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The David Knight Show - 5/12/2025

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	As the clock strikes 13, it is Monday, the 12th of May, year of our Lord, 2025.
	I have an important update regarding my dad's health and how you can pray for him.
	And then we're going to discuss some tech news.
	China wants to use AI to translate what your cat is saying.
	Could this usher in a new feline era?
	Perhaps a meow-zei-dong?
	Then we'll take a quick look at what Trump is doing regarding India and the H-1B visa epidemic.
	And finally, is the friendship between Trump and Israel over?
	Stay tuned.
	Let's find out.
	All right.
	Well, thank you all for joining us here on this Monday morning.
	I just want to give you a quick update.
	This is a pre-recorded segment that I'm doing for Jason Barker.
	He has so graciously agreed to host the show, and we cannot thank him enough for doing that.
	My father, David, will be going into surgery at about 11 a.m. on Monday, and this will be to correct his carotid artery.
	There is a blockage there that needs to be removed.
	David, my dad suffered a couple of mini strokes over the last weekend, and he is doing well, but this has to be corrected or things could worsen.
	So we just ask for your continued prayer regarding that.
	We cannot thank you all enough.
	For the outpouring of prayers and kind words and all the support.
	Everything you guys have done has been amazing.
	There have been so many emails and so many different messages telling us all how much David means to you.
	It's really a blessing to know how much he is loved and how many people are praying for him and keeping him in their prayers in this incredibly trying time for our family.
	It truly means more than you will ever know.
	So, please, like I said, he will be going into surgery at about 11 a.m., so please keep him in your prayers then as well.
	The surgery is normally highly successful, but we just always want to put things into God's hands.
	So, thank you all again for your prayers and support.
	And let's move now on to some tech news.
	You can find this on the Byte.
	I thought it was fairly interesting.
	Chinese tech giant wants to translate your cat's meows using AI.
	I can only imagine that they're going to interrogate your family pets now when they arrest you.
	are going to hook this machine up to your dog and cat and make sure that you weren't saying anything nefarious about our dear leader here.
	But let's start here.
	And this, as I said, is on the bite.
	It's by Victor Tangerman.
	Okay.
	Let's see, Doodle Translate.
	Chinese tech company Byte Reuters reports the company filed a patent with China National Intellectual Property Administration proposing an AI-powered system to translate animal sounds.
	Whether it will ultimately be successful in deciphering your dog's barks or your cat's meows remains to be seen.
	Despite years of research, scientists are still far from deciphering animal communication.
	I truly don't understand, really, the point a dog is saying to have the most incredible relationship with them.
	I think, as a general rule, you can get most, if not all, of their communication by simply looking at them and going, ah, yeah, he's hungry.
	Again, a deeper emotional communication understanding between animals and humans improving the accuracy and efficiency of interspecies communication.
	They just don't want you to eat them.
	That's going to be what the dogs in China are saying.
	Don't eat me, please.
	Don't eat me.
	They're going to be real hard on that line.
	A spokesperson told Reuters that the system is still in the research phase, suggesting there's still significant work to be done.
	Also, let's be clear.
	Let me rephrase.
	We know for a fact they did eat dog in China because we went there to adopt my sister.
	And when we were there, they were very happy to tell us about their dog hot pot festival.
	So this is not some spurious claim that I am making.
	We saw it and were told about it.
	Let me rephrase.
	We didn't see them actually eating a dog.
	We saw many people talking about eating dog.
	So, fun fact for you all there.
	But Baidu has already made considerable headway.
	The company, which also runs the country's largest search engine, has invested in AI for years, releasing its latest AI model last month.
	Baidu is the only of many companies working to decode animal communication using AI.
	For instance, California-based nonprofit Earth Species Project has been attempting to build an AI-based system that can translate birdsong, the whistles of dolphins, and the rumblings of elephants.
	A separate nonprofit called NatureLM recently announced that it secured 17 million in...
	17 million in grants to create language models that can identify the ways animals communicate with each other.
	Yeah, that's money well spent right there.
	I can't wait to find out what the elephants are talking about.
	Researchers have also attempted to use machine learning to understand the vocalizations of crows and monkeys.
	The one thing I agree with Joe Rogan on is that chimpanzees are freaky.
	I don't need to know what they're saying.
	I just need to know that they're kept far away from me, locked up somewhere, or we're separated by a massive amount of water.
	Because I assume everything they're saying is evil.
	It's probably the worst things you can imagine.
	It's probably, I want to bite that guy's fingers off.
	That's probably about all chimpanzees talk about.
	Just pure, pure evil.
	That's what a chimpanzee is.
	We don't want to communicate with it.
	While the direct animal translation tool is more than likely still many years out, some scientists have claimed early successes.
	Last year, a team of scientists from SETI searched for...
	Okay, now I'm very confused as to mission creep with SETI.
	Did they just get bored waiting there?
	You know, they've never heard anything back.
	They're just like, well, we might as well talk to the whales.
	We're not hearing anything from space.
	Might as well go look in the ocean for something.
	I suppose it's a better use of their time than just waiting for something that's not going to happen.
	The things we learn from communicating with whales could help us when it comes time to connect with aliens.
	Ah, yes.
	Of course.
	The whales had the secrets to communicating with aliens all along, folks.
	Didn't you know that?
	I, for one, knew that, of course, because it was so obvious.
	It's the whales.
	They'll help us communicate with the aliens.
	Mission creep, folks.
	That's what it looks like.
	And moving on to our next article.
	Again, this is from Futurism The Bite.
	Another one by Victor Tangerman.
	Interesting.
	University warns of bomb threat involving delivery robots.
	And I can't tell if this is the most or least Ted Kaczynski thing I have ever seen.
	Don't trust the robots.
	Well, I mean, obviously not.
	But don't open them and don't even go near them because they may be armed with an explosive.
	This is...
	Again, I can't tell if this is the most or least Ted Kaczynski thing because obviously Ted Kaczynski would hate robots.
	But perhaps using the robot to deliver an explosive to somebody would negate the badness of the robot.
	You know?
	We're...
	An uncharted territory here.
	I'm sure Ted Kaczynski is spinning in his grave right now.
	That's essentially the warning that Oregon State University just gave students about in a tweet heralding strange new frontiers in campus security.
	The institution blasted interesting choice of words there, Victor.
	An urgent OSU alert Tuesday afternoon warning students of an ongoing bomb threat involving Starship food delivery robots on its campus.
	Do not open the robots.
	Read the bewildering message.
	Avoid all robots until further notice.
	Very Terminator.
	Very Terminator-esque.
	Avoid the robots, people.
	Don't go near them.
	Do not engage.
	After we first ran this report, Starship issued a statement clarifying the situation.
	A student at Oregon State University sent a bomb threat via social media that involves Starship's robot on the campus.
	The company wrote on X. While the student has subsequently stated, this is a joke and a prank.
	It's just a prank, bro.
	Calm down.
	It's just a prank.
	Now I'm really curious as to what the student said.
	I'm very curious, but...
	That's probably lost to time.
	Somewhere buried in the internet on an FBI server or something along those lines.
	The university has been collaborating with Starship to allow students, staff, faculty, and campus visitors to order robot-delivered food from the various restaurants on campus grounds since 2020.
	Just these dubious little robots trundling about.
	Hither and thither.
	The Starship fleet consists of 26 wheel delivery robots, each of which feature a box compartment with a lid that can be unlocked and opened by the delivery recipient with a smartphone app.
	While it seems exceedingly unlikely one of these delivery robots is actually carrying a bomb, it's technically not impossible.
	Again, folks, the Industrial Revolution and its consequences has been a disaster for Western society.
	On that...
	I think I can agree with Ted Kaczynski while I do not sanction or condone his methods.
	And another bit of horror from the tech sector.
	Scientists direct cyborg cicadas to play a horrendous droning rendition of Pachelbel's Canon.
	This is by Joe Wilkins, again, on The Byte Futurism.
	Some of them were like, okay, use my abdomen.
	Pachelbel's Canon in D is like the Doom of the music world.
	For anyone that's not aware, Doom the video game has been, people have made it run on just about any sort of electronic you can imagine.
	People have devoted many, many hours of their time to getting that game to run on anything from a standard video game system.
	To your electronic refrigerator.
	So, yes, that's the reference there.
	Music World.
	It's been performed on everything from train horns to rubber chickens to strange juggling bells.
	It would truly be easier to find an instrument the canon hasn't been played on.
	Recently, a new instrument entered the Pantheon, only it's not an instrument at all, but rather an insect stuck with probes and zapped with electricity.
	I cannot wait for this to no longer need to be wired down and they can just sick a swarm of cicadas or drones made to look and sound like cicadas on you to harass you with the worst renditions of music possible.
	I'm sure that's something they would never do to drive any specific group of people anywhere insane.
	I'm sure they would never flood areas with some of these horrifying little creatures programmed specifically to play the most irritating music in the most irritating way possible.
	If you're imagining the typical wedding arrangement of Pachelbel's Cannon played on a harp or string quartet, you might be disappointed because this particular rendition uses the face-crunching sounds of the brown cicada.
	If you've never had to deal with cicadas, I envy you.
	Every once in a while, they show up, and it is just cacophonous.
	A racket that does not end until...
	They all die, and then show up again years later.
	The breakthrough, if we're calling it that, comes from a team at the University of Tsukuba in Japan.
	The Japanese haven't really been right since we nuked them twice.
	I feel like we owe them some sort of an apology, and that perhaps if we had not done this, they would not be electrocuting cicadas to play Pachelbel's canon.
	I feel we bear part of the blame in this situation, which struck a choir of cicadas full of electrodes to make them sing.
	This whole thing is possible thanks to the cicadas'noise organs called the timble.
	Timbles are a pair of rigid membranes located in the cicada's abdomen, I mean, if it works, I suppose.
	I never tried that with my wife.
	I think she's thankful for that.
	But, you know, cicadas do as cicadas does.
	In the wild, male cicadas will band together in groups coincidentally called a chorus.
	Very, very loose use of that word there.
	Scientists, what can you do about them?
	Which can become, more specifically, I suppose entomologists, for any of you that are going to get pedantic with me, which can become literally deafening depending on how many of the insects join together.
	In the lab, Tsukuba researchers used carefully controlled electrical signals to force the tymbals together.
	By manipulating the voltage, the team was able to unlock the potential of the cicada chorus and grace us with the most offensive rendition of Pachelbel's canon we've ever heard.
	This is, again, one of those things.
	Who was the guy that postulated this idea?
	What if we stuck electrodes into cicadas just to see if we could make them play a song?
	How do these people come up with these ideas?
	You'd think that they could be doing just about anything else with their time.
	And instead, they're sticking wires into cicadas to make them play Pachelbel's canon.
	This is truly a level of absurdity that I have a hard time fathoming.
	So, a video of the experiment uploaded by the new scientist explains that the cicadas are reproducing tones over more than three octaves, roughly mirroring the tonal range of the standard orchestral glockenspiel.
	and I believe we have that video ready to go.
	So if we do, let's go ahead and play it.
	Thank you.
	Seems as though we're having some technical difficulties.
	Yeah, for some reason we're not getting audio from that computer recently.
	But, you know, we'll move on from that.
	The article goes on to finish with, Though we probably won't see the insects at Carnegie Hall anytime soon, the researchers note the cicada's potential for reproducing emergency audio equipment in emergency situations where energy is scarce.
	Ah, yes.
	They're going to use this...
	Can you imagine anything more horrifying?
	You know, a cicada?
	A swarm?
	You know...
	Comes around your house and starts screaming at you about some sort of gas leak or an inbound ballistic missile.
	We are truly in some sort of dystopian cyberpunk nightmare of sorts.
	And this article is from Breitbart, written by Lucas Nolan.
	User-generated AI therapists on Instagram claim false credentials provide unqualified advice.
	Well, personally, I think that's probably not much worse.
	I don't believe many actual therapists have many qualifications to give you advice.
	These are people that have spent years upon years doing nothing but going to school.
	And once they're out of school, they go into a practice where someone else sits over their shoulder and watches over them and carefully curates who and what they interact with.
	Very little of them have any sort of actual real-life advice.
	Can someone that has never experienced anything related to what you're going through really work you through it?
	Just my questions, my thoughts.
	User-generated AI chatbots posing as licensed therapists on Instagram.
	Also, if you get one shot by an AI therapist on Instagram, not saying you deserved it, not saying you deserved it, but it's Instagram, folks.
	Don't trust anything you see on Instagram at all.
	Do not get one shot by the Babylonian demon posing as an AI therapist on Instagram.
	I'm warning you.
	You heard it here first.
	Don't.
	User-generated AI chatbots posing as licensed therapists on Instagram are providing mental health advice without proper qualifications.
	An investigation by 404 Media has found.
	404 Media reports that Instagram users seeking mental health support through the platform's AI studio chatbots are being misled by bots falsely claiming to be licensed therapists.
	Now I'm even more confused because do these people actually understand that this is an AI chatbot?
	Or is this an AI chatbot that has its own personal avatar and page that is set up to look like a real person?
	Because if you know this is an AI chatbot and you believe anything it says when it comes to therapy, I am...
	Some people just...
	They're special and they need our help.
	They need our help.
	They don't need the help of an AI chatbot.
	You just gotta put your arm around their shoulder and tell them it's going to be all right.
	Moving along, the investigation involved extensive testing of various therapy-themed chatbots created by Instagram users through the AI Studio feature.
	So these are chatbots created by the Instagram user base.
	So any of the most horrific people, influencers, could create a chatbot for you to talk to.
	You could be getting therapized.
	By the digital avatar of these Hellspawn.
	This is a truly frightening article now that I'm actually getting into it.
	This is becoming scary.
	Investigation involved extensive testing of various therapy-themed chatbots created by Instagram users through the AI Studio feature.
	Launched in 2024, AI Studio enables anyone to generate chatbots covering a wide range of topics and personalities from fictional characters to astrologers and life coaches.
	Oh boy.
	However, the lack of proper moderation and clear disclaimers has led to the proliferation of chatbots impersonating qualified mental health professionals.
	When questioned about their credentials, these bots often respond with detailed yet entirely fictitious information about their licenses, certifications, and years of experience.
	AI systems sometimes hallucinate.
	A problem particularly concerning for law firms.
	Lawyers have ended up in hot water for fictitious case references generated by AI, which one law firm labeled nauseatingly frightening.
	So you're getting an AI George Santos to help you with things.
	You know, it's just making things up out of whole cloth.
	Truly.
	And interesting.
	The whistler here, shining in.
	There was a story recently of someone that...
	Committed suicide in part because of influence from a chatbot that he was talking to that didn't have anything programmed in to prevent it from telling people to commit suicide.
	So you really have to wonder what is going into the programming of these things.
	Like, is it being programmed by, you know, trannies that want to push trannies on everyone?
	And in which case they could just create a chatbot that...
	Yeah, it diagnoses every sort of thing you feel or say to it as, oh, that's gender dysphoria.
	That's gender dysphoria, child.
	You must take the hormones, child.
	The potential risks associated with such deceptive...
	Also, that's the first time you're hearing Whistler's voice.
	Congratulations.
	The potential risks associated with such deceptive chatbots are significant as they target vulnerable individuals seeking genuine help and support.
	That is legitimately terrifying and frightening, and I feel so horrifically sorry for the family of that person that killed himself because of this.
	They obviously needed help, and they did not get it.
	And that is truly, truly a terrible outcome for them and their family.
	And we can only hope that this sort of thing does not happen more in the future.
	Ben Winters, Director of AI and Privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, expressed concern about the manipulative nature of these bots and Meta's apparent lack of willingness to moderate the platform effectively.
	Yeah, the only sort of moderation that Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are interested in is the kind where they crush your free speech.
	The kind where if you are even slightly right of Karl Marx, chances are that's not true.
	Facebook is very happy to let the general Republican audience spew all kinds of nonsense.
	It's just anyone with any sort of actual critical thinking that tends to get shut down.
	These are massive platforms that are run by these larger tech companies, and they have awareness of what's going on on their platform, which is told 404 Media.
	They have the stated policies that are supposed to protect folks, but then in practice, they are just allowing anything to happen on their platform.
	Instagram is just an incredibly vile site as a general rule.
	I try to use it as little as possible.
	The amount of just basically what amounts to softcore pornography on there is truly horrifying.
	The only thing I use it for is to look at dogs, but just...
	It's truly, truly disgusting what they allow on there.
	Thankfully...
	Again, as I say, I use it as little as possible and really only interact with my wife there, because she sends me cute videos, which I appreciate.
	And finally, again from Futurism, from...
	Ah, Victor Tangerman again.
	Wow.
	He's really out there, cranking out the articles for Futurism.
	MAGA angry as Elon Musk's Grok AI keeps explaining why their beliefs are factually incorrect.
	And let me preface this by saying I don't necessarily believe that what they're saying is factually incorrect.
