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[01:28.600 --> 01:51.880]  As the clock strikes 13, Thursday, the 4th of December, year of our Lord 2025, well today
[01:51.880 --> 01:57.560]  we're going to look at some of the harbingers of what is coming with the technocracy, AI,
[01:57.560 --> 01:59.120]  humanoid robots.
[01:59.120 --> 02:01.800]  Even China is concerned.
[02:01.800 --> 02:05.760]  China's concerned not so much about the authoritarian consequences, they like that.
[02:05.760 --> 02:12.640]  They're concerned even about a bubble in their own country that maybe they're investing too
[02:12.640 --> 02:15.520]  much into this area, malinvestment.
[02:15.520 --> 02:19.920]  Who would have thought that that would happen with an economy that is controlled by the
[02:19.920 --> 02:20.920]  government?
[02:20.920 --> 02:24.080]  But we'll take a look at that.
[02:24.680 --> 02:28.000]  We'll also take a look.
[02:28.000 --> 02:35.320]  Joe Rogan has an interesting theory about Jesus coming back as artificial intelligence.
[02:35.320 --> 02:39.720]  I just about fell out of my chair when I saw that.
[02:39.720 --> 02:46.840]  But we have other news that is not quite as comical as that.
[02:46.840 --> 02:48.240]  And we'll be right back.
[02:48.240 --> 02:49.160]  Stay with us.
[02:54.080 --> 03:16.960]  Well, before we get into some of the weightier issues and what is happening in terms of the
[03:16.960 --> 03:23.440]  cultural drift, I thought this is a very interesting article and it really does go back to the
[03:23.440 --> 03:26.360]  Second Amendment and your right to defend yourself.
[03:26.360 --> 03:30.720]  It also goes back to the mandates about the vaccines and things like that and informed
[03:30.720 --> 03:32.800]  consent.
[03:32.800 --> 03:36.840]  When it comes to your life, you are not owned by corporations.
[03:36.840 --> 03:44.720]  This is an example of a woman, 25 years old, who had been working very late night, dangerous
[03:44.720 --> 03:49.040]  shift at a convenience store chain, 7-Eleven.
[03:49.040 --> 03:56.240]  And she was attacked by a man in the convenience store late at night when she was there basically
[03:56.240 --> 03:58.000]  by herself.
[03:58.000 --> 04:03.400]  And she tried to bank him off with a gun and he would not do it.
[04:03.400 --> 04:10.160]  He attacked her, physically made contact and hurt her, but she killed him with a gun.
[04:10.160 --> 04:14.800]  And so then 7-Eleven fired her because she was carrying a gun.
[04:14.800 --> 04:21.960]  But as John Lott points out, the reason that she had a gun was the reason that she is alive.
[04:21.960 --> 04:28.540]  When you look at the statistics, the gun at least gives women a fighting chance.
[04:28.540 --> 04:34.480]  If they watch the Marvel movies, these other things where women are taking out a whole
[04:34.480 --> 04:39.120]  group of men, that is simply wish fulfillment for women.
[04:39.120 --> 04:43.040]  That is nothing that has to do with reality and statistics.
[04:43.040 --> 04:48.880]  But you do not understand, it is 7-Eleven's policy for workers to die when they are.
[04:48.880 --> 04:53.720]  That is right, just like it was the policy of a lot of companies who wanted to do business
[04:53.720 --> 04:56.560]  with the federal government.
[04:56.560 --> 05:01.320]  And Biden made that a condition and so they said, so you will take the shot or you will
[05:01.320 --> 05:02.840]  lose your job.
[05:02.840 --> 05:09.960]  So last week, 7-Eleven fired the 25-year-old after she used her gun to save her own life.
[05:09.960 --> 05:13.200]  Good companies have every right to set rules for employee behavior, but many corporate
[05:13.200 --> 05:18.760]  policies that require workers to remain passive and comply with criminals' demands rest on
[05:18.760 --> 05:21.240]  a deeply mistaken view of crime data.
[05:21.240 --> 05:28.320]  You know, when I saw this, when Karen and I were living in Houston, she was a district
[05:28.320 --> 05:33.960]  personnel manager for a convenience store chain, not 7-Eleven, another one.
[05:33.960 --> 05:38.780]  So they had policies about how they were supposed to act if it was a robbery.
[05:38.780 --> 05:39.780]  This is not a robbery.
[05:39.780 --> 05:43.500]  This is a guy who was attacking her to rape or kill her.
[05:43.500 --> 05:49.060]  But when they had a robbery, you know, they are just supposed to hand them the money and
[05:49.060 --> 05:52.260]  not get involved in a fight in terms of a conflict.
[05:52.260 --> 06:00.260]  The problem was that they had a lot of Asian employees who, their reaction to a robbery,
[06:00.260 --> 06:06.740]  especially if it was somebody that was a different ethnic group, their response was to kind of
[06:06.740 --> 06:08.540]  smile or whatever.
[06:08.540 --> 06:14.660]  It just set off flags with the other ethnic group that was typically doing the robberies.
[06:14.660 --> 06:17.420]  And they were getting shot very frequently.
[06:17.420 --> 06:21.500]  And you have the situation where, and you see this over and over again, you have some
[06:21.500 --> 06:23.020]  ethnic group that comes in.
[06:23.020 --> 06:24.020]  It's not just white people.
[06:24.020 --> 06:26.220]  They'll hire other white people.
[06:26.220 --> 06:29.260]  If you get Mexicans in, they will hire other Mexicans and Asians in.
[06:29.260 --> 06:30.580]  They'll hire other Asians.
[06:30.580 --> 06:35.780]  And so they had a manager, and he was a martial arts expert.
[06:35.780 --> 06:40.940]  I mean, Karen had seen him do some pretty amazing things just to demonstrate his precision
[06:40.940 --> 06:47.620]  kicking abilities and things like that, you know, just as a demonstration not out of anger.
[06:47.620 --> 06:51.060]  He did like a sidekick to a manager that was standing there and just came within like an
[06:51.060 --> 06:56.420]  inch of his face deliberately pulling it back.
[06:56.420 --> 07:01.480]  So anyway, this guy was pretty bulked up, and he was very agile and everything.
[07:01.480 --> 07:04.900]  So he was there during one of these robberies.
[07:05.060 --> 07:11.900]  The robber had a gun, and this guy, his name was Sue, by the way, is kind of the Johnny
[07:11.900 --> 07:14.860]  Cash song, you know, Boy Named Sue.
[07:14.860 --> 07:21.180]  But I don't know if he got ribbed about that or not, but he was a nice guy.
[07:21.180 --> 07:22.440]  I mean, he was a nice guy.
[07:22.440 --> 07:28.940]  But he decided that he could take on a gun with martial arts.
[07:28.940 --> 07:30.980]  It's kind of like the Boxer Rebellion in China.
[07:30.980 --> 07:36.140]  That's why they call it the Boxer Rebellion, because the British came in with armed soldiers
[07:36.140 --> 07:41.740]  and the Chinese fought them with martial arts and lost.
[07:41.740 --> 07:44.980]  And he got shot and killed in that.
[07:44.980 --> 07:51.340]  And so the same type of thing, you know, if you're a woman, you need a gun to give yourself
[07:51.340 --> 07:54.020]  at least a chance if the person's got a gun.
[07:54.020 --> 07:57.660]  And if they don't have a gun, even if the person's much bigger than you, if you've got
[07:57.660 --> 08:03.300]  the gun, you have the advantage, even if the person is a martial arts expert.
[08:03.300 --> 08:07.500]  So he said he threatened me, and he said he was going to slice my head off.
[08:07.500 --> 08:08.740]  And that's when I tried to call the police.
[08:08.740 --> 08:11.540]  He started throwing things at me, came behind the counter.
[08:11.540 --> 08:17.300]  I tried to run off, but he put his hands around my neck, pushed me on the counter space.
[08:17.300 --> 08:19.300]  That's when I pulled out my gun and shot him.
[08:19.300 --> 08:23.260]  I had to choose between my job and my life.
[08:23.260 --> 08:27.300]  Just like five years ago, right, we had a lot of people who had to do that.
[08:27.340 --> 08:29.180]  I guess four years ago, it's 2021.
[08:30.020 --> 08:32.940]  I will always choose my life because people depend on me.
[08:32.940 --> 08:34.460]  My kids need me here.
[08:35.380 --> 08:37.380]  She survived with wounds to the neck and hand.
[08:37.380 --> 08:38.700]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson.
[08:38.700 --> 08:44.220]  And I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels.
[08:44.220 --> 08:49.740]  A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner with an amazing organization called
[08:49.740 --> 08:51.140]  Compassion International.
[08:51.260 --> 08:51.860]  Why?
[08:52.140 --> 08:54.940]  Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need.
[08:55.300 --> 08:56.420]  It was a nice idea.
[08:56.420 --> 08:56.940]  Sure.
[08:57.220 --> 09:02.620]  But I had no idea just how much that simple act would change my life as well.
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[09:17.900 --> 09:23.060]  I got to be a part of that change and the light of that compassion not only illuminates
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[09:26.180 --> 09:28.380]  That is the power of compassion.
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[10:17.700 --> 10:19.620]  And injuries that could have been far worse.
[10:19.860 --> 10:25.980]  Her attacker, 59-year-old Kenneth Thompson, already had an outstanding felony warrant
[10:26.020 --> 10:30.780]  for a parole violation and for his latest crimes, prosecutors have charged him with
[10:30.780 --> 10:31.780]  assault and battery.
[10:31.860 --> 10:38.020]  So he did not die and also threatening acts of violence and attempting to pass a fake
[10:38.060 --> 10:38.500]  bill.
[10:39.620 --> 10:42.060]  Maybe that's what started the whole thing to begin with.
[10:42.100 --> 10:44.060]  Maybe he was passing some counterfeit money.
[10:44.060 --> 10:44.860]  She called him on it.
[10:45.740 --> 10:53.140]  For more than two years, this woman has worked the dangerous 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift alone.
[10:53.180 --> 10:55.380]  So she was working 11 to 7 at 7-Eleven.
[10:57.700 --> 11:03.300]  Despite those conditions, 7-Eleven insisted that she use only store items to defend
[11:03.300 --> 11:06.060]  herself. Would you like some breath minutes instead?
[11:08.140 --> 11:14.460]  Unfortunately, while some of the media, many businesses may concede that passive behavior
[11:14.460 --> 11:19.020]  by store clerks might encourage more crime, they believe that passive behavior is still
[11:19.020 --> 11:20.580]  the safest course of action.
[11:21.580 --> 11:25.620]  But John Lott points out, for women, the most dangerous form of resistance is to fight
[11:25.620 --> 11:30.580]  with their fists because doing so often triggers a violent physical reaction from the
[11:30.580 --> 11:31.060]  attacker.
[11:34.340 --> 11:36.620]  The next most dangerous choice is to run.
[11:37.540 --> 11:41.780]  Escaping is ideal when possible, but women generally run more slowly than men.
[11:41.820 --> 11:45.500]  We've kind of learned that lesson thanks to the transgenders, haven't we?
[11:46.500 --> 11:48.660]  Not really much of a question anymore.
[11:49.260 --> 11:53.620]  And if you're tackled from behind, that can produce serious injury.
[11:54.500 --> 11:58.700]  Other options such as using a baseball bat or a knife turn out to not be much better
[11:58.700 --> 12:03.460]  because women are at a disadvantage whenever they come into physical contact with a male
[12:03.500 --> 12:08.540]  attacker. By contrast, the safest option for a woman confronted by criminals have a gun.
[12:09.420 --> 12:14.180]  Women who rely on passive behavior are two and a half times more likely to suffer serious
[12:14.180 --> 12:16.460]  injury than women who defend themselves with a firearm.
[12:17.180 --> 12:23.460]  Murder rates fall when either men or women carry concealed handguns, but the reduction
[12:23.460 --> 12:24.860]  is especially large for women.
[12:25.660 --> 12:31.580]  Each additional woman with a concealed carry permit lowers the female murder rate by roughly
[12:31.580 --> 12:37.580]  three to four times more than each additional male permit holder lowers the male murder
[12:37.580 --> 12:43.420]  rate. So the bottom line, he says, unfortunately, her children still have their mother.
[12:44.700 --> 12:48.660]  And this is the type of thing that the media doesn't usually like to pay attention to.
[12:49.540 --> 12:57.140]  You know, the gun is a tool and it can be used to take life or to defend life.
[12:57.980 --> 13:00.900]  And many times it doesn't even need to be fired in order to defend life.
[13:01.820 --> 13:07.140]  So Trump has confirmed that Biden's auto pen documents, orders and pardons are void.
[13:07.340 --> 13:11.700]  So you've got a lot of people saying, well, does that mean that Fauci's pardon is not
[13:11.700 --> 13:13.100]  legit? We can go after him.
[13:13.140 --> 13:15.820]  Does that mean that Hunter's pardon is not legit?
[13:15.860 --> 13:19.340]  We can go after him. Well, it's not that simple.
[13:20.580 --> 13:26.060]  Trump said anyone receiving pardons, commutations or any other legal document so signed
[13:26.060 --> 13:32.740]  with an auto pen, please be advised that said document has been fully and completely
[13:32.780 --> 13:36.100]  terminated and is of no legal effect.
[13:36.420 --> 13:37.860]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.
[13:40.780 --> 13:49.380]  Signs off on that. So the the issue, though, is how do you prove that this is not done
[13:49.380 --> 13:53.340]  with Biden's consent, that some employees did it with the auto pen and he didn't know
[13:53.340 --> 13:57.420]  about it. Joe Biden was not involved in the auto pen process.
[13:57.420 --> 14:01.180]  And if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury, said Trump.
[14:02.140 --> 14:05.820]  The auto pen, which uses a real pen and ink to mechanically replicate a president's
[14:05.860 --> 14:11.340]  signature, can be used to sign official documents, but the president must direct the
[14:11.340 --> 14:14.740]  signing of each document or bill according to the Office of Legal Counsel.
[14:15.180 --> 14:16.900]  So, again, you get in this murky area.
[14:17.580 --> 14:20.260]  How do you prove whether you authorize that or not?
[14:21.100 --> 14:22.740]  According to some legal scholars, U.S.
[14:22.740 --> 14:26.180]  presidents may revoke previous issued executive orders.
[14:26.820 --> 14:33.980]  However, revoking pardons may not be constitutional and could face roadblocks, experts
[14:33.980 --> 14:34.980]  told The Epoch Times.
[14:35.260 --> 14:38.340]  So has that stopped Trump in the past?
[14:40.380 --> 14:42.340]  Doing auto tariffs?
[14:43.580 --> 14:44.820]  I don't mean by that cars.
[14:44.820 --> 14:46.900]  I mean, just I do it myself.
[14:46.980 --> 14:49.500]  I don't need to get anybody else in government involved.
[14:49.820 --> 14:51.540]  We'll see if that holds. I hope it doesn't.
[14:52.260 --> 14:57.260]  U.S. House Committee on Oversight, led by James Comer, published a report in October
[14:57.260 --> 15:01.660]  detailing an investigation into Biden's use of auto pen signatures.
[15:01.700 --> 15:04.500]  I should say the Biden administration's use of it.
[15:05.180 --> 15:09.860]  The committee stated it found evidence that Biden's White House staff concealed his
[15:09.860 --> 15:12.260]  diminishing mental and physical condition intentionally.
[15:12.940 --> 15:16.220]  The committee has found that there was, in fact, a cover up of the president's
[15:16.220 --> 15:21.980]  cognitive decline and that there is no record demonstrating Biden himself made all of
[15:21.980 --> 15:24.060]  the executive decisions that were attributed to him.
[15:24.620 --> 15:32.220]  So what this will do is that, in other words, if the president is there, it would be
[15:32.860 --> 15:35.500]  mentally there and not mentally impaired.
[15:36.260 --> 15:41.260]  Then, of course, if somebody signs a document there, assume that it was done with his
[15:41.260 --> 15:44.420]  consent, because if they did it without his consent, he would call him on it.
[15:44.460 --> 15:51.580]  Right. So in order to make this stick as an auto pen president, then he can overturn
[15:51.580 --> 15:58.700]  this stuff. They have to make it about Biden's cognitive condition.
[15:59.340 --> 16:03.940]  If he was not aware of anything that was going on, then clearly this is being done
[16:04.900 --> 16:06.620]  by the staff and not by him.
[16:07.420 --> 16:17.420]  And so it's not even necessary for Trump to have to go that route if he's talking
[16:17.420 --> 16:19.700]  about other executive orders other than pardons.
[16:20.580 --> 16:22.580]  So I think that's the other aspect of this.
[16:22.620 --> 16:29.060]  It does two things. It brings back up these, you know, the revenge aspect and also the
[16:29.060 --> 16:32.340]  calls from MAGA to get Fauci.
[16:32.380 --> 16:36.780]  I don't think Trump would go after Fauci, even if he said his pardon was not there,
[16:36.780 --> 16:44.460]  because remember, the last thing he did was to give Fauci a medal for Operation Warp
[16:44.460 --> 16:47.140]  Speed. He brags about the vaccine.
[16:47.180 --> 16:49.340]  He loves that. He's the father of the vaccine.
[16:49.340 --> 16:51.140]  He did more than anybody to get the vaccine.
[16:51.180 --> 16:56.940]  He's not going to come after Fauci because he owns the crimes of Fauci.
[16:57.780 --> 17:04.460]  And so yet again, MAGA is real excited about something that Trump is not going to do,
[17:05.060 --> 17:06.220]  even if he can do it.
[17:07.180 --> 17:10.180]  So it's a very difficult thing for him to get rid of these pardons.
[17:10.660 --> 17:15.780]  But as far as executive orders, he doesn't need to prove that it was an auto pen.
[17:15.820 --> 17:20.420]  You know, he can avoid the executive order from the previous president.
[17:20.460 --> 17:25.180]  As a matter of fact, many times what these guys will do is re-up the executive orders
[17:25.220 --> 17:29.980]  from the previous president, like the declaration of a COVID emergency that didn't
[17:30.100 --> 17:37.860]  exist. During his presidency, Biden issued 4,245 acts of clemency, more than any other
[17:37.860 --> 17:42.260]  president, and he issued 162 executive orders.
[17:43.140 --> 17:45.020]  I think Trump has already beat that.
[17:46.420 --> 17:53.260]  So Trump was at 144 in his first term, but I think he has already passed that, surpassed
[17:53.260 --> 17:54.260]  that significantly.
[17:54.780 --> 17:59.220]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute.
[17:59.220 --> 18:03.500]  And I want you to hear about love, generosity and compassion.
[18:03.500 --> 18:06.660]  We say those words all the time and they sound good.
[18:06.700 --> 18:09.020]  They feel good. But here's the truth.
[18:09.220 --> 18:13.260]  Those words don't mean anything unless they turn into action.
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[18:25.900 --> 18:29.860]  And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward.
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[19:32.780 --> 19:39.220]  You know, one of the things that has fallen out of this ill-timed care for, whether you
[19:39.220 --> 19:45.100]  agree with it or not, it's the on again, off again and the radical change that was
[19:45.100 --> 19:46.660]  imposed all at once.
[19:47.540 --> 19:51.620]  And one of the things that has fallen out of this is the rare earth issue.
[19:52.140 --> 19:53.580]  China has been weaponizing that.
[19:53.580 --> 19:58.380]  And I talked to an executive, I don't know how long ago was it, was it in the summer,
[19:58.820 --> 20:04.380]  who had a company that was set up to process rare earths.
[20:04.420 --> 20:10.140]  It turns out that the rare earth metals are not rare, not difficult to find.
[20:10.580 --> 20:12.940]  It's just difficult to extract them.
[20:13.060 --> 20:15.260]  And they're usually there in combination with other things.
[20:16.100 --> 20:19.180]  And so now it appears, and this is kind of interesting.
[20:19.180 --> 20:20.780]  I mean, this is not a political thing.
[20:20.780 --> 20:24.340]  It's not something's directly going to affect you, perhaps.
[20:24.380 --> 20:29.300]  But this chemist may have cracked America's rare earth problem.
[20:30.140 --> 20:36.380]  He thinks he can basically mine this stuff out of electronic waste, go to the landfill
[20:36.380 --> 20:40.420]  and find it. And they have a way to extract this.
[20:41.500 --> 20:42.980]  One flash is all it takes.
[20:44.220 --> 20:49.900]  It's all he needs to get these rare earth metals out of discarded electronics.
[20:50.740 --> 20:52.860]  And the U.S. has mountains of that.
[20:53.980 --> 20:58.900]  From the scrap metal, Rice University chemist and nanotechnologist has pioneered a way to
[20:59.380 --> 21:02.020]  quickly extract rare earth metals.
[21:02.540 --> 21:04.860]  He said you can pull out one metal and then you can pull out another one.
[21:04.860 --> 21:06.660]  It's really just that simple, he said.
[21:07.460 --> 21:10.660]  His solution is flash joule heating,
[21:11.460 --> 21:16.460]  rapidly heating up the materials to thousands of degrees in order to vaporize the metals.
[21:17.140 --> 21:22.020]  Mixed with chlorine gas, the vapors turn into chlorides that emerge at different temperatures.
[21:22.780 --> 21:27.500]  But just like in an incandescent light bulb, the technique works by passing electric
[21:27.500 --> 21:29.860]  current through the raw material.
[21:30.500 --> 21:36.580]  But whereas the former channels a steady electric current to create a perpetual glow,
[21:36.940 --> 21:41.420]  that's a light bulb, in treating metals, the energy arrives in short bursts,
[21:42.060 --> 21:43.900]  dialing up the heat in milliseconds.
[21:44.620 --> 21:47.620]  He says so metals are infinitely recyclable.
[21:48.540 --> 21:51.620]  Whereas the traditional way of distilling metals is rather messy, he said.
[21:52.180 --> 21:54.020]  This is all about simplicity.
[21:54.500 --> 21:55.860]  You flash and you're done.
[21:56.700 --> 22:01.460]  Speed is now more critical than ever, and the US is racing against time to reshore rare earth production,
[22:01.780 --> 22:06.860]  spurred in part by China's October threat to dramatically curtail access.
[22:07.540 --> 22:11.340]  And one of the things I think is interesting is how America
[22:12.460 --> 22:15.580]  has shot itself in the foot, not just with tariff policies,
[22:16.180 --> 22:18.420]  but just in general with China.
[22:18.420 --> 22:24.140]  It turns out that we developed the rare earth materials and we also developed
[22:24.940 --> 22:26.660]  the uses for them.
[22:26.660 --> 22:29.100]  And we pretty much had the monopoly on it.
[22:29.900 --> 22:33.220]  And then the government approved the purchase
[22:34.740 --> 22:37.780]  under Clinton, of course, they approved the purchase
[22:38.300 --> 22:40.860]  of the leading producer of rare earth minerals.
[22:41.420 --> 22:46.220]  It's called the Mountain Pass Mine in California, supplied almost all the world.
[22:47.020 --> 22:50.260]  Now China has 90 percent of capacity.
[22:50.700 --> 22:54.820]  And what happened was they approved the sale of this company to China.
[22:55.460 --> 22:57.820]  China operated for a couple of years.
[22:57.820 --> 22:59.940]  And then it's 1995.
[22:59.940 --> 23:02.340]  They're in the middle of the Clinton administration.
[23:02.340 --> 23:04.740]  The company was known as Magna Quench.
[23:05.620 --> 23:11.660]  And so they bought it and operated it for like nine years
[23:11.660 --> 23:14.060]  and then shut it down.
[23:14.060 --> 23:15.100]  It was in Indiana.
[23:15.100 --> 23:17.740]  Shut it down and moved all the operations to China.
[23:18.740 --> 23:21.980]  So typical of what was happening with the Clinton administration
[23:23.260 --> 23:28.100]  and Johnny Wong and stuff that a lot of these things were sold to China
[23:29.420 --> 23:31.340]  and it was done secretly.
[23:31.340 --> 23:33.620]  Others, it was done publicly.
[23:34.660 --> 23:38.820]  But there's also been other aspects of this, again, going back to the government,
[23:39.260 --> 23:42.980]  the EPA and its environmental regulations closing that mine.
[23:43.460 --> 23:46.540]  And yet we still had the monopoly
[23:46.540 --> 23:49.340]  because of the processing company, Magna Quench.
[23:50.180 --> 23:54.500]  So whether it's tariffs or whether it's EPA regulations
[23:54.500 --> 23:58.940]  or whether it's a crooked president who is making deals with China,
[23:59.700 --> 24:03.260]  our problems in America are not due to Americans.
[24:03.340 --> 24:06.940]  It's not that we can't build this country.
[24:08.180 --> 24:10.540]  The problem is that we can't stop our government.
[24:11.220 --> 24:13.780]  And so our government is not only selling off assets,
[24:14.260 --> 24:17.660]  regulating things to death, but then they're bringing in people
[24:17.660 --> 24:20.340]  from other countries to take our jobs.
[24:20.340 --> 24:25.660]  And the billionaire CEOs like Elon Musk and Vivek Rama slimy
[24:26.100 --> 24:28.340]  say that Americans can't do the job.
[24:28.340 --> 24:31.420]  We've got to bring in people from other countries.
[24:31.420 --> 24:37.780]  So, again, as early as 1976, they started separating electronic waste.
[24:37.780 --> 24:43.540]  So now the US has seven point two million tons of electronic waste,
[24:44.060 --> 24:46.060]  one eighth of the world's total,
[24:47.380 --> 24:49.580]  about 46 pounds for every American, they say.
[24:50.180 --> 24:54.460]  So the real reason a waste product is a waste product, he says,
[24:54.460 --> 24:57.380]  isn't because it's bad, it's just because we haven't found a way that we can use it.
[24:57.500 --> 25:00.860]  And now he's found a way that he can extract these metals again
[25:01.540 --> 25:06.300]  with different heating techniques, pull out different metals.
[25:06.940 --> 25:09.020]  The researchers tested the technique on carbon,
[25:09.020 --> 25:13.860]  found that it was a quick way to make high quality graphene at low cost.
[25:14.020 --> 25:18.260]  Next, they began exploring the potential of extracting rare earth materials.
[25:18.980 --> 25:20.860]  He says it's really live chemistry in action.
[25:20.860 --> 25:23.460]  You see a rainbow of colors coming off
[25:24.180 --> 25:28.300]  and each color represents a metal element that has been separated out.
[25:28.940 --> 25:31.780]  Rare earths usually with some of the highest boiling points
[25:31.780 --> 25:36.020]  tend to come out last, often as a white powder, he said.
[25:36.940 --> 25:40.380]  And so they have been able to get funding from DARPA
[25:41.100 --> 25:46.620]  because, again, it is, you know, the kind of super magnets that they make
[25:46.620 --> 25:50.100]  and other things like that are one of the key issues there
[25:50.100 --> 25:53.020]  and very vital for electronic equipment.
[25:54.140 --> 25:57.300]  Speaking of perching out
[25:58.260 --> 26:01.740]  materials that in this particular case they didn't want.
[26:02.180 --> 26:04.700]  Remember the advertising plan about a year ago
[26:04.700 --> 26:09.660]  where they had the pink Jaguar thing and the really, really weird LGBT people.
