The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2,000: Grid Blackout Sparks Renewable Retreat; Amazon Faces Fury Over Surcharge Truth

Starting point is 00:00:00 Music In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday the 30th of April, year of our Lord 2025. Well yesterday I talked about the grid outage in Spain, Portugal, parts of France, parts of Belgium. But today we're going to take a look at the aftermath of this. Everybody has pretty much agreed that yes, it was an inertia problem caused by having too much of the grid be solar rather than the turbines that would have physical inertia that would play back into it. And it's amazing to see just how close they were to the entire grid coming down. And I

Starting point is 00:01:22 think this is going to be a turning point, quite frankly. We've had Tony Blair come back and say, well, people have been asked to lose too much in their life and to give up too much for something that really isn't their problem. And yet I'm going to show you where they're going to pivot with this as well. We'll also take a look at what's going on with Amazon and the tariff itemization. Boy, that hit a raw nerve with the Trump administration. Don't want you to see that itemized expense. And of course they have also changed yet again. The auto tariffs have changed yet again. I'm glad they're taking them down, but it's the uncertainty, stupid, that is destroying the economy, stupid. We'll be right back.

Starting point is 00:02:07 Well, I want to begin by thanking everybody for their kindness and generosity yesterday, especially I'm Marty, who matched the funds. And we got it up to seven-eighths, which is significant considering that we were just over a little bit over half when that started yesterday. So thank you so much for what you've done and I appreciate that. And I've got many birthday wishes from people. I'm going to play one later from a guard. This was sent to me by Birdhouse Blues, sent a couple of couple of pieces of artwork.

Starting point is 00:02:41 Said forget Y2K, it's all about DK2K. Happy 70th birthday and congratulations on the 2000th episode.� That�s today. Interesting how those two things lined up. And he did another one, the cartoon artwork version of this. I look uncomfortably like Mike Huckabee there in the picture when he used to do a cartoon version of me. He�s kind of become a cartoon version of me. He's kind of become a cartoon version of a conservative Christian, hasn't he? Anyway, we're going to talk a little bit about the aftermath of this situation in Europe. And hopefully there's going to be an awakening

Starting point is 00:03:18 based on this. As Michael Schellenberger said, all of Europe appears to have been just seconds away from a continent-wide blackout See if you can pull this thing up because he's got a chart there that shows the dip and it truly is amazing It does it dipped down 0.3 percent It went from 50 Hertz, which is you know, they have we have a 60 Hertz system here in the United States where

Starting point is 00:03:46 you know the electricity the alternating current is Transmitted at a frequency of 60 Hertz and they change it this goes back all the the what was it wasn't even that movie current current wars or something like that about the fight between Tesla and Westinghouse and Edison and all them as to whether they were going to do direct current or alternating current I can't remember what that movie was. It was excellent. I really enjoyed that but you know, you can go back and and do your own research in the history and adjust the movie but More or less it was it was an interesting competition As to whether or not they're gonna have a direct current or alternating current.

Starting point is 00:04:25 And of course, with alternating current, you can step the voltage up super, super high. So for the same amount of power, you have a very low current, and that means that you have low line losses, because the line losses that you're going to have are going to be related not to the voltage that is transmittal, but the actual current that is running against the resistance of the line. So the anyway, so we have alternating current. In Europe, they alternate the current at a frequency of 50 Hertz. Here it is 60 Hertz. And I never realized just how, because like I said, I was never into the power generation stuff. I did not want to go to work for Tampa Electric

Starting point is 00:05:05 and be hooked there. Not that there's anything wrong with that. That's just not the kind of job that I wanted to have. I knew people who did that. And there was a friend of my parents who had worked there as an engineer all of his life. And his daughter was in school, electrical engineering, at the same time I was.

Starting point is 00:05:23 That was what she was angling for. It's like, nah, I'm kind of more interested in electronics and computers. But it's kind of interesting how tight the tolerance is there. Anything that is outside plus or minus 0.2 Hertz triggers major emergency actions. Wow! That is amazing! So they want to keep it within 0.1 Hertz. 50 Hertz, that's a very, very tight tolerance. Now they've never had problems doing that in the past, because in the past all the power

Starting point is 00:06:02 has been generated by rotating turbines, generating the power, whether you're talking about hydroelectric or nuclear or if you're burning some fuel like coal, oil, gas, anything like that. So that's never been a problem until they got solar and wind and even with wind they don't have enough inertia in the windmill to actually do this. So they had to try to come up with some kind of a synthetic inertia. There are a lot of people who are warning them that this is going to be a problem. Six days after they were able to go full net zeroes, I talked about yesterday, they created

Starting point is 00:06:39 net zero and then for six days they had it and then on the seventh day the grid rested for several hours because it was out of tolerance so they said at that threshold what happens is you know when the thing drops again if it had gone that went down 0.2 Hertz from where it needed to be. If it had gone down just a tiny bit more to 0.3 hertz, then there would have been a cascading blackout throughout the entire European grid. At that threshold, he says, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants and collapse accelerates. It's disturbingly easy to imagine multiple scenarios where that could have occurred.

Starting point is 00:07:30 He said renewables don't risk blackouts, said the media. But they did and they do. And of course we talked about the blackouts that happen when sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing. Oh, it's okay. We got a big battery back up. Well, that's another problem in and of itself.

Starting point is 00:07:48 Fire. Fire. And expense. Unbelievably expensive. And just how much of a backup can you get with that? So anyway, they said they did and they do. The physics are simple. And now as blackouts in Spain stand, strand people in elevators, jam traffic lights and ground

Starting point is 00:08:10 flights, it's clear that just too little inertia due to excess solar result in the system collapse. And as I said before, you have even people like Tony Blair starting to walk back from some of this stuff. I mean, these are people who were insane about it. To see Tony Blair walk back against this is like seeing Joe Biden walking back against this. And so they've now admitted that it was some failures on some solar farms, a couple of them, that initiated this and then it propagated through the grid. Spain's national grid operator said it identified two incidents of power generation loss, probably from solar plants in the country's southwest.

Starting point is 00:08:53 These incidents caused instability in the electrical system, led to a breakdown of its interconnection with France. They ruled out a cyber attack as a cause. They said the blackout was not due to a lack of nuclear power, rejecting claims by far right party Vox, which opposes Madrid's planned nuclear phaseout. The nuclear is the only thing that we got that we're allowed to have because it doesn't have any CO2 in it. It only has deadly radiation.

Starting point is 00:09:20 That's so much better, isn't it? I mean CO2, that's something plants need. Something we, all of us, every human and animal, breathe out CO2. We can't have that. We want nuclear radiation. The nuclear waste. And hopefully they'll get that problem solved. Look, it's a technical problem.

Starting point is 00:09:42 And I reported on Monday the fact that there's a Swiss company that was able to significantly reduce, and I still don't know how they did it, makes no sense to me, but they claim that in one area where there's their experiment, they were able to reduce significantly the radiation. They said they could get rid of it in five years in Chernobyl rather than the 24,000 years that it would otherwise take. So there are some solutions for nuclear waste

Starting point is 00:10:18 and nuclear risk and things like that. I mean, you have breeder reactors and other things, but the technology is not finished yet. It's like all of this stuff. There's no time to wait. It's just like the tariffs. This whole Green Agenda stuff is just like Trump's tariffs. Now, unlike Trump's tariffs, I agree with where he wants to go. It's just the means by how he gets there that's the problem. And the means does not justify that end, okay? Because he's just going to shut everything down. He wants to do it right now. And it can't be done right now. But Biden

Starting point is 00:10:51 and all the rest of these people, people in the UK now, they've all got that same impetuous impatience. I want it now. I want it now. Well, it's not there now. And they want to destroy the things that are very well understood, safe, operating, paid for. They want because the people who are driving this want to make money off of it and they don't care that the technology is not finished yet. And they don't want to wait for the technical problems to be ironed out. They don't even want to wait for it to be tested.

Starting point is 00:11:23 They just demand that you do it now. The petulance of dictatorship that has now taken over Western society. And we know who's dictating it. And we know why they're doing it. And so, but now this is a real consequence. And so perhaps people have started to learn a lesson. Some people pointed out, what if that were a real cyber attack? What if that were an EMP, for example? What would have happened at that point? Well, it shows that

Starting point is 00:11:53 nobody is prepared for this. It shows that they don't have much in terms of breakers for something that is localized, right? First of all, they need some more circuit breakers, you know, in the system to be able to shut this thing down so that anything that happens somewhere is not gonna be so widely spread. But there's not really any backup on this. And as Tony Blair said, we have been pushing people to use more and more electricity.

Starting point is 00:12:19 Yeah, we wanna electrify everything. All of your transportation, all of your heating, your cooking, everything, all right? All your personal stuff, but all the major transportation, even trucks, they want to electrify everything. Even in the ridiculous moves of the Obama and Biden administration, they want to electrify military equipment. Unbelievably heavy, energy-intensive military equipment they wanted to electrify, like right now. Okay, well, why don't you just destroy your defenses here.

Starting point is 00:12:52 These incidents caused instability in the electrical system. They ruled out cyber attack. They said the blackout was not due to nuclear power, but, look, being phased out, but if they had nuclear power, the nuclear power does use the big turbine generators, and that does solve the inertia problem. So the guy is wrong. The guy is wrong. That is one of the many things that would have stopped this type of problem. Those who link this incident to the lack of nuclear power are frankly lying or demonstrating their ignorance. No, you're lying and demonstrating your ignorance. That's the Spanish Prime Minister who's saying that. Pedro, Pedro Sanchez.

Starting point is 00:13:32 He still evidently doesn't understand the connection. They say the Guardian was still, this is daily skeptic, the Guardian was still running with the idea that weather was to blame as of yesterday morning but later in the day they dropped that entirely because it was not weather still the Guardian wants to blame everything on man-made climate change everything everything every catastrophe every every storm it's all gonna be blamed on man-made stuff however However, I said the politics section of The Guardian did cover Tony Blair's warning that phasing out fuel is doomed to failure. Now of course he calls it fossil fuel.

Starting point is 00:14:15 I think that's absolute nonsense. That is the CIA's agenda for mind control and messing with us. Oh yeah, we've got to go to different forms of energy because that's why. Oh, tell them it's from dinosaurs. We don't have any more dinosaurs. We're gonna run out of oil and gas. No, no. Fuel. Fuel. Tony Blair, said the Guardian, has called for a reset of action on climate change to the dismay of some Green campaigners suggesting that the government should focus less on renewables and more on technological solutions like carbon capture. He's pivoting, along with the Trump administration, to carbon capture.

Starting point is 00:15:01 The pipeline thing that I was talking about. So we're not out of the woods yet. I mean, these grifters liars politicians and thieves I know I'm being redundant there it's four adjectives of the same group of people they're always going to pivot us over to some pie in the sky nonsense let's be clear you're the carbon they want to capture that's right they want to capture and eliminate us. It's fundamentally about depopulation. It's also about making themselves rich in the process and taking everything so that

Starting point is 00:15:33 we own nothing. And look, this carbon capture stuff is insane. We spent a lot of time last week talking about the pitfalls of these pipelines and the ripoffs and how they were stealing people's property with eminent domain and ruining their farms. So many problems. But again, Trump is at the center of all this. Summit pipeline, the biggest one, I think, and the governors of North and South Dakota, Kristi Noem and Doug Burgum, who are now in the Trump cabinet. Noem at the Department of Justice, but Burgum in there at the Department of Interior.

Starting point is 00:16:12 And so those two governors and Trump met with the pipeline head, CEO of Summit, and Marlago. The fix was in well before the election. Now you've got Tony Blair jumping in on carbon capture. Elon Musk is there as well. People want carbon capture, they want carbon taxes. All this is also an argument for you having everything that you buy and use measured by a digital currency. So the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair,

Starting point is 00:16:42 said people were quote, being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal. Zero. Let's talk about that. The real net zero is the effect that your life has on all this. And that's especially true in the UK. The UK is so small. The Labour Party has belaboured this, and they're deindustrialising

Starting point is 00:17:13 Britain at an alarming rate, and it's largely gone now. It's not just the market forces. And of course, a lot of the market forces have been put in place by these preferential treatment treaties for China, India, others like that. But it is truly insane, especially when you look at the small amount of carbon that is being used in that small country, and they've already eviscerated their energy usage. And so this is an unbelievable understatement from Tony Blair. Yeah, we know that our impact is not only minimal, it's net zero. That's what our impact is, is net zero. That's the real net zero. And they want us to make big financial sacrifices, changes in lifestyle. They want to kill our lifespan

Starting point is 00:18:05 because that's when you take away cheap energy. It's not just a lifestyle change. It's a life expectancy change. So Blair, and Ford was writing the foreword to a new report for his think tank at the Tony Blair Institute. And it echoed similar criticism of Net Zero made by the UK's conservative leader. He wrote, �Any strategy based on either phasing out fuels in the short term or limiting

Starting point is 00:18:39 consumption is a strategy doomed to fail.� This is every kind of fuel. Every kind of fuel. In consumption is a strategy doomed to fail. This is every kind of fuel. Every kind of fuel. They don't want you burning wood. I remember back in 2009, 2010, maybe 2008, you had the EPA. It was there in Research Triangle Park. They were working on how they could stop people from having fireplaces and all the rest of

Starting point is 00:19:02 stuff. It's burning any kind of fuel. Trees are not fossils. They don't want anybody burning anything. That's why they came up with this fantasy nonsense about CO2. And they don't want you burning any energy. They don't want animals burning any kind of energy either. Most political leaders, said Tony Blair Blair are decent people.

Starting point is 00:19:29 They would like to start taking some of the hysteria out of the climate debate, but they're reluctant to be the first to do so. They want to do the right thing. You know, that's not as we can all hope that that's true, right? So what do we see? We see that our dependence on electricity has increased dramatically by their fiat demands. And then we see that the new sources of electricity are subject to uncontrollable variations in supply. And now we have this new kind of variation in supply

Starting point is 00:19:58 in terms of the grid frequency. So the fiasco there in Spain and Portugal has flagged up like nothing else before it to show how vulnerable our society is especially when massive changes to something as important as a power grid are, listen, forced through in a rush and that's the problem with the tariffs. I don't support any of this green stuff. What they're trying to achieve, I adamantly oppose, and I also oppose the means of why they're trying to achieve that. Now they're trying to do it. But what Trump is doing in terms of, oh, let's get manufacturing back in America. Well, that's great.

Starting point is 00:20:45 But everything that he's doing mitigates against that. And there are many things that he could do that would help it. And by the way, there is a bill in Congress that we're going to talk about that I think is hopeful. We'll see if Trump pushes it and supports it. Something that Rand Paul and Thomas Massie have been pushing for a very long time. They called it the Reigns Act. Basically reigning in the bureaucracy, we'll talk about the details of that coming up.

Starting point is 00:21:08 But if that were to happen, that would be a huge step forward. And the left is not happy about that. But that's the type of thing. We need to have some fundamental structural change. First of all, the government. The government is the biggest problem. The biggest problem is not even China or any foreign government or even any foreign corporation. The biggest problem is that our government is basically smothering innovation in this

Starting point is 00:21:33 country and they're doing it with regulation. And so will Trump learn anything about trying to force changes through in a rush? I don't know. We'll see. So again, when you look at this as one, as David Skeptic also said, it revealed the Achilles heel of the grid that's dominated by wind and solar. Spain's electrical grid used to be a model of reliability as all of the grids in the western world did. Texas as well.

