0:00

Federal agents encountered more than a quarter

0:02

million illegal aliens at the border last

0:04

month. Two hundred fifty one

0:06

thousand four hundred and eighty seven. To

0:08

be exact, the highest number ever recorded

0:11

in US history, and that is

0:13

just the number that we're detected.

0:16

Many people are blaming Democrats. Who

0:18

open the border. Some are

0:20

blaming the squishes who let the democrats

0:23

get away with them. But the democrats

0:25

are blaming the republicans for

0:27

noticing the problem. According

0:30

to one Biden administration official,

0:32

quote, of course, the numbers will be

0:34

higher. When Republican elected

0:36

officials like smugglers

0:38

falsely proclaim the border is open

0:41

because of a court order to lift title forty two.

0:44

In other words, the

0:46

border is open, not

0:48

because the Democrats opened it.

0:51

But because the Republicans pointed

0:53

out that it's open. This

0:56

is a weird sort of quantum politics.

0:59

In which observing the political

1:02

problem supposedly creates

1:05

the political problem in the first place. But

1:08

the Libs make this kind

1:10

of claim all the time. Democrats, for

1:12

instance, encourage men to identify

1:15

as women. Even though

1:17

men cannot be women, and

1:19

even though men who think that they're women

1:21

have all sorts of problems depression,

1:23

anxiety, and they kill themselves at extremely

1:26

high rates. But according

1:28

to the lips, the reason

1:30

that men who think they're women are depressed

1:32

and suicidal has nothing to do with

1:34

the fact that they're not really women. Has

1:37

nothing to do with the the problem itself.

1:40

Rather, it only occurs because

1:42

conservatives observe that fact and

1:44

that apparently results in transphobia. Another

1:47

example, poor black people in the

1:49

inner cities, disproportionately 1167 poorly

1:52

in school, and then don't graduate

1:55

or they do graduate, but without much of an education.

1:58

And then often fail to get good jobs

2:00

and ascend to the socioeconomic ladder.

2:02

And according to Libs, the reason

2:05

that that group often doesn't learn very much

2:07

in school has nothing to do with political,

2:09

cultural, and pedagogical failures but

2:12

occurs because the

2:14

mean old conservatives observe

2:16

that fact, which then results in racism,

2:18

which is which is why the the problem

2:21

perpetuates itself. Now we are

2:23

being told that illegal

2:25

aliens are crossing the border, not because the Democrats

2:27

opened it, but because conservatives observe

2:29

the open border. But the

2:31

classical mechanics version of politics,

2:34

I think, provides the better explanation. The

2:37

political problems exist in the

2:39

real world And the only

2:41

reason the Libs want us to stop noticing

2:43

is so that we don't do anything to stop

2:45

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4:31

wireless. Speaking of the

4:33

southern border, congressman

4:35

Dan Crenshaw has a plan for

4:37

how to deal with the

4:39

problem at the southern

4:40

border, and that plan involves

4:43

guns and bombs. We

4:46

recently introduced a AUMF and

4:48

authorized use of military force against the

4:50

cartels and any other organizations

4:52

that traffic fentanyl specifically. So

4:55

why now and why not why not years ago?

4:57

These Mexican drug cartels been around for a

4:59

while. But the difference now is fentanyl.

5:01

This is not a drug problem. This is not a

5:03

war on drug problem. This is a poisoning problem.

5:06

And they are killing about eighty thousand

5:08

Americans a year. And the Mexican government

5:10

does very little to thwart this.

5:12

And I think there should be bipartisan

5:15

efforts in Congress to pass and authorize use

5:17

of military force to deal with them.

5:19

If anything, that simply gives our president

5:21

more leverage when trying to get the Mexican government,

5:23

to do its job. And that that's its job

5:26

on on porting immigration, which the cartels

5:28

also control. And forting

5:30

fentanyl coming coming north across

5:32

our border and killing American citizens.

5:35

You know, these people are a lot

5:37

more like ISIS than they are the mafia?

5:40

I know Dan Crenshaw gets a lot of

5:42

flack and people think that he is too

5:44

quick to use military force or to to

5:46

advocate using military force. On

5:48

the question of the Mexican cartels at

5:50

the southern border though, In

5:53

principle, does anybody

5:55

object to this? Plenty

5:58

of people can object to sending American

6:00

dollars and weapons and troops even.

6:02

To go fight the war in Ukraine against Russia.

6:04

Plenty of people can and I think ought to object

6:07

to to things like that, or

6:09

to adventureism in Libya and all

6:11

sorts of Wars of Empire that the US

6:13

has fought. But

6:16

if if the situation of the southern

6:18

border does not call for the US military,

6:21

What does? We

6:24

are being subject right now to

6:26

what is essentially an invasion.

6:29

And have been for many decades.

6:31

And when I say invasion, I'm not just talking

6:33

about mothers with their kids crossing the

6:35

border, or even the economic migrants, the

6:37

young men who wanna come over, and

6:39

get better jobs and send money back to their families

6:42

and whatever. I'm talking

6:44

about the Mexican drug

6:46

cartels, some of the worst people on the face

6:48

of the earth. Who control one

6:50

hundred percent of border

6:52

crossings from the Mexico side,

6:54

who are shipping in tons

6:57

of drugs, specifically fentanyl, which

6:59

is killing Americans in the worst drug crisis

7:01

we've ever had in our nation's history, which

7:03

traffics women and girls across that border

7:05

and according to certain studies, rape,

7:07

sixty to eighty percent of them, according

7:10

to Fusion and Amnesty International. I mean,

7:12

these guys are just demons. And

7:14

so if the if the US military would

7:17

not be justified in repelling

7:19

an invasion of that

7:20

sort, then what what's the point of the military?

