0:01Looking like a real Erica Kirk in here today.
0:03>> Oh, this how we're opening up?
0:04>> This is how we're opening up.
0:05>> we're going to do it? Uh yeah, man.
0:07Look, I didn't call my husband and this is why I'm wearing uh elite level sniper gear.
0:12>> [laughter] >> Oh my god, man. I've stayed out of a lot of that, obviously, cuz like it's one of the more controversial talked about things, but you know, there's just no doubt at this point something is extremely off there.
0:28What it is, how deep it goes, I don't know. I I I couldn't tell you. I'm not the guy investigating it like other people are like Candace Owens and some of the people have really looked into this, but like I mean, you know the eye test. The eye test is like, "Come on."
0:41>> Doesn't smell good. That's for sure. Uh look, I've done, I don't know, probably 10 episodes on this topic at this point.
0:49Um my audience would love for me to do infinity episodes on it, but it's like I I'm genuinely uncomfortable about it cuz >> Yes.
0:58>> if she is genuinely not involved, which I think there's a very high probability that she's not, the worst thing you could possibly do is just be dunking on this lady left and right, even though she's got like the PR uh chops of, I don't know, a potato or something. Like she's just not good at what she's doing, and it's just tragic that she's been put into this position on top of losing her husband, even if she wasn't involved, just making her the CEO of this major organization. She's just so ill-equipped for it at this point. Um but anyways, I less less about Erica, more about the actual attack. I mean, have you have you
1:33dug into it decently?
1:35>> Started to a little bit cuz we I mean, the story does not add up in any way.
1:40Just even like at the beginning before you get to the details of who, what, when, where, how. Like they made it a federal case. This is a kid who was in state who came in state to do an in state killing. Right there, that should be like, "All right, why'd they do that?" And then you get to the fact >> federal?
1:55>> They made [snorts] it federal because Kash Patel was coming in there and like the feds were investigating [clears throat] it.
1:59>> You're right, but they they brought the charges at the state level and the feds bowed out. So, I think it is >> Did they bow out?
2:06>> Yeah, well, they like they did that press conference, but as far as I know, the charges are being brought by local DAs. It's it's all local. So, like the sheriff's office is involved.
2:16So, I I agree with you. It's very interesting that like Patel he had that big jacket controversy where he had to get the, you know, ladies medium uh before he could get off his plane.
2:27Um but then you've also got a lot of weirdness with like Erica allegedly waiting on the tarmac for uh Andrew Kolbe to arrive when she's allegedly prepared to go to the hospital to see her deceased husband and she waits over an hour. It's like these are just things that you don't do.
2:45>> You don't do.
2:45>> You don't do. I mean >> Straight up.
2:47>> I any anybody who's even if you've just had a significant other, you don't even have to be married to know if they are in jeopardy there's nothing's going to stop you from getting to them.
2:58>> That's right.
2:58>> Immediately. So, I don't know, man. It uh I've I've studied it a lot. I mean, just go down some of the things. I mean, the .30-06 angle makes absolutely no sense. I'm not some professional hunter or anything, but I've shot a lot of guns and sorry, I don't buy that. Um then on top of that, you've got this .30-06 which gets dismantled uh excuse me, it's a Mauser 98 fires .30-06 gets dismantled, left in the woods over there. They have a they have a gun dog like a like a sniffer, right?
3:32Walks right past it.
3:33>> Mhm.
3:34>> This is the alleged murder weapon. Just got shot just got fired less than an hour prior and you've got [snorts] a trained dog that doesn't spot it.
3:43But but it does get spotted after the feds arrive.
3:47I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
3:49Um and then and then add it into it fact that every assassination, like every high-level political assassination in American history, it's never it's never the story that we're told, ever.
3:58>> Yeah.
3:59>> But this is the one time this is the one time that we're not allowed to question it.
4:03>> And it's another one that's on video, too. And now it's in the modern era, unlike Kennedy, where there's only one angle. We have all these different angles. They had the camera rigged up behind him as well in like 4K that I think Did I see that Candace Owens got a hold of some of that footage?
4:16>> Yeah, she did.
4:17>> I'm not making that up. That's real. So, she actually got that. And it looks strange. It look cuz at 30, again, I'm going off of the really smart gun guys that know a lot more about that than I do, but most of those guys that I've either talked with or heard break it down, who I don't know, online, they're like, it would have blown it literally would have taken at that distance his head off of his neck. There would be nothing left.
4:41>> Well.
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5:04>> I'm not sure that it would have actually done that, but it would have done enough damage that it's not what you see there.
5:09Like >> Mhm.
5:10>> I mean, from from the rear view, [snorts] you can see his body shake, obviously, cuz he is struck with something. Um but just the fact that that round doesn't penetrate is shocking beyond belief. I mean, the neck it's not even angled at his spine, first off. It's angled at his his neckline. You would think that it would have just gone through and through.
5:30>> Yeah.
5:30>> Um but it didn't, which is why a lot of people believe that there was a charge underneath his shirt with the microphone. I'm not so sure about that.
5:36That was kind of my original hypothesis.
5:39I've I've come off of that now, but I'm I'm still very much open to all ideas.
5:45And then and then really, you know, once you once you study his evolution um ideologically, politically speaking out against, you know, October 7th was when he really started to get a lot of hate um because he he went on PBD and he said it very very boldly. He's like, "I'm not buying it.
6:04I've been there. I've been there, Patrick." I think he said something like that.
6:07>> how he said it, too? He like >> [snorts] >> I'm going to use it. I'm going to use word like he was he was really [ __ ] struggling with I remember >> that.
6:15>> Well, and he cuz he know I mean, he knows he's not supposed to be saying that.
6:18>> Yeah.
6:18>> But he also knows that it's so obvious that he would be lying he'd be a liar if he didn't at least point it out. Like you've got in my opinion, probably the most highly defended or defensible border in the world next to North Korea.
6:33And you got dudes on paragliders >> [laughter] >> coming across like Ewoks and spending hours taking out people before you have any serious military response.
6:43How? How is it How is that even possible? So, Charlie Kirk just asked the obvious question. He didn't he didn't make an allegation. He didn't say it definitively, but he was just like this doesn't sit right with me. The same thing that a lot of us are doing when it comes to his own assassination, right?
6:57Um and I think that's the honorable thing to do. I don't think it makes you a bad person. That is why I've been a defender of Candace Owens and and Baron Coleman. I've >> [clears throat] >> you know, been had him on my show. I like like the guy a lot. Like these are genuine people that are very inquisitive and they're they're digging for the truth. It doesn't mean they get everything right. And I wouldn't go about it the same way that, you know, some of them have. Um but I appreciate it cuz I don't trust the FBI. Why would I? I don't trust the local sheriff's office. Like what are we talking about? Why do we
7:24trust any of these people? We just had the Epstein cover-up and you're telling me to shut up about a the highest level political assassination in my lifetime.
7:29I can't assume a guy who was getting funded by Israel donors to the tune of massive amounts of money. Massive.
