The Highwire with Del Bigtree - Episode 389: THE DARK HORSE

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

Del details former New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo testimony before the Select subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week; Jefferey Jaxen reports on Digital ID’s, global tracking systems, an...d electronic vaccine cards as world powers push toward a digital dystopia; Del sits down with The Dark Horse Podcast host, Bret Weinstein, for an incredible, in-depth conversation about his evolution in awareness of some of the most critical issues affecting our world today.Guest: Bret Weinstein, PhDBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

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Starting point is 00:01:01 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world. How about we all step out onto the high wire? Now, recently there was just a hearing. It was the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic happening in Washington, D.C., and an old but familiar face appeared there defending a very strange decision. It looked something like this. My question was, did you ever speak with anyone? You, Governor Cuomo.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Did you ever speak with anyone at CMS or CDC about the directive beforehand? You, Governor Cuomo. You asked that question, and I answered the question, and I said no. Did you or not? I said no. I answered the question now. Okay, thank you. Not even after, correct?
Starting point is 00:01:46 I said, yes, and they never called me after me. You would think if they had a problem with the directive, they would have called. If it was so outrageous, yes, they would have called. You didn't even call to ensure that what you were declaring was accurate. Yes or no? I don't know if the Department of Health. Did you, Governor Cuomo, right now I'm talking to you, Governor Cuomo. Did you even attempt to ensure that what you were declaring was accurate? I'm asking you, I don't want to hear about anyone else. Okay. Department of Health issued 400 advisories, several per day. I did not speak CMS about 400 advisors. Thank you. In fact, no one we interviewed said they consulted with them to ensure the applicable science was being followed. Well, that just happened two days ago, and I'm not sure if you remember, but Governor Cuomo actually copped to, and decided to be public about the fact that he was inappropriate with female staff members,
Starting point is 00:02:53 I assume thinking he could avoid a hearing just like this. For those of you that may have been asleep at the wheel while all this was really happening, this was the headline they're discussing right here. Coronavirus spreads at a New York nursing home forced to take recovering patients. It's reckless and careless, said the granddaughter of a 96-year-old man whose family withdrew him from a Long Island nursing home. Now remember in the middle of, actually right the beginning of COVID, the one thing we knew for sure was that this virus was deadly for elderly.
Starting point is 00:03:23 Actually, very rare. Usually a brand new virus affects children and babies. We've talked about this ad nauseum on the high wire. But in this case, children were fine. It was the elderly. And if you remember correctly, Andrew Cuomo passed a directive that he is now defending, saying that if you tested positive in a, you know, in a hospital and you were in a nursing home, the nursing home had to receive you back.
Starting point is 00:03:47 fire through dry grass is what that was saying you saw that headline right there but especially Andrew Cuomo saw COVID 19th threat to nursing homes then he risked adding to it so imagine when you knew that the elderly were at risk he passed a law basically that no nursing home could turn away a positive patient so if a patient left the nursing home and went to the hospital proved to be positive for COVID they had to let them back in and in fact the directive went on to say if you were brand new and bringing your elderly parent or somebody to a nursing home to check it out, even if you were testing positive, they had to let you in. I mean, this is insane.
Starting point is 00:04:25 It was absolutely insane and led to a catastrophic death rate in the nursing homes across New York State. And one of the highest death rates we saw from COVID anywhere in America. There is Andrew Cuomo's COVID-19 nursing home fiasco shows the ethical perils of pandemic policymaking. In that last video, he would say they were asking, did you ask the CDC or anybody, whether this was a good idea before you passed as law? No, I didn't talk to anybody. I've already said that a million times. He goes on to say this.
Starting point is 00:04:53 On June 7th, 2020, your executive assistant sent this email writing, and I quote, this is going to be the great debacle in the history books. The longer it lasts, the harder to correct. We have a better argument than we made. Get a report on the facts because this legacy will overwhelm any positive accomplishment. Also, how many COVID people will return to the nursing homes in that period? How many nursing homes? Don't you see how bad this is?
Starting point is 00:05:17 Or do we admit error and give up? Ms. Binton is your executive assistant. I believe she's sitting behind you. Did she write this email on your behalf? Yes. Governor, did you have an email account while you were governor? No. Well, I may have had one, but I didn't use it.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Okay. Is there a reason? I haven't used it in years. Did you communicate in other ways with your staff? Text messages or Blackberry? Yes. You did. You just said that you stood by the directive, but this email asked if it was time to admit error and give up.
Starting point is 00:06:01 Was the March 25th directive an error? No, this was tongue. The last line, sir, was tongue in cheek. I just want to just let this sink in for a moment. You passed a law basically forcing sick people into your elderly population. They started dying and dropping like flies. And then now we know that the directors and the discussions inside your department and inside with your staff was, wow, this is going to be the greatest debacle of all times.
Starting point is 00:06:34 But the longer we lie to the people, basically, the worst this is going to get. What do we do? eventually we know he didn't do anything except explained that he had been inappropriate with female staff members and took his firing that way to avoid all this Cuomo AIDS rewrote nursing home report to hide higher death toll. They literally manipulated their death numbers. I mean, we're talking fraud around essentially an accidental murderer of countless elderly in New York. and what I want to really think about and what's going to be a huge part of this show today
Starting point is 00:07:10 is when do you think your government should admit they've made a mistake? And do you recognize that human nature as such as we're seeing here that even when they know they've made a mistake? And now, in this case, hundreds, if not thousands of people are dying, being killed by a decision you've made.
Starting point is 00:07:29 The question is, can we cover this up? Can we ride this out? You know, the longer we go. the more deaths is going to be at some point. Do we nip in the bud now? And then in the end, well, it was all tongue and cheek. Really? Is this a time to be tongue in cheek? And I want you to think about now, right now, in the United States of America, the CDC,
Starting point is 00:07:49 we have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. As every scientist, any decent scientists in the world now knows, one thing's for sure. This COVID vaccine is dangerous for children, far more dangerous than the virus itself, yet the CDC is now recommending two or three shots before a child's even six. months old. It's probably be mandated for school in the future, depending on what state you're in. And it begs the question, how bad does a mistake have to be before you finally admit you're wrong, before you stop killing and wounding and injuring children in the United States of America? Folks, we don't live in Venezuela. We're not in North Korea right now. We're not in the Soviet Union.
Starting point is 00:08:28 We're in the United States of America, and our government is knowingly poisoning and destroying the lives of our children when the evidence is right in front of them. Why? I have to assume for this exact reason that to admit that we probably shouldn't give this vaccine to any more kids would be to admit that it should never have been given at all. And once you do that, what are the lawsuits? What are the repercussions for all the politicians that said things like, this is not about your freedom? This is about protecting people. At what point did you know you weren't protecting people. Those are the questions that are being asked, and still a cover-up is going on. Our government is killing our children. That's a fact. And they know it. And now what do we do about it? We're going to be
Starting point is 00:09:15 talking about this in many different ways today, and I have probably one of my biggest bucket list interviews of all times. I'm finally going to get to sit down with Brett Weinstein. Now, this is a guy that tiptoed his way in from science into looking at the COVID vaccine. I'm going to talk about how some of the interviews he's done, change the course of the high wire and my career. And I'm also going to talk about arguments he and I have had over the last couple of years and where we find ourselves now. This is probably maybe one of the most important interviews I'm ever going to do.
Starting point is 00:09:51 So I hope you'll stick around. First, though, it's time for one of our favorite parts of the show, the Jackson Report. Isn't amazing? I mean, we get to sit here, Jeffrey. We call this guy out for the beginning. You know, we show this is a crime that's being committed. How is no one calling him out on it?
Starting point is 00:10:18 And then we watched him step down very unceremoniously. But finally, at least there's some politicians. Apparently that was Dr. Brad Weinstrup, I think, Winstrup, that was interviewing him there, asking him very appropriate questions. And it's really hard to imagine where this goes. What do you do with a politician that is responsible for essentially medical malpractice and murder of innocent elderly across New York? It's just one of the many cracks in the foundation that are really starting to bring this house crashing down.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Yeah, the accountability can never be let go. These people need to be hounded until they're no longer on this planet for the rest of their lives. because the pain and the suffering that families experienced where it was immeasurable and they need answers and they will always need answers. So thank God to the politicians who are putting people like Cuomo's feet to the fire. I wanna talk about maybe someone
Starting point is 00:11:19 that's not a politician or more like royalty. This is Queen Maxima. She is part of the royal family in the Netherlands. And this is her castle. Nice. Pretty opulent, you know. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Your average castle. Yeah. What does she do with her free time? Well, when she's at places like the World Economic Forum, meetings in Davos, is she advocating for cleaner water throughout Africa or maybe lowering the crime rate in South America, bringing people up from poverty to the middle class? No, she goes and talks about things like this. Take a listen.
Starting point is 00:11:56 Right. When I said at this job, they were actually very little countries in Africa or Latin America that had one ubiquitous type of ID and certainly that it was digital and certainly that was biometric. And now we've really worked with all our partners to actually help that being, I mean to grow this. And the interesting part of it is that, you know, yes, it is very necessary for financial services, but not only. Sure. It's also good for school enrollment.
Starting point is 00:12:25 It's also good for health who will actually go to vaccination or not. It's very good to actually get your subsidies, you know, from the government. You know, while we deny you access to clean water, we won't put in a toilet or fix your food supply, but we do want to be able to track you to see why you're dying. I mean, I want to spend our time together today talking about two sides of the same coin, censorship and government tracking, government censorship. We saw all of this come in and they really stuck the flagpole in hard during the COVID. pandemic and COVID pandemic's over now, right? So all of those restrictions are over, right? Well,
Starting point is 00:13:05 in the European Union, there's a new pilot program. And a lot of people warned about this. When the digital vaccine certificates were over, a lot of people said they're not going to let these go. And this is what looks like is happening. European vaccination card will be piloted in five countries, says the headline. Let's go into this because it really bears looking into. The European vaccination beyond COVID-19 project, that's literally what it's called, seeks to leverage this momentum by initiating pilot projects to develop and test implementation plans for tools that support both routine and crisis vaccination practices. So they're casting a wide net there. Now we're talking about the entire vaccination paradigm is all going to be on the digital card.
Starting point is 00:13:43 It says one key tool that this project will introduce is the European vaccination card scheduled for launch in September 2024. That's right now the EVC will initially be piloted in five pilot countries, Latvia, Greece, Belgium, Germany, and Portugal. It goes on to say this, this citizen-centered method of storing and sharing data, rather than relying solely on public health systems, this is a big switch, was made possible by the global digital health certification network. During COVID-19, developed during COVID-19 pandemic for the EU digital COVID certificate, this network is now managed by the World Health Organization, enabling the authenticity
Starting point is 00:14:23 of digital vaccination records to be insured. So this vaccination pilot program in the EU is being built on the backbone run by the WHO. So remember during, you know, we've covered Tadros speaking during the pandemic accord, trying to rewrite the pandemic treaty, international health regulations. He keeps saying the WHO has no power. We're just a body, you know, it's kind of in the background. It's your countries that have the power. That's not true because we go directly to the WHO's own website.
Starting point is 00:14:57 And we look at what they say here for this digital health certification network. It said one of the key tools used by many member states in reopening economies during the COVID-19 pandemic has been the digital COVID-19 test and vaccine certificates. As the directing and coordinating authority on international health work at the onset of the pandemic, WHO engaged with all WHO regions to define overall guidance for such certificates and publish the digital documentation of COVID-19 certificates, vaccination status, test, And that was in 2021, 2022. So they led the whole March for digital certification
Starting point is 00:15:32 of your vaccine status. And remember, you didn't have that, you're not going out to eat at a restaurant. You didn't have that. You're not going to be traveling in public transit, which means you may not be able to go to work if you're in Europe. So obviously they hold you.
Starting point is 00:15:45 I literally just went to, I was in France just last week. One of my family members got married. I'm happy to have been able to take a moment and take my family. And, you know, I was just talking to one of my family members this morning. We're living in a time now, I mean, just to be completely honest and maybe, I suppose, a little bit morbid, where I actually look at moments now and go out of my way to take a moment with my family, to take the snapshot, to look at the French countryside, to walk through the medieval castles there, and to rush through a day in Paris, we, you know, hit the top of the Eiffel Tower,
Starting point is 00:16:24 the Louvre really quick and then a dinner on the St. River, all of it thinking, this may be the last time I'm ever going to get to see this. This may be the last time my kids and I will get to experience a trip like this. We literally could be around the corner from I will never be able to travel there again. I will not get a vaccine. I will not let a passport change my lifestyle. So traveling the world, I may have just taken my last trip. Maybe I'll get lucky.
Starting point is 00:16:53 and this will take a, you know, a little bit of time to get into some other country. I may want to visit, but folks, a lot of you are like, I mean, you guys talk a lot about COVID like it's still here and we've got to move on. We've covered a lot of other subjects. We're talking about banking. We're talking about AI and all these other issues, but it's not going away. This isn't over. I mean, it's so scary right now that we are talking about a vaccine that is a disaster, the worst one ever made, of all the things that they would build pilot programs around to take our, rights away, you would think they would have needed a product that actually worked, that actually
Starting point is 00:17:27 stopped transmission and didn't cause turbo cancers and myocarditis and paracrititis and has kids dropping on football fields, all of which is now being proven by science around the world. So if that doesn't stop them, if a product this bad isn't going to stop this agenda, you better wrap your head around how strong this gender is. It's a global agenda. and, you know, America really is only the last hiccup. Our little Constitution, which is a huge part of what our show is about today, is the only thing standing in the way where forget about going to Paris. How about going to your grocery store?
Starting point is 00:18:02 How about going to your bank? How about every time that, can you stand up from the camera, please? What if when you step up, it pops up your vaccine record, and if you're not vaccinated, you can't take out money. You can't come into our grocery store. Do you realize how close this dystopian nightmare is? and it's moving towards us like a freight train. And we're talking about a system that's attempting to be enacted at pilot programs at this point that is a turnkey.
Starting point is 00:18:28 It's a flip of a switch and it's digital. It's biometrics. So sure, no COVID pandemic right now. Sure, no measles outbreak right now. No bird flu outbreak right now. But at the flip of a switch, you can have this global digital biometric ID turn on just like that across all digital networks. And just like you said, no grocery store for you, no public transit for you, you're stuck in your house, no bank account for you. If you say something wrong on the internet and you don't have your vaccines or where does this go? We don't know. But digital ID records for this vaccination status, this is a big concern. And here in the United States, we look at Forbes magazine. They just put out a new COVID vaccine. They're announcing this everywhere. This is the new version. And now they're saying, you know, obviously this is a yearly thing, just like the flu, but we're on double digit doses now for people that are immunocompromised. And if you're announcing, If you're in New York, you're hearing press conferences from the governor in New York,
Starting point is 00:19:22 Kathy Hockel, that sound like this. Take a listen. Now here's the choice people have, New Yorkers. I know you don't want to hear about this, but you can spend Thanksgiving quarantining, walk around the house of the mask on, not enjoying the holiday dinner, waiting for a nasal swab from a hospital, or you can be with your family. I want to encourage all New Yorkers. Now is the time to take care of yourself.
Starting point is 00:19:46 and your children. Don't wait till later, don't get sick. There have been cases around even my office where people got sick over the summer and it is long in duration and is really unpleasant. I mean, dude, she... That's not 2021, Dell.
Starting point is 00:20:03 This is right now. She's literally planning on having lockdowns apparently by Thanksgiving. She just said if you don't want to be quarantined, you want to have a free Thanksgiving and a free Christmas. Do what's right right now. I mean, wow.
Starting point is 00:20:18 It's interesting. You know, I'm just going to say it's interesting that the new vaccines come out right before we see a surge in the wastewater in COVID. And then you have heard taking press conferences talking like that. It seems very scripted. And we have the CDC coming out here. This is the ASIP committee, the advisory committee on immunization practices at the CDC. And they just published their recent guidance for the new COVID vaccines. Now, I want to take a look at just this specific age group, six months to four years.
Starting point is 00:20:50 Remember, during the entire COVID pandemic, this was never a problem for these kids, never a problem. This was not the people that were getting affected by this. But right now, with the new vaccine, 24, if you are unvaccinated, you can see by this chart from the CDC, you need two Moderna shots or three Pfizer shots. That's what you're looking at right now. Forget about natural immunity, not factor into this whatsoever. Forget about the fact that there is no outbreak happening. right now. There is no deadly outbreak. No mention of vitamin D, nothing, sunlight out of there.
Starting point is 00:21:21 You get your three shots if you're unvaccinated. That's as far as the CDC thinking goes, and it's going to be repetitive every year. We've seen this. Wow. I mean, just the fact that anyone would consider any form of a lockdown ever again or that vaccinations in the United States America, they have not, they clearly have not learned their lesson. There's no one, no one's having the right conversations right now. So it's, it's important that we are. I'm glad we're here. Yeah, absolutely. And these digital vaccine certificates, it speaks to the wider picture here of biometric ID.
