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April 25, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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Thu Episode #1996: Sun-Blocking Schemes, AI Job Wipeout, and “New Bretton Woods” Financial Reset

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	Well, we have the Supreme Court weighing in as to whether or not California has the power to ban gasoline cars.
	And as much as it pains me to say this, I think constitutionally they do.
	I don't like it at all.
	But our Constitution is such a twisted pretzel.
	And this whole dispute as to what's going to happen and how it's going to happen is a good example of the legal mess and the legal mire that we're in with our
	over and above the simple issue of prohibition, right?
	Are you going to prohibit cars?
	Do you have a constitutional amendment for that?
	Does California need the permission and the assistance of the federal government to ban cars?
	Well, at issue is whether a coalition of energy producers and royalty owners can sue Over the EPA's 2022 decision to give California's Clean Air Act a waiver.
	This is something that was done, I think going back to the Obama administration.
	And then Trump removed that waiver, then Biden puts it back on in 2022 or whatever.
	So what they said with the waiver was, we have assumed the power.
	In Washington, with the bureaucracy, the EPA, to do whatever it wishes.
	It can ban whatever it wants.
	You know, this goes back to the two laws, essentially.
	One of them giving the EPA the right to make all kinds of rules about emissions.
	And then the other one gave the Department of Energy all kinds of leeway to make rules about energy efficiency.
	These were congressional acts.
	Unfortunately, Congress didn't have that power to give to the bureaucracy.
	That power doesn't exist.
	There's nothing in the Constitution about making things efficient or clean, even.
	There's no power for that.
	There's no authority whatsoever about the EPA.
	So as we have this fight going back and forth between the Trump EPA and between the California crazies, Where does this all come from?
	We're all in a bizarro fantasy world here.
	It's completely detached from the Constitution.
	There's no power for the federal government.
	To weigh in on any of these things.
	But they presume to give themselves the power to make rules about emissions and about energy efficiency.
	And so, you know, this is the way this whole cancer of the bureaucracy in this particular area is metastasizing.
	So the waiver was reinstated under Biden and allows the state of California to implement stricter vehicle emission standards to boost the electric vehicle industry.
	And so, if California gets their way...
	They will ban all gasoline cars by 2035.
	I said before, when I did reports at some of these car shows in Austin, And vast, vast car show.
	I mean, you could spend days there if you took your time and looked at the cars.
	All kinds of custom cars and rat rods and stuff like that.
	And they had to be American, and the cutoff date was, I think, 64 or something, so it didn't include Mustangs.
	And, you know, it was pretty cool what people were doing with their cars.
	And as I said, I talked to all these people.
	You think they're going to ban gas cars?
	Oh yeah, they'll ban it, but not in my lifetime.
	And that was even the 18-year-olds were saying that.
	It's like, seriously?
	And so here we are, by 2035, 10 years from now, they want to ban all gasoline cars in California.
	Not only California, but there's a whole bunch of other states that have piggybacked onto California's rules.
	Over a dozen states are following the California rules for these things.
	The dirty dozen, I guess.
	The disillusioned dozen.
	It's absolutely crazy to see this happening.
	And yet, think about what is involved here.
	Number one, the EPA is effectively banning cars, but they're not doing it themselves.
	themselves they're delegating it to a state by waiving the rules and say well you know you can go we've got all rules and and we're going to get there eventually but you can do it faster if you want how about that we'll give you a waiver you don't have to abide by the rules that we have you can do whatever
	you wish and
	And so they're essentially delegating powers that they don't have.
	Same thing that...
	Congress did when they told the EPA and the Department of Energy that they could ban things based on emissions or energy efficiency.
	So people give powers to other groups that they didn't have to give.
	Of course, that's kind of what government does all the time, right?
	The welfare state is giving money to people.
	They take money from you, they give it to other people.
	They take powers from you, they give it to other people.
	They take powers away from places where they didn't have it and give it to other people.
	So this is an affront.
	Whoever is doing the banning, whatever government agency in the federal government is doing this, it's an affront to the 18th Amendment, isn't it?
	Or to the 10th Amendment.
	And it was attested to by the 18th Amendment, which is the one that prohibited alcohol.
	People said at the time, we don't like alcohol, we want to get rid of it.
	Well, we don't have the authority to do that by fiat.
	So we'll have to have a constitutional amendment because there's no power in the Constitution to prohibit anything.
	That's right, folks.
	They can't prohibit alcohol.
	They can't prohibit tobacco.
	They can't prohibit gasoline cars.
	They don't have the power to do that under the Constitution.
	You need to have the Constitution amended.
	And so we have the 18th and the 21st Amendment to prohibit alcohol and then to make it legal again.
	And then when they decide they want to have a drug war, they just said, we can do that under the Commerce Clause.
	Yeah, that's the ticket.
	Yeah. And so they never bothered to do an amendment for any of that.
	And then we see that after Congress starts to arbitrarily ban things and ignoring the Constitution, then we see that the executive branch gets into the act.
	We have executive orders to ban things like bump stocks and pistol braces and all the rest of this stuff.
	It's the ATF under the executive branch.
	It's the EPA under the executive branch now that wants to ban gasoline cars, like Trump banned bump stocks and pistol braces.
	Yeah, he was the one who first did pistol braces as well.
	Then he changed his mind.
	Then Biden did it.
	And then the Supreme Court challenges came with those things.
	But that's still out there.
	So Congress is...
	They've abdicated its power to the bureaucracy.
	The bureaucracy then abdicates its power to California, and none of them had the power to start with.
	None of them had the legitimate power to pass it along.
	And they all know that.
	And they all agree about that.
	And that's kind of the same way they did the lockdown.
	Well, you know, I don't have the power to do this, but the states can do that, so we'll give them the legislation based on the false flag attacks after 9-11, and we'll practice this, and then I'll give them money.
	I can always give them money, and then they can do it themselves.
	And that's what they're doing now, the same kind of approach that they did with the lockdowns.
	Okay, we'll let the states do it, and we'll help them along with this.
	And so the states have also abdicated their authority to the federal government in a lot of these different areas.
	Look, unfortunately, if you follow the Constitution, the state delegates...
	Certain powers to the federal government.
	The fact the federal government doesn't have the authority to ban cars means that the state still does.
	States can basically do what they want, except they don't want to do anything.
	Well, they do want to ban things, but they don't want to take any responsibility, and they don't want to go up against the federal government.
	They want to maintain this hierarchy instead of a separation of powers, which was the design.
	So any 10th Amendment says any powers that have not been expressly given to the federal government are retained by the states.
	That would include the power to ban things.
	So then you have the compact states who have gone even further.
	They've abdicated their power to California.
	And so then we're all going to go to the Supreme Court, these politically appointed judges, to decide what we're going to do.
	That's the way government works.
	Forget about Schoolhouse Rock.
	I'm a bill.
	I'm a bill on Capitol Hill.
	No, it doesn't work that way anymore.
	Forget about the Constitution.
	Forget about the way things become laws.
	We don't bother with that anymore.
	We have regulations coming from the bureaucracy.
	And nobody bothers with any of this stuff.
	What a twisted mess this is.
	And so the Republicans in Congress are saying, wait a minute, we can't let them ban cars.
	We're not going to return to.
	The Constitution, for example.
	But we have to address this particular problem.
	So we're going to have some resolutions to undo these California regulations on vehicles specifically.
	We'll see if that happens or not.
	The Mountain States Legal Foundation represents royalty owners that argue that the EPA waiver undermines property rights.
	And so, again, these...
	The other part of this, which shows how they just rig and twist everything.
	This waiver came through as part of the continuing resolution to keep funding Congress.
	I mean, they just stuff everything everywhere.
	It's such a mess.
	That's why I say you're not going to fix anything in Washington.
	You've got to cut it off.
	If we don't cut off Washington, we're done.
	Now, if states are not going to do it, probably your local government is not going to do it.
	You might be able to find some people in local government that would work with you.
	I hope you can.
	But essentially, you're going to have to start finding ways that you yourself can nullify what the government is doing and that you yourself can secede from them.
	That's really what your focus should be on.
	Unfortunately, the lower court dismissed the case on standing grounds.
	You don't have standing to sue about this.
	Holding that the royalty owners are not the right party to bring suit.
	That's the other thing they can always do.
	So now it's at the Supreme Court.
	Their ruling is not going to be about whether or not California can ban cars, but their ruling will be about whether or not these groups that are suing California We're so messed up here.
	You need to get to a state where they're going to let you make your own cars out of spare parts if you need to so you can keep on going down the road.
	Look, when my dad was a kid...
	He was driving cars at eight years old, because what they had then were like the Model Ts, and they had no roads.
	Essentially, these things could go through the backwoods and the dirt roads and ford the small streams and stuff like that, and you didn't need a license to drive it.
	And you just need to have a dad's got enough trust in the eight-year-old to turn the keys over to him.
	So we need to get back perhaps to something that is simpler and freer.
	We don't necessarily have to have these $50,000 cars that have all these bells and whistles on them and a controlled climate environment that you can coast through.
	All that stuff is nice.
	But wouldn't you rather be free?
	So the world needs a people day much more than it needs an earth day.
	Maybe it needs a constitution day as well.
	We do have that, but, you know, nobody pays attention to it or to the constitution.
	Al Gore has now got a new scheme.
	He wants Africa to be the focus of what he's going to do.
	He says Africa can, quote, leapfrog the dirty fossil fuels.
	What does he mean by that?
	Well, they can skip this stage of industrialization and go straight to the solar panels and windmills that don't really get you there.
	Because they don't have an infrastructure that uses fuel.
	So if you go in and you give them a solar panel, even if it only works when the sun is shining, they're going to be so excited because now they've at least got some power for something.
	So it's going to be a big win for him.
	He can be a hero.
	He can go in and give somebody a solar panel that works during the day.
	And, you know, he can show himself as, you know, the great benefactor.
	Show everybody so excited.
	We're jumping up and down.
	Look at this.
	We finally got a little bit of power for something.
	Gore believes that the momentum on net zero climate action, he says, is unstoppable.
	And this article from Paul Dryson says, despite the absence of even one community anywhere on Earth, having been able to meet its electricity needs solely with intermittent weather
	dependent land and resource intensive wind and solar energy, despite coal, oil and natural gas still producing 82 percent of the total global energy needs and 100 percent.
	of the enormous petrochemical requirements.
	Despite the fact that China's electricity generation alone emits two and a half times more carbon dioxide than the USA and nearly one third of the global total, as if that mattered.
	It doesn't matter.
	But again, we mention it for their own stupidity.
	In fact, that doesn't even work.
	You know, I don't believe this virus theory.
	I don't believe there was a COVID virus.
	But if you're going to go down that road, you can point out that the mask wouldn't work if that were true.
	If it were true that CO2 is warming up the planet, then the hypocrisy, the stupidity, the inconsistency is damning.
	Despite millions of Europeans being made jobless and sent into poverty by climate-centric policies.
	Despite all that stuff, Al Gore says it's unstoppable.
	Well, I don't think so.
	At some point, people may wake up.
	And at some point...
	We might wake up to what these climate people are trying to do to us, to what these public health people are trying to do to us, to what these public education people are trying to do to us.
	We might wake up to what the AI people are trying to do to us.
	You know, Hugo Garrison.
	This whole book is kind of the premise of what Bush purportedly said.
	If these people knew what we were doing, they'd kill us, you know, that type of thing.
	And Michael Bloomberg saying it even more openly, we're going to take everybody's jobs and we're going to find some way to keep them from coming after us with guillotines.
	And so Hugo de Garra said, when people realize what this artificial intelligence is about and what they're trying to do, people are going to rise up and they're going to come after these guys.
	But he goes, but they've got a lot of technology and if you wait too long, you know, it's going to be a war where they're going to pit their technology against us.
	You know, by the time you wind up, With the legions, as Elon Musk is saying, the legions of robots and robo-cops and robo-soldiers and everything under their control.
	It reminds me of one of the early Superman cartoons that was done by Max Fleischer.
	You know, this mad scientist.
	And he creates this remote-control kind of semi-autonomous army and air force.
	You know, and it's up to Superman to stop it.
	Well, it's not going to be Superman coming to the rescue.
	But what Hugo de Garra said, it'll be the art-elect war.
	The war of the people against the elites when they realize what the artificial intelligence stuff is about.
	And he said it'll result in giga-death.
	Giga-death.
	Billions of people killed.
	That may be what's in front of us if we don't wake up to this soon enough.
	So, as they point out about Al Gore, they said he's certainly not going to move to Africa.
	He's not going to give up his energy-gobbling Nashville mansion or the one that he has in Montecito.
	He's not going to give up on his multiple SUVs or his private jet travel or his climate cash, either.
	His pronouncements, however, would certainly roll back industrialized nation living standards and regulate poor nations' aspirations to irrelevance.
	And he points out that's exactly what John Holdren, Obama's science advisor, wanted.
	He said, we're going to take everybody else, take the developed countries down, we're going to de-industrialize the West, and then we're going to tell the countries that are not industrialized, like in Africa, to what level they can go.
	Remember when Obama went to Africa?
	They said, well, y'all can't have air conditioning.
	We'd melt the planet down.
	You know, that type of thing.
	Well, when you look at the amount of energy that's being used, like I said, they don't have any energy right now.
	So anything they get from Al Gore, whether it's a windmill or a solar panel, that's going to be a bonus.
	You look at the amount of power that's being used.
	That's not an exaggeration.
	Just think about this on a per capita basis.
	In terms of kilowatt hours.
	Per capita usage, per person usage in the U.S. is 13,000 kilowatt hours a year.
	13,000.
	In Europe, it's half of that.
	6,500.
	In South Africa, it's about half of Europe.
	It's 3,200.
	And in the rest of Africa, the rest of Africa, it's 180.
	It's not half.
	It's not half.
	You know, that'd be about 1,600 or so.
	No, it's about 180.
	It's about 1 20th of what South Africa is, which is one half of Europe, which is one half of the U.S. So in the U.S., we're using about 13,000 kilowatt hours per capita per year.
	And the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, they're using 180.
	Not 13,000, but 180.
	So bringing abundant, reliable, affordable energy to this vast region, which is over three times larger than the lower 48 U.S., would require trillions of dollars that should be spent on power generation systems that can actually do the job,
	such as coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydroelectric, maybe even geothermal.
	Right now, many African governments refuse to develop their vast coal and natural gas deposits to generate electricity.
	We see that in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as they call it, so-called Democratic Republic, that you've got child labor digging out these cobalt stuff and slave labor.
	They'll do that, but they won't start the energy structure.
	And why is that?
	You know, when you get dictatorships in, they don't like for everybody to have, you know, a parity with them.
	They want to lord it over everybody else.
	And that's why when you look at these plans that go back to the climate stuff, what it shows is the aspirations of all these Western leaders to be dictators.
	We see that.
	It's just a common thing.
	If you're a dictator, you want everything for yourself, just like Klaus Schwab said.
	We will own everything, you'll own nothing.
	That has always been the plan of dictators.
	And it is today.
	These aspiring dictators want to do that.
	This person wrote the article.
	So I helped organize the very first Earth Day, 1970, on my college campus.
	I mean, I had friends who were into that.
	I would always try to change the topic when they'd start talking about this.
	And you know what?
	That's when I realized that it was all about depopulation.
	Oh, there's just too many people and blah, blah, blah.
	It wasn't even about cleaning up things.
	It was about getting rid of people.
	And so, you know, I could stay friends with them.
	They were drinking the Kool-Aid.
	And I didn't want to talk about it, and I would change the subject to something else.
	Look, squirrel, you know.
	A vital first step is focusing on People Day, he said, and on energy technologies that can actually turn their dreams into reality instead of fanciful systems that destroy environmental treasures to solve exaggerated imaginary climate crises.
	Well, what he doesn't realize is he still doesn't have the plot.
	The first Earth Day wasn't about cleaning up the environment.
	It was about depopulation.
	And right now, what these people are operating on is not some misguided, quixotic quest.
	They love the windmills just like Don Quixote.
	That's not it, though.
	And they don't have any noble ideas like Don Quixote either.
