involved in foreign wars as well. Foreign
[01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:23.200]  wars may come to our shore. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing
[01:28:23.200 --> 01:28:29.200]  for just one minute. And I want you to hear about love, generosity and compassion. We say those
[01:28:29.200 --> 01:28:35.600]  words all the time and they sound good. They feel good. But here's the truth. Those words don't mean
[01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:42.000]  anything unless they turn into action. And right now, not later today, not tomorrow,
[01:28:42.000 --> 01:28:48.400]  there's a child in the world who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn,
[01:28:48.400 --> 01:28:55.440]  or if there's any hope at all. And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward. But that
[01:28:55.440 --> 01:29:01.440]  child is waiting. This is where you come in. With Compassion International, you have the chance to
[01:29:01.440 --> 01:29:07.920]  change a child's future, not just with words, not with promises, but with real help that provides
[01:29:07.920 --> 01:29:15.840]  food, education, and hope through local churches and people already in their community. Put your
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[01:29:52.720 --> 01:30:02.560]  We, I don't think, are insulated against that anymore because of our complicated infrastructure.
[01:30:03.120 --> 01:30:07.760]  So again, I would suggest that you go to JackLawsonBooks.com. Take a look at the
[01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:14.560]  books that he's got there. In terms of preparing, he's got tremendously valuable detailed advice
[01:30:14.560 --> 01:30:19.760]  about things that you can do as an individual to prepare. I think you need to keep your ear to the
[01:30:19.760 --> 01:30:25.440]  ground and see what is happening with all this stuff. And of course, financially, gold and silver
[01:30:25.440 --> 01:30:30.640]  are part of that as well. Number two, he says, after your departure from Infowars, you built
[01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:35.280]  an independent platform emphasizing critical thinking, historical parallels, and spiritual
[01:30:35.280 --> 01:30:41.760]  insight. What were the key lessons or frustrations from that era that shaped how you run The David
[01:30:41.760 --> 01:30:48.080]  Knight Show today, especially regarding media independence, audience trust, and avoiding
[01:30:48.080 --> 01:30:55.600]  echo chambers? Well, again, that's kind of a perceptive thing there. But I think the key thing
[01:30:55.600 --> 01:31:01.120]  is not to be trusting of any individual source, but again, going back to critical thinking
[01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:08.880]  and to evaluate these things on a one-by-one basis, not just to take it as a, well, this is something
[01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:14.160]  that The Wall Street Journal said, or this is something that The New York Times said, or this
[01:31:14.160 --> 01:31:20.240]  is something that Fox News said, and I trust those people. Don't trust anybody. Don't trust me. I could
[01:31:20.240 --> 01:31:26.720]  get things wrong. So do your own investigation. I'll tell you why I think what I think, and you can
[01:31:26.720 --> 01:31:32.960]  do your own thinking about that. Here's another one. On COVID vaccine skepticism, or what you call
[01:31:32.960 --> 01:31:38.720]  the medical martial law, you've highlighted things like potential DNA impacts, immune disruption,
[01:31:38.800 --> 01:31:44.880]  and elite agendas. Looking back, with several years of hindsight, what stands out as the most
[01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:50.800]  vindicated claim you made early on? And what, if anything, would you revise or emphasize differently
[01:31:50.800 --> 01:32:01.920]  now? Well, I think what I think I got the most wrong was the lab leak stuff in December. I was
[01:32:01.920 --> 01:32:08.320]  the first one at Infowars to talk about that because it seemed fishy from the start. And I said,
[01:32:08.320 --> 01:32:13.760]  well, you look at this supposed wet market where they had the bat soup, and later on it became
[01:32:13.760 --> 01:32:17.520]  pangolin soup, and all this other kind of nonsense. I said, I don't believe that. I said,
[01:32:17.520 --> 01:32:23.520]  it is interesting that the only biosafety level four lab that they have is right there near that
[01:32:23.520 --> 01:32:28.720]  wet market in Wuhan. So I said, it might be some kind of a leak of gain of function research.
[01:32:29.360 --> 01:32:36.240]  Well, in the years since that, I've become not only anti-vaccine, but anti-virology. And I'm
[01:32:36.240 --> 01:32:41.520]  skeptical of all these contagion narratives that are out there, number one. Number two,
[01:32:42.080 --> 01:32:48.400]  it took me about a month before we started seeing the response of the governments. And when I saw
[01:32:48.400 --> 01:32:53.600]  the response of the governments was to lock everybody down and to keep us isolated until
[01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:58.320]  they got a vaccine ready for us. It's like, okay, this is dark winter that is out there.
[01:32:58.320 --> 01:33:05.840]  So I would say that that was vindicated early on. And so the lab leak aspect of it,
[01:33:05.840 --> 01:33:09.840]  I think, was wrong. I still think it's wrong. And I think that the people who are pushing that
[01:33:10.480 --> 01:33:16.960]  are doing it as an alibi for what they did. Well, it was real. It wasn't real.
[01:33:17.600 --> 01:33:22.000]  And we did the best we could to protect people. We'll do better next time. Oh, you bet they will
[01:33:22.000 --> 01:33:26.640]  do more the next time. They won't do better. But the next time they have a phony pandemic,
[01:33:26.640 --> 01:33:33.680]  they will double down on that as well. So it says, your show frequently ties current events
[01:33:33.680 --> 01:33:37.200]  to spiritual and biblical principles, resisting tyranny as moral imperative,
[01:33:37.840 --> 01:33:41.920]  elite protection networks as modern principalities and powers. How do you balance
[01:33:42.480 --> 01:33:48.000]  the conspiracy research side with encouraging faith and hope, especially when the audience
[01:33:48.000 --> 01:33:53.360]  can get overwhelmed or cynical? As one of the people who left us a question here said,
[01:33:54.000 --> 01:34:01.120]  can you do some good news every day? And I am going to start looking for other more positive
[01:34:01.120 --> 01:34:09.440]  stories. Well, again, let me just say this. As somebody who goes through the news, that's what
[01:34:09.440 --> 01:34:15.760]  I see. And I go through and I talk to you about what I think is important. And in terms of being
[01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:20.640]  overwhelmed or cynical or blackpilled or all the rest of this stuff, let me just say, here's the
[01:34:20.640 --> 01:34:27.280]  reality, folks. Each of us is walking right now the valley of the shadow of death. We're going to
[01:34:27.280 --> 01:34:33.600]  walk through the valley of death at some point in time. And so it doesn't help to whistle through
[01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:39.120]  the graveyard. You're going to be in the graveyard soon enough. Tomorrow is not promised to any of
[01:34:39.120 --> 01:34:47.120]  us. And so does that sound blackpilled or whatever? It is. But here's the good news.
[01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:53.920]  Christ died on the cross for you. He paid the price for the sin that each of us has committed.
[01:34:54.000 --> 01:34:58.000]  And you can leave that all behind. You can separate that as far as the East is from the West.
[01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:06.800]  So that's the good news. That's how we get through this. That's how we get through life. Look, life,
[01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:13.200]  this is a fallen world. It is very dark. It is very evil. And take a look at the people who are
[01:35:13.200 --> 01:35:19.680]  above us, the leaders. Of course, it's dark and evil. And so that is the good news. And all the
[01:35:19.680 --> 01:35:25.760]  rest of the stuff is a lot of the stuff that we look at as good and happy news. A lot of that is
[01:35:25.760 --> 01:35:31.920]  just trivial. And it's to help you feel a little bit warmer about what is going on. But if you take
[01:35:31.920 --> 01:35:36.320]  an honest look at what is happening, I think you've got to admit you're not getting out of
[01:35:36.320 --> 01:35:41.520]  here alive. And you're not taking anything with you. So why are these people killing each other
[01:35:41.520 --> 01:35:46.080]  over artificial boundaries and other things like that, trying to steal stuff from people?
