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Fri Episode #2074: Operation Paperclip Nazis & America’s Cultural Shift

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	In the world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	Well, I once read that when they asked the Duke of Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo how he felt about his performance, he said it was a near-run thing.
	And that's how I feel about this entire setup for the show this morning.
	I don't know if it was just bad luck or whatever technical stuff, but I got it just on time, right at 8 o'clock Central Time and poured my cup of coffee, Beans the Brave over to my left, just off screen, keeping us safe from woodland creatures, bad vibes, and intruders here at the Branson office.
	But it's great to be back hosting the David Knight Show, filling in for Travis Knight and the great David Knight.
	It's August 15th, 2025.
	Fortuitous, I get to host on the anniversary of Richard Nixon taking us off the gold standard.
	August 15th, 1971 interrupts an episode of Bonanza, which was a Sunday night.
	And no one else has ever brought this up, but isn't it kind of strange or ironic that the show Bonanza, which was a huge hit, I mean, this was a big deal in 1971.
	It's a show about people going out west to find gold and silver.
	That's what a Bonanza is.
	So interesting that that happened on interrupting that program.
	And I pulled up some metrics.
	You know, there's a website out that's called WTF Happened in 1971.
	And it has the, it doesn't even talk about the gold standard.
	It just kind of shows you the sociological and economic consequences of creating a fake currency.
	And it's a magic trick.
	I mean, you know, for the entire part of the American experiment from its founding, we were on a bimetallic standard.
	And, you know, we had a dollar as good as gold.
	We had a silver dollar.
	And in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt made it illegal for you to own gold, but we still had a gold standard.
	They re-evaluated the gold price along with his banker handler Harry Hopkins, and they raised it from $20 to $35 an ounce, but it stayed that way until 1971.
	And this was an agreement that we had with the world.
	I mean, starting in 1944, we had the Breton Woods Agreement.
	And that was the setup for the new economic world order at the time.
	That was the culmination of the fourth turning, the cyclical end of that period of history.
	We had the Great Depression in World War II.
	And out of that was born the IMF and the World Bank.
	And of course, the dollar became the world's reserve currency.
	And so in the mid-1960s, the world started to notice something peculiar.
	The United States, for the first time, started taking the silver out of its coinage.
	And it is ironic, you know, JFK had that executive order about keeping silver and silver as a monetary metal with the Federal Reserve.
	And he was the last figure on the last silver half-dollar in 1964.
	And of course, LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson, took the silver out of the coinage the following year.
	So the world took notice.
	And as a matter of fact, President de Gaulle of France thought that was a signal.
	So he sent his warships over actually to pick up the gold that was owed to France.
	He started seeing the writing on the wall that America was expanding its money supply.
	It was debasing its coinage.
	And so by 1971, this was something that was going on around the world.
	Countries were starting to show up at the gold window and repatriate those dollars, bring those dollars home and trade them in for gold, which they were supposed to be able to do per the Breton Woods Agreement.
	So that's why Nixon closed the gold window, because we had expanded the money supply.
	We had debased the currency, and there really wasn't any choice.
	There was going to be a run on our gold reserves.
	So this happened in this magic trick in the early 1970s.
	And the American people who had been used to having a dollar as good as gold, you could take a dollar and bury it.
	And 20 years later, dig it up and it's a dollar would buy about the same amount of goods and services.
	A matter of fact, I use this metric all the time.
	But if you go back to the beginning of the 19th century, even the late 18th century, and you were to buy shoes or clothes or whatever you needed, for the most part, in the early 20th century, it's going to cost the same.
	So from 1800 to 1905, there was no inflation.
	I mean, periods of, you know, there was nominal inflation in between times like the Civil War.
	Lincoln had the greenback, but it always phased back out because we had a bimetallic silver gold standard.
	And so there was no inflation.
	And that's when you start to see this country really made a pivot.
	And not only was it the monetary consequences of taking us off the gold standard, removing the dollar from gold, there was social consequences.
	And of course, the internal consequences of having left the tradition of making things.
	This was all done.
	And you can look back and it's like a plan being put into action.
	If you wanted to deindustrialize the United States, if you wanted to hollow it out and make it sort of like though you would have a colony in a consumption colony, you would do that.
	You would remove it from its manufacturing base.
	And that's what happened in 1972, 1973.
	We had the formation of the Trilateral Commission.
	In 1973, the United States ran its last trade surplus.
	And it really was the largest transfer of wealth in human history at that time prior to COVID-19.
	But I pulled up some metrics and I wanted to go, this will blow your mind because this is a milestone we just passed recently.
	I think the last few days we came across $37 trillion in debt.
	Let's go.
	I'm going to pull this up.
	It was a metric that I'd found earlier about the debt.
	Let's see.
	Yeah, you guys don't, this has been funny.
	I have so many tabs open and I'm running everything on my laptop.
	So you have to bear with me.
	We may have to come back to it because I don't see the tab anymore for whatever reason.
	But it was talking about we've had about 370 billion in debt in 1971.
	And so the metric is basically you go from a $35 an ounce gold price to a $3,500 an ounce gold price.
	You go from a $370 billion national debt to a $37 trillion national debt.
	And you see the compounding effects.
	And of course, it gets to a point where, and we really are there at this tipping point.
	Here, I just found the metrics here.
	By the way, great to be back.
	And I will go to the chat this morning.
	I've got Donald Jeffries is going to be on with me in the second hour, along with Billy Ray Valentine.
	We might just have an America unplugged second hour.
	Third hour, I've got Mr. Anderson is going to be on with me to discuss some interesting moves in the space program.
	Let me see.
	Yeah, 1971, the U.S. national debt was about $371 billion, roughly one-third of GDP.
	Today, it soared to about $37 trillion or about 123% of GDP.
	A stark fiscal shift over five decades.
	Most economists, if you read into debt to GDP ratios, there's like a magic number, and it's at 130% of debt to GDP.
	And that's when things start to have a cascading effect.
	It's like a ripple effect.
	It starts to just come apart at that point where you can no longer borrow.
	It can no longer inflate.
	There is some sort of magic number at 130% of debt to GDP where you're going to have to reset the whole thing.
	And imagine that.
	That's what they've been telling you they're going to do.
	Your friends in Davos at their eyes wide shut parties.
	They've got a lot of planning going on.
	They're going to do a great reset because they have to, because this has all been a magic trick.
	This has been an experiment.
	Growth, income growth versus inflation.
	While medium household income climbed nominally from roughly $8,700 in 1971 to about $80,600 in 2023, the real purchasing power hasn't kept pace, giving the eight times inflation across goods, services, and housing.
	Of course, it hasn't.
	Homes then cost an inflation adjusted $210,000.
	Now the average price hovers around $417,000, nearly double in real terms.
	Housing costs have surged faster than wages.
	I talked about this yesterday too with Travis.
	And this entire, we're pricing out an entire generation of younger Americans out of housing because we've hidden that cost of not having a fixed value on our currency.
	We have hidden that in things like housing.
	Matter of fact, we went from an economy that produced things.
	We're the manufacturing marvel of mankind.
	We were the arsenal of democracy.
	We made things.
	We were manufacturing.
	And we had living wage jobs and other things prior to these free trade agreements and the hollowing out.
	And that would allow a stable home price.
	And since we become more of a consumptive nation where we just consume and we borrow and everything's based off debt, matter of fact, JP Morgan says that gold is money, everything else is credit.
	But in this time, he would be wrong because everything else is debt.
	As a matter of fact, every time you create a home loan, you create new currency.
	That is new currency, ladies and gentlemen.
	That's not something that's borrowed from a reserve.
	Same thing if you swipe a credit card, that's New currency.
	So we got into the not only the fiat business, we got into the currency creation business.
	So every time there's new debt, which is that's how the economy limps along, that's how they measure the consumer price index.
	All of that stuff, all of the metrics for so-called economic health are based off of debt.
	In 1971, gold was a controlled price of $35 an ounce.
	The post-gold standard prices spiked, reaching $840 by 1980.
	And today, gold trades above $3,000 to $3,500 an ounce.
	Once untethered from the gold, the dollar became pure fiat.
	Trust in government and central bank policy, not gold reserves, now underpins its value.
	This unleashed voluminous money creation, enabling persistent inflation and swelling public debt.
	Well, it's not only that, too.
	It's the wage disparities.
	If you look at the graphs and charts, you go to WTF happened in 1971, you can see that even corporate profits are up.
	And this happened in conjunction with free trade policy.
	Corporate profits are record highs.
	CEOs, I mean, people that are in the upper echelon income has increased massively.
	But for the average American, it's stagnant, flat, or in decline.
	And as your dollar buys less and less, you have to work harder and harder to buy fewer and fewer things.
	It is a rigged system.
	And it's not just an economic issue with me.
	To me, the entire fiat experiment, eluciferian in so many ways.
	It's vampiric because it drains you of your energy and it creates things that should not be.
	It favors things that should not be.
	If you look at what happened after 2008, they actually have, and I'll have to pull up the charts if we have time during the show.
	I just thought of it, but they have hundreds of zombie corporations.
	And what is a zombie corporation?
	A zombie corporation is just something that doesn't really make money, but it can't really go under.
	So it's propped up by central banking, by multinationals and conglomerates and those who benefit from the system itself.
	See, that didn't used to happen.
	We would have the semblance of laissez-faire of free market, and that would take care of itself.
	Like, for instance, I'm free market.
	If I don't make a profit, if I don't run my business the right way, I go out of business.
	No one comes to save me.
	I don't get to go to Daddy Warbucks, by the way, which that character was based off Paul Warburg, first head of the Central Bank of the United States, also known as the Federal Reserve.
	I don't get to do that.
	I don't get to go and get bailed out.
	But that's what we have now.
	And this top-heavy system, and you wonder why we get into situations why you wonder why, why is customer service so bad?
	Why is there no competition?
	It's because of this crony capitalism.
	It's rigged into a fiat system.
	It is insidious and they prey upon you.
	They prey upon all of your work, everything that you do, because you are not able to cross over and compete with them, which I think is the entire setup from the beginning.
	I was talking to Travis yesterday.
	I'm reminded of our conversation now and thinking about the tariffs that were placed on India as we see the emergence of bricks and the weaponization of the dollar.
	Everything that's happened really rapidly too in the last five years where we see de-dollarization on the rise.
	If you look at that, we've made no inroads to make it attractive for companies to build here, to make things here.
	We certainly haven't deregulated.
	We haven't our arcane tax system that doesn't even make any sense.
	It doesn't make sense for a reason.
	If the super wealthy didn't like the tax code, they'd just get rid of it.
	They love it.
	It was built by the oligarchs.
	It was built by the ruling class.
	Matter of fact, 1913, you get the 16th Amendment.
	This was pushed through by the powers that be out of the character of the American Republic.
	Everything that we had been founded on, this was antithetical to that.
	It was passed in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Act so that you would be a debt slave.
	You could pay interest on the debt that the banksters would borrow.
	And they exempted themselves from these taxes.
	They created their foundations and other things.
	So it was not a progressive, I mean, that's what it always gets labeled is that, you know, finally we're going to do something about internal social safety nets and everything else.
	And people are going to pay their fair share.
	And there's the robber barons.
	The robert barons created it.
	And that's why it still stands today.
	You can't have both worlds.
	That's so funny.
	You talk to a progressive or a leftist, and they're always talking about taxing the rich or eat the rich or whatever.
	You have AOC showing up at that gala with that dress on about tax the rich or eat the rich.
	And it's funny because if they all, and then at the same breath, they also say that the country is ruled by the multinationals and corporations and the rich.
	But they don't seem to notice that the rich love that tax, that they keep it there.
	They keep it there for a reason.
	It's a control mechanism.
	It's part of the Communist Manifesto.
	And we've adopted all 10 planks of that.
	I think number five of the Communist Manifesto is the central bank.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	You know, without gold's constraint, the Federal Reserve could expand the money supply at will, enabling large-scale deficit spending.
	Other currencies abandoned their pegs to the dollar, introducing volatility in global trade and finance.
	Economic stability became reliant on the policy decisions of the Federal Reserve and other central banks rather than a fixed standard.
	Well, that's another part of this, is that when you have de-dollarization, and even this report that I pulled up, it mentions the petro dollar.
	That's something else that came out of 1971 through 74.
	We got the petro dollar, which this agreement that does exist, by the way, a lot of people said it was a conspiracy theory, but no, it was an agreement that existed.
	Henry Kissinger brokered it.
	It's basically Saudi and OPEC.
	We say, look, we'll protect you.
	We'll provide military support, intelligence.
	We'll sell you weapons, all these other things.
	You just have to denominate anytime somebody wants to buy Saudi oil, you have to denominate that and take dollars.
	And so they did.
	And we did that for 50 years.
	And then somehow last year, it just went away.
	No summit, no meetings, no nothing.
	Just the petro dollar disappeared.
	And of course, it's still denominated about 80% in dollars, but now they're introducing things like the Petro Yuan.
	And they're also using a basket of other currencies.
	Saudi Arabia is in the periphery of BRICS, which is Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
	It's about 40% of the world's population.
	So the dollar is dying.
	The dollar is in hospice, or at least in its current form.
	I always say the dollar is not going to zero.
	The dollar is going to digital.
	And you look at what happened with the introduction of the Genius Act and stable coins, which is another facet of this.
	But the dollar is there's a controlled demolition going on with the dollar at this time.
	And you can see it with countries dumping it, like Russia back in 2022 when we placed the sanctions.
	They had a massive freefall of their ruble.
	And then once they said, we're going to back this ruble, so many grams of gold for so many rubles, and we're going to stabilize it, and we're not going to take dollars anymore.
	And they started going to trade on the open market and going direct oil for gold and things like that with India or China.
	And the ruble bounced back.
	But the dollar did not.
	The dollar at the time, world usage of the dollar in 2022 was about 53% of all global transactions went on in dollars.
	By the end of 2022, going into 2023, it was about 45%.
	It's in the low 40s right now and declining.
	De-dollarization continues to eat into the dollar's share of hegemonic dominance.
	And I mentioned before many times talking with David, if you look at the currencies held by reserve, by central banks, they have number one is still the dollar, but number two is gold.
	It used to be the Euro.
	In fact, whenever gold supplanted the Euro, the European Central Bank had some statements about how gold, gold, threatens the monetary world order.
	They're very anxious about what's happening to their fiat currencies, which is interesting because central banks, they never hoard their own currency.
	If they find it so valuable, why isn't their reserve stock with that?
	Well, it's stocked with things like gold.
	Matter of fact, they've been buying it at a record pace for the last five years and ramping up every other single year.
	Let's pull up while we're in that line of logic.
	Let's talk about what's next for the Fed.
	I'll pull this up really quick.
	This is kitco.com.
	And this is interesting too.
	You have this battle going on I talked about yesterday on my show where the president of the United States is threatening to sue the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
	Now, that's a thought experiment in and of itself.
	And first of all, the reason that Trump is unhappy with Jerome Powell is that Jerome Powell wants, at least has the semblance of wanting, and at least temporarily, a strong dollar, whatever that means.
	Because when you lower interest rates, there will be a temporary economic boom.
	You will have some projects that will start.
	You will have at least the illusion that things are going great splendidly.
	There'll be a lot of liquidity.
	Happy times are here again.
	And then you start realizing the consequences of that binge.
	It's like a hangover and you get really sick and there's some things that start to fall apart and there's bubbles that burst and all that stuff that goes on.
	Jerome Powell raised rates faster than any Fed chair for a reason.
	And the reason was, is because the massive, the massive amount of currency creation, unprecedented, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, after COVID-19 44, there was 80% of all the dollars ever created were created in that five-year window from 2020 to now.
	So of our entire history, 80% of all the dollars created were created in the last five years.
	So there was a raise in interest rates.
	It wasn't the highest interest rates we've ever seen, but it was the fastest rate hike.
	And that was to put at least a tourniquet on the bleeding that was coming out of the value of the dollar.
	And this is Reuters, The headline, the U.S. Fed to cut rates in September.
	And once more this year, say most economists, a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in September the 1st this year, followed perhaps by another before year end, remains the base forecast for most economists pulled by Reuters amid rising concerns about the health of the world's biggest economy.
	U.S. inflation is rising again with more upward pressure expected from President Donald Trump's tariffs.
	And there have been big downward revisions of hiring figures over recent months that suggest the job market is weakening.
	What's funny, these experts are always the last to know.
