The Eric Metaxas Show - Mike Wilkerson

Episode Date: August 23, 2023

Mike Wilkerson of Stormwall returns to discuss the latest threats to our economy and the dark origins of Barbie Sent from my iPhone

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But I want to tell you, Jack, we haven't mentioned Maui. And, you know, there's so much crazy news. What is your best guess of what in the world has happened and is happening in Maui? what we see in Maui it's very clear because I see the mayors I see the governor I see these are all elected Democrats by the way the state legislature when you look at their eyes when they're giving these press conferences these briefings I see fear

I see abject terror in their eyes they are hiding something they are hiding something the same way that when my wife who was born in the Soviet Union And just a few years before she was born, the Chernobyl incident happened. The same way those Soviet officials were hiding what went on during Chernobyl from the people. That's what's going on in Hawaii because we're getting stories out now that children were separated from their parents. Children were sent home without the parents being informed. Sirens that didn't go off, water that was shut off emergency systems.

Everyone knows that Hawaii's got the most effective early warning system, these sirens, in the entire country, because they are at risk from these typhoons that hit constantly in these areas. They've got one of the best systems. I was stationed on Guam when I was in the Navy, so I'm very familiar with the type of systems that are used in the Pacific. And the fact that this wasn't put out, unfortunately, we're looking at a situation now with these hundreds, potentially thousands of people missing. many of them were told children. Thepostmillennial.com just ran a story the other day where they're crunching the numbers. They're saying as many as 25% of children

have not re-enrolled in schools. They're trying to go around and rechecked and make sure how many people are coming in so that when the schools reopen, 25% of the desks are going to be empty. And there are stories now that children were incinerated in their homes, hugging the family dog in one story,

with their entire families in cars while they were trying to flee because they didn't know until it was too late and even people and Tulsi Gabbard when she went down there to interview people, this is her old district by the way, that's where she represented it in Congress that when she was talking to people, they said, I tried to use my hose, I tried to fill up a bucket from the sink from my tub. The water was shut off.

The fire department would come. They would go to the fire hydrant. It wouldn't come on. Okay, but the questions are why? In other words, I want to know to the extent that we can. What is it that happened? I mean, you're getting some conspiracy theories or some theories, I should say, that somehow this was planned.

Somehow this was intentional. Obviously, it's easier to believe that this was sheer Democrat incompetence of the highest order, which is a very high order. What is your sense of that? Because, you know, why would kids be sent? home? Why would, there's so many pieces of it that aren't making sense. You say they're hiding something. Are they hiding their incompetence, that their foolishness led to the deaths of potentially thousands, or is there something more nefarious at work? What is your sense of that?

Well, I do think that that incompetence is something that's facing all of America's systems right now. We're absolutely living through the collapse of complex systems because we've rejected the ideal of merit, the ideal of achievement, the ideal of competence anywhere and replaced it with diversity, inclusion, the inverted hierarchy of inclusiveness and victimhood. So someone is put into a position because they fit a certain racial, ethnic gender quota rather than their actual competencies at their job. But then I look at this individual as well who was put in charge specifically of the Hawaii water management. And this individual is espousing. And they've got a video of him from, I believe, a few months prior to this, where he's espousing pagan beliefs,

talking about worshipping the water god, worshipping the ancient Hawaiian god of the ocean, and that water must be conserved, water must be put up. And so when I look at a situation, and I'll say something, and this is just my opinion, but when I look at a situation where children were burned to death, and you've got someone up there praising a pagan god, say, well, it's not the first time that children were sacrificed when pagans were involved. Look, I'm sorry to see perfectly well the truth of what you just said. This is the madness. And this is, you know, people need to understand.

The God of the Bible is the God of reality and actual science and facts. So when you're dealing with anyone else, any other deity, you're dealing with madness. You're dealing with either demonic forces or you're basically dealing with things that will lead you away from what is good and beautiful and true. So the idea, I mean, that somebody like this was in charge of the water, I want to know who's going to build the gallows to hang the person who hired that guy. How is it possible that people voted for this kind of leadership? because this is the most groomers, you could think of. This is America.

