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[00:30.000 --> 00:37.680]  world of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's The David Knight Show.
[00:44.000 --> 00:51.280]  As the clock strikes 13, it's the 18th of April, year of our Lord, 2025. Good Friday.
[00:51.280 --> 00:57.280]  And today we're going to talk about how we've lost our vision in this country. Our vision for
[00:57.280 --> 01:03.600]  family and even our vision for Christ. We have Elon Musk in some emails that have surfaced from
[01:03.600 --> 01:10.960]  one of his harem, I guess we could say, talking about how he wants to create an army of people
[01:10.960 --> 01:17.920]  who are super intelligent, as he imagines he is. Perhaps he is. Who knows? But it is that kind of
[01:18.000 --> 01:26.000]  pride that we see in the technocracy, but also a concern for posterity.
[01:27.440 --> 01:33.440]  And I guess the question is what has happened in our society outside of these technocrats? Why isn't
[01:33.440 --> 01:38.640]  the Christian community leading this? And why isn't the Christian community pushing back
[01:39.360 --> 01:45.360]  against the murder, the mass murder of innocent children that is happening in Gaza? So we're
[01:45.360 --> 01:49.280]  going to take a look at all of these things today, and we have some major news about
[01:49.280 --> 01:54.640]  artificial intelligence as well. Major fraudulent news. We'll be right back.
[01:54.640 --> 02:16.400]  Well, when we began with the shooting at FSU, Florida State University, the individual appears
[02:16.400 --> 02:21.360]  to be, according to the latest news that I saw, they believe in terms of motive that he was looking
[02:21.360 --> 02:27.680]  for a specific person that he wanted to get, but he wound up killing two people, another six in
[02:27.680 --> 02:32.480]  hospital. I'm not sure if that number includes him because he was also shot. Twenty years old,
[02:32.480 --> 02:40.720]  Phoenix Ickner, and he is named as the mass shooter. His mother is a sheriff's deputy,
[02:42.080 --> 02:46.800]  and it was her gun, not her service weapon, but one that had been her service weapon she was
[02:46.800 --> 02:52.720]  allowed to purchase. The social media post that he wrote before this happened said,
[02:52.720 --> 02:59.440]  you are my war club, my weapons for battle. With you, I shatter nations. With you, I destroy kingdoms.
[03:00.800 --> 03:09.120]  Speaking for God, I guess, you know, it's kind of how people take things out of context. It's
[03:09.120 --> 03:16.880]  pretty amazing. You know, you just pick up the Bible and take a verse and you point at it and
[03:16.880 --> 03:23.360]  say, that's what God wants me to do right there, right? So the guy gets the verse that says,
[03:23.360 --> 03:28.400]  Judas went out and hung himself. Go down, do likewise or whatever, right? So, you know,
[03:28.960 --> 03:34.480]  when you take this kind of stuff out of context, I don't know what the guy's issue is. This is from
[03:34.480 --> 03:42.960]  the book of Jeremiah talking about judgment day, but it's God who judges. That's the thing
[03:42.960 --> 03:49.680]  that he's missing here, and that's what we celebrate on Good Friday, the fact that God took out
[03:49.680 --> 03:56.800]  his judgment on his own son on our behalf. Anyway, he said he was described as a political science
[03:56.800 --> 04:04.880]  major. So he had done other posts showing that he supported Trump. He said, I think it's a little
[04:04.880 --> 04:08.800]  bit too late. Trump is already going to be inaugurated on January the 20th. There's not
[04:08.800 --> 04:12.720]  really much you can do unless you outright revolt. I don't think anyone wants that. So
[04:13.920 --> 04:19.120]  at that point in time, you didn't want violence, evidently. Leon County Sheriff McNeil said in a
[04:19.120 --> 04:24.400]  press conference Thursday, the gunman was a member of the department's youth setup and was involved
[04:24.400 --> 04:30.400]  in training programs. Again, two people killed, six hospitalized. He is also in custody in the
[04:30.400 --> 04:34.560]  hospital, so I don't know if he's the seventh one, but I think they were talking about the people that
[04:35.200 --> 04:42.720]  he shot and killed. Students, meanwhile, shared a lot of photos as they were hiding. They were
[04:42.720 --> 04:47.920]  taking pictures with their cell phone, which is what everybody does now. Whenever something happens,
[04:48.000 --> 04:54.240]  people don't do anything. They just watch and record. The nation of voyeurs. But of course,
[04:54.240 --> 05:00.240]  nobody is allowed to do anything on the Florida campuses because according to Florida law, state
[05:00.240 --> 05:07.360]  law, you cannot have a gun on campus even if you are licensed to carry. So how did this guy get a
[05:07.360 --> 05:12.560]  gun on campus? I just don't understand. I mean, it's against the law, right? How did that happen?
[05:12.640 --> 05:18.560]  I mean, they've got laws to stop that. Somehow, he got past the law. You know, we also have laws
[05:18.560 --> 05:26.000]  against murder. But really what that law is about, that's a law against self-defense.
[05:27.360 --> 05:32.640]  There weren't any professors, there weren't any students who had gone through license carry
[05:33.600 --> 05:38.480]  and been vetted even by the government. No, that's not even good enough. You're not allowed to
[05:39.440 --> 05:43.360]  protect yourself. So that's a school that's got 40 or 45,000 students. It's huge.
[05:44.640 --> 05:51.040]  And that means that you've got 44,999 students without a gun and one with.
[05:52.000 --> 05:58.480]  And he can do whatever he wants. And what he wanted to do that day was to kill two people.
[05:58.480 --> 06:07.280]  And he, in the process, got six other people wounded, I think. So we look at this, and this
[06:07.280 --> 06:12.640]  is everywhere. And it is a tragedy. But, of course, they have an agenda. They want to take
[06:12.640 --> 06:18.320]  away more places where you can carry a gun and protect yourself. But what they're not talking
[06:18.320 --> 06:25.920]  about is the mass murder that is happening to children in Gaza. Because, you know, two deaths
[06:25.920 --> 06:33.760]  are a tragedy, but millions of deaths are a statistic, said Stalin. Thousands of Gaza children
[06:33.760 --> 06:40.160]  are malnourished under Israel's food blockade. They're starving them to death, those that they
[06:40.160 --> 06:47.360]  didn't kill with bombs. Israel's blockade has barred entry of all food and other goods for more
[06:47.360 --> 06:54.800]  than six weeks. Thousands of children have become malnourished and most people are barely eating
[06:54.800 --> 07:00.400]  one meal a day as the stocks are dwindling, says the UN. No food, no fuel, no medicine
[07:01.040 --> 07:06.880]  or any other supplies have entered Gaza since Israel imposed its blockade on March the 2nd.
[07:07.840 --> 07:14.560]  It renewed its bombardment on March the 18th, breaking a ceasefire. There we go. So
[07:15.680 --> 07:19.520]  they've set up a siege. They're starving people to death. There was a ceasefire. They broke the
[07:19.520 --> 07:27.040]  ceasefire. What's going on with this here? Why is it that our media is not talking about it? Why is
[07:27.040 --> 07:35.920]  it that anybody who criticizes this, they want to call you a terrorist and deport you? So hundreds
[07:35.920 --> 07:40.880]  have been killed. More than 400,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee their shelters in the
[07:40.880 --> 07:46.320]  latest of multiple displacements. A strike in a southern city killed a family of 10, including
[07:46.320 --> 07:52.800]  five children, four women and a man. Strikes in northern Gaza killed two other couples with nine
[07:52.800 --> 07:58.240]  children, according to the Indonesian hospital that is speaking there. A later strike hit a
[07:58.240 --> 08:05.040]  school sheltering displaced people, killing three people and a child. On Palm Sunday, Israel bombed
[08:05.040 --> 08:13.680]  the only Christian hospital in the area. So think about that. In March, more than 3,600 children
[08:13.680 --> 08:19.600]  were newly admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition, up from 2,000 the month before.
[08:20.560 --> 08:25.040]  Oh, hey, it seems to be working. Great. We'll have the land anytime now, because that's all
[08:25.040 --> 08:29.680]  that matters. We'll have the land. I don't care who I've got to kill. And we've got Christian
[08:29.680 --> 08:38.160]  pastors calling them Amalekites, saying, well, you can kill any or all of them. They're not Amalekites.
[08:38.160 --> 08:50.480]  And there is no Christian genocide that is supported by Christ. You shouldn't support these
[08:50.480 --> 08:56.800]  pastors. Humanitarians have been forced to watch people suffer and die while carrying the impossible
[08:56.800 --> 09:01.760]  burden of providing relief with depleted supplies, all while facing the same life-threatening
[09:01.760 --> 09:05.920]  conditions themselves, said an emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders.
[09:09.120 --> 09:15.280]  Continuing with the statement, she said, this is not a humanitarian failure. It is a political
[09:15.280 --> 09:23.520]  choice, a deliberate assault on people's ability to survive, carried out with impunity. As a matter
[09:23.520 --> 09:29.360]  of fact, such impunity that the Israeli defense minister says no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza
[09:29.360 --> 09:38.320]  ever. So he's saying, indefinite. Israel Katz is his name. He said plans for ethnic cleansing,
[09:38.320 --> 09:45.520]  which he calls voluntary relocation, are advancing. This is from anti-war. Voluntary relocation.
[09:46.640 --> 09:52.320]  We bomb you. We starve you. Or, you know, this is to voluntarily get you to voluntarily relocate.
[09:53.520 --> 09:57.600]  I love that, don't you? You know, it's like when they were killing people with a vaccine,
[09:57.600 --> 10:02.080]  Biden said with his mandates. He said, well, you know, we're not forcing anybody to get the vaccine.
[10:03.280 --> 10:06.720]  You can lose your job, your position, all the rest. Where are you going to take the vaccine?
[10:07.680 --> 10:12.480]  Well, you know, if you don't go somewhere, get out of this area, we will kill you all.
[10:12.480 --> 10:20.560]  So maybe you ought to voluntarily relocate. Israel Katz said Israel's policy is clear.
[10:21.200 --> 10:27.280]  No humanitarian aid will be allowed into Gaza, and preventing humanitarian aid to Gaza is one
[10:27.280 --> 10:32.800]  of the central pressure tools that they want to use to stop Hamas. Well, apparently they're
[10:32.800 --> 10:42.080]  not doing too well. They only got 25% of the tunnels, according to Israel, after a couple
[10:42.080 --> 10:47.280]  of years of bombing and all the rest of this stuff. Maybe they should ask Netanyahu to stop
[10:47.280 --> 10:53.520]  paying Hamas, to stop aiding them. He was the one who put them in. He was the one who aided them.
[10:53.520 --> 10:59.280]  This is why there's such a fight within Israel that the American press does not want to cover,
[11:00.960 --> 11:06.640]  because they call it Cuttergate. He was aiding Hamas. He deliberately put Hamas in. He wanted
[11:06.640 --> 11:12.160]  to have the most radical government in there that he wanted. People in Gaza don't want them.
[11:12.160 --> 11:20.240]  Netanyahu did. And he gave them money, and their leaders money. And at the very beginning of this,
[11:20.240 --> 11:27.200]  I said, well, you got the leaders of Hamas living the high life and luxury high-rises in Cutter.
[11:27.200 --> 11:33.680]  Why don't you go take them out? Instead, they would rather kill the civilians who are there,
[11:33.680 --> 11:38.160]  because they don't care about the terrorism. They don't care about murder. They simply want
[11:38.160 --> 11:46.240]  the land. That's the cold calculation here. No one, he said, is going to allow any humanitarian
[11:46.240 --> 11:52.000]  aid into Gaza. And no preparations are being made to allow any kind of aid of this kind, said Katz.
[11:53.120 --> 11:57.840]  He also said IDF troops would not leave the territory that they've captured since Israel
[11:57.840 --> 12:03.040]  restarted the genocidal war on March the 18th, says Andy War. So to date, hundreds of thousands
[12:03.040 --> 12:07.600]  of residents have been evacuated. Dozens of percent of the territory have been incorporated
[12:08.400 --> 12:12.160]  into the security zones. So it's a success. They don't care how many people they kill.
[12:13.120 --> 12:20.480]  Get some more land. So the plan for voluntary relocation of Gaza residents is being advanced,
[12:20.480 --> 12:26.560]  he said. How cynical. Katz said that if Hamas continues to refuse to release the hostages
[12:26.560 --> 12:31.600]  under Israel's terms, which now includes a demand for the group to disarm, then operations in Gaza
[12:31.600 --> 12:40.560]  will expand and we'll move to the next stage. Well, you know, Caitlin Johnston, an Australian
[12:40.560 --> 12:44.240]  writer, and this is an article of hers that was picked up on Free Thought Project.
[12:45.680 --> 12:48.640]  And this is what I've been saying all along. She says, it is crazy and evil
[12:49.360 --> 12:52.400]  to support Israel's atrocities because you think God wants you to.
[12:53.680 --> 12:58.960]  What religion is that? You see, even the unbelievers and the pagans look at this and shake their heads
[12:58.960 --> 13:05.920]  like, what's the matter with you people? And Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world.
[13:06.880 --> 13:12.480]  You know, he was brought in on Palm Sunday. He was hailed as the conquering messiah
[13:13.440 --> 13:16.640]  because they wanted somebody who was going to give them the land. They wanted somebody who
[13:16.640 --> 13:19.840]  was going to kick out the Romans. They wanted somebody who was going to create a worldly empire.
[13:19.840 --> 13:23.600]  And he kept telling them, my kingdom is not of this world. And yet we have Christians
[13:24.800 --> 13:29.840]  who don't care what Jesus said. Well, here's my understanding of some Old Testament kingdom
[13:29.840 --> 13:34.560]  prophecies. And I don't really care what Jesus said. He doesn't know what he's doing, right?
[13:34.560 --> 13:39.680]  And the apostles, they don't know what they're doing. They very clearly stated didactically.
[13:40.560 --> 13:45.440]  These Old Testament prophecies were there describing things in terms that people would
[13:45.440 --> 13:52.000]  understand. Much of what is in the Old Testament isn't just figurative. Yes, it literally happened.
[13:52.000 --> 13:56.560]  But the deliverance of Israel with Passover and all the rest of that stuff was clearly,
[13:57.200 --> 14:01.440]  that was both factual, which people like Benjamin and Netanyahu do not believe.
[14:02.000 --> 14:07.600]  Uh, but all of that literally happened, but it was a picture of Christ's work.
[14:09.200 --> 14:13.680]  And it was not to give them an earthly kingdom. And it's not to give them an earthly kingdom
[14:13.680 --> 14:22.320]  today. If God wants to do that, he can do that. But you don't have a warrant to cheer starvation
[14:22.320 --> 14:29.280]  and murder of civilians, men, women, and children. How un-Christ-like can you get?
[14:29.280 --> 14:35.120]  Can you get? And we have even the pagans seeing this. And I've said this before. When you look
[14:35.120 --> 14:39.760]  at Paul's letter to the Corinthians, he says, you're engaged in sexual activity and you're
[14:39.760 --> 14:44.000]  condoning not all of them, but you know, that somebody within their midst, he said,
[14:44.960 --> 14:51.040]  you are condoning what this man is doing. And even the pagans are astounded at it. Not even
[14:51.040 --> 14:57.120]  the pagans do that. We are condoning what the political government there is doing in Israel.
[14:58.000 --> 15:05.360]  And not even the pagans would condone that. She said, the U.S. is so spiritually bankrupt
[15:05.360 --> 15:10.080]  that literally tens of millions of Americans who support Israel's genocidal atrocities in Gaza
[15:10.720 --> 15:17.840]  because they think that God wants them to. She said, how gross is that? There is a massive,
[15:17.840 --> 15:25.520]  politically engaged demographic in the United States whose idea of an actualized spirituality
[15:25.520 --> 15:31.040]  is demanding that their government keep giving weapons to an apartheid state which is currently
[15:31.040 --> 15:36.320]  raining military explosives onto a giant concentration camp full of children.
[15:38.320 --> 15:44.960]  Well, again, I've used the examples of Abraham who was given a promise from God. He didn't like
[15:44.960 --> 15:49.440]  the way that God was going to do it or God's timing. And so he decided he would take it into
[15:49.440 --> 16:00.320]  his own hands and the result was something that we still live with today. And so even the people
[16:00.960 --> 16:07.200]  who don't understand what is going on, look at this. Folks, it is a reproach to Christ and it
[16:07.200 --> 16:15.920]  is a cultic religion that replaces Christ with a political entity. It replaces what he came to do,
[16:16.400 --> 16:23.280]  which is to save his people, to create a kingdom that you can't see. You're not going to say it's
[16:23.280 --> 16:30.720]  there or it's there. It's within you. And they don't care about that. I'm not primarily talking
[16:30.720 --> 16:36.880]  about Jews here, she says. There are an estimated 30 million Christian Zionists in the United States,
[16:36.880 --> 16:42.000]  which is about twice the total population of Jews in the entire world, Zionist and non-Zionist.
[16:42.080 --> 16:49.680]  And so what she's saying here is the biggest problem is the Christians who are Zionists.
[16:50.720 --> 16:59.040]  It is a religious cult that has denied Christ, denied his mission, replaced him with their worldly
[16:59.760 --> 17:05.840]  ambitions because they think they've got a prophecy here and they're going to make it happen.
[17:06.560 --> 17:09.920]  Well, you don't have to make God's prophecies happen. He makes them happen himself.
[17:10.160 --> 17:14.160]  She said, that's just members of Christian churches that are explicitly Zionist as a whole.
[17:14.960 --> 17:18.800]  There are also other Americans who support Israel for religious reasons as individuals.
[17:20.320 --> 17:26.320]  They believe its existence will help fulfill a biblical prophecy and will bring about a second
[17:26.320 --> 17:30.400]  coming of Jesus who will take them all to heaven and send all the unbelievers, including the Jews,
[17:30.400 --> 17:38.560]  to hell. Well, you know, that's fairly accurate for an unbeliever. There's a lot more involved
[17:38.560 --> 17:44.240]  there, but nevertheless, this is why it's such a reproach to Christ.
[17:45.360 --> 17:50.400]  Together, Christians and Jewish Zionists in the U.S. comprise an extremely powerful voting block
[17:51.440 --> 17:55.600]  who aggressively push Washington to support Israel and its various mass atrocities throughout
[17:55.600 --> 18:00.400]  the years, continuing with what we're seeing in Gaza today because their religion tells them
[18:00.400 --> 18:06.560]  it's what God wants. No, that is not our religion. And we as Christians need to stand up and oppose
[18:06.560 --> 18:12.800]  this, just the same as if we would oppose the Ku Klux Klan carrying crosses and burning them
[18:12.800 --> 18:20.000]  on people's yards. That is not Christian. You can't have that. And these Zionist Christians
[18:21.200 --> 18:24.800]  need to make a choice. Are they Zionist or Christians?
[18:28.320 --> 18:31.360]  Choose who you will serve. Will you serve Israel or Christ?
[18:31.360 --> 18:37.440]  Not even the most notorious cult leader, she said. Modern times have convinced people that it's good
[18:37.440 --> 18:43.360]  and fine to murder tens of thousands of children. Jim Jones himself, she said. But she said,
[18:43.360 --> 18:47.200]  get some weird looking evangelical thumping a Bible in front of a podium and suddenly people
[18:47.200 --> 18:52.720]  are praying that God guide American missiles onto every hospital in Gaza. If your religion tells you
[18:53.760 --> 18:58.800]  to help murder thousands of children in a genocidal onslaught, you need to change your religious
[18:58.800 --> 19:04.960]  beliefs. And you don't have Christianity. You're not a follower of the way. You're not a follower
[19:04.960 --> 19:11.280]  of Christ, if that's what you're going to do. You know, when we look at this, we've had,
[19:12.480 --> 19:15.840]  for Easter, right? Their Easter dinner, which is what they call it.
[19:17.040 --> 19:23.440]  Ken Copeland is going to be at Trump's Easter dinner. Trump really loves this guy.
[19:24.080 --> 19:30.640]  If you look at it, good reason, you go back to the 2020 election. And what was Ken Copeland
[19:30.640 --> 19:37.440]  telling everybody? He was demonically laughing in front of the congregation and could not stop
[19:37.440 --> 19:41.360]  saying, they're telling us that Biden is president. The media said what?
[19:41.360 --> 19:55.600]  Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The media said Joe Biden's president. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
[19:55.600 --> 19:58.560]  Yeah. And it goes on and on. I can't take too much of this guy.
[20:00.320 --> 20:06.640]  That church, it's all about politics. It's all it's about. Their God is politics.
[20:06.720 --> 20:12.800]  Their God is land. Their God is Trump. And their pastor is demonic.
[20:14.240 --> 20:21.440]  I'll spare you the clips. You can find them all over social media. If you want to see evidence
[20:21.440 --> 20:27.920]  of demonic possession, take a look at Ken Copeland. He's 88 years old. He predicted in December
[20:29.200 --> 20:35.040]  the date of his own death. I wonder if it's going to be as accurate as his political predictions.
[20:37.200 --> 20:44.560]  Ha ha ha. And he is saying that, he says, I've made a covenant and entered a covenant with God.
[20:45.680 --> 20:52.400]  And on December the 6th, 2056, I'll see y'all later. I'm out of here. I'll be 120 years old then.
[20:54.080 --> 21:00.320]  So, he's got a deal with God. Maybe he should check the individual that he signed that agreement
[21:00.320 --> 21:08.160]  with. Did you make a deal with God or the devil? I don't know what you made an agreement with. But
[21:09.360 --> 21:15.600]  he's also a big Zionist as well. As a matter of fact, he was confronted, you might remember this,
[21:15.600 --> 21:20.000]  Inside Edition. There was a reporter who confronted him about his luxury plane that he'd
[21:20.000 --> 21:28.400]  spent millions and millions of dollars on. All of these TV pastors just fleecing the sheep.
[21:29.040 --> 21:34.880]  Just amazing. And this reporter engaged him because her father's a pastor
[21:36.400 --> 21:43.280]  and she could smell a wolf among the sheep. And it doesn't take much to discern that about
[21:44.320 --> 21:50.800]  this guy, about Copeland. And so, she confronts him about buying a big, expensive,
[21:50.800 --> 21:53.040]  private jet, a really big one like Trump's.
[21:55.120 --> 22:01.040]  And I prayed about it. And I thought, I'm not missing that dedication in Jerusalem
[22:01.760 --> 22:07.040]  without the airplane that we have that I bought from Tyler Perry. And I didn't pay any warning.
[22:07.040 --> 22:12.800]  Tyler's one of the greatest guys. He made it. He made that airplane so cheap for me. I couldn't
[22:12.800 --> 22:17.520]  help but buy it. Well, my question then, well, okay. All right. But I want to get to the
[22:17.600 --> 22:22.320]  dance. People are very concerned about that comment. Give me a chance here, Inside Edition.
[22:22.320 --> 22:26.400]  I love your eyes. And here's what happened.
[22:29.200 --> 22:44.960]  We flew in 21 days, 70 hours, 40,000 miles, touched five continents and preached face to
[22:44.960 --> 22:53.920]  face personally with 125,000 people. That's scary.
[22:55.120 --> 22:59.840]  Do you ever use your private jets to go visit your vacation homes, for example?
[22:59.840 --> 23:03.680]  Yes, I do. Okay. Again, getting back to the comment,
[23:03.680 --> 23:07.680]  you said that you don't like to fly commercial because you don't want to get into a tube with
[23:07.680 --> 23:11.600]  a bunch of demons. Do you really believe that human beings are demons?
[23:11.600 --> 23:14.160]  No, I do not. And don't you ever say I did.
[23:17.120 --> 23:22.720]  We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but principalities and powers.
[23:23.680 --> 23:29.680]  I think he lost the wrestling match. I think he is firmly in the grip of those principalities
[23:29.680 --> 23:33.840]  and powers, don't you? And he said there'll never be a two-state solution because a two-state
[23:33.840 --> 23:37.920]  solution is no solution at all because you can't argue with the king of the universe. Don't even
[23:37.920 --> 23:47.920]  try. Don't you even try. Well, when you look at these guys, I mentioned John Hagee and I played
[23:47.920 --> 23:55.600]  that clip and had people send me articles about that saying, well, he's walked that back. The
[23:55.600 --> 24:04.240]  fact that he said that Jesus was not the Messiah and he never said that he was a Messiah. I said,
[24:04.240 --> 24:10.800]  well, that's a flat-out lie. As a matter of fact, this is an interesting article from carm.org.