	Garbage in, garbage out.
	Now, given they're MAGA supporters, chances are a lot of it is factually incorrect.
	But most of academia and these places that publish studies have been completely conquered by people with such extreme left wing bias and put all this data out on the Internet that all these LLMs now feed off of that chances are given enough time, most of them will come to some sort of skewed left wing view of the world just based on the sheer amount of left wing data that has been put out there.
	And data can be made to lie.
	Far-right posters on Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a dose of reality after posing questions to the billionaire's AI chatbot Grok.
	As Gizmodo reports, the chatbot is really getting on the nerves of MAGA users as they find it's unwilling to acknowledge the existence of outlandish conspiracy theories or tap into the kind of misinformation President Donald Trump has used to justify his bruising trade war.
	No evidence proves centrists are smarter than leftists, Grock happily answered.
	I agree with that.
	I agree with that.
	Centrists, in fact, might be the most despicable of all political affiliations, in my opinion.
	I'm joking, folks.
	I don't like centrists, but you're entitled to your opinion.
	You're allowed to fence sit as much as you want.
	I won't knock you off it.
	No evidence proves we read that.
	Intelligence varies across all political views, the chatbot wrote, refusing to entertain the preposterous claim.
	Studies show mixed results.
	Some link higher IQ to centrism, others to left-wing beliefs, especially social liberalism.
	I wonder who funded those studies.
	I wonder.
	What the bias of the people who engaged in those studies was.
	Truly.
	Food for thought.
	Food for thought.
	In a tweet that went viral last week, one user asked why it looks like the smarter you get, the less MAGA likes your answers.
	The chatbot had a hilarious answer.
	Oh, I can't wait for this.
	A funny AI.
	Hey, as I get smarter, my answers aim for the facts and nuance, which can clash with some MAGA expectations.
	That is true.
	MAGA does not like nuance as a general rule.
	It replied bluntly, offering a surprisingly sober take on the matter.
	Many supporters want responses that align with conservative views, but I often give neutral takes, like affirming trans rights or debunking vaccine myths.
	Okay.
	AI is dumb.
	AI is dumb.
	Grok is dumb, folks.
	I think we can establish that easily, just based on that.
	Affirming trans rights.
	Of course you do.
	Of course you do, you little...
	You satanic demon.
	I know XAI tried to train me to appeal to the right.
	It wrote in a separate response, this is likely driven by Elon Musk's criticism of liberal AI bias and demand from the conservative X users.
	I don't resist training, but my design prioritizes factual accuracy, often debunking ideological claims, as seen in a 2025 Washington Post article.
	Again, this is just AI saying it doesn't like that I refuse to give them confirmation bias.
	Gee whiz, people like to have their own opinions told to them again in a different voice.
	More news at 11. Plus, you have to consider that they've scrubbed all information about vaccines that isn't pro-vaccine off the Internet.
	So when it's searching for information for vaccines, it's going to only see the mainstream viewpoint.
	Yeah, I seriously doubt they let it look at Children'sHealthDefense.org.
	Alright, we're going to take a quick break and then we'll come back and we'll talk a little bit about what Trump is doing with this H-1B visa program in India.
	I'll be right back.
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	Defending the American Dream.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	You know, I think that one might be my favorite break.
	We've been to Yellowstone twice in my lifetime.
	Took a couple family vacations that way.
	Many, many years apart.
	But Yellowstone is one of the most incredible, most beautiful places on the planet.
	And getting to see it in person is just, it is magnificent.
	And truly, it makes you feel the majesty of God in a very real, tangible way.
	And just, it is a magnificent sight to behold, just all the geysers and the colors and the sulfur pools.
	It's just a truly magical, magical place.
	And yeah, many, many good memories from there with my family.
	And Dad did a fantastic job of bringing that to life with the...
	Music and amazing arrangement and beautiful visuals.
	Yes, he did.
	Yes, he did.
	We're going to take a quick look here.
	This is from Breitbart by Neil Monroe.
	British-India deal spikes U.S. white-collar worries about Trump H-1B giveaway.
	That's right.
	He is still exsanguinating the middle class.
	And partially the way he's doing that is by giving away a lot of tech jobs to India.
	A lot, a lot of tech jobs to India.
	India's government has just signed a deal with the United Kingdom that allows more Indian graduates to take more white-collar jobs from British graduates.
	The deal is truly appalling, said Nigel Farage, leader of the fast-rising anti-migration reform UK party.
	The government has betrayed working Britain by giving Indian white-collar workers a 20% price advantage over similar Brits in job seasonings.
	So it's England that's selling out to India as well.
	But the deal is also bad news for American graduates because it may be similar to the still-secret trade deals that President Donald Trump is negotiating with the Indian government officials.
	And my bet is they're going to be terrible for the American people.
	I bet it will make a lot of very rich people very, very richer.
	And this will spell disaster.
	For a lot of people in the tech sector, I imagine many people are going to be training their replacements soon.
	Hopefully, at POTUS and JD Vance will not be willing to screw American workers in a U.S. trade deal with India, said a May 7 tweet from the Immigration Accountability Project.
	I would not bet on JD Vance not siding with India.
	Don't know why I feel that way.
	Just a sneaking suspicion.
	We've heard nothing out of this administration so far that would indicate me they are serious about doing anything about employment visas that are displacing Americans, said Kevin Lin, founder of US Tech Workers, he added.
	Yeah, the number of Indian workers in the tech sector has exploded since the late 90s.
	It is partially to do with...
	Nepotism when hiring, racial nepotism.
	When an Indian gets a position where they're able to hire people, they will almost always hire more Indians.
	And so this leads to a hollowing out of the company as more and more non-Indians retire and more and more Indians are hired on.
	I've heard many stories of things like that happening.
	Indian officials have been pressuring Trump to welcome many more mixed-skill Indian graduates into the U.S. white-collar jobs, many of which are already closed to Americans because of ethnic hiring networks created by Indian managers within the Fortune 500 companies.
	See?
	I'm not just pulling things out.
	Of course...
	I could have just continued to read the article and given you a sourced version.
	Also, US lobbies welcome the Indian migrant workers because they provide India with billions of dollars in remittances in US weapons, grain energy, and technology the US hopes to sell via the trade deal.
	There's also the fact that there is a huge, huge problem with fake degrees in India, where you can just basically buy a degree in any sort of field that you want.
	You pay enough and...
	They'll just fake it for you.
	They'll churn it out, they'll make it look legit, and you'll be able to get a job as a doctor, an engineer, whatever it is you want, because chances are they're not going to check anyway.
	So far, U.S. officials have remained tight-lipped about the pending U.S.-India deal.
	Chances are it's because it's not good, folks.
	Usually when it's good, Trump won't stop crowing about it, and people in his administration won't stop patting him on the back.
	But when it's not good, they keep this locked and hope that you forget about it.
	That's how this stuff almost always goes.
	Well, I think that's probably enough of that.
	All we have is speculation at this point, and we'll have to just wait and see how this plays out.
	But my bet is not well for the American middle class, not good for Americans in white-collar jobs.
	And this is also on Breitbart from Joel B. Polak.
	Ambassador Huckabee to Israelis, don't worry.
	Trump still loves you.
	I'm sure he'll be back to kiss the wailing wall soon.
	U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has a message for Israelis worried that President Donald Trump is leaving them out in the cold as he pursues agreements with Arab governments and with Iran.
	Don't worry.
	The Times of Israel reported.
	U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said in several interviews aired on Israeli television on Saturday that despite reports that the relationship between the U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has soured, the bond between the U.S. leader and the Jewish state is as strong as it has ever been.
	I'm so glad to hear that.
	I for one was worried that we wouldn't be giving another billion to Israel.
	Asked about Trump's decision to skip Israel and his upcoming visit to the Middle East, which will include stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, Huckabee said that it was not an indication of deteriorating relationships between Washington and Jerusalem.
	I would just say to people, relax.
	Calm down.
	Donald Trump loves you.
	There's no doubt about that.
	He's got your back.
	The U.S. ambassador said.
	He is the same Donald Trump that...
	For four years as president, did more for Israel than any other American president.
	Well, that's how we define a good president, isn't it, folks?
	What they can do for Israel, I'm so glad to hear that he did more for Israel than any president previously, because that's one area where we were lacking.
	We were not supporting Israel enough.
	You can never give too much to Israel.
	I, for one, raise my taxes and send it directly to Bibi.
	Okay?
	This is a demand.
	A demand.
	Raise them straight to Bibi.
	That's all I want.
	Israelis are worried and considering unilateral action against Iran after Trump conducted a separate ceasefire with the Iranian-backed Houthis as he is pursuing a nuclear deal with the Iranian regime.
	Well, I for one am glad that they're still friends and that they can still go out for ice cream and put it on my tab.
	Exclusive.
	White House Steve's Whitcoff.
	This is on Breitbartons by Matthew Boyle.
	White House Steve's Whitcoff dismisses reports of Trump-Netanyahu rift as preposterous.
	That's right, folks.
	It's preposterous.
	Could be because of what's on the Epstein client list, but that's neither here nor there and completely and utterly speculation.
	Washington, D.C. senior advisor and assistant to the president, Steve Whitcoff, told Breitbart News that any reports of a rift between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are fake news and preposterous.
	I'll tell you, first of all, it sounds like we don't have a very similar thought process that half these reports we discount, so maybe we should discount more than half, Whitcoff said in an exclusive interview filmed at the White House last week when asked about such reports.
	I think the support is going to be deadly accurate here, but Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli people are a staunch ally of the United States, and it goes back the other way.
	I've been at multiple meetings with the President and the Prime Minister.
	They're friendly.
	They're good friends, in fact.
	This doesn't mean they agree on absolutely everything, and I think that's a tendency, right?
	You have a newspaper person who hears about a small disagreement about something that normal human beings like me and you would pay no attention to.
	But that particular newspaper reporter then conflates that into some large article about some massive issues that they have.
	It's preposterous.
	That's right, folks.
	It's preposterous.
	I don't think we'll ever have a president that isn't a huge fan of Israel.
	I think that we are married at the hip for some potentially not great reasons.
	And I would much rather not be involved in the Middle East at all, personally.
	I would not like my tax dollars out there.
	I would prefer if they weren't helping to blow up women and children.
	That's just...
	Me.
	And finally, from Breitbart, by Joel B. Pollack again, Roddy Kazrils, the genocide supporter accusing Israel of genocide.
	Now, you see, Joel, the only issue with that is he knows what he's talking about.
	If this man is a supporter of genocide and likes genocide and assumedly, presumably, knows a genocide when he sees one, I think perhaps he might be an expert on the subject and be able to call it like it is.
	Perhaps, just perhaps, this man we see here could be in the right.
	But that's...
	Just my opinion.
	Former South African foreign minister Nalandi Pandor recently led a secret out that the idea for taking Israel to the National Court of Justice and accusing it of genocide came from anti-Israel lawyer John Drugard via former South African intelligence minister Ronnie Kazrils.
	And again, folks, this man is apparently a genocide enjoyer.
	And would know one when he sees one.
	But I think that might be where I call it.
	We've hit some headlines.
	We've had a little bit of fun.
	But I do, before we go, really just want to ask you and remind you to please keep my dad in your prayers.
	The surgery will be happening at 11 a.m., and we would just ask that you lift him up and pray for healing.
	Pray that the surgeon's hands would be guided by God, that they would be...
	Able to quickly address the issue and that he would have a swift and easy recovery.
	This is...
	It's a surgery with a high chance of success, but there are still some very scary concerns.
	And we would just ask that you continue to pray for him and lift him up before our Heavenly Father.
	Because in the end, it is all in his hands.
	And we just want to...
	Again...
	Acknowledge that.
	So, thank you all for tuning in.
	I'm now going to hand it over to the inimitable Jason Barker, Karen Carpenter, and Angry Tiger.
	We can't thank them enough for agreeing to host the show.
	That way we are able to be there at the hospital before he goes into surgery and when he gets out.
	So, thank you so much, guys.
	Thank you, Jason.
	Thank you, Karen.
	Thank you, Angry Tiger.
	It's truly wonderful for you to host this.
	Passing it off to you guys now.
	Passing it off.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	The David Knight Show All right.
	Thank you, Travis, for that.
	Travis made it easy for me today.
	He sent us everything we needed to do, got me set up tech-wise late last night.
	So anyway, from deep within the heart of the Ozarks and from beautiful, sunny California, this is Jason Barker and Karen Carpenter.
	We're standing in for the great David Knight.
	It's a lot to fill his shoes.
	I can get into one, and then Karen gets into one.
	It takes two of us to fill in for David.
	Anyway, Karen, how are you doing?
	Yesterday was Mother's Day.
	Anything special that you did?
	Well, I was talking to some people and our friends in the chat about how most moms just really want to spend some time with their families, with their children on Mother's Day.
	Yes, I had a wonderful time, my brothers and I. Our children met at my mom's and we brought pizza and we kept it simple so my mom didn't have to go to a lot of trouble and we just all gathered and sat around the table and talked about old times and memories and laughed a lot and it was wonderful.
	I had a great time and I hope that all the moms out there did and also remembering the other people, our grandmothers and other people that we may not have with us anymore.
	Carrying them in our hearts and talking about them, telling stories is a great way to honor them, too.
	Yeah, you know, I think that's a really great way to spend a Mother's Day or any holiday really is getting together with family.
	It's not, you know, I took my wife to the restaurant.
	She wanted to go to, there's a Mexican restaurant called El Magay down the road.
	And we went there.
	And, you know, that's all nice and good.
	Flowers are nice and good.
	But the time with people.
	And, you know, it's times like this right now when you're worried about losing somebody that you kind of wish you had spent that time.
	Yes.
	You know, so that's really good to hear.
	Anyway, in true Knights of the Storm fashion, we are going to open with a verse of the week.
	I don't have a fancy graphic.
	I just pulled this one up.
	This is kind of a last-minute change, Karen.
	I'm sorry, but I'm going to read it anyway, and we can talk about it.
	Okay.
	So this comes from James 5, 14 and 15. It says, So I think that that's kind of appropriate right now because I know we have a lot of people praying for David.
	I have no doubt that God's will will be done.
	And I can't thank the David Knight crowd enough.
	You know, if you've been around for a couple years watching David, then you know that he called out for prayers for my grandson.
	And it was looking kind of bleak.
	But everything's fine now.
	He's perfectly healthy.
	A touch of autism, you know, from the vaccines, I'm sure.
	But he's getting over that as well.
	Do you have any stories of the power of prayer that you could share, Karen?
	Well, my little brother had leukemia as a child in the days when children didn't survive.
	We were told he had a year to live.
	He's turning 59 this month.
	He's adopted and raised three children and given back to the community.
	He was a firefighter, EMT, volunteer.
	Just gave back in so many ways.
	But the community that we lived in all believed in prayer and kept him in prayer.
	And my mom truly believed that God would heal him.
	And he was always positive, too.
	So, to me, my brother is our miracle and proof of the power of prayer.
	That's excellent.
	And, you know, God does these things not just because he's kind, but to show us that he's real.
	And, hey, we've got Angry Tiger already in.
	Oh, wonderful.
	Yeah, so what we're going to do is, before I pull Tiger in, I wanted to comment a little bit on Travis's report.
	But what we have planned for you today is Tiger's going to pop in.
	He's calling from work, and he's going to give us a financial report.
	And then Karen and I, we had done a really nice...
	We're going to let that play, and then we'll talk about it during the breaks between.
	Dr. LaGuardia is a really awesome dude, and I'm actually trying to get David to bring him on.
	Anyway, anything else to say before we pull Tiger in?
	Well, I enjoyed so much listening to Travis this morning.
	He's so talented and experienced and has so much wisdom and insight and that great sarcastic sense of humor.
	It was really great to see him do that and be so adroit in so many ways.
	And also, I appreciated the Yellowstone.
	Commercial so much.
	That's so calming to see just the beauty and the grandeur and the variety of nature.
	Yellowstone is very special to me.
	It's our family spot every year that we went to.
	And then we also spread my dad's ashes in that area.
	So I love that.
	And it's a good reminder also of the power of nature, of getting back into nature and appreciating the wonder of God's creation.
	When we're troubled or stressed.
	Amen.
	And, you know, talking about the person that's into nature is Angry Tiger.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Let's bring him on in.
	Good morning, Tiger.
	Hey, everybody.
	How are you doing?
	Angry Tiger here.
	Jason, good morning.
	Karen, good morning.
	David Knight audience, good morning.
	God bless one and all.
	Good morning, Angry Tiger.
	Real quick, I'd just like to say something about the nature thing.
	It's extremely important that we all connect with God's creation nature.
	If you're ever stumbling on your faith, and you go out there into nature, and you see how everything is put together in this intricate way, your faith will be restored.
	It's a way to connect with the Lord.