Starting point is 00:22:10 Texas destroyed their fuel burning power plants, put up wind power, spent billions or tens of billions of dollars for infrastructure to bring that power into the grid, and then they froze up. Didn't see that coming, right? Well, that didn't happen with the older forms of power. It's undergone a radical transformation, the grid in Spain, over the decade. Conventional power plants with massive spinning turbines that naturally resist frequency changes and provide crucial stability, have been systematically

Starting point is 00:22:45 replaced with weather-dependent solar panels and wind turbines that contribute virtually no inertia to the system. Everything about it is variable. They need to stop calling them renewable and they need to call them variable energy because everything about them varies. They vary with the sunlight, they vary with the wind, they vary with and then they create varying frequencies because they don't have any inertia. The result is a grid that may function adequately under ideal conditions but remains perilously susceptible to rapid destabilization when faced with disturbances. Power system engineers have been warning about the high penetration of renewables and the

Starting point is 00:23:24 inertia-related risk for years. But guess what? Politicians didn't care and they didn't listen. They had a different agenda. So they've had, as I point out, daily skeptic many studies that methodically demonstrated that when renewable generation dominates the mix, the resulting low rotating mass and insufficient inertia creates conditions where frequency disturbances can accelerate rapidly precisely the pre-failure conditions that existed in Spain's grid that caused the collapse

Starting point is 00:23:54 British grid operators have highlighted nearly identical concerns in the UK the 2023 report called operate oper Strategy, explicitly identifies the British system's inertia declined by about 40% between 2009 and 2021, creating reduced resistance to frequency changes, making the grid more vulnerable to these same types of disturbances. Daily Skeptic says, as our nation races down the same dangerous path, systematically closing reliable coal and gas plants, not only reliable but affordable. This stuff is not affordable and it doesn't last. It's not affordable, it's not durable, it's not renewable. It's variable. The energy is terrible and in such small portions too. That's right.

Starting point is 00:24:52 That's a classic story. Two old ladies that come out of the restaurant. Food was terrible and in such small quantities too, said the other one. Inside and outside of government will inevitably blame extraordinary circumstances when these failures occur. But they point out, I don't like what they say about their energy psychiatry Ed Miliband, they said his economic illiteracy regarding energy markets is rivaled only by his magical thinking on power system fundamentals.

Starting point is 00:25:21 And you know, we have a lot of magical thinking in politics. You look at the modern monetary theory, I call it the magic money theory. It's just magical thinking. Such delusion is nothing new in the energy sector. We saw that happen with Enron. They supposedly had innovative new energy products but turned out just to be elaborate financial illusions. This week millions of Spaniards learned this lesson the hard way. They were trapped in elevators, stranded on trains, left without basic services. And that gets their attention.

Starting point is 00:25:52 It's pretty hard to get people's attention anymore. They got people's attention. The grid went down. The total economic damage will likely reach into the tens of billions of euros. Britain faces a stark choice, and so does everybody else. You acknowledge the physical realities of electrical systems and you maintain adequate conventional generation, or you continue the current ideologically driven path. A path that is ideologically driven.

Starting point is 00:26:24 A path that is based on depopulation Deindustrialization a path that is not based on any observation of climate change let alone man-made Towards a likely system collapse so again It was the just a small amount of variation which is truly amazing So in conclusion there is a story from Michael every of rabble bank on zero hedge He says well one or two things from this Number one, and this is what a cyber attack on the West could look like and we are not ready. Are you ready?

Starting point is 00:27:00 Yeah, don't pretend don't don't depend on the politicians who are pretending that everything is okay. It's a good time to point to Jack Lawson's Civil Defense Manual, jacklawsonbooks.com. It's now back in stock, but take a look at that. You need to start making some kinds of preparations for yourself, because the government isn't going to be there for you. The government is creating fragility and instability, and they certainly aren't going to be prepared to handle anything if there's some maliciousness behind it. They can't even operate stuff under normal circumstances.

Starting point is 00:27:42 And of course, there's a certain maliciousness in what they're doing, but I'm talking about direct malice in terms of a full on attack, sabotaging and that type of thing. And of course, it could be very simple. You just have some people shoot up a transformer, right? A key, some key transformers, and that'd take a very long time to do it.

Starting point is 00:28:03 And then secondly, he says, as a global energy expert had made clear, we cannot rely on renewable power without backup batteries. That's not going to help us. That's going to add another level of massive expense, another level of risk with massive fires. And so he says further massive investment is needed or we return to fuel Let's hope that isn't going to be a Massive investment that's coming up, but you know, that's what they're going to do because this has all been a green grift

Starting point is 00:28:40 It's all been about them making money So we're going to take a quick break and we're going to come back and I'm going to read. I've got a lot of happy birthday wishes from people and we're going to talk a little bit about that when we come back. Stay with us. We'll be right back. The You're listening to the David Knight Show. On Rumble, Geesebusters, thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Yeah, we had a huge...

Starting point is 00:29:51 Thank you for the tip. It says, Happy Birthday. Have a great year. Thank you. And he sent $70, which is my age. I think that's a coincidence. I think he did that. Thank you so much everybody

Starting point is 00:30:05 because again we were just above half and we're now at seven eights which is a big change and thank you especially to i'm Marty for matching that and many birthday wishes I'll just read the people here on rumble be my Valentine Twilight Shadow Brandon Brandon Bennett, Judy Rinkles, Stikin420, Nadlander, Emulated Void, NJC4007 and so as you should see a donation in your mailbox this week. Thank you. JJJthegolfer, Tony Garrett, thank you for the tip on rumble, M Sellers, Risha M says my puppies were born this morning on David's birthday.

Starting point is 00:30:48 That's great. You know, that's, dogs have been such a blessing to us. I was going to tell the, I can't remember her name now, it was just a couple of days ago that I had the lady on and we were talking about her book, I think it was on Friday, didn't we have it? Christine Manitas. Christine Manitas. Manitas, thank you, yes.

Starting point is 00:31:10 And I was going to tell her that she starts out, and she's got pictures on her website, she starts out her video with her dog there, and she's got a Border Collie. And I was going to tell her, you had me at the Border Collie, you know, to interview you. And what great dogs they are. Scout's been a great dog. And of course there's another one that we picked up that may be in some fashion related to him, we think. But he's a little mongrel and he's a great little dog too.

Starting point is 00:31:37 They really make our life great. Well, that's great that you had puppies. Gard Goldsmith, good to see you Gard. And I've got a birthday wish from Gard. I'm gonna play in a little bit here. And Brian and Deb McCartney, thank you very much. Thank you. Happy, blessed 70th birthday

Starting point is 00:31:54 and congratulations on 2,000 shows. It just both coincided on the same day. Nights of the Storm, thank you guys. Minuteman Militia also. And Choose Crypto says, Happy birthday, you and my mother share the same birthday. She's turning 73, easy to remember. Blessings to all your family.

Starting point is 00:32:11 Thank you so much. And Birdhouse Blues who did the couple of, let's see, here they are here, did a couple of DK2K, which I thought was great. DK's 2000th show. And on kick, South Coast Painter, very, very happy birthday to you, David. UK, which I thought was great. DK's 2000th show. And on kick, South Coast Painter. Very, very happy birthday to you, David.

Starting point is 00:32:29 Very thankful for you and your knowledge. Well, thank you. That's kind. Chrisostomus Electronica. Thank you for the tip. I appreciate that. On Rumble. And Steve Swan on Rumble.

Starting point is 00:32:37 Katherine Austin Fitz told Tucker this week that the elites have siphoned many trillions of dollars from the government and have built 170 underground bases to prepare for the next year's World Cup. And on kick, South Coast Painter. Very, very happy birthday to you, David. Very thankful for you and your knowledge. Well, thank you. That's kind. Chrisostomus Electronica. Thank you for the tip. I appreciate that. On Rumble. Catherine Austin Fitz told Tucker this week that the elites have siphoned many trillions of dollars from the government and have built

Starting point is 00:32:47 170 underground bases to prepare for the a near extinction event Yeah, I agree. The only question is is it going to be coming from them or is it something that they see coming? Are they going to be the ones who trigger it? I mean we've been talking about that for for quite some time and I saw a clip where she was talking to Tucker about that. They've got their store bowl seed vaults and things like that. That's why I say you need to do some preparation for yourself. But look, life is short.

Starting point is 00:33:15 Every birthday that we have we get closer to the end of it. What you need to do is you need to make some preparation for the next life, which lasts eternally. And so I hope that people make that kind of preparation. I'm not, you know, I want to be prudent and I want to manage things well. And so we don't just, you know, walk out, well, I don't care what happens. No, we do care what happens. But I'm not panicked about it.

Starting point is 00:33:41 I'm not in fear of it. And we shouldn't fear what these people do. We don't fear those who can even destroy the body, right? We fear the one who can destroy the body and cast you into eternal hell. That's who we fear. And once we begin to fear him and get to know him, we realize that we see his kindness and his love, and that's the key thing. And that's what gets us through this dark period that we call life. Let's talk a little bit about the truths about tariffs.

Starting point is 00:34:16 Trump and the administration and their cheerleaders on Fox News went apoplectic at the idea that Amazon would itemize the new tariff charges that they're putting on. There are online retailers where you buy things out of China that are going to be doing that. They are going to be doing that. And so some what it was reported by one group that Amazon was going to do that and the Jeff Bezos pushed back against it but Trump called him called him as soon as somebody had that as soon as it was a small article that put it up and it was a publication I've not heard of us punch something and punch bowl I've never heard a punch bowl So I don't know who that is

Starting point is 00:35:09 but some I Guess relatively obscure maybe maybe they're not obscure. They're obscure to me. But you know some organization reported this and The Trump administration freaked out and Donald Trump personally called Jeff Bezos To get him to not do that. What are they afraid of? I thought that It wasn't going to raise the prices of anything. I thought we had that talking point hammered on us repeatedly Don't worry these tariffs gonna be nothing I mean, that's gonna be tariffs on the wholesale price and you realize how to what a big markup they do

Starting point is 00:35:43 So that's a tariff on this. They mark everything up by a factor of 10 or whatever, and so this is going to be doubling the price of what was 10% of the price. That's going to double. Don't worry, they're going to just eat that. They're not going to even pass that along. It's going to be so minor you won't even see it. Oh, really?

Starting point is 00:36:00 Really? Then why is Trump freaking out, right? The very fact that Trump and Caroline Levitt and you have Maria Bartiroma, they're all freaking out about this stuff yesterday. But I thought it wasn't a problem. It's not going to be inflationary. It's not a tax, right? Yeah, it is. It is.

Starting point is 00:36:20 They know it. And they didn't want people to see it. They're lying to you about this. They're trying to hide what they're doing. They're trying to give you a hidden tax while he is out there saying, well, you know, now I'm going to drop the income tax rate. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:36:38 He's going to, it's a shell game. Watch this hand over here while he does this over here. Yeah. Maga, the magician's trick, right? It's a magic trick. It's a MAGA trick. And it's only the MAGA people who are like, whoa, how do you do that? They don't see the trick of what's happening in the one hand while he's waving the other hand over here. While he's waving this hand in front of your face, he's reaching around and lifting your wallet out of your back pocket with the other hand. Trump said he talked to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday, shortly after a report claimed

Starting point is 00:37:10 that the e-commerce giant was going to show the cost of tariffs next to the total price of products on its site. White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett blasted Amazon, calling its reporting hostile and political. It's hostile and political to tell people how much Trump's going to increase the prices of things. Jeff Bezos though said Trump was very nice. He was terrific. He solved the problem very quickly.

Starting point is 00:37:34 He did the right thing. He's a good guy. But here's what Caroline Love it said. I will take this since I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon's announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why did Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years? And I would also add that it's not a surprise because as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon

Starting point is 00:38:01 has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm. So this is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's another reason why we are on-shoring critical supply chains here at home to shore up our own critical supply chain and boost our own manufacturing here. Is Jeff Bezos still a Trump supporter? Look, I will not speak to the president's relationships with Jeff Bezos. But I will tell you

Starting point is 00:38:25 that this is certainly a hostile and political action by Amazon and Secretary, if you have anything to add. Yeah, I would also add that bringing down the terrible Biden infliction has been a priority for the first hundred days of the Trump administration. And President Trump has done a great job of leading that since January 20th interest rates

Starting point is 00:38:49 So you get the idea Let's not think about that. You know think about how dishonest that answer was if Bezos or Amazon was going to show the Amount of the surcharge that Trump is putting on the tariff surcharge He's gonna be putting that would be hostile and political to tell you the truth It would also make him a Chinese Foreign agent and propagandist, right? But isn't she a propagandist

Starting point is 00:39:22 It's amazing that they put out this thing about her. She's going to have a prayer before she goes out and tells lies to people. That's what she does. They put out on social media a thing of her there with a couple other people and they pray before she goes out for the press conference. Well, we do that here too. We pray that we'll tell people the truth. Dear Lord, help me lie through my teeth for Donald Trump.

Starting point is 00:39:51 I don't know. That's, that's incredible. Uh, so she didn't pull any punches in her comments about Amazon. She said it was not a surprise, uh surprise because he's just, it's just Chinese propaganda to tell people the truth about how much the taxes are being arbitrarily raised by Donald Trump. So again, why get mad about something that's simply the truth? And you know, the other part of this, besides calling him Chinese propaganda, the other part of it is to hammer on, yeah, but Joe Biden did inflation. Oh, okay. So because Joe Biden did inflation, we can do inflation with taxes.

Starting point is 00:40:36 We can jump the prices up just by fiat, right? And you know, quite frankly, that is super dishonest. Yes, I know that inflation is caused by government policies and of course, the inflation in egg prices for example, was caused by direct government action. But typically inflation is this systemic thing. It's very different to have inflation that's caused by money printing and all that kind of garbage, which we know. And that's got a lot of different hands in it.

Starting point is 00:41:10 But to just come out by fiat, one person, not the Congress, one person is going to dictate new tariff surcharges on everybody. That's a bit different. Right? That is a bit different. And just because Biden's policies and regulations and everything were inflationary, that doesn't give Donald Trump a free pass to just come out and say, well, now I'm going to raise the price of everything by 145%. I know it's the wholesale

Starting point is 00:41:38 price still. The team that runs our ultra low-cost Amazon haul store has considered listing import charges on certain products. This is never a consideration for the main Amazon site and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties." I don't even know what Amazon haul is to you. I've never heard of it before. So that was his pushback against the report from Punchbowl. But that report from Punchbowl really set the Trump administration on

Starting point is 00:42:12 fire. And so because Jeff Bezos is not going to tell people what the cost is, now he's got the other half of the the political sphere angry at him. He's now, as this article says, the second most hated multi-billionaire in the world, I guess, after Elon Musk. Shares of Amazon also tumbled on the stock market because he's going to go against Trump. I mean, just look at what Trump was doing to CBS and to Sherry Redstone and how they kowtowed to him. I mean, there's absolutely, it's one of the most frivolous, ego-driven attacks on freedom of the press that I've ever seen. Trump's tirade about, well, you did an interview with Lala Harris and you edited it and you

Starting point is 00:42:59 made her look better. Sorry, there isn't anything that CBS could do that could make Lala Harris look better. None of it. And it wasn't dishonest anyway. And it's something that people do all the time with interviews. They got a limited amount of time and they edit it. And even if, here's the other thing, right, just like when we talk about free speech, even if somebody is a hateful, racist, truly anti-Semitic person, that is allowed with free speech. Right? And if they were set against Trump, and if they deliberately rigged this, which the evidence indicates that they didn't, even if they had deliberately rigged that. That is their prerogative to do that. You are allowed to have an opinion in a country that supports free speech and a free press. You are allowed to have an opinion and you're allowed to do that. There isn't a law that says that you have to be objective and as I've always said,

Starting point is 00:43:58 anybody that tells you that they are objective in the press is either lying to you or unaware of their own bias, because everybody's got a bias. And I always point to Matt Drudge. His site for the longest time, he didn't write anything. What he would do is he would determine which articles he's going to point to and what topics he was going to cover, like an editor, okay? And for the longest time he was going to cover. Like an editor, okay? And for the longest time he was associated with conservatives. Then he flipped.

Starting point is 00:44:31 Now he is associated with the left, but he doesn't write anything. It's just what you choose to talk about. You don't even have to write anything. It's just what you choose to cover. And it shows the bias that is there. Everybody's got a bias. what you choose to cover. And it shows the bias that is there. Everybody's got a bias. What I choose to cover reflects my own personal bias.

Starting point is 00:44:50 I tell you what I think and why I think it. And I don't trust anybody that claims to be objective. And I certainly don't trust a president who wants to shut down news sites and use criticism of him or political bias to take away their broadcasting license. That's important. So she said, she said, why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years? Oh, okay, 40 years. Well, that's kind

Starting point is 00:45:26 of cherry-picked, isn't it? Going to 1985. So, you know, if you go back just a few years earlier, yeah, we had some inflation go up, but it was also the line of attack, that same line of attack. And I'll show you how ridiculous that line of attack is. But that was repeated by Maria Bartiromo as she curried favor with dictator Don. I will say that there was no mention whatsoever at Amazon about Joe Biden's inflation. And the fact is, is that we got to- You don't itemize inflation. Inflation measured by the consumer price index was up 9.1%.