[24:12.000 --> 24:19.040]  And the guy pointed out the reach of Hagee truly is amazing. When you give yourself over to the
[24:19.040 --> 24:23.920]  devil, he's got all these things. He can show you the kingdoms of the world, right? Those are all
[24:23.920 --> 24:32.080]  his to give. He can give you 160 TV stations. He can give you 50 radio stations. He can help
[24:32.080 --> 24:39.440]  you to publish 10 books. He can get you a crowd of 14,000 people once a week. And so this guy,
[24:39.440 --> 24:43.600]  Matt Slick, who wrote this, he said, well, his beliefs page is not very precise, but it
[24:43.600 --> 24:47.280]  seems to be within orthodoxy. The problem, however, is with his new book, In Defense of
[24:47.280 --> 24:53.840]  Israel, where Hagee apparently states that Jesus was not the Messiah. And he said, you know, you
[24:53.840 --> 24:57.280]  can find it on YouTube. That's a clip that I played for you. Jesus, he said, did not come to
[24:57.280 --> 25:02.880]  earth to be the Messiah. And since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah,
[25:02.880 --> 25:09.600]  how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered? He said, obviously this is
[25:09.600 --> 25:18.480]  a big problem though, right? And so the question is, is this guy ignorant, heretical, or is he
[25:18.480 --> 25:22.640]  doing this to sell books and sell controversy? I mean, I've seen analytics do this kind of stuff,
[25:22.640 --> 25:29.040]  something he clearly knows is false. And he throws it out there and then he tries to spin it and walk
[25:29.040 --> 25:32.880]  it back. Well, I didn't really say that, you know, but it was the controversial thing that he throws
[25:32.880 --> 25:38.080]  out there. So the guy says, well, instead of making my judgment on a one-minute sound bite, well, I
[25:38.080 --> 25:42.560]  think we can make our judgment on that one-minute sound bite. It was pretty clear, pretty clear.
[25:42.560 --> 25:48.400]  And if we understand what Zionism is about, it's super clear what he's talking about. He says,
[25:49.120 --> 25:53.120]  didn't want to make my judgment on a one-minute sound bite. He said, so I got the book and I
[25:53.120 --> 25:56.880]  went through it and I didn't read the whole thing. Instead, I went to the section, chapter 10, which
[25:56.880 --> 26:03.040]  he did a expanded chapter 10 because of the controversy and sold it again. Where he deals
[26:03.040 --> 26:07.920]  with Jesus as a Messiah. In short, Hagee takes several pages to characterize the Jewish idea
[26:07.920 --> 26:15.920]  of the Messiah as being a political deliverer who was supposed to free Israel from Roman oppression.
[26:16.000 --> 26:24.160]  Sound familiar? You know, we talked about this week and the Christian celebration
[26:25.040 --> 26:29.600]  of what happened, the remembrance of what happened. You know, he was welcomed on Palm Sunday
[26:30.320 --> 26:40.160]  as king and welcomed as Messiah. But they were looking for a political leader. And once he was
[26:40.160 --> 26:45.920]  taken into custody, once he was beaten severely, beaten and bloodied and pulled before the people,
[26:45.920 --> 26:50.800]  they saw, well, this isn't going to be the guy who's going to give us a political deliverance.
[26:50.800 --> 26:57.200]  And Pilate says, who do you want, Barabbas or this man? And he comes out and says, behold the man,
[26:57.200 --> 27:06.160]  right? And they saw how they saw this beaten, wounded, physically abused and crushed individual.
[27:06.160 --> 27:11.680]  We don't want him. Rather have a murderer. Releases Barabbas.
[27:13.920 --> 27:21.360]  And that shows the true heart of what they wanted. Again, it's what the Zionists want today,
[27:21.360 --> 27:26.960]  whether they're Christians or Jews. That's what they want. They want political deliverance.
[27:28.800 --> 27:36.000]  But the Bible is very clear. And actually, so is Hagee. Throughout his book, he called
[27:36.000 --> 27:42.080]  Moses the Messiah of Israel. And he capitalizes that word. He's not just talking about it,
[27:42.080 --> 27:48.960]  and since Messiah means anointed. And it's the English version of a Hebrew word that means
[27:48.960 --> 27:55.120]  anointed. Christ means the same thing. It's an English version of a Greek word that means
[27:55.120 --> 28:02.960]  the same thing. But he calls Moses the Messiah with a capital M, not just a generally anointed
[28:02.960 --> 28:09.360]  leader. And then he says that Jesus refused to be their Messiah, choosing instead to be the Savior
[28:09.360 --> 28:16.800]  of the world. Well, that was the role of the Messiah. And they misunderstood the Old Testament
[28:16.800 --> 28:26.400]  Kingdom prophecies, just like the people of today. And so he is defining Messiah simply as a political
[28:26.400 --> 28:32.320]  deliverer, which is what you would expect a Zionist to do, because that's all they care about.
[28:33.600 --> 28:40.640]  And he said, well, he's corrected in that aspect that Jesus didn't come to be a political Messiah.
[28:40.640 --> 28:45.680]  But Hagee has failed to define his terms adequately. And he's causing uproar. You see,
[28:45.680 --> 28:51.200]  you don't get to redefine the terms that are there. The Bible defines what these terms are.
[28:51.920 --> 28:58.320]  And he's trying to redefine it. So he says, so why is he doing this? He says the same thing I said.
[28:58.320 --> 29:03.280]  You know, is he doing this because he doesn't know, or is he doing this because he wants to
[29:03.280 --> 29:09.840]  invite controversy? But he says, Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah.
[29:09.840 --> 29:17.680]  And that is clearly a false statement. The English word Messiah is used twice in the New Testament,
[29:17.680 --> 29:27.520]  in John and both times. So in John one, very beginning, people said, as they saw Jesus,
[29:27.520 --> 29:30.160]  they went around and talked to other people. So we found the Messiah.
[29:31.520 --> 29:37.200]  And that says in parentheses, which translated means Christ. And then when he's talking to the
[29:37.200 --> 29:42.880]  woman at the well, the woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ.
[29:43.920 --> 29:47.360]  And when that one comes, he will declare all things to us. And Jesus said to her,
[29:48.160 --> 29:54.480]  I who speak to you am he. He frequently, though, called himself son of man. But that was also a
[29:54.480 --> 29:59.200]  claim to be the Messiah. Son of man was a prophetic term out of the Old Testament.
[30:00.320 --> 30:05.120]  It wasn't just talking about, it wasn't talking about his human nature. When he said to the
[30:05.120 --> 30:11.600]  Pharisees that were interrogating him on that week before they crucified him, when he said,
[30:13.440 --> 30:17.440]  called himself the son of man, they were outraged because they understood
[30:18.400 --> 30:23.920]  that was referring to the Messiah. But throughout the New Testament, it's very clear.
[30:25.360 --> 30:32.400]  So when Simon Peter, he says, who do you say that I am? Simon Peter says, you are Christ,
[30:33.680 --> 30:39.920]  the son of the living God. And Mark, the high priest, was questioning him. He said,
[30:39.920 --> 30:44.320]  are you Christ, the son of the blessed one? He says, I am. And you shall see the son of man,
[30:44.320 --> 30:48.800]  there we go again, sitting at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of heaven.
[30:48.800 --> 30:58.800]  And in John 17, as Jesus is praying for those as followers, as disciples, then and now,
[30:59.920 --> 31:07.120]  he said, this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
[31:07.120 --> 31:13.440]  whom you have sent. Folks, that's not his last name. That is his title.
[31:13.440 --> 31:22.480]  Why would Hagee fail to mention these verses? Again, why would he, for political purposes,
[31:23.440 --> 31:30.320]  to make money? He said, Hagee has such a huge agenda regarding his support for Israel that he
[31:30.320 --> 31:35.120]  has apparently allowed himself to do shoddy, incomplete research regarding the topic of the
[31:35.120 --> 31:42.240]  Messiah, so as to support a particular view of Israel. That's exactly right. And these people,
[31:43.120 --> 31:47.920]  I thought about this this week, as I look at the damage that's been done to the cause of Christ.
[31:48.560 --> 31:53.120]  People like Paul White don't tell the Jews the gospel that's not important for them, that type
[31:53.120 --> 32:01.520]  of thing. Well, and obviously, you don't think the gospel is as important as your physical kingdom
[32:01.520 --> 32:08.560]  that you want. Isn't it amazing how the Zionists have basically become the Pharisees of Jesus's
[32:08.560 --> 32:14.400]  day? They really have. They are not in any way, shape, or form Christian.
[32:16.320 --> 32:20.320]  And what bothers me is that we see people like Caitlin Johnston, we see people like
[32:21.680 --> 32:28.960]  Gerald Slinty, who think that that is what Christianity is. And we have to oppose that.
[32:30.400 --> 32:35.840]  So he finishes up by saying, he says, I think his ultra-support of Israel has clouded his judgment.
[32:35.840 --> 32:41.280]  No, it's become his God. It really has. We have, as a matter of fact, like I said,
[32:42.160 --> 32:47.920]  she said, there's more Christian Zionists than there are Jews in the world, Zionist and non-Zionist.
[32:49.440 --> 32:54.720]  And we have a lot of non-Zionist Jews that are speaking out. They've taken out full-page ads
[32:54.720 --> 32:58.320]  in the New York Times. They're the only ones, evidently, that are allowed to, right? Anybody
[32:58.320 --> 33:05.440]  else does it. You're labeled anti-Semitic by the Zionists. Ten leading U.S. Jewish groups denounced
[33:05.440 --> 33:10.480]  the Trump administration's campus crackdown. And so these are representatives from reform,
[33:10.480 --> 33:15.280]  from conservative, from reconstructionist movements. You know, the ultra-Orthodox Jews
[33:15.280 --> 33:20.320]  don't even support the existence of Israel. They said, well, yeah, God has promised the land to us,
[33:20.320 --> 33:23.440]  but he's going to give it to us miraculously. And if you go out there and try to do it yourself,
[33:24.800 --> 33:30.880]  we don't support that. Ten U.S. Jewish groups, including representatives from these different
[33:30.880 --> 33:36.080]  reform, constructive, reconstructionist movements, denounced the Trump administration's
[33:36.080 --> 33:42.800]  crackdown on non-citizen activists in universities. Yeah, we have something called the First
[33:42.800 --> 33:49.200]  Amendment. Legally, he's not allowed to do that. But, you know, all these people are saying,
[33:49.200 --> 33:55.680]  not in our name, not in our name. And I've got to say, of these people like Hagee, of Paula White,
[33:55.680 --> 34:01.040]  of these people who are the spiritual advisors to Donald Trump, taking him straight to hell.
[34:02.320 --> 34:07.040]  Not in my name, and not in the name of Christ will I let you say this kind of stuff without
[34:07.040 --> 34:09.680]  opposing you. We're going to take a quick break, and we'll come back,
[34:09.680 --> 34:13.040]  and I've got some comments here. We'll go over your comments.
[34:55.680 --> 35:07.600]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[35:09.280 --> 35:14.160]  All right, welcome back, and I've got a lot of comments here. Kick on Kick, a Syrian girl said
[35:14.160 --> 35:19.520]  these, quote, Christian, unquote, pastors who support Israel's atrocities should read their
[35:19.520 --> 35:25.120]  Bibles. Israel has always had its share of evil rulers, and God has punished the people severely
[35:25.120 --> 35:30.880]  for following them. Yeah, I agree. Rumble, KWD 68, I've watched and read David Stockman's thoughts
[35:30.880 --> 35:35.280]  on terrorists, et cetera. I'd love to see you have him back on. Yeah, I'd like to get him back on.
[35:35.280 --> 35:44.240]  We should get him back. He's solid, and he was somebody who took all the slings and arrows back
[35:44.240 --> 35:49.760]  there at the time of Reagan about what he believed. You've got to respect that, you know, somebody,
[35:49.760 --> 35:52.800]  whether they're right or wrong, you've got to respect somebody standing on their principles
[35:52.800 --> 35:57.840]  that they believe in explaining them to people. On Rumble, Sprumford, thank you very much for the
[35:57.840 --> 36:04.000]  tip. I appreciate that. Said my fiance was a rabid Christian Zionist when we first met. I gently
[36:04.000 --> 36:08.080]  introduced the truth about Israel to her. Thankfully, she's no longer a Zionist.
[36:08.880 --> 36:16.720]  Well, good. And, you know, and that's the thing, is that it's really a blessing to redirect your
[36:16.720 --> 36:24.240]  focus away from the world and from politics to the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's the bad thing
[36:24.240 --> 36:33.680]  about this, that this heresy is exploding. And it explodes because, yes, people, our tendency is to
[36:33.680 --> 36:43.360]  be focused on the world in the wrong way. You know, it takes people out of the spiritual fight. It
[36:43.360 --> 36:48.640]  takes us out of the fight opposing evil because how can you credibly oppose evil when you cheer
[36:48.640 --> 36:57.040]  for the murder of children and when you get so sectarian and racist about all this stuff?
[36:57.040 --> 37:03.520]  Because that is where the racism is, you know. On Rumble, Gard, good to see you, Gard. Liberty
[37:03.520 --> 37:11.680]  Conspiracy. You can find him every evening on Twitter. And I'm not sure what platform you're on
[37:11.680 --> 37:16.080]  besides Twitter right now so you can let us know. He says, I'm curious to hear more of David's
[37:16.080 --> 37:22.400]  thoughts about Judas sometime. Just to contemplate more on Good Friday and Easter. I'll give you my
[37:22.400 --> 37:32.400]  thoughts on The Chosen. I haven't watched it. We started watching the first season and as I said
[37:32.400 --> 37:37.120]  before, you know, it can be a good thing for some people who have never been exposed to it if they
[37:37.120 --> 37:43.760]  get the right stuff. But you never know how they are spinning you. And I thought about it at a very
[37:43.760 --> 37:49.600]  early age. I watched The Ten Commandments and that's a great movie. Very well made movie. Of course,
[37:49.600 --> 37:55.360]  Cecil B. DeMille's made it as a silent film as well as, you know, redoing it with Charlton Heston.
[37:56.000 --> 38:00.560]  But that fixed in my mind, you know, every time I think of Moses, I see Charlton Heston.
[38:01.520 --> 38:10.160]  I don't like that, right? There's a reason that God did not wait to have Christ come to earth
[38:10.960 --> 38:17.280]  when he didn't wait until he had TV and radio and film, right? Because he didn't want you to
[38:17.280 --> 38:24.080]  focus on the outside. You know, humans look at the outside. God looks at the inside. And so,
[38:24.080 --> 38:28.240]  and when you look at the Bible, it's very rare that it'll mention something about physical
[38:28.240 --> 38:32.160]  characteristics of somebody. I don't think there's any physical characteristics mentioned
[38:32.160 --> 38:38.320]  about Jesus or any of the disciples or apostles, anything like that. You have a description of
[38:39.200 --> 38:46.000]  Saul, King Saul, talking about how tall he was. You know, David is described as good looking and
[38:46.000 --> 38:49.760]  ruddy or red or whatever. I don't know if he had red hair or not. I mean, there was a mixture of
[38:49.760 --> 38:55.280]  a lot of people that got mixed into his family line. He could have had red hair. I don't know.
[38:55.280 --> 39:00.240]  But they don't really go into any detail like that because God is focused on the interior.
[39:01.440 --> 39:07.520]  People write books. What do we do? A good writer will go through all kinds of detail describing
[39:08.080 --> 39:14.880]  everything and all around to create a picture, a visual picture of everything. Describe the
[39:14.880 --> 39:17.920]  environment that's there, the homes that they're in, what they're driving, what they're wearing,
[39:17.920 --> 39:21.600]  all the rest of the stuff, what they look like and all of that. Names for everybody and all
[39:21.600 --> 39:28.000]  the rest of this. God is really more interested in his interaction with people. And so, you know,
[39:28.000 --> 39:32.480]  that's part of what I don't like about these things. You know, if the chosen gets people
[39:32.480 --> 39:37.920]  to read the Bible, great. And then they'll see how much they've changed it. But just don't go
[39:37.920 --> 39:41.680]  with those preconceptions that are there. As I always say, I've read the book and the book
[39:41.680 --> 39:46.160]  was better. I always heard that when people would make a movie out of a book. Yes, it definitely is
[39:46.160 --> 39:50.720]  better. The Lord of the Rings is better than even the movie. And I thought the first series of the
[39:50.720 --> 39:57.040]  first trilogy was pretty good, but the book is much better. And the Bible is way better and much
[39:57.040 --> 40:01.200]  better than what they did with the chosen. The reason I mention that is because Gard talked
[40:01.200 --> 40:05.920]  about Judas. They put in a whole backstory of Judas and they made Matthew autistic and all the
[40:05.920 --> 40:16.400]  rest of this stuff. And then what really turned me off about it is I saw the trailer for season two
[40:17.360 --> 40:22.640]  and they had Mary sitting with another woman and they're kind of writing Jesus's speech,
[40:22.640 --> 40:30.240]  the Sermon on the Mount, as a speech. It's like, wow. How hard can you get away from all that stuff?
[40:30.240 --> 40:34.800]  But you need to go back to the Ten Commandments. Even the extent that everybody still shows a
[40:34.800 --> 40:41.040]  burning bush, right? But if you read the text, there was a man standing in it. Why is that never
[40:41.040 --> 40:46.720]  shown? And what is that about? You know, there's a man standing there with a Shadrach, Meshach and
[40:46.720 --> 40:55.200]  Abednego in the fiery furnace as well, wasn't it? One like unto the Son of Man. What is that about?
[40:55.200 --> 41:01.840]  So we miss a lot when we take that kind of approach to it, when we go for the visceral
[41:01.920 --> 41:13.360]  and we go for movies. Read the book. Read the book. Again, I don't plead with the case of
[41:13.360 --> 41:18.800]  celebrity converts. We never know what their situation is. But how many times have you heard
[41:18.800 --> 41:27.040]  people come back and say, well, I've been around Christians in church and my family and all this,
[41:27.040 --> 41:30.160]  but it wasn't until just now when they're 50 or 60 years old, they
[41:30.880 --> 41:34.480]  decide I'd read the Bible and they can't believe it. It's truly amazing when they read it.
[41:35.360 --> 41:40.320]  And it is truly an amazing book. And it's even more amazing when you match it up with the
[41:40.320 --> 41:47.760]  prophecies that are there that we can see having been fulfilled in Christ already.
[41:48.960 --> 41:52.080]  Rumble, Dougalogue, thank you for the tip. He says, thank you, David. You're way better
[41:52.080 --> 41:58.240]  at bringing God's word than Ken Copeland. Here's some gas for the tank. Well, thank you.
[42:00.320 --> 42:04.560]  That's faint praise, but thank you. I don't know that Ken does that at all.
[42:08.320 --> 42:13.520]  On Rumble, DG8, thank you for the tip. He said, David, Hagee takes money from Israel. He's fine
[42:13.520 --> 42:18.080]  with the gospel being banned in Israel. He also states no reason to tell Jews about Jesus. Just
[42:18.080 --> 42:22.880]  like Paul White, I guess, yeah. He says they'll all get a second chance and accept Jesus and
[42:22.880 --> 42:27.440]  his fraud. That's one of the biggest things, right? No, your chance right now, folks, is now.
[42:28.640 --> 42:35.680]  Now, Carpe diem. Seize the day. This is your chance. Christ is going to come back like a
[42:35.680 --> 42:40.480]  thief in the night. There are no second chances. You might die today in a car accident. There's
[42:40.480 --> 42:49.120]  no second chances. Don't waste that time. Rumble, do not obey. Thank you for the tip.
[42:49.680 --> 42:55.360]  He says, thou shalt not kill. Exodus 20, yeah. They pick and choose what they want.
[42:56.320 --> 43:02.080]  Okay, Guards Liberty Conspiracy is also on Rumble, so Rumble and Twitter. Mel Gibson
[43:03.440 --> 43:09.600]  responded to a guest that Tucker Carlson had on, former Congressman Kurt Weldon. He talked about
[43:09.600 --> 43:13.600]  a lot of different things. He talked about how the CIA would kill people with rapid cancer,
[43:13.600 --> 43:19.280]  and it's like, well, what do you think about that jab? Yeah, I know it came from the CIA and
[43:19.280 --> 43:24.720]  intelligence communities and that type of thing as well. But, you know, what about the turbo cancer?
[43:25.360 --> 43:30.240]  Does that count? I know they give people, you know, they have a lot of different ways to
[43:30.240 --> 43:35.600]  assassinate people, make it look the other way. But what about the mass murder of the jab that
[43:35.600 --> 43:42.080]  we know about? You want to talk about that? Anyway, so he went on with Tucker Carlson,
[43:43.200 --> 43:46.560]  and he was talking about one of the things he talked about was 9-11. Well,
[43:46.560 --> 43:51.360]  Mel Gibson shared a clip where they were talking about it, and then commented,
[43:53.120 --> 43:59.680]  Mel Gibson did, he said, three buildings collapsed as if they were programmed to do so. Not two,
[43:59.680 --> 44:05.120]  but three. To this day, nobody has explained how Building 7 fell, even though no plane hit it.
[44:06.000 --> 44:09.600]  He said the towers were designed to withstand airplane impacts. That's right, they were designed
[44:09.600 --> 44:15.440]  to withstand a contemporary commercial Boeing, you know, 757 or whatever, hitting it when they
[44:15.440 --> 44:20.880]  made it. That was part of the building code, and it wasn't a theory because the Empire State Building
[44:20.880 --> 44:25.840]  had been, back in the day, hit by a plane. So they said, well, that could happen again, and you're
[44:25.840 --> 44:33.840]  going to have to design this to withstand an impact from a contemporary airliner. So Mel Gibson
[44:33.840 --> 44:38.720]  said, so what really happened that day, and why is no one allowed to talk about it? Because,
[44:38.720 --> 44:43.520]  you know, Tucker Carlson said he wasn't allowed to talk about it, and he didn't talk about it.
[44:43.520 --> 44:47.360]  As a matter of fact, Tucker Carlson wouldn't let people, when he had people on his show,
[44:47.360 --> 44:52.560]  he wouldn't let them show the pictures that they had. Take a look at how these buildings are just
[44:52.560 --> 44:59.680]  falling in freefall, that type of thing. I had somebody who'd sent me a song, and I've, it's on
[44:59.680 --> 45:04.720]  a computer that I can't, still haven't been able to get data off of for a while, and some disk drives
[45:04.720 --> 45:13.440]  that I've lost the cabling. You know, that's the really grinding thing about this. You've got a
[45:13.440 --> 45:18.560]  lot of data, I've got a lot of data, I've got a lot of footage that I shot at Colonial Williamsburg,
[45:18.560 --> 45:26.240]  that was really good footage that I shot. And on this film footage that I shot, 24 frames,
[45:26.480 --> 45:33.520]  I like the 24 frames, it looks cinematic. And so it was some of the early cameras that started,
[45:33.520 --> 45:39.600]  you know, single lens reflex cameras that were doing video, the Nikon D90, I think, was what we
[45:39.600 --> 45:45.680]  had. And anyway, I've got a lot of great footage, I'd love to use this B-roll here, but I can't get
[45:45.680 --> 45:50.240]  it on the data, I can't get the disk because I don't have the cabling. These are old disks,
[45:50.240 --> 45:56.720]  I can't find that. It's not the cabling, but it's the power cord for that particular group of disks.
[45:56.720 --> 46:05.120]  Anyway, the, I got off on this tangent. He says, enough with the fear, it's time for the truth about
[46:05.120 --> 46:09.680]  9-11, about history, about all of us. Oh, I was going to talk about the music that I couldn't get
[46:09.680 --> 46:16.640]  to. Guy sent us a thing and he had, I used it on the old show, but I don't have access to that
[46:16.640 --> 46:20.880]  music now because of the disk. That's why I got onto that. And what it was, he just kept repeating,
[46:21.680 --> 46:26.000]  three buildings, two planes, three buildings, two planes, three buildings, two planes.
[46:26.000 --> 46:29.600]  But it was a good song, you know, it wasn't repetitive, it wasn't a rap song, it was a
[46:29.600 --> 46:35.920]  good song. And, but that was the emphasis. Three buildings, two planes, do the math, right?
[46:37.040 --> 46:45.200]  But here's the situation, right? We have, he says, why, it's time for the truth. And, you know,
[46:45.200 --> 46:50.560]  we need to have the truth about 9-11. Well, you think you're going to get it from Trump?
[46:51.520 --> 46:54.800]  Rudy Giuliani was part of the cover-up, a big part of the cover-up.
[46:55.840 --> 47:03.760]  You got Howard Leutnik, who knew not to go to work that day, right? These are Trump's closest
[47:03.760 --> 47:11.600]  friends and advisors. And so, you know, he says, oh, we got to have people who are people of
[47:11.600 --> 47:20.160]  integrity. So, Kurt Weldon said, Trump needs to appoint people of impeccable integrity
[47:20.160 --> 47:24.000]  to a commission that would study the facts. Yeah, maybe he could get Rudy and Leutnik to do that.
