The David Knight Show - Fri Episode #2007: World War One Horror to Today’s Wars: Why We Must Resist Propaganda!

Starting point is 00:00:00 The As the clock strikes 13, it is Friday the 9th of May. We have a new pope, and he's American, but is he Christian? I don't know. I couldn't find any real info about what he believes, but I do know what baseball team he likes. And we have war with India and Pakistan. That's right. It's going to be a terrible time for customer service and for people who scam the elderly. We've got Eric Peters coming up in the third hour. We're going to talk about his articles on what Trump could do to raise your gas mileage immediately, as well as the wimpy principle Trump will reveal Epstein's client list Tuesday for your rights today. Stay tuned. The The End. Hi folks, as you can see, I am not David Knight.

Starting point is 00:02:15 I am his son, Travis. And if you want to start out the show by saying thank you all so much for your prayers last night, my dad is doing better. Right before the show started, I did get a call or a text from my mom that said he is going to need surgery. And they're... So keep him in your prayers. It could be serious, but thankfully they caught it. And we are very hopeful and expectant that God will provide healing. So please keep him in your prayers. That's the best thing you can do

Starting point is 00:02:47 Today is gonna be a bit of a different show than normal I am NOT capable of giving you the in-depth analysis that my dad is He has many years of experience and I don't have those to call upon. So I'm going to give a more Scattered approach to things we're going to look at some headlines We're gonna read some articles But I'm also going to talk about some of my favorite books and some books that I've just started reading and hopefully you'll enjoy that I'll be able to give you some commentary on that and then in the second hour I'll probably play some videos that are from the show some of the highlights that I really enjoyed and I hope you will too But I think I want to start. Let's see

Starting point is 00:03:23 But I think I want to start. Let's see Sorry folks again as you can tell I'm a little bit nervous not used to hosting a three-hour show all on my own But I start with a little bit of an interesting article on Breitbart, which I found a little bit funny an illegal cockfighting operation in southern Mississippi was busted by ICE. And I find it incredibly funny that the US government cares so deeply about the cockfighting rings when they were the ones that euthanized millions upon millions of chickens. They are the ones who have driven egg prices through the roof and continue to do so. Well, I suppose they're now bragging that the egg prices have come down, but they're

Starting point is 00:04:08 the ones responsible. They have... Excuse me. They're the ones responsible for this inflationary crisis that we are seeing, and yet we are going to spend all this time and money on stopping cockfighting rings and euthanize millions upon millions of chickens. Truly an absurd time that we live in. The reality of the situation gets more insane by the day. I don't know how he does this for three hours daily. It is truly an incredible

Starting point is 00:04:47 feat of work that he puts on every single day. I cannot even begin to describe the level of effort he puts in. It's truly just been a blessing to watch and a miracle to see. to watch and a miracle to see. Alright, while I find my groove here, I'm going to hit some of the headlines that I just found slightly funny. Get on Breitbart. Australia wants Mel Gibson to save its film industry from Trump's tariffs. I find it entertaining. I mean, I know Mel Gibson is from Australia and he might be the largest star that they have. I don't know Mel Gibson is from Australia and he might be the largest star that they have. I don't know who else is from Australia. I could not tell you.

Starting point is 00:05:29 But I... I'm not sure they realize how on the outs Mel Gibson is with Hollywood. Basically, every time I hear Mel Gibson making a comment about Hollywood, it's fairly negative. I don't think he's perhaps the avatar you want when dealing with Trump and Hollywood. Not exactly the man for the job in my opinion. He's made some very interesting comments which I don't think are well received in those circles. We have a comment from Geesebusters, which I'm assuming is on Rumble. History in the making, go Travis.

Starting point is 00:06:10 Thank you very much and thank you so much for the tip. The support is truly incredible. We cannot thank you enough for it. Yeah, history in the making, probably for the worst show of all time, but I'll do my best. I'll do my best to keep us moving and give some Hopefully if not insightful slightly funny commentary Spetro 626 thank you for the support that is incredibly generous says you got this Travis

Starting point is 00:06:36 I appreciate your confidence somebody's confident. So that's nice to know I Wanted to do some more prep for the show, but as you can imagine after yesterday I got very little time to prep and even less sleep. So I am... I'm mostly running on intuition and reading the articles with you as we see them. Another interesting headline from Breitbart, Nolte, Disney to open park in UAE where homosexuality is a crime. And I don't think it's a shock to anyone that Disney does not actually have any core values. They are a corporation, not a person. They are only beholden to the almighty dollar. And they will push whatever evil agenda they can wherever they can.

Starting point is 00:07:23 And they will abandon any part of that agenda Whenever necessary to continue to do that. Let's see Disney grooming syndicate and again, this is from Breitbart Disney grooming syndicate has announced the construction of a new theme park in the United Arab Emirates UAE a Middle Eastern country that criminalizes homosexuality. Are you still allowed to call it the happiest place on earth in an Arab country?" That seems... that seems like false advertising to me. This is a thrilling moment for our company as we announce plans to build an exciting Disney theme park resort in Abu Dhabi whose culture is rich with an appreciation of the arts and creativity Disney CEO Bob Iger announced. Ah, Bob Iger. What a interesting little homunculus he is, truly.

Starting point is 00:08:11 When you look at the downfall of Disney from a once beloved institution to nothing but a place to heap scorn and mockery, I think you can lay most of that at that man's feet and of course just the general infiltration of the arts and institutions by these absurd leftists Mac pool. Thanks Travis. Good luck to David. Yes. Thank you very much again. Please keep him in your prayers that is the best thing we can do it is a stressful time for our family, but we know that it is in God's hands and he provides healing. Doctors treat, God provides healing. He is the one in control of all of this. So we take comfort in knowing that. Going back to

Starting point is 00:08:59 the article, he added that Disneyland Abu Dhabi will be authentically Disney and distinctly Emirati. Which means, what, no gays allowed? I mean, probably. I think that's a safe assumption. More proof that this is an unprincipled and demonic company, driven by nothing more than avarice, greed, and hate. Ooh, good rhetoric. I like that rhetoric. Disney hates normal Americans, which is why they seek to destroy our kids with drag queens and deadly transsexual propaganda. Nevertheless, here they go hunting for money from a country and population that punishes and persecutes people over how they conduct their personal lives." I've said this multiple times.

Starting point is 00:09:37 I don't know. I've made the comment on the show, but I hate Disney World now. I have come to despise it. We went when I was about 15 so that my younger sister could see it and get a little bit of experience for it and the atmosphere was oppressive. It was hot. It was packed. The prices for everything were exorbitant and it feels like a mockery at this point. They have that main street as you come in where it's a point, they have that main street as you come in, where it's a reimagining a redone version of an old, you know, classic American 19 probably 20s, 30s town. And for these people who hate everything classically American, who despise the

Starting point is 00:10:19 people that built this country, who despise the people that want to return to those sorts of values to build that and then to then rent it back to you at a price the mafia would blush at is so incredibly disgusting to me. It makes my blood boil at this point. I cannot imagine a more cynical and disgusting Action to take it's truly it truly is evil it is not just Cynical it is evil when the former CEO Eiger was in exile He blasted his successor chapec for not coming out strong enough against Florida's anti-grooming bill a Lot of these issues are not necessarily political it's's about right and wrong, Eiger told CNN LOL in 2022. So I happened to feel, and I tweeted an opinion about the Don't Say Gay Bill in Florida, it seemed potentially harmful to kids. I think we've

Starting point is 00:11:17 seen what really harms children. I think we can see it in the movies that this company makes. I think it's very obvious that the agenda that these people push is inherently anti-family and especially Anti-child these people want your children. They want to Mold them they want to mold them into good little soldiers for their ideology. They want to damn them to hell That's what they want more than anything Mac pool to damn them to hell. That's what they want more than anything. Macpool. Gtalent60, thank you so much for the support Gtalent. Without you guys, we would not be able to do this. Each and every one of you is absolutely critical

Starting point is 00:11:57 and pivotal in keeping this show up and running. And it's truly a blessing to know you guys are out there and praying for my dad at times like this and I hope i'm not coming across too flippant. I usually deal with stressful situations by becoming slightly ridiculous and silly It is hard for me to maintain a serious outer facade even in times of extreme stress. So please don't take any of this as

Starting point is 00:12:24 flippancy it is merely how I Handle things and this article was by John Nolte on Breitbart Very very good article. I appreciate his rhetoric and his strong condemnation of the Evil that is Disney Truly you cannot you cannot use language that is too strong when describing the wickedness of these people and This article I'm really scattered. I didn't get a chance to organize any of this So I'm just kind of going through them as they catch my fancy. So I apologize. We're not going in any specific order

Starting point is 00:12:59 It's going to be a wild ride folks. Please buckle up fasten your seatbelts I will do my best not to engage in any sort of rhetorical pile up here bright Bart again pioneering death metal guitarist Brian Montana killed in police shootout and you know I don't listen to death metal never cared to get into it but I guess he really lived the lifestyle if you're going to get into death metal, I suppose a shootout with the police is Pretty much on point for the whole situation. I can't imagine a more fitting end for someone that

Starting point is 00:13:38 Plays death metal I suppose Not a serious article here, but a former guitarist for the San Francisco Death Metal Band, possessed, uh, yeah, was shot and killed by South San Francisco's police last week after shooting at a neighbor and then shooting at responding officers. He chose the right genre of music for himself. He... he knew himself, at least. The Los Angeles Times reported that Montana armed himself with various guns as officers arrived on the scene and fired at police. A press release from the South San Francisco Police Department says the armed suspect

Starting point is 00:14:10 repositioned into a neighboring driveway and fired multiple times at officers using a handgun, shotgun, and rifle. Taking cover behind vehicles and landscaping. Officers used patrol carriages to cover and return fire. Suspect was struck and ultimately pronounced deceased at the scene. Used patrol car just covered in a turn fire suspect struck and ultimately pronounced deceased at the scene Again I I'm just blown away by the How on the nose this is? It's almost I would have been a little bit ashamed. It would seem too ironic I think I would have had to find some other way to Go about my day And some other way to go about my day. And another article from Breitbart by Simon Kent. Non-binary fem singer Robert Adam refuses to perform his queer country

Starting point is 00:14:58 music in the US over Trump. How will we ever recover? You know, um, I'm not a fan of Trump. I don't like his policies. I don't like him as a person and The damage he's done to our country is monumental, but at least he's keeping these kinds of people out of the country, which I mean Gotta give him some praise for that the further I am away from this man thing the better The further I am away from this man...thing, the better. Self-described non-binary femme Canadian country singer Robert Adam went to Nashville, Tennessee to record his latest album, but cites the triumphant return of President Donald Trump to the White House as the reason he won't be heading back across the border any time soon.

Starting point is 00:15:37 Well, at least Trump is like garlic to these sorts of vampires, something to be said. Calgary-based performer says he contemplated the decision not to go back for several months, claiming past negative experiences as a queer person. Visiting the United States or weighed against the importance of that market for emerging musicians. I am truly curious because let's assume that there is a tremendous amount of pressure on queer people and they need all the support they can get. Wouldn't you as an icon of this sort of ideology and scene want to provide them with someone standing up against what you see as a fascist, tyrannical regime? Wouldn't you want to stand in opposition to that and

Starting point is 00:16:26 show that you can't be cowed, that you can't be stopped, that you are going to resist? But instead these people turn tail and run immediately. They are cowardly at their heart. They have no real principles. They simply want to push their perverted agenda. That's all it is. They have nothing. Adam told the Canadian press in a phone interview he made the right decision not to go stateside because it would just be too stressful. It'd be so stressful guys. Can't do that. Can't provide support to this community you supposedly represent, love, adore. No, it'd be too stressful. It would impact his mental health. Poor guy. I'm pretty non-binary presenting. Pretty femme. Scroll back up to that picture if you would. Pretty femme. It's hard not to see that I kind of stick out. There is nothing femme about this. There is nothing femme about this. I don't know if he sees the same person when he looks in the mirror as I do when I see

Starting point is 00:17:32 that picture. I mean, the mustache, the... I mean is that a wig? An atrocious wig? No, there's nothing femme about this man at all aside from the fact that he declares it So and this is just truly a symptom of the modern mental illness completely on display In January the Trump administration declared the United States will only recognize two sexes male and female and the government documents must reflect the one assigned at birth

Starting point is 00:18:03 Again, not a fan of Trump, but at least that has been implemented, though I'm sure. Second, a Democrat takes office again. They'll move it back left, right, left, right. No real progress or change is ever affected because the institutions do not actually change. They merely mold themselves around the figurehead and give you what you want at the time. Grammy for God, I have to go to Disney this month. Don't want to, but for my daughter. I'll do it.

Starting point is 00:18:32 Well, I'm sorry you're gonna have to deal with that. We'll be praying for you as well. Don't let it make your blood boil like it does me. Try to have some fun. I'm sure your daughter will appreciate it. I know that my sister had some good memories despite the fact that I was utterly miserable. So sometimes you just gotta do things. You gotta bite the bullet.

Starting point is 00:18:54 Dudga 007 or Dougda. I went to Disney World as a kid and have fond memories of what I experienced. Seeing what direction Disney has taken, I never want to go there again. I feel the same way. We went a couple times when my brother and I were very young. It was a very nice experience. At that time, I still have very, very fond memories of playing in a little. It's not even really a waterpark. There was just a little water feature with a slide right by the boardwalk. And I can still remember how we played on it at sunset. And to this day, I can visualize how orange and gold the sunset was. And every nice sunset is compared to that in my memory.

Starting point is 00:19:39 That is one of my core memories from childhood. I'm Marty 50. Marty good to see you. Hope you're doing well. Thank you again for your support. Truly truly a blessing. Travis the Trooper. Baptism by fire. God bless you, your death and mom and all. Thank you for the kind words, Marty. If this is as bad as the fire gets then i'm very thankful if my own Tongue-tidiness and inability is all I have to deal with then you know, i'll make a fool of myself every day Thank you so much marty do not obey. Thank you so much for the support. Thanks dk show We do enjoy listening to your father, but travis is awesome to see you sitting in his chair awesome work, dude Uh, thank you. I don't know if you can say it's awesome yet

Starting point is 00:20:24 I don't think i've really managed to convey anything super meaningful or impactful at this point, but hopefully once I start talking about some of the books, we'll get into something a little bit more meaningful here. Cicada17, my wife and I have been watching Disney's Star Wars Andor, and out of nowhere, two women were making out. Skip forward 20 seconds, they were still making out.

Starting point is 00:20:43 Disappointing. Yeah, we have some very, very dear family friends. We've known them for years. They're the father of some of my brothers and I's best friends. They're really great friends with my parents, and they really, really loved Dandor and wanted us to watch it. I watched part of the first episode. I didn't really get into it, partially because I know what Disney is about. Even if they do a good job building drama intention, they have their agenda to push. They are going to insert their politics into the show. It is going to get obscene and grotesque.

Starting point is 00:21:16 And I believe, spoilers, spoilers, so if you're interested and you're watching and you're not caught up, just know I warned you, I believe that in the second season from what I've seen online that one of the plot points is the Empire uses the illegal immigration status of someone to force her to have Unconsensual sex with them so they're playing up the idea of oh these immigration officials are using their power to Rape these poor illegal immigrants It's Truly disgusting what they will do to push their agenda on people RCF 2020 Thank you so much for the support. I keep saying it but you guys are truly

Starting point is 00:21:59 truly a blessing and without you guys the show would not continue and To see how much you guys care about my dad is truly wonderful Thank you. I'll just please keep him in your prayers. It is It is scary, but we know it's in God's hands and he works everything together for our good Thank you so much praying for your dad and family again from RCF 2020 just outside of your house and you're in Disney World free of charge Again from RCF 2020. Just outside of your house and you're in Disney World free of charge. Raddus Bro. Thank you so much.

Starting point is 00:22:28 Thank you. Asking all Christians to pray for David and put in prayer requests at your church to spread the word to get as many people to pray for David as possible. That is incredibly kind. If you are able to do that, that would be so incredibly helpful. It is so wonderful, again, to see how much you all care about him. Brandon Bennett, thank you for the support. God bless David Knight and heal him. You're doing great, Travis. Thank you. Thank you for the prayers for my dad, especially.