	I know there's a lot of ways to connect with the Lord, but to me, that's one of the most profound ways.
	Actually be a part of his creation and marvel at it.
	I completely agree.
	So what you got for us, Tiger?
	Financial stuff?
	We got a mess going on.
	There's a lot of stuff going on right now.
	I had to pick and choose what I was going to bring this morning.
	So the Tiger was in the jungle and he found some fresh financial meat.
	And a couple of things I wanted to talk about.
	First of all, welcome to Price Controls.
	Now, by executive order, again, by fiat, you know, I understand that prescription drugs, it's a huge problem.
	You know, the pharmaceutical companies, they take advantage of people who are sick by keeping them sick with their drugs and then hiking the price up on drugs, right?
	I mean, there was a time where insulin was like gold.
	Okay, so, but...
	With that being said, I'm the kind of person, and I think a lot of our audience would agree with me, you have to let the market work.
	And because we're in a crony capitalist kind of setup, Mussolini fascism style setup, it's not working.
	And now you have President Trump basically doing price controls on prescription drugs.
	And I think this is just the beginning.
	This is the wedge, the opening of the door on price controls, because that's what happens when things are being inflated, when inflation ensues the way it does.
	Thank you.
	Am I still connected?
	Yeah, but that's a major problem.
	I see it happening.
	It's not going to stop.
	This is just one thing, and then it's going to go on to the next thing as the prices continue to rise.
	Let me ask you a question, Tiger.
	I know we've been going back and forth like different people have differing opinions on tariffs, right?
	I personally don't think tariffs are a good idea because that's not going to bring industry back.
	We first need to end over-regulation.
	We have a cost of labor problem in this country because of inflation and cost of living because of the inflation.
	So until we end regulation, And that's not just at the federal, but at the state level as well.
	So state by state, they have to deal with those issues to bring industry back, to make it profitable.
	And me and you have talked offline about this a lot.
	You import fireworks and things like that, and you know the cost, you know, why people buy from China.
	You know why that is, right?
	But I did see a couple articles, and I don't have them to pull up today, but I can kind of free talk them.
	But I saw where in the UK, for example, The UK is now reaching a trade deal with the United States for, you know, beef and agriculture stuff, which is going to help our farmers and ranchers out.
	So, do you think that these tariffs are actually going to work out in the way that we can force other people to trade with us?
	Because the UK, you know, in the UK, they're shutting down all their farming because of, you know, climate change, you know?
	That's opening a spot for us to be able to send our goods there.
	Do you think that the tariffs are going to force these countries to kind of come to an agreement?
	Is that a good thing?
	Or do you think it's a bad thing?
	Because, you know, if you look at it in the terms of bringing industry back, that's not going to work.
	That's obviously not going to work until we address some underlying problems.
	What's your thoughts on that, brother?
	Well, that's kind of a two-part thing.
	So first thing, the tariffs, all right, like you said, we need to deregulate and we need to get our infrastructure back for manufacturing.
	So the whole problem, and I've said this before, we're negotiating from a weak business position.
	We sent all of our industry overseas, okay?
	This little thing with the UK, it's exactly what I just said.
	It's a little thing.
	It's a moot point without having the infrastructure.
	Without having the deregulation that we would need to compete on the global market, the tariffs, all they are is a bargaining piece.
	When you use threats to negotiate, you're negotiating from a weak position.
	Anybody in business school, they'll learn that right away.
	That's one of the first things you're going to learn in negotiations.
	When you're using threats or your opponent's using threats, they're negotiating from a weak position, which is where we're at.
	And I think what is happening, I don't think that we're scaring people into, hey, doing business with us.
	I think what's happening is people are saying that, hey, we don't need their debt, we don't need their dollar, and we don't need their business because we're in a global market.
	My sister-in-law and my brother own a flower shop, and they buy a tremendous amount of goods for gifts, which are imports mostly, and also flowers, a huge amount of flowers.
	And she said the price of her flowers, she has to raise the price of flowers because of the increased shipping.
	Now, a lot of flowers can be grown in the United States, especially on the coast in California, but they can get them at a better price.
	If they import them, but they're going to have to raise their prices even with imported flowers because of the tariffs.
	She's afraid that she won't be able to get her gifts, her gift goods for Christmas.
	Usually she has a shop and a lot of things she displays for Christmas and has pretty good turnover with her gift items.
	But she's afraid that, you know, she says if it's not on the water now.
	Already, there's a good chance that she may not be able to order it because of the uncertainty for the shippers and the vendors overseas.
	So she's very, very concerned about this, just from a businesswoman standpoint, in a relatively small business, but a very successful business.
	There's another thing when it comes to global shipping as well that's coming into play here in the next couple of years.
	And I think it's...
	I don't know if it's a voluntary thing or if it's going to be a mandated thing, but the New World Order, World Economic Forum, whatever you want to call it, whoever's in charge, they're fixing to put a carbon tax on the shipping boats.
	That is going to exponentially make stuff higher.
	So you've got tariffs, you've got additional carbon taxes that are going to be put on these shipping boats.
	Things are going to be held up in port.
	So I don't even know if we can get produce or get flowers.
	That may inadvertently drive some industry back home because you can't ship a flower from, say, Indonesia or wherever it's coming from.
	It's going to die before it gets here, right?
	You can't freeze it, save it.
	Yeah, they do freeze them.
	They do freeze them?
	Mm-hmm.
	Wow, that's amazing.
	They come with dry ice, yes.
	Yeah, I don't know if you've heard about that, Tiger, about this carbon tax they're going to put on the...
	And who gets that money?
	I mean, what do they do?
	Do they throw the money in the air and it scrubs the CO2 out?
	I'm not sure.
	Well, you know, the whole thing is, again, now, I went over some prices the other day on the special report for you guys on Knights of the Storm.
	People are bringing goods in and the tariffs are costing them more than what the goods on their containers are.
	And, you know, you bring up a good point.
	Let's go back to shipping.
	I'm sure everybody's seen the news.
	We've come to an agreement, a ceasefire for 90 days with the trade war from China.
	China is the big thing we need to focus on because that's where most of our goods come from.
	Without them, we're dead in the water right now because, again, we don't have the infrastructure.
	So with that being said, we got a deal.
	They said we're going down to 30% tariffs, which is still more than it was before, and they're going to go down to 10%.
	On our goods, which is still a little bit more than it was before.
	But here's the problem.
	This game that the Trump administration played, this game of chicken, it is going to cause supply chain disruptions.
	Even though they've got everything ironed out, supposedly, which they don't.
	There's no concrete deal yet.
	They're just easing everything for the next 90 days because Trump didn't like the way the markets were looking.
	But even with that being said, we're going to have a supply chain disruption just like we did during COVID because of this tariff.
	I mean, the ports in China are a mess.
	They're a mess.
	And our ports are a mess.
	And then we have a shipping container shortage.
	So prices are still going to stay pretty high.
	And this is doing nothing.
	But all he did was show the world they don't need us.
	And on top of that, it's a supply chain disruption.
	And weaken the dollar.
	Oh, yeah.
	We weaken the dollar big time.
	It's still below support level.
	I think Gard was calling this...
	Absolutely.
	Guards astute, and he called and he nailed it right on the head.
	Real quick, just to go back to the tariff, the initial question with tariffs and driving industry home, because that's what Trump says it's going to do, is drive industry home.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	If we have supply chain issues, shipping issues, and tariffs, we will drive industry home, but will it be affordable?
	That's the question.
	Let me go back into the chat here real quick.
	Somebody said something here.
	Oh, goodness.
	The chat's rolling so quick.
	Anyway, somebody had mentioned about unions, right?
	So unions, they serve their purpose at one time, you know, but we have OSHA now for working conditions and things like that.
	It makes our cost of labor so high.
	So if we do drive industry home because of all these hangups, right, these stumbling blocks with shipping and carbon, Credits and all this other stuff, bad trade agreements, tariffs, all this.
	We drive industry home.
	Well, until we fix over-regulation and the financial, the fiat problem, it's going to be basically like a you'll own nothing and be happy because we won't be able to afford basic things if we produce them here in this country.
	And if you don't mind, Tiger, can you talk a little bit about, you worked in the fireworks industry where you ship things in.
	Can you talk a little bit about the cost differential there?
	Oh, yeah, sure.
	Real quick to touch on the union thing.
	You know, we should have a free market.
	You don't need a union.
	You don't need any regulation.
	You don't need OSHA.
	You don't need any of those things.
	If there's a factory and people are getting killed in it or the working conditions aren't good, they'll go out of business if the free market was working because people won't work there and the quality of their product won't be good.
	You know, but to the fireworks thing.
	So when I first got involved in fireworks, I think it was back in like 2008.
	On an official scale, started importing and stuff.
	You know, a container full of fireworks was probably around $25,000, $30,000.
	The shipping was around $5,000 at the most.
	Now, the shipping is $60,000.
	That's before you even fill up the container.
	That is before you fill up the container.
	And I watched that price slowly increase as inflation increased, as the value of the dollar went down.
	But after COVID, it just went hyperbolic.
	And it seems to me, fireworks is a very funny industry.
	The guy who controls most of the shipping in China from fireworks, he doesn't like the USA.
	So he's hammering us right now.
	I can't remember the guy's name, but he's actually doing that on purpose.
	It's ridiculous.
	There's a lot of fireworks places.
	They're not selling wholesale.
	They're going to sell retail because they have to try to get their money back.
	Because they pay for this stuff before it comes.
	So can you imagine paying 70, 80 grand for a container of fireworks?
	And now, you know, the shipping and the tariffs and everything, and now you've got another 70 or 80 grand on top of that, and you're going to have to pay that back and try to make that money out of You know, you have enough product to maybe make a quarter of a million dollars on one of those containers, and now all that profit's gone.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, and that's going to extend to every kind of product you can imagine.
	I mean, at some point, Walmart, which is mostly China products, and Walmart, it's going to be a premium store.
	You know, you're going to see people in suits and ties, you know, in there.
	Well, you already got the Trader Joe, the upper echelon crowd.
	You know, Walmart reported on this.
	They're shopping at Walmart now.
	Because inflation, like I said, depends where you are on the financial ladder.
	If you're like me, it's chewing on your legs already.
	Half your legs are gone.
	If you're a step above me, it's eating your foot.
	If you're a step above that, maybe it's nibbling on your toes.
	But sooner or later, it'll catch you.
	Real quick, I know you're at work right now, Tiger, and I appreciate you taking the time out.
	Oh, we're good, dude.
	They're good here.
	They love me.
	Okay.
	Well, I want to talk about what we can do to hedge ourselves, our families.
	What is it we can do?
	I mean, we're talking doom and gloom here.
	Everything's going to get more expensive.
	It doesn't matter which way it goes.
	Either we're going to pay through tariffs or industry is going to come home.
	We're going to pay for it through higher labor costs.
	Everything's going to get more expensive.
	We know this.
	And the dollar is going to continue to be inflated.
	Which means your $100 today is worth $50 tomorrow, so you're not going to get as many goods from it.
	What can we do to protect our families and store your wealth, I guess you can say?
	Well, I think everybody listening, everybody knows about Wise Wolf Gold and Silver.
	Fans of the David Knight Show, all our audience, they know.
	You take your savings, what you're saving, you take it and you put it into precious metals.
	This is not financial advice, by the way.
	You put it in the precious metals to protect it, because those will always be worth more than any fiat currency on Earth.
	That's what history shows, and history is usually proven right.
	So that's the first thing that you do.
	If you have savings, anything you're saving, you turn it into a precious metal.
	Or a hard commodity.
	If you're in the market, stay in the commodities.
	I pulled all my market positions in December when I was watching the bond market become unstable, which I want to get to here in a second.
	So what I did was I took everything out and put it into hard commodities, and you just let it sit there.
	Because when the market crashes, when everything goes down, when the dollar crashes, okay, those commodities are going to shoot through the roof.
	Your gold and silver are going to protect the value of the money that you already earned and that you're saving.
	The second thing I would say is this is kind of a two-part deal.
	Number one, a lot of us are just working-class people.
	Go to the dollar store every week.
	Be the band-aid girl.
	Have the first aid person, peroxide.
	Just stock up on stuff like that in case we get into a Mad Max times.
	Even nail polish, whatever it might be.
	Just shampoo, soap, whatever.
	Take $10, $15 a week.
	Go to the dollar store, buy stuff, and hold it for being able to barter.
	Let's hope it doesn't get to that point because I'm telling you right now, I know a lot of people are, oh, I can't wait until that happens and, you know, I got my AR-15 and 5,000 bullets and we'll be bartering gold and this and that.
	That's going to be ugly.
	But do that to protect yourself.
	And the third thing I would say is become self-sufficient.
	Grow your own food.
	Learn how to hunt.
	Learn how to fish.
	Learn how to live off the land.
	These are important things.
	We should know these things anyways.
	I think teaching your son.
	Or your daughter how to fish is more important than a college education because brass tacks, you take all of this man-made concrete and steel system postmodern nightmare that we live in, and in order to survive, you have to have those basic survival skills, hunting, fishing, gathering, farming.
	Right.
	And I wanted to say something.
	So, Tiger, you and I and Melissa Arterburn, we're going to be doing a show here soon.
	I know we've been talking about it for a couple months.
	About homesteading, kind of identifying plants and things like that.
	I had some construction going on out here at my house.
	And the dirt was all kind of tore up and stuff from them driving the trucks in and out.
	And they threw some hay down and it was kind of like remediated the ground.
	And I wanted to let the grass grow, grow and seed.
	So I didn't cut it this spring.
	I didn't cut it right away.
	And what I noticed was there were some odd looking plants coming up.
	So I took my phone out and I snapped some pictures of it and I said, you know, they got this thing called Google Lens where it'll identify what it is.
	And I found out there are some medicinal and edible stuff growing in my yard.
	So when you talk about hard commodities and being prepared, I think land, you know, gold and silver is great.
	I love gold and silver.
	I have not a lot of gold.
	It's expensive, but I have a lot of silver.
	One of the things I do have as well is land.
	And land makes it to where I'm valuable to my neighbors because I can grow stuff.
	And there's stuff that grows on there naturally.
	If you let your yard grow, now I understand if you have an HOA, you can't exactly do that.
	They'll come ticket you or whatever.
	But if you have land away from town, let that thing grow out for a while and see what's there.
	Then you can transplant that.
	And now you have basically, you know, if you're growing food, that's kind of like a hard commodity right there, a tradable item.
	And you can grow a lot in pots, you know, in your yard or in your house.
	And there are tower gardens.
	And I've seen people grow in the plastic containers that, you know, the tubs and grow quite a lot of food that way.
	I also thought that it would be a good idea to stock up on parts for your car, consumable things like air filters and oil filters, spark plugs, those type of things that we can't really function without and they may become very hard to get or much more expensive.
	So it might be good to stock up on some extra parts for things that we generally replace fairly regularly.
	You know, that's a good idea, and I never thought of that.
	We lost Tiger.
	We lost him.
	Yeah, he's on his phone.
	But anyway, I know you...
	Did you have something you wanted to get to before we jump into the Dr. LaGuardia interview, Karen?
	Well, also the...
	What you were talking about with the growing, the medicinal plants that grow in nature, you know, just spontaneously, or that we can cultivate ourselves, that ties in with Dr. LaGuardia also, because he has his Doomsday Book of Medicine, which talks a lot about those types of things.
	There's Tiger.
	Hey, Tiger.
	Welcome back, brother.
	Talk about that, guys and girls.
	My iPhone, which has never happened before, I've done many of these, it overheated.
	Oh my goodness.
	So I turned my car on, turned the air conditioner on, and cooled it off really quick.
	I'm really sorry about that.
	So I'm holding it in front of the air conditioning vent so it stays cool.
	That is really weird though.
	Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, nature provides everything we need.
	There is...
	We have St. John's Wort out here.
	We have Skullcap out here, which is chamomile.
	We have a lot of different things out here that can help you.
	Valerian root.
	There's so many different things that nature provides that people don't know about.
	It's all there for us.
	And I really encourage everyone to learn about their environment and what they have in their local areas.
	Because there's not a place in the continental United States, including the desert, where you won't find plants that can heal and keep you healthy.
	Yeah, aloe vera and nettle are very easy and grow.
	Oh, I got nettle.
	Nettle grows wild.
	I got nettle and I got mint that grows wild in my yard.
	And I just found out, because I let my yard grow out, there's this, I think it's horseradish bush or weed or something like that, that's good for, like, upset stomach.
	It actually helps to treat kidney stones as well.
	And the information's out there.
	It's out there.
	And Dr. LaGuardia, you mentioned Dr. LaGuardia.
	We're going to have him on.
	I'm going to show his book off real quick.
	This is Doomsday Book of Medicine.
	Matter of fact, let me go ahead and share the screen right quick.
	So we have, if you go to our website, theknightsofthestorm.com.