Eric, and you've written this extensively. I've talked about it. But when the God of the Bible first arrived and first started working in the ancient world, he wasn't the quote-unquote only God at the time, right? There were other gods who were worship. They were false gods, of course. But one thing that was endemic in the ancient world,

whether it's Bal, whether it's Molok, whether it's any of these other Babylonian, entities. Child sacrifice was rife throughout the world, absolutely rife throughout the world. In fact, this was the highest order, and not just in the Near East, but also look at the Aztecs, look at the Mayans, et cetera. You can go throughout the list. And so child sacrifice was prevalent throughout the world until the arrival of the God of the Bible, until he made himself to be known. and this was one of the very first defeats of these false gods at the time, child sacrifice. And so when I see children being killed on a mass scale, and whether it's Planned Parenthood or whether it's a situation like this,

or the absolute horrors depicted in Sound of Freedom, by the way, it brings my mind back to those demonic entities and they're feasting on child sacrifice that, existed in the world before God, the world that, not before God, but the world without God. Because when God is removed from a society, these other entities, these other religions, false religions, false entities, demonic entities, they enter in. You cannot describe wokeism without clearly defining it as a false religion. You cannot. There's no other explanation. There's no doubt about it.

And Jonathan Kahn talks about it in his book, The Return of the Gods. This is a reality, folks. And part of the good thing that's coming out of the madness is that people are waking up to the spiritual reality at the heart of everything. You can say, I want to be secular. Well, you can't anymore because the spiritual reality has become front and center.

The madness, the satanic activity, whether it's the trans agenda, most people who wouldn't even consider themselves spiritual are suddenly thinking, this doesn't look like a different set of ideas. This looks evil. This is sick. This goes against everything that would be good and true. And it feels like evil. And when you see evil, your inclination would be to say, well, I'm going to go with God. I wasn't so sure about God before.

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I have trouble describing them. You've had many decades in the financial world, and you are now doing political commentary, financial commentary. People can find you at stormwall.com, and you've been on the program before. You're the author. This is a great book you've written. It's called Why America Matters, the case for a new exceptionalism. Highly recommended, folks, why America matters. But Mike, I want to talk to you today about a lot of things. First of all, you put out a tweet about the Trump indictments and the most recent indictment. Why don't we, let's start there. And then at some point in the program, I want to talk to you about Barbie, which folks, you're kind of not going to believe this. This is very sick, but it's worth knowing about.

But let's start with the indictments. Well, what was fascinating to me about this is it appears that the Democratic Party is doing exactly the opposite of what it should be doing. I mentioned that if you were sitting in, let's say, DNC leadership, you would say to yourselves, the last thing we want to do is keep the story of 2020 elections alive, the stolen elections. And in fact, as you're aware, Eric, many advisors around former President Trump have often said to him, you know, let's just, just let it go, move forward. We got enough to talk about with the China challenge, with massive legal immigration, inflation in the economy,

let it rest and just move on. And he's been persistent and consistent in reminding the nation what happened. Now, again, if you were in Democratic leadership, you would say, we just need to bury this. We need to move on. Let's not get people riled up again. Let's not get people agitated. And yet, by these recent actions,

the two indictments, that particularly pertain to the 2020 elections, they have ensured, these actors have ensured that the question of integrity in the 2020 election will remain front and center through 2024. They have shot themselves in the foot or head, however you want to describe it, in terms of ensuring that all of the evidence,

the more recent information that has come out over the last couple of years, that maybe did not get air time, certainly did not get time in the courts three years ago, may be coming out in a wider scale than it ever was before. So do we think, because I've heard different things on this, that as a result of them indicting Trump on, you know, supposedly trying to overturn the election,

I mean, it's so stupid. It's unbelievable, frankly, on so many levels. But just at the heart of it is this idea that they're accusing him of having done that. And does this mean what I've heard, that this will allow Trump's defense team to bring out all of the evidence that we have hitherto not seen much of. In other words, that we keep hearing about it, but the news buries it or they're not interested in it. You have a lot of judges that seem to be afraid to deal with the evidence. And so they say, oh, you've got no standing.

We're not going to look at it, whatever. So we haven't really seen a lot of this, but is part of the. Part of the miscalculation on the part of the Democrats in bringing these indictments is part of that miscalculation that this evidence will be shown. It's absolutely part of the miscalculation. And just to conclude the thought that I was expressing before is I actually don't believe it's the Democratic national leadership who's advocating for this. I think what is happening here is you've got these local prosecutors, local district attorneys in Manhattan, right here where we sit in the Southern District of New York, in Atlanta, who recognize that for their constituency, this resonates. This is a fundraising operation for them. They are a bit rogue, I believe, from probably what makes sense and what strategically the party would have wanted them to do.

