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Oct. 14, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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Anthony Freda on the Fall of Culture
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All right, welcome back.
And joining us now is Anthony Frieda.
He's got a new book that's coming out.
We're going to talk to him about that, The Thought Crimes of Anthony Frieda.
And uh he's he's got he's been very successful as an artist, and he's uh his art is uh full of um very important uh critiques of the uh of what we see politically.
Uh he's actually had and his art put on uh display at the 911 Museum and Memorial in New York City, and uh he's on the same page as we are, I think about 9-11, his tenure um tenure with InfoWars is an illustrator and writer, fully submitted his uh his place in the world of controversial alternative news,
and he's been very vocal about his role in that space, and so that's uh where I got to know Anthony, as well as his work with uh Charles Slenty and Trends Journal.
So uh thank you for joining us, Anthony.
Good to see you again.
Great to see you, David, and uh thanks for having me.
Uh beautiful set.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, I always wanted to uh talk to you about your background here, and there's a whole another aspect of your background that I wasn't aware of uh now that you're getting into Christian art and you've got a project uh with that as well and the GoFundMe to help realize that project.
But let's let's talk about uh your personal journey here.
Uh you you began doing copy stuff for uh uh for the advertising industry, and you began helping them to sell Joe Campbell.
Talk a little bit about that and uh how you got from there to where you are now.
Yeah, so it's quite a journey.
I've been doing it for 40 years, so uh I'll give you the condensed version, but uh yeah, I got out of art school.
I had this dream of becoming this, you know, famous prosperous, thriving artist.
And uh I just wasn't prepared.
I mean I went to Pratt had four years of training in art and painting and drawing, and I was pretty proficient and I was you know pretty confident.
But it really didn't train you how to make a living as an artist, so I sort of figured that out on my own now.
I have to make a living doing this.
So crossing that threshold from academia into the professional world for any artist is a is a scary time.
I mean I teach seniors now at FIT and it's my way of giving back because I know how scared they are.
And so I try to s sort of pivot that's a very good thing.
And I think it's a scarier time right now than ever has been.
I mean, we look at AI, and a lot of people are just content to throw a prompt at AI and take whatever it gives them.
What do you think about that?
How is that going to affect art?
Well, I think it's gonna be not just art, it's gonna I mean I think it's designed to create a post-human future.
Yeah, where the robots do all the work and they work 24 hours a day, and I mean the transhumanist, you know, elevator pitch or elevator to the hell pitch is that the robots do everything for us, and we have the freedom to do whatever we want, and they'll give us a basic unit of income.
I don't think it's gonna work out that way, but that's their utopian post-human transhumanist future.
Uh yeah, it's I had my class yesterday.
Um the kids were crying.
They were literally crying because they just went to school for four years to learn how to be an artist, and now anyone who has uh an AI program can do what they do.
Yeah.
So it's very demoralizing to the creatives, but I mean the same thing goes for the guys who remember they say to learn to code, like not anymore.
Yeah, they're putting themselves out of a job.
That's right.
Well, the other part of it is though, and I think we'll get to this when we get to where you are right now.
Uh the machine has no soul.
It's gonna put things together statistically.
And it can copy and paste and throw things against the wall.
And uh in a sense, it's a sophisticated version of a chimpanzee painting, right?
And so there is still gonna be a niche there, I think, for the human soul communicating truth and beauty.
I think that's really the issue there.
And that's what we have to focus on.
And I think that that's going to be pretty obvious to people.
You know, there's a lot of things that AI can do, especially I think in the art aspect, because it can hallucinate.
And it looks like it's uh, you know, having a drug trip or whatever, and that can be useful in art or even in music to some degree.
But when you look at the kind of when I look at it for music, for example, um the thing about AI is that you can't precisely get it to do what you want.
You know, it can get like 80% there or 85% there, which is not good enough for art.
As uh many people have said art is never finished, it's simply abandoned at some point you gotta stop tweaking it and just go do something different, the next project or whatever.
And I think that's the problem with AI.
It just throws this stuff out there, and people say, ah, that's good enough.
I think there's going to be a uh qualitative difference that people will be able to tell that last 15 or 20 percent that is there.
I agree with you.
Yeah, that's my hope.
But I uh I think you're right.
Listen, our advantage moving forward is the robots don't laugh, they don't cry, they don't love.
That's right.
They're not connected to God.
In fact, I think it's the opposite.
I think I think I have this idea that um just as the Holy Spirit is this unifying force and universal uh force of good and God.
The obverse, the yin to that yang is this unifying force of darkness, which informs and is which has basically a cauldron for this AI to be created, and we're in incarnating it by giving it prompts and giving it life.
But that spirit is a dark spirit, and I sense that and I feel that it's an anti-human spirit.
I agree.
But so does Elon Elon Musk agrees with you as well.
He said we're summoning the demon.
It's like, yeah, maybe we should pay attention to what he's saying about that.
You he knows that some of these guys who are atheists say there's something here that mathematics doesn't, you know, describe or define.