Starting point is 00:22:54 And thank you for the kind words about the show. I'm doing my best, which, you know, might not be exceptional, but it's what we're working with today. If I end up doing this more, I promise I will do more research and have a more put together show. Sir Knighted. The institutions do change. They get more and more progressive, never more conservative. You're right. You're right. I misspoke. I have to retract. I retract. I bow the knee. I cannot I cannot contend with your assertion You were too rhetorically effective Thank You sir knighted Got a interesting article here I found again

Starting point is 00:23:34 This is mostly things that I found interesting and or funny since I didn't have much time to do research Luigi the musical opening in San Francisco to tell a story of love murder and hash browns And musical opening in San Francisco to tell a story of love murder and hash browns and I haven't looked too closely into the Luigi Mangione case there's weird things about it there's always weird things about these sorts of things it's very possible he was a patsy it's also very possible that murders are crazy and do crazy weird things so alleged murders alleged, alleged murders, alleged murders, my apologies. Uh, he is not convicted yet. We don't want to jump the gun in these sorts of scenarios, but I just wanted to say I can think of nothing worse than to be immortalized in some

Starting point is 00:24:22 in some Theater kids production with some trite musical numbers I It is truly Possibly my own version of hell if this were to ever to happen to me to know that When someone looks up my name, there's a possibility that they will see some college-educated clown with a degree that's Worthless that they paid too much for reciting horrendous

Starting point is 00:24:58 horrendous verses written by some other idiot this I cannot even imagine the level of sadness and depression I would feel to know I inflicted this upon the public. This Whatever the crimes of Luigi Mangione, this is probably the greatest crime to come out of this whole ordeal. A comedic musical about Luigi Mangione. Mangione? I don't know. I'm not Italian. My apologies to the Italian community. The 26 year old accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in December 2024 is set to debut in San Francisco's California this summer. Yeah, the fact that it's in San Francisco, California tells you

Starting point is 00:25:42 everything you need to know about the quality of what this is likely to be and how horrifically unfunny uninspired and Just Depressing this entire ordeal ordeal will be for the people that choose to sit through it the performance title Luigi the musical Will tell a story of love murder and hash browns already this is just so oh god I find it distasteful and disrespectful to say the least I'm making light of the situation myself

Starting point is 00:26:17 but murder and hash browns murder and hash browns these people are Murder and hash browns these people are soulless golems They will make light of anything and everything Not because they actually think it's funny But because they are poisoned with irony and completely and utterly unable to relate to the world in a serious way They have to couch everything in this cringing to the world in a serious way. They have to couch everything in this cringing, obsequiousness of, oh, you know, I'm not serious. I'm not really serious. You know, we're just having some fun with it as they limp forward with their ideology. I despise these sorts of people. I despise the

Starting point is 00:26:57 people that are in modern Hollywood for the agenda they push, but also for who they are as people. In the spineless obsequiousness, the unwillingness to actually contend with reality But to filter everything through this guise of irony Where, oh, I don't really enjoy this Yeah, I know, I watch the show, I watch this, or I listen to that band But, you know, I'm not doing it because I actually like it I'm just doing it because haha, isn't it funny, guys? Pathetic absolutely pathetic if you like something actually enjoy it

Starting point is 00:27:33 It's we have a comment from Whistler here It's the march through the institutions that was pushed by the Marxists like the mentor of Obama and rules for radicals and other books That is that's right it is a and rules for radicals and other books. That's right. It is uh... Saul Alinsky, right? Yeah, I believe so. Also, the Frankfurt School goes back to... that's where it goes back to. The Marxists entrenched themselves out in California in one of the most beautiful areas on the planet and decided that it wasn't good enough. That things had to change that despite America being

Starting point is 00:28:10 Free well, I'm sure people would disagree on that But from my perspective as someone who can only look back on that time period from what I have lived through and seen today It was free. It was nearly It was as close to a paradise almost as we can get, and they decided that it wasn't good enough. And in fact, they hated it. They despised it. They despised every single thing America was, and they have given that vitriol and that hatred to just about every generation that has passed through the schools they influence. You can see it on display in all of our media You can see it in our institutions. You can see every single person wants to tear down and destroy

Starting point is 00:28:54 You have to love something to want to change it for the better if You do not love it. You will just settle for changing it. That's it's as simple as that Colemos 360 if you wish to gift for David Hospital bills, please give on Zell no fees only. David Knight show protonmail.com. Thank you Colemos. We are not the best at plugging here on the show. I have no excuses because I just need to fill time. So you're probably going to get a 45 minute infomercial where I try to sell you a set of Ginsu steak knives before the end of this. But thank you, Colemos. Again, if you would like to contribute and

Starting point is 00:29:34 you want to do it through the most efficient way, David night show at protonmail.com go through Zill. It is fairly simple. I know some banks have stopped dealing with them. But if that's what you'd like to do, we greatly appreciate it. And thank you, Kolemos, for bringing that to my attention. Where was I? Ranting about the vitriol and the hatred that has been instilled in the people that now run our institutions, our media, and basically create all of our art. I think maybe this is an interesting little jumping off point to discuss one of the books that I have here. Heard about this one? It's a very short little novella or yeah, novella is fine. It's called Doctor

Starting point is 00:30:19 Universalis. It's the tale of a soon-to-be Catholic priest I'm not a Catholic, but there are I Appreciate some things about Catholics I'm not gonna get into that today I am definitely not qualified to litigate all the differences and the blood between The groups but uh the very last line of the book I think is really really powerful, very well written, and just take it with some license as it's poetical. Before his eyes and yet invisible to them a miracle occurred. And

Starting point is 00:30:59 let me preface this by saying he is performing his first communion. He is giving it to the people. Before his eyes and yet invisible to them a miracle occurred. At his word, yes, but not because of any virtue or secret knowledge he possessed. The laws of nature were transcended, fulfilled by their author, at whose command he performed the prescribed ritual. The Holy Grail shone resplendent before him and thrown upon the altar, winged by ranks of gleaming candles and he gazed in awe at the body of Christ presented in his own upraised hands to the ringing of bells." And I thought that was a good jumping off point because I think it is very

Starting point is 00:31:39 important that people on our side of things, people who do believe, who are Christian, who have faith, who want to see this country become better, make art. It is very easy to get stuck in this trap of, well I have to do something, I have to work, I have to build, I have to do these other things. And those are all incredibly important. The country does not go on and be maintained without those things. But I think it is very important if you feel that you could write or paint or anything of that nature to do it. I'm not talented in any of those regards so I'm definitely not the best person to give those sorts of exhortations but to see that there are

Starting point is 00:32:26 still people who share our values and believe the things we do making art and writing books it is I believe it is easier now than ever to publish your own works to get your work out there on the internet. There is censorship, but it is still easier than at any time in the past to get these things out there. So if you feel that you have something that you can do for the glory of God, whether it's writing or painting or anything to do with art, I encourage you to do that. I think it is incredibly important that we not just surrender these bastions of culture to these demonic entities. They have these, they have massive amounts of funding on their side. They have had

Starting point is 00:33:17 decades and decades to infiltrate and subvert and worm their way in. So you're probably not gonna end up being an art teacher at any major school or anything like that. But you could write something. You could put it out online. And you know, maybe someone like me, not saying someone on a show, but someone who just enjoys reading, like me, not saying someone on a show, but someone who just enjoys reading will find it and be blessed by something that you've written, like I was by that last passage.

Starting point is 00:33:49 I think it was incredibly beautiful. I think the way he wrote it was just to, I think it highlights just how wonderful Communion truly is. It's very easy to just see it as this, oh, it's something we do, but it's not. In that moment it truly is the representation of Christ's sacrifice, of his love for us, and to be able to put that into words to some extent, and to show how beautiful the fact that it is truly a miracle. I was incredibly blessed by it and I encourage you to do the same thing if you can. Write, paint, anything. Don't

Starting point is 00:34:34 surrender art to these demons. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll find something artistic I'm good at. Tony Garrett. Luigi the musical makes Mario movies seem good My wife and I actually recently watched the old 1990s Mario movie we uh, I Have a soft spot for it because I watched it when I was quite young and I really enjoy bad movies I find them to be incredibly entertaining. I enjoy sitting there and

Starting point is 00:35:05 basking in the cheesiness of it. And yeah, it's not a good movie, but it has that very 90s charm where you can tell somebody wanted to make the film. Somebody had passion somewhere. They saw it and thought it would be fun and that it was something that they could do. It's not one of these paint-by-the-numbers movies that is churned out endlessly by studios all across the globe. Not just Hollywood but everywhere. The amount of random garbage there is on Netflix or any given channel is truly mind-boggling. I, uh... When we go on vacation and you end up in the hotel room

Starting point is 00:35:48 and I turn on the TV, I am astounded by the sheer number of TV shows there are that I've never even heard of. Never once have I heard anyone mention them. I can't imagine there's a single fan for them on the entire planet, but they need 24-7 programming, and as such, they will greenlight almost anything when it comes down to it. If it has just the semblance of a plot, they will put it on the air

Starting point is 00:36:12 and slap it into a time slot and just fill time with it. And here I am filling time myself. Trump burger art is a powerful tool. Yes, it is. Rhetoric and logic are effective, but art gets in underneath that. It gets in beneath the logical centers of the brain. And you can argue brainwashing this, that, the other. But it it supersedes our ability to think rationally.

Starting point is 00:36:43 It will overpower us in some ways. Beauty is far more important than people realize, whether it's painting a sculpture or a real or a beautiful piece like I just read, at least I find it beautiful. KWD 68, I'd rather watch Nerd-Roddick and Critical Drinker than any of those movies. Oh yeah, those are some pretty good channels on YouTube. I've watched a fair amount of both of them. Definitely more Critical Drinker. I watched him a good bit more a few years ago, back in like the 2019 era. Anyway, a few years ago. He does some fairly good commentary on the state of affairs in Hollywood and how terrible movies have become. So if you're looking for a semi right-wing channel that reviews movies, he's fairly funny. He is a little crass, so if you're offended by

Starting point is 00:37:39 that, I would not recommend him. Just letting you guys know in advance. Wally Walrus, thank you for the support for support praying for your swift recovery, David Yes, thank you. Please keep him in your prayers. I know I'll keep harping on it but his He needs prayer and your prayers are Truly truly helping. Thank you so much He kill us Do you throw your life away shooting someone in the back of the head and the only change that you bring is some queer and leotards dancing around on stage

Starting point is 00:38:10 Truly a hell of his own making I suppose he has inflicted That on all of us and I fully expect to have it cross my feet online somehow at some point And it will make my life worse for having encountered it Kwd 68 art used to aspire to God aspire to beauty, music, architecture, all of it aspires to ugliness. Now, that is very, very true. I think I will take a short break here. Gather my thoughts a little bit. Actually, before I do, we have a response. Soylent Goy responding to KWD 68. America doesn't really do art anymore. Everything can be replicated by AI because it's already so vapid. That

Starting point is 00:38:49 is incredibly true. Incredibly true. The modern American ecosystem for art, I mean, I don't think you can even call it art at this point. It's mostly just paint by the numbers to fill a quota and to push an agenda they are all about making sure that the prescribed people are in the prescribed places and that the prescribed ideology is slammed in and then force-fed to you all right let's see we're going to go to a break and I think little John if you're watching this one's for you So So So You're listening to the David Knight show. Welcome back. Thank you for joining us if you're still here.

Starting point is 00:41:10 I think we'll cover another book that I really am enjoying right now. But let's wait on that for just a moment. Got another article from Breitbart here. AI generated video of victim and Arizona road rage killing gives impact statement at trial. This is truly Terrifying not for what they did with it, but for the Potential uses of videos like this in the future in an unprecedented use of AI in the courtroom the family of a man killed In a road rage incident in Chandler, Arizona used AI to create a victim impact Statement delivered by the deceased's own voice and likeness. They have video told the man's killer in another life

Starting point is 00:41:51 We probably could have been friends They're going to use this technology for utterly insidious things I can only imagine at some point When the SWAT team comes to knock down your door they're going to have hologram projectors and AI and they're going to show you what's going to happen when they burst in they're going to show your wife and family being gunned down so you better surrender now they are going to use this for the most horrific levels of psychological programming that you can imagine and that you can't even

Starting point is 00:42:25 imagine. The man-made horrors are truly reaching levels that might be beyond comprehension at this point. The AI-generated video, believed to be the first of its kind, used nationwide, recreated Pelky's image and voice, allowing him to speak about his life and the fateful day he encountered... orcasitas? The video included real footage from Pelki's life showcasing his personality and sense of humor more, while also addressing his killer directly. In another life, we probably could have been friends, the A-version of Pelki said to Horcasitas. I believe in forgiveness. The video also featured a photo of Pelki with an old age filter as he remarked, This is the best I can ever give you of what I would have looked like if I got the chance to grow old remember getting old as a gift that not everybody has so embrace it and stop worrying about those

Starting point is 00:43:10 wrinkles that is a again truly a interesting use case here with potential for being an utterly terrifying terrifying tool of reprogramming and psychological torture in the future Knights of the storm art can get to the emotional side of the brain rather than the logical. That's why they hate memes That's very true memes Have completely taken over a political dialogue at this point. I think it's because they are able to quickly convey an idea and get that into the public subconscious very very rapidly and there's I mean

Starting point is 00:43:53 there's even memes about the fact that the left can't meme I'm sure you've all seen them but the whole you know oh the leftist meme it's nothing but a wall of text and I know I've seen someone discussing this but I've had the same thought where it's because Leftists have to establish a fake create establish a fake reality first before they can hit you with Any sort of anything funny they have to prime you they have to set you up and explain how the world works in their own fantasy because If you actually look around the world does not function like that

Starting point is 00:44:24 They have to create out of whole cloth a world for the meme to live in it's not just oh, yeah, that's true I agree with that Thank you Knights of the Storm Gardner Goldsmith. Hi guard. Hope you're doing well Thank you so much for your prayers last night and all your kind words truly truly very kind. Thank you, Jason Thank you Knights of the Storm. They were all very very kind last night Thank you Knights of the Storm. They were all very very kind last night Very kind words and their prayers were incredibly incredibly helpful. Gard Goldsmith. Gard, thank you for the support That is incredibly kind. Travis, your statements about not giving up art are key. So important not to be driven out of those fields Thank you for your wisdom this morning filling in for David

Starting point is 00:45:02 Don't know if I even feel comfortable describing anything I've said as wisdom, but thank you, Gard. Gard has worked in TV for many years writing and he is a fascinating person to talk to. Anytime I get to have a conversation with Gard, I thoroughly enjoy it and we end up chatting long after what we, you know, we'll talk when he does the show we'll get everything set up and make sure that he's got everything he needs and then we end up chatting long after that about his experiences and just going back and forth. He is a fascinating, fascinating person to talk to and I encourage you to check out his

Starting point is 00:45:38 show Liberty Conspiracy. You can find it on Rumble and I believe on X don't quote me but also Subscribe to him on sub stack great art great writer. Just great communicator Evan Fascinating fascinating person. He's got many many stories and just encourage you to check him out and get to Listen to them. He's got He's got a lot of wisdom to share in part. Obermensch, the only artists that can survive, are the ones bending a knee to the devil worshippers

Starting point is 00:46:11 and painting their pedo garbage. If you look at it as a way of making a living, I thoroughly agree. You are not going to get rich by producing these things. It has got to be a labor of love and passion and from a desire to honor God and to give something to your children or other people that reflects the faith and the shared values that we have. You're not gonna get rich, chances are you may even lose money because you'll have to take time away from whatever else you do to actually get things like that done. It is not going to be an easy task and I don't say that flippantly when I encourage people to create art. That's why for many many years in the past it was a matter of patronage. If you were going to become

Starting point is 00:47:00 an artist it was because somebody who was rich was paying you to do it. They, you were a kept man. They told you what they wanted and you painted it and I assume you got to paint what you wanted on the side. But that's the nature of art. You either are, you know, somebody's basically play toy that they commission you to do their work or You sacrifice and you make it out of a sense of duty and love Don't have anything else really stay on that Comment from Whistler though. I think there's a market for something wholesome if people were to make family movies and the like that is true That is true we can see that in the fact that people are making more and more Christian films, and I'm going to be perfectly honest.

Starting point is 00:47:49 I don't watch them. They're normally really, really bad. But I appreciate the fact that they're doing it. I appreciate the fact that they're trying and they're honing their craft and I Think that over time they will get better. They will learn how To appropriately tell a story in a way that's engaging and dynamic because it is a skill. It is a skill that you can learn art You know nobody start well There are geniuses but almost nobody starts out good at art. It is something that you have to practice and work on and improve at and movies are an incredible, incredible amount of work. It is not just one person when it's something like painting. It is a massive network of people, each one that has to be good at their craft or the end product suffers in some way.