	No, they just want to be dictators.
	They want to kill most of us and rule like dictators over the rest of us.
	And this is just their means to do it.
	It's their MacGuffin.
	Space tourism, that one person, because we had a lot of people I didn't go through all the stuff about.
	Katy Perry, what an absurd thing.
	From the start to the finish.
	And, of course, a lot of people said, I don't think they even did anything.
	They staged this photo op and you got Jeff Bezos tumbling around the capsule.
	And then the people on the inside opened the door, which they shouldn't be able to do.
	And then they closed it real quickly.
	And then he comes around and he opens the door and says, this is fake.
	Well, whether or not that was real, I tend to think that it wasn't.
	The Katy Perry.
	Getting out and kissing Mother Earth and talking about how she's doing this for the planet and everything.
	Seriously? Your space tourism is helping the planet?
	Your little flight there, as somebody pointed out, used more quote-unquote carbon.
	I just hate even, but again, this is their thing, okay?
	So, you know, we have to talk about PCRs and stuff like that.
	We have to talk about, okay, so if there's a virus, let's just assume that for a moment, if there's a virus.
	And you think that you've isolated it, which you haven't.
	And you're going to test for this thing.
	You're going to magnify it by a trillion times.
	You know, that type of stuff.
	But, you know, looking at their measurements, she used more energy.
	Let's just put it that way.
	I hate to use the term carbon.
	Than other individuals will use in their entire lifetime on her little joy trip.
	If it even happened.
	Which is so far away from reality.
	It's like...
	California and the Constitution.
	So, you know, the issue here is that if you're on the cutting edge of travel, you know, these people have got a lot of money and a lot of time.
	They like to travel.
	So they like to find some wonderful place that is isolated and nobody knows about it.
	Unfortunately, you have to tell people about it.
	You have to brag about where you've been.
	Now, next thing you know, everybody's discovered this and it's too crowded.
	You've got to go find another place.
	Well, the last frontier, as Captain Kirk would say.
	I guess for space tourism is space, right?
	And so a single space flight of a few minutes emits more carbon emissions than one.
	It's even worse than that.
	Not you over your lifetime, but more than one billion individuals will emit in their lifetime.
	Think about that.
	I just played for you on Monday or Tuesday.
	The XPRIZE thing that Elon Musk was doing.
	And even when he unveiled it back in 2021, when he was on the green side of the aisle, remember that?
	And he's talking about how important that is, and the guy who was head of the Musk Foundation, or not head of it, but certainly the press secretary guy, the spokesperson for it, is interviewing him.
	And he says, yeah, but what about all this spaceflight?
	Yes, I understand, says Elon Musk.
	I understand the hypocrisy, but it is necessary to raise the consciousness of the public and, you know, to get us to Mars and all the rest of this.
	By the way, he put up a thing yesterday saying that it had been, I forget, he did the intervals, you know, it's been this long since it took him like 66 years.
	Or 76 years to go from the Wright brothers to landing on the moon or something like that.
	Why is it?
	Here we are at 66 years and we haven't gone back to the moon.
	Or certainly to Mars and everything.
	And everybody says, by the way, you look at your dates and check the math.
	It's not 66, it's 56. But, you know, can't even get that right.
	But when you look at the amount of carbon emissions that they use, one of these flights will use more energy than one billion people will in their entire lifetime.
	So if Elon Musk is doing these things one after the other, you know, he's only got eight billion people.
	So if you've got eight flights, he's used more carbon emissions than all the people on Earth will.
	You know, every eight of these flights, he's using more carbon emissions than everybody else on Earth in their entire life.
	This is the absurdity.
	This is the hypocrisy.
	They don't believe any of this stuff.
	They really don't.
	And so, one person said, can't we just be happy with super yachts, you know?
	Do we have to have space tourism as well?
	And so, to that, we add the experiments to cut off sunlight.
	Green government of Keir Starmer and the Labor Party in the UK is saying that they're going to run a government program, 50 million, with an M, 50 million pounds, to run some experiments about turning off the sun.
	Isn't it, in the UK, aren't people there looking for more sun?
	I mean...
	It's kind of foggy and overcast and cold.
	It really is cold in the UK.
	And I always thought the people in the British Empire loved to go to these desert places where they could soak up the sun after being cold their entire life.
	But now they want to shut the sun off.
	Experiments in sunlight to fight global warming are going to be given the green light by the government within weeks.
	One of the missing pieces in this debate was physical data from the real world.
	They said, models can only tell us so much.
	Yes, that's the whole point.
	For 55 years, their models have been telling us lies.
	Telling us lies.
	False predictions.
	False dire alarmism.
	And of course, if you've got any really hard data, they don't want you to see that.
	And so, yeah, this is, they have been destroyed by actual reality.
	So the question is, can we stop all this nonsense?
	Right now.
	Geoengineering projects which seek to artificially alter the climate have been proven controversial, with critics arguing they could bring damaging knock-on effects, as well as being an unhelpful distraction from lowering emissions.
	So the people who are cheering this, the Telegraph, well, of course.
	Of course.
	Very much like the COVID MacGuffin.
	There are serious, known, adverse effects with this.
	Like there were with all the remedies, whether you're talking about lockdowns or so-called remedies of ventilators or remdesivir, the vaccine, all the rest of this stuff, or the lockdown itself.
	Severe known adverse effects.
	However, what is not known is whether or not it'll work.
	And it's all being done to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
	A MacGuffin.
	So here we are again.
	We know this is going to be bad.
	They can't say that it's going to work, and it's all to address a problem that doesn't exist.
	However, scientists are increasingly concerned that carbon dioxide levels are not falling fast enough, and that further action may be needed to prevent catastrophic warming.
	Oh, so we don't have a problem, but, you know, we've got to stop it before it becomes a problem.
	So the scientists are looking to dim the sun to counter what they call runaway climate change, quote-unquote.
	Should we call these people want to dim the sun?
	Should we call them dim wits?
	And so it's stratospheric aerosol injection to fight against climate change.
	Look, we have pictures of it.
	You can see the stuff that is precipitating out onto the ground, the heavy metals and all the rest of the stuff for the longest time.
	And we were denounced as conspiracy theorists.
	And now they decide that they want to do it, and they're going to do it openly.
	And they're going to tell you that it's a good thing.
	It's a good thing.
	So, 50 million pounds of taxpayer money in the UK for their net zero, where you will own nothing.
	So, it's absolutely, absolutely crazy.
	And one of the things that they said when they were looking at this was, and of course, they refer to this as stratospheric aerosol injection.
	They have a program name for it.
	They have an acronym, SAI, they call it.
	Isn't it interesting that they have an acronym for it, but if you and I say that they're doing it, they deny it and call us conspiracy theorists.
	They've had this for the longest time.
	Over a decade ago, I was reporting on the, you know, they have multiple conferences, just like the globalists have their economic conferences at Bilderberg and Davos and many other places, Club of Rome, and they meet, you know, well, they had this geoengineering society.
	They had their annual conference.
	A lot of people.
	A lot of people there.
	And the thing that caught my attention and I reported on it, I said, look at this paper.
	They said, the problem is who gets to adjust the thermostat?
	Yeah. It isn't a question of whether they can do it or if they're doing it or if they're going to do it.
	It's just a question of who gets to set the temperature that we want.
	But we're going to change it.
	And so they call it stratospheric aerosol injection.
	But if we talk about it.
	They call it a conspiracy theory.
	Scientists have been ironically inspired by pollution from shipping fumes, which in the past caused cooling, but now their sulfur dioxide emissions have been controlled.
	They say that global warming has increased.
	They said ship emissions from the smokestack into the marine environment led to bright lines and clouds over the ocean.
	And they said then they noticed that in those areas it was getting cooler.
	But that was sulfur dioxide.
	Then they told them you can't emit sulfur dioxide.
	And so now they're saying that most of the warming that they claim that they measured is due to eliminating the sulfur dioxide from the shipping stuff.
	Were they going to allow the ships to start using it again?
	Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
	They will ban you from doing that and then they will charge taxpayers to put it in themselves.
	This is how crazy this all is.
	And then, of course, the volcanic eruption in Iceland in 2014 that spilled out a lot of sulfur dioxide.
	It's not just the sulfur dioxide.
	It's everything from these volcanoes.
	And so we have seen this type of thing happening in the past.
	But here in the U.S., we have a private group, an NGO that wants to do this in Northern California.
	And it is a big tech billionaire.
	And he's there in Silicon Valley.
	A lot of silicons that come out of there.
	Luke Eisenen, a former director of hardware at Y Combinator, launched a company called Make Sunsets a few years ago with the backing of Boost Venture Capital.
	Draper Associates Pioneer Fund and Angel Investors Make Sunsets takes its name from the striking sunsets caused by high-altitude sulfur dioxide particles like those observed after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which temporarily lowered global temperatures by roughly 0.2 degrees centigrade for about a year.
	As they point out in Zero Hedge, allowing rogue activists to play God is a disaster waiting to happen.
	Yet, only the governments should play God, right?
	You can't do this.
	Don't try this at home.
	It's these silly cons in Silicon Valley and the governments that are all playing gods.
	These aerosols increase the albedo, its reflectivity, and they temporarily create cooling.
	But that also can disrupt jet stream behavior and do other things.
	Make Sunsets is already banned in Mexico.
	Their website says they want to scale this activity significantly and have already conducted over 124 deployments.
	It's unclear where the balloons are launched and where the sulfur dioxide is from.
	Furthermore, it is not known if the company has been in contact with any state, local, or federal air agencies.
	Thus, the EPA is submitting a demand for information to get answers and plans to take additional actions as necessary.
	And so, they're selling credits to people for as little as a dollar.
	This is kind of like, you know, name a star.
	We'll name a star after you.
	We'll put it in a registry somewhere.
	They said the address on their publicly available profile shows a mansion in Northern California.
	10,000 cooling credits, wrote Luke Eisman.
	10,000 cooling credits are successfully deployed to stratospheric sources today via six balloons.
	This guy got put in RV jail while I got another tank of hydrogen to make it sufficiently buoyant.
	And he's tweeting this stuff out.
	This is February this year.
	And in January, he put up, Happy New Year, first balloon launches of 2025.
	We had special guest Nick from Freethink Media, also known as Hard Reset, because that's what they want.
	They want a hard reset.
	They want to take us back to the Stone Age.
	We want to reset you back to the Flintstones, who helped us launch the balloon filled with sulfur dioxide and hydrogen.
	And so what they do is, if you are a donor to this, They take a video of it and they will send you a video of the thing being exploded into the atmosphere.
	He even boasted about his donation to a far-left climate organization, the one that we all talk about, Just Stop Oil, these crazy people who are spray-painting everything, monuments, paintings and museums and all the rest of this stuff, gluing themselves to roads and other things like that.
	Those people.
	He gives money to those people.
	And he's of the same mindset.
	He said the most effective activist group the environmental movement has seen is calling it quits.
	He thinks just stop it.
	Stop oil was the most effective.
	Basically, he has absolutely no sense of public relations, I guess.
	Hoping some members will reach the same conclusion as me and our 850 customers have, and we must personally take action to cool the earth.
	He's not going to wait anymore for government.
	He's going to personally cool the earth.
	And so, where is this all going to wind up?
	Well, we have, as Steve Malloy said, Lee Zeldin acted to shut this thing down.
	Make Sunsets is a private company.
	They say they're in South Dakota, but if you look at their site, it actually goes back to his mansion home in California.
	And so, He points out, remember sulfur dioxide, that might ring a bell.
	Everybody was freaking out 50 years ago.
	You know, first Earth days and everything.
	Everybody was talking about acid rain, acid rain.
	Well, that was sulfur dioxide coming back down as rain.
	And now they want to do sulfur dioxide to cool the Earth.
	It's kind of like, you know, plant a tree.
	Trees are great.
	Now trees are bad.
	And acid rain is good.
	You know, we can't plant trees, said Elon Musk.
	We can't plant trees, says Bill Gates.
	As a matter of fact, if you've got trees, you need to cut them down and you need to bury those trees.
	Don't use them for a home.
	No, no, you've got to cut them down and bury them.
	And now what we need to do is we need to have government-created acid rain.
	Because if the government does it, it's not bad.
	You know, it's like murder.
	If the government does it, it's called war or law enforcement.
	But if you do it, it's bad.
	So, the acid rain phenomenon in the U.S. was largely fixed by the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990.
	Electric utilities and other coal-burning facilities were required to either buy air pollution control equipment or to stop burning high sulfur coal.
	Except it was cooling the planet, they find out, after they banned it on the ships.
	He said, this organization, Make Sunsets, isn't really going to have much of an effect.
	But he goes, there's people with serious money, like Bill Gates, who could have a very negative effect on a lot of different things.
	And finally, as one person pointed out here, this is actually on Daily Skeptic, their take on all this.
	They said, let's hope that some of these people read the Snowpiercer novel first.
	In 2014, here's the synopsis.
	In 2014, they made a movie about this.
	2014, an attempt to stop climate change via stratospheric aerosol injection catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age that destroys much of life on Earth.
	And for 17 years, remnants of humanity shelter in a state-of-the-art self-sustaining circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford, and so forth and so on.
	Yeah, that turns into a thing about the elite versus the rest of the people on the train.
	I didn't get too far into it before I turned it off.
	But look, here's the thing.
	These people don't care about the known adverse effects of any of this stuff.
	To address, and they've got a fake solution, to address a non-existent problem.
	This is why I call these things MacGuffins.
	So we're going to take a quick break just to get you in the mood of the...
	1970s and Earth Days Here's a little song I wrote You might want to hear it in your pod.
	You'll owe nothing.
	And be happy.
	Ain't got no cash.
	Ain't got no car.
	But 24 booster shots in your arm.
	Oh, nothing.
	Be happy.
	You can't even buy shit in the store.
	Because of your low social credit score.
	Own nothing.
	Be happy.
	Be happy.
	You'll own nothing.
	And be happy.
	Be happy and eat some bugs.
	They're doing what?
	In the place they named after me?
	Good thing I have the David Knight Show to keep me informed on the plots of these traitors.
	Making sense.
	Common again.
	This is the David Knight Show.
	On kick.
	Angry Tiger's Den.
	I love this comment here.
	Men playing with the environment.
	It's the equivalent of children running around a nuclear power plant randomly pressing buttons.
	God designed everything to work perfectly.
	He doesn't need our help.
	That's one of the amazing things when you look at it.
	It's this system that balances itself.
	It's symbiotic.
	You have the plants that need the CO2.
	They need the sunlight and all the rest of this stuff.
	They give off oxygen.
	They grow and make food for us.
	These people don't like that.
	They want to be God.
	They think they've got a better idea, and they're going to redesign everything.
	They're going to play God.
	But they really are just like children randomly pushing buttons in a nuclear power plant.
	I agree.
	On Rumble, Steve says the Constitution died under Lincoln.
	Yes, you're absolutely right.
	It was on life support before that.
	But from the very beginning, they started undermining their own Constitution, the same people who wrote it.
	Yeah, he finished it off.
	That's for sure.
	And this, from yesterday, this came up, Travis gave this to me.
	This came up just as the show was ending.
	We didn't see it.
	And Flower Sower said, Please pray for my new grandson, born on Saturday, being held hostage at a hospital.
	Induced birth due to high blood pressure at 37 weeks.
	Thought he'd come home today, but they say his oxygen is low.
	So we saw this at the end of the show.
	We have been praying a flower soar, and I just wanted to get that out to the audience so people can pray for that situation.
	If you've got an update on it, please let us know.
	But we always, you know, there's not any situation, large or small, that we don't want to go to God for.
	And we can see him working in these types of things.
	So I'm very sorry about what is happening there.
	But we're praying that God will bless you and that he will heal your grandson and that everything will be fine.
	So let's talk a little bit about the, as I mentioned yesterday, we have the White House has now put up a full page about how COVID was accidentally released from the Wuhan Gain-of-Function Lab.
	We're not going to talk about who started up the gain-of-function experiment, so that was the Trump administration in 2017 after they'd been shut down in 2014.