So it's something beyond mathematics.
So what's going on?
They don't even know.
The guys who created it don't even know how you know these systems arrive at the decisions that they make.
That's right to a certain point, it's called black box technology, right?
That they it's it's it's opaque.
But um robots understand it.
But um, but they might have but they they understand us though.
That's the problem.
Like we don't understand how they do what they do, but they understand us.
I mean, they have so much big data about humanity and what moves us and that influence us that it's a lopsided uh relationship.
That's why it's such a good fit for the government because the government knows everything about us, but the government itself is by design a black box.
That black box is labeled national security.
We can't tell you, or we'd have to kill you, right?
So exactly.
And um, yeah, so I mean I could talk about AI for hours, but yeah.
Uh yeah, but let's go back to your story.
You were you were doing uh started working at an ad agency as you got out, uh trying to start working on A. Yeah, I was a young man, you know, young man.
I listed it after money and woman, and I was in my twenties, and I became very successful working for Fortune 500 companies, and I um I was in advertising about 10 years, and I started to learn and see all the psychological tricks and manipulations, you know, informed by the ideas of uh Edward Bernays and his book propaganda.
He was a master of of mass psychological manipulation, right?
And that was employed.
He he was uh contracted by the government and by aid agencies.
It's a long story, but um those ideas work because people respond positively to certain stimuli, negatively to other stimuli.
We're pretty predictable animals.
And once you break that code, you're trying to sell something, um, and you're smart and clever, you can figure out a way to do it.
But I got really turned off.
I was working on the Joel Campbell ad campaign, and it in those days they were, you know, paying us a lot of money to do this stuff, and I was just enamored with the money, and I bought a you know, a condo in Manhattan, and I thought I was like live on top of the world.
And then um, so I kind of got lost in that that world of money and success.
And then the FTC determined that our campaign was uh illegal because we were using cartoon camels.
They said we were marketing cigarettes to children.
So I sort of had a moral crisis, and I didn't become an artist to sell cigarettes to kids, right?
And I said, you know.
Maybe you can get a job for Pfizer because they they sell poison to kids all the time.
Well, well, well, that's that's later on in the story.
Yeah.
So I had this whole crisis, it's come to Jesus moment.
I said, that's it.
I'm done with advertising.
I'm not gonna sell my soul to the devil.
So I was still, you know, now I'm a young man in my 30s.
I was pretty naive politically at that time.
And I said, I'm gonna work for the good guys, right?
I'm gonna work for the New York Times and uh the New Yorker, and I started working for, you know, all these mainstream publications as an editorial illustrator, and I worked for the Outped page of the New York Times, which is like a premier showcase for thinkers and for um it's I kind of like where the elite speak to each other, sure, right?
And and I was again, I was on top of the world.
I'm working like you know, the best place for an illustrator to be.
And I was doing articles for them uh on a regular basis, and then I got to see how the sausage is made there.
And the the uh the art director and the editor told me that every single word that goes through here has to be vetted by the State Department.
And I said, I said, I thought, you know, you're the fourth word.
You're I said that's like Prada.
What do you think every word has to be for the State Department?
They said that's that's how it is.
So my naive taste started to, you know, unravel at that point.
I started to become a little more educated about how the world really works.
And I feel silly now saying that, but I I thought the New York Times was this like beacon of truth and objectivity.
I mean, I couldn't be more wrong.
But so I got an assignment to do uh it was um not bad piece right before the Iraq war, penned by a then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and it was outlining all the lies that we know now that took us to that war, and I illustrated a piece.
And then I had another moral crisis because I said to myself, my God, I went from selling cigarettes to kids to selling war.
Like this is I didn't think I could do worse than that, but I did.
I so I had another another, you know, time to question what am I doing with my life, what are my life choices?
What do I really what do I really want to do with my skills and my whatever gift guy's giving me and my passions, and I mean I love to create imageries to the only thing I'm good at, so I wanted to stay in that lane.
Um so right then was about the time that these seminal alternative news sites started coming out, like InfoWars, and there was a few others and Trends Journal, and I reached out to them and because I figured these guys are exposing the lies of the mainstream media that I used to work for, and of the advertising agencies I used to work for.
So I wanted to bite the hand that fed me.
So I started I started working for people in the health freedom movement, people in the liberty movement, people in all these different movements, you know, people like you included.
And um, and I've been there ever since because I I do think there are there are good people out there who are trying to get to the truth of the matter about all these issues, and journalists and activists and filmmakers and writers, and and I I've worked for a lot of them, and they're my heroes.
Um politically, I got I got I was under contract for the RFK campaign when he was running for president because I believed in what he was doing and his work to expose the vaccines And the dangers of pharmaceuticals.
Right.
So I still have a hand in the political realm.
Um, but I'm basically working for people who I think are the good guys, you know.
And that I can sleep well at night now, David, because I think I'm working for people or at least trying to tell the truth, you know.