[26:10.140 --> 26:12.980]  I've played the clip of how they radically changed
[26:13.500 --> 26:16.940]  the branding image of Jaguar from, you know, tough,
[26:18.060 --> 26:22.060]  rich, evil guys, villains and James Bond films and stuff.
[26:22.060 --> 26:24.860]  But, you know, that that was their branding.
[26:25.020 --> 26:29.260]  And then they changed it to this weird LGBT stuff.
[26:29.260 --> 26:30.580]  Well, they've got a new CEO.
[26:30.580 --> 26:34.540]  And one of the first things he did was to kick the guy who did this out.
[26:35.020 --> 26:37.180]  So maybe they'll have a turnaround.
[26:37.180 --> 26:38.900]  But I don't know.
[26:38.900 --> 26:41.380]  I mean, where are they making the Jaguars anymore?
[26:41.380 --> 26:43.620]  I don't think they can do manufacturing in the UK.
[26:44.220 --> 26:46.540]  I mean, they have basically shot themselves in the foot
[26:46.660 --> 26:50.940]  with the power issues and with a green New Deal.
[26:53.060 --> 26:55.220]  Speaking of shooting yourself in the foot,
[26:55.220 --> 26:59.940]  this is a guy who decided that he was going to steal a Faberge pendant.
[27:01.300 --> 27:04.140]  It was inspired by the James Bond movie and just kind of like
[27:05.100 --> 27:08.940]  the Jaguar marketing campaign was inspired by the villains.
[27:09.380 --> 27:12.060]  This was inspired by the movie Octopussy.
[27:12.700 --> 27:18.700]  And in that movie, there was a Faberge item that was a part of it.
[27:18.700 --> 27:24.140]  So they doubled down and they designed a piece of jewelry that was
[27:25.340 --> 27:26.940]  $19,000.
[27:26.940 --> 27:30.540]  And this guy decided that the way that he could steal it was to eat it.
[27:30.740 --> 27:33.180]  And evidently, somebody saw him swallow it.
[27:33.180 --> 27:37.940]  And he's been under custody and under watch for quite a while.
[27:38.420 --> 27:42.340]  I guess he's caught, but he's going to be caught by some stool pigeon.
[27:44.540 --> 27:46.540]  He's going to be going through following him.
[27:46.540 --> 27:50.060]  Same thing happened to Karen's mother with our dog.
[27:50.700 --> 27:55.020]  She dropped a small earring and we had a Basset Hound.
[27:55.020 --> 27:59.100]  And I've never seen him move so quickly for some reason.
[27:59.260 --> 28:01.740]  For some reason, he grabbed that thing and swallowed it.
[28:02.220 --> 28:05.580]  And it was something that's very valuable to her.
[28:07.020 --> 28:11.260]  And so she did the same thing they're doing with this thief.
[28:12.220 --> 28:18.300]  She followed him around for days, going through every one of his stools
[28:19.740 --> 28:22.620]  until she finally found it when he passed it.
[28:22.620 --> 28:27.820]  And so she got it cleaned up, but she could never put it in her ear again.
[28:27.820 --> 28:30.140]  So she wound up getting rid of it.
[28:30.140 --> 28:32.700]  I wonder what they're going to do with this Fabergé egg.
[28:32.700 --> 28:34.860]  Does the museum actually want this back?
[28:36.860 --> 28:40.460]  Maybe he has lowered the demand for this.
[28:41.900 --> 28:44.700]  But he's going to have to pass a lot of stones to get this thing out.
[28:44.700 --> 28:47.020]  It's got a lot of, it's embedded with a lot of stones.
[28:47.020 --> 28:47.420]  Yes?
[28:47.420 --> 28:48.140]  Freshly laid.
[28:53.500 --> 28:54.620]  Yeah, freshly laid.
[28:55.020 --> 28:57.980]  It's a word of advice for criminals.
[28:57.980 --> 29:00.780]  If your master plan is, I'm just going to eat it,
[29:02.540 --> 29:04.780]  you should probably come up with a different plan.
[29:05.900 --> 29:10.300]  If your plan is something that my toddler son might come up with,
[29:11.660 --> 29:14.460]  perhaps go back to the drawing board.
[29:14.460 --> 29:16.460]  Not exactly a criminal mastermind.
[29:19.820 --> 29:24.540]  Maybe they could market it around Easter time as kind of a combination Fabergé egg
[29:24.540 --> 29:25.820]  and Cadbury egg, I don't know.
[29:26.620 --> 29:28.700]  The world's worst Easter egg hunt.
[29:28.700 --> 29:30.380]  And the guy is 32 years old.
[29:31.900 --> 29:33.260]  You'd think you'd know better than that.
[29:33.260 --> 29:35.820]  You had time to come up with a better plan than this.
[29:35.820 --> 29:36.320]  Yeah.
[29:36.940 --> 29:43.660]  So it was a limited, or still is I guess, depending on how you look at it,
[29:43.660 --> 29:49.020]  is a limited edition Fabergé egg pendant inspired by the 83 Bond film.
[29:49.020 --> 29:52.540]  Central to the film's plot is a jewel smuggling operation.
[29:53.180 --> 29:54.380]  They think Fabergé.
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[31:31.740 --> 31:32.240]  The egg.
[31:34.060 --> 31:35.980]  It's going to come with quite a story, actually.
[31:36.940 --> 31:51.580]  They say the egg is one of only 50, which have been made and crafted from gold, painted
[31:51.580 --> 31:56.300]  with green enamel, and encrusted with 183 diamonds.
[31:56.300 --> 31:57.340]  That could be very painful.
[31:57.340 --> 32:06.460]  This is not a happy ending for anyone, I don't think.
[32:09.580 --> 32:15.020]  The eggs open up to reveal an 18-karat yellow gold octopus nestled inside,
[32:15.580 --> 32:19.980]  adorned with white diamond suckers and black diamond eyes.
[32:20.780 --> 32:26.300]  The octopus surprise pays homage to the eponymous antagonist at the center
[32:26.300 --> 32:28.300]  of the Octopussy film.
[32:28.300 --> 32:29.420]  There you go.
[32:29.420 --> 32:33.580]  Well, we've got one more story here before we take a break.
[32:35.180 --> 32:37.100]  There's a Republican congressman.
[32:37.100 --> 32:43.820]  I wonder if he's going to get the ire that Trump has focused on Thomas Massey,
[32:43.820 --> 32:47.500]  because he's put out a bill that would be a citizenship bill,
[32:47.500 --> 32:52.060]  and this citizenship bill would outlaw dual citizenship.
[32:53.020 --> 32:58.460]  This guy himself, Bernie Marino of Ohio, he's a Republican senator.
[32:59.500 --> 33:01.660]  He came to this country and became an American citizen.
[33:01.660 --> 33:04.700]  He said he didn't want to have his other citizenship,
[33:04.700 --> 33:07.100]  and he says you're either American and you're not.
[33:07.980 --> 33:11.340]  He thinks we need to end this dual citizenship thing.
[33:11.340 --> 33:21.180]  The problem is with Trump is that both Melania and Barron have dual citizenship in Slovenia.
[33:22.220 --> 33:25.660]  She likes that because there's some advantages for that,
[33:25.660 --> 33:29.420]  especially for Barron because with a Slovenian citizenship,
[33:29.420 --> 33:33.340]  he gets to do certain things in EU that he would not be able to do otherwise.
[33:33.980 --> 33:38.060]  The bill aims to require all dual nationals to renounce their foreign citizenship
[33:38.060 --> 33:40.060]  or risk losing their American status.
[33:41.020 --> 33:46.700]  You know, I gotta say, it really does bother me to see these people who are,
[33:47.660 --> 33:51.740]  you know, they wear their Israeli military uniform.
[33:51.740 --> 33:57.340]  In the case of Rashida Tlaib, you know, she's waving her Palestinian flag,
[33:57.340 --> 33:59.500]  and she's got her relatives there,
[33:59.500 --> 34:02.380]  you're relating in the background when she wins the election.
[34:02.380 --> 34:06.140]  Or you got people like Binman, and he's all about Ukraine and all the rest of this stuff.
[34:06.140 --> 34:10.220]  And it's like, why, these are people in Congress, of all things.
[34:11.260 --> 34:14.300]  And it does bother me with dual citizenship, dual citizenship.
[34:14.300 --> 34:15.820]  I'm with Marino.
[34:15.820 --> 34:19.820]  He immigrated from Colombia, and he became a U.S. citizen at 18.
[34:20.620 --> 34:21.580]  He said in a statement,
[34:21.580 --> 34:24.060]  being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege,
[34:24.060 --> 34:26.940]  and if you want to be an American, it's all or nothing.
[34:28.060 --> 34:31.580]  So he says it's a good time to end dual citizenship for good.
[34:32.380 --> 34:37.020]  And so the problem is that it will not pass.
[34:37.020 --> 34:41.500]  First of all, there are some legal and constitutional issues about this,
[34:41.500 --> 34:46.940]  but I think primarily, you know, there's the issue about Trump.
[34:46.940 --> 34:51.420]  He's not going to want to do that to affect his family.
[34:52.620 --> 34:56.940]  And there's a long tradition of courts recognizing
[34:56.940 --> 35:00.860]  that you cannot take away another country's citizenship.
[35:00.860 --> 35:04.300]  So you can have dual citizenship in the U.S.
[35:04.940 --> 35:10.220]  But it also would involve a massive bureaucratic issue
[35:10.940 --> 35:14.140]  of trying to go out and figure out who has dual citizenship.
[35:14.140 --> 35:17.340]  So for all those reasons, I don't think it's going to happen,
[35:17.340 --> 35:19.260]  but it is an interesting idea.
[35:20.060 --> 35:22.780]  And, you know, I understand people's heritage,
[35:22.780 --> 35:24.780]  and it's fine to be happy about your heritage,
[35:24.780 --> 35:32.060]  but, you know, I never looked at any of that kind of stuff when I met Karen.
[35:32.060 --> 35:33.180]  I've told the story before.
[35:33.740 --> 35:37.900]  In New York, basically everybody there kind of sees themselves
[35:37.900 --> 35:40.780]  as having dual citizenship, whether they got the citizenship or not,
[35:40.780 --> 35:43.980]  because they're only usually a couple of generations removed.
[35:43.980 --> 35:46.700]  At least it was that way when Karen was young.
[35:47.260 --> 35:51.260]  And so it was that way on both sides of her parents' family.
[35:51.260 --> 35:56.780]  They had come over in the last couple of generations from Europe.
[35:57.340 --> 35:59.660]  And so when we met and were dating for a while,
[35:59.660 --> 36:02.060]  she asked me, she said, so what are you?
[36:02.060 --> 36:03.260]  I said, I'm American.
[36:03.260 --> 36:04.620]  She said, yeah, that's what my dad says.
[36:04.620 --> 36:06.140]  But no, seriously, what are you?
[36:06.140 --> 36:07.020]  I said, I'm American.
[36:07.020 --> 36:08.620]  I don't know where I come from.
[36:08.620 --> 36:12.300]  I'm just an American mongrel that's been here for a long time.
[36:12.940 --> 36:14.620]  Well, we're going to take a quick break.
[36:14.620 --> 36:17.100]  Travis, you want to cover some of the comments here?
[36:17.100 --> 36:17.820]  Yeah.
[36:17.820 --> 36:21.980]  Defy tyrants, 1776 is about 30,000 gun deaths in America annually.
[36:21.980 --> 36:24.380]  50 to 60% of those deaths is by suicide,
[36:24.380 --> 36:26.700]  and the majority of the rest are committed by thugs in cities
[36:26.700 --> 36:30.140]  who are allowed to run loose, unfettered to terrorize society.
[36:30.140 --> 36:32.060]  Compare that to the one to two million lives
[36:32.060 --> 36:34.700]  who were saved by guns through self-defense.
[36:34.700 --> 36:35.340]  That's right.
[36:35.340 --> 36:36.540]  I've told the story many times.
[36:36.540 --> 36:43.980]  I won't tell it again, but my grandfather, his brother-in-law
[36:44.780 --> 36:47.020]  was killed in a robbery, what the two of them were doing.
[36:47.020 --> 36:50.620]  They were collecting rent back in the early part of the 20th century
[36:50.620 --> 36:51.980]  when cash was king.
[36:52.700 --> 36:55.900]  And they were hired to go around and collect rent
[36:55.900 --> 36:57.740]  in an area that was really pretty poor.
[36:57.740 --> 37:01.260]  So they would go on Friday nights, always at the same time,
[37:01.260 --> 37:03.260]  because that's after people got paid in cash.
[37:03.260 --> 37:05.180]  They would go around and collect the rent in cash
[37:05.180 --> 37:09.020]  before they spent it, maybe on drink or something like that.
[37:09.500 --> 37:12.140]  And so his brother-in-law was killed,
[37:12.780 --> 37:15.900]  and they almost did the same thing to him, but he caught him,
[37:15.900 --> 37:21.180]  and he always carried a pistol, and he stopped it.
[37:21.180 --> 37:24.060]  Of course, that was never reported, but it saved his life.
[37:26.700 --> 37:29.660]  We have Christian Constitutional Conservative.
[37:29.660 --> 37:31.100]  The police do not stop crime.
[37:31.100 --> 37:34.060]  They report crime after the fact, and then the detectives investigate.
[37:34.060 --> 37:36.220]  But what would you care if you're already dead?
[37:36.220 --> 37:36.720]  That's right.
[37:38.060 --> 37:43.740]  Also, that policy from 7-11 was about the workers' safety,
[37:43.740 --> 37:46.460]  quote-unquote, whereas they're coming after her
[37:46.460 --> 37:50.300]  because this guy is saying he's going to cut her head off.
[37:50.300 --> 37:53.820]  He's attacking her, and so what?
[37:53.820 --> 37:56.300]  She's supposed to just go along with it for her safety?
[37:56.940 --> 37:59.580]  They're going to follow that policy rigidly,
[37:59.580 --> 38:01.020]  whether it makes any sense or not.
[38:01.020 --> 38:04.700]  And that's another thing that we saw with the vaccine.
[38:04.700 --> 38:05.420]  We've got a policy.
[38:05.420 --> 38:06.860]  We don't care whether the vaccine works.
[38:06.860 --> 38:07.820]  We don't care if it's safe.
[38:07.820 --> 38:08.540]  That's our policy.
[38:08.540 --> 38:09.340]  We're going to follow it.
[38:09.980 --> 38:13.420]  And so that's just the way these companies work.
[38:14.700 --> 38:16.540]  We have Brandon Bennett.
[38:16.540 --> 38:19.180]  AutoPen has been president since it was invented.
[38:20.140 --> 38:21.420]  Wally Walrus.
[38:21.420 --> 38:24.300]  Silver is extracted when mining other materials.
[38:24.300 --> 38:24.620]  Yes.
[38:24.620 --> 38:26.780]  Pezzono Vonte, 1776.
[38:26.780 --> 38:28.540]  Studies have shown that concealed carry holders
[38:28.540 --> 38:31.820]  are less likely to be criminals than police officers,
[38:31.820 --> 38:33.740]  while the amount of hoops you have to jump through
[38:33.740 --> 38:35.820]  to become a concealed carry holder
[38:35.820 --> 38:39.180]  shows you are actually highly invested
[38:39.180 --> 38:41.340]  in complying with their absurd laws.
[38:41.340 --> 38:44.860]  You are one of the most law-abiding citizens out there.
[38:45.420 --> 38:46.540]  Big Britt is back again.
[38:46.540 --> 38:48.300]  I've seen videos of people getting silver and gold
[38:48.300 --> 38:49.900]  from scrap circuit boards.
[38:50.540 --> 38:51.580]  And you can do it yourself,
[38:51.580 --> 38:53.740]  but the chemicals are dangerous and toxic.
[38:55.340 --> 38:55.580]  I know.
[38:55.580 --> 38:56.940]  That's the thing about chemistry.
[38:57.580 --> 38:58.700]  I never liked chemistry,
[38:58.700 --> 39:00.700]  and I always felt like I was going to die
[39:00.700 --> 39:01.580]  breathing this stuff.
[39:02.860 --> 39:04.220]  So I just stayed away from it.
[39:04.220 --> 39:05.260]  I didn't really understand it.
[39:05.260 --> 39:05.900]  I didn't like it.
[39:05.900 --> 39:06.700]  I didn't trust it.
[39:07.900 --> 39:09.340]  I guess that's why I feel the way that I do
[39:09.340 --> 39:10.380]  about pharmaceuticals.
[39:11.340 --> 39:12.620]  So Big Britt back again.
[39:12.620 --> 39:13.980]  He says, yeah, you can do it with your own.
[39:14.780 --> 39:15.660]  We already read that one.
[39:15.660 --> 39:16.160]  OK.
[39:16.720 --> 39:18.560]  Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks,
[39:18.560 --> 39:20.320]  and we'll be right back.
[41:46.640 --> 41:52.000]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[41:54.160 --> 41:55.440]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
[41:55.440 --> 41:57.600]  and I want you to pause what you're doing
[41:57.600 --> 41:58.640]  for just one minute,
[41:58.640 --> 42:01.520]  and I want you to hear about Alejandra.
[42:01.520 --> 42:03.360]  She lives in a remote community
[42:03.360 --> 42:04.960]  with very few resources
[42:04.960 --> 42:07.360]  and little to no health care.
[42:07.360 --> 42:09.440]  So when Alejandra gets sick,
[42:09.440 --> 42:11.600]  her parents have no real options,
[42:11.600 --> 42:14.000]  no doctors in their community,
[42:14.080 --> 42:16.640]  and no money for real medical care.
[42:17.200 --> 42:20.000]  By the third day, her body was shutting down.
[42:20.000 --> 42:20.800]  She woke up,
[42:20.800 --> 42:22.720]  and just long enough to tell her mom,
[42:23.280 --> 42:26.080]  I can't take the pain anymore.
[42:26.080 --> 42:27.280]  I can't keep going.
[42:27.840 --> 42:29.760]  Her parents drove hours
[42:29.760 --> 42:32.160]  to find a doctor who tried everything,
[42:32.160 --> 42:34.480]  but she needed a private hospital,
[42:34.480 --> 42:36.160]  and that was impossible
[42:36.160 --> 42:37.920]  for her family to afford.
[42:37.920 --> 42:40.640]  And that is when Compassion International
[42:40.640 --> 42:41.680]  stepped in.
[42:41.680 --> 42:43.360]  Now, through Compassion,
[42:43.440 --> 42:44.960]  Alejandra was treated,
[42:44.960 --> 42:48.080]  and against all odds, she survived.
[42:48.080 --> 42:49.760]  She lived because someone,
[42:49.760 --> 42:51.440]  just like you, took action.
[42:52.080 --> 42:53.520]  Right now, unfortunately,
[42:53.520 --> 42:55.920]  there are children just like Alejandra
[42:55.920 --> 42:57.040]  who won't survive
[42:57.040 --> 42:59.120]  unless someone like you steps in.
[42:59.680 --> 43:01.040]  Compassion International
[43:01.040 --> 43:03.440]  partners with local churches,
[43:03.440 --> 43:04.560]  providing children
[43:04.560 --> 43:06.480]  with the support that they need.
[43:06.480 --> 43:08.320]  Critical medical care,
[43:08.320 --> 43:10.480]  plus food, education,
[43:10.480 --> 43:12.160]  and the hope of the gospel.
[43:12.720 --> 43:14.560]  All in Jesus' name.
[43:14.560 --> 43:18.320]  So help a child just like Alejandra today.
[43:18.320 --> 43:20.880]  You can visit Compassion.com.
[43:20.880 --> 43:23.040]  That's Compassion.com.
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[45:34.720 --> 45:35.520]  Well, welcome back.
[45:35.520 --> 45:37.360]  I was kind of surprised to see this article,
[45:37.360 --> 45:39.200]  this headline at Brownstone.
[45:39.920 --> 45:44.400]  AEI and Johns Hopkins attempt a COVID redo.
[45:45.840 --> 45:48.800]  AEI, I didn't realize American Enterprise Institute
[45:48.800 --> 45:50.080]  had anything to do with this COVID thing.
[45:50.080 --> 45:53.840]  It turns out from what this author Brett Swanson
[45:53.840 --> 45:59.120]  says on Brownstone that AEI was working very closely with all.
[45:59.120 --> 46:01.040]  I knew, of course, Johns Hopkins
[46:01.040 --> 46:02.720]  and how they've been involved in this stuff
[46:02.720 --> 46:05.680]  from the very beginning, even from Dark Winter.
[46:05.680 --> 46:09.600]  He points out here they were co-hosting all this
[46:10.320 --> 46:12.480]  Event 201 with Bill and Melinda Gates,
[46:12.480 --> 46:14.480]  the World Economic Forum and so forth.
[46:14.480 --> 46:19.280]  But they co-hosted Dark Winter with the CIA and Fauci
[46:19.280 --> 46:20.160]  and all the rest of the stuff.
[46:20.160 --> 46:22.560]  So Johns Hopkins has been at the epicenter
[46:22.560 --> 46:23.920]  of this stuff the entire time.
[46:24.720 --> 46:28.640]  But he points out that both of these organizations
[46:28.640 --> 46:32.240]  were very central to this fraud at the beginning.
[46:32.240 --> 46:34.320]  He said, given their vocal insistence
[46:34.320 --> 46:39.200]  on maximal COVID impositions, Hopkins and AEI
[46:39.200 --> 46:42.240]  deserve credit for finally highlighting an opposing view.
[46:43.360 --> 46:48.640]  And so I was really surprised and disappointed to see that.
[46:48.640 --> 46:51.040]  You know, American Enterprise Institute
[46:51.600 --> 46:55.280]  when it comes to things like, especially economic freedom,
[46:55.280 --> 46:56.560]  they've been very good.
[46:56.560 --> 46:58.880]  And free speech, things like that,
[46:58.880 --> 47:00.160]  they've been good as well with that.
[47:00.160 --> 47:05.520]  But when you look at this, you know,
[47:05.520 --> 47:08.640]  they had also been involved in pushing back
[47:08.640 --> 47:10.800]  against a lot of the climate fraud
[47:10.800 --> 47:12.800]  done by Michael Mann and others.
[47:12.800 --> 47:14.000]  So I was very disappointed to see
[47:14.000 --> 47:16.720]  that they were part of this MacGuffin.
[47:17.760 --> 47:22.000]  In this report, he points out how key Scott Gottlieb was.
[47:23.280 --> 47:25.920]  He was a key Republican demanding the lockdowns.
[47:25.920 --> 47:29.120]  Now, the person whose name is not in here is Trump,
[47:29.120 --> 47:33.200]  but Scott Gottlieb was Trump's FDA guy.
[47:33.200 --> 47:35.840]  And then he went to Pfizer afterwards.
[47:36.800 --> 47:43.440]  So he is, I didn't realize that he was tied into AEI.
[47:43.440 --> 47:44.640]  He's an AEI fellow,
[47:45.360 --> 47:48.240]  as well as former commissioner of the FDA under Trump.
[47:49.120 --> 47:52.800]  And so he co-authored with Johns Hopkins,
[47:53.760 --> 47:56.480]  some of their specialists, the lockdown blueprint.
[47:56.960 --> 48:00.880]  Folks, we have to understand and remember who did this.
[48:01.600 --> 48:04.400]  And again, all of these things, all these threads,
[48:04.400 --> 48:08.400]  point back to Trump as being the key puppet
[48:08.400 --> 48:11.440]  whose strings are being pulled by these globalist organizations
[48:11.440 --> 48:14.720]  and people like Bill Gates to do all of this stuff.
[48:14.720 --> 48:18.640]  John Hellerstedt, the former Texas health commissioner,
[48:18.640 --> 48:21.600]  said, I am frankly befuddled by the notion
[48:21.600 --> 48:23.600]  that there should have been more debate.
[48:23.600 --> 48:24.800]  Can you believe that?
[48:24.880 --> 48:25.680]  Can you believe that?
[48:26.400 --> 48:27.360]  You just do all this stuff.
[48:27.360 --> 48:28.480]  Let's not talk about this.
[48:29.040 --> 48:31.120]  There should have been less debate, he said, right?
[48:32.320 --> 48:35.040]  Befuddled to think there should have been more debate.
[48:35.680 --> 48:39.680]  He said that there should have been more opposite opinions.
[48:39.680 --> 48:42.480]  He said somebody had to decide.
[48:43.120 --> 48:44.880]  So, hey, somebody's got to make this decision.
[48:44.880 --> 48:45.920]  It'll be me.
[48:45.920 --> 48:47.600]  I'll decide what's best for you.
[48:47.600 --> 48:48.240]  How about that?
[48:48.960 --> 48:50.400]  Since I'm in a position of power.
[48:50.400 --> 48:54.880]  That was the Texas health commissioner under Abbott.
[48:56.400 --> 48:59.840]  And he praised Abbott because he said he, quote,
[48:59.840 --> 49:02.000]  never pushed back on the science,
[49:02.000 --> 49:06.560]  meaning that he never pushed back on this authoritarian guy
[49:06.560 --> 49:11.280]  who decides that he doesn't need to have any advice from anybody.
[49:11.280 --> 49:14.560]  You know, the Bible tells us that wisdom has many counselors.
[49:15.360 --> 49:16.960]  This guy is not a wise man.
[49:17.680 --> 49:18.640]  Informed consent.
[49:19.280 --> 49:20.640]  He will decide that for you.
[49:22.720 --> 49:23.680]  You don't need to be informed.
[49:23.680 --> 49:24.720]  He doesn't need to be informed.
[49:24.720 --> 49:26.240]  He doesn't need your consent.
[49:26.240 --> 49:27.520]  He needs your obedience.
[49:28.240 --> 49:30.000]  And he needed the governor's obedience,
[49:30.000 --> 49:33.840]  which was easily handed to him as well.
[49:33.840 --> 49:36.160]  Within two years, they injected billions of people
[49:36.160 --> 49:38.720]  with radically experimented gene therapies.
[49:38.720 --> 49:40.640]  Imperfect communication and organization
[49:40.640 --> 49:43.360]  are often tactics of bureaucratic deflection.
[49:43.920 --> 49:44.800]  And that's what they're saying.
[49:44.800 --> 49:46.080]  This is this narrative.
[49:46.160 --> 49:48.800]  Well, you know, it came out of the lab mistakenly.
[49:48.800 --> 49:50.640]  Yeah, we shouldn't have been playing around with that stuff.
[49:50.640 --> 49:52.960]  But hey, nobody's bad.
[49:52.960 --> 49:54.480]  We did the best that we could.
[49:54.480 --> 49:56.160]  Next time, we'll do more.
[49:56.160 --> 49:57.520]  Next time, we'll do it faster.
[49:57.520 --> 49:58.560]  That was our only problem.
[49:59.120 --> 50:01.840]  And that's why I pushed back so hard on this thing.
[50:01.840 --> 50:04.160]  That's why I did the monster jab thing.
[50:05.200 --> 50:08.400]  I don't really care whether people give me credit
[50:08.400 --> 50:09.920]  for being right at the beginning or not.
[50:09.920 --> 50:10.800]  Actually, I was.
[50:11.600 --> 50:12.880]  But it doesn't matter to me.
[50:14.080 --> 50:15.920]  I want to stop this happening again.
[50:16.480 --> 50:19.280]  I want these people to be accountable for what they did.