Starting point is 00:21:52 And this is something that almost all countries are moving towards at this point at various stages. Here in the US, this is the, we were greeted in 2024 with this headline, US poised for progress towards biometric back digital ID in 2024. You have that real ID here that was never mandatory. Don't worry, but we're being told by the TSA by next year, May, you're going to need a real TSA and to fly. If you notice anybody flying lately, sometimes when you go up to the TSA, they take your picture while they put your ID into the into the little machine there. You cannot opt out of that at this point. I have been, by the way, I do a lot of flying more than I'd like to,
Starting point is 00:22:29 and I opt out every time. And, you know, one of the times, I think I've said it before, TSA agent asked me, he's like, I'm curious, why are you opting out of this? And I said, mostly to save your job. And he's like, he thought about it. He's like, oh, thanks. And by the way, just like two weeks ago, sure enough, I walked up and there was two cameras going and one guy running both the cameras. So that's 50% of the TSA jobs just disappeared right there. Imagine when they don't need one of those guys where maybe you could have run four cameras as soon as it's mandatory. And so, I mean, I just, I mean, not that I love like getting patted down, but at least I'm like, God, I want an American job wherever I can find one right now. Right. And so other countries
Starting point is 00:23:11 are at various stages of this. In Australia, they're a little further along than we are here in the United States and you have senators actually speaking out in committee session hearings. This is Senator Alex Antik. He spoke out on these digital IDs and the concern. Listen to this. Senator Antic. Thank you Mr. Acting Deputy President. Australian cities are becoming digital surveillance precincts with so-called smart city programs being rolled out across the country. Invasive technology such as facial recognition cameras, license plate readers, smart lights, smart poles, smart cars, smart neighbourhoods, smart homes and smart appliances, all connected to wireless networks and communicating with each other.
Starting point is 00:23:51 So what's wrong with that? Technology is good, isn't it? All this is for your safety, security and convenience, isn't it? Well, let me tell you, your streets are spying on you, your mobile phone is spying on you, your cities are spying on you, and the infrastructure for future lockdowns is being put into place right now. Don't be fooled. You're being set up to be tracked through your movements and through the future of your digital wallets. By handing over your data, you're handing over the ability to monitor your behaviour
Starting point is 00:24:17 which will soon be turned into a social credit score. And once the central bank digital currencies are in place, you won't get to spend your money without approval. Digital ID will soon become a reality in Australia. Many other countries are already rolling these systems out, countries like Canada, Scotland and many others. Eventually, you won't be able to access any government or public services and you won't be able to travel across borders or access healthcare or the internet without a digital ID. Think you won't comply? I think you will.
Starting point is 00:24:46 The last two years were the dress rehearsal and we fell for it, hook, line and sinker. Australians are sleepwalking into this technocratic future. And while we're sitting around, scratching our chins, trying to work out whether this is really happening, Australia is drifting towards a dystopian digital future.
Starting point is 00:25:03 It's amazing to me that we sit here. I mean, obviously that's Australia. These are all test countries, you know, for the entire world. I just sit here thinking, my God, we have the most invasive IDs being designed for every one of us, but the only place you don't need an ID is to vote here in the United States of America. I mean, that whole argument is just what is happening? Right. And at this point, I think, now we're talking about the digital tracking, these digital IDs,
Starting point is 00:25:32 and we're going to move into now censorship. But at this point, any politician that's going to take office, or really that's in office, at any level of power, from municipal to the leader of the country, they need to address this head on. They need to be open about this and open about the plans for society moving forward because the implications cannot be understated. And this is because things are happening in big swaths. Before it was happening in the shadows, literally called shadow banning, things like that. Now there's gigantic things are moving so fast.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Just recently we had X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, was completely ghosted, is gone in Brazil now. So no longer can over 200 million people in Brazil access this platform. X blocked in Brazil after Supreme Court panel uphold suspension order. Why did they have that? Well, the court asked X to take their moderators
Starting point is 00:26:25 to take down accounts that they said violated political misinformation and hate speech. And they did not do that, obviously. So Supreme Court ruled that this is no longer available to people. In fact, they actually froze the assets of Elon Musk's satellite. company Starlink in order to pay for any potential fines that Brazil did that. They're thinking about kicking them out of Brazil completely as far as pulling their
Starting point is 00:26:47 license to ever broadcast there from a social media company. So that's that's very serious. And a lot of people were, a lot of people are, I mean, this is platforms that we're always trying to reach new audiences here at the high wire. These are platforms that we use people listening. Right now, we're streaming on X. People in Brazil cannot listen to this. They have to go to our website or another, another place that we're streaming.
Starting point is 00:27:09 But there was a test. And you remember when your news agencies, the United States of America, used to use stories like this and opportunities like this to show what it looks like when you don't have free speech and how important it is to live in the United States of America? And thank God we have free speech here and that you're allowed to, you know, state your dissenting opinions. That's not happening. This story isn't being reported. It isn't this.
Starting point is 00:27:34 And in fact, you're lucky if they're not celebrating the fact that Twitter is being shut down. Venezuela here in the United States of America. I mean, these are all signs, folks. There are all sides that, you know, we are hanging in the balance. Right. And it was about less than 10 years ago that, you know, the idea of free speech and spreading the idea of open debate and free speech became something that America was proud of to a threat to democracy. And now everybody seems to be on that. We have to curtail speech in order to save democracy and save people. This is a ridiculous idea. And so in Brazil, there was a rally to protest the Supreme Court's decision.
Starting point is 00:28:11 There was a political rally that turned into a free speech rally. Here's, I believe, Rebel News was there out of Canada. There's a, they flew a drone over this rally. Obviously, thousands of people show up. Well, a comedy citizens care about freedom in Brazil. Amazing. It's just incredible. And so this conversation, though, is getting a lot of traction and not in a good way.
Starting point is 00:28:30 Here in the United States, this is one of the headlines recently. we have former labor secretary, Robert Reich. He was under the Clinton Foundation. I'm sorry, he was under Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary there. Ex-Laborate claims Elon Musk is out of control, says regulators should threaten arrest. These are very strong words in a highly charged climate of censorship right now, because remember just two weeks ago, we reported the head of Telegram was arrested out of nowhere in France because basically the same reason that the Supreme Court canceled X.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Brazil. It was because the owners are being blamed for what is happening on their platform. So someone posts something, political misinformation, hate speech, whatever they want to categorize it at, you're to blame. Elon Musk is the blame. The CEO of Telegram is to blame. And they're being legally held liable with jail time. So this isn't the only... It'd be like arresting a phone company, by the way, for a kind of like that two robbers spoke and therefore you're an accomplice in a bank robbery because it happened. was discussed over a phone line, so let's arrest the head of the phone company. I mean, this type of overreach by governments is the end.
Starting point is 00:29:44 I mean, it is how you bring the whole thing crashing down, where no one can move, no one's going to allow you to speak, everyone's paranoid, everyone's afraid, and you're arrested if you allow free speech to happen at all. Exactly. And YouTube's biggest competitor, Rumble, is out of Brazil as well. This is the gateway pundit. Rumble is no longer available in Brazil, a direct attack on freedom of expression in yet another country. And you could see this coming as well. They were using certain people on Rumble as
Starting point is 00:30:10 examples trying to get the platform shut down. When Russell Brand was a person of controversy just last year, you had this headline. He's a content creator on Rumble. I'm an online expert. Russell Brand's refuge platform Rumble may be forced offline under new internet safety laws. What they're talking about, of course, in the UK is the online safety bill. And these are the regulator. of UK media, which is the watchdog offcom. And in this article, it's very telling. Look at these words. It says the new law says, internet firms must prevent children from seeing pornography as well as any material promoting eating disorders, self-harm, suicide, violent content and material harmful to health, including misinformation about vaccines will also be barred. So right in the middle there,
Starting point is 00:30:52 you have suicide, eating disorders, self-harm, violent material. Oh, yeah, and misinformation about vaccines. What? What do we? What do we? talking about here. We didn't see this one coming, Jeffrey. A whole new issue we have to deal with now. Self-harm. And, you know, I always talk to people about this. And so do you, Duh. We have to look at the health and especially the vaccine space because it so much emanates from that when it comes to censorship, when it comes to informed consent, taking your rights away. And so in 2018, we could see this coming in Pinterest. People had boards on Pinterest, literally titled, you know, looking at vaccine truths and vaccine safety.
Starting point is 00:31:34 And they were getting pop-up messages. Their boards were being shut down by Pinterest. Why? Well, because of self-harm. They were violating the policies of self-harm. And we have a couple screenshots of that looking at these boards being, this are the messages people received. And they were getting completely just gone. They just ghosted them because of self-harm.
Starting point is 00:31:54 And it said, if you're struggling with self-harm of any type, please know there is help. So the person was being labeled. it wasn't they were harming society it was you might something might be wrong with you if you're posting this and this is a classic trick we saw this in the former soviet union we're criticizing at that point political opposition or dissent was a psychiatric problem and that that's what we're seeing here at this point and we can see even in psychology today in 2020 as the pandemic was beginning we had this headline why are anti-vaxxers willing to harm themselves and others you're seeing this
Starting point is 00:32:27 narrative created and it's continuing it's being drawn out to now bigger misinformation conversations and you know in no one really reported that much back then in 2019 you had PBS saying how Pinterest beat back vaccine misinformation they're very happy about that this is a great accomplishment for public health but this this whole conversation really looks at what we're talking about here is whatever label or name or whatever that that the censors the people wishing to censor debate and conversation and speech can use, it's increasing. They're using a lot of bigger, just tub of words to accomplish these ends. And so in the United Nations, we had this press release recently on the day of democracy. Artificial intelligence must serve humanity equitably and safely.
Starting point is 00:33:16 It says this year's Democracy Day focuses on artificial intelligence as a tool for good governance. Now, this is from the Secretary General, the head of the UN. It says left unchecked the dangers posed by artificial intelligence could have serious implications for democracy, peace, and stability. Why is that? Is it going to take our jobs? No, this. This can start with the proliferation of mis and disinformation, the spread of hate speech and the use of so-called deep fakes. So we've heard the two of those before, mis and disinformation. We've heard hate speech. That's been used to pass really crazy laws in Canada, in Ireland, and places like that. But now we have a new word coming in deep fakes. This is the new word that's going to, looks like it's going to be
Starting point is 00:33:55 use to try to censor more people and get government control over the flow of information on the internet. And okay, it's the UN Secretary General saying that a press release. All right, well, not too much of a talking point, but now we have another person, very familiar to a lot of people during the COVID response. We have Bill Gates coming out and saying something kind of unusual, just recently. Take a listen. Every country is struggling to find that boundary. The U.S. is a tough on because, you know, we have the notion of the First Amendment. And so what are the exceptions, you know, like yelling, fire, in a theater, you know, and because you're anonymous online, you know, it can be worse. I do think over time, you know, with things like deep fakes,
Starting point is 00:34:41 most of the time you're online, you're going to want to be an environment where the people are truly identified, that is, they're connected to a real world identity that you trust, instead of just people saying whatever they want. And so the idea of Providence, who sent me this email? Was that really them? You know, we're going to have to have systems and behaviors that were more aware of, okay, who says that? Who created this?
Starting point is 00:35:06 I mean, I guess you really don't have to watch the high wire. If you just want to stay informed, just track whatever Bill Gates is telling you and get very, very afraid. I love the notion of the First Amendment. I guess he's referring to that very important document that our founding fathers created. Oh, I know that's not it. It's that other one.
Starting point is 00:35:25 The notion of rights. The United States notion of rights written by our founding fathers. A couple of notions we thought could be important if you wanted to be free. So anytime Bill Gates is lecturing you about trust, you know you're listening to the wrong piece here. Maybe they'll write down that notion
Starting point is 00:35:43 on a piece of paper at some point and codify it into some... That'd be a good idea. I think it's a good idea. All right. So we have... So the whole... idea, backing up just a little bit more, the whole idea of the internet, it wasn't created by Al Gore, as he likes to say. This was a military creation. This was DARPA, actually created this.
Starting point is 00:36:01 We have this headline here. DARPA helped create the internet. This is well known. Siri and drones. Here's what they're working on now. We have this headline. Lockheed Martin develops system to identify and counter online disinformation prototype by DARPA. So DARPA created the internet, the backbone of the internet, and now they're being tapped to help create the kind of the censorship algorithms. It says right now in the U.S., Lockheed Martin, and remember Lockheed Martin is the United States number one defense contractor, billions of dollars to make missiles, fighter jets, and now disinformation. It says Lockheed Martin is close to completing a prototype that will analyze media to detect and defeat disinformation. The development process is almost over, and the prototype is used by
Starting point is 00:36:47 by the U.S. Defense Department, U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Project, Agency, DARPA. And so that obviously seems to be, you know, fighting wars and stopping people from speaking online. Those are the two priorities of defense contractors now and the Defense Department of the United States military. This is getting pretty crazy. And if you think this is just going to stay in the military and, you know, be used against Russian influence or Chinese influence trying to influence conversation in the U.S., any politician that sees this algorithm that's working, you cannot help think that they're going to activate this online to use against your regular citizens. And we don't even have to go that far to talk about the military. The artificial
Starting point is 00:37:30 intelligence, these language learning models that are being used to develop, you know, when you go to Google and you search a question in there, you automatically now have AI come up to answer your first question. It's on a website. It's an AI-generated language learning model answer. And And researchers just sent some research on these models, all of them, and just talking about what kind of bias they have. And it says here, AI chatbots have a political bias that could unknowingly influence society. So we're really talking about social engineering here. So looking at the censorship through the lens of social engineering, artificial intelligence,
Starting point is 00:38:08 through a lens of social engineering, it gives a whole different view. And what this computer scientist did is they took the 25 leading chatbots out there and they gave them 11 these 11 political questions that would basically determine someone's bias, left-leaning, right-leaning, libertarian, whatever, and they fed it into these chatbots. And this is the image from the article or from the study that came out. You can see here that every one of them came to a left-leaning bias, which is a problem. And what they further found, with this research, you further found is it didn't take much fine-tuning to steer these language models towards a specific political spectrum.
Starting point is 00:38:49 Didn't take much data to input into the system to do this. So there was kind of like an overwatch position where someone could or a group could just lean this a little bit one way or the other. And the implications on society are really, we're so new in this in this model at this point. They aren't really known, but it's not good to have any type of leaning, right-leaning, left-leaning. AIs are supposed to be this neutral kind of basis, but it's not what we're finding here. And this is new research, and this is a space of research that a lot of other people are looking into right now. I mean, it's really, it's really disturbing. I want a free country. All sides need to be at the table. Our founding fathers clearly made a decision to let everyone
Starting point is 00:39:32 vote. I keep coming back to this, you know. They were looking at uneducated people and farm workers and people are just trying to survive, ask themselves the question, should only those of us that own land votes, since obviously we're going to be of higher intelligence, better educations. And really after contemplating it very thoroughly, they said, no, everybody should have the right to vote. Every voice should be heard. Every voice needs to be a part of our system.
Starting point is 00:39:59 And we'll find our way somewhere in the middle is the truth. When you no longer have multiple sides, there is no middle, and it all starts only, you're only hearing one story, over and over again, you can only find one story, one perspective. You absolutely now are imprisoned. Your mind is imprisoned. Your voice is imprisoned. And it's really time to wake up.
Starting point is 00:40:24 I think there's a lot going on here that we need to discuss. I'm really happy I want to get to our next guest because I think that's at the heart of the conversation we're about to have. But Jeffrey, you know, let me just say right now, just like I did in Paris last week and stood there with my kids and I really thought and took it in and breathed it in and looked around and said, this may be the last moment. Every day we get to do this on this show and we're allowed to do it freely here in the United States of America. I'm going to cherish it because if we make the wrong decisions, we are literally moments away before you and I never
Starting point is 00:40:56 get to do this again. So thank you for another beautiful segment. I look forward to as many of these we can get in. Hopefully they go on forever. But there is a real, real possibility that we will lose this opportunity to do this. So I want to really want to just thank you and take this in while we have this freedom. Thank you so much, Del. And we've had really a beautiful, I guess, we can call it a career, waking people up. And people listening to this information, it's not doom and gloom. What you can do to beat this right now, you're doing it. You're listening to real people, talk about real information. And that's how you beat it. On a platform that was created by real people and funded by real people, this is how we do it. We don't rely on AI to
Starting point is 00:41:37 sit back and spell check our minds and our consciousness, so we lose the ability to do it ourselves. Just listen to real people, tune in to real people. Brett Weinstein, yourself, there's so many other people doing this, just go to their platforms and listen to them. This is how we get around sensors and beat AI. Yeah, it's going to take all of us right now, very, very important. All right, I'll see you next week, Jeffrey. All right.
Starting point is 00:42:00 As Jeffrey so clearly stated, we're only here because of you. We have no sponsors. We are not going to risk having sponsors tell us. us what to deal or being uncomfortable with the conversations that we're having with you. We're having them deeper. We're bringing import and beyond that. We are the only network you're watching right now. We're the only podcast you're watching right now that I know of that not only brings you these stories, these incredible interviews that we do, but we have a legal team that when we see issues going after our First Amendment rights or our right to body autonomy, we're not just
Starting point is 00:42:34 bitching about it. We're actually doing something about it. We're taking our our government to court. We're trying to stop this nipping the, but look how many, that's just the, that's just the successful lawsuits against government agencies that we can fit on the screen and forget about bringing back the religious exemption in Mississippi so that you can decide whether you're going to get a COVID vaccine or not for your kids in order for them to go to school. What other network do you know of? I want you to think right now as you're watching, what other network is going this far to say, yeah, we're actually going to do something about it. We need your help more than ever. We have work to do to make sure that that First Amendment isn't just a notion,
Starting point is 00:43:10 that it's actually your right, endowed you by God. We have the only law firm that can win these lawsuits. We're the most successful there is, and yet we're like pinching pennies. There are so many things we have to fight right now. We're running thin. So, you know, one of the things we're doing, I just want you to become a recurring donor right now, please, whether it's just a dollar, think, ah, it's only a dollar. You don't need my dollar. Trust me, it makes a difference. Go to the highwire.com. Go up and hit. donate to I can, and then becoming recurring donor for whatever you can spare in a month, whether it's a cup of coffee, you know, maybe a bus ride, take a walk.
