The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #2010: Vaccines, Psyche, & Power: How Big Pharma Warps The Mind

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

00:03:58:22 - 00:09:55:09Rising incidents of truck crashes (e.g., Austin I-35, Thomasville, Alabama) linked to unqualified drivers, often immigrants on work visas.Ghost carriers operate with fake addresses (e.g., pizza joint in Illinois, apartment complex in Dallas), enabling fraud and theft.Lack of proper training and oversight, with companies prioritizing cost over safety, leading to loss of lives and national security concerns.00:21:17:19 - 00:24:09:18Nissan plans to cut 20,000 jobs (15% of workforce) by 2027, including 9,000 previously announced, and scale back production.Speculation: Cuts driven by uncertainty in North American market (38% of sales, US 27%), fearing economic collapse.Regulatory pressures (e.g., EPA standards, electric vehicles) also impact car industry.00:31:26:05 - 00:36:12:20China benefits from combat testing in India-Pakistan conflict; military-industrial complex (e.g., Raytheon, Lockheed Martin) profits from wars.US diplomacy (Trump, Vance, Rubio) mediated a ceasefire after four days of nuclear-armed conflict, highlighting neutral mediation success.Neither side uses US weapons, reducing American incentive to prolong conflict.00:41:24:03 - 00:47:19:25In the 1970s, psych meds were status symbols for the wealthy; now mainstream, fueling a massive industry.Mental health issues (e.g., depression, transgender identity) are used as social hierarchy markers, elevating perceived victims.Overuse of meds (e.g., SSRIs) linked to dangerous side effects, including violent behavior, with therapy culture promoting dependency.00:59:21:10 - 01:00:46:2024-hour news cycle promotes constant fear to control populations, making people more compliant and willing to relinquish liberties.Despite statistical safety, media amplifies threats, fostering anxiety.01:09:59:09 - 01:18:23:25Trump’s “Generation Gold Standard” aims for a universal flu vaccine using outdated whole killed virus technology, costing $500 million.Contradicts anti-vaccine rhetoric (e.g., RFK Jr.’s stance), raising concerns about corporate influence and potential harm.Critique of vaccine industry: excessive childhood vaccines (up to 76), harmful side effects, and systemic pressure on doctors to comply.01:29:39:03 - 01:35:47:13Pew Research shows Gen Z men attending religious services more than millennials/Gen X, closing gender gap as young women leave churches.Post-Covid isolation drives youth to seek community and meaning in faith, countering atheism’s cultural decline.Focus on eternal significance of faith over political impact.01:42:00:29 - 01:43:25:00Man exonerated by DNA evidence after nearly four decades, despite proper legal procedures.Emphasizes need for due process to prevent such errors, as abandoning it risks widespread injustice.01:49:13:12 - 01:54:23:11Trump grants refugee status to 60 white South African farmers fleeing state-sanctioned persecution, criticized as racially biased.Argues for prioritizing refugees from cultures aligning with American values, citing South Africans’ work ethic and liberty focus.Contrasts with open-border policies, highlighting selective immigration’s role in preserving national identity.02:05:31:08 - 02:15:57:16Government funding for “school choice” (e.g., $5,000-$7,000 per student in Tennessee, Idaho, Wyoming) comes with strings, pushing state-approved curricula and control.UNESCO promotes universal government funding to integrate private and homeschooling into public systems, per Alex Newman.Tennessee’s failed “free act” shows resistance to homeschool autonomy; Texas Homeschool Coalition criticized for supporting funding.02:16:23:28 - 02:19:36:02Passed April 10, 2025, requiring autopsies to document psychotropic drug use (e.g., SSRIs) in mass shooters, spurred by Nashville school shooting.Aims to study drug interactions and disclose findings publicly, addressing links between SSRIs and violent behavior.Highlights exacerbation of mental health issues by pharmaceuticals, as seen in the shooter’s worsening condition.02:20:04:24 - 02:47:31:19“Cold Case Christianity” graphic novel, co-authored with son, follows detectives chasing a serial killer, subtly exploring human value from a Christian perspective.Challenges secular views equating humans with animals, emphasizing humans as God’s image-bearers with inherent dignity.Designed as a gateway for non-Christians, includes QR code for resurrection case booklet and resources at coldcasechristianity.com.Follow the show on Kick and watch live every weekday 9:00am EST – 12:00pm EST https://kick.com/davidknightshow Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code KNIGHT Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Visit edc.ca slash export for more. The As the clock strikes 13, it is Wednesday, the 14th of May, year of our Lord 2025. Today we're going to talk about Nissan looking to reduce its workforce in what I think might be the cause, then war. What is it good for? Well apparently testing out your shiny new death machine. And more. Stay with us. I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

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little bit of a little bit of a The I'm going to again thank you all for keeping my dad in your prayers. It was another rough night last night as I'm sure anyone of you who has been to the hospital knows that it is a rough situation There's people constantly in and out the beds aren't very comfortable You're full of needles and IVs and all kinds of things are always doing tests So please just keep them in your prayers that he would be able to get some rest and that he would be at peace It has been a struggle

But yes, thank you so much for your prayers struggle But yes, thank you so much for your prayers He is slowly improving but he is still in a bad place and it is very hard for him right now it's as someone who is so independent and Doesn't like to have people telling him what to do This is probably one of the hardest things you can imagine for him But he is healing

and we know in the end it is because God answers prayer and that he is in control of all these things so thank you all so much for the continued prayer and please just continue to pray for him it means so much to us to know that you care so deeply about him we have a comment already from nadlander says Dave is awesome been with him since AJ stopped watching Jones when he fired David He's done a lot and Thank you. I'm trying my best to hold down the fort. I know that I am a pale imitation of the caliber of Information provider shall we say that my dad is but I will do my best to give you something useful today

so thank you all again so much and Yeah, let's get into the news. I really got to start using that pad that my dad has I keep meaning to but time keeps Getting away from me and then I don't get the time to set it up, but I want to start with this article from zero hedge Freight fraud cargo theft deadly, ghost carriers are growing national security threat. And this article goes into talk about another immigrant who crashed a truck. And this is becoming more of a problem as we begin to hire more and more people that do not have the skills necessary for these jobs and driving

freight around is not something you want to entrust to someone that you know does not have the skill for it these trucks are extremely large and heavy and we've already seen just this year two very very horrific collisions the one in Austin on I-35 was terrible on Tuesday Tuesday, May 6, another in-pattern horrific crash involving 18 wheelers in America took place, this time in the small town of Thomasville, Alabama, about 100 miles north of Mobile. In a video that went viral earlier this week, we see a tractor-trailer driven full speed into stopped traffic at an intersection, almost as if on purpose. Cars appear to be vaporized in the crash or flung aside as if toys

Two innocent motorists were killed instantly and four others sent to the hospital again these Attractor trailer is an immense piece of machinery it will Absolutely destroy a car that is in a collision with it we have for the love of the road, he drives freight. And, you know, he is a very intelligent, very serious person. And that is the type of person, I think, that should be in charge of these things. This is not a job for someone that cannot take it seriously, cannot pay attention, or follow the rules of the road. These are incredibly dangerous pieces of machinery that are on the road with things much much smaller Than them you are not going to survive a collision with a tractor trailer the driver of the semi on three dim

dimterco Yeah, dimterco 45 is arrested and charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter What is notable about dimterco is that he's in the United States from Ukraine on a work visa There's some hard questions to be asked about the trucking company he worked called for called for U.S. Transportation Company whose address was registered to a pizza joint in Darien, Illinois. I guess that's what he was delivering a tractor trailer full of pizzas. You know there's just I guess there comes a time where you need 20,000 pounds of pizza all at once. And in this article we have this tweet from George McGill,

Mina and Vlad are running a ghost carrier out of a Dunkin Donuts in Chicagoland and the Ukrainian independent servant Andrii is the guy who wiped out those people in Alabama yesterday. Be ashamed if you gave them a warm American welcome and let them know your thoughts. Hey, well, posted some information there. A relative wife of an R40 US freight company, CEO video, truck dispatcher, a profession that has become popular in the Balkans in recent years when due to the reduction of costs of our company in America, the alternative to workforce missed overseas, how much does the average dispatcher earn in the Balkans working for a company

based in the USA? That's right, we're even outsourcing our dispatching to different countries. And there comes a time where you have to do things in house that the cost of doing business is just the cost of doing business, or you begin to lose quality, and now we are beginning to lose lives

because of the people that we have put into these jobs. If this incident sounds familiar, that is because back in March 13th in Austin, Texas, a truck driver named Solomon Weldelkiel Araya crashed his truck into park traffic on Interstate 35, killing five people, killing an entire family, and sending another 11 to a hospital. It was a horrific crash. It makes me much more nervous every time we drive down to Texas at this point We spend some time on I-35 and every time I'm on that road my Adrenaline is much higher than it used to be now 35 has never been a good road

But it has gotten worse over the years and now knowing that these types of people are behind the wheel years and now knowing that these types of people are behind the wheel has made it even worse. So I think next time we drive down we're going to skip I-35 and take perhaps a more securitous route. I prefer the back roads anyway. Mr. Araya reportedly did not slow down and his rig didn't stop until it had smashed into 17 vehicles. Mr. Araya, originally from Ethiopia, was likewise in America on a work visa and in this incident

was working for a subcontractor hauling products for Amazon and just like the company Mr. Demriah, originally from Ethiopia, was likewise in America on a work visa, and in this incident was working for a subcontractor hauling products for Amazon. And just like the company Mr. Demtyarko was working for, they are likewise registered to a very random address, this time an apartment complex in Dallas, Texas. These people are setting up ghost shops. They are registering in any place they can and hiring people that will work for cheap. Every sort of job that you can imagine has basically been turned into some kind of hustle where the only objective is to make as much money as quickly as you can. And the quality is suffering and the American people are now suffering because of it. and the American people are now suffering because of it. We are being slowly, slowly devolved as a country and as a people. Over and above, the epidemic of fatal collisions taking place on American roads involving big rigs driven by insourced labor of dubious training. I think dubious might be underselling it just slightly. Language proficiency or competence.

These same types of companies are involved in other major issues such as freight fraud and cargo theft. The new term for these companies is ghost carriers, given that contrary to regulations, they are often registered at addresses that are not their primary place of business and where you would never see the trucks that they direct. The amount of fraud and theft they are often involved with has gotten so out of hand that even the mainstream media is starting to notice. When you actually force the mainstream media to sit up and take notice and report on something, you know it has reached epidemic proportions. They do not like to admit that there is any wrongdoing by any of their protected subgroups.

And once you... and to get them to cover it is truly a feat got some more comments Whistler says he can play the video from the article. So let's actually go ahead and take a look at that He needs one second first. We got DG 8. Thank you so much for the tip DG God bless you and your family prayers for David. Yes. Thank you so much for the prayers That is truly what matters most again God is in control of everything he has my dad in his hands and we are praying so fervently every day and we are so thankful that you are as well it is what matters most and we cannot thank you enough and, it is

We cannot wait to have them back with us And I know you can't wait either when a company registers with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or FMC SA and must list its principal place of business a real physical Location where safety and driver records are kept and where federal inspectors can conduct on-site reviews and driver records are kept and where federal inspectors can conduct on-site reviews. It's a red flag, said Dale Prax, who owns Freight Validate, a company that tracks fraud and identity theft in the trucking industry. Prax said hidden carriers often use virtual addresses or PO Box to avoid scrutiny. They can't hinder regulators to keep tabs on them. That's right, if they don't know where to find you, they can't validate and check that

you are who you say you are or that the people you're hiring are of a quality that we can trust behind the wheel. The bad guys are less apt to register properly, Prax said. That is true. As we can see here, we have living. Oh, we have proof of it. He pointed to one example, a quiet office in Signal Hill, California. There's a sign out front that says no trucks allowed. Yet federal records show nearly 700 truck companies linked to at single location, roughly 500 of which list the same phone number and email. Well, that was... yeah, that was... that's what happens.