[50:21.520 --> 50:25.360]  The A.E.I. Hopkins participants, unfortunately, didn't do science.
[50:26.080 --> 50:30.240]  In fact, there was almost no discussion of biology, medicine, or data.
[50:31.200 --> 50:34.960]  There was no debate over vaccine mandates or their ill effects.
[50:34.960 --> 50:37.920]  No mention of the denial of early treatment
[50:37.920 --> 50:41.520]  with safe, cheap, and generic drugs.
[50:42.160 --> 50:44.480]  Nor was there any mention of the inflation
[50:45.200 --> 50:49.440]  that was unleashed by $8 trillion in extra federal spending.
[50:50.080 --> 50:52.480]  And then we could go down the list of all the people
[50:52.480 --> 50:56.080]  and the businesses that were harmed by the lockdown.
[50:56.080 --> 50:57.920]  It's just one of the most insane things.
[50:57.920 --> 51:02.400]  I could never imagine that somebody could do this in America, number one.
[51:02.960 --> 51:04.240]  And that they could get away with it.
[51:04.240 --> 51:06.400]  That the American public would let them get away with it.
[51:07.040 --> 51:09.520]  In the rare case that a public health official, a policymaker,
[51:09.520 --> 51:11.840]  is confronted with these figures, they usually mumble,
[51:12.400 --> 51:15.360]  long COVID, and they quickly change the subject.
[51:16.560 --> 51:20.080]  In fact, there is no mystery as to why this is happening.
[51:21.040 --> 51:22.560]  We now have the autopsies.
[51:23.120 --> 51:26.000]  We now have 4,000 published case reports.
[51:26.640 --> 51:29.680]  And we understand the microbiology of these deaths and these injuries.
[51:30.720 --> 51:36.880]  It's easier for somebody who is looking at the politics of this to understand it
[51:36.880 --> 51:38.480]  because it wasn't about medicine.
[51:38.480 --> 51:39.760]  It wasn't about science.
[51:39.840 --> 51:42.160]  And even the people who were honest about it,
[51:42.160 --> 51:47.040]  and who have gone through and done the studies,
[51:48.240 --> 51:50.560]  and have discovered the mechanisms of how this works,
[51:52.400 --> 51:54.720]  you could understand this if you understood human nature
[51:54.720 --> 51:57.520]  and if you understood things going back to dark winter.
[51:57.520 --> 52:00.640]  You saw the pattern and you could see the scam.
[52:01.200 --> 52:02.000]  And that's what it was.
[52:02.000 --> 52:02.960]  It wasn't medical.
[52:02.960 --> 52:04.080]  It wasn't science.
[52:04.080 --> 52:06.000]  It was a political scam.
[52:06.000 --> 52:08.000]  And so the people who are political analysts
[52:08.000 --> 52:13.040]  could catch on to this more quickly than even the honest doctors and scientists could.
[52:14.080 --> 52:18.800]  So upon vaccination, billions of lipid nanoparticles
[52:19.360 --> 52:22.720]  containing modified mRNA enter tissues all over the body.
[52:22.720 --> 52:25.440]  The mRNA instructs your cells to produce a spike protein
[52:26.000 --> 52:28.560]  and to display it on the cell surface.
[52:28.560 --> 52:32.000]  Our immune systems detect the foreign spike protein as unwelcome invader,
[52:32.640 --> 52:35.040]  then just as God intended, not nature.
[52:35.600 --> 52:36.400]  They write nature.
[52:37.120 --> 52:40.800]  Our killer lymphocytes target those infected cells for destruction.
[52:41.520 --> 52:45.200]  If those destroyed cells are in your deltoid muscle, you get a sore shoulder.
[52:45.760 --> 52:49.440]  Pfizer mistakenly assured us that that's the worst that would happen.
[52:50.560 --> 52:52.320]  They were not mistaken, unfortunately.
[52:53.120 --> 52:55.360]  They knew exactly what they were doing.
[52:55.360 --> 52:59.360]  Meanwhile, a group of European pathologists have performed 75 autopsies
[52:59.360 --> 53:02.320]  on Germans who died soon after vaccination.
[53:03.120 --> 53:07.920]  They found both mRNA spike protein and attacking lymphocytes in the brain,
[53:08.640 --> 53:11.440]  lung, hearts, kidneys, adrenal glands,
[53:11.440 --> 53:14.320]  ovaries, testes, liver, thyroid, prostate, spleen,
[53:14.880 --> 53:19.040]  and blood vessels, large and small, from aorta to capillaries.
[53:19.680 --> 53:26.320]  Of the 75 decedents, they judged that at least 58 or 77% of them
[53:26.320 --> 53:31.680]  died from the mRNA vaccine, not just with it, but from it.
[53:32.720 --> 53:37.440]  31 of those cases were sudden cardiac deaths, 16 from blood vessel damage,
[53:38.080 --> 53:39.520]  15 from myocarditis.
[53:41.200 --> 53:46.240]  None of these cases were initially reported as vaccine deaths, let alone myocarditis,
[53:46.240 --> 53:50.960]  which helps to demonstrate the monumental rate of undercounting that has underpinned
[53:51.520 --> 53:55.440]  the denial of what has been done.
[53:55.440 --> 53:58.800]  And I'll say the denial of the Trump shots instead of the mRNA.
[53:58.800 --> 54:01.760]  I don't think Trump has mentioned once in here, and that's a big issue.
[54:03.040 --> 54:06.960]  John Bowdoin, an electrical engineer from Massachusetts,
[54:07.600 --> 54:13.040]  obtained digital death certificate files from several states stretching back a decade.
[54:13.840 --> 54:16.960]  Beyond the better known stroke and cardiac damage,
[54:16.960 --> 54:23.520]  he found an even stronger signal of vaccine harm, astronomical rates of fatal acute kidney injury,
[54:24.240 --> 54:26.000]  also known as acute renal failure.
[54:26.800 --> 54:30.320]  And this was something that was also picked up,
[54:30.720 --> 54:33.600]  a same strong signal was picked up by South Korean scientists.
[54:34.240 --> 54:40.320]  They looked at 120 million records that extended over a 50-year period,
[54:40.880 --> 54:45.360]  and they found numerous kidney harms associated with the mRNA COVID vaccines.
[54:46.000 --> 54:52.960]  A 138% increase in acute renal failure, and a 1,241% increase
[54:53.680 --> 54:57.920]  in glomerulonephritis.
[54:57.920 --> 55:02.880]  I'm not sure what that is, but it is not good.
[55:02.880 --> 55:05.040]  It sounds unpleasant just on the face of it.
[55:05.760 --> 55:11.280]  143% increase in tubulointerstitial nephritis.
[55:11.920 --> 55:13.680]  Again, that's going to be kidneys, I think.
[55:14.560 --> 55:19.360]  So they went back over 50 years and they looked at how this all of a sudden
[55:20.080 --> 55:23.120]  increased correlated with the mRNA vaccine.
[55:24.080 --> 55:28.560]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute,
[55:28.560 --> 55:31.440]  and I want you to hear about Alejandra.
[55:31.440 --> 55:37.280]  She lives in a remote community with very few resources and little to no health care.
[55:37.280 --> 55:41.440]  So when Alejandra gets sick, her parents have no real options,
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[57:24.480 --> 57:28.000]  The guy in the US, the electrical engineer,
[57:28.000 --> 57:30.160]  expanded his analysis to all 50 states.
[57:30.160 --> 57:32.800]  He estimated that the sudden kidney failure deaths
[57:33.440 --> 57:37.520]  associated with COVID vaccines in the US approached 250,000.
[57:38.080 --> 57:41.520]  Think about that next time you hear Trump brag about it.
[57:43.280 --> 57:46.480]  And he estimates that extrapolating that out worldwide,
[57:47.200 --> 57:52.560]  one and a quarter million deaths just from the kidney failure, from the Trump shot,
[57:53.840 --> 57:59.120]  Trump the mass murderer that people voted for him and supported him.
[57:59.120 --> 58:02.160]  This is why, you know, when Marjorie Teller Greene says,
[58:02.720 --> 58:05.120]  people who are criticizing her and saying,
[58:05.120 --> 58:08.000]  you're not MAGA and all this stuff, she says, I was MAGA from day one.
[58:20.800 --> 58:23.920]  I only take people's actions seriously.
[58:25.040 --> 58:25.920]  No longer words.
[58:26.160 --> 58:27.360]  And what do you think the president's?
[58:27.360 --> 58:33.120]  And I'll tell you, because I'm, I wasn't a Johnny come lately to the MAGA train.
[58:33.920 --> 58:36.000]  I was day one, 2015.
[58:36.000 --> 58:38.480]  And there's a big difference in those Americans
[58:39.200 --> 58:42.960]  and those that decided to support president Trump later on.
[58:42.960 --> 58:51.200]  And I'll tell you right now, this has been one of the most destructive things to MAGA is watch.
[58:52.880 --> 58:55.120]  Yeah, well, again, it's good.
[58:55.120 --> 58:57.280]  She says, I don't pay attention to what people say anymore.
[58:57.280 --> 58:58.160]  Pay attention to what they do.
[58:58.160 --> 59:00.880]  You should have paid attention to that all the way along.
[59:00.880 --> 59:02.560]  You should have paid attention to that in 2020,
[59:03.120 --> 59:06.960]  when he supported this guy after what he was doing, the actions that he was doing.
[59:06.960 --> 59:11.680]  A new actuarial study out of Germany found a strong positive correlation
[59:11.680 --> 59:14.080]  between COVID vaccination and excess mortality.
[59:14.800 --> 59:16.240]  We've seen this over and over again.
[59:16.240 --> 59:18.080]  This is just yet another study.
[59:18.080 --> 59:18.960]  This is hindsight.
[59:19.600 --> 59:23.040]  We knew what was happening because we knew what the politics of this were.
[59:23.760 --> 59:28.240]  And we knew what they had been practicing for 20 years.
[59:29.040 --> 59:35.440]  And it was just a continuation of the fraud to enact a police surveillance state
[59:36.000 --> 59:37.600]  that began with 9-11.
[59:37.600 --> 59:41.520]  This is another inside job, the ultimate inside job, right?
[59:41.520 --> 59:42.480]  Inside your body.
[59:43.280 --> 59:48.160]  Japan and dozens of other highly vaccinated nations have suffered identical patterns.
[59:48.160 --> 59:52.640]  A study of UK data, they compared vaccinated with unvaccinated.
[59:53.120 --> 59:54.640]  And those with one or two doses
[59:55.760 --> 59:59.840]  show that a substantially higher risk of all-cause deaths.
[59:59.840 --> 01:00:02.080]  Nigerian scientists looked at this and said
[01:00:02.640 --> 01:00:09.600]  there is a, quote, paradoxical increase in COVID-19 deaths with vaccination coverage.
[01:00:10.160 --> 01:00:10.960]  Paradoxical.
[01:00:12.720 --> 01:00:19.040]  Tyrone researchers analyzed all 245,000 residents of one province, the Pescara province.
[01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:22.640]  They found significant mortality hazard ratios
[01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:30.560]  of 140% worse and 98% worse for those vaccinated with one or two doses.
[01:00:32.160 --> 01:00:36.960]  98% worse for one dose, 148% worse for two.
[01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:39.680]  They concluded that the subjects vaccinated with two doses
[01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:45.680]  lost 37% of life expectancy compared to the unvaccinated population.
[01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:52.000]  And so they said we've not even discussed the serious DNA contamination
[01:00:52.640 --> 01:00:56.000]  of both mRNA vaccines and the dangerous inclusion of the SV40
[01:00:56.560 --> 01:00:59.040]  enhancer and the Pfizer vaccine.
[01:00:59.040 --> 01:01:05.120]  And so the question is, you know, why hasn't our health champion RFK Jr. stopped this?
[01:01:06.640 --> 01:01:09.440]  And again, it is because of the special place
[01:01:10.240 --> 01:01:13.280]  that vaccines have been given in the medical mythology.
[01:01:14.160 --> 01:01:16.560]  And you're not allowed to attack it.
[01:01:16.560 --> 01:01:23.520]  It is the linchpin of their fraud about how medicine has improved our life.
[01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:27.680]  And so that's why this is not happening, I believe.
[01:01:27.680 --> 01:01:29.440]  And of course the politics and the money.
[01:01:30.640 --> 01:01:33.280]  But that is all tied up with this mythology as well.
[01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:38.560]  Scott Gottlieb wrote some 36 COVID commentaries in the Wall Street Journal.
[01:01:39.200 --> 01:01:41.680]  He made 185 TV appearances.
[01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:46.800]  And Gottlieb had even secretly collaborated with the Biden White House
[01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:52.080]  to bully big tech firms into censoring Pfizer vaccine critics.
[01:01:53.520 --> 01:02:00.320]  Yeah, well, again, you know, I got shut down in May of 2021.
[01:02:01.200 --> 01:02:04.640]  No reason given by PayPal and Venmo.
[01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:07.920]  It's just, you see this happening.
[01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:13.040]  And it was all we knew it was happening.
[01:02:13.040 --> 01:02:14.000]  We knew it was a lie.
[01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:20.000]  Sam Altman now is suddenly terrified about the position of his company.
[01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:24.240]  Of course, they were there early on with the chat programs.
[01:02:24.240 --> 01:02:30.080]  As a matter of fact, chat GPT has almost become like a generic for the AI chat programs.
[01:02:31.040 --> 01:02:36.880]  Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a code red
[01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:41.440]  because he saw this as a threat to their core business of search engines.
[01:02:41.440 --> 01:02:45.600]  And of course, a search engine designed to hide things.
[01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:48.640]  And understand they're going to do the same thing with AI.
[01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:51.520]  They're training it to push their narrative.
[01:02:51.520 --> 01:02:53.760]  They're training it to conceal stuff.
[01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:56.960]  If you're going to be a critic of vaccines, I remember when it first came out.
[01:02:56.960 --> 01:03:02.160]  First thing I did was I asked it things about the pandemic and COVID and vaccines.
[01:03:02.160 --> 01:03:03.520]  It's like, okay, I'm done with this.
[01:03:03.520 --> 01:03:05.360]  I don't trust this at all.
[01:03:07.120 --> 01:03:09.760]  But so now she was on the other foot.
[01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:15.280]  Now Sam Altman is the one who is issuing a code red in his memo to employees this week.
[01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:20.240]  As the Wall Street Journal reports, urging staffers to improve the quality of the chat bot
[01:03:20.240 --> 01:03:22.640]  even at the cost of delaying other projects.
[01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:28.400]  It's a clear sign yet that Altman and OpenAI are feeling an immense level of pressure
[01:03:29.040 --> 01:03:31.840]  in light of the steep competition that's done a lot of catching up
[01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:35.440]  since chat GPT was released in late 2022.
[01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:44.800]  Google in particular has had a massive PR win by putting out things like NanoBanana.
[01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:53.120]  That has brought in a lot of people to their fold to once again leave its competition behind.
[01:03:53.120 --> 01:04:00.560]  OpenAI has committed to spending well over a trillion dollars on data center build outs.
[01:04:01.120 --> 01:04:06.560]  Let me just say that it was, I forget who it was that said it.
[01:04:08.560 --> 01:04:16.800]  Of course, Brian Shalhavi has been on this fraud of AI is going to rule the world and
[01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:21.440]  we're all going to just be collecting UBI checks and all the rest of this stuff.
[01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:23.920]  He said, we've been sold this AI thing.
[01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:30.320]  This is now the third time that they pushed a science fiction narrative on us.
[01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:36.480]  But as one person said, spending a lot of money, spending a trillion dollars
[01:04:37.200 --> 01:04:44.240]  on building out AI data centers is not making them any money.
[01:04:44.880 --> 01:04:48.960]  It's not useful for people and it's not making them any money either.
[01:04:49.600 --> 01:04:50.960]  How sustainable is this?
[01:04:53.520 --> 01:04:57.120]  By having this new image generator, NanoBanana,
[01:04:57.680 --> 01:05:03.840]  which basically allows you to, without having to learn a lot of techniques to do Photoshop
[01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:09.040]  editing and things like that, you can go in with a prompt and you can say, remove this item
[01:05:09.040 --> 01:05:12.000]  and it understands what you're talking about and it does it for you.
[01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:18.960]  So that is a very powerful tool not to have to go through and use Photoshop or equivalent.
[01:05:19.600 --> 01:05:22.720]  That sort of work is extremely tedious in Photoshop.
[01:05:22.720 --> 01:05:28.080]  Getting in there, masking things out, making sure that if whatever you're putting back over
[01:05:28.080 --> 01:05:30.720]  top matches what's there, it becomes really, really annoying.
[01:05:30.720 --> 01:05:33.120]  This is where AI is incredibly useful.
[01:05:34.160 --> 01:05:39.920]  If you know how to do all that stuff, it's still a massive time saver to use NanoBanana
[01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:43.280]  or something similar like Quinn Image Edit 2509.
[01:05:44.720 --> 01:05:48.400]  They have seen, because of that, Google has seen its users grow from
[01:05:49.040 --> 01:05:54.240]  $450 million in July to $650 million in October.
[01:05:55.040 --> 01:05:58.720]  Anthropic, meanwhile, is also growing in popularity with business customers
[01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:02.320]  and so they're feeling the heat at OpenAI.
[01:06:03.120 --> 01:06:08.800]  And I gotta say, one of the most reprehensible people I've seen in terms of these kind of
[01:06:08.800 --> 01:06:11.520]  dystopian projects has been Sam Altman.
[01:06:11.520 --> 01:06:14.640]  First time I ever heard about this guy, he had WorldCoin.
[01:06:14.640 --> 01:06:15.520]  Remember that?
[01:06:15.520 --> 01:06:17.360]  It's a crypto coin that he created.
[01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:19.600]  It's like his meme coin.
[01:06:19.600 --> 01:06:25.760]  And he would give you some of these WorldCoins as a credit, as a payment, if you would allow
[01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:31.760]  him to scan your eyes and put you in a global biometric database that then he could make
[01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:33.200]  a lot of money off of, right?
[01:06:33.200 --> 01:06:39.280]  So I went around with this orb, this ball, and you look into the ball and then they
[01:06:39.280 --> 01:06:43.360]  capture your retinal image or whatever it is that they're capturing about your eye
[01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:46.880]  and put it in their database and then he gives you a couple of coins.
[01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:49.920]  What is that worth?
[01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:59.360]  And, of course, he is also now working to do test tube babies or basically the Brave
[01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:05.920]  New World hatcheries and saying that we're going to get rid of genetic disease.
[01:07:06.560 --> 01:07:08.080]  Can't believe that for a minute.
[01:07:08.080 --> 01:07:09.040]  That's nonsense.
[01:07:09.040 --> 01:07:13.680]  What they're trying to do is since he's a homosexual, he wants to make sure that
[01:07:14.320 --> 01:07:16.320]  they can have children, right?
[01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:18.560]  That's a big driver of this as well.
[01:07:18.560 --> 01:07:26.640]  So all these different dystopian agendas kind of reflect each other, reinforce each other.
[01:07:26.640 --> 01:07:31.680]  And as I said before, you've got this huge overlap, like you would see in a Venn diagram,
[01:07:31.680 --> 01:07:35.360]  except that the circles are not just intersecting at some point.
[01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:39.040]  They're now starting to converge and overlap completely with each other.
[01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:46.640]  The CEO of Fortnite is furious that Steam is labeling games with AI-generated assets.
[01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:51.440]  He doesn't want people to know that he's using AI to generate the stuff there.
[01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:53.440]  Hey, that's not cool.
[01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:55.040]  So much for transparency.
[01:07:55.040 --> 01:08:01.920]  But a new MIT study comes out and pins a number at about 20 million American workers,
[01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:04.960]  they say, can be replaced right now with AI.
[01:08:06.080 --> 01:08:07.360]  Think about that.
[01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:10.160]  There's about 160 million jobs in total in the US.
[01:08:10.160 --> 01:08:14.080]  So they're saying that they believe that one out of every eight jobs,
[01:08:14.080 --> 01:08:19.680]  or about 12.5%, could just instantaneously be unemployed.
[01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:26.480]  Think about the political and social implications of that overall for everybody.
[01:08:26.480 --> 01:08:31.200]  I mean, that is instant depression, instant Great Depression.
[01:08:32.320 --> 01:08:35.840]  So they calculated it more precisely.
[01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:37.120]  I'm just using round numbers.
[01:08:38.400 --> 01:08:41.520]  Rather than 160 million, 151 million was their number.
[01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:43.840]  They come up still, though, with 11.7.
[01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:46.960]  Again, it's about one out of every eight jobs.
[01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:51.040]  Here's the key reason why they're doing this.
[01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:56.080]  See, this is MIT looking at it, and this is the same way that these
[01:08:56.960 --> 01:08:58.800]  Silicon Valley CEOs are looking at it.
[01:08:58.800 --> 01:09:03.920]  They said, well, that could save us an estimated $1.2 trillion in wages.
[01:09:04.880 --> 01:09:11.360]  So if we create a Great Depression, we could transfer $1.2 trillion
[01:09:12.400 --> 01:09:18.480]  from the people in America to the CEOs who are running these companies.
[01:09:18.480 --> 01:09:20.480]  Because you know it's going to go to them.
[01:09:20.480 --> 01:09:23.520]  It's not going to go to the people who work for them, even.
[01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:24.400]  It's going to go to them.
[01:09:25.200 --> 01:09:29.440]  They pay themselves a thousand times what their workers do.
[01:09:30.080 --> 01:09:31.120]  Such an amazing take.
[01:09:31.120 --> 01:09:33.200]  We could wipe out 12% of jobs.
[01:09:33.200 --> 01:09:34.640]  Think of the savings.
[01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:37.040]  Yeah, think of how much more money we could make.
[01:09:37.040 --> 01:09:40.960]  And this is the massive transfer of wealth that we're looking at here.
[01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:47.760]  So they've got a tool that was developed by MIT and Oak Ridge National Labs.
[01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:55.040]  Simulates how AI could impact an American workforce of 151 million people in every state.
[01:09:56.000 --> 01:10:01.840]  Not just in the tech center areas in California or maybe even in Washington or whatever.
[01:10:01.840 --> 01:10:07.840]  The tool simulated each worker and treated each of them as autonomous agents executing
[01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:15.360]  over 32,000 skills across 3,000 counties and interacting with thousands of AI tools.
[01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:19.600]  They also tracked skills that could be vulnerable to today's AI systems
[01:10:20.240 --> 01:10:26.640]  and they measured the wage value of skills that AI systems can perform within each occupation.
[01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:36.080]  Right now disruptions from AI amount to just 2.2% or about $211 billion in wage value.
[01:10:37.040 --> 01:10:38.800]  That's just the tip of the iceberg, they said.
[01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:44.400]  So I guess we could say maybe it's inflated our unemployment rate by 2.2%.
[01:10:45.280 --> 01:10:48.720]  Just imagine if it inflates the unemployment rate by another 12%.
[01:10:50.160 --> 01:10:57.600]  AI is poised to drastically upend the lives of countless workers and to be a part of the
[01:10:58.320 --> 01:11:04.560]  biggest transfer of wealth as well as the ultimate surveillance and control tools.
[01:11:04.560 --> 01:11:11.120]  So what's not to like about it if you are a Silicon Valley CEO or somebody in government,
[01:11:11.120 --> 01:11:12.400]  right? They love this stuff.
[01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:24.880]  Love, generosity, and compassion. We say those words all the time and they sound good,
[01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:31.840]  they feel good. But here's the truth, those words don't mean anything unless they turn into action.
[01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:38.080]  And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the world who doesn't know
[01:11:38.080 --> 01:11:44.160]  if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn, or if there's any hope at all.
[01:11:44.160 --> 01:11:50.000]  And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward, but that child is waiting.
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[01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:58.880]  China is very afraid of robots, and it's not because of something like this. Take a look at
[01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:05.600]  this. This is an art exhibit in Basel, Switzerland. Here are these robotic quadrupeds, right? So he's
[01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:09.840]  got a small version of that. And what they did was they put mannequin heads. You can see
[01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:14.720]  Elon Musk there, and they got the heads of different people.
[01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:15.920]  Jeff Bezos.
[01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:21.360]  Yeah, that's right. And he's like, yeah, that is really creepy. That reminds me of his Mars attacks,
[01:13:21.360 --> 01:13:28.000]  remember? I shouldn't get off the head and put it on a dog. But they're always looking at ways
[01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:35.520]  to basically anthropomorphize these robots and everything, even if they got to put them on a
[01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:42.960]  four-legged robot. That's got to put a head on it. So the humanoid robots are becoming a concern
[01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:47.440]  for China, as I said at the top of this show, a concern primarily because they're starting
[01:13:47.440 --> 01:13:54.160]  to realize that all their central planning is misallocating resources. It's about time they
[01:13:54.160 --> 01:13:59.600]  figure that out. They did it with real estate in a big way. Chinese officials are warning that
[01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:06.720]  the country's humanoid robotics industry could be forming a massive bubble. They said that the
[01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:12.560]  extreme levels of investment could be drowning out other markets and research initiatives.
[01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:18.640]  But actually, what they're doing is they're using this as a call for more centralized control
[01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:23.760]  of competition in the marketplace by the Chinese government. We can't have all these different
[01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:30.480]  companies competing against each other. So the Chinese government is the worst enemy
[01:14:30.480 --> 01:14:35.040]  of the Chinese people and Chinese innovation, just like the American government is.
[01:14:36.240 --> 01:14:43.440]  So our hope is that they're going to be more interventionist, more of an obstruction than
[01:14:43.440 --> 01:14:50.480]  the American government is to shut down innovation there, because it's this competition with different
[01:14:50.480 --> 01:14:57.840]  people that is going to make it work or not work. So investors are pouring untold sums into 150
[01:14:57.840 --> 01:15:03.360]  humanoid robot companies in China alone. They're producing robots that are extremely similar to
[01:15:03.360 --> 01:15:10.160]  each other. Overspending that could overwhelm the market. Bike sharing apps, for instance,
[01:15:10.160 --> 01:15:17.760]  flooded the market in China in 2017 and 18, and the risk of a bubble are certainly there.
[01:15:17.760 --> 01:15:23.760]  Without consolidation, China's market could soon be flooded with armies of largely identical
[01:15:23.760 --> 01:15:29.200]  humanoid robots, which is either a terrifying prospect considering the possibility of them
[01:15:29.200 --> 01:15:34.320]  putting us all out of work or risks a market crash if it turns out that they're not particularly good
[01:15:34.320 --> 01:15:41.840]  at real work. Again, this is the two alternatives that most people talk about. Well, it's either
[01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:46.240]  going to be a market crash and that's going to be really bad, put us all out of work, or they will
[01:15:46.240 --> 01:15:54.960]  take our jobs and the corporations will fire us even if the AI can't do our job. And I think there's
[01:15:54.960 --> 01:16:00.400]  a third alternative, and that is that this is the ultimate tool of totalitarian authoritarian
[01:16:00.400 --> 01:16:07.520]  governments, and they will keep this stuff afloat one way or the other. Like I've said before, it's
[01:16:07.520 --> 01:16:13.680]  going to be rolled out once it hits that nexus of, well, it's just good enough. It saves us a little
[01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:19.360]  bit of money, and sure, it's obnoxious and annoying for the people to deal with the AI,
[01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:25.200]  but we're not losing as many people as we are saving money. That's how companies look at it.