	You know, if you're on the ground, you're actually small business and your lifeblood is in this economic condition, you notice that something's terribly wrong.
	Something is afoot.
	Something is happening.
	And it was written all over people's faces.
	And you can see it through every transaction.
	It's harder and harder, like I said.
	It's harder and harder.
	You have to work more and more, longer hours to make less and less, and things cost more and more because of the issue with our currency, the way that the system is built.
	Trump has berated Fed chair Jerome Powell over his reluctance to cut rates.
	And at the July meeting, there was clear divergence from the steady rates positioning among a minority of federal open market committee members.
	Alongside simmering doubts over the Fed's independence from political interference and declining reliability of economic data, it has become more difficult for economists to make predictions with great conviction.
	I paid attention as a 28-year-old small business guy.
	I had a real estate company in a convenience store in 2008.
	I paid attention to what the economists said.
	And I will never do that again.
	I mean, I didn't believe them, but I thought, wow, it sure doesn't seem like it here.
	It doesn't seem like it's supposed to be going this way.
	Sure seems weaker than what they say.
	You know, you turn on the financial channels and it's like, it's great.
	You're going to buy, you know, get this, this, this stock's going to be, and I think there's something, there's something lurking beneath the surface.
	There's something wrong.
	And I was right.
	But the experts, you know, they never really have to pay a consequence for being wrong.
	They remain experts.
	August is not typically a month for big forecast changes either.
	Many are waiting for the next round of inflation and jobs data, as well as a speech from Powell.
	His last at the Fed's annual Jackson Hole conference held this month as his terms as Fed chief ends in May.
	Economists are broadly sticking to a more cautious outlook than interest rate future traders whose pricing suggests a near certainty of a September cut and a strong likelihood of another and the possibility of a third by year end.
	Well, this is their wheelhouse.
	This is their trick.
	I mean, it's funny.
	You realize how insane it is that the entire economy just with bated breath, just waiting.
	What is the Fed going to do next?
	It should be irrelevant.
	It should be irrelevant.
	But because of the way the system works with, again, liquidity, the lowering of rates, because when you raise rates, liquidity dries up.
	It's because a lot of the large holders of capital and even foreign nations will house those dollars, buy them and put them in treasuries because you can make 3% or 4% on them.
	So the more that you raise rates, the less likely that there will be dollars flowing through the system.
	That's why you raise rates when you want to curtail, so-called curtail inflation, or at least dampen it a bit.
	Well, they're going to lower rates.
	And you really don't need to look further than Japan if you want to go to 0% interest rates.
	And there's even a theory, I mean, you can technically have negative interest rates.
	You have to punish somebody for saving.
	A 61% majority, 67 out of the 110, predicted the Fed would lower its benchmark by 25 basis points to 4% on September 17th for the first time this year, up from 53% in July survey.
	Well, I'll make a prediction.
	They're going to lower interest rates.
	I don't know if it's going to be in September, but they're going to continue to do that.
	And I think in this iteration, whatever is going on with the Fed, I think you have to look at the kind of zoom out because of the digitized tokenized system that's on the horizon.
	There's something to that.
	If you look at, and you could just take a brief summary of what Larry Fink has talked about, head of BlackRock.
	Larry Fink has gone to the World Economic Forum.
	He's gone to Davos and he said Bitcoin is going to go to $700,000.
	I thought, that's bizarre.
	Why would he say that?
	Well, if you look at the stablecoin system, and of course, Scott Besson, you look at his involvement in stablecoins and others that are on the periphery of the executive, there's a backdoor system for digital currency through a public-private partnership, and you would need an off-ramp.
	I don't know what role Bitcoin plays in that other than maybe a store of value or something else, because in the digitized system, and they've tried this with FedNow.
	You had, this is, I think, July of 2023 is when it first went online.
	You had the backbone of what would have been, at least if you called it the Fed coin is what they wanted to call it, whatever the CBDC was going to be.
	And it may still be that.
	But they've abandoned that particular blueprint, I think, for what Zignu Brzezinski would call an in-run around sovereignty through the backdoor of stablecoins and through the Genius Act, which I think was a milestone.
	And you have to continue to watch that, kind of zoom out and watch that and see if that system is going to replace our current system, because you can only lower rates so many more times.
	I mean, the dollar in its current form.
	If you look at, you have to look at money velocity and things that, you know, I don't pretend to know how to explain that to you, other than like a Ponzi scheme.
	You know, if you, if people still use the dollar, that's why we had the Saudis use it and OPEC and had the petro dollar for so many years because it was a shock to the system.
	Actually, they called it the Nixon shock, you know, when we went off the gold standard.
	And throughout the 70s, you had this massive inflation.
	And that culminates in 1980 with silver at $52 an ounce, gold, like I mentioned earlier, over $800 an ounce.
	It was $35 an ounce in 1971.
	So this is massive inflation.
	So you have to export the dollar.
	It has to have usage.
	And things like the Saudis picking up in 74 help calm that down a bit because it was still being used.
	And so money velocity kicks in.
	But when they repatriate dollars, and that's what's happening, like China used to be the biggest buyer of U.S. treasuries.
	Now they're the biggest seller.
	Same thing with the U.S. on the flip side.
	We used to be the greatest creditor.
	Now we're the greatest debtor.
	So these are all turned all the metrics on their head.
	So I think at some level, zooming out as your analyst with the conspiracy theory of history in mind, I'm not your typical Gold bug.
	I will go into uncharted territories with my wheelhouse for sure.
	Let me see if there's anything left in this article.
	And it says, the remaining 42 of the Fed representative chairs said that something would hold rates.
	Again, I think that whether or not you see a rate lowering in September, the inevitable is coming, which is going to lower interest rates, which will seem, at least temporarily, like a great thing.
	And there will be a lot of rallies on Wall Street.
	The tech stocks will be.
	A lot of the things that typically happen when there's a massive injection of liquidity will come to pass.
	The problem will be, again, the consequences of the further debasement of the U.S. dollar and the purchasing power.
	So 1971, key to everything that we're seeing now, folks.
	Funny that it's in August.
	You know what else is the anniversary of today?
	And that's victory over Japan.
	VJ Day.
	Surprised there's not more of that.
	That was 1945.
	End of the last great fourth turning.
	I talked a lot about that on my show last week about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
	A lot of hidden history there.
	And something to think about.
	And then the term, I always thought it was interesting, the term unconditional surrender.
	Have you ever really examined that?
	It does not fit.
	It does not equate with a Christian civilization.
	If you really examine what that means.
	And then I saw, you know, it's been a crazy last 60 days.
	I've noticed that I think I hosted almost 60 days ago, but the world has changed immensely even since then.
	You look at that's something that Trump tweeted out.
	And by the way, have we all forgotten that Trump sent out a tweet to tell the people of Tehran to evacuate?
	Does anybody else remember that?
	I know I'm living in the clown world order, but even that took me a back, and that's where I thought of the just the all caps, unconditional surrender.
	Absolutely amazing times, ladies and gents.
	All right, let me go to the comments really quick.
	We're about 40 minutes in.
	I want to make sure I'm not missing anybody here.
	Oh, Marion Moore.
	Good morning, Tony.
	Looking forward to the guest and you.
	Well, it's great to see you.
	Charlie7337 says, good morning, Tony.
	Good to see you guys.
	Yeah, thanks for hanging with me today.
	It's funny because if I get asked to host the show, I always want to host.
	And I'm working on, I've got a new project down in Texas.
	I leased an old branch bank.
	And it's so cool because it has the drive-through, the tubes, and everything.
	It's not a very big building, but it has all the stuff that an old branch bank had.
	And I'm making that into Wise Wolf Gold Silver Bitcoin.
	I'm rebranding and having a physical location there.
	But I've got plenty of room for my new studio.
	And it's funny, if you could see my setup here, this is just so rudimentary.
	I had a better setup in 2020, but I need new equipment.
	And I said yesterday on my show, I think I've broken it.
	I think I've talked too much.
	I've done too many shows.
	My computer gave up on me.
	It gave up the ghost, folks.
	All right.
	Let me go over to Rumble to see all you guys in here.
	I love David's audience.
	And I talked to David and Travis, and I think I might be able to start streaming on here.
	I need to, when I get my shows up and running, especially the Weis Wolf gold and crypto show that I'm bringing back here in the next couple of weeks.
	And one of the comments, I recently heard the Fed is planning on a revaluation of gold.
	You know, I wouldn't, you know, I'm skeptical of those kind of that kind of intel when it comes in.
	They're at war with gold.
	And that's been the case since 71.
	They're diametrically opposed.
	I think what you probably need to, and I think we alluded to this earlier, is the stable coin issue.
	It's the stable coins, folks.
	That's what they're, the dollar is not going to zero.
	It's going to digital.
	There's something in the stable coin system.
	And maybe, you know, if you look at Gold Telegraph, maybe there's something in the gold-backed stable coins in your future.
	So a lot of people come into the shop and they say, I've heard Trump's got to do a new gold standard or something like that.
	And I'm like, I don't think so.
	This is if you peg the dollar to gold again, by the way, you know, the last, I mean, Franklin Roosevelt made it illegal for you to own gold in 1933.
	And it was Gerald Ford, not till Gerald Ford in 1974, I think it was Christmas Eve, 1974, made it legal for Americans to own gold again.
	That should have never, ever been the cat's an abomination.
	The Constitution of the United States, it says only Congress can coin money, and it has to be gold and silver.
	And then there's not supposed to be anything like this private banking consortium known as the Federal Reserve.
	But, you know, in that history, you weren't allowed to own gold.
	And, you know, I don't know, even really know why the government has to be in the currency business.
	I mean, we already have private institutions do a way better job.
	And I know what the gold spot price is.
	I know what the silver spot price is.
	I know what the Bitcoin price is.
	And I can look across the globe and see that.
	And it's recognized from Boston to Bangladesh.
	It doesn't really matter.
	Or from Beaumont to Beijing.
	All the B's.
	All right.
	There was an article up on Lou Rockwell I thought I'd try to get to before Don and Billy get here.
	Matter of fact, I probably need to.
	I think Don will just show up.
	I may need to send him a link just to remind him.
	So you guys might have to bear with me on that.
	How cool is it that I get to talk to the legendary Don Jeffries every week?
	I used to just read his books and study his work.
	And then one day I got to do shows with him.
	And now we do America Unplugged every single week along with Billy Ray.
	Let me put this in for Don.
	We'll just send him the link.
	You guys get to co-host right along with me.
	There's a cool article up on Lou Rockwell.
	I think we can get to and maybe even hold over a little bit with Don.
	Speaking of VJ Day, who was president then?
	That was Harry S. Truman.
	And you know, the S didn't stand for anything.
	Kind of like Ulysses S. Grant.
	This is President Harry S. Truman, founding father by George Smith.
	It says, in politics, corruption begins with the corrupted.
	We see Turpitu through society's power structure, but it's only there because we accepted the devil's bargain.
	It took shape long before the current crop of office holders ran for political office.
	It was their goal, political office, that people accept it as necessary and right.
	Without politicians in office running a government, we would be in anarchy.
	And everyone understood anarchy meant people would be at each other's throats and life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
	Political office is a position of power over others.
	It is not found in nature, but then neither are houses, jet planes, or Starbucks.
	How did this oddball arrangement, political office, get started, and why is it considered more important than housing, planes, coffee, or individual lives?
	In the state of nature of us, each of us would be responsible for our survival and well-being.
	One way it is to incorporate with others and produce and trade for things we need.
	It's called the free market.
	Another way is to steal from the producers.
	It's called the government.
	A third way is to put yourself at the mercy of the first two and ask them to support you.
	Thievery as a career requires at least three conditions.
	First, the power to steal and get away with it.
	Second, the lack of scruples about taking by force what someone else has produced.
	And third, how to redefine number two so that number one can become acceptable to society at large.
	Over time, it became clear to the politicians that, quoting Shakespeare's Juliet, tis but thy name that is my enemy.
	No one can institute theft and call it by that name, so that someone invented a new word called taxes and declared that taxes takes the thievery out of theft.
	There is no violation of ethics if politicians can tax their brothers.
	In fact, taking the property of others by force is not really theft.
	It's a price paid for a civilized society.
	The price is special because it's not determined by market.
	It's not voluntary.
	It forces like other prices, but rather by committee.
	Thus, we have a special name for these special things.
	Taxes are what politicians call prices, while the committee bears the distinguished name Congress, a body the vassals elect because they have no choice about not electing them and whose decisions are imposed by implicit threat of death for the resistors.
	It should be clear that the politicians of the countless agencies they have established constitute the government, and that this government, so the story goes, imposed the name of protecting us from life's countless hazards.
	It should also be clear that the language attempts to hide the distinction between government's business model and those in the market.
	Besides the time-tested method of bombing a country back to the Stone Age, Western politicians today are waging war using a Trojan horse technique.
	Rather than sending hordes of soldiers to cross a country's border and wreak havoc on their people and property, today's politicians get elected in an enemy's government, usually their own.
	Then they open the floodgates of immigration.
	It's ingenious because immigration is a natural process and political support accelerates the process and avoids the problems of a direct hostile attack.
	This is an interesting take.
	I read it a little bit earlier this morning and it goes into, I hope we can get to it.
	It's something that I talk about a lot with the formation of the national security state.
	It really, you know, if you read history and you see there was a shift.
	And I kind of like the shift that we had in 1865, you know, the 1860s, 1865, into the Civil War.
	You know, the United States are and the United States is.
	This became a different entity.
	And so too did we become a different entity in 1947.
	And this was, and again, even the goals of that entity changed, and that entity is the national security state.
	Gorvadal talked a lot about that.
	He was way ahead of his time.
	National security is freedom's graveyard, says messing in the affairs of other countries has been policy since President Truman institutionalized the national security state with the National Security Act of 1947, his recognition of the state of Israel in 1948, and policy report NSC 68 of 1950 calling for a massive buildup of the U.S. military and its weaponry.
	The red threat served as the excuse for an egregious departure from the government's founding principle of non-intervention and its effect have been and will continue to be totally ruinous.
	Pundits continued to expose government for its lies, deceptions, aggressions, and avoidable failures.
	And he has links to see.
	It says see here, here, here, here.
	The obscenity of government's unnecessary wars is struggling to stay hidden.
	And few are paying attention to the doomsday clock.
	Oh, I know the doomsday clock.
	If you're a Cold War aficionado, you know, I think it's, I think they've, I'll have to check out the doomsday clock.
	I think it's like 90 seconds to midnight or something like that.
	We were forced to abide in ruining our economy through taxes and destruction of the dollar to pay for murdering people in faraway places and possibly all of life itself.
	But it keeps DOD contractors fat and happy and the politicians alive and in office.
	Later in life, Harry Truman spoke about the Frankenstein monster he created.
	In a December 22nd, 1963 op-ed in the Washington Post, one month after JFK's assassination, he wrote, I have never had any thought that when I set up the CIA, that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.
	Some of the complications and embarrassment I think we have experienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelligence arm of the president has been removed from its intended role, that is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue and a subject for Cold War enemy propaganda.
	Yeah, that's the formation of 1947, which was interesting.
	We're coming up on the 80-year anniversary of that, another fourth turning.
	But that's the formation of, you get the CIA in 47, you get the Air Force, you get the NSA, and many other periphery organizations, possibly even linked to whatever happened in Roswell in 1947.
	This was right on the heels when they came out with the birth of the National Security State.
	And of course, the following years, this article mentions, you have the recognition of Israel.
	Something happened in that summer to the National Security Establishment that created a different government.
	And you can find that.
	And it may have been the influx of Operation Paperclip, which, you know, the importation of the Nazi scientists and intelligence officers.
	And we had the best Nazis.
	That was our game.
	We wanted, you know, the Russians were going to get theirs.
	We were going to get ours.
	And, you know, we even had our favorite Nazi was on Disney.
	Walt Disney put him out front, and he's Werner von Braun.
	He got to be a very big part of the American landscape.
	And Stanley Kubrick, I think, captured that very well in Dr. Strangelove.
	Kind of the Cold War mentality post-Operation Paperclip and National Security State.
	Should we be surprised when government is given an inch that it takes a mile?
	Is that not the history of the Constitution, a document of limited powers that Hamilton and others subverted?
	In none of the critiques have I read a proposal for doing away with government as it exists.
	It says Jacob G. Hornberger Has written endlessly about the harm and futility of government's immigration control, for example.