It's like yeah, it it's it's not equivalent like when like when people get fined for like with the way they went after Alex for what he said.
Like the New York Times and CNN s tell lies of much greater magnitude every day.
And they're uh nobody gets sued.
And and by the way, their lies lead to wars that kill millions of people.
Their lies sell products that kill millions of people, like and they're never held accountable.
And then um, and they're not the difference between them and say what independent journalists do is that they're purposely trying to lie to you.
They know they're lying to you.
Yeah, you know, it's one thing to take a mistake and in in in the in the you know the search for the truth.
We're not always gonna be perfect, but there's a big difference to somebody who's purposely knowing to lie to you to hurt you and your children, than somebody who's just trying to figure out in real time what the hell's going on because it's very confusing.
I agree.
We've been lied to so much about so about everything that people become so skeptical that you know I think it f unfortunately fosters this environment where nobody believes anything.
And that's where we're at now.
Nobody believes anything, so they come up with a hundred different theories of how Charlie Kirk was killed, right?
No, because nobody believes the official story.
That's right.
And we can never get to the bottom of anything because everybody has their own theory about what happened.
And there's there's no universal truth anymore.
We're in the post-truth age.
And I think that's our so truth is gonna be the greatest most valuable commodity in the future.
Here's what you need here's the fundamental truth government lies.
It always has, always will for its own interest.
So if you understand that and come with to whatever the government says or the official press says with a healthy dose of skepticism, I think that's the most important thing.
You know, you mentioned the fact that you you realize that they had to get the approval of the State Department for what they were saying at the New York Times.
And of course, we know about Operation Mockingbird and the rest of this stuff.
I I thought it was really amazing the disingenuous astonishment at the fact that uh Heg Seth uh openly said, Well, you're gonna have to get approval for anything that you release.
I don't like that.
Uh, but that's not anything that's really different.
The only thing that's different about that is that they're going to own it and say it out loud rather than doing it behind closed doors.
I had a friend who worked at the Pentagon and he uh worked for the uh the side that was vetting movie scripts.
If they liked your movie script, if it was complimentary of them and their agenda, they would give you access to military equipment that you could use to film your movie.
If they didn't like it, you didn't get that equipment, and that might sink your movie because of the expense of trying to uh get that equipment.
Otherwise, they provide it at a reduced cost or for free.
So that kind of thing has been going along for a very long time.
Yeah.
I mean, I I'm still surprised.
I remember I'm old enough to remember Frank Church, the church committee hearings, like he had the receipts, he proved it back in the 70s, and nobody cared.
Uh it's like it did nothing.
Like they just went back to business as usual.
Yeah.
Um I mean, uh, you know, thank God for him and his work, but I mean, it really didn't do anything in the big picture.
Yeah.
Uh and all the stuff about the heart attack gun, as I've said before, that was a really a distraction because the whole thing began because from their inception, the CIA and the NSA were spying on Americans without a search warrant, which you know, it takes us, we've been fighting that thing going up to uh, you know, 2012, 2013, and it snowed and all the rest of the stuff.
So the result of that was still uh the result of the church committee hearings was the FISA Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which they then used to give themselves legal cover to do what they'd been doing from their inception, which was to spy on Americans without search warrant, as Rand Paul says, uh, you know, spying on Mr. and Mrs. Verizon.
You know, you go to one judge in a secret court that nobody knows about, and you get legal cover to violate the Constitution.
Uh so they always turn this stuff to their own advantage.
Well, yeah, and I were speaking of that subject.
I worked uh one of my heroes is William Bindy, and I had the pleasure of working on a documentary about William.
Uh I met him just a great guy, and he is I mean, he quit because he said the systems he designed to spy on potential terrorists would be being used to spy on everybody.
Yeah.
And that's against the oath he took, and that's illegal, and he said he's not gonna do it.
So what did they do?
They the FBI raided his house and arrested him under false pretenses and false charges.
Yeah.
But um, but yeah, so just get back to my journey.
Yeah.
So I don't lose track.
I uh after the RFK thing, I worked for him for a year, and it was a great experience, and I got to see just how dirty the Democrats are.
I mean, Republicans basically left him alone.
You know, Trump would make some you know nasty comments now now and then, but the Democrats actively tried to destroy him with lawsuits and moles and people doing dirty tricks, and it was a constant relentless assault on him that it really opened my eyes again.
I mean, I was naive again, like I whenever I I I underestimate how evil these people are, yeah, and how willing they are to be corrupt and to use the power they have or abuse any power they have in the courts, in the media, in academia, in tech.
I mean, which which they control those institutions, unfortunately.
And um it just it sickened me.
It sickened me the way that they smeared him and lied about him and sued him and and tried to play dirty tricks with ballots and just on and on and on.
Oh, yeah.
So then I got out that made me realize that the battle isn't political.
This battle is spiritual.
So I had I wanted to move from the temporal plane into the spiritual plane of my work and got back to my Christian roots.
I was raised a Catholic.