Starting point is 00:46:07 We all remember we were at the cash register. Everything costs so much more. So, you know, why they're putting a little bug now, this is because of the tariffs and they didn't put a little bug, this is because of the $7 trillion spent by the Democrats under Joe Biden, is a question. Yeah. That's an absurd question Maria.

Starting point is 00:46:27 That would have been politically disputed and hostile and all the rest of the stuff. Inflation is not the same as when somebody goes out and says we're going to put a surcharge on, we're going to put a restaurant surcharge on, or we're going to put a hotel surcharge on, or we're going to put a tariff on, right? And those things are typically itemized. And to the point of the inflation, yes, in the Biden era, E-R-R-O-R, in 2022 we had 9% inflation. When you look at the, and of course it varies month by month, but you know, the peak, it was 9%. In 2023, it was 6%, then it dropped down significantly in 2024.

Starting point is 00:47:09 So Trump's going to bring it back up again. But isn't it interesting that for these talking points, oh, you know, he created inflation, so now we can add taxes. How is that? That's a non sequitur, really. But she also cherry picked the year 1985. She said for 40 years Well, what happened before 1985? 1985 was when they started getting things under control with massive interest rate increases. I remember

Starting point is 00:47:37 I lived through all this stuff if you go back to 1974 You had inflation peaking at 10% 1982 8.4% but prior to that 1980 15% 1981 12% right so 1974 10% then you get to 1980 15% 81 81, 12 percent, 82, 8.4 percent. Yeah, it was higher and more sustained than what we went through in the Biden error. And yet they want to focus on that. They want to cherry pick that. And I want to look at that again, you know. Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics, don't they? Cherry picking, the starting point, is kind of the same thing these climate creeps do

Starting point is 00:48:31 when they go back and they look at temperature change. They miss the medieval warming period, right? And they start with a little mini ice age in the 1800s and then go from that. And then they completely ignore the thousands of years of data that they've got showing that the temperature was much higher. So the idea that they would put the tariff right next to the product's total listed price was what set them on fire. But that is going to be done by some other groups in China.

Starting point is 00:49:06 And again, what is the big deal? We're told that the tariffs don't raise prices. Now they're out there saying, oh yeah, they do raise prices, but what about Biden's policies? We had inflation with Biden, so now we can raise prices. It's just amazing to watch how these people spin and lie with the news. And it's like I said before, this is something that's been very common in the restaurant business, the hotel business, because a lot of times they will single out restaurants and hotels and go to

Starting point is 00:49:32 surcharge on them in the same way that Trump is singling out a certain class of products that came to us from another country. He singled them out for specific taxes. And so restaurants have frequently in the past posted the surcharge that's being pushed on them as a protest. And that's what these Chinese sites are going to be doing. For example, in California restaurants have used surcharge as a form of protest to offset costs such as healthcare mandates. It was a good thing when we did that,

Starting point is 00:50:05 right? When Obama comes in with health care mandates and some restaurants put that in as an itemized thing, the conservatives applauded, and I would applaud that as well. You want to know where this is coming? You should know how much this is. It's kind of like when you look at the gas pump. You should pay attention to what the state and local taxes and the federal taxes are in terms of the price that is there. So in San Francisco, these surcharges have been common for over 15 years, initially as a protest against the city's healthcare mandate for employers. However, starting in July 2024, last year, a new California

Starting point is 00:50:46 state law will ban restaurants from adding service charges and other surcharges to customers' bills. And so what happened was last year in California, and then we also had it at the federal level, you had government bans on putting these surcharges in here. Why? Because listing the surcharges separately was a form of political protest against these mandated surcharges. It's a surcharge. It's not inflation. It's a surcharge, a direct surcharge. And it is a form of political protest. But just like the Democrats, the Trump administration doesn't like political protest and just like the Biden administration, they'll lie to your face

Starting point is 00:51:35 about all of this. They'll spin, they'll misdirect. They'll throw a, well, what about the other guy? You know, all that stuff. Uh, so, uh, when you look at what's going on with restaurants, the case of restaurants, they typically operate on a very thin margin, for example. The new surcharges are not a sinister move to bolster the bottom line, but rather a genuine attempt to remain in the black despite the twin onslaughts of hefty wholesale price increases and shortages

Starting point is 00:52:05 in supplies and labor. In other words, you've got, you know, you've worked out what the price of your items need to be in terms of supplies and labor, overhead and all the rest of this stuff. And they come in and say, well, we're going to hit you with a particular tax or we're going to have a particular expensive mandate. So what they did was they just itemized that as another thing, like a sales tax. We used to have, when we had British friends in Houston, we first got married. The group that I was working with, there's a lot of people from other countries in it

Starting point is 00:52:42 and they said, �I hate this!� When I go up to the register and they tell me that this is going to be this much� and then they add the sales tax to it. And it�s always one. You never quote the price. The price that�s put up never includes the sales tax. In the UK they would always incorporate the sales tax. Here sales tax is there as a surcharge.

Starting point is 00:53:12 And for the same reason, I would think that I wish they would put the tariff charge there, for honesty. And also for simplicity, for the people who are trying to operate the business. And that's what they're saying here. They say the typical small business restaurant operates on a 3 to 5 percent pre-tax margin. Razor thin margins. For the vast majority of restaurant operators, about 88 percent of them, total food costs are higher now than they were in 2019. Labor costs are up for 86 percent of operators. Profits are down too, with 85 percent of owners reporting lower numbers than before the pandemic. One person they interviewed said, well, I've changed my pricing three times since the pandemic.

Starting point is 00:53:52 Menu pricing is up 20% thanks to inflation. When I started, Flounder cost $49 a case. Now it's 92. More than double. Well, almost double. Eggs were $34. Now we're paying $62. Again, almost double. Chicken was $80 a case. Now it's $189 a case. More than double. She said beef has gotten so expensive I've just taken it off the menu. Don't even have it there. And so, like I said, California kept adding surcharges to things and of course, you know,

Starting point is 00:54:35 inflation, how do you calculate that? Because as you see, different ingredients go up different amounts. There's no way that you could add an inflation surcharge. What a lying argument from Caroline Levitt, because that was the most ingenuous argument that they could possibly have. Yeah, well he raised prices too, so we're gonna raise prices now. Oh, you admit you're gonna raise prices. Anyway, the restaurant industry is now getting a ban as of last year. This is a year ago, April 24th, 2024, a year ago.

Starting point is 00:55:11 The Federal Trade Commission said that the restaurant industry was not going to be able to list surcharges that are put on it by the government. So that was in April. It came from the FTC. Other things were prohibited. Other surcharge listings were prohibited in California in July. So a year ago, April 24, 2024, the FTC, the Federal Trade Commission, held an informal hearing on its recently proposed ban on so-called junk fees.

Starting point is 00:55:49 fees. Should call them junk feces. It's total BS. The proposed rule would ban common restaurant service fees and surcharges, forcing restaurant operators to raise the menu prices and to rewrite how servers are paid. Do we need the federal government to dictate this? Where is their authority to dictate this? It's not in the Constitution. And they even went further. They even said, because a lot of people are doing delivery, you're not going to be able to itemize delivery fees. Now, see, they always react and they go so far overboard. Now this happened to the federal government under Biden. They go so far overboard. It's like, okay, now you're not going to be able to itemize delivery fees here.

Starting point is 00:56:26 So they're going to have to have a separate menu for takeout versus the other stuff. Because if somebody likes to take something out, of course, that's an expense. But you can't just add that there and say, here's your delivery fee. No, you're going to have to create a separate menu. This is when the federal government gets into micromanaging your business to the nth degree. The Restaurant Association said the FTC unfairly swept restaurant operators into its far-reaching junk fee rule. Restaurant fees are not junk fees.

Starting point is 00:56:59 They are long-standing fees for additional services or for greater convenience which customers choose that add value, like delivery fees, but you can't itemize those anymore. But the real issue is that they don't want people itemizing. Uh, they don't want restaurants itemizing these surcharges that are put on by local state and federal government. And that's really where we are. Trump hates it. Biden hates it because they lie to you about this stuff.

Starting point is 00:57:28 The FTC estimates this rule will cost restaurant operators about $5,000 per restaurant. For small independent operators who run on a 3-5% pre-tax margin and make an average of $45,000 a year, that's about 10% of their total income. One rule from a federal bureaucracy, just wipe out 10% of your income. So, Lutnik rolls out an auto tariff relief. Oh, here we go. I'm glad that they're lowering the tariffs, but hadn't they thought about this before? Did they have a plan?

Starting point is 00:58:10 They can't make up their minds. And their variability, their uncertainty is even worse than the tax itself. It's this lack of inertia in the system. It's not just going to take down the Iberian electrical grid. This lack of inertia in Washington with taxes. Why? Because you've got Trump declaring a national emergency on everything and saying, well, because it's a national emergency now, I can just arbitrarily

Starting point is 00:58:44 by myself set the taxes and I can change it tomorrow and I can change it the day after that and the day after that and the day after that and that uncertainty is Effectively a lockdown Because for people to protect themselves they just shut everything down just like they did on the electrical grid in the Iberian Peninsula You have to shut it down Because you can't handle that kind of uncertainty. And so they added that there's some relief. It's going to be phased out over three years, giving manufacturers time to shift their supply

Starting point is 00:59:16 chains back to the US. And so what they're saying that here's the new rules and they got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine of these. I'm only going to read you a couple of them of what they're going to do. It's going to be phased in over three years, but then at the bottom they said, well, there's no third year of relief. So again, you know, these people, this stuff doesn't make any sense. They're going to give you some kickbacks on year one and two. If you do a certain percentage of the work here in the United States. doesn't make any sense. They're going to give you some kickbacks on year one and two if you

Starting point is 00:59:49 do a certain percentage of the work here in the United States. For cars that have 85% domestic content will have no tariffs. Manufacturers of US-built autos will get 15% offset for the value of those vehicles. You'll be able to pick the highest tariff that comes with your goods and they will only pay that one, right? So in other words, the point about that is that they are not going to stack on for the automakers automobile tariffs plus steel plus aluminum charges, that type of thing. Automakers will pay either the steel or the auto tariff, whichever one is higher. And so, are they going to give people now a little bit of time to adjust to this? So they just impetuously put out a 25% surcharge on everything, plus a... and I forget what it was on steel and

Starting point is 01:00:43 aluminum... plus that as well. Now they're coming back and saying, well, it'll be one or the other, and we're going to make some exceptions for this for two or three years to give you some time to start reshoring your manufacturing. Well, these tariffs were announced on the 26th of March. They went into effect on the 3rd of April. And so what they're going to do is they're going to have to rebate some of this stuff now.

Starting point is 01:01:05 This is the kind of idiotic non-planning that these clowns, these losers of the Trump administration are doing all the time and calling it winning. It's not winning, it's stupidity. It's the uncertainty stupid that is messing up with the economy stupid That's the reality and and where does Trump get the authority to set tariffs on automobiles? Well, he claims that he has this power because he's declared that foreign-made autos are A threat to national security and he references back to a law that was done in the 1960s. I think it's 62.

Starting point is 01:01:47 It might have been 65. That's going on memory. And so we've had foreign autos for quite some time. We're talking about the early mid-60s, right? Foreign autos have never been considered to be a national security threat because they really aren't. But Trump declares it and he uses that to give himself dictatorial powers, just like he declared a lie about fentanyl coming in from Canada. It's not true. We've got massive waves of cartels and fentanyl coming in from Canada? No. No. But he used that as a basis to put

Starting point is 01:02:28 tariffs on Canada. The decision will mean that automakers paying Trump's automotive tariffs won't also be charged for other duties like those on steel and aluminum. The move will be retroactive, meaning that automobile makers could be reimbursed for the tariffs that they've already paid for the last month. It took them that long to figure this out. The 25% tariff on finished, foreign-made cars went into effect early this month. Now of course, he did this as he was holding his 100-day rally in Michigan, automobile industry, headquarters, I guess still perhaps Trump's pivot on auto terrorist represents the largest development in his ever changing

Starting point is 01:03:11 Trade strategy says zero hedge. Well, it's not a strategy It's not strategy at all It's reactive clown show a bunch of losers It was supposed to be a tax and it was supposed to be a border bill. But now the house says Politico is handing Trump vast new executive powers. They're upset about this, but I think this is a good thing, quite frankly. And I, this is something that I've wanted to see for a very long time. Politico is very upset about it, but I think giving a president veto power over

Starting point is 01:03:52 rules that are created by the bureaucracy that is under the executive branch, I think is a good thing. I don't think it's a good thing if the executive, if Trump can do the executive orders by fiat himself. And that's, if I understand this legislation, that's what the Reins Act is trying to stop. It's trying to take power away from the bureaucracy that can just arbitrarily do whatever it wishes. If you've listened to this program, you know that for years I have pushed back against an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy that can create any kind of rule that it wishes, and all they have to do is just publish it.

Starting point is 01:04:34 And they put it up for a particular period of time, they get feedback from the public, and they don't care what the public says, because they're not accountable to the public. Everybody can hate the rule, and there's no requirement that they get rid of the rule. They can still do the rule, and they frequently do. And so that is no protection. And even worse, when we look at how this rolls out, this is why we have things like civil asset forfeiture, because they come around and they say, well, that's a rule, and it's not a law. If it were a law, then we have to give you due process. But laws are passed by Congress. This is a rule that was passed by the bureaucracy. Therefore, you have no

Starting point is 01:05:09 due process. You see how that works? These people, they play these semantic games. It's like, okay, you call it a rule so that you can take away my due process. You make it a rule so that my elected representatives don't participate in it whatsoever. I mean, it's the worst of everything. And so the Reigns Act, which is something that Rand Paul has pushed for a very long time, it's also been introduced by Thomas Massey and other people, this is what is the basis of this. This is what Politico is freaking out about.

Starting point is 01:05:42 I think it's very good. Basically it's instead of Congress continually abdicating more and more power to the executive branch or to the bureaucracy or whatever, they're taking back some of that power. And that's a really good thing. That's what they're supposed to do. There are elected representatives, and they are accountable to us, and they should be writing the rules, not handing it over to a bureaucracy.

Starting point is 01:06:06 When Nancy Pelosi said about Obamacare, we're going to pass it so we can find out what's in it. And everybody said, geez, crazy. No, you're crazy if you don't understand what she was saying. She was telling you the truth. What she was saying is we're creating this vast new program and we're going to hand it over to the bureaucracy, and they're going to fill in the devilish details, and then we'll see what's in it. And then maybe we'll come to your rescue if it's really bad.

Starting point is 01:06:35 But we're going to let them do it. I'm just creating this thing and throwing it over the wall to the people in the bureaucracy who are going to put all this stuff together. That's the way they've been operating for a very long time. And it's time that we rein that back in. R-E-I-N-S stands for Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny. These acronyms that they do are just stupid. But again, it's a great idea.

Starting point is 01:07:02 It's a stupid acronym, but it's a great idea. It's a stupid acronym, but it's a great idea. It would require Congress to affirmatively approve major new regulations. No more of this. We're going to pass it so we can find out what's in it. Send it over, kick it over to them. Republicans are selling the measure as a way to check presidential power, they said. Well, why is that? Well, that's because the bureaucracy is under the president.

Starting point is 01:07:25 You know, when Trump said, I'm going to ban bump stocks and I'm going to ban pistol braces, how did that happen? He had the ATF write a rule. And so that is a way to check presidential power. And that is constitutional. And so I really do approve of this. I think this is a great idea a key provision included in the bill would grant Trump sweeping powers to erase existing federal regulations from the books that freaks out Politico

Starting point is 01:07:55 but that's a good thing we need to have veto power you know it's like the line item veto right I think is the way that this operates. So here's the detail. It would task federal agencies with submitting portions of their rules to Congress for approval over a five-year period. So rather than just posting it and getting public feedback, they'd have to get approval from Congress. If they didn't get that approval, the rules would cease to have any effect. Yeah, that's good. Now when we talk about letting Trump erase rules

Starting point is 01:08:32 off of the books or any other president, I'm all for that. Again, the line-item veto which was put in, remember 1994, Newt Gingrich did his contract with America, he had ten points that you know he had in there. One of them was a line item veto and they actually operated on that. They put that through and Bill Clinton signed it. So you had bipartisan approval of that until Rudy Giuliani saw that some of the projects, some of the port barrel projects that he was getting as mayor in New York are going to be cut out. So Rudy Giuliani, Trump's friend, takes it to the Supreme Court and challenges it. The Supreme Court says, no, you can't give the president line-item veto.