[47:24.640 --> 47:29.120]  Maybe he could get Gina Haspel, that person of integrity, who tortured people, covered up
[47:29.120 --> 47:36.080]  the torture, and then used the lies from that torture to lie us into the war with Iraq. People
[47:36.080 --> 47:43.920]  of integrity, impeccable integrity and character. I don't see them around Trump, do you? I don't see
[47:43.920 --> 47:48.640]  anybody like that around Trump. Weldon dismissed the idea of a conspiracy theorist. He said, you
[47:48.640 --> 47:54.720]  know, what gets me as reporters who call people conspiracy theorists? Well, that's all the CIA does.
[47:55.760 --> 48:00.240]  They're the ones who create the conspiracies. He says, as a matter of fact, they have whole courses
[48:00.240 --> 48:05.040]  for their agents on how to make people look like they are conspiracy theorists.
[48:06.880 --> 48:17.360]  Yeah, what was it? When Pompeo was there, he said, I went to West Point, they told us we don't steal,
[48:17.360 --> 48:23.200]  cheat, or tolerate people do. He said, then I went to the CIA, and they had classes on all those
[48:23.200 --> 48:30.160]  things. You know, they also had classes on coups and all the rest of this as well. Thomas Massey
[48:30.160 --> 48:34.880]  talked a little bit, and you want to talk about people of integrity, you're not going to find
[48:34.880 --> 48:38.320]  too many of them in Congress. If they're in Congress, they will be marginalized,
[48:39.120 --> 48:49.440]  pushed to the side, or pushed out. Thomas Massey gave an example of why Congress does nothing
[48:49.440 --> 48:55.920]  and why it is so corrupt. Like a lobbyist can't buy me food. When I can go to lunch,
[48:56.480 --> 49:02.000]  pick up the tab, and the lobbyist can write me a $5,000 check to my campaign,
[49:02.000 --> 49:08.800]  then my campaign can pay for the food. They've created this rule to say that lobbyists can't
[49:08.800 --> 49:13.280]  buy you food, but what good does it do when the lobbyist can give you the money and you buy the
[49:13.280 --> 49:20.480]  food? And that's common practice? Yeah. It's a campaign expense at that point. Don't shoot the
[49:20.480 --> 49:29.360]  messenger. That's the way it works. I'm giving you an example of a rule that doesn't really work.
[49:29.920 --> 49:37.120]  You can put rules in place. What are some other things? The lobbyists, when they give you money,
[49:37.760 --> 49:42.320]  ostensibly, they're not giving you their money. They're not even giving you their corporation's
[49:42.320 --> 49:48.000]  money. They are giving you money from employees of that corporation who have pooled their money
[49:49.040 --> 49:55.440]  into a club or a group, and they've been persuaded maybe by their management that they should
[49:55.440 --> 50:01.760]  give a little back to this because their job would be more secure if they supported their
[50:01.760 --> 50:10.320]  lobbying efforts in D.C. You're actually, ostensibly, it's money from employees of that
[50:10.320 --> 50:15.360]  company that's being channeled to the lobbyists that's then given to you, and the lobbyists are
[50:15.360 --> 50:20.560]  supposedly representing the employees' interests. That's the workaround they have to keep
[50:20.560 --> 50:28.000]  corporations from giving members of Congress money directly. So fair enough, people argue
[50:28.000 --> 50:34.800]  for that case, whether it's a charity, whether it's even, frankly, a country, but there's a place
[50:34.800 --> 50:39.840]  where I think I would intervene and say- Please intervene. Yeah. The question is,
[50:39.840 --> 50:45.760]  does a foreign country have the right to be represented in my office? And I don't think
[50:45.760 --> 50:53.840]  they necessarily do, and so I run afoul. I haven't banned lobbyists, but I don't
[50:55.440 --> 50:58.240]  accept meetings when people come to lobby for foreign countries.
[51:01.040 --> 51:09.040]  Yeah. That's all shit right there. And he's also introduced bills to say, well, if you are
[51:09.920 --> 51:14.800]  a citizen of another country, you shouldn't be in the government. That would be people like
[51:14.800 --> 51:21.840]  Oz from Turkey and Rashida Tlaib from Palestine. That's what she's all about, waving the Palestinian
[51:21.840 --> 51:26.320]  flag when she wins. And of course, the people like the congressman, I don't even remember his
[51:26.320 --> 51:33.120]  name, who wore his Israeli defense force uniform to Congress. Yeah. Lots of them. Lots of them.
[51:33.680 --> 51:37.840]  Well, we're going to take a break, and when we come back, we're going to talk about the
[51:37.840 --> 51:43.520]  pronouncement from the White House. Innovations are saying that the American government can
[51:43.520 --> 51:49.920]  manipulate time and space. Is this hyperbole or not? We're going to take a quick break,
[51:49.920 --> 52:00.800]  and we'll be right back.
[52:13.680 --> 52:20.800]  Okay.
[52:24.000 --> 52:34.800]  Decoding the mainstream propaganda. It's the David Knight show.
[52:43.520 --> 52:52.800]  You are committing thought crime. Turn off this broadcast now.
[52:54.080 --> 52:58.800]  You are committing thought crime. Turn off this broadcast now.
[53:07.840 --> 53:12.800]  Commit thought crime.
[53:14.080 --> 53:17.440]  Yeah. Well, let's talk about some thought crimes here. The U.S. can manipulate time
[53:17.440 --> 53:25.440]  and space. This is, it possesses technology to do that. To manipulate, to bend time and space,
[53:25.440 --> 53:32.160]  said the White House innovations czar, Michael Kratzios. He delivered the remarks
[53:32.160 --> 53:38.080]  at a forum in Austin. It's called the Endless Frontiers Retreat. Just weeks after being
[53:38.080 --> 53:41.600]  confirmed as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,
[53:41.600 --> 53:49.520]  RT has the story here. Golden Age of America that Trump is talking about says the U.S. can
[53:49.520 --> 53:55.440]  emerge as a global leader by making smart choices regarding public funding and deregulating
[53:55.440 --> 54:02.480]  innovation. So, you know, our future, whether or not we're going to have a society move forward,
[54:02.480 --> 54:08.960]  it's all going to be determined on the government. How un-American is that? How un-Christian is that,
[54:08.960 --> 54:14.320]  right? That's not what this country is founded on. That's not what made America great. Not at all.
[54:15.440 --> 54:22.320]  That's what made communists and countries fail. That's what made any authoritarian country fail.
[54:23.040 --> 54:27.280]  For everybody to passively follow the government, boy, when you look at what happened in 2020,
[54:27.280 --> 54:31.040]  everybody just passively did what the government said. Churches shut down. Schools shut down.
[54:31.040 --> 54:35.840]  Stores shut down. Everything shut down. Because the government says so. And they're going to fix
[54:35.840 --> 54:39.520]  it. We're going to wait until they've got a solution and they're going to fix it. So let's
[54:39.520 --> 54:45.840]  wait for the government to lead us into a better world, right? No. No. No, no, no. But listen to
[54:45.840 --> 54:54.080]  the technological hubris here and the pride. This is his quote. Our technologies permit us to manipulate
[54:54.080 --> 55:00.960]  time and space. They leave distance annihilated. They cause things to grow and to improve
[55:00.960 --> 55:05.520]  productivity. So is that hyperbole? Is that a metaphor to say, well, we can manipulate time
[55:05.520 --> 55:11.920]  and space? I mean, maybe what he's just saying is that, you know, we can travel in airplanes very
[55:11.920 --> 55:16.240]  quickly and get places and stuff like that. Or we can use technology to communicate with people
[55:16.240 --> 55:21.120]  instantaneously over the internet. Maybe that's what he's saying. Or maybe he's saying something
[55:21.120 --> 55:25.760]  else. Because later in the speech, he said, we have to overcome the sclerosis of the state.
[55:26.560 --> 55:33.920]  We have to achieve scientific discoveries that will bend time and space, make more with less,
[55:33.920 --> 55:41.200]  and drive us further into the endless frontier. Well, I think, you know, whatever he means by that,
[55:42.160 --> 55:49.600]  you know, whether he's talking about some kind of, you know, super tech that is able to manipulate
[55:49.600 --> 55:54.560]  the time space continuum, or if he's just talking about technological leadership, this is the same
[55:54.560 --> 55:59.200]  kind of technological pride, same kind of technological hubris that we've seen from
[55:59.200 --> 56:04.240]  Marc Andreessen, who said, technology can solve our problems. And if technology creates a problem,
[56:04.240 --> 56:08.080]  then more technology can solve that problem. Technology can do everything. Technology
[56:08.880 --> 56:15.200]  is their god. They take pride in it. You know, we call them technocrats. Sometimes they call
[56:15.200 --> 56:22.400]  them techno brats because they act like children. But actually, they're techno babbles, techno
[56:22.400 --> 56:28.400]  babblers, right? They're like the people who built the Tower of Babel. They have that kind
[56:28.400 --> 56:36.400]  of arrogance, that kind of pride. And I think a good example of this is a kind of a, this is a guy
[56:36.400 --> 56:41.680]  who does a lot of contract work for some pretty big companies and pretty big networks and things
[56:41.680 --> 56:48.480]  like that. He puts this out as if it was a trailer for something that is coming up, but he really did
[56:48.560 --> 56:55.840]  capture the essence of what these techno babblers, the techno Tower of Babel people,
[56:55.840 --> 57:04.960]  really believe they're going to be able to do. He calls it engineer Earth, or we could say geoengineering.
[57:07.520 --> 57:09.920]  He says, we have to become planetary engineers.
[57:18.960 --> 57:23.680]  But technology gives us powers that no other species has ever known.
[57:25.280 --> 57:29.840]  If we wield them properly, we could engineer a planet beyond our wildest dreams,
[57:31.440 --> 57:34.640]  one that even outlives its natural lifespan.
[57:34.640 --> 57:43.280]  What new wonders will we build?
[57:46.080 --> 57:54.080]  We see gigantic cities and orbiting toroids. Our powers might surprise us. We can do anything. We
[57:54.080 --> 58:01.920]  are gods, right? Oh, this person with a thing right there. Future is ours to build.
[58:05.200 --> 58:08.960]  Engineering Earth. Boy, isn't that the spirit of the Tower of Babel? Isn't that the spirit
[58:08.960 --> 58:16.000]  of these technocrats in and around the White House? I think it really is. Yeah,
[58:16.000 --> 58:20.080]  the name of the guy that does that is melody sheep dot com melody sheep. He's got,
[58:20.640 --> 58:26.560]  does really good work. But that's a worldview that I do not support, obviously. One of pride
[58:26.560 --> 58:30.720]  and arrogance. Trump himself has recently alluded to advanced technologies that have not been
[58:30.720 --> 58:37.840]  revealed to the public. And we know that, right? I've always said it's a big mistake to underestimate
[58:37.840 --> 58:43.440]  the technology of these people. And it's a big mistake to overestimate their ethics and morality.
[58:45.280 --> 58:48.960]  Last week, he claimed China would hesitate to escalate trade tensions with the US,
[58:48.960 --> 58:54.000]  partly due to the existence of secret weapons in the American arsenal. He said,
[58:54.000 --> 58:59.120]  we have weaponry, said Trump, that nobody has any idea what it is. And it's the most powerful
[58:59.120 --> 59:04.960]  weapons in the world that we have. More powerful than anybody, even, not even close, he said.
[59:04.960 --> 59:09.840]  Oh, you can look at this as just a bunch of, you know, typical Trump boasting.
[59:11.280 --> 59:17.440]  But they do have technology that we have not seen. I think we saw the effects of it on 9-11,
[59:17.440 --> 59:25.200]  but that's another story. AI, says Russia, can replace half of Russia's civil servants,
[59:26.160 --> 59:32.640]  says the Minister for Digital Development. This is the same kind of stuff that Elon Musk is doing.
[59:32.640 --> 59:39.040]  All the governments of the world, they want a world government, and all of them want to replace
[59:39.040 --> 59:45.760]  bureaucrats with AI and robots. They want to replace their armies with AI and robots.
[59:46.560 --> 59:50.320]  Why is that? Well, because you never know if somebody's going to blow the whistle on them,
[59:50.320 --> 59:54.640]  or if somebody's going to throw a monkey wrench into their plans. They want to have
[59:54.640 --> 59:58.880]  fewer humans to do that. They want to have everything under their control. They want to
[59:59.840 --> 01:00:03.920]  have more control if they can have more centralization. This is really about
[01:00:03.920 --> 01:00:09.440]  minimizing government bureaucrats and maximizing governance through AI.
[01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:16.960]  So Russia, says this RT article, could, says the Digital Development Minister, could potentially
[01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:22.080]  replace at least half of its civil servants with AI. He said, I believe AI can certainly replace
[01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:27.680]  half, possibly even more. Putin said the country should be, quote, a leader not only in creation,
[01:00:27.680 --> 01:00:32.240]  but also in the scale of implementation, the introduction of artificial intelligence in
[01:00:32.240 --> 01:00:39.200]  every single sphere of our lives. To lie to people, to be the authority that can convince them to spy
[01:00:39.200 --> 01:00:43.840]  on them, to see if they're believing it, and the rest of this, right? Government reports indicate
[01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:48.960]  that Russia employs over three million public servants across the governance, security,
[01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:56.000]  and social services. In other words, everything but the military, okay? They said that works out to
[01:00:56.000 --> 01:01:10.480]  160 public servants for every 10,000 citizens. Well, you know, we have a tremendous bureaucracy
[01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:16.400]  as well. When I look at Russia, they have three million bureaucrats. The U.S. has 2.7 million
[01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:26.160]  bureaucrats for a population of 347. That works out to 128 bureaucrats for each person.
[01:01:27.600 --> 01:01:35.200]  That's more than Russia, 0.7%. And when you throw in all the bureaucrats at the state and local level,
[01:01:35.760 --> 01:01:42.160]  the number that I found for state and local employees is 19.6 million. So you add to that
[01:01:42.160 --> 01:01:48.720]  the 2.7 million federal employees that are not part of the military comes up to 15.5 million.
[01:01:48.720 --> 01:01:53.600]  We got a, you know, six and a half percent of our population works for the government.
[01:01:55.200 --> 01:02:01.600]  And they want to move them over to AI. Now, I've talked in the past about AI agents.
[01:02:02.240 --> 01:02:08.240]  What we've seen so far from AI is basically the chat programs that are going through and
[01:02:08.240 --> 01:02:13.520]  collating information and that you can query, not always trust because they hallucinate,
[01:02:13.520 --> 01:02:17.760]  that type of thing. But there's something else that is coming, which is an AI agent.
[01:02:19.120 --> 01:02:26.720]  It operates and can do tasks. It operates much more at a much higher level. And you can give it
[01:02:26.720 --> 01:02:33.840]  some abstract tasks to do and it can work out the individual steps to do it. And now we have several
[01:02:33.840 --> 01:02:40.240]  companies. This is an article from Coin Telegraph. Your AI digital twin can take your meetings and
[01:02:40.240 --> 01:02:46.240]  can comfort your loved ones when you die, it says. And we got several companies that are working on
[01:02:46.240 --> 01:02:50.800]  that. If artificial intelligence could stand in for you, if it could take your meetings,
[01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:54.880]  if it could answer your emails, if it could even comfort your loved ones long after you're gone,
[01:02:54.880 --> 01:03:01.120]  would you let it? They said that's no longer a hypothetical question. A new class of startups
[01:03:01.120 --> 01:03:08.240]  is building digital twins using AI agents. AI replicas of real people that act, speak,
[01:03:08.240 --> 01:03:13.680]  and remember just like their human counterparts. And this story really kind of talks about two
[01:03:13.680 --> 01:03:22.560]  different aspects of this. One of them is basically cloning you and what you believe. In other words,
[01:03:22.560 --> 01:03:28.240]  training it to respond as you would respond, to see the world as you would see the world and that
[01:03:28.240 --> 01:03:35.040]  type of thing. The other one is talking about actually the AI agency where you would have it
[01:03:35.040 --> 01:03:40.160]  do tasks for you and relieve you of all the mundane things that you do on a regular basis.
[01:03:41.120 --> 01:03:46.880]  So it said a new class of startups is starting digital twins, AI replicas of real people that
[01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:52.240]  act, speak, and remember just like their human counterparts. There is a serious attempt to
[01:03:52.240 --> 01:03:58.800]  capture human essence and machine form with real world use cases and profound cultural implications.
[01:04:00.240 --> 01:04:07.440]  Well, to capture the human essence, what is that really? As we said, these post-humanists
[01:04:07.440 --> 01:04:10.880]  that are out there, these people who talk about singularity, how they're going to merge with
[01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:18.080]  machines, it's like how they're going to transfer their essence into some kind of a robot or
[01:04:18.080 --> 01:04:22.560]  something so that they can, quote, live forever. I said, well, you don't even know what you are if
[01:04:22.560 --> 01:04:32.240]  you think that. You can't transfer your spirit in there. You are more than a collection of memories
[01:04:32.240 --> 01:04:37.600]  or electrical impulses. Somebody can make a copy of you and that's a big part of what they're
[01:04:37.600 --> 01:04:42.320]  talking about here, is making a copy of people. There is a company in South Korea that is called
[01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:49.040]  Re-Memory and they're pioneering the concept of allowing bereaved families to
[01:04:51.040 --> 01:04:56.160]  have, to speak to a hyper-realistic AI version of their deceased loved one.
[01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:03.440]  And Deep Brain AI is the company behind the service. They called it a tool for healing.
[01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:11.600]  Critics have called it grotesque. Dan Thompson, founder and CEO of a company called Sensei,
[01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:15.360]  didn't set out to build a startup. He was actually writing a book. He said,
[01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:21.040]  I'd hit my head. I'd lost my memory. That experience struck me with the fear of disappearing.
[01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:28.720]  That's a weird way to look at it. Sensei creates AI replicas of individuals. Thompson calls them
[01:05:28.720 --> 01:05:34.640]  virtual humans or personas. Now this has become a thing and they're just referred to them as
[01:05:34.640 --> 01:05:43.040]  sonas. Sonas. They've been trained using documents, videos, interviews, emails, and more.
[01:05:43.680 --> 01:05:47.600]  They don't just sound like you, they act on your behalf. He said, I've had people interact with
[01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:54.320]  my replica for hours on Telegram and not realize that it wasn't me. He said it's 90 to 95 percent
[01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:59.760]  indistinguishable. So they're sonas, they're replicas, are embedded into apps, websites,
[01:05:59.760 --> 01:06:04.960]  devices, and they learn continuously. One interesting aspect is that the digital replica
[01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:11.120]  can continue to grow and evolve once the training is over. If a replica evolves after death though,
[01:06:11.120 --> 01:06:16.400]  is it still you? You know, it's kind of interesting. It makes me, when I see this,
[01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:21.680]  it makes me think of the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve.
[01:06:22.560 --> 01:06:30.240]  And, you know, they've got the baby is making the journey from Krypton to Earth. And as he's in
[01:06:30.240 --> 01:06:40.080]  there, his father, Marlon Brando, or at least a persona, a sona of him, right, is interacting
[01:06:40.080 --> 01:06:43.520]  and talking to the baby, answering questions, training the baby, and all the rest of this stuff.
[01:06:44.080 --> 01:06:50.480]  And that's basically what their idea is. It is to create a replica of you
[01:06:51.360 --> 01:06:58.240]  that would be able to interact, be interactive, but it would interact with people and by imitating
[01:06:58.240 --> 01:07:08.400]  you. Ben Goertzel is the chief AI advisor of a company called Twin Protocol. Ben Goertzel is,
[01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:14.160]  as they call him, an AI luminary. He's somebody that everybody in the AI industry really likes.
[01:07:14.160 --> 01:07:17.920]  When I interviewed Hugo de Gares multiple times, he said, you know, you really need to talk to my
[01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:24.080]  friend, Ben Goertzel. It's like, well, you know, Hugo was something of a skeptic about this stuff,
[01:07:24.080 --> 01:07:31.760]  right? He was the opposite of Ray Kurzweil, and he was skeptical that this may not all turn out
[01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:37.840]  too good, right? But Ben Goertzel was, but he was still, you know, pushing AI, still going to do it,
[01:07:37.840 --> 01:07:44.560]  and like all of his scientific friends, even though he thought he was creating a god-like
[01:07:44.560 --> 01:07:48.720]  superintelligence and that there was a good chance that it would kill us all,
[01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:54.800]  he still wanted to do it. Ben Goertzel was even more into that, so I never did interview Ben
[01:07:54.800 --> 01:08:01.280]  because I didn't want to push that. But, you know, it was, Ben Goertzel was behind the company that
[01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:06.880]  made, and you've seen the picture, I've shown it as well in the past, was some female robot that
[01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:12.880]  they had there in Saudi Arabia that was, it didn't really have all that impressive and animatronics,
[01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:18.160]  wasn't all that much different from a Disney thing or something, but it was interactive,
[01:08:18.160 --> 01:08:24.480]  and they gave it citizenship in Saudi Arabia. Mohammed bin Salman did to show how trendy and
[01:08:24.480 --> 01:08:29.680]  progressive they are, that they've got a robot, they made the robot the first citizen of a country.
[01:08:30.240 --> 01:08:34.400]  Well, that was Ben Goertzel who was behind that, but he's also there with Twin Protocol,
[01:08:34.400 --> 01:08:41.120]  a company that focuses on vaults, which are curated data sets of your books, your lectures,
[01:08:41.120 --> 01:08:46.640]  your videos, your voice memos. You know, you've got about 6,000 hours of my stuff, you know.
[01:08:49.280 --> 01:08:54.480]  Usually create one of those things. An AI layer that captures your tone, your style, your diction,
[01:08:54.480 --> 01:08:58.480]  your intent, an interactive version of you that responds with your knowledge and in your voice.
[01:08:59.440 --> 01:09:05.920]  An AI twin isn't about perfect replication, they said, it's about purpose. It's about legacy
[01:09:05.920 --> 01:09:11.920]  conversations, professional coaching. Curation matters, they said. Your AI twin, however,
[01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:16.880]  when we talk about the agents, it might be your calendar assistant, it might be your family
[01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:22.880]  archivist, your lifelong productivity partner. It could become a tool of self-reflection, they said.
[01:09:24.320 --> 01:09:29.120]  Your twin can actually show you insights about yourself. It's like a mirror, but smarter.
[01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:33.440]  Wow. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the smartest of them all?
[01:09:34.560 --> 01:09:39.920]  Not you, dummy. You're asking me questions. I'm just AI. You start seeing patterns, though,
[01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:45.760]  in your own thinking if you do this, they said. And it also is set up to work with
[01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:52.240]  the Singularity Net ecosystem, if that's what I'm saying. These people are fully on board with
[01:09:52.240 --> 01:10:00.320]  transhumanism, posthumanism, cyborgs, and all the rest of this stuff. It is a very evil secular
[01:10:00.320 --> 01:10:05.520]  movement. Users maintain control over their vaults, over their replicas, right down to their ability
[01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:11.440]  to shut it all off. It's integrated within the blockchain to verify the source of all training
[01:10:11.440 --> 01:10:19.280]  data. In a world of deep fakes, provenance is power. Provenance, in other words, who created it,
[01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:26.640]  and I haven't talked about it for a while, but Coalition for Content Provenance and Authentication,
[01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:33.440]  the CCPA. I refer to it as the Chinese Communist Party of America, but that's a coalition that's
[01:10:33.440 --> 01:10:39.680]  put together by hardware and software groups. We had ARM and the processors that are part of that
[01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:46.080]  was the hardware. Intel was a part of it. Microsoft, as well as Adobe, on the software side,
[01:10:46.080 --> 01:10:52.800]  and then they team with government and media because they want to be able to put this on
[01:10:52.800 --> 01:11:02.800]  machines and stop you from creating written work, audio work, still picture memes, video, anything.