7:23

So I think in principle, Dan is actually

7:25

making a very good point here. There's one

7:27

caveat, though. I would not. If I were the president

7:29

today, I would not two day sign

7:31

off on having the military go down to the southern

7:33

border. And the reason for that is

7:36

if if oh, I might have them be on our side of the

7:38

border to stop people from crossing. But I wouldn't

7:40

have them go into Mexico and actually destroy the cartels

7:42

just yet. The reason I wouldn't do that

7:46

is the drug cartels

7:48

in Mexico constitute a

7:51

fair bit of what could be called the

7:53

Mexican government. By which I

7:55

mean, there's an analogous situation in

7:57

Italy for a long time. In Italy, the

7:59

Italian government for for most of that

8:01

nation's history has not been the

8:03

only or even necessarily the dominant

8:05

force in Italian politics.

8:07

There are a couple other forces. There's obviously the church.

8:10

The church, you know, the Vatican is right there, the

8:12

holy sea. That's been a big force in Italian

8:14

politics. And the mafia. The mafia

8:16

is a big force in Italian politics.

8:18

Okay. There's a there's a great show

8:20

that came out fairly recently called subura

8:23

about these three powers that control

8:25

Rome, the the government, the church, and the

8:27

mafia. The mafia is a big part of it. And a similar

8:29

situation is true in Mexico. The the mob

8:31

plays a huge role down there. And so if you

8:33

destroy the cartels, if you launch a war against the

8:35

cartels, you're gonna completely destabilize that

8:37

country. And then what's going to happen? If you have an open border,

8:39

then you're just gonna have millions more people pouring

8:41

across that border if that border is not secure. So

8:43

the first thing we would have to do

8:45

is secure the border. First

8:47

thing you would have to do is build the wall get

8:50

the enforcement down, send more border

8:52

patrol agents, deport more

8:54

illegal aliens. You'd have to do all of that.

8:56

But then at that point, should

8:58

we use military force against the cartels? Well,

9:00

if the drugs and the traffic humans

9:02

keep coming through, yeah, I see no problem

9:04

with that what so ever.

9:06

Speaking of the failures of the Biden administration, senator

9:10

John Kennedy, senator

9:13

Fajorn, Lajorn himself, one of

9:15

my absolute favorite figures in all of

9:17

American politics. He says

9:19

that that the US is headed for

9:21

a a debt ceiling

9:23

standoff. AND THAT

9:25

WE SHOULDN'T BE ALL THAT WORRIED ABOUT THE U.

9:27

S. ACTUALLY DEFULTING ON ITS

9:28

DEAD. AND HERE'S WHY. THE

9:31

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT spends too much,

9:33

particularly the last two years and has

9:35

too much debt.

9:36

And if

9:37

we don't stop it,

9:40

we're

9:40

going to end up in a deep recession. And

9:45

Google may have to lay off up to

9:47

twenty five members of congress That's how

9:49

bad it'll be. I don't

9:52

know who does Kennedy's writing for him. Maybe

9:54

he writes these lines himself. Reagan used to do this. Reagan used

9:56

to have a a whole

9:58

treasure trove of zingers just

10:00

ready to

10:00

go. But that's a really good

10:02

one. That there are many

10:04

people in our politics who are in in bed with

10:06

big tech. And that

10:08

that Google would have might have to lay off those members

10:10

of Congress if the if the default. So III

10:13

don't think that the US is going to default.

10:15

But I agree with Kennedy that there

10:17

are a lot of members of Congress who are

10:20

beholden to Big Tech. And and

10:22

two, the the debt situation has spiraled so out

10:24

of control that frankly, at this point,

10:26

it seems almost hopeless.

10:29

That's very hard to dig out of thirty two trillion

10:31

dollars of debt when the debt is, what, roughly a hundred

10:33

percent of GDP or something or more.

10:36

Speaking of being in bed with Big Tech,

10:39

there is an issue that I have tried

10:41

to avoid talking about because I think it's extremely

10:43

petty and and tedious.

10:46

But I feel somewhat

10:48

compelled to talk about it. You know, I was on the road

10:50

last week. I didn't have much of an opportunity to get

10:52

involved in the high school squabbel of

10:54

Stephen Crowder and making all sorts of claims

10:56

about the daily wire hosts and and the

10:58

like. I I

11:01

generally find conversation

11:04

about about

11:06

political commentators negotiating contracts

11:08

with media companies to be the

11:12

single most boring thing on the planet,

11:14

basically like chloroform on a screen.

11:18

But III was perfectly willing

11:20

to take the personal insinuations

11:22

on the chin even though it's not true.

11:24

And and but but just

11:28

after I filmed my last show of the week

11:30

last week, Stephen,

11:32

our friend of many years, lobbed

11:35

an attack at Jeremy that I that really

11:39

very, very few things

11:41

get me angry. You Knowles,

11:43

I'm like the least angry guy in all of

11:45

politics. It's probably hampered my career,

11:47

frankly. And I've I've said on the show before, I

11:49

get angry, like, twice a year. And

11:51

I guess we started early this year. I guess we

11:53

started in January. I

11:57

was going to launch into a

11:59

Ses ain't

12:02

but comprehensive monologue

12:04

on why the allegations that have been

12:06

made about the daily

12:08

wire hosts and and the

12:10

company itself are not true,

12:12

manifestly not true. I was going

12:14

to had a lot to

12:16

say on the subject. And But actually,

12:19

III mentioned this today to

12:21

Jeremy, and he said, you know,

12:23

just be magnanimous and let it go.