Starting point is 01:09:17 Again, a political decision that is completely detached from reality, just like their same-sex marriage and all the rest of the stuff is detached from reality. So, but anyway, it was a bad Supreme Court decision. It was pushed by Rudy Giuliani, but it's the same idea. With a line item veto, the president isn't creating spending programs. He's shutting down spending programs that were thrown in as pork barrel projects by the Congress. That's what Rudy Giuliani didn't like.

Starting point is 01:09:49 So I'm all for veto power. I'm all for a line item veto. I'm all for veto of regulations by the executive. Critics of the Reigns Act, says Politico, say it would significantly slow down the rules-making process. Good. Good. We need that inertia in the system, don't we? Just

Starting point is 01:10:07 like the power grid. The political power grid needs to have some more inertia in it. And it would allow partisan majorities in Congress to determine regulations rather than agency experts. Oh yeah, like Fauci, people like that. Right, you want to be ruled by agency experts. I'm science. You're having Congress basically involved in every agency decision. Yeah, that's a good idea. That's what the Constitution says.

Starting point is 01:10:36 It's what the founders understood we wanted to do. And so, as all this is happening, other big changes on the horizon here in terms of the economy, UPS is going to be eliminating 20,000 jobs as it is decoupling from Amazon. The US tariff war with China is reducing parcel shipping activity. So it's another sign of declining, another sign of the effect of what Trump's taxes, that he calls tariffs, and they are tariffs, but they are taxes as well.

Starting point is 01:11:11 What his taxes, what his increased expenses are doing, and of course his uncertainty that is locking down the decisions of everybody everywhere. So they're planning on shedding about 20,000 frontline positions in 2025, and they are going to be closing 200 sorting centers over five years. They intend to close 164 operational shifts in the first phase of the program, including 73 buildings by the end of June. Now these are not all reactions right away to the tariff. This is something that they had begun planning last year, because they were losing money on all the shipping that they were...Amazon had become a gigantic part of their business and Amazon was using that to negotiate such low fees that they were

Starting point is 01:11:59 losing money on the work that they were doing for Amazon. We're losing money on every transaction. Alright, we'll make it up in volume. Outbound deliveries from Amazon fulfillment centers are not profitable, especially compared to returns and outbound volumes from retailers that sell on the marketplace. About 60% of UPS's Amazon business is losing money. About 60% of it. So one year ago they announced an aggressive strategy for network consolidation and automation aimed at improving profitability by better matching capacity and labor with lower parcel volumes and of course as they talk about massive layoffs the the

Starting point is 01:12:46 Teamsters Union which is in charge of the drivers and everything you know part of the drivers they say well we got a contract they're gonna hire 30,000 Teamster people so there's gonna be a fight if they get underneath that number but here's the other part of it not only are the tariffs gonna slow down things and everybody knows that again This was something that was planned because they were losing money with Amazon. However, they're rolling it out Now and they'd said that we do see volume deceleration And both enterprise and small and medium businesses small and medium businesses. Why?

Starting point is 01:13:25 Because they don't have the ability to adjust to the higher tariffs. And so you're gonna see a lot of them go out of business, and that's what they're saying yet again. Says they do not have the tools to deal with the changes that our enterprise customers do. Smaller companies don't have the working capital to pre-order inventory and they have less ability to get contract manufacturers to switch to non-China countries

Starting point is 01:13:53 than large retailers. So again, Trump will be putting out of business a lot of small and medium-sized businesses because folks, they're not essential to him, and his globalist billionaire buddies and the technocrats don't want them to exist. It's so amazing to me that people can't see who this man is. Just amazing. Online shoppers on Chinese platforms will experience huge price hikes. Tmoo and fashion merchant Shine are going to show consumers the import fees during checkout. And they said when they wrote this article, reportedly Amazon will also. Nope, nope. Not if Trump gives them a call.

Starting point is 01:14:42 Don't you show that price increase that I'm forcing everybody to have. Meanwhile we have another carrier, DHL is dropping an embargo on medium value goods after Trump has walked back his customs rule. They were going to the, DHL does a lot of international shipping and they had said, we are going to lower the threshold for which you have to do a lot of customs reporting and things. So they lowered it down to $800. Now the Trump administration has raised it back up to $2,500 because of the administrative burden that was there.

Starting point is 01:15:22 Now here is a good thing. I pointed out the other day that the massive increase in truckers that was because of the Biden program and because of an Obama program. The Obama program removed the necessity for truck drivers who are driving these big rigs that weigh 80,000 pounds or whatever. They don't have to be able to read signs. What could possibly go wrong? I don't know. Doesn't sound like a problem to me. Let's just go for it.

Starting point is 01:15:52 Um, so Obama got rid of the necessity that drivers, truck drivers, commercial truck drivers would have to be able to speak and read English. Biden heavily subsidized training programs for, big trucking companies, which is, you know, in competition with the owner-operators and others, who have about a 90 percent turnover. And they said, why is it that they can't keep anybody working for them? And as part of that, they were bringing in a lot of people, a lot of immigrants, some of them not even legal, but they don't even speak English, right?

Starting point is 01:16:26 So this order reverses a 2016 Obama administration rule that removed the requirement for those commercial truck drivers to be able to demonstrate proficiency of the English language. And so, as one person pointed out, the ability, the obvious here, the ability to understand and react to road signs, especially in emergency situations, is critical for public and operational safety. We have to debate that? I don't think so. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. So So So You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well, welcome back and I have a lot of other happy birthday wishes here. Amnesty Anarchy, thank you very much.

Starting point is 01:18:51 Do Not Obey, Knight, I guess N-A-Y-T, I don't know how you pronounce it. I would say Knight. Huh? Nate? Okay. Nate J. 11 says, thank you, we love you and your family. Thank you very much. God bless you all. Soylent Goy, happy birthday.

Starting point is 01:19:07 And that�s very kind. I appreciate what you had to say there. That�s nice. On Rumble, �Catastrophic Truth.� Happy birthday, Dave. You�ve got four years on me. Okay, well, just be careful. When you hit that � Karen and I were talking about this. I tell you, when she had her 70th birthday. All hell broke loose.

Starting point is 01:19:25 I mean she had dental problems. She had the accident which is she's still not fully recovered from. Broke her ankle. There's just so many things happened. She's been really tough hitting 70. So you know it's not always just a psychological thing that's there. And also in Rumble, Franson, thank you very much. DK and puppies, happy birthday DK and puppies, because somebody else has a litter of puppies that are born today. On Rumble, Tony Tye, 06, happy 70th as well as happy 2000th show. Thank you. And thank you all for making that possible. And again, thank you for all the donations yesterday. And thank you especially to I'm Marty, who primed the pump and got us up to seven eights

Starting point is 01:20:11 because we were really, really low this month. But anyway, Kick Jetson, thank you very much for the happy birthday. On Rumble, Atomic Dog, thank you for the tip. And he wishes me happy birthday. He said, you really are aging like a fine wine, while the rest of us age like milk. Oh, thank you. Good Christian living for the win. Thank you very much. I tell you, it truly is amazing. You talk about milk aging. We have a local dairy that we go to pick up our stuff. Now, it's not raw milk, but it is not homogenized, which is good, because being unpasteurized,

Starting point is 01:20:51 you get a lot of good probiotics in it, but the homogenization does really bad stuff to the fats that are unhealthy for your body in a lot of different ways. But so we go there and it is un-homogenized. And we can really see the difference. It is cream colored as opposed to bleach white. Because one of the reasons that they do homogenization

Starting point is 01:21:15 is so they can skim cream off. These people don't, they leave it there. But if you, we forgot one day when we went to get some milk and we left it in the trunk and we go on a Saturday and Monday I discovered it and boy it was swollen and about to burst and boy what a mess that would have been. But it spoils pretty quickly. If I put that stuff in my coffee because it's got a lot of cream content, if I don't drink it in the morning by the afternoon, it is soured.

Starting point is 01:21:50 And that's a good thing. I'm really happy to see that. It tells you that it's fresh and it tells you that they haven't loaded it up with preservatives and the color tells you that they haven't skimmed off the cream and all that stuff. So anyway, yeah, real milk ages very quickly quickly unlike the stuff you get in the supermarket on Odyssey you get to see somebody on Odyssey and on D live as well drowning and broken eggs it's wishing me happy birthday on Odyssey on D live lady nutsy defy tyrant 70 70 1776 and T Luke and Fuzzmeister. He says, you don't look a day over 69.

Starting point is 01:22:26 Well, I am just a day over 69. So there we go. On kick, Coilspring says, stop by as I normally have to see the show the next day, but I want to wish David a happy birthday and cheers to the show. 2000th production. Well done, Knight family and all the wonderful people supporting the show. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. On Rumble, DG show. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Starting point is 01:22:45 On Rumble, DG8. Thank you for the tip. He says, David, Biden's policies were horrible. Only added more inflation that was bound to happen after Obama and Trump added $8 trillion to the debt and never forget the $6.2 trillion CARES Act. Yeah. They did forget that, didn't they? I should have mentioned it as well.

Starting point is 01:23:02 You want to talk about inflation? Let's talk about what Trump did to us when he locked us down. He set a whole new curve on the deficit, right? The annual deficit. It took a whole new slope based on what he did. They have some nerve talking about inflation, especially when even before what he did with the phony pandemic and the cares act and all the PPP, you know, were supposed to help small businesses and yet more than 50% of it went to the 5% biggest people all of that corruption and that scam and that inflation The Trump administration even predated that he was leaning on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, to do quantitative easing.

Starting point is 01:23:48 And then in 2019, in the fall, before this lockdown stuff, you had the repo market. And I remember reporting on that. I said, look at this. I talked about it. Slendy talked about it. But before I talked to Slendy about it, I saw that they were dumping in $100 billion or something as repo market. It's like, what in the world is a repo market?

Starting point is 01:24:12 Are they taking back cars or something? That was the only repo market I knew about. No, it wasn't that. But I looked it up and said, so how does that compare? I started comparing it to the gross domestic product of other countries. So that one, the first time I noticed, it was about the same as the gross domestic product of Puerto Rico. And the Trump administration, or the Federal Reserve at the encouragement of the Trump administration, dumped that much into that financial market. And then it kept on going. Not long after that, they dumped in

Starting point is 01:24:45 an amount that was even bigger. I looked that up and that was equivalent, in just this one dump, that was equivalent to the entire gross domestic product of Switzerland, which is the 20th largest country in the world. It was an astronomical amount of garbage that the Trump administration was pushing in there. So the deficit, the debt curve that he put in, the repo market, pressure and quantitative easing, inflation, all of that, our interest rates, all of that was inflationary. And now they want to pretend that it was only Biden who did the inflation. It's all of them. It's all of them. It's all of them.

Starting point is 01:25:25 And Trump set us on a different trajectory and Biden continued with that trajectory. Um, and so, um, on rumble, will two bucks also, uh, says happy Pappy birthday sir. And I thank you very much. Yeah. That's, that's what I got on the coffee cup that we got, uh, said, what do you want? Um, Travis's son to call you. So we'll go with Pappy. Let's talk about what happened in Michigan yesterday.

Starting point is 01:25:50 I saw this headline on the Daily Mail and it looked like something you would normally see on some Trump outlet, right? The moment that Trump totally humiliates disgraced Democrat Gretchen Whitmer. Well, I think she is disgraced, I would agree. But I thought that's strange that Daily Mail would put that up there. What was it that about her that was disgraced? And, you know, when you look at this, what Trump did, they said, Trump totally humiliated disgraced Democrat, again, Governor Gretchen Whitmer in a made-for-TV moment in Michigan. The president spotted her in the crowd and

Starting point is 01:26:31 said, I want to thank Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. You know, I'm not supposed to do that. She's a Democrat. Well, so is he. They say, don't do that. Don't have her here. I said, no, she's going to be here. She's done a very good job. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Whenever I talk about what Trump is doing during the lockdown, the pandemic, garbage, anything, I'd always hear from the MAGA people. It's not him. It's the bad governors, like Whitmer. She's one of the worst, one of the bad Democrat governors, right? Because we had a lot of really bad Republican governors like DeWine and Brad Little and I would even say Greg Abbott when I was in Texas. But anyway, it was always the bad Democrat governors.

Starting point is 01:27:12 And she was one of the worst. She was one of the worst during lockdown. Remember that? You know, arresting this elderly barber and all the rest of this stuff and shutting him down and putting up signs not allowing people to buy seeds You're gonna use the excuse of a pandemic to keep people from being able to buy seeds in the spring to grow their own food Well, that certainly was convenient wasn't it as Trump was destroying the supply chains Whitmer was banning people from buying seeds to grow their own food. Oh, sounds like a tag team match here. Match made in hell.

Starting point is 01:27:54 She's done a very good job, he said. You've been a real good girl. Earlier this month, she faced... Here's where we get to the disgraced part. Why is she disgraced? Earlier this month, she faced the wrath of her Democratic colleagues for her seemingly friendly appearance alongside Trump in the Oval Office. At one point, she even raised a folder she was holding to try to seemingly cover her face from the press that was snapping photos of the unlikely bipartisan meeting.

Starting point is 01:28:26 So shame on her. She's a Democrat. Not shame on her, she locked everybody down. I look at this and it's like, okay, they're trying to push this partisan thing. You're a Democrat, you're a Republican, you shouldn't be together. It's like a mixed marriage or something, right? So you're not supposed to do that. And yet the reality is, is that they're soulmates.

Starting point is 01:28:55 They're soulmates when it comes to the lockdown. They're on the same page. And they're both Democrats. Let's just understand that. They're both Democrats. Let's just understand that. They're both Democrats. So Did he own her? Did he own this lib? You know, it's all oh, he really, you know,

Starting point is 01:29:14 like I said, it looked like something from a Trump thing. No, he owned her lockdowns. She did a great job, you said. So she's really done an excellent job. She's a very good person. You tell that to the people that were under her rule in 2020. It was her second time meeting with the president since he retook office in January. He didn't own the Lib. He joined with her back in 2020. Not in this event, this is nothing.

Starting point is 01:29:47 This is, they're all upset about this, but they're not all upset about what happened back then. You know, just like all the big tech guys, she's meeting with them, the politics doesn't mean anything, it's all about power, it's all about money. And it's why all these big tech CEOs, it's the power and the money, it's the uni party. That's what is the basis of all of it. I've talked many times about how my cardiologist, when last time I went to see him, was trying

Starting point is 01:30:17 to push statins on me. I said, no, I'm not taking those. I know about them. He goes, oh, you've been talking to Dr. Google, have you? Well this is an article on this headline here, the cholesterol con, how statins became a billion dollar threat to human health. And this is not even really simply about statins. This is about how the medical establishment, corporate and government lies to us and lies to doctors who many of them are ignorant about the statistics misleading statistics and

Starting point is 01:30:52 So this is on say or G's substat the original title was how misleading statistics Suppressed data and 30 documented toxicities reveal the dark truth about the world's most prescribed drug, statins. Statins were first approved by the FDA in 1987 and they quickly became one of the most widely prescribed drug classes in the world. Their claim to fame? They reduced cholesterol and by extension heart disease. But after more than three decades, the scientific and ethical integrity of this narrative is

Starting point is 01:31:23 unraveling. Yeah, I say cholesterol is vital to human health. Yeah, that's right. The reality is I need things like exercise and sleep, but I certainly don't need statins. They said, here's what Sergei points out about how, like I said before, statistics don't lie but liars use statistics. Well, here's how the pharmaceutical industry lies with statistics. He says, �Let's say that a study reports that statins reduce the risk of heart attack

Starting point is 01:31:53 by 36 percent.� Well, that sounds great, doesn't it? But this figure represents relative risk reduction, a proportional comparison between two groups. It tells you nothing about how many people are actually helped. He says, let's take a look at the absolute risk reduction, which tells you the actual difference in outcomes between the statin and a placebo group. You know, we see these statistics. That's what we immediately think they're telling us, right? So we have a group that's put on statins and we've got a group that gets a placebo, and

Starting point is 01:32:28 when they say there's a 36% improvement, that's what we're thinking. But they've got a different thing in mind, and they're using that statistic to lie to people. In the Heart Protection Study, 2% of the people in the statin group had a non-fatal heart attack versus 3% who were in the placebo group. Now what they say is, well, then you have a 30% or one-third improvement, right? The relative risk was 33%, but the absolute risk was really only 1%. In other words, that 99 out of 100 people who took the statins got no

Starting point is 01:33:09 measurable benefit in terms of heart attack prevention. And so for every 100 plus people on statins, one may benefit. But a lot of people are going to have problems with the adverse effects that are there. Muscle damage, you would have 10 to 20 of the 100 people. Diabetes onset, you would also have big numbers on that. Cognitive impairment and so forth. He says, ìYouíre more likely to be harmed than to be helped by statins, especially if youíre taking them without a previous cardiovascular event."