These trucks are forces of nature when compared to the other vehicles on the road. How difficult is it for investigators looking at these crashes when so many of these companies are owned through layers of LLCs? Anywhere you go, anything you are involved with in the United States now is just covered in layers of bureaucracy. It makes everything extremely difficult and exceedingly tiresome to deal with. And it has reached a point where they can't even keep track of the companies since they have created such a maze of paperwork.

Many of them register to random locations all over the country where their trucks will never actually stop. How many of these companies are taking advantage of a decades old lie about a shortage of truckers to then insource labor often using companies based in eastern europe speaking of that balkan truckers website in the incident alabama it seems that the lady who manages that website is a relative or possibly the wife of the owner of the truck that killed those people and she has some interesting connect possible connections to Armenian politics. We must have further investigation into this ecosystem of brokers, recruiters, agents and other parasites who are operating out of Eastern Europe. As it seems as though many other countries see the United States as nothing but a piggy bank for them to rob, they will employ any shady business

tactic that they can if they're not directly involved with siphoning money from the US government through some kind of scheme as Ukraine was with Zelensky, then they will Set up shop here in the United States ignore the laws that the Americans have to deal with and use that to their advantage They will avoid paying as much tax as possible and if they get caught they just scurry back off to whatever their country they're from or they go underground and come back up with a new identity. These people are just here to rob the United States. They are not interested in a better life. They are not interested in the American dream and if they are interested in an

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that's their problem. Got some more comments. G-TALent, thank you, G-Talent for the tip. That is very kind, and thank you for the kind words. I appreciate you all for being so lenient with me and so willing to accept the job that I'm doing. I really do appreciate it. Honor seeker, I drive propane, Bobtail, and not even pulling a trailer, but one has to be sober,

alert on his toes at all times. I can imagine I, uh, I do not feel that I would be qualified to drive a truck. I am a little bit too spacey for something like that. I would never trust myself behind the wheel of something of that magnitude. I do not think that I could handle the responsibility. I think it takes a very alert individual to manage that and I Could I just couldn't handle that responsibility? I would not want that on my conscience where I to have a lapse and the sheer Damage that you can inflict and the tragedy that you can cause it is It is something that we need, you know competent intelligent people on it is not just a job You can outsource and throw to anyone

Have radice bro. You should be nervous. There's so many semi-accidents around here. Yes, it is more and more common We have this article here as proof of these two horrific ones But I imagine that if these are the ones that are bad enough to get mainstream news media coverage that there are a lot more That don't end up making it, you a lot more that don't end up making it You know the ones that don't end in massive death, but perhaps are still you know tragedies for those involved It takes a horror to make it to national media at this point. Nights of the storm I've seen several fatal big rig wrecks this year, and I don't even travel much anymore Yep, they're becoming as we said more and more common. It's a

travel much anymore. Yep, they're becoming, as we said, more and more common. It's a, it's a jungle out there, folks. It is getting worse and worse every day as we import more and more people to do more and more things for us. And again, nights of the storm is Jason Barker. You can find them at nights of the storm.com and find out, uh, they have a schedule for all the shows that are, that we know of, that are friendly and of like mind So please go check out nights of the storm. Jason does a fantastic job Karen Carpenter angry tiger they're all fantastic hosts they all have their own shows and

You should check them all out. They do great great work They are such a blessing as well being able to host the show. It was a very very very Kind of them to take over on such short notice. So we thank them for that. So thank you, Jason. Really appreciate it. Star Barkley, we're turning into China, the land of shortcuts and facades. Yes. We're not quite at that level yet, but it is rapidly approaching. China has for years put on a front for the media so that they can pretend to be more I don't know robust in any area that they can I've seen many many videos of buildings or dams or things just crumbling because of the materials that

were used in construction they and again it's so hard to tell what's real and what's not coming out of China There are so many influencers there that simply put out any sort of content and they use that to generate revenue as well But I saw one video where someone broke open I blew I think it was a bridge and inside was Corncobs mixed in with whatever they had used to manufacture it that one. I'm a little bit skeptical of I have a hard time Believing that they would do something that asinine But it is China if they need a bridge built and it's a bridge to nowhere And they know no one's going to be over it and it's just for you know show then who knows what they might do

Zen Zen woman truckers are mostly Indian here in South, Arizona I have seen an enormous amount of increase in the number of Indian truck stop owners on the route between Tennessee and Texas that my wife take you know we have to stop fairly frequently and even more now that we have the baby and There are so many Indian truck stop owners now and it I remember you know when I was young that was not the case And they're in very strange places. You know, the middle of Arkansas, just absolutely nowhere.

Off the highway in Texas, you're hours from anywhere. And there's an Indian restaurant with a truck stop attached to it, and it just is, it's becoming very, very strange. The US, the whole melting pot idea was never a good one and it does not really work in practice. Anika 1061, does anyone have Dave's site link for Kick? Kick.com forward slash The David Knight Show Kick.com forward slash The David Knight Show. So if you want to subscribe on Kick you can do that Forge slash the David Knight show so if you want to subscribe on kick you can do that

Yeah, I think we've covered this article well enough it is before we move on from that I'm sure if dad were here to relay his own personal story with a trucker smashing into him he was stopped at a red light and the trucker hit him from behind, pushed him out into the intersection, and when the police showed up, the trucker just said, no English, no English, no papers, and the police just let him go. He hit Dad several times, pushing him forward.

Then the police said that it was Dad's fault for having too small a car and that the trucker couldn't see him. A well-trained trucker would be able to, but they're giving these jobs to anyone, so it's creating a major hazard. Yeah, that's right. Thank you, Whistler. Thank you very much. But yeah, that happened when we were in Texas. It was somebody driving a dump truck, And since my dad drives a Miata, the guy did not check. He did not look and apparently had forgotten that there was a car in front of him and just floored it as fast as he could. Rear ended my dad, pushed him out in the intersection, hit him multiple times from behind. And that was a very scary experience for them.

We're just very thankful. God has protected our family in so many ways over the years And now I think we're gonna go to the hill We're gonna talk about Nissan cutting thousands of jobs and shutting multiple factories So Nissan said Tuesday It is making a significant reduction or significant reductions to its workforce and scaling back factory production, citing results during its just completed fiscal year. The Japanese automaker said it is aiming to reduce its workforce

by approximately 15%, a total of 20,000 employees between fiscal year 2024 and fiscal 2027. The previously announced reduction of nine, including the previously announced reduction of 9,000 workers. Now, this is just my own personal speculation, but I did a little bit of research, and of course these are numbers you pull from the internet, so it's hard to say whether they're factual or not.

But apparently in 2024 Nissan sold roughly 286,000 vehicles in Japan, roughly 696,000 vehicles in Japan, roughly 696,000 vehicles in China, and 924,000 vehicles in the United States. So Japan and China together are 983,165, which is 500 or 59,100 for seven more than the singular US market. So the US is the lion's share of their market North America accounts for 38% US for 27% of that 38 now

Why would they be reducing their production so much I Think personally it's because they are incredibly uncertain of what is going to happen in the North American market I believe they are looking at where they sell the vast majority of their cars and how incredibly unstable of An economic zone this is and thinking of themselves Can we justify the level of production we have been maintaining for years?

So personally, I think Nissan is looking at America as a bad investment, and they are preemptively cutting the fat and removing some of their factories and trying to get down the number of people they have to pay seeing perhaps the collapse of the American economy on the horizon. Now that's just speculation on my part, but when you account for the fact that the North American market is 38% of their total, and neither the United States nor Canada is in a good place right now

and are most likely headed for worse times, to me it makes a little bit of sense that they would be looking at it suspiciously and cutting back. Now of course, car companies have also just been suffering over the years as more and more regulations are piled on and they are told to do more and more absurd things such as maintain EPA standards and move towards electric vehicles.

But as it stands, personally, I'm looking at it as Nissan being very, very unoptimistic when it comes to the American market in particular. Green Tea 369 blaming the victim for having too small a car? That cop never rides a motorcycle. Yeah, that was truly an example of our police force at work. They are here to mostly harass you. They are here to ticket you and make revenue off of you. They are a source of revenue generation for the state. We have seen it routinely where someone gets stopped. They're carrying a large amount of cash because they're going to make a purchase, whether it be a vehicle or something for their business. And the police just sees it. They

assume they are part of a drug deal, they say they assume it and then they take That money and very rarely does the person end up getting it back It is put into lockup It is seized and then it disappears into the system and if you want it back you were going to have to fight to the government For it and the government has all the time in the world They are going to drag it out. They are going to, you know, hit you with every sort of technicality that they can and they will make sure that it will be a long and arduous process for you to deal with them and get anything back. When the government takes something from you,

it is very, very difficult to get them to relinquish it. I think that we will take a quick break. And when we come back, we might take a look at what happened with India and Pakistan. Stay with us. ["Pomp and Circumstance"] The The I'm sorry. You're listening to the David Knight Show. And welcome back. We have a comment from Sakask.

But let's give these illegals their due process. We wouldn't want to throw any of those bums out of the country. The due process for illegals is to throw them out of the country. See we already have a system in place. If someone is an illegal, then what they are entitled to is to be removed from the country. I'm not saying that we need to give them special privileges, but if, you know, they are, if they are here legally, or if they have somehow been grandfathered in, then there are extenuating circumstances and you are entitled to due process

That is how the system works and if we do not Uphold the rights for the everyone eventually the government comes for our rights. It's simple as that Sometimes double standards look nice, but eventually they take it from you as well That's just how these things work. The government does not like having a... The government does not like the American people, and they will use any sort of precedent to come after you as well. To iterate on that. Yes, the due process for any illegal that is found to be illegal is to throw them out of the country, but then throwing them into a maximum security prison on top of that should only be done if they are found guilty of a crime That is the issue is that he has suspended due process in

The matter of you know jailing these people in horrible horrible conditions, which some of them do deserve You know if they have committed the crime, but you need to have a trial to determine that Yes, exactly. They are being just sent to a Absolutely hellish prison and if their only crime is crossing the border that does not that is not a punishment that fits it it is Unchristian to think that way and of course, you know you have to be a Christian for that to apply but I also to think that way. And of course, you know, you have to be a Christian for that to apply. But I also discovered the exciting action of Ben MGM casino. Check out a wide variety of table games with a live dealer or enjoy over 3000 games to choose from like cash eruption. UFC gold blitz make instant deposits or same day withdrawals. Download the Ben MGM Ontario

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Now let's take a look at war. I've got this article from zero hedge here. China emerges as the only real winner in India's Pakistani sandbox with unprecedented combat testing. Now we see this routinely with any sort of conflict anywhere in the world. These companies that manufacture devices for the military or vehicles missiles bombs They are the true winners in these conflicts Raytheon Lockheed Martin Boeing all of these companies tend to make out like bandits as they send our Young men to die and of course we have people like Lindsey Graham who are deeply indebted to

the military industrial complex who want nothing more than to get involved in another war anywhere in the world so that they can enrich themselves further, so that they can line their pockets. And they do not care how much blood is spilt whether it's ours or the innocent lives caught in between the American military and whatever evil quote-unquote they are fighting at the time it is and As we can see this is not just something that is part of American culture