	Yet he and most others don't extend that analysis to government itself.
	Still, he acknowledges that the Jeffersonian truth, that the people have the right to abolish destructive government and form new ones.
	Since its creation, Truman can be credited with showing how destructive the national security state has been.
	I submit a new way of governing society as an order, and it's hiding in plain sight.
	Government can and should be market-based rather than an institution of our demise.
	That's an interesting blend of tough, hard truths, and a little bit of history, which is my favorite.
	Oh, we got BRV in the background.
	He's welcome to come on anytime.
	I will go over today.
	We will go over spot prices as well.
	I'll do a little bit of market check when I get the rest of the crew on.
	And again, we'll in about three or four minutes, we'll have the great Donald Jeffries.
	I see Harps is in the chat.
	He says, Good day.
	Good day, sir.
	Let's see.
	I'll check the rumble chat as well.
	Skunk Hollow Rose Gardens donated $5.
	Says, Tony, you look like you've been benching and doing core, but it's your cardio more like a leg.
	But is your cardio more like a leg row?
	Oh, I really, you know, I just do, I just walk.
	I like walking for my cardio.
	I train, you know, four or five times a week if I can.
	I usually just get really sore.
	Part of being an old paratrooper and things I put my body through through powerlifting.
	But thank you for the compliment.
	I'm having some coffee with some methylene blue in it.
	I was going through the comments.
	Bird House Blues says, hi, Tony.
	The birdhouse blues, uh, always makes the best AI renditions of me and beans and, and, uh, the guys at America unplugged.
	I just began.
	Just because Tony is the alpha wolf doesn't mean his beard has to play the role.
	That's true.
	I don't have to play.
	Leave my beard out of this.
	Guard Goldsmith says, Tony is rocking.
	Well, I couldn't do as good as you.
	Gar just has, he is a content producing machine.
	And it also has, I mean, and it's dense and it's relevant.
	I'm just, you know, I'm just stream of consciousness, just crazy enough to be able to host a show like this.
	I see Melissa's in the chat.
	Good to see Melissa's Moark Wild Woman.
	Let's see, what else?
	Thank you, Woodrow Wilson.
	Woodrow Wilson gave us the four horsemen of the political apocalypse.
	That was the free trade, the income tax, the 17th Amendment, the direct election of senators, and the Federal Reserve.
	Thank you.
	So much fun.
	All right.
	Well, I've got, I'm going to add these two gents.
	We'll go ahead and add you guys.
	This is Don Jeffries.
	Welcome to the David Knight Show, Don.
	Thanks for having me, Tony.
	It's always a pleasure.
	Always good to see you, sir.
	And Billy Ray Valentine, who's Can we hear you, Billy?
	What's up, buddy?
	How you doing?
	Oh, good to see you.
	Good to see you too, as usual, sir.
	Should I play the America Unplugged theme?
	Should we just let that role?
	Donald Jeffries.
	Host of the Donald Jeffries show.
	It's good to see you guys.
	What's on your mind?
	I kind of covered this is the anniversary of Nixon taking us off the gold standard.
	You know, it's kind of fortuitous.
	That's my wheelhouse.
	Easy.
	I can phone that in.
	I don't even have to.
	That's something I think about all the time.
	So not hard.
	And a little breakdown of the national security state from Lew Rockwell.com.
	So we've covered some ground.
	Don, what's your article this week?
	Well, my last one didn't get much traction.
	I guess I didn't write enough about Jews, I guess.
	I wrote about Sidney Sweeney and the controversy with her.
	And I guess, I don't know.
	I guess there weren't that many fans of that.
	I was a little disappointed.
	But yeah, I talked about how, you know, there's kind of a war.
	And not, I don't think she's the most beautiful person in the world, but she's certainly attractive.
	And I just think there's kind of a war against beauty as well as everything else.
	I never thought when I was younger, I used to think that the greatest part anyone can play is just the natural good looks.
	You know, that you're never going to be discriminated for your looks.
	But you do see good-looking women actually getting discriminated against a bit now.
	I never thought like, you know, they'd be discriminated against by obese people, but that's the kind of stuff that's happening.
	And so somehow they were mad.
	And, you know, to take that thing, it's just a play on words, the kind of stuff I like to do all the time.
	You know, that Sidney Sweeney has good genes.
	I mean, okay, everybody knows what's that.
	I mean, they're not suggesting she's an Aryan queen and this has to do with Nazism.
	And that's the way they took it.
	And it's just absolutely ridiculous.
	And then I put a picture there, but I think it's very revealing where you had this gigantic woman, you know, pointing at Sidney Sweeney as if she's, you know, that says a lot about how the world has turned upside down because someone like that would have been bullied and made fun of in the past by people that look like Sidney Sweeney.
	Now the worm has turned.
	So I just think it's interesting that they probably, I guess it wasn't a deep matter for a sub-stack because it didn't get as much response as my sub-stacks have been recently.
	I know that Billy Ray Valentine has good genes.
	You have good genes, Billy.
	It's okay.
	I could do without the hereditary diabetes, but other than that, I do have some nice pair of designer blue jeans.
	I have a few of those, you know, because I like to look good when I'm walking down the street.
	Depends on what type of jeans we're talking about here.
	You know, just to add to this a little bit, I think the reason it didn't get as much traction as your other stuff, Don, is because nobody gave a damn about this story to begin with.
	It was not.
	It was really made up.
	And it could be a masterclass laid out on what the alternative right, which is pretty much taking over the party, right?
	What MAGA with Fox News, what they do in order to amplify something and really not cover anything that really needs to be covered.
	They're covering nonsense, right?
	So what happened here is a couple of people online, it wasn't even, just a couple of people online started saying some things here and there about the about the ad.
	And they took it just like they do everything and blew it up as if it's a PCR test, right?
	They take it and bang, right?
	It's a little thing, right?
	That's found and it's amplified 8,000 times.
	That's what's going on here.
	No, you walk around here.
	Nobody knows who Sidney Sweeney is.
	Now they do, you know, but nobody knew who she was.
	Nobody's saying, oh, oh my God, they're doing, it's a play on words.
	Oh, she has great jeans.
	They're trying to American Eagle Outfitters isn't trying to do that.
	They're trying to sell jeans to whomever will buy them.
	Right.
	You know, so, and nobody, no one is thinking that, but it became an entire thing here.
	And, you know, nobody is even complaining that, well, to say nobody is a generalization, but it is a very small number of people that are even complaining about who gets to be on the faces of these ads.
	Sidney Sweeney, like you said, she's not exactly the most attractive woman in the world.
	I mean, she's pretty.
	There's nothing to it.
	There's nothing, well, at least for me, everybody has their own taste.
	But, you know, they could have easily pulled Megan Thee Stallion.
	She's all over the place.
	And nobody would have batted an eye.
	But they found an issue to concentrate on and find another excuse not to cover the Epstein situation, another excuse not to cover what's going on with Russia, things not to cover what's going on with our economy.
	So they take these nonsense or red meat issues that they throw to the base that is, you know, designed for the base to dig into and give them something that they relate to.
	It's the culture war and the culture war is made to divide.
	All of this is made to divide.
	So especially with this issue here, like I thought it was important.
	So I'm semi-glad you brought it up, even though I think it takes away from the actual stuff that's going on.
	They just made this up largely in order for people to sink their teeth into.
	And it blew up.
	The right is responsible for this being prominent.
	That's full stop.
	And if you want to say MAGA, fine, we'll go to MAGA.
	I know there's a big difference between conservatives and MAGA.
	I'm not talking about classical conservatives.
	I'm talking about MAGA here and the alt-right and how they've managed to manipulate the American public with these sorts of stories, with these sorts of nonsensical, really nothing burger stories, but they blow them up.
	And this is a great example of it.
	So everybody needs to keep their eyes out for it.
	The left is not really making a deal of this.
	They never did.
	The left is responding to what the right had put out.
	Not to say that the left, every time somebody says, oh, the left isn't doing this, they're like, oh my God, you're a liberal.
	You're not paying attention to the left or all this other stuff.
	No, no, no.
	The left has a lot of problems, right?
	But what I'm talking about now is this specific issue.
	And it's really not an issue.
	It's not.
	But they want to make it.
	They want to make it one because they don't want to talk about Michael Wolfe, right?
	They don't want to talk about what Michael Wolfe is out there saying.
	When has Fox News covered Michael Wolfe?
	Maybe in passing, you know, but he's out there dropping bombs about Epstein left and right.
	And he was doing it back during Trump's first term also.
	Nobody gave a damn.
	Now there's more eyes to it, but no, the right wants to talk about Sidney Sweeney, whom I don't even know what she does till right now.
	I kind of thought the same thing.
	Well, when we say about Trump's former attorney, but what?
	Yeah, let's talk about the Epstein list because I just wondered, this is very uncharacteristic of the left to be demanding the release.
	I mean, do they think that only Trump is going to be on the list?
	They don't care.
	Well, that's great.
	If they don't care, that's cool.
	Because, I mean, I can't see Bill Clinton going down, and he was on supposedly on the whatever, the Lolita thing 29 times.
	And I talked about the guy, what was his name?
	Got to forget his name now.
	But it's the most classic example of the Clinton body count.
	It was just a couple of years ago.
	This guy was found with a shotgun blast to his chest hanging, and they ruled it a suicide.
	And this was the guy who, during the Clinton administration, Epstein used to visit the White House when Clinton was president.
	He's the one who signed Epstein in every time.
	And that's the way he went out.
	So, I mean, and half of Hollywood, I mean, I don't know.
	Maybe the left so much wants to get Trump that they'll sacrifice all the other people.
	I just don't see any of those people going down.
	And I don't see there's any way that it could be, you know, Trump can't be associated with it in some way.
	So that's why the right doesn't want to release it.
	But I don't see how all those people on the left aren't either.
	So, hey, I'm rooting for it.
	And I hope, and I think it's incredibly, it's the dumbest thing.
	Again, I think it's Trump had signed.
	So I think it was done on purpose, but miscalculation Trump has ever made.
	But you're right.
	He hasn't lost all his base because they can become distracted by this thing and even more, even dumber stuff, like, you know, where I am, the commanders, you know, almost every football fan here wants it to be called the Redskins again.
	So, you know, that shade with that.
	I mean, it's not exactly a bold thing to do.
	And of course, it'd be completely meaningless.
	Same thing with, you know, putting a cane sugar back in Coca-Cola instead of a fructose corn syrup, which is which would be nice.
	I don't drink Coke anymore, but let's take a fructose corn syrup out of everything.
	How about that?
	Not just Coca-Cola.
	And why doesn't Mexico have corn syrup?
	Doesn't making sense.
	Why do we need nobody asked that?
	Just like nobody asked why the UK, well, you can buy McDonald's French fries there and they have three ingredients.
	They're all natural.
	And here they have like 30 or something like that.
	Nobody, why?
	And that's the kind of stuff RFK Jr. sometimes says.
	But I agree.
	We should we should have real issues and we should.
	I guess Tony was, I didn't get to watch, but you said about the national security state.
	And I'm sure Billy Ray has something to say about that.
	But I mean, this is just another miscalculation on Trump's part.
	And I think he's trying to salvage what's left of his base, the people who go around with, you know, are excited about law enforcement.
	And so he thinks he's going to crack down.
	I mean, look, I've lived in the DC suburbs, you know, for all my life.
	And I don't, DC's always been dangerous in certain areas.
	I don't know what's happening now other than that big balls got attacked.
	I guess that was what the impetus here is.
	But I don't understand what's going on now and to what extent he's going to try to take over DC.
	But this is, again, another dumb issue because I don't know what you accomplish, but it plays to that what I would call the classic conservatism base, which is in love with law enforcement.
	They're in love with authority as long as it's people they don't like.
	And that's why they're making, they're doing the same thing the left does when they want to cancel people and they don't like what you're saying.
	You can't just, again, it's the same thing with 9-11.
	You can't arrest everybody named Muhammad because they might be a terrorist.
	You can't go looking for, and I don't think they're doing that here, but it's the same kind of mentality.
	Let's everybody has a tattoo and looks Mexican.
	It could be an MS-13 gang member.
	It's the same kind of thing.
	And I don't know what they're going for here and what the, but unfortunately, too many of the MAGA people are on board with it because the people that run DC are horrible.
	I mean, you know, but they're people that really are horrible.
	So it's an easy win for him to, but I think he's, again, making a big mistake and he's he's going to lose more honest people that really want put America first because this is stupid.
	It's a distraction.
	It's almost as dumb as Sidney Sweeney and changing the Redskins name back.
	I mean, it's ridiculous.
	It's a distraction.
	And as I'm sure Tony pointed out, it certainly reinforces what a lot of people think of him as an authoritarian who wants to create a police state.
	There's been a massive amount of injected stories into the discourse post the press conference where Trump said, are we still talking about Epstein?
	Why are we doing this?
	And Pam Bondi's like, and that dastardly Jeffrey Epstein, that weird guy.
	And dear in the headlights, after the fallout from that, then you had Tulsi Gabbard come out.
	We're reopening the investigation into Russia Gate.
	That kicked off.
	So that was another distraction.
	And then we've had any arrests with that yet, Tony.
	I don't think so.
	Of course not.
	As soon as it hit, I go, oh, they're doing this.
	So this is the play.
	And then, of course, like you said, Billy mentioned earlier with whatever the clickbait right is, you know, we'll take an issue and blow it up.
	Now, I will say with the, and I don't know anything about Sidney Sweeney or the Jeans thing, but I do think that there's always an available psychopathic, Luciferian, you know, possessed leftist that will hate anything that's pretty or good or funny.
	You know, so you can always find one.
	I mean, they're easy to find.
	I read an article yesterday.
	Just these two professors that want to promote climate change.
	They're ethics professors and they want to continue to promote tick bites that with the give people alpha gal where they can't have red meat because of the tick infection.
	So they want to promote that.
	So like I would assume they'd be of the left.
	And like this is the that.
	So that's that's an argument that is real, but it is also blown up.
	So I agree with Billy there that they take this stuff and they just run with it and they repeat it, rinse and repeat because it'll take your mind off the fact that we are all still going, wait a minute, this whole thing about the Epstein list and who's on it and the files and the 10,000 hours or whatever the hell you have.
	And you're just telling me it doesn't exist and now it does.
	Ghelain Maxwell's been given immunity and moved from a maximum security to a very minimal security prison from Florida to Texas.
	There's big things happening.
	Oh, and yeah, and then we've also got the Bill Barr issue.
	You guys have, we've talked, we haven't even talked about that on America Unplugged because we took off last week.
	We had the Bill Barr issue, you know, with him behind the scenes trying to get Trump for Rico and then his connection to and his dad's connection to Epstein.
	There's a lot here.
	And so every distraction and low-hanging fruit, everybody knows, I mean, hey, I, you know, bring back Marion Berry.
	Anybody remember Marion Barry?
	We could put him back.
	You know, he, it takes one to know one.
	You got to.
	Shut me up.
	He smokes and crack.
	Right, right.
	It was more popular than ever after that.
	I mean, because they looked at it.
	And that's what I can't stand ghetto culture so much because they love the fact that he was apparently one of them.
	He was keeping it real.
	So we got to put him back in office.
	Like, what, you know, what are you talking about?
	How many people did he lie?
	How many people were locked up in DC for crack cocaine during that time?
	You know, you don't care about that.
	I mean, it also gives a bet.
	There's, there's more people that won't subscribe to that than do, you know, here in the hood.
	There's more people that don't want, that don't use drugs, that get up and go to work every day, that contribute to the economy and that want to want to keep their neighborhoods clean and want to keep their neighborhoods arising.
	You know, I mean, I think we should, when we talk about things like, and that's another distraction, actually, this black fatigue and ghetto culture, but it's just a means to divide.
	You know, that's all it is.
	So when we talk about those sort of things, it's important to highlight that the majority of the people that are here and that live in these neighborhoods, they want to do better.
	Everybody's going to higher education.
	They're trying to get better jobs.
	They're trying to get out of here.
	And a lot of people are doing that.
	And then they're trying to rehabilitate the areas that they're in.
	We need to highlight that rather than highlight the negatives, in my opinion, when it comes to some of this stuff.
	I mean, I think I've always felt empathy for anybody living in those neighborhoods because what they're having.
	But the problem is that the ghetto culture, what I call it, that has become the culture.
	It's promoted non-stop.
	Even the people may hate it.
	But I mean, it's, you know, it doesn't make any sense.