Um and I had a personal experience with my my fiance.
Um started having seizures one night.
We were watching actually, there was the Obama movie.
Um it was like an apocalyptic Obama movie, Leave the Leave the World Behind, which turned out to be a foreboding title because my girlfriends were watching this, she says, My heart hurts, and I I don't feel right.
And I said, I said maybe it's anxiety from this Obama show, you know, screw Obama, let's not watch this, it's upsetting you.
And then she just went into seizures, and she was extremely healthy, she was extremely um, there was nothing, no pre-existing condition.
She just started convulsing and seizing and just went thousand yards there and stopped breathing.
And I'm not a doctor, but I think breathing is pretty important.
And I didn't know what to do, David.
I felt so inadequate and helpless.
I had no idea what to do.
Like, should I do chest compression or highlight maneuver?
I didn't know I didn't know what to accept to call 911.
And um, and I just held her, and she was in this in this state of like uh comatose state.
I don't know if she was dying.
I thought she was dying.
And then she came out of it from a for a brief moment with this from this look of just terror and fear to this this calm and this peace came over her, and she started laughing.
Hmm.
And I just thought, was this all a joke?
But she's not that she's not that kind of person.
And she and she was laughing, and her whole face, just and whole body was just relaxed, and she was at a place of peace.
And then she clinched back and went back into this convulsive state.
Wow.
And I I believe like she went to the other side.
I believe she was she was at peace with God for for a brief period, and that it just wasn't her time, or she just got sent back, or I don't know, obviously what happened, but uh it was expression.
So she had any recollection of that.
None, none of any of it.
Your brain doesn't remember that stuff, uh probably to protect you.
But um it was extraordinary, and and it reawakened my faith.
And and and this that was a year and a half ago, and thank God she's healthy now.
75% of the people who go through when she went went through it was a brain brain bleed.
75% of the people died that happens to.
So she was in coma, she had a long convalescence, but thank God she's um she's healthy now.
Yes.
And it it it brought both of us closer to God, and it made me want to dedicate my work to the Lord, and every piece I do now is a devotion to God.
Every stroke of my pen is a meditation of prayer.
And um I want to lean into that as much as I possibly can.
That's great.
You know, before you came on, we were talking about what's going on in Canterbury Cathedral.
Uh uh, and and that used to be the basis for why people would make these elaborate cathedrals was that of a devotion to God and and wanting to honor him.
And of course, depending on what gifts he has given us, we can all have different ways that we can do that.
And um, you know, whatever your job is, you can always do it in a way that you try to honor God.
And uh yet uh what what do you think about did you see that uh that story where they paid somebody to do graffiti on the interior walls of Canterbury Cathedral?
Did you see that?
Yeah, to me it's i it's worse than graffiti, it's like it's vandalism, but um, you know, it's like it's so funny because these things that were created in the so-called dark ages, they couldn't make those today.
And it's because of what you said, is because they weren't doing it for the prophet motive, right?
They were doing it for the prophet motive, you know, spelled differently.
And um that's the only way humans can create something like that.
Your heart and soul has to be in it.
I mean, you go into those cathedrals and you feel the presence of God.
You feel the presence of uh of the highest achievement humanity is capable of.
And they did it in the dark so-called dark ages, like with none of the tools, none of technology we had, like it's it's it's astonishing.
And it's it just the the amount of time and human labor and life force and sacrifice and artistry and craftsmanship and skill that went into those things, just that alone is enough to uplift your spirit.
They're uplifting edifices and and monuments, and um, and today we have monuments like the the 911 monument, which is a it's a black box, it's a hole, it's like a giant urinal.
You go to the um, you know, that black box um memorial, and it's just like a spinning sucking hole to hell.
No light escapes, and it's just it there's nothing uplifting about it.
That's right.
So you you want to jump in and kill yourself and be sucked into hell.
So that's the feeling I get when I go there.
And and I think in some ways it's appropriate considering that we know what happened there.
Yeah.
But um it's just the answer to everything, I think, is just we gotta try to live like saints.
I mean, if everybody lived to the to the better angels, the whole world would overnight become a better place.
Everybody's trying to fix to go into all these marches and protests and all this nonsense, and it's like fix yourself first.
That's right.
If you fix yourself and you just be a good person, that's it.
Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't hurt your neighbor.
That alone, there'll be no more crime, right?
Why would there be crime?
That crime is based on the human doing something that he knows is sinful and knows is illegal and knows is wrong.
So instead of trying to fix the world from the outside, you gotta you gotta fix it inwardly.
You know, get closer to God and understand that the infinite power and glory of God is not a separate thing from you.
It's within you.
That light is within you.
And you just need to accept it and and let that connection grow and become stronger with everything you do, and every good thing you do makes it stronger.
You feel closer to God from every good thing you do, every good work you make.
And I agree, yeah.
Yeah, it's a very powerful sermon that they actually wound up doing uh uh as a lecturer as To what is wrong with our society, I think.