	We're not going to hold Fauci or Francis Collins or any of these people guilty or responsible, even though they were told in 2014 to stop doing it, but then they continued doing it anyway.
	No, they're not responsible for anything.
	And I don't believe that it was a lab leak, and I've told you that.
	But if it was a lab leak, why aren't we holding these people responsible?
	The whole point...
	Putting this stuff out as a lab leak is an alibi for them, and it's laying the foundation for the next time they do it to us.
	And here's another example.
	Over and over again, we've seen, as I said, you just look at the number of people, the excess deaths that happened when they messed up, you know, threw a monkey wrench into the entire medical system and financially incentivized the hospitals to kill people.
	Kill them with neglect.
	Kill them with dangerous, novel, untried, but known, bad treatments.
	Ventilators. And like remdesivir and midazolam and all the rest of these things.
	Suppressing people's respiratory issues with midazolam.
	When you've got respiratory issues and you're going to give something something that suppresses the respiratory issues?
	It doesn't make any sense, does it?
	Pulmonologists looked at these ventilators and said, we've never done that before.
	Why are we doing that?
	Well, Peter Navarro, the genius that's pushing on the tariff stuff.
	Oh, that was his baby.
	Right? And so, nearly half of the COVID deaths were not caused by the virus, researchers find.
	But it's much worse than that.
	This is a study in Greece.
	Greek doctors and researchers looked at the records of, not just records, but they examined this carefully, at seven Athens hospitals.
	And they said the virus was directly responsible for only a quarter of the deaths.
	But that's even overstated.
	When you look inside the article, that's the headline.
	But it's even worse when you look inside the article.
	This is from Children's Health Defense.
	Now, yesterday, Children's Health Defense was telling you that it was an accidental release.
	You know, they were covering, they had an article that I covered yesterday, looking at the White House's webpage about COVID being an accidental release and treating it as if it were true.
	So here they're saying they found nearly half of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 were unrelated.
	To the virus.
	Unrelated at all.
	Kind of like the two supposed deaths from measles that we've had.
	Completely unrelated in both of these cases when you look at them.
	It wasn't the measles.
	One person died with the measles.
	Another person died after the measles with it.
	They attributed it to that.
	And you see these headlines depending on who they are.
	600 or 700 measles cases in Texas and so forth.
	So tell us how serious this is.
	You see anybody really dying?
	He said he had two children dying, but that's been debunked.
	And again, that was good work by Children's Health Defense.
	And also by one of the fathers.
	He said, no, we've got to tell people the truth about this.
	So in this particular one, half of the deaths attributed to COVID-19 unrelated to the virus.
	Researchers said that the virus was directly responsible for only a quarter of the deaths.
	But then that actually doesn't hold up either.
	In an additional 30% of the cases, the COVID-19, also known as the flu, contributed to the chain of events leading to death.
	They said that those who died from COVID-19, more than half of those were vaccinated.
	Was it the vaccine or was it the flu then?
	Of the vaccinated who died, 66% of them were boosted.
	Two-thirds of them were boosted.
	And on and on, when you look at this.
	Then it gets even more interesting.
	The patients who died with COVID, which they treat as dying from COVID, those who died with COVID, what does that mean?
	That means that they died with a PCR test.
	A PCR test, which is looking for a genetic sequence of a virus that was never isolated.
	And if you're looking for a particular genetic sequence, which you are injecting people with that genetic sequence, what are the chances that you're going to find it?
	And, of course, when all this stuff was rolling out and we were in the early stages of lockdown, we had people like Andy and others saying, hey, we just did an experiment.
	We took one of these tests, and we didn't apply it to anybody.
	We just took it straight out of the sealed package and tested it, and it tested positive.
	The swab.
	So it comes preloaded with a positive result.
	It is positively nonsense.
	All this cases stuff.
	But patients who died with COVID-19, not necessarily from, were younger on average and more likely to be immunosuppressed and suffering from serious conditions such as end-stage liver cancer or solid organ malignancy.
	So we're going to call back COVID.
	It's the same thing they were doing the first two weeks in Italy.
	The average age was just over life expectancy, and the people already had two and a half other conditions that would have killed them.
	And they blamed it on COVID.
	And we had two weeks' worth of that data at the time that Trump locked everything down.
	Patients who died from COVID were more likely to be older, to have other symptoms and infectious diseases that they said were, quote, compatible with COVID-19.
	In other words, they've got hypoxia.
	They've got shortness of breath.
	They needed oxygen support.
	Maybe they needed a ventilator.
	And they gave them remdesivir.
	They're older.
	They give them remdesivir.
	They've got some respiratory issues.
	Oh, well, that's COVID.
	We just know that's COVID.
	I wonder if they're playing the same game in Greece that they did here.
	You do a clinical diagnosis.
	Somebody's having respiratory issues.
	Oh, well, that's COVID.
	It can't be anything other than that.
	We're not going to help them with something that will address a bacterial infection in their lungs, just like they did to that child diet of measles.
	Oh no, it's measles.
	We're not going to give them this thing to address the bacteria.
	So, what if we had Trump and Biden who paid the hospitals to call it COVID, and if they paid the hospitals to give people treatments that killed them?
	Yeah, that's what they did.
	Unlike most studies relying on administrative coding, this investigation conducted a comprehensive clinical audit, combining full-chart reviews, direct interviews with attending physicians, and independent adjudication by expert reviewers.
	Even doing that, they find that basically there's nothing there, but it would be even more damning if they actually did autopsies, wouldn't it?
	The authors also noted that in Greece, any death occurring in a patient who tested positive at the time of death was officially classified as a COVID death.
	Do you test positive?
	Have you died with a positive test?
	How many cycles did they do?
	Is it even a virus?
	What are you testing for?
	Are you testing for a gene sequence that you haven't isolated?
	And you're magnifying it by a trillion times?
	Given that similar death coding practices were employed across Western nations, it's reasonable to conclude that COVID-19 death counts were artificially inflated to a comparable degree everywhere.
	Everywhere. And we go back to Victoria in Australia, the Victoria province, where you had Dictator Dan, who ruled over everybody.
	And now they've got the public health officials who are trying to distance themselves away from some of these actions.
	And that's purely political.
	He did that without even consulting us.
	But of course, the public health officials are political.
	But they want to get rid of this hot potato right now.
	Dan Andrews announced a curfew hours before he heard from his health advisors.
	Of course, we know what they would have said, right?
	They're all playing along with the same game, but they're playing this game now.
	Say, well, you know, he made this announcement at 3.30 p.m.
	And then at 5 o'clock, the deputy chief health officer sent it to the chief health officer, noting a message, noting that it was a cabinet decision that was not backed by public health advice.
	Again, it is all purely political.
	You might get from these public health people some kind of scientism.
	And double talk to make it sound plausible.
	But from somebody like Dictator Dan, it's just like, do what I say right now.
	The news is no surprise to Victorians who call Andrews authoritarian measures.
	They could have called him Authoritarian Andrews, but they called him Dictator Dan.
	Either one of those monikers would have worked for him, would they?
	He was quick to pull the trigger on harsh lockdowns in response to low caseloads, sometimes as little as 22 cases in the entire state of Victoria.
	Well, the Trump administration did better than that.
	We don't want to point that out, do we?
	Gold Report.
	But the Trump administration, you had the pharmaceutical guy that Trump put in charge of HHS declared a COVID emergency when there were only six cases in the entire United States.
	Well, that makes Dictator Dan look downright prudent, doesn't it?
	And we're talking about cases.
	We're not talking about even the condition of the people here.
	So he kept Victorian citizens under six separate lockdowns for a total of 262 days.
	In September of 2021, Andrews, when the vaccine rolled out, right?
	Isn't that interesting?
	The vaccine rolled out in September of 2021, just like it did here.
	And just like I said in December of 2020, I said they'll roll out the vaccine in September.
	Why? Because schools are starting then.
	They'll use that as leverage.
	And so everybody was on the same clock.
	Everybody was marching in lockstep to the same tune at exactly the same time, globally.
	Not a conspiracy, is it?
	And the fact that they were doing it incrementally in lockstep.
	Globally. At the same time.
	All these different measures.
	Oh, not a conspiracy at all.
	No, that is, once you see that, you can't unsee that.
	So, in September 2021, he promised the taxpayers new freedom if 70% of the population got a dose of the Trump shot.
	Because he provided the poison globally.
	I'm the father of the vaccine, right?
	The lockdowns had a devastating effect on Victorian children, causing high psychological distress.
	And 70% of high school students'suicide and self-harm rose sharply.
	And adolescent girls and anxiety surged among children, with some refusing to return to school.
	In 2023, mental health studies showed that the lockdowns were responsible for high dropout rates amongst high school students in Victoria.
	Yeah.
	Dictator Dan.
	Came out just great.
	Authoritarian Andrews became the chairman of a company that is a mental health research clinic.
	These people who destroyed physical health, who destroyed mental health.
	They get a job with the companies that are there.
	That tells you everything, too, doesn't it?
	It's just like the hospitals.
	They're antithetical to what they say that they want to do.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	a quick break.
	a quick break.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	On Rumble, DGA, thank you for the tip.
	He says, David, I do everything I can to remind people what Biden and Trump did to the American people during the COVID hoax.
	Yeah, that's interesting.
	The left wanted all that stuff.
	That's why Trump was necessary.
	The conservatives will make everything.
	They'll point to Biden about everything.
	Even the things that were done by Trump.
	You know, they'll point it to Biden.
	You know, they talk about CDC stopping foreclosures and evictions and things like that, which were caused by Trump's lockdown.
	And the CDC did that and extended it under Trump, but they won't talk about that.
	Only Biden did that.
	And so, you know, that's why Trump is necessary.
	The left embraces this stuff.
	They loved it.
	The right would have opposed it tooth and nail, except it was Trump.
	And so he says, I'll never forget that Dan Andrews was invited to Mar-a-Lago for New Year's 2025 this year.
	Mar-a-Lago was silent.
	I didn't realize that.
	That escaped me, so thank you for reminding me.
	On kick, Angry Tiger's Den said, we have to remember these people have been psychologically manipulated.
	Not everybody has the discernment or lucidity that we have.
	We must pray for them.
	Well, that's a good point.
	And, you know, we have to...
	We have to understand that it really is an information war, and the information war is fundamentally a spiritual war.
	And these people are under the control of the system that is extremely extensive, planned, and it penetrates into every aspect of their life.
	And they're hearing this same dogma being given to them.
	Whether it's entertainment or whether it's news or whether it's school and education and government, they're all hearing the same stuff that is there all the time.
	And that is such an incredibly powerful thing.
	I know many people will say, well, you know, First Amendment, okay, that's great, but we've got to have the Second Amendment.
	Look, you do need to have the Second Amendment, but the First Amendment is far more powerful.
	The pen is always mightier than the sword.
	And if you can gaslight people and if you can deceive them, you don't need to have a sword.
	That's the key point.
	And that's why they're pushing so hard to shut down free speech.
	And rather than stand on the side of free speech, we now have President Trump who's out there.
	Putting the liberals on their imagined position of supporting free speech, how absurd is that?
	These are the people who have been canceling us left and right about everything they can imagine.
	And now because of Trump saying we need to suspend the license of CBS because the 60 Minutes did a piece that I didn't like, they made Lala Harris look good.
	Well, she lost the election.
	Where's your damage?
	But he's not just suing them.
	He's also using government levers to make sure that Sherry Redstone, who's the daughter of Sumner Redstone, who owned Viacom, and Viacom owned CBS, owned Paramount, They basically used Blockbuster.
	They lost money the entire time they owned it.
	The guy who had it before that, Wayne Huizinga, who had Waste Industries, he made a lot of money off of Blockbuster.
	But they bought it as a loss leader.
	They bought it so that they could take control again of the distribution channels.
	And for the studios.
	But anyway, you know, that's another issue.
	But Sherry Redstone is going to do whatever she can to make money.
	And so she's throwing 60 Minutes out, and everybody's acting like 60 Minutes is this beacon of journalistic integrity.
	When I told you the other day that Jesse Trinidue had arranged for 60 Minutes to interview Terry Nichols in the wake of the Oklahoma bombing, the guy is convicted.
	Trump wants to talk to them.
	He's got some information to tell them, and they have it set up, and then they get a call from the government.
	In 60 minutes, capitulated to the government.
	They're not an independent journalistic organization.
	I mean, they're much better than what we've got today in those days, but they still were easily controlled by the government.
	But Trump has basically helped to recover This fake image of the left as being defenders of free speech.
	Nothing could be further from the truth.
	But because of his personal vendetta, he's got everybody thinking, oh, well, you know, Republicans and Trump are all about censoring free speech.
	And they are now.
	They are.
	They have become like the left.
	If they don't like what you have to say, then they want to shut you down.
	And if they don't like what you have to say, they call you racist.
	They'll call you anti-Semitic if you oppose the political policies of a foreign government, Israel.
	Oh, now you're racist.
	They're not going to argue with you.
	You're just racist.
	You're canceled.
	That's the conservatives.
	They're all operating in exactly the same way, really.
	Unrumble, do not obey, says warp speed pushed the scandemic.
	But yes, Trump is ignorant to the harms from the experimental injections until John Rich informed him.
	Yeah, I know.
	Yeah, he didn't know, did he?
	He didn't know.
	And then even as supposedly John Rich...
	He explained this to him and enlightened him.
	Nothing changed with Trump.
	I want to talk a little bit about what's going on with artificial intelligence and also with the war, which is a short update on Ukraine that's happening there.
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	Let's talk a little bit about what's happening with the war.
	We have, as many people pointed out, this is round two.
	Trump is at war with Zelensky again over this, because he's now rejected the idea that they're going to freeze the line of contact and going to freeze it where it is now, just stop and have peace.
	No, no, no.
	We've got to have Crimea.
	And so...
	That's what he put out on social media.
	Trump responded and says, well, if he wants Crimea, why didn't they fight for it 11 years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?
	And so he said he can have peace or he can fight for another three years before losing the whole country.
	This is in direct response to Zelensky the day prior, rejecting Washington's demands that Ukraine be ready to formally recognize Russia's sovereignty over Crimea.
	He says, It's inflammatory statements like Zelensky's that makes it so difficult to settle this war.
	He has nothing to boast about, said Trump.
	Vice President Vance also jumped in.
	He's in India, but he said, We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and to the Ukrainians.
	And it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process.
	We'd walk away from a conflict somewhere?
	I mean, we've got to be at the center of every war and conflict, don't we?
	That's usually because we start them, you know.
	And this is something that...
	The Obama administration started.
	The only way to really stop the killing, he said, is for the armies to both put down their weapons to freeze this thing and to get on with the business of actually building a better Russia and a better Ukraine.
	So Trump is very unhappy at this point.
	He says, Zelensky had said to reporters, he said, In spite of what was offered by Trump and Putin, he said, there's nothing to talk about.
	This violates our Constitution.
	This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine.
	Well, he's absolutely lying about that.
	Let's go back and look at history.
	Crimea has been a part of Russia, as long as America has existed, basically.
	1783. 1783.
	Catherine the Great defeated the Muslims, the Ottoman Empire, and took Crimea 1783.
	As I mentioned before, you know, the beginning of this thing when the British are rattling their sabers and they got their chief of defense says, well, we beat the Russians in Crimea once before, we'll beat them again.
	Well, why were you fighting Russians in the Crimean War?
	Oh, well, that's because Crimea was part of Russia when you fought them in the 1800s.
	And it had been at that point in time part of Russia for, A hundred years.
	And so, and it stayed that way from 1783 to 1991.
	And after the Soviet Union broke up, 1989, by 1991, what they did was, you know, Ukraine was separate.
	And actually, Crimea was not...
	Technically, really a part of Ukraine, it was the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
	And it was connected, in a way, to Crimea in the same way that you have with China.
	You had the semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and some other places like that, right?
	And so they said, all right, well, you know, we're kind of in charge, but we're going to give them a certain amount of autonomy.
	And they did that with Crimea as well because, again, Crimea was culturally different.
	It was mostly Russian.
	And so it was, and still is.