Every single country around the globe has their own, you know, military industrial complex that they are beholden to, that is deeply entrenched within their own bureaucracy and are going to stir up conflict and get involved with conflict just so that they can have a testing ground for their shiny new death machine. They want to be able to brag to someone in government and make a sales pitch like, oh yeah, we have real world testing of this. And it turns out that this is incredibly lethal. They want the lethality is the selling point. And these people want nothing more than to build a machine to kill us all. Once they have that I mean where can you go from there

if you're a you know Raytheon truly that is the apotheosis of their technology a button that just simply wipes out all life on the planet. From Reason Magazine, the Indian-Pakistani ceasefire is what US diplomacy should look like. Sitting on the sidelines, let America play a neutral mediator and talk down both sides. I hope that this is a long-lasting piece. I genuinely hope the best for both of these countries. I would like to see the conflict end. There are so many people in each of these countries and the loss of life would be staggering if they

went to war. The sheer number of civilian casualties, it would be a horror that the world has not seen for decades at this point. America didn't start the fire between India and Pakistan, but US diplomacy ended it after four days of nerve wracking combat between two nuclear armed powers the world first heard from US President Donald Trump that both sides had agreed to a ceasefire. After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan

have agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire," the president wrote on Truth Social on Saturday afternoon. Congratulations to both countries on using common sense and great intelligence. Although the Indian government denied the role of a third-party intervention in ending the crisis, Pakistani Foreign Minister Munir Dar confirmed that the US was one of the three dozen countries whose diplomats tried to mediate between the warring countries Secretary of State Marco Rubio had talked with both Indian and Pakistani officials over the weekend telling them to resume Contact with each other now. I'm curious. Did they both have Indian Pakistan both had a deal with Marco

Do you think they just bonded over the fact that they both hate Marco Rubio? They had to deal with him like oh man He's a slimy little weasel, isn't he? And they just decided, you know, alright instead of hating each other We can just hate Marco Rubio. Perhaps he's the avatar of hate in this scenario. Maybe that's what his job is He's sent Trump sends out Marco Rubio to these warring countries and they realize, you know, we're not so different But him he he's disgusting. I hate that guy. We both hate that guy. Well, if you hate him, you can't be all bad Vice president JD Vance personally called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and of course Very very anti-christian regime in India at the moment Modi does is no friend of the Christians

It is not good for Christians in India at this point and if war were to escalate I can only imagine they would be some of the first people to Be left by the sidelines the government would do nothing to protect the Christians there After you're assuming alarming intelligence about a dramatic escalation CNN reports just a day before Vance had told Fox News that the Indian Pakistani conflict was fundamentally none of our business and indeed neither side relies on American weapons funding or protection. That's the most surprising thing about this whole scenario. Neither of these... that's why we stopped it. That's why we stopped it folks. This is what it is. Neither of them are using our weapons. Now if one of them signs a contract with Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, any of

these companies that supply our military industrial complex, you can bet the war is back on. They're going to send Marco Rubio back out and he's going to get them back at each other's throats. So look out for that folks. In the coming months, if Pakistan or India buys a lot of ballistic missiles from the United States, you can bet they are going back to war. I'm being facetious here, of course. It wasn't always so.

Pakistan was a close cold-walled partner of the United States, which gave it billions of dollars in military aid. The Nixon administration infamously rushed weapons to Pakistan during the brutal attempt to suppress the Bangladeshi independence movement in 1971. But the relationship cooled over the following decades, and the Trump administration finally cut most US military aid to Pakistan in 2018. That's right, folks, we fell out of love with Pakistan. You know, we just went, it wasn't us, it was them, or it wasn't them, it was us, one way

or the other, and, you know, we just didn't have any need for a little puppet state in that area anymore. Vance's intervention wouldn't be the first time a US administration stepped between India and Pakistan in the 1990s. This is just a continual pot that's boiling. These countries hate each other and they have hated each other for my entire lifetime and longer than that. So I would not be surprised if we actually do see a war from them at some point. The cultural differences, the religious differences, these people do not like each other and this is not something that can really be mediated by third parties or

really by anything in My opinion the fact that they are so close to each other and are this hostile Will probably mean an eventual war of some kind and we can only hope that It is swift and as clean as possible and we are not involved It is swift and as clean as possible and we are not involved. Both sides were operating with perverse incentives. India's military advantage over Pakistan gave Indian leaders an incentive to move forward a full scale conventional war like the US during the Cold War and Russia after the Cold War, both of which tried to use nuclear threats to make up for conventional military disadvantages. Pakistan, in turn, an incentive to keep nuclear first strike on the table. That's right, India has many many many people in the military. India has

immense population and as such they are more than willing to throw their military into the meat grinder of conflict. They will be able to overwhelm Pakistan with sheer numbers. It, in a conventional war India has the Has an extreme advantage troop numbers are they still count for a lot in the fact that they can just Annex more ground by sheer number of people We have a comment from Brian Deb McCartney Travis Whistler. How's your mom holding up many prayers for her strength and encouragement? Yes, please pray for my mom as well

I know I haven't asked you to but that is my own fault for being less thoughtful than I should have been She has been incredibly strong. She has held up incredibly. Well, our mom is very very tough She has endured a lot and she is She is a wonderful woman. She doesn't complain She just works very very hard, but we can tell that this has taken a toll on her. I mean Of course it would have to you know, it's a very um It's a very difficult situation, but she has been amazing through this She's given my dad so much support and has been there for him every step of the way

through this. She's given my dad so much support and has been there for him every step of the way. Our mom is a truly incredible, wonderful, godly woman and we have been so blessed to have her as our mom. So she is tired and she is stressed but as always she is amazing and she is doing everything she can to make sure that my dad has everything he needs and she has been with him for every moment that he wasn't in surgery so please keep her in your prayers please lift her up as well and give her peace and comfort and the strength that she needs to continue to be there for him and yes thank you for thank you for that comment brian dead m McCartney really really glad to see you there All right

So that was the India Pakistan conflict Now I saw this article on zero hedge and this one interested me a lot personally this is right up my alley and a sort of I tend to enjoy sort of psychological Analysis of things or just looking at the psychology of people. I'm a complete pseudo intellectual, of course But you know, that's what pseudo intellectuals like so on zero hedge psych meds and Veblen goods In heist and this is authored by Jeffrey a Tucker via the Epoch Times in In Heiss, and this is authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via the Epoch Times,

in high school in West Texas in the late 1970s, psych meds were Veblen goods, that is products desired as market as markers of status. They were conspicuously consumed by the children of the well-to-do with profound awareness that their schoolmates could neither could afford neither the treatment nor the supposed cure. So the kids, I knew many of them, they would tolerate me in their circles from time to time, would brag about their diagnosis, their prescriptions, the mix and how it made them feel. They would carry their pills and show them off, rattling off names of this or that drug and laughing mischievously about it all. There was

nothing particularly maudlin about them except as performance. They were genuinely proud. The way one might be when wearing an overpriced luxury coat or shoes. The pills were just part of the mix. So they paraded their supposed maladies as badges of honor. I think we can see this again, playing out with the, what people call the mental health crisis of the United States now and especially with the transgender movement any sort of you know

Illness is now a marker That puts you higher up in the hierarchy of oppression if you have you know depression or any sort of mental malady you have, you know, depression or any sort of mental malady, you have something that you can cling to and point to and say, well, you know, I've got this. So if you're okay, that makes you, uh, you know, an oppressor of some kind. It puts you beneath them. The only way to elevate yourself in today's America is to have something wrong with you.

To have something that entitles you to the support of other people in some way or the other. And the LGBT, especially the T's have long been a proponent of this ideology. We can see it in the way they act in all fields, the way that any, you know, any straight man or woman is the enemy to them in many senses of the word and this mental illness is what makes them special. Their desire to mutilate themselves elevates them over you and makes them a better person than you are simply because they are mentally. Discover the exciting action of BenMGM Casino.

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It gives them a cloak, a shield for them to bash you with. They are inoculated against criticism while you are seen as evil by default. This is a continual way of operation and we can see this from the way you know it was back even in the 1970s. There was always a sniffy air of detachment culture of these kids. There's always a sniffy air of detachment culture of these kids. A nonchalant disregard for all systems, whether school or family or church or even society at large. They were above it all, and the meds and the condition they were addressing were part of that. It was a class marker. There was even a hint of politics about it, an underscoring and display of alienation. They were at once the top of the social heap, but disdainful of it.

Most of these kids excelled in their grades and set their sights high in college applications, with no doubt that they would succeed. They would do so despite their profound mental condition, which they blamed on parents, social structures, teachers, protocols, and the machine generally. Society had made them sick, but the meds gave them freedom to float above it all. I've not followed their lives since then. Maybe they dropped them after college and lived normally. Maybe not. None will likely write memoirs, so we'll never know.

Regardless in the decades since, this Veblen good went the way of all luxury purchases over time. It became mainstream. Psych meds are now common among adults and children. It's a massive industry like cell phones and TVs generations ago. They migrated through the class structure year by year. It truly is amazing the sheer number of people in today's society that are on some form of medication, especially psychological. of medication, the especially psychological. Anytime, I don't really watch TV that much, usually only if we're traveling, you know, my wife and I will stop at a hotel halfway between Texas and Tennessee somewhere. And since the TV is the only thing they have,

you'll flip it on for a bit. And it feels as though 50% of commercials are for some form of antidepressant or some way of managing anxiety. And it is horrifying to think that so many people are using chemicals to manage themselves and what it might be doing to them. be doing to them. We've seen what SSRIs do to people and the ways it can change them and the sheer how dangerous it can make them as it warps their personality and turns them, some of them, into, you know, mass murderers. It is deeply concerning on every level that the American public feels concerning on every level that the American public feels the need to escape reality and escape themselves through chemical alteration and so so many people are you know they cannot function at this point unless they have it it is getting scarier and scarier that more and more people are just unable to cope with reality unless they are chemically enhanced or altered or just it is a deep concern of mine and the therapy

culture as well has gotten out of hand the sheer number of people that think oh everyone needs therapy everyone needs to go and chat with someone. A paid friend that will tell you different ways of coping with things and then potentially prescribe you some little pills that can modify your behavior so that you can feel a little bit of happiness. We have created a worse rat race over and over again. It's truly amazing how many people are on these pills, and if only a small percentage of them have these kind of reactions, that's still a staggering number of people. Yes. I think one of the best ways of showing that is the people that don't commit mass shootings, but almost did. Like, there's several stories that my dad

has relayed, such as the one where the person was pointing a gun at his class and then pointing it back at himself and then pointing it at the class and then you know eventually just dazed and they wrestled the gun away from him and then had absolutely no memory of any of that and there's several stories of basically the exact same thing of that happening. Yes it's a it's much more common than they want you to believe. They do everything they can to cover up when there is a side effect for one of their little pet drugs that they love to push on people and makes them a lot of money.

So we can only imagine how many of these things go unreported or underreported these people, you know as as a Whistler said that He would he had no memory of it. It completely took him over. He was not himself at all he had no idea what had happened when he came to himself and That is an incredibly scary thought. The fact that these chemicals can take you over and make you do things that under normal circumstances, you would be horrified by.

