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In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
It's the David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 16th of December.
Year of our Lord, 2025.
Well, today we're going to begin with another tragedy.
And I say that even though I didn't care for his politics, I didn't even care for his movies.
But it is instructive to look at what happened.
And we're going to talk about what happened, the missed opportunities that Trump had when he made it about himself rather than about drugs, for example.
And so we're going to talk about that.
We're also going to take a look at artificial intelligence, some of the actually idiotic, that other AI, things that are happening with it.
But as they're going to be clearing the decks, what comes next?
And how is it going to be used to exploit and to manipulate people?
Of course, the government sees it as a perfect tool of surveillance and monitoring.
But we've also got some privateer criminals, not just the organized gang in Washington, but private criminals are coming up with many different ways to come after us and our children already.
Wasting no time.
We'll be right back.
Stay with us.
Well, of course, I'm sure you've heard about Rob Reiner's death and his wife's death and the fact that they were murdered in a really heinous way by their own son.
And I got to say that even though I really disagreed with his politics, he was beloved in Hollywood because he pretty much represented what they believe.
It was very outspoken.
But again, what we're seeing here is Hollywood family values.
And it's just, it's tragic and how they missed it every opportunity.
His son went into rehab the first time when he was 15 or 16.
He was in rehab 17 different times.
He was homeless on the streets.
How does that happen when you have so much going for you?
You've got all the connections.
I saw an interview when the two of them did a movie that was loosely based on his experiences.
He said, it's not my autobiography, but he goes, these are the things that I went through, wrote about them.
And his dad did it with him.
And he was, you know, when you look at that, it was a horrific situation.
One of the things he said in an interview was he said, all these people say, you're white, you're privileged.
I've got to try to prove myself.
And Rob Reiner says, well, yeah, tell me about it.
He goes, I understand.
It's your father.
It's also your grandfather said, I dealt with that as well.
People just dismissing you as a Nepo baby.
But he had a lot of opportunity.
The problem is, is that, you know, Rob Reiner, I hear a repeat there.
I don't know why.
But the problem is that Rob Reiner, even though he was culturally connected with so many people, so many people loved his movies, and of course a lot of them.
When Harry met Sally, A Few Good Men, Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, things like that.
And he was stand by me.
He was hugely popular.
But I really didn't like his films.
It was something at the core.
of all of them that I really didn't like.
And now he can kind of see where he's coming from.
And so, again, I'm in the minority.
A lot of people had a cultural connection with him.
And that's one of the things that one of the people said critical of Trump.
At a time like this, why is it necessary for you to come in and go to war with somebody?
You know, Rob Reiner did not do that with Charlie Kirk.
He went on with Piers Morgan, and Piers Morgan asked him about it.
And he was very sincere, it seems, in what he had to say.
He said it was just horrible, horrible.
I saw the footage, and he goes, it doesn't matter what your politics are.
Nobody deserves that, which is, I agree.
I mean, I had my political differences with Charlie Kirk as well.
And so he said, nobody deserves that.
And we have to pull back from this.
But Trump jumps into it with both feet.
And so I'm going to talk about that, as well as the family value issues and the tragedy of this.
Trump is out there killing people on fishing boats.
Well, not fishing boats.
Let's understand.
They were likely running drugs, but they weren't bringing him to the U.S.
They were not bringing fentanyl and they were not threatening America.
When you look at a situation like this, you understand that drug addiction, as I've said many times, is a spiritual war.
It's internal.
And we're getting an echo again, Travis.
Can you?
Yeah, thank you.
So it is a spiritual war.
And Trump wants to make you think that he can fix all the problems in your life.
He can't even fix the problems in his own life.
And this guy is a walking illustration of personal problems.
And so, again, they just put up a Christmas site.
They call it merrychristmas.gov.
And guess what it does?
It's got the 12 Days of Federal Gifts.
Starts out by celebrating FDR's programs and things like that.
I've always said Trump is just a Democrat.
He's a New York City Democrat.