Starting point is 00:43:47 I don't know if you can afford $24 a month for 2024. This is critical. We're in critical time right now, and we're so good at what we do. Aaron's Siri, let me not take credit. Aaron Siri is so good at what he does, fighting for us. We want to fund all the lawsuits that he's trying to get into right now. It's the most important work happening in the world. I do not think I'm overstating in that.
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Starting point is 00:44:32 Welcome to Highwire Plus, the space beyond the Highwire, where we're going to explore content made just for you. Highwire Plus is our gift to monthly donors to ICANN that will have news, entertainment, reality programming, all designed for people who care more about the truth than just another story. We're also going to be curating documentaries and films from some of our favorite filmmakers who deliver the truth just the way that we do. Highwire Plus is your place to experience and explore truth like you've never seen it before. And look out for new content coming soon from Highwire Plus. Highwire Plus are going to keep expanding right now. Just think of yourself as sort of our beta team. We're trying new things out.
Starting point is 00:45:24 Jeffrey Jackson's new show is right around the corner. We're just putting some finishing touches on that. We love your ideas on what you'd like to see on High Wire Plus. Certainly write in to us and let us know. what your thoughts are. You can sign up at thehighwire.com. Monthly donors, obviously, this is all just a part of giving back to you so that we can continue to do this very important work. I'm going to give you a caveat right now. Every once in a while, I do an interview that I have been trying to get, I think, for probably over three years. This next person is
Starting point is 00:45:58 someone that I really admire. We've had moments. I really think this guy's a game changer. He has been speaking out where no one else has, but we've also had our moments of conflict. There's, you know, a lot that I, I'm sitting here looking at all the questions that I have right now. So I'm going to say this. I think this is going to be a long show. I think this is going to be one of those. So I'd almost like say, pause it for a second. Go get some popcorn. Take a moment because I want to walk Brett Weinstein, not just through where he's at right now, and you've seen some of the podcasts. I want to talk about this journey, both he and I have walk through together over these last several years and why he is so so, you know, um,
Starting point is 00:46:36 emphatic now about our need to try and save this republic. How did he get here? I want to take this journey with you. So just to get it started. If for some reason, you don't know who Brett Weinstein is from the dark horse horse podcast, this is the guy. Well, I am delighted to be here with Brett Weinstein. Dr. Brett Weinstein. Professor Brett Weinstein joins us. Great Brett Weinstein in the house. The Dark Horse Podcast and co-author, the forthcoming book, A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century. Brett Weinstein, evolutionary biologist, author, co-host of the Dark Horse podcast,
Starting point is 00:47:13 and, as he says, reluctant, radical. Heather and I began discussing the conflict over COVID policy. And at some point we realized that we were dealing with the exact same. thing that we had seen over questions of patriarchy and white supremacy in Evergreen. And we started referring to it as a question of medical wokeness. If a person opposes an equity proposal, those advancing the proposal are secure in asserting that the person is motivated by opposition to racial equity itself. In other words, they are racist. It's not the case. We all, I believe, are agreed that something very serious is afoot
Starting point is 00:47:54 and the public is largely unaware that they have been placed into a kind of danger. And we also know that there's a great deal of stigma directed at those who would explore these dangers. That I believe in my heart of hearts that a great many lives are at stake. There's just simply no question that, come hell or high water, this must be discussed. I think in June, the chances that it came from the lab looked to me to be about 90%. Okay. So this was never a conspiracy theory. In fact, that term is simply used to make it go away. It was maintained by people who privately in their emails acknowledged that they had grave doubts about the natural origin of this virus.
Starting point is 00:48:36 There's a problem built into the question of vaccines, which is that there's a difference between the public health analysis and the private decisions that people have to make about their own vaccinations. There is a tendency to underrate the risks of vaccines in order to get everybody on board with getting them, and then people who are raise questions get demonized. Do you think in the future we'll look back on this and there'll be some sort of a some sort of a shift in the way we discuss it? I worry a lot that not only are we headed into chaos, but that we are going to be denied the ability to have a proper historical account of the present, that we're never going to understand what these stories were doing, why they played out the way they did.
Starting point is 00:49:23 did and that's extremely dangerous. All right, well, most of you probably know him as one of the hosts of the Dark Horse podcast. Also, the author of a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century. Brett Weinstein joins me now. It is great to be here, Dow. It's really, this is sort of a bucketless moment. I've been wanting to get you on this stage for some time. But before we sort of get into, you know, where are paths of,
Starting point is 00:49:53 come together or run into each other a few times for my audience and really also from my understanding i'd like to sort of just back it up a notch first of all when did you start the dark horse podcast i started the dark horse podcast in 2019 or early 2020 and initially the idea was different from what it became but because the so-called pandemic dawned in 2020, it first of all forced us to take all of the studio materials that we had built into a studio in downtown Portland and go in the middle of the night and take them and build them into our house into the set that became familiar to people. And Heather, at one point, we were at the beginning of the so-called pandemic. Heather and I were having conversations every night. We were both biologists. We were talking about what the meaning of this this pathogen was what the advice we were being given meant. And Heather said, you know, other people would benefit greatly from hearing these discussions. Maybe we should just sit down live and do it.
Starting point is 00:51:08 And it turned out that that was rocket fuel for the podcast. People were starved for high quality information. Yeah. So what was the original idea? So it wasn't that? Because that's how we all know your show to be. What was the original plan? Well, the original plan stemmed from something that I had been doing as a professor.
Starting point is 00:51:27 So I taught at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and Evergreen was a very unusual place in which professors had absolute freedom to teach whatever they wanted in whatever way they wanted. And I was never a very good student. But because of Evergreen's the freedom it provided for professors, I was able to teach in a way that would have worked for me. And a lot of students who also weren't great at school showed up in my classroom and flourished. And so you were teaching evolutionary biology.
Starting point is 00:52:02 Okay. And I became fascinated by what made people with high capacity but an unusual profile, how they ended up there. So I wanted to talk to people who had done something remarkable from some starting point that you would. wouldn't have imagined it. Dark horses. That's what I wanted to do. And so anyway, that morphed into a show that increasingly focused on COVID as a pathogen and the remedies and measures that we were being told to deploy.
Starting point is 00:52:41 And now the show, we do still cover that topic. We cover a lot of other things too. Heather and I are still died in the wool, evolutionary biologists who are fascinated by nature and love talking about things that have emerged or things that we've seen. We love talking about humans and human behavior, which is definitely a core element of our book. But anyway, yes, that's the evolution. It was forced to change by COVID. Now, what's interesting about your background is even though when I started talking to you during COVID, you explained to me,
Starting point is 00:53:20 we weren't seeing eye to eye I wouldn't say in the beginning there was some things we agreed on some we didn't we'll get into that but really your background was you had seen malfeasance so we say or or corruption or issues inside of science research and things and had already gotten yourself in a little trouble in that space remind me exactly what happened there so I I had, so I've always been interested in corruption as a problem, as an obstacle to having a reasonable society. And as a graduate student, I was pursuing a project just out of pure interest. I was pursuing a project having to do with senescence. That's the process of aging cancer and the repetitive sequences at the ends of our chromosomes called telomeres.
Starting point is 00:54:18 And what I didn't realize was that I was crossing an invisible boundary. My field evolutionary biology is one in which there isn't a lot of money at stake. There's prestige, but that's it. And so the level of corruption is sort of human scale. As you get closer to medicine, things go absolutely insane. And I didn't know I was crossing that boundary. In fact, nobody had ever mentioned it to me. And so as I got close to the question of why human beings age in the way that we do, suddenly it was a threat to all sorts of people who were selling a fiction that they were on the verge of curing aging, which they were not.
Starting point is 00:55:02 Another group was selling the fiction that they were on the verge of curing cancer, which they were not. And if you understood these two things together, you realized that the obstacle that was going to prevent the one group from accomplishing its goal was. the other group, right? If you tried to cure aging, you'd run into cancer. If you cure cancer, you'll run into aging. You'll make the problem worse. So anyway, there's a very elegant evolutionary story to tell, but as I got into that quadrant, nothing made sense, and all of the rules that I had been told governed the functioning of science just simply did not apply. They just been thrown out the door. Yes, at an absurd level. I don't know how deep you want to go. Well, I mean, tell me about
Starting point is 00:55:45 the sort of the mouse study and how they were pulling this off. There was a very elegant evolutionary theory by a biologist named George C. Williams, who's now gone, somebody I knew. And he had described in 1957 the reason that evolution should create creatures that grow feeble and inefficient with age, as we all do. And his point was the genome, which we didn't know a lot about in 1957, but the genome contains a very limited number of genes. We have a huge complexity. I mean, a human and adult human is 30 trillion cells, right?
Starting point is 00:56:27 Somehow that 30 trillion cell system is being built and managed by a genome that has 20,000 active genes, maybe the average one has five different edits, so 100,000 genetic units are governing a self-assembled, you know, a self-assembling, self-reparing system of 30 trillion cells that lives 80 years. I mean, that's an incredible thing. And what his point was, that means that all of those genes have to be doing more than one thing. That's called pliotropy.
Starting point is 00:57:01 Okay. And he said, look, there's an asymmetry in the way evolution works. evolution sees early life much more clearly than it sees late life because if something happens to you late then the chances that you've already done your reproduction are high and so the cost is small if something negative happens right so he said look anytime there's a gene that produces a benefit to you early in life at a cost that is realized later selection will tend to favor it because lots of people won't be around to suffer the late life cost. Right. So he called that theory antagonistic pliotropy. We know it's true because there's
Starting point is 00:57:43 lots of predictions that come from it that we can see if we go out into a population in nature and you know, we compare, you know, guppies from the bottom of the watershed to ones at the top of the watershed. We see the pattern that he described. So we know it's right. But at the point I started studying this in the late 90s, nobody had ever found one of these genes. And so I found that odd, right? Why he says the genome... You're seeing a world where this gene must exist, but no one has found the gene that's creating
Starting point is 00:58:12 the tapestry that we're staring at. And it should have been everywhere. So that, I thought, you know, I kind of have a taste for the equivalent of big game, right? I see a question like that and I think, huh, there is bound to be a great answer there, and I wonder if I can find it. Right.
Starting point is 00:58:30 And so I went looking. And I happened to be in the right seminar, on the right day and somebody from a cancer lab was talking about the relationship between cancers, tumorogenesis, and this enzyme telomerase, which adds these repetitive sequences to the ends of our chromosomes. And I knew about telomeres from a whole different place, from the study of senescence, where it was thought that the shrinking of these telomeres, every time a cell divides, it loses some of the sequence, that that was resulting in our failure to be able to maintain in the body.
Starting point is 00:59:03 I heard that a lot of anti-aging seminars and things I speak yet. Right. Yeah. And so my thought was, huh, you put these two things together. It's George Williams' antagonistic pliotropia right there. It's not exactly as he described it. A telomere is not a gene, right? A telomere is a genetic sequence, but it doesn't make a protein.
Starting point is 00:59:22 It's not a gene. But if it is true that the shortening of telomeres causes the body to grow feeble with age, And if it is true that tumors have the unique characteristic of the enzyme that lengthens telomeres being turned on, where it's turned off across the body, then this makes perfect sense. What's going on is that we have a built-in cancer prevention mechanism that involves the shortening of our telomeres with cell divisions, that that keeps us cancer-free for decade after decade of life. But what's the cost? You can't repair yourself forever, right? It's so elegant and it explains senescence across the body. Right.
Starting point is 01:00:03 So I thought, this is so what keeps you alive and healthy early on is this sort of shrinking telomeres, but if you were to expand them, cancer becomes, so you have this, so it's, you're really healthy, but it is, it's causing essentially an earlier end of life because you're losing the ability to repair yourself. 100%. Okay. So it's such a simple and elegant idea that so perfectly fits from what we are, understood to be true from evolutionary theory, I thought, well, now all I got to do
Starting point is 01:00:36 is to find the evidence that will support this. And as I went on what I thought would be a short adventure into the literature looking for the evidence, I ran into a problem. And the problem was that when I got to the studies on mice, the primary mammalian model organism. Yeah. They didn't fit. In fact, they were perfectly inconsistent with that idea, right? Because mice, the literature said, have ultra-long telomeres, much longer than humans.
Starting point is 01:01:09 So why would that be? You've got a tiny little animal that lives a short life. Why would it have telomeres that allow it to reproduce its tissues just indefinitely? That doesn't fit because a mouse should age for the same reason we do. a mammal, we're not so distantly related. Right. So as long as tumor as they should be living to be 250 years old. Right.
Starting point is 01:01:30 What gives? Right. So I couldn't figure it out. And my first thought was, okay, I've seen screw ups in the literature before. Something will happen where one person reports something. It's not right. They did the experiment incorrectly, right? They weren't looking at the cells they thought they were looking at.
Starting point is 01:01:48 They report it. And then all the science just builds. Everybody cites it. And so you think it's this wild. It's this widely tested idea. Nope, that didn't happen. Turned out a dozen labs had looked at the telomeres of mice. They all came out with the same answer.
Starting point is 01:02:01 Mouse telomeres are ultra-long and hyper-variable. And so I was like, look, this answer is so simple and clearly fits everything we think we know. Something's wrong in the literature. And when I spent a couple weeks trying to figure out what it was, and finally, as preposterous as this sounds, I realized what was probably going on. Had to be something wrong with the mice they were looking at. But how could that be? These are mice.
Starting point is 01:02:30 So anyway, I called up one of the leading lights in my field, somebody who didn't know me. She wasn't really in my field. She was in biology. And I said, this was Carol Greider, who now has a Nobel Prize. She did not at the time, but she was an odds-on favorite to get one. I called her up and I said, Carol, you don't know me. I'm a graduate student in Michigan. I'm looking at the literature and I'm wondering,
Starting point is 01:02:54 it says that mice have ultra-long telomeres. Is it possible that's just lab mice? And she said, I don't think so. I think all mice have long telomeres, but it's interesting if you order mice from Europe and you get muspritus instead of musculos, then the telomeres come in various different lengths. So maybe there's something to this.
Starting point is 01:03:19 She put a graduate student on it, a guy named Mike Heeman, and they tested it. They tested my hypothesis by looking at various different strains of what they called wild, but were really just more recently captive mice. And I got an excited email. Eureka, the hypothesis is true. Mice don't have long telomeres.
Starting point is 01:03:43 It's lab mice that have long telomeres. Now, there's a whole rabbit. I was amazed in science, because you hear these stories that you're just a student at this point. Right. But you have a hypothesis that intrigues a professor level scientist. Well, and it was, it was a pretty profound moment. I mean, it changed me because for a number of reasons. One, it is very, it is very enabling and empowering to figure something out in the abstract
Starting point is 01:04:19 and then to have it predict something, especially something surprising, in a laboratory setting, right? Like, whoa, we just looked into the genomes of mice that nobody had looked before, and they don't look like the mice we've been looking at for some reason that I think I know. Right.
Starting point is 01:04:33 So anyway, that's very empowering. I don't think that's lost on anyone. I don't think anyone would not understand as a scientist and student, whether you're geeking out or not. Hey, I have a thought that maybe all of science is looking at something the wrong way. Can you just check these mice real quick?
Starting point is 01:04:47 Right. Oh my God. Oh my God. You're right. So that led to two things. One, there's a question of what is it about the laboratory environment that is lengthening these telomeres. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:58 And I had a hypothesis. It is now the only hypothesis standing as far as I know. So we have to take it as presumptively the explanation and it's a doozy. That's one thing. And the other thing is the implications. What does it mean that we are studying the, we're studying biology using an organism broken in this way? Right.
Starting point is 01:05:18 First thing is, what the hell's going on with the mice? Well, if you think about the story we were talking about earlier, where selection is delicately balancing the threat to you from cancer with a threat to you from aging, and it has optimized you so you can live a long life reducing the threat of cancer, reducing the degree to which your aging process interferes with your fitness. Okay, that's what selection is doing.
Starting point is 01:05:42 Well, we take mice from the wild who have the same problem and we bring them into a breeding colony. Turns out all of the mice in all of the experiments that were being measured, the reason that all of those papers said the same thing about mice having ultra-long telomeres is they all came from the same place, the Jacks Lab. The Jacks Lab in Bar Harbor, Maine. Jacks Lab in Bar Harbor, Maine was supplying these mice, and the Jacks Lab was doing what you would expect a laboratory that sells mice to do,
Starting point is 01:06:12 which is trying to increase the number of mice it produces per dollar investment. dollar invested. Right. Now the way you select it for the healthiest, well, I mean some form of selection so that you have a product that lasts, produces many of them. And in fact, the error that they made, this is again a hypothesis, but I think it's the presumptively correct one, is that the decision to breed only young animals because young animals breed faster, so per unit of mouse chow, you get the most mouse babies. Got it. You breed only young animals, and that has a tremendous selective effect on the colony. What it does is it says cancer doesn't really matter anymore, because that's not, the eight-month
Starting point is 01:06:57 breeding cutoff is not enough time for a mouse to die of cancer. So you take that trade-off, that selection is balancing between cancer and senescence, and you say, all right, take cancer out of the equation. Now, the selective effect in the colony, is whatever mouse breeds fastest in that time is the winner. It takes over the colony genetically. And so you throw out cancer, you put a priority on not senessing,
Starting point is 01:07:23 and what you get are mice that don't senes in the same way that we do. They remain young, and they all die early of cancer. That's what we've got, right? Wow. We got mice that all die early of cancer, and when we look at their tissues, they don't get disorganized as they age,
Starting point is 01:07:41 the way our tissues. do. So it's a terrible model organism, right? Desperately misleading. Now here's the punchline, which you're going to love. The punchline is we also use the same animals for drug safety testing. And those animals have a built-in bias, which I couldn't say for sure, I'm not an insider, but I don't think pharma knew that the mice were biased in their direction before my work came out. Okay. But now, what we can say is if you've got mice that are highly cancer prone and have these incredibly long telomeres, which mean that they can replace their tissues indefinitely, well, if you give them a very toxic drug,
Starting point is 01:08:28 not only will they survive it when a human might not, because they have a capacity to repair their tissues in a way that we don't. Very quickly, you just repair the damage. But because the mice are in effect, in effect, all condescending. to die of cancer, if you give them a toxin, it may actually lengthen their lives because it functions as chemotherapy. Chemotherapy works on the basis that you're going to give something very toxic to a person, and that person's cancers are more sensitive to the toxin than the rest of them because cancers are constantly dividing, and that means that the DNA is separated.