Starting point is 01:33:48 And he says, so why do these things happen? Well, they happen fundamentally because, you know, liars use statistics and they know how to cherry pick the different ones and how to present this stuff. Doctors, he said, are rarely trained in medical statistics and most of them just trust the summary statements from pharmaceutical reps or the guidelines. Patients are never informed that 36% fewer heart attacks may only mean one fewer person out of 100. Medical journals and media often repeat the press releases without even looking at the

Starting point is 01:34:23 numbers. So the media, the medical journals, and the doctors don't even bother to look at it. They just go with whatever they're told by the pharmaceutical companies. And then the pharmaceutical companies are misrepresenting this to say they had 36% fewer heart attacks. In reality, what it meant was that one fewer person out of hundred had a heart attack. And then of course they don't tell you about all of the adverse side effects. So what can you do that is effective?

Starting point is 01:34:54 And when you look at natural interventions that are backed by real outcomes, he has some of that here too. So it's not just be careful of statins. Well, now you've got nothing to do. Coenzyme Q10 that is vital for mitochondrial health is depleted by statins. And there's no adverse effects for that like there are for statins. I mean, if you drank a bottle of it or something like that, know maybe you'd have an adverse effect but you know in reasonable quantities none of these things have an adverse effect. Red yeast rice is a natural statin alternative but it requires careful formulation so you might be careful about that. Vitamin K2 prevents vascular calcification especially in statin users and by way, if you take vitamin D, make sure that you also have K2.

Starting point is 01:35:50 That if it's not a part, a lot of the vitamin D formulations will have K2 as part of it, but if it doesn't, be careful because if you take a lot of vitamin D, that's synthetic, you know, the best way to do it is to get sunlight. But if you take vitamin D supplement, it will calcify in your veins if you don't have K2. And so K2 by itself can help not just as a preventative of adverse effects from too much vitamin D without it, but it can also help with other things. Omega-3 fatty acids. If you want to lower your triglycerides and systemic inflammation. And then of course the biggest things are going to be diet, movement, sleep, stuff like that.

Starting point is 01:36:31 So that's the real issue. And as he points out, this whole thing about cholesterol, I've had this discussion with my sons who looked it up and they educated me on it. Stuff about cholesterol, it's gotten a bad rap. It's really necessary, just like fats are necessary. And a lot of, I think, what we're seeing with mental problems in our generation, dementia and other things is complete elimination of fats for some people's diets and that your brain needs some cholesterol, other parts of your body needs some cholesterol.

Starting point is 01:37:05 It's kind of a bad rap, kind of like CO2, you know? It's natural that you really need. And we were talking about milk earlier. Now that we've got lab-grown milk that's being fast-tracked into mass production, the FDA is going to just get out of the way. Because you know, like I said before, FDA stands for Free to Do Anything. You're free to do anything. That's what the FDA tells the people

Starting point is 01:37:31 they're supposed to regulate. Lab-grown, unreal milk. They're using mammalian cells and bioreactors. And then of course you got another brand, Perfect Day. It is a synthetic dairy alternative that makes a lot of questionable environmental claims as well. What it is is some proteins that are there. This is an article from Mercola. It says, raw milk from grass-fed cows contains essential nutrients like C15 colon zero. I don't know what that is. I mean it's

Starting point is 01:38:06 got a colon between the 15 and 0. But anyway, it's a kind of fat that supports mitochondrial health, protects from diabetes, helps with weight management, and it is not found in any of these synthetic alternatives. By the way, it's not just what they're missing, but it's what they're going to have. And what they're not going to tell you is in these synthetic alternatives. Unpasteurized cow's milk is an incredibly important food. It contains a great mix of fats, carbohydrates, proteins, other nutrients that support you from birth all the way into adulthood. But unreal milk is fully lab-grown.

Starting point is 01:38:49 Unlike plant-based milk substitutes or fermented dairy analogues, this product is not from soy, oats, or nuts. Instead, it is from mammalian cells that are grown in a lab and coax to produce the core nutrients found in cow's milk. It mimics real milk at a molecular level, they said. And so what's missing from all this is any real world testing and you're not going to get it from the FDA because the FDA says to them you're free to do anything you want. There are no long-term studies showing what happens in the body when people consume milk

Starting point is 01:39:29 that is made from lab-grown cells. And there never will be. There never will be with the FDA. Perfect Day uses genetically engineered fungus to produce synthetic versions of casein and whey, the dairy proteins. And so, you know, they put these... this is genetically engineered fungus. That's where you want to... what you want to drink is their... their excrement. Nevertheless, as he points out, this thing, it's C15-Zero. It is penta-D-Canoic acid.

Starting point is 01:40:10 I have not heard of that or seen it before. That is a rare essential fat that you will find in raw milk and you're not going to find it in these other things. It is also present in small amounts in certain fish and plants. What is notable about this is that it contributes to optimal cellular health. As I said before, diabetes prevention, mitochondrial health, weight management, and LA detoxification, linoleic acid. If you get too much of that, it can help you to detox from that.

Starting point is 01:40:44 But anyway, just a word of warning because you're going to start rolling out these synthetic milks pretty soon. And I would want to inform yourself about what is in this and where this is coming from. We'll be right back. The Decoding the mainstream propaganda, it's the David Knight Show. All right, welcome back. And Gard did a thing on his program yesterday with his guest, and they sang Happy Birthday to me. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about Happy Birthday and why he can do that without

Starting point is 01:41:52 getting a copyright strike. Yeah, that was something that they kept going for a very long time. It was a good example of the abuse of intellectual property. But this is Gard on Liberty Cons conspiracy that is you'll find on Every evening on Twitter as well as on rumble go ahead and play it Travis Well, we don't have any sound there, okay, well we tried Okay, well we got a little bit of a technical difficulty I had problems downloading that so I thought we'd just play it live, but it did not play

Starting point is 01:42:28 live. So let's talk a little bit about the Happy Birthday and the copyright thing, because they did sing Happy Birthday to me. The copyright claims on Happy Birthday were based on a 1935 copyright claim. This is a song that's been around forever. It goes back to 1893. As a matter of fact, when we went to China and we were going around, they had a whole group of us that were adopting children and they had us all on the bus and one of the kids had a birthday and so all the adoptive parents and everybody were singing happy

Starting point is 01:43:07 birthday to this child and the kids in China knew it. The kids in China, I was really surprised they knew it and they knew the English words to it. That's the only English that she spoke when we got her there. But everybody knew it. It's universal, right? It goes back to a song that was written in 1893. It was called Good Morning to All. And then in 1935, there was a piano arrangement of the song, and they copyrighted that piano arrangement. They claimed specific rights over the arrangement and over the lyrics. That company was eventually bought by Warner.

Starting point is 01:43:50 And then Warner bullied and blackmailed and extorted money from people for the next hundred years basically. They were going to do it until 2030. Can you believe that? 95 years worth of copyright. This is the abuse of copyright that we see here in this country. And beyond all reason, and beyond anything that is there to help the people who actually created it. This is just lawyers feasting on the abusive copyright laws. Well, they were making millions a year, especially because what they would typically do is they would charge license fees to people who used it in movies or TV or something like that.

Starting point is 01:44:36 And they would occasionally go after other people too if they didn't like your content. They would use that as an excuse to shut you down. Well, there was a filmmaker who pushed back against them on this, pushed back against this extortion blackmail and bullying, and won in 2015, won in a federal court against Warner, you know, extorting people over playing Happy Birthday. So the court ruled that The court ruled that there was a prior publication of Happy Birthday with the lyrics in 1922. So that predates significantly the 1935 claimed copyright. So that copyright was really only about the piano arrangement on that sheet music. It doesn't copyright the tune and it doesn't copyright the lyrics.

Starting point is 01:45:27 So as a result, Warner had to pay back about 14 million dollars to people that they had extorted and they were, like I said, they were making some years as much as two million dollars a year shaking people down with their copyright lawyers. The whole intellectual property thing is just another area of our society that is out of control. But you said you got the issue here?

Starting point is 01:45:54 Okay, so this is what Gard did last night. I really appreciate it, Gard. Thank you. It's not working still. Okay, well, we'll move on. We tried, sorry, Gard, but I do appreciate you doing that. That was really nice of you. We were talking about lab milk. So let's talk about meat glue. Did you realize there's this thing called

Starting point is 01:46:15 meat glue? Yeah, whenever you're getting chicken nuggets or veggie burgers or just a lot of food, that's one of the reasons why they talk about... be careful about processed food... because it's got meat glue in it. Well actually, it is something called microbial transglutaminase, but its function is to glue the meat together. And it has some real adverse effects in it. This is what I'm saying, you know, when you look at this synthetic milk and other things like that, who knows what they're doing to process it. Gluten and genetics may not be the only culprits behind the skyrocketing cases of celiac disease and related inflammatory

Starting point is 01:46:53 digestive autoimmune conditions. Recent research shows that an enzyme called microbial transglutaminase induces celiac disease and related inflammatory digestive diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis," they said. Meat glue is beneficial for the food industry," said the researchers in one of several papers that they published on the topic, but apparently it's not too good for your health. It is the darling of big food for a lot of reasons. It can glue together scraps of fish, chicken, and meat, and it's something that looks like a whole cut. We often call these things Frankenmeats. It can extend the shelf life of processed foods, even pasta. It can improve the texture of the food, especially in low-salt, low-fat

Starting point is 01:47:46 products. It can make bread and pastries, particularly gluten-free ones, rise better. And as one manufacturer puts it, it allows for the use of things that would ordinarily be tossed out, things that are like unappetizing leftovers and scraps of food that would otherwise be considered to be waste. Oh, they can now make a chicken nugget out of it or something, right? It kind of reminds me of, remember the Christmas vacation thing with Chevy Chase? His job, I think, if I remember the right movie, was to come up with some additive that would keep corn flakes from absorbing milk and getting soggy. I'm sure that was good for you too. When I saw that I thought that's crazy but somebody's actually got that

Starting point is 01:48:28 job and they actually don't care about your health. All they care about is whether or not this food can be processed through their machine and whether or not it absorbs milk. How it looks? Is it bright and colorful? Okay, yeah that's good. Okay, we'll put that dye in there. Anyway, meat glue can change the nature of gluten and it can make the immune system more reactive to gluten, which can cause conditions like intestinal junction leakage and a whole variety of health issues there. But don't worry because the FDA is going to regulate all this, except the FDA tells them you're

Starting point is 01:49:05 free to do anything, including meat glue. Well, pharma-friendly public health officials have now launched a new project to shore up U.S. vaccination policy. Now, you look at this, and this is in response to R.F.K. Jr. Do they believe that R.F.K. Jr. will do something? Maybe they do.

Starting point is 01:49:24 Maybe they're just... they don't take chances. I hope he does something. It remains to be seen what he's going to do about the vaccines. But they're there to safeguard vaccine policy. And so I think that they're, you know, being very proactive defensively, but you know, they may actually with this thing, if he doesn't actually go in the other direction, this organization could actually wind up increasing the number of vaccines that are recommended that are demanded, uh, pushing a centralized privately funded group to influence vaccine policy and messaging could blur the lines between public health advocacy and private agenda pushing. Yeah, you know, when you look at this, it's the insurance companies, as I pointed out

Starting point is 01:50:11 before, that essentially blackmail pediatricians to push and push and push and push on all these vaccines. And even to get kids that are behind caught up. That is really, really dangerous. And if you you if the physicians don't do it then the insurance company can put them out of business they've gotten such control since Obamacare. The insurance companies have become such a big part of their business that unless you go to somebody who doesn't take

Starting point is 01:50:37 insurance you're probably gonna have them pressure you for all kinds of stuff that you really don't want but the health industry does want. A good example of this, by the way, is I saw this online. This is a guy who had to have, I think his ambulance care, we'll see here, I'm going to play the clip for you, for his child. And they gave him one price, and then he said he said oh I didn't give you my insurance so he gave him his insurance and the price went way way up listen to this so I I think there's a mistake on the bill but maybe you could help me out

Starting point is 01:51:17 we got a bill and then we realized that you guys didn't have our insurance so we we sent you the insurance and it looks like the bill went up. It went up? Yeah the first the first bill we got without the insurance was 600 bucks and then the second one was almost 1,300 bucks. Okay yeah so that the first invoice you received, that's a discount that you received if you're uninsured. So you're not eligible for the discount since you are insured. And so the bill was $2,342.14. We billed your insurance, your insurance only paid $1,078.85. your insurance. Your insurance only paid $1,078.85. Can I go back to the discount without the insurance?

Starting point is 01:52:17 No, sir, you're insured, so you're not eligible for the discount. If I go cancel my insurance, am I eligible for the discount? No, sir, because we check eligibility and you do have active coverage for data service. Oh, I needed to cancel it before I got this service to get the discount. You're only eligible for the discount if you're uninsured. Okay, so I'll get cheaper health care if I'm uninsured If you're uninsured you're you're eligible for the discount, correct Is this common like like you're in yeah it is it is it absolutely is amazing I remember years and years ago, I covered, um, uh,

Starting point is 01:53:08 the LA times talked about that. He's in California, but this is everywhere. This is everywhere. And so they got one that is for uninsured and a cash price, right? And then they've got a, if you have insurance, boy, they Jack it up as you just heard Jack it up so high that even if the insurance pays a large percentage of it, your fee is still going to be more. And, of course, you're still paying these outrageous insurance premiums. It's a difference.

Starting point is 01:53:34 You know, again, what we're seeing here is the insurance companies and the hospital systems, which again are corporate, and they've taken over this stuff. They're not interested this stuff. They're not interested in medicine. They're interested in making money. And you see these two colluding together to rip people off. But we personally experienced that. We had for years, we had medical, like one of these Medicare, Samaritan Ministries is one that we had, but there's like one of these Medicare, Samaritan Ministries is one that we had, but there's another one called that we had at one point in time. And you basically are treated, it's not insurance, you have other Christians, and of course if

Starting point is 01:54:14 you're not a Christian there's another one that's Liberty something or the other. And so you're in a group and people agree to help to pay other people's medical bills. And so when you have a need, you give that to them, and then they send it out. And there's like an annual fee that you pay to the organization that manages this. And then when you have a bill, they send that out to other people, and you write your checks directly to the person.

Starting point is 01:54:46 Once a year you write this organization a check, a nominal amount, that's how they make their money, but then your monthly contribution is sent directly to somebody that they tell you has a published need. So they verify that this is a real need and you send that money along to them. And if it's a Christian organization, you agree to pray for them and other things like that. You can send them a card. People would send us a card and we had something like that. And then when you're dealing with a hospital, you're dealing with them as a cash patient. And it truly is amazing how this system is rigged against people to take advantage of them. That's one way that you can get out of the system. You know,

Starting point is 01:55:29 we always are talking about ways that you can prepare and get out of the system. Get out of the medical system, the financial side of that, by getting into one of these groups. And the other thing we found was not only was it cheaper, and that was the LA Times did this like I said about a decade ago. They did a story about this very same thing. This guy just did a publisher video about it. But we also found that when we go in for something and say, well, if you had insurance, we'd run all these other tests, but they're not necessary anyway. Well, that's good, because I don't like unnecessary tests being run on me. They're usually not comfortable, and frequently they have adverse effects themselves.