And this is an effort to basically, so we're going to replace we're going to replace Jesus with Santa Claus.
No, we'll replace Jesus with Democrat giveaway programs.
That kind of Santa Claus.
Anyway, Trump has got a lot of issues.
He cannot save you from drugs.
The police can't save you.
The military can't save you.
Especially War Pete can't save you.
None of these programs, quote-unquote, they've got to interdict and to stop it by force have worked for 54 years.
I mean, Rob Breiner tried to stop it with force with his son Nick.
They kept putting him in these drug rehab things.
He kept running away because it wasn't working for him, and he would prefer to live on the street rather than live in these drug rehab programs.
So you can't force it from the outside, even within a family.
You're not going to be able to fix it in society that way.
And as I've said many times, if you think that you can stop drugs by force, consider how many people die from overdose in federal prisons.
A lot do every year.
If you can't even stop people from getting drugs and getting enough of them to die of an overdose in federal prison, what kind of a society are we going to have to live in?
It's happening again, Travis.
Thank you.
I don't know what's going on with that.
It's really weird.
I start hearing myself echo.
It's okay.
But yeah, if you can figure out what's going on, that'd be great.
Anyway, the new problem, every day, new problem.
But that's the issue.
I keep getting distracted by my echoes here.
Anyway, after 17 rehabs, this is in 2016, nine years ago when he was 23.
And he'd already had 17 rehab stays then.
I don't know how many more he's had.
This was a People magazine article.
After 17 rehab stays, Nick has been clean for several years and now working on other film projects.
And he did that film with his father 10 years ago.
And he was packed off to his first rehab facility around his 15th birthday.
At the time, 10 years ago, when he was 22, he's co-written a film loosely based on that experience and the 17 rehab stays that followed as directed by his dad.
And again, you know, Trump wants to protect people from drugs.
A perfect opportunity to do that would to, I think, be sympathetic to the problems of the family.
And to say this is a problem that we share throughout American society.
I know several people whose children have died of overdose from fentanyl.
It is a big problem.
And there's only one solution to it.
We had Matt Trowela talking about his life early as a teen and how he got packed off to prison.
And how the thing that turned him around and saved him from all that was a program to point him towards God.
And we have one locally here that I didn't mention when we were talking about it with Matrohuela.
The program he was talking about was Teen Challenge that was started by, I can't remember the guy's name now.
He did the cross and switchblade.
But I remember his book, but he was a preacher in New York City and went there for his ministry and started helping people who were involved in gangs and drugs.
But here locally, Jeff Weiss has Jeff Weiss has Free Indeed as a program that has helped a lot of people.
He and his partner.
His partner had Doc had dealt with this and had come out of it as well, just like Metro Hale had.
And so they've been through the fire.
And the thing that refined them was their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's what is there.
And of course, one of the things that Rob Reiner said when he was there with Piers Morgan, he says, well, he says, I'm not a Christian, but I think, he says, I like the teachings of Jesus.
And he said, what Erica Kirk did in terms of forgiving the killer.
He said, I thought that was a wonderful, admirable thing.
And so he would exclude the ability of the helping hand of Christ in all this.
But I got to tell you, that's the thing that's going to change it.
And we have drugs in our society because we pushed Christ out.
We're looking for something to fill that hole.
And you're not going to fill that hole with all the money in the world or all the movies in the world or the accolades in the world.
And again, you know, when you look at his movies, Rob Reiner touched the culture because he was basically immersed in it.
His values were kind of American values.
They weren't Christian values.
They weren't the values of Jesus.
But they were, you can see the values that are there.
And stop and think about that.
The values that are in the movies, the values that are in Hollywood.
That comes into our home as well.
This is not just something that happens in homes of movie stars who are heavily into drugs and sex and other things, and their children get even more involved in that.
Just think of some of the well-known movie stars, even somebody like Tom Hanks and the darkness that's in a lot of these families that are there.
And so, how does that happen?
How do we let these people mentor our children by the movies that we watch and the values that we pick up from those movies?