Starting point is 01:09:04 It's not double-stranded, it's often single-stranded. Wow. It's more vulnerable to toxins. So that's why chemotherapy works. You kill the cancer faster than you kill the patient, is what chemotherapy doctors say. So in the case of a mouse that's got tumors starting because it's condemned to die.
Starting point is 01:09:21 They're extending their life. Right. And in fact that's- So by poisoning the heck out of this super mouse, you are actually extending its life and saying, hey, look, the product's safe. Not only is it safe, maybe it's good for you. Maybe it's good for you.
Starting point is 01:09:35 Yeah. Yeah, now, and then what happens? Well, then you get the Vioxx effect. You've got a drug, you think it's safe, it's released into the public, it turns out it's really not safe, and it does quote unquote, heart damage, which I don't think is really heart damage. I think it's bodywide damage, and because the heart is special, we see the damage there, we notice it.
Starting point is 01:09:57 But you got Vioxx, you got Fenn, you got Seldane, you got Erythamicin, you got all the ns, right? You see heart damage, right? What I think this is is a biased model organism causing us to regard drugs as safe and to put them into the market and then only if the harm is serious enough that, you know, people drop dead on the basketball court or something like that, do you start to notice it? Right. I will say that in the aftermath of the Vioxx scandal, the federal government commissioned
Starting point is 01:10:33 an investigation into what had gone with. wrong and there was a 300-page book on the future of drug safety published. It doesn't mention mice. It doesn't mention the genus mus. It doesn't mention telomeres. It misses this entirely. And I remember Vioxx was sort of famous because they, at a certain point, we got emails, internal emails once it was in court showing that they knew that this was going to have
Starting point is 01:10:58 a high, they literally had done mathematical equations saying how many will die of heart attacks versus how much what will sell and they made? Yeah, it's a cost of doing business. Cost of doing business. And so you brought the attention to these mice. Like it should be an earth-shattering moment in all of science. Oh my God, the mice we're using are manipulating our studies and giving us perhaps not just a bad answer, but the exact wrong answer. That the things that are toxic, this mouse loves, things that maybe aren't toxic, it's going to show that it's dying early just because of how the mouse is designed.
Starting point is 01:11:35 Yep. Well, I didn't raise the awareness. I tried to desperately. I tried to ring that bell for Decades. Okay. It just didn't work, you know, and I would have the same kind of experience again and again, you know, a journalist would be interested in the story and they'd be like that's fascinating, you know, yeah. I'd met you when I was on the doctor's television show I would have been like, this is it, I'm going to blow this up. By the way, I think I would have gotten away with it too. I had that, until I ran into the whistleblower at the CDC, I was getting really good. They'd be like, I don't understand it's like, trust me, this is going to be a mind blower.
Starting point is 01:12:17 And I had a bunch of television execs that had never been around science or medicine. So they would just be like, all right. And then I would do a show like that and be able to be like blowing away. So we could have maybe, you just missed me. I could have done something there. Well, let's put it this way. The people I ran into were all, I think they were cowards. And I think, you know, they were also not scientifically sophisticated enough to smell a rat, as it were.
Starting point is 01:12:44 Because what would happen is they would talk to me, they'd be fascinated by the story, I think they had it. And then they would call somebody who, you know, just to confirm that this wasn't insane. And what they would be told wouldn't make any sense, but it would cause them to think, I don't know what this story. story is and they would back off and disappear and I wouldn't hear from him again. So it hasn't gone anywhere, really. As far as I know, we're still using mice with this very defect. And it's crazy because not only is the drug safety thing, but these are just bad model organisms for the study of wound repair, for the study of aging, for the study of cancer,
Starting point is 01:13:17 for a wide range of things. And so we are blinding ourselves. We're building a literature on a model that's misleading. And the irony is, it doesn't have to be. You could get every advantage that comes from the mice, you can keep the uniform genetic background that comes from the inbreeding. You don't have to give that up in order to breed these animals in a way that doesn't produce this effect.
Starting point is 01:13:39 It's very easy to solve. But because we don't admit that it's a problem, it won't be solved. And who knows? I mean, I look at my medicine cabinet and I think, you know, maybe the aspirin is safe. Maybe that's been around long enough and we've got the dosage, you know? So let's jump into part of your career that then, I mean, obviously you're a person that's willing to challenge the established concept. You're not hung up on trying to make a difference. Then you find yourself at your university.
Starting point is 01:14:14 You got, I mean, you basically got run off of the university. How did that happen? Well, it's a crazy story. Heather and I, Heather is my wife, is co-host of the Dark Horse Podcast, co-author of Honor Gatherers Guide of the 21st Century. We were, let's just say, very popular professors at Evergreen. Evergreen was a very strange school.
Starting point is 01:14:38 It was set up in the very early 70s by radicals who literally threw out every normal structure and rule that would exist in a college or university. And they replaced it with some of the very early 70s by radicals. something that they thought was better. Approximately half of the things they did were insane. Half of them were brilliant. It never got fixed.
Starting point is 01:14:59 So it was always that mixture, right? Right. No departments, no grades, right. Got it. Professors had total freedom, much more freedom than you would have as a tenure professor at Harvard. We could teach anything we wanted in any way we wanted. Classes, you taught one class full time. Students took one class, full time.
Starting point is 01:15:17 They could go on for a full year. So we knew our students really well. So if you're the kind of professor who really wants to figure out what can be done in a classroom in what way could you teach that nobody's ever done before That's the place is the it was a it was a student looking you're gonna be getting some Everywhere between a lunatic that is no structure whatsoever to a genius that's found their way It's a bit like it's like building a house here in Texas No regulations whatsoever so you can build the most beautiful house there is but move into a house and your walls and windows can start falling out because no one made sure right that everyone was doing it right so right yeah that's a beautiful amount so we used to tell our students we used to tell
Starting point is 01:15:56 them look the way to go through college here is to figure out ignore the course description figure out who the professors are who knows something and are really compelled to figure out how to convey it that'll be a good course no matter what it's on yeah right and if you take something because the course description sounds good but it's from somebody who's trying to minimize their workload you're not gonna learn anything. But anyway, Heather and I loved teaching there. It was so great. And we had this community of students
Starting point is 01:16:26 who became fascinated with evolution, who would move from my programs to her programs, sometimes we team taught, and they would come together. Anyway, we were popular for a reason because we were dedicated to the work. Right. And the college hired a new president, a guy named George Bridges.
Starting point is 01:16:46 And for whatever reason, For whatever reason, George Bridges wanted to totally remake the college into something much more standard. So it was going to rob the students who needed a place like Evergreen in order to thrive. And anyway, so he wanted to revolutionize or de-revolutionize the college, really. But he couldn't do it because the founders of the college had set it up in a way that the faculty had the ability to just shut him down. It was the inverse of a normal college, and the faculty were reflexively anti-administrator, so they were suspicious of a president, especially a new one who hadn't been there. So what he did was he impaneled a diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, a large committee, hand-selected.
Starting point is 01:17:33 He actually mapped the faculty. He figured out where the tensions were. He figured out who was going to be a useful bully. He constructed a weapon. And he used that thing to effectively seed a race riot. Now, Heather was on sabbatical the year that this went down. But I saw this thing coming. I had the equivalent of tenure, as did Heather.
Starting point is 01:17:58 Heather was literally the college's most popular professor. And so I saw this diversity, equity, and inclusion committee basically, you know, with the college in its crosshairs. And it was both my job to study. stand up and say, actually, you're going to destroy this college. It's not going to function after you do what you're planning. It was my job to object. Was the goal to take, you had a sort of a teacher, faculty-led establishment, but if you could somehow turn the teachers against each other, you could, was that what the idea was
Starting point is 01:18:32 to use this? Or how was this going to? The race war that President Bridges started was, I think, this is a thing. conjection. But I did know the man reasonably well. It was designed to get the faculty so that they were at each other's throats and could not shut down his program to remake the college. Why he wanted to remake the college, I don't know. So divide and conquer. Right. So would they have strength? I need them to fight each other so that they lose their strength and power of collective thought and not bargaining necessarily, but to sort of stand their ground. I'm going to get them divided. Absolutely. Okay. So anyway, he sets this thing in motion. I start attending every faculty meeting because there are bombshells being dropped all the time. And faculty meetings have been restructured so we can't ask questions. And so I'm like collecting information on what's being done and I'm distributing it by email.
Starting point is 01:19:26 And anyway, so I become an obstacle to what he's doing. And something behind the scenes happens. And I start, I become the focus of ire of, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. And in fact, I have one antagonist who is rather dedicated to undoing what I'm trying to accomplish. And to make a long story short, there's a faculty meeting in which I stand up publicly.
Starting point is 01:20:05 The faculty is in the process of deliberating about a requirement that we would inflict on ourselves. that every member of the faculty every year would write a document reflecting on their progress at addressing their own racism, which was simply assumed to exist. This was as liberal a college as exists. It did not have a racism problem. Right. Right.
Starting point is 01:20:33 But we were supposed to do this, and the idea was, once you get people in an official document reflecting on their own racism, then you can, you could do this. can use those things. These would be public documents that would be, you know, available when somebody was up for promotion or whatever. You could use it for firing purposes. So anyway, I stood up in this faculty meeting and I said, this is a terrible idea. And I explained why the vote was something like 70 to 2, right? Everybody embraced this thing. And then immediately at the end of the faculty meeting, a bunch of tenured faculty came up to me and they said, you know, you were right but I had to vote for it anyway right wow so it was that kind of
Starting point is 01:21:15 environment but anyway one year to the day after that faculty meeting 50 students that I had never met streamed into my classroom accusing me of racism demanding that I apologize resign or be fired now it took me a month or two to figure out what they were expecting to happen I think they were expecting this was 2017, May 23rd, 9.30 in the morning. I think they were expecting that any time some colorful group of students storms into the classroom of a straight white professor in 2017, that professor's students are going to abandon the professor
Starting point is 01:22:02 and join the protest because no doubt they all have complaints about feeling that they didn't get the right grade on something or, you know, Yeah. They would have grievances. Not one of my students defected. In fact, they did the opposite. They spoke up on my behalf, including students of color. What are you talking about? Racist? This is insane. In fact, we had been studying, like, evolutionarily, what is race and why does it cause this problem in civilizations and all of that? So they got the opposite effect that they wanted. But what unfolded over the next week was remarkable. So the protesters who were accusing me of racism again people I'd never met Yeah filmed everything they did they were very proud of it and they uploaded it to the internet The internet scratched its head over I stood up and I said no I'm not I'm not racist I refused to admit any such thing I tried to reason with them you know I did my best to do you know I was a college professor confronted with confused college students it felt like my professional responsibility to help them to see the world more clearly, right?
Starting point is 01:23:12 And when the public saw this, it was like, wait a minute, why are they going after him? He seems all right. And so that sort of began to open people's eyes. It was this important event because it broke the DEI narrative. But what happened on the college campus was that the protest in my classroom very quickly descended into campus-wide riots. The president of the college, George Bridges, literally ordered the campus police. This was a real police force, but they were under his command.
Starting point is 01:23:50 He ordered them to stay out of it. In fact, he ordered them to lock themselves in their police station, which they did. And the campus descended into literal anarchy and then chaos. Students were roaming the campus, taking over for the police. police they actually battered students they were the police told me the police alerted me that I needed to stay away from campus because the rioters were looking for me there was a public road that came through campus they were stopping traffic and they were searching cars looking for me this is blocks
Starting point is 01:24:30 from my house I'm literally being hunted by students who are are enraged at racism that is not present and the police have been ordered to stay out of it and they've told me i need to stay away because nobody's going to protect me so this is madness and anyway to make a long story short um of course the press didn't show up with one exception the one exception being Tucker carlson reached out and he said you want to tell that story and at the time, I thought Tucker Carlson was quite the villain. But I knew that the story needed to reach a wider audience. If the story was kept on campus, it was not going to get understood and adjudicated correctly. Right. So I took up Carlson on his offer, which I'm very glad I did.
Starting point is 01:25:31 Yeah. I no longer think ill of him. He is a great guy and a real patriot and not an ounce of racism to him either and he treated me very compassionately which caught my attention right away where he could have basically taken up the idea well you know you're a liberal you got what you deserve right he yeah he was compassionate and you know clearly disturbed at what had happened to me i'm troubled by what this implies about the current state of the left well you think you said people shouldn't be allowed to speak or not on the basis of their skin color which seems like a foundational belief of the left, and one that I agree with strongly.
Starting point is 01:26:11 And for that, they physically threatened you and are trying to get you fired. This is unbelievable. They are absolutely trying to get me fired, and they believe that my words in my email are transparently racist, and I think we're caught quite off guard when people who were not at Evergreen
Starting point is 01:26:31 read my letter and couldn't find any racism in it. Yeah, just the opposite. So this became an iconic event. It, of course, got me portrayed as far right, which of course is the opposite of the truth. But anyway, that's the short version. Wow. And so I assume you left the job. Heather and I resigned our positions.
Starting point is 01:26:57 It had become, you know, at the point that your boss orders the police to stay out of riots that are built around a phony accusation of you and people are you on campus. It's not a place you can teach. Right. So we left. We got a settlement from the college enough to give us a couple of years to figure out what to do next. And what we ended up doing is writing a book, starting a podcast, speaking around the country and the world, and there it is. Well, we're going to swing back around to all of this because it really helps me understand why you're going where you are now. But let's get to the place where I would say sort of you and
Starting point is 01:27:35 and I end up meeting up, which is around this COVID pandemic. And, you know, the first time I ever heard of you was the interview that you did with Robert Malone and Steve Kirsch. Yep. Let's just look at a clip really quick. Robert Malone is an MD PhD? No, Masters. Masters and MD.
Starting point is 01:28:00 He is also, and most significantly here, the inventor of MRNA vaccine. technology from back as a graduate student, am I correct? Yeah, and I'm also a licensed position in Maryland. This is your area of expertise, is that what these vaccines do is they encode spike protein alone so that the immune system will learn to recognize spike protein and will catch it quickly when one is confronted with COVID. But the spike protein itself, we now know, is very dangerous. It's cytotoxic. Is that a fair description? More than fair, and I alerted the FDA about this risk months and months and months ago.
Starting point is 01:28:38 So if it was very dangerous, but it did what the brochure on these vaccines says it should do, which is lodge in the membrane of the cells that are doing the transcribing, it would be a lot less destructive, right? I think that's fair. And you're right. It's not just the documentation about the vaccine. It's the prior literature that was put out
Starting point is 01:29:04 by the people that developed it, that developed these clones. So they were aware that there was a risk of a spike being biologically active in having adverse events if it did not stay stuck to the cells that were transfected that got the RNA and made it. And they used a genetic engineering method of putting a transmembrane domain on it to ensure that it stayed anchored and stayed put. And they did limited non-clinical studies to say, looks like it stays stuck, we engineered it to stay stuck. They did.
Starting point is 01:29:46 And they published that. Here's the thing. Special engineered. Okay. Is that that's generally not good enough in a non-clinical data package. So before we get a product released to use in humans, in the normal situation where we're not in a rush, we have some really rigorous tests that have to be done in animals.
Starting point is 01:30:09 And revealing that spike gets cleaved off of express cells and becomes free is something that absolutely should have been known and understood well before this ever gotten put into humans. So I'll just leave it at that. This particular vaccine, because of the spike protein, and because it breaks, it cleaves off the cell. And it goes throughout your body and your brain, your heart, anywhere that you can have these symptoms that are so varied, whether it's a 16-year-old who can't talk or see 48 hours
Starting point is 01:30:46 after injection or someone who's, you know, handshakes, the victims of this, of this vaccine. They're not being able to tell their story. So that interview, I mean, for us, just a little bit, you know, and you probably know by now what we were up to at that time. But, you know, we had been on an investigation to vaccination, just on the testing. On, is this being properly tested for safety? Forget advocacy. Is it being tested for safety? We have done that work from the beginning, like the end of 2016, been bringing lawsuits against health and human services.
Starting point is 01:31:25 the CDC, FDA, NIH saying you're not, you're not doing proper safety tests. They're not long enough. You're not using a placebo group. None of this is being done right. And of course, we were being called anti-vaxious in the whole bit. So when COVID hit, you know, all of a sudden for us, I mean, we had been at this for three, you know, years or so, really had seen how the playbook worked for how they rush vaccines through the market.