Starting point is 01:56:11 So that's a real plus that they don't do extra things to you. And so that's the system that we have. And so here we have shocking data that suggests that the abortion pill has complications that are 22 times higher than previously reported. But the FDA is not going to do anything about it because the pharmaceutical companies are free to do anything. That's what FDA stands for. Contrary to what some people may claim, the abortion pill is not like Tylenol. We find that one out of every ten women who takes the abortion pill will suffer a serious adverse effect like hemorrhaging or infection soon afterward. A third to a half of these women will then go to the ER or

Starting point is 01:56:55 even be hospitalized as a result. The original FDA approved drug label for Mephistopheles from September of 2000, said the drug should be used through approximately seven weeks of pregnancy. But now they removed all that because they want you to be able to get as many, you know, they want as many abortions as they can get. So they said, so now you can do it online without an exam because again, the purpose of the exam was to make sure the baby wasn't too large for your own good. They don't care about the good of the baby. But for your own

Starting point is 01:57:31 good, you don't want to use it past a certain period of time. But of course, when you had a physical examination, they would look at the size of the baby and that would be the issue there. So prior to that, prior to what we just did, they would require three office visits by the patient. They would require a prescription that could only come from a physician, not something you get over the Internet. And you would have to take the drug in a clinic in the presence of a physician who would then monitor you and who would be able to get you to a facility that was equipped to provide

Starting point is 01:58:12 blood transfusions and resuscitation if necessary. All that stuff has been taken away. No examination, no observation as you're taking it, No backup plan for an emergency? These safeguards have been removed, all of them, and so this is a very, very dangerous, very dangerous drug. They simply are just waving their hand and let this go. So Children's Health Defense is funding a lawsuit against the CDC over a program that forces pediatricians to give COVID vaccines to kids who are on Medicaid. So again, if you get their financial assistance, if you get insurance or whatever, then these

Starting point is 01:59:02 insurance companies or the government that is giving you financial assistance is going to mandate that you do things that are not in your interest. And we see this across the board. And of course it's not limited to medical stuff. That's why I tell people, you know, home school your kids and don't take any money from the federal government or the state government for any of this stuff. Because if you do, they're going to hammer you with this kind of thing. And now we see this is being done for kids who are in Medicare. And again, this all goes back to Obamacare, where they started taking over the individual

Starting point is 01:59:37 private practices at that time. We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we have our guest today is J. Warner Wallace, and I've talked to him before. He's a very interesting guest. He was a cold case detective looking at murders and other things like that. And he applied those principles to the Bible, the same principles that he would use to evaluate the testimony of people in a murder case that were all gone. And he wrote, he's written a couple of books about it, but he's got something that's new that I think

Starting point is 02:00:08 you're really going to find interesting and a very entertaining way to put this out that he did with his son who is also a detective. So we're going to take a quick break and when we come back we're going to talk to Jay Warner Wallace of Cold Case Detective fame. We'll be right back stay with us unlike most revolutions where the people rise against a real economic oppression in our case here in Boston we are fighting for purely an abstract principle it is however not nearly so abstract as a young gentleman supposes

Starting point is 02:00:41 the issue involved here is one of monopoly today the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country tomorrow it will be something else The Liberty, it's your move. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Alright, welcome back, and joining us now is Jay Warner Wallace. As I said, I've talked to him a couple of times before about his book, Cold Case Christianity, and he's got a new book that is put out in a very different way, and I really like this. It's a � I'll just show you the cover here of it. It is

Starting point is 02:02:13 a graphic novel. So there's the suspense broken right there. I gave away the secret. Thank you for joining us, Mr. Wallace. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Tell us a little bit about this and why you did this and of course you did this in conjunction with your son. It's really professionally done. We've got some images of it that we can show but it's an amazing book and it's kind of a fun way to get the point across that you've made in some of your other books before. Tell us a little bit about it. Yeah, yeah. I think most of my other books, all my other books are non-fiction books that

Starting point is 02:02:50 make a case for Christianity, either for its truthfulness or for its goodness and usefulness. So those are books that we kind of just make a straight case. But I think there's a lot of folks who are moved more by fiction. My son always thinks this too because we know that we can make a case for something and you may agree with that case. But we can also take you on a journey. If you are part of the journey, you end up living the case. This is a graphic novel that is a fictional work about a team of detectives that are trying to catch a serial killer in Los Angeles County.

Starting point is 02:03:24 We applied all of our experience in the county. So this is gonna feel, I think, pretty realistic. If you're a police officer or detective, you're gonna read this and think, yeah, that's pretty much how we do it. But I also think what we're trying to do is to tell a better story. To tell it, we're gonna explore an issue that most people struggle with. And that is, how do we ground human value, meaning, and purpose? I think that most of us take our identity for granted, and then at some point we struggle

Starting point is 02:03:50 because we're trying to figure out who are we really. And if you'll notice, and if you've seen... Today in America, there'll be a number of homicides. It's just the sad truth. Now, most of those you're not gonna know anything about because they're never gonna make the press. But if a celebrity gets murdered, well, now that's gonna make the news and suddenly it'll be a national or international item. Well, why? Do we think that celebrities somehow are more valuable than other victims? We kind of act as though they are. So how are we grounding human value? What makes one person newsworthy and somebody else not? We think from a Christian worldview that every life has value, but how do we

Starting point is 02:04:29 ground it? So what we have here is this is not a Pollyannish kind of Christian story where everyone's going to get saved in the last chapter. This is a realistic, gritty novel that's a large comic book because it's a graphic novel. It's kind of like you're watching a storyboarded movie involving people who are struggling to understand who they are as they chase a serial killer who is upping the ante every time he kills somebody. This victim is of increasing cultural value.

Starting point is 02:05:00 And what we're trying to do is challenge the notion that people actually are of increasing value. We think that we want to be able to ground our identity and our value in something that's transcendent and so we're going to make a case for this, but we're going to do it without kind of beating you over the head. That's great. You know, many times I've heard people talk about animal sacrifice, you know, and one

Starting point is 02:05:22 of the first things we see after the Garden of Eden is that God gives skins to Adam and Eve to cover up their nakedness, right, cover up their – now they're aware of, you know, what is going on, but he has to kill an animal in order to make that. And so, you know, it's a consistent principle throughout Christianity that without the shedding of blood there's no forgiveness of sin, right? And so a big part of that is that people understand the seriousness of sin because they see when even – you talk about the difference in human life. Even when we see a dead animal, we kind of stop for a moment.

Starting point is 02:06:01 If we see a broken branch or a tree or whatever, some plant that's been chopped up, you don't necessarily think anything about it. But if you see an animal that's been chopped up, you've got blood all over the place, even that will make an impact on you, let alone a human life. And as you point out, all human life is valuable. It's not just celebrities, but again, it's like all life is valuable. The life is in the blood. And that is a real � I think it's a lesson that God was trying to give us to drive home just how serious rebellion to Him is.

Starting point is 02:06:36 Yeah, I think as my son likes to point out, as police officers, we have certain limitations because there are rights that humans have. So for example, I can't just kick down your door and enter your house without a warrant, without a reason to do it. But on the other hand, if someone is screaming in your house that they're being murdered, they're being killed, well now I can kick down the door

Starting point is 02:06:57 to save that person's life. We actually think that the value of life legally is more important than even some rights that you have to privacy. We recognize as police officers that humans, human life is important. Now what I see in culture is that you're right, what we have a tendency to do is the secular world just sees us as another evolved creature, another animal like all the other animals, and what you see happening is that typically other animals are now being afforded the

Starting point is 02:07:25 same dignities that we would have in the past only have afforded humans. They're in our restaurants, they're on the plane with you, they're everywhere. And they're there because we have minimized the difference between humans and other animals. Now, here's what's interesting. You know from scripture, if scripture is true, we are unique in the sense that we are image bearers. We bear the image of God. And the first thing that God does when he gives us the identity, he creates Adam in his image, and then he gives Adam a name, an identity. And the first thing he asks Adam to do is to then turn and give an identity to all the other animals. The Christian story is an identity story from the Old Testament all the way through to the New Testament. And so this is something

Starting point is 02:08:10 we wanted to explore. Now look, I could easily make that gaze on paper and make it the way I just made it to you. Or I could tell you a story that we hope is so engaging that by the time you're done with it, you'll get this principle, even though in this story, I think if you were to read this book, you're going to get halfway through it before you even think to yourself, is this a Christian book? Because what we want to do is we want to reach people with truth. And God's truth is everyone's truth. You're stuck with it, whether you're a Christian or not. If it's true, it's true for everyone. So we thought we could write a book in which we could make a case that even your unbelieving friends

Starting point is 02:08:45 could read and not feel like, oh, this is so preachy. No, it turns out it's just describing the world the way it really is. And this is what scripture does. It describes the world and it describes us the way we really are. So you'll see that these characters, there's only one Christian character in the entire book. And he's treated, for the most part, the way that as a non-believing cop, I treated most Christian cops I knew, which I kind of marginalized them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here comes the Christian view. Okay, great. And you'll see, this is probably true in many of the people who read this book are going to say,

Starting point is 02:09:19 but you know what, this is true in my world too. My non-Christian friends don't really, you know, this is true in my world too. My non-Christian friends don't really take what I say seriously about this. So we wanted to create a narrative that was very... That depicts reality the way it is for a lot of the readers if we're gonna read this. You're gonna recognize your own struggles trying to tell people about Jesus, trying to tell people about what's true. And so this is a book that may not land, every plane may not land safely at the end of the runway, because life is that way. It's, you can share, I've got a father who's a cop, who's a detective, who's now retired, of course,

Starting point is 02:09:54 and he's 85, and he is not interested in hearing about the gospel. And as many years as I've spent trying to help him see it from the same perspective that I take as a detective, he has willfully rejecting anything that I tell him. Well, you probably have someone in your life like that too if you were a reader of this book. So we want to have a book that reflects that reality as well.

Starting point is 02:10:19 Well, you know what I said earlier about just the specialty of, what is special about life in general, and you're right, we're created in the specialty of, what is special about life in general, and you're right, you know, we're created in the image of God and there's a huge difference between us and the animals. And one of the things that we are seeing now, we talk about the dignity of human life, one of the things that we really have to be aware of, the push that is coming against that, and we're seeing it across the board. It goes back to B.F. Skinner and other people talking about, you know,

Starting point is 02:10:48 beyond freedom and dignity, they're just going to treat human beings like animals. And we see it more in the more contemporary writings of people like Yuval Harari, just saying, well, you know, we're going to take away, you're not going to have any freedom or dignity. We're just going to control you as we would an animal. And so I think that's a really important theme to drive home. And it's a great way to do it in a detective novel, especially because everybody loves detective novels.

Starting point is 02:11:16 They love, you know, forensic novels and all the rest of this stuff. I mean, it's always captured the human imagination because it is about life and death and it is also about a mystery and a puzzle, isn't it? Yeah, it is. And this form of novel is, I always wanted to write fiction and I realized that there's a difference between writing fiction and writing non-fiction, okay? There's definitely a different skill set. My son is an avid growing up, he's now 36, he's been on the job 13 years. he's you know he was always an avid comic book reader and and I think if you are an avid reader in a

Starting point is 02:11:50 particular genre well then you have a better shot at writing something in that genre. So so he this is what we had to contribute was basically a script. It's like a movie script you know say a page, he's going to have five panels. These panels are going to be these scenes, these dialogue, this action. Then we give it to a group of illustrators that are really gifted illustrators. They're the same illustrators that created the chosen graphic novel. So they're very gifted and they basically then do all the rest of the heavy lifting. If people like this book, and I hope they do,

Starting point is 02:12:25 it's largely because it was illustrated so magnificently. I mean, we first got it back, and we're watching how they're developing the characters. Yeah, I mean, when you see the character development, I'm like, wow, you know, that's actually better than I had imagined. You know, so I think that this partnership between writers and creative artists

Starting point is 02:12:46 had been really helpful. Yeah. Yeah, we got a clip up there now of a couple of these different things. And I love the graphic novels and the comic books. And of course, I learned how to read with comic books. My mom would take me in tow before I started school. And this is back in the silver age of comics when they were a lot safer than they are now. Yes, yes, yes. started school and this is back in the silver age of comics when they were a lot safer than they are now. Yes, yes. They've kind of, they've pandered to adult or to college kids I should say in terms of

Starting point is 02:13:12 what they got. But they were pretty safe back in the late 1950s and stuff. And it was great because like you point out, it is like a storyboard to a film. And when it's well done. You know what's interesting about that is that my son will say this because he found my brother-in-law's old comic book collection from the early 1960s. And you're absolutely right, there was far less objectionable material in those old comic books. And what he told me is growing up as a young Christian, he got his, of course, his marching orders from

Starting point is 02:13:40 scripture, but he found that a lot of his character development came from these comic books, especially Spider-Man, this kid who's gotta save the world, but he's getting a chance to go on this date and of course as soon as he gets to the point of taking the girl out, this is when Dr. Octopus attacks and he's gotta change his... I've gotta act sacrificially, I want to do this thing, but I need to do that thing. Well, I thought really, so you were telling me that some of your character was developed through comic books? But I realized that this is probably true for a lot of our young people, that issues

Starting point is 02:14:14 that are sold to them under the ruse of fiction become the kinds of things that develop people's character. That's why we as Christians need to be in this space, because you're right. What's happening, if you're reading comics or graphic novels today, you're gonna have to turn a blind eye to a lot of offensive non-Christian material. Yes. But can we do a story that's every bit as gripping, entertaining, gritty, but also teaches a Christian worldview so that when character development is actually going to occur naturally as you're reading fiction,

Starting point is 02:14:47 it's the kind of character that's also consistent with the teaching of Scripture. That's what we're trying to do with this kind of a book. That's great. Yeah, you wouldn't go back and look at it. It's like, you know, comparing contemporary movie, comic books of today, graphic novels of today versus the stuff back in the 50s. It's like a Disney movie about David Crockett or something, versus movies that focus on a psychotic Joker character, you know, for the Batman. It's now the villains have become the heroes of these things and they've become really, really rough. As you point out, when I was a kid, the characters would, and there was a reason point out, when I was a kid, the characters would – and

Starting point is 02:15:26 there was a reason for that. When they first started out, they were pretty rough, just like films and just like they had the Hays Code for movies. They also came up with a comic book code. They said, if you're going to target kids with this stuff, then you're going to follow certain rules. And so it was kind of quasi-mandated that they would have to follow those rules. And the characters were really straight up. And so it was kind of quasi-mandated that they would have to follow those rules. And the characters were really straight up. And they were good and they were honorable characters. My son Travis is working aboard here. I used to read to him novels from G.A. Hinty. And in those novels, even the villains, the villains were better than our heroes today.

Starting point is 02:16:01 And I'm not joking. You know better, higher ideals, and they treated people better than the heroes treat people today in our movies and fiction. So those things were there. As a matter of fact, they'd always have this thing look like a stamp. And I never knew what that was when I was a kid. That was up on the cover of the thing.

Starting point is 02:16:20 And that was saying that it had been certified and was with a comic book code. And it's one of the reasons why MAD called itself a magazine, because they didn't follow that code. They were really – sorry, I mean, it wasn't anything that was sexual or violent or anything like it is in the graphic novels today, but it was sarcastic. Yes, that's right. A lot of satire and everything like that.

Starting point is 02:16:43 And so they were proud of the fact that they did not adhere to the code. And so I think the code was basically you're going to present a good moral character in our society at that point in time. Christianity had a lot of influence on that. And really, even if these people were not Christian, it was the Christian influence that was influencing the art and the culture. And you're right, we do need to take that back. Well, and think about this, the Christian theology tells us that there's an enigma

Starting point is 02:17:10 of man, that we are duplicit. We have the capacity for unbelievable altruism and goodness because we have been created in the image of God, but we also are deeply rebellious and have inherited that sinful condition from Adam. So that's why we are these duplicit kind of beings. Now what's interesting is we went from a point in history where we would rather, we preferred to write about what we could be than what we really are. Now we've shifted and yeah, it is true that we are duplicit. We have a capacity for both greatness and evil. But we want to focus on the greatness. We wanna say, hey, this is the ideal we ought to aspire to.

Starting point is 02:17:53 But I think what we're seeing right now, especially in comics, is that instead we're just sketching out the characters as they really are, as dark as their nature can also be. Well, look, I get it. You're gonna see in this book that we've been very realistic with all the detectives and they have a dark side, okay?