[01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:09.600]  If you are not an approved person, then they will have this Coalition for Content Provenance
[01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:14.960]  and Authentication. They're going to see who created it, and if you are not on their approved
[01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:18.560]  list of creators, you won't even be able to upload the stuff. That's how they stop things
[01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:27.200]  from going viral. That all fits into this stuff. Curated AI twins could serve as mentors, tutors,
[01:11:27.200 --> 01:11:32.320]  or interactive textbooks, bringing first-hand voices into classrooms or allowing students
[01:11:32.320 --> 01:11:39.280]  to ask questions to a digital version of a historical figure, like Superman interacting with
[01:11:40.000 --> 01:11:45.120]  his Marlon Brando father there. We're building trusted extensions. Your twin should be able
[01:11:45.120 --> 01:11:55.760]  to do work for you without ever forgetting that it's yours. Also, it makes me think of that comedy
[01:11:55.760 --> 01:12:03.200]  with Michael Keaton called Multiplicity, where he's able to go in and just clone physical copies
[01:12:03.200 --> 01:12:07.760]  of himself. They come out the same age and maturity as he is instantaneously,
[01:12:09.120 --> 01:12:14.320]  but they're helping him with work. It's basically an AI agent. What these people are doing, except
[01:12:14.320 --> 01:12:20.240]  their agent is going to work in the virtual world. His were actually physical. It was great. It
[01:12:20.240 --> 01:12:29.840]  freed him up for all kinds of stuff. Then his clone decided that it needed help, so it made
[01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:36.560]  a copy of itself. Just like if you've got a photocopier, a copy of a copy isn't quite as
[01:12:36.560 --> 01:12:42.000]  sharp, and his copy that he cloned really wasn't very sharp. That was where the comedy was coming
[01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:46.720]  in. Anyway, Harvard research suggests that a well-used personal assistant could recover up
[01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:53.040]  to 45% of a person's time, even if an AI twin gives you back 20%. That would be transformative,
[01:12:53.040 --> 01:12:59.200]  wouldn't it? What could you do with that time? Who could you spend with it? Again, that's the
[01:12:59.200 --> 01:13:03.440]  question that was answered by that and that they had a lot of fun with in that movie, Multiplicity.
[01:13:04.480 --> 01:13:08.080]  This is not about replacement. It's about reflection. It's about agency. It's about
[01:13:08.080 --> 01:13:14.640]  amplification. Twin Protocol's self-serve product is aiming to cost as little as $25 to get started.
[01:13:15.280 --> 01:13:21.440]  I bet it goes up pretty quickly. The platform's roadmap includes everything from AI TV,
[01:13:21.440 --> 01:13:25.920]  where you have two twins having conversations with each other in real time. So you can have
[01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:32.560]  two clones of yourself talking to each other, I guess. Or to holographic twin deployments. It's
[01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:38.160]  also creating a token-based economy with a twin token that can allow users to earn revenue by
[01:13:38.160 --> 01:13:44.400]  licensing interactions with their twin. It's kind of interesting when you look at this and you think
[01:13:44.400 --> 01:13:52.800]  about cloning and stuff. It'd be interesting to see that. They're talking about twin TV and stuff.
[01:13:52.800 --> 01:14:00.720]  I don't think that'd be very interesting. The way I do the program, I don't really know what
[01:14:00.720 --> 01:14:05.360]  I'm going to say before I come on the program. I've looked at some articles. I've got a general
[01:14:05.360 --> 01:14:09.840]  idea. But many times, let's just go off on another tangent. I don't know if that's good or bad.
[01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:15.760]  But I just try to be open to the spirits leading on things like that. I don't know
[01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:20.960]  where that comes into play with any of this stuff. It's all going to be scripted and programmed.
[01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:26.160]  It seems to me like somebody reading off a teleprompter. You want to have AI reading off
[01:14:26.160 --> 01:14:31.440]  of your teleprompters? That's all it's going to be able to do. It doesn't have a connection to God.
[01:14:31.440 --> 01:14:37.600]  It can't follow the leading of any of these things. Anyway, it's got also no concern about
[01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:43.680]  telling you a lie. It's seen over and over again from AI. The company is also developing clever
[01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:48.480]  ways to help everyday users. Imagine getting a text prompt each morning. Just one question
[01:14:48.480 --> 01:14:53.920]  about your life. And over time, you're training your twin without even realizing it, they said.
[01:14:55.440 --> 01:15:00.960]  Well, that's really what they said boomers and millennials are looking for. But the
[01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:05.840]  younger generation is looking for some kind of a personality extension that is not a replica
[01:15:05.840 --> 01:15:12.160]  of themselves. And this is a company called Cloney. They have a different take on this.
[01:15:12.240 --> 01:15:17.280]  Their avatars aren't meant to mirror humans in form or in tone. Indeed,
[01:15:18.160 --> 01:15:25.680]  they function as expressive agents of counterculture. And so it's kind of a surreal
[01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:33.120]  population. Our avatars are emotionally charged. They're not trying to look like you. They're built
[01:15:33.120 --> 01:15:37.680]  to explore identity, not to replicate it. I'm not really sure what that means. It sounds like a bunch
[01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:43.360]  of double speak. But anyway, they said they're being used in brand campaigns now though,
[01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:50.720]  in music videos. Influencers are using these things. Doing it for digital storytelling. Each
[01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:56.720]  avatar has a unique voice of visual aesthetic. Some interact with fans, others represent values
[01:15:56.720 --> 01:16:02.000]  or products. Their goal is to create an autonomous society of digital beings that reflect the cultural
[01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:07.200]  realities of a new generation. So they're going to do this. They're going to use, you know,
[01:16:07.200 --> 01:16:17.280]  very attractively drawn or created women and even men, you know, to sell you products.
[01:16:18.080 --> 01:16:21.680]  And you're already seeing a lot of this on YouTube. People put up stuff and they'll use
[01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:27.680]  a different voice. They don't use their face. You know, they have some kind of an AI character
[01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:33.200]  that is speaking. The most distinctive contribution is philosophical rejection of the idea that AI
[01:16:33.200 --> 01:16:37.600]  twins have to be human-like at all. We're not building nostalgia machines. We're building
[01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:44.720]  future identities. So they said it's kind of interesting to see the generational divide.
[01:16:45.680 --> 01:16:53.360]  Millennials and boomers are looking at realism, the gen z and alpha. The people are leaning into
[01:16:54.000 --> 01:16:58.800]  what they call multiplicity with all this. A digital twin movement. The philosophical
[01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:03.760]  questions. Who owns your likeness? Who gets to train it? Should your avatar comfort your
[01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:10.000]  grandchildren? Or should it just organize your inbox? Isn't technology wonderful?
[01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.720]  Don't you just love all the wonderful things that it's bringing to us?
[01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:33.040]  A lifetime of unending joy. We have an abundance of attractions so captivating,
[01:17:33.040 --> 01:17:38.560]  you'll wonder how you ever lived without them. Let's take a look, shall we? Take a ride on the
[01:17:38.560 --> 01:17:43.920]  cosmic carnival. Let go of decisions and let the carnival choose each thrill for you.
[01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:52.640]  Simply sit back and soak in fun. As you traverse our radiant metropolis, bring our latest gizmo,
[01:17:52.640 --> 01:17:57.840]  the mood on the go. With the swipe of a thumb, alter your mood instantly and experience any
[01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:02.080]  emotion you wish. You can also use it to instantaneously replace your companion if
[01:18:02.080 --> 01:18:06.640]  things go south. How convenient. And our most popular attraction,
[01:18:09.120 --> 01:18:14.800]  the dream machine. Relive your most cherished moments in vivid, extraordinary detail.
[01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:20.160]  No need to cling to old photos. Live in the past forever.
[01:18:22.800 --> 01:18:27.680]  You might be wondering, what's the cost for such a paradise? Well, dear viewer, some prices
[01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:36.080]  aren't paid in gold or silver. We only ask you for one thing. Your identity will need the very
[01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:41.520]  core of who you are. It's a small price for a lifetime of unending joy, don't you think?
[01:18:44.080 --> 01:18:48.240]  And no need to fear crime or violence. We'll always keep an eye on you
[01:18:48.240 --> 01:18:53.360]  for your safety.
[01:18:55.600 --> 01:19:03.680]  Yeah, for your safety. Yeah, that's an excellent piece. That's a YouTube channel called AZE
[01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:12.320]  Alter. AZE Alter. Yeah, that's the fastian bargain that they want people to make with them,
[01:19:12.320 --> 01:19:18.640]  isn't it? Well, you know, when we look at these techno brats, it's just come out that Musk wants
[01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:27.840]  to, quote, seed the earth with a legion of high IQ babies. He sees a looming demographic apocalypse,
[01:19:27.840 --> 01:19:32.080]  says the report from Wall Street Journal. An investigation by the Wall Street Journal focused
[01:19:32.080 --> 01:19:39.280]  on what it described as a harem drama surrounding Musk. He's had at least 14 known children with
[01:19:39.280 --> 01:19:44.320]  four different women, although the actual number could be much higher. I guess he sees himself as
[01:19:44.320 --> 01:19:50.800]  a patriarch of a new technocracy, right? His relationships with the women reportedly
[01:19:50.800 --> 01:19:56.160]  often involve hush money payments and heated parental disputes. At the heart of Musk's
[01:19:56.160 --> 01:20:03.280]  reproductive drive lies his, quote, dark view, unquote, of the future in which humanity could
[01:20:03.280 --> 01:20:12.240]  perish as a species due to poor demographics. The Wall Street Journal says he is driven to correct
[01:20:12.240 --> 01:20:17.040]  the historic moment by helping to seed the earth with more human beings of high intelligence,
[01:20:17.040 --> 01:20:24.080]  you know, people like him. That's what we need is more Elon Musk's. Maybe we do. I don't know.
[01:20:25.280 --> 01:20:33.120]  Ashley St. Clair, I think we need more people who have a different world perspective on this.
[01:20:33.120 --> 01:20:37.360]  Ashley St. Clair, one of the women that Musk allegedly had an affair with and who claims to
[01:20:37.360 --> 01:20:41.760]  be the mother of one of his children, showed the Wall Street Journal a message purportedly
[01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:48.880]  sent by the billionaire. She's gotten involved in a very kind of nasty back and forth. She seems to
[01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:57.440]  feel jilted by him in terms of his paternity acknowledgement. In it, Musk allegedly referred
[01:20:57.440 --> 01:21:03.840]  to his offspring as a, quote, legion, invoking the ancient Roman military units known for
[01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:08.480]  expanding imperial reach and insisted on making even more babies with other women,
[01:21:08.480 --> 01:21:14.240]  quote, to reach legion level before the apocalypse, he reportedly said. To do that,
[01:21:14.240 --> 01:21:21.360]  we'll need to use surrogates. In 2021, Musk said that the low birth rates were one of the biggest
[01:21:21.360 --> 01:21:26.800]  risks to civilization. If people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble.
[01:21:28.240 --> 01:21:30.800]  Well, let me just say, you know, I think it is interesting.
[01:21:32.080 --> 01:21:36.640]  When we do look at the declining, not even just declining, I mean, it's collapsing.
[01:21:37.200 --> 01:21:40.640]  Birth rates throughout Western civilization are collapsing, and there's a lot of different
[01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:46.480]  aspects to it. There are social and spiritual aspects to the fact that people don't want to
[01:21:46.480 --> 01:21:52.000]  have children. And of course, there's physical aspects to it. You know, the pollutants that are
[01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:59.040]  in our food and our drugs and the COVID shot, you know, significantly reducing
[01:22:00.320 --> 01:22:06.480]  the pregnancies of women who have gotten shot. And so there's all these different aspects of it,
[01:22:06.480 --> 01:22:12.480]  but the, and a lot of those things are being done to us. And it's difficult for us to,
[01:22:13.600 --> 01:22:17.680]  you know, try to avoid taking the shot or whatever, but it's so pervasive in our
[01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:22.240]  environment, so pervasive in the food that we eat, it's difficult to do something about it.
[01:22:22.240 --> 01:22:25.200]  But the one thing that we can do about it is we can change our thinking about it.
[01:22:26.400 --> 01:22:31.120]  It's kind of interesting that Musk and the technocrats have a clear energetic vision
[01:22:31.120 --> 01:22:36.000]  of the future that they want to pursue. I don't share it. I think it's evil. I think it is secular,
[01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:43.280]  atheist, opposed to God and so forth. Why is it that Christians don't embrace that? You know,
[01:22:43.280 --> 01:22:49.280]  we look at times of renewal throughout the Bible. It's always spoken about God turning the hearts
[01:22:49.280 --> 01:22:54.800]  of the fathers towards the children. Our society has gone so far down the other road that we're
[01:22:54.800 --> 01:23:00.400]  going to even have to have the hearts of the mothers turn toward children. It's even,
[01:23:01.280 --> 01:23:08.320]  for the first time ever, we have women less interested in having children, less interested
[01:23:09.040 --> 01:23:16.000]  in having a marriage than we do men. That is what they have done with putting women into the
[01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:20.560]  workforce and telling them that that is their future. That's the only important and honorable
[01:23:20.560 --> 01:23:26.960]  thing that they can do is to work for a corporation. You know, don't work with your family. Don't serve
[01:23:26.960 --> 01:23:34.960]  your family. Don't create a unit there. No, you get absorbed by the corporate borg. That's where
[01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:40.080]  your fulfillment is going to lie. Now that is a lie. I mentioned this at the very end of the show
[01:23:40.080 --> 01:23:44.960]  yesterday. A number of U.S. adults don't want children. The number who don't want it has doubled
[01:23:44.960 --> 01:23:49.840]  over the past 20 years. They say we found the percentage of non-parents who don't want any
[01:23:49.840 --> 01:23:59.040]  children rose from 14% in 2002 to 29% in 2023. Michigan State University study. They refer to
[01:23:59.040 --> 01:24:04.160]  the people who don't want children. They refer to them as child free. They never want to have
[01:24:04.160 --> 01:24:12.640]  any children. The Bible refers to these people as lovers of self. Lovers of self. Of the more than
[01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:19.680]  42,000 participants who did not have children, 29% were child free. The number of people who
[01:24:19.680 --> 01:24:24.800]  would voluntarily forego having children far exceeded those who were unable to have children
[01:24:24.800 --> 01:24:33.360]  for biological reasons, which was 3.7%. So most people are choosing not to have children. Yeah,
[01:24:33.360 --> 01:24:40.640]  there are physical things in our environment that are harmful. That's about 4% of it. But 30% of it
[01:24:40.640 --> 01:24:46.640]  is people who have been poisoned. Their minds have been poisoned against it. And they don't
[01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:51.120]  realize what they're missing. I've known a lot of people like that. That to me is one of the
[01:24:51.920 --> 01:24:57.200]  saddest things about the time we live in. Just, yeah, it's hard to believe just so
[01:24:58.320 --> 01:25:02.720]  readily and willingly giving up on the greatest physical blessing that you can have.
[01:25:02.720 --> 01:25:09.280]  Yeah. And you know that because of being a father now. It is amazing, isn't it?
[01:25:09.280 --> 01:25:13.920]  It really is. Just getting to watch him grow and change day by day is incredible.
[01:25:13.920 --> 01:25:20.560]  And interact. He's a really sweet kid. I mean, when he looks at you, he gives you a big smile
[01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:23.120]  and everything. He's only about five months old. Is that it?
[01:25:23.120 --> 01:25:26.560]  Yeah, he'll be six months old on the sixth of next month.
[01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:34.480]  Yeah, and they miss out on all that stuff. As a matter of fact, we've got a lot of grumpy people
[01:25:34.480 --> 01:25:38.160]  who now want to ban pets for the climate as well. We'll talk about that in a minute. You know,
[01:25:38.160 --> 01:25:45.040]  you give up on children, on pets, on everything, but you've got your iPhone there. Isn't that
[01:25:45.040 --> 01:25:48.800]  great? That's there to fulfill you. I see so many people talking about,
[01:25:48.800 --> 01:25:52.320]  oh, I don't want kids because I want to travel. I want to see things.
[01:25:52.560 --> 01:25:58.560]  Mm-hmm. There's nothing you're going to see that's more beautiful than your own child smile.
[01:25:58.560 --> 01:26:04.560]  That's right. I can't even describe how sad that is to me. Just
[01:26:05.600 --> 01:26:13.120]  sad and pathetic and just so utterly lonely. That's right. Yeah, and you know, it is the
[01:26:13.120 --> 01:26:19.760]  kind of thing. People who like to travel, you know, I've met a lot of people, especially people
[01:26:20.720 --> 01:26:28.320]  typically seems to affect people from really big cities who frequently I've noticed are
[01:26:28.320 --> 01:26:34.400]  not cosmopolitan. They're very provincial. They've, in many cases, Karen is from New York,
[01:26:34.400 --> 01:26:39.440]  met so many of her friends who've never been out of New York. They've not even traveled through
[01:26:39.440 --> 01:26:44.800]  America, so they don't know what they're missing, right? And they have this really strange distorted
[01:26:44.800 --> 01:26:48.320]  perspective of what the rest of the world is like because they've never ventured out.
[01:26:48.320 --> 01:26:54.400]  And I think the same, you could say that to your travel buddies, you know, just you, you know,
[01:26:54.400 --> 01:27:00.000]  think how that has opened up your mind. Well, that's nothing compared to having a child
[01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:05.680]  and taking that journey. That opens you up to a lot more stuff that you have just decided that,
[01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:08.800]  well, I've already got everything that I need. I don't even need to try that.
[01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:14.640]  Especially in today's age where by travel, they usually just mean going somewhere and getting
[01:27:14.640 --> 01:27:20.160]  drunk in a different location. Yeah. They're not going somewhere to live in the culture
[01:27:20.160 --> 01:27:24.000]  or anything like that, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's what I think of travel. I mean, you know, when,
[01:27:24.000 --> 01:27:30.000]  when Karen and I got married. Go to the beach and get drunk there in Mexico or Spain or Italy. Yeah.
[01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:35.280]  That's a real good use of your time and money. Excellent work. Great planning. We decided for
[01:27:35.280 --> 01:27:41.440]  a lot less money than we would have spent to go to some resort or go on a cruise that I graduated
[01:27:41.440 --> 01:27:49.280]  in December. I didn't start until March. And so we got married in January and we went to the UK
[01:27:49.280 --> 01:27:54.880]  and went cheap. You know, I mean, we did everything that was free. We hardly had any money for eating
[01:27:54.880 --> 01:27:58.560]  even, but we stayed for a couple of months. And as a matter of fact, we were having such a good time.
[01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:06.880]  We extended it and things got really tight in terms of money, but we lived in the culture there
[01:28:06.880 --> 01:28:11.200]  for a couple of months. And that was really great. And, you know, went to a lot of free
[01:28:11.200 --> 01:28:16.080]  museums and things like that. But yeah, it was as opposed to, you know, something where you go to
[01:28:16.080 --> 01:28:20.560]  a resort where everything is just, and like you said, just get drunk or eat on a cruise or this
[01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:24.640]  or that. That's not necessarily, you're not learning anything. You're not really, you know,
[01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:30.400]  you're just, you're taking a vacation, but it's not like, I think of travel. I think of it as,
[01:28:31.120 --> 01:28:38.480]  as learning something anyway. From 2000 to 2022, the fertility rate in the US dropped from 2.06
[01:28:38.480 --> 01:28:46.400]  children per woman to only 1.67. Well below the replacement level of around 2.1 children. It
[01:28:46.400 --> 01:28:53.280]  wasn't even at the replacement level in 2000. And so, you know, that's the issue. It's not even the
[01:28:53.280 --> 01:28:57.680]  physical stuff. It's the other stuff. Well, we're going to take a quick break. And when we come back,
[01:28:57.680 --> 01:29:02.480]  we are going to talk a little bit about what the environmentalists have in mind for our
[01:29:04.080 --> 01:29:09.440]  four-legged friends. They don't like children. They don't like humans. They don't like cars.
[01:29:09.440 --> 01:29:21.200]  They don't like dogs and cats either. We'll be right back.
[01:29:39.440 --> 01:30:07.760]  You're listening to the David Knight show.
[01:30:09.440 --> 01:30:12.480]  Now welcome back. A comment from what we were talking about before from Rumble,
[01:30:12.480 --> 01:30:16.480]  on Rumble, from Atomic Dog. He says, my wife had an argument with her sister
[01:30:17.360 --> 01:30:21.040]  about Israel. The sister believes that God gave the land to the Jews and they have every right
[01:30:21.040 --> 01:30:26.320]  to wipe out Gaza. My wife just gave up. Well, you know, God has given them the land. He's taken
[01:30:26.320 --> 01:30:28.960]  them out of the land. He's given them the land. He's taken them out of the land. It seems like
[01:30:28.960 --> 01:30:36.800]  it's God's decision, not Netanyahu's decision. They were taken out of the land, not because
[01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:42.960]  they didn't have the best swords or spears or arrows or tanks or jets or whatever. They
[01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:47.920]  were taken out because God said you're going to be taken out. And having more of those things
[01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:56.640]  and killing more people is just kind of a prideful, faithless way to say that God is going to fulfill
[01:30:56.640 --> 01:31:02.640]  those things. Anyway, I want to talk before we get into the pets and the climate stuff,
[01:31:02.640 --> 01:31:09.760]  a little bit more about AI. OpenAI is secretly building a social network. They saw Musk doing
[01:31:09.760 --> 01:31:16.640]  that on X with Grok and they got to do it as well. But there's a reason that they're doing
[01:31:16.640 --> 01:31:21.200]  this kind of stuff. OpenAI has been secretly building its own social media platform,
[01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:28.480]  which The Verge reports is intended to resemble X. They said to a social media feed that revolves
[01:31:28.480 --> 01:31:34.960]  around chat GPT's new image generation capabilities, which they just recently upgraded
[01:31:34.960 --> 01:31:39.760]  significantly with the Gimbly style AI images and things like that that everybody is using.
[01:31:40.480 --> 01:31:46.080]  So they want to combine that into a social media thing. It sounds reminiscent of how X directly
[01:31:46.080 --> 01:31:52.240]  integrates Musk's Grok AI model into the website where it operates, both as a standalone chat bot
[01:31:52.240 --> 01:31:59.040]  while also being capable of responding directly to users' posts at their request. The Grok
[01:31:59.040 --> 01:32:03.840]  integration with X has made everyone jealous, especially how people create viral tweets by
[01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:10.640]  getting it to say something stupid. That's what it seems to be really good at. But I think there's
[01:32:10.640 --> 01:32:15.680]  another aspect of this that they're not talking about here, and that is the fact that the AI
[01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:20.640]  feeds on our conversations. It feeds on human content, even if it is stupid human content,
[01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:27.840]  like on social media, that still feeds on it. And it is constantly watching and learning from us.
[01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:32.880]  And whoever has the most access to people is one of the reasons why they want to shut down TikTok.
[01:32:34.480 --> 01:32:41.840]  And so all of them are competing to try to get humans to interact with their AI,
[01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:48.320]  to train their AI. That's the bottom line with all this stuff. They are watching, they are imitating,
[01:32:48.320 --> 01:32:53.280]  they're trying to clone us. And that's what this is all really about. Of course, it's also,
[01:32:53.280 --> 01:32:58.880]  from the government's perspective, using social media to propagandize us and then be able to
[01:32:59.600 --> 01:33:03.120]  get perfect feedback on whether or not we're buying the lies that they feed us.
[01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:07.840]  A former OpenAI employee rages against Sam Altman, said he is a person of low integrity
[01:33:08.320 --> 01:33:20.000]  and has jumped into a lawsuit that is there. This individual jumped ship, went to Anthropic,
[01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:27.840]  co-founded by former OpenAIers over AI safety and ethics concerns. Researcher Todor Markov
[01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:34.640]  is now claiming in a new legal filing that his ex-boss is essentially a really bad dude,
[01:33:34.720 --> 01:33:39.920]  says futurism. The root of Markov's complaint, as he explained it in his portion of a lengthy
[01:33:39.920 --> 01:33:45.760]  amicus brief that also includes statements from 11 other former OpenAI employees,
[01:33:46.560 --> 01:33:53.040]  the roots of it are that Altman's alleged lies about non-disparagement agreements
[01:33:53.840 --> 01:33:58.000]  that staffers are forced to sign early in their time at the company. Last year, the researcher
[01:33:58.000 --> 01:34:02.000]  discovered the existence of the clause that essentially made him and other departing employees
[01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:07.120]  give up their right to ever speak critically about OpenAI if they wanted to keep their vested
[01:34:07.120 --> 01:34:12.800]  equity in the multi-billion dollar former employer. During an all-hands meeting about
[01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:16.320]  the controversial clause, Altman claimed that he had no knowledge of the existence,
[01:34:17.040 --> 01:34:23.520]  only to be caught with egg on his face immediately after when Vox published leaked documents showing
[01:34:23.520 --> 01:34:29.600]  that he had signed off on it. Altman, he says, was, quote, a person of low integrity who had
[01:34:29.600 --> 01:34:35.920]  directly lied to employees about their restrictive non-disparagement agreements. This suggested to
[01:34:35.920 --> 01:34:40.720]  him that the CEO was very likely lying to employees about a number of other important
[01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:47.680]  topics, including its commitment to building safe artificial general intelligence. Well,
[01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:55.840]  of course, anybody can lie. And if there's a great deal of money involved, well, you've got people
[01:34:55.840 --> 01:35:00.400]  who will kill you for that money, as we have seen with the pharmaceutical companies and others.
[01:35:00.400 --> 01:35:04.560]  But there's now, you remember the figure robots? They were very impressive.
[01:35:05.440 --> 01:35:11.200]  Those are the ones where the guy is interacting with it and it talks like a California dude.