	And so the people were ethnically Russian.
	And even when these things were created in 1991, you had the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
	And then in 2014, what happened was the coup that was done by the American government, by Obama, throwing out the leader that had been receptive to that and kind of leaving that where it was.
	And so the people in Crimea said, well, we don't like that.
	They're going to pull us in in a tighter orbit.
	So then at that point, they affiliated with Russia.
	And that's what Trump is referring to when he talks about 2014.
	And so then the new American-installed leadership there started attacking the areas, the eastern areas of Ukraine that wanted to be affiliated with Russia.
	They started bombing the civilian population and things like that that went on for a while until Russia invaded in 2022.
	Now, this Zero Hedge article says, on a practical level, Russia is never going to give Crimea up.
	Regardless, it's been the historic home of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.
	And even from 1991 to 2014, they had an agreement with Crimea that the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet would be headquartered there.
	That's how tight the connections were and remained and still are between Russia and Crimea.
	An overwhelmingly Russian-speaking population that is there.
	But Zelensky is going to demand that he have control over it.
	So the question is, will Zelensky respond to this latest dressing down by Trump?
	The last time this happened was when they met in the White House.
	And now this is essentially round two, is what Zero Hedge calls it.
	Round two of this fight.
	Zelensky had said, well, maybe we'll talk at the funeral of the Pope.
	When we get together.
	But it looks like that maybe is not going to happen right now.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	We'll be right back.
	Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
	I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at TheDavidKnightShow.com You should be able to buy me several hundred those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.
	The air is in the air, and the air is in the air.
	the air.
	The air is in the air.
	Well, we have container orders are plummeting.
	And listen to the second half of this headline.
	Trade deals now or economic depression soon?
	Global container bookings volumes fell 49% between the last week of March and the first week of April.
	Imports from China to the United States collapsed by 64%.
	With imports of apparel and textiles declining by a whopping 59% and 57%.
	The figures coming from shipping companies are worse than those seen during the COVID-19 crisis, when Trump also shut us down.
	How many times does this guy get to do the same thing over and over again?
	I mean, it's just...
	We keep seeing the same things done to us by this guy.
	These alarming figures suggest...
	That importers are unwilling to accept higher prices in the middle of a tariff war.
	That exporters cannot simply move to choose to move their products elsewhere easily.
	And that the excess capacity in many sectors is much larger than initially inspected.
	Look, that's not even the big problem.
	If you had, let's say, we're going to, you know, here's the tariff and you're going to pay another 25% more or 50% more, whatever it is.
	Well, they can make plans.
	But it's the indecision.
	And the flip-flopping and the constant variation that's freezing everybody in place.
	It's like, why am I going to do a deal with them at this higher price when those tariffs may come off next week?
	And so it's just frozen everybody in place.
	Everybody's waiting to see what this petulant dictator is going to do next.
	We don't know.
	He doesn't know either.
	According to his advisors, he's still deciding what he's going to do.
	He hasn't made up his mind.
	What is this dictator going to do?
	This is so antithetical to good government.
	It's so antithetical to the Constitution and what we're supposed to have.
	And it is destroying things.
	No one wants to accept the costs of tariffs.
	This means that the only option for the economies with elevated productive overcapacity is to negotiate a trade deal and quickly or to face an economic depression.
	And so this is the approach that's being taken.
	Or the understanding of this person who's writing for Zero Hedge.
	And Zero Hedge is like, yeah, he's in charge.
	They're going to have to come to the table.
	They're going to have to bow the knee to Trump.
	It's like, no, he's just freezing everybody because he doesn't know what he's doing.
	It's just that simple.
	This isn't a strong man who's going to bend them to their will.
	He doesn't know what his will is, and neither do they.
	Nobody knows what he will do from one moment to the next.
	The number of order cancellations is so large that ports in China have had to take emergency measures to address the challenges created by piles of unsold containers.
	The negative impact is enormous on ports as fees plummet.
	But we can't forget the dramatic effect on producers with excess capacity.
	Many global exporters are going to face bankruptcy if no trade deal is reached due to insufficient working capital.
	And I see over and over again.
	These conservative commentators are like, yes, we're going to destroy them.
	Well, you're going to be cutting your nose off to spite your face, essentially.
	Because, you see, there wasn't any strategy to any of this.
	There wasn't any particular industry that was singled out to be protected.
	We didn't say, you know what, we're going to strategically move in this area.
	Yesterday I talked to the guy who, you know, that's American and they're trying to provide rare earth minerals.
	But, you know, we're looking at like five years out to get this kind of stuff done.
	And he's pointed out that the Chinese had a strategy.
	They had a strategy years ago that they were going to essentially corner this very valuable market, and they executed on that strategy.
	There's no strategy from Trump.
	He didn't even bother to think through what the consequences are going to be with his policies, and neither do these financial geniuses around him, like Scott Besant and Howard Lutnick.
	They don't know either.
	That's why it's on again and off again.
	The bond markets are crashing, so then they call Trump in and they remove the stuff.
	Or they have all these CEOs come in and then they start saying, well, maybe we're going to remove some of this stuff from China.
	I don't know.
	You got the big ones, you know, the big box retailers and, you know, Target and Walmart and Home Depot and all them.
	They come in and they talk to Trump and say, you know, the shelves are going to be empty.
	This is just, you're locking everything down.
	And yet you've got people in the financial press who are conservatives who are cheering that.
	Cheering it.
	Idiots. What foolishness to cheer that.
	This is like any other war.
	You know, you're taking hits and you excuse it and say, yeah, that's good, but we're hurting the other guys even more.
	We hear that with all the wars, right?
	We hear that in Ukraine.
	We hear that every time they justify a war.
	It's kind of a variation of the broken window strategy, right?
	Yeah, yeah, it's really, you know, we're getting our cities bombed and our industries are getting bombed, but hey, we're hurting the other guy even more than they're hurting us.
	Oh, great.
	Great. In the European Union, leaders are concerned that the trade war between the U.S. and China will bring a flood of cheap products from China that can endanger local producers.
	Most of the products that are delivered to America were only attractive because they were exceedingly cheap.
	When prices rise, demand decreases significantly, and the tariff war has shown that demand is rather elastic.
	In other words, it can adjust to this stuff.
	But look, it's not even about that.
	There's going to be knock-on consequences.
	They're going to embargo things like rare earth minerals.
	They're going to dump treasury bills and get away from the dollar.
	All of these other things.
	These people are so myopic.
	In terms of what they're looking at and the effects of this.
	They can't see the secondary and tertiary effects.
	They're only looking at this, well, we buy more from them, therefore we've got all the, you know, we make the rules because we've got all the gold.
	How juvenile and simplistic.
	This is why his casinos went bankrupt, evidently.
	The unstoppable state of global shipping, rather unsustainable, I should say.
	State of global shipping will compel countries to expedite trade agreements with the United States.
	Will it?
	You know, what Trump is doing is it's a global game of chicken.
	You know, the two cars driving each other.
	Who's going to veer off into the ditch first?
	Are we going to have a head-on crash with China?
	The U.S. economy may suffer a contraction due to the sudden slump in imports, but the consequences are much larger for the exporter nations.
	Again, this is...
	This is the kind of, yeah, we want war.
	We want economic war.
	Well, you're going to get a depression, and you're going to get a real war.
	That usually happens in these fourth turnings, and that's what these people are pushing us into right now.
	Again, previous fourth turning, the Great Depression, World War II.
	Prior to that, the Industrial Revolution and the creation of the nation states, and that was a civil war in America and other places.
	Prior to that, you had the move away from monarchies, the 1776.
	And so this is part of a restructuring of the geopolitical and economic structure of the world.
	And it's going to be economic, and it is also going to be a war.
	Because now as part of this, wars typically start with economics.
	They typically start with things like sanctions.
	That's an act of war.
	This is an act of war.
	And these people are cheering this on.
	Zero Hedge wants you to believe.
	He said, the outcome is not positive for any country, but you're going to have to negotiate or lose.
	We hold all the cards.
	No, you don't.
	And if you think that this is going to work, you have to believe two things.
	Number one, you have to believe that Trump isn't going to change.
	Why would you believe that?
	Have you been paying attention for the last month or so?
	Well, actually, since he became president, he's been on and off again with these tariffs.
	But you think Trump is not going to change?
	He's going to stay the course?
	See, that's the really dangerous thing about this.
	Trump has backed down so many times.
	If he wants to get into a game of chicken, you know that the guy in the Chinese car who's driving head-on at 60 miles an hour to Trump who's driving head-on at 60 miles an hour, you know these other guys are saying, he's turned off in the past.
	He did this in every other chicken game that he played.
	He's always, at the last minute, he veers off and gives up.
	And he's thinking that that's going to happen.
	And if Trump doesn't, then you wind up with a head-on collision.
	So you have to believe that Trump isn't going to change.
	And you have to believe that we can handle the damage and other people can't.
	And I guess you could also say a third thing.
	You have to believe that the other people have to believe that Trump is not going to change as well.
	So here's an example.
	A couple examples from Reason.
	Number one.
	Trump's tariffs are threatening a nuclear power plant restart in Michigan.
	It has domestic effects.
	This is the kind of damage.
	We can take this.
	We can take this.
	It's the Chinese who can't take the damage.
	Really? Tariffs will have an influence on the total price of one of the project's construction partners, they said.
	So Trump's trade policies have disrupted every sector of the economy, including energy.
	A nuclear power plant project in Michigan could be the latest victim of the president's tariffs.
	In 2024, the Palisades Nuclear Plant, which was closed in 2022, received a loan guarantee of $1.5 billion from the Energy Department.
	Now, this is under Biden, but of course the Trump Energy Department, when they came in in March, gave them more money.
	So both Biden and Trump wanted this nuclear power plant built.
	And yet, the government subsidies that they're giving it, Are still not going to be enough for this South Korean construction partner to be able to open up.
	They said it's going to cost us so much more with the tariffs, we've got to rethink this, and we've got to try to find some domestic suppliers of the things that we need to reopen this nuclear power plant.
	Well, guess what?
	There aren't any domestic suppliers for those things right now.
	See, this is the lunacy of all this stuff, just like the rare earth stuff.
	We're going to do it, and we're going to do it now, because I said so.
	Well, you haven't planned this out.
	You didn't think about it.
	And so, this stuff that you say you want to have, it doesn't exist.
	It's just like Biden and his, well, everybody's going to drive electric vehicles right now because I said so.
	Well, the electric vehicles and the infrastructure aren't there.
	They don't work well enough.
	They are not capable of replacing what you're banning.
	And that's the case with Trump and these tariffs.
	What he is banning, he doesn't have any replacement for.
	He didn't plan any of this.
	So, they said, Like every other sector of the economy, the supply chain for nuclear is globalized and it relies on trade.
	You know, it's one of the things when we've talked about the EMP, for example.
	If you have an EMP that hits the country, you've got to get replacement transformers from Germany.
	Oh, can't do that.
	Can't do that.
	Have to have a tariff on that.
	If they even have it.
	So, again...
	You know, they think that Trump is going to break China.
	All Trump does is break our supply chains.
	That's what he did in 2020.
	That's what he's doing now.
	He's not breaking the chains of slavery.
	As a matter of fact, he's forging new chains of slavery on us as he breaks the supply chains.
	Trump is even sabotaging his drill baby drill agenda, says Reason.
	When the government picks energy winners, consumers lose.
	He said when he took office, he got more liquid gold under our feet than any other country by far, and now I've fully authorized the most talented team ever assembled to go and get it.
	It's called Drill Baby Drill.
	But this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its quarterly survey of 130 energy companies in the 11th federal district.
	They said while the report says production in the region has increased slightly, they also found that companies are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the year ahead.
	Why? Is it because they've got to deal with the Chinese?
	No. It's because they don't know what Trump is going to do.
	Listen to these quotes.
	One survey respondent said, I've never felt more uncertainty about our business in my entire 40-plus year career.
	Another respondent called uncertainty the key word to describe 2025.
	He said, there cannot be U.S. energy dominance, and you can't have $50 a barrel oil, he said.
	Because the current cost of getting it out of the ground is $70 a barrel.
	That's their break-even cost.
	But their retail price is $50.
	Why is that?
	Well, because the demand has fallen.
	Why is that?
	Because the economy is freezing up again, like he did to us five years ago.
	Same outcome, different MacGuffin.
	We will see U.S. oil production start to decline immediately and likely significantly, a million barrels per day plus within a couple of quarters.
	This is not energy dominance, he said.
	Another one said, the administration's chaos is a disaster for the commodity markets.
	Drill baby drill is nothing short of a myth and a populist rallying cry.
	One respondent noted that tariffs, quote, immediately increased the cost of our casing and tubing by 25 percent.
	Washington's tariff policy is injecting uncertainty into the supply chain.
	And yet, on the other side, all these conservative places I see, typically this, okay?
	This is from American Greatness, and it was picked up by Zero Hedge.
	Protectionism is good.
	Oh, it is?
	Okay, what is it that we're protecting here?
	Have you decided that you want us to be dominant in a particular thing, and you're going to protect that?
	It was never about protectionism, as I said before.
	When government was small, it could be used by Jefferson as the means of tax collection.
	And then in the 1800s, late 1800s, 1880s, as Trump referred to it, it was used to protect certain industries.
	However, none of that is the case now.
	It's not enough to fund the government, and there's not any industries that are being protected.
	Instead, what Trump is doing is attacking other countries.
	He's not protecting domestic production in any industry.
	All the industries are being hurt, from retail to energy, you name it.
	They're all being hurt with this.
	There is no plan.
	This is not targeted.
	This is not a strategy.
	Everything at once, everything at once is just foolishly destroying things.
	This is not protectionism.
	It is supply chain disruption.
	And this person said, this is Josiah Lippincott, American Greatness, and it was republished by Zero H, said, the more you need things from other people, the fewer choices you have, and the more you must obey the whims of others.
	Yeah, I get that feeling when I look at Trump and Biden, right?
	If we need stuff from, and this is why we need to start Succeeding on our own.
	Nullifying on our own.
	The last thing, folks, you want, if you are a parent, is government subsidies for your child's education.
	Don't take the money.
	It's going to come with some very damning strings.
	And the last thing that we really want at the state level is to take federal money on anything because they will control it.
	And so if you need, if you make yourself dependent on federal money, Guess what?
	You're going to be subject to the whims of other people.
	In this particular case, you're going to be subject to the whims of Donald Trump, who doesn't know from day to day even what he wants.
	And so he wants you to believe that it is foreign governments that are the problem, and maybe foreign corporations, right?
	But mainly foreign governments.
	Let me tell you, they are a problem.
	But the bigger problem is our own government.
	And our own corporations that are exploiting us, that are blocking us, that are creating this chaotic environment.
	That's the worst enemy that we've got.
	Our bipartisan enemy.
	Our own government.
	He goes on to say this.
	A prudent nation is, to the maximum extent possible, self-reliant and frugal.
	You're conservative and you're talking about how our government is frugal?
	Are you kidding me?
	How delusional is that?
	Yeah, we need to be self-reliant.
	And how do we get self-reliant?
	It's not with tariffs.
	Tariffs are a tax.
	We need to be self-reliant from our own government.
	And we need to be frugal, because our government is not going to be frugal.
	Individually, we can be frugal.
	Individually, we can be self-reliant, but we're not going to be that with our own government.
	So, you know, big government conservatives are really not any different from the socialists.
	Do we have Tony yet?
	You do?
	Okay. I didn't see it up on the board.
	All right.
	Well, I'm going to take a break.
	I'm just going to end with this.
	The guy says tariffs are good.
	Tariffs are good.
	Engine of creation.
	They're going to make our country and all the rest of this stuff.
	No, they're not.
	They're just taxes.
	Taxes are never good.
	Taxes are not good.
	And, you know, this is, again, another example of the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics.
	When I took economics in college, you know, microeconomics, when you're running your family budget or you're running a business or something like that, you got to, your deficits matter.
	You got to make sure you don't have a deficit or you go bankrupt, right?
	Oh, but Keynesian economics and macroeconomics, which they were teaching, as I said, that's fine.