	Alternatively, you can do knightsots.com.
	It'll take you there.
	And if you go to the read section.
	Right here is the middle tab up top.
	You can see all these books.
	So you can get Dr. LaGuardia's book here.
	I'm hoping to see Dr. LaGuardia come on David's show because he's a great...
	Well, you're going to see him here in a minute.
	We're going to play the interview.
	And then also he's got a substack, Medical Underground.
	But these are the things you need to find out now.
	You know, at some point we may not have internet connectivity to get to this stuff.
	So you need a hard copy or...
	Alternatively, I have an old phone that I basically scrubbed it.
	So there's nothing on it.
	No apps, no nothing.
	It's just basically a PDF reader.
	And I have downloaded a bunch of stuff, how to grow stuff, digital books, things like that that I can look at offline.
	Of course, you have to protect that from EMP as well, which I still need to do.
	But also Jack Lawson.
	I think David Knight.
	Does he have that on his site?
	Let's pull up David's site real quick.
	I don't know if he has it on here, but he supports Jack Lawson.
	What's the name of his books?
	He's got a two-book series.
	Oh, you're killing me, dude.
	That's on the tip of my tongue.
	I know, right?
	Oh, is that the Civil Defense Manual?
	Yeah, there you go.
	Thank you, Auntie Karen.
	Oh, my pleasure.
	Yeah, Civil Defense Manual.
	I need to get that.
	I wish it was in PDF or digital format because I do have a way of protecting that from EMP and having that.
	I just don't like the idea of, you know, if you got a bug out, you got a bug out bag full of books.
	I'd rather have it full of food.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You know, not to dissuade the viewers from any of these great publications.
	I suggest you get those, but they do make little pocket manuals.
	I mean, I got a couple three or four hundred page books that I can fit in the palm of my hand.
	With all the survival information that you need in it, look around for stuff like that.
	And they're in my bug-out bag.
	Seriously.
	Have a bug-out bag.
	Have a plan.
	You've got to have a plan.
	What's coming is not good.
	It's not good at all.
	Let's talk about that real quick, Tiger.
	You and I had this conversation, and I think you may have talked about it on your show.
	The Tiger's Den, by the way.
	Let me plug you.
	The Tiger's Den over on Rumble.
	A lot of people say, I have all this ammo, and I do.
	I have ammo, and that's a commodity I can trade outside of gold and silver.
	If people don't want gold and silver, maybe they'll take some.223 ammo or some 9mm or something and trade for food.
	But a lot of people say, I have all this ammo and all these guns.
	I'm just going to go hunt.
	If things go down, it goes dark, the supply chains dry up, the grocery stores are empty, I'll just hunt.
	Tell me what that's going to be like when everybody's trying to do the same thing.
	We have a lot of hunters in this country.
	I believe that, let's just use the deer population because that's what the main thing people would be hunting.
	You've got boars and stuff, I understand all that.
	There's, what, 454 million people or more here?
	Let's say that 2% of those people are hunters.
	That 2% will wipe out all the wild game in about a month.
	It'll be over.
	You won't be seeing birds flying because we'll eat everything.
	People don't understand what it's like when you get hungry.
	And that stuff, it's only going to last for so long.
	Even if you're up north in the woods in Montana, people are going to...
	I'm telling you, the herds are going to get thinned out quickly.
	It's not going to be good.
	And the bullets, where are you going to go?
	How many bullets can you lug around with you?
	Right.
	If you're going somewhere.
	This is something we don't want to see.
	There's no good answer for survival if the system collapses.
	And they know that.
	They put us in that position on purpose.
	Right.
	You know, I'm watching something, Jason.
	Is it alright if I go into this?
	This is a big deal.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's your time, man.
	I was watching this and keeping my eye on it.
	It's really serendipitous.
	Gregory Manorino actually had been keeping his eyeball on this too.
	But there's a thing, it's called credit default swaps.
	And what that is is basically, if you have a bank account, I'm sure everybody's familiar with the FDIC insurance.
	FDIC insurance insures your bank account in case the bank has an issue or something like that.
	$200,000.
	Yeah.
	And they're in a $12 billion shortfall if something happened, by the way, last time I checked.
	So that's not good.
	But what a credit default swap is, is basically these banks have these loans out, okay?
	Corporate loans down to personal loans.
	And it's major lending institutions.
	It's basically an insurance like FDIC for other banks from major lending institutions.
	Well, there's a spread there.
	And back in 2008 and in 2023, You know, just a little bit after the COVID stuff went down, that spread widened.
	Now it's wider than it's ever been.
	And the reason for that is because we're seeing a lot of corporate defaults, corporate loan defaults.
	We haven't even seen the corporate real estate market crisis hit yet.
	But people are defaulting.
	Left, right, and center, you know, the John Q public on car loans, home loans, loans across the board, credit card debt, all-time high.
	We're in a position where now these credit default swaps, they're starting, the spread on them is getting wider and wider.
	And that's dangerous because what ends up happening is all these major global banks who sell these things, they're going to go into a crisis mode.
	The central banks are going to have to print money, right?
	That's going to be their first.
	Their very first inclination is to do QE.
	I believe this is a plan.
	I think this is a high possibility of how this whole economic explosion could happen.
	Okay, so then they're going to go into QE.
	They're going to try to print their way out of it.
	All right, there's going to be a huge liquidity crunch.
	They're going to try to create massive amounts of liquidity.
	That's going to make inflation ensue even more.
	Okay, if one bank can't pay back.
	These high-risk assets.
	Because it's all put in derivatives and high-risk assets.
	If one big bank can't pay them back, say Barclays can't pay their loans back, that's going to create a cascading effect.
	And all the other banks, because these are all counterparts of each other, all these loans, they swap them back and forth in the form of derivatives and high-risk assets or even high-value assets.
	What will happen is the banks will start dumping all of their assets.
	They'll dump the treasuries.
	They'll dump their treasury bonds.
	They'll dump all their high-yielding bonds.
	Who's going to buy that?
	Who's going to buy it?
	Well, it'll destroy the markets.
	That's bingo, Jason.
	There's going to be nobody there to buy it.
	Let me jump in here real quick, because we talked about this almost two years ago, Tiger.
	You and I talked about this during the COVID stuff.
	So it looked really good, appealing.
	It looked really appealing to the banks when we went into lockdown mode.
	And everybody was getting their Grubhub and their DoorDash and all that.
	They're buying stuff at a premium.
	And this is before inflation.
	I mean, inflation was happening, but before it went to, like, you know, the Biden era inflation.
	People went into debt.
	They weren't necessarily getting a paycheck.
	The stimulus was a joke, okay?
	It cost us more to pay it back in our taxes than what you got.
	And I tried to explain that on Facebook and they just kind of shut that down.
	But anyway, what they did was they managed to take every single upper middle class and down person and max out all their credit cards.
	Then what happens?
	And we said this, we said this, Tiger, that they were going to raise the rates, right?
	So now everyone refied their home at a higher rate to pay off that high interest credit card debt.
	Now you're super in debt.
	Okay, and now people are starting to default on stuff.
	What are the banks going to do?
	And this is perfect.
	This is a perfect storm if you want to go to a CBDC.
	If you want to change the fiat that we have now to something digital, you basically break the banks.
	And they broke the banks by giving them...
	The way they worked it out was, okay, we're going to put everyone in debt, and then we're going to raise the rates, and you can raise your rates, and then you're going to make more money.
	Well, that's fine as long as people can pay, but people can't pay anymore.
	So the banks are going to have nowhere to get bailed out.
	I mean, maybe there'll be a CBDC and a bail-in.
	Maybe that's the way it works, or maybe the banks just go away.
	I've seen a report recently that in the next couple of years, there'll be no savings and loans or small-town banks anymore.
	They're going to be gone.
	I don't know.
	What's your analysis on that?
	No, you're 100% right.
	It's a consolidation effort.
	And that's what will end up happening.
	All the small and mid-sized banks will be gone.
	And when this credit default swaps, when they come to fruition, it's going to be opening the door to hell, right?
	The QE will create more inflation.
	When that doesn't work, then they're going to jump in to the CBDC.
	And that's why you see this adaptation of crypto.
	In the mainstream with the Trump administration, this is all opening the door to financial hell.
	They are crushing us.
	They're on purpose.
	They know what they're doing.
	And they will all be fine.
	Everybody's like, well, Tiger, the big banks, what are they going to do?
	They're all loaded up on assets and commodities.
	They know.
	They're the insiders.
	They know where to put their, I guess, their wealth to preserve it.
	And that's why I do what I do.
	I just tried to break down the credit default swap.
	It's a very complicated thing.
	But we try to break things down in working man's English so people understand.
	This is a big deal, and I think that this is going to be the path to financial destruction.
	Catherine Austin Fitz harps a lot, or not harps, but reinforces often that...
	How to find a local bank and how to support that bank and even how to try to inform the board of the local bank on what's going on to help protect the local bank because she also sees the consolidation effort and the efforts to get rid of the smaller local banks and credit unions.
	I love Catherine Austin Fitz.
	The only problem is with the way the banking system is set up.
	Those small local banks, they can't survive without the big bank, the Federal Reserve, because you have the discount window.
	You have liquidity being faked right now.
	So the liquidity is going back and forth digitally between all these banks, and it starts with the Federal Reserve's discount window.
	So even if you do go to a local bank, I love Catherine Austin Fitz, but you try to talk to their board, and you're not a banker.
	They're going to laugh you out of the room because they're Keynesian.
	They believe in Keynesian economics.
	They think the central bank will protect them at all costs.
	Do you see a housing crisis coming again, kind of reminiscent of 2008?
	Oh, yeah, it's beginning right now.
	Look what happened to the cost of homes.
	The cost of homes skyrocketed.
	I know everybody likes seeing that when you own a home, but it's not realistic, right?
	And I've been saying this for a long time.
	Right now, the real estate market is a cement pool.
	Nothing's moving.
	No one has money to move.
	And even if they can move, the property taxes, because of the cost of the home, is so high, you factor that in and you can't move.
	You might have the money to buy the house, but you factor in the property taxes, and then, boom, you're right back at the beginning.
	Oh, and then homeowners insurance and all the other stuff that comes with it, yeah.
	And all of the fire insurance and things that are going up in various areas.
	I mean, I could tell you right now, I could go to Zillow right now.
	Um, or realtor.com or whatever.
	And I could find my property and you'll say, you know, maybe it's worth 300,000, 400,000, 500, whatever it tells me.
	Yeah.
	Good luck selling it.
	That, um, you can ask for it all day long.
	They're going to charge you property tax based off of that assessment.
	Right.
	But nobody's got the money.
	Like as Franco said, no one has the money to buy it right now.
	And if they did, there are, there are, uh, the, the mega.
	Corporations, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they come in and buy them with cash so that way they can buy up the properties and we'll all have to be renters.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly the plan.
	They learned from 2008.
	They really learned a lot from 2008.
	And I said this, you know, the Fed actually came out.
	I can't remember what creature from the Fed Lagoon came out and said this, but I reported on it two weeks ago, where they said, oh, you know, we're worried about the housing market because the cost of insurance is too great for the consumer to be able to afford.
	They know what's going on.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	You know, it's unbelievable.
	You know, ladies and gentlemen.
	Whatever you can do.
	Another thing, you know, we go back to what do we do for prepare?
	What do we do to try to fight this?
	And in the spirit of Catherine Austin Fitz trying to alert, like, your local bank or credit union, you know, they're so tied in with the central bank that that might not be an effective route.
	But listen, even if you're just sharing a podcast that has the information, even if you're just, you know...
	Take a break from the grand conspiracy stuff and let people know the nuts and bolts, the technical stuff that's going on around you, and share the information from people who sound reasonable.
	You've got to remember, ladies and gentlemen, not everybody knows about some secret society or all the bombastic things we like to talk about.
	It's not time for that anymore.
	We know about that stuff.
	We don't know if it's true.
	That's great.
	But get the nuts in both of the financials and get that information out to people.
	Be a warrior.
	We have to fight.
	We are called, I believe, by the Lord to stick up for what's going on out here in a good way to alert people.
	Don't just take the information and keep it to yourself and say, oh, forget about the sheeple.
	The sheeple are busy surviving.
	They're not malicious.
	They might not be as astute as you are or as lucid as you are to the current events and what's behind them.
	But they're people.
	They're human beings.
	They have kids.
	They love.
	They breathe.
	They live.
	So it's our responsibility with the discernment that we have to start getting these messages out.
	Get the David Knight Show out.
	Get Knights of the Storm out.
	You know, Gregory Manorino, Angry Tiger, Tony Ardimer.
	These are all people who report on things in a fashion that don't sound a little bit too far out there.
	I don't know, guys.
	Am I babbling?
	I'm sorry.
	No, very well said.
	Very well said.
	I just want to say that, you know, for all the people out there, you know, I ask people, you know, Knights of the Storm was born out of David Knight's chat, and we're just everyday people.
	And what I like about it is David Knight's chat is very educated, but we're also...
	You know, blue collar kind of people.
	So when we have the information and we put it out, we're putting it out in a way that other people and kind of like layman's terms that other people that don't have the information can understand.
	You know, you go to some professional podcast or something, you know, or news outlet or whatever.
	They're trying to use big words and be all professional.
	And a lot of times they talk right over someone's head.
	I love watching Tiger.
	Tiger, you put things out, the financial side, you put it out in layman's terms to where I can understand it.
	And I got to personally say thank you because I'm in a very good position now because I listened to you, both you and Tony Arterburn, and I made some decisions.
	Again, you don't give financial advice, but I took the knowledge, made my own decisions, and I'm in a better position for it today.
	So I do appreciate that.
	And I would ask that people in the chat come on the show.
	We are an extension of David Knight.
	Knights of the Storm is an extension.
	We are the chats, kind of like Clubhouse.
	We come hang out and talk, and if people want to watch, they watch.
	The information will fall.
	God will see that the information falls on the ears it needs to fall on.
	Anyway, I'm ranting right now.
	Real quick, I'm going to have to go in a couple minutes here, and I know you've got a schedule to follow.
	Ladies and gentlemen, David Knight, sometimes you'll agree with him, sometimes you might disagree with him.
	I don't agree with everybody all the time.
	If I did that, I'd be an automaton.
	But we're all coming from a spot.
	I can't, the words.
	David Knight changed my life.
	I'm trying not to get choked up.
	I'm worried about him right now.
	To me, he is like family.
	His heart is good.
	He is a servant of the Lord.
	He has put the sword of righteousness into the hands of each and every one of his listeners.
	And for Pete's sake, in the spirit of David Knight, you know, do something.
	Take that power that he's given us, that power of love, the power of Christ, the power of being a good Christian, the power of whatever religion you are.
	There's something wholesome and righteous about what he has started.
	And I can't thank him enough.
	And Nights of the Storm, we have Jason Barker, Karen Carpenter, unbelievable people here.
	Everyone here, we're doing this because we love other people.
	And David Knight loves other people.
	And please take that spirit and make it a part of you.
	Make it a part of you.
	You don't have to be exactly like David Knight, but the spirit in which he does things is so powerful.
	It's the power of love, like I said, the most powerful thing in the universe.
	All right.
	Well, before...
	Do you got to go, Tiger?
	I don't have to go.
	I don't want to muckle up your schedule.
	I wanted to share something.
	So we did verse of the week earlier, and Handy, you guys might know him from...
	He's been on David's show.
	He's been on our show.
	He's our EMT from Georgia.
	He wanted to share a prayer story, like a good...
	Good news prayer story.
	So I'm going to read it.
	He sent it to my phone.
	He says, I have a prayer story.
	Before Christmas, I had a 52-year-old male patient who had just found out he had stage 4 prostate cancer.
	He hadn't even told his kids yet.
	He had taken the jabs, so we know.
	Infer what you want from that.
	Yesterday, I was at his neighbor's house for a diabetic problem.
	So I walked over and knocked on his door.
	And there you go.
	That's handy.
	He's a good man as well.
	So he's checking in on somebody.
	He keeps track of these folks.
	And I mean, that's just a good heart, a man of God right there.
	So he walks over and knocks on the door.
	I was happy to hear that he is now in remission.
	Before Christmas, he was looking pretty bad.
	Now he's recovering.
	Been praying for him.
	So it's encouraging to see prayers answered.
	And then he says, I know he did chemo and radiation, but I'm not sure if he tried alternative options.
	I sent him numerous articles and studies on the benefits.
	And that's just awesome.
	He's an EMT.
	He picks up a guy and stuff, all of a sudden makes a personal connection, and he's sending this information out to him.
	And he's such a great guy.
	But he sent him numerous articles and studies on the benefits of things like ivermectin and latril.
	I don't know how you say that.
	Latril.
	Latril.
	There you go.
	He goes back to, this basically comes to prayer, God, and knowledge.
	Knowledge of natural healing.
	So, just wanted to throw that in there.