Starting point is 00:48:39 Even when it comes down to something as simple as lighting, that when it's good, you notice it at all you're not thinking about it but when it's bad it completely drags you out of it you're sitting there thinking oh why does this why does this look so bad why they're off color it's too harsh it's too soft I can't see them sound sound is incredibly difficult to do in movies and I mean you can see it a lot in today's movies where they're not thinking about it and a lot of things are just muddy and barely audible a lot of the more comments from Whistler thank you very much a lot in the deco a lot of the decline in the quality could be chalked up to them being patronized by satanic forces infusing Hollywood including the investment firms

Starting point is 00:49:20 like Blackrock that is true that is. Satan doesn't make anything good. He doesn't want anything good for anyone. He wants the worst. He wants you to end up in hell like he will. And if he can make your life here on earth miserable as well, more the better. He has no good will in him. He is pure evil. There is nothing good that comes from his influence and there never will be he wants every moment of your life to be as empty and unfulfilled as possible and make sure That you never experience joy even in this life, let alone in the next so yeah, don't give in to the satanic forces and Repent and believe in Jesus is the is the only way. Simple as that. Koelomos360. Thank you for the support. That is very, very kind. Thank you. That is very kind.

Starting point is 00:50:14 And again, if you would like to support the show, Zell is a great way to do it. You can do that by going to Zell and then the address is davidknightshowupprotonmail.com. Thank you very much. Quillenless Assyrian girl there has to be some truth behind a meme to make it effective. The woke left has no truth to project in memes That is also very true for something to actually reach in and Set in to your brain quickly. It has to have an element of truth. That's why you know, the school system is done over years to decades. It takes a very long time to effectively brainwash people. It has to be done slowly, and I think that's part of the reason why college is so expensive at this point. Not just because the

Starting point is 00:50:58 government is involved with it, but because I think you are actually effectively buying into your own brainwashing. Stunt cost fallacy. Well, I spent, you know, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars being told this rhetoric. If it's not true, then I've wasted all this money. You are literally paying for your own brainwashing. I think that's part of it, personally. Quillen was 360. I think if Travis puts on a gray beard, we could not tell the difference.

Starting point is 00:51:23 You're doing great. Well, I am starting to go gray, so maybe in a few years time I'll be able, I'll be a reasonable facsimile for my dad. Yeah, ever since a baby was born I've been finding more and more gray hairs. Used to just be on the temples, but now it's coming in up top. You probably can't see it on camera, but sooner rather than later it comes for us all and I'm not too worried about it. We have a comment from my dad, from David. We have truth, beauty, and light that dispels the darkness. That is so true. The the only... God is the truth behind all truth. He is the reason that we have truth at all he has put it down and

Starting point is 00:52:08 Given it to us and I encourage you to check on that read your Bible. I Know that I don't read it nearly enough and I hope Do as I say not as I do read more as I do. Read more than I do. Create more art than I do. Do better than I do in every way, please. If I am your standard, we are all doomed. We're gonna look at this article over here. Uh, once again, on Breitbart, Canadian trans musicians cancel their own US concert dates to protest Trump. Again, you're giving him what he wants. You're denying your fan base, presumably another group of frou-frou

Starting point is 00:52:50 weirdos, your support and the ability to see you in a time which is allegedly incredibly stressful for them. And you know, they're not rock musicians. I don't know if I can call this person a rock musician. Musician even feels a bit far-fetched looking at them, but uh, you know, assumingly you're probably making a decent living doing this and these people are just your average everyday people working real jobs, assuming they're not so completely and utterly out to lunch that they're on disability and milking the American taxpayer. But you get to live your dream, and it's still too stressful for you,

Starting point is 00:53:27 and you're going to deny these people your support and your love, truly shows the level of respect they have for one another. It's all about virtue signaling, folks. I know that the term is played out. We've all heard it a million times and are tired of hearing it but that's really what all this comes down to they want to be seen to be doing something and

Starting point is 00:53:53 Apparently the best way to protest is to do nothing Was it the Beatles that did the sit-ins? I don't know. I have to be honest not a huge Beatles fan I like some of their songs, but I've never really gone in and learned anything about them as people. They were before my time. The only one I've ever seen in the headlines is Paul McCartney, and every time I've seen him in the headlines, it has made me more miserable reading it. It's truly... Anytime you learn something about celebrities, it is just a sad state of affairs. I try my best not to learn anything about anybody in any of the bands I listen to.

Starting point is 00:54:34 I refuse to. Junk Silver, you're doing great, Travis. Thank you so much. I'd like to point out that while we're talking about the lack of meaningful art and the dangers of digital media tech, we are listening to DK's gorgeous orchestration. That is true. My dad works very very hard on the music he produces he strives to make it as Beautiful and as perfect as can be he is a perfectionist I'll listen to some of the stuff that he is still working on and it sounds perfect to me

Starting point is 00:55:01 I don't I don't have any musical training. I never had any aptitude for it, but he is an utter perfectionist when it comes down to it. He works so hard to make sure that the music you hear is up to his standard, and I personally think you can tell because it is all truly beautiful, truly well orchestrated, and well done. Ron Helton won. Some of the greatest works didn't become famous until after the artist had passed. That is true. That is very true. In fact, I think it might be true in more cases than not.

Starting point is 00:55:33 At least in many, like Vincent van Gogh. He was nobody when he was alive. He had no recognition. I believe he went insane and died in a sane asylum. And his paintings were later discovered by someone and who found them beautiful and meaningful and later All the adoration came. So art is not going to make you rich is a general rule. It is the It is very odd for that to happen excuse me cicada 17 for good Christian movies I recommend I can only

Starting point is 00:56:15 imagine unsung hero and the forge thank you cicada 17 I will I will make a note of that and actually look into those I'm always excited when I hear about new stuff like this. I Approach it with trepidation just because again, they are still honing their craft But they are getting better and it is still important to support these people as they do hone their craft we can't just expect them to show up and compete with Hollywood that has had the benefit of decades and decades and decades and decades of practice. And especially when Hollywood is has the amount of backing and funding from these despicable evil organizations that they

Starting point is 00:56:55 have, you are never going to be able to create a mega blockbuster summer movie Michael Bay style on the budgets that you're working with on these Christian films, but you can still make a very very good movie, one that is meaningful, that touches and moves people. You don't need a billion dollars to make something that honors God, and in fact chances are the money would get in the way. Another funny headline here from Breitbart, and again, this is mostly headlines that have struck my fancy and I find entertaining. Pop singer Boy George attacks JK Rowling. She cannot differentiate between a trans woman and a biological male.

Starting point is 00:57:37 I've never listened to Boy George. The only thing I know about him, I know because my wife told me, he is a man that kept another man prisoner and abused him At least that's what I've been told so It's very interesting to me that this man Feels that he is qualified to be calling Or attacking anyone with the skeletons that he has in his closet

Starting point is 00:58:07 possibly literally possibly literal skeletons in this man's closet truly interesting times we live in and excuse me I where do these people come from? I mean, how do they I assume? You know the these people start out somewhat normal they get into the industry it warps them They either figuratively or literally sell their soul to the devil and end up this way But it is just horrifying to see what these people become with the influence that surrounds the entertainment industry and it's just getting worse every successive generation of entertainer just seems to be more wicked and

Starting point is 00:58:58 More vapid just utterly and completely empty when it comes to thinking ability even just to be entertaining Cicada 17. Oh already read that one Again this is a little bit of a flippant headline once more that I just found funny RuPaul's drag race star Jiggly Caliente did it 44 days after leg amputation. Well, you know, you can't race with only one leg, so... I suppose it's what...

Starting point is 00:59:33 Ah... What a nightmare. What a horrific sight this is. Gigli Caliente, a drag performer who is best known for competing on RuPaul's Drag R- When you're- that- when that's what you're best known for competing on RuPaul's Drag Race when you're that one that's what you're best known for I think it's I truly don't have words to describe my level of disgust that RuPaul's Drag Race even exist I cannot even imagine who watches these types of things and why they watch it. It seems utterly disgusting and fetishistic

Starting point is 01:00:06 and just horrifying to say the least. And I would not want to really be friends with someone who spends all their time watching that. Another headline that struck my fancy, Bolton. If Trump tried to take Greenland it would broke an impeachment crisis when you're too warlike and hawkish for Bolton you have problems the mustache never saw a conflict he didn't salivate at this man is saying you can't take Greenland it would be too much of a problem this man This man, who I imagine woke up every morning just desperate, eager to scrap

Starting point is 01:00:49 with anyone he could get his hands on, is telling Trump, don't do it, calm down. When you have John Bolton telling you this would be too much, you have lost the plot, you have gone too far. This article is by Pam Key on Breitbart. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said Monday on MSNBC, MSNBC's Anna Cabrera reports that if President Donald Trump attempted to take control of Greenland with military force it would broken impeachment crisis almost immediately. Okay, well maybe he's not too concerned about the actual military repercussions and what that might do. He's more just concerned that, oh, they would impeach you, you know. He's more just concerned that oh they would impeach you, you know

Starting point is 01:01:32 But it's still it's it's a slightly horrifying to see John Bolton telling him not to do something it feels like we've crossed some sort of threshold Somewhere and that we might be past a tipping point if John Bolton is looking down the barrel and saying no, thanks Things are scary. Things are scary folks. He said I don't say I'm, folks. He said, I don't say I'm going to... He said, don't... I don't say I'm going to do it, but I don't rule out anything. No one there. No one out there. You need that. We need Greenland very badly. Greenland is a small amount of people which will take care of and will cherish and all that. But we need that for the international... The way Trump speaks is just... It is very difficult to parse sometimes. He just doubles back and restates things that don't need to be restated. It's a very interesting dialect

Starting point is 01:02:11 and I wonder where it came from. I wonder if it's inculcated in the Trump family or if it's crafted by him himself or if he's just an idiot that can't figure out how to structure a sentence. We may never know. Cabrera said the very idea of taking Greenland by military force reaction to that is that American. Bolton said, well, it's not going to happen. If it did, it would've broken impeachment crisis almost immediately, you know. Donald Trump very often gets about 10% of something, right? And then, and then just makes a mess of the rest of it. It's very weird agreeing with John Bolen on anything. I feel uncomfortable. I don't feel safe anymore. I think... I think we're done with this article. It's making me sad and scared. All right. Let's see. Let's see what else we've got. I pulled up some more... Let's take a look at

Starting point is 01:03:04 Zero Hedge. Let's actually talk about the American Cardinal Robert Perfariant, excuse me, Robert Francis Prevost announced his new pope. Pope Bob again They're talking about oh, he's a nice guy. Oh, he likes this baseball team. I have yet to see anyone Give a breakdown of his theology Which I mean That's about par for the course is the Pope Catholic we don't know but we do know he likes the white socks Which I mean, it's good. He likes white socks. I imagine that's what you'd want to wear

Starting point is 01:03:38 It probably won't clash with his Pope outfit too much since I think that's mostly white as well good color coordination at least American Cardinal Robert Priebus a fierce opponent of the same sex marriage and gender studies in classroom... a fierce opponent of the same sex marriage and gender studies in classrooms yet past Trump advanced critic has been selected as the new Pope, will be named Leon XIV ending a two-day conclave in Rome. Do you think they just make all... no, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna be too flippant about the Catholic faith. We have some Catholic listeners who I deeply respect and love, and I don't want to mock anything too greatly. So, Prevost, now Leon XIV, had previously expressed

Starting point is 01:04:21 disappointment that some Western media held sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel, in particular the homosexual lifestyle and alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children. appointed by Pope Francis. That does not bode well. That doesn't bode well at all. Pope Francis didn't seem to hold any values that we could consider Christian. In fact, he seemed most clearly be a created political entity there to push certain agendas. The Vatican office that selects and manages bishops globally has spent much of his life outside the United States. Ordained in 1982 at age 27, he received a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome in Peru. He was a missionary, parish priest, teacher, and bishop. Augustinian's leader, he visited orders around the world and speaks Spanish and Italian. That's a whole lot of nothing.

Starting point is 01:05:22 That's a whole lot of nothing. Background, background, background. Oh look, he's tweeting mean things about Trump and Vance. While I probably agree with some of those things, these people are complaining about him for utterly meaningless in the light of things. I don't care to know the Pope's politics. I care to know his theology Who the Pope votes for while informed by his theology is not anything we should really focus on the public eye I'm incredibly tired of filtering every single person's Worldview through who they support and what they've said about Donald Trump It gets very very tiresome that our only metric for these people is well did he say nicer mean things about

Starting point is 01:06:08 Donald Trump oh he said mean things he said mean things about Trump oh well then he's a bad guy he said good things about Donald Trump he's a good guy there's more there's more to that and we need more nuance in the way we think about things than just oh Trump good you say good about Trump you good Trump good you say bad you bad We have devolved to the most minimal Levels of thinking when it comes to our politics It is truly sad and I don't think the founding fathers could have ever imagined the state of the country I don't think the Founding Fathers could have ever imagined the state of the country.

Starting point is 01:06:51 Lieutenant Oracle of Truth, art won't make you rich unless you're Hunter Biden. Yes, and I don't necessarily think it's his art that made him rich. I think it might be the power brokering he did and the fact that he was able to shake down an entire country. To be fair, you know, with the amount of drugs Hunter Biden was allegedly doing, you might physically be able to lift and shake an entire country. I don't know. I'm not an expert on those sorts of things. Hunter Biden is truly the avatar of our age in many ways. the sexual depravity of Bill Clinton mixed with the hedonism of I don't know I don't I don't know any famous drug doers that's not my area of expertise if you guys know any famous drug doers fill in the blank pick your favorite one hold on hunt Hunter S Thompson Gon gonzo journalism, pretty sure. He was a famous

Starting point is 01:07:47 drug doer. Sure, fill that in. Maybe if that was Hunter S Thompson. If it wasn't, I apologize to the estate and the family. Ron Helton 1, Trump repeats what he says a lot because he doesn't believe his own fairy tales. I could very well see that being true. I think it's also just to fill time because he doesn't know where he's going with the sentence. I don't think he has any clear idea of what he wants to say or how to say it, and as such, once he has something out there, he'll just repeat on it and riff on it rather than actually try to finish out the sentence and think up anything new. Trump burger. Some say it's the greatest speech pattern of all time.

Starting point is 01:08:23 Now look, I've been told I'm a very effective communicator, the greatest. They come up to me and say Trump, Trump, I love the way you communicate, it's the greatest of all time. It truly is just an annoying speech pattern. I would absolutely lose my mind having to deal with that and just Having him praise himself all the time repeat himself talk about how he is the greatest most wonderful most influential man How does he stomach himself is the real question how do his followers stomach him is another one. Let's see. I think we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. The I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

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Starting point is 01:10:38 little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a The So The Defending the American Dream. You're listening to the David Knight Show. And welcome back. I'm still not David Knight. I know you're all very disappointed.

Starting point is 01:12:01 I am disappointed he's not here too. However, we're going to continue on with the show and this article is from The Sun. On the brink Pakistan shoots down 25 Indian drones and kills 50 troops and vows even bigger strike as nuke powers sit on the edge of war. As I said earlier it is a terrible terrible time to be a call service representative. The gunfire in the background is making gonna make it incredibly difficult to do your job. And I'm sure the, even the elderly will start to catch on when they start hearing the explosions.

Starting point is 01:12:32 Gonna make it very difficult for them to continue to scam our people. I mean, India and Pakistan have, had heated, intention-filled relations going back decades. I'm not gonna pretend I understand the intricacies India and Pakistan have had heated, intention-filled relations going back decades. I'm not going to pretend I understand the intricacies of their feud. I imagine it's largely cultural and religious. Neither of them would be neighbors I would want, personally.

Starting point is 01:12:58 I don't have a dog in this fight. If I did, I don't know. One side or the other might worship it. Anyway. Alright. That's about all I have on that topic. This, nothing more had broken when I had been researching it last night, but Pakistan claims they've killed 50 Indian troops.

Starting point is 01:13:21 Well, I did the math, and if they do that a hundred and two thousand more times they can win the war so I don't if this does turn into a full-scale conflict I think this is going to be an absolute nightmare as war always is but in this case potentially even worse because of the long-standing feuds I found this entertaining. This is on Media-ite. You have no timeline? Senator gobsmacked by FBI director Kash Patel showing up at budget hearing without a budget. Personally I find it refreshing. I find this to be almost an admittance that, yeah, I'm not gonna give you a budget. Why would I? I'm gonna take whatever I... you're gonna give me whatever give you a budget. Why would I I'm gonna take whatever

Starting point is 01:14:05 I you're gonna give me whatever I ask for anyway. Why should I even show up with a budget? Why should I pretend to tell you how much money we're going to spend you were going to give me what I ask for You want to know why because we? run you We are the power the the intelligence agencies I can only imagine the level of dirt that they have on every single person in Washington DC every single one of these people Must have just just a horrifying number of skeletons in their closet it There is no way the FBI could not walk these people on a leash like a dog if they so

Starting point is 01:14:45 wanted to. I... I... No, I find this an almost, as I said, refreshing acknowledgement of the fact that Congress has no power over these people. The Senate has no power over these people. The bureaucracies are in charge. The FBI, the CIA, the... any single three-letter agency you can name has more power than the president. They will do what they want when they want, and requiring them to give you a budget? Well, that's just rude. There's no need for it. They deserve an unlimited amount of money. They deserve to have whatever they want. They want new toys. Raytheon needs another billion dollars, folks. I'm... Let's read the article. During a Senate hearing

Starting point is 01:15:33 to review the FBI's FY 2026 budget request, Director Cash Patel was forced to admit that despite the law requiring it, he had no such request ready to review. Good. Good for him. I'm glad that he's just flat out admitting it. Yeah, the law requires it, but what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? You gonna sue me? I run the FBI. Bring it on.