	So you see people like Spike Lee and other filmmakers that glorify it, that make movies.
	And while they say, well, they bemoan it and they're trying to hide.
	No, you're glorifying just like in the 1930s, Warner Brothers and Hollywood glorified gangsters.
	They were trying to show they were bad, but everybody thought they were cool.
	And it's the same thing now.
	They're trying to glorify.
	I mean, there's no, it's no mistake that I don't think I've met a black guy in my life whose favorite movie wasn't Scarface.
	I mean, it's the kind of thing.
	They base the entire gang culture on that stuff.
	And it's terrible that they glorify it.
	They should show, they should ridicule it.
	And that's the only way to do it, but it never gets ridiculed.
	Instead, it's always considered cool.
	And yeah, the people that live in those neighborhoods, I mean, it must be awful.
	But, you know, because you want to have that thing, you want to have that try to be rectified.
	But well, Trump's going to crack down on that.
	I guess that's what he's doing.
	What Trump's doing with this is he going after that?
	Maybe he's going to have bookmobiles going around and force inner city kids to read.
	I don't think he's going to do that.
	I'm not sure he's going to see Channel.
	What his strategy is.
	Has he announced what his strategy is?
	You have to read.
	Every kid has to read.
	We're going to make them read.
	They're going to be the best readers.
	Amen.
	It's not going to be read.
	No, that's a good point, Don.
	And I'm going to throw it to Tony afterwards, man.
	It's what's going on in DC is a massive, massive problem.
	And there are people that support it.
	You know, there was a poll that was done not too long ago about, and they were polling the base, right?
	Well, not just they were polling Republicans.
	And they said 47% of Republicans will continue to back Donald Trump, even if he is implicated in the Epstein files.
	And I mean the worst implications, right?
	They said they will continue to back him.
	And then they did, you know, a montage of people.
	They were interviewing people.
	This was on, I saw it.
	I saw the clip on Instagram, but it was on CNN and MSNBC as well.
	And they were talking about, you know, interviewing people about this.
	And it will go, would you support Donald Trump if you find out, if you found out that he was engaging in pedophilia or crazy acts with Jeffrey Epstein or absolutely anybody but the Democrats, anybody but the liberals.
	You know, it doesn't matter.
	I don't care what he's doing.
	As long as we don't have a liberal in there, we don't care what he's doing.
	So we talk about Trump derangement syndrome quite a bit.
	I think we really, really need to start talking about Democrat derangement syndrome.
	Every time, every time it comes up, somebody has something to say about the left and how crazy they are and how everything else.
	It's like, well, how much do you really hate the left?
	Are you willing to cut off your nose for it?
	Like, are you willing to sacrifice your nation for it at this point?
	Because I've never seen anybody do what Donald Trump is doing right now.
	Okay.
	Actually, no one's ever done what Donald Trump is doing right now.
	And that is a fact.
	He federalized the police over in DC.
	Sure, he has the right to do it because DC is under his control anyway.
	It's federal, but it's never been done before.
	And the telling thing here is: first off, there's no reason to do it, right?
	This is another example of what the right does, and they blow things up.
	And then people just start parodying it.
	They're like, oh my God, it's so dangerous to be in DC.
	Stephen Miller said it was like Baghdad, thus walking down like it's like walking down Baghdad or Ethiopia.
	He said it's that crazy walking down DC.
	I've been to DC several times.
	I've taken walks at 2, 3 in the morning to the documents and I'm good.
	No one's ever even talked to me.
	It's beautiful down there.
	Of course, there's areas around it that aren't the greatest, but no one's ever messed with me.
	It's certainly not Baghdad.
	I mean, Tony would know about that.
	Tony knows what a war zone looks like.
	You tell me, Tony, but I'm just saying, like, this is what they're saying now, right?
	That the reason he did this was that it was so out of control in DC, you know, that they needed to take this type of action and send in the National Guard.
	And they got FBI agents out there now, too.
	And of course, the police.
	And he said he's going to send the military.
	He's not ruling it out.
	Take him at his word, people.
	He's done it before already.
	Okay.
	In California, for no reason as well.
	For no real reason anyway.
	They're going to pick a reason and run with it.
	He said he was going to do it to other American cities, and I believe him.
	And this goes back to the dark enlightenment.
	They want to take not just the United States, but cities, the cities, they want to take the cities and have them run by a CEO.
	This is what their philosophy says, right?
	That they want them run by a CEO and a board, a board of people.
	And the actual people that live in there can vote via their feet, meaning if they don't like it, they can leave.
	Full authoritarian.
	I'm not making this up.
	Go read it.
	Curtis Yarvin.
	By the Dark Enlightenment, you're talking about the technocracy, the spin on technocracy.
	Peter Thiel is certainly down with it.
	I think it's intertwined to a degree.
	It's what Curtis Yarvin has been pushing for years and years and years.
	And Peter Thiel subscribes to it, along with JD Vance, their friends and they relate to this philosophy.
	This is where Doge came from, getting rid of all the federal employees.
	This is where that came from.
	And ultimately, what they seek to do is install a dictator.
	This is why they're giving Donald Trump all the power, the unitary executive theory.
	They're giving it all this power to Donald Trump because, and this is open.
	This is not a conspiracy theory.
	This is their open thoughts that they want a dictator to run the United States.
	They said that Americans need to get over their dictator phobia.
	And this is the best way to do it because democracy is dead and it's not a thing.
	It doesn't work.
	And this is the best way to do it as long as you have a competent CEO to run the nation.
	And that competent CEO is Donald Trump.
	And I am not, he's not competent.
	I'm not fully, I'm afraid that he's going to want to stay in office in a couple of years, in three years.
	I'm afraid that he's not going to want to leave.
	And these are some of the ways that he can do it.
	I don't think he can run again.
	He certainly can't do it legally.
	But if he starts taking over some of these cities, and this is, we know he's lying to us about the reason why he took over the city, about the reason why he took over DC.
	There are other reasons.
	We need to start exploring those other reasons.
	And I think the Dark Enlightenment is one of the best options here that we can look at because they're starting to implement some of this.
	So that's what makes sense to me.
	Well, I think certainly I agree with a lot of that, but I think this is why I, you know, and people sometimes mistake me for a conservative.
	I say, I've never been a conservative.
	I never will be.
	And this is one of the reasons why, because this is the bad part of conservatism is this love of authority.
	And it doesn't fit with the MAGA mindset, because the MAGA mindset is that the authorities are corrupt, supposedly.
	And that was so Trump, on the one hand, was calling out, especially in his good rhetoric, he was calling out a lot of the horrible things that are going on, the horrible people that have been running things for too long.
	But you don't overthrow that by reinforcing the power of the law enforcement, which is what he, and that's what conservatives do.
	I keep saying, the police are not your friends.
	What the hell do they have to do to you for you to understand that?
	They still want to do it.
	I saw there was a, they used to be entertaining.
	But they have like these MAGA people that infiltrate like transgender rallies and stuff like that.
	And it's entertaining because there's going to be middle fingers flying and name calling and they're almost physical altercations.
	And they're usually women.
	But this one, you know, kind of, you know, I don't know.
	She's younger probably, but she's a total MAGA devotee.
	She just said she loves everything about Trump.
	But then she was so shy because the police turned on her, as they always do in these situations and told her, no, you have to go.
	And, you know, the transgenders were up in her face and acting crazy.
	No, they defended the transgenders as they almost always do.
	And the look of shock on her face, you know, saying, you know, this is again, the police are not on your side, but it never, the light never goes off in their head.
	And so they're going to be predisposed to like this.
	Yeah.
	That's when you just get police more just arrest more people.
	We already have more people in prison than any country has in the history of the world.
	The last thing we need, I refuse to believe that there are that many criminals in America, especially when you have all the unpunished criminals in positions of authority.
	They're not all accountable as far as the criminals are.
	But, you know, you can't, but this is the mindset if we just lock more crack users up or more people that are committing maybe petty crimes or something or loitering.
	I don't know what they, you know, what they, what they're who they're planning to lock up, but DC Press has got to be pretty overcrowded as it is.
	And so I don't know what the strategy here is, but it sells.
	It sells to the base.
	I mean, it goes back to Richard Nixon.
	What did he run on?
	Law and order.
	Law and order campaign.
	That's our problem is the law.
	And, you know, my anarchist friends, that maybe the order is the problem too.
	But so I can't, this is sad to see.
	And it's terrible because you're basically, unlike Billy Ray, I don't think Trump is, I don't know if he's going to last his term, you know, in terms of he's really sick or whatever, but I don't think that this is a lame duck presidency now.
	He's trying desperately to distract a three and a half year lame duck president.
	We've never seen anything like it.
	And he made it a lame duck presidency with his absurd reaction to the Epstein list because he lost lots of his base.
	They may not seem like it, but he did.
	There's no question he did.
	He lost anybody that was honest.
	What's that?
	Strike on Iran and not ending the war.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's been a blunder the last eight months.
	Subservience to Israel in the face of all logic.
	In the face of, you know, you have people like Merge.
	I think Billy Ray is probably Marjorie Taylor Green's newest fan now.
	You know, Mark Levine wants Mark Levine wants to lock her up.
	I mean, she doesn't want to go to Israel.
	I mean, that's what I'm saying.
	The left, I hate the authoritarian left, but you see, when it comes to Israel, especially, the right does the same thing.
	You can't lock somebody.
	You're going to lock somebody up because we shouldn't give aid to Israel.
	That's the problem.
	There are no good guys here.
	So the MAGA people that try to defend this, it's absolutely ridiculous.
	We obviously need something really independent, but that's my whole Trump and Sign Project theory: this was designed to kill off an independent political party.
	And then you can see he's in the middle of everything.
	Nothing will ever happen until he's gone because otherwise, everybody, the people that hate him are going to vote for Genghis Khan against him.
	And the people that love him are going to vote for him no matter what he does.
	He could be the, you know, he could be seen raping a 12-year-old girl.
	He could have video of that.
	Hey, you know, he's not a Democrat.
	We can't, you know, Miss Darling Obama or whatever.
	So it's ridiculous.
	I don't think I'm ever going to vote again.
	I always say that.
	And then, you know, I stupidly trudge to the polls usually.
	It's a tough habit to break.
	Tony, Tony kind of turned me onto something.
	I mean, I was sure what happened a few months ago when the child in chief took over again.
	Like, I never thought that would happen, the big orange monster.
	You know, and that really changed my perspective on voting.
	But, you know, Tony was like, I have conversations.
	Sometimes I go to Tony for advice.
	Not often, sometimes.
	He's a very busy man.
	And, you know, Tony was like, you know what?
	He gave me some sound advice about this, which kind of changed my perspective.
	I was going to divulge, but I don't know if that would be appropriate.
	But Tony put it in perspective for me, the whole, the whole voting thing.
	And this is what I'm going to vote for someone for the rest of my life.
	And I've never ever voted.
	I've voted one time before, one time in my life.
	I'm just as old as Tony.
	We're the same age.
	We're 40, 45 years old, both of us.
	And I just never subscribed into the process.
	And there's a lot of reasons for that.
	And I know a lot of people will be sympathetic here that are listening, but I will never not do it again.
	I will always vote for someone.
	And at this point, I hated voting for the lesser of two evils, but given where we are right now, I think we need to strategize and say, well, who can we take here?
	What can we do better against?
	And maybe vote in that direction instead of sitting out all together.
	And then now we're here in full-on authoritarian mode, in my opinion, anyway.
	So go ahead, Tony.
	Sorry about that.
	Are you guys getting a little feedback there?
	I wasn't.
	Are you getting feedback from me?
	No, I want to make sure the chat's not getting any feedback.
	If there's any static coming across, let's make sure that I didn't need to do anything on the somebody says cracking.
	Yeah, crackling.
	It's static for some reason.
	I mean, I don't know why this is happening.
	Anyway, go ahead, Tony.
	Take it over.
	Let me see if I can adjust your mic real quick.
	Hold on.
	Yeah, I think that, but I think Billy Ray, it's, you know, I believe, oh, yeah, Jackson T. Barrett, Billy Ray is the president of the Billy Ray Valentine Fan Club says that BRV is all static.
	And so I don't know about that is.
	That's the nicest thing he's ever set upon.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Maybe he's just hearing all the static whenever you speak, I think, probably.
	But I think he was, it's interesting.
	You've been compelled, Billy Ray to become a voter.
	A lot of people became compelled to become a voter because of Trump to vote for him.
	I think it's pretty obvious in your case, you're now turned off to all Republicans, I would imagine, or most of them, because of Trump.
	And I think there's a lot of people like that.
	What's happening, Don.
	Let's look at what's, I mean, how many of these people that hated Trump and said all sorts of things about Trump are now capitulating and bending the knee and actually like just saying whatever it is that would put them in Trump's good graces.
	How long are those subscribed to something like that?
	How am I supposed to say, oh, you know what?
	He was not a bad guy.
	Maybe I should vote for Mark.
	I do hear static with Billy Ray now.
	You're right.
	I think that, but it's because, you know, again, this is this is the Republican Party is just as bad as the Democrat Party.
	So when the God, I said Democrat, like a Republican, Democratic.
	They got me saying it.
	But the idea, again, is that Trump took over a party, kind of, but he didn't really, because except for a handful of the Marjorie Taylor Greens who are not turning against them, Thomas Massey, people like that, Matt Gates, who's no longer in Congress, there's only a handful of them.
	The rest of them are not much different than the Republicans that were in Congress when George W. Bush was there.
	And that's why I said, again, so whenever Trump bombs Iran or bombs any goes to war anywhere, they're going to be on board for that, just like they were when Bush was president or Obama or anybody.
	And whenever he says, hey, let's give police, you know, these people want to defund the police.
	So, you know, let's give them more power.
	And they're always going to support that.
	But whenever, I guarantee you, if Trump really followed through on any of his populist stuff, if he suddenly said, you know what?
	Remember when I said we have, you know, we have troops in 150 countries around the world, we should bring them home.
	If he tried to do that, the entire Republican Party, except maybe for a handful of MAGA people, maybe not even them, they would be against him, 100%.
	And if he tried to, if he really does, you know, we need to audit this Federal Reserve.
	We got to do something about this.
	This is crazy money.
	Again, the entire party would be against him.
	They only support him, Billy Ray, because he's just doing, he's doing it in a crazier way and a more extreme way, but he's just doing the kind of stuff that right-wing Republicans would do.
	Give the police more power, crack down on crime, bomb people, build up the national defense.
	Sposling, the intelligence agencies hate him.
	I haven't heard Trump badmouth the intelligence agencies lately because, again, he's depending on them to keep, you know, maybe keep the lid on the upstate list and everything.
	So I don't think, I really don't think Trump, I know you think Trump is so different.
	Everybody else, I think he's just a giant distraction.
	His personality is different.
	And I'm outside of DC.
	I don't, you know, of course, I'm not really going to see it from here.
	I don't know what he's actually done so far.
	And I suspect that most of it is going to be smoke.
	I don't know if there's any fire there.
	I don't know what's actually going to take place on the, if he's saying all this stuff, maybe he's technically federalized the police.
	I don't know.
	But what will what will be, what will happen?
	I don't know.
	I don't think you're going to see videos of like the military running through and cleaning up areas.
	I just, I don't think, but I, you know, I could be wrong, but I think this is more he just wants to, he came up with something that he thinks will win over maybe back some of his people.
	And it makes no sense.
	And, you know, maybe he, I don't think he really cared about Doge because he's ignored it now.
	So I doubt he was friendly to big balls, but this took place after big balls was apparently, you know, carjacked or something.
	I don't know.
	But I don't know.
	But that's kind of my long rambling way of responding to that.
	Well, I think crime is, I mean, it's bad all across the United States and major cities.
	We have decaying infrastructure and law and order itself is breaking down because of the bureaucracies in between.
	It's the entropy, if you will.
	Maybe that's a good word to look at the American experiment or where we are right now with just everything.
	I think it's an extension of how hollow our institutions have become.
	But when I think of places like DC, the first thing I think of, and it's not, I was just there, you know, a couple of months ago and I went and stayed at the Willard Hotel next to the White House.
	So I had to fly out.
	I was speaking at a conference in Virginia.
	Fancy.
	Yeah, very, very, yeah.
	But I stay at the Willard.
	And I've stayed there before when I was a soldier.
	But I walked around DC for a little while and I would say that I, you know, unlike Baghdad or Mosul, I wasn't worried about an IED or getting hit by, you know, sniper fire or, you know, a car bomb or something like that.