7:38And he flips on them publicly, says I want the Epstein files released. He says, "I don't trust the story with October 7th." Uh and then and then he dies 60 days later. And I can't I can't connect those dots?
7:52>> Absolutely, you should be able to connect those. And and that's That was the thing, you know, I'm similar Well, I don't know if you were referring to Candace, but I never have been a huge fan of Candace's style on how she does things. It's just me. It's It's a different taste. I've talked about that in the past. But the fact that she was drawing some lines between all of the build-up, specifically in what you said, and especially the last 60 days. Be it what he said to Dave Smith for an hour conversation off camera before that debate in July, I think with the Josh Hammer guy. Be it the meeting in the
8:26Hamptons that was certainly strange to say the least. Be it the donors pulling money, like you said, 2 days before.
8:33You know, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, [ __ ] like a duck, it's usually a duck, you know? Or at least it has a good chance of being a duck or a demented [ __ ] goose. I don't know.
8:42>> [laughter] >> Well, and then then you also have his text messages.
8:46>> Yeah, exactly.
8:48>> 24 to 48 hours prior, he's sending both to his security team saying he thinks he's going to get taken out or going to get be killed. Is Candace has alleged this repeatedly. Um and then you also have him basically doubling down and saying, "I have no choice but to abandon the pro-Israel cause." He says this 48 hours before he catches a bullet. And we're all supposed to be like, "No connection.
9:10You're a lunatic if you think there's a connect." He was being funded by massive Zionist donors, both American and Israeli.
9:17And then 48 hours prior, he says, "I I'm out. I can't do this."
9:23And he dies.
9:24It's the It's the most obvious motive that exists. I'm sorry. It is.
9:29Um that's not That doesn't mean that that's why or how he got murdered. That doesn't mean that. But if you're not going to allow the public to at least have that discussion, you're just lying to them. Like they have to be able to discuss that. So, that's why I like Handy.
9:42>> sometimes?
9:43They want it they you know people that are very strong, hardcore pro-Israel people kind of want to create that narrative to where it's them against the world because then it it creates some sort of synergistic bond. Which is a [ __ ] up way of doing it to be very clear, but do you ever wonder if that's the point?
10:03>> I think about that a lot. Yeah. I think about that a lot when it comes to the lead-up to World War II as well.
10:09I mean a lot of people believe that there was a real desire to get Jewish people fearful so that they would move to Israel.
10:16I haven't studied it enough to make that claim definitively, but um >> That's the thing. You get powerful people in any group who decide that they're above everyone else. They'll use all their own people to start with as pawns completely. And we've seen that in history again and again. If that were the case with something like that where there were even some small role that some people could have played to try to create an end mean or an end goal like that, then that's dark as [ __ ] I mean, it's hard because they they let they let millions of their people die for that.
10:49>> Well, yeah, it's it's evil beyond words, but I mean, this is not this is not pure, you know, armchair conspiracy theorizing. You have the Balfour Declaration. I mean, you have the most wealthy Zionist banking family, the Rothschilds, that are essentially being offered this land as as recompense for being the financiers in the World War. And they got their country. And the crazy thing is is that it was promised to I think the Turks and maybe the Egyptians that landmass was promised to It's like no one even cared [laughter] about the Palestinians that was there already.
11:31I mean, it it just crazy, but I mean, that's that's how you I think that's really how the world works, though. It's not it's not so much about You know, they say possession's 9/10 of the law. Like, [ __ ] it is.
11:44Like, power is 9/10 of the law, really.
11:47>> Yeah. That other 10th is a big 10th.
11:49>> Right.
11:50>> You know.
11:50>> Yeah. That's the That's the real 10th.
11:52That's the one that counts.
11:53>> Yeah, it's some some COVID math 10th, >> Yeah. Oh, speaking of uh Rand Paul said that we've got I believe 6 days left until the statute of limitations run runs out on Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress.
12:05>> Really?
12:06>> Yeah.
12:07>> Ooh, that's gone quietly under the radar.
12:09>> Yeah. I wouldn't even known if he hadn't posted about it um today and yesterday, but >> See, that's the smallest charge, too, of charges you could or should bring against that guy.
12:17>> No kidding.
12:18>> Yeah.
12:18>> I mean, imagine I don't know if I can safely say this.
12:21You can beat me if you need to do, but >> [laughter] >> um I mean, >> I think we crossed that bridge about 10 minutes ago.
12:27>> Yeah, that's true. That's [laughter] true.
12:29Fair point.
12:30To To me, this has all been rather tepid, but, you know, >> Yeah, listen, I'm just a YouTuber. What are you going to do?
12:35>> [laughter] [snorts] >> Look, I mean, Fauci obviously created a bioweapon. He funded a bioweapon. I'm not saying that >> The gain-of-function stuff?
12:44>> Yeah, the gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Like, that was banned under Obama.
12:49>> Yeah.
12:49>> It was banned It was illegal. And he still found a way. DARPA even rejected that funding program. They thought it was too dangerous. And then it was it was uh it was banned domestically, so they were forced to offshore it. And that's the reason it ended up in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but that work began in Canada.
13:09It began in the United States. I mean, it is a decade-plus-long >> Yeah.
13:14>> program. And Fauci was in charge of that for those decades. He's been basically in that position since the '80s or something crazy like that. So, he knew all of it. I mean, to believe that the guilt the the level of guilt that Anthony Fauci holds is that he lied to Congress, you got to be out of your [ __ ] mind. Like he's responsible for the death of millions of people. He's he's responsible for the transfer of the largest amount of human wealth in history.
13:41Like that's what the lockdowns were.
13:42They transferred trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars from the poor and middle class to the wealthiest amongst us.
13:51And it hasn't stopped. It's still it's still tilting further away because young people can't afford houses and that's not changing. And that's because the currency was debased because of the spending bill um that they passed in 2020.
14:05>> And then you think about everything that happened in the 11 12 years before that quantitative easing and just inflating away the currency even before you get to a huge moment like that where they all >> Yep.
14:16>> You know, I used to have this quote that I didn't invent. Someone way smarter than me invented this, but I would repeat it all the time when I worked on Wall Street and was talking to people about money. I'm like the really shitty reality that you learn is that it takes money to make money. So you just go back to '08 '09 financial crisis for example, look at the people who recovered by 2012 2013 and were doing okay. Those are people that yeah, they lost a lot of money percentage-wise on the way down like everyone else, but they had enough of a nut to start with. They didn't lose their whole 401k and have to start at
14:48zero and then be able to make nothing in the twilight years heading into retirement.
14:52>> Well, I came out of college in '08 right into the teeth of the recession and >> No [ __ ] >> Yeah, and I was I was uh mortgage broker, so I was actually responsible for liquidating foreclosed assets. So I saw the the absolute worst of it um and it was terrible, you know.
15:08>> Liquidating foreclosed assets.
15:10>> Yeah, which is aka kicking people out of their homes and selling them to re- recoup the lender's money.
15:17>> What's that like having to go up to someone you have a job to do, right?
15:20Someone couldn't pay their mortgage, the home is now no longer there as according to the contract to the bank, no matter how unfair this is, and the system certainly wasn't fair in a way, but like what's that like being a 22, 23-year-old kid and you got to walk up to some family and be like, "Yeah, you got to leave."