12:25

And that was my instinct in the

12:27

first place and to kind of stay above the fray and not

12:29

get involved in these squabbles. I felt

12:31

that what was done to Jeremy was very,

12:34

very unjust, very very unjust. I'm

12:36

someone who sees behind the scenes, you know, I've been

12:38

around all this crew for a very long time

12:40

now. And but I

12:44

guess his inclination is to be even more magnanimous

12:46

than I. So all all of that just to say

12:49

Jeremy boarding gets a lot of flack.

12:53

That guy is and

12:55

don't tell him I said anything nice about him. You know, men

12:57

are not supposed to say nice things about one another, especially

12:59

buddies are you know, it's it's not how we

13:02

really operate around here. There

13:05

are very very few people in politics who

13:07

are as generous

13:09

and loyal and

13:12

principled as Jeremy boring. And

13:15

in deference to his magnanimity, I will

13:17

leave it at that. I'll leave it at

13:19

that. But it's important. Loyalty is an important

13:21

thing, and integrity is an important

13:23

thing. I'll

13:26

just leave it at that.

13:28

Okay? Speaking

13:30

of employment, the World

13:33

Economic Forum World

13:35

Economic Forum, which just concluded last week,

13:37

and Davos, Switzerland, had

13:39

a panel on the future of work.

13:42

And The

13:45

the future of work looks

13:48

really pleasant for the elites if

13:50

you ask the World Economic Forum.

13:54

The the World Economic Forum

13:56

panel on the Future of the Work Week

13:58

suggested that

14:01

perhaps the elites need more time

14:03

Not everybody needs more time off, but the

14:06

elites need more time off.

14:08

There was an international study

14:10

that showed that revenues actually rose

14:13

for companies that cut

14:15

down their work week from five days to four

14:17

days. And this is

14:19

true, really only for the upper

14:21

class. The Dutch employment minister, Karyan

14:23

Novangemi acknowledged that

14:25

the four day work week conversation

14:27

remains, quote, very much a

14:29

discussion for the upper

14:31

class. The this

14:34

is now a year after virtual commutes became

14:37

common place for white collar employees, sixty

14:41

seven percent of these white collar employees

14:43

were able to work from home exclusively. Now

14:45

this would be compared to, say, teachers,

14:47

forty eight percent of educators were

14:49

able to work from home exclusively, thirty

14:51

five percent of healthcare professionals were able to work

14:53

from home exclusively. Which seems kind

14:55

of high to me, but I guess people do telemedicine.

14:59

And then basically zero

15:01

percent of service employees are able to work

15:03

from home exclusively because they have to do real jobs with

15:05

their bodies in time and space so that all the

15:07

white collar people can stay at home.

15:11

As a technical matter, I guess this

15:13

makes sense. But

15:17

as a spiritual matter, this is a very, very bad

15:19

idea. And the reason it's a bad idea is not

15:21

because white collar workers who

15:23

are telecommuting on their laptops,

15:25

while they're in their pajamas. It's not

15:28

because that is necessarily going

15:30

to diminish profits for a company or tick

15:32

down GDP for a country. The reason that

15:34

this is a very bad idea is

15:36

because idle hands are the devil's playground.

15:38

The reason this is a bad idea

15:40

is because it accelerates a very

15:43

bad trend. That we've been seeing in our culture now for

15:45

years, which is a trend away

15:47

from physical reality.

15:49

It's a trend away from acknowledging

15:52

that that we are bodies as well

15:54

as souls. You see that,

15:56

particularly expressed in transgenderism, and

15:58

transgenderism says my body has nothing to do with who

16:00

I am. I'm purely metaphysical, so

16:02

I might look like a boy, but I'm really a girl.

16:05

You see this in the

16:07

move away from real social

16:09

contact. During the the lockdowns,

16:11

we weren't allowed to hug our loved ones. Well, that's

16:13

okay. We can just zoom with them. Let's have

16:15

zoom drinks and zoom dinner. That's

16:17

obviously not as satisfying. And

16:19

because when people work from home,

16:21

maybe they're more efficient in some

16:23

ways, but they've got a lot of downtime

16:25

and they don't get dressed and they they say, well, what does

16:27

it matter if I get I can wear sweatpants at

16:29

socks all day because no

16:31

one really cares. Well, it it matters because

16:34

you are in part a

16:36

body and you live in time and space. And

16:38

So if you treat yourself like a big just lump of

16:40

meat, then you're going to behave like a big

16:42

a lump of meat and not like a dignified human

16:44

being as you as you should.

16:47

This is especially worrisome for the

16:49

elites because the elites are extremely decadent. You

16:52

know, their idea of fighting

16:54

injustice around the world is to fly to an

16:56

alpine Swiss resort. And go

16:58

skiing for a few days and eat fancy

17:00

meals and and drink fancy drinks hobnobbing

17:02

with the richest and most powerful people on

17:04

earth. Okay? Decodence

17:07

is an occupational

17:09

hazard for these sorts of people. And now they're saying,

17:11

we need to be a little bit more decadent.

17:13

Well, no, you poured it till people go out there. You bring me my

17:15

fillet and your own. You deliver it on

17:17

Uber Eats and then you go back and you eat your bugs. I

17:19

don't know what accent that is.

17:21

Not sure exactly. But I don't it's just a

17:24

vague kind of cosmopolitan accent.

17:26

It's a very bad idea. Everybody, especially

17:29

the elates. Need to be actively involved. There's there's

17:31

no neutrality. This is something we've talked about

17:33

on the show a lot. There's no neutrality in speech.

17:35

There's no neutrality in politics. There's no

17:37

neutrality in the physical world. You've

17:39

always got to be doing something. The question is, what are you

17:41

doing? Are you spending time playing with your kids?