Starting point is 01:31:51 Then this MRNA technology pops up. We're investigating and has a terrible track record in animal models like awful and now Donald Trump's going to warp speed this This process We're fighting to like if you're going to do trials on this you better have a placebo we actually won that battle they were going to use a Meningia cockle vaccine as the placebo group in the giant trials and we told them we will shout to the entire world Which we've been winning lawsuits against you. We will prove that you didn't have a proper safety trial this time and in real time. But for us, we felt like they rushed right into our battle zone, which was, you're about to do what we know you've been doing the whole time and the whole world's
Starting point is 01:32:34 going to watch it. But even so, we were under attack, being suppressed, and what is your evidence? Suddenly, we saw this interview and I just, oh my God, this is the moment we have always been waiting for because prior to this moment, all you ever had was Dr. Andrew Wakefield. Yeah. Up until this moment in this show that you did, there's just one lunatic doctor that said that this is, you know, causes all these other, you know, autism, whatever it is, he's a whack and no one else in science believes that the vaccines have a problem. I feel like when we saw this, they said this guy, Dr. Robert Malone, claiming to be one of the inventors of this technology is saying, dude, we have messed up and we've messed up in a big way. And you were able to have this conversation, as we just saw, getting so deep in the science. I was like, so not only is there Robert Malone who could say is nuts, you've got this Brett Weinstein character that clearly understands biology to a level and he's agreeing with him. And then you had Steve Kirsch coming from, you know, a background in Silicon Valley and understanding, you know, technical sciences and things.
Starting point is 01:33:44 It was absolutely for us, like the clouds had finally parted, a sunbeam came down, and here comes the cavalry, here comes real scientists to finally join us and understand what we've been talking about. That's what happened over here. What happened? How did this interview happen? How did you find Dr. Robert Malone? So first of all, let me just say, I didn't know that. I didn't know that that had been important to you. You didn't know, you didn't have, I had no idea.
Starting point is 01:34:20 That, that interview, which stayed up for a very short period of time. I mean, I must say, I'm sure there are some very expensive podcasts out there, high production values stuff. Yeah. But for normal podcasts, that's got to have been one of the most expensive podcasts ever. Okay. That podcast, along with the one that I did with Pierre Corey, Corey resulted in YouTube demonetizing the two channels that Dark Horse had and setting us up to be removed from YouTube altogether. We are still demonetized.
Starting point is 01:35:02 They have never, they now run ads on our stuff. They are still demonetized. That podcast has been removed from YouTube, has not been put back up even though it has been vindicated. Yeah. And I think the powers that B also had a reaction to that podcast, which was, oh, this cannot be, right? Yeah. Because if we're going to have people actually making the science accessible, talking about why it is that these so-called vaccines cannot be safe. If we're going to have that conversation, then, you know, you're just, you're
Starting point is 01:35:42 pulling back the curtain on, you know, on the man running the machines. So in any case, the system had an allergic reaction to that podcast. You had a here comes the cavalry reaction. Yes. Now, the story of that podcast, I wish it was more fitting for how apparently important it was. What happened was I had run into Steve Kirsch. And what he had done with the data that had accumulated on adverse events, even at that early point, was impressive to me and I wanted to talk to him about it. But I was nervous about it.
Starting point is 01:36:20 He wasn't positioned, you know, he was a tech guy. He's the inventor of the optical mouse, right? This is not his area. And so I was nervous about... So he had just been injured by the project, if I understand, right? It was pissed off. Pretty decent research just started doing his own research. A smart guy.
Starting point is 01:36:37 Got a hold of you? Or how did that connection happen? How did that connection happen? I don't remember. Okay. I don't know. I think maybe he reached out. But in any case, I was talking to him in advance and like, can we really do this?
Starting point is 01:36:51 Are you the guy who can bring this evidence forward? And he said, well, maybe we should bring in my friend Robert. And I said, who's Robert? And he said, the inventor of the MRNA vaccine technology. And I was like, run that by me again? He's the inventor of the MRNA vaccine technology. Wait, and he's on our side? Like, what is going on?
Starting point is 01:37:19 So I said, by all means, let's bring in Robert. So, you know, that podcast that you saw, that's the day I met him, he came to my house. He was, of course, you know, everything you could want and more, you know, a lovely human being. loves the science. He and I have to be careful because you know the love of the biology underlying the thing to take us over Yeah, but um, can lose all entertainment value all together or just right exactly So anyway, I mean I I do remember It's now
Starting point is 01:37:53 It's kind of a A bittersweet Memory, but I did say to him I said you know Robert you're you're the inventor of this technology you and I both know how much potential this technology you and I both know how much potential this is technology has it solves one of the tremendously important problems in gene therapy but you're gonna lose any chance at the Nobel Prize that is eventually gonna be awarded for this if you go on this podcast and he was aware of the issue and decided to do it anyway and of course that has now
Starting point is 01:38:27 happened the Nobel Prize amazingly enough was given to the folks who pseudo-uridine in it messed up yeah the worst design flaw yeah right so anyway I do think people need to realize that as much as Robert Malone has of course become a hero of the medical freedom movement that that story has a depth to it this is somebody who took the course of righteousness instead of the course of fame and fortune and anyway I think I think we all owe him a major debt of gratitude because because the obvious dangers of these inoculations would have been much harder to establish
Starting point is 01:39:13 if their literal inventor had not been ready to acknowledge them on camera. There's questions at times whether he can be considered an inventor of this technology. I know that you do your research for those that may be questioning, why do you believe he should be credited with that? Well, because he's got the receipts. I mean, the fact is, unfortunately, Fortunately, for those who want to play these games in narrative space, we have a legal system that is designed to adjudicate exactly who is and who isn't the inventor of what, right?
Starting point is 01:39:48 It's the patent system. And so he's got the receipts, he's got the laboratory evidence. It's very clear. Now, can you make the argument that there are other co-inventors? Yeah, there are a couple people who can be co-credited. But is he, does he, is he is not one of the people who was simply in some large collection of folks. Not like some PA in the background.
Starting point is 01:40:12 No. I was like in the room, watch, I've seen that happen. Yeah. No. This is the inventor of the technology. And if you actually sit down and talk to him about what the history of laboratory experiments is, I mean, this is a genius who did solve all of the problems necessary to make this work. Now, that didn't make it safe, right?
Starting point is 01:40:32 Right. We have not solved the safety problem here. And so this is not a technology that should be used on human beings under any circumstances. And it's just, it's a marvelous thing that Robert will- When you were doing the interview, I mean, how long was the conversation before you did the interview? I mean, did you have a really good sense of where he's at, or was there some level of discovery happening in real time as we're watching that-
Starting point is 01:40:55 It's almost all in real time. We probably had 10 minutes of conversation before we turned on the cameras and went So while it was happening, because it was mind-blowing watching it, it's hard sometimes as an interviewer to step out, you're in the middle of it. Are you thinking this is monumental what's happening here? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, clearly, clearly. So I have skills remembering the dates and the order of things is not one of them.
Starting point is 01:41:34 But Heather and I, our entree into the, you know, the rabbit hole of the so-called vaccine safety and effectiveness was a simple observation. We were being told that these vaccines were safe. That literally could not possibly be true. Right. Like I can say with 100% certainty, there is no way that this could have turned to. out to be an accurate claim. And the reason for that is because safety doesn't mean what people think it means. We think it means without harm. That's not what it means. It means without risk. There's no way you can inject a brand new vaccine into people that hasn't existed long enough
Starting point is 01:42:22 for you to find out what happens to them five years later and tell me that it's safe. It's not. Without risk. Yeah, you can tell me, we have not seen any harm, which would have been a lie. but you could say we have not seen any harm right right is it safe we don't know it's safe as far as we know but we don't know that it is safe and so at the point that they're telling me it is safe alarm bells are going off i know that that's a lie i don't know what kind of lie but i know it's a lie yeah and so at the point you're lying to me about something that is as profound an intervention as a shot that, you know, because I'm a biologist, I know what it means that you're going to put RNA into me and you're going to get my cells to translate it into a protein, right?
Starting point is 01:43:10 I didn't know the full depth of it. I didn't know that they had stabilized the MRI so that it didn't dissipate quickly. Get rid of it. I didn't know that it was going to circulate around the body and that it could inoculate any cell and any tissue. I didn't know any of that yet. But the point was, all right, you just told me something that tells me you're not honest. Right.
Starting point is 01:43:29 What else don't I know? And that is, that's the label on that rabbit hole. What else don't I know? And of course, in this area, there's no shortage of things down that hole, right? There's a whole lot they didn't tell us. And it just gets worse and worse, the more you know. I mean, right through, you know, IGG4, right? It took a long time to get to that revelation that these inoculations, if you've had two
Starting point is 01:43:54 or more of them actually turned down your immune system any time it sees the spike protein. Right. So now you're now you're more likely to get infected more. I mean, I keep seeing headlines as though it's like a brand new headline in a bigger and bigger paper. The more vaccines you get, more COVID vaccines you get, the more infections you're going to have. The less, I mean, just like, when we were saying this, of course, a couple of years ago, now it's getting to be bigger and bigger science. Did you, did you, were you nervous at all that what was being said could get you canceled on YouTube?
Starting point is 01:44:26 because that was also sort of the beginning of that censorship was just I mean maybe you may have even triggered it at the level that that started happening um I definitely knew it was a possibility okay in fact the way that history will have recorded that is in general our guest appearances are recorded and we released them later They're not edited, but we don't do them live because it's just technically difficult. We did the Corey podcast and the Malone Kirsch podcast live. And the reason that we did them live was because it would not give YouTube warning of what was coming. Got it. We wanted them to have to take it in real time. So we were aware of the danger. You know, I have a little saying, which is no matter how cynical you get, you're still
Starting point is 01:45:26 being naive. So, you know, I look back on my mindset from that era and I think yeah, it's give me a problem. It's no, it was like right. But we're gonna deal with this. No, we just unearthed the we released the crackin. Yeah, we we tapped Goliath on the shoulder and in fact I now know from insiders at YouTube that the decision to demonetize and not re-monetize Dark Horse was made in the C-suite at you too right this was top level stuff now there is a part of me that is I mean you must have the same thing but just structured in a way where it's like look you're telling me you're gonna put human lives in jeopardy and lie about it yeah and
Starting point is 01:46:15 you're gonna tell me as an American that I don't get to talk about what you're doing I'm sorry right come hell or high water I'm going to talk about what you're doing Yeah. And, you know, like I said, that was an expensive podcast. They knocked out half our family income in the space of an hour. Wow. You know, one channel, then the second channel demonetized permanently.
Starting point is 01:46:38 It was like, boom. You know, this is, and frankly, it's tortious interference, right? That's the idea as well, if you're going to talk about it, then you're going to have to figure out what else you do for a living. I don't regret it, though our lives would look very different if we hadn't done that. The podcast was absolutely taking off in terms of viewership, and even though YouTube pays terribly with their ads, it was making money in a way we frankly never expected. We saw that for one month, and then it was demonetized, and we've not gotten a penny on them since. On the other hand, look at where we are in 2024.
Starting point is 01:47:24 You know, the fact is the narrative that they were selling broke. It's shattered. And there are still parts of it that people believe. People still are confused about what happened with the report. It really is coming down to where you're getting your news and information from now. We are literally living in two different worlds. Yes. So incredibly different.
Starting point is 01:47:46 my father used to contemplate this with me. He's like, I think there may be a point where we see the world so differently. This is actually years ago that you may not be able to see the person you're crossing the street. He would talk about Martian Chronicles and remember like that film series,
Starting point is 01:48:01 but there's like two passages of time, the aliens aren't seeing the people. We are so far apart now in perspectives that it's, we are almost quite literally living in different worlds now with people lug right down the straight from us. Well, I would say there are
Starting point is 01:48:19 three groups, though. There are two groups that just literally have worldviews that can't be reconciled. And then there's a vast group in the middle that can't quite admit where they are. Right. That's who I talk. That's what
Starting point is 01:48:35 I think I do this show for. And I say to people, don't waste any of your energy on the people that have already poured the cement around their feet and are jumping into the There are a lot of people sitting on the railing right now that are just trying to figure out why am I not feeling comfortable with what I'm seeing What's going on let's get to a place where you and I sort of found some discomfort This was at I don't know this is the first time we met in person might have been but we were in England at the better way
Starting point is 01:49:04 Conference. Yep and I sort of locked horns with Geert van der Boisch Take a look at this I think there's a conversation that needs to happen right here and now if we're truly going to discuss a better way forward that has been set off, and some of it's a bit of a firestorm that Geard Van Bosch has created online. For those of you that have been asking those questions, it really comes down to vaccinations. I think that many in this audience and out there in the viewing world right now would think that after this COVID pandemic and the problems that we've seen with this vaccine, that an event like this would come to the conclusion that there isn't a place for vaccines moving forward.
Starting point is 01:49:45 I want to ask a few questions of this panel. I'm going to put you on the spot. I haven't done it on my show. Maybe you'll never come on again. But we are truly, truly going to have a scientific conversation. We can't be afraid to have this one. Here, you have talked about how dangerous it is vaccinating the youth, the children in this pandemic because of their natural and powerful innate immunity. What is the difference? Why is it that you came here today and said, we must continue vaccinating children with all of the other vaccinations and not trusting innate immunity and that natural immune system when it comes to childhood illness. The problem is that we are facing two completely different situations when we are again vaccinating
Starting point is 01:50:32 the children during a pandemic very clearly, very clearly we are not contributing so the children are not contributing to herd immunity. we prevent this reservoir. This is way more complex than you are discussing. If you are discussing about the safety issues, for example, I mean, you are not considering the impact of losing herd immunity. If you have diseases like flu, like rona, like even measles that can spread asymptomatically, how do you think that without vaccination you are going to maintain your herd immunity?
Starting point is 01:51:11 Please tell me. It's by having the next epidemic, of course. Do you want to have this? Can you calculate what the damage will be of that? You cannot. You know, this is simply based on, you know, knowledge of immunology, herd immunity. You cannot compare, like, you know, monkeypox, for example, where you have a really protective immune response to cytolytic T cells, for example.
Starting point is 01:51:41 I would say this. With other things. I'm having a huge problem with taking this shortcuts, right? And we're saying no injections. Okay, guys, then we are not going to vaccinate these diseases that we have kept under control for many years. I have two points. Lose that herd immunity and have your epidemics to reestablish it every single time. I hate to be this guy, but the problem is really that we all feel entitled to have a simple solution.
Starting point is 01:52:10 and we waited far too long for there to be one, right? The problem is like two layers up, right? Vaccination is too important to be in the hands of a private corporation. Well, what are you going to do? Are you going to hand it to government? Our governments? Have you seen how they behave? That wouldn't be safe, now, would it? So at some level, this is not an indictment of vaccination.
Starting point is 01:52:31 It's an indictment of the system in which it is embedded. We're going to have to solve that problem. And if you think that's going to be simple, then you haven't been paying attention. We have a serious problem in Western civilization. Every institution has been captured. We have to solve that problem. Then we can talk about vaccination. I know that's its own conversation that happened on that stage.
Starting point is 01:52:54 And certainly I had laid out all of the safety side, like all of the drops in child, you know, the fact that we had a rise in, you know, all sorts of neurological and autoimmune disease. Gert didn't want to talk about any of that. It's not his focus. I don't really care to talk about that right now. What I'm more interested in is we went to dinner that night. And I don't know if it's purposeful, somehow you and I got down to the same table. And I have some recollection of that conversation, though it may not be fully accurate,
Starting point is 01:53:24 but we've never actually had the moment to reflect on that actual conversation. And my memory of it was something to the effect that you believe that you know, there was that because I was being so radical in my messaging that all vaccines are a problem just like COVID, that I was undermining what was happening in this movement around the COVID vaccine, that it was not helping, that I was distracting the conversation. And you made a point which I did really take home, which is this battle you've been fighting, you know, you are. you seem to be unaware of what you have just achieved, which is, and you said rightfully so,
Starting point is 01:54:12 look around this room right. We're at dinner. It was Robert Malone and Gert Van Denbosch and other, like, great scientists that had joined this cause as we discussed during, you know, it sort of was sparked by your interview of Robert Malone. I did, I did leave, you know, thinking, you know, Brett may be right. I'm fighting a battle the same way as though I'm all alone. which I've been for you know four or five years and I'm not recalibrating to the fact that there is a a real support group that is now here and I'm kind of freaking them out is that your recollection of that conversation yeah almost exactly not only freaking them out but potentially putting them in
Starting point is 01:55:01 jeopardy now that conversation meant something to me too I was very very impressed with the way you were able to hear the critique in real time. You didn't become defensive. You heard it for what it was. And it was an observation about, you know, a couple things. One is just strategically speaking, this isn't the battle you were in two years ago. It's a different battle because there are a lot of people who are awake to something. Yeah. And then there's a question about, well, what is the discovery? What is the implication? And at that point, you and I were somewhere quite different. And I must say, my position has moved because this has forced me to learn about the reality of how
Starting point is 01:55:45 these products are produced which I'm now embarrassed to say I had simply assumed that they were produced in a reasonable fashion that the level of corruption was sort of human scale that you know that there would be embarrassing things in it there would be dangers that hadn't been confessed. But I was shocked to discover the level at which the safety work simply had not been done, which has now been acknowledged by, you know, one of the leading proponents of... Yeah, exactly. So anyway, my position has moved because it was predicated on bad assumptions about what these inoculations were. I mean, to the point, and some people,
Starting point is 01:56:34 I'm sure you get accused, oh, he's a shill, he's working for the other side. I mean, the book you published lists in the sort of top three great achievements in science vaccines. One of the three great, so the point that we make in the book is that medicine is a very mixed bag. There's a lot of harm to be done. That there are three great achievements. And the three great achievements that Heather and I list are surgery, vaccination, and antibiotics. And that was a book that we completed in 2019, right before the pandemic. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:57:14 And, you know, I want to walk a careful line here. Okay. In principle, so I should say, I'm an evolutionary biologist, but as an undergraduate, I took a course in immunobiology in the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. I had a habit of taking courses that weren't in my particular trajectory just because I thought that subject matter was interesting. Turns out to have been one of the greatest things I ever did for myself as a human being and as a biologist. The understanding of how the immune system works is it pays dividends all the time. But it had left me with a correct understanding of the way vaccines are supposed to work.