15:35>> It's awful. I mean, it's awful.
15:37Obviously I still like particularly because I worked for a private lender, so the the people that were lending out that money they were retirees. Like this wasn't this wasn't conventional lending where you had a a banker that might take a loss or a haircut, you know, these were like retired people that if they don't get their money back they may starve, you know.
15:58So, I had I had a fiduciary responsibility to them to make sure that I I defended their capital. So, as bad as it made me as as bad as it made me feel to have to, you know, get the sheriff to come kick people out periodically. Usually people would agree voluntarily to leave, but anytime it went down to the wire like that, it felt terrible. Felt awful.
16:19Um but really what it did to me was it radicalized me against central banking.
16:24Because I saw firsthand the human carnage that it creates.
16:29>> Can you explain that more? Like what about that in particularly made you so radical against the central banking?
16:34>> Well, because central banking is kind of a nebulous concept for most people, you know, you don't actually see the homeless person created by >> Yes.
16:43>> the fiat process, right? This is this took the theoretical kind of Austrian school, which is what I come from, in a libertarian vein, and it it just made it very real to me.
16:56Um >> So, you were already libertarian at that time?
16:58>> Yeah. Second second gen libertarian, my dad uh >> Second gen >> [laughter] >> Yeah.
17:03>> That's awesome.
17:04>> So, very very rare.
17:05Uh my dad actually ran for Congress twice in the '90s in uh in San Diego.
17:09>> Wow.
17:10>> He didn't win, obviously, cuz he ran as libertarian, but um yeah, I knew about Ron Paul in the '90s. I was a big Ron Paulian guy. And then when the Ron Paul revolution came about, I was just like, "Oh my god. This is incredible. It's happening."
17:24>> [laughter] >> Um didn't actually happen, but there was a moment there. I think Thomas Massie's next guy, but maybe we can do that later. Yeah. Um but anyways, the the thing about the central banking is like so I understood very I understood kind of intuitively what happens when you debase the currency.
17:41But I didn't understand you know, experientially. I didn't actually get to like feel it, see it.
17:48And once I saw it, it was like, "Oh man, this is not this is not theoretical anymore. Like this is a really big deal.
17:54And and it's the it's the lowest amongst us, the worst off amongst us that suffer the most as a consequence of the monopoly that is central banking.
18:04And then I started to do the studying into what created the bubble.
18:09And then you can watch Ron Paul's videos. Maybe you can drop one in here from I think '05, '06. He's he's warning about the uh the real estate bubble. And he's explaining very explicitly that it's all a product of maintaining interest rates too low for too long, which is what the Fed chair, I think it was Bernanke at the time, was was guilty of. And >> Well, he became chair, I want to say in '07. Maybe I made that up. We should check that. But >> So it may have been Greenspan. But the chair when it was going on.
18:36>> Yeah. I mean, during the collapse I know it was Bernanke. May have been Greenspan. Regardless, they're all guilty of the same thing. But point being you keep rates low that long, and then that was even prior to the QE concept.
18:48Like that they weren't really debasing the currency heavily pre-'08. It got crazy after '08. And we thought that it could never get any worse. Little did we know that would be the least printing that we've seen in the rest of our lives because as soon as 2020 rolls around, we start printing to the tune of, you know, trillions.
19:05>> Yeah.
19:05>> Um so it's and I think that the bailout in '08, which was the biggest economic crisis that I thought I'd live through was 800 billion. We're now doing that during peacetime during positive economic times. We're We're doing more than that today. It's >> It's bonkers.
19:21>> It's insane.
19:22>> You know what I can't get over? I remember when I would like follow the markets when I was in college like 2014, 2015 and you know, it would make sense when the economy took a step back. Like if there'd be a period where gas prices went way up or things like that, the stock market maybe not lockstep day by day, but it would it would follow in percentage points cuz it was still at that point somewhat air quotes representative of the real economy of real people.
19:51What you've seen since COVID and you actually saw it by the end of March with COVID when the stock market took the big bump up and no one could lose is that the stock market to me, and I'm just saying this from 30,000 ft in the air without going into specific details to get myself in trouble, but it has it has decorrelated from the average man's economic interests.
20:12>> Exactly.
20:12>> Case in point right now, gas is sitting at [ __ ] six bucks a gallon, whatever it is.
20:16>> Mhm.
20:16>> It It hurts. I mean, you go to the [ __ ] gas station. I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] filling up the tank."
20:20>> Yep.
20:21>> Yet the stock market is up right now.
20:23>> Right.
20:23>> Because the people that are most participating and who have bought the largest percentage of it and have the biggest opportunity to make money are the people who that affects the least cuz they got private jets and it costs a little more, but their interest is going to pay for it.
20:35>> Yep. Well, and here's the real dark aspect of this is that a people may not like this that they should if they understood economics properly, they would love this.
20:47When the government does bad things, the economy should hurt. Like that that actually should that if you're functioning in a healthy way, if the government if the government decides to lock down the global economy, there should be rationing and extraordinary pricing and all sorts of crazy things because that's the market trying to adapt to the intervention that the government has forced upon us.
21:10But, the government has now basically written itself a blank check where they passed, I believe it was 4 trillion in spending in 2020, that it was basically uh just put a bull market into what should have been a depression.
21:25>> Yes.
21:26>> I mean, that's that's so psychotic, I can't even put it into word. And and then it also because it it buoys the system, it makes you feel as if things are better than they really are, you don't understand how how much of a price you're ultimately paying.
21:41>> Yes.
21:42>> So, it it allows for the righteous anger that should be directed at our Congress, at the president, at our local governors who were the real, you know, dictators when it came to the lockdown portion of the things, it allows for them to get away with murder, and sometimes literally, because the it disconnects the causality. It makes it so you don't actually see that, "Hey, I can't eat because of these lockdowns." Like which is what should have happened.
22:11And it's uh it's unfortunate because they're smart. I mean, you there's one thing you got to give them credit is that they they know how to get away with, you know, the largest transfer of wealth in human history and the death of millions and and we all just move on like it never even happened.
22:30>> You know, there's there was this book in 2018. I've talked about it a bunch before since the beginning of recording the podcast, earliest episodes, but Steven Pinker wrote Enlightenment Now.
22:40You know, obviously Pinker good [ __ ] cuz he knew Epstein like [ __ ] seemingly every person at Harvard, but the book nonetheless is a very interesting concept and really good because basically what he's doing is he's making a case overall, not in like five-year periods or 10-year periods, but just over the past, I I it's been a while, but maybe the past 3,000-4,000 years of human history, just measuring basic metrics around the world globally of like statistics about the quality of life that people have. Could be sustenance, access to water, access to housing, whatever. And every chart, it's not like they go like this
23:18over time. They They go like this, but they go up. And And they go way up. And his point was that we're in some moments right now where it doesn't feel like things are the best they've ever been, yet statistically overall they are, and we have to fix a few things. But to his credit, one of the things that he was extremely concerned about that I think about literally once a day every day is he He went and pulled this chart basically from the beginning of the 1980s on that I'm going to oversimplify right now cuz I don't have it in front of me, but essentially it was showing the death of the middle class. It showed a giant V
23:54form, slowly at first and then wider and wider as the years went on when it showed the wealth gap between maybe it was like the bottom 97% and the top three, something like that. And when you see that, you realize that these, you know, these inflationary type They're not laws, these policies they put in, if you will, willy-nilly. These These are the things that caused this.