17:43

Are you spending time working, building up

17:46

a business? Are spending time fixing up the

17:48

house or are you spending time

17:50

loafing around and

17:53

just getting drunk and indulging

17:56

your lust there was an article that showed

17:58

that there were apparently hundreds and

18:00

hundreds of high class prostitutes who were

18:02

descending on on Davos

18:04

for the conference. Are you what are

18:06

you doing? What are you

18:08

doing? If

18:11

anybody needs to remain more occupied,

18:13

not less, I think it is those

18:15

elites. Now speaking of what

18:17

the elites were eating in Davos,

18:20

there was there's one video

18:22

that really seemed to go viral from the

18:24

whole World Economic Forum Conference.

18:26

This year, the elites plated a little bit

18:28

closer to the chest, you Knowles. They

18:30

they did not George Soros did not show

18:32

up. I I don't think Bill Gates showed

18:35

up. They weren't totally as

18:37

wild as they often are in their

18:39

commentary with all the because

18:41

they know that we're sort of on to them and we're

18:43

paying more attention. But there was one

18:45

clip that went viral. And this was the

18:47

chairman of, how do you pronounce this company,

18:49

Simons? Is that the name? Let's choose to

18:51

pronounce it that way, who said that

18:53

people need to stop eating meat

18:55

and that in the future we're in a very different

18:57

types of proteins than meat.

18:59

It's a

19:00

very

19:00

important point that you are

19:03

addressing. My daughter

19:06

twenty four inspired

19:08

me and

19:09

said that how can you advocate

19:13

for this zero carbon

19:15

value change if you still eat

19:17

meat? So I

19:20

stopped eating meat. Now

19:23

the math would say, well, you need to stop

19:25

eating meat eleven years

19:27

to compensate for a

19:29

flight to

19:30

Thailand. Yes. But if

19:33

a billion people start eating

19:35

meat, I

19:35

tell you it has a big

19:37

impact. Not only does it having a big

19:40

impact on the current food

19:42

system, but it will also

19:44

inspire innovation of food systems.

19:46

And I predict that we will have

19:48

proteins not coming from

19:51

meat in the

19:53

future. They will probably taste even

19:55

better. So why are we trying to mimic meat

19:57

if we can have a better taste?

19:59

They will be zero

20:02

carbon and much healthier than the kind of

20:04

food that we eat today. So

20:06

this is the main clip that's gone viral from the

20:08

World Economic Forum. And what's what's amazing

20:10

to me is No

20:12

one has pointed out

20:14

what this answer was

20:16

in reaction to.

20:19

The question and I haven't really found a clip of

20:21

the question as well, but I

20:23

did I did get to see it as it was

20:25

happening. Because you you

20:27

can stream all of the this is one of the odd things

20:29

about the World Economic Forum. We think of it as

20:31

this highly secretive sort of cabal of

20:33

people. They livestream most

20:35

of their events. And the the question that was asked

20:38

specifically referenced eating

20:41

bugs and the question that was asked

20:43

was about how we can get

20:45

people to move away from eating meat and

20:47

go toward more vegetarian or

20:50

vegan or even edible

20:54

insects, diets, and

20:57

and his answer, the the CEO of

20:59

this company, or chairman rather, is a very

21:01

important company. Was,

21:04

oh, yes, of course, that's what we have to do.

21:06

We need a billion people to stop eating meat

21:08

and the proteins of the future, they're not

21:10

gonna come from meat. They're gonna they're gonna taste much better.

21:12

Specifically in

21:15

reaction to a question that mentions edible

21:17

insects. So when we hear that that

21:19

the Davos said is talking that you will

21:21

eat z bugs You will live in the

21:22

blood. You will own

21:25

nothing and be happy. They

21:28

mean that. They mean that.

21:30

Even at the conference where they were clearly trying to downplay

21:32

a lot of their more ambitious

21:36

projects, that is clearly

21:38

something that they have in mind. And if you

21:40

if you listen to that guy, I don't think that

21:42

that guy has bad intentions. I think that guy probably

21:44

has very good intentions. I think he

21:46

genuinely believes that is a virtuous

21:49

thing to do, is this is

21:51

the the other fact of the the

21:53

great reset. And the plans of the

21:55

Libs elites who wanna remake the world after

21:57

their own image. They

22:00

believe that they are doing the right thing, and their

22:02

plan makes sense. If

22:04

you start with the premise that

22:06

there is no god, there is no soul, there is

22:08

no such thing as dignity, we're all just kind

22:10

of random products of evolution,

22:12

and we're all gonna get wiped out by the Sun Monster if we

22:15

don't stop living like dignified human beings.

22:17

If you start with all those premises, you're

22:19

gonna end up at that conclusion. It's

22:21

it's like what always happens in logic

22:23

garbage in, garbage out.

22:28

Speaking of skepticism of

22:30

scientific advances, there's a new

22:32

study just came out. You're gonna be shocked to hear

22:34

this one. A

22:36

new study shows that puberty

22:38

blockers might cause

22:41

depression. So if you

22:43

pump little kids full of drugs

22:46

to stop them from going through puberty,

22:48

this might kind of mess them up a little bit.

22:50

Breaking news, I Knowles. Shock, stop

22:52

the presses. This is a study that was done on

22:54

animals and it it found out that these

22:56

purity blockers might have all

22:58

these problems. All

23:01

decades after doctors began

23:03

to give these puberty blockers to

23:06

children. This study was the

23:08

first of its kind to use an animal

23:10

model to examine the potential neurological

23:12

and psychiatric effects of

23:14

the puberty blockers and they

23:16

found that that they profound effects of

23:19

increased depression in a female

23:21

mice and then a male mice increased stress

23:23

and a loss of interest in female

23:26

mice. Profound, profound effects.