	Although, you know, it is, it is a dangerous place.
	But so is Chicago.
	And those things, those two cities have in common is they're absolutely draconian on the individual being able to carry their own firearm or protect themselves.
	As a matter of fact, I remember I drove into Chicago once as I, my son lived in northern Illinois with his mother.
	I go up to through Chicago sometimes.
	And I remember driving through my pickup one time and I go, oh, and I just the cold sweat started to pour.
	And I'm like, I realized I had like three pistols with me, you know, just because and you would, and if you get caught, you know, and you're in Chicago and you've got a firearm and maybe it's not, you know, you don't have your proper whatever concealed carry or whatever the hell you got to have or transporting documents, you can get in a lot of trouble.
	And it shouldn't be that way.
	I think in those kind of cities, the answer is not, you know, the National Guard and certainly not, you know, more and more and more police.
	There has to be, I think, a semblance of, you know, freedom for the individual.
	And I think, you know, even in cities like in Texas, where you've got the crime's a bit lower and there's a little bit more stability, although it's crazy everywhere.
	I mean, there's mental illness is rampant, and especially in these cities that are like out in California, where you've got, you know, like the cities are literally bankrupt.
	I mean, they're like San Francisco's got a massive problem of businesses exiting because of their policies.
	So you're going to have a lot of fallout from the economic conditions.
	I don't think we've seen the last of militarizing, and they've been militarizing the police for a very long time.
	I don't agree with that.
	And, you know, there's another aspect of that is, you know, a lot of these police forces are sent over to Israel for training, which is, I think, is a red flag too.
	And we're not an occupied state, or at least that we're not supposed to be.
	But I have mixed feelings on, you know, when you talk about law and order, I definitely think, you know, children ought to be able to play safely where they are in their neighborhoods.
	I think that people ought to be able to go to the store and not have to worry about getting carjacked or robbed or something like that.
	But we have a I've said this a long time.
	I think that the war on drugs, whatever that is, you mentioned earlier, people, putting people in jail for plants and whatever they make in a bathtub at a hotel.
	I don't really care about that.
	I care.
	I said, I want a war on thugs, not a war on drugs.
	Like, I think there's people that are violent criminals.
	And that's another thing about The immigration policy that we've seen out of this administration has been disappointing because I don't see where's the, I would know we would have the video of raids on, you know, MS-13 or compounds or whatever these, you know, we have, there are sophisticated criminal networks in this country that are fueled by substance and fueled by human trafficking.
	They are militarized.
	We do not touch them.
	You know, there's, what's that movie?
	Was it, Bill, you might know it had Josh Brolin it was Sicario.
	What was that one where he, I don't know if Billy's back yet, but I'm here.
	Can you hear me?
	Yeah, you remember that movie that came out.
	I think it's like 2019 had Josh Brolin in it.
	And it's about, you know, something happens over the border.
	I forget the name of the.
	I don't, but you said Sicario in that ring.
	Sicario, I believe.
	And he just got, I mean, they had like sophisticated hits and targets, you know, because, and they were hit back by the cartels.
	These are, these are sophisticated entities.
	You don't really see that, but you do see like the kids getting, you know, detained at graduation or, you know, people getting raided at lows or something.
	I'm like, I'm not really concerned with that.
	I'm concerned with we have a real problem.
	We have the bloods in the crips here for how many years?
	The hell's angels.
	I've yet to see a video of any police because the police are scared of them.
	I mean, they would pee their pants if they got into an altercation with any of those people.
	So all those excessive cops gone wild videos, I've yet to see them go wild on an actual criminal.
	It's always, you know, somebody in a wheelchair, some little kid or some, you know, befuddled motorist that, you know, had a, had a, you know, a brake light that didn't work or something like that.
	So that's, again, I, I admit I'm, I'm probably more prejudiced against the cops than I am against anybody else.
	So, you know, you don't want to hear me talk about it because I am, you know, I was going to say, ban the police.
	And I'm just fine with that because I don't think they serve any purpose.
	Like the conspiracy people say, they're, you know, one of the mottos in the conspiracy world is never, ever call the police.
	And I definitely follow that credo because they don't do any good.
	So it's definitely a, I mean, I come out of the background of military police in the army, and I didn't do much policing because I was part of a combat unit.
	So I mean, I had very little like domestic stuff.
	But there is a cult, like you go through that training and go through that's a lot of MPs become cops.
	You know, I never really wanted to do that.
	I'm after about age 22.
	I'm like, I really, this is not for me.
	I'm, I'm, I'm a lot more laxed.
	I don't understand.
	Like, I'll let you go.
	Like if I pulled somebody over for speeding, I'm like, just get this person safe.
	You know, like, I just want to remind you, you're doing 20 over.
	Hey, it's no big deal.
	I, I didn't enjoy any of that aspect of things.
	You know, I don't enjoy, didn't enjoy detaining people for things that I didn't think, you know, it's like, just let them go.
	I want to have the discretion.
	I'd be letting everyone go for the most part, unless they were harming someone.
	You know, that's why I think I'm for law and order, but I also think that the sheriff's departments need to have a bigger role, mainly because sheriffs are elected and their law enforcement generally throughout the country and the counties is a lot different than, say, the municipalities with the police departments that are run by the mayor.
	It's just a lot different.
	There's a different style.
	I think that policing has to be different in a way that, you know, the whole motto of protect and serve, that's been thrown out the window.
	And you talk about, Don, you stuck with the cops gone wild, you know, stuff.
	But I understand that's the reason I'm not in law enforcement.
	I understand that I've seen those type of people, you know, and I've served with them.
	I understand their mentality.
	It's not, it's not my mentality, but I do see that we do have a breakdown at some level.
	But I think that the militarization of DC or whatever they're doing in the troops in California, all that I think is linked to this show, like Don's talked about.
	I think it's, I think it's more press.
	It's more headlines.
	It's more narrative than anything.
	It's not really about effect.
	It's about changing the storyline.
	You know, I would hope that you are correct, but I think it's more benign than that, to be honest with you.
	A few things.
	You know, the states with the highest crime rates right now is or cities.
	It's St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee.
	Right.
	Why is he not going in there?
	and what do those two states have in common?
	Right.
	They're red states.
	So it's the blue states that he's waging war against.
	And it's all one America.
	We need to remember this.
	If it happens to us, it's going to happen to you.
	You know, we've been saying this in the alternative media for quite some time.
	If it happens to one of us, it's eventually going to happen to all of us.
	You know, I listened to Alex Jones for a long chunk of my life and remember him saying that over and over again.
	He may not say that now, but he used to say it before.
	So that's something to look at.
	He's already gone into LA.
	He's threatening to take over New York.
	And people, like Don said earlier, they want to subscribe to these things because, one, it's not them.
	And two, they hate the politics or they hate the way of life that these other cities carry out.
	So they're like, whatever you need to do to get rid of that, you go ahead and do it.
	And at that point, we need to start, are we really, are we really pro-democracy or not?
	What is the United States becoming?
	Second, Angry Tiger in the chat says there is no lesser of two evils.
	There's only evil.
	You go ahead and keep believing that.
	And that's why we're in the situation that we are right now.
	That's why we're, and I used to, I used to subscribe.
	I used to subscribe to that all the time.
	There's only evil.
	And to a degree, you're right, but there are different levels of evil.
	Okay.
	There's a kid stealing stuff in the street or Jeffrey Epstein raping little girls.
	You pick.
	What are you going to do?
	And right now, whether the people like it or not, we would have been a lot better off in fighting and getting our rights and trying to get our way in this country if Donald Trump wasn't in power.
	The things that have happened in the last eight months, I've never seen before, ever.
	And the United States is being pulled out of the world stage, right?
	And this was going to happen anyway.
	Tony talks about it all the time with de-dollarization and world reserve currency and all of that.
	All that stuff is going away.
	And we knew that.
	But what Donald Trump did is he put a rocket launcher to these things.
	Boom.
	So now we may live to see it.
	Before, it would have been a slow grind.
	And that's the difference.
	With the slow grind, we give ourselves a better opportunity to push back, a better opportunity to set our children up to have a better life or to be able to push back against this stuff.
	So that's why we need to choose our battle strategy wisely and not have a blanket statement like, well, evil is evil, so it doesn't matter.
	No, we have a problem.
	And I need people to start realizing that.
	We have a problem.
	And our kids are going to feel it.
	Who knows what our kids' kids are going to inherit?
	I want to be able to set them up and set your kids up and all of America up to be able to fight the battle on a different playing field on a higher playing field and be able to defend themselves better than what we're getting right now.
	We have a serious, massive, massive problem.
	And if people don't snap out of it, and a lot of people have, and I'm very happy for those people, but if people don't snap out of it, ASAP, I don't know what to say.
	We're going the way of El Salvador.
	Bukele already, he has unlimited options to run for the presidency.
	There is no limit.
	He erased it.
	He did it.
	He says, I can run for the presidency whenever I want.
	Bukele in El Salvador.
	Yes, our ally now.
	That's the guy that Donald Trump looks up to.
	Victor Orban already did this 10 times over.
	That's the playbook.
	He keeps talking about it.
	He keeps telling you.
	So that's why this lesser of two evils thing is a thing.
	We need to figure it out, ASAP.
	But I think it depends on what you think is the lesser evil.
	Because I mean, what Angry Tiger said is just kind of similar to what we hear all the time, voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.
	And the problem is that the people that support Trump, they believe he's the lesser of two.
	If you mentioned it before, a lot of them would support him, even if he was caught raping little kids because they think the other side is worse.
	Right.
	So that's the problem is that everybody believes it, but ultimately, I don't know what is worse or who is worse or anything.
	I just think Donald Trump is mostly a giant distraction.
	I'm mostly mad at it that he has killed off any independent political movement because the next politician that runs on the original populist rhetoric that he used is going to be laughed off the stage.
	They talk about our horrible trade deals.
	They talk about bringing the troops home, stopping the senseless wars, building the infrastructure.
	They're going to laugh at him all.
	Who does that sound like?
	Trump.
	I think that was what this was designed to.
	So I'm just mad at that.
	I think this is all cosmetic because the people that there are people out there that don't live in the inner cities.
	So they don't have to worry about it regardless.
	And I don't know what they envision there, but they just want it.
	They just want law and order.
	They want crackdown.
	And so they're okay with people, you know, more people getting arrested for petty drug offenses or prostitution or whatever.
	Whatever.
	Tony mentioned earlier about this, you know, not carrying guns there.
	I don't know, Tony, maybe is this Donald Trump's awkward way of trying to get people to conceal Kerry in D.C.?
	Maybe this is all about a Second Amendment crusade and he wants to put him in there.
	Maybe he'll harm all the people.
	What do you think?
	I think that you're right on so many aspects of this, Don.
	And Billy's right.
	I mean, you have to, Billy is the Thomas Paine of America Unplugged.
	He's trying to give us common sense.
	And always, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
	This is something that Billy's communicating.
	You talked about El Salvador and Bukele, and there always is a threat of the entrenchment of centralization of power.
	And people, you know, if you let things get bad enough, if you clowered and pivot the country hard enough, then people say, well, you know, give me law and order.
	You know, give me the lockdowns.
	I'm afraid.
	You know, if you inject enough fear, you know, there's, you know, there's something wrong with the border.
	We need the wall.
	Now you keep us in.
	I mean, stuff like that.
	I mean, if you beg for it, order ab KO, then you get it, right?
	Order out of chaos.
	And I think the bigger the chaos, the bigger the order.
	I happen to agree with Don, though, on the sense that this is a lame duck presidency at this point.
	And I don't know what that entails for us, you know, as far as the country is concerned.
	Socially, I don't, you know, there's going to be, I think, some issues with the economy.
	It's why I read this morning about the fight between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell about lowering interest rates and all that stuff that's going to entail in the middle of us having still having massive fallout from inflation.
	The debt to GDP ratio is almost at 130%, which where most economists believe there's a tipping point.
	So I think a lot of things on the horizon point to uncertainty.
	I do think that you have to be wary of any sort of lurching to the right.
	I just don't think that this is how it's going to play out.
	And don't forget the election industry, Billy.
	The election industry counts on these elections to have every four years.
	I mean, they're going to start in two years, they'll start running for the next thing.
	It'll be, they'll already start having debates and primaries and all sorts like straw polls.
	And I mean, this is, this isn't an industry.
	It's a cottage industry.
	They have a huge market share of all this stuff with elections.
	So somebody gets paid.
	Your vote counts.
	Go on.
	Your vote counts.
	Vote and vote often.
	Yeah.
	Your vote counts.
	I do think that there's something to all this.
	And again, the aspect of problem reaction solution overshadows all of this.
	We have to be very careful what we ask for.
	We are headed down the road of authoritarianism at 100 miles per hour.
	This dude decided to recklessly start an economic war with the world.
	He has no idea what he's doing with tariffs, right?
	He has ICE.
	He's giving them the biggest budget.
	And, you know, bigger government, right?
	We thought it was the party of small government, even bigger government.
	He added $3 trillion to the deficit.
	He is kidnapping people off the streets and throwing them in vans.
	He said he was going to take over Greenland and Canada.
	He is capitulating to Vladimir Putin at every turn.
	I've never seen anything like this.
	Anything.
	And I think part of the problem, and this goes over to the mainstream too, is that they are acting like it is a status quo.
	Everything is chill.
	Everything is good.
	His mental decline is crazy.
	No one seems to talk about that.
	Everybody wants to talk about Joe Biden's mental decline still to this day here in the alternative media.
	We need to do something.
	This is like urgent care, right?
	You had a heart attack.
	We need to do something.
	While the procedure may not be ideal for all your health needs, we need to save your life right now, right?
	And so things need to happen.
	And I'm sorry, people aren't going to like this, but it is what it is.
	You did not see Joe Biden do any of this stuff.
	Any of it.
	You know, so I mean, when we start talking about, oh, what the lesser or two evil is, sure, it's perception, but that's when the Democrat derangement syndrome kicks in.
	Because what Donald Trump is doing to this country might be irreparable.
	And he's taking us away from being a democratic state.
	Literally.
	He's trying to create a monarchy here.
	He wants to run again in 2028.
	Steve Bannon has said it several times over.
	They're trying to steal the 2026 elections blatantly in front of your face.
	And no one wants to talk about that.
	You know, so I mean, we can keep thinking that there isn't a lesser or two evils.
	We could keep thinking that voting doesn't matter, right?
	Because everything is rigged, right?
	And that's a part of the American paranoia.
	I'm paranoid in a different way.
	I am of the Cambridge Analytica School.
	They're rigging your mind.
	They don't need to rig these elections.
	They're rigging your mind.
	I'll take my chances against Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and push back against them.
	Then what this guy has been able to pull off in eight months, in seven months, what's it six, seven months?
	What's he been able to pull off?
	Many of you said that Project 2025 wasn't even a thing.
	Like, oh, that's crazy.
	You're nuts.
	Now it's being implemented.
	And we're like, oh, it's nothing.
	You know, it's nothing.
	So why was I crazy for believing about it back then?
	You know, and it's more than 50% accomplished right now.
	They want to turn America into sectors run by CEOs.
	And on top of that, they want to turn it into a theocracy.
	We will be no better than the people that we've been taught to hate in the Middle East.
	That's what's happening here.
	And while a lot of you may subscribe to the things that are going on because you're a Christian nationalist or you hate the left so much that you want to see it done, eventually they're coming for you.
	I feel like I'm screaming into the wilderness sometimes, but they're coming for you.
	Well, I just, I would argue, first of all, that I don't know what Trump has actually done.
	And I think, I think you're reacting against.
	I like to believe all of it.
	There's footage of people in the streets.
	There's footage of people of the troops in Washington, D.C. in Washington, D.C. right now.
	There's footage of them.
	They set up checkpoints and all sorts of stuff over there.
	It's happening.
	Well, they've done that before.
	Julian Elliot did that in New York.
	I mean, those are horrible.
	9-11.
	Right, right.
	What about this precedence for it?
	But my point is mostly, you mentioned about Greenland and Canada.
	What happened to that?
	Trump, that's just, that's Trumpet sign.
	He talks about something.
	It doesn't matter.
	What happened to the Panama Canal?
	What happened to that?
	I guess maybe he did.
	Did he really name it the Gulf of America?
	I mean, it's stupid stuff, but he dreamed all that.