And this, you know, that's, this isn't a matter, if you're on these pills, this isn't a matter of willpower. It's not a well, you know, if you just don't want to do it, you won't do it. No, this is a, you know, it chemically alters you. It changes you. It makes you a completely different person. It's not that this kid wanted to hurt them as obvious. Uh, it is a, it's a very, very sad and very, very scary thing that these pharmaceutical companies are able to push these poisons on people

and so many people just blindly accept them and give them to children Angry tigers den, good to see you, good to see you, thanks for being here People have lost the connection with God, all the things that you were talking about are a symptom of this Without God there is no moral compass and there is no hope for these people Utterly an empty existence in which they replace God with themselves. This is unfulfilling and a road to nowhere. Yes, that is exactly right. If you do not have God, you will try to fill that void with anything and everything, whether it's chemicals or, you know, money, men or women, you know, whichever one, you will try to fill it with anything

and everything and eventually they will all let you down and you will be more empty than you ever were before. I mean it's cliche but you see it all the time when people get rich, you know, for a while they seem incredibly happy, you know, they're having the time of their life it would seem, they're buying whatever they want, they're going wherever they want, they're spending time with whoever they want, and then we see it over and over again where they just become more and more miserable. They end up addicted to drugs or, you know, destroying their own lives in some way, and it's because these things do not fulfill you. They can be part of a happy life but they are not the source of a happy life. Christ is the only thing

that truly matters in this world. He is... God is the source of all joy and if you do not have God then you have nothing at all. It is, I forget who said it, and it's a it's I've been hearing it all my life, but man has a God-shaped hole in his heart and nothing else will fill that hole. You cannot, there is no amount of earthly possessions that can fulfill you. You cannot spend your way to happiness, you cannot do drugs, you cannot you cannot spend time with even the most amazing people and feel fulfilled. Eventually it all comes down to the fact that we need a Lord and Savior. And Christ gave that to us. Soylent Goy! Perhaps the drugs need a reason to be prescribed so mental disorders are invented for that purpose. I I thoroughly agree with you there the over

diagnoses of conditions is Something that we are dealing with people these doctors Love to have a purpose and if you're not sick, what's the reason for having them there? psychiatrists will Bring you in and they will tell you oh yes that's you have an anxiety disorder you have this you have that and you know what you need this medication and you need to go see a therapist and you should see a therapist multiple times a week or at least once a week as often as you can and it is part of the

medical industrial complex they are getting it is about making money and that has always been something that has blown my mind is that people will be like, oh, yeah I love my therapist they listen to me. It's like don't you have friends or family if How can a therapist do more for you than what your friends and family can the therapist doesn't care about you They're being paid the therapist isn't going to continue to listen to you Once that money stops coming in your friends and family actually't care about you. They're being paid the therapist isn't going to continue to listen to you Once that money stops coming in your friends and family actually do care about you they are there for you in times of trouble, that's why God has given them to us and Just so many people will utterly avoid talking about their problems with their friends or their family they will

Have contempt for them almost in that sense like, oh, I wouldn't talk to them, you know, they don't have a degree. Whereas, you know, your parents have years of wisdom and have probably gone through at least something similar and can tell you how they handled it, as opposed to a therapist who has just spent, you know, probably a decade in school and has no real life experience. So that is my take on that. Obermensch. Happiness comes from purpose. I agree the purpose of serving God. That is

where I believe. Wally Walrus. I love my Christian counseling center. Yes, if you have Christian counseling where they are doing it from a biblical basis and pointing you towards God as in the end, the answer to all things and knowing that he will get you through this, I think that can be a very valuable thing. But secular therapy is really more about putting yourself on a pedestal and idolizing yourself and that's my opinion on these things I haven't gone down the rabbit

hole of thoroughly correlating collating my ideas and putting them into a concise narrative structure on why I dislike therapy so much. Like dad says the psychology is the study of the soul from a group of people that deny the souls even exist. Yeah, these people want to... give you eternal purpose when they don't believe there is an eternity. Soylent Goy, are you sad? Here's a pill. Are you angry? Here's a pill. Did you eat pancakes this morning? Here's a pill. That's right. There's a pill. Did you eat pancakes this morning? Here's a pill. That's right There's a pill for everything and then when that pill starts giving you side effects

There's a pill for that too. They will medicate you into the grave It is all about getting you to take more and more medication because it is a money-making scheme They will medicate you down to the grave. I think we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. The I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

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Soylent Goy. When there's so much irrational hatred, irrational nonsense going on, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of people have anxiety. Yeah, they are constantly putting fear out into the world. That is one of the big purposes of the 24 hour news cycle. I'm not saying anything new here, but that has been one of the worst things that has ever happened to the American people. Just this constant fear mongering. Anytime you want to, you can turn on the TV or go online and find something to be afraid of. They can continually tell you over and

over again that this is happening or that's happening and you need to be afraid of it despite the fact that statistically you are still very very safe. They want to continually hammer you over the head with fear. A fearful population is one that is easy to control. You will sign away your liberties if they can promise you it's it's an easier thing To make the sale when there is more to be afraid of than there is when it's a safe country Right overture Jesus is the only answer. Yes. I completely agree with you right overture. I ask that you please keep my dad in your prayers Please lift him up before our Lord and savior. Thank you very much Zoro 70 psychology is a pseudo religion and pure scam plus the

Deletion of good and bad Deletion yeah the uh They have removed the idea of good and evil from the public consciousness. As a general rule, things are very morally gray now. They want you to continually feel sympathy for people who do evil, but will demonize anyone that pushes a Christian worldview on anyone else. So I link Goy again. One of the big problems is the current culture is isolating a lot of people, no friends, no family.

The lockdown was a big part of that. Yes, people are more isolated than they've ever been. And there is a reason that the worst thing that they can do to people in prison is to put them in solitary confinement. When you are alone, becomes much much more difficult. Humans are meant to have community, meant to have family, and if you do not have that you begin to lose perspective on things and it becomes a form of torture.

It is incredibly dangerous to be left all alone with your own thoughts and not ever interact with other people. It is easy to spiral and to just, you know, lose yourself. Star Barkley. My sister gave me half an ambient once and the next day was telling me things I said and did that I didn't remember. Never took it again. Yeah, that seems to be a very common problem with things like Ambien now Of course people may be using it as an excuse to get out of the consequences of things They've said or done, but we've seen many many people come out and say yeah I have no recollection of that I took Ambien or a sleeping medication of some sort and You know, I just blacked out. I don't know who that was that said those things things but whoever it was it wasn't me I wasn't in control of my own body at the

time. Knights of the storm they don't seek to cure problems they want lifelong customers yes that is the continual that seems to be continual rule of thumb for any part of the medical industry. They want you coming back over and over again. A therapist is not going to get paid if he actually fixes his client. They want you to come back weekly for your little vent session where they can tell you, Oh, you know, you're right. You're right. It's a it's you don't need to work on yourself or change your perspective or change how you view things or do things. It is simply a way for them to get validation. It is a form of self-worship in my opinion. Assyrian girl. Therapists are at best paid friends and we all know the other word for that. That is very true.

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were praying for our dad. It has been an incredibly beautiful thing to see and it has given us so much peace and comfort knowing that he is being lifted up before God by all of you and I cannot thank you enough for that. It has really helped in this time to know that you're all out there praying for him. M. Sellers. Sometimes godly therapy or counseling can help get you back on track but should never substitute for your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Yes. And again, I think the main point there is that it is you know Christian counseling or therapy they're coming at it from the perspective of you know the From a godly perspective from a Christ centered perspective. It is not this

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they're really, really wonderful. And I enjoy them all just as much as you do. Now I want to just mention this. This is a book that I just got. It is Aberrations in the Heartland of the Real. The Secret Lies of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting PhD. And some of you may already know about her, but she was the co-author and co-producer of the documentary film A Noble Lie. I've just started reading this so I won't actually go into it today I'm only about ten pages in but I will probably be giving you some excerpts and snippets from it in the future but it is an incredibly detailed and thoroughly researched book about Timothy McVeigh and goes into Immense immense detail about his life. I have thoroughly enjoyed the few pages

that I've gotten to read so far and it is just about the man who the behind the avatar that was created for the Oklahoma City bombing and the media created this idea of Timothy McVeigh. Very few people, if any, actually knew anything about him besides what was portrayed in the media. And as we know today, the media does very little research, if any, and has their talking points handed down to them. So the Oklahoma City bombing was an amazing example of how a narrative can be created and different narratives can be spun up and spun out into the atmosphere to muddy the water and make it impossible to figure out what really happened. So I'm very excited to read this book. It is very, very well researched. It is a thick tome, and I look forward to being able to give you some

interesting excerpts from it in the future and I Saw this last night Trump administration Trump administration Administrations universal flu vaccine project puzzles scientists. And I have to say, it puzzles me as well. I thought this administration was going to have RFK in charge, and I thought RFK was

going to tell people the dangers of vaccines and to expose them. But as we've seen so far, none of that has come true. And we are now moving towards a universal flu vaccine. This is by Rob Stein on NPR. Now, I'm sure we won't agree with Rob Stein's reasoning for this, but it was just really the headline that grabbed me out of this article in the sense of this is the administration that claimed you know he was the father of the vaccine he gave us the COVID vaccine warp speed he was so proud of his little pet project and we can see that he has learned absolutely nothing these people Donald Absolutely nothing. These people, Donald Trump is not your friend. He is in the pocket of these corporations and these powers as much as any other president ever has been. He gave them the

lockdown. He gave them carte blanche to do whatever they wanted with the vaccination. The COVID vaccine, we still don't know all the untold damages that have been wrought by that thing. It is not been on a long enough timeline to fully see what kind of effects that will have, you know, what it's doing to people. And we are now working towards a universal flu vaccine. Vaccine experts are perplexed by a project the Trump administration has launched to develop a universal flu vaccine, which has been a long goal, though an elusive one in medical research, dubbed generation gold standard. The project is aimed at creating a flu shot that doesn't have to be updated

every year to match the latest strains of the virus. Project also aims to produce a vaccine that could protect people against other respiratory viruses that could cause a pandemic, such as bird flu and coronaviruses. That's right, folks. It's the scary, scary bird flu. Oh, good. We needed a new COVID vaccine. That was the big thing that has been killing so many people is just the lack of yet another COVID vaccine. That's right. You can never have too many vaccines, folks. Just, you know, roll up your sleeve and they're just going to come in with sequence after sequence. I, for one, hope that they just keep churning these out. So I never have to get out of the chair so that I can just sit there and get

vaccinated over and over again, repeatedly until I die. That's, that's my biggest hope is that they can make me safe from every disease, every variation of every disease, and you know, by doing so make themselves infinitely wealthy. The announcement surprised vaccine researchers, given the anti-vaccine stance of health officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That's right. Even NPR can see the, if not hypocrisy, dissonance between the narrative and what is actually coming to place.

They ran on a stance of anti-vaccination or at least vaccine skepticism, and yet here we are in the administration working towards a universal flu vaccine. I'm glad to see that this administration is still wanting to invest in developing next generation influenza vaccines or respiratory vaccines in general, says Ted Ross, director of global vaccine development at the Cleveland Clinic. But Ross and the other outside vaccine experts are mystified by many aspects of generation gold standard. Well, Ross, you're not the only one that's mystified. I'm very mystified more so by the fact that the

Trump base still supports him the fact that they refuse to look at this and say, okay Maybe he's not the man we think he is but of course they have yet to Come to any sort of realization regarding that fact First of all the project plans to use an approach that would involve Injecting people with a whole flu virus that has been killed with a chemical to render it harmless But is still capable of stimulating the immune system most Vena vaccine experts consider the whole killed virus approach to be antiquated This a head scrap this a head scratcher to me This is puzzling says dr

Gregory Poland a vaccine expert who leads the atria Academy of Science and Medicine in New York. We're going back to technology that we used 40 to 50 years ago. So this is a little surprising to me. Why would you go backwards to this technology? It's a very old technology, Poland says. This is what influenza vaccines in the 40s, 50s, and 60s looked like. Well I mean that was probably the last time I Don't even know if Again his complaint is that the technology isn't new enough. My complaint is that it's happening at all. So look at 1980 It's a universal extermination vaccine. That's right All of these vaccines are meant to harm you in some way all of of them are there to destroy your body. None of them are there to actually do what they say. And a bit of a side tangent here, but one of the things that

always gets me is when you talk about medical conspiracy, people act as if like, oh, you think they're paying off every single doctor. You think that a black SUV rolls up and they cart out barrels of money to the nurses in the hospitals and the doctors and it's like no you don't need to pay off every single doctor. In fact you need to pay off relatively few people if in fact you're actually paying off any of them. What you do is you make sure that grants only go towards things that you deem useful for your agenda. You quash research that is moving in ways that you don't like. You insert specific people with a certain ideology in the halls of academia.