23:29

All twenty two years after

23:32

a doctors, quack

23:34

started prescribing these to kids.

23:38

This always happens. This

23:40

has happened throughout all of history.

23:42

And and you know this

23:44

because of now how we we look at

23:47

scientific procedures from the past. We look

23:49

at things like lobotomies.

23:51

And we say, wow, that's ghastly. When

23:53

women seem to be a little bit hysterical

23:56

and eccentric, we used to just scramble up

23:58

their brains. That was that was the consensus

24:01

medical procedure from older fancy

24:03

people in the white lab coats. Before

24:05

that, when people had had

24:07

very ailments, we would put leaches on their body, or

24:09

we would cut them open a little bit and just get some

24:11

blood to come out because we thought, if you get rid

24:13

of the bad blood, then they

24:15

they might improve. We've had

24:17

all sorts of quack procedures for all of

24:20

human history. And so if you

24:22

observe that from the

24:24

perspective of history, you're a

24:26

sophisticated educated person.

24:28

But in my experience, it's always

24:30

the very same people

24:32

who can look back at the history

24:34

of medical science and lock it or

24:36

or be a gas to the kind of procedures that

24:38

were conducted. They're the very same people

24:40

who pretend that now we've figured everything out

24:42

and that you can't question the science.

24:44

In fact, I did this interview. Went

24:47

viral with this medical student,

24:49

Bronte Remsick, who's a kind of TikTok pro

24:51

abortion activist. And

24:53

Her her argument for abortion

24:55

consistently boiled down to. Well,

24:57

the American Association of

25:00

Obstetricians says that abortion is good,

25:02

so That's the science, and that's why we need to do it. I

25:04

said, okay. Well, if you're just deferring to the

25:06

authority of the scientists, in the nineteen

25:09

fifties, the scientific

25:11

consensus was that performing lobotomies

25:13

on hysterical women was good. Would

25:15

you have performed a lobotomy? If

25:17

you if you were a doctor or medical student in the

25:19

fifties and that's what the trade associations that

25:21

the doctors told you to do. And this girl got to

25:23

give her credit for honesty, She

25:26

she kept contradicting herself a little bit, but she did say,

25:28

yes, I would've. Yeah, I totally

25:30

would've. Say, well, okay, at least you're consistent. I

25:32

would not have. Call me crazy. Call

25:34

me a radical. I would not have performed a lobotomy

25:37

even if the scientific consensus told

25:39

me to. I gave a

25:41

speech somewhat recently about how science

25:43

is fake. The only thing I

25:45

really know about science is that it has been wrong

25:47

about pretty much everything for all of human

25:49

history. Over

25:51

the long course of history, it has gotten

25:53

pretty much everything wrong.

25:55

And so the question is not, wow, gosh,

25:57

maybe we need to stop these purity blocking drugs.

25:59

Of course, we do. But what else what else are we doing right now?

26:01

We were told that those mRNA vaccines

26:04

were totally safe, totally effective.

26:06

We very quickly found out that they

26:08

were not very effective.

26:10

Now we're finding out that they don't seem all that safe

26:12

either. Anybody with two brain cells

26:14

to rub together could have known this at the time except

26:16

for the elites. Except for

26:18

the scientists. Those were the only ones

26:20

that got fooled. It's only

26:23

it's how I think about ketange

26:26

Jackson. The

26:28

the justice on the supreme court who

26:30

was asked during her confirmation, what is a woman? She

26:32

she couldn't answer it. So I don't know. I'm

26:34

not a biologist. Katana Jackson

26:37

has two degrees from

26:39

Harvard, not one, but two, an undergraduate

26:41

and a graduate degree. And I thought, of

26:43

course. Of

26:45

course. Any random Joe on the

26:47

street could tell you what a woman is.

26:49

It takes two degrees from Harvard

26:52

to not know what a woman is.

26:55

Of course. Any random

26:57

Joe on the street could have told you pumping little

26:59

kids full of drugs to stop them from going

27:01

through puberty probably wasn't gonna be the

27:03

best thing we've ever done.

27:05

Twenty two years later, the guys in the lab

27:07

coats realize, maybe this isn't maybe this isn't the

27:09

best idea. We figured it all

27:12

out now though. Now we've figured out

27:14

science. Right? Technological

27:17

advances are not

27:19

always progress. They're

27:21

not always good. Great example of

27:24

this. I tried to talk about this

27:26

over a week ago, and I just kept running out of

27:28

time, but I think it fits in very well with

27:30

what we're talking about right now. Anna

27:32

Kendrick, the actress, recently

27:34

won a podcast to lament the

27:36

a breakup that she just had with some guy that

27:38

she was really in love with, but

27:40

they never got married and then they broke up. And a

27:43

very sad tale is the oldest time in

27:45

Hollywood, but it got really, really dark

27:47

when Anna Kendrick revealed

27:49

that she and this guy had actually

27:53

created embryos together. That is they'd

27:55

conceived babies

27:57

that they

27:58

just locked away in a freezer who

28:00

now I suppose will remain in that freezer forever.

28:02

I was with someone

28:04

and this was somebody I lived with,

28:06

then for all intents and purposes, my husband. Yeah.

28:08

Yeah. Really, we had embryos together and we,

28:10

you know, this was my person. And

28:13

then about six years in somewhere around there.

28:15

I remember telling my brother when

28:17

things had first kind of gone down. I'm living

28:19

with a stranger. Like, I don't know what's

28:21

happening. It wasn't just the oh, I'm

28:23

losing a relationship. It was

28:25

that I believed that if

28:27

we broke up or, you know, if he left

28:29

basically, it was a confirmation that it's because

28:31

I'm impossible. I'm lucky that he's even

28:33

tolerating my bullshit. Okay.