[01:35:46.880 --> 01:35:51.760]  Don't get caught up in that. Instead, get caught up in your relationship with God,
[01:35:51.760 --> 01:35:57.680]  the creator of the universe. Find the love that he has there. That is what's going to sustain you.
[01:35:57.680 --> 01:36:02.160]  You're not going to be sustained by the things that you can grab or being the strongest guy on
[01:36:02.160 --> 01:36:08.320]  the block, the Stephen Miller approach. There's no salvation. There's no joy in that either.
[01:36:09.600 --> 01:36:15.600]  So one more question from Grog. You've interviewed a wide range of guests over the years.
[01:36:16.080 --> 01:36:21.120]  From economists like Joe Salenti to liberty advocates, who would be your dream guest right
[01:36:21.120 --> 01:36:28.160]  now? Someone who's been silent, controversial, or hard to reach. And what one question would
[01:36:28.160 --> 01:36:33.760]  you lead with? What do you think, Lance? You got an idea? If we could interview anybody that
[01:36:34.640 --> 01:36:38.880]  we want to, I think I would get Donald Trump here next to me and I would ask him some questions.
[01:36:39.520 --> 01:36:44.320]  Yeah, I was going to say either Trump or Massey, either the head of the resistance.
[01:36:44.320 --> 01:36:47.760]  Well, I might be able to get Massey, but I don't know. I know I couldn't get Trump.
[01:36:49.200 --> 01:36:51.120]  If I did, I'd probably get SWAT team the next day.
[01:36:51.120 --> 01:36:54.800]  I thought that Massey is perfect. Just the best we've got.
[01:36:54.800 --> 01:37:02.640]  Yeah. But Donald Trump, what would I ask him? Well, I think a good question for Donald Trump is,
[01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:07.280]  what does the Constitution mean to you? What does the Bill of Rights mean to you? We've got
[01:37:07.280 --> 01:37:13.760]  the 250th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. What does it mean to you? But then I would follow up
[01:37:13.760 --> 01:37:22.000]  just to kind of do a, what is it, Colombo thing. Oh, one last thing. Who told you to lock down
[01:37:22.000 --> 01:37:30.480]  the world in 2020? And would you do it again? Did you think that it was effective? And why did
[01:37:30.480 --> 01:37:35.760]  you believe them when they told you? I know he was told by, he said he was told by Fauci and by
[01:37:36.800 --> 01:37:40.800]  Deborah Birx, two very smart people. They bragged about the fact that they
[01:37:41.760 --> 01:37:45.200]  followed this bogus simulation from the Imperial College of London.
[01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:52.080]  But I would ask him, why did you believe that? It's so ridiculous. The point that you did it,
[01:37:52.080 --> 01:37:58.080]  there was no evidence of a pandemic. But anyway, that's, I guess we could always dream about that.
[01:37:58.080 --> 01:38:03.360]  We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back. Stay with us.
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[01:41:57.920 --> 01:42:03.520]  And I've got a question from Lance. He asks, what are the best places to donate to the David
[01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:09.200]  Knight Show? Because I don't do any plugs here, I guess. But yeah, you can go to davidknight.news
[01:42:09.200 --> 01:42:14.400]  and that will tell you where you can find the show, both video and audio rebroadcast, as well
[01:42:14.400 --> 01:42:20.320]  as live shows. And it'll also have links there as to where you can support us. Cash app. Zelle
[01:42:20.320 --> 01:42:24.640]  is probably the best one because there are no fees at all with Zelle. Everything else has
[01:42:24.640 --> 01:42:30.240]  fees. But right now, Zelle does not have that. Subscribestar is good because that is something
[01:42:30.240 --> 01:42:35.200]  that you can set up as kind of like a monthly recurring fee. That's like a budgeted thing. And
[01:42:36.720 --> 01:42:41.600]  then you don't have to think about it each time until your credit card changes. And then I've had
[01:42:41.600 --> 01:42:45.840]  a lot of people say, you know, they stopped taking out my credit card because it changed.
[01:42:45.840 --> 01:42:52.240]  I didn't realize that. But anyway, if you go to davidknight.news, you can find the places where
[01:42:52.240 --> 01:42:56.560]  the program is broadcast, as well as places where you can support us. And we really do appreciate
[01:42:56.560 --> 01:43:04.480]  that. We are 100% user supported. So I've got a little bit of time here before we get into the
[01:43:04.480 --> 01:43:10.560]  Noel Sharkey interview. And it's a really interesting interview. And I appreciate Ryan
[01:43:11.360 --> 01:43:16.560]  finding that and cutting it out and sending it to us. It was back in 2013. We did that interview.
[01:43:16.560 --> 01:43:23.920]  And I think you're going to find it pretty amazing. So unfortunately, he lays out the issue
[01:43:23.920 --> 01:43:30.960]  that's there. And we don't have any happy news on the killer robot front. It's only bad news. Sorry,
[01:43:30.960 --> 01:43:37.600]  folks. Bad news about that. We got swarms. For the last 13 years since I talked to Noel Sharkey,
[01:43:37.600 --> 01:43:43.760]  they have been going like bats out of hell in terms of trying to weaponize this technology.
[01:43:43.760 --> 01:43:50.000]  And they're getting it to a pretty frightening level here. But let's talk a little bit about
[01:43:51.200 --> 01:43:58.400]  some other issues here. This is Detransitioner was awarded millions of dollars in the first
[01:43:58.400 --> 01:44:04.480]  malpractice case of this gender mutilation that we're talking about. I call it minor mutilation,
[01:44:04.480 --> 01:44:10.320]  although it's pretty major mutilation, isn't it? It's a sterilization and mutilization of children.
[01:44:10.320 --> 01:44:15.360]  How evil is that? I mean, that's why when you look at things like the Jeffrey Epstein stuff,
[01:44:15.360 --> 01:44:23.520]  is it a surprise that the elites were focused on this type of thing? Look at how they hate humanity,
[01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:29.120]  how they want to kill people, how they want to harm children. And that tells you that this is
[01:44:29.120 --> 01:44:35.600]  a satanic agenda behind all this right there. An unforgivable evil, which is what this is characterized
[01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:43.440]  that at only 16 years old, a young girl underwent quote unquote top surgery, a double mastectomy,
[01:44:43.440 --> 01:44:49.360]  I guess, a transgender affirming procedure in which her perfectly healthy breasts were removed.
[01:44:50.160 --> 01:44:57.680]  Now at 22 years old, no longer identifying in contrast to her real biology, she's become the
[01:44:57.680 --> 01:45:04.000]  first Detransitioner to successfully win a malpractice lawsuit against those who abused her.