And it takes a very, very relative few people to ensure that science only moves in the direction you want. It is not difficult to control this sort of thing. It does not require millions upon millions of people working in concert. It requires a minimal amount to control this sort of thing. People think that the bribing of doctors is, you know, some pharma executive slipping some guy in a white coat a few hundred bucks in the back room But really it's more institutionalized. It's the Not getting published if you question their official narrative. It's all the Like you said the grants and all that that are driving it only in the way that is most profitable for big pharma Exactly. Yeah, all they have to do is control the funding in a specific direction. And it makes it

incredibly difficult to research any of these things. Brian De McCartney, we are not vaccine deficient. No, again, what is it by the time a child is three, I believe it's 76 vaccines they want to give your child 7676 different vaccines full of all kinds of chemicals that are potentially damaging or Life ending these people know what they're doing. My dad has told the story before but um, I forget the name of the nurse but she was in the Neon, you know the neonatal ICU. And they knew that when they had a preemie that was born, that if they gave them vaccines, that they would crash, that they would flatline,

and they would need to be resuscitated. And it would take, you know, they would have to prep the crash cart. There wasn't a discussion of, well, maybe we don't give them the vaccines. It was, oh, well, you know, we'll resuscitate and we'll bring them back if we can it was never a matter of well We just won't give them the vaccines you would think at minimum these people could be convinced to hold off But no even knowing what it was doing to a baby that it would cause them to You know crash and flatline and have to be resuscitated, they would still do it. These people have been so thoroughly brainwashed and have such a callous disregard for life

and the most vulnerable lives. It is utterly disgusting to see. Sure, 76 vaccines is a lot, but you know, 77 is just such a nice round number. It's lucky sounding. And I'm sure we can trust Trump, who brought us the COVID Warp Speed vaccine, to be sure that this one is going to be the good and healthy vaccine. Of course, this one is going to be sugar water.

It'll be just so pleasant. They'll come in. You'll be served a nice little mojito while you wait. It'll be a lovely, lovely experience as you get your universal flu vaccine Well, I give us any free donuts or burgers with this one Yeah, I wonder what sort of bribery will be involved a pricey bet on a single approach and then there's the price tag 500 million I mean that to me based on the spending that our government that sounds like a bargain only 500 million half a billion dollars I mean we can spend that in our sleep folks. You're bulking at half a billion dollars

When is this the America I've come to know and dread Come on folks half a billion. That's nothing. That's nothing We give that to Israel, you know If I say we give it we could, we could do that again right now. We wouldn't even notice. There's a price tag 500 million, which is a huge amount. Sky knows nothing. Huge amount. Come on, get it together. Who are you to balk at half a billion dollars? Especially at a time when federal health research funding is being slashed, the money that was originally earmarked to help explore a variety of technology for next generation COVID-19 vaccines.

This amount of money is astronomical. It is foolish to put that much money onto one technology, says Rick Bright, a former federal vaccine expert who is now a private consultant. Well, you know that man is making money hand over fist. Going into a private consultancy after being a federal employee is usually a way of paying you off for what you did for the company during your tenure. Zorro70 to use mRNA is like trying communism again because last time it wasn't done the right way. That's

right folks. Real mRNA has never been tried yet. We just have to try mRNA one more time and this time we'll get it right. You know, no more damaging hearts, no more blood clots, just good old-fashioned DNA alteration like your grandma used to get. As American as apple pie and eight-legged rats in the subway of New York Another aspect that's raising eyebrows is the fact that the technology called a beta propio lactone Whoever names these things do they speak English? Inactivated whole virus platform was developed by two NIH scientists, Dr. Matthew Memoley and Dr. Jeffrey Tobinberger. Memoley was recently named as the principal deputy director

of the NIH after serving as Trump's acting NIH director. Tobinberger was recently named acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Tobin Berger holds a patent on the technology. Ah, I wonder if that could have something to do with it. You hold a patent on the technology that the government is going to be using to create a universal flu vaccine. I imagine that is worth a lot a lot of money. Perhaps even half a billion dollars. Well, again, the main point is just that Trump has learned nothing. And that is not a surprise to me. That is in fact exactly what I would have expected given that he gave us the warp speed vaccine but he is now pushing for a universal flu vaccine.

A vaccine that undoubtedly they will push on everyone for every reason. And only later will we find out the sheer number of people that are being damaged by it, the sheer number of people that are being killed by it. They do this over and over, where they create a horror and double down on it instead of admit fault. Zen woman, right.

The top administrators were paid and the staff who didn't comply were disposable. That is correct. They get rid of the people that do not play ball with them and it is incredibly easy for them to do so. Soi Lung Goy, power is top down like a pyramid. You don't need a grand conspiracy including everyone. The top gives the order and the rest follow. That's right. If you inculcate ethos of just taking directive and of continual just worship and bowing down to authority, you never have to bribe anyone. They simply will not question it at all. Howdy MMR. Howdy. Good to see you. Hope you're doing well some areas

It's 90 vaccines for children. Absolutely outrageous that parents are allowing this It is it is mind-boggling you think at some point They would look at even just the sheer number of it and go this seems like a lot You know Just thinking about it logically the previous generation didn't receive nearly this number of vaccines and they seemed to be healthier You know just on that level. It doesn't make sense doesn't make sense logically It is truly insane to me that people are so incredibly willing to just Follow orders and stick their children with these horrific chemicals,

with these horrific side effects. I mean, when I was young, we went to church with, I believe, over all the years we went to church, there were two kids that had autism. And now, you know, I see so many. I don't go out frequently anymore, but when I do, it's not uncommon to see one of those kids, a child that is clearly damaged out in public, they've got their big headphones on to prevent some sort of auditory stimulus from affecting them.

And they're locked in to an iPad or something, or they're being led by the hand and by their parents and you know, these are kids that are obviously, you know close to being teenagers or are teenagers and That just wasn't something you saw when I was young and Just on the face of it it is obvious what is happening. And they continually obfuscate and say, oh, the rapid rise in case numbers

is because we're better at diagnoses. And diagnosis might account for a small increase. Maybe you get a little bit better at figuring out what it actually is, and so you're able to find it a little bit more frequently. But it does not account for the, you know, straight up spike in case numbers. That just, it obviously doesn't make sense. And the fact that they're able to get away with it by just hand waving it shows how utterly unthinking and uncritical the American people have become over time. And it's worrying, it's concerning.

Trump Burger, vaccines are the biggest money maker at medical offices, like making people come for an oil change. That's true. We were very lucky to find a excellent doctor in Austin, Texas. They still will ask you if you'd like to vaccinate, but they don't push it.

We have said no, and they have gone hands off. They're like, all right, parents don't want it. We won't ask you about it again. And we are very thankful for that. But in the pamphlet, she hands out, so you have to pay to be a member of her practice so that you can see her. And the reason she explains is that I'm sure many of you know this, but in case you don't, vaccine companies and insurance companies pay bonuses to doctors offices that have a certain over a certain percentage of their customers vaccinated.

And so to offset the fact that a lot of her customers, she doesn't meet the requirement, don't vaccinate their children. She has you pay a fee to be a member of her practice. And so that is the sort of thing you have to do because she was talking to us and said that, you know, she's seen so many of her other colleagues just you know, either You know fold and require vaccination or just be put out of business by these people because they cannot maintain a a living wage And so that is what they are doing. They are rapidly crushing

Doctors that refuse to play ball with them Knights of the storm parents are not aware of the number of shots their kids are getting because they frequently bundle several into one shot That is a fair point to make yes they will routinely combine many of these vaccines into one and so your child gets hammered with a massive dose of different chemicals and viruses or whatever Yeah, whether you believe in viruses or not That's what they claim they are putting in them and your child is getting hit with a bunch of them all at once Chambers Nancy my book club 95% young teachers and they love vaccines and are critical of anyone who won't vax kids and blame

Any illness on the anti-vax and accuse them of spreading disease Yeah That's that's always how it is and it's continually again Just funny and the fact that if the vaccine works, then they're only a threat to themselves However, they are continually scared that oh I'm going to get it or they're going to give it to another kid and just If the other kid is vaccinated Then surely they're protected right surely they are just exercising their own personal freedoms and you are just angry about that But it's always cloaked in this. Oh, but you know, they're going to hurt someone else. They're going to do this

They're going to do that. It's for the greater good the greater good is almost it is literally always what is used to justify the greatest horrors. And so we see that time and time again, this hatred and contempt for people that exercise their ability to use critical thinking, and not just bow to the fear and this article again from NPR and I just found it slightly funny this won't be one we cover for long But it was just entertaining to me the Oscar of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria Yeah, good. Good. Good. Whatever Marianne Gela Hungria. That's literally it. That's just the scientist's name is Hungria and she's involved with food. That was it.

That's the entire joke. I found it entertaining. You know, sometimes life is a little bit funny like that. You get a name, you get named Hungria and you go into food. That's you know, a little bit of comedy. That's the sort of thing I find funny folks My sense of humor has been utterly utterly ruined by time on the internet But this I found to be a hopeful story this is from Clash Daily Sorry Dawkins young men are tiring of your Christless secular secularism

The vaunted four horsemen of new atheism are not what they used to be. Remember how the march of atheism was treated as inevitable by the new atheists of a decade ago? Post COVID, new atheism is in disarray while the church is on the march. The really wild part that would set their head spinning? Gen Z has been leading the charge. For years, Pew Research has been tracking trends on the religious habits and convictions of people across a variety of demographics for years. They have been tracking a year over year decline. Yes, it's something I've noticed personally is that there are fewer and fewer

young people in the churches that I've gone to over the years. The church has become the domain of the middle-aged and the elderly as time has gone on. And I'm glad to see, and I'm hopeful that this is true. And if it is, that is a good sign that the next generation is realizing that this empty, angry atheism will only leave you bitter. It will not provide you with anything. And in the end, it will lead you straight to hell. And I think part of that is they're able to see the fruits it has borne in our culture.

The ascendancy of atheism has coincided with the decline of every nation across the globe. The Church was part of what built all these nations, the strong faith of the people that were involved with the rising of the West. And I don't just mean people, you know, the founding fathers. I know I'm gonna have people telling me, oh, they weren't Christian people, you know, the founding fathers. I know I'm going to have

people telling me, oh, they weren't Christian, they were this, they were that. I mean the common people, the faith of the common people that were on the ground, just working. When a nation, when the people of a nation are devoted to God, he, you know, will bless that nation. It is not about whether your leader is a Christian not about whether your leader is a Christian or whether your leader is this or that. It can be a blessing to have a Christian leader, but what's more important is that the people themselves are devoted to God. And as the people have become more atheistic and self-serving or, know anything else we have seen the

rapid rapid decline of these Western nations and just the horrors it has unleashed on the the people of the American people stunning stat gen zers especially Gen Z men are actually more likely to attend weekly religious services than Millennials and even some younger gen Xers Berg's analysis shows that's good news. I am again. I'm very hopeful for this This is a very good sign not and again. This isn't Something about oh, I think those would be good for politics. This is good for the You know people who are going to church who are finding, you know, Jesus. Whether this impacts politics at all, this is impacting something much more important.

This is the souls of the people involved. They are finding Christ, and that is what truly matters. Politics passes away. All of this is truly, you know, it impacts our daily lives, but it will be meaningless in the end. You know, we should fight evil because we are called to, but we should realize that there is a much greater world outside of this that we will all one day be a part of.

Between the lines, young men are leading America's religion resurgence. Within older generations, there's a consistent gender gap among Christians with women more likely to be religious than men. With Gen Z, the gap is closed as young men join the church and young women leave it. If the current trajectory sticks, the gender gap will flip. Zoom in.