Starting point is 01:15:56 Good for him. I'm being facetious, of course. The lack of respect and lack of care for the rule of law is disgusting to see, and this is just another symptom of the times we live in, and probably a symptom of utter incompetence on the part of the people that Trump hires. This surprising development came during an awkward back and forth with Senator Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat and vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which

Starting point is 01:16:24 oversees and approves budget requests. Well I'm I mean she's basically just a rubber stamp of a human being at that point right? Do they ever deny budgets? What's even the point of having her there? They could just get one of those little you know dipping birds attach the stamp to it and just go every once in a while then take the paper away. Senator Murray reminded reminded FBI directed the budget quest was legally required last week Yes, I'm sure I'm sure many Many scoldings will be had over this. I'm sure that he feels like a very bad boy You've done your last weekend after the director responded

Starting point is 01:16:56 She surprisingly she surprisingly added and your answer is you just understand you're not going to follow the law Your answer is you just understand you're not going to follow the law? Y-Ax surprised. These people do whatever they want. That's how it is. That's the way it's been. Every once in a while they put on a theater for us where they pretend to be outraged as someone from the opposite side doesn't follow the law when they've been more than willing to ignore it at all times for anyone on their team. I've grown completely sick of it. I... anytime one of these things happens, it's just a slam dunk fodder, you know, red meat for the people that only pay attention to the two sides of things and think, oh yeah, yeah, oh man, Trey Gowdy really got him there, backed him into a corner, and then nothing happens. Nothing ever happens to these people

Starting point is 01:17:46 They show back up Say the same exact things do the same exact things and empower the same exact people as they always did I am following the law and I'm working with my Interagency partners to do this and get you the budget that you're required to have Patel explained Then the discussion went from bad to worse. Oh, oh no, it's going worse. Culminating in Senator Murray, calling Patel's preparation for the budget hearing without a budget insufficient and deeply disturbing. Oh, cutting remarks. She was very, very rude to him. I'm sure, I'm sure he feels bad. I'm sure he is cut to the quick. He'll never do this again.

Starting point is 01:18:25 He'll be a good boy from now on. Who reads this and thinks, ah yeah, that's the stuff. She really showed cash, but none of this matters. It's truly just theater for idiots buying to this stuff. I have a comment from dad. He's watching the show, so hopefully he's not pulling his hair out. Hopefully I'm able to provide a little bit of relief in that he thinks the show is in somewhat competent hands. Hindu government has been very aggressive with Pakistan and China, one of the worst persecutors of Christianity. Mass murder tacitly approved. Modi is very connected to Tulsi Gabbard."

Starting point is 01:19:10 Well then, I am horrified to think that we are connected in any way to India, and I am sure that if they get involved in something, they will drag us into if Tulsi is friends with Modi. I... the... anytime I learn something about India, it is usually some kind of horrifying statistic. Um, the... yeah, family show. I'm not going to go into the things I've heard. It's... there's bad stuff going on in India. I think the culture needs to change very rapidly and very vastly. Mass... more comments. Massive population and nukes. Horrific potential. Yes, it is a potential for death on a scale that we have not seen in a very long time. It could very rapidly lead to many, many people being instantly wiped out, which is horrifying to think about. Whether I like India or their culture, I do not want to see them or Pakistan engage in a

Starting point is 01:20:06 bloody war where lives are lost fruitlessly for no reason. I do not believe that is what we should ever want as Christians. And I think maybe that's a good little segue into this book here. It is the Storm of Steel. It is the recollections and journal entries of a World War One German soldier by Ernst Junger. And I find it rather fascinating his psychology as he was being shipped off to war. I've got a few little passages that I just pulled out. I'm not gonna read too much of it. He's describing, you know, growing up as World War One was building and all that. He says, the war had entered into us like wine. We had set out in a rain of flowers to seek the death of heroes. The war was our dream of greatness, power, and glory. It was a man's work,

Starting point is 01:21:01 a duel on fields whose flowers would be stained with blood. There is no lovelier death in the world. Anything rather than stay at home, anything to make one with the rest. It is truly amazing how effective propaganda can be on some people. How it can make you see war as this noble pursuit of equals fighting equals and at some level make you feel as if... it's hard to even put into words when you read it the way he felt. I'm gonna skip forward a little bit. He describes, you know, going into camp, seeing first-hands how they were living in area away from the trenches, and then he describes a mortar attack that happened. blood from whose limbs hung loose and who unceasingly gave a horse cry for help

Starting point is 01:22:05 as though death had him already by the throat he was carried into a cottage with a red cross flag over the door what resolve this then the warhead shown its claws and torn off its pleasant mask I find it again that propaganda works so insidiously well that you can even view war in this way that oh you know it's something to be attained to to be pursued we can wage it in such a way as to become heroes and I suppose you can there are heroes that have been made during war but that is not the norm. It is normally a brutal, unpleasant, horrific affair where men are made into monsters, not into heroes. It was so mysterious, and I know that's Rich coming from someone who's never served.

Starting point is 01:22:55 I'm not going to pretend that I was ever in any sort of mindset or had the ability to join the military but I'm just reading this from his account. what was all this then? the war had shown its claws and torn off its pleasant mask. it was so mysterious, so impersonal, when it scarcely given a thought to the enemy carrying on his secret and malignant existence somewhere behind. the impressions- the impression of something arising entirely from beyond the pale. I've experienced was so strange that it was difficult to see the connection of things. it was like a ghost at noon. His

Starting point is 01:23:28 shattering, you know, the pleasant ideas that he had grown to believe after being propagandized, after being told what, you know, what you can become, what they can do for you, what they're going to achieve is instantly shattered, do for you. What they're going to achieve is instantly shattered, instantly unmade, and changed into an unreality in front of him as he witnesses firsthand the horror. It can be broken so fast. Though I'm not sure it ever was fully broken for Ernst Younger. I haven't read the full book. I'm still parsing through it. He seems to be almost wistful for his time in World War

Starting point is 01:24:06 One, which is a very strange thing to say, because every account of World War One is just horrific, utterly horrific. Even the way he recounts it, it's horrific, but as I said, he seems almost wistful for it. At last came the longed for orders, and he moved off, and he's recounting as they're moving forward, off and file in the direction of the faint crackling of rifle fire. It was war. Soon we passed the point where we had broken through. The wounded had already been sent back. Blood-stained fragments of equipment and flesh were caught in the bushes all round. A strange and oppressive sight that made me think of the red-backed shrike that spits its

Starting point is 01:24:40 prey on the thorns. The Grand Tranche was full of troops hastening forward. Wounded men implored water, cowered against the wall of the trench. prisoners carrying stretchers went panting rearwards. chargers careened badly through the fire. on every side shells churned on the ground. heavy branches fell to earth right in our way. a dead horse with gaping wounds. a bearded landwaresman leaned against aresman, leaned against a tree. boys now for it, the french are on the run. the almost laconic way the soldiers discuss the war. they're utterly almost after they've been there for a while they have almost no emotion when it

Starting point is 01:25:21 comes to the death and slaughter around them. It's simply just Go for it. Stretched bears. We had our first casualty. A shrapnel bullet severed fusillade, stolared, carotid artery. Three bandages were saturated instantly and within a few seconds he had bled to death. I think I might stop that there for now. But I find that part especially interesting because he describes many of these other parts with extremely flowery language and Then one of his own comrades is killed and we get two lines out of it. I Not sure what to make of that but I

Starting point is 01:25:59 Find it incredibly interesting still reading this book, but it is a very find it incredibly interesting. I'm still reading this book, but it is a very intricate retelling of this one man's experience through World War I. And I think it's incredibly, at least for me, useful to read this and understand just that war is always horrific. It has not improved. It has not gotten, you know, cleaner or safer. There are no safe wars. There aren't any wars without casualties or collateral damage We're not going to

Starting point is 01:26:28 Have surgical strikes. We're not going to be able to you know, reach in and pull one man out and Get past, you know not incur any damage Every time countries engage in war it is it is a Horr horrifying horrifying thing comment from Ron Helton one he is probably wistful about the lost camaraderie of his fellow soldiers having lived through that hardship with him I can definitely see that of you know as I said I've never been in the military but from the

Starting point is 01:26:57 people I know who have been I heard them say there's nothing like it you know you're literally fighting for your lives and having each other's backs during these scenarios I can't imagine the level of trust and you know kinship that builds with someone when you are depending on them for your very survival. Comment from don't frag me bro war is extreme chaos where survival is more about luck and instincts than rational thought. Voxhole conversion. I could see that being true.

Starting point is 01:27:32 I uh, I can't seem to find the article that I had on it, but I uh, I remember seeing this apparently. I remember seeing this apparently Seb Gorka was talking to somebody and yeah I can't find it but he was saying that Trump's media strategy is to engage in shock and awe that he just overwhelms these you know media establishment types with his rhetoric and his how fast everything happens it's just you know bang bang bang bang bang one thing after. And I would like to ask Seb Gorka, person, you know, is that really an app, a comparison you want to make? Again, I was very young during the Iraq War, you know, the beginning of it. But I still remember, Shokanah was the term they used. How did that work out for the Iraqi people? I don't find

Starting point is 01:28:25 that to be a very apt comparison in the fact that in this sort of scenario we would be, you know, for all practical purposes the Iraqi people caught between this overwhelming force and what it is trying to destroy. We are caught in the middle of this man's egomaniacal war against everyone that has wronged him and he does not care who he hurts and what he burns down to get his retribution and revenge against them. It is just this continual, continual, self-serving need to prove himself as some sort of hero that utterly amazes me.

Starting point is 01:29:03 Trump burger, good comment. Wait, war isn't safe and effective? Well, you know, nine out of ten doctors would recommend it, it seems like. Considering the other things they recommend, I can't imagine that they would balk at war. I mean, why not? The real octo-spook. We seem to have switched our core reason from wars, democratic reasons to be involved in religious wars. Thank you. Alright, folks, I think we may actually play a short clip from a show that my dad did almost a month ago now. I thought it was prescient given everything that's going on with Indian Pakistan and of course

Starting point is 01:29:51 the still ongoing conflict with Russia and Ukraine. Remember they calculated how many cheeseburgers you can buy for what they will give you for enlisting. What's your life worth, folks? They're gonna give them a $24,000 bonus but they gotta break this down so that the 18 to 24 year olds can understand it. Something that they want. So what they do is they talk about it in terms of McDonald's cheeseburgers. I'll translate. How many cheeseburgers can be bought for $24,000? Yes, this is definitely the question from the administrative defense. Let's go figure it out, he said. A single cheeseburger is

Starting point is 01:30:43 only $1.55 in Ukraine. So you can get 15,625. I don't suggest you buy a cheeseburger for 1 million hryvnias. I suggest you earn 1 million hryvnias. For you from 18 to 24 years old, you want to protect Ukraine and become the head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it's simple. Take a seat on the bonus of a cheeseburger.

Starting point is 01:31:06 I love the way he says cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Reminds me very much of what we had with Saturday Night Live. And that was the guys, remember, they had, and it was actually a real place. I've actually been there. Karen and I were in Chicago and we went to the place where they take your orders and a Cheeburger, Cheeburger, that's what he says that as well no coke Pepsi right and just barking orders at people and hurrying them up hurry up hurry up you know give me your order all right now that that's the way

Starting point is 01:31:39 that place really is it's kind of legendary there's Chicago but yeah you can get a lot of Cheeburgers there as well. So the military is trying to recruit people by giving them a bonus and explaining to them what that bonus is worth in cheeseburgers. Because it may be, since they're connected to the US government, maybe they have a currency that is declining in value as well. Men's controversy and backlash unleashed in Ukraine after the country's defense ministry decided to make a fresh recruitment video on TikTok, bizarrely using the lure of McDonald's. Desperately seeking to gain more young recruits and the Army's depleting ranks, also at a

Starting point is 01:32:21 moment the disturbing video showed conscription officers yanking Ukrainian men off the streets and shoving them into vans remember that I played clips of that the great escape you know they caught these guys gonna recruit them I said Ukrainians they're now telling Ukrainians how many Cheeburgers they can get out of McDonald's for fighting Russia. That's not a great idea. One person said, imagine getting yourself shot in the trenches for a happy meal. And some of the people, and yet here we are in America, you don't want to talk about cheeseburgers. As I said at the beginning of the program, we have DoorDash now doing micro loans to people to buy hamburgers and tacos and that type of thing. One person responded to that and said,

Starting point is 01:33:10 well, why stop with just the hamburgers and doing micro loans? Hear me out. A single contract for a burrito is incredibly risky. Anyone willing to pay for a burrito in installments can't be trusted to pay their debt but what if we pooled the payments together the risk would go away entirely which is basically what they did with the invest in some subprime prime rib that's good subprime prime rib yeah that's what they do with subprime mortgages.

Starting point is 01:33:45 So you know, if you've got a whole bunch of really untrustworthy people who can't pay back their loan for their hamburger, you know, like wimpy or something, you put all the wimpies together into some kind of a financial instrument, now suddenly all the risk goes away. And as DoorDash is selling this, DoorDash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries with interest-free installments or you can pay for it in a long installment with interest. So when they push this out, DoorDash is using words like empower, freedom, flexibility. That's how they're selling this to people. Yeah, it's really empowering to go into debt, isn't it?

Starting point is 01:34:34 You feel the freedom of debt slavery? It's everywhere there. Well, anyway, this campaign is also trying to sell them things like mortgage subsidies and free college education. But I imagine people who think that far ahead are probably not interested in laying their life down for this war. So they go for the hamburger approach. McDonald's, that's going to get these people to sign up. Hello, it's me, Vladimir Zelensky.

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Starting point is 01:35:37 Those amazing sand colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful. I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various gala and social events. If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA. Welcome back. Thank you for still being here with us. On Rumble Twilight Shadow Travis I hope Pops is okay. I do too. We are all praying and thank you for still being here with us. On Rumble, Twilight Shadow, Travis I hope Pops is okay. I do too. We are all praying and thank you for your continued prayers. He will be going into surgery after the show ends. They're moving him to a different hospital that's going to be further away. So, you know, please keep him in your prayers and please keep our family in your prayers that we'll be able to get out there and see him and

Starting point is 01:36:28 yeah, just please keep him in your prayers. that's the best thing we can all do and as before we know God is the one who heals everything is in his hands down to the smallest atom he controls it all and he will he works everything together for the good of those who love him cannot thank you enough for your prayers and your support. Thank you Twilight Shadow. Alright let's see what else I've got here. Alright a little bit about the Abrego Garcia's case. Trump admin invokes state secrets privilege in the Abrego Garcia's case.

Starting point is 01:37:01 I find this strange to say the least. President Donald Trump's administration has invoked the state's triggers privilege as a federal court probes for information surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation to El Salvador. As a general rule, you don't invoke this, in my opinion. You don't try to obfuscate and hide what you're doing if you've done things the right way. If they had nothing to hide, they wouldn't be trying to hide it I don't see what a brego Garcia could have done that would lead to things surrounding him being classified now perhaps

Starting point is 01:37:33 Perhaps he is deeply involved with the gangs and they are working with him on something to bring Tighter noose around the gangs, but I don't really see that. It doesn't seem to be the case. It seems more as though they've made a mistake and they are once more doubling down on maintaining the lie rather than admit fault. Now again, I do think it is very plausible that Abrego Garcia was smuggling people, and if he was involved in any of that at all, yes, absolutely. Deport him. Get him out of here. But still, due process, at least a minimum of it should be maintained. And don't lie to the American people about why you're doing

Starting point is 01:38:13 this sort of thing. I've got a comment here from from Whistler. The religious aspect of this war from the extremely hostile to Christianity members of India is very worrying, especially with Tulsi Gabbard's connection and her position in the Trump administration. Yeah, that is very true. It is hard to imagine a world where this goes well for us in any way, shape or form. Any time conflict happens on the world stage it seems America has to get involved and that always just means more people, more of our own people being sacrificed on the altar of these neoliberal policies that are determined to enforce hegemony around the world. Hegemony? Hegemony? I don't know how that word is actually pronounced. Another interesting article from Zero Hedge Z and Putin embrace G and

Starting point is 01:39:09 Putin embrace in Moscow about a defend multipolar world order encounter neo nazism and militarism. Putin is not your friend. Whether the war in Ukraine is justified or not, I'm not here to litigate that. I don't know nearly enough about the two countries' history personally from what I've seen. It does seem like Putin is at least from a tactical and economical standpoint. If not justified, at least it makes sense from his perspective that he would want to invade Ukraine and keep the United States out of there and from infringing on his territory and eroding his power base. But they are not your friends. They are not here to undo the globalism that we have found ourselves under for the last however many decades it's been, however many decades it's been with the UN and NATO being instituted, they just simply want to be the ones in control of their own world order. There is no reason

Starting point is 01:40:12 to think that there is simply one group of evil people at the top. These people are evil. They do not get along well with each other. If they were to eventually eliminate us all like they want to, they would simply begin eliminating each other. That goes for the tenuous alliances that we see here with people like, you know, Fauci and Bill Gates. Were they to end up alone in a bunker at the end of the world, eventually they would start working on getting rid of one another. That is how these people operate. Xi and Putin are not here to save the West. They would love nothing more than to Subjugate it if they could. Now, they are probably more realistic in their approaches that they will take.