[01:45:04.960 --> 01:45:12.320]  And that really is what happened, folks. So it's a two million dollar judgment. A jury in New York
[01:45:12.320 --> 01:45:18.320]  held both her psychologist as well as the plastic surgeon liable for this,
[01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:23.360]  for the so-called medical care that they gave. And again, I think we're going to
[01:45:24.720 --> 01:45:30.080]  look back on this in a few years and we're going to look back on it like people look back on the
[01:45:30.080 --> 01:45:35.040]  frontal lobotomies that they were doing to people back when was that? I guess the 50s. It was
[01:45:36.000 --> 01:45:43.520]  one of the daughters of the Kennedy clan that they did a frontal lobotomy to. So you got some
[01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:48.720]  psychological issues here. We're just going to cut out a part of your brain. And I think that's
[01:45:48.720 --> 01:45:54.240]  going to be the way that people are going to eventually see the truth of this. Since the entire
[01:45:54.240 --> 01:46:00.000]  case is sealed, including all the trial transcripts, the product of my furious note taking during the
[01:46:00.000 --> 01:46:05.760]  proceedings may be the only way for the public to learn the finer details of the lawsuit,
[01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:10.880]  said Benjamin Ryan. He was the only reporter to attend the entire trial.
[01:46:12.320 --> 01:46:18.320]  And since they kept it closed to the public, it's just his notes that he took. The attorneys
[01:46:22.320 --> 01:46:28.800]  representing the person who was damaged said that Einhorn, the psychologist, drove the train
[01:46:29.440 --> 01:46:35.440]  in terms of counseling of the then teenager, accusing him of putting the idea in Fox's head
[01:46:35.440 --> 01:46:40.960]  that she needed to address her apparent gender dysphoria by permanently changing her body through
[01:46:40.960 --> 01:46:46.080]  a double mastectomy. Her mother said during the trial that she was opposed to the surgery,
[01:46:46.080 --> 01:46:51.520]  but ultimately gave in, fearing her daughter would commit suicide without the irreversible procedure,
[01:46:52.160 --> 01:46:56.080]  a frequent refrain of those who advocate for transgender procedures.
[01:46:57.040 --> 01:47:02.640]  I think it was a scare tactic. I don't believe it was malice. I think he believed what he was
[01:47:02.640 --> 01:47:08.560]  saying, but he was very, very wrong. Well, I just got to say, you know, when you look at this,
[01:47:10.080 --> 01:47:16.640]  I don't know how it, you know, I would be hard to say that it wasn't malice, but nevertheless,
[01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:22.160]  it was definitely wrong. And Robbie Starbuck, director of the War on Children, said,
[01:47:22.240 --> 01:47:28.960]  What was done to these kids is a crime against humanity, an unforgivable evil that must be
[01:47:28.960 --> 01:47:34.720]  extinguished from the earth. Never again. The damage these kids carry is heartbreaking.
[01:47:35.520 --> 01:47:40.800]  It's absolutely true. That's why I said I think it'll be recognized as the equivalent of frontal
[01:47:40.800 --> 01:47:47.360]  lobotomies later on. Like so many others, she discovered transgenderism as a struggling teenager
[01:47:47.360 --> 01:47:54.000]  online. I was 15 when that started. Medicalization began at 16. They started giving her
[01:47:55.040 --> 01:48:00.480]  hormone treatments and other things like that. And just look at the fact that Planned Parenthood
[01:48:01.440 --> 01:48:06.560]  that has a business model that is based on ripping babies apart limb by limb. Of course,
[01:48:07.440 --> 01:48:12.800]  they have made this a profit center for them as well. So if they can't kill you as a baby,
[01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:20.000]  maybe they can rip you apart as a teenager or a child. British freelance columnist Sonia Sohra
[01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:24.720]  called the verdict quote, very significant, noting more cases are coming. They're likely
[01:48:24.720 --> 01:48:29.360]  to fundamentally change the US medical profession's approach to surgically altering the healthy bodies
[01:48:29.360 --> 01:48:35.520]  of children who are questioning their gender. And again, why are they making an exception
[01:48:36.720 --> 01:48:41.440]  for something that is this serious, this irrevocable, and allowing children to make
[01:48:41.440 --> 01:48:47.120]  that decision? And even in some jurisdictions coming after parents who try to stand in the way
[01:48:47.680 --> 01:48:53.600]  of what the school is doing. And it all goes back to this pedophile agenda. When you look at the
[01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:57.520]  number of people, and I've seen this for the longest time, it's not just Jeffrey Epstein and
[01:48:57.520 --> 01:49:02.480]  the people around him in a scandal. The longest serving speaker of the house for the Republicans,
[01:49:02.480 --> 01:49:08.000]  and perhaps maybe for the Democrats as well, was Dennis Astor, a guy who was a wrestling coach,
[01:49:08.000 --> 01:49:15.840]  pedophile, and he was handpicked by the Republicans to be a congressman and then put in the position
[01:49:15.840 --> 01:49:21.040]  of being the speaker of the house, the leader of the Republicans. They want corrupt people like
[01:49:21.040 --> 01:49:28.240]  that. And so this is how we get to this point. We are filled at the top with people who are,
[01:49:29.120 --> 01:49:34.720]  have secret private lives that are exactly the opposite of what they present to the public.
[01:49:35.200 --> 01:49:38.800]  Still, I guess you could say this is a sort of good news story in that
[01:49:38.800 --> 01:49:43.040]  they won the lawsuit, and this could cause some major changes.
[01:49:43.040 --> 01:49:44.720]  That's right. So that's a good news story.
[01:49:45.440 --> 01:49:48.480]  There you go. We got it. Very same show.
[01:49:48.480 --> 01:49:53.520]  That's right. A man has painted over heretical messages on a massive billboard in LA.
[01:49:54.320 --> 01:50:02.160]  And so people, this one group, which is, they say that they are Christian and yet they deny
[01:50:02.160 --> 01:50:07.360]  Christian theology. They say they're taking out billboards saying Jesus is not God and trying to
[01:50:07.360 --> 01:50:12.640]  make that argument from the Bible, which you can't do actually. You can't say that you believe the
[01:50:12.640 --> 01:50:19.440]  Bible and you don't believe that Jesus is God. Those are mutually contradictory there. They also
[01:50:19.440 --> 01:50:24.960]  believe in the flat earth thing. They disavow the Trinity. They push the view that the earth is flat
[01:50:25.920 --> 01:50:32.800]  and so forth. And so one guy who disagrees with that decided that he was going to paint the
[01:50:32.800 --> 01:50:36.000]  billboard. Do you have the picture of that, Lance? So basically what he did is he just painted the
[01:50:36.000 --> 01:50:40.800]  entire billboard black and people took pictures of him painting it black and it went viral.
[01:50:41.440 --> 01:50:42.960]  Now, I think it's...
[01:50:43.840 --> 01:50:49.520]  They painted over the knot. So it was Jesus is not God. He changed it to Jesus is God.
[01:50:50.320 --> 01:50:55.360]  Yeah. So as the Bible says, Jesus is God. He just painted over the knot. Well, that's not the picture
[01:50:55.360 --> 01:51:01.360]  that they put up on this article. In the article, they just had a complete black thing there. Well,
[01:51:01.360 --> 01:51:05.680]  that changes everything. They didn't have that video embedded in the article. Instead, they put
[01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:11.440]  up a picture that is not at all what was there. They just had a picture of a blacked out billboard.
[01:51:11.440 --> 01:51:16.480]  I looked at that and I thought, that's nothing but censorship. That doesn't answer anything, does it?