	He's like the Trumpenstein project, he's like a little kid.
	He goes on to the next thing that distracts him.
	Now he's distracted with supposedly doing whatever he's doing in DC.
	And I suspect that'll blow over in a week, too.
	This is true.
	It's nothing ever really happens to change other than the fact that people, and there's millions of people like you that are just so incensed at anything he says and does.
	And people, I just, I'm not moved either.
	Why am I?
	I'm disappointed in it because I just roll my eyes.
	Oh, here we go again.
	He's, you know, he's, but he never ultimately does anything.
	With all the respect, I got to go in an hour anyway.
	You could have the rest of it.
	I got to go in a couple of minutes.
	With all due respect, I see it.
	It happens out here.
	This is real life to me.
	While it may not be real life to you, I see the ICE agents out here.
	I see it, right?
	I see the hate.
	I also see the Trump banners waving not too far away from here.
	These are real things that are happening.
	Sure, he hasn't executed on Canada, and that's a good thing.
	We should be happy about that.
	Sure, he hasn't gone after the Panama Canal yet.
	He has three and a half years to do this, right?
	But a lot of things that we were saying, oh, it's not going to happen.
	It's not going to happen, in particular on immigration.
	It is happening.
	It has happened.
	And he is fueling even more money.
	Forgiving student debt.
	Where's the outrage on the right?
	Where's the outrage?
	Because when Biden was trying to do it, oh my God, I'm not paying for your debt, but now he's forgiving student debt to join ICE, to join ICE.
	What do you think they're doing?
	They're building concentration camps.
	You think that's not real?
	There's a concentration camp down in Florida, Alligator Alcatraz.
	These are real things that happen.
	So while some of these things will not be carried out, and Trump just says a lot of nonsense, he's from New York.
	He talks about like whatever.
	Plus, he's losing his mind.
	There are some things that they are actually doing.
	They're actually carrying out.
	There's actual policy that is affecting our pockets.
	Don't these tariffs are real.
	They're not fake, also.
	They're affecting our pockets.
	It's only going to get worse.
	Inflation.
	I claim the tariffs.
	The last I heard.
	I mean, I don't trust anything.
	Didn't they do that, Tony, where they claim the tariffs have now had a sudden positive impact?
	I don't know how, but that's what they claim.
	A lot of them.
	That's the latest.
	Yeah, if they've even been implemented, that's the latest economic news that they're claiming.
	Trump's tariffs are finally having a positive effect.
	I don't know how that could even be because we don't have any domestic industry, but that's the last I heard.
	Well, he also fired the head statistician, right?
	Because they didn't come out with the numbers that they wanted.
	So he fired them.
	So he's going to say they're going to, everything is great.
	He says the economy is great.
	He says that.
	He says everybody loves it.
	Everybody loves the tariffs.
	That's why they want me to run again in 2028.
	This is what he's saying.
	This guy is as unhinged, more unhinged than any other president I've seen in my life.
	And I never voted for any of them.
	I didn't subscribe to them.
	Why would I subscribe to him, who is 10 levels above them in corruption?
	Well, the guy's a freaking mobster.
	You guys know about Richard Nixon.
	The connections between Richard Nixon and Donald Trump are incredible.
	Roger Stone and Roy Cohn, intimately involved in what Richard Nixon did.
	So there are a lot of parallels there.
	Our most disgraced president to Donald Trump.
	I mean, this is what's going on.
	Listen, I can only come on and give my piece about these things.
	If people want to say that these things aren't happening, I can't help you until they actually happen to you.
	And that's what I'm trying to say.
	Things are actually happening.
	They may not be happening in Greenwich, Connecticut.
	Right?
	Things may be all nice in Greenwich, Connecticut, but eventually it'll get there when this is a full-on authoritarian state.
	We are flirting with this.
	We're supposed to.
	And one more thing before I get out of here.
	Shame on the freaking alternative Media, shame on the truth movement.
	You've been trained for this moment to see tyranny happen.
	You've been trained for it.
	And now, when it's here, you're apologizing for it.
	Oh, no, it's not happening.
	Oh, no, it's fake.
	Oh, no, it's this.
	Well, I guess all of that crap that we learned with Alex Jones was complete nonsense, right?
	I mean, most of it was.
	But this, it's here.
	Tyranny's here.
	The new world order is here.
	And what are you doing?
	Where are my gun rights, people?
	We need guns in order to protect against the tyranny, protect against the government.
	I'm not saying that you should go out there and do anything with those guns.
	I don't own a gun, right?
	I'm not anti-gun, but I don't own one.
	I don't want to have anything to do with it, right?
	But where the hell are you?
	You're sitting back picking your asses and cleaning your guns while tyranny is taking place.
	The truth movement, largely, 99% of it was nonsense.
	We've all been kind.
	We need to recognize that and move forward.
	Tony, love you.
	Love you too, brother.
	Thanks for being here.
	Mr. Anderson, good to see you, buddy.
	Oh, hey, Billy.
	How are you doing?
	How you doing?
	Hey, you had me at more guns.
	Oh, my God.
	It's like stepping into a city hall.
	I was raising my hands like, yeah, great.
	Yes.
	Nice seeing you, Billy.
	All right, bro.
	I'm trying to get out of here.
	Trust me.
	Got you, brother.
	Mr. Anderson, let me see if I can edit your mic a little bit.
	We got, do you have your regular mic, or where are you right now?
	You're deep within the Earth's surface, somewhere outside of Taiwan in a different time zone, a different parallel universe.
	Yeah, but same parallel universe.
	Okay.
	You sound good.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Well, Don, would you want to stick around?
	Mr. Anderson's here, and we're going to talk about a little bit of news on the space program and some of the things around that.
	If you want me to, I just got to go right back.
	I'll be right back, okay?
	If you want me to, sure.
	Yeah, I'd love for you to if you if you want to stick around.
	Okay, be right back.
	Well, thanks for being here, Mr. Anderson.
	I appreciate you doing this last minute.
	I was looking at stories yesterday for my show and I didn't get to it, but I covered this the week before.
	I want to pull this up first.
	Let me get to this one I sent you yesterday.
	But there's been a lot of some weird movement in the space programs.
	And of course, the moon is another target for building something.
	Again, this is what they always throw out.
	I wanted to get your take on how much of this was actually real.
	I don't know if I buy any of it anymore.
	Let me see if I can find the article.
	Hold on.
	It's been one of those mornings.
	Yeah, one of the articles had a concept drawing and it showed some structures.
	They look like the monolith.
	That's what I was thinking.
	Yeah.
	Let me just find it, bro.
	Hold on.
	I may have to email it to myself.
	Well, you've got the article there, but the one I sent you from Natural News is the one I wanted to lead with.
	I'm going to have to email it to myself.
	It's funny.
	It must have gotten taken down or something.
	So it's an article that talked about putting a nuclear reactor on the moon.
	And I've read this last week on my show, but they've accelerated the program.
	And I wanted to get your take on that as, you know, a man of science that you are, sir.
	Well, it looked, it looked like they were taking proposals for the idea.
	And it all ties into the Artemis mission to go back to the moon, which I guess was accelerated by the fact that China's going, India, you know, a lot of other countries.
	So one of the problems, I think, with generating energy on the moon, if you're going to create a base, is it's difficult to use solar energy because one lunar day Shakes out to be about four weeks on earth.
	So there would be extended periods of time where you didn't have any light.
	So that's where this concept of using nuclear reactors and they're not even that big, I think, in hindsight.
	It's relatively small.
	I was reading that onshore wind turnbine to generate somewhere to two to three megawatts.
	And this was beneath that.
	But it seems like more than anything else, it's kind of a land grab because if you start creating these areas that have nuclear reactors, you can create perimeters that are like keep out zones.
	So I've got bad news for them because years ago, I bought an acre on the moon.
	I have my certificate.
	Try to go there.
	I'm going to march up to DC, show them my title.
	But yeah, I see that you pulled it up now.
	Yeah, I was able to get it.
	NASA accelerates the moon-based plans with a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor to outpace China.
	And everybody's going to be screaming in the chat, I'm like, Earth is a square.
	I know.
	And let me do the article first.
	This was the purpose of bringing Mr. Anderson on, who is possibly one of the smartest people I have ever known in my entire life and has a background in, let's just say, the sciences, ladies and gents.
	Somebody I trust to, when I see something like a theoretical algorithm, something complicated, I'm like, hey, what is that?
	Because I don't know.
	He knows.
	And it's how he makes his living in another dimension.
	Thank you for jumping timelines too.
	I appreciate that.
	That's tough for him to do.
	And to put this into perspective, so you mentioned the title of the article, 100 kilowatts.
	So a kilowatt would be 10 to the third power.
	When I was talking about megawatts, that's 10 to the sixth.
	So again, onshore wind turbines generate 10 to 3 megawatts.
	So this isn't a whole lot of energy.
	But I think it has to do with setting up perimeters and grabbing some land and not being last to the race, which I don't even understand when I conceptualize this in my head.
	Us being the first ones to land on the moon in 69, it's like running a marathon where the last quarter mile you decide to walk until everyone catches up.
	Like, why would you ever do that?
	I know.
	It makes no sense.
	And, you know, having to bum rides with Russia to the International Space Station.
	And it's all crazy to me.
	I don't understand the motivation for just taking such a relaxed position the last few decades with this.
	Well, that's the question.
	You know, if you go and you like, if you go and program and look into AI and you asked AI about why haven't we been back to the moon, if you've ever really done that, it will give you kind of the same conversations that you and I have.
	Like, well, it makes no makes no sense, actually, that we haven't.
	We went so many times from 1969 to 1972.
	December 72 is the last time we went.
	And I've said often I got to spend an afternoon with Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, and had some interesting conversation with him back and forth.
	He's a really nice man.
	I met another one of the Apollo astronauts through my friendship with Congressman Ralph Hall.
	I was always interested in the Apollo missions.
	And, you know, that was, you know, this was 2014 that I was meeting with these gentlemen.
	And you fast forward all this, you know, again, 11 years later, we still haven't gone back to the moon.
	We always say we're going to.
	It's always, you know, like the next year or the next race or the next thing and the next project.
	So I'm bringing this up because it's another flurry of headlines that come, I think, in the wake of the Epstein debacle of why are we still talking about Epstein when people really wanted to talk about Epstein?
	And this is part of the crescendo of that.
	It may not be related, but I happen to think that it is.
	But the key points of this that they're floating.
	So this is 2025.
	We're on August 15th, 2025.
	So we can always go back and reference this because they've said these similar timelines over and over and over again.
	This is NASA plans to establish a permanent moon base by deploying a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor by 2030, accelerating its Artemis program.
	The lunar South Pole, rich in water ice, is the target for fuel production, life support, and future Mars missions with the U.S. aiming to beat China there.
	Nuclear energy is critical due to moons long nights making solar power unreliable.
	The reactor would be assembled on site to avoid launching radioactive material.
	Well, I mean, it sounds interesting.
	And you're saying, you know, it's not a lot of power, but it'd be enough, right?
	And of course, you got to haul it up there.
	It's kind of, you know, if you're a betting man, Don Jeffries, do you see the nuclear reactor on the moon in 2030?
	I don't know that anything's on the moon, Tony.
	You know, I've had Bart a couple of times and, you know, the guys who do astronauts gone wild.
	So I'm very dubious.
	Anybody out there that's on the fence about it, I would suggest they read the late great Dave McGallen's Wagging the Moondoggy series, which I think he just, you know, it just, technology doesn't go backwards.
	And that's what we have to believe here, that we could do something in 1969 that we can't do now.
	And they tell you they can't do it.
	Now, they claim they lost the technology, just like they lost the original Apollo video of the, I mean, the most important video probably taken in the history of the world.
	Oh, well, I don't know what happened to it.
	It lost it.
	He must have erased it with the Super Bowl or something.
	I mean, what happened with that?
	And so I think that people, NASA, just like everything else now, we know NASA was founded largely by Operation Paperclip and Werner von Braun, you know, and people originally.
	And you had the Apollo, I can't remember what number it was, but Gus Grissom was supposed to be originally the first man to walk on the moon.
	He was the senior member of the Apollo program, Virgil Gus Grissom.
	And he was on the launch pad with two other astronauts and they burned to death very suspiciously.
	And he had been a critic.
	You know, he hung a lemon on one of the rockets and said, you know, this is a lemon.
	We're never going to get to the moon.
	This is a joke.
	And that's what he's saying privately.
	And then decades later, Fox News, of all people, had a very interesting documentary called We Never Went to the Moon or something like that, or conspiracy theory, something.
	And they interviewed his widow and his son.
	And apparently for years, they had been openly saying NASA killed him.
	Now you're talking about a news story.
	Where was 60 minutes?
	I mean, whether it's true or not, that's an incredible allegation.
	So I'm very dubious of all this.
	I think that, you know, for the space station, you guys mentioned that.
	I mean, the space station has never approached space.
	It's nowhere near.
	So why do they call it the space station?
	I don't know.
	It's not in space.
	It's not like the Justice League up there where it's some kind of cool thing up there.
	And when a few years ago, when the space, when it came within the, I don't know, not that close to the Van Allen radiation belts, they panicked and they pulled back and all, you know, this could create terrible damage to the astronauts.
	Well, we supposedly went through the Van Allen radiation belts, what, six times or whatever, on the way to the moon back then.
	So how do we do it then?
	And if you've been, as I have, I live in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.
	So I've been to the Smithsonian.
	I think they have, or you can actually walk in the ridiculous little, you know, contraption that they claim went to the moon.
	And it's so unimpressive looking.
	I mean, it literally has, I think it's something like four inches of aluminum foil.
	And that's what supposedly protected them from the radiation and the space rocks and all that stuff.
	I don't know, maybe there's some really strong aluminum foil.
	And the aluminum foil I've used myself in space to protect.
	So, yeah, I find it hard to believe.
	And then if you want to know, like, for instance, it got so ridiculous at the end.
	I think the last, when they had the moon buggy up there, when they, so they had people like McGowan that asked them, Well, wait a minute, you've accounted for every supposedly every pound that's on that spacecraft.
	You know, so I don't know how they factored in the moon rocks that they would bring back.
	Did they somehow know exactly what they would weigh?
	I don't know, but that's what they supposedly did.
	But uh, when they had that moon buggy, you know, you know, running or driving around, some critics, you know, later asked, Well, wait a minute, how did you fit that in there?
	That's a pretty big contraction.
	Where did that fit?
	They actually said, Oh, oh, well, um, it folded up, you know, like on the Jensens.
	So, they had they're claimed they had a vehicle that folded up like George Jensen had when he went to work.
	So, my question would be: Okay, we had that technology in 1973.
	What happened to it?
	Why aren't we all walking around with suitcase cars and you know, folding them up and talking about would that be great in terms of parking?
	What happened to that technology?
	But nobody asked us, it's like everything else, and people want to believe.
	I mean, it was a patriotic thing.
	You know, we went to the moon, and oh, you're just poo-pooing, you're trying to poo-poo the accomplishments.
	I just ain't it doesn't work like that.
	Like Dave McGowan asked before he died, very suspiciously and very young.
	Um, you know, he said, you know, okay, when the 50th anniversary has already come and gone, you know, people, not many people boom, well, we went to the moon 50 years ago, the space age was the 1960s.
	So, by going by the arc of technology, we should have had manned missions to Mars and Venus at least by now.
	And I think that's what the original goal was back in the day.
	Instead, we have to be satisfied for you know, the other day they ran some more pictures of Mars and they said something like Mars looks amazingly like the desert.
	It does that's why I bring this up is uh, you know, they're floating, and this was the this wasn't the only headline.
	Let me pull up another one.
	This was something else that was floated uh just within about 48 hours of the story of the nuclear reactor on the moon.
	Let me put this.
	This is zero hedge.
	Well, I was going to comment on one thing too, Tony.
	I mean, that point is a good point, and it's often brought up, which is looks like innovation has been stifled the last few decades, and it has.
	I mean, just look recently, this past year, if you take the fraction of people who still work at NASA presently who did in 2024, it's gone down by like 20%.
	I mean, like I said, we've been bumming Uber rides to the space station from Russia for years.
	I mean, you can't have innovation if you don't financially support people to do basic research.
	And there was a really good documentary I saw, I think it was 2008.
	It was called The Atom Smashers, and it highlighted the things that people who worked at Fermi Lab were going through.
	So, Fermilab was named after Enrico Fermi, who was one of the big players during the Manhattan Project, and he was a renowned physicist.