That's one of the things that we looked at.
That's why we had to get out of the video business.
It's just like, I can't be a part of this.
It's just too corrupting, too disgusting.
And so, the movie that they did 10 years ago was being Charlie, and it was a fictional character, son of a famous actor who was running for governor.
He says, it's not my life, but I went through a lot of these places, so I have a lot of these stories.
One thing that Charlie faces briefly in the film is homelessness, something with which Nick has significantly more experience.
He said, I was homeless in Maine.
I was homeless in New Jersey.
I was homeless in Texas.
Nick in his father's West Hollywood office said, I spent nights on the street, weeks on the street.
It wasn't fun.
And again, this is his father.
He's got all the money that a successful director, he's big box office films that he had.
Has a lot of money, but it doesn't help.
Something very simple, you know, like Jeff Weiss and Free Indeed or the teen challenge that Matt Troyo was talking about.
He said, that made me who I am now, having to deal with that stuff.
I met crazy, great people there, so out of the element, so out of my element.
He says, now I've been home for a really long time.
I've sort of gotten acclimated back to being in L.A. and being around my family, but there was a lot of dark years there.
Dark years.
Since leaving his last rehab facility at 19, he'd been working on the film, writing other projects, trying to stay clean so that he never goes back onto the streets again.
When I was out there, I could have died.
It's all luck.
You roll the dice and you hope that you make it.
And so that was in May of 2016 that opened up.
There were a lot of father and son interviews at the time.
And then the day before he murdered his parents, he was at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party.
They said he was acting very creepily, going up to people and asking if they were famous.
Rob and Nick got into a very loud argument and shouting at each other.
And then the two parents left the event and then they were found dead the next day.
They had four children.
He was the middle child of the three children he had in his second marriage.
And so they had talked about it.
And one of the things that Rob had said was, if your kid is going through rough times, as a parent, your main job is to keep your child safe.
So I would do anything, he said.
At the end of the day, I know my child better than any expert does, and I probably should have trusted my own instinct.
And that's one of the things I did learn about the whole experience.
He said, when Nick would tell us that it wasn't working for him, we wouldn't listen.
We were desperate, and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son.
Yeah, that's a trap we fall into in so many different ways.
The medical community, taking people to psychologists and so forth.
Said, we were so influenced by these people.
They would tell us he's a liar.
He's trying to manipulate you.
And we believed them.
And so rather than helping, when they tried to get psychological help, the psychologist actually created more of a riff between the two of them.
I mean, look at this.
And I'm sure that, you know, even though he's very, very, very busy, and you could look at this and say, well, you know, they were just involved in their career.
They didn't really care about their son.
I think they did.
I think they loved him.
Maybe they were absent a lot or something about that.
But it seems like they tried to do what they could and they regretted the way things went.
But again, when you look at their approach, they're trying to do it by force.
They're not addressing this as a spiritual issue.
And they're using the wrong tactics.
It's the same thing that we're doing as a nation with Trump trying to interdict drugs by force.
That is not the issue.
Again, it is a spiritual issue.
I'll say it over and over again.
So one person says, well, I can't believe that Rob Reiner was so insanely political.
How can you claim to have absolute knowledge about what is best for everyone else when your family is a complete disaster?
Well, I wouldn't really put it that way.
I would just say, you know, does character matter?
And I would say, does character matter for the conservatives?
Look at how they have thrown their lot in with Donald Trump.
Obviously, character does matter.
And it's one of the reasons why this country is going down the tubes.
It's not just because of drugs.
It's because we don't value character anymore.
We don't understand the foundation or the basis of character either.
And I think that's the big tragedy.
That's the national tragedy.
And speaking of someone who has no character, this is what Donald Trump put out in response to that.
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.
Rob Reiner, tortured and struggling, but once a very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away together with his wife, Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome.
Puts it all in uppercase.
Sometimes referred to as TDS.
Again, he makes it back into this idiotic trope that, and they put this up on WND.