24:17That's like the common denominator.
24:18>> That's That's the most important point right there. This is what all the socialists in America get wrong is that they They see income inequality and they say it's capitalism.
24:27Uh Every libertarian looks at income inequality and they go, "Well, is it naturally derived income inequality that's based off of effort in a meritocratic system or is it income inequality that's being created because of central banking, because of cronyism, because of uh adjacency to the government, proximity?"
24:43And the answer is obviously the latter.
24:44The income inequality is created because if you want to be the richest people on Earth, even Elon, who I've got a lot of respect for, he's the richest man in human history because of his government contracts.
24:54>> Yes.
24:54>> Like he's not where he's at without that.
24:56>> Right.
24:56>> Um Not to say that he wouldn't be very wealthy and very successful without going down the government contractor route, but let's just be honest.
25:03>> You're right.
25:04>> He's not the richest man in human history if he didn't do that. And and that's the same thing with almost every major Fortune 500 company. They've got some sort of government contract or some sort of intelligence agency tie going to the In-Q-Tel the funding that starts many of these corporations from I mean Palantir. Yeah, Palantir that by the way their first and only client for many years was the DOD. It's like oh, that's that's a private corporation.
25:29>> Nothing to see there.
25:30>> [laughter] >> Really?
25:33But yeah, this is this is what's created the income inequality is that it's just it's just like it's actually it's actually much more in alignment with the fascism described by Mussolini. That it's the uh embedding of state and corporate power. Are the the the wedding of the two?
25:52>> Yes.
25:53>> I think that's really what we're living through. Um and this is not to say that I'm anti-capitalism. I'm not. I'm arguing that this is not capitalism. That we're doing it wrong. Like you can't even have a free market. You can't have proper market signals as long as you have a fiat currency. It's just nonsensical.
26:09Obviously, if you have a capacity to undermine and print you know, at infinite infinitum you're never going to be able to get a proper proper market signal. And the it that the ripple effects that that creates to the rest of the economy that's ultimately why I shut down my mortgage company by the way is that I recognized that I could no longer forecast into the future properly cuz I was like this is all [ __ ] >> When when was that? What year did you start it?
26:34>> 2020.
26:36>> Woah. Is that I mean they you remember obviously you were in it like the housing market [ __ ] boomed of people just buying houses and >> Yeah.
26:44>> and value going up at the time that the world should be taking a [ __ ] like you said.
26:48>> Yeah, well that's why I got out cuz I I the world should be taking a [ __ ] >> Yeah.
26:53>> Because if you shut down I mean, people forget this, but we shut down like half of the economy.
26:59>> Yes.
27:00>> I mean, it was extraordinary.
27:02So, in a regular free market system, you would have I mean, it should have been a depression, but at minimum a severe recession. Severe. The most severe we've ever experienced.
27:13Um far surpassing '08, '09.
27:16But, we didn't get that.
27:17>> a depression then.
27:18>> Yeah.
27:19>> Yeah.
27:19>> Yeah, and it it should have been.
27:20>> Yeah.
27:21>> But, it But, it wasn't uh because they they printed 4 trillion and they tried they tried to pass it without a vote.
27:28Thomas Massie was the only guy the only congressman that that stood up >> Oh, I don't remember that.
27:33>> Summer of 2020.
27:34He said he said uh I like I stand in this room today to make sure democracy or something like that doesn't die in darkness. It It's profound if he wants to pull it up. Um but, he they were trying to pass the largest spending bill in human history.
27:50>> Without a vote. How does that even work?
27:52That's like against the Constitution completely.
27:54>> Well, it was because of lockdowns. They had special rules that were in in place.
27:58Um >> Oh, never let a good crisis go to waste.
28:00>> Yeah, well, they didn't.
28:01>> Uh it's why we we got to talk about that FISA thing later. Just made me think that. Real quick, Dave, before we play the Massie one, can we actually play the Ron Paul one that Clint suggested? This is right So, this is Ron Paul in like '05, '06 basically calling what happened with the housing market?
28:15>> Yep, he >> '07. '07.
28:17>> '07. Oh, so it's the year prior.
28:19>> Yeah, like >> I mean, but he had been doing it for '05, '06, '07.
28:22>> All right, let's see this.
28:24>> the Federal Reserve.
28:26Instead, Congress chooses to blame the analysts for misleading investors.
28:32The analysts may not be entirely blameless, but their role in creating the bubble is minimal compared to the misleading information that the Federal Reserve has provided with artificially low interest rates and a financial market made flush with generous new credit at every sign of correction over the past 10 years.
28:53>> Yeah.
28:54>> By preventing the liquidation of bad debt and the elimination of malinvestment and overcapacity, the Federal Reserve's actions have kept the financial bubble inflated.
29:05Of course, it's an easy choice on the short run. Who would deliberately allow the market tendency to deflate back to stability?
29:14That would be politically unacceptable.
29:17Talk of sound money and balanced budgets is just that. When the economy sinks, the rhetoric for sound policy and a strong dollar may continue, but all actions by the Congress and the Fed will be directed toward re-inflation and a congressional spending policy oblivious to all the promises regarding a balanced budget and the preservation of Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
29:42But if the Fed and its chairman Alan Greenspan have been able to guide us out of every potential crisis all the way back to the stock market crash of 1987, why shouldn't we expect the same to happen once again?
29:57Mainly because there's a limit to how long the monetary charade can be perpetuated.
30:04Now it looks like the international financial system built on paper money is coming to an end.
30:11Modern-day globalism, since gold [clears throat] demise 30 years ago, >> [laughter] >> has been based on a purely fiat US dollar with all other currencies tied international redistribution and management of wealth through the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, have promoted this new version of globalism.
30:32This type of globalism depends on trusting central bankers to maintain currency values and the international institutions to manage trade equitably >> There you go.
30:43>> while banning our weak currency.
30:44>> Yeah, he's cooking. There's a lot on the bone there, but what he's saying has now played out on an exponential basis compared to what he was saying.
30:53>> Right, cuz he was he was giving kind of a shorter horizon warning.
30:58And he mind you, for the audience to say, he was right a year later.
31:02>> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah.
31:03>> Uh he absolutely nailed the timing on that. Um but it's only gotten much worse. And you know, thank god Dr.
31:09Paul's still with us, but this is why he's such a like almost deified figure in our movement is that his predictions based off of our philosophy and our ideology, um they've just been proven right time and time again, you know.
31:23>> Compare that to the Fed's predictions and prognosticating and see who's got the better track record. I assure you it's the Austrians.
31:29>> Yeah.