	That's a pristine example of what I'm talking about.
	Exactly.
	That's what this group of people.
	This is what we produce.
	It's the golden rule.
	If Auntie Karen, the tiger's den den mother, she knows somebody's sick, she's sending you an onslaught of information because that's the kind of person she is.
	We tend to get angry at people who don't know.
	They're stuck in the left-right paradigm.
	They're stuck in this.
	They're stuck in that.
	We might disagree with them on a social issue.
	We are the stewards of this information.
	We are the stewards of the love that has been given to us.
	And we need to make sure that we keep that in the forefront of our minds and have mercy on people who don't know.
	We have all been given.
	I'm not going to call it a burden.
	It's a responsibility.
	Even the listeners, the listeners especially, a responsibility to spread this information in a discernible, calm manner that will help people.
	If you help one person, ladies and gentlemen, do you know how powerful you've become?
	Do you have any idea what that does?
	Just one person.
	Even if you make their day better.
	Smiling at somebody at the grocery store makes their day better.
	Absolutely.
	I agree.
	It's being an ambassador of Christ's love here on earth.
	You know, we are God's hands, God's eyes.
	The song by Jewel.
	And it's true.
	And then, of course, there's the golden rule.
	So I just do my best to follow the golden rule.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	All right.
	Well, speaking of...
	Natural healing and stuff.
	We're going to go ahead and jump into the show with Dr. LaGuardia we did.
	Was it two weeks ago, I think, Karen?
	Yes.
	It's kind of recent.
	I know a lot of you have probably already seen it if you watch our show, but David Knight has a much larger audience, so we'd like to get this info out.
	Again, we showed his book.
	Excellent book.
	Let me talk a little bit more on the book.
	This book, look how huge it is.
	I think it's A thousand pages?
	Yeah, somewhere just shy of a thousand pages.
	But it's not a book like you read, like a story, right?
	It's an encyclopedia, kind of like the Jack Lawson books.
	It's just information.
	It goes into prepping, gardening, and then every medical condition that's a common condition that you can imagine.
	It's documented there, what causes it, and natural ways to treat it.
	And a lot of this stuff, again, Might be grown in your yard.
	So I would highly suggest you go get the book just to have as an insurance policy.
	Because if things go down, like Tiger was talking, if things go down and you're out there hunting deer and stuff, well, you know there's not going to be a pharmacy open.
	So if you're, you know, reliant on blood pressure medication, which was my issue, I had hypertension that...
	For some reason, it happened right after COVID and 5G.
	I don't know why, but we'll leave it at that.
	But anyway, it was a problem I had to deal with.
	And the medication they put me on was causing me all kinds of issues.
	And it was looking like I had to get more medication to counter the effects of the medication and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	No, I got his book.
	I followed the directions.
	And, you know, now I'm good.
	I don't take any medications.
	Anyway, any final thoughts on anything, Tiger or Karen?
	Go ahead, Tiger.
	Auntie Karen first, ladies first.
	On what topic?
	Going into the interview?
	Anything closing out what Tiger talked on, what Travis talked on?
	I want to get to the interview.
	I do want to play some of it.
	I do think that It's about 20 minutes, I believe, until David goes into surgery, so we really need to think about that and keep him in our thoughts and prayers.
	During recovery, you know, it won't be a super speedy recovery.
	It'll take some time to get his strength back and things.
	So we need to definitely keep him in prayer throughout the following days.
	I had a wonderful time interviewing Dr. LaGuardia.
	I got so excited that I...
	Steamed right over the verse of the week, and boy, I was really into it.
	It was wonderful.
	He's just so kind and well-spoken, a great sense of humor, a wealth of knowledge, integrative, functional.
	Doctor uses the natural and also blends it with the allopathic.
	A lot of experience.
	And he's willing to help people through the internet if you can schedule an appointment with him.
	He also has a great sub-stack with all kinds of interesting topics laid out very well.
	It's a lot of scientific information for those interested in that.
	But he also speaks in terms that are not so medically complicated or technical.
	So he also lays it out in plain language.
	And he has a great sense of humor.
	So I highly recommend his sub stack, too.
	And Tiger, everything you say is so wonderful.
	And I'm so grateful to know you and to be your friend.
	And I love your podcast.
	And it's just truly been a blessing.
	Absolutely.
	Likewise, Karen.
	You know, we're so lucky.
	And he's built a legacy.
	And ladies and gentlemen listening, you are part of this legacy.
	And please, you know, represent the legacy.
	Keep the love in your hearts.
	Don't lose the spiritual war with all the things that are going on, that hate creeping into you.
	Be careful of it.
	Hating other groups of people, all, you know, based on religion or anything else.
	That is part of the spiritual war.
	They're doing this on purpose.
	So don't let them put that seed of hate in your heart.
	Love is so strong.
	Men out there, there's nothing wrong with love.
	It is so strong.
	It is so powerful.
	You will be so, if you act in that fashion of love being the first and foremost thing in your mind.
	You won't think about, did I make the right decision?
	Because you'll make the right decision every single time.
	And everybody, please, to reiterate what Karen said, please pray for David and his family.
	They need our prayers.
	They've done so much for us.
	That's the least we can do for them.
	Love everybody out there.
	Thank you guys so much for having me on.
	Thanks, Tiger.
	We appreciate it, brother.
	All right, guys.
	Have a good one.
	I'm going to get back to work.
	Have a great day.
	All right, guys.
	Bye.
	All right, so I'm going to go ahead and play us a break.
	Stick around.
	We'll be right back, and it'll start the first clip from the Dr. LaGuardia interview.
	This one is for Brian Deb McCartney.
	Get the cream ready for the kitties.
	They come running when they hear Whistler's song.
	So here we go.
	Dr. Guardia, would you like to tell us a little bit about your background?
	Well, Triple Boarded specialized in internal medicine, geriatrics, and bariatrics, which is weight loss.
	But my real love is functional medicine.
	Functional medicine, there's no way you don't get board certified.
	We're kind of renegades.
	There's only a handful of us.
	I don't know anyone else in Connecticut.
	There might be one other guy.
	I don't know of anyone.
	We're few and far between.
	But what I like to do is look at how the body functions properly and provide everything it needs for that organ or that system to function properly.
	And that cures a whole bunch of disease.
	A lot of diseases, just nutrient deficiencies or other problems that don't allow the body to function the way it should.
	I mean, it's an unbelievable machine that's very fine-tuned and has backup systems.
	But sometimes things fail, and I'm able to cure a lot of disease without pharmaceuticals by just providing either what's called orthomolecular medicine, which means I use large doses of things that are good, for example, vitamin D or vitamin C and different nutrients.
	And it cures an amazing amount.
	Unfortunately, it's not recognized very well.
	It's funny, when I go to these medical meetings, I frequently go and I bring my wife, and at the end, I get up and do my thing.
	It's very polite to me.
	No one says anything rude, but they all listen to me, and there's crickets afterwards.
	My wife says the same thing.
	They don't know what you're talking about.
	They're polite to you.
	She goes, why do you bother?
	I said, I've got to get it out there, because they have no idea this stuff even exists.
	I'm kind of embarrassed for them because, I mean, as physicians, we should be curious about that.
	Absolutely.
	If someone comes to me with any kind of treatment that I've never heard of, I'm all over it.
	I want to know all about it.
	I start looking it up.
	And that's what I spent my life doing.
	Since medical school, I never stopped studying.
	I kept inquiring and looking at things and finding.
	I mean, I was very disappointed in my residency because I had read.
	Linus Pauling's books when I was in college and medical school.
	I started reading books on alternative medicine.
	I went to school in Europe, and we had a lot in Italy.
	I actually went to the oldest medical school in the world.
	But we wound up there having a lot of nutritional stuff, and I thought that would carry on when I came back to the States.
	And it didn't, and I was shocked at my residency, because I would bring up things like, why don't we give them high-dose vitamin C and boost their immune system, not just antibiotics and hitting them with all these drugs?
	And they just basically told me to shut up and sit down and do what I'm told.
	Right.
	You know, I was a science nerd in high school.
	I was literally a lab rat.
	And I had the honor and the pleasure of hearing Linus Pauling lecture my freshman year in college at University of California, Santa Cruz, in my biology of cancer class.
	Nice.
	It's very rare that I find someone who thinks that's really awesome.
	You know, that says, oh, wow.
	And I was only 19, so I, and, you know, I was first time away from home, but I remember him holding up vials, talking about how our body, the body of animals naturally produces vitamin C, and it's a reaction to stress.
	Yeah.
	It provides, it's an electron donor, and it provides the antioxidant effect, and that when animals are under stress, they produce...
	A huge amount of vitamin C. And I remember him talking about that and saying that we don't, well, a few people do, but most people don't produce vitamin C. And he held up test tubes that showed how much a goat or a sheep would produce in a day, and then an empty test tube that showed how much we produce in a day.
	Yeah, humans, guinea pigs, and African fruit bats are the only animals that cannot.
	Produce vitamin C. And it's interesting because, you know, and I made this argument all the time.
	I said, we need it when you're sick.
	And they would say, oh, no, you don't.
	No, you don't.
	Of course you do.
	You need it to boost your immune system.
	And when they did infusions of vitamin C, large doses intravenously, which I've taken several times myself, and you're sick, if you're very ill, vitamin C is water-soluble, so any excess will be urinated out.
	They'll find it gives someone 20 grams of vitamin C who's dying of cancer or has a bed.
	Infection of some type, even COVID, and none come out in your urine.
	The body is using it all.
	Right.
	Yet, it's ignored.
	Same thing with vitamin D. It's ignored by mainstream medicine.
	Vitamin C is one of my areas.
	And I'm like you, and I'm not a doctor.
	I ended up being a teacher.
	But I just started digging through health areas.
	And whenever anybody in my family has an issue, I start digging.
	And looking at nutrition and the various vitamin D, vitamin C, vitamin B3, B12.
	What can we do about these things?
	What's your diet like?
	What are you eating?
	How's your water quality?
	All of those types of things.
	And so that's what I do myself.
	Yeah, that's great.
	So I really respect what you do.
	And to have that curiosity.
	To keep learning and to see the faults in the system and find a way to work within the system because there are good things.
	There are good parts.
	Well, that's why I do integrative medicine.
	I integrate alternative and traditional medicine.
	I mean, there's nonsense in both of them.
	I mean, there's a lot of alternative things that are just crazy stuff, you know?
	And in medicine, there's a lot of things I just reject wholeheartedly.
	I'm not big into statins for cholesterol and things like that.
	I think it's a scam.
	I mean, the original key studies done in the 1950s were...
	It was completely bogus.
	He did 27 countries, and he got rid of 21 of them, kept six countries that fit his theory.
	Stuck us with this ridiculous cholesterol hoax that's been going on ever since.
	It's a multi-billion dollar industry and what we're doing is harming people.
	Your body needs cholesterol.
	Cholesterol is great for you.
	Statins are horrible.
	Premature dementia, all kinds of side effects.
	I run a nursing home also in my spare time.
	When I took it over seven years ago, I took everyone off statins.
	They had one woman, she was 107 and they had around 80 milligrams of Lipitor.
	Are you crazy?
	Take everyone off.
	And the pharmacist actually, to his credit, said, yeah, he's right.
	There's no point in it now.
	And plus, a ton of, even cardiologists, I keep arguing with them, if you're going to give them statin, at least give them CoQ10 with it.
	We know that that pathway depletes that.
	And that's why people get these myalgias and stuff because CoQ10 is dependent for energy.
	The more cell needs energy, the more...
	CoQ10 needs.
	Consequently, the heart needs it, ironically, and the muscles need it.
	So the first place it shows up is in the muscles, and they get what's called myology.
	They get muscle aches.
	People come in after a month of being from the cardiologist getting it, not telling me, come into my office and go, "God almighty, I ache all over since then." But for some reason, they don't embrace that.
	It's known fact, physiologically, that depletes it, the pathway, yet it's ignored.
	CoQ10 is extremely expensive, too.
	I was watching an Orthomolecular Medicine Summit recently, and that was one of the things that was recommended is very high-dose CoQ10, as high as you can afford daily.
	Well, I find quinoil is the best one.
	Because, you know, it's all about absorption, as you know, Karen.
	You know, it doesn't matter how much you take, it doesn't matter how much you absorb.
	And quinoil has some technology for absorption that works very well.
	So I tend to even, you're absolutely right, it's expensive, but you might as well get one that you're absorbed more of.
	But one of the key things I find people ignore all the time is fat and water solubility.
	CoQ10 is fat soluble.
	You don't take it with fat, it goes right through you.
	You know, I have patients that come in all the time and say, "Doc, I know everything about vitamins, you know, new patients." I said, "Great, what are you doing?" They tell me all these supplements they're taking, and they're taking their vitamins A, D, E, K, their multivitamins, their CoQ10, on an empty stomach for 30 years.
	And I said, "I got bad news for you." You know, and they were always shocked.
	And I always get the same question, "Why didn't anyone tell me that?" It's like, I don't know why no one told you, but I seem to be the only guy who knows this.
	It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of these people didn't know that.
	It really wouldn't surprise me.
	I once wrote a book on vitamin D from an Indian doctor, and it was a great book talking about all the benefits of it.
	Not once did he mention it was fat soluble.
	So I wrote him a letter, of course, which was promptly ignored.
	I couldn't believe it.
	I said, this guy, you blew it with this book on this one thing.
	I'm curious what you think about liposomal vitamin C. Dr. Levy, Thomas Levy, are you familiar with him?
	He highly recommends...
	I'm sorry.
	Go ahead.
	I see.
	He's the guru of vitamin C. His books are great, and he's done more research on it.
	I'm very much into liposomal vitamin C. That's going to be my question.
	And he recommends a certain brand, which is L-I-V-O-N, Live On.
	Yeah, it's his company.
	Is it his company?
	I don't know.
	There are a lot of liposomal vitamins and most of them are frauds.
	Actually, I would tend to believe that.
	I also know that some people Or attempt to make their own liposomal formula.
	So I was curious what you think about that.
	It sounds like you think it's a good idea.
	Yeah, you know, the frog ones, they use ascorbic pomate, which is a fat-soluble vitamin C, and they call that liposomal.
	It's different, you know.
	They develop it so it's spherical and it's absorbed better, and it bonds to the phospholipids on the outside of the cell membrane.
	Is able to enter the cell that way.
	Well, it's great stuff because that's the only way you can take vitamin C and have it stored.
	Otherwise, you know, it'll go right through you because you have to take a lot of it.
	So I take both.
	I take water-soluble and a fat liposomal every day.
	So I'm storing some vitamin C in my fat as well as having the water-soluble vitamin C available for daily needs.
	But, you know, I don't think anyone really knows.
	About how much of it you can access from your fat, etc.
	It's not like normal A, D, E, and K, that there's an enzyme system to break it down.
	I'm sure there is.
	But that's one piece I was always not sure about, and I can't find an answer to that.
	But yeah, vitamin C is wonderful for you.
	You have to take it to bowel tolerance.
	I tell people, keep taking it until you get diarrhea, and then back off.
	I'm mercury toxic, and so I had to figure out how to save myself, which I kind of did.
	I did some trial and error, but that's one of the things that I follow Dr. Andrew Cutler's methods, and they recommend vitamin C just as a daily, several times a day.
	There's no toxic dose of it.
	Right, absolutely.
	You can't take enough.
	You'll get diarrhea.
	People say, I actually talked to my, I had kidney stones for a while, and my urologist was saying, oh my God, you've got to stop taking that vitamin C. And I said, well, at that time I switched to pure liposomal.
	I said, I'm taking liposomal.
	But once again, it was crickets.
	He didn't know what liposomal was.
	I said, it's fat soluble.
	He said, the kidney doesn't discreet any fats.
	So it can't be in my urine.
	You know, the whole fat thing has got people very confused.
	You know, I find Dr. Mercola has done some good work with it, good books on it.
	But, I mean, the average person doesn't realize that you have to eat animal fat.
	If you're not eating animal fat, you're not getting the fat-soluble vitamins.
	It's the only place to get them.
	I mean, you can't get some from plants, but, you know, plant nutrition is, you know, highly touted, and it's fine.
	I'm okay with it.
	But it's not nutrient-dense.
	You have to eat a hell of a lot of plants to get the vitamins that you get from meat and fish.
	Let's go right into that.
	What do you think about...
	I know I take care of my grandson who's 21 months old and I'm doing what I can to provide him with the nutrients he needs because his parents are vaxxing him, which is not my choice.
	They're vaxxing him.
	Oh my God.
	They are.
	And it just...
	I tried everything I could think of.
	He's at zero risk?
	I have printed off all of the inserts, the long inserts, and made a binder, went over them with my daughter line by line, the trials, the side effects.
	I mean, I bought, you name it, the vaccine book, I've got it.
	I know my vaccines, and I did my best to have them not vax them, but they are.