Starting point is 02:18:09 But we want to aim at something. And you know that old saying that if you aim at nothing, you hit it every time? That's exactly right. So we have to write stories, I think, that aim at something that is good. There ought to be some example in the book that is not trite and trivialized and stereotyped,

Starting point is 02:18:26 but offers a solution to the problem that everyone else is experiencing. So hopefully if we do this in a way that is compelling, you're going to come away from reading this book and you're going to have, I think it could, for number one, if you're not a believer, I hope it'll open up your thinking to the possibility that Christianity has something to teach you about how to live. But if you are a believer, hope is going to give you much more confidence. And also, we want to have an alternative for believers who maybe want to have some fun in this space, this true crime graphic novel space, which right now if you were to go online, you're going to get a lot of stuff that you're going to have to ignore some percentage of

Starting point is 02:19:00 it if you want to hold on to your Christian worldview. We wanted something that you didn't have to do that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely right. Tell us a little bit about, you know, you also are encouraging with this some deeper probing and some discussions about Christian worldview. Tell people what you've got in association with that conversation guide that is also… Yeah, and I do think this is a gateway book for, going to be a gateway book for a lot of people. So on the inside back cover we have a QR code that if you just hit that QR code, it's gonna open up our case closed booklet, which is a case for the resurrection in about 40

Starting point is 02:19:35 pages. So it's gonna take you a step further. If you wanted to know, for example, why this particular character in our story maybe responds a little differently to the trauma. Well, the answer is in his Christian worldview, even though we're just gonna hint at it, we're not gonna make it like a punch in the face, but we wanna give you a chance to go. Now look, if you're somebody who buys a book today in our economy today, I feel like it's a big ask anymore

Starting point is 02:19:59 for someone to spend, you know, somewhere between 15 and 20 dollars, depending on where you buy it, a book like this. So what we wanna do is offer something that makes the price seem like it's reasonable. So what we've done on our website at ColdCaseChristianity.com is anyone who buys the book, yes, you have access to that digital QR code, but also we want to send you a conversation guide that will help you navigate the conversations that are going to flow out of someone who reads this book. Also we want to give you our 10 and a half hour 30 session case makers

Starting point is 02:20:30 course. It's the same course I teach at Gateway Seminary here in Southern California and it's a course that is fully robustly illustrated. It's all videos. If you take this course you will become a much better Christian case maker. So when someone does have a question about the Christian worldview, that maybe it's prompted by a book like this or anyone else's book, you'll be able to kind of hold your ground to be able to make a case for why you you want to. Here's my concern. If you really want to know what it is you love, what it is your family loves, think about what it is they're

Starting point is 02:21:05 capable of defending. Cause it turns out whatever it is you're capable of defending, that is your real God. We just came out of the football draft from college football into the NFL. And I know people who can make a robust case for why so and so should have gotten drafted or didn't get drafted or should have gotten drafted in a different position. Oh yeah. I see that all the time. And then it's like, I kind of flipped through it, but you know, I see that they're all upset because this guy didn't go earlier or whatever. And it's like,

Starting point is 02:21:31 and there's talk shows that they only have, I mean, literally I was watching on the sports channels where you might have six hours today of this discussion with people debating it. Well, okay. If that's you and you are better able to defend your pro football team and their selections than you are able to defend your God, you've kind of shown your hand as to what you find worth defending. I think we need to move into a position where we're so geeked out about what we believe about God and about Jesus, that this is the stuff we spend our discretionary time on. This is the stuff we spend our disposable time, our disposable income, our disposable thoughts, the stuff

Starting point is 02:22:08 that we have freedom, like, you know, you're not working right now, what are you thinking about? There's your God. You're not engaged with your family, what are you thinking about? There is your God. So I think in the end, we have to kind of align our thoughts and align our abilities. And so we've always wanted to do this, is provide resources that'll help people if you do want to do that, like how do you learn? Like where do you get that stuff? Yes, you can buy a book. But what we want to do is offer those free resources

Starting point is 02:22:34 through our website that'll help you to take the next step. Well, and I love what you do, because you know, we always have people who will push back on that. And I like to have my faith challenged from one perspective or the other, because I've always found that when I get that challenge and I go back and I investigate in it, I come back much stronger. Because it is true, and it helps me to understand that it's true, if I go back and I investigate, which is what you did in your life, you go back and you investigate it, and it's not a blind faith that we have.

Starting point is 02:23:10 And what it does is you find the answers, and as you dig deep, then it becomes a passion for your life. The more you get into it, and we've been talking about celebrities. We had so many celebrities in the last year or so that I've seen there in their 50s and 60s and say, �You know, I never read the Bible before, but I started reading it.� It's pretty amazing, you know? Then they want to grab you by the lapel and tell you about how amazing this is and what they found in it. And we don't see that in the case of a lot of nominal Christians because they're just not reading it. You know, they may be a part of a club

Starting point is 02:23:45 or a church or whatever, you know, but they're not really actively involved in it. And so if you can get something in that pulls you in, and that's what I love what you do in general with a cold case Christianity, is that you answer a lot of these concerns that other people had, concerns that you had when you first came to it. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I mean, I think what we want, I'm hoping to do, to have my own kids, and as I was raising them, and now my grandkids, is to help them and develop an investigative approach.

Starting point is 02:24:11 Yes. Where this is worth taking the time to, like church attendance is not the box you can check and say, okay, I'm done. It's just one of the many things you're gonna find yourself doing, because you are this in love with the worldview, with Jesus of Nazareth.

Starting point is 02:24:24 So I think the reality of it is, is how do you do this? Here's what I love. This is a worldview you could investigate. Think about it, if you're somebody for example who is a Baha'i and you think that the writings of Baha'u La'u are magnificent and beautiful and spiritual, okay great, how could you test those? How do you test proverbial statements, even if they're Buddha, if they're Hindu statements, whatever they may be, how do you test that? This is not just that Jesus said smart things.

Starting point is 02:24:53 Of course he did. It's that this is a claim about something that happened in history. That's very unusual if you think about it. You don't have claims about history that can be tested in the high faith or in Buddhist faith. This is testable in the sense that it records an event. If it didn't happen, it's all false. So there's something you can point to now, which is the

Starting point is 02:25:17 resurrection. Do we have good reason to believe the resurrection occurred? If it did, then this guy's in a different category, Jesus. He's the one wise guy who, unlike all the other ancient wise guys, rose from the grave. We need to know, have confidence that that's the case, because otherwise he's just one ancient voice among many who also said wise things. Or is he the voice? And by the way, because we are created in the image of this God, we always have a shadow of his teaching in our lives. We are image bearers. We cannot avoid it.

Starting point is 02:25:52 Even when we think, do you know how many Christ figures there are in history? The stories that are like the Jesus story that emerge. Now you could argue that those that come after Jesus are simply people who are copying the Jesus story. But there are a lot of Christ figures that are pre-Jesus. Why? Because this is God's story. And if you're an image bearer, which you are, you kind of innately have God's story in your head, whether you like it or not.

Starting point is 02:26:15 That's right. So I think in the end, we want to be able to use our giftedness, whatever that may be, all of us, even those of us who are listening to this show, to be creative. And we ought to own the arts. We have, by the way, for generations. Don't step back from the arts. Continue to write. Write fiction. Do Christian movies. Yes, I know, people will say, well, they're not the one I hope they wish they would be. Well, that's on us. We can do a better job. So let's do that better job so we have something to point to so our young people have an alternative that actually is God-honoring.

Starting point is 02:26:46 I agree. Oh yeah. And as a matter of fact, you're talking about doing the best job that you can. That's the key. You know, when we look at the architecture, for example, in Europe, the great cathedrals and everything that were there, and there was a multi-generational effort to show their best, you know, to show their best skills and all the rest of it. They poured it into that regardless of what you think. There was still a, that was their desire to do something in some way that honored God. And everything that we do, I think as Christians, ought to be done to a standard that people would say, �Oh, I want to know more about this guy, what motivates him, you know, to do something of that quality. But as you were saying, it all comes back to the resurrection of Jesus, and we're just

Starting point is 02:27:32 a week away from Resurrection Sunday, and you've got Case Closed that is also there at your website, and you have a link to that as part of – people get this graphic novel – it's a link to that. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, case closed was really something we wanted to do a long time ago. We've done a couple of different versions of what we would hope to be a case, quick case of the resurrection. Because I do think this is the one most important piece of evidence that is in the Christian worldview. Paul says, if the resurrection didn't occur, then number one, we have been

Starting point is 02:28:02 false witnesses. So we've been lying to you. So that ought to discredit pretty much everything else we've said. But also you have no hope of your own resurrection. This is all in 1 Corinthians 15. So if you look at this, this is the key thing that I knew I had to investigate first. Do I have good reason to believe that this resurrection thing occurred? Because that puts him in a different category altogether and that category is the difference between any other ancient sage and Jesus of Nazareth. So this is like a 30 or 40 page very small

Starting point is 02:28:33 booklet. It's the quickest version I can give you of why I think the resurrection is the most reasonable inference from the historical evidence. Now look, some of people are going to say, well I can't believe that because it includes something supernatural. You know, it turns out that that supernatural thing is what's keeping most people out. Here's what I mean. If we had an ancient set of documents that just described Jesus of Nazareth as a simple teaching rabbi in the first century, that's all he is. He said some wise things but never worked a miracle, never rose from the grave, never walked on water, was not born of a virgin. He said some wise things, but never worked a miracle, never rose from the grave, never walked on water,

Starting point is 02:29:05 was not born of a virgin. He's just a guy, just an ancient guy who was smart. There wouldn't be a single skeptic on planet Earth who would deny the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth. Based on the manuscript evidence we have, it's so strong. There is no ancient who's better attested than Jesus. But if you insert one miracle into those same ancient manuscripts, suddenly skepticism is at a high. None of it can be true. Why?

Starting point is 02:29:31 That just tells you that the skepticism is not based on the strength of the manuscript evidence. It's not. It's based on a presuppositional bias against the supernatural. Yes. Because trust me, take out the supernatural elements and everyone loves it. Yeah. But they, so that is really about us having to examine. Do we have really good reason to reject anything outside of space, time, matter, physics and chemistry?

Starting point is 02:29:56 I actually think there's good reason to believe there is something beyond space, time, matter, physics and chemistry, just from the science of those who study the universe. Yes. I think we're stuck with that. The question is, is that thing outside of space, time, matter, science and physics,

Starting point is 02:30:13 is chemistry and physics, is that thing personal? Is it a personal being? If there is a personal being that starts the universe, well then I suspect you can do anything you want once the universe has been started. So there's no big deal miracle in the pages of the New Testament. The biggest miracle of all is in Genesis 1. Everything from nothing that's big. If you can do that you can probably walk on water.

Starting point is 02:30:39 So that helped me to at least navigate my bias against the supernatural. I was somebody who believed in Big Bang cosmology, that's still the standard cosmological model of the astrophysicists who are working today as secularists. Well, they believe that there's something outside of space, time and matter that begins all space, time and matter. Well, what is that? What kind of force? Is it an impersonal force? Or is it a personal force? Why would we think, for example, it's an impersonal force

Starting point is 02:31:09 and be stuck on that? If it's a personal force, we at least have to have a hypothesis that includes God as a creator. I'm not saying you all have to do this, you all have to jump in that direction, but can you at least allow that as a hypothesis? Because I'll tell you what, if you do, you're gonna find that it has much better explanatory

Starting point is 02:31:26 power for a lot of other things in the universe. So I think in the end that was what had to open the door for me. Yeah. Yeah, if there was ever a time, as people have said, if there was ever a time where there was literally no thing, then there still would be nothing that's out there. And you know, when we even talk about the word supernatural, there must be something that organizes this that is above nature. And we've seen a lot of materialistic scientists say that.

Starting point is 02:31:51 We looked at Crick and Watson who discovered DNA. They could no longer deny an intelligent design, but instead they created in their imagination and said, well, we'll call it panspermia. It must have been aliens who came here and did this. But they will not. Then you take it to the next step. I�m still going to � I�m the God of the Bible, even if I see the inevitability and the impossibility of this happening without intelligent design. So there�s always that there. But that�s the other thing I like about Christianity. It�s always about critical thinking. It

Starting point is 02:32:21 encourages and invites critical thinking. And that�'s what you do with cold case Christianity. You invite critical thinking, and you have answers for that. And it's important for us. We can't really go, it's a vital life skill for us to be able to have critical thinking. And so that's something that we tried to really stress with our children when we were homeschooling them, was the critical thinking aspect. And so we would look at creation versus evolution, and we would look at all the biology and, you know, here's your set of facts and everybody's got the same set of facts. How do we interpret these set of facts, and why would we interpret it this way or that way? That's right.

Starting point is 02:33:00 Yeah. Well, and think about this. This is a worldview that I hope when people, even when they read our books, whether it's this book or fiction or nonfiction, I think this is a very different worldview. Paul tells us in Romans 12, too, that you cannot be conformed to this crazy world, but you need to be transformed. And he had a number of ways he could have said it. Remember, when I listen to a suspect, I'm listening to all the things and thinking to myself, he chose to say it a certain way. Why did he choose to say it this way when there were about six or seven other ways he could have

Starting point is 02:33:28 said it? Because how you choose to say it matters. And Paul says in Romans 12, too, that we are to be transformed not by the renewal of our will or our hearts or our emotion or our experiences. Like, what is it that's going to make a difference? What's going to transform your life? Like what is it that's gonna make a difference? What's gonna transform your life? Well it turns out it's the renewal of your mind. It's about rethinking. This is a thinking person's worldview. And I know that we've got a generation,

Starting point is 02:33:56 we've got so many different strands of Christianity in which what's really emphasized is the experience. What you've experienced. Share your testimony. What they're really saying is don't share the way you thought about this, the way you rethought all the facts. What most people are about to share then is what experience they had. From that they interpreted that God was real. I get it. God is a God of experiences for sure, and if you've had an

Starting point is 02:34:19 experience you may be able to attest it to God, but you need to kind of evaluate it based on the evidence. It's not just your experience. Your experience alone will get you into all kinds of trouble. I have six brothers and sisters who were raised LDS by my stepmother, and they largely will tell you that they had an experience that confirmed for them that the Book of Mormon was true,

Starting point is 02:34:40 and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. Well, look, your experiences can't be trusted. They have to be tested against the facts. And once they're tested against the facts, you can know if that experience is, if you've properly interpreted it. Well I think we have a worldview that encourages us to not just enjoy the experience of God's presence,

Starting point is 02:35:01 but to test it to make sure it actually is God's presence you're feeling. Yes. Because I believe there's a spiritual realm, but not every spiritual experience you have will necessarily be from God. And we have to test the Spirit to see. Yeah, exactly. You've got to see if that is from God.

Starting point is 02:35:16 And he calls us to worship Him in spirit and in truth. And we don't want to throw away either one of those, because it's an and, it's not or, you know. That's right. And so then he those, because it's an ant. It's not ore, you know? That's right. That's right. And so then he says, come let us reason together. You know, he says, they're your sins. Be as scarlet and I'll make them white as snow.

Starting point is 02:35:31 So he invites us to use the minds that he gave us. And that is a wonderful thing. And then he does come with experiences as well. And so all of that has to be a part of it. And so it is a complete package and I think a lot of people are missing that. This is one of the reasons too, David, but I'm thinking this is why we wanted to do fiction. I have a sense that we can make a case that you can assent to intellectually, but fiction takes you along as part of the experience of the chase for this killer

Starting point is 02:36:06 For example in this book and it's so it's it's combining both What is the case for this and to like I want you to experience something and my son always says it that yes He learns a lot from nonfiction, but it feels like when he's reading fiction. He's drawn into the story And it becomes an experience. I think that's true for a movie. If you watch a movie for those two hours, you're kind of transported into that realm. While graphic novels are basically just movies

Starting point is 02:36:35 that have been put on paper because they're just storyboarded movies. And so we hope that when you open this up, and even if you're not somebody who likes to read a novel, graphic novels are so visual, you're just watching a movie. And so you can take it anywhere you wanna go. So the idea is to draw people into that experience,

Starting point is 02:36:52 because I think you're right, this is not an either or. I would never suggest that you didn't develop your entire Christian worldview from fiction. That's like saying experiences are all that matter. At the same time though, you gotta be careful not to draw all your Christian, robust Christian life simply from reading non-fictional case books basically, their theology or whatever they may be

Starting point is 02:37:13 because it's gonna be kinda dry. Like you need to have a heart and head kind of experienced together. And I think that non-fiction often affects your head, fiction often affects your heart. So that combination we think we have, it's especially what I always say is we're trying to bite the apple from both sides. Well, it combines the spirit and the truth in a way, you know, when you have that there.