Many young people have turned to religion to find community and connection after the isolating years of the pandemic, which hit Gen Z harder than most. Yes, I've heard many, many stories of how utterly isolating and alone the pandemic was for the younger generation. How they had their childhood effectively stolen from them. How they got to watch, you know, maybe an older family member, whether an older brother or sister or cousin you know get to enjoy socialization and you know I don't like public school I will not put

our children in public school but you know they got to see them have that social aspect of it and to hang out with friends and to go you know play sports or whatever it was and then it was taken from them right as they hit high school or you know right before then you know or mid high school and how isolating and lonely and bitter it has made them how it has Made them incapable of relating to other people how it has hurt them psychologically in Such deep and profound ways, you know, it is a giant psychological experiment that has been perpetrated and it is Radically radically impacted the younger generations who didn't have a chance to form friend groups or have a chance to you know Get to know people before then, you know, it totally took that from them At a time when so many Christians have been echoing the duck-and-cover defeatism of the late great

planet Earth, another group is rising up with a very different attitude, and it's exactly the kind of attitude shift that you might expect to see at the leading edge of a time where faith convictions begin awakening. Dear young Christian male, this book you're about to read is meant... okay. Well, this is a plug for a book I don't know anything about it But uh, you know again, this is just incredibly hopeful fruit to me that more people are returning to Christ and as I said before

Whether it impacts politics or not this impacts their eternal souls and that is a much much more Important thing it is Eternally important. It is infinitely more important That's what truly matters So You know what? You know who's making a comeback Someone that I would have never expected,

someone that I have come to loathe. Pete Buttigieg holds town hall in Iowa amid speculation of presidential ambitions. And look at our little Petey here. He's grown himself a beard. He's Ted Cruz maxing. He's realized that he's got a little bit of a rat face and as such can't be taken seriously. He looks much more like a real boy with a beard grown. Don't you think, folks? I think this... the beard more than the town halls is an indication of presidential desire. Town halls, you know, every politician does that sort of thing from time to time. The beard is what is the tell. He took a page from Ted Cruz's book and was like, well, you know,

Ted Cruz looks better with a beard and Ted Cruz is, you know, he's a very oily, slimy-looking individual. If it can help Ted Cruz, it can surely work for me. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Held a town hall in the influential early contest state of Iowa on Tuesday Potentially fueling added speculation about another presidential run for the prominent Democrat Now again, I don't think Pete Buttigieg can win, but I think that's perhaps Based solely on optimism. I don't have any hard facts or statistics on that but I would just like to think that someone as

conniving and unlikable as Buddha judge Would be seen through by the American people. It is However, my judgment is not often right in these things I often put too much faith in the American people because what can I say? I'm an optimist. But a judge held the town hall with Vote Vets, a progressive political action committee advocating on issues like national security and veterans care in Cedar Rapids. For the first time, he's been back to Iowa since the end of the Biden administration. The former 2020 presidential candidate noted that he's not

currently a public official, nor is he actively running for office and called on officials to take part in more events like this one. So he will definitely be running again, folks. He is going to be back out there and we're going to have to see him in the public eye once more once the next election starts. Here's a secondary take on it from CNN. But it just holds veterans focused town hall event in Iowa amid 2028 speculation. Another thing that always bothers me is veterans issues tend to be completely ignored until it can be used as political football one way or the other.

You know, promises are made during an election cycle. And like all their other promises, they get completely ignored. And personally, however I feel about the wars that they were involved in, I think we made a promise to them. A promise that we must keep. If we have a contract, if you have a contract with someone you have to honor it. And while I do not support the wars, I do not support the, did not support the Iraq or Afghanistan war, and I think the American military has been a tool for much destruction around the world, I do not believe that the individual people involved in it are evil. I believe that they bought into some really terrible propaganda,

and really thought that they were going to make a difference and change the world for the better. There are, of course, exceptions to that, but I believe that those are the exceptions. I don't believe there are a majority of people that join the American military because they simply want to be killers. I think many of them were just sold a bill of goods and as such they are to be You know it They are to be at most pitied but We should still honor the contract we have with them

Zoro 70 who am I to judge morals of founding fathers like Paul said? Even if one preaches God's word out of spite, at least it gets preached. That is true. That is true. God's word can work through anyone, whether they believe it or not. If they even say the gospel, it has power. That's the truth of it. God's word is supernatural. God is a, he is a God of miracles. He is not bound or constrained by the laws of the universe. He is above and beyond them. All things are within his grasp.

Also, people talk about the founding fathers religion and they'll always bring up like Jefferson cutting bits out of the Bible. And that was more the exception than the rule. Most of the founding fathers were Christian, and as you said, the culture itself was strongly Christian, or else the, you know, the Constitution wouldn't be endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. And even Jefferson, at least he cared what was in the Bible enough to make his own version of it. That's not great, but at least he's not, oh yeah, I really like that two Corinthians.

Yes, the entire culture was steeped in, you know, at least the ideology and the verbiage of Christianity. Even if they didn't believe it themselves, they still were surrounded by it and had their actions modified by the sense that they had to appeal to a people that were heavily Christian. Now moving on to this story coming out of the UK this is on CNN. Man wrongfully jailed for nearly four decades weeps as UK court overturns murder conviction. Man who spent nearly four decades in a British prison in the killing of a barmaid said he was not angry or bitter Tuesday as his murder conviction was overturned and he was released after being exonerated by DNA evidence. Now why do I bring this up? I bring this up because I think this illustrates the importance

of due process for everyone. Assumedly, they did everything right. They followed the letter of the law, they followed their protocols, they, you know, did everything they could to get the right man and to do it the right way. And they still got it wrong. This man was locked up for nearly 40 years. And this is what can happen. Even when you follow the procedures that are in place meant to protect people These are the sort of mistakes that can happen when they are committed to Doing the right thing when it comes to upholding the rule of law Imagine how bad it can get if we discard due process

this Can very very easily become the norm This can when they don't have to do due process when they don have to check, and when the government is committed to obfuscating and hiding what really happened and who people really are, this can become the norm. It can happen to you, it can happen to me. This is why we have to care about due process for everyone. And again, I think a very strong case could be made that Abrego Garcia is a bad guy that needs to go, but I think that case does need to be made. We're offline. Folks, it seems like we might be having some technical difficulties. Justin go to a commercial... Yeah, we're going to take a quick break just in case as we get this figured out.

Thank you, folks. Plant the seed in our homeland, boys, let it grow where all can see. Feed it with our devotion, boys, call it the Liberty Tree. It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree. And we are the sons, yes we are the sons, the sons of liberty. The Liberty, it's your move. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well welcome back folks. Apparently we were offline for a minute there. We're not entirely sure what happened.

It just dropped the connection. So if I had to guess I would say it was some kind of internet outage on our part briefly or perhaps the system, the service that we use to feed all these streams may have had some kind of internal issue. But hopefully we're back and you're hearing us and well, I don't know where we cut out so it's hard for me to say but I hopefully you heard what I had to say about the man wrongfully convicted and why it's important. Now we're going to look at this article off of Tennessee Star. Nonprofit received nearly three million in government grants before donating to Nashville

Nashville fund for illegal immigrants. I don't understand how my dad talks for three hours and makes so few mistakes. I feel as though I mess up every other word. hours and make so few mistakes. I feel as though I mess up every other word. Prior to his recent donation to the belonging fund, a new initiative established by Nashville mayor, Freddie O'Connell to support illegal immigrants, followed a joint law enforcement operation between the Tennessee highway patrol, THP and U S immigration and customs enforcement ice, the Tennessee immigrant and refugee

rights coalition, T I RRC, received nearly 3 million government grants since 2020. TIRRC has condemned the recent immigration enforcement in Nashville that has seen more than 100 arrests claiming law enforcement was kidnapping our people off the street based on nothing but the color of their skin. The group's opposition to immigration enforcement led it to donate more than $30,000 alongside other groups to the Belonging Fund.

The mayor's office explained that the fund is a financial resource created by the community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, CFMT. I think we're getting out of hand with initialisms folks. Not everything needs to be condensed down to an initialism. Sometimes you can just have a name and it's okay. In conjunction with the Metro Nashville government to support immigrants in Nashville during moments of crisis.

Isn't that sweet of them? I'm sure that money couldn't be going to more important things, more useful things, or things that could better the, you know, the state of America. Announced by O'Connell last week, the mayor's office said the fund will provide assistance to immigrants who face sudden destabilizing changes through providing financial resources to nonprofit organizations, offering emergency assistance.

That's the thing folks is. assistance. That's the thing, folks, is America should be for Americans first. That is, it's as simple as that. I am of the opinion that we should not accept any more immigrants until things have stabilized and we have figured things out. America is more than an economic zone. It is a specific people. It is a specific culture. And if you drown that out, you lose America. If I were to suddenly, you know, uproot all the people in China

and swap them with the people in Japan, the geographical area would still be the same. But it would effectively switch which countries were which. Area would still be the same but it would effectively switch which countries were which You cannot import an infinite number of other cultures and keep your culture intact We are not the same country. We were even 20 years ago We're not the same country at all that we were 50 years ago. It is a fractious divided nation that we have become and it is largely because of the continual well maybe not now I'm gonna say it largely because of the continued import of people that do not have shared values this is from the Federalist Trump is

right to prioritize refugees who will make better Americans. Yes, there are cultures across the globe that are more similar and more cohesive with the culture we already have, and it is no shame to prioritize people that need assistance from these cultures that will more seamlessly integrate with our own. On Monday, dozens of South Africans, primarily white Afrikaner farmers arrived in the United States having been granted refuge status by the refugee status by the Trump administration the propaganda press Excuse me by implicitly accusing the administration of hypocrisy and racial bias yet This criticism is not only disingenuous. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and limits of America's refugee

and asylum policies. If we are going to take in every single person from across the globe, who could potentially claim that they are in danger, or that their country is falling apart and they need some place to go, will never end it will be a constant flood a Outpouring of people that will wash across America and completely and utterly remake it if you If simply coming from a bad country a dangerous country is enough to get you refugee status Then we cannot take refugees. It is as simple as that. There has to be a broader, has to be a smaller, more narrow criteria for who we take for this sort of thing. A new South African

law means white farmers could have had their land taken away without being paid for it. Though framed as a correction to apartheid era injustice, the law has created an environment where racially motivated persecution may become institutionalized. In response, the Trump administration announced both an investigation into South Africa and the approval of refugee status for 60 individuals fleeing the persecution. Again, this is 60 individuals, They are screaming and crying

About 60 individuals from a state that is currently basically sanctioning their rape and murder but the flood across the borders is supposed to be ignored if and celebrated It is almost These people are evil and it is simply because they hate the United States and want to see it collapse. They want to unmake it and reshape it into a purely economic zone where handouts are given to those they deem worthy. That is what this is about. The refugees will land in Virginia before taking up residences in 10 states according to the Washington Post.

Tio Armas writing for the Washington Post frame the administration's decision as a racially charged exception. Trump shut out refugees but is making white South Africans an exception. It's also perhaps because they are in more direct danger than these other people are because they are being targeted not just by Random groups for violence, but by the state itself. They are persona non grata Based on their identity in the country They are from months after the Trump administration ground US refugee admissions to a halt

months after the Trump administration ground US refugee admissions to a halt, suspending a program that lets in thousands of people fleeing war or political persecution. It is praying to restart that effort, but only for one group white South Africans," Armis wrote. He later contrasted this decision with the Trump administration's attempt to halt the resettling of approximately 12,000 people when district court judge ultimately ordered to be admitted to the country. And again, there are cultures that blend more easily with the American culture. The white South

African culture is probably one of those. They are a conscientious, hardworking people. They have four years put up with an outpouring of abuse and have stood up for liberty and they have fought hard for it, which is something that America used to be about. So yes, I'm all for that. Prioritize the South Africans. This really amazes me. The amount of hypocrisy of we have to accept refugees from all these countries just because it's a poor country that they're from or it's a high crime country that

they're from, when these people are genuine refugees of a genuine genocide and he takes in just 60 people, the tiniest drop in the bucket, both of the people that need refuge from their government in South Africa, and a tiny drop in the bucket in terms of the immigration that we see in America all the time, every day. We get way more than that over the border, probably on a daily basis. And yet this is apparently a huge deal to these people. They cannot accept even just 60 people that genuinely need refuge. It really puts the lie to this whole compassionate thing. Putting the face of compassion on the Cloward and Piven strategy.