They see personal individualized benefit from it. They're going to wreck the ship in order to achieve it. to answer your question, it will bring into debate because certainly Trump's defense team is going to want to be able to bring all of this to bear, all of it into visibility, certainly in courts of law, but also in the court of public opinion. In other words, this is going to be the moment where we're going to be exposed to a number of things that weren't visible before, both in court and again in the media broadly. So you just said a couple things. here that are new to me.

When you talk about, you know, these prosecutors who are bringing these things, you're saying, you just said, that they're doing it for their own self-interest to raise money. So the folks who did this in Georgia, the folks who did this in New York, this is not part of some, according to you, part of some larger national strategy against Trump, that this is, people operating on their own. It could be. In other words, if you take my logic forward and you say this didn't make any sense for the broader anti-Trump Democratic coalition as a means to an end, because it is going to have the effect that I've described, which is to keep all of this in the spotlight over

the course of the next year, I looked to ulterior motives. And the one that I see, and you follow the money, as always, which is that these district attorneys are supported by the radical wing of the Democratic Party, extreme left, the extreme progressives, rabid anti-Trumpers, and have had fundraising bonanzas as a result of these actions that they promised that they would take, tweeted that they would take, and this obviously undermines their objectivity here, but now have taken against a former sitting president of the United States, something not seen before in the history of this nation. And frankly, something that doesn't belong in the states or local districts.

This is a federal matter, if it's a matter at all. And how has it happened? Because I think a lot of us, like me, don't really understand how it would be possible. You'd kind of think that don't we have laws that this kind of lunacy can't happen in America? How is it that you can have these people in these four states doing these kinds of things, turning the whole country upside down? What is going on there? Or do you know? I mean, because it's confusing to me. It seems to me a complete disintegration of our political and judicial system.

And we've talked in other venues about the fact that we are in a season of the weaponization of everything. And we've hit a period where the gloves have come off, where restraint has been completely abandoned. We're no longer fighting within the ring, within the arena, the four corners that were set by law, by custom, by policy. It is a free for all. It is no holds barred. And frankly, conservatives have been on the back. foot in that kind of combat for a long time. I think in this moment that it's changing, one of the things that I think was very interesting was the intentional provocation of these indictments.

In other words, this was being used in part as bait to try to mobilize the mega base, the Trump base, to reenact or act out as it's perceived that was done on January 6th. to try to bait that same group into violence, into reaction, into something right now, that base is not taking the bait. Well, first of all, they didn't take the bait on January 6th, because whatever narrative they're forcing on us didn't happen. Every day that passes, we see more and more that it was the proverbial false flag operation. The whole thing was a false narrative that keeps being pushed.

We have people in jail. It's really so evil. It's unbelievable. But so you're saying that part of the calculation was to try to use these outrages to bait Trump supporters into some kind of action. To provoke violence. But then that makes it sound like it is a national strategy. Again, I'm throwing out hypotheses here of things that could. They could both be true at the same time.

In other words, the intention, if it is actually because they do believe that Trump can be convicted on these charges, which I find doubtful, highly doubtful. nonetheless, perhaps they're true believers. On the other hand, there are always ancillary benefits. You calculate what are we going to get out of this? What is it going to cost us? One of the ancillary benefits is to try to provoke a reaction. Now, note, to your point on the false narrative of January 6th, it remains remarkable to me that they've not been disabused of this idea,

that, for example, what is probably the best armed and well-defended part of the American populace, these conservatives on so-called insurrection day, collectively forgot to bring their guns and weapons. Right. You know, it's just as a reminder. Whoopsie Daisy. If this is what it really was. Obviously, it was intended to be a peaceful protest against something that was perceived

as a violation of their rights as citizens. And they were standing up expressing grievance, which is one of the things the Constitution absolutely allows us to do as citizens of this country. Look, even Naomi Wolf, who is no conservative and no Trump supporter, she wrote about this you know, that we have traditions in America of people protesting injustice. This is as basic as it gets. So for the rabid, Marxist, anti-American, Trump-hating left to suddenly decide, yes, you can protest and say everything, but not on this and not on this, and not on this, that's out of the pit of hell.