	And so, there was a particle accelerator called Fermilab on the outskirts of Chicago.
	And so, this documentary was just about them pushing back against the politics where each and every year their money for basic research was reduced.
	And at the end of the documentary, they were saying, I guess we're going to move to Switzerland because nobody in America wants to pay for this.
	And in Texas, we this was experienced firsthand.
	You know, where CERN is, that was supposed to be in Texas until a bunch of Texas politicians are just going to generate a tiny black hole and suck up the world.
	It's like, well, now it's just going to do that in Switzerland when you want to have some fun and generate some revenue and do science beforehand.
	It's, but this is across the board a problem.
	And I sorry, I just wanted to interject.
	Oh, I love that.
	It's both, you know, like we're where would you say, Mr. Anderson, we've had the increase in technology.
	I mean, obviously, in some of the software and some of the computational things that we have today, imaging, we've definitely had leaps in that, But other things have stifled.
	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
	But stifling happens.
	I mean, look at the break between Einstein and Newtonian classical mechanics.
	That was a long time before Einstein came along and said, no, your theories on gravity are mostly right, but they're a little wrong in these cases.
	But overall, it's true.
	I mean, where has there been ground made up?
	I mean, there's a law called Moore's Law, which really isn't a law.
	It's more of an observation that seems to be held true, which is, you know, every one and a half years, the computational power doubles.
	So we've gotten better at fabricating smaller and smaller things or the building blocks of computers, transistors, and putting them closer together.
	And, you know, after the first Ruby laser was invented, there's been a lot of ground and technological advancements powered by the laser, right?
	And right now, there's a big uptick in quantum computing and things like that.
	And I won't go into the reasons why, but we haven't seen anything that's crazy.
	I mean, if you look at people who've received the Nobel Prize in recent years, it's for work on different materials.
	Like there was one for the development of this material called gallium nitride.
	And why is that important?
	Well, it's because that's what makes white LEDs or white in air quotes LEDs.
	They have this material, gallium nitride, that emits blue light.
	And then they put a phosphor coating on top of it.
	And what that phosphor coating does is it partially absorbs the blue light and then emits yellow light.
	And then you mix them together and you kind of get a whitish light.
	So, I mean, if you look at what people are getting Nobel Prizes for, it's not relativity, but here's a little known fact.
	Einstein didn't get a Nobel Prize for special relativity.
	It was the photoelectric effect.
	But you don't see these types of things right now, but that happens.
	I mean, if you just challenge yourself to look at historically when some of the huge advancements were, they're always kind of spaced out.
	But my point is we as a country are no longer funding it.
	There's no initiative to fund basic science research.
	And in that documentary, you know, politicians were visiting Fermilab asking the scientists, well, why is this important?
	And the scientist's response is, I can't tell you now, but I'll tell you 10 years from now why it was important.
	But we're not investing in that way.
	It's a good point.
	And that's the mystery that surrounds all of this.
	I mean, and you and I have had many conversations.
	We've done some paratruthers on, by the way, if you like the line of logic from Mr. Anderson, you can find him on the Paratruther podcast, anywhere podcasts or served.
	He's my co-host over there.
	And we've had some great episodes where we really go into, he's got a science background, but we go into the metaphysical and the esoteric and other things.
	And I just hang a question mark over.
	I'm fascinated with the space program, the history of that, how much of it was real, how much of it was faked.
	And like I was mentioning earlier, if you interface and you talk to AI and you feed it scenarios, it comes back with like there is no logical explanation for why we didn't go back to the moon.
	Because all the arguments are false, like we didn't have the money.
	Well, that's not true.
	We spent trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars looking for people in caves, supposedly, you know, overturning, defiling civilizations.
	And, you know, the warfare welfare state is bigger than it's ever been.
	We're, you know, the debt of the U.S., I just read earlier today in 1971 was 370 billion.
	We'd already supposedly gone to the moon many times.
	The debt of the U.S. now is 37 trillion.
	So I don't buy any of that.
	The arguments there fall flat.
	The other explanations are things like we did go and we were told not to go back.
	We found structures there.
	Something happened.
	You know, and those who believe that nothing is real and that the earth is a pancake and, you know, that we're everything is a holographic projection and governments aren't all the things that the nuclear weapons aren't real.
	All that stuff that you get into is I don't know.
	I just love that.
	You remember that interview with, excuse me, Buzz Aldrin?
	He's like on some morning show, and he just goes off on a tangent.
	He's talking about the moon on Mars, one of the moon's phobos.
	He's like, Yeah, because we got to go there.
	See what that's about.
	See who put that there.
	We're like, get him off the air.
	Get him off the air.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's true.
	And every once in a while, the funny, the funny thing about that, and Don has interviewed Bart Sobrell, which is a fascinating interview.
	I think, Don, you've had Bart on twice, I think, that I've produced.
	Those are great shows.
	We need to rerun those or have Bart back on again soon.
	He's a great guest because he went around just trying to get Apollo astronauts to swear on the Bible that they walked on the moon.
	And I don't.
	Buzz hit him.
	That was the guy.
	Buzz hit him.
	Yes.
	Yeah, Buzz hit him.
	And nobody else, from what I understand, did anybody else swear?
	I don't think that they did.
	I don't think anybody did.
	I think it was, was it Ecker Mitchell?
	It was one where he was, he fooled him at first.
	And then when he realized what he was at, he kicked him in the butt, like he literally kicked him out of the house.
	And then when he was somehow his recording was still working, so he heard his son say we should get the CIA to whack him or something.
	It's fascinating stuff, you know.
	And Buzz, I mean, Bart has talked in, I think it was Moon Man is the name of his book that he put out.
	But he describes being chased by, you know, I don't know, presumably government agents or shadowy figures.
	And very, very interesting stuff.
	But he's, he's, but he may be too big for me now.
	I think he was on Joe Rogan and he's he's climbed up the ladder now.
	I don't know if he will acknowledge my existence anymore.
	He will.
	I'll have to check with him.
	But yeah, he was, he's a fascinating guy.
	But I think we need to be dubious of everything because, and, you know, this is why you have such a huge flat earth movement and things like that now that Tony was alluding to, because it's really a short jump from, you know, NASA faked all this to space itself is fake.
	I mean, that's it's it's not once you establish in your mind that, well, they lied about all this, definitely, then, you know, there's no question about it.
	And, you know, they probably, it looks like at least Gus Gresman's family thinks they killed him because of it.
	And there was a family, you know, I was, again, I was a pathfinder in this.
	I heard about a book called We Never Went to the Moon by Wild Bill Casing back in the 80s, I think he wrote it.
	And he, you know, he talked about there was a guy that testified before Congress that about the impossibility of what they were trying to do and how this is, you know, this could be dangerous.
	They couldn't get what they were doing, it doesn't didn't seem possible to him.
	And he ended up, his entire family was found dead in their car in the railroad tracks.
	They got run over by a train after he testified.
	So, you know, we see the same kind of things there that we see in so many other political things.
	But I don't know.
	It'd be interesting.
	I've looked over in your chat and some people seem to, but I would imagine most of the most of the conspiracy world probably thinks that we didn't go to the moon.
	And like Tony, he was a huge Apollo fan.
	You know, I knew, I mean, I knew all the astronauts' names.
	I remember being crushed as for some James Lovell, who just died, I think it was 97.
	He was, you know, like in, it was like sports.
	I had to pick a favorite astronaut.
	For some reason, I liked him the best.
	So I remember being crushed when he was the commander of Apollo 13 that, you know, they could, they, you know, they had to turn back.
	And again, that was one of the things they talked about.
	How did they factor in that?
	How did they factor in something like an emergency situation like that with that technology where everything worked perfectly and they could turn around and abort the landing and everything?
	So it's, it's, there's a lot of questions to ask, but the main thing is that, like Dave McGowan said, will people question if the 100th anniversary comes and we still have him back to the moon?
	Well, they, because they didn't question it on the 50th.
	I mean, it just, it doesn't work that way.
	It would be like if the Wright brothers, you know, flew their did their little experiment and there was a, there was a few flights in the 1910s and then that was it.
	Never again.
	I mean, you have to question these things.
	So I think that, but as Mr. Anderson was saying, they don't even talk about this anymore.
	And I think they don't talk about it because they know they can't do it or they won't do it or whatever, because it obviously makes sense.
	I mean, if they're, if we're overcrowded here and all that, you know, we talked about if you read back in the you know things written decades ago, they talked they dreamed about having you know colonies on the moon or colonies on Mars before now.
	And obviously, that's not the case.
	Instead, we have you know pictures of what looks like a desert that they claim is Mars.
	And they supposedly, you know, they we have the uh the Hubble telescope, you know, that that can you know give us these great vistas of the Milky Way and you know, galaxies far away at great detail, but somehow they can't point down to the moon.
	Point that at the moon and just get a crusty clear close-up at the landing site, but haven't done it so far.
	Yeah, it's it's interesting because people often break into two factions: you know, we either went or it was faked by Stanley Kubrick.
	And 2001 Space Odyssey was kind of his primer for doing that.
	And I've always been like devil's advocate.
	If I was in the same position and had the ability to dictate things, I would try to do both.
	I might just swing astronauts around the moon and then have Stanley film some stuff.
	I would kind of hedge my bets.
	So I really, I don't know what happened.
	I mean, some of the, I guess, and I'm putting this in quotes, more convincing reasons to believe that we actually walked on the moon is there is a reflector there that there's a big observatory in Hawaii and they'll shoot out a laser ever so often to monitor how far back the moon is receding from us because it's getting a little further away.
	Its orbit is elongating each year.
	And so that's kind of convincing, but it's not many photons, meaning particles of light you get back is just a couple.
	So is it a reflector or is it something on the moon itself that a region they found?
	I really don't know.
	But it is awfully suspicious.
	We haven't gone back.
	I mean, maybe what gave us the motivation to do so the first time was the Soviets.
	And now, you know, China's been landing rovers there.
	I remember they, one of their rovers had a picture of the mystery hut because there's all this chatter about whether or not their structure is on the far side of the moon.
	And as Tony said, if we were told not to go back, I don't know, but it just doesn't make a lot of sense that you would achieve something that, you know, is one of the biggest achievements in human history.
	And they just say, oh, we're done with that.
	It's kind of like cloning with Dolly 96.
	It's like, oh, we cloned, we cloned the sheep.
	Yeah, we're done with cloning now.
	Yeah.
	It does make sense.
	Jackson T. Barrett in the chat is yelling at me to read the chat.
	He says, he's yelling at me a little now, too.
	He's yelling at me to read the chat.
	And he's talking about the secret space program, which is another aspect to all of this, which would make sense.
	And you could get into the Catherine Austin Fitz funnelings of that she, you know, when she worked in the first Bush administration, I think she was part of commerce where, you know, there was a, or was she housing and urban development?
	She was in something like that, wasn't she, Don?
	She was monitored a lot of great deal of the funds.
	And, you know, whether there was monies redirected or whatever, that's a part of us going off the gold standard too, where there is not an accounting of anything.
	So they can just make stuff out of thin air.
	A lot of that, you know, while having still having the perception that the money is real so they can use it for things, they may have built a lot of a breakaway government, breakaway civilization could have been any of those things.
	Yeah.
	So I'm open to it.
	And then this is the other story I wanted to bring up.
	Yeah, good segue.
	Maybe all the rich people now can go up in outer space like Elysium.
	That's why I was just about to say, like Elise.
	This is the other story that was on the heels of that nuclear reactor.
	This is by the this is on Zero Hedge, but from the Epoch Times.
	President Donald Trump signs an executive order on August 13th to erase regulations for the commercial space industry and enhance American greatness in space.
	The order directs Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to work on streamlining the license and permitting process for commercial launch and re-entry vehicles to eliminate outdated, redundant, or overly restrictive rules according to the White House.
	This is ensuring that the United States operators can effectively launch, conduct missions in space, and re-enter United States airspace is critical to economic growth, national security, and accomplishing federal space objectives.
	We have 120 days to implement this.
	And this is a big move in the realm of space.
	Some people think that it's faking game, according to the chat.
	I know I'm getting yelled at.
	I'm sure I'm getting yelled at in the chat for not being able to do it.
	I can't see the chat.
	What are they yelling at us at?
	You don't want to know.
	They don't like us.
	I'm kidding.
	Join the club.
	It's okay.
	But no, I think, so these are interesting headlines, and it's a good way to close out the third hour on the David Knight show on a Friday.
	I don't know if I'd pick, you know, just not a regular news day, but there's a lot happening.
	I think this is part of whatever, you know, the institutional changeover that happens at the end of, I think I've said the words forth turning about 50 times today.
	So those are sick of me already.
	But, you know, every 80 years, you bet you had that change.
	Last one was World War II, the end of World War II.
	You had the introduction of the atomic bomb that some people don't think is real.
	And, you know, you had the Bretton Woods agreement and the new economic world order that happened.
	Those institutions are falling apart.
	What you would call the liberal new world order and all that stuff.
	It's being reshuffled on the grand chessboard.
	Space seems to be part of this equation.
	And I'm fascinated with the questions of what happened to us.
	You know, I'm fascinated with the questions of the space program, whether it's a secret one or not, whether we went to the moon, didn't go.
	I don't know.
	It's interesting to see these headlines in this timeline, though.
	That's why I brought Mr. Anderson on.
	Well, speaking of timelines, can I throw something at you and Don?
	I'm curious about your thoughts on it.
	Yeah, hold on.
	I'm going to move out of the way.
	Yeah.
	Have y'all been keeping up any with the red heifers and the third temple construction over in Israel?
	No, let's go over that.
	Do you have a link you can send me?
	You know what?
	You keep, you explain it.
	I'll find the story.
	Don, have you heard anything about that?
	It's the most bizarre thing.
	Apparently, if you read Numbers 19 in the Bible, it talks about the sacrifice of a perfect red heifer, which is a perfect red cow, like no blemishes.
	It couldn't work.
	It had to be a real lazy cow.
	And that's kind of how they ushered in the temple.
	And so they used the ashes to anoint themselves.
	But anyways, there's a temple institute and they've been purchasing red heifers, or they did a few years back from a rancher in Texas.
	And they also purchased some land.
	And there's a lot of commotion now because in July, they did a practice ritual sacrifice, not the real one.
	According to Jewish tradition, there's only been nine perfect red heifer sacrifices through the span of the first and second temples.
	And the 10th is supposed to be the final one that ushers in the coming of the Messiah and the third temple.
	But they're gearing up for it.
	And what drives me crazy is like the rancher who's providing the red heifers says he's an evangelical Christian.
	And actually, Mike Johnson was reached recently in the West Bank a couple of weeks ago, and he was in the same area, the same town, Shiloh, that has these five red heifers.
	And I've heard Pete Hegseth talk about the construction of the Third Temple.
	Everybody.
	And I'm like, how as an evangelical Christian can you usher in the Third Temple?
	I mean, did you not read the New Testament from beginning to end?
	But it all cuts back into these people who are pre-millennial dispensationalists.
	They think if they force the construction of the third temple, that they're going to be whisked up into the sky before the bad stuff happens.
	And it's that whole apple pie, ready to die, meet Jesus in the sky sort of lie that we always talk about, Tony.
	And it just, oh, it made me so furious.
	But they're all supporting it and our government's supporting it.
	And it just got my, you know, the cranks in my brain going.
	I go, is this why Gaza happened?
	Were they just trying to push out a bunch of Muslims to get them off the temple mount so they can rebuild the temple?
	And it seems like that's what they're doing.
	So I don't know.
	It seems like things are heating up, so to say, with the construction of the third temple.
	And I just would love y'all's thoughts on it.
	Well, as soon as you mentioned that, I looked over and I saw how many people were watching live and it was 666.
	So congratulations.
	We crossed that boundary.
	It was 666 people watching live.
	We were ushered in this conversation.
	I think you're right, though.
	And I think actually this ties in well with our previous talk about the space program and the greatness of what was the American nation.
	I think we've been hijacked politically by these psychopaths, people that are, they may have degrees, they may have so-called educations, but these are these people, these are some brainwashed psychopathic individuals who have climbed the ladder of power and believe some insane things and actually try.
	You talk about Mike Johnson and like the, you know, the Christian Zionism movement is insane.
	It's bloodthirsty.
	It is, I think, devoid of Christian values.
	I mean, it's idol worship.