Starting point is 01:40:53 I don't think you would ever see Russia declare a land war and try to invade the United States, but were they able to conquer us in some other way more effective without the risk of blowback? They would do it in a heartbeat. That's how these people operate. They want power. They will do anything for it. Their entire goal is focused around maintaining power for themselves. That's what they are about. It is not about you. It is not about me. It is not about making a better world. It is simply about maintaining their power structure and growing it. So let's see. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin put on a big show, the big show, Thursday as the

Starting point is 01:41:36 Chinese president has welcomed in Moscow where he's attending Russia's 80th anniversary Victory Day parade and events in Red Square. The two signed a show of solidarity statement, further deepening their partnership following talks which lasted about four hours. Chinese state media called it a joint statement on further deepening China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new boy that is such a Chinese statement. The Chinese love long flowery language that means nothing and if it means something it means the opposite of what they actually

Starting point is 01:42:08 said. I guarantee you these people hate each other. Xi and Putin would probably knife each other on the street if they could get away with it. They're beefing up the already no limits friendship and strategic partnership. Well, good for them. I'm glad they're friends. Everybody needs a friend. Maybe they can go hang out and get ice cream later. The two leaders once again hailed the powerful cooperation as underpinning a multipolar world order in the face of Western hegemony. See? Hegemony. There we are. Hegemony cricket. In today's challenging geopolitical situation and global uncertainty, the Russia-China foreign policy partnership is a key stabilizing factor to the international

Starting point is 01:42:48 stage Putin said for the Kremlin readout together we defend the formation of a more just and democratic multipolar world order this is whatever you feel this is not a good thing China has no goodwill towards America it has never had goodwill towards America Russia of course definitely does not have any goodwill as we are currently engaged in a proxy war in Ukraine and they have had to deal with the fallout and the conflict of us mucking about in their backyard for many years. This does not bode well for any of us. I am not intelligent enough or long-sighted enough to be able to predict what the outcome of this will be, but this is definitely cementing a sort of counterbalance to American hegemony, which we have seen run the world since the end of World War II.

Starting point is 01:43:48 We have largely been free to do whatever we wanted, wherever we wanted, not because it was a good thing, but because no one could tell us no. We were making the world safe for democracy, whether the world wanted democracy or not, and I think we're finally starting to see that people are having enough. And there are countries that are potentially large enough and powerful enough if not on their own Through alliances that can stand up and say you're not allowed to do this anymore, which Honestly, if it gets us out of these conflicts, it probably won't I don't think we have the Type of leaders that would look at this and say, oh no, we cannot afford this conflict. They're more than willing to sacrifice any number of people. But this is probably not a good thing for us in any way, shape, or form simply because of the globalist policies that we live under are

Starting point is 01:44:37 going to want to break this alliance and get us involved in some way. All right. Got a comment from Energy Woman 707 and thank you for the tip. That's very very kind and generous. Heal David Heal and may his professional team be on task and target today for his good in the mighty name of Jesus. Yes thank you, amen. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for continuing them. Continue to lift him up as he undergoes surgery after the show. It is very, very stressful for all of us here. And I know that he is, I know that he is at peace. He has a, he has very strong faith and he is the one that instilled our faith in us along with my mom.

Starting point is 01:45:28 So I know that if anyone is at peace about this and trusting that God will work this together for good and heal him, it is my mom and dad. I cannot thank them enough for all the years of hard work and just the sheer blessings they've been to my brother, my sister, and I. It is, it was truly wonderful to be raised by them. I couldn't ask for better parents. And again, I'm kind of bouncing all over the place. On zero hedge off the rails Amtrak slashes 20% of management and $100 million savings. How much management does Amtrak have and or need that you can get rid of 20% and save $100 million? Now, from what I read in the art, this is one of the articles I actually got to read last night, it looks like

Starting point is 01:46:27 they're aiming to save 100 million, not necessarily that they have saved it yet, but it is horrifying the amount of waste that goes on in our government. When Amtrak, they can look to save a hundred million dollars just out of that. What is going on with these people? How many middle managers are there that you can... Amtrak confirmed the elimination. There it is. Of roughly 450 management roles.

Starting point is 01:46:58 450 middle managers. And that was only 20%. What a nightmare the American everything has become. Every single part of government is just horrifically entrenched with bureaucracy. There is no element of your life that they do not have a middle manager that they have looking over it somebody that by all rights Should only be you know working at your local pizza place as the nighttime manager has the power To ruin your life simply because it was delegated to them given to them and told yeah just

Starting point is 01:47:42 Just do whatever you want. Run crazy. An interesting article I wanted to read, so we'll read it together. None Dare Call It Treason of the Judiciary. Authored by Frank Millay via RealClearWire.com Thursday, April 24th, was a day like any other day. The sun came up, the sun went down, and Donald Trump was hit with at least three nationwide injunctions by federal district court judges. I, again, I find this to be darkly funny in the fact that Donald Trump wants to pretend he's some kind of, you know, strong,

Starting point is 01:48:18 powerful, you know, I do what I want. I am the one in control of the country. But anytime a judge hits him with an injunction, he just backs down. It's like oh cowers You know, whatever they say whatever they say when it comes to ruining your life and imposing rules with the lockdown he was Johnny on the spot. He was more than willing to lock you down and make you unable to than willing to lock you down and make you unable to even run your business. But this, what the pettiest judge in the country can tell him no, and he will immediately buckle and cave and back down. He is only allowed to do things that benefit the entrenched establishment and bureaucracy. Anytime they tell him no, he cowers like a beaten dog

Starting point is 01:49:05 He backs down backs away whether or not the judges have the authority to do this whether or not what he's doing is good It shows that he does not Even have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and be the sort of man. He portrays himself He wants to pretend he's the strong man that he is the one in control. He wants to LARP as a, you know, dictator almost, an emperor, a Caesar, and yet when it comes down to it, he cannot even stand up to judges who have no sort of real power. They don't control any police forces, they don't control any military. If he wanted to, he could call in the military and arrest every single judge. Yeah, there'll probably be blowback from it, but if he was the sort of person that he wants to pretend

Starting point is 01:49:49 he is, he could do that with these judges. Not legally. It would be a horrifying abuse of power, but that's who he wants to pretend he is. But instead, he cowers like a whipped dog at the slightest pushback. Let's continue with the article. That's at the slightest pushback. Let's continue with the article. That's just the way it goes. You're a president who wants to take back America from the entrenched left-wing bureaucracy and restore common sense to government, but it is too late. They're excusing... Seems like they're excusing him. The danger of... you can't do anything. It's a bureaucracy. Well, I mean you could just gut the bureaucracy. You could say, I don't care about your ruling. I'm going to do it because it is the right thing to do.

Starting point is 01:50:29 The judges do not have any power. They are merely there to sentence people as I see it. I don't think they have the ability to judge the Constitution. And the fact that we have let them Constitution and the fact that we have let them is truly a scourge and a curse upon us Got some comments. Oh Very kind dad says I'm doing great. Well, thank you very much dad. I'm Very happy to hear you say that all right the Let's see the changes of the bureaucracy was predicted by Julian Benda in his 1927 book, The Treason of the Clerks, which warned of the danger of the intellectual class adopting political passions

Starting point is 01:51:14 that had previously been the sole domain of the masses. We see this most distinctly today in the federal bureaucracy, which I dare say has the greatest concentration of degreeholders from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and the like of any sector in the nation, other than the incestuous universities themselves. The treason that Benda described was the loss of independence of thought and dispassionate reason by intellectuals. In the accompanying surveillance of intellect to political passions during Trump's first term, I wrote a column describing the danger that Benda had foreseen. Benda wrote at the beginning of the age of mass communication, and yet he already saw that political passions have attained a universality never before known. Thanks to the progress of communication and still more to the group spirit,

Starting point is 01:51:58 it is clear that the holders of the same political hatred now form a compact, impassioned mass, every individual of which feels himself in touch with the infinite number of others, whereas a century ago such people were comparatively out of touch with each other and hated in a scattered way. it seems that we are now living out Benda's worst nightmare, an age of manipulation of the masses by those who think they know better. whether you call them the Deep State, the opposition party, the national elite, the entrenched bureaucracy, or just the establishment. And again, you know, sure, prescient,

Starting point is 01:52:29 yes, it's happening, but also, it's not an excuse. Trump is a weak little man that refuses to actually do the hard thing. He wants to grab easy headlines, he wants to grab attention, he wants to be praised nonstop and is absolutely averse to doing anything grab easy headlines, he wants to grab attention, he wants to be praised non-stop, and is absolutely averse to doing anything that might net him serious backlash. I don't have any respect for the man. And for the past ten years they

Starting point is 01:52:55 have turned their hatred on Donald Trump. Well, can't be all bad then I suppose. Without rhyme or reason they fight him on every reform and arm themselves with invented scandal and fake news. And he's right on this. He's right. They will invent and make up any sort of reason they can to stop Trump from doing anything. I don't necessarily agree that Trump should be doing any of the thing or some of the things he's doing,

Starting point is 01:53:20 but yes, they will ironically trump up any sort of thing they can to prevent him from up any sort of thing they can to prevent him from doing any sort of reform. Now, I don't necessarily trump to put anyone in that would trust him to put in anyone that would reform things. The most hopeful candidate is RFK Jr., and we've already seen him knuckle under and back away from the stances that he held, the policies that made people excited, and his, you know, stance on vaccines has already wavered and disappeared. So if that's our most hopeful appointment from Donald Trump,

Starting point is 01:53:59 we have truly been sold a bill of goods, And we'll wait to see if any of his supporters ever actually learn from the mistake. I think we are going to take a quick musical interlude so I can gather my thoughts, go to the next article, and hopefully give you... Before we go, comment Michael Paul 1. Thank you so much for the support. It is incredibly helpful. And thank you so much for the kind words. I appreciate it.

Starting point is 01:54:36 All right, we'll take a quick break. And you know what? I think we have Eric on the line and if he's ready, we're going to come back with Eric Peters. what I think we have Eric on the line and if he's ready we're gonna come back with Eric Peters and as I said he has some interesting articles one about how you Trump could in fact increase your gas mileage just with the stroke of a pen another as I said before the wimpy principle Trump will gladly give you the Epstein client list Tuesday for your rights today. Stay with us. We'll be right back with Eric Peters of EP autos.com. You're listening to The David Knight Show. All right, and joining the show now is longtime friend of the show and friend of my dad, Eric

Starting point is 01:56:19 Peters of ep autos.com. As I said before, we're going to talk about some of his articles. And I think the one I'd like to start With Eric is what Trump could do to increase gas mileage I thought that was a very interesting article, especially as someone who has you know Grown up all my life with what you're talking about, you know So the article talks about the ethanol that they've added to the gas. So please welcome to the show and oh sure First, you know best wishes to your family and to your dad who, you know, is a

Starting point is 01:56:48 good friend of mine and I'm very sorry to hear that he wasn't able to make the show today. Not that I'm not happy that you and I get a chance to talk as well. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we've had Trump issuing one executive order after the next, essentially acting as kind of an elected Caesar. And yet he's not doing anything meaningful to really make things better for Americans again. One of the things that he could do, in my opinion, would be to end the so-called oxygenated fuels requirement that's been in effect since the 1970s, which effectively forces the fuel to be adulterated with ethanol or some other oxygen to the tune typically of about

Starting point is 01:57:25 10 percent. So the majority of the fuel that's available in this country is what they call E10, and all that means is that it's 10 percent ethanol alcohol. Why is that bad and why did they do this in the first place? Well, back in the 70s, most cars still had carburetors, which were mechanical fuel delivery systems. And the mixture, the air-fuel ratio is generally set mechanically via mixture screws and things called jets, which are just orifices. And the mixture, the air fuel ratio is generally set mechanically via mixture screws and things called jets, which are just orifices. And the diameter of that controls how much gasoline gets put into the engine. So they were sort of set it and forget it. There's only so much that you can do. They were trying to figure out a way to reduce

Starting point is 01:57:59 the tailpipe exhaust emissions from vehicles at that time. And somebody hit on the idea of leaning out the fuel mixture via the fuel, hence the oxygenated fuels requirements. So by introducing the 10% ethanol into the fuel mix, you did lean out the air fuel ratio and that did reduce emissions to some extent. And that's fine. But a couple of things about it. The first is there was a cost to be paid in terms of gas mileage because ethanol alcohol

Starting point is 01:58:24 contains has a lower BTU content than gasoline. about it. The first is there was a cost to be paid in terms of gas mileage because ethanol alcohol has a lower BTU content than gasoline. So when you burn E10 rather than 100% gas, your gas mileage goes down appreciably. And I was old enough at the time to remember the difference. If you had a car and you had filled it up with gas, 100% gas, and drove it a certain distance, and then you filled it up with the oxygenated or E10 fuel, you'd notice, hey, I didn't get quite as far this time on a full tank of the fuel. Well, that's why. Okay, well, maybe that price was worth being paid if it had a meaningful impact on tailpipe exhaust emissions.

Starting point is 01:58:56 Problem is that within a few short years, by the mid-late 1980s, all cars sold in this country have electronic fuel injection systems. And the key point there is that these systems can automatically adjust the air-fuel ratio to compensate for a lean condition. So effectively what happens is the system senses that the fuel is lean and richens up the mixture. So there is no benefit at all in terms of reducing emissions. And you still have the detraction. Fantastic.

Starting point is 01:59:26 We're getting the worst of both worlds when it comes to this. They've ensured that we get less gas mileage and we maintain the same level of smog in our atmosphere in our cities. That's wonderful. Got to love these, the plans of the bureaucrats, how well they work out for all of us here in the real world. Well, as is the case with so many things, it's just a grift. And what do I mean by that?

Starting point is 01:59:47 Well, it turns out to be massively profitable for the agribusiness cartels, the corn lobby specifically, which is very politically powerful. And that's why it has been in place for 40 something years, even though there is no benefit to you and I and every other American to this. The only benefit is to these big cartels that have used the government to create a market for their product, i.e. the ethanol. And so we pay more in terms of reduced gas mileage. And we also pay, this is a subtle thing, but we also pay more in the form of increased food costs because a lot of the feed stocks that would otherwise have been diverted to cattle, for example,

Starting point is 02:00:26 are now devoted to ethanol production, and this raises the cost of food. And it also raises the cost of transporting the food because the vehicles that transport food from A to B and everything else that's associated with energy and gasoline ends up being less efficient and more expensive as a result. And the irony is that, you know, you hear all this talk from the federal government about how important it is. We've got to get more economical vehicles out on the road and they'll issue requirements that end up resulting in these Rube Goldberg-esque like contraptions like such as the automatic start to stop feature

Starting point is 02:00:57 that almost every new car has, where if you roll up to a red light or the vehicle stops moving, the engine shuts off. And, you know, and then it starts again when the light goes green. Then you're saving maybe one mile per gallon, maybe, by having this system inside your car. Whereas if Trump would get rid of this requirement

Starting point is 02:01:14 and we could just go back to having gasoline again, the typical car would get anywhere from three to 5% better gas mileage, which is a significant gain at no cost in terms of the car itself. Yeah, my wife and I, we drive back and forth between Texas and Tennessee because we like to split time between the families so that they can all, you know, we can make sure that nobody is feeling left out. And at three to 5% increase on gas mileage over a trip, that distance becomes a substantial

Starting point is 02:01:41 savings in money. It's not an immaterial, imperceptible amount of money that you're saving on a trip like that. And even just the daily trips you take every single, you know, going to the grocery store, that adds up very rapidly, especially with the amount of money that everything costs now. Saving any amount you can is incredibly helpful. But I also wanted to mention that the automatic start and stop at the red lights, it seems like it would put a lot of wear and tear on the engine just continually starting and stopping it multiple times more than you would on a normal day. Does that

Starting point is 02:02:15 impact the life of the engine at all from that perspective? Not necessarily because once the engine started, there's a film of oil and that will protect it through the restarting. But the real cost is more subtle than that. I've had to find this out inadvertently. Most of the cars that have this automated stop-start system have an additional battery that serves to store electricity because all of that stopping and starting, engaging of the starter mechanism drains the battery such that the alternator can't keep up with it. This additional battery is there to supplement that. I had a brand new Dodge, what the heck, they're a little

Starting point is 02:02:49 crossover, the Hornet, back in December of last year. And the day after they dropped this car off, I went out to go start the thing and it wouldn't start. Brand new car. And I thought, what's wrong with it? Well, as it turned out, the battery had been drained such by the stop start cycling that it was no longer able to hold a full charge. It gets better. So, you know, I thought, okay, I'll fix the problem. I'll take the battery out

Starting point is 02:03:12 and I'll put it on my trickle charger and all will be well. Of course that turned the car into like, it triggered an electronic freakout where the horn was honking, the light was flashing. Oh, that's great. Even after conversations with Stellantis engineers, we couldn't figure it out. We couldn't get the thing to stop.