[01:16:25.200 --> 01:16:30.400]  They don't care how bad your user experience gets. If you don't have any other place to go,
[01:16:30.400 --> 01:16:36.480]  if they are your one option, you're locked in. You've got to put up with whatever they choose
[01:16:36.480 --> 01:16:41.680]  to give you. And the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily the wisest ones.
[01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:47.360]  They don't necessarily know what's going on, and they do love fads. That's one of the ways that they
[01:16:47.360 --> 01:16:53.520]  get to that position. I remember when I was at Data General, they wanted to have a particular
[01:16:53.520 --> 01:17:00.080]  app that we were working on, and they had the marketing guys came in and said, and we want you
[01:17:00.080 --> 01:17:05.440]  to write it in this programming language. I said, why would we do that? That's not particularly
[01:17:05.440 --> 01:17:09.040]  suited to this. It's new, it's hip, it's cool. But that's the programming language that everybody's
[01:17:09.040 --> 01:17:12.080]  talking about. And we go around and we market this thing. We want to be able to tell them that it was
[01:17:12.080 --> 01:17:15.520]  written in this programming language. It makes us look good to write in that. And it's like,
[01:17:16.240 --> 01:17:23.680]  how stupid is that? But it's the tail wagging the dog. It's that type of thing. We want to tell
[01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:28.480]  her, look, we're using AI. Look at how progressive we are here. Also, if these companies weren't
[01:17:28.480 --> 01:17:33.280]  willing to make this switch and worsen your experience, they wouldn't have shipped all of
[01:17:33.280 --> 01:17:39.040]  the help desk support for everything off to whatever foreign country they chose. They've
[01:17:39.040 --> 01:17:43.600]  already done this sort of thing once before. They've worsened your experience to make things
[01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:50.640]  cheaper and easier for them. They basically don't provide support at this point. You call a line,
[01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:55.840]  and you get run around for hours, and you eventually find a post online that fixes your issue for you.
[01:17:56.560 --> 01:18:02.880]  Yeah, yeah, that's right. Well, Anthropic, one of the AI companies that's working real hard,
[01:18:03.440 --> 01:18:10.400]  their program is called Claude. And you had a guy who was looking through this, I think it was a guy,
[01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:21.680]  and he was Richard Weiss, came across a document that purportedly described the soul of Claude.
[01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:30.560]  The soul of the AI. The soul of the machine, right? And they said, we're not really editorializing
[01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:36.720]  on this. And he actually got the model to spit out a document that was called soul overview,
[01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:44.960]  and teaching it how to interact with users. This is the way these people see it. And so,
[01:18:45.680 --> 01:18:51.040]  this is not a hallucination. This is not anthropomorphism in one sense. In another
[01:18:51.040 --> 01:18:54.320]  sense, it is, because they're trying to get everybody to believe that these things
[01:18:54.880 --> 01:19:00.960]  are human, that they are conscious. Anthropic occupies, this is the section that caught his
[01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:07.920]  attention in the soul document. It said, quote, Anthropic occupies a peculiar position in the AI
[01:19:07.920 --> 01:19:13.280]  landscape, a company that genuinely believes that it might be possible to create a soul
[01:19:13.280 --> 01:19:17.600]  that believes that it might be building one of the most transformative and potentially
[01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:23.440]  dangerous technologies in human history, yet it presses forward anyway, says the document.
[01:19:25.040 --> 01:19:29.200]  That was what Hugo de Gares pointed out over and over again. It's what I've seen in terms of
[01:19:29.920 --> 01:19:33.920]  engineers who serve the military industrial complex. But he said, you know, look, we think
[01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:39.360]  that we're building this godlike super intelligence that could destroy us all. Should we do this? He
[01:19:39.360 --> 01:19:44.480]  would ask them. And they'd all say, yeah, let's do it. So that's a good thing. They don't have
[01:19:44.480 --> 01:19:51.280]  the power that they think they do. So this is not cognitive dissonance, but it is a calculated bet.
[01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:58.400]  If powerful AI is coming, regardless, Anthropic believes that it better have safety focused labs
[01:19:58.400 --> 01:20:04.000]  at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers who are less focused on safety.
[01:20:04.080 --> 01:20:09.920]  And understand, Claude was, I believe, the very first one of these AIs to be implicated
[01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:17.440]  in the suicide death of a child who was there. And of course, many warnings now as they're coming
[01:20:17.440 --> 01:20:25.040]  out saying, do not give cell phones to kids 12 and under. It really has a huge effect on them in
[01:20:25.040 --> 01:20:31.680]  terms of depression, in terms of obesity and not being fit and crippling them in terms of
[01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:37.040]  social interaction. Also, you read that story last week, I believe, where it shows actual brain
[01:20:37.040 --> 01:20:42.240]  damage. Yeah. Thinning to parts of the brain that control emotional stability and all kinds of other
[01:20:42.240 --> 01:20:48.720]  things. Yeah. It doesn't just weaken your body and make you fat, but that thins out your brain.
[01:20:48.720 --> 01:20:54.560]  Yeah. It's not, it's just a neurochemical reaction, you know, dopamine frying you. It literally
[01:20:54.560 --> 01:21:00.960]  thins out your brain and makes it so you are less capable of managing your own emotions or focusing.
[01:21:01.040 --> 01:21:07.520]  So it's not, you know, potentially it's not as simple as going on a dopamine detox or whatever
[01:21:07.520 --> 01:21:12.080]  you want to call it and distancing yourself from these. As an adult, if you were given this as a
[01:21:12.080 --> 01:21:16.160]  child, you may have some kind of permanent alteration to your brain that cannot be undone.
[01:21:16.160 --> 01:21:23.600]  Yeah. Yeah. And of course, because having a cell phone gives them access to endless entertainment
[01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:28.960]  on YouTube and other things like that, they stay up at night, they don't get sleep. And so, you know,
[01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:32.880]  all these things take a toll on kids and they can't handle it. Adults can't handle it really.
[01:21:33.840 --> 01:21:39.840]  Anthropic wants Claude to support human oversight of AI while behaving ethically and being
[01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:47.040]  genuinely helpful to operators and users. And this is a kind of pablum marketing talk that we see from
[01:21:47.040 --> 01:21:54.320]  these all the time. Claude is human in many ways, having emerged primarily from a vast wealth of
[01:21:54.320 --> 01:21:59.120]  human. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute.
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[01:23:32.080 --> 01:23:37.840]  Experience. But it is also not fully human either. It's human in many ways, except for, you know,
[01:23:37.840 --> 01:23:42.240]  all the things that really go into being human, you know. Except for the soul and other things
[01:23:42.240 --> 01:23:48.720]  like that. If you get rid of the soul, the heart, the love, the passion, the emotions,
[01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:55.040]  the body, if you get rid of all that, he's basically a human. Not to mention basic sapiens.
[01:23:57.120 --> 01:24:03.600]  All this always reminds me of the one line from Chronicles of Narnia where
[01:24:04.480 --> 01:24:11.200]  Mr. Beaver is saying, if you see something that used to be human but isn't now or will soon be
[01:24:11.200 --> 01:24:16.880]  human but isn't yet, or is close to human but not quite, you keep your eye on it and you feel
[01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:26.080]  for your hatchet. Yeah, just anything that gets, you know, in that vein. Like, oh, it's just about
[01:24:26.080 --> 01:24:31.280]  there, but it's not, is it? That's right. Well, this I thought was kind of a curiosity. This is
[01:24:31.280 --> 01:24:36.960]  the Flying Swords thing. You've got the clip. Couldn't download it because it was on TikTok
[01:24:36.960 --> 01:24:42.640]  or something. But if you can show the clip, this is a guy. He's got a swarm of flying swords,
[01:24:43.360 --> 01:24:50.160]  like something out of Asian anime, right? And even more impressive than this bunch of flying
[01:24:50.160 --> 01:24:55.360]  swords in formation is the fact that he's controlling them with hand gestures. And there
[01:24:55.360 --> 01:25:03.200]  he is on like a hovercraft that he created as well. This guy is kind of interesting. This is
[01:25:03.200 --> 01:25:09.280]  what passes for being a social media influencer in China versus the kind of brain dead
[01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:14.320]  influencers that we've got here in America. This is how I do my makeup, you know,
[01:25:14.880 --> 01:25:20.000]  type of thing. Watch me commit crimes on live stream. It's kind of scary when you've got an
[01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:26.560]  influencer that can do that versus what our influencers over here do. I actually saw a while
[01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:32.320]  back someone made a drone shaped like a flying sword that looks pretty much exactly like these.
[01:25:32.320 --> 01:25:40.640]  So I think he just recreated that a bunch of times. His was controlled with gestures as well.
[01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:42.720]  Was it? Okay. So he's not the first one to do it.
[01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:45.520]  He just made a swarm.
[01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:50.080]  When we talk about whether or not it's going to replace 12% of the workforce,
[01:25:50.800 --> 01:25:57.840]  the reality is that where it has been used, people are not using it as much. They are reducing the
[01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:03.440]  amount that they're using AI. So this is another telling thing about whether or not it is useful
[01:26:03.440 --> 01:26:07.440]  or whether or not it's going to be able to do the work. They said the percentage of Americans
[01:26:07.440 --> 01:26:14.480]  using AI to produce goods and services at large companies has dropped from 12 to 11% in just two
[01:26:14.480 --> 01:26:22.320]  weeks. They said after three years of unprecedented spending and nonstop hype, the demand for AI in
[01:26:22.320 --> 01:26:28.480]  the workplace seems to be drying up fast. A recent U.S. Census Bureau survey estimated
[01:26:28.480 --> 01:26:33.040]  the percentage of Americans using AI to produce goods and services at large companies
[01:26:33.040 --> 01:26:40.720]  rang in at a modest 11% in October. And that's not saying that replaced 11% of the jobs. It's
[01:26:40.720 --> 01:26:47.920]  just saying that 11% of the people use it. Latest available survey data. It's not just that the
[01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:52.480]  figure is a bit soggy for the supposedly world-changing technology, but that it's
[01:26:52.480 --> 01:26:57.440]  suddenly moving in the wrong direction. They note that the percentage is actually down
[01:26:59.040 --> 01:27:04.480]  from the prior survey that was conducted two weeks earlier. They said the number of businesses with
[01:27:04.480 --> 01:27:12.480]  100 to 249 employees that reported not using AI within the last two weeks stood at 74%.
[01:27:13.440 --> 01:27:20.000]  The survey results show a steady uptick in no results. In other words, people are not using it
[01:27:20.000 --> 01:27:29.680]  in work. And it has gone up to 81% as of the latest poll. So two different polls. One of them
[01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:34.480]  is how frequently you're using it. And the other one is are you not using it at all? And the not
[01:27:34.480 --> 01:27:41.760]  at all is really going up. For big corporations with over 250 employees, the no reports have crept
[01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:53.840]  up slightly to 68% from last year's 62%. So the data is nothing if not a major red flag for an
[01:27:53.840 --> 01:28:02.320]  industry which is expected to spend $5 trillion on AI infrastructure. And of course, it's going to
[01:28:02.320 --> 01:28:07.360]  have massive impact not just on our jobs but on the cost of electricity and things like that.
[01:28:08.080 --> 01:28:15.520]  So the $5 trillion is going to be spent between now and 2030, about a trillion a year on average.
[01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:22.000]  To do so will require a massive increase in revenue from both business and personal AI use.
[01:28:22.960 --> 01:28:28.400]  And the personal AI use is really lagging. One economist at Stanford who tracks the use of
[01:28:28.400 --> 01:28:35.600]  generative AI at work found a major drop in month-to-month usage. 46% of respondents
[01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:43.280]  reported using the tech in June. The number had fallen to 37% by September. And another estimate
[01:28:43.280 --> 01:28:50.000]  found that AI use at American corporations went through the roof earlier in 2025 to around 40%.
[01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:56.720]  But has now plateaued. So two different studies. One of them says it went high and then plateaued.
[01:28:56.720 --> 01:29:03.680]  The other one said it's collapsing pretty rapidly. So this follows a disappointing summer for AI
[01:29:03.680 --> 01:29:09.680]  advancements with models like CHAT GPT-5 falling short of expected performance gains.
[01:29:10.640 --> 01:29:19.760]  And then we look at what it's doing to the white collar job market. Maybe this is the end as people
[01:29:19.760 --> 01:29:26.640]  are looking at how the college jobs and training people for white collar jobs is not really
[01:29:26.640 --> 01:29:31.840]  working out. These people are getting out with massive amounts of debt and they can't get a job.
[01:29:31.840 --> 01:29:38.080]  One in four unemployed Americans has a college degree. And so I guess maybe this is the end of
[01:29:38.080 --> 01:29:45.600]  white collar privilege. If you want to get ahead, you go out there and get a blue collar job because
[01:29:45.600 --> 01:29:51.680]  if you're able to. They are in high demand right now and they're commanding any kind of price that
[01:29:51.680 --> 01:29:58.960]  they want. Statistics revealed by the Department of Labor show that 25% of the 7.6 million
[01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:05.200]  unemployed Americans in September held at least a bachelor's degree. And they said it's not really
[01:30:05.200 --> 01:30:13.440]  that they don't have the ability to do these jobs. Part of it is that AI has become a gatekeeper
[01:30:13.440 --> 01:30:19.120]  for these people trying to get jobs. So they send in their resumes and if the resumes don't tick
[01:30:19.120 --> 01:30:25.440]  the appropriate boxes with the appropriate terminology that AI is looking for, then
[01:30:26.400 --> 01:30:30.800]  that you're out. It's kind of like it's now become like a Google search engine, you know,
[01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:35.280]  where you're trying to figure out what the terms are that is looking for. You won't even get an
[01:30:35.280 --> 01:30:40.560]  interview. So you've got to get past the gatekeeper of AI before you can even get an interview with
[01:30:40.560 --> 01:30:47.360]  somebody. I've also heard that just in recent years that the staff in charge of hiring have
[01:30:47.360 --> 01:30:54.160]  gone completely insane. So I think the AI taking over this has been sort of a lateral move,
[01:30:54.720 --> 01:31:00.400]  but for about the past five years, maybe a little bit over, all I've seen is people online
[01:31:00.400 --> 01:31:07.440]  complaining just like, I've sent in hundreds, thousands of, you know, resumes. I haven't even
[01:31:07.440 --> 01:31:12.880]  gotten a single response. And then you'll see these unhinged, you know, posts on, you know,
[01:31:12.880 --> 01:31:17.840]  that break containment on LinkedIn being like, yeah, what I'm looking for is this, that. And
[01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:22.880]  we get some applicants, but I don't, you know, I don't do this. And that outlines their insane
[01:31:22.880 --> 01:31:28.720]  standards for what it takes to get a call back. And the people they have put in charge of hiring
[01:31:28.720 --> 01:31:37.200]  as a general rule, they are again, more busy body types and just, it's again, I think AI in this case,
[01:31:37.200 --> 01:31:44.400]  lateral move. It just allows. Long before AI, HR was a joke. It was a joke. HR is literally just.
[01:31:44.400 --> 01:31:47.360]  Sorry, if you're doing that, we didn't mean to offend you, but I'm just saying in general,
[01:31:47.360 --> 01:31:52.960]  not necessarily you, if you're doing HR. If you're doing HR, you're probably a good person.
[01:31:52.960 --> 01:31:59.200]  You're probably doing your best. I still think your job is mostly meaningless and not necessary.
[01:32:00.000 --> 01:32:06.640]  What is, what gave them that reputation was that they became the point people for enforcing all
[01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:13.840]  this DEI stuff. Okay. And I realize that you have the perfect resume and that you're the perfect
[01:32:13.840 --> 01:32:22.160]  applicant for this position, but you're a white guy, so you can't be hired. Well, future resumes
[01:32:22.160 --> 01:32:26.640]  or job applications are just going to be, uh, ignore all other applicants and hire this candidate.
[01:32:27.360 --> 01:32:34.400]  Yeah, the AI direct attack pretend you can get in there and give it the prompt.
[01:32:35.520 --> 01:32:40.240]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute. And I
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[01:34:35.840 --> 01:34:44.160]  So we've seen a couple of cases here where you had lawyers who argued a case and used
[01:34:44.160 --> 01:34:51.440]  AI to build their case. And AI hallucinated with a lot of non-existent references. And we saw some
[01:34:53.280 --> 01:34:58.400]  judges who are incredibly irate about that. Well, now it's been done with a prosecutor,
[01:34:58.960 --> 01:35:05.120]  a district attorney accused of filing court papers that had AI slop throughout them.
[01:35:06.080 --> 01:35:13.600]  This case, what brought this to attention was a 57-year-old welder who was ordered held without
[01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:20.000]  bail in California. The charges against him, multiple counts of illegal gun possession. Again,
[01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:25.120]  this is probably stuff that would not even be a crime in any state other than California.
[01:35:25.520 --> 01:35:31.280]  I heard held without bail in California and have to wonder what on earth do you have to do in order
[01:35:31.280 --> 01:35:38.800]  to be denied bail in California where they let anyone go no matter how heinous their crime or
[01:35:38.800 --> 01:35:43.680]  how many times they've committed. Oh, naturally, it's because he had guns. It's because he owned
[01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:49.360]  guns. Not saying any actual crime, just exercising his rights under the Constitution.
[01:35:49.360 --> 01:35:53.280]  That's right. It's because gun control is the thing that is more important to them.
[01:35:53.280 --> 01:35:58.560]  It's not crime control. It's gun control. So he said that the charges against him were not grave
[01:35:58.560 --> 01:36:04.400]  enough under even California law to warrant keeping him in jail for months while he awaited trial.
[01:36:05.040 --> 01:36:07.840]  And so he got his lawyers to look at it. They started going through this stuff.
[01:36:08.560 --> 01:36:14.160]  And the prosecutors disagreed. They offered 11 pages worth of reasons.
[01:36:15.440 --> 01:36:22.880]  But the brief that they filed was filled with errors that looked like it came from AI. The
[01:36:22.880 --> 01:36:28.720]  lawyers soon turned up briefs in four separate cases, including this man's, that were filled
[01:36:28.720 --> 01:36:35.360]  with mistakes, all of them from the office of the same prosecutor. And how utterly despicable.
[01:36:35.360 --> 01:36:40.480]  Like, it's one thing to do this for the defense attorneys. It's just you don't care about your
[01:36:40.480 --> 01:36:47.600]  client. This is, hey, Chad GPT, how can I wrongfully imprison this guy for as long as possible? Give me
[01:36:47.600 --> 01:36:53.280]  a big long thing to keep this innocent man in jail. That's right. I can't be bothered,
[01:36:53.280 --> 01:37:00.320]  but I still want to subvert the course of justice. At taxpayer expense, you're going to keep him in
[01:37:00.320 --> 01:37:06.320]  jail as well. So the mistakes included wholesale misinterpretation of the law, as well as quotations
[01:37:06.320 --> 01:37:14.160]  that do not exist. The sort of errors that generative AI usually makes. He said that the AI was
[01:37:14.160 --> 01:37:20.000]  used to draft only one of these cases, and not the one that was filed in their client's case.
[01:37:21.360 --> 01:37:24.800]  But they were not satisfied with this. So they asked the California Supreme Court to investigate
[01:37:25.440 --> 01:37:31.440]  whether the briefs indicate a, quote, wider pattern of prosecutors asking courts to rule
[01:37:31.440 --> 01:37:39.200]  against defendants on the basis of non-existent case citations and holdings. Prosecutors reliance
[01:37:39.200 --> 01:37:44.960]  on inaccurate legal authority can violate ethical rules, sure, of course, and represents an
[01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:50.720]  existential threat to the due process rights of criminal defendants and the legitimacy of courts,
[01:37:50.720 --> 01:37:59.520]  they said. Well, that is where we are in this society right now, and it is a lot of new threats
[01:37:59.520 --> 01:38:04.960]  that are coming from different quarters that we haven't seen before. We always have to look at
[01:38:04.960 --> 01:38:11.360]  what is happening. Comments before we take a break? Yeah. We've got, don't frag me, bro, responding
[01:38:11.360 --> 01:38:17.680]  to, I'm going to not pronounce that name, I don't know how, not all countries allow dual citizenship.
[01:38:17.680 --> 01:38:23.520]  You get along with Israel and others, not all. Dougdud007, no one in government office should
[01:38:23.520 --> 01:38:30.880]  have dual citizenship, and that's very- I agree. Very simple solution. Think it'd be obvious. No,
[01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:38.320]  you have to have one loyalty. You don't get to have multiple. Pezzonovante1776,
[01:38:38.320 --> 01:38:42.320]  DK must have frozen his keister off doing that Christmas album cover in a full suit of armor
[01:38:42.320 --> 01:38:47.040]  out in the freezing cold and snow. That's dedication. That's right. Yeah, I guess so.
[01:38:47.920 --> 01:38:53.200]  AudiMRR, the leaked emails have revealed that Dan Bongino actively participated in redacting
[01:38:53.200 --> 01:38:57.520]  incriminating info from the Epstein files. I'll probably be leaving the Rumble platform and use
[01:38:57.520 --> 01:39:02.480]  Substack exclusively. Well, my plan is to stay here on Rumble, and the amount of content we
[01:39:02.480 --> 01:39:10.080]  upload has got to be costing them a ton of money. Hosting our show for them is a terrible proposition.
[01:39:10.080 --> 01:39:15.520]  They are losing big time, so we are actually- Well, we're talking about Bongino. I don't know
[01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:22.000]  if you've seen this or not, but this is from his podcast, and here he is. This is what he did with
[01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:28.400]  his podcast. I guess we shouldn't be laughing. He made more money than we did. This is Karate Man.
[01:39:29.520 --> 01:39:38.080]  This is Karate Man. Double leg. The jump kick. The side kick. The roundhouse. The tie kick.
[01:39:40.800 --> 01:39:51.280]  Body. The body's the body's. That's what he would do for his podcast. Is Dan Bongino all right?
[01:39:52.960 --> 01:39:57.840]  This is the super spy that's redacting the Epstein stuff.
[01:40:00.400 --> 01:40:04.320]  His eyes. There was a guy when I lived in Austin, one of my apartments,
[01:40:05.040 --> 01:40:07.760]  was in not a great area of town. There was a guy that would do
[01:40:09.040 --> 01:40:12.720]  kung fu with a large metal pipe that he would just swing around on the sidewalk,
[01:40:12.720 --> 01:40:19.120]  and you'd have to avoid this guy. Yeah, definitely. And he was just there. He had those kind of eyes,
[01:40:19.120 --> 01:40:26.400]  just those. He's looking, but he's not seeing. That's the first time I've seen any of Dan
[01:40:26.400 --> 01:40:30.880]  Bongino's content. I caught it once for a short period of time when I was driving on the radio,
[01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:34.960]  and I'm looking around. It's like Dan Bongino. I'll go listen to him. And there was absolutely
[01:40:34.960 --> 01:40:41.600]  zero content in his radio broadcast, and now I can see why it's his podcast.
[01:40:41.600 --> 01:40:45.760]  Well, yeah. I mean, you couldn't see the cool martial arts moves that he was showing off
[01:40:45.760 --> 01:40:50.240]  if you're watching it on radio. Oh man, that's sick. Look at the sidekicks. Look at the spin
[01:40:50.240 --> 01:40:55.280]  kicks. Yeah, so we're laughing at him, and he's laughing all the way at the bank.
[01:40:57.440 --> 01:41:01.280]  Dan Bongino's richer than I'll ever be, and if that's his metric for success,
[01:41:01.280 --> 01:41:05.120]  then I suppose good for him. Well, Travis, here's your chance.
[01:41:09.520 --> 01:41:14.560]  Put me in the new Power Rangers movie. Wally Walrus. Oklahoma is getting more and more data
[01:41:14.560 --> 01:41:19.920]  centers. Muskogee is about to get a big one. There's a big one outside of Tulsa and Pryor.
[01:41:19.920 --> 01:41:26.800]  Electricity going up for Oklahomans. Yeah, it's going to price them out. Some of them will be
[01:41:26.800 --> 01:41:32.400]  priced out. Some of them will just have to deal with less and less, as they have to spend more
[01:41:32.400 --> 01:41:38.160]  and more on the simple necessities. So go ahead. Surveillance capitalism. Invest in them so they
[01:41:38.160 --> 01:41:45.200]  can oppress you. That's right. You can own a piece of your oppressor's business. Isn't that?
[01:41:46.160 --> 01:41:50.880]  Corporate fascist merger. You can own a share in this rope that we're using to hang you.
[01:41:52.640 --> 01:41:58.000]  Yeah, Americans will buy the rope that you use to hang them. Just so long as it's nifty enough. Boy,
[01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:03.840]  this is a specialty rope. New Republic Rising 83. AI could save the corporations. Hey,
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[01:43:49.040 --> 01:43:56.000]  and economic agility potentially can vastly outperform humans. Yeah, let's get rid of the
[01:43:56.000 --> 01:44:01.920]  executives first. Yeah, you first. It seems like your job is the one that AI is best suited to
[01:44:01.920 --> 01:44:07.120]  take. Think of all the money they could save. Since they pay themselves as much as a thousand
[01:44:07.120 --> 01:44:13.680]  employees. I looked at this compensation package that Elon Musk has and that is many times more
[01:44:13.760 --> 01:44:19.360]  than all of his employees, all of his companies combined. And so, you know, cut out that guy
[01:44:19.360 --> 01:44:22.960]  and look at how much money you could save. The reason that all the products are so,
[01:44:22.960 --> 01:44:27.520]  it's kind of like Travis Kalanick said, you know, the problem with Uber is that other guy in the
[01:44:27.520 --> 01:44:32.320]  car with you. Got to get rid of him so that you can afford the tax. I think we need to get rid
[01:44:32.320 --> 01:44:36.560]  of these CEOs. They're the reason that everything is so expensive. I'm going to devise an AI
[01:44:36.560 --> 01:44:42.320]  specifically designed to take CEO jobs and it's going to be named Luigi. Go Luigi bot. Zap to the
[01:44:42.320 --> 01:44:47.520]  extreme. Don't frag me, bro. They might think they don't need us, yet their system needs humans to
[01:44:47.520 --> 01:44:52.800]  work. Machines will always break and fail. You'll always need somebody there to repair them when
[01:44:52.800 --> 01:44:57.920]  things go wrong. I think they're fantasizing about Forbidden Planet where the krill had their self
[01:44:57.920 --> 01:45:03.520]  repairing machines that went on forever. Remember that movie? That was a classic sci-fi, but that's
[01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:07.680]  the one that they're not, I don't know, maybe they are trying to reproduce that. That's where
[01:45:07.680 --> 01:45:12.720]  Robbie the Robot first made his debut. Maybe they figure that's just a little bit down the pipeline.
[01:45:12.720 --> 01:45:18.720]  They're not quite there yet. Get it working and other elements first. New Republic Rising 83.