[01:51:17.120 --> 01:51:21.120]  That's a very different thing. I don't know why they did that. Why didn't they just take a
[01:51:21.120 --> 01:51:27.200]  screenshot of what was really happening there? Yeah. The guy standing up and painting over it
[01:51:27.200 --> 01:51:32.320]  in front of the lights is its own message. If it were just censorship, that would be a different
[01:51:32.320 --> 01:51:36.320]  thing. I think the best thing he could have done hypothetically would be, say, getting his own
[01:51:36.320 --> 01:51:41.200]  billboard saying, no, it really does say this, but I'm not prepared to say that this is definitely
[01:51:41.200 --> 01:51:45.280]  wrong what he did. Yeah, it's different. It's not just censoring. When I saw that,
[01:51:45.280 --> 01:51:51.040]  what that reminded me of was when Karen was at the abortion clinic and they were talking about
[01:51:51.040 --> 01:51:55.360]  black genocide and you had Antifa show up. It was the first time I ever saw Antifa. They showed up
[01:51:55.360 --> 01:52:00.240]  just with black squares and put them over her sign. And then she'd take her sign down low,
[01:52:00.240 --> 01:52:03.600]  he'd go down low. She'd go up high, he'd go down, so they're going up and down, up and down.
[01:52:03.600 --> 01:52:09.760]  He just wanted to censor what they had to say. Censorship is not an answer. Silence is not an
[01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:15.360]  answer. You need to give people the full truth. But I think that it's important for us to
[01:52:15.360 --> 01:52:20.720]  understand that we don't need to run from people who have heresies. And if you've got doubt,
[01:52:20.720 --> 01:52:25.040]  you need to dig into it because the truth is there and it can stand the scrutiny.
[01:52:26.240 --> 01:52:32.400]  Again, the statement, I think it was attributed to Augustine said the truth, the truth, the Bible is
[01:52:32.400 --> 01:52:37.600]  like a lion. It doesn't need to be protected. It needs to be let loose and protect itself.
[01:52:38.160 --> 01:52:43.120]  And so I think that's the key thing. I'm for free speech. I'm for debating these different issues.
[01:52:43.120 --> 01:52:48.560]  And I think rather than just making the comment, taking out the knot, I think you need to tell
[01:52:48.560 --> 01:52:53.600]  people why you believe that Jesus is God and give the references for it, unfortunately.
[01:52:54.560 --> 01:53:00.880]  That is not what this person did. But again, I understand his motivations there. I just think
[01:53:00.880 --> 01:53:07.280]  that it's important for us as Christians not to recoil in fear and in censorship. You know,
[01:53:07.280 --> 01:53:12.000]  we can handle this. We can handle the evolution stuff. We should each of us
[01:53:12.560 --> 01:53:16.240]  have handled it on our own because when somebody brings up a question like this,
[01:53:16.240 --> 01:53:20.240]  you need to settle it in your own mind. And if you've settled it in your own mind,
[01:53:20.240 --> 01:53:23.920]  then you can tell other people the reason that you have hope.
[01:53:25.120 --> 01:53:32.800]  Anyway, again, it is over and over again, we see the people putting different
[01:53:33.680 --> 01:53:45.360]  ideas that, again, putting out the idea that Jesus is not God. That's an old heresy that's
[01:53:45.360 --> 01:53:50.720]  been around. It's called Arianism a long time ago. It was a couple hundred years after
[01:53:51.680 --> 01:53:56.560]  the New Testament was written that somebody suggested that and it was pushed back and
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[01:54:42.480 --> 01:54:47.840]  and the light of that compassion not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me.
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[01:55:40.160 --> 01:55:46.800]  We celebrate her courage. This is the LDS, the Mormons who are praising Eve's choice to
[01:55:46.800 --> 01:55:52.320]  eat the Fribbon fruit. That has also gone viral. This is a post from an ex-account
[01:55:52.880 --> 01:56:01.360]  and it is LDS Dems and so it's Democrats and LDL and so LDS I should say. It's gone viral
[01:56:01.360 --> 01:56:05.840]  with two million views as of the writing. Now you could dismiss this and say well this person
[01:56:05.840 --> 01:56:11.760]  doesn't represent Mormon theology but actually Mormon theology has said this thing. If you go
[01:56:11.760 --> 01:56:17.200]  back and look at the guys who were recent presidents and prophets of the LDS church,
[01:56:18.320 --> 01:56:24.720]  it was Dallin H. Oaks who said it was Eve who first transgressed the limits of Eden in order
[01:56:24.720 --> 01:56:30.880]  to initiate the conditions of mortality. Her act, whatever its nature, was formerly a transgression
[01:56:30.880 --> 01:56:38.160]  but eternally a glorious necessity to open the doorway toward eternal life. Well that is kind
[01:56:38.240 --> 01:56:43.120]  of the not the eternal life aspect of it. This is something that many atheists and other people
[01:56:43.120 --> 01:56:52.560]  have said well this is actually a good thing because we got the ability to think and become
[01:56:52.560 --> 01:56:59.040]  more like God. No, actually it was cosmic rebellion. That's why when you look at it,
[01:56:59.040 --> 01:57:04.880]  it's just only one thing, right? You had one command and you violated that, right? That's
[01:57:04.880 --> 01:57:11.520]  the bottom line. And so that was rebellion to God and that's why it was such a serious consequence.
[01:57:11.520 --> 01:57:15.600]  That's what God was telling us. And it's a ridiculous thing to say open the door to eternal
[01:57:15.600 --> 01:57:19.440]  life. They already had that. It was through this that death entered the world. So in a sense,
[01:57:19.440 --> 01:57:24.400]  they're right. They did open the door to it and then left out. They walked out of it.
[01:57:24.400 --> 01:57:29.680]  That's right. They walked out of eternal life. That's a good point, Lance. Also former LDS
[01:57:29.680 --> 01:57:35.120]  president Russell Nelson, who passed away in 2025, like Oakes made his statement during the October
[01:57:35.120 --> 01:57:40.880]  1993 general conference, we in all mankind are forever blessed because of Eve's great courage
[01:57:40.880 --> 01:57:47.920]  and wisdom. By partaking of the fruit first, she did what needed to be done. Now what she did was
[01:57:47.920 --> 01:57:53.760]  she rebelled against God and through that sin entered the world. The entire world was cursed.
[01:57:53.760 --> 01:57:59.280]  And so when you look at the evil that is happening in this world and the nature of sin,
[01:57:59.280 --> 01:58:04.560]  that's one of the differences between Christianity and evolution, why you can't reconcile those,
[01:58:04.560 --> 01:58:10.640]  like Francis Collins, who was a part of the Human Genome Project before he got to the NIH.
[01:58:10.640 --> 01:58:14.480]  He tried to reconcile these things, but you can't because the evolutionist looks at death
[01:58:15.040 --> 01:58:21.840]  as an engine of creation. We look at it as a curse. It is not our natural state,
[01:58:22.560 --> 01:58:27.840]  and it is not something that should be glorified and regarded as something that takes us to a
[01:58:28.800 --> 01:58:34.000]  a higher state. Let me just give a little bit of an introduction here to Noel Sharkey because
[01:58:34.640 --> 01:58:40.320]  we're going to run this interview we had with him 13 years ago. It's kind of interesting,
[01:58:40.320 --> 01:58:46.240]  this came up because I was talking about Warpete and his fight with the CEO of Anthropic
[01:58:46.800 --> 01:58:51.920]  because the CEO of Anthropic said, I don't think we should be doing autonomous killing machines,
[01:58:52.480 --> 01:58:59.040]  and I don't like the way AI is being used for the tyranny that we see being done by ICE.
[01:58:59.040 --> 01:59:04.000]  And so I said, yeah, I talked to Noel Sharkey several times about a decade or so ago.