Starting point is 01:57:59 which I still think in principle is a hugely important contributor to public health. I am now not compelled that the system that has, that the current batch of vaccines and certainly the vaccines that are being designed, basically a refresh based on the MRNA platform, that cannot possibly be safe enough to contemplate. So my sense is, and I used to say this about television. I say it's not the box, it's the business model. There's nothing inherently dangerous about a television. You can have a documentary about nature. You can have science programming.
Starting point is 01:58:42 There's lots of good stuff that can come through your TV. It becomes dangerous when the business model causes it to parasitize you. Same can be said for social media. And what I'm now coming to understand is that the mechanisms that are employed by vaccine manufacturers and the methods used to test or really to obscure safety signals make the products invalid from the get-go. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:59:14 You know, at the beginning of the pandemic, I did not really know what an adjuvant was. At the moment I discovered that we were using a trick to hyperactivate the immune system in order to make the vaccine seen work, my thought was, how could that possibly be safe? Right. And what does it have to do with all of the allergies that we scratch our heads over? Right.
Starting point is 01:59:38 It doesn't make sense that... You're inciting the immune system, the body of toxins, you know, into inflammation. I mean, where inflammation is the bad guy, this product's designed to cause inflammation in order to work. In a totally nonspecific way. And what's more, so let's take the aluminum that is currently the... that is currently the favorite adjuvant. If you're going to inject somebody with aluminum
Starting point is 02:00:02 to hyperactivate their immune system in order to get it to respond to an antigen that you've put in a shot that it won't respond to under ordinary circumstances, there should be a long list of instructions that come with that. Here are the things that you should avoid eating
Starting point is 02:00:21 for the next two weeks or a month. Here are the seasons in which we are not going to give you this shot because ragweed is blooming. I don't know what the instructions would be exactly, but there would be instructions about how to minimize the likelihood of triggering the immune system to react to something that is not a pathogen where you will suffer for the rest of your life for its reactivity. And I've never heard those instructions. And this is what I love about what you do. Like, and for me, you have given me new ways of getting an idea across or even understanding something that I've been saying in a deeper way. But essentially what you're
Starting point is 02:00:56 saying so that people understand this is that the vaccine is almost like it opens, like if there's a lock on your, the coding of your computer, it opens it up. So at this point, anything's allowed to come in and rewrite onto your software, you're creating this opening so that if you're breathing in ragweed right now, while your body's going through this several days of like, oh, I'm supposed to be told that's an enemy, you know, right now I've just triggered the system, say you're under attack, create antibodies to this, but if I'm eating cheese at that moment, if I'm eating eggs at that moment, if I'm breathing ragweed at that moment, my body's going, oh, my enemy, my enemy, and starts creating all sorts of unnecessary immune responses to things
Starting point is 02:01:42 that could be just environmental, not a part of the vaccine. Is that sort of? Yes. So I actually learned some of this from Bobby. There is a, and the oldest vaccine technology involves using an attenuated pathogen, that is to say, a relative of the thing that actually threatens your health and giving you an infection. Your body responds to infections. It's one of the things it does very well. So if it has an infection, it can learn the antigen that it is supposed to be targeting. Now, vaccine manufacturers do not like this technology. And there are reasons they don't like it. One, it's cumbersome, right? You have to actually cultivate these organisms,
Starting point is 02:02:28 and because you're cultivating them, they can evolve. They can evolve once the patient has the infection. So it's a little bit scary, that technology. But what they've replaced it with is an inferior technology, where they separate the antigens, where you're getting something inert and dead. and the body does not respond to it like an infection and therefore does not develop the immunity. Right? They're weak is what they are. And as a trick to trigger the immune system to react as if it has an infection,
Starting point is 02:03:01 they're basically giving you a chemical sickness, right? They're tricking your body into thinking it's sick so that the body then is in surveillance mode trying to figure out which of the particles that are present are actually hostile. with no mechanism for telling it how to distinguish between ragweed and, you know, some antigen of a virus. Right. So, of course, this would cause autoimmune disorders, allergies. It will cause dysregulation of that entire extremely elegant system. Yeah. So I guess what I'm realizing, and, you know, I'm still somewhere in this trajectory, is that much of what
Starting point is 02:03:42 allows us to protect our own health are based on assumptions that simply are not met by the mechanisms that are being employed, right? You think that there is a system that tests vaccines carefully to make sure that nothing is injected into you for which the benefit does not exceed the cost. That is simply not true. These things are being created because they're profitable. They are being created in ways that are economically efficient at arbitrary cost to human health. The ways in which they can disrupt the body, here's one, this is a significant change in my understanding. I used to think that inoculations were an elegant, minimal intervention that gave a large benefit,
Starting point is 02:04:35 right? Because that's more or less how it's described in the textbook. you know, a very tiny gauge needle injects a small amount of a liquid and suddenly your immune system is simply informed of something it didn't know. I now regard anything that is delivered into the tissue with a hypodermic needle as a radical intervention, right? You will often hear people who are defending, you know, shots that have mercury in them by saying, well, yes, there's mercury in it, but, you know, it's less.
Starting point is 02:05:07 than there is in a tuna fish sandwich. Well, that is a game of smoke and mirrors. Because one, there shouldn't be any mercury in a tuna fish sandwich. That is the result of humans polluting the environment. Two, the amount of mercury in a tuna fish sandwich is not trivial, which is why pregnant women are advised to avoid them.
Starting point is 02:05:31 Three, there is a huge difference between ingesting something into your gut, where your gut is wired not to transport things into your interior, your actual interior. Right. So most of that mercury will pass through you if you eat it. Whereas injecting it into you, this is not something you would normally be encountering.
Starting point is 02:05:54 Your body doesn't have the mechanisms to deal with it, so its consequences are arbitrary. So in any case, when we inoculate, it seems like a minimal intervention. It is a radical intervention. And I still believe, that vaccination in the sense meant the original sense is potentially an extremely valuable intervention, but I absolutely do not trust the mechanisms that generate these products
Starting point is 02:06:22 or that test them either for how effective they are or how safe they are. While we're on the subject, because you're so good at describing these things, You said something about the platform, the MRNA technology to me when we were just in Switzerland that I didn't fully understand. You know, I've been really caught up with the spike. I've been saying the spike protein was the worst decision. Why would you make the bio weapon, like the weapon itself, what your body is recreating? Usually a vaccine wants me to focus on, you know, the weaker part of the wheels of the tank,
Starting point is 02:06:59 if you will, so that I still take out the tank, but I'm not at risk for taking it. having the bioweapon wreak havoc through my body. And so that's what I feel like was one of the catastrophic mistakes, which even Malone and you kind of touch on in that first interview. And so the myocarditis, periocarditis, the fact that there's spike protein being found there, we're all really sort of obsessed with that. But you said it really doesn't matter if it's spike protein. That's not actually the problem.
Starting point is 02:07:26 It's the technology itself. Explain that. Sure. It's a problem. It's not the problem. Right. And I agree with you that the, the, The problem with spike protein is that because this is the molecule that binds to the ACE2 receptor,
Starting point is 02:07:39 if you produce a bunch of it, we've got ACE2 receptors all over many tissues. So you don't want to produce something that's the exact, you know, you don't want to distribute keys at random that are opening locks, right? That's not a biologically wise thing to do. So the spike protein was a bad choice. It is not the core problem with the MRNA platform. And the reason I think we are being led to understand that even to the extent that the system that produces these things is beginning to acknowledge the hazards, it wants us to focus on spike protein and it wants to rescue the platform as if the unfortunate thing. And there's tons of it being made.
Starting point is 02:08:18 They're like canceling. They're going after MRNA is the future technology. Right. Technology. So let me explain in simple terms why this. technology in this form is dead on arrival. Yeah. The MRNA platform takes a message, a transcript of a gene, and it imports it, it imports it
Starting point is 02:08:45 imports it into the body in lipid nanoparticle. Lipid just means fat, and fats are absorbed by other fats. Your cells are all covered in fat. So we were initially told that the vaccines stay in the vaccine. in the side of injection. Obviously that wasn't going to be true. Right here. And it turned out not to be true.
Starting point is 02:09:04 Yeah. Which means that they're going to circulate around the body in the blood and the lymph. Where will they get taken up? They will get taken up arbitrarily around the body, wherever the lipid nanoparticle bumps into a cell and the fats merge, and this transcript is injected into the cytoplasm of the cell. When the cell takes that transcript and it translates it into protein, the ribosome picks up the MRNA and it reads it.
Starting point is 02:09:31 Now there's a lot of flaws there. The way we've stabilized these molecules makes the ribosome prone to produce garbage on the other end, which is dangerous. Even if it worked flawlessly. If it's a perfect copy and really like just delivers exactly what the recipe said to make. If it did exactly what the brochure said, it would still be deadly dangerous. And the reason is that the immune system, one of the things I learned in that immunobiology
Starting point is 02:09:58 course all those years ago was that the immune system has an incredibly elegant mechanism for distinguishing self from non-self. Your immune system is composed of a huge number of cells. They can react in principle to any biological molecule that they encounter. But early in life, in utero, in fact, there is a sorting process where all of the cells, you have this huge array of cells that react to different things. All of the cells that are triggered in utero must be reacting to you because you're the only thing present, right? You're insulated from the world. So the immune system turns off all those lineages that are reactive in utero. Everything I'm seeing right now is me. Is me. Don't attack it. Those things are, those are on the white list.
Starting point is 02:10:47 Right. Everything else is foreign. So when you're born, the point is all of the cells that would react to you are already turned off and anything that your immune system sees is now foreign, which doesn't make everything a pathogen, but it means those things are not self. So a self- non-self recognition system is the core of a properly functioning immune system. When you get sick with a virus, a virus gets into your body, it invades a cell and it hijacks it. That That cell now starts producing virus and that cell will burst open. It will spill over to the next adjacent cell and eventually some tissue will start leaking virus.
Starting point is 02:11:34 You'll cough it onto somebody, they'll start producing virus themselves. So the immune system looks for a hallmark of viral infection in order to cure this. The hallmark is a cell that is making self antigens and a cell that is making foreign antigens. Anytime the immune system sees a cell making both self and foreign, that is a virally infected cell. And the one and only right thing to do is to destroy it. Kill it. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:12:05 So if that happens in your arm, in your liver, the surface of your lungs, it's not positive. It's a loss of tissue, but it's a manageable loss. If that happens in your heart, it's a disaster, especially if it's a bunch of cells. your heart for reasons that actually go back to that telomere story that we talked about up top, your heart has almost no capacity to repair. What it does instead is it scars over, and scar tissue is not the equivalent of the tissue that was replaced. Especially not something that's got to be flexible and moving. Right. It can't, you know, it can't fail for 80 years of continuous pumping. So these shots, by their very nature, if they work exactly
Starting point is 02:12:53 as the manufacturer suggests. Cause your own tissues to be attacked by your own immune system. It makes your cells, makes self and foreign proteins at the same time. Yep. Therefore, relaying the immune system, attack and kill this.
Starting point is 02:13:08 It's doing that. If it lands in your heart, your heart cells start doing that, we are attacking and killing. That part of the body does not regenerate cells, causes scarring. Right.
Starting point is 02:13:19 Thus, we have this issue of myocarditis, pericarditis. And this is very, rarely, your immune system attacking your own heart cells is very rarely necessary. And the reason is the heart is not a good place for a virus to land and try to spread to anybody else. So it's not a target. It's well insulated. So in the case that your immune system detects a virus in your heart, that's a very serious situation. And destroying heart cells is not something
Starting point is 02:13:47 that selection would program us to do haphazardly. It's a dire choice. to have to make. So my point is, I don't care what antigen you load into this thing. You're going to get the cells of the body taking it up arbitrarily. You're going to get cytotoxic T cells attacking the locations of translation of these proteins, and that is going to cause wounds, which in the case of the heart will then become scars. You have an absolutely acute pathologist, If you get a bunch of heart tissue damaged simultaneously, like if, you know, as John Campbell pointed out in one of his early videos, the failure to aspirate the needle means that you potentially might, you know, hit a vein and get a whole glob of this stuff floating around the body. If that lands in your heart, gets absorbed, you get a bunch of heart tissue that's producing this foreign antigen.
Starting point is 02:14:45 Immune system comes in, kills that tissue. Now you've got a wound in your heart. And I must say I'm concerned when we say myocarditis, myocarditis means inflammation of the heart tissue. It's not a pathology. It's a symptom. What is it a symptom of? Heart damage. Destruction of heart tissue.
Starting point is 02:15:11 That destruction of heart tissue is a critical problem. If you've got a significant number of cells that have been destroyed, you've got a wound in your heart. Let's say you're a soccer player. You don't know that there's some portion of your heart wall. You know, the aorta has a weak spot in it now that wasn't there two weeks before. And, you know, you're running for the goal and your heart, your blood pressure goes up beyond what it's done. And boom, suddenly it blows a hole in the wall, right?
Starting point is 02:15:41 Yeah. You don't know that that's there. But even after it heals over time, it becomes a scar. You're compromised for life. Yes. So there's no way that we should be risking triggering our own immune systems to attack our own tissues arbitrarily, which is what these shots will do, irrespective of what the antigen in them is. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:16:01 So the attempt to blame the spike protein, of course, suggests, yes, we made a tragic error of the spike protein. Focus on that. Right. Next time we won't do the spike, but we love this MRNA technology. Right. We're moving forward. And of course they love the MRNA technology because A, it's cheap to produce. I mean, basically you can produce a new vaccine by typing a sequence into a computer.
Starting point is 02:16:26 Yeah. Right. B, it allows them to take a bunch of shots that, you know, are arduous to produce and streamline their production. So it's economically, tremendously efficient. C, you can produce shots for a whole bunch of new things without having to come up with some new protocol for producing them because it's all the same. D, you can tell the FDA, well, this is the same shot you've already authorized, so we're just going to... It's already been proven to be sorry. It's already been proven.
Starting point is 02:16:56 It's already been proven. Yeah, we'll just test the antigen this time, see if the antigen causes any special problem. So your control group and your treatment group are both going to have the pathologies of the MRNA platform. They're going to disappear because you get the same amount of pathology in both groups. So anyway, it's a dream come true for the ruthless bastards in pharma. Right. It's a nightmare from the point of... view of patients.
Starting point is 02:17:19 Yes. Absolute nightmare. Amazing. So clearly stated, I'm really glad, you know, my audience got to hear that. So sort of reflecting back then this moment where we were sitting there and you did make good points about my assessing where this battle is at. And one of the things that I've said to in similar meetings with Malones and people like that is, you know, there was this question, we're losing this battle, we're losing this
Starting point is 02:17:47 I was like, you are looking at this through the Overton window that you're involved in, which is this big. There are some of us that have been at this this long. We're actually in an accelerated position right now. You're just feeling the wave come down in the little space that you just jumped into. And then there's people who have been at this longer than I have. One of the things that, you know, we sort of said there was a real push to to change the labeling of the MRNA technology to not call it a vaccine. is a huge part of like our movement was fairly divided over it. You know, it's a gene therapy.
Starting point is 02:18:21 And I said, do not do that. Do not change this. They called it a vaccine because this is the only way I'm going to draw attention from people that are now recognizing this is problematic, that you have similar problems, though the technologies may be a little bit different. But if I let you change the name go, are bad, we mislabeled it, then you leave all of these vaccines that have never been through proper safety trials that are really having issues that we need people to look at.
Starting point is 02:18:44 I don't want to lose that focus. So they called it a vaccine. I'm sticking with it's a vaccine. So I've made decisions like that along the way because I'm involved in a battle that matters to me. I also want to say, because we're going to get into really the more important reason while you're here, which is really, you know, we're going to talk about rescue the Republic and why that's the case.
Starting point is 02:19:05 But I just want to say that I grew up with parents that said question authority. They marched in the 60s. You know, I wasn't vaccinated, but I, you know, macrobiotic food. Like there was just everything. My parents said, do not trust the news. Do not trust what you're looking at. You've got to stick with your own instincts, you know, and make sure that you always have the freedom of speech. So all of those things, it felt like to me there are a lot of issues in our society, whether it's the Federal Reserve banking, fractional, you know, all of that. I can look at many different things. People are in
Starting point is 02:19:40 the chem trails. We're looking to some of that. But it seemed to me this vaccine issue, if I need my country to wake up to the fact that your government is actually not looking out for you and you're actually not in control of it somewhere way back somewhere back probably before I started looking certainly before I started looking at this we lost this for and by the people the reason this vaccine issue really seemed important to me and why I sort of dropped everything I was doing to go into this was as I looked at it, which you've now been on this journey, this has been done to everyone in this country. This isn't just, if I get into banking, there's people that banking could, they don't make enough money for it, ever matter. If I need everyone in this country to recognize that your
Starting point is 02:20:26 country, your government's lying to you. It's not looking out for you. I need something that's happened to all of us that's been a lie we've all been a part of. And this is what I saw in the vaccine program. If I can convince and show it, not just just convinced I can show you through science that they have known they didn't properly test this, that they have skipped all of the things, that they are pushing a product, that they see injury. It is at their doors. They're being sued from it. They're not letting any press see it.
Starting point is 02:20:55 They're using, you know, propaganda to hide the fact that there seems to be a real problem here, that if enough people really saw that, this would be the tip of a spear to recognizing, oh my God, my government is not what I think it is. So just as we sit here now, back in that room, that's what I was a part of. And you were saying you're, you know what I mean? You're undermining what's happening here. I'd say most of the people in that room now see this the way that me and Bobby Kennedy and a few other scientists and doctors that have been really on this for some time.