	If it's the government, you don't have to worry about balancing the budget, right?
	We don't care about that.
	And this is the same type of thing.
	We understand on an individual basis that taxes are bad.
	You know, they don't create anything.
	They take money away from us.
	But then when we create this abstraction of the government, oh, tariffs are good and taxes are good.
	We need more of them.
	They're going to create stuff for us.
	No, they don't.
	They destroy.
	And this trade war is destroying as well.
	We're going to take a quick break.
	We'll be right back with Tony Arterman.
	back.
	Joining us now is Tony Arterman of Wise Wolf Gold, and Tony has kindly set up davidknight.gold to let him know that you're coming through us.
	If you go there, that'll take you to Tony, and as I was just saying before, government is not frugal.
	You better start being frugal, and you better stop relying on government as...
	That's what the Old Testament prophets told people, told the king, he said, you're using Egypt as a cane.
	You're going to find that it's a cane that is going to break and pierce your hand.
	That's what's going to happen if you depend on government.
	It's going to be a cane that is going to break and pierce your hand.
	So do what you can to try to get independent and self-reliant.
	And boy, it's been another record week for gold, hasn't it, Tony?
	It certainly has been.
	Reagan say about the 11 most terrifying words in the English language is"I'm here from the government and I'm here to help" or something like that.
	Well, they're helping, right?
	They had taxes on top of taxes.
	Now we've got market meltdowns.
	The world continues to de-dollarize.
	Gold has outperformed the dollar.
	The dollar is down like 40% in purchasing power against gold.
	We hit $3,500 an ounce on gold, David.
	We hit $3,500?
	We're talking about some new thing.
	Wait, I don't follow the price every day.
	Did we hit $3,500?
	Yes. Wow.
	We hit $3,500 about 72 hours ago, and then there was some profit taking.
	It went down into the low $3,200s, and now it's back up again.
	I can check in real time, but we've already started to see the buying accelerate the price again.
	Gold's at $33.23 as of right now.
	Wow, wow.
	Yeah, it's starting to get volatile like Bitcoin was.
	It goes up $3,500 and then drops down to $3,200 and then it's back up.
	But of course, $3,200 just a couple of months ago, everybody was like, wow, it's at $3,200.
	But it's going back up again.
	It really is crazy.
	And as I said from the beginning of the week, it was kind of a sell everything.
	We don't want bonds.
	We don't want stocks.
	We don't want anything other than gold.
	And it's the uncertainty.
	It really is this chaos that Trump has introduced.
	Well, I think what we've watched over the past few years, and especially the last two, Is that gold really isn't responding to market conditions like it used to.
	It's no longer just a fixed commodity.
	It's a monetary issue because the world is resetting away from the dollar system and into gold.
	As a matter of fact, the Chinese and the Shanghai Gold Exchange are looking to put in remote gold warehouses internationally now.
	To back their trading system.
	And I think this is all part of the future moves, especially the BRICS nations, away from the dollar and into gold and being able to trade across borders.
	So it's really interesting to see that as well.
	Again, gold hasn't responded like it has in the past with rate hikes through Powell, you know, Powell raising the interest rates faster than any Fed chair in history.
	That didn't seem to do anything to gold.
	As a matter of fact, it started to outpace and continue to climb.
	Lowering rates doesn't do it.
	Even the tanking of the stock market used to bring gold with it.
	It wasn't that long ago.
	It was 2020, David.
	I watched gold and silver tank along with that The stock market that Trump created after he signed the executive order for the lockdown on Friday the 13th, March 2020, we watched that go with it.
	It went down with the stock market, and it had a slow rebound.
	It didn't do any of that this time.
	It continues to rise in the face of everything, and I think that's a different phenomenon.
	This has nothing to do with markets anymore, in my opinion.
	Yeah, it truly is crazy what is happening.
	But again, here we are.
	We had the lockdown five years ago, and now we're seeing this again.
	And Trump was talking about Powell and making some really strong statements.
	If I want him out, he's out.
	He's out just like that.
	And then he walks it back.
	And I've got an article here from, let's see this, Wall Street Journal, saying Trump decided not to fire Powell because senior advisors warned him that doing so would rattle the markets.
	You know, he had already had some legal experts looking at it saying, do I have the authority to fire him?
	You know, so he had his legal team looking at it.
	But then his advisors come in and say, well, you know, you may have the legal authority to do this.
	You may get away with it, but it's really going to rattle the markets.
	And so, you know, he's backed away from that now.
	Well, that's interesting.
	Hasn't seemed to bother him in the past.
	I mean, he's rattled the markets more than any other president I've seen.
	He's rattling our chains, isn't he?
	He's pulling our chains, our supply chains.
	I think that that issue has less to do with the legal and more to do with who actually runs the country, who actually pulls the strings, who the backers are.
	They don't want Powell gone, so Powell doesn't go.
	President Trump wants to get into.
	And he knows it.
	He has to on some level.
	That's an entity unto itself.
	You start messing with the Fed and the Fed chair.
	If you're going to do that, if you're going to kill the king, you better go all the way.
	You better audit the Fed.
	You better do the whole doge it if you're going to do something.
	But they're not going to do that.
	No, as a matter of fact, we're seeing just the opposite from Scott Besson.
	What he's saying is that we need to have reforms amongst the Bretton Woods institutions.
	Hint, hint.
	In other words, let's have another Bretton Woods, right?
	Let's have Bretton Woods number three.
	Let's reset it around something.
	Of course, you and I have a pretty good idea of what they want to reset it around.
	But he's saying America first does not mean America alone.
	And so he's working with the IMF.
	He's working with the World Bank.
	He's working with all the usual suspects.
	This is Soros' right-hand guy.
	He's not America first at all.
	And it's amazing to me how Trump is able to pull the wool over people's eyes.
	He's got all these Democrats and statists and socialists.
	He's got socialist Peter Navarro.
	He's got Soros'right-hand man.
	And these are the guys who are looking after our interests?
	I don't think so.
	Well, it's interesting that you would go...
	Go ahead.
	I'm still here, Dave.
	It's interesting that we would go back to the source of our ills.
	You know, the IMF and the World Bank of Products of Bretton Woods, 1944, that was the new economic world order at the end of the last war turning.
	So you're going to go back to those institutions.
	That's interesting.
	Really, I think Gold Telegraph, the Twitter account that I follow, I think they said it best, You know, call for the IMF and World Bank to help with reform.
	He said, if we're watching a reset, this is what this is all about.
	The reset is in play.
	And again, nothing really changed with the administrations.
	It's just a different strategy for the Great Reset itself.
	You know, if you wanted to go back to the Constitution, then that's a way, that's a path forward.
	If you wanted to restore the Republic and you want to restore sound money, that's something that I think Would actually benefit the American people and benefit the financial system.
	But no, this is still a path to the Great Reset with this financial world order that we're working towards.
	And of course, he's talking about the architects of Bretton Woods.
	He says, we understand that this requires global coordination.
	He's not a nationalist.
	He's a globalist.
	He's a Soros globalist.
	He's talking about, yeah, we've got to fix these Bretton Woods institutions, and they should serve us.
	They should serve our needs.
	Well, who are we?
	We are the globalists, and so they need to...
	They need to serve the global needs.
	We need to have global coordination.
	The institutions, the Bretton Woods institutions, are serving their stakeholders and all the rest of the stuff.
	I mean, this guy's like straight out of the World Economic Forum.
	If Trump fires him, he could take over for Klaus Schwab, couldn't he, at the World Economic Forum?
	That's Scott Bessent.
	We cut from the same cloth.
	They float in the same circle.
	You're talking about this is adjacent to Soros and those who are in that circle.
	You get up into the Goldman Sachs, high finance, Rothschild, Wilbur Ross right now.
	It's all the same people.
	This isn't The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
	You're talking about anything that came out of the Bretton Woods system in the elite circles.
	So no, the World Economic Forum, all that's the same thing.
	And, of course, when we saw, you know, Trump locked everything down and was at the center of all this economic chaos and making the vaccine and all the rest of the stuff and everybody operating in lockstep, and Wilbur Ross was his Commerce Secretary who worked for the Rothschilds and even said, hey, this is a guy we can use,
	you know, back when he was having his casino bankruptcies.
	So the question is, you know, who is it that's pulling Trump's strings?
	I think it's always the same people.
	I think it's always these same globalist bankers.
	And all this stuff about nationalism is just a beard, and They don't know, Tony, what's going to happen.
	Yeah, everybody's saying, well, we don't really know where we're going to go yet.
	The China tariffs are going to come down a little bit.
	They may not be 145%.
	They may not be 200%, but I don't know, maybe somewhere in the 50% or 60% range.
	Everybody's just making stuff up.
	There is no plan.
	They're just reacting to different things, and it's just absolutely...
	Out of control.
	Nobody's driving the ship, and there is no accountability.
	All the Republicans are running for cover.
	Whenever Trump says anything, they run for cover.
	So this is just a runaway train, and that's why everybody's going into gold.
	Did we lose Tony?
	That's fair.
	Sorry. Yeah, we got a little bit of a lag there, I think.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, I'm in my remote office.
	Yesterday, I bought my first Comex bar.
	Like, I bought the first that I've ever bought for Wise Wolf.
	We bought a 1,000-ounce silver bar.
	I never actually bought one.
	I've seen them, but I never actually bought one, and I had to take it to the trading floor to trade it in.
	So I went by my remote office here in Rockwall, Texas.
	So I guess the Wi-Fi isn't as good as I remembered it to be.
	So sorry about that.
	That's okay.
	That's all right.
	But we also have other people saying the depression cycle is here.
	This is from Charles Ninner.
	And he says it's going to be worse, much worse, in 2026.
	In other words, when he looks at his analysis, he thinks that we're in like the equivalent of 1929 type of thing.
	And I remember when Trump locked everything down in 2020, and I started looking at the instantaneous unemployment that he created.
	And the instantaneous drops in the markets and all the rest of the stuff.
	And I compared it to what happened in 2029.
	And when I looked at it, I realized that, you know, in 2029, you didn't have the worst of it.
	It dropped significantly and started down that path.
	But then it continued to get worse for a couple of years.
	And the depth of the depression happened a couple of years later.
	That's what this guy is saying.
	He says it's a depression cycle.
	And it started and it's going to deepen in the next couple of years.
	Well, it certainly did.
	A lot of people, you go back and you mentioned those China tariffs coming down from 200% or 140.
	Maybe we can get up to like Smoot-Hawley levels of 50%.
	Smoot and Hawley, the bill that was passed after the stock market crash in 29, That was a way to protect manufacturing and so on and so forth.
	Modern historians go back and they blame the tariff on something that the Federal Reserve actually caused.
	Ben Bernanke, back in 2010, took credit for that.
	He said, yeah, we caused the Great Depression, talking about the Federal Reserve, but we won't do that again.
	It wasn't the tariffs, and that's the modern misconception that the tariffs did that.
	However, You know, you talk about the Depression being deepened.
	What deepened the Depression?
	Well, it was the social reforms.
	It was the government spending.
	It was the inflation.
	You know, it didn't have a chance to do a market correction.
	You remember FDR took gold from $20 an ounce to $35 an ounce, and it stayed that way, even through World War II all the way to 1971.
	But that was the jolt of the expansion of the money supply.
	You think about that, from $20 an ounce for gold to $35, and the influx of cash, that's inflation, that's the loss of financial equilibrium.
	That's what caused and furthered the Great Depression, not just the stock market crash.
	And again, tariffs are blamed on it, but it's the expansion of the money supply.
	And that's what we're continuing to have this pain.
	Because you really can't outpace with growth if your currency is declining in purchasing power.
	And I think that's what I like to pay attention to is the dollar index and what's happening with the strength of the dollar compared to things like gold.
	That's a good metric.
	If you're watching, you know, look, it's what...
	The dollar's lost with 40-some-odd percent of purchasing power against gold.
	That's a metric to watch if you're trying to get economic recovery because no one can get ahead if what they earn buys less.
	And it's always going to do that in an expansion of the money supply in a situation where you have to live off that.
	The dollar is weaker today than it was six months ago by many factors.
	What was the price of gold, David, around the time of the election, around 2016?
	Yeah. Yeah.
	Yeah. The currency system of the U.S. is breaking down,
	but that is the way that the planners want it.
	Trump has called for a weaker dollar.
	He's pushing...
	What is he...
	Okay, this is a good open question.
	Hang the question mark over this.
	What is it that Trump is disappointed in Powell for?
	Because Powell won't go and do QE.
	Or lower interest rates, right?
	And all that stuff is going to be inflationary.
	That's right, yeah.
	That's right.
	All that's going to be inflationary and all that is going to push people forward.
	Yes, it's all inflationary.
	Yes, it's all inflationary and there's no measures right now to strengthen the dollar.
	This is all about getting the Fed to move on QE and somebody has to be blamed for it.
	That's why I think it's like we can start the straw man with...
	With Powell, I mean, he's obviously stuck around longer than I think.
	I mean, I don't know why he's still there.
	It's a sinking ship.
	You'd think you'd jump off of it, but okay.
	There's something to it.
	He's going to stay.
	Lowering rates and QE is what the planners want, in my opinion.
	It points to nothing else.
	There's no calling for fiscal responsibility or paying down of debt.
	I heard an interview earlier today about how tariffs could help.
	We're not going to use tariffs to reduce the deficit.
	They don't care about it.
	Dick Cheney said deficits don't matter.
	That's the way they look at it.
	We're at about 125% of debt to GDP.
	And so they're not worried about that.
	They're going to continue to push this over the cliff.
	And, you know, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's not about fixing the fiscal house.
	This is about a global reset, folks.
	They're going to reset the financial system.
	And, you know, why not go ahead and damn the torpedoes full speed ahead.
	Let's go ahead and just...
	That's what they're looking to do, in my opinion, is crash it.
	You know, you can build it back better.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Trump's doing a financial great reset, and everybody is cheering him on on the conservative side.
	This is wonderful.
	We got taxes.
	Tariffs made America great.
	Taxes are what America was founded upon.
	It's like, yeah, they revolt against taxes, you know?
	We used to always say in the Libertarian Party, we say...
	Government is revolting.
	Why aren't you?
	You look at this, and it's amazing to see these conservatives tie themselves up in knots and to deny everything that they've always said they believed just because they want to get on Trump's good side and cheer whatever he's doing,
	whatever it is.
	And they absolutely are going to reset everything with this.
	But it's okay if Trump does a great reset.
	You just don't want a great reset that's being done by Biden.
	And that's exactly what Scott Besson is saying.
	He says, we're going to reset the financial system.
	We're going to have another Bretton Woods.
	They're saying it out front.
	There is no way.
	As somebody who has studied economic nationalism for 20 plus years, I started reading Pat Buchanan and listening to him in the 90s.
	I was a kid.
	And I was fascinated by this argument.
	So over the years, I've read everything I get my hands on on economic nationalism, tariffs, the history of tariffs.
	I know a lot about it.
	I'm not an expert.
	But I know one thing.
	Those who are saying and advocating tariffs never believe that.
	This is like a changing of the guard, and there's a new boss, and all these, you know, it's like somebody that's a corporate lackey.
	Is saying, oh yeah, we believe in that management change.
	They do not.
	They do not believe.
	They never have this.
	The elite believe in the policies of free trade because they pushed it so hard.
	And you were a heretic.
	This wasn't...
	Economic nationalism and talking about tariffs was always foreboding.
	I mean, it was like, you're a heretic, you are a lunatic, you're in isolation.
	Yeah. That's like a bygone era.
	I remember radio hosts that, you know, I started out in my first station in Dallas, and I'd talk about this, and they'd say, that's lib stuff.
	You're talking about bringing jobs?
	That's lib stuff.
	You know, they would say I was a lib.
	So they didn't understand it.
	But they're saying it now, I promise you.
	Like, on their shows, they're saying, like, this is good.
	We're going to get these taxes up.
	And it's doubly foolish, isn't it?
	Because, you know, not only have they...
	You know, denied everything that they ever said and always believed.
	But now the reality is that it is still global economics.