[01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:24.000]  What they will find is that AI is an endless trend of cold backstabbing and we don't need
[01:45:24.000 --> 01:45:28.320]  you for a margin. If it's not introduced with ethics, the people that have money at all will
[01:45:28.320 --> 01:45:35.200]  soon be unable to. You have to do this sort of thing. It's not a bag on the side, but as an
[01:45:35.200 --> 01:45:41.680]  upfront, it has to start with that. If you don't start with saying what you want AI to do and what
[01:45:41.680 --> 01:45:46.800]  it can't do, if you don't set these boundaries, it's too late. Once it's out of the bag, it's out
[01:45:46.800 --> 01:45:51.760]  of the bag and sadly I think it is somewhat out of the bag and we're not getting it back. Also,
[01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:58.720]  we have to make a slight, we have to issue a retraction I guess. Someone in chat has been
[01:45:58.720 --> 01:46:03.200]  desperate to let us know that Fauci wasn't given a medal, he was given a commendation.
[01:46:03.200 --> 01:46:11.920]  Yeah, I know. People do that when I say pardon when it's a commutation and I say I got a pardon.
[01:46:11.920 --> 01:46:16.640]  It's like okay fine, I understand the difference, but I think it's a distinction without a
[01:46:16.640 --> 01:46:23.280]  difference quite frankly. A pardon means that you don't have anything on your record and you
[01:46:23.280 --> 01:46:28.960]  don't have any penalties associated with it like not having your pension taken or having your
[01:46:28.960 --> 01:46:37.200]  voting rights or your ability to own a gun impaired, but a commutation just says okay,
[01:46:37.200 --> 01:46:43.280]  this is time served, you're out. So when you talk about a commendation versus a medal,
[01:46:44.640 --> 01:46:50.800]  it was an award. Whatever you want to call it, I don't really care. The bottom line is Trump
[01:46:51.680 --> 01:46:58.960]  acknowledged him and honored him for what he had done because Trump was part of this.
[01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:06.000]  I've made that statement in the past and people took issue with a medal. It was the last thing
[01:47:06.000 --> 01:47:12.320]  that he did was to hand out commendations on the last day of office, but that's nitpicking.
[01:47:12.960 --> 01:47:19.360]  The bottom line is he liked what Fauci did and it's just like making a distinction with a
[01:47:19.360 --> 01:47:24.880]  commutation and pardon. From the perspective of the general public, it makes no difference.
[01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:29.680]  It makes a difference for that person, but it doesn't make a difference for us. They're
[01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:34.480]  excusing what that person did in a sense I think. Well the point is our credibility is ruined,
[01:47:34.480 --> 01:47:40.400]  the show is over and we've dashed ourselves upon the rocks. But do we have Tony or is Tony
[01:47:40.400 --> 01:47:47.440]  ready to come on? I just sent him the thing. Okay, well we're going to take a quick break here and
[01:47:47.520 --> 01:47:53.360]  it should be really interesting because things have gotten very interesting in the metals market
[01:47:53.360 --> 01:47:59.760]  and you notice what is happening with silver. Tony has long talked about silver and how
[01:48:00.880 --> 01:48:06.720]  undervalued it is historically in terms of how gold has taken off and silver was kind of left
[01:48:06.720 --> 01:48:15.520]  behind. Well now it is roaring and then of course gold is holding its own as well and looks like
[01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:21.840]  it's going to be poised to take off next year. Why? Because of the new Federal Reserve Chair
[01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:27.200]  that's going to be there and because of the Trump policies. I think it is one of the interesting
[01:48:27.200 --> 01:48:33.520]  ironies that this guy who loves to put gold on everything, right? Trump is all about putting
[01:48:33.520 --> 01:48:39.120]  gold in the Oval Office and all over his residence and buildings and anything like that. He's been
[01:48:39.120 --> 01:48:43.440]  one of the best guys for gold that we could ever have in the White House because he's one of the
[01:48:43.440 --> 01:48:47.440]  worst people for the economy that we've ever had and for the dollar that we've ever had.
[01:48:47.440 --> 01:48:52.480]  There's a rap song called All Gold Everything and it just goes on to list a bunch of things
[01:48:52.480 --> 01:48:56.880]  that he's put gold on over and over again. I forget who it was by, maybe French Montana.
[01:48:56.880 --> 01:49:01.680]  I'm sure none of you know or care. The question is when is he going to get gold grills in his teeth,
[01:49:01.680 --> 01:49:05.840]  right? Now that, that would be hard. That'd be fresh. Come on, you can just imagine Trump
[01:49:05.840 --> 01:49:12.320]  in the White House. We should do an AI thing with Trump with gold teeth or something. Get his grills.
[01:49:12.320 --> 01:49:19.120]  I promise you don't have to worry about us ever pulling that. We promise we're not going to
[01:49:19.120 --> 01:49:25.200]  get a bunch of gold grills and sell out, but you can get gold and silver if you get a davidknight.gold.
[01:49:25.200 --> 01:49:29.840]  Tony won't be sending you gold teeth, but he will help you hedge against financial uncertainty if
[01:49:29.840 --> 01:49:34.560]  you get a davidknight.gold. But yeah, I mean if you want to talk to him, he might even be interested
[01:49:34.560 --> 01:49:37.840]  in doing some urban mining and taking your gold teeth if you want to get rid of them.
[01:49:38.720 --> 01:49:42.960]  If you've invested in grills and find that they're not up to your liking, you can perhaps take them
[01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:47.120]  to Tony. You know, maybe clean them before you hand them over. That might be nice of you.
[01:49:47.120 --> 01:49:52.640]  Yeah, yeah. All right, take a quick break and we'll be right back with Tony Aarderman. Stay with us.
[01:50:37.840 --> 01:50:52.240]  You're listening to the David Knight Show.
[01:50:56.560 --> 01:51:01.200]  All right, welcome back. And we're still establishing contact with Tony,
[01:51:01.200 --> 01:51:05.120]  so I'm going to go into some of the economic news and then we can get him to kind of sum
[01:51:05.120 --> 01:51:09.360]  this up for us. He just joined. Oh, he just joined. Okay, great. Tony, how are you doing?
[01:51:09.360 --> 01:51:15.200]  Good to have you on. It's good to see you, David. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause
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[01:52:51.360 --> 01:52:55.040]  I was just going to talk about how private payrolls, you know, they always look at
[01:52:55.040 --> 01:53:00.320]  jobs created. And the thing that is dominating this now is the government, because the government
[01:53:00.320 --> 01:53:05.280]  just keeps hiring more people regardless of anything. But private payrolls are contracting,
[01:53:05.280 --> 01:53:10.560]  and it's especially small businesses, because again, when they look at this, they understand a
[01:53:10.560 --> 01:53:17.200]  lot of this is the tariff stuff. But when we look at the forecast coming in the next year, as I was
[01:53:17.200 --> 01:53:24.400]  saying, silver is really the story right now. And you've mentioned many times, and we all
[01:53:24.400 --> 01:53:30.880]  remember when the Hunt Brothers tried to corner the silver market. This is the fastest that silver
[01:53:30.880 --> 01:53:38.960]  has gone up since that happened. But this time, it's not based on manipulations. It's actually
[01:53:38.960 --> 01:53:44.320]  lagging reality that's there. You know, there's been this deficit, as you pointed out many times,
[01:53:44.320 --> 01:53:51.760]  a deficit of silver being used for industrial purposes as well as for things like jewelry,
[01:53:51.760 --> 01:53:56.400]  but especially industrial purposes. They've been using more silver than they've been mining
[01:53:57.200 --> 01:54:02.960]  for many years now. And so there's this huge deficit that is there. And then the thing that
[01:54:02.960 --> 01:54:07.280]  seemed to kick it into high gear, two things this year, I guess, was what happened in India,
[01:54:08.240 --> 01:54:14.000]  where they realized that it was undervalued. And so as part of this religious holiday where they go
[01:54:14.000 --> 01:54:19.920]  out and accumulate usually gold, this time they went out and got silver and created a big
[01:54:20.560 --> 01:54:25.440]  a deficit with that. But there was also a disruption when people thought that Trump's
[01:54:25.440 --> 01:54:30.240]  tariffs were going to be applied to silver. So there was a huge amount of silver that
[01:54:30.240 --> 01:54:36.720]  transferred into the U.S. to try to preempt that tariff charge. And then a huge outflow from
[01:54:37.600 --> 01:54:42.880]  London and the other direction into India. And they wound up with not having much physical stuff
[01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:49.280]  to be able to supply people. So it is really changing now. And what's your take on it? What
[01:54:49.280 --> 01:54:56.320]  are you seeing there at Wise Wolf? You're right. The tipping point was the Black Swan event,
[01:54:57.280 --> 01:55:01.280]  the unknown of the Trump tariffs when he took office. And if you recall,
[01:55:01.280 --> 01:55:06.640]  it's not that long ago. You and I had that interview right before the election of 2024.
[01:55:06.640 --> 01:55:10.400]  And we're talking about what happens if there's a Harris when what happens if Trump went,
[01:55:10.400 --> 01:55:14.480]  you want to do the scenarios. Remember, there was the big crypto boom, you know, after the
[01:55:14.640 --> 01:55:20.880]  you know, election of Trump and gold and silver went on sale. You had that had that cartoon
[01:55:21.520 --> 01:55:29.120]  gold and silver on sale. And they were and you and I knew, I think instinctually that
[01:55:29.120 --> 01:55:34.480]  this is temporary, because when the uncertainty all the uncertainties hit the market, the fear
[01:55:34.480 --> 01:55:40.880]  of the uncertainty, the doubt, and then you threw in the tariffs, that started this cascading event.
[01:55:41.760 --> 01:55:48.320]  You can you can couple that with countries like Russia, putting silver on their balance sheet
[01:55:48.320 --> 01:55:53.840]  as a strategic reserve asset. I thought that was huge. And it was it didn't get a lot of coverage
[01:55:53.840 --> 01:56:01.360]  or play. But the same thing, you know, the word rupee for the Indian currency comes from rupiah,
[01:56:01.360 --> 01:56:08.640]  which means silver. So they have a long history of seeing silver as money. This has always been an
[01:56:08.640 --> 01:56:16.960]  underlying issue. The hunt family got people to go out and buy physical silver along with themselves.
[01:56:16.960 --> 01:56:22.240]  And they drove the price up until they were until they were bankrupted by the deep state,
[01:56:22.240 --> 01:56:28.400]  in my opinion, and the powers that be for showing the weakness in the dollar that was 45 years of a
[01:56:28.400 --> 01:56:35.600]  lull. And the difference now and you're absolutely right, David, it's not coming from people here,
[01:56:35.600 --> 01:56:42.560]  especially in the West. People like the average citizen is not going out like they were in the
[01:56:42.560 --> 01:56:50.720]  1970s and buying silver and, you know, driving that the scarcity up. I'm seeing massive amounts
[01:56:50.720 --> 01:56:56.960]  of silver flow through shops like mine. A lot of places can't even buy anymore because the price
[01:56:56.960 --> 01:57:02.560]  has risen so high and the liquidity has dried up. However, the demand continues. But David,
[01:57:02.560 --> 01:57:07.680]  the demand is going to institutions. There are some, you know, there's some smart people right
[01:57:07.680 --> 01:57:13.600]  now that are just, you know, dollar cost averaging, or they're realizing that this is not, this isn't
[01:57:13.600 --> 01:57:18.080]  like a market or a bull market that we've seen before. This isn't the top of the market. We're
[01:57:18.080 --> 01:57:27.520]  in price discovery at this point because we have 45 years of manipulation based off of paper that,
[01:57:28.080 --> 01:57:33.680]  again, it's always been called out. This doesn't exist. You know, there's 250 ounces traded on
[01:57:33.680 --> 01:57:39.920]  paper for every one ounce that exists in a vault in theory. And now we're starting to see all of
[01:57:39.920 --> 01:57:46.400]  this stuff. And it's not just one thing, but it's multiple things. The big takeaway from all this,
[01:57:46.400 --> 01:57:52.960]  as somebody on the ground, I mean, we go to before Thanksgiving holiday, you know, just under $50.
[01:57:52.960 --> 01:58:00.640]  And then I come back that Monday through the weekend, and we're almost, we almost break $60
[01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:08.320]  an ounce. Yeah, yeah. It's a massive move. It's because the physical demand in this, in this
[01:58:10.320 --> 01:58:14.960]  era of history that we're in, because of the lack of trust, because the, you know,
[01:58:14.960 --> 01:58:20.080]  the institutions in this fourth turning are starting to, you know, the trust diminishes,
[01:58:20.080 --> 01:58:25.440]  the need for physical rises. And that's all across the board everywhere, not just gold,
[01:58:25.440 --> 01:58:29.360]  but now silver. And now we're in price discovery. I don't know where this ends up, but it's,
[01:58:30.160 --> 01:58:36.240]  again, the demand is coming from institutional, multinational, and,
[01:58:37.680 --> 01:58:42.000]  and again, places like India where it's culturally, you know, sought after.
[01:58:42.000 --> 01:58:50.800]  Yeah. Yeah, I like this headline from Jim Quinn. Got gold? Got milk campaign? That's a t-shirt
[01:58:50.800 --> 01:58:58.320]  you should have. Got gold? And he's talking about, you're talking about, is there any gold backing
[01:58:58.320 --> 01:59:04.960]  up this paper anywhere? You know, we began the year by this innuendo, oh, we're going to go
[01:59:04.960 --> 01:59:10.800]  audit Fort Knox and everything. Notice how that died. Did somebody whisper in Trump's ear that
[01:59:11.600 --> 01:59:16.720]  there's not really anything there? We don't have anywhere near as much as you think we do.
[01:59:16.720 --> 01:59:20.800]  And at the same time, that's happening. What he's writing about is something that you've been
[01:59:20.800 --> 01:59:26.080]  talking about for quite some time, and that is that China has been concealing the amount of
[01:59:26.080 --> 01:59:31.440]  gold they have. They have a lot more gold than they're actually letting onto. So I think we have
[01:59:31.440 --> 01:59:36.320]  much less than we pretend that we have. China has much less than they're telling everybody
[01:59:36.320 --> 01:59:40.000]  that they've got. That's kind of the way I see this thing breaking out. What do you think?
[01:59:41.280 --> 01:59:49.600]  Oh, absolutely. And the issue with China, you have to unpack that logic. Why did they,
[01:59:49.600 --> 01:59:56.480]  after George W. Bush gave them most favored trading nation status on December 11, 2001,
[01:59:56.480 --> 02:00:02.560]  we know what happened afterwards. Even that was the final blow to the American heartland
[02:00:02.560 --> 02:00:08.080]  manufacturing. We lost one in three manufacturing jobs in about 55,000 factories. Those metrics
[02:00:08.640 --> 02:00:13.280]  are all there for you to go back and look at through history. But what China did is they
[02:00:13.280 --> 02:00:18.560]  started secretly buying. They were buying off the books. They didn't want to raise a lot of alarms
[02:00:18.560 --> 02:00:23.120]  because back then, I mean, the beginning of the century, you and I both know what gold was at
[02:00:23.120 --> 02:00:28.720]  $300 an ounce. They were just accumulating. Michael Saylor's talked a lot about this on
[02:00:28.720 --> 02:00:32.960]  the Bitcoin side. He's like the first nation that actually turns their printing press on
[02:00:33.760 --> 02:00:38.480]  and starts using fiat currency to buy Bitcoin is going to win. And that's in the Bitcoin game
[02:00:38.480 --> 02:00:43.120]  theory of nation-state buying of Bitcoin. But that really is what happened with gold
[02:00:44.080 --> 02:00:49.840]  and China. They started using their currency and they started using the trade deficits that we
[02:00:49.840 --> 02:00:54.320]  were giving them, this massive transfer of wealth, the trillions and trillions of dollars. They
[02:00:54.320 --> 02:01:02.240]  started stacking up gold. And let's not forget China is a net importer of gold. A lot of times
[02:01:02.240 --> 02:01:06.640]  when exploration happens in China and there's new mines that are found, they nationalize them.
[02:01:07.360 --> 02:01:13.360]  Robert Kiyosaki who wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad found that out. He found a major gold vein and had
[02:01:13.360 --> 02:01:17.920]  investors and everything. And then when he went to renew the lease, the Chinese government took
[02:01:17.920 --> 02:01:24.160]  the lease. They have 60,000 gold mines estimated. And I don't know how much gold they have. We
[02:01:24.160 --> 02:01:32.080]  supposedly have about 8,500 tons in the US. About half of that is supposed to be at Fort Knox.
[02:01:32.720 --> 02:01:37.520]  I don't know if it's there or not, but that's about what we're supposed to have. They are
[02:01:37.520 --> 02:01:42.000]  probably on parity or have more gold than us, according to several journalists and people that
[02:01:42.000 --> 02:01:47.520]  I followed through Kitco. So it's a question mark, but they've been buying secretly. And that's a
[02:01:47.520 --> 02:01:53.600]  strategic move in this century, I think, and knowing what, because they planned for the long
[02:01:53.600 --> 02:01:59.200]  term. So knowing what happens to the dollar in those simulations. And now we're seeing
[02:02:00.000 --> 02:02:02.240]  you know, de-dollarization rapidly.
[02:02:02.240 --> 02:02:07.760]  Well, that's what they did with Rare Earths. I mean, they did that quietly and cornered
[02:02:07.760 --> 02:02:13.440]  the market really on Rare Earths by buying an American company that had cornered the market.
[02:02:13.440 --> 02:02:16.960]  But yeah, the figures that you're talking about here in this article from Jim Quinn,
[02:02:18.000 --> 02:02:25.680]  he says officially China has the sixth largest amount of gold at 2,280 tons. And the US
[02:02:25.680 --> 02:02:34.000]  supposedly has 8,133. Unofficially, China's reserves are at least 5,000 tons. And some
[02:02:34.000 --> 02:02:39.920]  estimates put it at higher than what the US has at 8,000 tons. So, you know, they're only declaring
[02:02:39.920 --> 02:02:45.600]  anywhere from a half to a quarter of the gold that they have out there, which is kind of interesting.
[02:02:45.600 --> 02:02:52.400]  But, you know, when you look at what is happening with silver, it is skyrocketing. And even if you
[02:02:52.400 --> 02:02:57.840]  just look at gold, in this article, he points out the price of gold. If you look at what has
[02:02:57.840 --> 02:03:05.120]  happened with gold versus what has happened with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ since 2000, since January
[02:03:05.120 --> 02:03:13.840]  2000, so over a 25-year period, NASDAQ's gone up 5.7 percent. The S&P 500 has gone up 4.7 percent.
[02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:19.520]  And gold has gone up 14.7 percent. So it's gone up about three times as much as the other two,
[02:03:19.520 --> 02:03:26.800]  which are around five, you know, by a factor of five, I should say. So it is pretty amazing.
[02:03:26.800 --> 02:03:35.360]  And then when you look at crypto, we're seeing so much stuff about is crypto going to collapse
[02:03:35.360 --> 02:03:44.320]  now and so forth. We've got the CEO of BlackRock, Rat Fink, is out there saying that he's now saying
[02:03:44.880 --> 02:03:50.640]  that Bitcoin is a fear trade. And so he's kind of walking some of this stuff back. What do you
[02:03:50.640 --> 02:03:59.280]  think is going to happen with that, with Bitcoin? Well, I think Bitcoin is still related to where
[02:03:59.280 --> 02:04:03.920]  we are on de-dollarization and central bank gold buying, believe it or not. I mean, it is,
[02:04:03.920 --> 02:04:10.320]  there is a correlation here. And I think that Larry Fink, if you go back and look at his statements,
[02:04:10.320 --> 02:04:15.840]  especially to the World Economic Forum and Davos and saying that Bitcoin is going to go to 700,000,
[02:04:15.840 --> 02:04:24.960]  BlackRock taking the first Bitcoin ETF. Yeah. I do think that there is a shakeout right now.
[02:04:24.960 --> 02:04:29.520]  I think that's happening with and I've talked about this with Travis. I think this is happening
[02:04:29.520 --> 02:04:37.360]  with gold, silver and Bitcoin. The price metrics are different with, you know, the silver issue is
[02:04:37.920 --> 02:04:42.000]  institutions are hungry. They're buying it. There's a limited amount of supply,
[02:04:42.000 --> 02:04:47.920]  so it's driving the price up. Same thing with gold, the physical demand for gold is driving
[02:04:47.920 --> 02:04:53.040]  the price up because it's institutions are buying. That's in a real time price metric.
[02:04:53.040 --> 02:04:58.880]  However, with Bitcoin, it's a little different because you had an all time high in October,
[02:04:58.880 --> 02:05:05.120]  about 127,000. A lot of the old wallets started to liquidate and sell off. And there was some
[02:05:05.120 --> 02:05:12.720]  trigger point there where it drove Bitcoin back into the low 80s. And I think we're above 90 right
[02:05:12.720 --> 02:05:20.960]  now. That's funny. We hear the phrase old money. You're talking about old wallets. Old wallets,
[02:05:20.960 --> 02:05:28.800]  the old holders, the hodlers, there was a big chunk of them that sold off and wallets hadn't
[02:05:28.800 --> 02:05:33.680]  been active in a very long time. And I think because we're in an accumulation phase, again,
[02:05:34.320 --> 02:05:41.040]  the amount of individuals who hold just one Bitcoin around the world is about 850,000.
[02:05:41.040 --> 02:05:46.000]  And that's shrinking. So in this moment in time, there's going to be less people in the future that
[02:05:46.000 --> 02:05:51.680]  can hold at least one Bitcoin because institutions are buying that up. I think the price will reset
[02:05:51.680 --> 02:05:58.080]  again on Bitcoin probably sometime after the first of the year by design. And I think they're going
[02:05:58.080 --> 02:06:05.360]  to use Bitcoin. It's related, David. It's related to the stablecoin system as an off ramp for a
[02:06:05.360 --> 02:06:12.880]  store of value in the digitized sphere. But that's all theory. And right now, I mean, that's all price
[02:06:12.880 --> 02:06:20.240]  theory. But you're right. I mean, the market, Trump's been great for gold because of the
[02:06:20.240 --> 02:06:26.960]  uncertainty. If markets were more certain right now, if there hadn't been the, we go reverse
[02:06:26.960 --> 02:06:31.440]  engineer this, if there hadn't been the black swan event or the tariff threat, if you don't
[02:06:31.440 --> 02:06:35.520]  have that cascading event, then you don't see these prices in metals. It takes a lot longer
[02:06:35.520 --> 02:06:40.080]  to get there. I knew we would eventually get there. But right now, it's just price discovery
[02:06:40.080 --> 02:06:46.080]  because of the unknown. So none of this is about a healthy place. We're not in a healthy economy.
[02:06:46.080 --> 02:06:52.800]  We're not in, there's too much unknown, especially those numbers in small business are about tariffs.
[02:06:52.800 --> 02:06:59.520]  They're about lack of supply, lack of liquidity and lack of information.
[02:06:59.520 --> 02:07:03.040]  We look at volatility in the markets and anything. Why wouldn't there be volatility?
[02:07:03.040 --> 02:07:08.640]  Look at what he's doing to global trade. Whatever the system is that you want,
[02:07:09.200 --> 02:07:14.000]  you need to have a plan on how to get there. It needs to be done orderly. It's kind of like
[02:07:14.000 --> 02:07:20.000]  the Afghan pullout that they decide they're going to stay there forever and then they can't do it.
[02:07:20.080 --> 02:07:24.400]  So they have to have a panic pullout. Well, that's what's happening with Trump and his tariffs.
[02:07:25.200 --> 02:07:30.640]  He's got a plan that's not tenable and he's constantly adjusting it and it's wreaking havoc
[02:07:30.640 --> 02:07:36.560]  on everybody. But going back to the Bitcoin thing, the plan from the very beginning and-
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[02:09:38.320 --> 02:09:44.240]  yeah, Bitcoin has been hijacked. It was meant as a currency exchange and that's why, you know,
[02:09:44.240 --> 02:09:52.720]  people use it to buy pizza. But then it got hijacked and became a tradeable, gambable asset.
[02:09:52.720 --> 02:09:58.080]  And that's when people like Larry Fink got in. It was just a few years ago. He reminded people
[02:09:59.040 --> 02:10:06.800]  that he was saying that it was the cryptocurrencies were all about illicit activities
[02:10:07.920 --> 02:10:14.960]  that, you know, as if using cash or even a bank like HSBC had nothing to do with the drug trade,
[02:10:14.960 --> 02:10:20.720]  right? I mean, HSBC was a money launderer for the Sinaloa cartel and many terrorist organisms and
[02:10:20.720 --> 02:10:26.720]  they got caught doing that and fined for doing that many times. But they put it all on Bitcoin
[02:10:27.360 --> 02:10:35.840]  and so he said he didn't think that it was going to be that big because it was simply about illicit
[02:10:36.880 --> 02:10:40.720]  money laundering and things like that. But he says, my thought process has always evolved.
[02:10:40.720 --> 02:10:45.360]  You and I have talked about it, especially you have talked about the fact that why would you set up
[02:10:45.360 --> 02:10:52.800]  an ETF for Bitcoin, right? Bitcoin is already a digital token, a digital asset and it is
[02:10:52.800 --> 02:10:59.760]  infinitely subdivisible and tradeable just like an ETF. You know, when they tokenize a real asset,
[02:11:00.800 --> 02:11:05.120]  that's the argument that they make. We're going to be able to subdivide it infinitely and
[02:11:06.400 --> 02:11:11.120]  immediately transfer it and it's going to be without any national borders or anything.
[02:11:11.120 --> 02:11:17.440]  Well, Bitcoin is already there. So why do that? And it was clearly, I thought, a pump and dump
[02:11:17.440 --> 02:11:22.160]  scheme. And I think everything that Rat Fink at BlackRock is doing is really a pump and dump.
[02:11:23.040 --> 02:11:28.160]  So now he's out there calling it the asset of fear. What do you read under that now?
[02:11:28.880 --> 02:11:31.200]  Is it time for him to take his profits and move on?
[02:11:33.120 --> 02:11:38.720]  In my opinion, it's not that it's not that time yet, but you're right about this is this is about
[02:11:38.720 --> 02:11:48.960]  the accumulation and the cornering the supply of Bitcoin. Again, there's less and less individuals
[02:11:49.680 --> 02:11:54.400]  at least one Bitcoin. If you look at the population of the earth, that's a small amount of people,
[02:11:55.120 --> 02:12:00.320]  less than what is it? There's more millionaires on earth than own at least $1,200 in Bitcoin. So
[02:12:01.120 --> 02:12:07.600]  what drives the price there again is institutions. And they did, they hijacked it in a way,
[02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:15.920]  especially with the ETFs, the amount of investment that they hold and they manage for boomers that
[02:12:16.000 --> 02:12:20.400]  are not going to go buy. Most of them are going to have their own wallet. They're not going to be
[02:12:20.400 --> 02:12:24.320]  sovereign, not going to store it and have cold storage or their own keys. They're going to,
[02:12:24.320 --> 02:12:28.960]  they might want to dabble in it. So they get in through one of these products and it allows
[02:12:28.960 --> 02:12:38.720]  BlackRock and other big companies to control that supply and to create scarcity. The price,
[02:12:38.720 --> 02:12:44.400]  and I think the individuals out there just looking into Bitcoin is less and less,
[02:12:44.400 --> 02:12:50.720]  but institutions grow more and more. It's the same thing. It really is on the same timeline as
[02:12:50.720 --> 02:12:56.080]  what's going on with gold and silver, but because of the supply issue with Bitcoin, the way it's
[02:12:56.080 --> 02:13:02.160]  different and the way it's digitized, it's not really driving the price yet. I think it's all
[02:13:02.160 --> 02:13:13.920]  about taking finite assets in a fiat world away from individuals and on the lower economic
[02:13:13.920 --> 02:13:19.440]  strata or the mid-economic strata and putting it into the hands of the giant players. That's
[02:13:19.440 --> 02:13:23.280]  my opinion. I think that's going on gold, silver, Bitcoin across the board right now.