Starting point is 02:37:34 And you know, it reminds me of music, for example, right? When we have music, if you've got good lyrics, that's great. And if it moves you emotionally through the music, and then you add the lyrics if they teach you something that's valuable, that's a great thing as well. And again, going back to the graphic novels, they are so much like movies. That was the thing that used to always fascinate me because I can't draw anything. I can't draw stick figures. And the fact that somebody could, as they do in your book, you can draw things and there's a certain kind of kinetic.

Starting point is 02:38:09 You can almost see things moving when you look at it because it is like a storyboard but a good graphic artist can make it really come alive like you're kind of seeing the movement there. You can see the movement from one panel to the next or from the character, what they're doing. You can imagine it there you know. Yes my son always says that what we just what we contributed is we contributed the movie's script or the screenwriters and in that screenplay you're going to have some direction about like who's going to what the movement should be what the scene is going to look like what the characters

Starting point is 02:38:40 are going to say for sure what the action you're writing all of that into the screenplay but are going to say for sure what the action, you're writing all of that into the screenplay but the artist in a graphic novel is every other person in the movie. He's the director because he's going to direct the action. He is all of the actors. He's even telling the actors what expressions to take. He is the wardrobe guy. He is the set designer. I mean he's the lighting person. I mean the artists basically play the role of every other important person in a movie project. All we do is submit the screenplay. And we've also given them liberty.

Starting point is 02:39:12 The same way a screenwriter was gonna give liberty to a director to direct his screenplay however he sees fit. You hire the right person, right? Because you know that you're gonna have to give him that liberty. Well, the same is true with this kind of a project. We had to give the artists the liberty. We developed the characters, we developed the storyline,

Starting point is 02:39:28 we give them the storyline. Then they bring it to life. And we weren't even sure. We had some ideas. They gave us the rough sketches back on the different characters. There's like six major characters here. And we had some ideas about those characters

Starting point is 02:39:41 and we had some input, of course. But in the end, I was impressed with what they thought the character should look like. And so as, and I think this is awesome, right? You may have been able to have cast that actor for that role, but here they, they thought of something just, and by the way, they're not just, they're thinking of it just from their imagination. It's really an amazing process to go through. But I think in the end, when you see it, I think most people don't think of

Starting point is 02:40:04 comic books as being that thoughtful, but there is so much that's happening behind the scenes. For example we started this project two and a half years ago and we were ready to go. We could have I mean we could have had this if we could just snap your fingers and produce you know 160 pages of art we could have been ready in a day. It took two and a half years for us to get from concept to published work and that's largely because it's a collective effort and it's like making a movie. Well, certainly does show. And just like that last panel that you had up there, Travis, there's one at the bottom where a guy comes up behind and hits somebody from the back

Starting point is 02:40:42 and you see crack and you see the cap flying in the, I mean, there's just such kinetic energy in these graphic novels. That's what I really enjoy out of it because you can really see it come alive. And as you point out, you know, they create the characters and they're doing the direction and the action in it. So it is a great collaboration and it looks really interesting. I've seen some of it, haven't had time to go through all of it yet, but it's really well done. Again, it is, you can go to ColcaseCrishandi.com, that's where the people can find it and buy it, right?

Starting point is 02:41:14 I guess they can also get it on Amazon, but if they get it, once they get it, then there is a code in the back that's gonna give them supplemental material and it is a great outreach, a great conversation starter with people, I think. Yeah, I hope it is. I hope it's a gateway book. I think it's the kind of thing that you can give somebody, and then the conversation begins.

Starting point is 02:41:32 Now the question is, are you ready for the conversation? And that's what we really, I think, our whole ministry is about. If this is a tool that helps you get active and get ready for the conversation, then we've accomplished our goal. That's right. And you know, that's the wonderful thing about it. We used to have a Bible study in our home back in North Carolina, and when something is coming up like that, you have to – and it wasn't that I was leading it or anything, but you know, I knew what we're

Starting point is 02:41:58 going to be covering, and so I would, you know, look at it and I would study it for a while, and it's that preparation that is really the benefit to you. And so if somebody goes into this and somebody looks at this and focuses on it, it just gives them a focus. It gives them something that we always ought to be engaged in some way or the other, doing something that is positive. And so this gives you some direction. It gives you something to contemplate, to think about critically, and it's really going

Starting point is 02:42:24 to build you and it might help you to pass that on to somebody else. Yeah, no, absolutely. If it's a catalyst, then we've done our job. Yeah, that's great. CoalCaseChristianity.com. Thank you so much, Jay Warner Wallace. Always a pleasure talking to you. Hey, thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Thank you. Alright, folks, we'll be right back. Stay with us. I'm sorry. So Analyzing the globalist's next move. And now, the pray for my mom. She is very sick.

Starting point is 02:44:15 Well, we do pray that God would bless her in the name of Jesus Christ and we pray that he would be glorified and that she would be recovered. We pray also, you know, whenever anything like this happens, we also want to ask God, what is it that he wants us to learn from this? Because it's a learning experience for everybody on both sides. It's regardless of what the consequences are. And so especially when we have something that is difficult like this. If we walk with God and we ask him why, what he wants to teach us, we're not gonna know why, but we ask him, what should we be learning from this? That is a key thing.

Starting point is 02:44:54 But I do pray for her recovery, Cecilia. On Rumble, Kay Carpe, 27, thank you very much for the tip. Says happy birthday with love and many thanks. Well, thank you. That is Karen Carpenter. Okay. K Carpe. Thank you very much, Karen. On Rumble. Don't frag me, bro. Thank you very much. That's very generous. I appreciate that. He writes, the Internet of everything. And the use cases are going to be health care, smart apparel, health monitors, telehealth, smart cities, retail, smart homes, industry. This is the reason for the massive data centers.

Starting point is 02:45:32 Absolutely. You know, they clear the deck for that, don't they? I don't know. We can't use any energy. Can't have any energy. And then they find out that, you know, they're going to, that they can use this AI. So now all of a sudden that just goes away. Well, we'll do nuclear power because it

Starting point is 02:45:50 doesn't have any emissions. They'll find a way to get it through there. And of course, it's going to be power for them, but not for us necessarily. They're doing their own private grids even when Trump rolled that out with Stargate. He said, well, you know, you can't really depend on the grid.

Starting point is 02:46:07 It's old, it's unreliable, it's vulnerable. That's what he said. Oh, you're not gonna fix it then? Oh, okay, I get it. Yeah, so you wanna build these things where you're building your factory, or you're building your AI data center to spy and control on the population.

Starting point is 02:46:22 You wanna make sure you got your own power plant right there, right there. Build your own power plant. That's really what you need because we're not going to have an infrastructure for you. Let's talk a little bit about just general news here. In Nassau County, in New York and Long Island, they seek to make it illegal to stand within 15 feet

Starting point is 02:46:41 of your masters during an emergency, within 15 feet of police or emergency personnel emergency, within 15 feet of police or emergency personnel. NASA County lawmakers want to make it illegal to stand within 15 minutes of cops or other emergency workers. And again, you know, if you interfere with somebody, right? If you interfere with somebody, you assault them or whatever, that is already a crime. What is this for? Well, it's just a, push it, it's not even six feet. Now it's gone up to 15 feet. We're now two and a half times further out.

Starting point is 02:47:11 Civilians, civilians. What, when, you know, when you break the population into two groups of people, civilians and something else, what's the other thing? It's the military. We're talking about a military police state here. If you've got civilians, then that means you've got militarized police. So, civilians who enter the zone for the militarized police, firefighters, or other

Starting point is 02:47:34 responders in an emergency can get a $1,000 fine and a possibility of up to a year behind bars. This is all to protect emergency responders from threats, harassment, and physical interference. Well those are already all crimes. No the reason for this is because they don't want you to film and they don't want you to ask questions. You get back 15 feet because I don't want you filming what I'm doing. Why not? Well because what I'm doing is against the law maybe.

Starting point is 02:48:04 Floating buffer zones offer yet another way for police to keep their activities hidden from public scrutiny. Laws that make it harder to monitor the police violate the Constitution and they foster distrust in law enforcement. Yeah, you have to be able to correct bad behavior or there's distrust. As Frank Serpico said, he said, you know, you're always going to have bad people in any human institution, always going to have bad people. The test is whether or not the test of the institution is whether or not it will purge those bad people or defend them and

Starting point is 02:48:49 If they're going to defend bad people then the trust is gone in these institutions Similar laws in Louisiana, Arizona and Indiana have been blocked by federal courts We expect the NASA County law if passed will also be blocked And we see that over and over again free speech is under attack everywhere. It's under attack at bit chute It's under attack with rumble they're being sued by foreign governments and you know But on both sides of these two parties But on both sides of these two parties, they're coming after speech they don't like. As I pointed out, Trump comes after 60 minutes, or he comes after protesters who are anti-Israeli

Starting point is 02:49:33 government, and the other people come after other issues. There's an assault on Substack that is now coming as well. And this is coming internally from people who are using it, people who are writing, people who are speaking, and they say, �I don�t like the speech of these other people, so I want you to censor them.� Well, that�s not what Substack is about. That�s not what any free speech system is about. So, this is coming from one group. group, Hamish McKenzie said that their company doesn't like Nazis and they wish that nobody held these views. This is Substack.

Starting point is 02:50:12 This is the chief writing officer. But he said the company did not think that censorship by demonetizing sites that publish extreme views was a solution to the problem. Instead, it made it worse. Some of the largest newspapers on the service have threatened to take their business elsewhere if Substack does not reverse its stance." You see, this is one of the reasons why people don't... When you look at what 60 Minutes is saying, when you look at CBS and they have the head of 60 Minutes resigned in protest because they were told, don't criticize the Trump policies and other things, because he's suing us

Starting point is 02:50:45 in frivolous lawsuits. Well, these same organizations are demanding that people that they disagree with politically be purged. See, it's coming from all over. The mainstream media wants people like me purged. And the conservatives want to purge the mainstream media. Nobody wants to support free speech as a principle.

Starting point is 02:51:09 They want to shut down anybody they disagree with. And of course, I disagree with both sides. So, so they're the ones that shut me down. This is the way that censorship movements always start. You accuse somebody of being a Nazi or of loving a Nazi, meaning extremists, racists, or science deniers, right? Oh yeah, if you deny what Fauci is saying. Well, you're some kind of a sociopath, right? Remember it was Scott Adams, the guy who does Dilbert. Just two weeks into the lockdown, he said it's getting harder and harder to tell these so-called freedom

Starting point is 02:51:45 lovers from psychopaths, or sociopaths, I think he said. I said it's getting harder and harder to tell the pragmatists from totalitarians. Well, on Tuesday, Casey Newton, who writes Platformer, a popular tech newsletter on the platform with thousands of subscribers who pay at least $10 a month, became the most prominent person to say, I don't like free speech on the platform that I use to speak. Okay, so you have a popular tech newsletter. I imagine there's going to be some people who disagree with what you have to say about something. And, you know, you have to say about something.

Starting point is 02:52:25 And you know, you want those people shut down. Should those people be able to shut you down? Nah, they don't care, right? They really don't. Always follow the money. Question who is funding and who is pushing this organization platformer in order to de-platform free speech and why. And I think that really is true

Starting point is 02:52:45 This is a brownstone saying that but I think when you look behind these people who make their living Writing and offering opinions and so forth if they're calling for censorship There's somebody paying them to do that or they're doing it because They are pandering to the crowd more and more, I think. Because now the mob is anti-free speech. The partisan mob on either side. And so this person, Bill Rice, who wrote this says, well I wish I had thousands of paid subscribers. In fact, I've recently begun to wonder

Starting point is 02:53:22 if my paid and total subscriber numbers are being sabotaged by some kind of nefarious secret censorship industrial complex operation. Well, it's not secret. It's not secret. It's there all the time. I mentioned this earlier this week. It's pretty amazing that in New York, where they, in Nassau County, where they're going to be telling you stay away from the police, got to stay 15 feet back, you know. And again, harassment or interference, that is already illegal. No, they just don't want you asking them questions or videotaping. So, in that same state, you know, they've got 77 stairs that need to be repaired at a cost of $935,000 each, nearly a million dollars

Starting point is 02:54:06 a step. Boy, if this isn't a metaphor for a government that is wasteful, out of control, and coming apart at the same time, I don't know what is. I mentioned the other day that they found the person who stole the Gucci bag that had $3,000 in cash. Evidently it wasn't in Christine Ohm's hand. Maybe it wasn't in the one that had the $50,000 watch. And so they got her Gucci bag. I said, I always thought the devil wore Prada. Well, they have found out that the person who got it is an illegal immigrant.

Starting point is 02:54:45 And so there you go. She is in charge of law enforcement. They've got secret service there. She's supposed to be watching the board. All these things seem to fail all at once. But the thing I find is most interesting about this is just the price of this stuff. Her handbag was $4,400. That's worth more than my car. She has a Louis Vuitton purse inside of it and the purse is $600. And so inside the $4,400 handbag and

Starting point is 02:55:20 there is a $600 purse and inside the $600 purse is $3,000 cash and she carries it around with her and on her arm is a $50,000 watch. But it truly is amazing the amount of money that these people who rule over us have. It is a club that you're not in. And we see that in an article from Breitbart talking about Melania Trump and her birthday weekend, I guess was last weekend, and they go on and on literally, if I would have printed this out in normal size print, it would have been 71 pages of

Starting point is 02:56:02 pictures with her wearing a Burberry trench coat. Now those things are expensive, but she's wearing the stra- and she's got just ordinary looking flat shoes and a handbag. And so there's picture after picture after picture after picture, 71 pages of pictures from Breitbart. You talk about how they are obsessed with these people. It's like what Gerald Slinty says when he's talking about, you know, you look at the Wall

Starting point is 02:56:33 Street Journal and it's all, you know, just pictures of stuff. That's what this is and it's pictures of idolatry. It's pictures of a club that you're not in. Because the one, the little bit bit they've got like two paragraphs Where they talk about what she's got. They said the trench coat cost $3,745 her flats her shoes

Starting point is 02:56:56 cost $750 but her handbag these handbags are expensive, you know as Christy gnomes was $4,400 well Melania's handbag, these handbags are expensive, you know, Christy Noem's was $4400. Well, Melania's handbag is $36,000. It's like nine times more expensive. And 71 pages of pictures, basically all of them the same, her and her trench coat and sunglasses carrying her $36,000 purse and all the rest of this stuff. I look at this and I just don't understand this. And so I thought, well, does anybody else

Starting point is 02:57:31 that's looking at Breitbart feel this way? So I looked at the comments on Breitbart. They had a couple hundred comments. And almost all the comments were, she is so classy. You know, what a, it's such a difference between the Democrats, first ladies, and our first ladies. She's so classy. And one person commented on it, the cost, and said, I don't care what it costs.

Starting point is 02:57:53 She looks great. I was like, really? I look at it and I see people who are just totally out of touch with us and who are completely in love with money, which is the root of all evil. Well, she was also pushing the Take It Down Act, which, and I understand this is about pornography, this is about using, creating sexually explicit images of people, faking it with AI, and that is something that is really horrific. But it's not simply about that, and I thought it was also interesting that she's focusing on this because it would be a federal crime to post real sexually explicit imagery online

Starting point is 02:58:37 of a person without their consent, considering the fact she's so proud of her past. I mean, she just did a book talking about it. So I guess she just wants to be paid and all that happy birthday stuff. If she's in her birthday suit, she gets a check. Just like Warner, Warner Pictures always wanted to charge people if they played happy birthday. Well if she's in her birthday suit and you don't get her consent and you don't pay her, she's upset about this. But I certainly understand the fake stuff, but I don't think that's what this

Starting point is 02:59:06 is about either in the long run. I think that certainly you should take that down and there's other ways that they could approach this and there's better ways that they could have written this. They wrote it in a manner that it is very open to a lot of other things and of course Donald Trump himself when he was pushing this said, yeah I'm one of the people that they make the most fake images of. Now, he wasn't talking about sexual images. They want to shut down satire.

Starting point is 02:59:35 I think they want to shut down satire. And I think that's the way this thing is open to do that. Of course, you don't want to have people putting up pornographic images of you, and especially not faked pornographic images. But I think that this thing is heading towards shutting down satire because everyone in every country now, and all the parties, hates free speech. Thank you for joining us, and thank you so much for all your kind wishes and your support. Thank you for joining us and thank you so much for all your kind wishes and your support. Thank you

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