That is as anti-American as anything. and we need to be really clear on what is happening in this country, folks. This is evil in a way we've never, ever seen it before. And we need to be aware of it, and we need to fight against it, do everything we can. And talking about it and revealing what it is is very important, which is why I'm talking to my guest today. Mike Wilkerson, you can go to stormwall.com. Don't forget, before we come back from the break,

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Welcome back talking to Mike Wilkerson. You can find him at stormwall.com and I recommend that you find him at stormwall.com. Mike, you, one of the things that we were going to talk about was the weaponization of everything, including the banks, to quiet people, to silence people, really to destroy liberty and the way of life that we've had in America, where the people are able to govern themselves and express themselves freely. Talk a little bit about that, the weaponization of banks. So one of the things that happened immediately after January 6th was the FBI requested banking records from the big banks that was provided without subpoena, without legitimate basis. But that was just the beginning. We've seen really across the world examples in the past several years that

the banking system, financial system, banks and payment processors, the whole architecture of the financial world have been targeting conservative views, conservative views, conservative religious views right to life. And we've seen it all the way from the very elites of society, the well-known, famous, well-known people, such as former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn, who I know you know and you've talked to him about this, whose family was targeted around these issues. Recently, Nigel Farage, who was the founder-leader of the Brexit Party and a permanent thorn in the side of the British political establishment, was targeted by his bank, Coots, in the UK.

They sent him a letter saying, we're sorry, we can no longer provide you with banking service. services, no explanation required. He stood up and protested. The CEO of the bank lied, reached out to the BBC and said, oh, it's because of commercial reasons. He didn't have enough money in our accounts. The BBC printed that story. A few weeks later, Nigel Frage gets, finds internal documentation within the bank from their compliance department, finding an extensive document that pointed to Brexit, pointed to his affiliation and, affinity for President, Foreign President Donald Trump, his views on the Russian Ukraine war, views on immigration, et cetera, et cetera, as the sum total of the reasons why they wanted to sever the relationship from the bank. As soon as all this came to light, now it did result, the CEO of Coots was fired, the chairman was fired, the CEO of the parent bank was all fired. But this shows you what is going on at the highest level. Now the parliament is looking into it, but it's not just high-profile people. We saw what happened to the Canadian

truck drivers and anyone who dared to try to support them last year or a year and a half ago, whenever this was, they were cut off altogether. It's gotten so bad that recently, I believe in May of this year, 19 Attorney Generals from across the United States sent a letter to J.P. Morgan asserting that they were, in fact, discriminating against conservative political and religious views. Nineteen attorneys general gave illustrations from their own states of situations where this had happened, both to individuals. but also to organizations, nonprofits, religious organizations that were supporting life, supporting other things, and, of course, Second Amendment issues as well.

So this is happening around us, and the warning that I, you know, have been giving to Americans, is you have to be aware this is going on, that it's not just those in the spotlight, people like Nigel Farage or General Flynn, but as we saw with the truckers, it can happen. And by the way, it does happen on a daily basis anonymously, quietly, that people are getting, and cut off. You know of people to do when this has happened. And what can we do about this? Well, the first thing is to align. Find banks that do align with your values, maybe regional ones, smaller ones that aren't, you know, caught up in the global system that aren't caught up in these issues around ESG and other things. Diversity, get, you know, maybe you can, maybe have

more than one bank, so you've got some options. Learn about non-bank alternatives, other places where you can store value. A coffee can in the backyard with gold bullion in it. Gold, crypto, other things like this. Well, no, in all seriousness, like a lot of people are on to this. But if you're not onto this, folks, you need to be on to this. I realized that, you know, we need to raise money for a lot of projects we're doing with Metaxis media. I rarely talk about it on this program. But I realized that the crowd funding, I can't remember the name of the crowdfunding, you know, the one that shut down the truckers,

that they are... Go fund me, I believe. They're in bed with the devil. They can steal your money. And so we were thinking of trying to raise money there. And then I realized, I can't do that. I cannot align myself with them because you can't trust them. If they don't like what you're doing, they can take your money.

I mean, it really is so evil. So we went with give, send, go. And give send go does align with my values. So if you want to give to my projects, go to give sendgo.com slash Eric. Give send go is one of the good guys. But we need to get the word out about who are the good guys out there. Where can I spend my money? You know, where can I invest my money?

Where can I spend my money? Where can I give? Because when you bring this up, it's a chilling thing, Mike, that we're living in a day when because of technology, you know, You know, the idea that after January 6th, the federal government could be asking for banking records and stuff, that all this stuff, it's just you've got to press some buttons, that's a scary thing to me, that power has been aggregated in the way that it has. We're living in an age of the panopticon where government is now. We're already at the point where government is seeing and surveilling everything that we're doing. There was a lot of kerfuffle a week or two ago about this new identity company called WorldCoin, who wants to scan the irises to get information so that people can access the economy.

And people are rightly creeped out by this. The issue is that it already exists today. Like our government is already doing this. Think about going through the airport. Think about... We're going... Hang on one second. We're talking to Mike Wilson.