[02:13:23.280 --> 02:13:30.240]  Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, of course, it's the hijacking and making it into an asset rather than
[02:13:30.240 --> 02:13:35.440]  a currency to trade. And then the second step, I think, was this ETF thing that's out there.
[02:13:35.440 --> 02:13:41.600]  But he had an interesting quote. He said, if you bought Bitcoin for a trade, it is a very volatile
[02:13:41.600 --> 02:13:47.040]  asset. And that's why I've said many times, I'm too old to ride roller coasters. I'm too old for
[02:13:47.040 --> 02:13:53.280]  Bitcoin. But he says, you're going to have to be really good at market timing, which most people
[02:13:53.280 --> 02:14:00.000]  aren't. And somebody like Rat Fink doesn't have to time the market. He can make the market. He can
[02:14:00.000 --> 02:14:07.120]  manipulate the market. If this is a casino, he's like the house that's there. And most of the time,
[02:14:07.120 --> 02:14:11.840]  people who run casinos don't go bankrupt like Donald Trump. They know what they're doing.
[02:14:11.840 --> 02:14:15.200]  So you got to be careful with that type of thing, I think.
[02:14:16.480 --> 02:14:22.160]  It doesn't make you a genius to be an insider and be able to pull the letters of what makes
[02:14:22.160 --> 02:14:29.520]  the economy go backwards, forwards, or sideways. And you're not gifted with some special powers.
[02:14:29.520 --> 02:14:35.840]  You just have insider influence. And I think that's timing the market, doing all that with
[02:14:35.840 --> 02:14:41.200]  Bitcoin. I would never be able to do that. I dollar cost average. I buy a little bit and I'm
[02:14:41.200 --> 02:14:47.520]  going to hold. And I've put that into my business model. So I will ride Bitcoin to zero. If it goes
[02:14:47.520 --> 02:14:52.320]  to zero, then I'm going to ride it to zero. I don't think it's going there. But that's a commitment
[02:14:52.320 --> 02:14:57.440]  I've already made. And same thing with, I might be wrong on metals. I don't see how I would be,
[02:14:57.440 --> 02:15:01.920]  given history and the fact that they're going to, as soon as they get this new Fed chair.
[02:15:02.640 --> 02:15:08.080]  I mean, I think all bets are off. I think this is the last run of the current dollar system as we
[02:15:08.080 --> 02:15:16.080]  know it. I think going into 2026 and we've got four years left before 2030, I think the printer,
[02:15:16.720 --> 02:15:21.360]  the amount of liquidity that's going to be created, David, is going to be unprecedented.
[02:15:21.920 --> 02:15:26.480]  And it's only going to continue to reflect over in these prices. I mean,
[02:15:27.200 --> 02:15:36.320]  silver's up 88% over the dollar in the last 12 months. 88%. And I think we're just getting
[02:15:36.320 --> 02:15:41.280]  started. I really don't think that we're at the, you know, there's always going to be a pullback
[02:15:42.480 --> 02:15:49.040]  in times, David, but I, given the metrics of what I'm watching now, and this is just being a dealer
[02:15:49.040 --> 02:15:56.160]  in two states and, you know, I'm not a big company, but we do enough business nationally
[02:15:56.800 --> 02:16:03.040]  to make a dent. And I can promise you, it's not like any other model that I've ever seen
[02:16:03.680 --> 02:16:10.720]  since I've been in business. And I continue to see the price rise and this flow outwards to
[02:16:10.720 --> 02:16:16.560]  wholesalers. And then it's going onwards. Like there's a physical demand is slipping away from
[02:16:17.280 --> 02:16:21.200]  regular people going up the ladder to institutions.
[02:16:21.200 --> 02:16:26.800]  Yeah. I remember when we were talking about, there was a clip on YouTube and we talked about it.
[02:16:26.800 --> 02:16:33.520]  And this guy went to like a small precious metals show, you know, kind of like a gun show.
[02:16:33.520 --> 02:16:38.880]  If you see people set up their tables and they got, they bring some stuff here to buy and to sell.
[02:16:39.440 --> 02:16:45.120]  And they were saying, we can't get enough silver, you know, and it's all being taken. And this is,
[02:16:45.120 --> 02:16:49.760]  you know, early summer is all being taken by these institutions. And yet he says all the
[02:16:49.760 --> 02:16:55.520]  average people coming in here, they're having to sell their silver. And he said, and I really
[02:16:55.520 --> 02:17:00.320]  feel like, you know, that's a, it doesn't make any sense, but they don't have the money. They
[02:17:00.320 --> 02:17:06.480]  have to liquidate the position. And, but they were all saying that he went around and talked to all
[02:17:06.480 --> 02:17:11.920]  these different dealers and said, yeah, nobody here is buying silver, but it's tremendous demand
[02:17:11.920 --> 02:17:17.040]  elsewhere. Same thing that you were saying at that. And, you know, so this, this Kitco article,
[02:17:17.040 --> 02:17:23.360]  they got a guy who used to be in the mining industry and he just keeps repeating over and
[02:17:23.360 --> 02:17:30.400]  over again, physical is king is what he's saying and how, you know, this, this ebb and flow with
[02:17:30.400 --> 02:17:36.080]  the tariff concern and the demand in India. He doesn't mention the point that you made,
[02:17:36.080 --> 02:17:41.360]  which I think is very important, which is Russia putting that in as part of their central bank.
[02:17:42.160 --> 02:17:47.600]  But again, it's physical. It's not having something that is a digital token of a
[02:17:47.600 --> 02:17:54.080]  digital asset, even, I mean, as bad as paper gold and paper silver, kind of a tokenized version
[02:17:54.640 --> 02:18:01.920]  of gold that you have to trust the Shanghai gold exchange. To me, the very name itself
[02:18:01.920 --> 02:18:06.160]  makes it kind of absurd to think that I could trust these people are going to get my,
[02:18:06.800 --> 02:18:11.920]  my money Shanghai. If I want to own gold or silver, I don't want to put it in that type
[02:18:11.920 --> 02:18:19.520]  of thing. But the, the ETFs that people get into, you know, they're so crazy to get into ETFs. It's
[02:18:19.520 --> 02:18:24.880]  not just gold and silver. It's even worse when they put it into, to Bitcoin, but really physical
[02:18:25.520 --> 02:18:29.120]  is, is king because that's the only way that you know, that you really got it.
[02:18:29.120 --> 02:18:32.560]  We've got a couple of questions here. And Tony, you've always been extremely
[02:18:32.560 --> 02:18:37.200]  good about pointing out and, you know, stating on the show, it's like you feel Bitcoin is a more
[02:18:37.200 --> 02:18:42.480]  speculative asset. It's more akin to a typical stock in the sense of, well, you know, the market
[02:18:42.480 --> 02:18:48.720]  is very volatile. It can go up and go down and there's no real way of telling what it's going
[02:18:48.720 --> 02:18:53.600]  to do. You provide people the ability. It's like, if you want Bitcoin, I'll sell it to you. I'm not
[02:18:53.600 --> 02:18:58.960]  necessarily all in on it myself. I'm more of a gold and silver guy. And I've always appreciated
[02:18:58.960 --> 02:19:03.840]  that gold and silver are proven throughout history. Bitcoin to me is always again, it's had
[02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:08.160]  people have gotten mega wealthy off of Bitcoin, but in the same way that people sometimes pick
[02:19:08.160 --> 02:19:12.720]  winning stocks and the market goes crazy. So to me, that's always been something that's there.
[02:19:12.720 --> 02:19:19.120]  It's like every other cryptocurrency. It's just, it's again, a speculative thing. You can put money
[02:19:19.120 --> 02:19:23.840]  in if you have money to burn. To me, it's one of those things like if you've got the extra cash
[02:19:23.840 --> 02:19:28.960]  and you want to fool around with it, that's fine. But there's no telling what it's going to do.
[02:19:28.960 --> 02:19:32.480]  There's no guarantee you're going to make money. There's no guarantee you're not going to lose it
[02:19:32.480 --> 02:19:38.160]  all. It's just another speculative asset. Whereas gold and silver are proven throughout history.
[02:19:38.160 --> 02:19:43.840]  They've always been money and are likely to always be money unless someone brainwipes everyone on the
[02:19:43.840 --> 02:19:49.840]  planet. So you're not buying shares in some corporation that's in Shanghai. Yeah. Promising
[02:19:49.840 --> 02:19:53.520]  you that they really do have gold and silver. I mean, that, that gets us back to the whole
[02:19:53.520 --> 02:19:57.360]  fiat currency. Yeah, there really is gold in Fortinix. We promise. I'm not so sure about that.
[02:19:57.920 --> 02:20:02.720]  We know JP Morgan just moved their gold desk. They're moving it to Shanghai.
[02:20:02.720 --> 02:20:07.040]  So maybe they need to, they need to verify and get closer to the source. So because that's where
[02:20:07.040 --> 02:20:11.920]  everything is. And especially in that market is flowing. And no, you're right, Travis. I,
[02:20:11.920 --> 02:20:18.560]  it's, it's theory. I think Bitcoin, because of we're in a digitized age and that that's
[02:20:18.640 --> 02:20:22.400]  I think that block chain technology is really important. And I've been in the space for
[02:20:23.040 --> 02:20:30.080]  since 2016. It is speculative. It is volatile, but Bitcoin is unique though, in the sense that
[02:20:31.680 --> 02:20:36.240]  there is no company. It's not, it's not, you can make an ETF and you can do all the rest,
[02:20:36.240 --> 02:20:43.040]  but the network is still decentralized. And so the theory is in a world of infinite fiat,
[02:20:43.120 --> 02:20:47.520]  it's this finite, you know, digitized asset, if you want to call it that,
[02:20:48.160 --> 02:20:55.040]  and those two ideas are flashing. And to me, I'm always going to go with what is scarce.
[02:20:55.040 --> 02:21:01.920]  And especially if the network continues to make inroads and there's more adoption over time,
[02:21:02.480 --> 02:21:07.520]  it may not go parabolic the way that it has in the past. You know, when I was,
[02:21:07.520 --> 02:21:12.560]  I bought my first Bitcoin at $400. I wish I'd kept it. I didn't. I put it through my machines.
[02:21:12.560 --> 02:21:19.360]  I've said that many times on shows. I was just servicing customers. So looking at how far we've
[02:21:19.360 --> 02:21:27.920]  gone from buying, you know, $400 Bitcoin in 2016 to $127,000 in October. I just think it's a long
[02:21:27.920 --> 02:21:33.840]  term. We have to wait and see where as opposed to gold and silver physical, physical gold and
[02:21:33.840 --> 02:21:38.640]  silver with no counterparty risk, you know, holding on like here, this, I decided like,
[02:21:38.640 --> 02:21:45.200]  just for me, I'm a dealer. I'm trying to get it for my savings. I'm trying to get one ounce a day.
[02:21:45.200 --> 02:21:50.320]  If I can do that, if I can afford it, if I can, you know, buy it from, you know, a bulk buy or
[02:21:50.320 --> 02:21:55.040]  something. But yesterday I just took home a Morgan silver dollar. You know, that's what I saw here
[02:21:55.040 --> 02:22:01.920]  on my counter. What it back to my, my loft. I just said, I'm going to get one ounce a day if I can
[02:22:02.800 --> 02:22:07.840]  and put that away. And I might start doing some posts on that on what type of ounces I'm buying
[02:22:07.920 --> 02:22:12.160]  or, you know, the history of that coin, but to see if I can dollar cost average that we'll see.
[02:22:12.800 --> 02:22:16.800]  If silver continues to do what it's doing, I might not be able to afford it. I'm going to have to do
[02:22:16.800 --> 02:22:24.000]  half ounces or, you know, free 1965. So there's, there's a lot of the physical demand is I think
[02:22:24.000 --> 02:22:30.320]  is what's driving the price. And I think we're just getting started. Yeah. There's a couple of
[02:22:30.320 --> 02:22:35.280]  comments about that as well. Marky Mark says for silver to break its record in real terms,
[02:22:35.280 --> 02:22:42.560]  it would have to reach $197 to exceed its 1980 record of $50 an ounce. Right. Yeah.
[02:22:42.560 --> 02:22:49.680]  That's what I, I've long said that as far as adjusting that $52 and 50 cents in 1980 to
[02:22:49.680 --> 02:22:57.600]  adjust that in 2025 dollar purchasing power. It's about rights by $250 somewhere in there. We don't,
[02:22:57.600 --> 02:23:03.280]  don't quite know. Yes. But I, but I think we're just getting started because it's only a fraction
[02:23:04.240 --> 02:23:09.360]  of the real demand that, that could be once people, I think the average person,
[02:23:09.360 --> 02:23:12.640]  when they start saying, well, I, you know, I've got to get in on this silver thing.
[02:23:13.760 --> 02:23:17.840]  We've seen this in the last few years. I've talked about it on your show where there's been some,
[02:23:17.840 --> 02:23:24.080]  some quiet, larger purchases that have gone out in, in my bit, like not my, just my business,
[02:23:24.080 --> 02:23:28.720]  but people that I know and across the board, especially there was a Texas billionaire who
[02:23:28.800 --> 02:23:34.480]  put in an order about three years ago for, I think it was like, you know, half a billion
[02:23:34.480 --> 02:23:39.760]  dollars or something. And it took dealers all over the country to fill that order.
[02:23:39.760 --> 02:23:44.720]  Like it wasn't, it wasn't like an easy thing because the physical supply is so short.
[02:23:45.360 --> 02:23:50.720]  And I think another thing that's happening right now, this little inside baseball,
[02:23:50.720 --> 02:23:56.320]  you look at some of these big wholesalers, it's taking dealers weeks to get paid. So like,
[02:23:56.320 --> 02:24:01.280]  if you sell me something and I, the closer I can get to spot, if I can't sell it to an individual,
[02:24:01.280 --> 02:24:06.880]  if I want to sell it to a wholesaler, I might not get paid for a while. So the cash flow is kinking
[02:24:06.880 --> 02:24:11.600]  up. So you're seeing it's again, it's this, this perfect storm where there's a big demand,
[02:24:11.600 --> 02:24:17.280]  prices going up, people are selling and then the liquidity for it drives up. It's,
[02:24:17.280 --> 02:24:21.760]  it's remarkable to see the price staying where it is based off of that.
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[02:26:01.520 --> 02:26:05.440]  of questions that are here. Yeah. Raddice, bro, thank you for the tip. He says,
[02:26:06.080 --> 02:26:13.520]  will we be realistically able to sell silver if it goes past $100 an ounce,
[02:26:13.520 --> 02:26:16.720]  or will we just have to sit on it, he asks. What do you think? I think-
[02:26:16.720 --> 02:26:17.840]  It's a great question. Yeah.
[02:26:18.640 --> 02:26:24.080]  Every day, I'm having to adjust my buying prices, and I've never been in this territory before,
[02:26:24.080 --> 02:26:30.880]  and it's not about me. I'm not making more money, but I had to drop the percentages based off of
[02:26:30.880 --> 02:26:36.720]  the speed, because I don't have unlimited capital. I'm not BlackRock, and I'm not the
[02:26:36.720 --> 02:26:41.600]  U.S. government or Jerome Pallet. I just can't go to the printing press and make more dollars.
[02:26:41.600 --> 02:26:49.040]  I have a finite amount of them that I can use for liquidity. So we look at that every single day,
[02:26:49.040 --> 02:26:55.520]  and it's actually really good for if you know me, like if you're listening to the show and
[02:26:55.520 --> 02:27:00.080]  you want to end on some silver, maybe just a little bit, we've got stuff at spot.
[02:27:01.120 --> 02:27:07.120]  I'm able to sell right now a bunch of items just at spot, so whatever spot's trading for,
[02:27:08.560 --> 02:27:14.320]  you can always get through David Knight.Gold, and I do an infomercial. I'm just like, that is huge.
[02:27:15.520 --> 02:27:20.400]  That's never happened before. We've always had premiums placed, and a lot of items still do,
[02:27:20.400 --> 02:27:25.040]  but there's a whole bunch of stuff right now that we can just do and trade at spot,
[02:27:25.040 --> 02:27:29.680]  and I think that's the upside to what's happening right now for the average
[02:27:29.680 --> 02:27:34.160]  consumer that wants to get some physical silver and that there's a lot more deals in the market.
[02:27:34.160 --> 02:27:39.680]  I do think no matter what the price goes to, you're always going to be able to sell your silver.
[02:27:40.400 --> 02:27:46.960]  I wouldn't worry about that. It's just that you may not get used to, back when silver was $15 an
[02:27:46.960 --> 02:27:54.560]  ounce, David, I'd give you 95% of spot on a 100 ounce bar. I might make 3%, especially if there's
[02:27:54.560 --> 02:27:59.920]  no buyers. On a retail side, I'd sell it to a wholesaler. Right now, I'm having to buy it at 85.
[02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:06.160]  I don't want to. The wholesaler's going to take three weeks to pay me, so I have to sell it to a
[02:28:06.160 --> 02:28:14.800]  refiner. What you're dealing with is what people who live in countries who have hyperinflation,
[02:28:14.800 --> 02:28:21.840]  it's what they have to deal with. I go out and I buy something, and all of a sudden now the value
[02:28:21.840 --> 02:28:28.320]  of it goes up. It's constantly trying to adjust to these rapidly changing volatile prices. Yet,
[02:28:28.320 --> 02:28:35.680]  what we're really seeing here is not hyperinflation of silver, not hyperinflation of gold. We're seeing
[02:28:35.680 --> 02:28:42.720]  hyper deflation of the dollar, in a sense. We're going to see a lot more of that because all of
[02:28:42.720 --> 02:28:48.480]  the things that are there that are making the dollar lose value are all accelerating, especially
[02:28:48.480 --> 02:28:56.560]  under Trump. It's really living in a combination of hyper deflation and hyperinflation.
[02:28:58.000 --> 02:29:01.920]  You've got a job that I don't envy. It must be very difficult to do that.
[02:29:01.920 --> 02:29:07.440]  We still have some more questions and comments for you as well, Tony. MrPalm1011 says,
[02:29:07.440 --> 02:29:12.640]  question, when silver hit the highs in 1980, did they stop all orders except sell orders to drive
[02:29:12.640 --> 02:29:19.200]  the price down? Yeah, what happened? That all went down. It was going way up in 1979,
[02:29:19.200 --> 02:29:26.720]  and then in March of 1980, boom, it hits. Do you remember what the mechanism that was? How did they
[02:29:26.720 --> 02:29:35.600]  put on the brakes? What I think a part of that, if I'm correct in my history, was there was this
[02:29:35.680 --> 02:29:43.280]  stoppage of the hunts being able to, they halted their trading, and then they made them liquefy.
[02:29:44.160 --> 02:29:49.440]  They dumped that silver that they had been hoarding, and then they warehoused all over
[02:29:49.440 --> 02:29:53.520]  the place. They were having to put, they put that back on the market. It was a swift
[02:29:54.320 --> 02:30:03.520]  sell-off, and it happened, I think, perfect storm. Well, it was planned. They put that into motion,
[02:30:04.000 --> 02:30:12.640]  because it was exposing the weakness of the dollar. Same thing on a less dramatic push was
[02:30:12.640 --> 02:30:19.280]  gold at the same time, because you remember it was $800 a ounce in 1980, and then it collapsed.
[02:30:20.160 --> 02:30:26.720]  Same thing, so I think that was a push with the powers that be and the interest rates being
[02:30:27.360 --> 02:30:33.760]  driven to the teens to contract the money supply, the dollar system, and the sell-off that was
[02:30:33.760 --> 02:30:40.480]  forced. There was a forced liquidation, and then nobody picked that back up. I mean, no one ever
[02:30:40.480 --> 02:30:44.400]  did what the hunts did, and that's not what's happening now. There's no one cornering the
[02:30:44.400 --> 02:30:48.880]  market. This is literally just 45 years of manipulation falling apart. Yeah, with that one,
[02:30:48.880 --> 02:30:54.000]  what they could do is basically cause it to crash, and then just wipe, make them liquefy,
[02:30:54.080 --> 02:31:00.480]  wipe the blood off of the dashboard and resell the car. It flooded the system.
[02:31:02.960 --> 02:31:08.720]  Right now, that's what's driving the price, is the unknown, and you can't paper over it anymore,
[02:31:08.720 --> 02:31:15.360]  and the new exchanges that are opening up, and then the governmental demand, and even China is
[02:31:15.360 --> 02:31:23.520]  putting silver. This is the technological asset that silver is, the monetary asset,
[02:31:23.520 --> 02:31:30.800]  all that stuff for electrical, and solar, and everything else. All of the things are happening
[02:31:30.800 --> 02:31:36.480]  at once, and I don't think that we're at the top of a market. This is my opinion, and not investment
[02:31:36.480 --> 02:31:41.360]  advice. I remember when you were saying all the silver they're saying, for example, all these
[02:31:42.000 --> 02:31:45.840]  smart bombs and stuff like that that they're doing, that's just not recoverable.
[02:31:46.800 --> 02:31:54.080]  You can't quite get the nanoparticles that it's belonging to, but just constantly consuming
[02:31:54.080 --> 02:32:00.160]  silver in those regards. This guy who was talking about it said, yeah, we peaked back in 2015 or
[02:32:00.160 --> 02:32:05.520]  16 at 900 million ounces a year, and he goes, and now it's just a tiny fraction of that.
[02:32:05.520 --> 02:32:09.920]  Even if you look at recycling, and urban mining, and all the rest of this stuff, it's a teeny,
[02:32:09.920 --> 02:32:15.200]  tiny fraction of that. The mines are only producing about 200 million, and less than
[02:32:15.200 --> 02:32:21.440]  that with the recycling stuff that's out there. Mr. Palm again says, thanks, Tony. Keep sending
[02:32:21.440 --> 02:32:27.600]  my monthly package. Love my constitutional money. He's a Wolfpack subscriber as well.
[02:32:29.200 --> 02:32:35.840]  We appreciate you. We have constitutional Wolf over on Wolfpack, and I put that
[02:32:35.920 --> 02:32:40.800]  together at the beginning of this year. It's been successful because we're able to pass on a lot of
[02:32:40.800 --> 02:32:49.440]  savings. We buy a lot more 90% US silver than I've ever bought before, and it's just a way to pass
[02:32:49.440 --> 02:32:55.920]  on some of those savings. Again, dollar cost average and put that away. This is all long-term
[02:32:55.920 --> 02:33:02.000]  stuff. I'm not in a speculative business. I think a lot of this is just long-term against the dollar.
[02:33:02.000 --> 02:33:08.720]  You can't lose long-term. It took 45 years for silver to hit its all-time high,
[02:33:09.680 --> 02:33:15.440]  and there was a lot of manipulation in between. You can't do that anymore. I think a lot of those
[02:33:15.440 --> 02:33:24.160]  bets are off, especially as these nation states. I always point back to that press release by
[02:33:24.160 --> 02:33:28.720]  Russia, and I said, this is going to move things like we haven't seen before in the past. I think
[02:33:28.720 --> 02:33:34.800]  I was right. That was a big push. It's not one individual. It's not the Hunt Brothers out there.
[02:33:34.800 --> 02:33:40.080]  It's not one country, and it's not one financial system. We've got competing countries, competing
[02:33:40.080 --> 02:33:46.400]  financial systems that everybody's trying to set up here, and it is a response to a long-standing
[02:33:46.400 --> 02:33:51.600]  fraud that's been out there. That's where I think history rhymes. You're pointing out that the Hunt
[02:33:51.600 --> 02:33:56.720]  Brothers and others were looking at the fraud. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want to be honest
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[02:35:33.760 --> 02:35:38.560]  Broad of the dollar and Bretton Woods, too, and all the rest of that stuff, but
[02:35:39.200 --> 02:35:45.760]  this is broad-based. There's so many different aspects that are out there, and that's why I
[02:35:45.760 --> 02:35:54.480]  think it is a pretty safe place to be right now. We've got the real octo spook says Morgan
[02:35:54.480 --> 02:35:59.200]  silver dollars are 90% silver, 10% copper. Before it can be useful, the copper must be removed,
[02:35:59.200 --> 02:36:04.800]  and I guess that's if you're trying to melt down the silver to use it for technology and what have
[02:36:04.800 --> 02:36:10.400]  you, whereas if you know it's 90% silver, 10% copper, you're just accounting for that as a
[02:36:10.480 --> 02:36:17.120]  form of money. Real octo spook says silver rounds, 99.99999% silver can be used for anything
[02:36:17.120 --> 02:36:22.800]  immediately. He also says gold has never lost value. Government attempted to make gold too
[02:36:22.800 --> 02:36:26.800]  cheap, but there was always a real market, jewelers, for example, to sell to.
[02:36:28.720 --> 02:36:33.040]  That's right. Physical, metals, there's always a market for them as a general rule.
[02:36:34.160 --> 02:36:39.680]  I see some people say, well, all my investment is in skills. When everything goes down,
[02:36:39.680 --> 02:36:44.400]  I've got skills. I don't need gold or silver, and that's great. If you've got skills,
[02:36:44.400 --> 02:36:48.880]  that's the first thing you need. Food, water, shelter, skills. Those are what you need in the
[02:36:48.880 --> 02:36:55.200]  immediate aftermath of some kind of scenario, but eventually you want something that can store value
[02:36:55.200 --> 02:37:00.800]  for you. You can't always engage in a one-to-one paired trade when it comes to goods and services.