28:35

So she's she's saying a

28:37

lot of things here that don't make sense. She said, look,

28:39

this guy was for all intents and purposes,

28:42

my husband.

28:42

But he wasn't.

28:44

And you were not for all

28:46

intents and purposes, his wife.

28:49

Because you didn't have that ring and you didn't take

28:51

that vow before the minister

28:53

and the witnesses and the

28:55

public and god. And because you

28:57

didn't have that marriage contract. You weren't.

29:00

You were his concubine. You

29:02

were maybe you could have maybe even become his

29:04

common law wife if if you lived together

29:06

longer. Well, you weren't you

29:09

weren't cohabitation is not for all

29:11

intents and purposes the same thing as marriage. You're missing the

29:13

essential part of marriage, which is

29:15

the vow. Did remain together. And and

29:17

then you you went

29:19

further down this route of your

29:21

responsibility or you and this guy went

29:23

down further down this route of your responsibility.

29:26

And techno dystopia,

29:29

you had children,

29:31

but you didn't quite have

29:33

children. And and the way that

29:35

she says this is so jarring. Kind

29:37

of sends a chill up your back. She goes, yeah, look, I

29:39

mean, look, we live together, you know, we shared

29:42

a refrigerator, We had the same Uber

29:44

Eats account, and we had

29:46

embryos, you know, and we had a dog,

29:48

and we, you know, we we sometimes

29:50

took the pillow in the middle of the night and we

29:53

created human beings together that we put in a

29:55

freezer, you know. And then we and sometimes we even

29:57

borrowed each other's cars. Say, hold on.

29:59

Wait. What did you just say? I said

30:01

we sometimes barding each other's cars. No, before that.

30:03

Oh, you know, I said

30:06

that we shared the same refrigerator. No,

30:08

after that, what was the thing of oh, we had embryos

30:10

together? You had embryos together? Oh, you

30:12

had children? Well,

30:14

not quite. Not quite. Because now what you

30:16

can do because of our technological

30:18

advances is

30:21

you can make

30:24

the most consequential decision

30:26

maybe of your life, certainly one of them

30:28

to have children. You can

30:31

engage in the most significant act, one of

30:33

the most significant acts you can ever engage

30:36

in while still

30:38

pretending that you haven't made that

30:40

decision. still pretending that you

30:42

haven't committed that action. While

30:44

remaining as modern people are

30:46

so inclined to try to remain,

30:49

totally uncommitted because

30:52

we know that whenever you make a

30:54

decision to

30:56

do something, all

30:59

of a sudden, you

31:01

are foreclosing the other options available. When

31:03

you decide to marry one person, you

31:05

are simultaneously deciding not

31:08

to marry this other person or that person or this.

31:10

And and I'm not just saying this in a

31:12

in a flippant way. Well,

31:14

I'm picking this one gal. That means all the other gals

31:16

in the world are too bad. I would have

31:18

fun with him. No. You're being a

31:20

little more specific. Maybe, you know,

31:22

you're dating this woman, but you

31:25

you still have an old flame for your old

31:27

high school sweetheart, I don't know. Or you still

31:29

you have a crush on that girl from

31:32

whatever, and you and you still you

31:34

your ex girlfriend, you and you think about her

31:37

sometimes, and and you are deciding.

31:39

No. That person dead to me. That person dead to me. That

31:41

person dead to me. That other

31:43

person dead to me, I will never

31:46

fulfill that love story that I wanted to fulfill

31:48

because I am making a decision here. And

31:50

two roads diverged in a yellow

31:52

wood. And sorry, I could not be

31:54

one traveler and travel both long I

31:56

stood and looked down one as far as I could. To

31:58

wear a bent in the undergrowth. And took the other as just

32:00

as fair. And having

32:03

perhaps better claim because it was grassy wanted to wear though,

32:05

as for that passing, there had laying

32:07

them equally about the same. And each of that morning equally

32:09

laying leaves no stretch no trodden black. Oh,

32:11

I kept the first for another day, but knowing how

32:13

way leads onto way. I doubted that I should

32:15

ever come back And I shall say this with a size, somewhere ages

32:17

and ages hands, two roads diverge, and wouldn't

32:20

I? I took the one less traveled by and that has made

32:22

all the difference. When in fact,

32:24

there's no evidence that the other road was

32:26

less traveled or the other one was more traveled

32:28

or anything like that. You're making a decision and

32:30

you know that

32:32

way leads on to way and you're not going to come back to

32:34

the other one and people don't want to do that

32:36

anymore. That's why that's why

32:38

younger people don't tend to

32:40

stay in one career. They tend to kind

32:42

of switch up their jobs and switch up their

32:44

careers. That's why young people don't get

32:46

married early these days. They Well,

32:48

we just need to meet new people and travel

32:50

and have new experiences. And this is why

32:52

young people very often don't wanna

32:54

have children these days. Because when you have children,

32:56

you are closing off a stage of life that

32:58

you are in adolescence and you're entering into

33:01

a new stage of life and people don't want to do this.

33:03

This is why young people these days

33:05

I think remain enamored of their

33:07

childhood interests. That's why you have

33:09

so many more young people these days

33:11

continuing to pursue the same kinds

33:13

of activities. That they did when they

33:15

were children. I I said, look, I'm not a

33:17

big Disney guy, but I could see an

33:19

argument for why adults can go to Disney World. But the

33:21

reason that adults should go to Disney World is take

33:23

their children there. I think it's fine for adults

33:25

to play little board games and even video games

33:27

and whatever. They can do all that stuff. But

33:29

at a at a certain

33:31

point, these things that are

33:33

really for children become

33:36

weird for adults to do unless the

33:38

adults are doing it with their

33:40

children. You do you actually get this

33:42

opportunity to kind of relive your childhood and

33:44

engage in all these fundings and roll around on the

33:46

ground and wrestle and play and do, I don't know, throw a

33:48

ball around. But If you do it

33:50

just for yourself and you pretend that

33:52

you're still a child, that's going to be grotesque.