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In case people don't know what that means. Pan, it just means everywhere and opticon optics so that you can be seen from every angle. You're being surveilled. We're living in that reality. But there are things we can do about that, right? Like, I will not get clear at the airport because I don't want them to have my biometrics. I don't know if they'll use it against me, but there's a good chance they will if they can. And I don't like giving away anything.

You know, I won't do 23 in me because I don't want China to have my DNA. The fact is that every time you turn around, people are giving you these, like, nice alternatives to give away all of this information. So what is your advice, or maybe sketch out the problem first? Well, it's a real dilemma because when I said Penn Opticon, as you said, it means that it's already everywhere. I don't believe it's any longer simply a choice about choosing one thing or the other. As you walk down the street, Eric Metaxis, there are cameras from all angles who are using biometrics, same thing that Clear uses, which happens to use either a fingerprint or an iris. They use facial recognition, broad patterns, mobile passport control,

your bank touch ID on your phone, okay, is another form of biometric. It's everywhere already. And so the choice becomes, let's go from one extreme, you know, the purest of saying, I'm not going to allow that to happen. Well, you have to live in a cave or in a cabin somewhere completely cut off from the grid because otherwise, this information is already being collected, being gathered. The technology genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. So we then end up in sort of this intermediate world of trying to make personal choices about whether we want to expand that field of knowledge, provide more data points or input. I'm not suggesting it's easy. That's why I say it's a dilemma, because I don't think there's an easy way out without complete isolation from

the economy, from the culture, and otherwise. And we've crossed that Rubicon. We're not going back. And governments won't allow us to go back. Imagine, Eric, just for a second, if by some, you took European vision, the U.S. did renounce all of those biometric types of technology. Well, China is still using it. Our adversaries around the world are using it, and they're not only collecting it on their own citizens, but through all sorts of means, through travel, through TikTok, through otherwise, they're collecting it on American citizens as well. So the further dilemma is if we were as a government, as a country, to shut that sort of stuff down in the U.S., How would we not just be weakening ourselves against the powers of adversarial forces who are using it?

This is an ugly set of choices. What you need is something that we don't have, which is someone who could say, right, we need the ability to recognize that you're a human, to recognize that you're a unique and specific individual human too, and yet at the same time provides you with anonymity and privacy. Those are three things. That is the golden ring, if we can call it that. And the issue, of course, is always the last one because the intelligence services are diametrically opposed to the idea of the third of anonymity, that you should have a right to privacy, a right to sanctuary.

This is the tension we're living in. Right. And this is why the Patriot Act was a bad idea. It was a terrible idea. And we had many liberals, like Naomi Wolf, screaming about it. At the time, I naively thought, no, George Bush wouldn't be for anything that's a lot. it's bad. That's how stupid I am. I confess it freely. We had conservatives like John Smirak screaming about the Patriot Act and the neocons and what they were doing. And it all happened. And people knew that,

well, when the other side gets in power, they can use these things against you. That is what's happening now. So it seems to me that part of the larger picture is that we need people in Congress and in the Senate and in the White House who understand these things and who have the political will to do something about them. That's the challenge. What's interesting to me listening to you speak, it reminds me that it was, let's call them, the old school liberals, the 1960s liberals,

who were the first to identify the rise of and danger of the secret government within the U.S. The fact that, hold on, all of a sudden there was this fourth branch operating in government that, by the way, scared presidents. Eisenhower, Kennedy, rightly, others were deathly afraid of the power of the CIA, the power of the deep state, and what it could do. Conservatives, for whatever reason, continued to have faith in their government, how it was operating, that all of these forces were somehow working for good in the Cold War and after. And unfortunately, to your point, it's only been lately that conservatives have begun to realize

that those old-school liberals were prophetic in their voice of, saying this secret government is dangerous and it is working against the interests of we the people. Well, and again, this is why we need civics. I'm trying to get Richard Dreyfus on the program to talk about civics. If you don't understand how America works, I wrote about this in my book, if you can keep it. I didn't really understand this until a few years ago. I really began to process that most of my life I haven't really understood how America works, how liberty, functions, you know, to really appreciate the rarity of what we have in America and understand the vigilance it takes to preserve it. For decades, many people kind of let that slide. And so you end up in a place where people that we haven't elected are in power. And again, we saw

this, you mentioned it, but I mean, Eisenhower and Kennedy were awake to this. I mean, I think the CIA murdered Kennedy because he was ruffling these feathers. That's how sick it is, and that is 60 years ago. Yes, and they did it because they had become accustomed to being able to do it in foreign countries. Right. In other words, the long list of CIA interference in countries around the world during the heights of the Cold War in the 50s and 60s, it extends beyond 50 different countries, including coups and political assassinations. By the time, 1963 came around, they were well practiced in these dark arts. It's unbelievable.