Because when you look at the the graffiti, not only did they go into a place that was beautiful and uplifting, and they essentially tear it down with their ugly stuff that they put on it.
And the most the the ugliest thing about what they were putting on there with their graffiti was what it actually said.
It was a rage against God and his creation, every bit of it.
So the Church of England is still setting the foundation for England.
It's just setting a satanic foundation that is there.
Well, absolutely.
That's satanic.
I mean, that's a that's a purposeful defilement.
It's like putting the cross upside down.
Like everything they do is an inversion like the pentagram, like the original five-pointed star was supposed to represent the five wounds of of Christ.
And so the Satanists inverted it and turned it into the pentagram.
Um so those symbols are very important, and imagery is important, and and they know that, and they use it to their satanic purposes.
Yes.
And the defilement of God and the dishonoring of God, and the and we see the um, you know, the result just look around you.
I mean, it's like there's demons everywhere, and there's demons in high places and low places, and and you know, a society rots from the top down.
I think it starts with these people who just design these so-called utopias for us, like the AI posthuman utopia.
I think they hate themselves, the misanthropes, and they project their hatred, self-hatred onto humanity.
And then if they can destroy humanity, they can somehow destroy the parts of themselves that they hate, like in a younggian shadow sort of.
I agree.
Yeah, especially when you look at the transgender stuff.
The purpose of that is to take very young and uh impressionable people, or maybe even somebody who's an adult and that's very impressionable, like uh uh Christopher Beck, who is a Navy SEAL that they pushed into becoming a training, but it's to train them to hate their body, to hate themselves, uh, and then to engage in self-mutilation.
And so I I think that is uh truly the satanic aspect of it.
Tell us a little bit about your project Jesus Jesus Park that you're working on.
You got a um GoFundMe uh attached to that as well.
But tell us uh about that.
I think we've got a picture, Lance of uh that you can show the audience of that.
So uh free fighter is the I just started um yeah, I had this I had this dream is this vision, David, of um of this park in this beautiful sort of pastoral natural setting with trees and rocks and I've done a lot of imagery of Christ and I wanted to create the
face of Christ out of all natural materials, like his crown of thorns would be actual trees, like you know, so the scale would be enormous, like his face might take up a half acre or more, but it'll be a place of contemplation,
a place of prayer, place of a place of peace, and for me it'll be a labor of love and a devotion to God, and um say it came to me in the dream, a download, and and I just feel like um like I have I have to make this thing.
And well, I still I'm still young enough which might not be my yeah, um so that's what I'm working on right now.
Um and I I do need some funds to realize it, um talking to some churches and to have land and trying to find the right spot for it.
Um but I think it would be uh an incredible lasting um monument and shrine, really that uh I hope that people can enjoy.
And so you'd be able to see uh that the picture that we got, that'd be like an aerial view that uh people be able to see large scale.
In my in my vision, you know, I've done models of it, and it's I mean, if it's on a slight slope, you should be able to make out his face from the ground.
But you won't be able to get the full picture so maybe you know from a drone shot or something like that.
But you'll be able to see what it is and and um uh it looks great in my dream, you know.
Now I just have to make it real.
Have you got any I you haven't got a site for it yet, but are you are you angling for any particular geographical area that would have uh large function?
Yeah, I live on Long Island and there's this beautiful shrine out on the east end of Long Island um called Our Lady of the Island, and they have I think about a hundred acres uh of land and uh there's a beautiful 20 foot marble sculpture of Mary, there's an outdoor church that I go to there and it overlooks the Great South Bay.
It's just an incredible spot, and um they have a lot of land there, so so I reached out to them.
Um I don't know if it's gonna work out, but you know, there's a lot of logistics involved, so it's gonna take some planning and a little time, but I'm determined.
So if I have to at some point just buy a small piece of land, maybe upstate New York, you can get in inexpensive land.
Uh whatever I have to do, you know, I'm gonna make this happen.
Yeah, that's great.
Well, you know, in Tennessee, uh land is fairly cheap and they have a lot of unusual sites for people to come see.
So you might get a lot of traffic there if you put it further south.
But uh that's a good idea.
I don't I don't know much about it, but I'll take a ride down Tennessee, why not?
Yeah.
Instead of people going to see Rock City, they can go see uh the Jesus Park that's there.
Uh where can people find the uh uh the GoFundMe?
How do they find that?
Well on my you can find w all of my thought crimes on if you go just anthonyfrieda.com, Anthony F R E A dot com, like there's links to all my um projects there.
Okay, good.
And and your book is not out yet, is it?
Thought crimes of uh Anthony Frieda?
Is that out yet?
No, that's not, but that was um the title was inspired by an actual crime that was in happened because of my artwork.
I did a book cover for CJ Hopkins who wrote this book, um The Rise and Fall of the uh of the new normal.
And I I I did a take off of uh Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, that cover, and I put the COVID mask with the little with a swastika barely visible behind the the mask, the COVID mask.
And they decided to charge him for disseminating Nazi propaganda in Germany, and he was facing like years in prison.