[01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:09.680]  And unfortunately, this Anthropic CEO is the only one who's pushing back against this stuff.
[01:59:10.480 --> 01:59:16.640]  You've got Google, which used to have as their slogan, don't be evil. Now they want to be evil,
[01:59:17.440 --> 01:59:22.800]  and they'll do anything for money. Same thing with Elon Musk, the same thing with Zuckerberg,
[01:59:22.800 --> 01:59:29.920]  and same thing with Sam Altman at OpenAI. And so Noel Sharkey, as an introduction here,
[01:59:30.720 --> 01:59:36.640]  is an expert in robotics and AI and has been for quite some time. He was known to the public
[01:59:36.640 --> 01:59:41.680]  because of his appearances on the BBC's Robot Wars. And of course, we got an American version of
[01:59:41.680 --> 01:59:47.040]  that. I believe Thomas Massey competed in Robot Wars at one point in time because he was an
[01:59:47.040 --> 01:59:53.360]  engineer. If I don't have that wrong, I think he did. And also a program that's called Technogames.
[01:59:53.920 --> 01:59:58.640]  So Noel Sharkey was known to people in the UK through those BBC programs. He's a chair of
[01:59:58.640 --> 02:00:04.640]  computer science at Sheffield University. He held teaching positions at Yale University in
[02:00:04.640 --> 02:00:10.320]  computer science and at Stanford in psychology. He has a PhD in psychology as well. I guess that
[02:00:10.320 --> 02:00:15.360]  comes in handy when you're talking about AI. That's ultimately where this is headed.
[02:00:15.360 --> 02:00:19.200]  He also chairs, and this is why I was talking to him, the International Committee
[02:00:19.200 --> 02:00:26.080]  for Robot Arms Control. And he is a co-founder and co-director of Foundations for Responsible
[02:00:26.080 --> 02:00:32.880]  Robots. And so he knows what he's talking about. And this is somebody who, I guess, he's not really
[02:00:32.880 --> 02:00:39.600]  too happy about what's happening either. So it's not necessarily happy news, but it's news that we
[02:00:39.600 --> 02:00:46.160]  all need to hear. So here's this interview from 2013, 12 years ago.
[02:00:46.160 --> 02:01:08.880]  You are committing thought crime. Turn off this broadcast now.
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[02:01:29.120 --> 02:01:33.200]  Now we're joined right now with Dr. Noel Sharkey. We were concerned that we might not be able to
[02:01:33.200 --> 02:01:39.520]  get him. He is traveling the globe, trying to wake people up to the dangers and the abuses
[02:01:39.520 --> 02:01:44.560]  of robotics technology. He's actually a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics.
[02:01:45.280 --> 02:01:50.080]  And he has now, after he had kind of an epiphany, we're going to let him tell you about it. I won't
[02:01:50.080 --> 02:01:55.440]  try to describe it. His core research interest is now in the ethical applications of robotics
[02:01:55.440 --> 02:02:01.280]  and artificial intelligence. Dr. Sharkey, can you hear me? I can hear you very clearly, David.
[02:02:01.280 --> 02:02:09.200]  Great, great. So you found Wi-Fi in that monastery? Yes, I did. That's great. Tell us a little bit
[02:02:09.200 --> 02:02:14.160]  about your epiphany. When you went from, you were working in robotics, you were very much
[02:02:14.160 --> 02:02:19.200]  interested in the technology of it. But like so many of us who work in engineering or technology,
[02:02:19.840 --> 02:02:23.360]  you didn't realize exactly some of the dark ways it was being used.
[02:02:24.240 --> 02:02:29.280]  No, I didn't. I had my head in a bag kind of thing, just getting on with my research.
[02:02:31.600 --> 02:02:38.720]  I was at a press conference in London about a government report on talking about robots,
[02:02:38.720 --> 02:02:43.200]  worrying about housing benefits for robots of the future. It was kind of a nutty report.
[02:02:43.280 --> 02:02:47.760]  It was the first report our government had put out about robotics. At the press conference,
[02:02:48.400 --> 02:02:54.000]  some journalist said to me, well, can you tell us a little bit about military robots? Of course,
[02:02:54.000 --> 02:02:59.120]  I knew nothing about it. Apart from a little bit about bomb disposal, because I'm from Northern
[02:02:59.120 --> 02:03:05.200]  Ireland and we know about bomb disposal. So I thought I'd go off for the evening and just
[02:03:05.200 --> 02:03:09.920]  have a quick look at the internet, you know, an hour or so, so I could answer questions.
[02:03:09.920 --> 02:03:14.880]  Seven months later, I finished that little look at the internet, having read, you know,
[02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:21.120]  through all the US plans from 2001 right up to the present at the time, which was five years,
[02:03:21.120 --> 02:03:26.960]  six years of plans for all the US forces, the roadmaps. And they were all talking about the
[02:03:26.960 --> 02:03:33.840]  application of autonomous robots for killing people. And I just thought, this is ridiculous,
[02:03:33.840 --> 02:03:38.160]  the way they were talking about it. It was like science fiction. They didn't seem to have an idea
[02:03:38.160 --> 02:03:46.080]  about the limitations. And so I wrote an article for the Guardian newspaper in the UK then 2007.
[02:03:46.080 --> 02:03:52.880]  And it started there and it's been a whirlwind since I find it very alarming because I look at
[02:03:52.880 --> 02:03:59.840]  every week, we see some kind of new robotic technology. They're spinning it in the media
[02:03:59.840 --> 02:04:05.520]  as saying that these are the Pentagon's rescue robots. I don't think that DARPA is really funding
[02:04:05.520 --> 02:04:10.320]  rescue operations. I don't think the Pentagon's really funding that. If anybody thinks that after
[02:04:10.320 --> 02:04:14.400]  looking at the way they're using drones to assassinate people all over the world, they need
[02:04:14.400 --> 02:04:19.760]  to have their head examined. That's some of the most obvious propaganda I've ever seen. The media
[02:04:19.760 --> 02:04:25.040]  should be ashamed of itself for putting out these killer robots, these robotic projects that are
[02:04:25.040 --> 02:04:33.360]  being put out by the Defense Advanced Research Projects, DARPA. DARPA has a research budget
[02:04:33.360 --> 02:04:37.760]  that is higher than they've got for the entire budget of North Korea. We're supposed to be
[02:04:37.760 --> 02:04:43.520]  concerned about North Korea, yet North Korea's entire economy is about the same size as the DARPA
[02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:49.760]  research budget. And DARPA is constantly, this seems to be their primary focus. Well DARPA aren't
[02:04:49.760 --> 02:04:56.160]  accountable. So their thing, and it's a good research agenda, their agenda is you just keep funding
[02:04:56.160 --> 02:05:03.120]  everything that seems slightly crazy. And as long as one of them comes up and comes up trumps,
[02:05:03.120 --> 02:05:08.400]  then you're okay. But I was laughing there because one of the reports I read from DARPA
[02:05:08.400 --> 02:05:14.320]  about these humanoid robots that are going to, they're going to carry wrenches and they talk
[02:05:14.320 --> 02:05:18.800]  about them going ahead of the forces. Well, why would you have a pile of humanoid robots going
[02:05:18.800 --> 02:05:26.800]  ahead of the forces with wrenches onto people's water pipes? You're going to fix the broken tanks.