It's un-American, folks, and we have to undo it. Some people say it's draining the swamp. You can describe it however you want, but this stuff is at odds with what the founders gave us, the model of ordered liberty that the founders gave us. that's described so well by our friend Oz Guinness. And we have to undo what has been done. And there's going to be a lot of pushback. We're seeing a lot of pushback right now.

That's a big part of the war that we're in at present. We'll be back talking to Mike Wilkerson for a final segment. In the meantime, folks, if you haven't yet, you need to go to metaxis talk.com, give to food for the poor. We need your help. You can text Eric to 911-999. If that's easier, just text Eric to 911-999, or you can call 844-863 Hope. 844-863 Hope.

Welcome back talking to Mike Wilkerson. You can find them at stormwold.com. Mike, you and I last night touched on something off the air. Something crazy but true. And I thought, let's mention this on the program. This is the final segment of today. So here's your chance. Well, it just caught my eye a week ago because I thought it was so hyperbo.

I couldn't believe it was true, but it turns out that in Minnesota at the Minnesota Art Center, there is a taxpayer-funded exhibit, which was described as a family-friendly demon summoning, excuse me, family-friendly demon summoning, where children and families were invited to pick a demon that they could invoke and, you know, attract and trap trap to them. This is something that, you know, crazy Christians would make up. It couldn't possibly be true, except it's true. So I look into it. In Minnesota. In Minnesota, taxpayer funded money, okay, in a public space. And it turned out that the exhibit that they were displaying was called, was with a particular demon called Lilit, the Empathic Demon. And I started, I looked at this and something struck me about the name Lilit. And so I, I dusted off some, some old reading. And I remembered

that this Lilith, okay, was in the Babylonian. pantheon of gods was a she demon, a very powerful one and very feared. Lilith was a succubus. Lilith was a demon whose tricks of the trade were to cause miscarriages, stillbirths, infant death. I mean, it's like if there was a demonic power behind abortion, for example, this is what we're talking about. And these are actual demonic powers. We don't need to get into it.

You're telling me that in Minnesota, they are making this seem friendly. Folks, what could be more wicked? What could be sicker than this? That in the United States of America, you have people who are basically apologists for the demonic, literally. And they called this demon, Lilit, the empathic demon, like empathic, your friend from the pit of hell. And yet there's more. So not only was this demon associated with infant death, it also was associated with stealing of young children, with seducing men in order to use their seed to produce a demon offspring. And again, to your point at a moment in the culture, how this is so true of all of these things.

Now, struck me that that was all very, very coincidental and probably meant something more than what it intended. And then imagine my shock a few days later when I'm watching a review of the movie Barbie. And one of the things, and I know that for a lot of women, Barbie speaks to empowerment, it speaks to some aspirational, someone to look up to, et cetera. That's what Mattel wants you to think, by the way. They paid for the movie, no joke. But there's something very odd that goes on in the beginning of this movie, which is this sort of replication of the first opening scene of 2001 of Space Odyssey.

Except here in Barbie, the young girls are pushing. instead of monkeys, you know, learning enlightenment from this obelisk that comes down, there are these young girls pushing around prams with dolls, baby dolls that they're nurturing and taking care of, and they're made it look very sad about doing so. A giant Barbie emerges as if from the sky, this monolithic idol. And soon enough, these young girls are taking their babies and smashing their skulls against rocks and against each other.

This is in the movie Barbie, folks, not recommended. We've just got seconds left. Let's wrap this up and we can catch it tomorrow. So just a quick wrap point is it turns out the origins of Barbies who looked this up was from a German woman who found a model in a German sex doll who went by the name of Lil. Now, in German, Lil can mean a much of different things, including related to light and otherwise. But I again found this coincidence with Lil and Lilith from the origins of Barbie to be too deep and too strange. Well, when you're smashing baby skulls in a movie paid for Violet Mattel to sell Barbie dolls, It's just so creepy.

I just wanted to end on an offbeat note. And I've succeeded. Mike Wilkerson, we'll have you back. We've got lots more to talk about. You can find Mike at stormwall.com. Folks, don't forget, we need your help at Food for the Poor. Go to metaxis talk.com. Do what you can.

Thank you.