Yes, and I mean part of it is it boils down to a lot of they specifically hate white people. They have a deep disdain for it because of their Marxist critical theory. And this this article is coming out of The Guardian. How driving lessons are helping Ohio's Haitians. Things are getting better. Landmark driving simulators are improving road safety and helping Springfield immigrants targeted by Trump officials. Oh, that's good. Now the Haitians

can hop in their car and go drive to get the cats that they want to eat. Of course, we're... Just, I'm so happy for the Haitians. They're learning to drive as opposed to just crashing into everyone and everything. Slowly and carefully, Bettina, who came from Haiti to Ohio in 2021, navigates a Toyota SUV between five traffic cones in a parking lot northwest of Springfield. Bettina, who works for a produce processing company, has never driven before, but now

four years into life in Springfield, she has grasped the challenge of learning to drive. I live close to my job so driving is not that big a deal she says. But I'm taking these classes because I want to go to Columbus or Dayton. I can drive myself there. That's great. I cannot wait for these people to start taking longer road trips after being given the bare minimum instruction by someone that was hired by the federal government who are known for hiring the hardest working people on the planet. Sitting in the passenger seat is a driving instructor, Jose Pierre, who came to Springfield two years ago, calmly delivering guidance and Haitian Creole

Many Haitians have been complaining that when they took the driving test and failed They were then sent to take the abbreviated adult driver training online But most of them don't speak English Pierre says later and strike You don't speak English That's a big problem If we have to continually put out all our resources in every language under the Sun so that the flood of immigrants can you know get our drive you know get drivers licenses yeah or any other piece of documentation or whatever this is just spreading everything so thin do we have to put out

the the the drivers tests in Haitian Creole now is that what we're going to have to do or are we just going to have to hire how many more José Piers on the public you know on the taxpayers dime plus what language are the road signs written in you know that's kind of important I know in some places they're also putting Spanish on that are we going to have the sort of thing where you have instructions where there's a dozen different languages and you have to search for English? Yeah, instead of road signs, it'll just be a booklet that you have to flip through as

you pass by it. But this is the consequence of multiculturalism. This is what it comes down to. We have to have our driving instructors speak Haitian Creole in Springfield, Ohio. This is what comes of that. It leads to just utter insanity. By doing the in-person course with the help of a Creole speaker, that helped them a lot. Yes.

Well, I'm sure there will always be a Creole speaker on hand for when they have issues in the vehicle or as Whistler pointed out when they're driving down the road and they see a sign or when they get pulled over by police. I'm sure the police speak Haitian Creole and won't have any sort of negative interaction with these people when they've driven from their resident area to some place that does not have a large population of Haitians that speak Creole, I'm sure this will lead to only good things and not lead to many, many negative interactions at all. For years, longtime Springfield residents have shown up at city council meetings to complain to authorities about how Haitian drivers were allegedly, allegedly, allegedly driving dangerously around the town stories emerged people allegedly Haitians Accidentally driving to church buildings others were blamed for accidents causing deaths and at one point this I get that in the media you have to say allegedly because you have to cover your rear end and

Good practice to some extent when saying these kinds of things. However, this feels more like an obfuscation of things. The fact that they need a person who speaks Haitian Creole to give them instruction is in itself a tacit admission that the Haitian they are bad drivers. If they were good drivers, there wouldn't be a need for a Haitian Creole instructor because they would just be getting away with it. But it has reached a point of such absurdity that the city itself had to hire someone that speaks their incredibly niche language and bring them in to teach them, because assumedly the people had had enough. And it had reached a point of- it had reached a boiling point where it can no longer be tolerated. It's kind of funny that they're saying, allegedly, these people that have absolutely no experience driving and just get behind the wheel for the first time in their lives aren't the best drivers, you think?

Yeah, it's really just kind of a prima facie sort of thing. The fact that this article exists is proof that the Haitians are not good drivers, and in fact are causing chaos in Springfield, Ohio. This is just part of the insanity that comes with multiculturalism. And Haiti is such a nightmarish country. I wonder how many of them are looking for jobs driving 18 wheelers like we saw at the beginning of the program. Well, I'm sure Jose Pierre will have their back on that. He'll give them the lessons they need to be able to drive that 18 wheeler anywhere they want to go.

And I think we're going to take a quick break because my mouth and throat are incredibly dry and we will be right back I'm sorry. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well, welcome back folks, and thank you for still being here with us. And I just want to take this moment here to once again ask you to keep our dad in your prayers. As before, it has been extremely hard on him. He is a very independent person. He has always been one to question what people tell him

and having to lie in a hospital bed and not be able to do things is really, really hard on him. So please keep lifting him up and praying for healing, praying for a speedy recovery, praying that God would extend his mercy and give him peace and peace for our mom as well as she has been just incredibly strong through all this and she has been there for him to help him with

anything and everything that he needs. She is an incredible woman and an amazing wife and mother. We are so blessed to have them as our parents and just again, please keep praying for him. Here's that I really love this picture. I So glad that I got to take it on my dad's birthday In fact, so from now on when I'm on the show our son will be called little David You can refer to him as that if you want, but he really loves his papi He's always so happy when he gets to hang out with him Play with him spend time with him. So we are all so eager to have dad back little David, especially

He misses him when we took him to see him in the hospital. He was just so excited and he was Smiling and giggling and just having a great time. Very glad to see Grammy and Pappy again. So I'd like to add to that just a little bit more detail. Please pray for my dad's throat and tongue especially. During the operation they had to move the nerve for his tongue out of the way and he's been having some issues swallowing and that's made it very hard for him to sleep he hasn't had basically any sleep since the operation on Monday because it's just really difficult for

him to swallow and that causes him to choke when he's trying to sleep so please pray that he gets some good healing rest and that his throat recovers quickly Yes, please continue to pray for all those things and Actually since this is the David Knight show we are going to spend the rest of the show playing out some clips from him because we want to make sure that You guys still get the quality of information that you are used to. We're going to start with how homeschoolers need to be wary of federal funding and what that can mean when the government comes with a wad

of cash. There is generally a hook inside it. They are trying to get you on the line so they can put their hooks in you and tell you what you have to do and what you must do to your children. So we're going to start with that one and then we are also going to talk about Tennessee and its push to... excuse me... Tennessee and SSRI pills. We talked about SSRIs a little bit earlier in the show and this is how Tennessee is handling them And then finally it is going to be the interview my dad did with Jay Warner Wallace I always really enjoy the interviews with Jay Warner. I think he is a

fantastic speaker and just again the information is Important and it's about the gospel. So that is more important than anything else. The most important thing you can do is give your life to Christ. So I want to make sure that we continue to honor what my dad has always tried to do and maintain that and give people that information and keep that at the forefront of things. So thank you all for tuning in today. Please keep my dad in your prayers and we'll see you here tomorrow where Tony Arderburn will be joining us. Thank you all so much.

A lot of states are now advancing tax funded choice, quote unquote choice. Wasn't choice and education good? Well, yes it is, but that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about government funding and what Alex Newman is trying to do is to warn homeschooling families about the fact that this is a trap. I should have put in Admiral Akbar. It's a trap, right? This is what government money is a trap for homeschoolers.

And he talks about the fact this is coming from UNESCO. Their own documents show that they're trying to rope private schools and homeschools into the government system. This is what UNESCO is saying you can see their own documents. They want to expand So-called choice programs and a universal government funding of education. Now, here's the parallel Right. We look at Trump getting rid of the Department of Education. I've always wanted to see the Department of Education Gotten rid of I want to see the government out of the education business, especially the federal government. I want to see the

government at state and local level out of education, but especially the federal government, they have no warrant for doing that at all in the Constitution. And yet, what are you looking at with Trump, they're going to move the monetary functions, the grants and the, you know, all the rest of the stuff, giving the money and the, you know, all the rest of the stuff, giving the money to states, giving the money to maybe private schools, maybe even to home schools, federal money, right?

All of that grant making capability, all that cash, all the bribery and subsequent blackmail when you don't do what they want. That bribery and blackmail, all that massive amount of money which is the way the Department of Education has always worked. Look, they understand that they don't have any authority to even exist under the Constitution. So how do they get people to do what they want? Well, they give them financial incentives to use no child left behind or whatever else. That was what George W. Bush was selling. So they come up with one of their curricula and they give you financial incentives to use that. They would like to now, since that's been so discredited

and people see the results of what's happened in the government schools, say, oh, well, you can do better. You can start your own charter schools or private schools or whatever, and we'll give you the money to do that. We'll even give money to the homeschoolers to do this. And what they'll do is they'll push their curriculum again.

It'll be the same function, you see. And so in the same way that the evil that the Department of Education is doing, it's really the bribery and the blackmail through the money. And that function is not going to go away. They'll get rid of the bureaucracy, just like they get rid of the IRS agents and replace them with AI. They're going to get rid of the Department of Education.

Everybody cheers Trump as a savior, and yet he'll take the money granting functions and he'll put them in different places and the money will still be coming from the federal government to control education. And wait and see, oh well, Trump's going to help us with that. Well, you wait and see what happens. I mean, just take a look at what they do with the money, again, with the trainees. You know, when it's Obama and Biden,

they pay them to put the trainees in the bathrooms and the showers. Or, I'm going to take your money away. Then when Trump comes in, he says, if you put them in the showers and the bathrooms, I'm going to take your money away. And it's back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Do you really want that kind of a system?

Do you really want to be bribed and blackmailed with your own money? Don't take the money and understand that just as getting rid of the so-called Department of Education, but maintaining those functions, those supply lines of cash, the strings that they're going to use to control you, maintaining that is evil in the same way, getting rid of the so-called education, you know, bureaucracy and transferring all of that into private schools, which are still going to have the funding from government and the controls and the strings and this is the curriculum we would like for you to use and yada yada yada. Doing all of that at the local level is the same thing that they're doing at the federal level

with the Department of Education is making people think there's a change when they maintain the lines of control which are the money. Follow the money. It's always about the money. In law, the program will offer $5,000 refundable tax credits to cover non-government education expenses. Same thing happened in Tennessee. You know, I talked about that, and he talks about it coming up here too. In Tennessee, you know, they had this subsidy bill, economic subsidy for private schools, charter schools, and things like that. And wanted to push it out to home schools and the home schoolers resisted. And so they came up and said alright we'll offer you

the free act. And we've heard you if you don't want to take the money, here's what we'll do. You support this bill for educational choice and the government handing out money to people, which will be used to bribe and control and to blackmail them. You support that and then we will pass the free act which says that if you don't take the government's money, you don't have to do anything with them. You don't have to declare that you're schooling your children.

You don't have to do anything. What happened? We had Republicans, five Republicans, worked with the Democrats to scuttle that in Tennessee. So we wound up with the money going out to control education just like UNESCO, the UN, said to do, but not with the freedom to be left alone, to educate your own children. In Tennessee, says Alex Newman, not Alex Jones, in Tennessee, lawmakers recently approved universal ESA funds for families up to $7,000 per student. In Idaho, it's only five. Here it's $7,000.

Wyoming, meanwhile, expanded its program this year by eliminating income restrictions for eligibility, but opposition is now growing. And Texas. Texas is the only major homeschool association that supports government funding of home education. The Lone Star State is close to passing a major so-called choice bill. The bill would send billions more to government schools. Now let me tell you, I think that this is not unrelated to what's going on with the Fatala Ghuland people and the schools of science and math and all that stuff that Mark Hall is documentary killing Ed.

He talks about what was happening with that organization and I think that it's not any coincidence that you've got a major homeschool organization there that is pushing for more money to go into these things. Fatal Ghulam people, that Islamic cleric cultist, of course they were very clear to try to make it a secular school, but they're still bringing in people, paying them multiple times what they pay American teachers, bringing them from Turkey, saying, what's their expertise? And the American teachers are saying, they don't even know the math that they're trying to teach here but they pay them like double the salary and then

these guys kick it back to the Institute that's there okay and Mark Hall documented that very well and killing Ed we talked about somebody that had to you know was being attacked in a lot of different ways he had to air gap his computer and all the rest of the stuff. Anyway, it's a great documentary. You should see it. But I think it's nearly a billion dollars now that they're getting out of Texas for these schools being run by this Islamic cult, the Gulenists. And I think that that's one of the reasons why this is happening in Texas.