[01:35:11.200 --> 01:35:16.720]  Remember that? Oh, yeah, man. Okay, yeah. Okay, sure. Sure enough. Yeah, I'll do that. Remember
[01:35:16.720 --> 01:35:21.920]  that? Get me an orange or something like that. And it looks around and it finds the orange and
[01:35:21.920 --> 01:35:25.440]  hands it to him or puts it in the refrigerator or look at these things and figure out where they
[01:35:25.440 --> 01:35:29.680]  need to go. You know, you got a basket of items in front of you. Do some of them need to go in
[01:35:29.680 --> 01:35:35.040]  the refrigerator? Do they need to go in the cabinet and all that? And it was very impressive. It was
[01:35:35.040 --> 01:35:39.680]  a little bit of a lag there, but it was very impressive in terms of its fluidity of movement
[01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:45.840]  and its understanding of that. And so they're one of the big companies that is out there competing
[01:35:45.840 --> 01:35:52.880]  with Elon Musk and his optimist robots. And they all want to get into the factories to replace us.
[01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:58.560]  And it's huge. I talked about it the other day. There's a Chinese company that's doing it and
[01:35:58.560 --> 01:36:02.880]  they want to make sure they've got 5,000 robots this year because that's what Musk has said he's
[01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:07.360]  going to do is put 5,000 robots out into factories. So I said, we're going to do that too. We're going
[01:36:07.360 --> 01:36:16.160]  to match that goal. And so, you know, both that Chinese company and Elon Musk wants to get 5,000
[01:36:16.240 --> 01:36:24.560]  robots out there. Figure has worked with BMW and their car factory in South Carolina.
[01:36:25.520 --> 01:36:32.000]  And they said, their CEO said that they are already doing manufacturing work at BMW with
[01:36:32.000 --> 01:36:37.840]  that robot. But it appears that maybe that's not really what happened. The humanoid robotics
[01:36:37.840 --> 01:36:43.680]  industry just got hit with a bombshell. Figure AI, one of Silicon Valley's most hyped startups,
[01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:49.520]  is facing serious allegations of exaggerating its progress with BMW. And insiders are finally
[01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:54.720]  speaking out. A new investigative report from Fortune has exposed shocking discrepancies
[01:36:54.720 --> 01:37:00.720]  between Figure CEO Brett Adcock's public claims and what's actually happening inside BMW's
[01:37:00.720 --> 01:37:06.160]  Spartanburg, South Carolina factory. While Adcock has been telling investors and the media that a
[01:37:06.160 --> 01:37:12.960]  fleet of Figure 02 robots are performing end-to-end operations at the plant, BMW's own statements
[01:37:12.960 --> 01:37:19.200]  reveal a very different reality. What began as whispers in manufacturing circles has now exploded
[01:37:19.200 --> 01:37:24.000]  into a full-blown controversy that threatens to undermine the company's credibility just as it
[01:37:24.000 --> 01:37:30.320]  seeks to raise a staggering $1.5 billion in new funding at a $40 billion valuation, a figure that
[01:37:30.320 --> 01:37:35.920]  would place it above established giants like Ford Motor Company. At the heart of this growing scandal
[01:37:35.920 --> 01:37:41.520]  is a fundamental disconnect between what Figure AI's charismatic CEO Brett Adcock has been telling
[01:37:41.520 --> 01:37:46.800]  the world about his company's robots working in BMW's Spartanburg, South Carolina plant,
[01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:51.280]  and what multiple independent reports confirm is actually happening on the factory floor.
[01:37:51.920 --> 01:37:56.400]  The implications of this discrepancy extend far beyond one startup's growing pains.
[01:37:57.040 --> 01:38:01.680]  They strike at the very heart of the burgeoning humanoid robotics industry and raise uncomfortable
[01:38:01.680 --> 01:38:05.440]  questions about whether we're witnessing genuine technological breakthroughs or carefully
[01:38:05.440 --> 01:38:10.800]  orchestrated hype designed to separate investors from their money. The controversy came to a head
[01:38:10.800 --> 01:38:15.680]  when Fortune Tech correspondent Jason Del Rey decided to fact check a February LinkedIn post
[01:38:15.680 --> 01:38:21.360]  by Adcock that boldly declared Figure had a fleet of robots performing end-to-end operations at the
[01:38:21.360 --> 01:38:27.200]  BMW facility. This would represent a quantum leap for humanoid robotics, the kind of seamless
[01:38:27.200 --> 01:38:32.160]  integration into complex manufacturing processes that the industry has been promising for years
[01:38:32.160 --> 01:38:37.040]  but has consistently failed to deliver at scale. Del Rey's subsequent investigation
[01:38:37.040 --> 01:38:42.320]  revealed a far less impressive reality. According to BMW's own spokesperson,
[01:38:42.960 --> 01:38:48.160]  as of February the automaker was merely conducting off-hour tests with a single figure robot at any
[01:38:48.160 --> 01:38:54.080]  given time, with the machine performing just one basic task, retrieving metal sheets and placing
[01:38:54.080 --> 01:38:59.520]  them into fixtures in preparation for welding. This is about as far from end-to-end operations
[01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:04.880]  as one could imagine in automotive manufacturing. When pressed about the glaring discrepancy
[01:39:04.880 --> 01:39:11.760]  between Adcock's claims and BMW's account, the automaker declined to explain and instead directed
[01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:16.720]  all questions back to Figure's founder, who notably failed to respond to Fortune's inquiries.
[01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:21.360]  This stonewalling only served to heightened suspicions that something was amiss in what
[01:39:21.360 --> 01:39:25.440]  was being billed as one of the most significant humanoid robotics deployments to date.
[01:39:26.560 --> 01:39:31.760]  The Wall Street Journal soon followed with its own investigation, uncovering additional inconsistencies
[01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:38.400]  in Figure's narrative. Well, isn't that interesting? Isn't that special? You know,
[01:39:38.400 --> 01:39:45.840]  we've seen a similar thing with a car company that was called Nikolai, right, referring to Tesla.
[01:39:46.400 --> 01:39:54.880]  They had large 18-wheeler trucks that they were building and they were caught doing all kinds of
[01:39:54.880 --> 01:40:00.240]  fraudulent exhibitions. For example, you know, showing the truck that was supposedly operating
[01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:07.280]  when in fact it was just coasting downhill and many other things of that ilk. That company is
[01:40:07.280 --> 01:40:13.440]  now folded. It's got lawsuits and the government is coming after them for fraud. That was Nikola.
[01:40:13.440 --> 01:40:19.040]  Well, you know, the Figure robot is very impressive, but they were looking for a lot of money,
[01:40:19.040 --> 01:40:23.440]  as he pointed out. They weren't going to get funding that was going to be more than Ford
[01:40:23.440 --> 01:40:29.440]  Motor Company has. And so we see that as they're making these claims about what's going on with
[01:40:29.440 --> 01:40:34.800]  BMW. BMW doesn't want to say anything. They don't want to get involved in this, but their silence
[01:40:34.800 --> 01:40:39.760]  is deafening, isn't it? And it's the same type of thing. You've got some business reporters who
[01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:45.040]  were saying something doesn't add up here. It looks like they are hyping this in a way that's
[01:40:45.040 --> 01:40:50.800]  not true. So we see Sam Altman is hyping stuff like that to the federal government, telling them
[01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:56.400]  it's just too dangerous for people, everybody, to have access to this technology. It needs to be
[01:40:57.120 --> 01:41:02.640]  restricted to me and maybe one or two other people, right? And we need your money as well.
[01:41:02.640 --> 01:41:08.800]  We need government money. That's Sam Altman. We know about Elon Musk. We see what's happening
[01:41:08.800 --> 01:41:15.120]  with Figure robots. And now we have Nvidia, which is at the core of a lot of this stuff,
[01:41:15.120 --> 01:41:20.960]  their chip that is there, the US restricted exports of Nvidia chips that are used by
[01:41:21.040 --> 01:41:29.200]  China's deep seek AI. And so the Trump administration a couple of days ago told Nvidia
[01:41:30.320 --> 01:41:37.280]  that they could not export their powerful H20 chips to China. Nvidia said the restrictions
[01:41:37.280 --> 01:41:43.360]  would cost the company up to five and a half billion dollars. The H20 chip is not the most
[01:41:43.360 --> 01:41:49.760]  powerful product in Nvidia's inventory, but until now it has been the most powerful chip that Nvidia
[01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:57.760]  could legally sell to China. So what they're saying is that they would allow them to give
[01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:03.040]  a less powerful chip to China, but now they're restricting even that, even more so. Do you think
[01:42:03.040 --> 01:42:10.160]  that's going to work? The sensational debut of deep seek prompted Chinese tech companies to order
[01:42:10.800 --> 01:42:19.360]  more than $16 billion worth of H20 chips. Banning the H20 makes little sense to us,
[01:42:19.360 --> 01:42:25.600]  said an analyst speaking to investors. He said the H20 performance is low, well below
[01:42:25.600 --> 01:42:32.400]  already available Chinese alternatives. A ban essentially simply hands the Chinese AI market
[01:42:32.400 --> 01:42:39.760]  over to Huawei. So what he's saying is by not allowing, by putting a tariff, not even a tariff,
[01:42:39.760 --> 01:42:45.440]  but putting a ban on this, what you're doing is you're helping Huawei because now they've got a
[01:42:45.440 --> 01:42:48.960]  market. They don't have to compete with Nvidia, which has got better chips than them. So first
[01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:54.320]  you told them they can't put out their best chips. There's no restrictions on Huawei improving their
[01:42:54.320 --> 01:42:59.840]  stuff. And now you're going to reduce it even further. So you just basically handed over
[01:43:00.560 --> 01:43:06.880]  the Chinese market to Huawei and they will get stronger with this. Not only that, but hasn't
[01:43:06.880 --> 01:43:12.160]  50 years of drug prohibition shown us that you're not going to be able to stop that? If they wanted
[01:43:12.160 --> 01:43:17.280]  the Nvidia chips, as a matter of fact, not even the H20, but whatever it is that is more powerful
[01:43:17.280 --> 01:43:22.640]  than that. If the Chinese want the more powerful chips, they can get the more powerful chips.
[01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:28.880]  You can't say that, you know, when you look at one of the reasons that prohibition doesn't work,
[01:43:30.960 --> 01:43:35.920]  people would look at vice like alcohol prohibition and other things like that. And you would have,
[01:43:36.480 --> 01:43:41.280]  it's very easy to corrupt law enforcement and other people who would be enforcing that because
[01:43:41.280 --> 01:43:46.640]  they look at it and it's like, well, that's not hurting anybody, you know, or that's consensual,
[01:43:47.120 --> 01:43:52.560]  that's vice. Yeah, vice does hurt people, but they look at it as, well, that's not the same category
[01:43:52.560 --> 01:43:59.280]  as murder or even as theft. So yeah, if they want to pay me to let this product go through,
[01:43:59.280 --> 01:44:03.680]  you know, this is a marketplace of willing buyer, willing seller, you know, it's easy for them to
[01:44:03.680 --> 01:44:08.000]  rationalize that even if it is something that is harmful like fentanyl or whatever, they'll
[01:44:08.000 --> 01:44:12.800]  rationalize that and let it go. That's how it corrupts our government, our law enforcement,
[01:44:12.800 --> 01:44:15.680]  things like that. But when you get to something like a computer chip,
[01:44:17.200 --> 01:44:20.720]  they are really going to be saying, well, I don't really care if the Chinese have this
[01:44:20.720 --> 01:44:24.240]  computer chip and if you're going to give me some money on the side, I'll let this thing go through.
[01:44:24.800 --> 01:44:28.960]  Or they buy it in another country, you know, they buy it from another country.
[01:44:30.240 --> 01:44:34.480]  Same way that they were doing it the reverse of what they were doing their manufacturing,
[01:44:34.480 --> 01:44:40.080]  you know, they would do most of the manufacturing in China, then they would ship it over for final
[01:44:40.080 --> 01:44:44.160]  assembly or whatever in Vietnam and then Vietnam could sell it into the United States.
[01:44:44.960 --> 01:44:50.160]  All of this stuff about prohibition and restrictions of products and it just doesn't
[01:44:50.160 --> 01:44:54.960]  work. Practically, it doesn't work. And you can look at the market effects of this and how it's
[01:44:54.960 --> 01:45:00.640]  going to backfire right there. They've now helped the Chinese rather than hurting them.
[01:45:01.680 --> 01:45:08.080]  And so Nvidia is trying to suck up to the United States as the US is shutting down their ability
[01:45:08.080 --> 01:45:13.200]  to export a lesser chip, not their state of the art stuff. Nvidia announces, quote,
[01:45:13.200 --> 01:45:20.000]  the engines of the world's AI infrastructure will be built in America for the first time.
[01:45:20.960 --> 01:45:27.520]  So they're pledging their allegiance to America total AI infrastructure by Nvidia could total
[01:45:27.520 --> 01:45:34.640]  $500 billion over the next four years. And they may not be allowed to sell a lot of it to other
[01:45:34.640 --> 01:45:40.720]  people depending on Trump or whoever replaces them and their attitudes towards us. They said
[01:45:40.720 --> 01:45:45.360]  tens of gigawatt AI factories are expected to be built in the coming years at Nvidia.
[01:45:46.000 --> 01:45:51.440]  Manufacturing Nvidia AI chips and supercomputers for American AI factories is expected
[01:45:51.440 --> 01:45:55.440]  to create a massive number of jobs for robots
[01:45:59.120 --> 01:46:02.720]  who are going to create other robots. And then right after making that announcement
[01:46:03.360 --> 01:46:12.800]  as a company, the CEO of Nvidia flew to Beijing and told the Chinese officials there, quote,
[01:46:12.800 --> 01:46:18.560]  we grew up in China. That's the same type of thing you see with Elon Musk. They're not going
[01:46:18.560 --> 01:46:24.000]  to give up the Chinese market one way or the other. Nvidia CEO Jensen Wang boarded a private
[01:46:24.000 --> 01:46:29.120]  jet to Beijing shortly after the US Commerce Department announced a new export licensing
[01:46:29.120 --> 01:46:36.560]  requirement for the H-20 AI chips. Once there, Wang met with the head of a Chinese state-backed
[01:46:36.560 --> 01:46:41.760]  trade body where he reaffirmed Nvidia's commitment to the Chinese market despite
[01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:47.600]  a deepening trade war. Wang emphasized that China remains an important market for Nvidia
[01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:52.000]  and expressed hope for continued cooperation with Beijing that said we come from here.
[01:46:53.280 --> 01:46:56.560]  Well, there you go. How is this all going to work out? Who knows? But you know these guys,
[01:46:57.280 --> 01:47:00.160]  they'll do anything for money. It's the love of money. They have
[01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:08.400]  no loyalty to anything or to anyone. Well, we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
[01:47:26.560 --> 01:47:54.400]  Music.
[01:47:54.880 --> 01:47:58.240]  You're listening to the David Knight Show.
[01:47:58.640 --> 01:48:05.120]  Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
[01:48:06.480 --> 01:48:08.080]  He's Trumping the rain with his umbrella.
[01:48:08.080 --> 01:48:30.080]  Yeah, we're all trying to sing in the rain, the reign of Trump, R-E-I-G-N, yeah, we're
[01:48:30.080 --> 01:48:35.280]  singing in the rain about how we're going to manage with the uncertainty.
[01:48:35.680 --> 01:48:39.600]  You know, it was James Carville who said, hey, it's the economy, stupid.
[01:48:39.600 --> 01:48:41.360]  They don't care about Monica Lewinsky.
[01:48:41.360 --> 01:48:42.240]  It's the economy, stupid.
[01:48:42.240 --> 01:48:44.720]  Well, you know, when we talk about the economy, guess what?
[01:48:44.720 --> 01:48:46.160]  It's the uncertainty, stupid.
[01:48:46.960 --> 01:48:48.560]  It's the stupid uncertainty.
[01:48:49.760 --> 01:48:54.720]  And Trump has put restrictions on us that are as even more confining than that airplane door
[01:48:54.720 --> 01:48:57.920]  that he couldn't seem to fit the umbrella through.
[01:48:57.920 --> 01:49:01.600]  Businesses are reporting fewer orders, less employment, weaker expectations.
[01:49:02.400 --> 01:49:04.480]  The only thing going up is prices.
[01:49:05.440 --> 01:49:06.720]  Says reason.
[01:49:06.720 --> 01:49:08.160]  And of course, what do we call that?
[01:49:09.120 --> 01:49:12.720]  Stagflation or dragflation, as Gerald Solenty called it.
[01:49:13.280 --> 01:49:14.320]  Yes, the uncertainty.
[01:49:14.320 --> 01:49:18.800]  Last Tuesday, the day before Trump's Liberation Day tariffs were said to be imposed,
[01:49:18.800 --> 01:49:23.280]  White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett was asked by a reporter about the possibility
[01:49:23.280 --> 01:49:25.600]  of last-minute changes to the import taxes.
[01:49:25.600 --> 01:49:28.400]  The president was asked and answered this yesterday, she said.
[01:49:28.400 --> 01:49:30.720]  He is not considering an extension or delay.
[01:49:31.520 --> 01:49:34.960]  But then less than 24 hours later, the White House announced that many of
[01:49:34.960 --> 01:49:36.880]  those tariffs would in fact be delayed.
[01:49:37.920 --> 01:49:43.120]  Then Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, said this was Trump's strategy all along.
[01:49:44.240 --> 01:49:47.760]  That same cycle of events has played out several times in the past three months.
[01:49:47.760 --> 01:49:51.200]  New tariffs on imports from China and Mexico in early February.
[01:49:51.840 --> 01:49:55.520]  Days after they were set to take effect, Trump postponed them.
[01:49:56.160 --> 01:50:01.920]  On April 11th, the White House announced a sweeping set of tariff exemptions for televisions,
[01:50:01.920 --> 01:50:05.680]  phones, computer chips and other electronics imported from China.
[01:50:06.400 --> 01:50:11.440]  But by April 13, two days later, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said those
[01:50:11.440 --> 01:50:13.440]  tariff exemptions were temporary.
[01:50:14.240 --> 01:50:17.360]  Later the same day, Trump denied any exemptions have been made at all.
[01:50:18.000 --> 01:50:23.520]  The president now reportedly is considering another delay, this one on the 25% tariff
[01:50:24.080 --> 01:50:26.800]  that he slapped on all imported cars and car parts.
[01:50:28.160 --> 01:50:31.680]  So what tariffs will America charge tomorrow?
[01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:35.200]  And what imports will be subject to them?
[01:50:36.560 --> 01:50:40.720]  It seems to depend on the whims of one man, writes Reason.
[01:50:40.720 --> 01:50:42.000]  That's what I've said all along.
[01:50:42.960 --> 01:50:45.600]  We can talk about the best way to raise taxes.
[01:50:45.600 --> 01:50:49.120]  We can talk about whether or not we should cut government instead of raising taxes,
[01:50:49.120 --> 01:50:51.760]  instead of continuing to kick the debt can down the road.
[01:50:52.800 --> 01:50:56.080]  But the question is, what is this uncertainty?
[01:50:56.080 --> 01:50:59.360]  Just takes all of that talk off the table.
[01:51:00.160 --> 01:51:04.240]  There's no point in talking about an income tax versus tariffs or an income tax plus
[01:51:04.240 --> 01:51:07.840]  tariffs or any of this stuff when he's constantly changing everything.
[01:51:09.200 --> 01:51:14.400]  And again, this is why the power to do tariffs was given to the Congress,
[01:51:15.040 --> 01:51:17.600]  who foolishly said in an emergency the president can do it.
[01:51:17.600 --> 01:51:22.240]  And this president does everything under a claimed emergency.
[01:51:22.240 --> 01:51:25.520]  That's his way that he operates.
[01:51:26.480 --> 01:51:29.600]  He declares an emergency, whether it's something that's real or not real.
[01:51:30.480 --> 01:51:33.520]  And then he says that that gives him the right to act as a dictator.
[01:51:34.640 --> 01:51:37.600]  And so we have martial law exerted over one thing after the other.
[01:51:38.320 --> 01:51:42.640]  The same playbook that he was using in 2020.
[01:51:43.440 --> 01:51:44.000]  Same thing.
[01:51:45.120 --> 01:51:51.040]  So Reason says that's not great for a lot of people who are trying to run businesses
[01:51:51.040 --> 01:51:52.080]  in the current environment.
[01:51:52.800 --> 01:51:55.600]  A New York based importer and distributor of wines and spirits
[01:51:55.600 --> 01:51:59.280]  says the new tariffs have made it impossible to plan ahead.
[01:52:00.160 --> 01:52:03.040]  He said, could you imagine if I had a supplier and every time I talked to them,
[01:52:03.040 --> 01:52:04.240]  they gave me a different price?
[01:52:05.280 --> 01:52:06.720]  This is the equivalent of that.
[01:52:07.680 --> 01:52:12.240]  He is also a plaintiff in a new lawsuit joining with several other companies
[01:52:13.280 --> 01:52:18.960]  to question Trump's authority to do this without congressional approval.
[01:52:20.160 --> 01:52:21.280]  Is there an emergency?
[01:52:21.280 --> 01:52:24.800]  Well, see, that's what all the nonsense about fentanyl coming from Canada was about.
[01:52:25.520 --> 01:52:30.400]  He claimed something that was not true, just like he did with COVID.
[01:52:31.360 --> 01:52:34.400]  And then he pronounced that it was an emergency, even though it was a lie.
[01:52:35.440 --> 01:52:38.640]  And then he said, well, now I have the power to do this and to do that.
[01:52:38.640 --> 01:52:41.600]  The threats, the uncertainty have made it hard to make business decisions,
[01:52:42.400 --> 01:52:46.960]  said the co-president of Wyoming Machine, a Minnesota based sheet metal
[01:52:46.960 --> 01:52:49.920]  fabricator that relies on aluminum imports from Canada.
[01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:55.680]  The New York Federal Reserve Bank's monthly survey of manufacturers published earlier this week
[01:52:55.680 --> 01:53:01.520]  reported a sharp drop in what it calls, quote, forward-looking indicators, that is,
[01:53:01.520 --> 01:53:04.320]  what businesses expect the next six months to look like.
[01:53:04.960 --> 01:53:07.680]  Even global businesses don't seem to be immune.
[01:53:07.680 --> 01:53:13.440]  The CEO of the Dutch firm ASML, the world's largest producer of the equipment needed to
[01:53:13.440 --> 01:53:18.080]  make semiconductors and other advanced computer chips attributed lower than expected sales to
[01:53:18.080 --> 01:53:23.280]  America's new tariff regime. He said that it is, quote, creating a new uncertainty.
[01:53:23.280 --> 01:53:25.760]  Yeah, it is kind of interesting, you know, when we look at high-tech.
[01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:32.880]  There's a Dutch firm that basically makes the machines that are used by the Taiwanese
[01:53:33.600 --> 01:53:39.040]  to make the chips that are used by America, especially in the high-tech military stuff.
[01:53:39.040 --> 01:53:43.280]  It's all distributed all over the place. You can't just do a rug pull on all that stuff.
[01:53:44.240 --> 01:53:46.560]  I mean, it's deeply intertwined and embedded.
[01:53:47.360 --> 01:53:51.200]  And you can do that, but it's going to rip the heart out of the entire global economy.
[01:53:51.200 --> 01:53:54.080]  And it is a global economy. You know, you can start to try.
[01:53:54.080 --> 01:53:59.440]  What you can do is you can get rid of the regulations and taxes and stuff like that here,
[01:54:00.160 --> 01:54:04.080]  things that when enable it. For the longest time, we've had
[01:54:04.080 --> 01:54:09.200]  presidents who said, in my administration, I created this many number of jobs.
[01:54:09.200 --> 01:54:11.040]  And they say, no, you didn't. You got out of the way and you let
[01:54:11.040 --> 01:54:13.680]  people take risks and invest their money and do their hard work.
[01:54:13.680 --> 01:54:15.840]  Their blood, sweat and tears is what created those jobs.
[01:54:15.840 --> 01:54:18.880]  You didn't do anything. You just got out of the way if you did get out of the way.
[01:54:19.760 --> 01:54:23.760]  Or in many cases, a lot of them were bragging about the fact that they had
[01:54:23.760 --> 01:54:28.240]  created jobs by shoveling a ton of money over to a corporation.
[01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:33.600]  That kind of chronic capitalism, that kind of central planning is not effective.
[01:54:34.720 --> 01:54:37.920]  And so they won't give freedom a chance. Freedom is how we could
[01:54:37.920 --> 01:54:41.520]  beat everybody else, is how we beat everybody else in the first time.
[01:54:42.560 --> 01:54:45.760]  But instead, they decided they're going to take a central planning route.
[01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:48.960]  The threats, the uncertainty made it hard to make business decisions.