	If you look at, you know, John Hagee's church down in San Antonio, people like flying Israeli flags inside the church.
	I mean, this is like the whole, their raison debt is a foreign nation state that was born in 1947.
	That is their whole purpose.
	And they think that's America's purpose.
	And when I was, you know, I was raised in the South and went to church there.
	That's what I was told that my purpose was, was to support this foreign nation state, which I think is a complete hijacking and bastardization of what the New Testament is, about what Christ is and everything else.
	And it becomes politicized and gross.
	And now we have, I think you mentioned this, Mr. Anderson, with the fascination with the Third Temple.
	what were you telling me that we were talking about the, the wall there is not even really the, Trump cares about the Fort Antonio wall.
	I mean, as Christians, they'll go there and visit the wall.
	And I was like, did you not listen to what Jesus said?
	Jesus said, not one stone will be left on another.
	Looks like a couple stones are left on top of each other here, but they don't care.
	And so I'm a Christian, but I reject creature of rapture.
	And it was popularized by that series when I was younger, the Left Behind series and everything.
	And I just think it's completely irresponsible.
	And it was popularized, as you and Don know, by someone named John Darby.
	You want to know who attended John Darby's church as a young man?
	Aleister Crowley.
	He attracted good people in his church.
	And then Cyrus Schofield, a guy who's a dead dad who went to jail for fraud.
	And this is because dispensationalism, I mean, it's just commentary on the Bible.
	It's nothing that Jesus said.
	It's nothing that's prophetic in Daniel.
	They're just assuming it.
	Everything I read in the Bible says otherwise, but it just, yeah, it really drives me nuts, Tony and Don.
	So I apologize for ranting.
	No, I saw that.
	Couldn't believe it.
	That's fantastic.
	You know more than I did.
	I didn't know about Aleister Crowley going there, but I understand talking about the influence of the Schofield Bible.
	And I was raised Catholic and I still consider myself a nominal Catholic.
	And this stuff about the rapture is foreign.
	I mean, I first started selling dispensationalism.
	I first started seeing this in the 1970s with people we used to call Jesus freaks and that they would suddenly discover Jesus and born again.
	They became born-againers.
	And this, I don't know how many Christians are left in America that aren't influenced by this evangelical stuff.
	And I think that's why you have the popularity of Israel.
	Because if you take away the Christians who have convinced themselves that it's to go to criticize Israel is to go against God.
	So, if you, if you, you know, and that's what they believe.
	So, any and they want World War III.
	It's, it's, you know, it's hard to find peace when you have people that want it.
	They think it fulfills biblical prophecies that you have to have an arm again in the last days and all the stuff they think is going to happen by being reading the book of Revelation.
	And again, for Catholics like me, it's like, you know, this is all foreign to me.
	And I think it's foreign to any traditional Christian, but all that we're talking about, Schofield and Darby and all that.
	That's not much more than a century old, probably.
	So where was that before then?
	So every Christian that lived before that did not, you know, did not had no idea that, let alone a belief in it.
	And I would like to know how many Christians you would have in America if you didn't have the evangelicals.
	Not very many.
	They have taken over Christianity, especially with preachers like Hagee and people that Tony mentioned.
	And all the, that's the evangelical movie.
	You don't have any people that are non-evangelicals that are talking on TV that have flocks and get a lot of money and all that.
	This really unbiblical stuff to make, you know, the Joel Osteens and people like that that make sinful amounts of money.
	And it goes very much against biblical teaching.
	And it's a shame.
	But the Christian Zionists are in many ways more dangerous than people in Israel that support this stuff because they enable it to happen.
	And I guess I've kind of gone into a diatribe, one of my typical diatribes against Israel.
	But not many people criticize them.
	And again, the Trump administration, you're looking at, you mentioned Mike Johnson and people like that.
	That's, you know, any Christians that are in the Trump administration are going to be has Trump ever said Jesus is Lord?
	I challenge someone to find that.
	I try to.
	He'll talk about God.
	I pray to God.
	Well, that's who is your God?
	I don't know.
	But I've never heard him say anything about Jesus as Lord.
	I think he said one time, Jesus is more popular than me, or something like that.
	It's a rare moment of humility.
	A prayer moment.
	I will say, I think it was Melania.
	I think, well, didn't Melania recite the Lord's Prayer once in public, which I which I thought was pretty cool.
	I mean, I forget what the context was, but I don't remember any other public official ever doing that where she recited the Her Father.
	And I thought, wow, that's, I don't know what it meant, but I thought that was interesting.
	Yeah, and I'm not trying to attack Trump's convictions.
	I really don't know what he believes.
	I'm just saying, in general, what we're doing politically and what we're supporting, it makes no sense to me.
	And it's so difficult to reason with evangelical Christians because I was kind of brought up that way.
	I was brought up Baptist, you know, fire and brimstone at church camp, things like that.
	They just can't get rid of it.
	They can't kick it out of their mind saying, no, like reinterpret this and understand.
	I know we've been groomed a certain way and believed or brought up to believe in this pre-trib rapture, but I don't think it happens and it doesn't make any sense.
	Look what happened to Jesus.
	Listen to what Jesus said.
	A servant isn't above his master.
	Look what happened to the apostles and his disciples.
	Okay.
	Every one of them.
	You think because you put $50 in the collection plate, you've reserved a better end result for yourself?
	Like you're going to bypass all the bad things.
	And when you look at this new story, like this, this rancher, they're willfully and knowingly trying to usher it in.
	And then you think you're just going to be whisked up into the sky.
	It makes no sense.
	It's completely dangerous and it's blasphemous.
	There's no need for sacrifices after Jesus.
	He said it is finished.
	And I know I'm being very, very Christian right now.
	I know David's Christian too, and I'm not trying to go off on like a religious tangent, but it really bothers me because, you know, Tony, when you sent me those stories about space, we know ideas of what they've had for mass deceptions, right?
	And one of them, you know, Reagan discussed about what would bring all the countries together more than anything else, an existential crisis, right?
	And so, right, I've always thought that can be part of the great deception.
	So when we're talking about the building something like a space force, and we're always being bombarded with, oh, this asteroid is going to get really close to us pretty soon, right?
	And so, it's like they're building the narrative up, and then to the side of that, you see what's going on actually in Israel with regard to Temple Mount and these red heifers and purchasing the land and practicing the ceremony.
	It just you know gets my gets me perked up a little bit.
	It seems like something's ready.
	I think it's good.
	I think it's good that it does, and we need to have those conversations.
	And this is what's wrong.
	I mean, we've got there's the surface level, there's the press release, there's what's there you're supposed to believe, and then there's what's actually going on.
	I mean, you dig deep enough, and you'll find some disturbing facts about the uh you know the political establishment, uh, the ruling class, uh, whatever they believe in.
	It's not what you believe in, and you got to be careful what you support.
	Is that you know, I've said uh, from the beginning of this uh war in Gaza and the genocide and everything that's going on, I'm like, you got you, you got to wash your hands, you got to step away from this, you don't want this pharmacy on you, you know, as a Christian, as some, you know, we're supposed to, you know, reflexively support whatever.
	Uh, you know, post 9-11, I said, you got to keep yourself distanced from this thing because there's some evil in there, and that's, you know, again, that's the danger of where we've been in the last 90 days.
	Um, you know, I talked about it in the first hour, Trump tweeting or sending out the message for the people of Tehran to evacuate.
	Can we ever?
	I can't think of a parallel of another president even coming close to doing anything like that.
	So, you know, I think Billy would agree with me.
	That's the first, that's a first.
	And people said, well, at least you gave them advanced warning.
	And I was like, have you looked at how many people are in that city?
	Are they supposed to evacuate?
	Right.
	How are they supposed to evacuate all of them?
	It makes no sense, too.
	And then, like, tweeting out unconditional surrender and all this stuff.
	I mean, it's, we've, you know, you just have to be careful what you believe in, what you, what you support, and other things.
	They're not, they're not of what, you know, if you follow Christ, if you're a Christian, if you follow that, um, the tenets of that, um, you know, you have to ask yourself, is this in line with what Christ would do?
	I just, I don't see it.
	Um, you can't convince me of it otherwise.
	There's a lot of mix in there, I think, of the occult and other things that we have to be careful of that this isn't, it isn't our faith, it isn't our cradle faith.
	Yeah, I think that this is um this brings up a lot of uh interesting points.
	But I think when we look at the and I, I, and I really, I think that because we know the people that uh that this is a spiritual battle, and you know, I'm sure you guys can both appreciate this and most of your audience.
	And I'm a Christian, I'm, I have great faith, and I think this is a spiritual battle.
	And we know the people that that are in charge are obviously no fans of Jesus, and I believe they're inspired by the dark force, and yet they tolerate this, this, this Christianity.
	But the Christianity they tolerate is this kind of in you know, insipid Zionist Christianity, which is inspired by all these things that I think are false and dangerous and definitely lead to the support of Zionist Israel.
	And I think that's why they're tolerated.
	And, you know, the Catholic Church used to have a lot more power in America.
	You don't see, what was that guy's name?
	There was a guy when I was young.
	He even into young adulthood.
	Catholic League of Decency was the Catholic League of Decency had a lot of power in this country.
	I don't think they exist anymore.
	And that guy that was their figurehead has been long gone.
	He used to be talking, he used to be on TV a lot.
	And you don't have any Catholics that do that now.
	You used to have Catholic priests leading pro-life marches.
	I don't see any pro-life marches.
	And why don't you see any Christians marching to counteract the transgender agenda?
	Those transgender rallies, I'm still waiting for the first pastor or priest to lead their flock against them.
	I don't know what they exist for.
	I really don't.
	You have the evangelicals that exist to make money for these super preachers, and they're very consumed with money.
	That's why, you know, my favorite biblical verse is the one where Jesus himself says it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
	And I've never met a Christian who didn't go apoplectic with their needles.
	The eye of the needle, there was a little needle in the middle, and then he had all the stuff they try to justify it.
	No, because they obviously we all want to be wealthy.
	So this that hits kids to the core.
	Especially, you know, one of these tele television preachers, I mean, that are multi-millionaires.
	Obviously, they can't say that without choking that verse, but it's, you know, it's, it's, it's about money to these people, and it's about Israel.
	And that's why Zionism is so powerful in this country.
	They prop it up.
	Pat, going back to Pat Robertson, you know, Pat Robertson had a lot of stuff about the New World Order, but he stayed away from Israel.
	There's a whole line of people like that.
	They just completely ignore that aspect of it.
	And you're seeing more and more of it now.
	And I don't know what's going to happen because there is no Christianity really that at this point that has any power that is not either in the evangelical camp or what's left of the Catholic Church or Episcopalians.
	You know, I get the sense that none of those groups have that much power anymore.
	Maybe I'm wrong.
	I don't know what you guys think.
	Yeah, they do have a lot of power.
	Tony knows this, but there's a pastor I like online.
	He discusses French topics.
	Like an example would be, you know, Jesus was dead for three days.
	Where did he go?
	Yet, where did he go?
	And he told the thief on the cross, I tell you the truth, today you'll be with me in paradise.
	And, you know, this pastor in particular talks about him going down the shoal or hell before his unjudged, unjudged hell or the bosom of Abraham, it's sometimes called, and rounding people up.
	And so he touches on these French topics that never get discussed, at least where I was brought up.
	But I even wrote him one time saying, you know, Peter says, be very careful when you're a teacher that you can lead people astray.
	And I always remind myself of that, even when I'm giving my opinion to friends or family.
	But I said, you're absolutely wrong about a premillennial or pre-trib rapture.
	And he felt the need.
	I upset him so much.
	He's like, most of the time during his sermon, I get nice letters.
	90% of them are great and inspire me and motivate me.
	He goes, but it's the 10%.
	Just got a big letter from Texas the other day.
	And he called me ignorant and it just made me laugh.
	But that's the position.
	They won't even, you can't even entice them with history.
	You know, you can't talk about the Balfour Declaration.
	He said, what's going on here?
	Like, I was raised to believe the reason Israel was established was because of the atrocities that happened during World War II.
	But no, the motion wasn't planned.
	Well, before then, in 1917, it was a deal that England made, right, with the Rothschilds.
	Like, get America involved and we'll give you some land.
	Yes.
	Right.
	And that's what happened.
	But they even see that.
	And it's like, now think of everything that's associated with the Rothschilds.
	It's not good.
	It's not to inspire, convict people to become better Christians, right?
	They're the antithesis of that, but they still discount it and they won't acknowledge it.
	It just falls on deaf ears.
	And this happens to me all the time.
	But I like that he called me ignorant.
	Really upset him.
	No, you're so right about that.
	And a lot of people like history is a pack of lies agreed upon, unfortunately, where you have people thinking that the Lusitania got us into World War I. No, it was post-Balfour Declaration.
	That was the year of the Zimmerman Telegram.
	And, you know, that was the thing that pushed us into World War I. And the Lusitania was brought up after the fact.
	That was May of 1915 and was resurrected again.
	Because if you remember, 1916, Woodrow Wilson ran on the slogan, He kept us out of war.
	And That's the first thing he did as soon as he was sworn back in.
	He's just ready to get us into it.
	And the Balfour Declaration had a lot to do with that.
	And the Zimmerman telegram, which was the German consulate supposedly telegramming the Mexican consulate, hey, if you just join us in the fight against America, you'll get the territories back.
	And, you know, that was antagonistic.
	And supposedly, the consulate had ties to the House of Rothschild.
	So all kinds of interesting history in the last three minutes of the David Knight show.
	Thank both of you gentlemen.
	Thank you, Mr. Anderson.
	I know you're very busy schedule.
	He wasn't even scheduled to do any shows or podcasts.
	And I hit him up last minute and come on.
	So thank you for being here, sir.
	Well, it's always a pleasure talking with you and Don.
	And so thank y'all for having me.
	Sorry for all the wild tangents, Don.
	Well, and you can find Mr. Anderson's work on Paratruther.
	Go to anywhere podcast or found, or you can go to my website, Tony.gold, and you can find Paratruther podcasts and links to Paratruther.
	And we're going to be working on some soon upcoming episodes with Mr. Anderson.
	And then I have the legendary Donald Jeffries.
	Thanks for staying a second hour, Don.
	I appreciate you.
	My pleasure.
	It's great to be able to talk to the great 666 plus strong singing audience here.
	It's great.
	And I was looking in the chat room and seeing some familiar names, plus lots more who listen later.
	And you know, today on iProtest at 5 p.m.
	Eastern, you can listen to me there.
	Tony produces that show.
	And I think, will we be back on YouTube, Tony?
	I don't know.
	I'm not sure.
	I think I was only one week, so I may be on YouTube.
	I'll definitely put you on my YouTube, Don.
	So you definitely be over there.
	So, okay, but I can follow Don at Tony Arterburn on YouTube, too.
	Yeah, so it's hopefully be there.
	But yeah, and people follow me on Substack, Donald Jeffries at substack.com.
	It's the only place I'm not shouting.
	And appreciate being on the show.
	Hope and wish David well.
	Oh, same here.
	Love David, miss him, and hope to see him back here soon.
	He keeps me a sharp broadcaster.
	And of course, Travis keeps me on my toes too.
	I talk to Travis every Thursday, but I need David back, or I'm going to atrophy.
	I mean, I got to have that man's, he challenges me to.
	If you don't, every Thursday, I had to make sure I knew something that David didn't know.
	How do you do that?
	How do you know something?
	You got to really dig deep or get lucky, I think.
	But thanks for everybody else for being here.
	And the DavidKnightShow.com.
	And it's DavidKnight.news now, I believe.
	I think actually he's got both of those.
	The DavidKnightShow.com and DavidKnight.news.
	And you can support David with merch and donations and everything.
	Keep him on air and keep the stream going and reaches a lot of people.
	And there is a war on your mind.
	So this is a great way to push back.
	And DavidKnight.gold, I set that up for David.
	You can support him through using that link to buy precious metals and get out of the fiat system.
	Today's the anniversary of going off the gold standard back in 1971.
	I read the metrics earlier today.
	You can see it's been pretty disastrous on all fronts.
	And you can escape some of that, some of the damage by housing your work and your energy and your funds in precious metals.
	All right.
	I'm going to try to get the outro on.
	Let me see if I can do this.
	Let's see if it's even possible.
	Hold on a second.
	Somehow I got one more thing to do.
	Hold on, guys.
	We're going to do the daily outro.
	Stand by.
	I am my own producer.
	It shows, doesn't it?
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