All the rest of the homeschool associations and every other state are against this money out there because they know that people are going to accept that bribe and they know how it's going to be used. These bills weren't pushed by homeschoolers. They didn't originate from homeschooling. They're not organic to our movement because they are the opposite of what homeschooling has been about for the last 50 years. These bills are about controlling homeschoolers. It is a scheme to funnel taxpayer money to state

approved curriculum providers. You see, if they fund it they'll define it. State approved curriculum providers and testing companies while politicians pat themselves on the back for helping homeschoolers. So you'll go in and they'll say, well, okay, you're going to homeschool. We're not going to give you any help unless you use this curriculum. And if you use that curriculum, we'll pay for it and we'll give you some other money through that type of thing. That'll be the way that they incentivize it. They also singled out Texas Home School Coalition, the only major state

association backing government funding for home education. They singled them out for special criticism. They said government strings, testing, state approved curriculum, etc. are the opposite of winning. The opposite of winning. And all this stuff is going to still be there with the Department of Education. Everybody's gonna say, look at that! Trump got rid of the Department of Education. Well, of course, he put the woman

who was in charge of professional wrestling, and this getting rid of the Department of Education is as phony as professional wrestling. That's probably why he got Linda McMahon in there. There are close to 100 bills in 29 states so far this year that would create, expand, revise, or change school choice programs. You see, homeschooling is exploding and so are the bills to undermine it, to subvert it. A hundred bills in 29 states to take over homeschooling by financial

means that's what this is truly about well UNESCO is encouraging governments everywhere says Alex Newman uh... to offer tax funding to non-state education providers with government money comes government control conservatives instinctively understood says Alex, that universal health care, Hillary care, that universal basic income were dangerous as well. Yet when it comes to universal

government funding for education, there has been a shocking degree of naivete among Republicans and Now, here in Tennessee, I'm kind of a related issue. That tranny shooter who went into that Christian school in Nashville and shot some nine-year-olds point blank in the face, looked them in the face and shot him. There's now a Tennessee bill that passed with a large margin requiring autopsies for mass shooters to search for psychiatric drug links. This I think is very important. We've been saying for the longest time that SSRIs are frequently murder-suicide pills. If the dosage is bothering somebody, they have, because it creates a lot of side effects, and if people decide they're just going to go off the meds or radically change the dosage because it's like the lady that I interviewed, her husband, he said it was setting his body on fire. You stop this stuff and

then you have really bad psychiatric results from this. And so they want to do an autopsy when somebody does a mass shooting. This is way overdue. This is coming by the way from the state level. Notice again, just like fluoridation, just like so many things, you can do something about this at the state level. It's not going to happen at the federal level. R.F.K. Jr. has talked about this when he was running. Has he done anything about it? No, he's focused on high fructose corn syrup. He hasn't done anything about this. It's going to be much easier to get this

done at a state level. Legislation passed in Tennessee, April the 10th, last Thursday, requiring autopsies for mass shooters for the purpose of identifying links to psychiatric drugs. The bill would require the medical examiner's office to ascertain and document current drug use, including psychotropic drugs by a deceased individual who committed a mass shooting and directs University University of Tennessee's health science Center to study drug interactions between the psychotropic drugs and any other drugs present in the deceased individuals system And it requires the Department of Health to disclose the psychotropic drug use of the individual to the public upon request Because they really stonewalled all this information about this tranny killer in Nashville and so you got to put that information out there you got to do the analysis you got to tell people if they

were on some of these psychotropic drugs like SSRIs that are known to create murder-suicide people don't know what they're doing and and any other drugs that would be there. And what kind of interactions they have. And they have to tell the public. And this passed by a wide margin. In the House it was 76 to 20, in the Senate 27 to 5. And so it is really this tranny killer, 28 year old tranny killer who killed those kids in the Christian school that is pushing this forward. The report said despite the ongoing therapy and medication regimes, this tranny killer's

anxiety, depression and rage only escalated. Oh really? You mean the pharmaceutical drugs that you gave her for this only made it all worse? Yes. Which is what we see over and over again. She commented how she felt she was being swallowed by despair and even created drawings documenting how her assorted mental health conditions were affecting her mind. She had issues to start with and then the drugs exacerbated it. We've

seen that over and over again. Joining us now is J. Warner Wallace. As I said, I've talked to him a couple of times before about his book, Cold Case Christianity. 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 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 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. And 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. We applied all of our experience in the county, so this is going to feel, I think, pretty realistic. If you're a police officer or detective, you're going to read this and think, oh 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. We're going to 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 because we're trying to figure out like who are we really? And if you'll notice and if you've seen like today in America there'll be a number of homicides. It's just the sad truth. Now most of those you're not going to know anything about because they're never going to make the press. But if a celebrity gets murdered, well now that's going to make

the news and suddenly it will 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 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 and this is a realistic gritty novel and it'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. 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 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, I've many times I've heard people talk about animal sacrifice, you know, and one 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? Now, they are aware of 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 is 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. 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. 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. Yeah, I think as my son likes to point out, you know, 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 to save that person's life. We actually think 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 same dignities that we would have in the past only have afforded humans.

They are in our restaurants. They are on the plane with you. They are everywhere. And they are there because we have minimized the difference between humans and other animals. Now here is what is 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. You know, the Christian story is an identity story from the Old Testament all the way through to the New Testament. And so this is something 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 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. 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, and many of the people who read this book are going to say, but you know what, 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 who are going to read this. You're going to 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. You can share. I've got a father who's a cop, who's a detective, who's now retired, of course, and he's, you know, 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 is willfully rejecting anything that I tell him. Well, you probably have someone in your life like that too, if you're a reader of this book. So we want to have a book that reflects that reality as well.

Well, you know, what I said earlier about just 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. 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, 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, they love, you know, forensic novels and all the rest of this stuff. I mean, it has 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's always an avid comic growing up, he's now 36, he's been on the job 13 years, he's always an avid comic book reader. And I think if you are an avid reader in a particular genre, well then you have a better shot at writing something in that genre. So what we had to contribute was basically a script. It's like a movie script. Say page one, 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 do all the rest of the heavy lifting. If people like this book, and I hope they do, it's largely because it was illustrated so magnificently. I mean, we first got it back, and we're watching how you're developing the characters. Yeah, I mean, you'd 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 has been really helpful. Yeah. We've got a clip up there now of a couple of these different things. I love the graphic novels and the comic books. Of course, I learned how to read with comic books. My mom would take me in tow before I started school. 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 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 what is well done. Yeah, 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 objection on the 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 Scripture, but he found that a lot of his character development came from these comic books, especially Spider-Man, you know, this kid who's got to 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 got to change his, you know, I've got to 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 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 going to 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, 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, when we go back and look at it, it's like comparing a 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, you know, 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 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 they

were good and they were honorable characters. My son Travis is working the board here. I used to read him novels from G.A. Hinty and in those novels even the villains, the villains were better than our heroes today and I'm not joking. You know they had 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 always have this thing, it looked like a stamp and I never knew what that was when I was a kid.

It was up on the cover of the thing 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.

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 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's true that we are duplicit. We have a capacity for both greatness and evil. But we want to focus on the greatness. We want to say, hey, this is the ideal we ought to aspire to. 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 going to see in this book that we've been very realistic with all the detectives and they have a dark side, okay? 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, 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 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, a conversation guide that is also... Yeah, and I do think this is a gateway book for, gonna 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 going to open up our case closed booklet, which is a case for the resurrection in about 40 pages. So it's going to 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 for someone to spend somewhere between 15 and $20 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 wanna send you a conversation guide that'll help you navigate the conversations that are going to flow out of someone who reads this book. Also, we wanna give you our 10 and a half hour 30 session case makers course. It's the same course I teach at Gateway Seminary here in Southern California. 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 is 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… 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 love, what it is your family loves, think about what it

is they're capable of defending. Because 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. I kind of flip 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, oh.

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 timeline. This is the stuff we spend our disposable time, our disposable income, our disposable thoughts. The stuff 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 will help people. If you do want to do that, how do you learn?

Where do you get that stuff? Yes, you can buy a book. But what we want to do is offer those free resources through our website that will help you to take the next step. Well, and I love what you do, because 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 always found that when I get that challenge and I go back and I investigate in it, I come back much stronger. There's always, 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. 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'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 that's, 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 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 develop an investigative approach. Yes. Where this is worth taking the time to do. 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 going to find yourself doing because you are this in love with the worldview, with Jesus of Nazareth.

So I think the reality of it is, is how do you do this? And 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'llah 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. 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 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. Even when we think... Do you know how many Christ figures there are in history? Stories that are like the Jesus story that emerged. 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. 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 hoped they wished 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. 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. They poured it into that regardless of, you know, to show their best skills and all the rest. They poured it into that regardless of, you know, what you think. There was still a, you know, 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

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 the People Get This Graphic novel, it's a link to that. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, the 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, a 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 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 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 you 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'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 is 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? 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. Because trust me, take out the supernatural elements and everyone loves it Yeah, but they what they've 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? I actually think there's a 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 only question is, is that thing outside of space, time, matter, science and physics, 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 like big 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. 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 could it be? Is it an impersonal force or is it a personal force? Why would we think for example it's an impersonal force 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 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 going to find that it has much better explanatory 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, 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. 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 going to, 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, there's always that there. But that's the other thing I like about Christianity, it's always about critical thinking. It encourages, it 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 the set of facts and why would we interpret it this way or that way? Yeah. Well I think about this this is a worldview that I hope when people even when they read our books whether it's this book or the fiction or nonfiction I, this is a worldview that I hope when people, even when they read our books, whether it's this book or fiction or non-fiction, 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 said it? Because how you choose to say it matters. And Paul says in Romans 12, 2, 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? 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, we've got so many different strands of Christianity, which really emphasizes 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 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 and that, you know, 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, but to test it to make sure it actually is God's presence you're

feeling. Yes. 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. We've got to see if that is from God. 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 ant. It's not ore, you know. That's right. And so, then's not boar, you know? That's right. And so, then he says, come let us reason together, you know? He says, they're your sins, be as scarlet, I'll make them white as snow. 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 out. 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, for example, in this book. And it's combining both, what is the case for this and two. Like, I want you to experience something. And my son always says that, yes,

he learns a lot from non-fiction, 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. Well, graphic novels are basically just movies 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. That's right. And so you can take it anywhere you want to go.

So the idea is to draw people into that experience because I think this, 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 that all experiences are all that matter. At the same time though, you've got to be careful not to draw all your Christian, robust Christian life simply from reading non-fictional case books basically, that are theology or whatever they may be, because it's going to be kind of dry. That's right.

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 basically 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. 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, you can almost see things moving you know when you look at it because it is like a storyboard but you know good graphic artists 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 contributed

is we contributed the movie's script or the screenwriters. And in that screenplay, you're going to have some direction about what the movement should be, what the scene is gonna look like, what the characters are gonna 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. He is the lighting person. 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. 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, 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 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, and I think this is awesome, right?

I mean, maybe I wouldn't have cast that actor for that role. But here, 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 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 had this, if we could have just snapped your fingers and produced 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, it certainly does show and just like that last panel that you had up there, Travis, that there's one at the bottom where a guy comes up behind and hits somebody from the back and you see crack and you see the cap flying and 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 some that haven't had time to go through all of it yet but it's really well done. Again it is, you can go to ColcaseCresciente.com that's where the people can can find it and buy it right? 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 going to give them supplemental material and it is a great outreach, a great conversation starter with people, I think. Dr. Chalmers 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.

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. Dr. Boulton 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 were 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 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 to build you, and it might help you to pass out onto somebody else. Yeah, no, absolutely. If it's a catalyst, then we've done our job. Yeah, that's great. ColcaseChristianity.com. Thank you so much, Jay Warner Wallace. Always a pleasure talking to you.

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