	As he's saying, we're going to do this.
	Is it economic nationalism when Scott Besson is going to do another Bretton Woods with the IMF and the World Bank?
	I mean, it's all the enemies of this stuff, including the Soros Banker, who's now the Treasury Secretary.
	They're putting together a new globalist financial system to replace the old one.
	This is not economic.
	Well, that's what they're building.
	They're not building a new American economic system.
	No. We're not going back to our roots and creating sound money and balancing a budget.
	You're exactly right.
	And it is frustrating because we're not watching the same thing.
	You talk about these international institutions, whether it's the World Bank or IMF or the Bank of International Settlements.
	That's who's pulling the strings right now.
	That's the financial order that's doing the reset.
	And we're just in the middle here.
	And that's why I look at metrics that are...
	Not necessarily market-related, which things like gold, the price of silver, you know, the price of Bitcoin, other things that, to me, are signaling a sea change.
	And even in the face of, we're watching these stocks tank, and I'm seeing gold do what it's doing.
	And I promise you, no matter what Powell says, it may move gold a little bit, but not like it used to.
	In the days of, you know, I think a lot of people were...
	With me, they were like, well, I'll wait until there's a dip.
	And I'm like, I don't know when that's coming.
	And I want to advise you, I do not see...
	I mean, I think low end, we might get down to the $3,000 mark on gold if there's a big sell-off and everything looks great.
	But too many contracts, too many things have happened.
	In the last 24 months, to get that price to go backwards, I don't see it.
	There's, again, too much investment, there's too many factors with central banks, and not only that, but sovereign wealth funds, David.
	Countries around the world are building these sovereign wealth funds, and they're just accumulating more assets, and gold being one of them.
	So, none of the buying is going to slow down on gold.
	You know, the price is not, you know, it may fluctuate a bit.
	I'm not going to call for $10,000 an ounce gold anytime soon, but I don't think any, I don't think $5,000 an ounce, again, I'm not giving people investment advice so don't go around and buy it because I said that, but I think, you know, if it's a year from now,
	we're talking about $5,000 an ounce gold, are you really surprised?
	Yeah, that's right.
	I wouldn't be, not given what we've gone through in the last 18 months.
	Well, I've got a question here from DGA on Rumble.
	He says, can you ask Tony, how is silver one one-hundredth of gold?
	What has been the difference over time?
	And, you know, people are pointing that out, and some people say, well, you might see $50 silver this summer.
	What is going on with silver?
	Well, it's just the same thing we've talked about for many years.
	Silver's monetary usage has been put on the back burner.
	So these nations that are in central banks that are accumulating gold, there are institutions in some countries, like Russia has put silver on its reserve asset balance.
	It is becoming more and more of...
	A metal that's going to be accumulated by governments.
	But in the interim, it's institutions like J.P. Morgan, which has been convicted of suppressing the silver price while accumulating it.
	I'll give you some metrics.
	It's like 250 or so, 250 million ounces a year estimated deficit.
	So they have to take 250 million ounces from the above ground silver supply.
	Silver supply is dwindling.
	There's going to be a break sooner or later, but nobody really knows when those contracts start to break, when the exposure really happens.
	There's an open question.
	I'll have to do some research.
	I don't know of one.
	Can you name me another commodity whose all-time high was 45 years ago?
	I can.
	Yeah. It's 45 years ago that silver was $52.50 an ounce.
	And, you know, you've got to look at what happened to the Hunt family after they ran that price of silver up.
	So nobody touched it again.
	I just think it's a matter of time.
	And you know what?
	Maybe I had a call with one of your listeners yesterday, and they asked me about this same question.
	And I said, look, if you're long-term...
	If you're really long-term, look at that.
	Just like you mentioned, it's 100 and some odd to 1 on the gold-silver ratio, which is historically so ridiculous.
	It's never happened before.
	At the top end, it's generally 20 to 1. So that top would be 20 to 1, not 100 to 1. So I think this may be part of the restructuring and the reset that happens in commodities.
	So the upside, if you're long on silver, I think, yeah, you'll see.
	It wouldn't surprise me, given what gold has done, David, if silver does reach an all-time high.
	Again, it was 45 years ago that it did it last time.
	We are due one, so I would assume.
	And I think once silver breaks that $50 barrier again, I don't think that it'll come back down.
	I think that was probably just...
	Just all the manipulation over the years.
	And, you know, again, it's cheap for the military-industrial complex because it's 500 ounces in each Tomahawk missile, not to mention all the other things that they build.
	They need cheap silver.
	And then, you know, who's the largest exporter of weapons around the world?
	You know, those margins get cut.
	The United States is.
	The United States exports most weapons.
	It's the biggest arms dealer in the world.
	So a lot of that stuff has silver behind it.
	And so those margins go down.
	That's an open question of why is silver that way, but I don't think it can stay that way forever.
	I do think we're due for an all-time high very soon, and then once we break that, it may because of that and then the calling of contracts that have not been called, it may expose the flaws in this and the fraud.
	I think there's some fraud in there.
	You know, wherever you find commodities, there's frogs somewhere.
	Possum King says there's a difference between gold and silver.
	Silver will kill a werewolf and gold will not, you know.
	So there's that.
	I guess maybe at some point in time we might have some mining for silver going on in Afghanistan or Iraq or Gaza or whatever we get back.
	Some silver that they're putting into the weapons and blowing up there.
	It's got to be there somehow at some point in time.
	I had a story yesterday I covered, Tony, where you talked about urban mining of gold.
	And did you see the story about the ATM?
	I heard you.
	I heard you talking about it, yeah.
	That's pretty amazing.
	I don't trust those guys to do an honest assessment.
	I would trust you, but I would not trust the Chinese ATM with my urban gold that I've got there.
	But I've got another...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	I've got another comment here, I should say, from Christian Constitutional Conservatives.
	He says, Trump is offering a private dinner with top investors in his meme coin.
	And it's, you know, the dollar Trump thing.
	And as a matter of fact, somebody sent this to me.
	And this is what it looks like.
	I'll put this up on the screen here.
	Trump hosts dinner with top holders of his meme coin.
	The 220 top holders of his meme coin are going to be invited to a private dinner on May the 22nd.
	And so this person says, how is that not market manipulation for his own coin?
	Yeah, it went up 54%.
	Yeah, what's that now?
	It went up 54%.
	Really? The coin was up 54% after that announcement.
	Wow, wow.
	You know, that's the other part of it as well.
	You know, you look at it going up on that announcement as everybody's saying, well, I need to get my reservation there, and they're competing with that.
	Other people have said about the Trump meme coin that perhaps this is a way for people to And,
	you know, when just with Bitcoin,
	for example, And the whole crypto thing, first Trump was a really positive thing, then it became a very negative thing when with his schemes and scams and stuff, it kind of underscored a lot of people's concern that Bitcoin was a pump and dump.
	And so now he's got this meme coin out there where people can anonymously contribute to him and to his family, and people have already called that out and said, you know, that could be something that is a real conflict of interest and real corruption that is going on here.
	What do you think?
	Well, I think it was really unfortunate that he chose to go that path and with the meme coin because as somebody who's studied cryptocurrency for the last almost 10 years, I don't claim to be any kind.
	There's people in this space that are absolute geniuses.
	I'm not one of them.
	But I understand the fundamentals of why Bitcoin was appealing.
	I start to lose the thread when you get into the meme coins.
	There's so many of these IPOs and offerings and things that have, or ICOs rather, that have been put out that, I mean, they're just, you'll see them go parabolic.
	There's somebody who's at the top selling off, transitioning into Bitcoin, getting out, watching it dump, and then leaving it in the hands of the people who rushed in with FOMO and, you know, lost their...
	Lost their, even sometimes their whole savings, their life savings, their livelihood.
	And that's on them, you know, because that's the risk you take.
	But I don't see the, I see the functionality of Bitcoin, but I don't understand the mean coins other than, like you mentioned, is that a backdoor way, you know, to take a position?
	of supporting Trump or his policies or those around him.
	I mean, you can just use that as a kitty whenever you want to inflate it and then sell it down or whatever it is.
	I'm sure there's a thousand different ways that could be advantageous to those who control that, control the name around it, control the
	and...
	Yeah, it wasn't...
	I went over it, and I can't remember exactly how it worked, but somebody actually, you know, said, look at what is happening with world liberty, you know, and there's some lack of transparency there as to the people who were actually invested in that.
	And so, you know, it's not necessarily directly the Trump meme coin, but that's all involved in all of that.
	And so I got another question here from Qualamos, who says, are there sovereign gold bonds still?
	Do you see more companies moving assets into gold bonds in the future instead of U.S. dollar-backed things?
	What do you think about that?
	Yeah, more companies are doing that.
	As a matter of fact, it's kind of a mix between there's a lot of multinationals and large corporations taking Bitcoin holdings now and also gold.
	Things like the Shanghai Exchange putting remote I think underscores not only that gold is part of the future for governments and companies and corporations, but that physical will be part of that.
	The breakdown of trust is the biggest issue we have.
	The dollar was trust.
	The dollar system after 1944 was trust, and we really Did a number on the world when we went off the gold standard and closed the gold window.
	But the world followed suit and there has just been a decline in trust ever since.
	Now we're at the lowest ebb that we've ever been in as the trust factor is concerned with the currency.
	Now what comes in?
	Gold fills that space.
	It's the endgame to Gresham's Law.
	Gresham's Law says when Bad money enters a system like fiat currency, then good money goes into hiding, and I think this is the endgame here.
	That's a great question, by the way, because it's not only governments, it's private institutions that are putting on their balance sheet, getting out of volatility and looking to something that can't be reprinted.
	As a matter of fact, somebody was talking, I mentioned briefly yesterday, stablecoins.
	Well, you know, we always see stablecoins as being backed to the dollar, which everybody knows is not stable.
	But, you know, a lot of companies are starting to come through and have stablecoins that are backed by gold.
	And I guess that's kind of a similar thing to the sovereign gold bonds.
	And I would expect that that would be something that you would see before you'd see sovereign gold bonds, that you would see a stablecoin.
	But I think that the government is going to do everything they can to push the stablecoin that has a dollar backing on it, because that's the way that they create a market for their bonds when nobody wants their bonds, when everybody's getting concerned about U.S. debt and being able to get paid back people.
	If other countries stop buying the U.S. bonds, then they can always get these stablecoin companies to buy the U.S. bonds, right?
	I just really wish the government would get out of the currency business.
	They seem to be pretty bad at it.
	And once they get control of that, they start a lot of wars and kill a lot of people and create dystopias and police states.
	Yeah, I wish they wouldn't do that.
	It's like when somebody says, Texas is going to create a gold-backed state currency, and I go, digital currency?
	I go, I really don't need them, though.
	I mean, you're trying to fill a role that, I mean, private institutions, you talk about these exchanges around the world, it's interesting.
	This gold, for example, you know, the spot price here in Dallas is going to be the same in New Delhi, okay?
	Pretty much within the margin of error based off the rupee.
	I mean, again...
	We're looking for something like some kind of leadership on currency for whatever reason because that's our normalcy.
	That's what we were raised around, what we were comfortable with for some reason.
	The more I read about money and currency and study it, governments in this business have been really detrimental.
	But they have to do it, and you're right.
	People ask me about a gold standard all the time.
	And I said, well, last time we had one, it was illegal for you to own gold.
	So I don't know if that's a great idea.
	Yeah. Well, you know, when you look at this, I had an article yesterday I talked about Stablecoin.
	And they said, you know, if they had something like this, it would allow farmers to be able to get their money processed with less fees and far, far, far less time if they're selling something into an area like Africa where there's a lot of corruption and the institutions don't work too well.
	And so you can see something like that.
	Where you might have a stablecoin, you might have a gold-backed stablecoin to allow people to do that type of thing.
	But when I look at the gold stuff, and all this comes into play when you're looking at the value of gold in terms of the dollar or other things like that, or you're looking at how do we have a financial system that's here, but I look at the gold as being about privacy.
	And that's the physical gold that you hold.
	I think that the privacy is priceless.
	And that's why I keep coming back to physical gold or silver that you hold yourself, because that gets you out of whatever system that is out there.
	And all these systems...
	It can be rigged.
	Of course, they can rig the price of silver, as they're doing right now, too.
	But all of these different things can be rigged.
	But the thing that is going to be the real priceless thing in the future, I think, is going to be transactional privacy and being outside of that system with something that is physical and nobody can monitor it.
	I agree with you.
	That's why, I mean, my primary business is physical precious metals.
	Because that is a way for you to retain your sovereignty and your privacy.
	You can house your wealth.
	You can hedge against economic turmoil, inflation.
	It's a good tool.
	I do like Bitcoin for reasons of being remote or electronic and peer-to-peer and other things that are on the grid.
	Especially when you're using a wallet that's not tied to an exchange with your keys and your 12 words, that's good.
	But it's secondary, I think, to the true privacy of if I want to trade some gold for some land with you, David, or some livestock or whatever it is, whatever commodity you want to sell to me,
	I can use gold or silver coins.
	Again, who knows anything about that transaction other than you and I?
	Yeah, I keep looking at how we're going to operate in a gray or a black market, because that's what I see is going to have to operate eventually.
	I don't know exactly when that's going to happen.
	Nobody does.
	What's going on at Wise Wolf?
	Anything different?
	New? Well, we're constantly looking for different products.
	Going into a barter-type system or a gray economy, a black market, whatever you want to call it.
	I'm always thinking of that when I'm building these invoices for Wolfpack.
	And again, fractional, recognizable bullion and coins and things like that.
	The goldbacks, I think, even though the premiums on them are a little high.
	You know, the more gold you buy, it's funny, we had somebody buy, you know, about $50,000 worth of gold the other day.
	You know, we just don't make that much.
	It's funny because my trader, Yeka, called me and she's like, well, this is what we made.
	And she's just like, that's terrible.
	And I said, it's the way you buy it.
	When you buy more and you buy it in larger increments, the margins are the, you know, as far as the profit margins decrease because it's the price decreases in the sense of it per ounce.
	But when you buy, you have to pay a little bit more premium.
	But here's the thing.
	If you're buying stuff from Wolfpack right now and you're just putting it and you're accumulating it, the price is going to outpace those premiums, in my opinion.
	Shortly. I mean, I don't think it's going to be that long before the spot price literally eats up those premiums.
	And then you've got shareable precious, especially with silver.
	You've got shareable precious metals that will be pretty much close to the spot price on a long enough timeline.
	That'll be like your dimes and quarters and things like that, or the 10-th ounce silver pieces.
	We've been putting...
	I'm having the same thing I'm doing with the silver.
	The 100 gram bars and we break them off and we put the silver gram bars from Valcambi in their own little holder.
	So you have gram bars of silver, gram bars of gold.
	These are good things to have.
	And the more that you're getting in this timeline where the dollar is still used as the world's reserve currency because that purchasing power still holds somewhat, the more you can accumulate, I think, in precious metals at this premium level and hold for the long term.
	You'll be able to use them at that next level if you have to.
	I mean, God forbid.
	I hope we don't have to do that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, never know.
	I don't want to have to do that, but I think that's a real advantage that people would have, David, especially with the fractional stuff.
	I agree.
	I agree.
	Are you doing the broadcast today after this program?
	I plan on it.
	Last week we had people working on my house.
	This week I've got Wi-Fi difficulties at the warehouse.
	We'll see.
	Okay, well, assuming that there's no technical difficulties, people can find you right after this show.
	you're going to have a, uh, uh, a broadcast and that is on, let's see, you're on, uh, X I know.
	And, um, is it rumble that you're on?
	I'm on rumble at, uh, the American plug channel and on X at Tony Arterburn.
	Yeah. Come, come find me.
	I'm,
	I'll see if I can put a show together.
	I missed the last week.
	We had to run a best show.
	Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Well, that'll be great.
	And thank you again, Tony.
	It's always great having you there.
	And we're talking about the small things.
	I got a gold bag thing from Florida, which I thought was kind of cool.
	And I didn't know they were making those things there.
	And it had some kind of a Lord of the Ring thing on there.