Yeah, I remember that.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that was my book cover, and all he did was tweet that cover to get to get it um indicted.
So that's a literal crime that I've been involved with as an accessory.
So you can't use the symbols of the Nazi regime, but you can act like Nazis, and that's okay, right?
No, it's yeah, right.
No, but it's selectively enforced because you know, they're Stern and magazines in Germany, they'll show Trump in full Hitler regalia all the time.
That's just that's fine.
Yeah, if it's used for the purposes of the left, they get a pass.
He's just one of these guys who is a skeptic, he questions everything.
Yeah.
So it's kind of ironic that they're using this illegal subversion of their own laws, which is something the Nazis would do to prove that they're not Nazis, you know.
It's like uh there's a lot of ironies there, but um anyway, he has this ongoing legal battle with them, and in Germany, they don't have double jeopardy like we do, so they charged him and he went to trial and he was acquitted, and now they're gonna charge him again with the same crime.
Just keep it.
They can keep coming until they get the birth they want.
Wow.
Wow.
Uh and it's not a new incident of anything, it's for the same exact thing, right?
Well, we just had somebody that was arrested here in Tennessee for a meme that he put up, and um they got him in um you know, two million dollar bond to get him out of jail.
And again, it was because um and we see this kind of censorship is going on both the left and the right.
This was about the fact that uh this guy didn't like Charlie Kirk or conservatives, and so there was a school that was going to have an event to honor Charlie Kirk.
And um he put up a meme that he didn't even create that other people had created.
It was a picture of Trump, and it was a quote about what Trump had said about a school shooting.
And it said uh we got to get over this and move on.
And so he put that up as this comment about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
And because the um the place that he did it was something like Perry, Idaho or something was where the high school was uh that where the shooting had been, and uh this was in Perry County, uh, and they said, Well, you were trying to intimidate people here in Perry County by using this meme that you didn't even create.
And uh so the sheriff arrested him for that.
Two million dollar bail.
We're seeing free speech attacked everywhere.
Every country, every political philosophy is coming for speech because especially when we're looking at memes or political commentary like you do, um it's very very powerful, they wouldn't be coming after it otherwise.
Yeah, definitely.
Well, I I'm pretty certain he's gonna win that lawsuit because that's that's rage.
Uh I mean I I'm used to censorship and I've been I mean I know you've been through it too, just constantly deplatformed and demonetized and d this and d that, and it's just everything that I was you know censored for, turns out I was right about.
That's right.
I never got a I was right about all of it.
Every single other thing I said it was mostly about COVID.
And then I'm also fairly certain I was put on a domestic terrorist because Biden had a list of anyone who questioned the the COVID narrative was put on a list.
Yeah.
And I would talk to a high profile about that.
So I mean, I'm considered a potential violent, they use the word violent, potential violent uh domestic extremist terrorists if you were questioning COVID narrative.
Yeah, because they say that you know, speech is violence.
And uh I say, no, censorship is violence, and the people who use and enforce censorship are the ones who usually do resort to violence one shape or the other, you know, like arresting this guy.
The sad thing is is that you see that both sides of political spectrum, and I'm talking about not just the politicians, but I'm talking about the grassroot people are cheering this kind of censorship if they don't like what you have to say.
We have lost the understanding of the importance of free speech in our society, and that includes America, it's not just in Europe, but it's in America as well.
People don't realize that uh these uh tools of tyranny will be used against them eventually, and uh have already been used against them in many cases, and they still are cheering this on.
It's truly amazing.
I don't know how to get around it.
Yeah.
No, no, I I've never seen the country so divided.
Um there's no room.
That's why, you know, the Charlie Kirk thing was so symbolic, because if you're not gonna talk, you're gonna kill each other.
And people were saying that it's like because they don't want to talk, they want to kill.
And what is that?
I mean, if you I know you're a great student of history, like where does this go?
It goes one place, it's called civil war.
That's where it goes.
It's like this is nothing new.
We've seen it thousands of times before all throughout history.
This sort when when there's a divide of this extreme nature where there's no there's no communication, you're either good or evil, you're either with me or against me.
It leads to civil war.
I mean, uh I don't know how close we are to it, but unless something radically changes, which I don't see any evidence of, um we're we're in some perilous times here.
I agree.
I agree.
Yeah, we have uh we've lost our foundation.
You know, we've lost our foundation in terms of principles that made the West great.
And uh we've lost our foundation because we turned our back on God.
That's what we were talking about earlier.
And uh that truly is the foundation is the Lord Jesus Christ.
And once we turn away from that, we are adrift as a society.
And so uh, even though we used to have guns everywhere, now the guns are being turned on each other and being used on us, and there's a lot of different aspects to it.
I think the uh heavy use of drugs is a part of that.
I think that even plays a role, actually, and the uh technocrats.
I had been told years ago that when these guys would go hang out at the Burning Man thing, that they were dropping uh uh you know LSD and they were also taking what was that DMT or something, where they come in contact with machine elves.