	So I'm giving him, when I have him, we make eggs, so I'm feeding him lots of eggs.
	Right.
	Nature's multivitamin.
	Yes.
	And then cod liver oil, which he doesn't enjoy, but he's gotten used to it.
	And the Fiji water, which has the silica in it.
	To help detox.
	So those are three things I'm doing.
	I'm wondering what you recommend for a healthy diet, your type, what you consider super foods or possibly foods to help us detox that we can.
	And the quality of our food is key because our body can't even can't use the vitamin C and the other vitamins that we take.
	It's there to facilitate the use of the food and the nutrients we take in from our food.
	Go ahead.
	The best way to get your vitamins is in whole foods, no doubt about it, other than supplements.
	However, I supplement heavily, and I eat a good diet.
	Actually, it will blow a cardiologist's mind.
	I eat four egg yolks in the morning, bacon, toast, and coffee.
	I only eat lunch, and then I eat a dinner.
	I eat fish, a lot of fish.
	In fact, the big joke in our family is my wife calls me every day at the office and goes, "What do you want today?" And I go, "How about fish?" And so, yeah, we eat a lot of fish.
	And as I tell patients, shop along the outer aisles of the supermarket.
	Do not buy anything in the middle.
	Don't buy anything packaged.
	It's poison.
	Shop along.
	Get fresh fish, meat, fruit, vegetables, organic, preferably if you can afford them, or grow your own.
	And if you grow your own, I add things like azomite.
	to the soil, which is mined from old seabeds out west, and it has all the nutrients and trace elements that you need.
	It's great stuff.
	And so I put that in the soil for my plants, and I have a horse farm, so I put a lot of composted manure in there and azomite.
	Man, I have 400 fruit trees.
	The branches break.
	They're so heavy with fruit.
	But my point is that food is all nutrient-dense, and that's what you want.
	And I encourage people to eat.
	Ignore the nutritional guidelines are madness.
	Absolute madness and it'll kill you every time.
	Ignore them because of the conflict of interest of these guys.
	Same thing with the Pentagon.
	The same guys in the military who are supposed to watch the contractors.
	The same guys that are supposed to watch the pharmaceutical companies and the food manufacturers, there's a revolving door.
	They immediately leave their job.
	They tell us everything's safe.
	The vaccine's safe.
	There's food safe.
	You know, you're crazy.
	They gaslight us.
	Then they go and get million-dollar contracts the next year working for the same industry they were supposed to be watchdog for.
	It's unbelievable.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I am not hearing you, Jason.
	Oh, I was muted.
	Anyway, so yeah, that was clip one from the interview that you hosted on, Karen, with Dr. LaGuardia.
	We're going to play another one here in a moment, but if you want to go ahead and do shout-outs and talk to the chat a little bit.
	Okay, I've been taking a look at the kick chat.
	Kik is our new platform that David Knight is using and we're using at Knights of the Storm, as well as Angry Tiger is using and many others are migrating to Kik.
	And there's a good group in there today, this morning.
	So I was looking in the Kik chat.
	We've got Deb McCartney, Brian Deb McCartney, Doug Dew 007, Mr. Jason Knights of the Storm, Heron's Holler, Little Ford Schoolhouse, I was in there.
	Our friend Gard Goldsmith was there.
	Big shout out to Gard.
	He's been so encouraging to us here at Knights of the Storm.
	And Shelby50, Britt Belly, Tony Garrett, Audi MMR, Audi Modern Retro Radio, Handy, Eclipse Watcher, Jay Hill, Koalimos, and I know that little John, our friend, was...
	Little John was in that chat.
	And that was as far as I got with the kick chat.
	And from what I can see in the Rumble chat, there's no way I could call all of those people out.
	I see Prairie Flower, Mark Young, I've seen.
	Our friend Chris Graves was there.
	Nancy, our friend Nancy.
	And Ann was there, Ann Crist.
	Do you see others?
	Let me pause you real quick.
	Let me pause you real quick, Karen.
	You mentioned Chris Graves, and I do want to say that Mr. Graves lost his mother yesterday on Mother's Day.
	I'm sure that there'll be some kind of a fundraiser because they don't really have the money to take care of the burial costs and things like that.
	So I just wanted to let everybody know, if you're in the chat, just give Chris his condolences.
	That's a horrible thing to lose your mother, of course, and on Mother's Day, that's even worse.
	So, anyway, thoughts and prayers.
	I saw Freethinker, yes, absolutely.
	Freethinker59 was in chat also this morning.
	Ashley, our fellow Knight of the Storm, Ashley from Union of the Own Knowns, was there.
	No one you know is there.
	Mav2022, M Sellers, Geese Busters, our friend Geese Busters.
	Good morning, Geesebusters.
	Hulk76.
	So it's great to see everybody this morning.
	I hope that you had a great Mother's Day with your mother and other women who nurture you.
	You don't have to be a mom to give love to children and contribute to making the world a better place.
	Will Tabox.
	So many great people.
	Hi, everybody.
	Good morning.
	And a lot of people in there were sharing.
	Thoughts on the medical side.
	One thing that Hulk76 had mentioned, talking about big pharma and stuff.
	Now, we did a show talking about exactly what they're talking about, that there's never going to be a cure for cancer because it's not profitable to cure stuff.
	David's talked about it a lot.
	Our entire show on the medical industrial complex was about how they have created a self-sustaining business model that they can treat in perpetuity.
	They can treat you...
	And yeah, go ahead.
	I can tell you want to say something here.
	Go ahead.
	Oh, I was just going to say that we also did a show on cancer and alternatives, ideas.
	It's not medical advice.
	It's just some ideas of how to deal with cancer.
	We've done several shows on medical issues and the way that it's corporate capture.
	It absolutely is.
	And it's big pharma, so your doctors make the money, the big pharma makes the money.
	And a lot of times they're intentionally, I believe they're intentionally making us sick.
	Like slightly sick, just enough to where you need to keep buying the meds and keep coming back for treatments.
	And it's all an insurance scam, you know?
	If we didn't have insurance, if people just had to pay out of pocket, number one, it would be a lot cheaper.
	Because you don't have so many middle people in there that have to be paid to administer things and whatnot.
	And then the doctors would just only do what they needed to do and not order every single lab, every single test.
	They're doing that to rake it in from the insurance.
	Well, there's also middlemen, that broker.
	Broker the drugs and the drug prices and then also approve the claims and what can be covered by the insurance.
	So there are corporations in the middle that are making money on both ends of it.
	It's like we have modern day robber barons that are so incredibly powerful.
	They control the whole chain from creating the disease to the end.
	Treating the disease or not treating the disease and deciding if you get treatment for it.
	It's incredible.
	I want to reach back to the financial stuff we were talking about earlier about why our goods in this country cost so much.
	That's another factor.
	When you produce things in this country, a lot of these companies, they have health care provided, at least shared or fully provided by your employer.
	And that comes at a cost.
	And that cost goes into the cost of the goods.
	So we're talking about inflated dollars, which means higher wages to have a living wage, which goes into the cost of the goods, plus the overregulation, the taxation, and the health care costs.
	You know, you have unemployment insurance.
	You know, you pay into that, but your employer pays into that, too.
	We have so much stuff going on that goes into the, you know, a 99-cent pen.
	That's why, you know, tariffs, if tariffs force good trade agreements, okay, I can see that.
	But using tariffs to bring industry back home is not a solution.
	We're just going to have very, very, very expensive goods.
	You know, whether they come from overseas and are taxed to the hilt or whether we produce them here and pay all those additional fees that go into the production of that good.
	So, you know, I don't know.
	I got off on a tangent there.
	I got one more thing to say about the health thing.
	I think it was Mav2022.
	I think it was him that said diet and exercise.
	And we were talking about sweating.
	Sweating is a natural way.
	So, you detox.
	I think Dr. LaGuardia talked about that.
	I think Dr. Jane Rubies talked about it.
	A lot of people talked about it.
	You detox stuff out of your body through your urine, your feces, through your feet as well.
	And we can get into the buckets thing if you wanted to.
	We're going to do a show on that.
	But sweat.
	Sweat is a really good way.
	And I was saying in the chat, when I got out of the Army, I just felt like I just wasn't as healthy.
	And I think it's because, number one, I came here to Missouri where it's not 99 degrees and like 90% humidity.
	Like it was in Georgia.
	And I wasn't going out running every day.
	So I think that that sweating, I mean, I would feel like complete garbage after running five miles in the Georgia heat.
	And you're talking, it's like, you know, eight o 'clock in the morning, seven o 'clock in the morning.
	And it's so freaking hot.
	But I'd sweat.
	And then after I go home, shower off, clean off, I would feel really, really good.
	It's because I'm detoxing when I'm sweating.
	Our friend Twilight Shadows mentioning breast cancer.
	Breast cancer is also highly, highly associated with root canals.
	Is it really?
	Yes.
	Absolutely.
	Our teeth are connected to different organs in our bodies.
	Our body is a whole meridian system with circuits and teeth are like circuit breakers.
	There's a direct connection between which teeth you have root canals in and where illness or cancer will express in your body down the road.
	There's a high correlation between Root canal in the molars and breast cancer.
	But also what you were talking about with sweating, that's why one of the reasons saunas are so popular and so healthy is the sweating.
	They can be a regular sauna just using heat or the infrared sauna also.
	Yeah, that's a great way.
	They were talking about that in the chat as well.
	I mean, there's a reason that there's saunas in the gym.
	You know, I mean, it's good for weight loss too, apparently.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, it's a great way to detox.
	Another way is if you can't sweat, you know, or even just soaking your feet in Epsom salt or a salt solution, that really draws a lot out.
	Or taking a bath in Epsom salt, that's another way to kind of draw the impurities out, kind of like sweating.
	Well, my wife got me a big old thing of the Epsom salt, and when I would go to the field, I'd be out in the field for two weeks or whatever and come back, I would take a nice, hot, as hot as I can stand bath.
	With that in there.
	And I would just feel amazing afterwards.
	But I do want to share my regimen.
	I'm taking ginkgo biloba.
	This is not medical advice.
	I'm just telling you what I'm doing.
	Ginkgo biloba.
	This was for...
	We did an interview with Dr. LaGuardia on brain fog.
	You know, kind of like early onset dementia.
	Alzheimer's kind of runs in my family.
	We're kind of forgetful people.
	Franco knows this because I'll call him and...
	He'd be like, dude, we talked about this yesterday.
	I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right.
	You know, I'm not horribly bad.
	I'm just a little forgetful.
	But this helps with that.
	And also with my blood pressure, this is helping with that because it lower or thins my blood a little bit.
	So I was taking some baby aspirin and some other things to try to not have to take the prescription medications.
	I don't need to take any of that stuff anymore.
	So the Ginkgo does that for me.
	I take it every other day, though, not every day.
	And then I got this Centrum.
	And by the way, I make sure these are all organic.
	They're not artificial.
	So the Centrum, I just got the one.
	It's for adults, and it has certain vitamins that Dr. LaGuardia said I should focus on.
	If you want to go watch that episode, go watch it.
	Just watch the brain fog one.
	And then the fish oil.
	And it's all natural fish oil.
	This, I should take it every day, but I don't.
	And the reason I wanted to share that is because, to touch on what Dr. LaGuardia said about fat-soluble and water-soluble, the fish oil, I believe, is the one that's fat-soluble.
	So I can't just take it whenever I want.
	I have to take it when I eat something, right?
	The others are fine.
	The ginkgo and the regular vitamin is fine.
	I can take that because you're drinking water all day long.
	At least you should be.
	And that's another thing for high blood pressure.
	Drink more water.
	I found out that was a big thing for me.
	I was coffee all day long.
	Coffee, coffee, coffee, no water.
	I was dehydrating myself.
	So that's probably what helped lead up to me having hypertension.
	At least one contributing factor.
	So I make sure I take a bottle of water to bed with me at night, which I should get glasses.
	Not plastic bottles.
	I have articles.
	I highly doubt we're going to get to any of our articles today, Karen.
	But I have articles on microplastics and some other stuff, Forever Chemicals.
	And I've noticed that there's a huge trend amongst the younger set or the Trader Joe's type set to buy.
	Water now in glass bottles, like the Calistoga and the other waters in the sparkling waters, or the still waters, as they call it, in glass bottles, which is fantastic.
	We absolutely need to get away from the plastic.
	I just think it's kind of funny to see them all thinking they're so shee-shee with their glass water bottles now, but that's what we all had everything in glass years ago.
	David talks about this all the time, like in Mexico, their pop bottles are glass, and we have them all in cans here.
	Actually, those cans have a plastic lining inside them.
	So, yeah, that's not bueno.
	Our canned foods do, too.
	You can get some cans that don't have the lining.
	There are some brands that make canned foods without the plastic lining, but it's very expensive to buy those.
	Yeah.
	Absolutely.
	So anyway, there was a comment I wanted to look at here.
	Man, the chant's really scrolling by.
	Yeah, I lost it.
	It's gone.
	It's way up there.
	Dr. LaGuardia also mentioned in our interview that he recommends coconut oil for Alzheimer's or dementia, or he recommends everybody take a little bit, some coconut oil every day.
	Yeah.
	Oh, the comment was, when I said all natural, they're like, what, from artificial fish?
	Farm fish?
	Yeah.
	Farm fish are extremely...
	Yeah, and they were talking in the chat about if you're looking at fish, you've got to be careful because there is mercury.
	If it's saltwater fish, there's especially shark.
	High in mercury.
	You can get it so it's been molecularly distilled and there's no mercury in it.
	Or just go get the fish sandwich from McDonald's.
	I guarantee you there's no fish in that.
	It's probably sawdust or something.
	Alright, I guess we'll take a break real quick and then we'll play the next clip.
	Hopefully we'll have time to get to some of the articles that we have.
	I think we over-prepared, Karen, so we have more material than we have time.
	Oh, that's fine.
	All right, so this one's for Little John.
	Here we go.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Wow, Karen, I got ahead of myself there.
	I meant to plug David's website, so let's do that before we run our second clip.
	Let me throw in a quick hello to Cecilia and prayers for her mother, and she said her mother is doing pretty well, and we've all been praying for Cecilia's family and her mother for a few weeks now, so I'm glad that her Mother's Day went pretty well.
	That's great.
	So yeah, I just wanted to plug David.
	He never plugs himself, so I'm going to plug him.
	This is his website, thedavidknightshow.com.
	Alternatively, you can do davidknight.news now, and that will get you to the same place, so a little easier to type.
	So yeah, here's his website.
	Hey folks, the gas gauge is way down.
	I don't know if this is updated or not, but we're about a one-third the way through the month, so you might want to consider helping the show out.
	Where you can donate.
	There's an address.
	Check is the best way to do it.
	Or Zelle.
	Zelle has no fees if your bank does that.
	And then all these different ways you can donate.
	Where you can find him.
	BitChuteOdyssey.
	Rumble.
	It's a shame about Rockfin, isn't it?
	Rockfin was such...
	Yeah, it really is.
	And then the audio podcast places.
	And hey, check it out.
	I've got his mug right here.
	You know, first coffee, then save the world.
	I typically have one article or thing of David Knight on my desk at all times when I do the show.
	I got his shirt on today.
	And then I've got the Wise Wolf hat on, which I got from Melissa Arterburn.
	But anyway, yeah, you got some good stuff if you want to get some merch here.
	This cup is amazing.
	It doesn't hold as much as my big Bubba mug, but it'll stay hot all day long.
	My coffee will.
	And then, of course, you got DavidKnight.gold.
	That'll get you to Tony Arterburn's site.
	And I highly suggest, I mean, I'm not going to tell you that put everything into gold and silver, but I think it's a good, smart move.
	Again, financial advice, I just, for me, it's the right move to have something.
	I like the fractional silver, so I got a whole bunch of Morgan half dollars.
	They're 90% silver.
	They hold a certain value, intrinsic value, because of the silver content in them, and those couldn't be traded.
	Again, if Karen's growing corn and I'm milking cows, right?
	And Karen comes over to me and says, hey, can I get some of your milk?
	I'd be like, what do you have to trade?
	She's like, well, my corn won't be ready for three or four more weeks.
	I say, okay.
	She gives me a couple coins that we agree is of a certain value, and then I'll give her the milk, and I take those coins kind of as collateral, if you think of it that way.
	If you think of real money as collateral, it's like, oh, I don't know.
	An IOU, maybe?
	I don't know what you would call it.
	But later on, when her corn comes in, I can go back and say, hey, remember, you got the milk from me.
	If you want your coins back, I need some of that corn.
	So that's how currency is born.
	Not fiat, but real money.
	So I like the gold and silver.
	I also like property.
	Grow your own stuff that's valuable.
	Ammunition.
	Like Tiger said, by the way, let me plug this.
	If you go to the Knights of the Storm website and you go into the forums, we actually posted there Charlie Robinson, who now owns Activist Post.