[02:05:26.800 --> 02:05:31.760]  Yeah, here's the headline. This six foot 330 pound robot may one day save your life. That's
[02:05:31.760 --> 02:05:37.040]  talking about the Atlas robot. And the troubling thing is, is that when the Atlas robot came out,
[02:05:37.040 --> 02:05:41.200]  I looked at it, I thought it was very frightening the way that this thing is able to move around.
[02:05:41.200 --> 02:05:45.760]  And the fact that it has these two long arms that essentially look like cylinders, where I could
[02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:50.720]  imagine them being guns of some sort. And Ray Kurzweil comes out and says, that's great. Now
[02:05:50.720 --> 02:05:57.360]  all he needs is a brain so he can act autonomously. Oh God, yeah, that's bad. I think, I think you're
[02:05:57.360 --> 02:06:02.560]  right though. I can see the cylinders are going to become machine guns. I would say it's, you know,
[02:06:02.560 --> 02:06:07.440]  it's no doubt about that at all. Maybe not for a while, but that's the, that would be the general
[02:06:07.440 --> 02:06:13.520]  plan, I would think. Yes. Why would DARPA be spending money on rescuing people when they'd
[02:06:13.520 --> 02:06:19.360]  be in the business of rescue ever? Yeah. And then we have these articles that are coming out. This
[02:06:19.360 --> 02:06:23.520]  is about a year ago. This is from Wired's Danger Room. It says the Pentagon doesn't trust its own
[02:06:23.520 --> 02:06:28.400]  robots. They say that there's a cloud of distrust and misunderstanding hovering over robots of the
[02:06:28.400 --> 02:06:33.200]  Pentagon already has. So they're looking at this and they're evaluating this and they don't really
[02:06:33.200 --> 02:06:38.240]  like it. So we've got to conduct a media campaign to change the public's mind, to change the
[02:06:38.240 --> 02:06:42.480]  military's mind. You're pushing back in the opposite direction. And we understand that the
[02:06:42.480 --> 02:06:47.440]  military industrial complex wants this very badly. They see this as a brand new profit center.
[02:06:47.440 --> 02:06:52.560]  I'm very, very concerned about the lack of accountability that is going to happen with
[02:06:52.560 --> 02:06:57.920]  these killer robots. Can you address that? Yes. I mean, you're right about the profit. I mean,
[02:06:57.920 --> 02:07:03.760]  just in terms of the drone. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want to be honest with you for a second
[02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:09.920]  about how an act of compassion really feels. A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner
[02:07:09.920 --> 02:07:15.920]  with an amazing organization called Compassion International. Why? Because I wanted to sponsor
[02:07:15.920 --> 02:07:23.520]  a child in need. It was a nice idea. Sure. But I had no idea just how much that simple act would
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[02:07:30.640 --> 02:07:36.480]  going from starving literally alone on the streets to getting the healthcare and education
[02:07:36.480 --> 02:07:43.440]  she needs to reach her God given full potential. I got to be a part of that change and the light
[02:07:43.440 --> 02:07:50.080]  of that compassion not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me. That is the power of
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[02:08:34.240 --> 02:08:48.640]  I mean, Israel made 4.8 billion in the last five years profit on those and this competition is so
[02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:54.400]  stiff. So the idea is that you've got all the drones. How do you compete in that big market?
[02:08:54.400 --> 02:09:00.160]  And the way you compete is let's add autonomy to it. Let's make them work on their own and then
[02:09:00.240 --> 02:09:04.400]  we can make a lot more money. And what we're trying to do is we're trying to preemptively
[02:09:04.400 --> 02:09:09.360]  ban them. That means ban them before they get out and before there's too much investment
[02:09:09.360 --> 02:09:13.440]  because once billions of dollars have been spent on it, it's going to be very difficult.
[02:09:15.680 --> 02:09:20.640]  We're making very good head at the UN actually. Well, that's good. I'm glad that you're going
[02:09:20.640 --> 02:09:24.080]  around and you're addressing the press, you're addressing governments, you're pointing out to
[02:09:24.080 --> 02:09:28.480]  them where this could head. I see this, you know, when we're talking about nuclear war,
[02:09:29.120 --> 02:09:33.920]  if some government presses the button and launches a bunch of nuclear weapons on someone,
[02:09:33.920 --> 02:09:38.160]  there's going to be literally hell to pay for that. There's going to be accountability for that.
[02:09:38.160 --> 02:09:41.600]  But if they take a bunch of killer robots, as we've already seen with drones, we've seen how
[02:09:41.600 --> 02:09:45.360]  they can go in with drones, they can destroy a village and there's no accountability. Nobody
[02:09:45.360 --> 02:09:50.640]  is held responsible for that. And it'll even be easier for them once these robots have
[02:09:51.600 --> 02:09:56.480]  self-autonomy. They can basically say that they've got plausible deniability. They can say, well,
[02:09:56.480 --> 02:10:00.640]  the software went wrong on it or it was a hardware bug. It wasn't me. It wasn't the
[02:10:00.640 --> 02:10:05.360]  president. It wasn't the general. It wasn't the lieutenant. It was just this crazy technology.
[02:10:05.360 --> 02:10:10.880]  So we'll fix it. Meanwhile, they've killed a lot of people and I can see them using this domestically
[02:10:10.880 --> 02:10:14.960]  as well as abroad. So if you think that this is something, historically, governments have killed
[02:10:14.960 --> 02:10:18.960]  more of their own people than they've killed in other countries. It's called democide. So if you
[02:10:18.960 --> 02:10:23.120]  think this is something that is simply going to be used against these people on the other side of
[02:10:23.120 --> 02:10:28.640]  the world that you don't like, you need to wake up about that as well. I think really do. And the
[02:10:28.640 --> 02:10:34.160]  thing is that what the United States and the high tech nations like the UK, they have a problem
[02:10:34.160 --> 02:10:39.120]  understanding that this stuff will proliferate and everyone will have it and then where are we
[02:10:39.120 --> 02:10:45.120]  going to be? And that's my biggest worry is this idea that we'll keep ahead of the technology.
[02:10:45.120 --> 02:10:49.120]  We'll be the ones who'll use it without thinking at all that everybody else is going to have it
[02:10:49.120 --> 02:10:53.120]  and they will all interact together and then it's going to be a real mess.
[02:10:53.120 --> 02:10:58.320]  We've already seen countries like Iran setting up their own drones. They're not that technologically
[02:10:58.320 --> 02:11:02.080]  advanced. It didn't take them that long to get drones. It's not going to take them long to get
[02:11:02.080 --> 02:11:06.240]  robots. This is something. And what we're concerned about here, I have to say, Dr. Sharkey,
[02:11:06.240 --> 02:11:11.520]  we have a little bit different situation in the US is unique in the sense that now we have this
[02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:18.320]  massive program of bringing home weapons that have been used in Iraq and putting them in police
[02:11:18.320 --> 02:11:24.080]  departments here in America. And we're already concerned about the fact that humans themselves
[02:11:24.080 --> 02:11:29.280]  are not being held accountable for their actions when they fire on a child with a toy gun.
[02:11:29.920 --> 02:11:33.280]  What's going to happen when a robot does that? Do you think there's going to be accountability
[02:11:33.280 --> 02:11:38.960]  for that? Do you really think the United States police will start? I mean, they certainly talk
[02:11:38.960 --> 02:11:45.840]  about arming robots with tasers. That would be a start for it. But tasers are kind of deadly.
[02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:51.840]  150 people died in the US within a period of two years from taser abuse. So if you start
[02:11:51.840 --> 02:11:57.520]  arming robots with tasers, then I think it's only a short step to arming them with weapons, really.