And they basically follow along behind him.
It's pathetic.
So does he really think that Nick killed his parents because of Trump derangement syndrome?
This is a kid who, before Trump ever ran for president, was being checked into drug rehab.
Trump doesn't know anything.
The company is totally clueless about everything.
Because everything is about him, isn't it?
He looks at this.
He doesn't see this as a story about drug addiction and an American tragedy that is being repeated everywhere all the time.
He sees this as a story about himself.
This guy didn't like me politically.
I don't like him, so I'm going to throw him under the bus and criticize him as, you know, before the body gets cold.
He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump.
This is Trump writing about himself, referring to himself in third person as President Donald J. Trump.
The most incredible narcissist I have ever seen.
I mean, they're all narcissists to a certain degree.
In order to run for this office, I think you kind of have to be.
But he's in a class by himself, a class of no class.
He says, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights, as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.
May Robin Michelle rest in peace.
There you go.
Isn't that amazing?
So saying that he was murdered due to the anger that he caused others with his own mind-crippling disease of TDS.
And that's the headline there of World Night Daily.
And of course, as the people who suffer from making America double think again, the madness of the crowd behind Trump, they're not going to call him out on any of this stuff.
It truly is amazing and pathetic.
Let's make America mad.
Let's make America double think.
This Orwelland darkness that we've descended into.
A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner.
Do you stand by it? said one person in an interview.
Trump says, well, I wasn't a fan.
He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
He keeps talking about himself and the third person.
And again, you know, we had a guy locked up in Tennessee by a sheriff who was a conservative and didn't like the fact that he was complaining that yet again there was going to be another memorial service at a school about Charlie Kirk.
And he says, at some point we just have to move on.
And it was a quote from Trump about a school shooting.
And so since that involved a school shooting in another area, the sheriff said, well, of course he's got free speech.
He can say anything he wants, but he can't threaten the school.
So we're going to lock him up.
Yeah, they're just as crazy, just as intolerant as the left.
And the problem is we're stuck here in the middle, right?
These two crazy groups of people.
So again, what they do is they focus in this WND article on coming after Rob Reiner because he pushed the Russia hoax quite a bit.
And yes, certainly he was wrong about that.
But as The Atlantic puts it, Trump widens the breach.
The country mourned a beloved filmmaker, and Trump's first instinct was to desecrate.
He said, the breach opened not because Reiner, a vocal liberal, was universally beloved or politically neutral, but because his work occupied shared cultural space.
That's why I say his movies were incredibly popular.
This guy says, a National Review writer referred to him as the VHS King.
We had our video stories of so many hits that he had.
And again, like I said, I wasn't a fan of the movies that he had.
He's one of these guys like Stephen King.
He kind of senses something is not quite right there.
And so especially he did a Stephen King film, Stand By Me, which I really didn't like.
But Princess Bride, when Harry met Sally, all these different things.
And so when people look at this, they've got a cultural connection.
My cultural connection with Rob Reiner began with him being meathead and all in the family.
And actually, they had set this up.
He was supposed to be the wise guy.
He was supposed to be the one that's going to set this bigoted Archie Bunker straight.
And yet, you know, that was the design of Norman Lear when he did the show.
And yet everybody liked Archie Bunker because their views were conservative, even if he was obviously stupid and bigoted.
But Trump is much worse than Archie Bunker.
So much so that it's, I guess there's a lot of people who have, you know, he's their new Make America Archie Bunker again.
But what was called for, says Atlantic, in the moment, in the psychology handbook or in the traditions of the American presidency, was what was not called for was Donald Trump's response.
He mocked Reiner.
He suggested that his death was the result of Trump derangement syndrome, a mind-crippling disease.
It definitely has crippled Trump's mind, that's for sure.
This is not merely irresponsible, nor simply another example of norm-breaking rhetoric.
It actively widened the breach.
And I've said over and over again, I think that that is Trump's chosen purpose.