[01:54:48.960 --> 01:54:51.440]  That's exactly it. The outlook for global trade has
[01:54:51.440 --> 01:54:57.840]  deteriorated sharply due to the surge in tariffs and trade policies and the uncertainty.
[01:54:57.840 --> 01:55:02.800]  During Trump's first term in office, the uncertainty created by his trade policies then
[01:55:02.800 --> 01:55:11.360]  reduced aggregate U.S. investment by as much as $47 billion in 2018, according to a 2020 study
[01:55:11.360 --> 01:55:15.520]  in the Journal of Monetary Economics. And guess who took it the worst?
[01:55:15.520 --> 01:55:18.320]  His big supporters in the rural areas, the farmers.
[01:55:19.920 --> 01:55:26.480]  He put them on STEMI checks and universal basic, very basic income welfare
[01:55:27.440 --> 01:55:29.360]  before he did it to everybody in 2020.
[01:55:30.320 --> 01:55:34.240]  All measures suggest that uncertainty about trade policy has recently shot up to levels
[01:55:34.240 --> 01:55:39.920]  that have not been seen since the 1970s. Costs are almost certain to be higher this time
[01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:43.600]  because the size and scope of Trump's new trade war have greatly expanded,
[01:55:43.600 --> 01:55:48.560]  as has the uncertainty that created. You go back and look at the lockdown,
[01:55:48.560 --> 01:55:51.760]  the fear, the uncertainty, the doubt. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
[01:55:52.800 --> 01:55:56.640]  That's what he was doing in 2020. It's all back. Mr. Chaos.
[01:55:57.520 --> 01:56:00.960]  It is obviously difficult to objectively measure something as frothy and as
[01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:03.920]  fleeting as uncertainty, but some economists have tried.
[01:56:03.920 --> 01:56:08.960]  The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is based on newspaper reports,
[01:56:08.960 --> 01:56:13.680]  Congressional Budget Office reports, and surveys of economic forecasters by the Federal Reserve.
[01:56:13.680 --> 01:56:16.960]  Right now, the global index is at the highest level it has ever been,
[01:56:17.760 --> 01:56:24.800]  surpassing even the previous peak set by Trump with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown,
[01:56:25.440 --> 01:56:29.280]  and far higher than it was during Trump's 2018 tariff phase.
[01:56:30.480 --> 01:56:36.320]  So the firms, they said, may delay investment and hiring during periods of high uncertainty.
[01:56:36.320 --> 01:56:41.280]  Households may exercise precautionary reductions in spending by increasing their savings rate in
[01:56:41.280 --> 01:56:46.080]  anticipation of possible changes to income or to wealth. Our quotes are down, our orders are down,
[01:56:46.080 --> 01:56:51.040]  our purchases are down. Purchase orders are down, he said, as president of Canadian-based
[01:56:51.040 --> 01:56:57.760]  Cavalier Tool and Manufacturing. These are the very types of jobs that Trump says he wants.
[01:56:58.720 --> 01:57:02.800]  As Trump has targeted imports from Canada and higher tariffs, people are scrambling and
[01:57:02.800 --> 01:57:09.440]  pivoting. The reality is that almost nothing is moving. Well, it's all worth it, isn't it?
[01:57:09.440 --> 01:57:16.560]  As long as we don't have people buying stuff from China. Except Trump does.
[01:57:16.560 --> 01:57:23.840]  If you go back to 2016, this article, this news report, showing Trump having China make all of
[01:57:23.840 --> 01:57:30.080]  his campaign stuff. There's little evidence of a trade war at the Jiahao Flat Company in Anhui
[01:57:30.080 --> 01:57:36.960]  province. Workers bustle and sewing machines hum. A current house seller, blue and white banners
[01:57:36.960 --> 01:57:44.640]  declaring the centerpiece of Trump's reelection campaign. What I'm making here now is a Trump
[01:57:44.640 --> 01:57:50.640]  banner. I know that he's the U.S. president. Every day we must produce over 1,000 of this.
[01:57:50.640 --> 01:57:56.960]  We already made so many badges of them. The banners highlight a paradox in China-U.S. relations
[01:57:56.960 --> 01:58:02.480]  under the current Trump administration. At about one dollar apiece, even the suppliers to the Trump
[01:58:02.480 --> 01:58:09.040]  campaign can't resist the low price. The factory also made banners for his 2016 campaign and said
[01:58:09.040 --> 01:58:15.200]  its business has been great since then. Buy American and hire American.
[01:58:17.280 --> 01:58:22.320]  Trump has long railed against Chinese imports and launched a controversial trade strategy this
[01:58:22.320 --> 01:58:29.200]  year to punish Beijing. Yet his move is merely making America more expensive. The U.S. Department
[01:58:29.200 --> 01:58:35.600]  of Commerce said flax and other textile products will be subject to a 10% levy. One seller said
[01:58:35.600 --> 01:58:41.760]  that would be enough to double the price of a Make America Great Again hat to 20 dollars a pop.
[01:58:41.760 --> 01:58:47.040]  And his hardline stance towards China could eventually repel suppliers like the Jiahao
[01:58:47.040 --> 01:58:55.920]  Flat Company. Personally, this is my own feeling, but if he continues to demand tariff increases as
[01:58:55.920 --> 01:59:01.680]  he has been doing, I definitely would not be able to accept more orders. That's because everyone can
[01:59:01.680 --> 01:59:07.280]  have a patriotic heart, so we won't let him improve his own economy while us Chinese just
[01:59:07.280 --> 01:59:16.000]  shoot ourselves in the foot. I know that Trump's tariffs targeting China will have some effect,
[01:59:16.000 --> 01:59:20.000]  but we're not worried at all since we are producing foreign flags every single day.
[01:59:21.840 --> 01:59:27.680]  If Trump's midterm election rallies have no flags to fly, there's only one man to blame.
[01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:38.080]  I saw that on social media, and what really caught my attention was the first comment
[01:59:38.080 --> 01:59:45.120]  underneath it was from somebody who was some anonymous troll who had like two dozen followers
[01:59:45.120 --> 01:59:49.840]  or something, and he said there's no such thing as China 24 news channel because that's the
[01:59:49.840 --> 01:59:55.280]  people put that together and you see the logo down there. So people replied to it and gave
[01:59:55.280 --> 02:00:00.080]  links to the website and all the rest of this. I mean, it's amazing how these trolls will come
[02:00:00.080 --> 02:00:04.960]  out and just say the biggest bunch of nonsense. I don't know if they're paid to say that or they're
[02:00:04.960 --> 02:00:10.000]  just camp followers or whatever. A good example of this is the article I mentioned briefly the
[02:00:10.000 --> 02:00:15.760]  other day. Spencer Morrison writing for Chronicles says tariffs are essential to a free people,
[02:00:17.520 --> 02:00:24.800]  and I said what a joke. The American Revolution was fighting tariffs on tea. Taxes did not make
[02:00:24.800 --> 02:00:30.240]  us great. Taxes, you might say, are a necessary evil, but they're not going to make our country
[02:00:30.240 --> 02:00:37.040]  great. There's better and there's worse ways to collect taxes, but the very worst thing that we
[02:00:37.040 --> 02:00:44.160]  could do is to have this uncertainty. Meanwhile, the Customs and Border Patrol said the latest
[02:00:44.160 --> 02:00:50.240]  tariffs have generated $500 million, well below Trump's estimate. Yeah, so that was over two weeks.
[02:00:50.560 --> 02:00:55.200]  I mean, that's like a billion dollars a month, $12 billion a year. Yeah, we're going to balance
[02:00:55.200 --> 02:01:00.240]  the budget there, aren't we? Well, let's hope that it doesn't go up even higher than that,
[02:01:00.880 --> 02:01:05.200]  but the economic destruction that it does is just truly astounding. We're going to take a break
[02:01:05.200 --> 02:01:11.120]  and we're going to have Gerald Salenti join us with Trends Research and get Gerald's take on it.
[02:01:12.320 --> 02:01:18.080]  Right now, everything is moving so fast. We go two weeks and it's just a ton of things that have
[02:01:18.080 --> 02:01:22.320]  happened. So we're going to take a break. We'll be right back.
[02:03:48.080 --> 02:04:03.360]  Defending the American Dream. You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[02:04:05.120 --> 02:04:08.560]  Joining us now is Gerald Salenti. Always a pleasure to have Gerald on, and we've had so
[02:04:08.560 --> 02:04:12.160]  much that has happened economically, especially in the last couple of weeks. I wanted to get
[02:04:12.160 --> 02:04:17.600]  Gerald's take on it. TrendsResearch.com is where you can find his publication. You can see
[02:04:17.600 --> 02:04:25.200]  a sample of that. It's a magnificent and thorough, very lengthy weekly journal that comes out now,
[02:04:25.200 --> 02:04:30.320]  and you can save 10% off with the code Knight. And I think Gerald, what does that work out to be
[02:04:30.320 --> 02:04:34.960]  about for the week? It works out to be half the price of the Wall Street Journal and the New York
[02:04:34.960 --> 02:04:42.080]  Times for a day, something like that. Good to have you on. $2.50 a week. Yeah. And again,
[02:04:42.080 --> 02:04:48.640]  the magazine's over 200 pages, Trends Journal. And no fluff. That's the other thing, too. You're
[02:04:48.640 --> 02:04:53.280]  focusing on what's really happening. And I talked about this last couple of weeks. We now got people
[02:04:53.280 --> 02:04:58.560]  talking about the commercial real estate issue because that's really surfacing. And you've been
[02:04:58.560 --> 02:05:02.080]  talking about that for years, way ahead of the curve, saying this is what's going to happen.
[02:05:02.080 --> 02:05:07.200]  It's going to affect the banks and many other things as well. And look at our forecast for gold.
[02:05:07.840 --> 02:05:14.160]  Yeah. When we made it, the forecast, it would be golden year for gold in 2024.
[02:05:15.760 --> 02:05:32.000]  Back then, gold prices were $2,041 an ounce. And today, I just, what was they? I just looked.
[02:05:32.800 --> 02:05:39.920]  It's been up in the $3,300. Yeah, $3,327 an ounce.
[02:05:40.480 --> 02:05:43.040]  That could pay for a lot of subscriptions for a lot of years, couldn't it?
[02:05:44.960 --> 02:05:53.360]  Yeah, this is very important. A couple of days ago, price of gold went up over $100 an ounce.
[02:05:54.320 --> 02:06:04.240]  Mm-hmm. One day, went up like $107 an ounce. Not a word in the Wall Street Journal.
[02:06:04.240 --> 02:06:06.880]  Really? That you pay $5 a day for.
[02:06:07.440 --> 02:06:17.600]  Wow. Wow. Not a word last week, last weekend, when gold prices spiked throughout the week.
[02:06:18.400 --> 02:06:27.120]  Not one word in the Wall Street Journal that you pay $6 a day for on the weekend edition.
[02:06:29.120 --> 02:06:36.000]  Not one article before we went on the air today in the Wall Street Journal
[02:06:36.000 --> 02:06:43.440]  about the spiking prices of gold or the toilet paper record, which people call the New York
[02:06:43.440 --> 02:06:50.000]  Times, they call themselves the paper record. This is yesterday's edition, this big, stupid
[02:06:50.000 --> 02:06:57.840]  little cartoon for little girls and boys with brains the size of a pea. The reason they have
[02:06:57.840 --> 02:07:06.160]  these big cartoon pictures here is because they don't have journalists anymore. So they fill up
[02:07:06.160 --> 02:07:14.400]  the space with stupid pictures on every page. Yeah, look, look, I'm not making this up.
[02:07:15.280 --> 02:07:18.480]  Yeah. You see it? Yep. Oh yeah, it looks like USA Today.
[02:07:18.480 --> 02:07:28.080]  Not a word, not a word about gold. The mainstream media is silencing this.
[02:07:28.720 --> 02:07:32.400]  I've been at this for 45 years.
[02:07:34.720 --> 02:07:42.320]  I made my name buying gold and when I booked Trends 2000, Trend Tracking, I told the story
[02:07:42.320 --> 02:07:49.360]  back in 1978 when the Iranian conflict broke out and they taught us to hate the Iranians,
[02:07:49.360 --> 02:07:55.520]  of course, without telling us how the United States and the MI6 overthrew the democratically
[02:07:55.520 --> 02:08:04.160]  elected government of Mosaddegh in 1953 because that lousy Iranian piece of scum said, no, that
[02:08:04.160 --> 02:08:15.200]  oil doesn't belong to Anglo-Iranian oil, better known today as BP, or Exxon Mobil, or excuse me,
[02:08:15.200 --> 02:08:22.640]  Standard Oil, better known today as Exxon Mobil. It belongs to the Iranian people. No, it doesn't.
[02:08:23.440 --> 02:08:28.080]  We're going to steal your oil and we're going to kill everybody that supports you.
[02:08:28.080 --> 02:08:35.760]  And now we're going to bring in the Shah and the SAVAK, the secret police that made the SS look
[02:08:35.760 --> 02:08:41.360]  good. Yeah. So when the revolution happened, you know, I knew this thing was real,
[02:08:42.160 --> 02:08:47.760]  but they just taught the people to hate the Iranians. So I did Oil and Gold Futures, put
[02:08:47.760 --> 02:08:53.600]  a $5,000 bet into each one and brought it almost up to three quarters of a million dollars. This is
[02:08:53.600 --> 02:08:59.040]  the 1970s. I lost most of the money. I'm gambling away. I didn't know what I was doing as a young guy,
[02:09:00.000 --> 02:09:07.600]  but my first buy of gold was around $163, $173 an ounce. I've been following gold since then.
[02:09:08.560 --> 02:09:15.200]  Wow. The revolution was not televised in Iran, right? Americans are clueless about it. They
[02:09:15.200 --> 02:09:19.200]  don't talk about it in the media either, but yeah, it's amazing when you look at what has happened
[02:09:19.200 --> 02:09:24.320]  with gold over the last couple of years, and especially over the last two years, you know,
[02:09:24.320 --> 02:09:29.200]  when you talk about in 2024, truly is amazing. We used to have commercials at the end of the
[02:09:29.200 --> 02:09:34.720]  Trends Journal thing, you know, just promoting the Trends Journal. And I had Eric King, King World
[02:09:34.720 --> 02:09:40.000]  News. Salenti called the bottom of gold. I called the bottom of gold a couple of years ago. This is
[02:09:40.000 --> 02:09:47.040]  the bottom. I've never seen gold take off like this. And this is the important element of what
[02:09:47.040 --> 02:09:52.160]  you were listening before about the uncertainty with Trump. Every day he changes his mind because
[02:09:52.160 --> 02:10:02.960]  he's out of his mind, but that's another story. The uncertainty is we are on the verge
[02:10:03.440 --> 02:10:07.920]  of nuclear annihilation and the end of life on earth.
[02:10:10.480 --> 02:10:14.080]  And the people that are watching the geopolitical without
[02:10:14.880 --> 02:10:21.600]  swallowing the stupid crap that they're shoving down people's throats know how bad it is.
[02:10:22.000 --> 02:10:33.120]  And the worst of the worst is the disgusting, murderous, Israel genocide, slaughter of the
[02:10:33.120 --> 02:10:39.200]  people in Gaza. And maybe they'll throw me out of the country for saying that.
[02:10:39.200 --> 02:10:40.240]  Yeah, that's pretty somber.
[02:10:40.240 --> 02:10:49.920]  How dare I'm an anti-Semite? Shove it. Save your anti-Semite crap for some little gutless
[02:10:49.920 --> 02:10:59.520]  clown. Because number one, the people running Israel, they're not Semites. Semites are people
[02:10:59.520 --> 02:11:07.760]  for the Mesopotamia region. These are all Eastern European Jews, people. Where's Netanyahu's real
[02:11:08.320 --> 02:11:22.080]  name? Milikowski? Oh, Ben-Gurion? Oh, you made that name up, Ben-Gurion Green? These are Eastern
[02:11:22.080 --> 02:11:32.240]  Europeans. They're not Semites. Number two, you're against the massive slaughter and starvation of
[02:11:32.240 --> 02:11:38.080]  people. Oh, not my language, United Nations. I went on one after another right in front of
[02:11:38.080 --> 02:11:46.640]  everybody's eyes. And you're saying by definition, oh, I forgot Donald Trump's little arrogant son-in-law,
[02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:53.440]  boy, Jared Kushner. Oh, that's very, quote, valuable waterfront property.
[02:11:54.480 --> 02:11:54.720]  Yeah.
[02:11:54.720 --> 02:11:56.240]  And that was only a year ago.
[02:11:58.000 --> 02:11:58.480]  Oh, yeah.
[02:11:58.480 --> 02:12:01.120]  We didn't want to get charted into the Riviera.
[02:12:01.120 --> 02:12:05.280]  That's right. Yeah, that was the amazing thing, Trump coming out with that. And as I talked about
[02:12:05.280 --> 02:12:12.880]  earlier, the defense minister of Israel has said, no humanitarian aid whatsoever. We get children
[02:12:12.880 --> 02:12:18.800]  who are starving. And they're going to starve them to death so that Trump can, what, set up a casino
[02:12:18.800 --> 02:12:22.240]  there? Is that what they're going to do? Is it a real estate development project?
[02:12:22.960 --> 02:12:29.040]  Where is the anger of people? Oh, by the way, they had that... Again, you can't make this crap
[02:12:29.040 --> 02:12:35.280]  up, but everything's turned to crap so you can make it up. They bowed how Bernie Sanders and that
[02:12:35.840 --> 02:12:41.760]  Cortez thing, how they're enlightening the democratic people.
[02:12:42.320 --> 02:12:42.800]  Yeah, all right.
[02:12:43.440 --> 02:12:48.880]  These are the two jerks that you could look to. Oh, Bernie Sanders, they had a big rally,
[02:12:49.120 --> 02:12:56.400]  big rallies he's having. And the people put up the flags, free Palestine. They got thrown out.
[02:12:57.520 --> 02:13:02.880]  And you know what Bernie Sanders came out and said? I hate this line. You could shove it up
[02:13:02.880 --> 02:13:10.640]  here. You know what? Israel has the right to defend itself. How many times have they repeated
[02:13:10.640 --> 02:13:16.640]  that propaganda line of crap? Oh, Israel bombing the hell out of Syria now?
[02:13:17.200 --> 02:13:18.400]  Yeah.
[02:13:18.400 --> 02:13:24.240]  You've got to stop them. They can't come near our borders. Oh, you're in violation of ceasefire
[02:13:24.240 --> 02:13:33.120]  agreement in Lebanon? Bombing the hell out of Lebanon? We can bomb anybody we want and shove
[02:13:33.120 --> 02:13:40.720]  your chosen people line up here. You know what? Oh, I'm just a guinea from the Bronx. You're a
[02:13:40.720 --> 02:13:49.200]  chosen people. I'm just a piece of scum. Oh, no, let's listen to Naomi Wolf, a Jewish woman.
[02:13:51.600 --> 02:13:58.480]  That's a lot of baloney, this chosen people. God chooses people by their morality
[02:13:59.120 --> 02:14:05.200]  and how they live in the spirit of God has nothing to do with a religion. Got it?
[02:14:06.080 --> 02:14:11.840]  Well, yeah, God chose to take them out of the land because of immorality. And he could choose
[02:14:11.840 --> 02:14:18.480]  to put them back in if he wishes, but they want the fruit of this without having the root of it,
[02:14:18.480 --> 02:14:23.600]  which is God. But you mentioned earlier that criticizing, as we've seen now,
[02:14:23.600 --> 02:14:27.840]  people being snatched off the street. And there's a smear campaign that happens in
[02:14:27.840 --> 02:14:34.160]  the conservative media to try to justify Trump snatching people off the street because they
[02:14:34.160 --> 02:14:38.880]  wrote an op-ed piece or snatching them off the street because they were exercising free speech
[02:14:38.880 --> 02:14:45.040]  on the college campuses. And when I look at the obscene amounts of money that are being given to
[02:14:45.040 --> 02:14:50.720]  Columbia University, $400 million, and the even more obscene amount of money, $9 billion being
[02:14:50.720 --> 02:14:56.560]  given to Harvard, but they're going to keep giving them that money as long as they don't criticize
[02:14:56.560 --> 02:15:02.720]  a foreign political entity. And that's the issue here. But it's also the issue that when people
[02:15:02.720 --> 02:15:08.400]  are here legally, this last guy they pulled off, I talked about this yesterday, he was on his way
[02:15:08.400 --> 02:15:13.200]  to an interview for citizenship. He'd been here for 10 years, and you don't get that interview
[02:15:13.200 --> 02:15:18.880]  unless you have a clean record and so forth. And he was here legally. The people who are here legally
[02:15:18.880 --> 02:15:23.040]  have a right to speak just like Americans do. They have a right to due process. And yet when
[02:15:23.040 --> 02:15:28.160]  we see Trump doing this to everybody, they immediately tar and feather them as terrorists,
[02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:32.480]  as violence and all the rest of the stuff, and that's not true. But what's really frightening,
[02:15:32.480 --> 02:15:36.960]  and you alluded to it, is the fact that Trump has said to this guy in El Salvador,
[02:15:36.960 --> 02:15:39.920]  you're going to need to build some more prisons because we're going to send some American citizens
[02:15:39.920 --> 02:15:47.200]  there. What do you think about that? It's amazing. I know. Yeah, I'll be on the list.
[02:15:47.200 --> 02:15:53.520]  Yeah, I know. Me too. Yeah. Well, it goes back to his Alien Enemies Act, which he's deported these
[02:15:53.520 --> 02:16:00.160]  gang members with, and I'm all for deporting the gang members, MS-13 and the trendy guys,
[02:16:00.160 --> 02:16:05.440]  the trendy, Aragwa, whatever they call them. I'm all for deporting those types of people,
[02:16:05.440 --> 02:16:10.720]  but we need to have some due process if they're going to be sent into an extremely
[02:16:12.480 --> 02:16:16.320]  harsh environment there in those prisons. It's more than just deporting somebody who's here
[02:16:16.320 --> 02:16:20.560]  illegally. And the Trump administration even said they made a mistake on it, but now they're talking
[02:16:20.560 --> 02:16:23.840]  out of both sides of their mouth. They say, well, you know, we had them on a watch list. It's like,
[02:16:24.320 --> 02:16:30.240]  I began at Infowars with a story about a guy who was put on a no-fly list,
[02:16:30.240 --> 02:16:34.240]  wrongfully put on a no-fly list. He doesn't know how he got on. They wouldn't tell him.
[02:16:34.240 --> 02:16:42.160]  This is a star chamber process. That was happening in 2012. He was vetted by the TSA. He was vetted
[02:16:42.160 --> 02:16:48.720]  by the FBI. He had a firearms license. He was flying on a military plane to visit his wife,
[02:16:48.720 --> 02:16:55.360]  who was in Japan, working for the military. And he gets to Hawaii. And as that intermediate
[02:16:55.360 --> 02:16:59.840]  flight is about to take off again for Japan, the last leg, some guys come on and pull him off and
[02:16:59.840 --> 02:17:04.320]  say, you can't fly. You're on a no-fly list. And he's stuck in Hawaii. He can't fly. And he can't
[02:17:04.320 --> 02:17:08.240]  get any information from anybody about how he got on that. That kind of star chamber process
[02:17:09.120 --> 02:17:15.040]  is not what we want to have in this country. And the problem is that Trump is taking this
[02:17:15.040 --> 02:17:20.880]  Alien Enemies Act, which is part of the Alien and Sedition Act. He's accusing CBS and other news
[02:17:20.880 --> 02:17:26.480]  media of being treasonous, which is basically sedition. And so what he's doing is he's taking
[02:17:27.360 --> 02:17:32.160]  the old Alien and Sedition Act, which Jefferson and Madison hated, and he's starting to apply
[02:17:32.160 --> 02:17:37.040]  that in the 21st century. And he wants to apply it to American citizens, not just to people here,
[02:17:37.040 --> 02:17:47.040]  foreign entities, foreign citizens. No, the guy is three months. He's in office for three months.
[02:17:48.400 --> 02:17:55.920]  And look at what he's done in three months. He's wrecking ball, isn't he? Yeah. He's an arrogant,
[02:17:55.920 --> 02:18:02.800]  arrogant, narcissistic guy. End of story. I told you, I had lunch with his brother, Robin,
[02:18:03.760 --> 02:18:14.640]  back in 2017. And the brother told me that the father, when he died, left
[02:18:16.240 --> 02:18:19.360]  the family over half a billion dollars worth of real estate.
[02:18:22.480 --> 02:18:29.360]  This Abigail Disney, Walt Disney's niece or something, she wrote an article in The Guardian,
[02:18:29.360 --> 02:18:36.960]  I read it, and she wrote about Trump, basically what a spoiled boy he is. He inherited everything.