Starting point is 02:21:37 So as we sit here now, you came up to me. I mean, I'm not, and honestly, this isn't in any sort of gloating. I haven't since we had this. You did come up about a year or so ago at an event and you said, you know, I wanted to tell you, I, you know, I apologize. I don't remember the being something to apologize for, by the way, but I just said to you, Brett, I know you're going to look into this and you're going to see that, you know, that it's not what you think it is. And I'll never forget when you came up to me about a year ago, you said something that, has really rocked me to the core. You said, I knew, look, you told me about the mouse study.
Starting point is 02:22:15 Like, I know that science is manipulated, especially where there's money to be made. I knew there was going to be problems. I know some people are being injured. That's obvious. Every product injures people. What I was shocked to find is that there is no science at all. That is an absolutely chilling statement. Just quickly, what do you mean by that? Well, a couple things. One, I remember it as you do. And, you know, I look back on my assumptions
Starting point is 02:22:53 and of course they were reasonable assumptions, but the system itself is not reasonable. I sometimes say certain stories diagnose the system. What you're talking about is if you actually actually have the courage to follow the evidence and figure out what is known and how is it known in this case You cannot help but discover that it's a Potemkin village right this is nonsense there are no people living in that village though that's a movie set And the implications of that are Dyer both from the point of view of what we are doing to people's health in the guise of trying to improve it
Starting point is 02:23:33 it, but also, just personally, I mean, I didn't understand that I appear to have a vaccine injury. I have a profound allergy to wheat. There's no reason I should have an allergy to wheat. I'm an Ashkenazi Jew. My people have been eating wheat for thousands of years. What happened? Well, an adjuvant happened.
Starting point is 02:24:00 Well, I happen to have wheat in my gut because, of course, everything is. contains weed, right? My children have allergies to things that they shouldn't be allergic to, right? Let's put it this way. I never thought vaccines were safe. I thought they were safe enough. I thought the cost-benefit analysis was positive for them. When my children were born, Heather and I looked at each other and we said, what are we going to do about this? These things are not safe. And we said, okay, the rational thing to do is to postpone the injections in each case as long as possible. And the reasoning for that was very sound.
Starting point is 02:24:40 The older you are when you get them, the more of your development is behind you already, the less disruptive they will be if something goes wrong. So we did that. So what that tells you, my children are now 18 and 20, tells you two decades ago, we were already on alert that these things had potentially serious negative implications
Starting point is 02:25:02 and we were trying to minimize them. that level of caution wasn't nearly strong enough for me to protect my own children. I fell down on the job as a father because I didn't actually check all the assumptions then. Now, of course, you can't check every assumption in your life. Right. You'd be paralyzed. Yeah. So, you know, yeah, I should have, I should have known that that one needed special scrutiny and I didn't, didn't do it.
Starting point is 02:25:26 But what this also tells us is, you know, when you hear Bobby talk about his road in to this murky landscape. Yeah. He was dragged in. He didn't want to go looking here. He had plenty of corporate malfeasans to look into in the environment. And aren't I doing enough trying to get this mercury out of water? Right.
Starting point is 02:25:54 Making water or fish, our food supply, our air, like, kind of busy here. Right. And it just sort of seems like, oh my goodness, right? You know, why take up a new topic where there's at least safety testing is being done in some regard right right and so he got dragged in because somehow somebody with an injured child i think caused him to feel that he had to just look a little bit and once you look a little bit you discover you have to look a little bit farther and it's just you know the the degree to which this is a fiction is shocking yeah and then you face the thing
Starting point is 02:26:31 from the other side of the looking glass where everybody you know as you start to talk about you know the hazards of these things you just you watch the openness of people to listen to you just shut down reflexively like a rat track you just put you just draw a giant scarlet letter right on your chest right exactly you decide to start talking about it yeah and it doesn't matter doesn't matter who you are doesn't matter if you have a background in immunobiology it doesn't matter that you can describe very reasonably why an adjuvant is suspect, you know, on its face or why the MRNA platform should be expected to cause heart wounds. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:27:12 People, people are social creatures. People are interested in what's true, but only to a point. And this is one of the lessons that Heather and I address in our book. We are built to be able to figure out what's true, but it's a means to an end. It's a means to an evolutionary objective. It is not the objective. And therefore, when people detect the social consequences that will befall them if they conclude something awkward, they find reasons not to conclude that.
Starting point is 02:27:54 And it has made this conversation impossible. I think the road in is to recognize we are not talking about looking back at decisions you've made and worrying that they may have shortened your lives or injured your kids or something like that. That is, of course, part of it, but they're not done with you, right? Right. They are currently revising these injections to put them on the MRNA platform. If what I'm saying is true, then that is going to result in large numbers of people dying from heart pathologies that are going to be covered up because they can be. So if they're not done with you, then it is a matter of, you know, it is a matter of urgency that you look into this, not for social reasons, but for physiological reasons. You do not want to be damaged in this way.
Starting point is 02:28:57 Yeah. And you need to be able to say no. And the fact that they are not only gearing up to have these injections and to strong arm you into taking them, but they are gearing up to shut down discussion of the hazards. They are gearing up to tie your compliance to your finances, right? They're setting up a dystopian landscape where you're going to have no choice. but to accept something that puts you at risk of heart damage. You, your children, your grandchildren. So the instinct not to look at it is, let me give you some advice. Future you would
Starting point is 02:29:41 like you to pay attention now because it only gets worse. Right. Let me ask you this. How do they tell themselves? I have a theory that I'll put, but I get you believe in this technology. You're they're probably thinking we're sweeping some of the injuries under the rug on all the childhood vaccines. Yeah, maybe autism, maybe some of them are, you know, triggered by vaccines. For those that are like on top, up above, like doctors not questioning it at all. Like they think these things are just perfectly as safe as water. They've been brainwashed to school. But everyone at the top making these things, putting them all, I have to assume there's some knowledge that we have a little bit of a problem here. But to have an arrogance or a disconnect to the level of we are going to take
Starting point is 02:30:26 a brand new technology like MRNA and give it to if we can, if we can get away with it, we're going to rush it on the market and give it to every single person in the world so that if this thing has some sort of fatal flaw, we will be responsible for wiping out the species. How do intelligent people like yourself that could have found, you could have taken a trajectory in your life that found yourself making this very exciting product, how the hell did they tell themselves that that there wasn't like, how did they convince themselves they could do that without the greatest risk of all times? Well, unfortunately, this gets very dark because, you know, I think once you start to see how dangerous this stuff is, you really want this to be some inhuman level of actual error.
Starting point is 02:31:35 But that story just does not fly. Meaning nefarious, meaning purposeful? No, no. You want this to be an error because the idea that it is more than an error is, it's. so ghastly that it's just the mind you don't want to know that you are living amongst monsters but I don't know how else to interpret this because I can see you know what actually happened at the beginning of COVID I don't know but I can tell you the following thing there are new MRI booster shots being recommended now for
Starting point is 02:32:12 children right there is no defense of that You don't have to know very much to understand why that's insane. If you really made a mistake and you really thought COVID was a serious disease, it requires a vaccine to protect people from it, you would limit this to the people who actually are threatened by COVID, which is very few people. You certainly wouldn't be giving it to children because, among other things, not only is the cost-benefit analysis almost certainly negative,
Starting point is 02:32:43 but the fact that we are now stuck with a new human pathogen means that children face a lifetime of multiple confrontations with this thing. We have no idea what the long-term implications are, not only from the point of compromising their health with the shots themselves, But people may need to reach some equilibrium with this new pathogen. We don't know that we are not preventing that from happening. And in fact, there's a good reason to think that we are preventing it from happening because by inoculating them, you know, early in life. A leaky vaccine that cannot allow their immune system cannot kill this thing. Right. It's just absolutely intolerably stupid.
Starting point is 02:33:34 What's more? And, you know, it's rabbit hole after rabbit hole. But the result that is now replicated that says two or more MRNA shots for COVID and you trigger the production of IGG4. Now that's going to be a lot of steps for most people. But let me make it simple. IG means immunoglobulin. It means antibody. IgG is one of the regular classes of antibody. IGB4 is a very special subtype of IG.
Starting point is 02:34:11 IGG4's purpose, its biological purpose, the reason it evolved is to turn down immune responses when they are causing harm, right? When your allergist is trying to cure an allergy by injecting stuff into you, you're trying to trigger this attenuation signal to turn your immune response down. Yeah, calm it down.
Starting point is 02:34:33 Right, right. So we are now giving people most Multiple shots, when we know very well that multiple shots trigger the production of IGG4. Now, one, if you're in the business of trying to create immunity to COVID and the mechanism you've chosen, if this was a surprise to you and you suddenly discover you're producing an attenuation signal, he answers, oh, what don't we know? Okay, this did not work. It may be working in reverse.
Starting point is 02:35:06 You're sending a tank and saying, you know what, if we keep, we're literally tearing the armor off of the tank now, and so it's not protecting, like you were doing the opposite of what your goal was. Right. And so, you know, Heather and I have a catchphrase, which is welcome to complex systems, right? You make an intervention that seems like a reasonable thing, and some consequence you did not see coming has popped up. Welcome to complex systems. You should expect that to happen. Well, in this case, it did happen. IG4 shows up.
Starting point is 02:35:32 That should have caused a total rethink of this if this was an honest effort to improve human health and immunity to COVID. Didn't cause a hiccup at all. So what are we doing? Now, I will also, there is a hypothesis that I don't know what to do with. We know that, well, we almost know that COVID, SARS-CoV-2, emerged from dual-use research. That means bio-weapons research. Now, bio-weapons people, Anthony Fauci, for example,
Starting point is 02:36:15 have a couple of different problems. They need to figure out, if you, I would never produce bio-weapons, I think it's immoral, but if you, for some reason, thought bio-weapons needed to be produced, The question is always, how are you going to produce a bioweapon that injures the people who are targeted and leaves the people that you're trying to protect safe? One obvious way to do it would be to vaccinate the population you're trying to protect so that they are not vulnerable. The enemy is vulnerable. But in this case, this bio-weapons research that seems to have produced this virus and the vaccine,
Starting point is 02:37:02 which is a downstream product of the same bioweapons research therefore the spike protein is borrowed from the virus and it is loaded into these vaccines in transcript form triggers an attenuation signal of immunity that means that people who got these shots more than one of them at least can now have an attenuation signal triggered in them by anything bearing the spike protein do we think our enemies haven't noticed that if they have a bio-weapons program, that spike protein is now a mechanism to trigger attenuation in American? Wow. You've just created a massive susceptibility to your enemy's attack. And if it's an accident, then it says, well, what is the consequence of bio-weapons research? Well, you've just made the population that you supposedly, the population who paid for it,
Starting point is 02:38:02 who you were supposed to be making safer, you just made them vulnerable. This IGG4, if there's a weakness, as you're saying, that an enemy could utilize it, but they all took the vaccine too. So clearly, if that's a vulnerability, any enemy is going to say they can't, like, create a weapon to attack the vulnerability because they're vulnerable too. I don't think so. In fact, I believe it is correct to say the Chinese did not inoculate their population with anything MRNA-based or. spike-based. So this would be the separation between populations that weapons makers are seeking just in a direction that is extremely unfortunate for the West. So essentially, I'm assuming you're not saying that this was done on purpose by China.
Starting point is 02:38:55 Are you just saying that there is a group of people that could utilize this, this vulnerability now if they wanted to? I can't make heads or tails of it. Is this our having accidentally created a vulnerability that could be exploited? Is there something I don't know about what the real teams are? All I can say is that the more I look at it, the more it seems we have created, we have invited a horrifying confrontation. and that not only did we do it, but we are continuing to make it worse by inoculating people with ever more boosters. And I still think back to that moment when we called China and said, what's the code we're supposed to be injecting into all of our citizens?
Starting point is 02:39:46 Which is how this whole thing starts. Right. I mean, I'm not into like, you know, creating boogeyman, but it is, at the very least, It is shocking to know that there's, you know, there's a group that has armor and a group that does not. Well, you know, we see there are a lot of animals that when confronted with an insurmountable obstacle, play dead. It's also true that a boxer who keeps getting hit in the head will find himself on the mat, not getting up. And I've always wondered, I have a hypothesis, that this is a contingency program, that at the point that whatever you're doing is resulting in you getting hit over and over and over again, doing nothing isn't a safe option, but it may well be better than continuing to do that same program. So we've hurt ourselves.
Starting point is 02:40:49 stopping any further harm would be the absolute minimum and the first go-to move. And why we don't do it, I cannot imagine. Summer cold is a famous thing. That happens every now and again. It's notable because it's rare, right? People are sick this summer. That's not supposed to be. And everyone's saying, I cannot kick it.
Starting point is 02:41:09 I can't get rid of it. No one feels like a cold is the same anymore. Right. You know. Right. So, okay, we've just engaged in this massive program. that at best was the result of hubris that said that we know what to do to make you safer, and we've got a population that is now a lot more vulnerable to disease,
Starting point is 02:41:28 and the likely connection is not hard to see, so we ought to be obsessed with figuring out whether that connection is, in fact, what is causing this increased level of sickness, but of course we are not. We also ought to recognize, you know, if the net effect of bioweapons research is that you screw up and you make your own population vulnerable to a foreign bioweapon. Maybe bio weapons research isn't such a good idea. Right. At the same, in the same way, we were told that the research that was going on, the gain of function research on these viruses, what was the purpose we were told?
Starting point is 02:42:04 We were told that it was so that we could create these viruses so that we could know what to do if a pandemic ever happened. Well, no benefit came from that research. We didn't manage to do any better with COVID based on something we learned. And the story isn't plausible in the first place, right? If you turbocharge a pathogen, the only thing you're going to learn is how to deal with that pathogen. Right. Right.
Starting point is 02:42:28 So the story was nonsense to begin with. At best, this is a massive... We've learned how to handle a very specific enemy that we created. Right. As though somehow we've learned something, this particular coronavirus could mutate myriad different ways all this knowledge would be useless to us, right? Right. And it proved to be useless.
Starting point is 02:42:52 Right, correct. In fact, you know, among the many things that I have learned here, you know, I obviously took a lot of crap for pointing out that Ivermectin appeared to be efficacious against SARS-CoV-2. I came to the conclusion late that hydroxychloroquine also was evocatious. But what I now understand is that actually, Ivermectin is broadly useful against RNA viruses in general, right? It would be weird if it wasn't effective against SARS-CoV-2. It was effective against SARS-1. Right.
Starting point is 02:43:31 Right? It's effective against other RNA viruses. So at some level, if the idea was we're supposed to become smarter about how to deal with viruses that are something like this, the go-to for the public health effort should have been Ivermectin. It's very likely to work. It will be anomalous if it doesn't. Whereas in fact what we got was a propaganda campaign that obscured how effective it was. And blocked, had pharmacies blocking it from people like people were dying because they couldn't get it. Right. So to your
Starting point is 02:44:04 point and let's get to the you know the reason we're really here to try and do something about this. But we where you have a nation that says I look and we're looking out for you. Well, obviously, you've hired us. We're the people, we're working for you. It should have said, Ivermectin in every cabinet in America right now immediately. For any other attack that may be, we have learned something here, this is a great product, didn't, did the opposite. And still, still genuinely fighting to, you know, on late night talk shows to make everyone a buffoon that still thinks Ivermectin. And Pierre Corey's fighting for his license. And, you mean, over what should, is so, such settles.
Starting point is 02:44:45 science at this point, if science works the way you think it does, you have Peter Marx and these people still promoting a product that, as you've pointed out, clearly causes more harm for children than it does. It's causing IGG4 and everybody, which is making us weaker and weaker and terrifyingly so. No one's considering the fact that we won't get into it, that if this is a man-made virus, we gave it an ability it never had, which is to truly infect human beings. And so, and we've stopped our ability immune systems to kill it, which is what Gert was screaming about. If you too many people get this vaccine, no one's going to be able to stop the evolution of this. And so now we took a virus, maybe gave it a hundred year evolutionary bump.
Starting point is 02:45:26 You know, and now it's there. And it's evolving from there. We have no idea what this thing's going to turn into now. And we have a society that cannot stop and is even lowering its ability to fight it. Everyone that, I mean, we must assume that the enough intelligence to people with enough intelligence in our government that should know this so then we are under attack and and I guess what we all grapple with is is it true like from what from what no we we are under attack and you know best case scenario this is market forces that have created monsters that are willing to silence truth tellers and injure people to make a
Starting point is 02:46:12 buck. That's the best case scenario. They get much darker from there. And I honestly don't know what it is. But they've created something. Here's what I don't understand. They can't even protect themselves from it. Can they? I mean, it would make sense if the Lulminati ruling class that wants to own the world has somehow got a vaccine for themselves that works as these things are out there. I don't think I saw that that happened. No. Well, let's separate that into two pieces. Again, we are in the realm of conjecture and hypothesis here. Correct, because we have no idea. We do not know. We're trying to search for motivation.
Starting point is 02:46:49 What might be true? That is so, I will say this. People say are there aliens on the planet? I will say there are people that are acting so far away from what it means to be human that you call it whatever you want. What we're watching is not in. And I've said this, I have studied human beings. Why am I, you know, I'm a journalist. I've been asking people questions since I was four.
Starting point is 02:47:09 You know, more than I read, I wanted to know. what made everyone tick. It's my fascination. I'm really good at it. This whole thing has gotten outside of any dimension I understand about human motivation. It goes beyond greed. I can explain a lot of it, but it just greed falls short, power because they're not protecting themselves. There's just things that I can't make it add up inside of what I understand a human being makes a human being tick. Well, I mean, unfortunately, If you zoom out to a longer time scale, maybe there's a game that we're not aware of because we play on human lifetime timescales. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:47:53 Maybe somebody is looking at a longer time horizon and, you know, we have become unimportant because, you know, we're a blip. But the number of places, I mean, let's take the disease itself. The disease itself appears to have emerged in gain of function research in which a very difficult jump for a pathogen to leap from nature into people and then leap from one person to the next was facilitated by a laboratory, which took the place of an intermediate host where that evolution might have happened. Let's say that the average case of COVID is half as bad as the flu. that's still a disaster. Right? We have flu and now we're going to have a similar level of sickness that we didn't have to have at all. Right.