	We laughed about it.
	We said, how about that real money with a fantasy image on it?
	And it's kind of a flip, you know.
	You usually got images of real people, and it's fantasy value that's there.
	This time it went around the other way with the gold-backed Florida coin.
	But always great having you on.
	Thank you so much.
	DavidKnight.Gold will take you to Tony Arderman.
	Thank you so much,
	Tony. Great to have you.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate it.
	All right, folks, we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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	All right.
	Well, this is kind of a twist.
	You know, we always talk about universal basic income, and we have one guy who stirred a lot of people, got him quite upset because he said he's founding a company that is going to take everybody's job.
	Everybody's job.
	And he's trying to convince us that that's a good thing.
	And a lot of people are pushing back on this, like, well, no, that's not a good thing, because, you know, now he's going to take their jobs as well.
	And he says, oh, no, this is excellent.
	Well, Google is already paying top AI researchers to just sit around and not work for the competition.
	But in a sense, when you look at this, universal basic income, I guess we could say, is going to eventually come for the artificial intelligence guys, too, perhaps, right?
	This is a stretch on the non-compete stuff.
	And so they're more than willing, if somebody leaves, just to make sure.
	That they're not going to work for the competition.
	They will pay them for a year, and as a lot of these people are saying, the artificial intelligence field is moving so quickly that after a year, yeah, they're pretty obsolete.
	We don't have to worry about that at all.
	So you just put them on the bench for a year, and that's the same as taking them out of the industry and making sure that they're not pulling over something that you just discovered.
	I mean, these things are, when you look at it from the standpoint...
	Of image creation and video creation, these different companies are leapfrogging each other on about every two-week basis.
	Not clear who's going to be the leader in all of that.
	But this is coming out of Google, and they call it a garden leave, where basically they keep you in a walled garden and they pay you to stay there.
	And it is, in a sense, in kind of a microcosm, what they're looking to do with universal basic income to everybody.
	So it's this famed AI researcher, they say.
	I don't know who the people are, the players in this.
	This is a guy who's got a lot of, he's very well known.
	He launched a startup to replace all human workers everywhere.
	That's the mission of this company.
	TechCrunch had the story, they said, every now and then a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an absurdly described mission statement.
	That it's difficult to discern if the startup is for real or if it's just satire.
	Except that this guy kind of doubled down on it.
	He's somebody who's very well known in the industry, and he kind of doubled down on it when he got pushback.
	The company is called Mechanize because they're going to mechanize the workforce.
	You're going to be replaced with either chatbots if you've got a white-collar job, or you'll be replaced with robots if you have a blue-collar job.
	The non-profit AI research organization that he founded is called Epic, and a lot of people coming after him on social media.
	It was launched last Thursday, a week ago, via a post on X by its founder, who's a pretty famous AI researcher, according to TechCrunch.
	I don't know who the players are, as I said.
	His name is Tamae Besharaglu.
	I guess he's from Virginia or something.
	I don't know.
	I have no idea even what ethnicity that name is.
	Tamay. Wasn't that Debbie Reynolds that played that role?
	This is spelled differently.
	T-A-M-A-Y.
	He said, yeah, the goal is the full automation of all work and the full automation of the economy.
	So, he said, you know, the market potential here is absurdly large.
	Workers in the U.S. are paid about $18 trillion per year in aggregate.
	For the entire world, that number's got to be three times greater, maybe $60 trillion per year.
	Well, who's going to pay to buy anything?
	Are the robots going to be buying your product?
	No, you're not going to pay the robots.
	Do these people think this stuff through?
	I mean, it's pretty crazy.
	I'm going to take a break because we have Jeff Weiss who's going to be joining us.
	When I talked the other day about this carbon capture pipeline, Jeff contacted me and he said, I've got some direct experience with that out in the Midwest.
	Trent Luce has a podcast and radio broadcasts out there, and he's very much involved in all these different issues as the people in the rural areas are pushing back against it, as John Burt Society has released a documentary talking about that.
	And so I think it's important for us to...
	To focus on that as well.
	And so I asked Jeff if he'd come on and tell us a little bit about what he saw firsthand.
	So we're going to take a quick break, and we're going to be right back with Jeff Weiss, and he's going to tell us a little bit about what he's seen with these carbon capture pipelines.
	We'll be right back.
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	All right, joining us now is Jeff Wiese.
	And, of course, I met Jeff when I was on Trent Luce's program.
	And they had a group.
	They said, you know, once we talked, at first I had an interview with Trent, and I don't recall what we were talking about, but Jesus was always there, you know.
	So we said something about that, and so afterwards he said, hey, if you'd like to come on, we've got a broadcast we do once a week, and three of us do that, and he said, you're welcome to join us today.
	And so Jeff Weiss was there, and we found out that we live in the same general area, Tennessee.
	And so we've been talking since then, and Jeff contacted me after I talked about...
	This documentary that John Birch Society did, Stand Your Ground, by the way.
	StandYourGround.watch.
	If you haven't seen that, take a look at that.
	It's a lot of testimony about people who are on the ground and who have been fighting this summit pipeline and these CO2 carbon capture things pumping into the ground in South Dakota and North Dakota.
	It's very important to understand what is happening with this and the issues involved in it.
	And, of course, it's all based on this idea.
	That CO2 is some kind of toxic poison that we've got to get rid of.
	It's just beyond belief.
	But Jeff contacted me, and he's been involved in that as well.
	So thank you for joining us, Jeff.
	Appreciate it.
	There's no problem.
	It's an honor for me to get to visit with you.
	The funny part about this is that, David, you have such a round knowledge of so many things, and I'm really, as a pastor, you know, I'm usually just the Bible and Scripture, and that's what I lay on, but you hit a chord with me in this one,
	and as I've been preparing to come on with you today, it has just gotten me, like, fired up again, but I have to remember my own message that the resurrection changed everything for me.
	The world cannot get me the way that it I was born and raised on a farm and we got into this whole green energy thing unbeknownst to us all because of a paycheck.
	You know, all because the check at the end of this rainbow was a pot of gold, and those who were chosen to receive this was just wonderful.
	And my father was like, great, put them on there.
	Put up more turbines if you want to.
	And so it's always been something that I've been interested in.
	And so what we're going to find, I'll just give you what I have found as the conclusion to what we're talking about up front, and then kind of work our way backward from that.
	CO2 pipelines.
	Are simply a monopolization of a valuable commodity by about three people.
	Right? Everything else is just noise.
	It's distraction combined with lots of yours and my money.
	This is simply nothing more than tax credits and subsidies, and we all know you have to be of a certain financial ilk to where you even...
	Pursue a tax credit.
	So we can talk more about that.
	But, you know, this thing's been a lie ever since the beginning, just as wind energy is, which is really where most of my personal experience is.
	I've watched them construct these.
	One of our turbines needed a blade.
	Just maybe...
	A year after it was there and so it sat there not producing for months because it took a million pound crane to come to the property and they didn't have those just sitting around.
	The blade is 135 feet long.
	So, you know, it's not something that could even fit through a lot of our small towns.
	They had to remake the towns to move these things in and out.
	So, anyway, and then you speak to the people that are in the know and realize that, I mean, I'll never live to see that be profitable if wind energy ever is profitable.
	It's not going to be.
	So, it's a grift, a MacGuffin, whatever you want to call it of some type, right?
	I wasn't awake to all of that then because...
	I was still in the sleeping majority that thought, well, hey, man, you know, the more we can get out of Washington here, the better, right?
	It's just a free basket of money, so the better off, you know, I am buying into all this.
	And it's wind.
	It's going to last forever.
	And it's free, right?
	It's absolutely free.
	It's windy here.
	They had us on that one.
	It's windy here in northwest Indiana.
	But these lies that have been perpetuated, and I'll tell you, it goes really back to The irony of distraction through Ephesians 6.12.
	And I have it highlighted here, where it says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
	Well, those principalities are real.
	They are specifically placed in certain areas to do certain things, right?
	And so as I move across the country, I see it just play out everywhere, David.
	This is a spiritual war that we're fighting, no doubt about it, and it's usually designed to get one side against another side.
	So Trent Luce, our mutual friend, he started this thing about, I think it's about four years ago now.
	He was at a governor's economic conference.
	Get that.
	A governor's.
	Economic conference.
	Basically agricultural base when a long-time friend of him who was heavily involved in the ethanol business comes up to him and says,"Hey, guess what we're gonna do?" And Trent's like,"What?" He said,"We're gonna put CO2 in pipelines and we're gonna bury it." You know?
	And Trent's like,"Well, why would you do that?" You know, well, he said there's a lot of subsidies coming our way.
	You know, and the quicker we get our name in the line, the quicker we're going to be the recipient of these subsidies, you know?
	And so that made him curious.
	But you know how things are.
	You go away from the conference.
	You don't think about it.
	And then what has to happen is there have to be some kind of an event that brings it back to the front page, right?
	Yeah. Well...
	It was in the name of eminent domain and people beginning to lose their property rights.
	This has been a couple of years ago now, but people began receiving letters of eminent domain.
	There were over 80 such letters in South Dakota alone.
	Is that coming from the corporations too?
	No. It's coming through the government.
	They're operating through the government.
	Because I remember that was one of the issues with the Keystone Pipeline thing.
	I looked at it and it's like, okay, a pipeline to get oil in, that is something that we really do need.
	We don't need to stick the CO2 in the ground, but we do need to have the oil to make plastics and to run our cars and things like that.
	And, you know, it's safer than putting it on a train or something like that or a ship.
	But the problem was that for these Keystone Pipeline things, they were going to give TransCanada, the company that – because it's coming out of Canada – they were going to give a foreign corporation the right of eminent domain to condemn people.
	And it's like, whoa, wait a minute.
	Now, that's not right.
	And so it's like I would support the pipeline in general.
	But when they got to this eminent domain, that was where it went off the rails.
	But they were running the eminent domain, still running it through the government.
	That's right.
	You're going to find that there's a group called Summit Carbon Solutions.
	Are you familiar with Summit?
	Oh, yeah.
	That CEO was there with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and the other governors.
	Come on, Doug Berg and Kristi Noem.
	And that was at the end.
	I wasn't going there yet.
	But listen to their vision statement, right?
	We will align incentives.
	To make a positive impact on the economy and communities.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	We will give you money for nothing projects if you'll just play along.
	Yep. And that's what I met the mayors, the senators at this petroleum conference that are all like looking at me and Trent like, well, why are you guys against this pipeline?
	This is crazy.
	Well, There's so many reasons, and I'm sure that that documentary is excellent in explaining a lot of the things.
	So the question just became, you know, why would...
	And they were only going to run this pipeline four feet deep.
	Yeah. And there was a couple, but then they were going to get sunk to this point where Trent went in South Dakota over the Balkans.
	And they were going to drop it a mile and a half deep there, supposedly to fill up...
	The vacated oil area of the Balkan reserves.
	So, bottom line is, they decided that lie wasn't good, so they pivoted and said, no, no, no, CO2 is going to enhance oil production.
	So they came up with this thing called advanced oil production, or something like that.
	I don't know if that's quite what it's called.
	But listen to this, what was happening.
	There was a study...
	For Cornell University that said, we were wrong.
	We thought that water created heat, and that's what was creating volcanoes.
	But instead, it was CO2 bursting through the crust, right?
	So, it causes violent eruptions and other things.
	And then there was another study from Macaroon, right, where Lake Niles had CO2 just come up through a lake.
	And it killed everything within 10 square miles, including insects.
	Oh, wow.
	Right? And that's like that explosion in the pipeline.
	They didn't have anybody die, but they had people who were very severely and permanently injured from that because it deprives you of oxygen.
	But it just killed all the fish, all the bugs, everything, because it takes out all the oxygen.
	Oh, my gosh.
	So just wrap your head around this.
	You know how we kill hogs now, most humane, and we kill turkeys?
	Concentrated CO2!
	And you're going to run it under everybody.
	And it says, one of the studies out now says that a three-mile area will be affected by a rupture of a pipe and explode at four foot deep.
	But here's really, David, where I thought you would probably...
	No, way more than me, because we're just talking about a slew of lies.
	We're talking about that shiny object over here to look at.
	I talked to, like I said, mayors, state senators that were just like, you're crazy.
	Hush that nonsense, negative talk.
	Look at all the money we're going to get here.
	We're going to have better schools.
	We're going to have better this.
	We're going to have better that.
	So it's all just a high-level bribe scheme, right?
	That's worked for so long so well.
	But it turns out, here, guess what a couple of things had to happen to make this be the center point?
	Because it's no mistake that Doug Burgum and Kristi Noem ended up where they are now and even on the short list of VP candidates in basically states with, you know, no electoral votes, no whatever.
	That's right, yeah.
	Rich, Caucasian people, so much to offer a Trump ticket, right?
	Yet they were right there, okay?
	So, it turns out, where all this comes from is in 2008, under George W. Bush, 45Q.
	I don't know if you've heard of that bill, but it was the tax credits were created, and they were all about finding a green project anywhere they could find it and throwing money toward it.
	This is kind of our, you know, windmills and everything started to get wind turbines.
	I'm sorry, it started all getting back then, right?
	They wanted to push money for it.
	Well, in 2020, with Trump leading the charge, the CO2 pipeline through the Use It Act, which he signed in in his last 30 days, he signed it into, at the end of his first term, he signed it in, right?
	It allowed...
	The CO2 pipeline mob to get that 45Q tax credit money.
	Wow. Wow.
	So now it took it because what it did was it gave them $50 for metric ton for every ton they could bury.
	Wow. $50.
	Wow. And I don't even know how that comes out, but I will tell you this.
	When Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, part of that bill increased The price to $85 for a metric ton.
	I'm talking about Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and a little bit of Minnesota.
	But the total, $17 billion over five years that's going to be doled out to people that are able to claim they've stuffed CO2 in a pipeline.
	Wow. Wow.
	And then we look at Elon Musk, and, you know, he's running this prize that he started back in 2021 to take CO2 out of the atmosphere so they could have something to stick in the pipeline so they could get the government subsidies, right?
	And so, you know, his goal for this thing, and of course, the winner of the prize was announced on Tuesday.
	And that person got $80 million, but that's cheap because when you're talking about what he wants to do, he wants to make sure that the winner had something that was scalable so they could do gigaton level, right?
	So just take that $85 per ton and, you know, add nine zeros behind it.
	And so he said, like I said, they invest a million and they get back billions.
	You know, that's the kind of return on investment they always get.
	Listen, it gets so much better, and I encourage your listeners, I know a lot of them, and enjoy their conversations as I watch in the chats, and they're all very much more knowledgeable than me, but if you do a dive in this, it is so easy, because guess what?
	Here's the latest thing, and companies, I forgot to write down the name of the company, but it's...
	What's his name?
	Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.
	They need tax credits, right?
	Because that's free money.
	He got $35 billion in tax credits in one year in wind subsidies, I remember.
	Buffett did.
	Now they're into what's called the air capture of CO2.
	N95 mask and go out there and swoop it up and put it in a bucket and then haul it somewhere.
	That reminds me of Spaceballs where they had peri-air.
	Remember that?
	They had a canned air.
	They'd pop it and breathe it.
	But what are they doing with the canned air now?
	Guess what you can get a metric ton for that kind of CO2.
	What's that?
	$150. Wow.
	Wow. Yeah.
	So we're really moving up the scale.
	But here is a spoiler alert.
	Oh my gosh, this is so good.
	I can't believe I'm even the one that gets to talk about this.
	In order for all of these subsidies to be paid, right, and tax credits to be fulfilled, it has to stay in the pipeline for 12 years.
	Wow. Wow.
	Now don't you think by then we're going to have discovered it will never, read my lips, never be recovered.
	Number one, they don't even really know how right now.
	They're counting on being able to figure that out.
	That's why Trent calls it CO2 tombs.
	Well, you know, who knows?
	Maybe what you should do is they should reroute it and stick it up into Yellowstone.
	Maybe they could energize those volcanoes up there.
	We could get the super caldera to blow up and solve all of our problems right there.
	And, you know, if it wasn't so dangerous, To the average person who, and David, that's where I'll talk about spirituality again.