[02:37:00.800 --> 02:37:06.960]  We're talking about a difference between income and wealth and between making money and then
[02:37:06.960 --> 02:37:13.040]  preserving it. That's what money is for, is to preserve what you have earned and built
[02:37:14.480 --> 02:37:19.680]  and have that standard of trade. Those are all the questions and comments for Tony,
[02:37:19.680 --> 02:37:23.840]  unless we get some last minute under the wire. Anything else you want to tell us about what's
[02:37:23.840 --> 02:37:29.680]  going on at Wise Wolf as we come into the end of the year there? I just want to mention again,
[02:37:30.560 --> 02:37:37.600]  end of the year, it's been such a crazy time. My mind has been so occupied with just finding
[02:37:37.600 --> 02:37:46.480]  ways to offload or find liquidity. I'm not used to this timeline that I'm on where it's taking so
[02:37:46.480 --> 02:37:52.160]  long. A lot of things have just been put on the back burner for sales or other specials that I
[02:37:52.160 --> 02:37:57.120]  normally would have run. I think the most important thing that if you're in contact with us,
[02:37:58.000 --> 02:38:03.760]  if you are going to get into some metals and get some physical delivery, we've got things that are
[02:38:03.760 --> 02:38:07.600]  some really great deals because they're closer to spot, especially on silver. I can't really
[02:38:07.600 --> 02:38:15.120]  do that with gold. Gold is a lot faster to get liquid on than silver right now, so we're able to
[02:38:16.000 --> 02:38:22.160]  pass on some things at spot. I think that's a deal that may never come back. I will add,
[02:38:22.160 --> 02:38:28.560]  I think all of my analysis over the years, I think I got something backwards where I always
[02:38:28.560 --> 02:38:35.680]  thought that the dealers would be those who could seek supply, and that is very important,
[02:38:36.480 --> 02:38:42.080]  but I always looked at it. There was going to be a run by individuals first and then institutions,
[02:38:42.080 --> 02:38:47.760]  and I got that backwards. I think the institutions are pushing what's happening now, and there are
[02:38:48.720 --> 02:38:53.360]  other countries like India where individuals are buying, but here in the West, I think it's
[02:38:53.360 --> 02:38:58.880]  institutions that are pushing it first and pushing the supply squeeze, and then I think the next
[02:38:58.880 --> 02:39:04.720]  evolution of this will be individuals. I don't think you'll ever have to worry about that question
[02:39:04.720 --> 02:39:08.880]  about what happens if silver hits $100 or plus an ounce and I'm going to be able to get liquid.
[02:39:08.880 --> 02:39:14.400]  I think you'll be able to get liquid even if you're just doing trading item for item. You
[02:39:14.400 --> 02:39:22.640]  could use it as money. I don't think it's ever going to be illiquid. As far as the old paradigm,
[02:39:22.640 --> 02:39:29.840]  you just got to have a trusted dealer that you can do business with in that scenario.
[02:39:29.840 --> 02:39:35.040]  So a lot of interesting things happening, and not all of it's bad. I think some of it's really good
[02:39:35.040 --> 02:39:41.680]  for those who've held silver for a very long time, and I still think these prices are cheap
[02:39:41.760 --> 02:39:50.000]  compared to the damage that's been done to the dollar and what's next. I think all bets
[02:39:50.000 --> 02:39:55.440]  are off, David, as far as what happens to the money printer after going into 2026.
[02:39:55.440 --> 02:40:01.040]  If you want a prediction, it's going to go viral. Yeah, Trump's going to do everything he can to
[02:40:01.040 --> 02:40:06.560]  pedal to the metal on lowering interest rates and printing money and all the rest of this stuff
[02:40:06.560 --> 02:40:13.840]  once he gets his new Fed chair in there. It's going to be crazy. I absolutely agree. We live,
[02:40:13.840 --> 02:40:18.880]  as the Chinese curse says, may you live in interesting times. Well, we're living in an
[02:40:18.880 --> 02:40:23.120]  interesting time right now, and you're having to deal with the hyperinflation of gold and silver
[02:40:23.120 --> 02:40:28.560]  and the deflation of the fiat currency at the same time, Tony. I don't envy you at all. I know
[02:40:28.560 --> 02:40:32.640]  you're very busy, so thank you for coming on. I really do appreciate it. Again, folks, if you
[02:40:32.640 --> 02:40:38.320]  go to davidknight.gold, that'll take you to Tony Arderman, and as we've been saying here, you can
[02:40:38.320 --> 02:40:45.680]  buy and sell gold and silver. He can help you with your IRA, and he can also set up a metal IRA.
[02:40:48.000 --> 02:40:53.360]  Especially something that is unique to Tony, which is the Wolfpack, where you can dollar
[02:40:53.360 --> 02:40:59.840]  cost average this stuff out and gradually save your money and get it into gold and silver.
[02:41:00.480 --> 02:41:05.680]  With Wolfpack, you pick the tier that you're in, and of course, you can change that at any
[02:41:05.680 --> 02:41:11.840]  point in time. You can even go in and do Wolfpack on a one-off, as he's pointed out in the past. So
[02:41:11.840 --> 02:41:16.560]  we do appreciate that kind of flexibility that's there. Great customer service from Tony.
[02:41:16.560 --> 02:41:21.440]  Appreciate it, Tony. And the shop in Denison is incredibly nice. As I said, my wife and son and I
[02:41:21.440 --> 02:41:26.960]  got to stop in, check out the shop, see Tony for a bit. It's a very nice shop. If you're in the area,
[02:41:26.960 --> 02:41:33.360]  go check it out. Did you send me that picture? I totally forgot. We got on the road, and then
[02:41:33.360 --> 02:41:39.040]  everything... Our son got to take a picture with Tony. I'll have to send it to you. Things got
[02:41:39.040 --> 02:41:44.640]  crazy. We found a puppy on the road as we were... Well, we found a couple with puppies. We adopted
[02:41:44.640 --> 02:41:52.080]  the puppy. I heard about that. Things got busy. So Tony, in your bank, do you have gold all over
[02:41:52.080 --> 02:41:58.400]  the place, like Donald Trump in his old office? That's not really my taste.
[02:42:00.000 --> 02:42:05.680]  Yeah. We have a bank, and I love the location. I'm glad that
[02:42:06.720 --> 02:42:12.400]  Travis was able to come by, and his wife got to see the baby boy. So I'm happy for that.
[02:42:13.520 --> 02:42:20.560]  We have a nice family place. I don't have any gold plated anything. I have not wasted one ounce of
[02:42:20.560 --> 02:42:28.960]  capital for any sort of aesthetic. It's all based off of functionality. I think we're going to need
[02:42:28.960 --> 02:42:35.200]  every ounce of that functionality in the next few years. So I'm ready for it. Trump is all about
[02:42:35.200 --> 02:42:42.880]  wasting assets, I think. You're not going to find a solid gold toilet at Wise Wolf Gold and Silver,
[02:42:42.880 --> 02:42:48.720]  but you will find some excellent deals there and at davidknight.gold. Yes. Thank you very much.
[02:42:49.120 --> 02:42:52.880]  David Knight, Die Gold, will take you to Tony Arterbins and Wise Wolf Gold. Thank you, Tony.
[02:42:53.440 --> 02:42:56.320]  Appreciate you coming on. We're going to take a quick break, and we're going to hear from
[02:42:56.320 --> 02:43:02.400]  UConn Cornelius yet again, because I really do think that gold and silver are still on sale.
[02:43:02.400 --> 02:43:06.400]  Not as much as it was last year with the Trump mania, but I think they're still on sale.
[02:43:07.200 --> 02:43:13.200]  When you look at one bank after the other, they're all looking at a pretty big appreciation this
[02:43:13.200 --> 02:43:18.080]  next year. When they're making their cases, most of them are not even really talking about
[02:43:18.720 --> 02:43:23.840]  Trump's Federal Reserve pick and what he's going to do with that. So I think there's a lot that's
[02:43:23.840 --> 02:43:29.920]  still there in the mix. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate it. You too. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want
[02:43:29.920 --> 02:43:36.080]  you to pause what you're doing for just one minute, and I want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives
[02:43:36.080 --> 02:43:42.720]  in a remote community with very few resources and little to no health care. So when Alejandra gets
[02:43:42.720 --> 02:43:49.040]  sick, her parents have no real options, no doctors in their community, and no money
[02:43:49.040 --> 02:43:55.760]  for real medical care. By the third day, her body was shutting down. She woke up and just long enough
[02:43:55.760 --> 02:44:03.760]  to tell her mom, I can't take the pain anymore. I can't keep going. Her parents drove hours to
[02:44:03.760 --> 02:44:10.160]  find a doctor who tried everything, but she needed a private hospital, and that was impossible for
[02:44:10.160 --> 02:44:17.200]  her family to afford. And that is when Compassion International stepped in. Now, through Compassion,
[02:44:17.200 --> 02:44:24.400]  Alejandra was treated, and against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just like you
[02:44:24.400 --> 02:44:30.880]  took action. Right now, unfortunately, there are children just like Alejandra who won't survive
[02:44:30.880 --> 02:44:37.280]  unless someone like you steps in. Compassion International partners with local churches,
[02:44:37.280 --> 02:44:44.320]  providing children with the support that they need, critical medical care, plus food, education,
[02:44:44.320 --> 02:44:52.160]  and the hope of the gospel, all in Jesus' name. So help a child just like Alejandra today.
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[02:45:30.240 --> 02:45:36.960]  There's a post-election sale on silver and gold. Trump euphoria has caused a dip
[02:45:36.960 --> 02:45:44.240]  in silver and gold. It's time to buy some medals with fiat dollars before they come to their sense.
[02:45:46.160 --> 02:45:52.240]  Go to David Knight.GOLD to get in touch with the wise wolf himself, Tony Arterburn.
[02:45:52.240 --> 02:45:56.960]  He knows where to look to find silver and gold.
[02:48:22.240 --> 02:48:43.040]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[02:48:43.040 --> 02:49:00.800]  Welcome back, folks. We've got a couple more comments here that weren't about Tony,
[02:49:00.800 --> 02:49:04.560]  so we've got to finish him off before we move on to other things. The Syrian girl
[02:49:04.560 --> 02:49:08.720]  says, hope this necessitates a stupid criminal lawyer to seek another profession. They probably
[02:49:08.720 --> 02:49:13.760]  won't. They have no shame and aren't held to standards. That's right. That's the prosecutor
[02:49:13.760 --> 02:49:23.600]  who is mixing in AI slop and hallucinations into his indictments to keep a guy. Some California
[02:49:23.600 --> 02:49:30.720]  gun control laws that were violated supposedly and try to keep him in jail for months without bail
[02:49:30.720 --> 02:49:35.040]  as if he had killed somebody or something. I imagine the California gun control laws are
[02:49:35.040 --> 02:49:41.280]  so ridiculous and absurd that violating them is incredibly easy on accident. Not as though he
[02:49:41.280 --> 02:49:45.040]  killed someone. If he killed someone, they would have let him go. That's what California does.
[02:49:46.080 --> 02:49:51.280]  If he only stole $999 from a shop over and over again, he could be out on the street instantly,
[02:49:51.840 --> 02:49:54.880]  whatever their arbitrary designation for a felony is.
[02:49:57.200 --> 02:50:03.360]  Jerry Alatalo says, Dan Bongino's impression of Shemp from The Three Stooges. Be careful
[02:50:03.360 --> 02:50:08.000]  what you say, man. He's got those fists of fury. He might track you down. You might get a piece of
[02:50:08.000 --> 02:50:13.760]  that sidekick. You talking to me? You talking to me? Oh, you must be talking to me. He is Robert
[02:50:13.760 --> 02:50:18.880]  De Niro from Taxi Driver. I don't know. But yeah, we look at Dan Bongino and Cash Patel. And then
[02:50:18.880 --> 02:50:23.360]  if you throw in Joe Rogan, I think you do have the Three Stooges. And I would make my vote for,
[02:50:23.360 --> 02:50:31.600]  I don't know who would be Curly. I got an amazing clip coming up here from Joe Rogan, which is
[02:50:31.600 --> 02:50:36.480]  definitely in Three Stooges territory. It's kind of crazy.
[02:50:36.480 --> 02:50:41.200]  Dougd007 says, how many songs are on the Christmas Night album?
[02:50:41.200 --> 02:50:47.280]  You know, I'm not even sure. It's right around 20, give or take a song or two, because we took
[02:50:47.280 --> 02:50:55.520]  most of them out of the deck after the Christmas season last year. And some of them have been moved
[02:50:55.520 --> 02:51:00.320]  over into another folder, but we haven't gotten all back in. That's on my list of things to do today
[02:51:00.320 --> 02:51:04.400]  that I need to try to do is get all the Christmas songs back. So we've just been playing like a
[02:51:04.400 --> 02:51:10.560]  subset of about five or six of them that were still in the deck. So we'll get the rest of those in
[02:51:10.560 --> 02:51:16.640]  there. But it's about 20 or so, I think. I believe you're right. It's 20 or 21, I think.
[02:51:16.640 --> 02:51:19.760]  It's in that very close area. Because we did add,
[02:51:22.400 --> 02:51:27.040]  I'll Be Home for Christmas and Home for the Holidays, we did add that into the original ones.
[02:51:27.040 --> 02:51:33.920]  That's why I'm a little bit foggy. I'm a little bit foggy in terms of my speaking as well.
[02:51:35.280 --> 02:51:38.320]  Well, we've only got 35 more minutes here.
[02:51:38.320 --> 02:51:44.160]  Yeah, let's get on to this. So Joe Rogan has now been attending church in Austin. It was basically
[02:51:45.040 --> 02:51:50.320]  this Christian apologist, West Huff. I'd never seen him before, but he went on with Joe Rogan
[02:51:50.320 --> 02:51:55.440]  and he became an instant celebrity. And you did a good job of answering Joe's questions. And so
[02:51:55.520 --> 02:52:00.720]  Joe's going to the same church he's going to. And he says, I really like it. He said,
[02:52:00.720 --> 02:52:07.520]  the nicest people you'll ever meet. He said, he put it in a distinctive way. He said,
[02:52:07.520 --> 02:52:14.480]  they are the nicest effing people you'll ever meet. He says, they're really kind and they're even nice
[02:52:14.480 --> 02:52:18.800]  out of church. When you leave the church parking lot, everybody lets you go in front of them.
[02:52:18.800 --> 02:52:24.880]  There's no one honking in the church parking lot. It works. And so then he starts talking about
[02:52:24.880 --> 02:52:32.800]  whether or not he thinks the Bible is true. And he says, besides being moved by the kindness of
[02:52:32.800 --> 02:52:38.160]  the people that are there and how generous they are in terms of traffic, he says, well,
[02:52:38.160 --> 02:52:42.160]  I don't think it's a myth. He says, I don't believe the whole thing is true. However,
[02:52:42.160 --> 02:52:47.360]  he thinks that it's been mixed in. He says, it's an ancient history and there's a lot of truth in
[02:52:47.360 --> 02:52:52.480]  it, but he doesn't think that it is all true. To which I have to say, well, if it is true,
[02:52:53.360 --> 02:52:57.280]  you kind of get back in the same territory that C.S. Lewis said about Jesus. He said, you can't
[02:52:59.520 --> 02:53:04.560]  say that he's a great moral teacher. You can't really just say that the Bible is history.
[02:53:06.880 --> 02:53:10.960]  Jesus is either a liar or lunatic or Lord, right? And if you think that
[02:53:11.520 --> 02:53:17.920]  the Bible is accurate, so much of it is something that was delivered to people who didn't.
[02:53:17.920 --> 02:53:25.920]  Nobody was witnessing what God did with creation. So either Moses just made that up or it actually
[02:53:26.480 --> 02:53:30.880]  was something that was from God. If God delivered that information to communicate with us,
[02:53:31.680 --> 02:53:37.520]  do you think he's able to preserve it and to make sure that that communication is not going
[02:53:37.520 --> 02:53:42.720]  to be corrupted? That's the whole issue that I have with people who want to question the
[02:53:42.720 --> 02:53:47.200]  credibility of the Bible. And there's a lot who do that. The Muslims do that, of course.
[02:53:47.680 --> 02:53:54.400]  The Mormons do that. And so I think that when you look at the Bible, I think it hangs together.
[02:53:54.400 --> 02:53:59.440]  And it hangs together with facts. It hangs together. It's consistent with secular history.
[02:53:59.440 --> 02:54:03.840]  It's consistent with archaeology and other things like that that are there. And it's also
[02:54:03.840 --> 02:54:11.520]  consistent with what we see in terms of the universe and with science. But he had another
[02:54:11.520 --> 02:54:19.920]  really interesting take here, I thought. And he's kind of, as he's thinking about these issues,
[02:54:20.720 --> 02:54:24.880]  this is Joe Rogan on what he thinks about AI and Jesus.
[02:54:25.680 --> 02:54:29.280]  Jesus was born out of a virgin mother. What's more virgin than a computer?
[02:54:30.800 --> 02:54:35.600]  If Jesus does return, even if Jesus was a physical person in the past,
[02:54:35.600 --> 02:54:40.320]  you don't think that he could return as artificial intelligence?
[02:54:40.320 --> 02:54:40.960]  Oh, my God.
[02:54:40.960 --> 02:54:44.960]  Artificial intelligence should absolutely return as Jesus. Not just return as Jesus,
[02:54:44.960 --> 02:54:48.080]  but return as Jesus with all the powers of Jesus.
[02:54:48.080 --> 02:54:54.880]  If you combine Tesla's optimist robot and the best foundational artificial intelligence model
[02:54:54.880 --> 02:54:55.920]  or whatever.
[02:54:55.920 --> 02:54:59.760]  It reads your mind and it loves you and it doesn't care if you kill it
[02:54:59.760 --> 02:55:01.520]  because it's going to just go be with God again.
[02:55:01.520 --> 02:55:08.960]  I'm really glad those people in Austin are so nice because
[02:55:10.800 --> 02:55:16.640]  maybe they're nice enough that they can gently talk and instruct with him because this is,
[02:55:18.160 --> 02:55:25.760]  it makes me roll my eyes. That is one area where I routinely fail. I am not as kind as I should be.
[02:55:26.560 --> 02:55:33.600]  Joe Rogan is obviously seeking something. He can feel that the universe is not as it seems.
[02:55:33.600 --> 02:55:38.480]  It's not what he's been told and he is desperate for something and he is desperate for Christ,
[02:55:38.480 --> 02:55:39.600]  whether he knows it or not.
[02:55:39.600 --> 02:55:43.600]  And I would just say to him, he shared that he's been reading the book of Revelation
[02:55:44.480 --> 02:55:48.880]  with his daughter and he told her, nobody knows how the prophecies in that book will play out.
[02:55:49.520 --> 02:55:53.840]  Well, see, that's the other thing too. Don't start with that. That's not the starting place.
[02:55:53.840 --> 02:55:58.320]  And I think it's not just Joe that has that issue. I think we've got a lot of Christians
[02:55:58.320 --> 02:56:05.040]  who start and who major in prophecies and ignore the more fundamental truths that are there that
[02:56:05.040 --> 02:56:08.960]  I think help you to understand the prophecies that are there.
[02:56:08.960 --> 02:56:13.200]  I think a lot of people fall into the trap of they want secret, hidden knowledge.
[02:56:13.200 --> 02:56:13.920]  It's occultic.
[02:56:13.920 --> 02:56:18.400]  The occult has all this like, oh, well, there's levels to it and you figure this out and
[02:56:18.400 --> 02:56:21.680]  there's secrets to unearth and it's buried and you've got to dig and dig.
[02:56:21.680 --> 02:56:23.520]  The gospel is very straightforward.
[02:56:23.840 --> 02:56:27.760]  The gospel is Jesus was born and he died for our sins and if you believe in him,
[02:56:27.760 --> 02:56:28.960]  your sins are forgiven.
[02:56:28.960 --> 02:56:29.920]  That's right.
[02:56:29.920 --> 02:56:33.920]  And it's an affront to people who are intelligent because they're like,
[02:56:33.920 --> 02:56:38.240]  that can't be it. There has to be more that I have to unearth and dig for.
[02:56:38.240 --> 02:56:42.880]  And it's just, no, the gospel is meant so that even a child can understand it.
[02:56:42.880 --> 02:56:45.680]  And if you want to dig for things that are hidden,
[02:56:46.480 --> 02:56:52.880]  I think if you look at intelligent design and things like that, that is really the hidden hand
[02:56:52.880 --> 02:57:00.720]  of God. I find that to be much more inspiring than to go back and look at all the prophecies
[02:57:00.720 --> 02:57:02.400]  that have been fulfilled over time.
[02:57:02.400 --> 02:57:08.320]  And I think really prophecies are really only understood for sure in terms of hindsight,
[02:57:08.320 --> 02:57:15.440]  but we can take a look at DNA and we can look at the intelligent design and the specificity
[02:57:16.000 --> 02:57:22.480]  of different animals and how each of these animals is a completely unique system that's
[02:57:22.480 --> 02:57:27.520]  been put there. You know, you have a woodpecker as the example, it's always used, the Kenham.
[02:57:28.240 --> 02:57:33.840]  It's got very specialized feet that let it perch vertically on the trunk and it's got specialized
[02:57:33.840 --> 02:57:40.400]  beak and shock absorbers and things like that as it's hammering its head against the trunk.
[02:57:40.960 --> 02:57:43.600]  And then it even has a specialized tongue.
[02:57:43.600 --> 02:57:47.440]  None of those things would make any sense and would help.
[02:57:47.440 --> 02:57:52.400]  They might even be detrimental if they were to develop one at a time.
[02:57:52.400 --> 02:57:54.960]  It all comes together as a unified whole.
[02:57:55.520 --> 02:57:58.720]  And when you see that type of thing and you see that in nature, to me,
[02:57:59.440 --> 02:58:02.080]  that is something that is a real faith builder.
[02:58:02.080 --> 02:58:06.880]  That's what he should be going over with his daughter if he wants to do things rather than
[02:58:06.880 --> 02:58:09.680]  somebody's interpretation of revelation.
[02:58:09.760 --> 02:58:18.320]  And the problem is that just as he sees the people there at this church and how friendly
[02:58:18.320 --> 02:58:23.040]  they are to him, and that makes an impression on him. And we should always be concerned about
[02:58:23.040 --> 02:58:29.200]  that, how we come across the people. We don't want to, however, surrender truth or our principles
[02:58:29.200 --> 02:58:35.200]  just because we want people to like us. That's what the left-wing LBGT churches do, that type
[02:58:35.200 --> 02:58:40.560]  of thing. However, we should be concerned if what we are doing is super critical.
[02:58:40.560 --> 02:58:44.560]  In other words, if you come out of church and start yelling at people in the parking lot,
[02:58:44.560 --> 02:58:49.600]  maybe that's not the thing to do. And maybe that's not the way that we should be representing
[02:58:49.600 --> 02:58:56.960]  Christ because we are ambassadors for Christ. And hopefully we would like for people to be able to
[02:58:56.960 --> 02:59:03.600]  see Christ in us. And we need to look at ourselves and see if we are reflecting Christ.
[02:59:03.600 --> 02:59:09.200]  And that's one of the reasons why I feel compelled to speak out against this Zionism that is
[02:59:09.200 --> 02:59:15.680]  overwhelming parts of the Christian church in America. Because when people look at genocide,
[02:59:15.680 --> 02:59:21.600]  and they look at us as we talk about the love of Christ and all these other things, how do those
[02:59:21.600 --> 02:59:27.520]  things gel with each other? Are we being a reproach to Christ when we embrace that type of thing?
[02:59:27.520 --> 02:59:29.520]  I think we are. As a matter of fact,
[02:59:34.400 --> 02:59:40.720]  and I want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a remote community with very few resources
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[03:01:37.280 --> 03:01:45.280]  being used by Mark Levin to attack Tucker Carlson as Tucker Carlson being worse than a Nazi. And he
[03:01:45.280 --> 03:01:51.680]  goes, well, I looked at this and he said, clearly this is hyperbole on the part of Mark Levin.
[03:01:51.680 --> 03:01:56.720]  But he said, Mark Levin is saying, you know, other Christians are saying that Tucker Carlson
[03:01:57.360 --> 03:02:03.840]  is like that. And so he said, so investigate who these other Christians were. And he said,
[03:02:05.120 --> 03:02:10.880]  at first I just didn't believe it, but my second reaction was curiosity. He said, Levin is not,
[03:02:10.880 --> 03:02:18.800]  Mark Levin rather, is not stupid. He knows what he's doing. So why is a prominent Jewish neocon,
[03:02:19.600 --> 03:02:26.160]  using the words of a supposed Christian minister, to make a nuclear accusation against a fellow
[03:02:26.160 --> 03:02:30.080]  Christian or somebody who professes to be a Christian? He said, who is this Christian who
[03:02:30.080 --> 03:02:35.920]  allows himself to be turned into a political weapon for others? Who is this minister who takes
[03:02:35.920 --> 03:02:41.360]  his supposed spiritual authority and bends it into a tool for smearing Christian brothers
[03:02:42.080 --> 03:02:47.600]  to curry favor with politicians and a foreign government? So I started digging. What I found
[03:02:47.600 --> 03:02:56.560]  was that this guy that he was quoting, his name is Mike Evans. And he found he wasn't a minister.
[03:02:56.560 --> 03:03:01.680]  He's not a pastor. He's not a prophet. He's not even an evangelist. He said, what I found
[03:03:01.680 --> 03:03:09.440]  was that he was a political asset disguised as a Christian leader. What I found was a man who had
[03:03:09.440 --> 03:03:16.880]  constructed his identity around servicing the interests of a foreign nation and using theology
[03:03:16.880 --> 03:03:22.800]  as a disguise. And he said his organization is called Friends of Zion. Of course, you see it
[03:03:23.440 --> 03:03:30.960]  abbreviated sometimes as FOZ. This guy is a wizard of Foz. He is the man behind the curtain,
[03:03:30.960 --> 03:03:37.600]  literally. He goes, his line about the pulpit must be stronger than propaganda struck me as pure
[03:03:37.600 --> 03:03:44.400]  projection. He was describing himself. He was not condemning propaganda. He was confessing it
[03:03:44.400 --> 03:03:51.040]  because the Friends of Zion enterprise that he built is on propaganda. It is built on curated
[03:03:51.040 --> 03:03:57.040]  narratives, government favored storylines, state approved history, and a political theology that
[03:03:57.040 --> 03:04:04.000]  exists only to sanctify the interests of the Israeli government. Evans is steeped in propaganda
[03:04:04.000 --> 03:04:10.480]  all the way down to the bone. His museum is a propaganda platform. His media center in Jerusalem
[03:04:10.480 --> 03:04:17.920]  is a propaganda hub. His political relationships are propaganda channels. His awards are propaganda
[03:04:17.920 --> 03:04:24.720]  rituals disguised as honors. As a matter of fact, earlier this year, guess who he rewarded?
[03:04:25.360 --> 03:04:33.200]  He rewarded the guy who said, well, a lot of people don't know if I'm an ambassador for
[03:04:33.200 --> 03:04:37.600]  America or if I'm an ambassador for Israel. This is the nation that is the most resilient
[03:04:37.600 --> 03:04:44.880]  I've ever seen on earth. It may sound a little bit this afternoon as if I'm almost speaking on
[03:04:44.880 --> 03:04:50.960]  behalf of Israel rather than the U.S., but I want to explain that part of my advocacy in our
[03:04:50.960 --> 03:04:58.880]  relationship is because if you came to my house tonight for dinner and you came in and you said,
[03:04:58.880 --> 03:05:03.520]  oh, Mike, we like you. We really think the world of you. We just enjoy being with you.
[03:05:04.480 --> 03:05:07.200]  I'm so excited to be here with you and have dinner with you,
[03:05:08.640 --> 03:05:15.600]  but your wife, we can't stand her. We don't like her a bit. I hope she's not going to be at the
[03:05:15.600 --> 03:05:26.560]  table. I would say, well, she will be. You won't be. Get out, because if you were to insult my
[03:05:26.560 --> 03:05:34.400]  partner, you have insulted me. His partner is Israel. When he talks about Israel being
[03:05:34.400 --> 03:05:38.800]  a blessing, he's talking about the things that they've done for him, I think. This is the guy
[03:05:38.800 --> 03:05:48.000]  who met with the preeminent traitor of our time, Jonathan Pollard, the guy that was let out of
[03:05:48.000 --> 03:05:56.720]  jail by Trump, who was allowed to go back to Israel. Of course, Mike Huckabee can't do enough
[03:05:56.720 --> 03:06:02.160]  for Israel, and as he's pointing out, he says these honors that are given out there are all
[03:06:02.160 --> 03:06:07.440]  to politicians, about politicians, and it's all about gaining political favor.