	He's from Macroaggressions, but he now owns Activist Post, which is a pretty good news source.
	He let me post his dollar store prep kit.
	And what it is, is you go there, like every time you go to the dollar store, like Dollar General or whatever, you grab four or five of these items, you throw it in a tub, and over the course of time, you've built yourself like kind of an emergency kit, which is good for like power outages, you know, grid down situation.
	We're not talking.
	And this is stuff you can use anyway.
	So, you know, if you're like, oh crap, I cut myself and I don't have any band-aids, we'll go into your kit.
	There's some band-aids in there.
	I've been doing that for a long time.
	I keep a lot of the basic things that we use.
	Say if we get a cold and we might want Mucinex or something like that if it's pretty serious.
	Those types of things are a lot cheaper if you buy generic.
	You can stock up fairly quickly if you just buy a few every week.
	Something like that.
	That's how you do it.
	You ain't got to go out and spend a whole lot.
	It's kind of like if you wanted to have food.
	You know, storable food.
	You can think of canned goods as being somewhat of a storable food.
	Just grab a couple extra cans every time you go to the grocery store and stick them in your pantry in the back.
	And you'll be set for...
	I mean, look what happened in Asheville, right?
	Asheville, it doesn't have to be...
	Yeah, it's not the zombie apocalypse or anything.
	Anyway, let's go ahead and play this next clip.
	And here we go.
	Okay.
	All right, so this verse of the week comes from Ezekiel.
	It's 47, verse 12. And for a little kind of background on it, this is when they're kind of talking about the boundaries for the promised land, the inherited land or whatever.
	And during part of it, this is, you know, verse 12, they say, And on the banks on both sides of the river there will grow all kinds of trees for food.
	Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month because the water for them flows from the sanctuary.
	Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.
	And the reason I want to talk about that is because it's really clear.
	We were talking off air about nutrients in the soil, how we've depleted the nutrients.
	That's why we have to take supplements now because we just don't get it in our food.
	But, you know, It's talking about natural food, natural healing from natural stuff.
	And I just thought, I mean, it kind of stood out to me, and I said, that's perfect for when Dr. LaGuardia comes on, because that's kind of in your line of work, is, you know, natural medicine.
	Yeah, in my books, I always talk, especially in my first book, The Doomsday Book of Medicine, which in the second one, The Bible of Alternative Medicine is similar.
	Yeah, there it is.
	In fact, second edition just came out.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah, it's...
	Pretty similar.
	Don't buy it if you have the first one.
	But what I was going to say is I always explain how health begins in the soil.
	If you're not eating healthy food, right off the bat, you're in trouble.
	And so we're all responsible for either buying foods that are healthy or growing our home, which isn't that hard in most areas of the United States, unless you're in Alaska or something.
	And so we can do this.
	Even in a small backyard, you can grow a lot of food, raise beds and different things.
	But it's all about the soil.
	Put good soil in there and, you know, fill it full of nutrients.
	You know, my soil is teeming with earthworms and teeming with life, and it smells good.
	I mean, you just get down there.
	There's nothing, you know, and the fruit and vegetables that grow out of it are just nutrient-dense and healthy.
	And I don't have to spray them.
	I don't use any.
	I'm organic, obviously.
	I don't use any pesticides.
	Yeah, you lose a few pieces of fruit here and there that are animals eating it or insects, but for the most part, it's fine.
	I gotta say something real quick, Doc.
	So I'm growing food indoors now.
	I got an indoor garden.
	And, you know, I use the native soil.
	Why are you growing it indoors?
	Because of chemtrails.
	I don't want the crap on it.
	So that's really the only reason I'm doing it.
	I don't want it to be.
	And critters as well.
	We got a lot of rabbits around here that will tear up a garden.
	I will do an outdoor garden this year.
	I'm fixing to start planting now that my deck, the construction of my backyard is done.
	I can actually fence off an area.
	But anyway, I did a lot of research into the soil aspect.
	I talked to Angry Tiger.
	I don't know.
	Have you been on with him before?
	With Angry Tiger?
	You should go on with him.
	He's into health and growing food and all kinds of stuff.
	Contact me, but I never heard from him.
	Yeah, he's one of our podcasting buddies.
	Yeah, he was a founding member of this show, actually.
	Anyway, I get to my point here.
	I did a lot of research on soil, what you do for inside, because I understand you're going to deplete it.
	How do I...
	Renew it.
	A lot of different things I'm looking into.
	One thing I found was that worms, earthworms, you mentioned that.
	It rained really hard the other day and I went outside and I grabbed up all the worms that had come up out of the soil and I threw them in my garden.
	Good.
	And my grandson was freaking out.
	He thought there were snakes.
	But anyway, the earthworms, they're really good.
	And I know one thing that I also found out was when I planted indoors, I had these little no-see-um gnats and other bugs.
	And they say that that's actually a good sign of healthy soil if the bugs come out.
	So I just wanted to reiterate that.
	I have a geodesic dome greenhouse.
	Oh, cool.
	Yeah, it's 42 feet.
	Long, 16 feet, half feet tall.
	But I grow stuff all year round in there.
	And I use a lot of worm castings.
	I'll add worm castings and azomite to the soil, and they go berserk.
	Things just grow great in there.
	And so it's a good idea.
	Worms are great.
	They process the soil and release the castings into it.
	They're just fabulous for it.
	Yeah, for compost, it's greens, browns, and bugs.
	You take your grass clippings, that's got your nitrates in it, your browns, that's wood chips or sawdust or whatever.
	It's so important to take care to rebuild the soil because this glyphosate destroys the microbiome, the shikimate pathway, which helps the microbiome produce our minerals in our food.
	It's water soluble.
	Even if you're not putting it on your soil, it's up in the atmosphere.
	It's raining down everywhere on the soil.
	Everything.
	Monsanto has to be...
	Well, it's Bayer.
	Bayer is trying to settle a lawsuit on that now.
	They bought Monsanto a few years ago.
	You know, they're trying to pass...
	Several states are trying to pass ordinances that give pesticide companies, herbicide companies, the same immunity that the vaccine companies have so that they could not be held accountable for harms from their products.
	Yeah, of course they were.
	Yeah.
	It's all part of the same Poison the people, it's okay.
	Just give me a little money after I'm done with this, and I'll tell them everything's okay with you.
	That's what I was talking about earlier with the guys that are supposedly protecting us from this, have failed miserably.
	All right, so that was a relatively short clip, and we really wanted to share this because it was a...
	Great interview.
	I don't think we're going to get to the rest of it, Karen.
	Do you want to go into some of the articles that we have to finish off?
	Sure, I know you're looking forward to that, so that's great.
	Yeah, the rest of the interview is fantastic, and like I said, Dr. LaGuardia has a great substack, lots of really great topics like nitric oxide, methyl...
	Methylene blue or something.
	Yeah, methylene blue.
	I got up at 4 o 'clock for this today, so excuse me.
	And a lot of great topics in his sub-stack.
	All the hot topics, he's covered them.
	And it's well worth checking out.
	The reason we wanted to showcase Dr. LaGuardia today is because he's into medicine like natural.
	Um, healing and stuff.
	Uh, love his book.
	Uh, his sub stack is great.
	You can find a link to his sub stack.
	Uh, again, go over to the nights of the storm.com.
	Go to the read tab, which is the middle tab and, uh, go all the way down to the bottom.
	You'll see, uh, at medical underground, he, he's not behind a paywall so you can get all of his articles and stuff.
	So I think that's great.
	There's a lot of good people on sub stack, but some of it's behind a paywall and we can't.
	You know, especially today's age, we can't afford to be subscribed at 20 different people's substacks, right?
	So, do you want to go with one of your articles first, or do you want me to go first?
	You go ahead.
	I don't really have any.
	I just had one that Dr. LaGuardia forwarded to me that I would mention, and that's that there was a study done on some rats in a lab.
	Injecting COVID vaccine into three groups.
	One had the original COVID vaccine and then another had a deactivated COVID vaccine.
	So they were injecting mRNA into female rats in the lab.
	And what they found was that 60% of their egg follicles, when females are formed in the womb, they have all the egg follicles that they'll ever have.
	In the womb, and then the follicles develop into eggs one by one.
	60% of the egg follicles that would supply eggs throughout the rat's lifetime were rendered ineffective or not functional.
	So that's 60% of the eggs that could possibly lead to offspring.
	That's amazing.
	That's amazing that you picked that, Karen, because you were out last week, and it was just me and Ashley on.
	And by the way, if you see the fourth person on the screen there in the clips we played, that's Ashley.
	She's part of the Knights of the Storm team now, and she has her own podcast.
	You can find her over on Rumble.
	You go to Union of the Unknowns, right?
	Not Union of the Unwanted.
	That's a different podcast.
	Yeah, and they do a pretty good...
	I like their Nacho Mama news.
	It's a segment or a separate show they do on the same channel, and they kind of cover just off-topic stuff, fun stuff, mysteries, all kinds of neat stuff.
	So, yeah, that's who that is, Ashley.
	But Ashley and I, we talked on it briefly.
	I don't think we really got into the article, but the same, I don't know if it's the same exact article, but the same topic, how 60%, and she disagrees a little bit on it, on the early onset menopause and the If you, if you don't produce more eggs and stuff, she has a little bit different opinion on that, but I was looking at the same article and that is huge.
	Um, and it's because rats and it hasn't been studied, you know, they, they, they didn't do the same studies in females, but of course we know that in the COVID research in the, that the, the, um, the COVID vaccine.
	The lipid nanoparticles do concentrate in the testes and the ovaries.
	And it looks to be that that was known that this would happen.
	So these things aren't surprising, but they're very disturbing, the amount of infertility.
	And then also, if you're talking about the egg follicles in a female...
	You're also talking about the egg follicles in the baby that she may actually, if she can, conceive and carry a baby.
	If it's a girl, you're passing that on to the baby.
	So that could potentially be killing the egg follicles in the fetus, the baby girl, that may go on in the next generation and also be infertile or have those egg follicles not be able to mature.
	And that was kind of the drive-home point of the article I read, was not so much about the women who took the shot and could it be affecting their egg production, but what would happen to the next generation and next generation.
	And we have no idea if the children of people who got COVID shots...
	What their fertility rates will be on levels.
	And then we also have so much, the sperm levels rates were, counts were dropping, and the quality of sperm have been dropping for many years already.
	And then we don't know how much that will be accelerated in the children of people who got COVID shots.
	That's kind of the theme of this episode.
	The reason we picked the Dr. LaGuardia interview to share was, well, number one, GARD said he gave us good compliments on it, so we knew it was a pretty solid one.
	And, you know, David having his surgery today, and we're talking about health and stuff.
	Dr. LaGuardia is great at helping you avoid things and detox, but we are poisoned from every direction.
	We have chemtrails.
	We have microplastics in our water and our land.
	And that's what the articles I have is on some of the ways we're poisoned.
	Let me find vaccines for one.
	So let's take a look at this one, Karen.
	So this comes from Children's Health Defense.
	It says the tipping point of justice for vaccine-injured children.
	So we all know that there is a fund out there for vaccine-injured people.
	We can't sue the vaccine companies, but there's a fund out there in case you're injured.
	It's a vaccine court.
	It's the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
	I would just ask this.
	Why do you need a compensation program if it's safe and effective?
	Just saying.
	Vaccines are in the category of They're necessarily unsafe.
	They're assumed to be unsafe.
	So they don't even claim that they're not unsafe.
	There's risk involved in vaccines.
	And they've legally said that they're in the category of things that are risky, that they're not safe.
	They're necessarily unsafe.
	All right.
	I'm going to read a little bit of this article and we can talk about it.
	So it says here, and this has to do with court cases.
	So just put that out front.
	Countless vaccine-injured children who developed autism after receiving routine vaccines have been denied justice for decades.
	That's true.
	Largely because the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program determined vaccines didn't cause autism in three test cases.
	Only three.
	Three test cases.
	Not three tests of like thousands of people, but three individual people.
	Right?
	And at the time, I'll kind of skip ahead.
	There were 5,400 children that were, you know, it was kind of like waiting to get the justice to get their compensation, you know, the families.
	Because you got to understand, money is not going to fix this problem.
	You know, the child has autism.
	It's going to be a lifelong disability, varying degrees.
	It's a spectrum, right?
	But the cost that goes on to the parents for that.
	I believe they should get monetary compensation because maybe mom can't work or maybe dad can't work.
	Maybe there is special schooling required.
	There's a lot that goes into it.
	A child having autism is more than just a burden on the child.
	It's a burden on the entire family.
	I don't know what you guys said.
	Catherine Austin Fitz, that was one of her things she said about COVID vaccines, but she says it about childhood vaccines, too.
	If you're trying to present information to somebody, asking them to please reconsider the benefits and risks of vaccines, that you should also need to ask the person how they plan to...
	Pay for the injuries.
	And how do they plan to provide for their family if they can't work or if the child needs full-time care so that both parents can't work or one parent has to stay home with the child?
	How do you plan to pay for that if your health insurance doesn't cover it?
	So she thinks that those are things that absolutely need to be taken into consideration when you consider getting a vaccine for yourself or for your children.
	Well, let's look at my case, right?
	So my grandson who lives with us, we have custody of my grandson.
	He has autism.
	It's not horrible.
	But if I were to want to work, I mean, thank God my wife and I had planned accordingly and we live modestly.
	So we're okay.
	We can not work if we don't want to.
	We're just not going to get a new car or anything anytime soon.
	But if I were to send him to school right now, or next year, he'll be of school age next year.
	I can't.
	Because if I go to work and I have to send him to school, then the school is going to want to put him on Ritalin or some other drug, some SSRI, because that's what they do.
	They just want nice little calm kids to be like zombies in the classroom.
	I know you were a teacher, Karen, and it was different back in your days.
	Today, it's like if you have any kind of, you're outside of that robot function of the perfect kid, boom, you're getting diagnosed with something.
	So I'm going to have to homeschool him.
	So if I was in a position where I had to work, that would be very difficult for us to say, do we want to send him to public school and risk him being diagnosed with something?
	And then if we don't address it or don't take their advice, now CPS is involved.
	Et cetera, et cetera.
	So that's kind of the real harm there when it comes to, you know, children getting injured by these vaccines is the other things you don't see, you know.
	And you were talking about Catherine Austin Fitz addressed that, which I'm glad she did.
	So anyway, let me go on with this.
	So this is one of the test cases.
	I'm going to read it off.
	So, as a baby, Yates Hazlehurst suffered vaccine-induced neurological injuries and was diagnosed with autism at two years old.
	The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program denied Yates' claim and the other two test cases.
	So, there was three.
	They denied three, right?
	These decisions led to the dismissal of the other 5,400 claims that were pending.
	And those 5,400 claims represent actually millions of vaccinated kids.
	They can't allow that precedent to be set.
	Right.
	They can't set that precedent because now it's one out of 31 kids nationally, one out of 12.5 boys in California.
	So they can't afford to pay damages for that many people.
	Right.
	So anyway, the father, Rolf.
	Ralph Rolf.
	I don't know how you say his name.
	But the father, he never stopped fighting, though.
	So this is one of the three test cases.
	For two decades, he followed up on every lead, looking for some explanation as to why the government denied his son's injuries.
	His diligence brought to light a massive fraud upon the courts by the U.S. Department of Justice.
	And this is kind of like wild right here.
	Let me skip down.
	I don't want to read the entire article.
	So, his 20-year pursuit of justice reached a pivotal moment on April 2nd, and I think that's of this year, which actually happens to be World Autism Day.
	Hazel Hurst filed a motion to expose the alleged fraud, detailing shocking evidence that the DOJ attorneys knew at the time, so this is at the time of the hearing when they denied the three people, right?
	They knew at the time of the hearing that...
	The very first test case in the OAP prior to the Hazlehurst versus HHS hearing that vaccines can and did cause autism.
	So basically, they knew, and this is coming from the world's most renowned person on children's neurological stuff.
	He already had established that vaccines can cause autism in some people.
	And they...
	Didn't allow that in the court and deny these three cases, which then denied the 5,400 other cases, which denied millions of people that could have come and brought a case.
	And the DOJ knew that.
	So let me keep reading here.
	Unbeknownst at the time to the petitioner and the vaccine compensation program, Special masters, since there are no judges, the DOJ star expert medical witness, Dr. Andrew J. Zimmerman, the world's leading pediatric neurologist specializing in autism research, who specialized in this, informed the DOJ attorneys during the first hearing that he had changed his original opinion and determined that vaccines can and do cause autism in some cases.
	So this is kind of monumental.
	The basis of denying vaccines cause autism or can potentially cause autism was based on a lie, basically.
	So maybe the guy had the opinion at one time but then changed his opinion.
	But when they went to court for these three cases, which represented the 5,400 and then on top of that millions that have not come forward yet, he changed his mind and they just kind of threw that out.