31:30>> So, that's Anyways, you know, because I come from this school of thought and I went into the mortgage field, you can understand the confluence of those two factors in my life, how how formative that would be to see the human carnage that it creates already understanding the kind of duplicitousness that it that is central banking from its inception.
31:51>> Right.
31:51>> And already rejecting that kind of on a fundamental level, but then to actually, you know, see the human pain is just like, uh I mean, it takes you from theoretically hating to like being radicalized.
32:05>> Well, you're also paying you're you're actually paying attention to it even if you're not living in the middle of like Kensington, Philadelphia. Like you understand what this is because you've clearly for many years you saw it up close with the with the housing crisis for sure, like literally the front doors, but like now you track what that does to the rest of society and the people on the edges, which is most of us, by the way, as far as like not being in the 1%. And it's almost like that concept that's so dark, but it's completely true what you say about these guys will just make these decisions cuz they don't have to
32:38look where they don't have to go visit about how it affects people downstream.
32:42And it's all the same every time, whether you're talking about bankers who just on a Tuesday have some meeting with 13 of them in a closed room and be like, "Yeah, let's make rates [ __ ] 5% instead of 3% today." And then, you know, 100 million people or 100 people commit suicide a week later because of that for some reason because it affects their life and they lose their job, they don't feel it.
33:02>> No.
33:02>> Anthony Fauci says, "Wear your mask."
33:04from behind a [ __ ] desk somewhere talking to Anderson Cooper on CNN while they have death counters on the side, and then people lock themselves inside, they become drug addicts because they've no purpose in life, and they lost their job and lost everything. He doesn't have to see that death, but he's he is a he is an indirect cause of it in a way.
33:20It's the same story every time.
33:22>> Yeah, well, I would even argue he's a direct cause.
33:24>> Yeah, that's fair.
33:25>> You know, like it's the causality is challenging to, you know, prove in a court of law, but it's very hard to argue that that there wouldn't that there aren't inherently going to be trade-offs when you lock down the economy, when you make children social distance. The psychological effects are still are still being felt by that generation. I I've got two younger or half-brothers, and they I mean, they were I think they were graduating high school in 2020 or they were like juniors or seniors.
33:55I mean, it [ __ ] up that whole generation bad, dude. And like, I don't I don't think that they've recovered, honestly.
34:01And I don't think we've really felt the the consequences from that intervention.
34:07Um but really the I mean, the other really important thing to to note is that because the currency is predicated off of, as you said, those 12 guys sitting around the table, um it's worse than that, really, cuz they set interest rates, but they also add to the currency supply, too, periodically.
34:27>> [clears throat] >> But the the paradigm that that creates is that because you expect your purchasing power to diminish annually, it requires you to deploy capital into riskier and riskier assets. That that's what Dr. Paul was talking about with malinvestment. So, if you don't allow for the economy to ever correct, which is what they've they did in 2020, it should have been a major correction.
34:51It creates more and more malinvestment, and I would argue that the most rife uh market for malinvestment at this current junction is going to be AI. And people are going to look back on this, and I promise you I will look like I'm Ron Paul a few years from now because yes, there will be a winner or two, but there is going to be trillions that are wasted in that because >> [ __ ] >> Yeah, exactly. It's going to be the 01 collapse, and >> I totally agree.
35:19>> It's just a given. It's a given.
35:21>> Yeah, it's it reminds me of a way bigger version of like the whole 2017 early 2018 blockchain buzz. Just stick blockchain on it.
35:31>> Yeah. What does it do? Don't worry about it.
35:33>> Yeah, they don't even know. They don't have a [ __ ] >> They got no clue.
35:35>> [laughter] >> And it's like you know there's some sort of use case for this that's great, but most people are like blockchain this, blockchain that. You're like, yeah, I feel like that's like fair dust, you know? It's like out there.
35:46>> and and just to you know, clarify, I think AI is going to revolutionize the world in a lot of ways that are very positive and a lot of very, very scary ways.
35:53>> Yes.
35:54>> Um so, I'm not saying that it's like >> Oh, I know exactly what you're saying.
35:58>> Yeah, yeah. I just wanted to clarify cuz like I I'm not I'm not like a oh, AI is way overhyped and it's not going to do much.
36:05Like, no, I think it's going to change [ __ ] everything. But, that doesn't mean that all these investments are prudent, and it doesn't doesn't mean that these investments would be getting made at the scale that they are if not for their adjacency, their access to capital thanks to central banking. So, the the malinvestment, the bubble that it's creating is going to hurt a lot of people. And it's just a story that we live through over and over again. But, the real the real key that I keep trying to get back to is that because you expect your currency to be debased every year, it forces you to invest. What's
36:32the one thing that has kept, like particularly the Boomer generation, above water? Housing. That was the one thing that they were able to get access to to turn all of these middle class or upper middle class people into the upper upper class often times because they bought a home for $40,000 back in 1975 and they retired in 2020 and they're they're millionaires.
36:56This generation can't [ __ ] do that.
36:58They can't they can't get a starter home. Where I where I'm from in San Diego, a starter home is $750,000.
37:03>> It's insane.
37:04>> Like you got to be you got to basically be a millionaire to get a home to try and keep your head above water. So, this is why Dr. Paul is really right now.
37:14That as you said, that was '07. This is almost 20 years later.
37:18It's way we're way longer in the tooth now.
37:22>> Pure spec right here, sure, but if I wanted to long-term control population and society, I would inflate away money to the point that people would not be able to own anything and that children themselves would be a financial decision.
37:39That would be the number one way I would do it.
37:40>> Well, >> [laughter] >> pure spec you're right. That's exactly what they've done. I I I believe I believe that that's exactly what's happening especially when you tie into kind of the World Economic Forum, a lot of the rhetoric that comes out of those >> I'm a big fan of those people. They're great.
37:57>> Yeah, for sure.
37:59>> Just trying to keep your YouTube channel alive.
38:00>> [laughter] >> [ __ ] you, Klaus.
38:05>> Yeah, right.
38:05>> He's not even there allegedly. I think it's I think his spirit's still there.
38:09>> Yeah, well, he yeah, he he got such bad PR.
38:12>> Well, he left he left his vegan daughter behind. Like she's still there.
38:16>> Oh, I didn't even know that.
38:17>> Yeah, yeah. I I she does something. We can look it up deep.
38:19>> [laughter] >> I'm I'm a fan of the Schwabs.
38:21>> But but um you know, the point I was getting to was that the World Economic Fo- uh, Forum, like a lot of their speakers, they talked about that a pretty openly, you know, population bomb or like the the dangers that come with population, um, increasing and I just everything everything that goes along with the fiat system requires population increase because it's all based off of, you know, social security, all these things are essentially Ponzi schemes. If you don't have as many or more people paying into that manually to maintain the benefits to the people who are no longer paying into it, well, then the Ponzi ends, yes,
38:56naturally, right? So, you have these people who believe that the population must decline, but simultaneously want central banking to, you know, dictate everything and it's like, all right, well, then the only conclusion I can come to is that you're trying to starve and destroy us because that's the inevitable conclusion of of these dual actions that you're taking.