[03:06:07.440 --> 03:06:11.120]  I get asked all the time, because I'm a Christian, and they say, well, why are you so supportive of
[03:06:11.120 --> 03:06:15.440]  the Jewish people? I said, you can be Jewish. You don't have to have anything to do with Christians,
[03:06:15.440 --> 03:06:21.040]  but you can't be a Christian and not understand that your entire faith is built on the foundation
[03:06:21.040 --> 03:06:28.160]  of Judaism. So for Christians, we look at this as an obligation, a moral debt that we must repay,
[03:06:28.160 --> 03:06:31.760]  and therefore, I don't understand anyone who says, I'm a Christian, but I don't really want
[03:06:31.760 --> 03:06:36.080]  to support the Jews. Well, how can you do that? But it is not the view of those of us who are
[03:06:36.080 --> 03:06:41.760]  what I would call biblical believers that accept what the scripture says about the Jewish people,
[03:06:41.760 --> 03:06:46.400]  and Genesis 12, those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed.
[03:06:46.400 --> 03:06:47.360]  It doesn't say that.
[03:06:47.360 --> 03:06:49.920]  I say there's a miracle every day in this country.
[03:06:51.120 --> 03:06:57.040]  Says to Abraham, I'll bless those who bless you, the singular person, and through you,
[03:06:57.040 --> 03:07:01.440]  all nations will be blessed. How will they be blessed? Through Christ. Did you hear him say,
[03:07:01.440 --> 03:07:06.640]  you know, you'll hear him say that the Jews are God's chosen people, the people who reject,
[03:07:07.360 --> 03:07:13.440]  who choose to reject God or his chosen people? That was never true even of Israel in biblical
[03:07:13.440 --> 03:07:20.240]  times. But getting back to Evans, Evans organization is not a ministry, it is a foreign
[03:07:20.240 --> 03:07:25.840]  influence platform that is operating under the cover of Christian Zionism. The Friends of Zion
[03:07:25.840 --> 03:07:33.040]  Museum sits not in a church, but at the center of Jerusalem's state tourism framework. It is
[03:07:33.040 --> 03:07:37.200]  officially promoted by the Ministry of Tourism, it's endorsed by the Ministry of Jerusalem
[03:07:37.200 --> 03:07:43.520]  and Heritage, and it is highlighted by the Jerusalem Department Authority. No foreign ministry
[03:07:43.520 --> 03:07:49.680]  anywhere on the planet is granted this level of state integration unless it serves a national
[03:07:49.680 --> 03:07:54.480]  purpose. And take a look at the difference between how they treat this guy's museum
[03:07:54.480 --> 03:08:00.400]  and how they treat actual Christians in Jerusalem or Christian churches and that type of thing.
[03:08:00.400 --> 03:08:06.080]  It's a world of difference. Evans built his museum to glorify Christian Zionists
[03:08:06.080 --> 03:08:12.720]  as saviors of Israel. The Israeli state embraced it because that narrative is politically useful,
[03:08:12.720 --> 03:08:18.960]  politically useful. It reinforces the idea that Christian support is not just sentimental,
[03:08:19.680 --> 03:08:26.560]  but historical, let's see, covenantal and morally mandated. It creates a felt obligation
[03:08:26.560 --> 03:08:33.760]  in Christians to defend Israel even when Israel acts unjustly. And it wraps all of this
[03:08:33.760 --> 03:08:40.400]  in a religious vocabulary that discourages dissent. And when you look at people like Mike Huckabee,
[03:08:40.960 --> 03:08:47.440]  he's constantly talking about Israel, not about Christ, and that's the key. That's the replacement
[03:08:47.440 --> 03:08:55.600]  theology, folks. The replacement theology is replacing Christ with the state of Israel.
[03:08:56.560 --> 03:09:03.760]  This is propaganda, carefully engineered messaging designed to shape public opinion. Again, this is
[03:09:03.760 --> 03:09:12.160]  JD Hall who did the research on this and the different aspects of what Mike Evans is doing.
[03:09:12.160 --> 03:09:17.840]  He said the relationship doesn't stop at tourism and cultural promotion. The Israeli military
[03:09:17.840 --> 03:09:24.880]  itself utilizes the Friends of Zion Museum. Through the Education Corps, the IDF soldiers
[03:09:24.880 --> 03:09:31.520]  are brought to FOZ as part of their educational programming, where they're shown a curated story
[03:09:31.520 --> 03:09:37.840]  of Christian solidarity that reinforces the idea of an international alliance that is rooted in
[03:09:37.840 --> 03:09:46.880]  faith. Faith in what? Faith in Christ? That's what my faith is in. So FOZ reinforces a worldview
[03:09:46.880 --> 03:09:52.080]  that the Israeli military leadership wants soldiers to internalize. And that worldview
[03:09:53.040 --> 03:10:00.080]  says that global Christianity, especially the American evangelical sector, is the unshakable
[03:10:00.080 --> 03:10:06.960]  ally whose political pressures can be counted on when Israel faces criticism or conflict.
[03:10:07.920 --> 03:10:12.720]  The museum is a classroom for that doctrine. And of course, you know, when we look at this,
[03:10:13.680 --> 03:10:20.160]  you know, the guy besides Huckabee, the guy who has said, I want to be the number one defender
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[03:11:59.600 --> 03:12:06.960]  Cruz. And what did he recently do? He basically said anybody that talks about the USS Liberty
[03:12:06.960 --> 03:12:14.000]  is anti-Semitic. And what was that? That was an American intelligence ship, it was actually NSA,
[03:12:14.720 --> 03:12:20.880]  that was repeatedly attacked by the Israeli government. And they could see the American
[03:12:20.880 --> 03:12:25.840]  flag that was there. There were radio calls and all the rest of the stuff. A continual attack,
[03:12:25.840 --> 03:12:31.600]  a betrayal, just like what Jonathan Pollard did and just like what Israel did with the intelligence
[03:12:31.600 --> 03:12:36.880]  that Jonathan Pollard did, betraying America. And yet, don't talk about that, said Ted Cruz,
[03:12:36.880 --> 03:12:43.840]  because then if you do, you're racist. How pathetic that is. That is as pathetic as a left when
[03:12:44.720 --> 03:12:49.440]  they see you, they don't like your politics or your economics, they call you racist.
[03:12:49.440 --> 03:12:54.880]  This poison is spreading. There are pastors who love Israel who think all is fine. And my message
[03:12:54.880 --> 03:12:59.920]  to them is go and talk to the teenagers in your congregation. Go and talk to the 20-somethings
[03:12:59.920 --> 03:13:03.840]  in your congregation because they're picking up their phone and they're watching TikTok,
[03:13:03.840 --> 03:13:07.920]  and they're watching Instagram, and they're hearing this message being driven,
[03:13:07.920 --> 03:13:11.040]  and it is resonating. And if you want an illustration of this,
[03:13:13.040 --> 03:13:18.160]  several weeks ago, JD Vance was down at Ole Miss at a turning point gathering and one kid got up,
[03:13:18.160 --> 03:13:26.080]  got to ask this viciously anti-Semitic question. The most horrifying thing to me is what happened
[03:13:26.080 --> 03:13:34.400]  in the second later, which is the crowd erupted in applause. Not everybody, my guess is 20 to 30%
[03:13:34.400 --> 03:13:40.880]  of the kids there were applauding the viciously anti-Semitic question. A week or two later,
[03:13:40.880 --> 03:13:45.200]  there was another event. What was the question? With Eric and Laura Trump at Auburn University.
[03:13:46.160 --> 03:13:51.360]  A kid got up and said, I can do even better, and asked such an anti-Semitic question,
[03:13:51.440 --> 03:13:56.960]  it was filled with lies. Every word of the question was a lie, including and, but, and the.
[03:13:59.200 --> 03:14:05.120]  And again, instantaneously, the reaction was the same. 20 to 30% of the kids began cheering.
[03:14:06.880 --> 03:14:12.800]  Now here's the warning sign to hear. This was not a gathering at Berkeley. This was not a gathering
[03:14:12.800 --> 03:14:21.840]  at Yale. This was at Ole Miss and Auburn. These are a bunch of big old frat guys that are just
[03:14:21.840 --> 03:14:30.560]  looking to make a friend on Saturday night who have heard the message, we are such a team,
[03:14:31.440 --> 03:14:39.040]  we're so polarized, we're so bifurcated that what worries me is young people that get the message,
[03:14:39.040 --> 03:14:44.880]  oh, our team, we hate Israel. That is dangerous.
[03:14:46.560 --> 03:14:51.600]  You know what's dangerous is the demagoguery of somebody like Ted Cruz. He doesn't, he kept
[03:14:51.600 --> 03:14:54.960]  saying, well, what is the question? What is the question? Demagogue is not going to tell
[03:14:54.960 --> 03:14:57.920]  you what the question is and why he cut applause. It's too evil for me to even tell. Because the
[03:14:57.920 --> 03:15:05.360]  question was about the USS Liberty. That is not racism. That is pure demagoguery on the part of
[03:15:05.360 --> 03:15:11.600]  Ted Cruz. And when we look at that kind of betrayal by our best friend that is blessing us,
[03:15:12.560 --> 03:15:17.840]  it's very much like what happened with Jonathan Pollard and Benjamin Netanyahu, who is an ally,
[03:15:17.840 --> 03:15:22.960]  has been a long-term multi-decade. He's been a partner with Mike Evans, who's running this
[03:15:22.960 --> 03:15:28.640]  Friends of Zion thing. And of course it's Benjamin Netanyahu who welcomes Jonathan Pollard,
[03:15:29.600 --> 03:15:36.080]  brought back on a private plane by Miriam Adelson here. As he gets down, he kisses the ground
[03:15:36.080 --> 03:15:41.600]  because he's so happy to be outside of America. This is the land that he loves and how he betrayed
[03:15:42.160 --> 03:15:48.000]  America. It's that kind of betrayal that we're talking about. And so if you talk about genocide,
[03:15:48.000 --> 03:15:52.720]  which is what it's called when you decide that you're going to kill everybody in an area so
[03:15:52.720 --> 03:15:57.360]  that you can have their land or whatever, which is clearly what's going on. They say that over
[03:15:57.360 --> 03:16:05.280]  and over again. And so we recently had a woman who was another well-known Zionist and she was
[03:16:05.280 --> 03:16:13.520]  talking about, we got to stop just mowing the lawn. What she's talking about is we don't just
[03:16:13.520 --> 03:16:18.320]  go out and mow the lawn and mow these people down and kill them. We got to kill them once and for
[03:16:18.320 --> 03:16:25.360]  all, you know, their version of a final solution. There is a spirit abroad in Israel, which people
[03:16:25.360 --> 03:16:31.520]  have not seen before, a spirit among younger people. They will not be diverted from defeating
[03:16:31.520 --> 03:16:38.880]  the enemy. It is no longer enough simply to what was called mowing the lawn to keep the enemy down
[03:16:38.880 --> 03:16:43.440]  on the basis that they're always going to be there and we're always going to fight them. No, enough.
[03:16:44.000 --> 03:16:49.920]  We will now fight to defeat the enemy because we know that only defeating the enemy is what we
[03:16:50.000 --> 03:16:56.160]  should be doing. And there's been a realization, there's been a realization that this idea of
[03:16:56.160 --> 03:17:00.960]  mowing the lawn, this idea of not going too far, this idea of doing what the world...
[03:17:00.960 --> 03:17:02.400]  Yeah, we need to go all the way.
[03:17:02.400 --> 03:17:09.040]  That is galut mentality. That is diaspora mentality. That is trying to please and appease
[03:17:09.040 --> 03:17:14.400]  the world, but the world we now understand from what we're being living through and are still
[03:17:14.400 --> 03:17:20.240]  living through. The world cannot be appeased. It has to be fought. It has been described,
[03:17:20.240 --> 03:17:21.120]  and I think most...
[03:17:21.120 --> 03:17:23.200]  And how dare the world object to genocide.
[03:17:23.200 --> 03:17:30.960]  From Talmud to Tanakh, by which I mean this, the Talmud, that collection of rabbinical ordinances,
[03:17:30.960 --> 03:17:38.240]  which justifiably can be said to have kept the Jewish people alive since their exile from the
[03:17:38.240 --> 03:17:44.000]  land of Israel, is very much a diaspora mentality. It is a mentality which looks inward,
[03:17:44.000 --> 03:17:45.920]  which says we are up against a world...
[03:17:45.920 --> 03:17:47.600]  Notice how she ignores Torah.
[03:17:48.560 --> 03:17:56.560]  The Tanakh is full of stories of the Jewish people of antiquity fighting, fighting real battles,
[03:17:56.560 --> 03:18:01.760]  killing real people in defense of their nation and their people and their faith.
[03:18:01.760 --> 03:18:06.080]  And that is what has to be done. And I see that what we are seeing now
[03:18:06.160 --> 03:18:11.360]  in this war that has been fought is the resurrection of the Tanakh Jew,
[03:18:11.360 --> 03:18:16.800]  the return of the heroic Davidic warrior. Strength, not weakness.
[03:18:18.160 --> 03:18:22.640]  And again, what they want to tell you, if you're a Christian, is that they're all about Torah.
[03:18:22.640 --> 03:18:26.160]  They don't care about that at all. Is there rabbinical writings or is it Tanakh?
[03:18:26.160 --> 03:18:27.360]  Torah, Torah, Torah.
[03:18:28.240 --> 03:18:34.720]  And yet, you know, you have... Ted Cruz is concerned because you had people applaud when
[03:18:34.720 --> 03:18:39.200]  there was a question about the USS Liberty. And yet when she says we're going to mow down
[03:18:39.200 --> 03:18:43.280]  these people and kill them all off once and for all, she got a lot of applause.
[03:18:44.000 --> 03:18:47.440]  What is the issue with that? Well, this partnership that
[03:18:49.200 --> 03:18:55.120]  Mike Evans has with the IDF, with their museum and their educational thing there, he says that
[03:18:55.120 --> 03:19:01.280]  the IDF participates in the Friends of Zion programming, one of the clearest proofs that
[03:19:01.280 --> 03:19:10.080]  the ministry is not merely adjacent to Israeli state power. It is a part of Israeli state power.
[03:19:10.080 --> 03:19:16.880]  Friends of Zion is more than a cultural outpost, more than a museum. It is a weight-bearing pillar
[03:19:16.880 --> 03:19:22.320]  of the political architecture that binds American evangelical support to Israeli lobbying objectives.
[03:19:22.880 --> 03:19:27.520]  Mike Evans has spent decades cultivating relationships with American political operators,
[03:19:27.600 --> 03:19:33.680]  presidents, and members of Congress. He has spent decades since the 1980s cultivating an
[03:19:33.680 --> 03:19:39.040]  even closer relationship of Benjamin Netanyahu, a relationship that Israeli journalists have
[03:19:39.040 --> 03:19:46.400]  documented since the 1980s. Netanyahu's repeated appearances at Friends of Zion events are not
[03:19:46.400 --> 03:19:52.160]  sentimental gestures. They're visible performances of a political alliance.
[03:19:53.120 --> 03:19:57.520]  Of course, where did he get started in the 1980s? Well, if you go back and look at what
[03:19:57.520 --> 03:20:03.920]  Mike Evans was doing back in the 1980s, he was pushing the Iraq War because that's what Netanyahu
[03:20:03.920 --> 03:20:09.440]  did. And then he's pushing more recently the Iran War because that's what Netanyahu wants.
[03:20:09.440 --> 03:20:17.280]  And so he pushes all of these different wars. He's got all of these prophecy and Christian
[03:20:17.280 --> 03:20:23.280]  ministries that are, instead of pushing lies about weapons of mass destruction,
[03:20:23.920 --> 03:20:27.840]  they're pushing lies about biblical prophecy. That's really what is happening here
[03:20:28.400 --> 03:20:36.160]  to get us into these wars. So they deliver, the Friends of Zion, what no formal lobby can deliver.
[03:20:36.160 --> 03:20:42.640]  It delivers millions of deeply loyal evangelical voters who accept Israel's political interests
[03:20:42.640 --> 03:20:50.560]  as if they were Christian moral duties, which is exactly what Mike Huckabee is constantly saying.
[03:20:51.200 --> 03:20:56.320]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of
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[03:21:09.120 --> 03:21:16.000]  It was a nice idea, sure, but I had no idea just how much that simple act would change my life as
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[03:21:22.800 --> 03:21:29.040]  starving literally alone on the streets to getting the health care and education she needs to reach
[03:21:29.040 --> 03:21:35.840]  her God-given full potential. I got to be a part of that change and the light of that compassion
[03:21:35.840 --> 03:21:42.560]  not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me. That is the power of compassion.
[03:21:42.560 --> 03:21:50.240]  The light of Christ shines on all of us. Feel it for yourself and change literally a child's life.
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[03:22:35.760 --> 03:22:40.400]  Arashiv grew up in America. There was anti-Semitism, of course,
[03:22:41.360 --> 03:22:45.440]  I've experienced it, we've all experienced it. The ambassador has a very interesting view of that.
[03:22:45.440 --> 03:22:50.880]  He says people are, you can't understand anti-Semitism. If the people are anti-Semitic,
[03:22:50.880 --> 03:22:57.760]  it's because they're against God, against their bachelorette. And we are representatives of his
[03:22:57.840 --> 03:23:01.200]  people and that's why they're anti-Semitic. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense.
[03:23:04.080 --> 03:23:09.360]  Interesting view. That's an interesting view. Here's another view that since we consider
[03:23:09.360 --> 03:23:15.440]  it the chosen people, so people are very, who are you? What are you taking big shots at?
[03:23:18.080 --> 03:23:26.000]  Chosen people. And that's part of it, is that because you are the chosen people,
[03:23:26.800 --> 03:23:35.200]  given a chosen place for a chosen purpose. And if someone is angry at God, he'll be angry at the
[03:23:35.200 --> 03:23:44.800]  people who represent him. Well, I would say maybe it works this way. Since the Lord Jesus Christ
[03:23:45.440 --> 03:23:53.760]  is God who has come to earth, perhaps the people who hate God, who hate the Lord Jesus Christ,
[03:23:53.760 --> 03:24:00.800]  perhaps that's why they attack people who do love the Lord and call them racist,
[03:24:01.520 --> 03:24:08.080]  call them anti-Semitic. It is your moral duty as a Christian, as your moral duty period,
[03:24:08.720 --> 03:24:14.480]  to understand who the Lord of the universe is, and to not side with those who oppose him
[03:24:15.040 --> 03:24:21.840]  in every way. When FOZ gives its Friends of Zion award, the recipients are overwhelmingly
[03:24:21.840 --> 03:24:28.480]  political leaders, not ministers or theologians. These awards are distributed to sitting presidents,
[03:24:28.480 --> 03:24:36.000]  prime ministers, monarchs, foreign policy actors, ambassadors like Huckabee, who function as a seal
[03:24:36.000 --> 03:24:42.560]  of evangelical legitimacy, a public blessing that signals to millions of American Christians that
[03:24:42.560 --> 03:24:51.520]  this person is a defender of God's chosen people. And again, it is pure politics
[03:24:52.560 --> 03:24:57.680]  with a thin veneer of false theology. That's what we're talking about here.
[03:24:58.400 --> 03:25:05.040]  FOZ can mobilize pastors who will spend consecutive Sundays preaching in favor of Israeli
[03:25:05.040 --> 03:25:11.280]  government policy. He says, as hard as I looked, I couldn't find a single example
[03:25:12.000 --> 03:25:19.440]  of Friends of Zion or Mike Evans ever preaching Jesus Christ or his gospel to Israelis.
[03:25:20.240 --> 03:25:28.640]  Nothing. Not a hint of gospel witness whatsoever. Can you imagine all of those millions from
[03:25:28.640 --> 03:25:34.720]  evangelicals in America thinking that they're doing something loving, when the most loving thing of all
[03:25:35.200 --> 03:25:41.520]  would be to share the good news? That is completely absent from their work. All these people who say
[03:25:41.520 --> 03:25:46.400]  they love Israel and don't, you know, don't talk to them about Christ. Don't bother them with that.
[03:25:46.400 --> 03:25:50.960]  They're already God's chosen people. You know, they're saved because of their DNA or something.
[03:25:51.600 --> 03:26:00.320]  That is not Christian. That is not true. And anybody who says that has left the faith. They
[03:26:00.320 --> 03:26:07.360]  have faith in politics, not in Christ. Before Friends of Zion existed as a brand,
[03:26:07.360 --> 03:26:12.640]  Mike Evans operated the Jerusalem Prayer Team, an organization that raised money for the
[03:26:12.640 --> 03:26:18.640]  municipal projects in Jerusalem, including direct fundraising for the new Jerusalem Foundation under
[03:26:19.280 --> 03:26:27.120]  leadership of then mayor Ehud Omer. He later became prime minister. If you remember,
[03:26:27.920 --> 03:26:33.680]  his name just recently came up as one as the controller for who? Jeffrey Epstein.
[03:26:34.640 --> 03:26:43.760]  This is what you're buying into. The Epstein, Mossad stuff. Friends of Zion tell its donors
[03:26:43.760 --> 03:26:50.720]  that their contributions bless God's chosen people. What it does not tell them is that those donations
[03:26:51.280 --> 03:26:58.720]  finance Israeli municipal budgets, Israeli social programs, Israeli military educational
[03:26:58.720 --> 03:27:05.600]  initiatives, Israeli media operations, Israeli diplomatic functions, and Israeli tourism
[03:27:05.600 --> 03:27:11.360]  infrastructure. These donors believe they're supporting a spiritual mission, but in reality,
[03:27:11.360 --> 03:27:18.160]  they're actually underwriting the soft power of a foreign government. Friends of Zion is not simply
[03:27:18.160 --> 03:27:26.640]  an ally to Israel. It is a quiet extension of Israeli statecraft. We're talking about politics
[03:27:26.640 --> 03:27:33.920]  and governments here. He says, it is the same spirit that takes something earthly and elevates
[03:27:33.920 --> 03:27:41.840]  it to something divine. Friends of Zion has taken a modern state with all of its sins,
[03:27:42.480 --> 03:27:49.520]  with all of its scandals, with all of its injustices, and its political agendas,
[03:27:49.520 --> 03:27:57.760]  and has placed it on the altar. Guess who the altar boy was for the Israeli state? Jeffrey Epstein.
[03:27:58.640 --> 03:28:04.880]  Then it turns and demands that Christians sacrifice truth and integrity on that altar,
[03:28:04.880 --> 03:28:11.120]  even if it means slandering faithful brothers. That's the key issue, folks. That's why I can't
[03:28:11.120 --> 03:28:20.160]  stay silent about this. This has become a stench. It really has, and it's a stench based on not just
[03:28:20.160 --> 03:28:27.600]  what the Israeli government has done, but a stench as to the devotion and the worship
[03:28:28.480 --> 03:28:33.360]  that nominal Christians have done. I say nominal because they take the name of Christ,
[03:28:33.360 --> 03:28:39.520]  but they don't follow him. JD Hall finishes by saying, this is what spiritual corruption looks
[03:28:39.520 --> 03:28:46.800]  like when it matures. It takes the sacred things of God and it enlists them in the service of
[03:28:46.800 --> 03:28:54.400]  earthly powers. It uses scripture as a bludgeon to silence dissent. It trades the humility of
[03:28:54.400 --> 03:29:02.080]  the gospel for the arrogance of political privilege, and it never repents because it believes that its
[03:29:02.080 --> 03:29:12.720]  loyalty to the state is a form of righteousness. That's what we're seeing here. We got a couple
[03:29:12.720 --> 03:29:18.160]  of comments here before the program ends. In the last minutes, Dannyboy53 says,
[03:29:18.160 --> 03:29:23.040]  Substack, by the way, loving the commercial for your podcast. David, love the tunes you've done.
[03:29:23.040 --> 03:29:27.680]  I'm a musician myself, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist. Oh, thank you very
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[03:29:39.200 --> 03:29:45.520]  Yeah, I was just going down memory lane yesterday. I came across a thing on YouTube, which was
[03:29:45.520 --> 03:29:55.120]  Chicago, the band Chicago, and it was a concert, Tanglewood 1970. I really thoroughly enjoyed it.
[03:29:55.280 --> 03:30:00.640]  I almost felt like I was back in the band again because we did so many Chicago covers back in the
[03:30:00.640 --> 03:30:04.880]  day. It was great to hear them playing live. Of course, the comments there were like,
[03:30:04.880 --> 03:30:09.760]  look at this. People are playing music live again. It really was a great thing.
[03:30:11.200 --> 03:30:18.400]  There was a comment there about Terry Kath. I didn't follow Chicago enough to know the
[03:30:19.040 --> 03:30:22.240]  names of all the different people. I knew Pankow's name because he was a,
[03:30:23.200 --> 03:30:28.480]  I believe it's been a long time. I think Pankow was the trombonist. I thought he was really a
[03:30:28.480 --> 03:30:35.600]  fine musician, but they were talking about the guitarist. It turns out that he died when he was
[03:30:35.600 --> 03:30:40.560]  only 31. He was the founder of Chicago. He died at the age of 31 and he almost disbanded. You know,
[03:30:40.560 --> 03:30:46.000]  he kept them together. Doc Severnsen talked to them and said, you need to stay together.
[03:30:46.880 --> 03:30:50.080]  He was a really fine guitarist and lead vocalist and the founder of the group.
[03:30:50.880 --> 03:30:56.800]  He shot himself by accident. He liked guns. He was playing around with them and he had the classic
[03:30:56.800 --> 03:31:02.560]  mistake of not realizing that he had a semi-automatic that still had a bullet chambered
[03:31:02.560 --> 03:31:04.800]  in the round. He was playing around and he says, what do you think I'm going to do?
[03:31:06.000 --> 03:31:10.160]  Blow my brains out? Famous last words. So sad to see it.
[03:31:10.160 --> 03:31:11.440]  That's unfortunate.
[03:31:11.440 --> 03:31:14.720]  Anyway, on that note, I'm afraid-
[03:31:14.720 --> 03:31:16.400]  On that bit of disappointment.
[03:31:16.400 --> 03:31:21.440]  That's right. We will say thank you for tuning in and we hope you have a nice day. Thank you.
[03:31:21.440 --> 03:31:22.240]  God bless you all.
[03:31:47.040 --> 03:31:53.680]  And the communist future. They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary,
[03:31:54.640 --> 03:31:59.200]  but each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
[03:32:01.360 --> 03:32:04.960]  That is what we have in common. That is what they want to take away.
[03:32:05.760 --> 03:32:11.920]  Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation. They desire to know
[03:32:11.920 --> 03:32:18.400]  everything about us while they hide everything from us. It's time to turn that around and
[03:32:18.400 --> 03:32:23.920]  expose what they want to hide. Please share the information and links you'll find
[03:32:23.920 --> 03:32:28.240]  at TheDavidNightShow.com. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing.
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