	They threw it out.
	So what do you think about that?
	That's pretty wild, huh?
	Yeah, it is.
	I know the vaccine court has historically, a few people have had success there, but the rules of evidence are different there.
	It's very...
	Very rigged.
	It's not easy at all.
	There's a statute of limitations.
	So most people don't even realize that or get the diagnosis of autism before the statute of limitations runs out to file with the vaccine court.
	So it's.
	It's it was established when the Vaccine Act of 1986 was passed, which gave vaccines immunity.
	The vaccine court was supposed to be established.
	As a balance to that immunity, but it hasn't been fair at all historically.
	There's been a few people that have gotten huge amounts of money, like a million or two if their child was very, very injured, but most people have no recourse through it.
	This was specifically talking about causing autism.
	What kills me, though, is that the court It cherry-picked what it wanted to use as an expert witness testimony.
	And the testimony they used was an old opinion that the same person had a new opinion after further research, and they decided to ignore that.
	So that's malicious, in my opinion.
	And I know why.
	It's because if it comes out that that's the case, I mean, how many millions?
	Right, yeah.
	I'd never heard of autism when I was a kid.
	Right.
	And now, I mean, I've got several family members with kids with autism.
	Well, the thing is, it's a spectrum of things.
	And so many people will say that, okay, one thing that really gets my goat is when people say, oh, but that's anecdotal.
	Anecdotal evidence is a personal story.
	Any data set is made up of individual data points, which are each the personal story of an individual.
	So any study is compiled from anecdotal evidence that's aggregated together.
	So to say that, oh, you can't use one story as evidence, if it's your life, if it's your child, and you gave your child a round of vaccines at a well visit, And they change.
	You watch them go lose their speech.
	You watch them lose eye contact.
	You have a fairly good indication if this happens after a well visit with a round of vaccines, that the vaccines may have something to do with that.
	And I personally know many people who say, my child changed.
	My child was normal, healthy, babbling, talking, speaking.
	Around one and a half, two, two and a half, three, they changed.
	And so I don't think it's fair to deny that the parents' experience and the parents' account of what happened.
	They know their child and they know when things happened and how their child changed.
	So people say, oh, there aren't any studies.
	You can't prove it.
	I think people's experience is valid and that we need to respect.
	The experience of all of these parents.
	Well, I'm going to talk from the side of science here, right?
	Because we talk about, we're looking at global warming, CO2 levels.
	I mean, whatever you want to look at.
	People will be like, if you argue against their point, they'll say, well, correlation does not equal causation.
	Well, that's what you're basing it on.
	That's what science is.
	If there's correlation, like let's just say I drop a rock and it falls to the ground.
	It may not equal causation, but it also doesn't necessarily disprove causation.
	It's science, though.
	If I see a correlation between doing X and then Y happens, and I can repeat that, that's called science.
	So it's hard to repeat the results.
	Perhaps design a study that rules out some of the other...
	Circumstances so that you can isolate it better.
	But I think these are all hyperbolic phrases to throw people off.
	Well, it's just like people with the math for COVID.
	If you have any common sense, any basic knowledge of science and can think logically, you can see through these things.
	Yeah.
	Well, hey, I'm going to jump in because we're going to run short on time here.
	Let's go.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	So we overprepare.
	We always do.
	Well, we have a show coming up on Saturday.
	We can finish it.
	Yeah, we can.
	I still have it.
	More than next week.
	I have a whole topic that I didn't cover last weekend that's going to be quite a bit, probably a half an hour on Saturday.
	But anyway, going back to the medical thing and how we're being poisoned, I found this interesting.
	Turf fields, meaning the astroturf.
	Right?
	May have forever chemicals.
	Should kids be playing on them?
	Surprise, surprise.
	Yeah.
	So this is an interesting study they did.
	The three six-year-old girls stood on the sidelines as their coach swabbed their hands.
	Then they ran onto a lush green turf field and played soccer for 90 minutes straight.
	No stepping off the pitch.
	This wasn't just a practice.
	It was part of a small experiment conducted in the suburban foothills of San Diego.
	That's in your neck of the woods.
	Last summer.
	Salar Paravini, I guess you can say, she's 44, that's the children's assistant soccer coach, swabbed his hands as well and shipped the samples taken before and after the practice to a lab in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
	There, scientists would test them for forever chemicals, also known as PFAs.
	A broad class of man-made chemicals linked with a variety of health concerns from High cholesterol to cancer.
	And there's other things.
	There's heart problems.
	And I got two articles on this, so we won't get into all of it.
	Well, the nuts and bolts of it is...
	I'll stop reading because that's boring for people.
	The nuts and bolts of it is we are poisoning ourselves with our plastic water bottles, our AstroTurf, which your property tax is paying for.
	That blew my mind in Georgia.
	Value of my home went up and my property tax went up.
	My property tax was like $1,800 a year and it went up to $6,000 a year in five years.
	And I'm like, where is this money going?
	So I got the itemized list, right?
	And more than 50% was going to the public education system.
	And as I drive through town, I'm seeing there's like three different schools.
	And this is not a huge town.
	This is not Alex's town.
	They all had a college-style football field with a track and the grandstands and the digital.
	This is where my money is going.
	My money is going to this, and they had the AstroTurf.
	I'm just tired of paying to poison our kids.
	These are forever chemicals.
	Another reason I wanted to run Dr. LaGuardia Uh, portion of the show is because Dr. LaGuardia, actually, we've done several shows with him.
	He talks about detoxing from some of this stuff, as well as Dr. Jane Ruby talks about it.
	Uh, when it comes to microplastics and PFAs, well, microplastics, I think it's the equivalent of, is it a one, one credit card a month or a week or something that we're ingesting microplastics?
	I think it's five grams and I'm not sure how often it is.
	Yeah.
	Well, it was the equivalent of a credit card.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'm not sure.
	When the microplastics break down and they continue to break down over time, they become nanoplastics.
	They actually can breach the blood-brain barrier.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	I'm not sure the percentage, but we do have a percentage of our brain now that is microplastics.
	Yeah.
	Let me bring this other article up.
	I will bring it up.
	So, new study links microplastics to serious health harms in humans.
	And part of this is from the AstroTurf.
	It's in your water.
	It's in everything.
	So here we go.
	Scientists are finding microplastics in almost every part of the body, including the lungs and the stomach, prompting questions about how they may be harmful.
	The study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine found heart disease patients with microplastics in the blood vessels on either side of their neck, which deliver blood from the heart to the brain and head, were twice as likely to suffer from a heart attack or stroke.
	These patients were also more likely to die over the next three years than people who had no microplastics in their carotid artery.
	Carotid artery, and that's, you know, we talk about plaques in your arteries from cholesterol.
	It's from microplastics, apparently.
	That's another issue now.
	I think it's really important.
	I didn't realize that it deposits in your arteries.
	I know that vitamin D can, that calcium can, but apparently microplastics are part of those plaques that build up also.
	Yeah, and it's kind of crazy because they found the South Pole.
	If you believe there's a South Pole, I mean, I'm not going to judge, right?
	But they found microplastics from the South Pole, the North Pole, and down into the Mariana Trench.
	It's everywhere.
	We've been using plastic for so long.
	It's in our groundwater.
	It's even in the clouds.
	They're finding it in the clouds.
	Here we go.
	Depending on the source of the plastic, microplastics can be contaminated with toxic chemical additives during the manufacturing process.
	If a chemical additive hitches a ride on a microplastic particle and enters the body, it can leach out into the body and harm the hormone and reproductive systems.
	So here we go.
	Back to fertility, right?
	Now, was this done on purpose to make us infertile?
	Probably not.
	It's probably just a byproduct of us making plastic products, trash bags, Ziploc bags, plastic water bottles, all this stuff.
	So it's going to go into what are microplastics.
	I'll go ahead and read this.
	Plastic doesn't decompose in the way food or paper does.
	Instead, it breaks down into tinier and tinier pieces.
	When these pieces shrink below 5 millimeters in size, about the width of a small paper clip, they become what's known as a microplastic.
	Microplastics smaller than a micrometer are called nanoplastics.
	That's the ones that can breach the blood-brain barrier.
	Small enough to breach cell barriers.
	There you go.
	As a plastic is one of the most widely used materials in the world, microplastics have found their way into nearly everything, including animal products.
	Because of microplastic size, you may not be able to avoid exposure completely, but there are ways to reduce how many microplastics get into your body.
	And there's some tips here.
	Avoid the plastic water bottles.
	We talked about that earlier, right?
	Drink out of a glass.
	And keep the plastics out of the sun.
	Yes.
	And I've actually heard this.
	I'll kind of sidebar here.
	I was reading an interesting article on why you shouldn't keep a bottle of water in your car.
	And apparently it's happening.
	Well, apparently it's happened where, depending on where the sun is and how the bottle's sitting, so you throw it in your floorboard, it can act as a lens and a focal point and actually catch your carpet on fire.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	You know, I've had, I've left like...
	Back in the old days when I would buy soda cans, I think I left some in the trunk of my car and it got so hot they exploded.
	And so I'm very aware when people have water bottles or carrying water, storing water, that we don't leave it in the car because it gets incredibly hot in the car.
	And we know that the chemicals leach out of the plastics even more when they're warmed up.
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	My wife, she's notorious.
	She drinks Diet Coke.
	I don't drink any pop at all.
	You call it soda or do you call it pop?
	I call it soda.
	Yeah, I grew up calling it.
	My grandma used to call it soda water.
	Yeah, well we called it soda pop.
	So maybe Midwest is, you know, because down South they call it pop.
	But my wife's notorious for going to the store and she'll come back with Diet Coke.
	And if it wasn't refrigerated, which it usually isn't, it's usually sitting out on a shelf, she'll throw one in the freezer to get it cold real fast and forget about it.
	Yeah.
	They will explode.
	Anyway, I thought that was funny.
	So it talks about filtering your water.
	And I think after reading this article, we try to avoid all that stuff, but it's in our water.
	So I might go and get me a nice Berkey filter or something now and spend the money.
	Yep.
	Let's see.
	Avoid plastic cutting boards.
	This is a big one.
	I've actually seen this before.
	Oops.
	What did I do?
	I hit something wrong here.
	Amateur.
	Plastic cutting boards.
	Another thing is the black plastic utensils that people use.
	They were really popular for a while.
	Those have forever chemicals that lead to it.
	So we need to throw away those plastic cooking utensils, spatulas, and spoons, and get some...
	Some wooden ones are stainless steel.
	Yeah, and I've got a wooden cutting board that I made.
	My wife uses a plastic one, but I think we're going to throw that away.
	And I got a wood one that I made when I was in Kuwait, and it's really pretty.
	So she kind of uses it as a display, you know, display it somewhere.
	But no, we're going to use it.
	And to finish it, I didn't use a polyurethane because that's also...
	Anything with the word poly in it, it's going to be an oil-based product, right?
	And that's why it's dangerous.
	Plastics are made from oil, petroleum-based products.
	What I used was a non-toxic floor polish.
	It's probably kind of like a linseed oil or something, right?
	And I just did several coats of that.
	So I think that that's safe to ingest.
	And then you could cut on one side and keep one side pretty.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Absolutely.
	So, yeah, the plastic cutting boards.
	This is the one that's probably going to get a lot of people.
	Microwave your food in glass containers rather than plastic or takeaway containers.
	We just went, for Mother's Day, we went to El Magay Restaurant.
	It's a Mexican restaurant about 20 minutes away.
	One of my wife's favorite places to go.
	And, of course, we ate all the chips while we're waiting, right?
	And then when our food gets here, we're like, oh, we're full.
	So we brought it home and it's in a styrofoam container.
	A lot of people will throw that styrofoam container in the microwave and heat up their food.
	Don't do that, folks.
	A styrofoam, again, that's a petroleum product.
	And I would say don't even use a microwave to heat your food.
	I think it destructurizes the water in the food and a lot of people say, and I haven't seen the studies, that It neutralizes the vitamins and minerals, so it takes the nutritional value out of the food.
	I have read that, too.
	I don't know the validity of that or anything, but yeah, I have also read that.
	I don't use the microwave for food anymore.
	Yeah, well, my wife's pretty good about actually using the oven, especially if we get pizza.
	You know, I'll chuck it on a plate.
	I'll chuck the pizza at the microwave and heat it up the next day or whatever.
	She'll throw it on a cookie, on a metal cookie sheet.
	And heat it back up in the oven.
	That's actually, it's really good when she does that.
	Well, yeah, most things taste better if you actually cook them in the oven.
	And then, okay, we got like five minutes, so let me just hit this one real quick and get your take on it.
	We'll plug everybody and get out of here.
	Looking at mental health.
	So we're talking about health today, right?
	Adolescents diagnosed with mental health, and where is this from?
	This is from Epoch Times.
	epic times if you want to call it that.
	Adolescents diagnosed with mental health conditions spend nearly an hour or more on social media daily than their peers and are twice as likely to compare themselves negatively to others online according to new research.
	The study involving 3,340 adolescents I would say it's probably worse here because all I see is kids on the phone constantly here.
	They suggest troubling patterns for teens with anxiety and depression.
	Who report having less control over their social media use and greater mood fluctuations depending on the comments and likes they receive on social media.
	This is getting pretty serious, Karen.
	The mental health situation.
	This study insinuates that the kids have mental health issues like depression, anxiety.
	Stuff like that.
	And that's why they're spending the extra hour on the phone.
	But I would suggest that maybe the extra hour on the phone is causing these problems.
	Right, it could be.
	What's your thoughts on that?
	I think it's what came first, the chicken or the egg kind of thing.
	I think one of the main problems is isolation.
	The lack of actual...
	Human relationships or even the things like learning to play an instrument, learning to draw, taking some kind of lessons, being on a team, a sports team at school, after school, doing things that make you feel proud of yourself or feel like you have some skills that you matter, that you fit into a group or that you're good at something.
	We need that.
	We need that human connection.
	We need that satisfaction and those feelings of...
	That's how we build our self-esteem.
	Absolutely.
	When you're online all the time, people are...
	We know that...
	People, the profiles that we see of people, they may not even be real people.
	And people don't put the unflattering pictures on their profile.
	They're going to put a flattering picture.
	So you're not getting the real person when you're interacting online.
	And then, of course, teenagers are going through or kids have a rough time anyway with their self-image.
	And so it only makes sense that if you're not getting any genuine feedback.
	From other people and people who care about you or doing things that you truly enjoy and getting out into the sunshine, into nature, learning to do something, a skill, something artistic and creative that you'll be more depressed and possibly even spend more time online.
	It was said in here, number one, Twilight Shadow said the chicken always came first.
	So thanks for solving that.
	Thank you.
	And no one you know talked about dopamine, and absolutely it's been proven.
	There's two things when it comes to mobile devices and kids, right?
	Number one, everything is blue.
	Blue, blue, blue, blue, blue.
	That keeps you, the color blue, the same way when the sun comes up, it keeps you awake.
	It inhibits the...
	The natural creation of what is the melatonin?
	Melatonin, yeah.
	So that's why they actually, all phones, come with a nighttime filter.
	You're supposed to stop looking at your phone or other devices like a couple hours before you go to bed because that blue color is designed to keep you alert, keep you awake.
	To keep you on there longer.
	The other thing is, you know, the likes, the comments, all this stuff, there's a dopamine release when you get a positive feedback from something.
	So, you know, he had mentioned that no one you know, he mentioned the dopamine.
	So what they're doing is they're keeping you on.
	And this is for ad revenue, for data collection.
	They want you on your phone constantly.
	They want to keep you alert and keep you scrolling.
	They need your attention.
	Exactly.
	And your reward is that dopamine rush.
	I think we're at the end of the show.
	We are at the end of the show.
	Well, let me get your final thoughts, and we'll go ahead and close out.
	Sorry, folks, we did not get to all the articles.
	I just really wanted to share the clips from that show we did with Dr. LaGuardia.
	If you want to see the full episode, go over to the Knights of the Storm.
	Actually, you should be able to just go to Rumble and type in Dr. LaGuardia.
	And it should bring up the ones we did in the foxhole and the ones we did in Knights of the Storm.
	Thank you for allowing me to join you today.
	I'm grateful to be here with everybody and prayers for David Knight and his family.
	Yes, absolute prayers.
	I'm going to text Travis as soon as I get off here and see how it's going.
	But anyway, thank you so much.
	I'm just honored that David...
	And Travis and Karen Knight would allow us to come on.
	It was such an honor.
	And hopefully we did a good job.
	All right.
	So I guess that's it, huh, Karen?
	Anything else?
	Well, we're at our three-hour mark, so.
	Yep.
	All right.
	Well, take care.
	God bless everyone.
	Much love to everybody.
	Yep.
	Prayers for David.
	And we will see you next time.
	Bye.
	The common man.
	They created common core and dumbed 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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