Starting point is 02:48:54 Didn't exist. But it's worse than that because I don't know how many times I've had the flu in my life, maybe four. COVID appears to be something you can get on a yearly basis. So even if it's half as bad, but you're getting it five times as often, ten times as often, the cost to humanity of having helped this thing leap the gap into people is absolutely ghastly. It's extraordinary that we would have played that game and now pretend that we didn't. Right? That should be an obsession of people. But then the number of interventions that we have made that have compounded that harm is spectacular,
Starting point is 02:49:45 which brings me back to your earlier point. Certain stories diagnose the system. You see the vaccine story, the older story as such a story because it reveals all of the places where the science wasn't done, where the doctors were complicit, where the journalists won't look at it. All of that. I agree. It diagnoses the system. The reason that Heather and I became focused on COVID was that the COVID story also diagnosed the system. Right. Right. The COVID story reveals the corruption of science. It reveals the corruption of journalism. It reveals the corruption of the university structure. And the consequences are tangible, right? We know people who were injured. It's amazing that we can identify people in our own lives who are actually injured by this. Right? This is an amazing level of harm.
Starting point is 02:50:41 So in any case, either one of those is good enough to realize that the entire system has been corrupted and it needs a reboot. Right. An absolute reboot. And it's not stopping. It doesn't learn. It has no, it's lost stability to learn. It refuses to learn. It has educated us.
Starting point is 02:51:01 Right. The number of us, you know, the number of doctors I know who were vaccine advocates five years ago and have now become skeptics because they've looked into adjuvants, they've looked into the MRI platform and they know that the world that they thought they lived in isn't a real place is shocking. It is. It's a movement and it's happening. The question is it happening fast enough. And I think that that's what we really get down to is this ticking clock. Because as we pointed out, a system that's refusing to learn, but is also supposed to be for and by the people, which means we're supposed to be able to say, you're not learning.
Starting point is 02:51:46 I don't know why I elected you or why I've put you in this position. We are now removing you from that position. And that's where probably the scariest thing that could possibly happen is the attack on the First Amendment that's taking place. right now. The fact that your podcast, a podcast that should have been seen by everyone in the world was demonetized, shut down, Robert Malone's LinkedIn is taken down. We lost our YouTube channel. We lost our Facebook channel. Zuckerberg is now saying, yeah, I did that. Sorry, sorry, everyone. I mean, on, oh, and the laptop, I covered that up, too, for the, for a corrupt government of CIA and FBI agents that all worked for the president to hide a personal problem, which to me, I mean,
Starting point is 02:52:28 we could go for days makes Nixon and Watergate look like this compared to the Empire State building of using your power in government to manipulate and mislead. But we are so dangerously close. Right now they are arresting people in England, in Europe, in Ireland for sharing tweets, claiming that they're going to come for those of us that are spreading misinformation in America. and I don't see anyone my government saying back off that will never happen here. I don't mean, there's no one really seems to be defending our Constitution. Instead, I see a globalist, this global idea that that's the way we should all be, that the government, the global government's going to decide what misinformation,
Starting point is 02:53:18 malinformation, all of it is. And look, I talk to family that are like, tell, I get it. They don't understand your issue. They just don't understand your issue and that's unfortunate, but it's really, it's, oh, you know, it's not that bad. As soon as you're after the First Amendment, I don't care if it's on an issue I don't care about. Once the government starts thinking, we're deciding what is correct and incorrect information. Our founding fathers, we're right. That will be the end.
Starting point is 02:53:45 That will spell the end. You are now moving into some form of collectivism, some form of authoritarianism. you are going to be screwed. I feel like, you know, whether it's about politics now, can we vote our way out of this? Who knows? But we certainly need the last, you know, remaining republic, if you will, with a constitution that defends the rights of human beings as endowed by God and not by their government themselves. and, you know, we're dangerously close to the end of the American experiment.
Starting point is 02:54:27 Am I overstating it? You're understating. This is potentially the end of the West. It's now or never. This is, in my opinion, absolutely urgent. People's fancy rationales for staying on the couch and not voting because they don't think their vote counts. This is no time for that. This is no time for what I have done in past elections, which is, you know, to vote my conscience
Starting point is 02:54:54 and vote for people that I knew would not be elected. There is a time and a place for that. I do not believe this is the time and the place. This is the moment at which we have to defeat whatever that force is that has taken over our system and targeted all of our rights. We are in a better position than Europeans are because our Constitution is. better thought out. We are kind of last on the list from the point of view of the degradation of our rights.
Starting point is 02:55:27 Yeah, I think we are hanging up the global takeover. Like there's one, this pesky little country, fairly large country, would they really difficult constitution to get around is messing up our flow right now. Yep, with the First Amendment backed up by a Second Amendment. Yeah. And so we are holding a, I don't even know what to call it because, yes, technically it's a rally, it's an event in the same way that I think Woodstock was a music festival. Yeah. Right.
Starting point is 02:56:03 We are holding an event on the Capitol Mall, September 29th. It's called Rescue the Republic. And the website is join the resistance. work. This needs to be massive. We have an incredible list of speakers and not all of the people who we believe are coming are yet listed, but people should go and they should they should look at who's coming. It's an incredible group of people. And this is our moment, you know, this is the moment for a little loath to use the word unity, even though, you know, in 2020, I put together Unity 2020 initiative, I believe unity is the right thing, and then that word has been co-opted,
Starting point is 02:56:51 but I think we need to take it back. This is the moment to realize that whatever our ideological differences may be, are completely unimportant if we lose the Republic, right? If we are to fight about the differences between what conservatives and liberals see, it has to be after the Republic has been put back on a course with a future, Absolutely. So in any case, this event is important. Yes, it's not convenient to have to travel to Washington, but I think people will want to have been there because this is where we declare our, we draw a line in the sand.
Starting point is 02:57:36 We have to found a movement. I keep saying, you know, I played a lot of sports growing up and I've been on the team where everyone was yelling and screaming at each other. I've also been on the team across the field watching the other team yelling and screaming at each other. And that team never wins. Yeah. And if we look at Team America right now,
Starting point is 02:57:59 if we look at the pressures that are coming from so many different directions, but global pressures, you know, whether or not, you know, I'm all about relating and getting along with the world, but I am not about giving up my sovereignty to some even larger government I cannot control. I would definitely say I've probably moved
Starting point is 02:58:19 in sort of that libertarian direction where I too grew up a Democrat, but where I just, I want the government as close to me as I can get it. I want the biggest decisions made by the guy right down the street, not the one in Washington, D.C., where I gotta get too many millions of people to understand what the problem is.
Starting point is 02:58:36 Imagine taking that to a global size. We're seeing this with the European Union. It's terrifying for people that live in the Netherlands, in Germany and just they'd have no power. No matter what they are electing inside of their borders, it just seems like this larger system of nations they can't talk to and neighbors they can't connect with are like it's, they've got no power.
Starting point is 02:58:59 We're on the verge of a global power that just wipes out anything that America stood for. So it seems to me no matter what your ideology, as you've said, even really what party affiliation you think you have, what you've got to ask yourself is who is going to, how do we unite this country around the concept that a victory here is necessary? And that, you know, that we can only, you know, when we're in sports, we're not arguing with each other about what church you went to. We're, we know what we're up against here. We're, you know, we're fighting the Broncos today.
Starting point is 02:59:37 That's, that's what we're dealing with. The rest of this, let's deal with this another time. We have to be focused. And I'd really think this, you know, rescue the Republic. There have been time, I mean, really, if anyone's listening right now and saying, I think this is that moment, I'm really worried that there may never be
Starting point is 02:59:56 another free election. I'm really worried that I'm not even sure how this election is gonna go. I'm really concerned that AI is gonna take away all our jobs. I'm really concerned that, you know, we're giving away resources and not reaping any benefit from it.
Starting point is 03:00:08 I'm really concerned that large, global, you know, companies are buying up the homes and I'm just going to be renting from some global power. I mean, if those things are on your mind, then this will be the trip you want to say you made. You want to be able to say to your children, I was there. I was there the moment that it actually mattered when the dream of the United States of America was hanging in the balance. Yeah, when it was hanging in the balance and we rescued it. We rescued it. I will just say, A lot of people that we have spoken to, some of whom you will see on the website and some of whom will be there soon, they have an all-star lineup.
Starting point is 03:00:50 But a lot of people have said the same thing, which is, you know, this isn't really the sort of thing that I do. But in this case, I'm going to do it because it is that moment, right? A lot of people are not comfortable with the idea of a rally or a march or something like that. And, you know, I feel this way, too. It's a moment for us to work against our instincts because everything depends on it. And if you're concerned about, you know, well, what am I really signing up for, right? Rescue the Republic sounds good, but what does that really mean? We have done our best to articulate what it is that we are fighting.
Starting point is 03:01:31 And you can see in that a reflection of what it is that we want. And these are things that will be broadly resonant for all patriotic Americans. I will see if I can remember off the top of my head. So we've defined a number of... We have it on the screen right here. Military and... War is always the last resort versus military industrial complex. Sanctify, recodify informed consent versus medical industrial complex.
Starting point is 03:02:03 Banished state media control, surveillance and propaganda. versus censorship industrial complex. An act, a rational border policy versus immigration industrial complex. And lawfare and abuse of the judicial system versus injustice industrial complex. Secure monetary freedom versus financial industrial complex. Restore family sovereignty versus developmental industrial complex. Return to truth seeking an open dialogue versus academic industrial complex. So we are against these industrial complexes that have taken over these essential processes and distorted them.
Starting point is 03:02:43 And what we really want to do is return to the founder's vision of a country that, you know, consent of the governed is the sole basis for the legitimacy of governance. The moment we don't have consent of the government, we have a system that is rigged. Yes. And this, you know, the Republic is both the starting place for the modern West and its central structural element. If the Republic falls, we can see Europe is already ahead of us in terms of being locked. But I do want to say, the Republic is a part of the West. The West is not a geographic description. The countries that we would typically name as members of the tradition.
Starting point is 03:03:29 traditional West do not always live up to the ideals of the West, but ultimately the West is about a system in which we agree not to rig the world on behalf of our people, right? It is an agreement on a level playing field, which is good for all of us, right? Yeah. Everyone has access to the market, and if you compete and produce something that's valuable, if you create wealth for the world, then you get rewarded for it, right? That doesn't work if the system is rigged against you. Well, I mean, this is maybe my favorite interview of all times. It's one I knew would be spectacular because I've watched how you are, watch your journey. And I love how you articulate your experience as you've gone along. I'm sure you have been in just as dynamic in the years before we saw you come to this place. but it is there's something powerful about just seeing you, you know, you look like a great professor like that would be, why are you getting so involved with trying to rally humanity to a cause? You're a big part behind this, you know, rescue the republic. And I agree with you. I mean, I'm just so happy that we're able to sit in a room together. I know we've come from different places.
Starting point is 03:04:56 but this was always why I was shouting what I understood from the mountaintops. They're lying to us. They're poisoning us. They're defiant against learning. And now they're taking away our voice to oppose what is taking place. I am empowered. I want to say this. It can be very debilitating for a lot of people to just feel like it's just so big and so insurmountable.
Starting point is 03:05:24 I keep saying to my audience, you should be thankful that you live at this moment because you're needed. There have been generations that really didn't need to be here, kind of go unnoticed. Whether we win or lose, we will be remembered for this moment that's taking place right now. Well, I've been saying for quite some time, and I heard Elon say something similar recently, we all know this point in the movie. We all know who we're rooting for. We know what music is supposed to be playing. And the question is,
Starting point is 03:06:02 do you recognize that it is that moment and will you be motivated? If you're hoping that the heroes in the movie do the thing that must be done and you find yourself in that movie and the thing must be done, are you ready to do it? That's the question.
Starting point is 03:06:17 So, you know, let's do this because we don't have a choice, right? We only have this republic. And if you have seen how the world functions in the absence of a flawed but wonderful system like ours, then you know this cannot be allowed to fail. That's it. Do it, do what's necessary.
Starting point is 03:06:39 Get out there. Let's make this happen. Thank you, but. Thank you. Well, as all of you know, we now have High Wire Plus, which is a space for extra, for those of you that are donating to our work of the Informed Consent Action Network.
Starting point is 03:06:54 Our first show on Highway Plus is off the record. And that's where I take a guest like Brett Weinstein, and I'm going to ask him a question that goes deeper than what we just did here. In fact, what I'd really like to know is if everything he's saying is true about the country that we live in, how do we raise our children? Are we at a time of war?
Starting point is 03:07:13 Should we shelter them or tell them the truth? You want the answer to that question? Don't miss. Off the record right after the children. the record right after this show. If you want to see what that's all about, here it is. And I'll see you next week. And that's the wrap. The viewers have spoken and we have listened. I'm Dell Bigtree and it's time to go off the record. This is what we couldn't talk about on the high line with a brand new show exclusively for our donors. I actually want to dive into a very
Starting point is 03:07:45 sensitive topic. Guess we're getting right into it. With more people, personal questions. I'd like to bring up probably one of the most heated conversations if you don't mind that we've had a germ or terrain theory. What the hell is this really about? To get the answers you won't find anywhere else. One last question, white privilege. Telling the truth that they don't want you to hear. We're pissing nature off. Is anyone telling me the truth? No doctor wants to say that they're killing people. Yeah but doesn't every doctor want to stop killing people? You have no freedom. You have no liberty, you're a slave. It's grotesque. It's nonsense. All of that's BS. This guy came up to me in a suit and he said, I'm with the CIA.
Starting point is 03:08:25 You're being followed. Watch what happens when we go off the record. You are not going to want to miss this. Well, I, you know, in many ways, I'm speechless right now. I got to just sit and be a part of, those are the types of interviews you dream about when you're the kid that I described at three years or four years old asking questions. in trying to figure out what makes people tick. For all of you that are still watching right now, I hope most of you have made it to the end here or those of that you haven't,
Starting point is 03:08:57 that you took the time to come back and see the rest of this interview. I wanna be clear, I recognize, I had a feeling this would be a long interview, but like I said earlier, we've got, I have to take these moments as if it's the last one I get. I think things are that dramatic and that drastic.
Starting point is 03:09:16 I may not, you know, get to sit, Brett down again and have the interview. And when I have, and you've watched this over the years, as I've had the Robert Malone's, or, you know, sure, we could think about timing, but I'm also thinking there is more questions I have for one of the most brilliant people I've ever sat across from, and this is my moment to make that time capsule. I believe what you've just watched is maybe one of the most important time capsules ever delivered on this subject. I would really stress that even though you just watch that in real time, go back. We're going to cut this up into pieces.
Starting point is 03:09:49 I get it. Some people just can't sit through a, I think that's two hours and 20 minutes. That way we just went. We will cut out the excerpts for people so that I know you're going to want to share this. But for those of you that really care, when you really, really watch this again, get this to everyone you know, because you just took the journey that Brett Weinstein's been on, that I've been on, that all these great leaders are. and it is the tip of the spear.
Starting point is 03:10:15 This is the reveal. This is what shows how big a lie is going on here, how we have totally lost control of this government that does not care about us right now. We, with that recognition, with that recognition of what is happening right now, and as Brett Weinstein just so perfectly said, do you hear the music?
Starting point is 03:10:37 Do you hear the crescendo? Do you realize what part of this movie you are now in? And that's right, if you're hearing the music, then your question should not be, oh, I hope the heroes arrive. You're in the movie. You're the hero we're looking for. This is the moment we were all born for. This is why we're here. For this moment right now, we were born especially, most incredibly and especially in the United States of America. For all that are watching this show around the world, they are praying we recognize how important these moments are in the United States of America.
Starting point is 03:11:11 They're praying that we don't let them do any more damage to the greatest constitution that's ever been written to our Bill of Rights, not a notion of rights. They're praying that we hold strong, that we stand up and that we recognize each one of us right now. Man, woman, grandparents, children, we are the heroes of this time. This is our time. We must not let our voices be taken away. We must not allow them to poison us and get away with it. We must not allow them to weaken our immune system so that we're vulnerable to everyone else in the world. It stops here.
Starting point is 03:11:50 It stops now. And we have a record. We have a history that it has happened time and time again. The Goliath stories have always been there. And guess what? Throughout history, God wins. We win. the moment we recognize our power, the moment we push back the tyranny and say, we outnumber you.
Starting point is 03:12:17 Enough of us care. Enough of us are thinking right now. Enough of us are aware to do something about it in this country. And when we do it here, we will do it for the world. Be present. Do not be afraid. This is serious. Everyone we're interviewing, everyone you know, every podcast you're watching is saying, I actually think it is this important right now.
Starting point is 03:12:46 I think this is that moment. And I feel for all the people that don't understand where we're at, some of them are in my own family and friends. You have them too. I love them and I'm going to be fighting for them too. They don't recognize they're about to lose their freedom. They don't recognize that they are being poisoned. So we have to fight for them, for everybody. Those of us that know have got to stand up and do something about it.
Starting point is 03:13:19 Please share this interview with everyone you know. Please tell everyone to stand up and make their voices heard now. For this, we were born. This is our time. It's our time to write the greatest chapter in the history books they will ever read. That's what we're trying to inspire here at the High White House. I want to thank Brett Weinstein and all he's doing and all of the great, great, great voices that have been on this stage talking to me about these issues. We're with you now.
Starting point is 03:13:52 We'll keep doing this and I'll see you next week on the High Wire.

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