I think he's here to stealthily enact the globalist agenda, telling everybody he's not a globalist, when in fact, if you look at his policies, he is totally a globalist.
And you say, well, what about free trade?
What about terrorists?
Well, I think in terms of the globalist aspect of that, I think what he wants to do is he wants to start a global war, because a global war will allow all of these nations to reset their society.
And so that's the longer view of it, I think.
Anyway, he says he didn't affirm human boundaries.
He punctured them to display dominance.
Grief became a plaything.
Shock became his permission.
And I think when you look at Trump, you can't separate him from his professional wrestling, WWE thing.
It was always about shock, and it was always about being over the top.
And I think that truly is what he's doing.
But again, you look at his agenda, you know, what did he do in 2020?
He was the leader when everybody was moving in lockstep with a lockdown pandemic vaccine, all the rest of the stuff.
He funded the vaccine.
He sent it out to people so they could poison their own and so they could set up the mechanism for universal basic income, digital ID, the permission society, all the rest of the stuff.
That's why I say he's a globalist.
Trump defenders often describe him as a daddy figure.
Yeah, daddy's back, right?
Strong, unconcerned, with elite expectations.
Accept that framing.
And Trump's failure at this moment becomes even larger, not smaller.
In times of shock, a parent does not mock the wounded nor ridicule the debt.
That's especially true of the father figure.
Compare Trump's reactions with Erica Kirk's in her own moment of grief.
She publicly forgave the alleged assassin.
She could have reacted as Trump did today.
She had more cause.
She was not a public figure of whom a certain standard is expected.
And again, we're talking when we talk about Charlie and Erica Kirk and what's going on with their organization.
We're talking about what you see at the surface level.
I'm not going to get into all this other stuff.
You know, she is, as a matter of fact, it's turned into such a soap opera.
I'm thoroughly disgusted what's going on with Candace Owen and Erica Kirk and all the rest of the stuff.
They can handle that themselves.
And Tempoo, I just don't want to get caught up in that soap opera.
Fed fight, Fed fight.
Yeah, no, yeah.
You know, Fuentes, Tucker, Candace Owen, Tempo, Milo Innopoulos.
It's a circular firing squad of the worst people you can think of.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is a circular firing squad of circle jerks is what it is.
It's just amazing what these people do for attention.
And again, that's another aspect of this stuff with Trump.
I have, again, I've been, you know, we've seen, we were in the video store business, we'd go to these conventions and they'd be there hawking movies.
I mean, we'd even have people like Charlton Heston hawking movies at the conventions.
And at the time, I think it was his son, Frasier Heston, who had done Treasure Island with Charlton Heston as Long John Silver.
That's a good production, by the way, if you're looking for something to watch with your kids.
But you would see all these big stars and stuff.
And I was not impressed.
And I certainly got a lot less impressed when I saw the big influencers.
You know, when I was at Infowars, a lot of them would come through there, and it's like, you know, don't envy these people.
Their lives are a mess.
They really are.
And they are so incredibly narrowly focused on themselves, for the most part.
Compare Trump's reaction with Erica Kirks, he was saying.
So she was not a public figure of whom a certain standard is expected.
An outburst against the killer would have been natural and understandable from the victim's wife.
But she did the opposite, and she did honor to her Christianity.
She did honor to Lord Jesus Christ, by doing that.
Anyone who admires character under stress, it is suggested that discipline, of faith, of love, of character, whatever you like, when you have character under stress, it suggests that those values could start to put a boundary around madness.
And that's the whole point.
You know, we are a ship without a rudder.
And what Trump does is he just adds chaos to that.
You think your life is chaotic?
Well, we're not going to have any boundaries.
We're not going to have any understanding of character.
Everything goes.
We're just going to throw this out there, see if we can get away with it.
That's the way he approaches things from a constitutional legal standpoint.
That's the way he approaches things from a cultural and personal standpoint as well.
They said in the Atlantic, this is the final measure.
In moments when the country looks up for orientation, Trump does not steady the room.
He destabilizes it.
That's what I said.