And the interesting thing about this is that uh you hear from the same people who are in different geographical areas, they start talking about how they had the same types of encounters, and uh they're be they're channeling uh technology from these uh entities that they're coming in contact with.
And you can have people in radically different places that have the same experiences that are there.
They even call them uh psychonauts, not nuts but knots, like an astronaut or something.
And so that's sort of yeah, it's it's interdimensional travel, I think.
I mean, they're opening a portal to hell for lack of a better word.
I mean, this tells another dimension, heaven's dimension, our plane is a dimension, and those drugs somehow, I don't know how it works, I can't even come close to explaining it, but i i it it it it it makes the veil between the dimensions permeable.
Yeah.
And they're able to permeate it with these substances, and it's a dark energy, and we're seeing it, and that's connected to the whole AI thing we were talking about before.
Yes.
And these drugs are facilitating it, and you're totally right.
But but the other thing is when you turn away from God, uh you mean Deepak Chopra said you leave a God shaped hole.
So what do you fill that hole with?
You're gonna fill it with drugs or porn or wokeism or or or it's something, or Satan, you know, it's like it has to be filled because that's part of our human makeup that w we we have to have something to believe in.
So if you don't fill it with God, the alternatives are anti-human and they're satanic and they're dark.
You you you're taking something that should be filled with light and you're filling it with darkness.
That's right.
Absolutely.
Well, you know, it is kind of interesting.
I use this quite a bit to uh to attack the pharmaceutical companies, I'd call them pharmacia, because that's the uh that's the Greek term that's used in the New Testament frequently was transferred uh translated as sorcery because people would include these lecinogenic drugs as part of their uh spiritual experience and that type of thing.
That's a very old thing.
But also it talks about how the pharmacia uh and the great men of the world would not repent of their murders.
That's how I was using it for the pharmaceutical companies, and I I thought it really fit.
But that really is is what we're seeing.
And uh uh with all the technology that we've got and all of this uh idea about how we are so scientific and materialistic and we don't believe anything unless we can measure it.
Well, that we have seen over and over again is simply not true.
Uh the people that we disagree with are more than willing to pursue by faith a lot of different things.
Whether you're talking about the climate change agenda or the uh the pandemic, uh they accept a lot of stuff on the basis of faith.
It's just what they have faith in.
They have faith in these institutions, they have faith in people who have credentials uh that say that they're a scientist or an authority and something.
So it's just a difference in in what they have faith in.
Uh but I think it's very important what you're doing in terms of artwork.
That gets to people on a different level than just talking to them straight about the facts.
You know, whenever we can engage the emotions, and art does that, and um, you know, movies do that, and Christians are starting to learn to use the tools of movie making.
And so I think there's going to be some very important work that is done there.
But uh gradually the the uh Christian movie industry is picking up.
But I think there's so much that's been lost in terms of artwork that would move people.
I think that that what you're doing is very important.
Well, thank you, David.
Yeah, and speaking of film, I started working with a film production company.
I think you're right.
The answer is to create uh a parallel M and E economy that is in accordance with our values.
Yeah.
And the values of Western civilization and and and Christendom, things that we have faith in, things that we believe in.
And um a lot of it's been sort of kind of hokey, kitschy stuff up to this point, but we're trying to create uh with Man Alive Media Group, this group I'm working with.
Right now we're working on a film um about World War One, we're gonna do a film about Joan of Arc.
And we're trying to make them very high minded and uh and to the best of our ability, great pieces of art, because you're right, art speaks on a different uh level than just it's a conversation, different kind of conversation.
It's like you know, poetry or prose, it's like i it's something that engages our mind in a different way and hopefully opens up and our mind to this conversation.
Um but we have to be able to talk, and censorship is the enemy of all of us because then we're not talking.
And if we're not talking, we're probably shooting each other because we make peaceful change if possible, we make violent change inevitable, as uh Kennedy said.
That's right.
And I think it's very important, you know, for the longest time Christians have retreated from the arts, and they feel like the best way to engage people is with a didactic uh aspect.
And of course there's value in that, but there's another way to reach people, and that is by showing them, you know, and and portraying as a narrative.
I just talked to the author of uh uh flags of our fathers, who's just done a book on Vietnam.
He spent 10 years in Vietnam talking to people there, and um his name is James, was it James Bradley?
I think it was Bradley or Radley.
I I'm sorry, I can't remember his uh his last name, but uh very interesting guy.
And um when he did this book, you know, his previous books were nonfiction, uh, but he wanted to do a fictional book because he said there were so many facets and so many different things that he had to use fictional characters to bring them together.
And so not only does it engage our emotions more so if we have a narrative story, but it also allows us to uh pull together the relevant things in a way that we couldn't if we had to stick to exactly what the true story was.
And Hollywood knows that for the longest time.
Go see uh something that's based on true event, they always change it, always begin.
This is based on a true story, but the actual characters are fictionalized and so forth.