Starting point is 02:03:27 We had to send a flatbed to take the thing back to a Dodge dealer where they could hook it up to the computer to reboot it because its systems had gone haywire. It's just part of this sort of ever escalating increase in the complexity and thus the failure proneness of modern vehicles. And there's another aspect to this. I wanted to get it out before I forgot about it creating increase in the complexity and thus the failure-prone-ness of modern vehicles.

Starting point is 02:03:45 And there's another aspect to this. I wanted to get it out before I forgot about it with regard to the ethanol. As anybody who has older vehicles or has outdoor power equipment, things like chainsaws, push mowers, riding mowers, knows, the high ethanol, high alcohol content fuel tends to not store very well and it attracts moisture. And it can really corrode and mess up the carburetors in the fuel systems and vehicles and power equipment that was not originally designed

Starting point is 02:04:10 for high alcohol content fuels. So you have to go back and replace all these parts in order to make the ethanol compatible. And even when you do that, if you don't drain that stuff out of your carburetors at the end of the season in the fall, when you're not gonna use your stuff for four months of the year, and you leave it that way, way well when you come back out the next spring to use your stuff

Starting point is 02:04:28 It's probably not gonna start. Yeah, does that uh, how do the car companies and you know The manufacturer of these mowers feel about that does do they see this as a benefit to them in the fact that oh well It degrades the parts we get more sales from these things that need to be replaced Have they ever come out and, you know, tried to get this repealed or even spoken out against it? Or is it more of just like a quiet, we let it happen. We make more money by replacing these bits and pieces over the years rather than someone buying a new ride or mower or whatever it is once every, you know, five, 10 years, however long they last generally. Well, with regard to the car industry, I can

Starting point is 02:05:02 tell you because I've been doing this long enough and I've witnessed this personally, the last time the industry as an industry put up any kind of a fight versus any pushback against the regulatory apparatus was way back in the nineties when the airbag mandate really became enforced. And it wasn't people talk about the airbag mandate, I should be clear. There was something called the supplemental restraint mandate, SRS, that effectively required airbags in cars. And I remember it distinctly. I remember talking to engineers that they brought forth to speak with the government regulators who said, look, if you make us do this, people

Starting point is 02:05:34 are going to get hurt and people are going to get killed because of the forceful deployment of the bags. Because the initial standard required pretty forceful deployment because it assumed most people wouldn't be wearing a seatbelt. Sure enough, people did get killed and they just decided to wash their hands of it. And ever since then, they have decided that it's easier to go along to get along. And in fact, they even anticipate regulatory requirements that are coming down the pike. That's why you're seeing every new car now come standard with all of this really intrusive, really peremptory driver assistance technology. Nobody I know wants this stuff. No.

Starting point is 02:06:07 Nobody likes lane assist that jerks the steering wheel. And the brake assist that slams on the brakes. Because they're anticipating the federal government is going to say these cars have to have it in order that they control the cars remotely. They don't want to fight. They just want to make money now. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:06:22 When we took the trip up from Texas to Tennessee when we first moved, the truck that we had rented had, you know, lane assist and it would physically try to jerk the steering wheel away from you. it drove my dad insane. he was just losing his mind with it and how obnoxious it was in that if you got anywhere even close to the shoulder, it would just freak out and, you know, very unsafely jerk the steering wheel in a way that, you know, it's very... Someone who's not a good driver could very easily lose control of these things. I actually do wonder how many accidents have been caused by this sort of technology where someone is not paying attention, and the steering wheel just gets away from them at this point.

Starting point is 02:07:05 is not paying attention and the steering wheel just gets away from them at this point. It's a continual, as you said, creep of the complexity of things and this just nanny state where they continually push down deeper into your life on a more granular level. Every single aspect has to be monitored and controlled. They can't even let you ride close to the shoulder anymore. It's just down to that level. And the thing is, it's, um, anymore. It's just down to that level. And the thing is, it's, um, my dad talks very fondly about when he was young and how they would go out with his friends for drives at night. And it was just a very nice way of experiencing the freedom of the road and the freedom that the car provides you and how you can just get out and go somewhere and have fun, have a good time. And I have never experienced that in my life. My entire lifetime, gas has been expensive to the point, like if you're going somewhere,

Starting point is 02:07:48 better to have an end goal, not just driving around. Also, the sheer number of cops that are out all the time, looking for someone or something, if you are out late at night, the entire system has become utterly predatory on every single level, and it just seems like that's its entire purpose. it is meant to make you not want to engage with it, to make you pull your hands back and say, all right you can

Starting point is 02:08:13 have the cars, you know, maybe I don't need to drive, maybe public transport is the way to go, maybe I will move into the city and I won't live in a nicer house further out. I'll accept that just so I don't have to put up with your bureaucracy, I don't wanna run the risk of getting entangled in this sort of nightmare state. And it's incredibly, not depressing, but frustrating that I'll hear these stories and just know that that's something that I can't really enjoy.

Starting point is 02:08:43 Like the amount of overhaul it would take on almost every level of the federal government to be able to get back to where it was in the 60s or 70s where you know going out for a drive is a freeing experience. It's hard to even imagine that for me when all I've ever known is oh, you know, you're driving around in a city it's stressful. It's incredibly stressful. There's cops everywhere. People aren't paying attention. The roads are congested, possibly because they specifically have built the roads to be difficult and hard to bypass.

Starting point is 02:09:15 And it's just it's like I said, frustrating that this is the current state of America and that it seems to be on a continual downward trend in every metric. Yeah, I think you used exactly the right word in that it is purposeful. I think there has been a long-term agenda going back at least 50 years to make driving more and more expensive, less and less enjoyable, with the end goal being to exasperate people to the point where they just give up on it. And it's been a particular point of emphasis to target younger people who can't remember the before time, you know, who didn't have experience that your dad had and that I had and all they've ever known.

Starting point is 02:09:54 They grew up strapped in safety seats. They grew up taught to fear that or fear cars. They're dangerous, danger, danger everywhere. I see that sentiment all over the place now. Especially regarding pickup trucks. Like, oh my gosh, look at the size of this pickup truck. You never even see a small child and it's like, pickup trucks have been on the road for years.

Starting point is 02:10:18 Yes, they've gotten larger and more excessive, but they are essentially still the same vehicle in many ways. But the propaganda and the fear porn has gone out of control. I said, like I said, I see this anti-car sentiment all over the place. It has become very pervasive, especially in cities where, you know, there's and online, there are these conclaves of people where it is their entire goal to make driving as miserable as possible in any way they can, whether it's voting for things that will make driving more

Starting point is 02:10:50 miserable or just being obnoxious pedestrians or bicyclists that won't get out of the way. They will congregate on, you know, places like Reddit and specific subreddits where they discuss how they interfere with and make driving miserable simply because they think it's destroying the planet. They think cars are scary and they just want to phase it out of existence They want to take that away from people within probably my lifetime Then well, and it's working, you know Your dad and I once had a conversation about this and there's a stat that it says a lot and it is I think that upwards of 20% of people who fall into the age group of 16 to 23 don't even have a driver's license and

Starting point is 02:11:27 That's understandable. You know when I was that age heck when I was 15 all of us We were championing at the bit to get our driver's license And we got it when we turned 16 and we had full adult privileges if you can imagine that yeah It wasn't a restricted license, you know, you were allowed to drive whenever you wanted wherever you wanted with your friends Whatever you had exactly the same rights as your parents did, which was a way to make you feel like I'm a grown up now. I'm not a kid. It didn't infantilize you.

Starting point is 02:11:53 Also most of us just had kind of low paying part time jobs. I worked at McDonald's when I was in high school. All of us were able to afford a car. I had a V8 Camaro and it was a common thing to have a car like that. If I could go back to the 80s and show you my high school parking lot, you'd see the plot of the park. I mean, it was full of, they weren't pristine show cars, but there were Mustangs and Camaros and pickup trucks. We all drove cars like that. We could afford to do that on part-time fast food types of jobs. It was great. It was unimaginable relative to what

Starting point is 02:12:24 the world has become like today when the barrier point, the cost of entry for somebody, a kid who's 16, to get his own first car on his own if he has to, it's almost impossible because of the cost. And unlike back in the day when cars were approachable, if you were a kid who had a socket set and some gumption, you go out and get a children's manual, you could figure out how to tune it up and perform basic maintenance. Forget about it today. You can be a professional mechanic

Starting point is 02:12:49 and if you don't have all of the skills and the tools and the stuff that you need to diagnose these cars, you can't do anything except change the oil and air filter and that's it. Yeah, it does seem like if you do not have the actual diagnostic tool, you're not gonna be able to figure anything out because everything is

Starting point is 02:13:05 so incredibly stacked in on top of each other and it's all these intricate complex electrical systems that are very very prone to failure and very very easy to break. So unless you have that actual tool itself, I again it's it's very similar to the way doctors operate now where they don't do any sort of diagnosis on their own. They normally get a blood draw and then they read off the computer code. You know, the computer says, Oh, you've got this. And it seems like we're moving that direction in every single aspect of our lives. Even when it comes down to cars with mechanics, they don't necessarily look at it and go, okay, I've heard this sound before.

Starting point is 02:13:38 I know that this car is prone to this sort of defect. It's just, hook up the machine, see what the machine says. Very much so. They're alienating in a very meaningful way in that it's this device that you use and when it stops working, it's inscrutable. It's impenetrable. You know, you have, it's very difficult to understand it, to have that competence that comes from, hey, I can fix this. I know what's wrong with it. I can deal with it. They're rendering us increasingly bit by bit dependent on this technocratic, brave new world in which you're basically kind of emasculated. You don't have any real control over anything anymore. And that's the whole point. They want to control you. And the really tragic thing with regard to cars is we reached this apotheosis of

Starting point is 02:14:23 engineering in the late 90s with basic fuel injection, problem body and poor fuel injection, and three-way catalytic converters that they had eliminated all of the meaningfully harmful exhaust emissions problems from new vehicles. And they did it without this hyper complexity that we're dealing with today. Cars from that period from the late 90s through the early 2000s were almost indestructible. You could easily drive one of these things for 25 years and not have to worry about any major problems if you just took basic care of it. That's been thrown out the window because they don't want that. They don't want you having a car for 20 years. They want you on that perpetual debt cycle of replacing your vehicle every eight or nine years. And now,

Starting point is 02:15:04 the average cost of a vehicle, the average transaction price of a vehicle today is about $50,000. And that's an increase of about $15,000 over just three years. That is such an astronomical increase over such a short period of time. It is hard to see how, to me it is just obviously they are pricing people out of the market they're making it so that it is impossible for the average person even not just you know the kid working a high school job to be unable to afford the car but just your average you know family at this point is not going to be able to afford it they're going to have to mortgage basically themselves to

Starting point is 02:15:44 afford a car and then at that point forget about ever buying a house. I mean that price of housing is already ludicrous, but when you're already in debt up to your eyeballs for just a car that goes right out the window. You are forever looking at renting and then like you said with the complexity of these cars they break down so frequently or forever trapped in the cycle of I've got to repair this or it just dies completely and then you have another giant mountain of debt piled on top of what you already had. So it is just, again, it seems like the hollowing out of the middle class just continually over

Starting point is 02:16:15 and over again, every single rule or law that they put in place just takes more and more away and removes upward mobility. And just, it's really sad to see like this, you know, pardon, it's not a pun. I don't mean to make a pun, but this engine of freedom, this, that was the car that allowed this, you know, people to travel and see this beautiful country to be made into this, you know, shackle that binds you down and can potentially ruin your life. and I get that there is, you know, an element of the consumerism in that and that. You don't need to go out and buy the latest best car,

Starting point is 02:16:49 but all of them are getting more expensive. It's not just the new ones, it's the used ones too. Sure. And it's not just the cars, it's the insurance. And this is sort of another of the pincers that they're using to trap us with. The cost of insurance has just gone through the roof, even more so than the cost of vehicles

Starting point is 02:17:04 on a proportionate basis Everybody knows this if you've gotten your insurance adjustment lately, you know, it's typically gone up 25% That's the average mine doubled and I have like 30 years of accident-free driving. No claims I'm the perfect person from their point of view if the point of view as well Is he a risky driver or not? Nonetheless, I was paying $150 to cover my old truck two years ago, now I'm paying $300. Why is that? Why has the cost gone up?

Starting point is 02:17:31 Well, the reason the cost has gone up, get back to that business about the average transaction price is now $50,000 and all these EVs that they put on the market. It's not your thing, but if you happen to get into an accident with one of these vehicles, you didn't buy the $50,000 vehicle, but let's say you get into an accident with one, they're so fragile

Starting point is 02:17:47 and so expensive to repair. You bump into one, the whole bumper tears off with all the cameras in it and everything, and that's not something that's repairable. You replace it. So the cost, even if you don't incur them, their argument is that, well, this potential cost that you might incur if you hit one of these vehicles, we have to raise everybody's rates to compensate for the potential damages that we might be on the hook for. So that's why insurance is becoming unaffordable. Yeah, I don't know if you follow any of these guys,

Starting point is 02:18:17 but I watched a video from a guy called Whistle and Diesel. He does a lot of just- Yeah, yeah, I love that guy. Yeah, he's a lot of fun. I watched him evaluate a cyber truck based on how well it does truck things. And it failed miserably. It came apart at the seams just continually the bumper tore off when they tried to tow something just you know, pieces they could just peel the

Starting point is 02:18:40 siding off of it like those little pieces around the door. They were just able to peel them off by hand with minimal force. These, they're not together. Yeah, they're not built to last. The exoskeleton is glued to a unibody under thing. See, like you said, it seems like we did reach an apotheosis with cars in, you know, the 80s to 90s. Like it seems like we've worked out many of the best ways to build them. Not necessarily like we'd reach peak engine performance, the hypercars continually pushing limits on that, but when it comes to making a reliable car that would last and that would hold up during an accident,

Starting point is 02:19:15 seems like the 80s and 90s had reached a point of, this is where we want to be. And every single thing we've moved, every time we've moved away from those, it has gotten worse in some way or fashion. And it's funny, I still see, you know, the stereotypical 98 Honda Civic out and about, you know, 300,000, 400,000, 500,000 miles on these things,

Starting point is 02:19:33 and they're still running like champs, despite the fact. They were, you know, the first car for every single kid my age, about, you know, 10, well, longer than that now. Anyway, the 98 Honda Civic has been a staple of a car for almost a generation at this point, and it's still out and about running. And I never see the 2000s Honda Civics anymore.

Starting point is 02:19:58 Like, I'm assuming there are some, but the cars from the 90s are still out there. And to some extent, they still had some interesting body stuff. That's one of the things I find really obnoxious as well, is the homogeneity of the body stylings of all these cars. They have all become so similar and uninteresting in their stylings. And it is just, you know, I look back again at the cars of the 50s and 60s and it's like,, oh, that is that's something worth restoring. If you have an old one that's a little beat up, you know, you could put some love into

Starting point is 02:20:30 that and you could restore it to a point of beauty and it's a work of art. Who cares about restoring a 2000 Toyota Corolla? You know, what's the point? Well, nobody will. There's a reason for that. You know, there used to be a great deal of latitude in terms of styling. Styling was really important. If you could look back at the ads from the 50s and the 60s and the 70s, that was the focus of a lot of vehicle advertising. They touted, wow, look how great looking this car is and not how safe it is, and it has six airbags. And to understand why vehicles

Starting point is 02:20:59 have become so homogenous in the way that they look, well, anybody who follows stock car racing knows that they have a template, a literal template. That it's a thing that they place over the body of the car, the car has to fit within that template. Because they need all the cars to be pretty much the same, so that nobody has a particular aerodynamic advantage on the track over another driver. Well, effectively, federal regulations pertaining to

Starting point is 02:21:21 things like safety, crash impact standards, and so on, as well as the gas mileage ones, which are more subtle, effectively dictate and limit the parameters of design to this shape. So you have this universal transportation appliance. That's what I call it. Yeah. Sort of blob-ish crossover shape. And that's essentially what you've got now.