33:55

If you do it in the a

33:57

natural and orderly flow of life

33:59

where you make a decision,

34:01

go on, enter into society, have kids,

34:03

play around, do all the stuff that people are

34:05

supposed to do. Then it's nice, and it's nice,

34:07

and it makes sense and it's

34:09

good and you're not stuck in this grotesqueery

34:12

where you just you're like a hamster

34:14

spinning on a wheel. You're like a hamster that was

34:16

pumped with puberty blockers spinning on a wheel

34:18

and you you don't go into

34:20

maturity and then you end up whining on podcasts about

34:22

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35:58

of life,

36:00

there was a celebration of

36:02

life for Diamond. I mentioned on

36:06

the show just a day or two after it happened

36:08

that Diamond of Diamond and

36:10

Silk Fain recently died. She was

36:12

quite young.

36:14

Gosh. I think she was only fifty four or something like that. And

36:16

she was great. I only got to meet her. I think a

36:18

couple of times, I was on her shows. She may have been

36:21

on my show. And I

36:24

really just loved the whole act and I

36:26

thought she was really, really talented

36:28

and stood up for

36:30

important things at a

36:32

consequential moment in American history

36:34

and and very courageously

36:37

endorsed Donald Trump which at the time

36:40

was not really smiled upon

36:42

by the powers that be.

36:44

And so Trump

36:46

has come out with statements about this lady,

36:48

wonderful lady and

36:50

said, you know, there's gonna be a celebration of life

36:52

and you should all, you know, say say prayers

36:54

for her. Sunday, January

36:57

eighth twenty twenty three,

36:59

the world lost an angel

37:01

and

37:03

true friend Lannette Diamond Hardaway.

37:06

She was

37:07

great. Diamond lived a life founded

37:09

on her passion and love for

37:11

all of humanity. The

37:14

legacy she lives behind will

37:16

forever remain in our hearts. She was

37:18

a really great person.

37:20

Please join us on

37:22

Saturday, January twenty first in Fayetteville, North

37:24

Carolina, she loved that state in So do

37:25

I, as we celebrate the life

37:28

of Diamond, She

37:31

lived it in a credible

37:34

way, and we're gonna have a

37:36

wonderful celebration and ceremony,

37:38

all of diamonds, families, and

37:40

silk. We loved silk her sister. She loved her sister so much

37:42

and they loved each other and

37:44

they really loved the

37:46

world. They

37:48

were with me from the beginning and they wavered. So

37:50

we're

37:51

gonna celebrate silk will be there, but

37:53

I'll be there, and we're gonna

37:55

celebrate the

37:57

life of Diamond. See

37:58

you in North

37:59

Carolina. Thank you.

38:02

Lovely thing for Trump to do and

38:05

wonderful for everyone to get together and pray for

38:07

a diamond and think back on all

38:10

the good memories. The reason I

38:12

mention this

38:14

in particular It's because of a phrase that kept coming up in

38:16

President Trump's comments. He said, a

38:18

celebration. We're gonna celebrate the life. It's a

38:20

celebration of life. It's a celebration of life. This is how it was

38:22

reported in

38:24

the news. This was not a

38:26

funeral. This was not awake. This was a celebration of life.

38:30

And increasingly,

38:32

that is what funerals are called

38:34

in our culture. You will

38:39

Frankly, now it might be even more common than

38:41

the word funeral. Come, we're going to have a celebration of

38:43

life, and it's a little different than a funeral. A

38:46

funeral, that's where the

38:48

body is. You're in the presence of the

38:50

body. If it's an open gasket wake, you actually

38:52

see the body. But you're at least in the

38:54

presence of the body. You say prayers. There's

38:56

usually a priest. There

38:58

there is a a right and ritual to this.

39:00

There can be a wreck we have mass perhaps.

39:02

It happens over a series of

39:04

a couple or a few days.

39:06

When you go, you throw flowers on the

39:08

coffin, it's lowered into the ground, you bury it, and

39:12

that's that. Then

39:14

you lay the the body to rest. A celebration of

39:16

life doesn't do that. Celebration of

39:19

life usually the body is not present

39:21

and it's just family for get

39:23

together and the whole point of it is it's supposed to be a

39:25

happy time. Don't be sad. The deceased

39:27

person wouldn't want you to be sad. You should

39:29

be happy. Let's get some

39:31

upbeat music going. And let's let's get some let's be festive

39:33

and let's all be happy. And I just I

39:36

always find the celebrations of

39:39

life to be. Trying too

39:42

hard. I think it's a big mistake for

39:44

people to do. I know a lot of people do it. I've been

39:46

to plenty of them, but I think

39:48

The funeral idea has it more

39:51

correct because death

39:53

is a genuinely sad

39:56

thing. And we can pretend that it's not a sad thing. We say, well, let's

39:58

just celebrate the life. Let's ignore the fact of

40:00

death. Let's go let's just focus on

40:03

the happy times. But it's gonna be there. You're not

40:05

gonna ignore that reality. It kinda reminds me of what we're talking about at the

40:07

top of the show. Democrats want to ignore the

40:10

political realities. And

40:12

they wanna say, no. No. It's only if you observe them, that's when the problem kicks

40:14

in. Don't talk about the open border because

40:16

when you when you mention the open border, that's when it's

40:18

really gonna be a problem and people gonna

40:22

flood over. Don't mention the sad fact of death. Just, you know, as long as we

40:24

all just pretend to be happy, then we'll all be

40:26

happy. That's not

40:28

true. It's Jesus

40:30

wept when his friend died.