39:18>> Here's what I don't understand, Clint, and it goes back to a similar point we were making earlier about, what is the point of all this? Like, why would you do this stuff?
39:25Back in the day, the WEF said a world, they met in their private Dav- in their private Davos retreats, there weren't even paparazzi allowed there, let alone rolling cameras. Now, they put rolling cameras everywhere to even catch like the Indian like huddle dances and [ __ ] that they have in between their breakout sessions. And they say these things, almost like turning to the camera and saying it right there, that they know are going to get clipped to [ __ ] on social media so that millions of people around the world can see, but they still say it. They still do it openly. Like, I don't know if that if it's like some
39:59sort of 5D chess thing or if they're literally saying, yeah, you know, [ __ ] you, we're we're going to do all this and you ain't going to do [ __ ] about it.
40:06You're even going to know about it, but you're not going to do [ __ ] about it.
40:08>> Right.
40:09>> Well, you can read it a couple ways and I this is actually what I think about all the time cuz I'm I'm not sure. But, you can go down the Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson route, like these are demonically possessed people. Like that's That's a distinct possibility, as crazy as it sounds. But, like the it's so irrational what they're doing, and it so obviously puts a target on their back from the masses as they wake up to what's happening. Like it's very dangerous what they're doing, to just be like out in the open like, "Yeah, we want you to have less kids." You know?
40:39It's like, "You're my enemy, dude." As soon as you say anything [ __ ] close to that, you're you're not just my enemy, you're my mortal enemy like forever. You're trying to end my bloodline. That's as That's genocidal. I mean, that's genocidal rhetoric, right?
40:54And they say so proudly.
40:56Um so, the fact that they say so say it so, you know, brazenly makes you conclude either they're demonically possessed, they're ideologically possessed, clearly, um or and this is the probably the scariest option, is that they believe that they have the Panopticon in place.
41:15>> The Panopticon.
41:16>> Yeah. The The technocratic Panopticon.
41:18It's basically a control structure that controls everything. That the AI interface is paired with robotics and surveillance and everything else. That they believe that a revolution is already been subdued. That we we we cannot like we can't successfully rise up.
41:35I doubt it. I doubt that they're right about that. But, I would say I would say in 10 years from now, they'll probably be right about that.
41:43>> Well, here's the issue that I think about cuz I don't know the answer, but you know, you look at the research of people like Annie Jacobsen when she was writing books about DARPA a decade ago, you know, and people that she talked to, they were telepathically talking to dolphins in 19 [ __ ] 92. When do you think they got their basic chat GPT? 95?
42:03You know what I mean? Which means if they had it in 95, are we just already living through their [ __ ] hellscape simulation right now? We don't even know it. Like we're just video game nodes and like Klaus Schwab's like, "Ah, [ __ ] these people from the Men in Black suite? Like what are we doing?
42:14>> Man, the programmers got a sixth sense of humor if we're already in the simulation.
42:17>> so.
42:17>> It It look, it's possible. I mean, Elon Elon even said he's like odds odds favorite.
42:24>> [laughter] >> I don't like how he says that.
42:25>> No, I don't either. But he's right. I mean, if there's ever going to be one that exists, odds are that we do exist in it already. I just I kind of It's like my belief in God. I choose I choose to not believe that.
42:39I think it's very >> It's very nihilistic.
42:41>> I agree.
42:42>> So, I'm just like I reject that. Oh, thank you.
42:44>> Yeah, I feel like and this might sound dumb, but like if it were actually all for nothing, I wouldn't want to know because I wouldn't live my life the way I >> Well, exactly.
42:54>> I live it cuz it's like the life is the coolest thing ever. Like it's just the coolest [ __ ] thing ever and I would rather live in that one respect than some ignorant bliss.
43:03>> Bingo.
43:04>> Yeah.
43:04>> That's That's exactly how I view it and I think that's how like any healthy ideology has to take that in consideration. Like even if certain things are true, >> Mhm.
43:15>> does accepting them and and making them your outlook actually benefit your life?
43:20>> Right.
43:21>> And it's like maybe simulation theory is true, but it's not going to make me [ __ ] happier. It's not going to make me more more productive, that's for sure. So, I'm just like no.
43:32>> [laughter] >> Not going to do it.
43:33>> Have you seen some of these guys, like the Elons, what they've been coming out and saying in recent years about, you know, 2027-ish?
43:42You seen any of this?
43:43>> Well, go ahead and refresh my memory.
43:45>> a tweet I gave the Do we have it?
43:48So, this this was a rehash of some things that Elon said in a Lex Friedman interview. And there's something in this tweet where they say some lines were deleted. I don't know if that means he like YouTube editor it or something, but if you go to the top deep, I just want to After 2027, there will be no way back.
44:03Elon Musk said this in a podcast with Lex Friedman, a line that was later cut.
44:07When asked why, he fell silent for almost a minute.
44:10>> [ __ ] that's a scary minute.
44:12>> Then he quietly said, "Shout out to Lex for letting him sit there with that."
44:15That's pretty heavy. Then he quietly said, "It's not a catastrophe, it's a transition." The transcript left behind three themes that gave him away.
44:22Autonomous intelligence, loss of meaning, and energy independence. It all sounded like a forecast, but now reads like a diagnosis of the era. The first sign is the collapse of attention. Musk said humanity will stop thinking in cycles, planning for the future will shrink to the horizon of updates. That line hits me hard. People will spot will stop building and start simply replacing. MIT research confirms a generation born after 2000 holds attention for about 8 seconds. Less than a goldfish. I used to say that to Alessie, but he's gotten a lot better now. Musk called this cultural Alzheimer's. We're not losing memory,
44:54we're losing the ability to think. The second sign is artificial intelligence that no longer obeys. Musk says when a system starts correcting humans, that time of linear logic is over. Even now algorithms decide who we date, what we buy, and what we think about. This isn't a machine uprising, it's dissolution into convenience. People won't notice the moment when choice becomes an option, not a right. The third sign is energy dependence. Musk explained civilization can no longer survive even a day without electricity. By 2027, here it is. In his view, the balance will shift. Energy will become currency and
45:25control over it will become power. From that moment on, everything non-autonomous will disappear. This isn't an apocalypse, it's a change of biological form. At the end, he said a line that didn't make it on air.
45:36Technology is stronger than us, but not smarter. As long as we have meaning, we are alive. Lose it and we become code.
45:42Then, after a pause, he added, "We must learn to be human before systems learn to be gods."
45:46>> [ __ ] >> Are you ready for the transition, or already living in a world where choices are made for you?
45:52>> [snorts] >> Dude, those are some banger lines.
45:55>> There's another clip that's going around of Eric Weinstein, who I've never met. I never don't what fully to make of him.
46:01He's like so close to Peter Thiel and all that, but he's on with Diary of a CEO, I guess in an interview in like the last year, and it's like a funny delivery cuz it's all like I guess Steven just >> Oh, you're talking about the it's over clip?
46:13>> Yeah, yeah, where where he's like, I got this line for people.
46:16>> Yeah.