Starting point is 02:21:39 You know, and it's all the same. And it's, you know, it's essentially analogous. You go to Walmart, you need a toaster. So you buy a toaster and you get it because it's an appliance and you use it. But when, you know, it breaks, you throw it away and get another toaster. Most people don't have any emotional attachment to their toaster. It's just an appliance. Yeah. And with a car, it's an appliance. It doesn't do anything for you emotionally. So you use it for a while and when it falls apart, you throw it away and get another one. Yeah. My, uh, I'm sure

Starting point is 02:22:02 my dad has talked to you about it, but he had a Triumph Spitfire back when he was in college. And he describes it as the best of cars and the worst of cars in the fact that when it ran and it was driving, it was the most fun he's ever had with a car. You know, it was tiny, probably horribly unsafe by today's standards, but it was so much fun to drive and the style, it was beautiful to look at at and it's just today we have all these cars that are not necessarily

Starting point is 02:22:31 hideous but just uninteresting. Just this, anytime I'm on the highway it's just this sea of you know they could be a Ford they could be Toyota they could be Honda they could be Hyundai it, they could be Toyota, they could be Honda, they could be Hyundai, it doesn't matter. Like they're all exactly interchangeable. And I assume the only real differentiation is how much they're lying about their safety statistics. You know, how much they're fudging their numbers and figuring out how to cheat the system, you know? Oh, well, Ford cheated it this way.

Starting point is 02:22:57 Can we cheat it a little bit more on our end? Perhaps, we can, perhaps. That's the only, if they're all so completely similar, how in the world do they get these different numbers? That's just a question in my mind. It's just like, is there really that much of a difference in any of these safety tests that they perform? If they're all almost the identical car? Not really, you know, they're shaving splitting shaving Splitting hairs differences nothing nothing that's particularly meaningful But I wanted to just make a comment that I thought was interesting. This isn't my own idea But I thought it was a really insightful observation

Starting point is 02:23:34 Which is that as a society becomes increasingly authoritarian it becomes increasingly ugly and bland You know beauty begins to disappear because Individuality and creativity are suppressed that is said you get kind of top-down Pyramidal society and if you went to East Germany for example back in the 80s or 90s or the Soviet Union You'd be struck by how ugly it was how ugly the buildings were how ugly everything was just bleak the same And we are now becoming very much like that. Yeah, I've continually lamented just architecture, I'm not a scholar on architecture by any necessarily means, but I enjoy looking at pretty buildings.

Starting point is 02:24:13 I enjoy looking at the old buildings that were made of, you know, stone or marble or brick, just because they're different and they're pretty to look at. And now every single skyline is borderline exactly the same. It's all the exact same Yale box skyscraper, Yale box skyscraper, Yale box skyscraper. They are interchangeable.

Starting point is 02:24:33 It's hard, like you can identify New York just as simply because it's New York. But pick just about any other city in the United States and tell me what skyline that is. It's impossible. There's no really differentiating between them all. And it's homogenizing culture down too. Everyone might as well be.

Starting point is 02:24:49 I think it demoralizes people. When cities were beautiful, they were uplifting. You look at this magnificent architecture or a painting or something of that kind, and it makes you feel, wow, look at that. Look at who, what genius came up with that and whose hands made that, you know It's it made you feel good instead of feeling depressed and like you want to just look at the sidewalk and and shuffle along

Starting point is 02:25:11 Absolutely sad as far as the safety stuff. Here's a very interesting thing that people listening may not be aware of It's so disingenuous if I were to go back Let's say and get myself a 2015 model year Mercedes S-Class Which is their top- the line sit-in, big car, big heavy sit-in. What the British would call a saloon, right? What the British would call a saloon, right? I guess a saloon is a, I guess a saloon is a, yeah, because a shooting brake is a wagon over there. Yeah, I think you're right, a saloon. Anyway, the point is, if Mercedes were to make that exact same car today as a brand new car, it would be

Starting point is 02:25:45 unsafe in terms of the regulatory state because it doesn't meet every jot and tittle of the current motor vehicle, federal motor vehicle safety standard thing. Now would you rather be in that Mercedes S-Class from 2015 when you hit an oak tree or a five star rated brand new little subcompact economy car that is safe according to the standards. It's fatuous. The whole thing is so fundamentally dishonest, but people are manipulated into believing

Starting point is 02:26:13 that if I don't have the very latest new car, I'm risking my kids, I'm driving an unsafe car. It's all on purpose. They're just trying to conjure fear to further their agenda. It's so true. I mean, it's hilarious to me to think about that. Just the fact that a 2015 S we all like I find Mercedes to be very pretty cars is a general rule and everyone you know, they're top of the line for a reason.

Starting point is 02:26:40 They have very good engineers that work there. They spend a lot of time working these things out. And the fact that like Hyundai Sonata is now considered to be a better, safer car than that blows my mind. It is unbelievable that we have been sold this bill of goods. It's just, it's hard to believe. Maybe the American people, some of them understand, but the fact that we are so credulous of these obvious falsehoods and lies and that we will continue to buy into this is just mind-blowing to me. That is, that is something. And it's also to be, you know, I have to say, you know, to be fair to people,

Starting point is 02:27:16 they are assaulted by an endless tsunami of propaganda and things aren't explained to them by the media. So for example, safety, and I put it in air fingers quotes, is essentially the same thing as compliance, but there's a difference there. You know, the fact that a car isn't compliant, like the 2015 S-Class, does not mean that it's unsafe. People, the difference is not explained to people. You know, the fact that you might be more injured if, like, when I was in college, I drove an old Volkswagen Beetle. Okay, so if I drove the Beetle into a tree probably my chances of being hurt or even killed were greater than if I had been driving a Mercedes S-Class. But was the car unsafe?

Starting point is 02:27:53 No, it just meant that you know I might get injured if I got into an accident with it. Doesn't mean it's unsafe. People hear that word and they think the car is like unpredictable. It has erratic handling characteristics. Well sometimes it just turns into a landmine and explodes, you know, for no reason. Yes. Yeah, exactly. And so what they have done is to pathologize cars.

Starting point is 02:28:13 I mean, literally millions of people drove Beetles at one time. It was one of the most popular cars ever made. The majority of them never got hurt driving a Beetle. I drove a Beetle for years. Nothing ever happened to me. My mom actually. So how's it safe car? Yeah, my mom actually owned a Ford pinto and she survived just fine

Starting point is 02:28:29 She came out bit unscathed despite the fact that that car was legitimately unsafe it was not a well-designed car at all, but if You take responsibility and you handle yourself properly You can mitigate a lot of risks in every aspect of your life. And it's just this continual nannying and ninnying of, no, no, we can't let you decide how much risk you want to take personally. We are going to dictate what you can do, when you can do it, how you can do it.

Starting point is 02:28:56 Yep. And there's another aspect to it as well. You remember the old movie with Clint Eastwood, The Outlaw, Josie Wales? Yes, yes. Remember that the psychopathic union cavalry officer said there ain't no end to doing right. You know, that's essentially how these bureaucrats think. You know, it's no longer a question of reasonableness. You know, there was a time when

Starting point is 02:29:15 pollution was a problem in the United States from vehicles. Absolutely. But they can't concede that the problem has been solved. Because if they were to concede that the problem is solved, well then what are they going to do? To justify their budget, you know, and everything going forward. So they have to pretend that the problem today is as severe as it was in 1970, which is preposterous. You know, they'll tell you that we're going to impose a new requirement that is going

Starting point is 02:29:39 to reduce the tailpipe exhaust emissions by 50%. And, you know, that's obligingly repeated by the media. Oh, they're going to reduce tailpipe exhaust emissions by 50% and you know that's obligingly repeated by the media oh they're gonna reduce tailpipe exhaust emissions by 50% what they don't tell you is in the first place 98% of the stuff coming out of the tailpipe isn't pollution in the first place yeah and in the second place 50% is 50% a fraction so you know you're talking about something like 0.00 something of improvement at what cost and it has no meaningful impact at all on air quality.

Starting point is 02:30:08 Yeah, they love lying by omission. You know, they'll say something and know that people aren't going to fact check them on it or if they do, they're not going to be able to understand what they've read. My dad continually is harped on being able, the importance of being able to do math because that is one way that these people lie continually. Like, oh, it's just a minor tax increase. It's only this small percentage. And she's like, well, you know, when you look at it, it adds up. You know, it starts to rapidly balloon when you, you know, just let them pile it on year after year. But I'm, they don't tell you.

Starting point is 02:30:47 It's a good example. You know, we're constantly being lectured about how there's this climate crisis that's caused by the human production of carbon dioxide. I know. I never tell you. It's my fault. I feel so bad about it. It's really been stressing me out at night.

Starting point is 02:31:02 I just can't sleep because of the carbon I emit. It's really dragging me down. But they never tell anybody. I have yet to come across any mainstream media coverage of the issue where they say, well, the Earth's atmosphere contains 0.04% CO2. That's how much is there. So now how much of it added to, how much are we adding to that 0.04%? And when you get into that, I mean, people hear that and they go, well, I guess that's pretty stupid. It's like a canary burping superdome, right? It's a fraction of a fraction of a percent. Yeah. But the idea that this is like presenting some sort of an existential crisis is preposterous. And you know how you can know it's preposterous and know I'm not wrong on this? Why are they pushing these high performance EVs that tout how they can get to 60 in two

Starting point is 02:31:51 seconds? And the cost of that is to have to lug around a thousand pounds of highly caustic, highly energy consumptive lithium ion batteries and all of the electrical capacity that's needed to supply power to that, which creates CO2. You think if they want people to drive these EVs, what they would want is the lowest cost type of vehicle possible so that more and more people could afford it. And in that case, what you would focus on is efficiency, not getting to 60 in two seconds. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:32:21 The Tesla to me seems like it has become nothing but a status symbol for people to sort, well, not anymore since Tesla's aligned with Trump now. But back then it was for leftists who were wealthy to say, to virtue signal and say, look at me, look at me. I care so much about the environment that I can spend this money here. I'll put in my wealth here to do better for the environment and it once again has just been all this continual grift of obfuscating where and how it's still the exact same problem if it is a real

Starting point is 02:32:56 problem. You know when it comes down to it there's still you know co2 and the batteries as you said they're highly caustic the chemicals are terrible and when it starts a battery fire As you've talked about with my dad they burn forever You can't put these things out and they continually relight at random intervals for quite a long period after the initial fire So they're just unsafe after a crash I've seen just so many videos of minor crashes with Tesla's where it seems like all of a sudden they just go so many videos of minor crashes with Teslas where it seems like all of a sudden they just go

Starting point is 02:33:30 up at once and at that point you are stuck dealing with this just in you know fire bomb that can randomly reignite itself. We have a couple of comments. Yeah, you go ahead. Oh, I was gonna say. Yeah, go. Sorry. The pinto that your mom drove, you actually had to hit the pinto for it to explode in the first place and even if you did hit the pinto, the gas itself wouldn't necessarily catch fire unless there was a spark. So you had to have several things come together to have that fire happen. With EVs, they spontaneously combust. Yeah, there's a, I know I've seen multiple stories of guys or families just at home in their sleep and the Tesla or whatever it is that they have parked in their garage just all of a sudden and you know burns the house down and I think I don't think I've ever seen a story of a family being

Starting point is 02:34:12 killed by it yet but just the fact that that is something that can happen that you are you know adding extra like this is a real risk this isn't some imaginary made-up risk this is something that you have no control over and no ability to diagnose beforehand this is just something that sometimes happens and maybe it's a small percentage of them, but you have no way of being able to tell if your car is one of the ones that is going to just combust and burn everything down. You could be the most responsible person. You can practice due diligence. For example, when I get electric cars to test drive, I have to plug them in in order to have the ability

Starting point is 02:34:47 to drive them. Well, I'm running the risk that the battery's going to overheat and that there's going to be a fire. I mean, I do my best to park it as far away from my house as possible, but the cord only reaches so far. There's nothing that I can do. I can be the most responsible guy in the world and follow all of the protocols.

Starting point is 02:35:02 I'm plugging it into a grounded outlet. Everything, the wiring isn't sketchy, nothing's wrong, you know, it's correctly fitted. It doesn't matter. The thing could still catch fire. You know, it's not like in the, where we're being irresponsible with gasoline where you're smoking while you're pouring the gas in the tank. Yeah. You know, and that's just fire.

Starting point is 02:35:18 So as you say, it's out of your hands. You're just kind of gambling and hoping it's not going to be your number that comes up. Which that's, that is the sort of risk that I always balk at where it's just you have no way of knowing you know what the variables are, where you stand in any of it, and it's just all up to. Well who knows. We have some comments here from solo cat 1980. She says honest pricing would always have the ethanol blend gassed costing more than non-eth non ethanol gas. What's your take on that, Eric? Is that I don't know enough about this, but it sounds right. It's true because you know, there are again, there are economies of scale and factors of that nature applying. You know, you have to

Starting point is 02:35:57 separate this fuel out, then you have to truck it in a different tank in the tanker truck. So it gets more involved to get that fuel and it's harder to find it too. And there is more demand for it. A lot of people who are aware of the problems of the ethanol laced gas, they want the gas, particularly if you have an older car like I've got, you know, I've got a 76 Pontiac, you know, I prefer not to put the ethanol gas in that thing. And a lot of people don't want to use it in their power equipment. So, you know, they'll quickly use up what the fuel is available and the increased demand increases the cost. You know, that's, that's, so that's the reason for that. Yeah. Simple supply and demand at that point. I also have another comment from Francine says we are running into 15 minute cities and that is very

Starting point is 02:36:37 true. They are rapidly moving towards a future where you are tracked and traced at every single step of your day. And any of these cities where they never, as the name implies, never want you more than 15 minutes from your own home. Eric, you were really, really big in fighting back against the masks and the COVID mandates. I remember that. Are you still doing your diaper report? Yeah, in fact, I've got one coming out tomorrow that gets into this news story the day. You may have seen it. It's really a sad story. There was a family in Spain. I think they were German, but for whatever reason, they were living in Spain.

Starting point is 02:37:10 And they had been practicing all of the COVID kabuki up to a week ago. They had imprisoned their three kids, three kids in this house and they're all wearing masks. That's horrible. For the last four years, because they had been so pathology, so rendered, so terrified of the dread COVID boogie man. You know, this is what was done to people. They

Starting point is 02:37:31 literally drove people out of their minds with the fear, with the terror, you know, that if they didn't go along with all of this stuff, with putting on the mask, with the social distancing, with treating other human beings as pariahs because, oh my God, they're, you know, they're going to get you sick. You're going to kill granny. Remember all that stuff? Yes. And these people just went completely bonkers. And ironically, you know, now the parents got arrested for doing what people were told they had to do a few years ago. A few years ago, if you didn't put a mask on your kid, the child, the child

Starting point is 02:37:58 protective services people would come and take your kids. You know, now they're taking parents away. They're probably very confused. Hey, I was just following all of the guidelines. Why are you arresting me? I was a good little citizen. I promise I did exactly that. That's the thing. The party does not care about you. What they care about is their rules. And if they capriciously change them at an instant and you don't immediately comply, they will roll you up and cart you away. That's just how it is. It is all about compliance and they expect you to comply with whatever the latest mania is on an instance notice. This is a little off topic, but I've been reading a little bit about the Oklahoma City bombing and just interesting,

Starting point is 02:38:37 you know, stuff going on there. But one of the characters that popped up was a Dr. Louis Jolion West and he worked very heavily with MKUltra and he I don't know if he pioneered it but he wrote a lot about a way of programming and brainwashing people and breaking them down called DDD, debility dependency dread and you haven't been able to find any hard papers on it because they're all owned by universities and you have to be a university student to get them. But just from the name of the programming technique, you can kind of infer a little bit about what they would do.

Starting point is 02:39:11 Debilitie. You debilitate someone's ability to function. You take stuff, you take something away from them, you make their life harder or worse. Dependency. You instill a need for you in the person or a need for something that you have in the person and dread. You make them fearful. You make them dread an outcome. and when you look at what the government did with COVID and the way that they hammered people,

Starting point is 02:39:35 it seems to be completely out of this almost, you know, MK Ultra playbook. and it's just really horrifying to see the level of mania and hysteria it has engendered in people. and there are still people out there today just running I've seen people just in their car by themselves still wearing a mask and at I saw one yesterday. I Can't understand that level of insanity surely and to me. It's just like okay Even if you believe this even if you think even if you bought into it at the beginning, how can you not look at what has happened and say, OK, I got sold a bill of goods? Like at because they've lost their minds.