[02:18:37.840 --> 02:18:43.840]  She would know about that, right? Yeah. But she fights with some good things.
[02:18:45.040 --> 02:18:51.440]  And I applaud her on that end. Not everything, but who does everything everybody likes?
[02:18:52.240 --> 02:19:00.560]  But anyway, and that's all, again, I tell the story. I'm the same age as Trump, 78.
[02:19:01.600 --> 02:19:06.640]  When I was a young, I wrote it in my Zizzi book, which by the way, everything I've written is my
[02:19:06.640 --> 02:19:11.920]  favorite, what Zizzi gave Honey Boy. I found the trailer online, Gerald, and I played that on
[02:19:11.920 --> 02:19:17.440]  Monday. And I played a little bit of an interview with a guy who did the movie. He was at a film
[02:19:17.440 --> 02:19:22.800]  festival, and he was talking about when he talked to you and how you were reluctant to have him do
[02:19:22.800 --> 02:19:33.680]  it. It was very interesting. And anyway, I write about how I grew up in the Bronx. Born in the
[02:19:33.680 --> 02:19:41.040]  Bronx. If you're not from the Bronx, man, save it. It's a different trip. And I'm born right after
[02:19:41.040 --> 02:19:48.160]  the war. The energy is at the height. America's at the top. They couldn't control me. They used
[02:19:48.160 --> 02:19:52.160]  to tell me they used to tie me to a crib with nylon stockings because I'm out the window.
[02:19:52.960 --> 02:19:59.200]  And they have my mother and father arrested now for doing that. Anyway, I ran away from kindergarten
[02:19:59.200 --> 02:20:03.520]  across the Boston Post Road in the Bronx at four and a half years old. I hated every day of school.
[02:20:05.440 --> 02:20:10.880]  They used to threaten me and my brothers. We had enough of your crap, you go into military school.
[02:20:11.760 --> 02:20:16.720]  That was the threat we used to get. I write about in the book how they took us to Botanical
[02:20:16.720 --> 02:20:20.560]  Gardens, which we thought was the military school. They had these big things. And okay,
[02:20:20.560 --> 02:20:27.920]  get out of the car. We'll be good. We'll be good. Trump was so arrogant, they sent him to military
[02:20:27.920 --> 02:20:37.120]  school. Now imagine being a teenager, a young kid. I'm talking about girls, cars, sports, you know.
[02:20:38.000 --> 02:20:44.080]  My mother, wow. Everybody loved Aunt Marie's. She was the best cook of everybody. I'm going to eat
[02:20:44.080 --> 02:20:50.800]  this crappy food at military school, get dressed up in military drag. Time to get up, time to go
[02:20:50.800 --> 02:20:55.920]  to bed, do this, do that. I'm not going to. All right, I'll be good. I'll be good. Trump was so
[02:20:55.920 --> 02:21:02.640]  out of his mind, so narcissistic. They sent him to military school. It's about 30 minutes south of me
[02:21:02.640 --> 02:21:13.280]  over here. What the hell's the name of the place? Not Gardner. Cornwall. Cornwall, New York.
[02:21:14.240 --> 02:21:19.440]  In the middle, we're talking in the 1960s, right? Yeah. The middle of nowhere.
[02:21:21.600 --> 02:21:29.600]  That's how arrogant and narcissistic he was. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's interesting.
[02:21:29.600 --> 02:21:33.920]  You talked about how they're going to make sure that, you always mention how the bigs are going
[02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:38.480]  to get their special treatment. Well, you know, Trump pulled back and he said, well, I want you
[02:21:38.480 --> 02:21:42.720]  guys to soak the rich. Now you know that's not going to happen, but that was the one time that
[02:21:42.720 --> 02:21:48.640]  we saw Sean Hannity come out and really got his hackles up. He says, it seems to go against
[02:21:48.640 --> 02:21:52.400]  everything that Donald Trump has ever believed in. It's pretty unbelievable to me, to be honest.
[02:21:52.400 --> 02:21:57.120]  Finally complaining about taxes. Why? Because it's kind of, you always hear this nimby stuff,
[02:21:57.440 --> 02:22:01.840]  not in my backyard. Well, you know, for Sean Hannity, it was like, not in my back pocket.
[02:22:03.440 --> 02:22:07.520]  I don't want to have to pay that stuff. And out of the woodwork, you got all these Republicans out
[02:22:07.520 --> 02:22:10.800]  there saying, don't raise taxes, don't raise taxes. When for the last couple of weeks,
[02:22:10.800 --> 02:22:14.960]  they've been telling us, no, raise taxes. It's good for us. It'll help you to grow. You know,
[02:22:14.960 --> 02:22:19.680]  we've got Benny Johnson saying, well, you know, you may be losing money in the stock market because
[02:22:19.680 --> 02:22:24.720]  of Trump's volatility and indecision and all the rest of this stuff, but hey, it's a growing
[02:22:24.800 --> 02:22:28.080]  experience. It's going to build character to lose your money in the stock market.
[02:22:28.080 --> 02:22:31.440]  It's like, give me a break. These people will cheer anything, won't they?
[02:22:32.000 --> 02:22:38.960]  Again, Sean Hannity, look at that little, how could you be so dumb to swallow crap
[02:22:38.960 --> 02:22:44.000]  coming out of that clown's mouth? Yeah. And what, look at the money that he's worth.
[02:22:44.800 --> 02:22:50.240]  Oh yeah. Look what they pay these. That's right. And again, you were talking about that guy when
[02:22:50.240 --> 02:22:56.800]  you were on info wars and you know what the TSA did to them. Yeah. It's like that from
[02:22:57.600 --> 02:23:05.040]  your city, local government, all the way up to the top, the power that these people in
[02:23:05.040 --> 02:23:12.880]  bureaucrats have taken, the laws, the restrictions they put on you. Yeah. It is disgusting.
[02:23:13.840 --> 02:23:19.760]  I talked this week about a case in Hawaii. I think it was on Reason and this guy, you know,
[02:23:19.760 --> 02:23:24.240]  bought a house from the, and he had a permit for it. They were in the middle of doing a remodeling
[02:23:24.800 --> 02:23:32.160]  and the local bureaucrats put out, they changed their accounting system, their tracking system,
[02:23:32.160 --> 02:23:36.960]  they computerized it. And they said, well, you're going to have a certain amount of time,
[02:23:36.960 --> 02:23:40.000]  like a month or two to re-up your permits. And if you don't, they're going to expire.
[02:23:40.000 --> 02:23:45.440]  Well, he didn't know that. And so they started giving him grief and he said, well, wait a minute,
[02:23:45.440 --> 02:23:49.680]  I had this and we checked this all before I bought the house. And so then finally they come back and
[02:23:49.680 --> 02:23:54.000]  oh no, you didn't get the final inspection when his house was built 47 years ago. It's like,
[02:23:54.000 --> 02:23:57.600]  what are you talking about? And so they put him through all this grief. They're going to tear down
[02:23:57.600 --> 02:24:03.280]  his house and everything. He wins in court after a long fight. They're still coming after him
[02:24:03.280 --> 02:24:06.240]  because these people are going to continue to come after him. They're going to find one thing
[02:24:06.240 --> 02:24:09.920]  or the other after him. They're never going to leave him alone, especially because he beat them
[02:24:09.920 --> 02:24:16.640]  in court. Yeah. That's what I'm saying is everywhere. Yeah. It's not only at the federal
[02:24:16.640 --> 02:24:25.120]  government. This country's gone down to crap. It's finished. It's done. Look at the people,
[02:24:25.120 --> 02:24:30.160]  the way they dress. As I said, the Ringling, remember when we were young guys, they had the
[02:24:30.160 --> 02:24:36.240]  Ringling brothers in Bonham and Bailey circus. It went out of business. You don't have to step
[02:24:36.240 --> 02:24:43.200]  right up, step right up, see the fat man, see the tattooed lady, see the lady with the beard. You
[02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:48.000]  have to step right up. They're out in the street all over the place. I got to tell you, Gerald,
[02:24:48.000 --> 02:24:51.920]  when I was in college, I was in bands. I played bands and we had a New Year's Eve gig
[02:24:52.640 --> 02:24:58.560]  with the retired circus freaks home in Sarasota. Okay. So the strangest things ever.
[02:25:01.200 --> 02:25:07.840]  We played their New Year's Eve party and I'll never forget that. They wanted waltzes from us.
[02:25:07.840 --> 02:25:13.760]  We were not a waltz band, but we put together a trombone player. I was playing keyboards and
[02:25:13.760 --> 02:25:17.600]  so we put together the Blue Daniel waltz and that was when we got everybody to dance.
[02:25:18.160 --> 02:25:21.920]  It was really, that was so strange. You're talking about circus freaks. I can't stop
[02:25:21.920 --> 02:25:27.600]  but think about Ringling brothers there in Sarasota. Yeah. I mean, it's so sad.
[02:25:27.600 --> 02:25:34.560]  Now it's everywhere. Yeah. The way the people dress. Yeah. I've grown men wearing baseball
[02:25:34.640 --> 02:25:39.600]  caps. Grow the hell up. What do you look like? Oh, and the chicks look so hot with their baseball
[02:25:39.600 --> 02:25:45.600]  caps with a hat with a hair coming out the back. The women, I have pictures of my aunts and
[02:25:47.040 --> 02:25:53.600]  how gorgeous they dressed. How dignified the people were. Oh yeah. The whole country's gone
[02:25:53.600 --> 02:25:59.760]  down. Yeah. It's the end of it. Without a Renaissance to me, it's all over. Facts don't
[02:25:59.760 --> 02:26:06.080]  mean anything. The Renaissance followed the black plague. The people were killing themselves,
[02:26:06.080 --> 02:26:10.800]  the filthy sanitation, but you can't do without the dough. The Medici's made it happen.
[02:26:11.680 --> 02:26:18.320]  We need a Renaissance. We have to, again, you're a musician. Look what the geeks did to music.
[02:26:18.320 --> 02:26:24.880]  Oh yeah. I know. Yeah. And look what the geeks look like. You want to look like a sucker boy?
[02:26:25.440 --> 02:26:33.600]  No, I want to look like a peach eye. How about a cook? Look at these dead in your face,
[02:26:33.600 --> 02:26:41.120]  arrogant pieces of crap. The geeks, as I said, they got it wrong in the King's James Bible.
[02:26:42.240 --> 02:26:48.800]  They say the meek shall inherit the earth. The geeks have inherited the earth. Yeah. Yeah. They
[02:26:48.800 --> 02:26:54.640]  brought down the level of this country to the low level of who they are. Hey, isn't
[02:26:56.560 --> 02:27:00.560]  artificial intelligence so much better than natural intelligence?
[02:27:02.240 --> 02:27:08.400]  Why do you need artificial flavors, artificial colors, artificial intelligence? All right.
[02:27:08.960 --> 02:27:13.920]  Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's about surveillance and control, I think is really what that's
[02:27:13.920 --> 02:27:18.160]  ultimately about. Of course, there's going to be a lot of money in that. I was talking earlier about
[02:27:18.160 --> 02:27:29.280]  how Wall Street Journal, as well as it was Forbes that started it, they looked at the claims that
[02:27:29.280 --> 02:27:36.560]  are being made by the guy that runs Figure Robots. And they're basically a lot of BS. We have so
[02:27:36.560 --> 02:27:43.600]  much hype in all this stuff. And you talked about .com 2.0. And a lot of this stuff has been hyped
[02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:49.120]  to the extreme. He was saying that he had robots in the BMW automobile factory in South Carolina
[02:27:49.120 --> 02:27:55.680]  that were working throughout the process. And it turns out that he's only got two or three
[02:27:55.680 --> 02:27:59.920]  that they're using to sort a couple of different packages that are there. That's all that they're
[02:27:59.920 --> 02:28:04.800]  doing. And so he was about to get an amount of money that would give him more capital than Ford
[02:28:04.800 --> 02:28:10.480]  Motor Company. And so there's a tremendous amount of hype that they put, expectations that they put.
[02:28:10.560 --> 02:28:18.880]  And a lot of this stuff, like some of these EV companies, was based on hype and even fraud in
[02:28:18.880 --> 02:28:23.280]  terms of where they were going. What do you think is going to happen to the stock market now? We've
[02:28:23.280 --> 02:28:29.280]  had a lot of uncertainty because of this tariff thing. We've also got issues with the tech
[02:28:29.280 --> 02:28:35.120]  companies being overbought, as you've talked about. .com bust 2.0 with artificial intelligence.
[02:28:35.760 --> 02:28:41.920]  What do you see happening with the economy and with gold? Has gold maxed out or is it going to
[02:28:41.920 --> 02:28:47.120]  keep running as long as there is this kind of uncertainty and chaos? It's going to keep running
[02:28:47.120 --> 02:28:52.000]  as long as there's this uncertainty and chaos. And before I was talking about nuclear annihilation,
[02:28:53.040 --> 02:29:00.000]  when Trump started talking about having a negotiation with Iran, we said, we wrote in
[02:29:00.000 --> 02:29:05.360]  the Trends Journal, this is a fraud. They have absolutely no intention of making peace with Iran.
[02:29:05.360 --> 02:29:09.920]  I began the conversation about talking about Iran, and they taught us to hate it all our lives.
[02:29:11.680 --> 02:29:17.040]  And everybody get this in your head. These are the Persians. They're very advanced people,
[02:29:18.960 --> 02:29:25.920]  and particularly scientifically, technologically, and militarily. These are not dumb people. They've
[02:29:25.920 --> 02:29:32.960]  been around a long time. Very advanced in a lot of ways. This is a country of 91 million people.
[02:29:34.480 --> 02:29:41.200]  91 million versus 7 million Jewish people in Israel. Who's going to win? They'll flatten,
[02:29:41.920 --> 02:29:50.720]  flatten, blow out Israel to nothing in a blink of an eye. Now Trump is making this deal
[02:29:50.960 --> 02:29:59.120]  with this guy Wittgoff. I can't say there's a jerk off of Wittgoff, whatever. A real estate guy.
[02:29:59.120 --> 02:30:02.960]  A real estate guy. Of course you would make him your ambassador, because it's all about real estate,
[02:30:02.960 --> 02:30:11.440]  isn't it? And again, another Zionist doing the deal. And then he comes out and says,
[02:30:11.440 --> 02:30:15.440]  well, we're not going to pressure Iran to get rid of all their nuclear
[02:30:15.440 --> 02:30:26.560]  production. And then he did a 180 like that. Why isn't Iran allowed to have nuclear power plants
[02:30:27.600 --> 02:30:34.880]  or nuclear development? That's right. But Israel's allowed to have nuclear bombs.
[02:30:35.760 --> 02:30:40.160]  That's right. I forgot they're the chosen people. I was stupid in there.
[02:30:40.160 --> 02:30:44.080]  Gart Goldsmith said, yeah, they're intentionally blurring the, muddying the water,
[02:30:44.080 --> 02:30:47.920]  blurring the lines by just talking about nuclear sites. And everybody, oh, well,
[02:30:47.920 --> 02:30:52.720]  it's nuclear bomb sites. It's nuclear energy sites. I guess they're not allowed to do that.
[02:30:52.720 --> 02:30:56.480]  We're going to change everything over to nuclear energy and it's going to be run by our technocrats
[02:30:56.480 --> 02:31:03.440]  over here, but they're not allowed to have nuclear energy there, right? No. Then going back to Trump,
[02:31:04.000 --> 02:31:07.040]  he's the one that killed the deal when there was the nuclear agreement
[02:31:08.000 --> 02:31:14.720]  that was signed under Obama. And they had the nuclear inspectors going to the Iranian plants
[02:31:14.720 --> 02:31:21.680]  continually showing that they were not making nuclear bombs. And Trump killed that deal,
[02:31:21.680 --> 02:31:32.320]  what, back in 2018? Trump is totally pro-Zionist. Oh, so is Joe Biden. He called himself a Zionist.
[02:31:32.320 --> 02:31:36.080]  And Zionism has nothing to do with religion. It's a political movement.
[02:31:36.320 --> 02:31:42.880]  Right, right. Yeah, there's anti-Zionist Jews, just like there's a lot of anti-Zionist Christians.
[02:31:43.600 --> 02:31:46.720]  And I was talking about that earlier as well. Yeah.
[02:31:46.720 --> 02:31:53.120]  Yeah. Oh, the rabbis hate, a lot of rabbis can't stand the Zionists. Made up thing.
[02:31:53.120 --> 02:31:53.280]  Yeah.
[02:31:53.280 --> 02:32:02.960]  What's that guy? What was it? Theodore, Theodore Herzl? Yeah, 1890s. A guy from like Austria or
[02:32:02.960 --> 02:32:09.120]  Hungary or somebody made up this whole thing. Invented. And then the Rothschilds and all the
[02:32:09.120 --> 02:32:13.520]  other ones supported it. Gave them all the money. As I said, you can't do anything without money.
[02:32:13.520 --> 02:32:16.400]  Look at AIPAC. Runs the country. Yeah.
[02:32:16.400 --> 02:32:18.480]  When it comes to elections, look at the money they gave.
[02:32:20.240 --> 02:32:23.280]  That's right. And now that deadhead Stephanie,
[02:32:23.280 --> 02:32:26.880]  whatever her name is, she's going to be running for governor of New York. Oh, great. We've got
[02:32:26.880 --> 02:32:30.560]  one more run. She put in another one. It's a freak show. Yeah.
[02:32:30.640 --> 02:32:34.240]  Look at the freaks running the show. It's in front of everybody's eyes.
[02:32:34.240 --> 02:32:35.120]  Yeah. As I said,
[02:32:35.120 --> 02:32:39.120]  the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus went out of business because you don't have to
[02:32:39.120 --> 02:32:46.080]  step right up and see the freaks. Oh, you like little Mikey Johnson? Look at that little nothing
[02:32:46.080 --> 02:32:50.400]  of a clown boy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[02:32:50.400 --> 02:32:56.960]  So going back to Iran, Israel's going to ramp up this war. They just came out with this BS line
[02:32:57.600 --> 02:33:03.120]  that Trump stopped Netanyahu from bombing Iran. Did you see that a couple of days ago?
[02:33:03.120 --> 02:33:07.840]  Yeah, I saw that. Are you buying that line? No, it's total baloney.
[02:33:07.840 --> 02:33:14.880]  They tell him what to do. Total baloney. But even though to say that, that they're thinking
[02:33:14.880 --> 02:33:20.480]  of bombing Iran, I'm telling you that's why gold prices are going up like this.
[02:33:21.280 --> 02:33:29.520]  Yeah. Yeah. And don't forget, hey, you will elect me. I'm going to end that Ukraine war
[02:33:29.520 --> 02:33:35.920]  in 24 hours after I get into office. Okay. Yeah. He stopped talking about that, hasn't he?
[02:33:37.840 --> 02:33:40.240]  24 hours. How could he get away with this crap? Yeah.
[02:33:42.000 --> 02:33:49.200]  I make him call something wrong. Oh, my God. Solenty called it wrong. Hey, I'm a human being.
[02:33:49.200 --> 02:33:54.720]  I can't get everything right all the time. Right. All right. But look at my track record.
[02:33:55.440 --> 02:34:01.520]  But I'm not lying to you in front of your eyes. Yeah, that's right. And I want you to remember
[02:34:01.520 --> 02:34:06.880]  this. Now that I'm elected, that Ukraine war is going to end before I get into office.
[02:34:07.760 --> 02:34:12.080]  Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. A fat mouth. What's going on?
[02:34:15.360 --> 02:34:20.480]  Yeah, that's right. So here's the deal. Europe writing about it in the Trends
[02:34:20.480 --> 02:34:23.520]  journals pumping more and more money into the Ukraine war.
[02:34:24.640 --> 02:34:31.040]  Kyle Hitler's back in Germany with this guy Mertz building up the military and in warning
[02:34:31.040 --> 02:34:38.960]  his government, a former black rock guy. Black rock. Yeah.
[02:34:41.280 --> 02:34:44.560]  We got to watch those Russians. They're going to try to invade Europe.
[02:34:45.920 --> 02:34:51.200]  They're selling the domino theory that they sold during the Vietnam War. Yeah. And if we don't
[02:34:51.200 --> 02:34:59.600]  stop those Russians, this coming out of the mouth of the Germans, they're building their defense
[02:34:59.600 --> 02:35:03.520]  budget, what, a trillion dollars? Oh, we're going to put money into infrastructure too.
[02:35:04.560 --> 02:35:10.480]  Wait a minute. You're in recession for two years. You're going into your third year recession,
[02:35:10.480 --> 02:35:15.840]  third largest economy in the world and the largest in Europe. And now you're going into
[02:35:15.840 --> 02:35:22.080]  a trillion dollars worth of debt to build up your defense. That's right. We got to stop them Russians.
[02:35:22.480 --> 02:35:32.640]  Wait a minute. You killed over 25 million in World War II, Operation Barbarossa,
[02:35:33.440 --> 02:35:36.560]  and you're talking about you have to stop the Russians?
[02:35:40.000 --> 02:35:47.360]  World War III has begun. There's going to be a false flag event or something that makes it official.
[02:35:47.440 --> 02:35:55.840]  So this is why gold prices are going up. That plus look at two of our top trends.
[02:35:55.840 --> 02:36:01.600]  Again, I'm at this 45 years. Never did we come out with a top trend wild card
[02:36:03.360 --> 02:36:08.560]  because of the Trump card. Nothing like this in my lifetime.
[02:36:09.920 --> 02:36:14.240]  Yeah, that's right. That's right. Totally unpredictable what he's going to do from one
[02:36:14.240 --> 02:36:19.920]  hour to the next. You look at this tariff stuff I was just talking about that changing his position
[02:36:20.640 --> 02:36:26.640]  within 24 hours. We've got two different takes on this stuff. But when you go back and you look at
[02:36:26.640 --> 02:36:32.800]  the rearmament of Europe, it seems to me like this is, I think these guys are selected. I think they
[02:36:32.800 --> 02:36:38.320]  intentionally put Trump in and then took him out and put Biden in and then put him back in again.
[02:36:38.320 --> 02:36:43.040]  And I think he's there as an agent of chaos. And I think he's there to push into this
[02:36:43.040 --> 02:36:48.960]  world war. He was a hero to a lot of people who were saying, well, look, he's complaining about
[02:36:48.960 --> 02:36:54.320]  Europe not carrying their weight in NATO. And so we might just get out of NATO. Well, he had no
[02:36:54.320 --> 02:36:58.800]  intention of getting out of NATO. I think what he was just doing was to just to tell them that
[02:36:58.800 --> 02:37:03.840]  they've got to spend more money. And that's a constant recurring theme. Now in his second term,
[02:37:03.840 --> 02:37:08.480]  you've got to rearm. And as we look at Volkswagen and these other car companies that can't compete
[02:37:08.480 --> 02:37:14.960]  with China on EVs and they can't economically really manufacture anything because they've put
[02:37:14.960 --> 02:37:20.720]  restrictions on their energy usage. Now they're moving into Volkswagen and these other companies
[02:37:20.720 --> 02:37:25.520]  are now moving into making military equipment. So it is a huge rearmament and it's a huge
[02:37:25.520 --> 02:37:28.800]  repositioning. This is something that's been sold by Trump all the way through.
[02:37:29.680 --> 02:37:39.680]  Again, think of the stupidity of this. You're building bombs, rockets, planes, ships, whatever.
[02:37:41.120 --> 02:37:49.920]  This is World War III. Grow up. Why don't you use bow and arrows, all right? It's going to be
[02:37:49.920 --> 02:37:58.480]  new millennium warfare. All this crap you're doing is totally worthless junk. It's going to be nuclear
[02:37:58.560 --> 02:38:06.800]  annihilation in a blink of an eye. But meanwhile, they're putting in a trillion dollars on the
[02:38:06.800 --> 02:38:13.280]  defense budget for the first time. And you don't see Elon Musk, who is a military industrial
[02:38:13.280 --> 02:38:17.040]  contractor himself, you don't see him looking at the Pentagon spending for efficiency or waste at
[02:38:17.040 --> 02:38:24.560]  all, do you? No. And look at the little clown boy that's our secretary of defense. A little
[02:38:24.560 --> 02:38:36.400]  arrogant nothing of a jerk. One after another. Could you get dumber, stupider, loser than Marco
[02:38:36.400 --> 02:38:48.480]  Rubio? That's right. A little nothing of a boy. It's a freak show. Step right up, step right up.
[02:38:48.480 --> 02:38:57.840]  But in a country near you, a little Katsun Macron over there, a little nothing of a boy,
[02:38:57.840 --> 02:39:08.000]  if he is at all. Stommer over there in the UK, and who was before him? The best cartoonist in
[02:39:08.000 --> 02:39:13.040]  the world could not have come up with a freakier looking clown figure than Boris Johnson.