46:16>> They said, "I'm I'm moving to Nashville.
46:18It's over."
46:19>> [laughter] >> Mhm.
46:19>> "I'm moving to San Diego. Over."
46:21>> Exactly.
46:22>> "Austin. Over." He goes, "2 years.
46:252027."
46:26>> Yeah.
46:26>> "Get ready."
46:27>> Yeah.
46:27>> It's I'm like, dude, what are you saying? You're You're sitting next to Peter Thiel. What the [ __ ] are you saying, bro?
46:31>> I know. Oh, well, and you think Elon doesn't know Thiel as well? I mean >> That's what I'm saying. He knows him very [ __ ] They go all the way back.
46:37>> Well, and then then add to that, I know I know Brett pretty well, Brett Weinstein, Eric's brother.
46:43Love the guy, by the way, he's awesome.
46:45But he tragically shares my, you know, dire outlook, and I think >> Mhm.
46:51>> I think a lot of this is like once [snorts] you see these patterns and you see the people that are essentially dictating these By the way, as much as I love that Elon does these rants and gives us these warnings periodically, you have to you have to add to that.
47:06Elon is adding to this massively.
47:08>> Yeah.
47:09>> I mean, he's pushing the AI edge very hard. Um, you know, the whole X Grok interface is essentially like self-training artificial intelligence that's going to replace us. It's like It just it's always fascinating when you have someone who seems and and I I take him at his at his word that he seems sincerely interested in human humanity and survival and um, you know, making us interplanetary and all these other great things.
47:33>> In his own neuro-divergent way.
47:35>> Right.
47:35>> Yeah.
47:36>> But then he's also like he's he's also adding to the adding fuel to this, I guess, maybe he just views it as inevitable, so he's like, "I'm better than these other lunatic billionaires that are getting involved, so you'd prefer me to be the guy at the top." I I don't know. I'd love I'd love to ask him that question cuz it just seems like he sees all of the dangers that are coming from some of the things that he's creating, but he doesn't stop. And nobody that's involved in AI seems to stop, or almost nobody does, even though many of them are openly discussing like we don't know that we're not creating
48:09the Antichrist. Like we don't know.
48:11But we're just going to keep going.
48:13>> We're just going to keep going.
48:14>> It's like the [ __ ] Manhattan Project on steroids.
48:16>> Yo, yeah, yeah. On a lot of steroids.
48:19>> Yeah, scary.
48:20>> Did Did you ever read Superintelligence by Bostrom?
48:25>> No, don't think so.
48:26>> Heavy read, came out in like 2018. Not a fun read, important read. He basically this guy is a genius and he made a bunch of decision trees of all the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Like he just went [ __ ] nuts.
48:40And one of the lead proponents of a book, and I think it was actually the reason I went and read it, was Elon Musk. His name's like in the cover writing about it, cuz he was warning about AI so much at the time.
48:51>> Yep.
48:51>> And this book is a dire warning about the the possibilities of AI that aren't good.
48:57And I kind of wonder where when you see stuff like this, where that attitude moved from, on Elon Musk's part, moved from fear and let's stop this to like acceptance, [ __ ] it, you know?
49:11>> That's that's the read I get from him, is that he's just like this is inevitable.
49:16So, I'm going to try and bring it about in a way that's as beneficial to humanity as possible.
49:21And he may be right about that. Like I just want to be very clear, he's almost certainly more intelligent than me. That doesn't mean he's a better person than me, though. Like >> No.
49:29>> We're we're banking on him being a better person than me, though, because he's going to have a [ __ ] of a lot more power than I'm ever going to have. So, it's really important that he's actually as good a person as he markets himself to be periodically.
49:42He He gives me more reason to have faith in him than Peter Thiel, who when asked by dude, thought the New York Times reporter, you know, do you you know, what's your >> [laughter] >> do you think humanity should survive and [ __ ] Peter Thiel does that minute-long minute-long pregnant pause that Lex Friedman allowed for, you know?
49:59>> [laughter] >> If you struggle to answer that question, I don't want you [ __ ] anywhere near the levers of power. [laughter] And it kills me because Peter Thiel was a libertarian. And I want to like Peter Thiel, but my god, dude, if you can't answer that question, [ __ ] you.
50:15>> When when I was like really into the VC space and learning all about that and like obsessed with technology and how we were building it. Certainly saw drawbacks to it as well, but it was like, wow, there's a lot of cool stuff.
50:26You know, he was like the hero of that space. And then in the last 3-4 years when you start to actually look at what the guy is doing, not just in tech, but like where his opinions are, the people he lines up with, the things they're doing. Even before we got to the Epstein stuff, it was like, damn, I remember reading Zero to One and thinking this guy is spit. Now I'm thinking it's just [ __ ] I was an idiot and this is just propaganda. It's hard not to wonder that. Like, was he ever a libertarian?
50:52>> I doubt it.
50:53>> I don't know. I don't know. I I mean, then you've also got, you know, Jack, the the former CEO of Twitter, now X.
51:00>> He's quiet.
51:01>> He well, he's very quiet, but I'm just saying like like he he censored us into oblivion or he permitted it, but then even on that platform, years after after he's like stepped down, he's posting [ __ ] Rothbard Anatomy of the State and doing all these like all these dog whistles to my libertarian brethren and I'm just like, how how are you guys how can you see and like the things that I like and not have had the backbone to [ __ ] not censor us during the most important time, maybe ever, during the lockdown era. Like, how's that possible?
51:33>> I got a theory I've had a theory about Jack for a long time. I'd never met the guy. I'd love to off air be like, come on, tell me.
51:39>> Yeah.
51:40>> He never would, but you know, it doesn't change the fact that he was a part of there for so many bad decisions and clearly ended up like getting it wrong as the guy where the buck stops at least publicly. But I actually thought that Jack really believed a lot of this freedom stuff and thought that if he would just kind of throw everyone else out in the fire who was actually the root cause of all the woke like censorship [ __ ] by acting like he's their friend people would see it and it was like this 5D chess thing. I don't know if I'm right about that, but a good example would be when he had the whole thing
52:20with where they did the debate with Tim Pool in 2019. So that was like maybe four or five months or something like that after he went on and then people flipped out cuz Joe like didn't ask him some questions and Joe was like, "All right, no problem." brought on Tim Pool to like rail against everything that was said and was basically like My Cousin Vinny. Everything that guy said [ __ ] And then they and then Jack hit up Joe and said, "Yo, let's do a debate on this." But Jack brought that chick. I forget her name now. It's a really long name. I'm sorry.
52:52>> I think she was the VP.
52:53>> Total [ __ ] >> Yeah.
52:54>> Who and he got to sit there and just watch her cook in broad daylight.
52:59>> Yep.
52:59>> Like I don't mean that in a good way.
53:00>> No, the only person cooking was Tim. Tim Pool was cooked her ass.
53:04>> [ __ ] her like a [ __ ] Thanksgiving turkey. And I'm like, "There's no way Jack didn't know that was going to happen."
53:11>> Oh, interesting. So you think he All right. All right. I like that.