Starting point is 02:40:12 Yeah, minds have been shattered. You know, if you look into things like this, this is a long time ago. But you may have heard of Patty Hearst and what happened to her. She was the heir, an heir to the Hearst and what happened to her. She was the heir to the Hearst publishing empire, and she was captured by these people who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. And what they did to her was they systematically raped her and kept her in a room and just abused the hell out of her for a long time until she finally broke. And then they made her part of their army, and she participated in a bank robbery.

Starting point is 02:40:45 And she ended up being convicted of the bank robbery that she participated in. And she would defend the people who did all this stuff to her because she was broken. They just stomped on her mind. And that is what has happened to so many people. Like you said, the person that you saw, the person that I saw, I don't think these are bad people. I think these are damaged people. They have been pushed beyond the limit of their capacity to fight back mentally, emotionally, and they are just now living in terror. You know, I think it's genuine. I think the people that you see wearing the mask for the most part, they genuinely are afraid. They really do believe that, you know, we're the ones who are foolish, that we're the ones who are callous and irresponsible because we're not taking it seriously. We're

Starting point is 02:41:28 not wearing the masks. Yeah. You know, and unfortunately there's a lot of latent of that out there. And you know, if Trump, father of the vaccines, decides that we need to wear masks again, which he may, of course, he'll find a way to absolve himself of all responsibility for it. They'll happily join it and say, yup, it's time to do it all over again. It's a, I feel on one hand, you know, there's always that instinct to be like, you did this to us, you okayed this, your insanity is why we've had to put up with

Starting point is 02:41:58 this collective insanity for years. But it also, you're right, these people are broken and it's important to remember that, like these aren't evil necessarily people. They have been abused and misused by a government that they foolishly trusted. But it's easy to see that, you know, they're just naive. They're not bad. They just didn't understand that the government was not really there to help them They wanted to believe in a government that is good And even if it's an obviously foolish thing to do it doesn't make them evil

Starting point is 02:42:31 It just makes them dumb and I struggle with that sometimes myself and getting into the point of you just kind of want to grab them and shake them and yell at them and You know not necessarily to accomplish anything but just to berate them because they have made life worse But that doesn't accomplish anything and you have to remember that underneath that mask. There is a person there that still can be reached potentially if you approach it in the right way and this whole you know screaming and shouting and treating them as less than doesn't accomplish that at all. And that, again, that's something I struggle with very personally in the fact that it's very easy

Starting point is 02:43:11 to, for me, as someone who grew up with the father I had, who was always pointing out, it's like the government's not there to be your friend. It's not there to help you. It's always there looking out for its own interests and trying to take things from you for me to go, you guys are stupid. But if I didn't have the dad I did, if I didn't have the upbringing I did, if I didn't have this wealth of information that he imparted on me, you know, it's, you know, who's to say? I might be the guy in the car wearing the mask all by myself panicking because he heard that there's a new variant of some kind out there that's coming for him. And- It's a tough thing because as human beings, you want to have empathy, you know,

Starting point is 02:43:46 for people who are shattered like that. But at the same time, there is also awareness that they're dangerous, you know, in the sense that they really do believe in all of this. So if events, you know, let's say they come out with the monkeypox again or whatever they're going to come up with, you know, and they amp up the fear again, those very people would become absolutely hysterical, just like they were the last time. And they would be the ones taking

Starting point is 02:44:08 you and I out of the stores and demanding that we submit to being vaccinated and all of that. It's not like when you used to see before COVID, you know, you would see say a homeless person, you know, pushing a shopping cart and they had a mask on, you know, or somebody who was clearly psychologically unwell. And you would have, you know, it would make you sad. You would have empathy and compassion for that person because, you know, they weren't a threat to you. They were a threat to themselves. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:44:32 Now we've got people who are both. It's a, it really is a tight rope. You have to walk of knowing that any empathy and kindness that you show these people will not be extended back towards yourself. They will immediately flip on you. And if the government tells them they would immediately like they're over there officer, go round them up. He's not wearing a mask. Take them to the camp. He's going to get me sick. And you have to balance that knowledge out. You have to be aware of just like, yes,

Starting point is 02:44:59 these are people. Yes, we could potentially accomplish more by being empathetic, but also be very, very wary of the fact that they will immediately turn on you in any sort of event where the government tells them to. It very much reminds me of the Armenian genocide where they, not that we are in a genocide, but just the fact that, you know, they would turn on a dime, it said, you know, like instantaneously, like they would go from, you know, well-meaning, happy, something like instantaneously, like they would go from, you know, well-meaning happy something happens Instantaneously, they have turned on You know

Starting point is 02:45:29 The programming is activated and they are more than willing to do anything and everything To get rid of you to get you out and to get you away from them That's the thing that angers me the most, you know When I when I start to have that welling up of anger when I see somebody wearing a mask I think to myself, you myself, it's not that person, it's these people, the people behind this turning of us against one another, instead of seeing what our common enemy is, who our common enemy is. And it's been brilliantly successful, the way they have shattered friendships and families and all these things. And most people don't still to this day appreciate

Starting point is 02:46:04 who the enemy is. I think more people than ever in my lifetime at least do appreciate it, but we still haven't reached that critical mass point yet where a majority of the people actually understand what the nature of the problem is. Yeah, so I'm sure you're aware, but there's this large schism between the younger generations

Starting point is 02:46:23 and what the younger generations call boomers, which is basically anyone over like the age of 50, which isn't the technical term for a boomer, but it's just become a colloquialism at this point. And I'm, you know, the older generations, you know, they did things wrong, but also they were the first generation to be subject to a 24 hour news cycle, to have propaganda pumped at them 24 7. There was never like any time you could turn on the TV and have it bombarded at you all the time. And they didn't have the benefit of having all these people be exposed

Starting point is 02:46:57 as frauds and as liars. It was the first time that they had access to this. And these people, you know, thought that the news media were their friends, that they were there to just impart information to them. Not that they were there to brainwash them and sell them a bill of goods, but that they were genuinely there to do their job, not to be a malevolent force in their life. And I don't see that acknowledgement ever from the younger generation. Like, like yes every generation has their faults You know, the Millennials are lazy and entitled and poisoned by irony. We can't take anything seriously. It's a serious problem and

Starting point is 02:47:34 We don't acknowledge that every generation has its faults but the older generations got hammered in such a way that we haven't had to experience because we have had the benefit of seeing these people and these methods be exposed over and over again as frauds and Still many many people in my generation are just willing little patsies who will bend over and wear the mask At the drop of a hat and these are the same people that will complain about boomers and it's like yes again Every generation has its problems but stop pretending that you know the boomers sold us out willingly it was a 24-hour news cycle of disinformation that had the likes of which had never ever been seen before it was a totally new

Starting point is 02:48:18 thing that had been conceptualized by some of the most intelligent malevolent people the world has ever known. And they knew what they were doing. This was purpose-built to do what it did, and it succeeded. Oh, no question. And there's another contributing factor there that has afflicted, I think, pretty much every generation now for at least the last, what, 75, if not 100 years, which is government schooling, which is a misnomer

Starting point is 02:48:44 because it's not schooling. The whole purpose of the government system is to essentially cripple the capacity of the kid to think logically, independently, using reason based on evidence, to think independently. It's all about rote memorization. And it's very staccato. You know, if you went to a government school, you'll know all about this. You know, you would have a class and then the bell rings and you go to the next class. Totally different subject. So, they tried to shunt things in such a way that you couldn't form a coherent view of anything.

Starting point is 02:49:13 And they actively discouraged by characterizing it almost as pathological, the kid who would raise questions and ask why. Yeah, you're disrupting. You're disrupting the flow of the class. We've got a schedule to keep and certain parts of our study plan that we have to meet by the end of the day. We're not here to answer your questions. We're here to impart a specific set of facts,

Starting point is 02:49:33 if you can call them facts, a specific worldview onto you. And if we don't like that. It's not matterization, not thinking. And it even applies. It's not that, oh, we're talking about the kids who aren't very bright. We're talking about all the kids. You end up becoming a doctor. And what does that mean? Well, you are particularly good at regurgitating a lot of rote information that's provided to you

Starting point is 02:49:52 by these medical schools, not to think independently, not to do diagnostics and to think, well, what might be causing this? It's well, you know, the diagnostic chart says, right, you know, essentially you become sort of a robot, an automaton who's taught to operate in a certain way. Yeah, that's a most of the doctors that I've interacted with could have absolutely been replaced by an AI that just, you know, maybe a nurse comes in, draws your blood. Maybe they've got a robot that does that too. But then it ships the blood out. It gets a reading back from a different computer and then tells you beep boop.

Starting point is 02:50:24 This is what you have. That's all most of the doctors I've ever encountered have done. They've just read off from a sheet of paper from what a computer has told them. And you're still for that. Oh yeah, and it's going to be exorbitant. His time is money, even though it's just something that...

Starting point is 02:50:43 Like the fact that just the cost of medicine in the United States is crazy. Just getting a blood test is ludicrous anymore and it's just getting worse and worse. I can't, the medical establishment... I've encouraged everybody to think, like this is a really modern phenomenon. You talk about the barrage of the endless 24-7 news cycle. How about the endless barrage of pharma ads and then you're you must be sick. Ask your doctor about restless leg syndrome. You know, and they're making, I mean, I grew up in a time when most people, hey, I feel fine. I'm, there's nothing wrong with me. They didn't obsess about sickness all the time. Yeah. And you know, oh, I better ask

Starting point is 02:51:19 my doctor about, you know, and you just lived your life. The ones that really get me are the psychological issues because they are things that if they tell you do you have to worry about enough, they can inflict upon you through sheer repetition of reminding you it's like, oh hey, are you stressed? Are you depressed? Are you stressed? Are you depressed? And over time that alone can beat you down and turn you into a stressed and depressed person. It is just this continual psychological manipulation of merely seeing these ads for these products can engender in you those feelings.

Starting point is 02:51:54 Yeah, you feel, okay, well, I guess there's something going on here. Everybody else seems to be sick. Boy, I might be sick too. Maybe I really should look into it. Maybe I need to go see my doctor and ask them about Lazenda or whatever the latest thing is. Yeah. My dad and my grandfather were doctors and there was a time when it was illegal to advertise pharmaceuticals on

Starting point is 02:52:13 the air, you know. And you know, as a libertarian principle, I believe in free expression, but I have to say there has been an enormously corrupting and corrosive effect of having these pharmaceutical ads just constantly assaulting people. And it's even more insidious than that because of the money that's involved. You know, the advertising revenue that is, has become, that these networks have become so dependent on. Why do you think that they were so uncritical of everything that was put

Starting point is 02:52:38 forward during the pandemic? Well, because their budget was predominantly, right, by Pfizer and all these other companies. Brought to you by Pfizer. Yeah. You know, so they just, they don't, they've lost any capability to independently report on subjects having to do with health for that reason. Yeah, it is, at any time, I mentioned this briefly, but anytime we go on a trip, that's basically the only time I turn on TV. You know, you end up in a hotel room, you've got nothing else to do. So you just turn on the TV and see what's there.

Starting point is 02:53:07 And it seems like 75% at least of commercials on any given network are for drugs of some kind. Just, oh, are you itchy? Are you depressed? Are you anxious? Are, yeah, whatever. It's just they're making a drug for it. Any potential condition that

Starting point is 02:53:26 you can think you might have, they are more than willing to sell you it. Of course, you know, don't forget about the fact that once you start taking this, there's a whole list of side effects that, you know, can occur, probably will occur, and then they'll be more than happy to sell you another drug to take care of those side effects as well. And they talk in a super, super quick voice, you know, all the potential consequences of taking this drug. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, he's gonna have a heart attack and die, you know. It's side effects all the way down with these people, you know. It's just this litany of once they get you hooked on one thing, it just compounds itself. It just means

Starting point is 02:53:58 that next time you're gonna have to have two drugs instead of one, and then maybe four drugs instead of two. And it's just this never-ending Cycle of just oh well dope yourself up if you don't feel quite right You don't ever try thinking don't ever go outside Don't try to go for a walk or maybe exercise or hang out with your friends or maybe get a dog and do something that might You know bring you some joy just go get a bottle of pills. You know, it's that easy. It's that simple. I think the stat is something like half. It might be low. That stat might not be right on the low end. Half of the American population is regularly taking one pill or another for some chronic condition. Yeah, I think I've seen that statistic. I vaguely remember one about how,

Starting point is 02:54:41 especially among middle-aged white women, that antidepressants have seen a massive spike. I want to say it's over... I want to say it's almost close to 60%. I could be pulling that number out of my rear end, but I remember it like just shocked me. The sheer number of people that are just so miserable that they feel the need to, you know, take these dangerous and detrimental chemicals that can alter you and potentially make you suicidal. We've seen that many many times with Zoloft. Just the fact that these people are, you know, they have some minor issue. The doctor prescribes them this bottle of, you know, SSRIs and then, you know, it changes and then you know it changes them it immediately starts affecting them and then if they try to get off that's when

Starting point is 02:55:30 things get really bad because your body is now used to having this weird chemical inside it and when it goes cold turkey it freaks out and it can cause all kinds of horrific things to happen and we've my dad they're mass they're mass-doping boys you know young riddle in because oh my god, I'm fidgety You know, I'm not paying attention. It's so clearly there's something wrong with you. So here's a pill Yeah, I mean I've been sitting here talking and having a good time for three hours video I'm like, oh man, I'm about ready to get up and go do something anything else, you know, and that's when I'm having a good time I'm interacting with you. I'm interacting with chat. I'm getting to read articles

Starting point is 02:56:05 I've got so many things going on But even now it's like, you know a full-grown adult that doesn't have the level of energy you have when you're a child I'm just ready to you know, kind of peel my skin off a little bit. It's like oh man I want to go do something. I got to get out of here and as a child you just cannot sit still and they are more than willing to just you just cannot sit still and they are more than willing to just hammer you down and tamp down on everything that makes childhood fun and exciting to get you to comply with their program and that's what it is it's about programming because if you are not sitting there in the chair paying attention or at least a facsimile thereof it

Starting point is 02:56:39 weakens the entire system There's a common thread here. They're pathologizing normalcy. That was an aspect of what went on during the pandemic. They made it normal to walk around wearing a mask and a shield and rubber gloves and being terrified of everything. And I think it's not a coincidence that right around the same time,

Starting point is 02:56:59 we started seeing all this explosion of trans things. People who were confused about their and and not only were they confused But they insisted we share their confusion Yeah, you know, so we have to pretend that he is a she because he believes that she's that he's a she We have to share in this delusion So it's like this mass psychosis is now afflicted the entire country and and you know when you feel like you're going crazy Well, there's a reason for it yeah we are crazy all right thank you so much Eric it has been an absolute pleasure talking with you I can't thank you enough for

Starting point is 02:57:33 still being willing to come on and do the interview I know that I'm not exactly the same vibe as my dad is and that I don't provide as much feedback but I greatly appreciate you providing all this information for our listeners and it's always a pleasure Having you on the show. We had a great time and I'm you know, again, I hope that David is better soon Your dad's a great guy and please let him know that that we're hoping that everything gets better very soon. Awesome Thank you, Eric. I will pass that along. Thank you so much. You have a great rest of your day likewise All right folks. I do have an

Starting point is 02:58:06 update from my dad here. Just want to let you know that this is a very serious and delicate surgery on his carotid artery, so please keep him in your prayers if you can lift him up fervently and just routinely. We would appreciate that. Yeah, he means so much to all of us here that can't even imagine without him. But we are lifting him up in prayer and we just ask that you do as well. And excuse me, just want to ask if you have any information about how to get clean blood, as in not vaccinated, not tainted through the COVID vaccine, if you would email us about it. We are contacting Blessed by His Blood, but suggestions are still appreciated.

Starting point is 02:58:56 And again, please just keep him in your prayers very fervently. It is a serious operation, and we him in your prayers very fervently. It is a serious operation and we just want to make sure he comes home and it is in God's hands. So please give him all your prayers and thank you for all the prayers you've already sent up for him. It means the world to us and I cannot thank you enough for bearing with me during this three hours and for all the support and all the kind words. It has been really a blessing for me as well to see how much he is loved not just by us, but by everyone out there. I've always thought the world is my dad and thought he was just, you know, a genius that needed to be shared with the world. And I'm glad that at least a portion of the world gets to see that and I think agree with me. So thank you all. Please keep us in your prayers, especially

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