	I have been so blessed over the last few years to make some maneuvers and be able to retire and not be serving the invisible God that I served for my entire working adult life, and that was debt.
	I realized that almost every decision I ever made, the first part that had to be calculated in there was, well, how would that affect my debt?
	Which, if you biblically look at it, that's a God.
	You know, that's a God.
	You know, when you have to do this, whether you want to or not, because of this, you're serving that God.
	And I'm just telling you that my eyes have been so illuminated to people who are struggling like that.
	So, you know, when I talk, and at this conference, it was three days out there in Bismarck, and I got to speak with this one mayor and got to know him a little bit and tried just to have a conversation with him about it.
	And he was looking at me like I had three eyeballs.
	And I could hear it in his mind, don't you understand I have to get re-elected?
	Right? In other words, you don't get this thing, you know?
	And that's where we go back to the simple truth of John 14, 6, where Jesus says, I'm the truth.
	I'm the truth.
	So if you're out there, and you're putting anything into any of these projects, because look into it, you can name the next one, David.
	Went from wind to solar.
	Now, the carbon capture, as soon as that boogeyman is dead, right?
	Well, the money's still rolling in Washington.
	They're just going to come up with another one.
	You know, isn't it interesting?
	And I don't know how far you want to go into all this, and we can do much more whenever, but bottom line is, there are international players.
	Here, right?
	That, you know, some of the people that Trent was mentioning, Saudi Arabia is knee-deep in this.
	And I don't know if your listeners are aware of this, and I'm sure you've talked about it.
	I don't get to listen near as much as I would like to.
	Of course, I would not have a life if I did that.
	But, Port Arthur, Texas, oil refinery, during Trump's first administration, Was sold to Saudi Arabia.
	Now, you know, and once again, your listeners probably know more about this than me, but Saudi Arabia, truth be told, from what, you know, depends what you assume, is they're drying up, you know.
	They don't have just an endless supply of oil.
	And at the rate they're cranking it up.
	So they are a player in green energy.
	Yeah. Oh, yeah.
	They are a complete player in wanting to control, you know, the fertilizers.
	And so all of this goes back to these three or four people that we're talking about.
	And one, you know who Doug Burgum is, right?
	He had this tiny little software company worth next to nothing, mysteriously got a great tip, and all of a sudden Bill Gates buys it from him for $1.1 billion.
	Next thing you know, he waltzes himself into working for Bill Gates, and then it's the governor's mansion, right?
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	Literally, his qualification was that he turned a dollar into a million.
	Mm-hmm.
	Mm-hmm.
	Right? Yeah.
	And then, uh, uh, Christy Noem.
	Same exact situation, nearly.
	It's, it's, you know, a little bit different trail.
	Same thing.
	Born on third base, thinks she hit a triple.
	Yeah. Where did she get her, where did she get her money?
	I mean, she's got that $50,000.
	You know, that's, we were talking about that, and I didn't dig into that because, once again, The resurrection changed everything for me.
	There are rabbit holes I want to go down.
	All I needed to know is that I think her son-in-law might work for Summit.
	That could be, yeah.
	You know, it's interesting.
	She has that Gucci purse.
	She had $3,000 there.
	And I said to Karen, I said, I always thought the devil wore Prada.
	You know, I mean, how did she?
	She's got the $3,000 cash in her purse.
	She's got a $50,000 watch.
	Yeah. And, you know, if I had $50,000.
	And some bag.
	One of her lackeys would confiscate that from us, saying it was drug money and civil asset forfeiture would apply here.
	But these people have a different standard that they have.
	You know, when you talk about, though, all these different projects, you're talking about wind and how...
	If that didn't work out for you, you've got a lot of people who were talked into solar roof stuff that I talked about yesterday, and how it's running down, and a lot of these companies that put these deals together, they weren't set up to do any maintenance or any of the rest of this stuff,
	and so they're disappearing, and now people have gotten, well, now what do I do with my roof, that type of thing.
	And so we've seen this happen over and over again, and yet they're still doing all of this stuff.
	And you've got this massive wind project that's off of Long Island that is owned.
	It's going to be like three times what the entire price is right now at retail for the people there.
	For what?
	You know, these are inefficient, unreliable.
	And they're really unsustainable.
	They're not very durable.
	They don't last very long, these windmills and these solar projects and all the rest of the stuff.
	And everybody is being forced to pay through the nose for all of this stuff.
	Here in Tennessee, they want to now add the battery energy storage sites, which are going to be incredibly expensive to back up the wind and solar, and a big fire hazard as well.
	And so in every regard, this is a massive grift.
	And as you were talking about, all these different communities, all the people were like, oh yeah, let's run the pipeline through here.
	We'll make a lot of money.
	And it really is, going back to what you said, it's the love of money that's the root of all evil, isn't it?
	And it's the root of all of these evil schemes.
	Everybody's on board because there's money in it, and you know, it wouldn't be, if we've got principalities and powers that are running this stuff, which they are, it wouldn't have been a temptation for Christ if that wasn't true.
	Right? The devil says, hey, this is mine to give to people, right?
	And how does he rope everybody in?
	It's with their love of money.
	That's how he gets them to essentially sign the proverbial deal, you know, sign on the bottom line for the money.
	You know, it's that Faustian bargain that's there.
	It's amazing.
	It's so ingrained now, David.
	We're in so many generations down the road now.
	You know, I just saw a young...
	A couple the other day just bought a house, their first house, very young, $550,000, the payment.
	I don't know what it was, but the things that we think we have to do, the things that we think we need, unfortunately, we have to almost suffer each and every negative consequence to figure out that's what we needed.
	And that's where, for me, my...
	I mean, five years ago, I thought I was a conservative right-winger because I'm an abortion survivor and born and raised on a farm and conservative and go right-wing and all of that type of thing.
	And, you know, went from Mar-a-Lago all the way across the country doing conferences and tours and finding out that, boy, there's only one truth in this life.
	And so I'm not growing seed from Monsanto anymore.
	I don't have wind farms anymore.
	I have a little church and am a pastor because the truth will set you free.
	And amongst all of these things, let it be our topics of conversation, right?
	And let it be interesting and let us help guide our next generation in being able to discern the truth.
	Right? And to know the truth.
	But let's not let any of these things become our identity.
	Because when that It happens all of a sudden that we're blinded to certain facts, being that I am apolitical now, which I could have never guessed that, that in five years that I would turn this corner.
	But it's been through people like yourself who weren't as scared to do the unpopular thing.
	And some of the stuff I've learned is integrity in our book, Free Indeed, that you're familiar with.
	Talk about integrity.
	And integrity, essentially, is doing the right thing even when there's nobody.
	That's right.
	And I know that seems like an oversimplification, right?
	But what we have got is we have got principalities that are spiritual, right, who are in people's heads.
	So I submit to you that do I think Doug Burgum and maybe even Bill Gates, I don't know, he does got that one eye.
	No. But even people like that, you know, that aren't part lizard or whatever, are they just being governed, right?
	You know, the people standing at the foot of Jesus when he's being crucified, and he says, forgive them, for they know not what they do?
	I've got to think the majority of even these people are in that boat.
	And then I've got to remember that, oh, jeez, God loves them just as much as he loves me.
	And so it's the principalities, and we must buy into that.
	And so the biggest fear of the enemy is unity.
	So when we come into the apolitical center, I think we'll start electing better people, not just to the White House, but to the State House, to the State Congress, right?
	And to the local school board.
	We'll begin to literally bring what is missing both in the churches and in our whole world, and that is accountability.
	I agree.
	Nobody has any, because everybody's a victim, right?
	And urgency.
	So you take some urgency and accountability and put it into a little elixir there, and that's how we move, and we know when we are believers, we know that it's through Christ.
	And even on just the moral side of being in Christ, what a free way to live.
	You don't fear death, right?
	You tend to the people that are needy, because as I talked about Sunday, if it's not, And if it's just about who I'm going to vote for, darn we lost or darn we won, well then heck yeah, party on!
	Yeah, that's right.
	But if we truly are eternal beings, we've got to think generationally in what legacy is that we're going to leave, and chopping up our ground, look into Kristi Noem and her involvement in a Project 3030.
	Are you familiar with that?
	No, no, what's that?
	Where non-individuals by 2030 should own 30% of the land.
	Oh yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah. That's part of it.
	Yeah, you'll own nothing and everything.
	And, of course, they're getting a lot of people, especially in the rural areas, are getting a lot of people signed up with a backdoor trap with that in terms of getting some tax abatements and things like that.
	And they're ready to just pull that plug and exercise those hidden rights.
	And that's, you know, there's a...
	That's always what they do.
	That's why I tell people, you know, stay away from your homeschooling.
	Stay away from any financial strings of these people because they will pull those strings.
	And listen, it's even so much deeper because, as you said, it's the root of all kinds of evil.
	So here's my father living 500 miles away because of health issues due to some probably Monsanto-related products that came out in the early 80s.
	Had to quit farming and move here, and he just became a landlord, so all we did was rented our ground, right?
	So when the wind turbines came along, they're calling him.
	He's like, heck, I don't live up there.
	Go for it.
	So they start going out there and they are going to chop up this 160 for two windmills.
	And it's like they had no idea what they were doing, right?
	And so dad got in his car, drove up there, and walked around with this company that was out of Montana, had no idea about Midwest farming, and showed him that he needed to bring it in from one direction, they needed an access road, all this stuff.
	The guy tries to hire my dad because he said nobody knows anything about this.
	And even then, though, even then, it still didn't click with me.
	But yet, guess what was happening in little Remington, Indiana?
	All those hotels that had sat there and almost starved, they were full of workers.
	The restaurants, they built a brand new giant pilot station there.
	You know, all of the, you could see the positive.
	So in order to, you really have to be secure in your eternal identity to look at those things for what they are.
	And that's why, for my father, that was innocent because cash rent, I'm going to tell you, wasn't much.
	And so this check they were offering was about half, again, as much as what he was making per acre total to rent the farm.
	Right? Yeah.
	Oh, that's crazy.
	Yeah, and of course, we're seeing in France and other places that, you know, the wildlife toll that these windmills are taking on birds.
	You know, it's not bird flu that's calling them, it's windmills.
	You know what I said back then when I was the owner of those?
	What was that?
	God's calling the dumb birds.
	He's calling the dumb birds.
	You can see it coming!
	Go around it, you dumb bird!
	Not so much.
	Especially the bats.
	It's funny, the bats are especially susceptible to it because they breathe so rapidly.
	That they go into these things.
	They can miss the blades because they're a little bit more agile, I guess.
	But what gets them is that their lungs blow up.
	The same type of air embolism that you get as a scuba diver.
	You know, they breathe it in at a low pressure and then fill up their lungs and then immediately they pass it to high pressure and blows up their lungs.
	I'm a scuba diver.
	You can't come straight up.
	That's right.
	You have to go a little bit at a time stop.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So I guess we don't have any bats at scuba dive.
	They never figured that out.
	David, I just want to thank you for talking about all this with me because, you know, this is part of what I feel God's called me to do with being ordained and becoming a pastor and all this is that I know about all this stuff and the world's coming at me just as hard as it's coming after everybody else.
	But I feel like we're going into education.
	My church is going to be a teaching church.
	We're going to have teaching things.
	We're envisioning a truth seminary where people can begin to not learn about American religion, but to learn about who they are, about where this thing is going, because truthfully, it goes back to what I was talking about, about the accountability, right, and the urgency.
	Well, the church has got a couple of other things going on.
	They've got terribly weak leadership and biblical illiteracy.
	So if we don't fix the illiteracy problem with who we are, And help people understand that, then you're building on that foundation that we're warned about, right?
	It's going to be what it is.
	We're going to be so unmercifully divided, and a lot of it is through debt.
	I'm going to tell you, as you see the new cars and you see the young family, you know, oh, we've got to buy a new car and, you know, have the...
	With the salesman and the congratulations poster out front, you're just going home.
	We did property rentals and the applications and the things that I used to just be terrified of a $250 car payment.
	Now, that's the late fee.
	$80 payment on time, you know?
	And we have to be really careful.
	The system doesn't set our values.
	You know, when you're talking about that, I'm thinking about families and how so many people are afraid to have children.
	And so now Trump's going to get people talking about it.
	Somebody asks him, say, yeah, it's a good idea.
	You know, $5,000 credit or whatever.
	But there's other countries that are essentially paying people tax incentives and things like that to have a family.
	And yet that's really not going to get you out of that mindset.
	You know, people that I've seen that are...
	That are successful in this.
	They're doing it because they love their children and because that's their number one priority.
	And they find that once they get their priorities aligned, yeah, it's going to change their lifestyle somewhat, but they can make it.
	And a lot of times people can't see that.
	They look at it, well, we've got two incomes now.
	We can't go to a system where only one of us is working.
	That's just not going to work.
	No, you just adjust your priorities and you find that you're saving a lot of money and you're not paying so much taxes.
	And so, you know, you can cut corners here and cut corners there.
	And it really is a freeing thing.
	I've known people who didn't have a lot of money and were able to homeschool because they redefined those priorities.
	But they trap us in this mindset that we need to load up on debt and we need to have this consumer thing that the way to fulfillment is.
	I'm going to tell you, the best scenario I can, or the best analogy I have is this thing I've talked about as a realtor all these years is when I was young.
	And I would drive through affluent neighborhoods and see the big giant houses, you know, with the pool out back and especially the putting green.
	Man, I used to think that guy had it made.
	And I remember the new Hummer sitting there or whatever and the fine Cadillac or whatever.
	And then I'd ride through these, you know, older homes and there'd be an eight, nine-year-old vehicle sitting there with a moderate home but a very well-kept yard.
	And you'd think, oh, maybe one day those poor people, you know.
	And in my lifetime...
	I think of it completely different.
	I look at the Hummers and the pool and think, oh my gosh, those people are drowning in debt.
	And I look at that guy that lived within his means.
	I say, that guy's got some cash.
	He's got some...
	Some resources for rainy days, right?
	When you think about it, is it any wonder, and we can go into this another time, and I'd love to because I've done quite a bit of research on how our banking system ever came to play.
	You know, why is it that those aren't more of a charitable situation, you know?
	Why do I have vice presidents of bank friends of small banks that, you know, were making $250,000 when they retired, you know?
	Why is that?
	They charged me more because I didn't have any money.
	That's just the worst thing that we've seen.
	Last round of stagflation I think we had, that's when they took away the usury laws and everything.
	That's just terrific.
	But before we run out of time, tell people where they can find you, find your book, Free Indeed, and other ways that they can get in contact with you.
	Free Indeed.
	My ministry partner, Doc Roberts, and myself, Jeff Weiss.
	You can find it on Amazon, of course.
	We've got lots of great things in the works.
	Our church is called St. Paul Worship Church.
	And StPaulWorshipCenter.com is going to have things.
	We have a lot more coming in the future.
	And so we'd just like you to stay in touch.
	And I know David will be in touch.
	And I just want everybody to understand that there is always a spiritual element to everything that you're going through every day because you're in a cosmic war.
	Right? Even if you're not a participant, well, that means you're just not on one side or the other.
	You're still in the war.
	And so as we recognize things coming our way and understand that person that we tend to look at with a little bit of, think about it, they're under it too.
	Amen? That's right.
	That's where we get the compassion for even the enemy.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	That's why, you know, we pray for our leaders.
	Many times I'll say...
	From Fiddling on the Roof, you know, is there a prayer for the czar?
	Yeah, God bless them and keep them far away from us.
	But if we pray that they are going to be turned towards God, that wouldn't make a big difference in our lives as well.
	I see the kind of leadership that we have here as being a real judgment on this country at this point in time.
	And that's really what we need to be praying for when we look at all these issues.
	We need to understand that it's God who is sovereign with that.
	Thank you so much, Jeff.
	Thank you for joining us.
	Absolutely. The common man.
	They created common core to dumb down our children.
	They created common past to track and control us.
	Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
	And the communist future.
	They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
	That is what they want to take away.
	Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
	They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
	It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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	Thank you for sharing.

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