[02:12:00.400 --> 02:12:05.920]  They're very horrible, non-lethal weapons, very horrible ones. It's not just tasers. They have
[02:12:05.920 --> 02:12:10.240]  all kinds of things that they can beam at you to make you sick, to blind you, that sort of thing.
[02:12:10.240 --> 02:12:14.400]  We just had, you talked about how they kill people. We've got a teenager right here just
[02:12:14.400 --> 02:12:18.560]  south of Austin that was tasered by a cop in a school who was standing there, standing around
[02:12:18.560 --> 02:12:23.440]  a fight and didn't get out of the way in time. The cop tasered him, fell down and cracked his
[02:12:23.440 --> 02:12:27.520]  head. He's now in a coma. They believe he may die. That happens all the time with tasers.
[02:12:27.520 --> 02:12:31.760]  So when you talk about non-lethal force, you talk about shooting people with rubber bullets. You
[02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:37.840]  talk about using these gases on people. That's not something that we're looking forward to seeing
[02:12:37.920 --> 02:12:41.440]  happen in terms of crowd control. That can be very, very oppressive.
[02:12:43.600 --> 02:12:47.120]  Yes, but you don't have to worry too much because they're going to stop it.
[02:12:47.760 --> 02:12:52.720]  Good, good. So tell us about your campaign. Tell us, you're going around and you're talking to
[02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:57.280]  different governments. I guess you're having public speeches where you're trying to inform
[02:12:57.280 --> 02:13:01.920]  the public. How is your press coverage? Well, press coverage has been very good,
[02:13:01.920 --> 02:13:08.320]  but we had a breakthrough recently at the United Nations. There's a committee of the United Nations
[02:13:08.320 --> 02:13:16.240]  called the CCW. That's the place where poisonous gases got banned, biological weapons got banned,
[02:13:16.240 --> 02:13:22.640]  chemical weapons. So that's the place for prohibiting new weapons. The French have just
[02:13:22.640 --> 02:13:29.200]  taken up the presidency and we spoke to the French ambassador. Then we spoke to the US delegation
[02:13:29.680 --> 02:13:34.720]  and they've agreed with this, that they would put this forward as a mandate for discussion in the
[02:13:34.720 --> 02:13:45.440]  UN. And last Friday, two weeks ago, they had 117 nations from the CCW met and one of those nations
[02:13:45.440 --> 02:13:51.360]  could be to it. Russia were there, China were there. There was a massive discussion and they
[02:13:51.360 --> 02:13:57.360]  accepted the mandate. So next year, the CCW committee are setting up an expert workshop to
[02:13:57.360 --> 02:14:01.760]  take this on board and discuss it. Well, that's great. And your campaign is
[02:14:02.640 --> 02:14:09.200]  stopkillerrobots.org. They can learn about that on the internet. www.stopkillerrobots.org. It's a
[02:14:09.200 --> 02:14:14.320]  campaign to stop killer robots. Now you've taken this to the UN, you've taken it to other countries.
[02:14:14.320 --> 02:14:18.400]  I'm a little bit more skeptical of the UN and these other countries. Hopefully they will ban
[02:14:18.400 --> 02:14:23.440]  this and hopefully these other countries won't secretly develop this on their own, worried that
[02:14:23.440 --> 02:14:28.800]  they're going to have some kind of a robot gap or something like that. Like they've had weapons
[02:14:28.800 --> 02:14:33.440]  defensively do it because they're afraid the other guy might do it. My big concern, and I think your
[02:14:33.440 --> 02:14:38.960]  campaign will be very effective at this as well, and that is to address the engineers and the
[02:14:38.960 --> 02:14:44.400]  scientists, to try to get them to understand, because that I believe is where we really need
[02:14:44.400 --> 02:14:49.920]  to go. As long as there's an engineer or a scientist who will develop this kind of stuff
[02:14:49.920 --> 02:14:54.400]  for pay, who doesn't look at the ethics of their work, you're going to find some
[02:14:54.400 --> 02:14:59.200]  kind of a politician or a dictator somewhere who will do it, who will use those people,
[02:14:59.200 --> 02:15:03.200]  who will pay them large amounts of money and who will break any treaty that comes up, won't you?
[02:15:04.480 --> 02:15:10.480]  Well, the problem is it's mainly the US because they're a bit more cautious in Europe. In the US,
[02:15:10.480 --> 02:15:15.840]  it's very difficult to not get funded by the military. Yes. Most of the robotics labs are
[02:15:15.840 --> 02:15:21.360]  run by the military or funded by the military, and people aren't necessarily making weapons
[02:15:21.360 --> 02:15:25.120]  and things, but when you're funded by the military, it stops you speaking up.
[02:15:25.120 --> 02:15:34.640]  Yes. It stops you speaking up against it. There's hope. There's a professional magazine in the US
[02:15:34.640 --> 02:15:41.040]  called The Engineer, and they ran a poll of the readers asking how many people would go for a
[02:15:41.040 --> 02:15:46.800]  complete ban or how many people would just go for trying to make the weapons more perfect over time.
[02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:52.000]  Only 3% of the readership said they would make the weapons go more perfect over time,
[02:15:52.000 --> 02:15:59.840]  and 73% said there should be a total ban. So we're beginning to see a consciousness of it.
[02:15:59.840 --> 02:16:06.320]  That's very helpful because so many times we'll talk to, directly, Alex will talk to soldiers and
[02:16:06.320 --> 02:16:11.840]  policemen over the radio and say, understand that the kind of society that you allow to happen,
[02:16:11.840 --> 02:16:16.720]  if you allow and are a part of this kind of abuse that we see happening in the streets,
[02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:20.720]  that's going to be the society that you live. That could be your family that is brought under
[02:16:20.720 --> 02:16:26.160]  that, and historically we've seen that always does happen. It can't be contained and only limited to
[02:16:26.160 --> 02:16:30.880]  people who don't work for the government, but we need to have that kind of awareness with engineers,
[02:16:30.880 --> 02:16:35.680]  and as you pointed out, it's very difficult in America to get a job if you're an engineer that
[02:16:35.760 --> 02:16:40.800]  doesn't involve the military-industrial complex. I know when I got out, it took me a while to
[02:16:40.800 --> 02:16:44.800]  find a job where I wasn't working for the military. That was my degree initially.
[02:16:46.080 --> 02:16:50.560]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute,
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[02:17:03.520 --> 02:17:10.240]  no doctors in their community, and no money for real medical care. By the third day,
[02:17:10.240 --> 02:17:14.560]  her body was shutting down. She woke up and just long enough to tell her mom,
[02:17:15.200 --> 02:17:22.640]  I can't take the pain anymore. I can't keep going. Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who
[02:17:22.640 --> 02:17:29.840]  tried everything, but she needed a private hospital, and that was impossible for her family to afford,
[02:17:29.840 --> 02:17:36.800]  and that is when Compassion International stepped in. Through Compassion, Alejandra was treated,
[02:17:36.800 --> 02:17:43.280]  and against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just like you took action.