53:13>> He sat back and just let her dry out in the sun, man. I mean, he was just like, "Yeah, all right. You got it."
53:19[laughter] >> Well, I mean, that's what that's what really put Tim Pool, who's a friend of mine now, he that's what put him on the map for me was that moment. It was so [ __ ] great. And but see, the thing is like I I like your hypothesis, but then a year later we're in lockdowns and and he's letting his [ __ ] platform just me personally, I suffered a lot. I had to I was suspended countless times.
53:40>> You were suspended?
53:41>> Oh, all the time.
53:42>> For like COVID stuff?
53:43>> Yeah, talking about like the origin story, talking about the lab. How it came from China. Saying all the right [ __ ] you know? They're like >> [laughter] >> They're like, "Unless you're willing to acknowledge that it came from a wet market, then we're going to suspend you." It's like, "Well, it didn't."
53:56>> [laughter] >> So >> You should have done a live stream video eating a bird saying this is where it >> Yeah, right, right.
54:01>> You're going to get it right now.
54:02>> Yeah, well, and then I mean, I also got uh I got triple striked on YouTube and I only got brought back on because I successfully appealed the last one. And then I let I literally deleted my entire portfolio, which I don't think actually helps, but at the time I didn't know that. And And then I waited 90 days or 6 months to have the other two strikes fall off, you know?
54:21>> That's the only reason I have Liberty Lockdown today.
54:23>> Whoa. What was the third strike for?
54:26>> Uh God, I can't remember. The all all of them were COVID stuff.
54:30>> That's wild, man.
54:32>> I mean, my name of my show is Liberty Lockdown. Like, obviously I'm talking about [laughter] the lockdowns. I got to talk about the COVID origin. And I was right about it, so [ __ ] all you. I like I deserve reparations. If anybody does.
54:42>> wild? [laughter] Isn't that wild? Like looking back on that era, the people who were cast aside the most were the most right.
54:52>> Yeah.
54:53All of All of I mean basically, if you weren't being censored or or suspended or whatever in 2020, 2021 you weren't even close to being right about [ __ ] Like, not even close.
55:06You had to have your tin foil on if you were going to figure out anything during that period because it was a mass global psychological operation ran against the world.
55:13>> Mhm.
55:14>> So if you think you're going to get the [ __ ] truth from Fox News or or Ben Shapiro for that matter, but but I repeat myself.
55:20>> [laughter] >> You You're not going to get the [ __ ] truth. Sorry. It's just reality.
55:25>> No, you're not.
55:25>> Which by the way, 60% of Daily Wire got laid off and look, I never want to celebrate on the graves of the working man, but if you were working for the Daily Wire learn to code, you know?
55:35>> Yeah.
55:35>> [laughter] >> That's cold. Yeah, I mean that is there was some guy who did like a very analytical breakdown of the Daily Wire and what it means about on Twitter and what it means about how to build a media brand today versus like building around a personality.
55:53And you just see it it's I I I think he cooked. I I I think he's 100% right.
55:59It's like when when you at the top have a personality adhere really strictly to something even when faced with facts that maybe would not support that claim and you dig in over and over again.
56:09Eventually the average person out there who's even just listening passively is going to be like you're not watching the same movie I am.
56:18So I'm not going to watch your TV show, you know? Like it's kind of common sense.
56:22>> Well, and that that's exactly why you know, and just to clarify I think that that ideology that that rigidity that Ben Shapiro suffers from is Zionism.
56:31>> I agree.
56:32>> So if you have that as your core, which so much of corporate news, I mean obviously Bari Weiss, CBS, like that whole that's same same rigid ideology.
56:43Um I think that's what creates this phenomenon is that you lose the common man because as long as we do have options, as long as we do have your show or my show or the trillion other shows, you are you're going to get more truth than you're going to get from these ideologues. Therefore, why would you ever go back to the ideologues? So what do they do?
57:06Their only response like it's uh you know, white blood cells being produced is censorship.
57:11>> Mhm.
57:12>> Which is [clears throat] what they they push for constantly. Even though Ben Shapiro made his name by talking about free speech and open dialogue and debating, you know, blue-haired girls on >> that though.
57:23>> What's that?
57:23>> Not like that. He was like it like this, but not like that.
57:26>> Well, right right right right right right. Yeah.
57:28>> Yeah.
57:28>> Um and by the way it's been 3 years almost since the war in Gaza began. I haven't seen Ben Shapiro debate a single legitimate person about our support for Israel during that war.
57:41This is the guy who's like free speech, debate, you know, facts over your feelings, all that [ __ ] right?
57:48Dave Smith's been calling him out non-stop. I'd [ __ ] I'd do it.
57:52Nobody. He's He hasn't debated >> He just insults people.
57:55>> Yeah. And and I mean, Dave Smith has I think he's got a larger audience. At least it's comparable at this point.
58:01>> He's got a way larger audience.
58:03>> Okay, fair enough.
58:04>> Yeah.
58:04>> So, it's like you can't just continue to dismiss all of your, you know, your challengers as being so much bigger than them. I know I know Tucker Carlson's [ __ ] 100 times bigger than Shapiro at this point.
58:17Tucker would do it, too.
58:19Ben can't do it because I think you can't win that [ __ ] debate.
58:22>> I think that the truth is on the side of the Dave Smiths of this world at this point, and that's why Dave has just, you know, made made a career out of crushing these people cuz it's like he's got the truth on his side.
58:33>> He's also and like God, even when he even when he doesn't, he's an unbelievable debater. Like he's so [ __ ] good with words. There There've been some points I can't think of an example, of course, right now. I hate when I do that. But like there've been some points before where I'm listening to him in a debate and I actually on evidence disagree with a point. But before I can even like formulate in my head what I would be saying, he's like six lines past it and dropping like six bars on the other dude's head.
59:00>> [ __ ] [laughter] Damn it.
59:02>> Well, you know, Dave's a good friend of mine and and I uh I like is I Thank God we ideologically align because I don't want to debate him, either. You know, [laughter] like I don't think it'll ever be necessity or there'll never be a necessity cuz we just we agree on so much anyways.
59:18>> Yeah.
59:19Yeah, I think, you know, when you talk about the rigidity towards, in this case with Ben Shapiro, like being really pro-Israel or something, you know, there's something about it where when you have so many problems at home and your money is going to [ __ ] Ukraine and then it's going to Israel.
59:37It doesn't matter. When it's going to all these other places and people in Maui have their whole [ __ ] town burned down and they get 700 bucks and a [ __ ] you thank you.
59:46>> Or I just can't afford a house. How about that? Is that Is that not enough of a reason?
59:50>> That's that's plenty of that. I mean, we you and I can make a list of a thousand things. You know, there's something you have to have some self-awareness if you actually are someone who cares about this country, which Ben Shapiro claims to care about this country, to step back and say you know what? Even if I feel strongly about something over there, the point people are making to be angry about that here, they're 100% right because of these problems do exist. But no, he comes out and he says, "If you can't afford to live in the town that you grew up in, move away."
60:19>> Yeah. You don't have a You don't have a right to to live where you were born.
60:22>> It's insane.
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