They always do that.
And uh so I I think it's good the kind of projects that you mentioned there, we're talking about people living their life according to Christian principles.
I think that's probably the best way that uh that can be done, rather than going in to uh the Bible and then fictionalizing that.
That always kind of rubs me the wrong way.
Yeah.
Trying to rewrite it.
Yeah.
It doesn't have to be didactic or so blatant.
Like I mean, there was great Christian authors, you know, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, and they they were they were coming up with their own mythology to sort of mirror Christian themes without you know, saying literally this is Jesus and this is what happened.
That's right.
Um, you know, Christianity to me is a myth that's true.
Yes.
But we need to create alternative myths to reinforce that myth to bring people to us, because it's just so boring to just sh you know tell the same story, even in brilliant filmmakers' hands, like it it's been done, and it's so i it's it's just gonna turn a lot of people off.
But if you do it in a way that's creative and original and interesting and unexpected and entertaining and edifying, now it's something different.
Now it now it's a work of art on its own, not just pastiche and not just biblical scripture translated into film.
That's right.
I remember the film critic Brian Gadawa, and uh he he actually was able to do a film.
I think it was called uh to end all wars.
I'm not sure about that, but it took place uh American soldiers and Japanese uh in turn uh prison camp during World War II.
But his his whole idea is that very much like you know, I think it was C. S. Lewis who said that the uh Christian myth is the greatest myth, and it's real, you know.
He doesn't mean that it's fictional, he just means by myth, he means an epic story.
And uh so that was kind of Brian Gadawa's take on it.
He said, you know, every one of our the really that's the stories that really resonate with people always have a redemptive arc in the story.
And um and he did a really good job with that.
And uh he also would kind of draw that out in his film reviews that he did.
But uh uh that that I think is uh something that you know uh if we're not gonna be able to fight a culture war if we don't have culture, someone said.
I think that's exactly true, right?
We've got to steal that line, David.
We're going in unarmed, right?
I mean, yeah, it's staying the Obvious, but yeah, I mean we gotta make listen, you know, it's on us, you know.
Yeah, I think it's incumbent upon Christians of people who are means, people who are creative, people who have talent or something to give, like put it towards the cause because the other side certainly is, you know, the Satanists and the demons and the lunatics and the Islamicists and the Marxists, like they're all on board.
You know, you just watch Netflix, and there's messaging in every single thing they do.
Oh, yeah.
It's all anti-Christian, anti-male, anti-white, anti-American, and it's just I mean, it's so ham fisted, but they shoehorn it into everything.
The story that has nothing to do with what they're talking about, those, you know.
White people are bad.
Like, what does that have to do with the comedy I was watching?
So you know, we could do it more artfully.
There's so many great artists and writers out there that are Christian, and we need to come together and build these teams, and that's what I'm trying to do in my own little way.
That's great.
So uh, best place for people to find out how they can uh get your book when it's available, and also to uh find out about the Jesus Park if they want to get involved in the GoFundMe, would be to go to your website, Anthony Frieda, and that is F RE D A.com, right?
Is that the best way for them to find you?
Uh Anthony, it's always been great talking to you.
I only had a chance to meet you once, and that was up at uh Gerald's uh event four years ago, and uh his Occupy Peace thing, and so uh when I saw that uh you had a book out there, I was like, oh yeah, definitely love to talk to Anthony about that.
You got a great story to tell.
And uh and it's been a great journey that you've been on.
I really want to thank you for the work that you have done.
It's been very important, and uh look forward to a lot more to come from you in the future.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you, David.
All right, thank you.
Let me, before we run out of time, uh let me get to some of the comments that are up here.
Uh and as uh Lance, my producer said, uh Jesus used parables and analogies.
That's right.
Uh so we're following in the right uh uh way when we use those type of things as well.
So his favorite ways to get a point across was to use a parable, a story about something.
And in most cases, I think there was uh at least one or two that were not uh fictional, but they were all giving uh a uh a story there.
And um so uh uh crash and splash 75 says average lifespan of lithium minor uh 30 years.
So enjoy your battery.
Like a lot of these things, uh cobalt as well, cobalt are being cobalt being dug out of the mines uh by young children operating uh at slave wages and uh situation that kills them.
So yeah, that is uh uh uh we have to understand that's behind a lot of this stuff.
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Liberty Conspiracy says last year, the very U.S. government bureau tasked with promoting EV travel, banned EV bikes and scooters from being brought into their Colorado building for fear of fire.
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Uh Jason Barker, nice of the storm, good to see you.
It says uh AI is good for memes, but not for real art.
Meme images and music, and that's really you know what it does.
I mean, a meme just kind of picks up on a theme and imitates it, and that's precisely what AI is.
But uh the real danger of AI is not that it's going to become some self-aware uh Skynet thing.
I think the real danger is that it is a very effective tool for pulling together data and for doing searches and surveillance that can be used to control us.
That's really where the devil is in that detail.
Thank you so much for joining us.
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