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[02:18:48.960 --> 02:18:53.600]  and I think I really applaud you for what you're doing, because getting the information out there,
[02:18:54.080 --> 02:18:58.560]  people don't even believe that this could happen in so many cases. They don't believe that the
[02:18:58.560 --> 02:19:03.440]  technology is there. They think it's just the science fiction fantasy of the Terminator,
[02:19:03.440 --> 02:19:07.680]  and we've been criticized for that here, that we're talking about some wild thing. Talk about
[02:19:07.680 --> 02:19:16.240]  the absolute, talk about how the technology is approaching rapidly. Well, we've had 44 nations
[02:19:16.240 --> 02:19:22.640]  at the U.N. now speak up with concern, so people better believe you now. It's not science fiction
[02:19:22.640 --> 02:19:28.640]  anymore when you have major countries like the U.S., Germany, Pakistan, even, you know,
[02:19:28.640 --> 02:19:34.560]  all speaking up against killer robots or about them, so it's definitely on course to happen.
[02:19:34.560 --> 02:19:39.360]  There's no question of that unless we stop it, but you have to be very worried in the U.S. as well
[02:19:39.360 --> 02:19:46.320]  about your privacy. I mean, you've got the NSA there really doing a lot of nasty things,
[02:19:46.320 --> 02:19:50.640]  surveying people, but you're starting to get a lot of drones, and once the drones
[02:19:50.720 --> 02:19:55.760]  become autonomous, not even armed, they can be everywhere. They're getting very small,
[02:19:55.760 --> 02:20:02.560]  and what worries me is not the current government you have, but these are legacy systems, so what
[02:20:02.560 --> 02:20:07.040]  does the next government do with them? What does the next government do with them? Because they
[02:20:07.040 --> 02:20:12.720]  just inherit them directly, and if you ever want to create an authoritarian regime, you're going
[02:20:12.720 --> 02:20:18.880]  to have the right tools to do it, and that is a great concern to me as well. You hit the nail
[02:20:18.880 --> 02:20:23.440]  on the head. What we are building in the United States right now is a perfect infrastructure for
[02:20:23.440 --> 02:20:28.000]  tyranny, and whether our current leadership uses it or it's the next or second administration down,
[02:20:28.560 --> 02:20:32.160]  that's what we're concerned about. Dr. Sharkey, what I would like for you to talk about in this
[02:20:32.160 --> 02:20:38.880]  segment is the state of the art in robotics. People don't understand how imminent this problem is,
[02:20:38.880 --> 02:20:45.360]  how rapidly it's coming upon us. Could you address that? Yes, certainly. Well, we've got lots of armed
[02:20:45.360 --> 02:20:50.880]  robots on the ground and in the air, as you know, that are remote controlled, but what's happening
[02:20:50.880 --> 02:20:56.320]  now is a very rapid development of platforms that will carry the weapons. The more we talk in the
[02:20:56.320 --> 02:21:02.720]  campaign about banning these weapons systems, the more we're driving them underground, it seems.
[02:21:02.720 --> 02:21:08.400]  There's less talk about it now, but for instance, in the United States, you've got three devices I'd
[02:21:08.400 --> 02:21:15.520]  like to mention to you. One is called the X-47B, and that can land on there. It's a fighter jet,
[02:21:15.520 --> 02:21:22.000]  a combat unmanned combat aircraft, fast subsonic just beneath the speed of sound. It can land on
[02:21:22.000 --> 02:21:27.520]  an aircraft carrier. It can take off from an aircraft carrier, and it's going to be used in
[02:21:27.520 --> 02:21:34.160]  the Pacific. It's got 10 times the range of one of your F-35 fighter jets, so that's really
[02:21:34.240 --> 02:21:38.960]  productive for them. And it's just been tested two weeks ago in very windy conditions,
[02:21:38.960 --> 02:21:44.480]  and that's working very well. That will be weaponized and used. So it's like a super drone,
[02:21:44.480 --> 02:21:49.600]  but you don't need people involved at all in controlling it. You've also got a prototype
[02:21:49.600 --> 02:21:55.120]  system called the Crusher, and that's developed by Carnegie Mellon and DARPA again, of course.
[02:21:55.120 --> 02:22:00.000]  Of course they are. The Crusher is a seven and a half ton truck, and you can see it. If anybody
[02:22:00.000 --> 02:22:05.840]  wants to go on YouTube and just do Crusher CMU, they will find it, and they'll see it crushing
[02:22:05.840 --> 02:22:10.880]  Cadillacs, and it's got a big gun up there on top of it. Now the other device that you're making in
[02:22:10.880 --> 02:22:18.720]  the United States is on the HTV-2 program, again DARPA, and they've got an aircraft called the
[02:22:18.720 --> 02:22:24.320]  Falcon, and the idea is to be able to get an unmanned combat aircraft anywhere on the planet
[02:22:25.120 --> 02:22:31.120]  within a one-hour window. So this thing has been tested at 13,000 miles an hour. So that's just
[02:22:31.120 --> 02:22:37.760]  the United States. In the UK, we have the Tyrannus, which is actually supersonic, so it's even faster.
[02:22:37.760 --> 02:22:43.520]  That's an intercontinental unmanned combat aircraft, fully autonomous, means that there's
[02:22:43.520 --> 02:22:48.960]  no human controlling it, and that's been tested in Australia just in the last couple of months.
[02:22:48.960 --> 02:22:54.080]  So these are progressing very quickly. The Chinese have the invisible sword, that's the engine,
[02:22:54.640 --> 02:23:00.720]  that's being designed and built for air-to-air combat. Again, no human controlling it. The
[02:23:00.720 --> 02:23:06.640]  Russians have the scat. The Israelis are using one called the Guardian, and at the beginning,
[02:23:06.640 --> 02:23:12.000]  when they developed it, they talked a lot about it being fully autonomous to do routes and to fire
[02:23:12.000 --> 02:23:18.560]  on people at the borders between Palestine and Israel. But now I spoke to an Israeli colleague
[02:23:18.560 --> 02:23:23.920]  the other day who was very excited because I had a nerdy picture of it with guns on it, and now
[02:23:23.920 --> 02:23:28.800]  they can't find any pictures of them with guns. So I'm afraid we're driving these people underground
[02:23:28.800 --> 02:23:33.360]  a bit, but they're still doing it. Well, you know, we can understand very quickly the implications
[02:23:33.360 --> 02:23:38.480]  of something like the crusher that's going to crush vehicles domestically. But even when it
[02:23:38.480 --> 02:23:43.200]  comes to these supersonic jet transports that are taking off from aircraft carriers that are
[02:23:43.200 --> 02:23:48.080]  unmanned aerial vehicles that are remotely controlled, that has a lot of danger in the
[02:23:48.080 --> 02:23:53.360]  sense that that's going to make our already aggressive government starting wars everywhere
[02:23:53.360 --> 02:23:57.600]  for very little justification. And without congressional authorization, that's going to
[02:23:57.600 --> 02:24:02.160]  make them even more likely to get involved in these wars. And there's this thing called blowback.
[02:24:02.160 --> 02:24:06.720]  You know, once you start a war somewhere else, it will come home to you one way or the other.
[02:24:06.720 --> 02:24:11.840]  Eventually, it may be asymmetric warfare. It may be terrorism with people coming to your country
[02:24:11.840 --> 02:24:16.720]  and blowing people up in shopping malls, which will then be used to send out the crusher robots.
[02:24:16.720 --> 02:24:20.640]  But thank you so much, Professor Sharkey for joining us. We're out of time. Good luck on
[02:24:20.640 --> 02:24:24.640]  your campaign. Keep trying to educate people about these dangers. It's a very important
[02:24:24.640 --> 02:24:28.800]  thing you're doing. Thank you for having me on spreading the word for us. Thank you very much.
[02:24:28.800 --> 02:24:32.160]  Thank you very much. That's stop killer robots.org.
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