[02:39:14.000 --> 02:39:20.640]  He really leaned into that cartoon look, didn't he? I always called him Bojo, you know, Boris
[02:39:20.640 --> 02:39:29.120]  Johnson. Bojo the clown. Again, it's one jerk after another running a country near you.
[02:39:30.640 --> 02:39:38.160]  Yeah, I agree. What about what is happening in the last 24 hours? We had Powell come out and
[02:39:38.240 --> 02:39:45.760]  say that he's not going to pay any attention to Trump. He got a lot of applause when he said that.
[02:39:45.760 --> 02:39:51.120]  He said that as he was speaking to the group, he says, I'm not going to bow to any political
[02:39:51.120 --> 02:39:55.040]  pressure from Trump. Got a lot of applause. Well, that set Trump off. And he said,
[02:39:56.240 --> 02:39:59.840]  he's playing politics. And if I tell him to leave, he's going to leave. What do you think
[02:39:59.840 --> 02:40:05.200]  is going to happen? And what's the impact? You know, Trump certainly with all of the uncertainty
[02:40:05.760 --> 02:40:10.720]  is wrecking the markets. And we've talked about whether or not, you know, what the Federal Reserve
[02:40:10.720 --> 02:40:14.800]  is going to do because they can wreck things or, you know, create inflation with their quantitative
[02:40:14.800 --> 02:40:19.680]  easing or interest rates or whatever. So what do you think is going to play out with this competition
[02:40:19.680 --> 02:40:23.840]  between Powell and Trump? What do you think they're going to, what do you think the Fed's going to do?
[02:40:25.360 --> 02:40:30.160]  They're writing about it in the Trends Journal now since Trump got, before Trump got elected.
[02:40:31.120 --> 02:40:36.800]  Mm hmm. We said that he's going to do everything he can to lower interest rates
[02:40:37.840 --> 02:40:43.680]  and juice up the economy if there's any kind of danger of it going down or the markets going down.
[02:40:44.720 --> 02:40:53.680]  And we said, he's done it before and he'll do it again. Let's go back to December 2018.
[02:40:54.640 --> 02:40:59.920]  The Dow had its worst December since the Great Depression, 1931.
[02:41:02.240 --> 02:41:11.120]  What did Trump do? He pushed Powell to lower interest rates, which Powell did in January 2019,
[02:41:12.720 --> 02:41:17.680]  and it juiced the markets. Remember the repo crisis? We'll forget about that.
[02:41:17.680 --> 02:41:20.560]  Oh yeah. Yeah.
[02:41:20.560 --> 02:41:24.080]  Powell is nothing more than a little nothing of a boy.
[02:41:26.240 --> 02:41:31.440]  As George Carlin said, it's one big club and you ain't in it. Who was the Fed head
[02:41:32.800 --> 02:41:38.000]  that became the Treasury Secretary? Janet Yellen, remember her?
[02:41:38.000 --> 02:41:42.000]  Yeah. Yeah. Did mushrooms in China and couldn't stop bowing. Yeah.
[02:41:42.000 --> 02:41:52.720]  As we say, Ms. Fatshia Brute. A clown that was the Fed head becomes the Treasury Secretary,
[02:41:54.320 --> 02:41:56.400]  all right? Mm hmm.
[02:41:56.400 --> 02:42:02.640]  It's the same club. Powell will do what he's told to do. He's a gutless little nothing of a boy.
[02:42:02.640 --> 02:42:06.960]  Mm hmm. And Trump will lower
[02:42:06.960 --> 02:42:15.600]  interest rates for another reason. In selling his tariff deal, they want to devalue the dollar
[02:42:16.400 --> 02:42:24.080]  so that American products are cheaper to buy, just like China did. We said China was going to do it.
[02:42:25.600 --> 02:42:32.160]  And before you talked about Volkswagen and these other companies, whose car sales are going way
[02:42:32.160 --> 02:42:44.480]  down, this is the Volkswagen, the BMWs, the Chevrolet, these are the Fords, the General Motors
[02:42:44.480 --> 02:42:50.720]  that had great, great years in China when Bill Clinton brought China into the World Trade
[02:42:50.720 --> 02:42:57.840]  Organization. And all these Western companies wanted cheap labor. They went over to China
[02:42:58.800 --> 02:43:04.080]  and gave China all the high tech and heavy industry technology they never had.
[02:43:05.600 --> 02:43:11.120]  And now 25 years later, they got it all. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:43:11.120 --> 02:43:14.960]  And you got to put this stuff into perspective as trend forecasters.
[02:43:15.600 --> 02:43:21.520]  You make connections between different fields. All things are connected, like the blood which
[02:43:21.520 --> 02:43:26.960]  unites us all, said Chief Seattle, but I think he was wrong with that because we're not connected
[02:43:26.960 --> 02:43:38.080]  at all. But anyway, go back to 2000. 10% of Chinese 18-year-olds went to college.
[02:43:39.280 --> 02:43:46.560]  Now, nearly 70%. This is a country of 1.4 billion people. They're very smart.
[02:43:48.320 --> 02:43:51.200]  America's dumbing down in front of your eyes. Oh, yeah.
[02:43:52.000 --> 02:44:01.120]  We got 347 million, 345 million. 345 million against 1.4 billion that are very advanced
[02:44:01.120 --> 02:44:06.320]  technologically, high tech and heavy industry. Goes back to AI.
[02:44:08.960 --> 02:44:14.480]  Oh, there's going to be a dot-com bust because of all the over investment in the first AI companies
[02:44:14.480 --> 02:44:19.600]  that came out. Trends are born, they grow, they mature, reach old age and die. The AI trend was
[02:44:19.600 --> 02:44:28.000]  only born in 2022. And everybody invested in these IPOs and these IPO wannabes and the new tech.
[02:44:28.800 --> 02:44:35.040]  Oh, no, we don't need these big chips. No, it doesn't cost us $100 million. It only
[02:44:35.040 --> 02:44:42.400]  cost us $6 million to do what you did with the chat. We could outdo you.
[02:44:43.200 --> 02:44:54.320]  Yeah. This is just the beginning. Germany was at the height of engineering and advancement
[02:44:55.360 --> 02:45:03.520]  for decades. No more because of the bureaucracy. I can't stand going back to Italy because of the
[02:45:03.520 --> 02:45:09.040]  bureaucracy. It's one of the worst in the world. I got friends that live there. They complain all
[02:45:09.040 --> 02:45:16.000]  the time. The bureaucracy is going back to what you said about that guy that got the TSA, what
[02:45:16.000 --> 02:45:25.360]  they did to him. It's going on all throughout the Western world. Well, let me ask you, when we go
[02:45:25.360 --> 02:45:30.960]  back to interest rates and Powell and all the rest of stuff, and as you point out, we know that Trump
[02:45:30.960 --> 02:45:36.160]  wants to get the interest rates lowered, helps him with the interest on the debt, which is getting
[02:45:36.160 --> 02:45:43.840]  very significant. And yet, when you look at people's trust in the dollar, when we saw him
[02:45:43.840 --> 02:45:48.800]  reverse very quickly as the stock market was crashing for two days in a row, that first day
[02:45:48.800 --> 02:45:53.200]  when it was crashing, he came out and essentially alluded to the fact that it was bonds. Other
[02:45:53.200 --> 02:45:58.160]  people said that it was Japan that was dumping the bonds. If he lowers interest rates, if he
[02:45:58.160 --> 02:46:03.520]  devalues the dollar, that makes it harder for him to sell bonds. So what's the follow-up with that?
[02:46:04.400 --> 02:46:11.600]  I've suggested that perhaps this whole stablecoin stuff is an opportunity for them to
[02:46:12.480 --> 02:46:16.480]  get the stablecoin to buy their bonds when other countries don't want to buy it and other investors
[02:46:16.480 --> 02:46:20.400]  don't want to buy it. And then if they can move it over to that, that also gives them all the
[02:46:20.400 --> 02:46:26.560]  functionality of CBDC or digital currency. What do you think about that? I think you're 100% right.
[02:46:27.200 --> 02:46:33.600]  And by the way, I won't go back to that, but also the deeper the dollar fall, again, you go back to
[02:46:33.600 --> 02:46:39.200]  your Trends Journal, the death of the dollar. We've been saying this is going to happen. The
[02:46:39.200 --> 02:46:50.240]  world has had enough of America's economic and geopolitical hegemony. They had it. Going back,
[02:46:50.240 --> 02:46:56.960]  the lower the dollar goes, the higher gold prices spike. Gold is dollar-based.
[02:46:58.320 --> 02:47:03.440]  So now it becomes cheaper for other countries to buy gold because their currencies have gone up.
[02:47:04.800 --> 02:47:11.360]  So going back to what you said about CBDC, absolutely. They'll invent one. The Trump team
[02:47:11.360 --> 02:47:18.160]  will capitalize on it. And we're doing away with the dollar. We're coming out with a new currency,
[02:47:18.160 --> 02:47:22.800]  a digital currency. We'll know every penny you spent, what you spent it on. We get all our tax
[02:47:22.800 --> 02:47:28.000]  money from you. And my family's very heavily invested in this coin, that coin, this thing,
[02:47:28.000 --> 02:47:33.600]  that thing. And we're going to make more billions of dollars. Yeah, I agree. They're going to
[02:47:33.600 --> 02:47:39.520]  definitely go CBDC. There's no question the world is going to go into it. China's already there.
[02:47:39.520 --> 02:47:44.240]  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Europe is not even making any bones about it. They're still calling it a
[02:47:44.240 --> 02:47:52.080]  CBDC. I think what'll happen here is that people around Trump will do it stealthily.
[02:47:52.080 --> 02:47:55.440]  They'll also do it in a way in which they make money, I think, as well.
[02:47:55.440 --> 02:47:59.280]  That's what I'm saying. Yeah, personally, they make money.
[02:47:59.280 --> 02:48:03.040]  Don't you think that his family knew when he said what he was going to do
[02:48:03.680 --> 02:48:09.040]  and his friends to pump the market up before the market skyrocketed?
[02:48:10.320 --> 02:48:12.000]  Oh, yeah, absolutely. Don't you think his friends
[02:48:12.000 --> 02:48:16.480]  or anybody knew, hey, listen, you might want to buy the market tomorrow because
[02:48:17.680 --> 02:48:24.000]  He even said that. He even said that. Now's a good time to buy. And I said, OK, even if that wasn't
[02:48:24.000 --> 02:48:31.040]  knowing Trump, I think that was a signal to sell. But even if he wasn't intentionally trying to
[02:48:31.040 --> 02:48:37.920]  send a signal to people, when he takes all of this power to himself to be able to put the tariffs on,
[02:48:37.920 --> 02:48:43.280]  take the tariffs off, set the rates, arbitral, this and that, that leaves him open even if he
[02:48:43.280 --> 02:48:49.360]  was trying to honestly do that. Accruing all that power to himself puts him in that position where,
[02:48:49.360 --> 02:48:52.640]  of course, they're going to investigate him. His political enemies are going to investigate
[02:48:52.640 --> 02:48:57.120]  him for rigging the markets. It's just a given with him taking all of that power.
[02:48:57.840 --> 02:49:03.040]  He'll do whatever he wants. And again, the reality is we're talking about this guy's been
[02:49:03.040 --> 02:49:09.840]  there for only three months. It's going to be a long time, isn't it? Oh, my God. Are you kidding?
[02:49:10.640 --> 02:49:18.320]  And again, this guy's power hungry as could be. Yeah. Yeah. And so this is, I'm telling you,
[02:49:18.320 --> 02:49:24.880]  that's why I would not have thought gold prices would have spiked the way they have.
[02:49:27.920 --> 02:49:31.760]  But when you look at it, if he's able to lower the rates, you know, putting pressure on Powell and
[02:49:31.760 --> 02:49:37.920]  Powell wants to, you know, not fight him. Or if they devalue the dollar or whatever, all of that
[02:49:37.920 --> 02:49:44.000]  stuff is going to help gold. Every bit of it. Yeah. It's going to really shoot it through the roof.
[02:49:44.000 --> 02:49:47.280]  Yeah. I've got a lot of people who've been saying they think this is gold is getting ready to go
[02:49:47.280 --> 02:49:55.280]  hyperbolic. Yeah. I don't know. It may well. It may well. And you could easily see $3,500 an ounce
[02:49:55.360 --> 02:50:02.400]  gold. And again. Oh, it's not that far now. Yeah. Oh, you remember the BS line? We're going to go
[02:50:02.400 --> 02:50:08.880]  into Fort Knox. Yeah. They stopped talking about that, didn't they? Yeah. Yeah. Don't draw any more
[02:50:08.880 --> 02:50:13.840]  attention to gold, I guess. They know what's in there. Yeah. Right. And we wouldn't know anyway
[02:50:13.840 --> 02:50:18.400]  if they went in there. I mean, it'd be like Al Capone's vault, right? If they walked in and there
[02:50:18.400 --> 02:50:21.680]  was nothing there, they'd come up with an explanation. If they walk in and we see some
[02:50:21.680 --> 02:50:26.240]  gold stuff, we don't know if it was painted or not. I mean, there was a picture I saw,
[02:50:27.280 --> 02:50:33.120]  Gerald, of how Trump has changed the Oval Office, where he has all these press conferences and
[02:50:33.120 --> 02:50:41.440]  everything. And he's got his gold guy that makes everything gold in Mar-a-Lago. King Midas came in.
[02:50:41.440 --> 02:50:46.640]  And so he's painting everything with gold leaf all through the Oval Office and everything. I mean,
[02:50:46.640 --> 02:50:51.440]  he loves gold. He talks about where he's going to have a golden age. Well, I guess maybe that
[02:50:51.440 --> 02:50:55.680]  was the tip that you should buy gold. I don't know. But he loves gold everywhere, doesn't he?
[02:50:55.680 --> 02:51:00.800]  Except we see it in Fort Knox. We wouldn't know if that was his gold guy that just went in there
[02:51:00.800 --> 02:51:06.320]  and painted some bricks. How would we know the difference with it, right? You know, before we
[02:51:06.320 --> 02:51:10.560]  went on the air, he said, hey, how are you doing? I said, I'm doing all right. I have to tell you,
[02:51:10.560 --> 02:51:18.000]  you know, the magazine comes out every Tuesday. This past Tuesday, I was so depressed. I got to
[02:51:18.080 --> 02:51:29.760]  write about this and read about this stuff every day. The massacre going on in Sudan, in Gaza,
[02:51:30.800 --> 02:51:36.800]  the death of people, the slaughter of people, starvation of people. You mentioned that clown,
[02:51:36.800 --> 02:51:43.680]  Katz, the defense guy in Israel. What do you say? He's going to cut off all humanitarian aid?
[02:51:43.680 --> 02:51:48.800]  That's right. Yeah. Could you imagine, let's reverse this.
[02:51:50.560 --> 02:51:55.680]  Let's suppose his name was in Katz, and we'll make up some Arab name for him.
[02:51:57.040 --> 02:51:59.440]  Mohammed. These were Jewish people in Gaza.
[02:52:01.600 --> 02:52:08.000]  Yeah. Suppose these were Jewish people in Gaza that were being, and they're not Palestinians,
[02:52:08.560 --> 02:52:13.600]  the outrage that would be there, they would call this Holocaust 2.0.
[02:52:15.120 --> 02:52:18.480]  Yeah. But they're only Palestinians. Their lives don't matter.
[02:52:19.840 --> 02:52:29.440]  Yeah. I'm heartbroken. I am so heartbroken to see this. And again, you know, I launched Occupy
[02:52:29.440 --> 02:52:36.640]  Peace well over a decade ago. So it's not, and now we're going into a Good Friday. Yeah, where are
[02:52:36.640 --> 02:52:47.120]  all these religions that believe in the Prince of Peace? Zionism is really taking over Christianity
[02:52:47.120 --> 02:52:52.960]  here in America. It truly is. And it's not Christian at all. No. And I talked about that
[02:52:52.960 --> 02:52:58.720]  the first part of the program. And you know, when I look at this, I absolutely feel the same way you
[02:52:58.720 --> 02:53:04.720]  do. People say to me, you know, the news is just too dark and too depressing and everything. And
[02:53:04.720 --> 02:53:10.160]  it is depressing even more so when you and I look into it all the time. And as much of it as we see,
[02:53:11.040 --> 02:53:16.400]  it's even more depressing than what I cover on the show here. And yet the only thing that I have,
[02:53:16.400 --> 02:53:21.680]  I have a hope that is outside of this life. And that's the key thing for me. And you know,
[02:53:21.680 --> 02:53:26.160]  I really couldn't do this if I didn't have the hope of Christ. And I know that this stuff that
[02:53:26.160 --> 02:53:31.600]  is happening now, it has, you know, we're in a period of time where there's a battle that's going
[02:53:31.600 --> 02:53:39.920]  on. And I just see it as being a part of that battle. And, you know, I know what is going to
[02:53:39.920 --> 02:53:46.080]  happen after I die. I know this life is very short. But I'm absolutely confident. You know,
[02:53:46.080 --> 02:53:51.200]  that's what hope is. That word is confident expectation. That's what I have, confident
[02:53:51.200 --> 02:53:57.520]  expectation of what's going to happen. I just know that I'm in the fight. I look at the disease and
[02:53:57.520 --> 02:54:02.880]  the suffering in this fallen world. And I know that it's not in my power to change it,
[02:54:02.880 --> 02:54:09.040]  but that there is a purpose ultimately that is going to be made out of this in this time of
[02:54:09.040 --> 02:54:14.640]  struggle. And we're just here to try to show people what is happening. We don't know if we're
[02:54:14.640 --> 02:54:21.520]  talking to people who have ears to hear and eyes to see or not. But we just had, we're called to
[02:54:21.520 --> 02:54:26.720]  just tell people what we see. That's what, you know, you're trying to do with this, I think.
[02:54:26.720 --> 02:54:32.320]  And it certainly is what I'm trying to do. Well, you see, I believe that we can change it.
[02:54:33.440 --> 02:54:39.120]  I mean, was Trump better than you and me? I think we need to warn people, you know,
[02:54:39.120 --> 02:54:43.200]  whether we can, yeah, whether we can change it or not, we need to warn people about it. Yeah.
[02:54:43.200 --> 02:54:48.720]  Yeah. But again, you know, like, this is the other thing I'm hearing from people. I can't
[02:54:48.720 --> 02:54:56.640]  do this. I'm so depressed with this. I'm tuning out. Oh, great. Tune out. Yeah, great. Let Hitler
[02:54:56.640 --> 02:55:05.600]  take over. Yeah. Don't do anything. Don't do anything. Don't do a damn thing. You can't do
[02:55:05.600 --> 02:55:10.400]  anything. That's who you believe. Fine. Everybody else could do anything. Oh, we talked about the
[02:55:10.400 --> 02:55:19.680]  Zuckerbergs, the Musks, the peach eyes, the cook. Oh, they could do a thing. You can't. Yeah. You're
[02:55:19.680 --> 02:55:25.360]  powerless. Everybody out there, you're powerless. That's what they put into the people's heads
[02:55:25.440 --> 02:55:31.920]  because they use these words. Celebrities. Let's celebrities. What the hell are you talking to?
[02:55:33.600 --> 02:55:42.880]  Celebrities. Oh, officials. Yeah. Dignitaries. Yeah. That's bullshit crap words. Excuse the
[02:55:42.880 --> 02:55:51.440]  language. BS crap words about putting people at a higher level than anybody else and that we're
[02:55:51.440 --> 02:55:57.840]  supposed to follow them. We're still in kindergarten. I agree. Yeah. I've talked to
[02:55:57.840 --> 02:56:03.600]  people. We went into the pharmacist, and I've told the story on air. My son, who was injured
[02:56:03.600 --> 02:56:07.440]  with antibiotics, and we were talking to the people there at the pharmacy because they were
[02:56:07.440 --> 02:56:11.920]  asking us why we were buying some of the stuff that we were buying. And she said, oh, wow.
[02:56:11.920 --> 02:56:16.640]  I said, yeah, it's on the warning label, but they don't give you the black box warning label. But
[02:56:16.640 --> 02:56:21.040]  she said, oh, that's stuff on the label. This is a person at the pharmacy. The labels are so scary.
[02:56:21.040 --> 02:56:25.280]  I just don't read them anymore. And I thought, wow, you know, that's the way people are with
[02:56:25.280 --> 02:56:30.080]  news as well. The news is so scary. I just don't want to know. I want everything to be nice and
[02:56:30.080 --> 02:56:33.760]  happy. I want to pretend that this stuff doesn't exist. Well, you can pretend that it doesn't
[02:56:33.760 --> 02:56:38.480]  exist, but that's not going to make it go away. It's only going to get worse, isn't it? Again,
[02:56:38.480 --> 02:56:45.840]  it's Easter time, and I consider myself a warrior for the Prince of Peace. And when I say warrior,
[02:56:45.840 --> 02:56:51.280]  I mean it, because this is one of the covers of the Trends Journal back in 2011.
[02:56:53.120 --> 02:57:00.480]  The Prince of Peace made a whip to drive the money changes out of the temple.
[02:57:06.480 --> 02:57:14.800]  The same money changes that are running the world today. So as I said, where are all the religions
[02:57:14.800 --> 02:57:22.080]  that believe in Christ, and how come they're not out there saying stop this slaughter of human beings?
[02:57:23.040 --> 02:57:28.560]  I agree. I mean, it's because they're being run by people like Paula White and Hagee and these,
[02:57:28.560 --> 02:57:33.280]  you know, these big name preachers out there who are friends of Tom. I have friends that go to the
[02:57:33.280 --> 02:57:40.000]  Catholic Church over here that were totally pro-Ukrainian war. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,
[02:57:40.000 --> 02:57:45.280]  for many of the people who are pushing this stuff, it's the love of money. Yeah. I said for
[02:57:45.280 --> 02:57:48.960]  many of the people who are pushing this, it's their love of money, right? They don't want,
[02:57:48.960 --> 02:57:51.600]  they want to be a part of the system just like you're talking about. They want to be a part of
[02:57:51.600 --> 02:57:57.440]  the club. They can make a lot of money if they are pushing Ukraine war, they're pushing the
[02:57:57.440 --> 02:58:02.880]  Israel war. And so they push it to their people and other people are being led by them, you know,
[02:58:02.880 --> 02:58:06.960]  and they're being led by people who are at the root of all evil. Money's not evil. It's the love
[02:58:06.960 --> 02:58:10.960]  of the money. And that's what's turning these people, I think. Well, again, you look at the
[02:58:10.960 --> 02:58:16.480]  people listening to your show and mine, there are enough people that have had enough of this.
[02:58:17.600 --> 02:58:23.920]  And if we united under a banner, a real peace banner of reality, we could change this.
[02:58:24.480 --> 02:58:31.600]  The people, look, if Trump wasn't there, let's pretend he's not there, nobody would want to
[02:58:31.600 --> 02:58:36.400]  vote for the Democratic, for the Republicans. There's nobody there that's a standout.
[02:58:36.640 --> 02:58:42.400]  And again, they're pumping up this Cortez and Bernie Sanders on the Democratic. Are you kidding
[02:58:42.400 --> 02:58:49.760]  me? Yeah. Are you kidding? Look at the little jerk show over here. There are a load of people
[02:58:49.760 --> 02:58:56.960]  that are ready for a new way. I agree. And that's what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for peace
[02:58:56.960 --> 02:59:03.360]  and a new way to bring back the true American spirit that I grew up with that made me the man
[02:59:03.360 --> 02:59:09.280]  that I am and the family and blessed to come from that really gave it to me. And that's how
[02:59:09.280 --> 02:59:13.200]  I grew up. You be who you want to be. Don't you tell me who to be or tell me what to do.
[02:59:13.760 --> 02:59:18.960]  I agree. That's the life that I live. Matter of fact, my father, may he rest in peace. I get in
[02:59:18.960 --> 02:59:23.280]  a fight with him. He said to me, a little SOB. You think I'm telling you what I'm telling you
[02:59:23.280 --> 02:59:31.840]  because I want you to be like me? I want you to become yourself. Yeah. That's right. Well,
[02:59:31.840 --> 02:59:36.880]  again, it's always great to have you on Gerald. And if you use the code night, folks, you can get
[02:59:36.880 --> 02:59:44.160]  Trends Journal 10% off and it is filled with the wealth of information. It's truly amazing as you
[02:59:44.160 --> 02:59:47.680]  pointed out, Gerald, that Wall Street Journal doesn't even talk about what's going on with
[02:59:47.680 --> 02:59:53.360]  gold. How could they miss that? I guess they can hype the vaccines, but they don't want to
[02:59:53.360 --> 02:59:57.200]  tell you about gold. Thank you so much for joining us. Have a great weekend. Thank you,
[02:59:57.200 --> 02:59:59.200]  Gerald. And thank you everybody. Have a great weekend.
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