40:32

Jesus wept Jesus who is

40:34

incarnate to redeem mankind from

40:36

death and give mankind

40:38

life eternal. Weeps when his friend dies.

40:40

Moments before he raises his friend from the

40:42

dead. Why does he weep?

40:44

It's the shortest verse in in

40:46

the gospels. Jesus

40:48

wept. Why? He weeps

40:50

for his death as a sad thing.

40:52

It's so sad. It's so

40:54

tragic that God gave his only

40:56

begotten son to suffer and

40:58

die so that mankind might have eternal life.

41:00

So it it

41:03

seems to me as as

41:05

with so many things in our culture. When

41:08

we're trying to be happy

41:10

by ignoring reality. When

41:13

in fact, The only chance that we have

41:15

of really being happy is if we

41:17

accept reality in all its sadness,

41:19

in all its

41:21

tragedy, see through it, and push back through

41:23

that reality. You you have to

41:26

first, I think, in my own

41:28

experience, been to a number

41:30

of funerals. And celebrations

41:32

of life. You have to accept the sad

41:34

fact. This person has died, and

41:36

death is bad, and their soul

41:38

is departed, and their body

41:40

is gonna turn to

41:42

dust. But

41:44

if you have faith in

41:46

the resurrection, you say, but that's not the

41:49

end of the story. And if you don't have

41:51

faith in the resurrection, if you're more inclined to

41:53

these kind of secular affairs, Again,

41:55

I'm not I'm not accusing Diamond in self of being

41:58

secularists. Right? I don't I don't know their religious

42:00

views. It's just it's just very common in our

42:02

culture now. To engage in what is

42:04

essentially a secular affair, which is a celebration of

42:06

life. If you just take the secular

42:08

view of

42:10

things, then You can pretend that there's hope, but you don't really have

42:12

hope. You don't actually You really think that

42:14

is the end of the story. Turn Taking a dirt

42:16

nap and turn into warm food, that really is the end of

42:18

the story.

42:20

For you. And I just don't think that it is. It

42:22

reminds me of a CS Lewis quote I go back to a

42:24

lot. If you look for truth, you

42:27

might find comfort. You might. I think you will

42:29

find comfort. But if you look for the truth, you might find

42:32

comfort in the end. But if you look

42:34

for comfort, You

42:36

will find neither truth nor comfort. You will find

42:38

only soft soap and wishful thinking

42:41

to begin. FESTIVITY is

42:44

an upbeat rock music and just focus on the good

42:46

times. And in the end,

42:48

despair. Let's not do that. You gotta look

42:50

reality square in the face if you wanna have

42:52

any hope.

42:54

Of joy and happiness. If you just if you try

42:56

to ignore reality, it's not gonna get

42:58

you there. Speaking of death, Elon

43:02

Musk, says that

43:04

after he got his second COVID booster

43:06

shot, he felt like he was dying.

43:08

He said, I had major side

43:10

effects from my second booster shot

43:12

felt like I was dying for several days, hopefully no permanent

43:14

damage, but I don't know. And my cousin who's young and in

43:17

peak health had a serious case of

43:19

myocarditis had to go to

43:22

the hospital. The reason this

43:24

matters is not because this

43:26

is a novel thing. I think

43:30

many people I know who received the COVID shot, any of the

43:32

COVID shots. Said, oh yeah, I felt really

43:34

bad right after I took it or after the

43:38

boosters or yeah, my uncle died right out shortly thereafter

43:40

or or so and so had a stroke or so and so had a

43:42

blood clot or so and so whatever.

43:44

So that that isn't surprising, at least not

43:46

to me. At least not to the

43:48

people who had the number of this whole

43:50

thing from from the earliest

43:52

days. The reason it

43:54

matters is because Elon Musk is

43:56

so prominent he controls social media website.

43:58

Had Elon Musk not owned Twitter

44:00

and posted that comment on Twitter in the

44:02

pre Elon Twitter days, he might have

44:04

been banned

44:06

for it. Okay? And all

44:08

of this takes me back to when I was a little

44:10

kid, I would see these commercials

44:12

for mesothelioma. And

44:14

say have you or a loved one been diagnosed

44:16

with mesothelioma? You may be entitled to financial compensation.

44:18

Call the law group of Jacobian Myers

44:21

or I forget who whichever law

44:24

group was. And you can join a class action

44:26

because you were exposed to dangerous

44:28

chemicals. And

44:30

and this crops

44:32

up every year. There's some version

44:34

of this on the air.

44:36

And there were people who

44:40

actually believed that with this COVID shot or this

44:42

series of COVID shots,

44:44

from the people who had been wrong

44:46

about everything, And in some cases, we

44:48

had lied about everything in

44:50

the epidemic. The Descovy

44:52

other was rushed through with this experimental

44:54

kind of drug treatment. That there would be no side

44:56

effects whatsoever. No, no, no, now we figured

44:58

out the science. No, no,

45:00

no, Knowles we figured. There are

45:02

internal problems

45:04

that have plagued science and politics and mankind

45:06

since the dawn of time. But

45:08

sometime around twenty nineteen, we just

45:11

figured it all out. And now there

45:13

are those questions. If you can believe that, and

45:16

very often, it's the elites who

45:18

believe that. Very often,

45:20

it's the people with the fancy degrees who buy people who

45:22

have two degrees from Harvard who believe that. If you

45:24

can believe that, you

45:27

can believe absolutely anything at all and very often those

45:29

people do. The rest of the show continues. I'm very

45:32

happy, now that we're live,

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totally live

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