That's his role as a globalist, to set the world on fire.
That's why, you know, even putting out a, starting a trade war and getting rid of free trade, that is a globalist move to set the world on fire.
And he's got the weapons to set the world on fire.
That's the really concerning thing.
He has absolutely no sympathy for the farmers, for the small businesses that voted for him.
He told us in 2020 they were not essential as he locked them down and crippled them and he's doing it again now with his economic policies.
So another leftist publication headline says, Trump's vile response made Rob Reiner's death all about himself.
And it worked.
Yeah, because that's the tactic.
And the technique immediately following the gruesome tragedy into a familiar, not followed it, but he folded it.
Into a familiar narrative about himself.
The violent deaths of a filmmaker and his wife were stripped of gravity and recast as proof of Trump's favorite claim that opposition to him is not disagreement, but pathology.
The victims vanished almost instantly and Trump took their place.
This is usually where the criticism stops with some variation on cruelty, narcissism, or indecency.
But Shakespeare's Polonius had it right.
Though this be madness, yet there's a method in it.
Focusing only on Trump's character misses the more uncomfortable truth.
He behaves this way because it works.
Trump does not respond to news so much as he seizes it.
Speed beats accuracy.
Provocation beats restraint.
Domination beats decorum.
Again, this is a professional wrestling approach.
The fastest way to own a story is to refuse the norms that once governed public life.
Verification slows you down.
Silence costs you relevance.
Trump has adjusted accordingly.
And again, he follows the same approach with the law with a constitution.
Going to declare an emergency and just run out there, even though what he's doing is illegal.
The Reiner response followed the same logic.
Trump applies to everything.
He did not lower his voice because the subject involved death.
No, he did not wait because waiting would have meant surrendering narrative control.
He sounded exactly as he does when attacking a critic or hyping himself because in his mind there is no difference.
Everything is context.
That's absolutely right.
Well, we're going to stop.
When we come back, we're going to be a little bit more positive about things.
And we're going to take a look at some things that are happening in and around Christmas before we get into the AI madness, the other part of that as well.
We'll be right back.
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Look what Lance did with that.
The triviality, the banality, the useless inventions that these people are putting together.
And I love the way he ended that with Zuckerberg there in his pathetic little virtual reality.
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And it's so pathetic what they do.
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Don't be boxed into this virtual reality that they put out there.
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We've been working on this a long time.
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And some very valuable things.
You know, when I think about physical books versus the online books, you know, I hate reading books in a device, even in this device, it was really kind of set up for doing that.
I mean, this is great for news articles.
And it is almost like it was purpose-built for that, for reading and highlighting news articles.
But I've tried to put some books on and highlight them as well and work with them.
It's just not the same.
And it's difficult to move back and forth within the book.
I like to have bookmarks that are there.
And of course, you can infinitely bookmark something that's electronic, but you still don't even control it.
I remember the first time that we saw some censorship down the memory hole, and that was with Amazon.
They had a Kindle book of 1984.
It was on the Kindle devices.
And for some reason, I don't know if it was a mistake or if it was a taunt, what it was, but they basically stopped the 1984 download book from being able to be read.
I mean, they just basically memory-hold it.
It was so appropriate.
You have to ask if that was even deliberate, if they were telling people that.
But if you've got a physical book, it's there.
And they can't do anything with it.
That's why Jack Lawson did the physical books of Civil Defense Manual.
You don't have to worry about interconnection, the rest of the stuff.
You've got the physical book there, and it's not going to go anyway.
So, again, get the civil defense manual from jacklawsonbooks.com and get the bookmark from DavidKnightnews.com and the journal that are there.
And we've got a few days before Christmas.
Well, let's get before we move into this next set of articles here, Travis.
Let's get some of the comments here.
Yeah, we've got Marky Mark in New Jersey.
Thank you very much.
He says, I liked Rob Reiner's movies.
I thought he was a very good director.
That said, I wish he'd stuck to what he knew best, movies, and kept his nose out of politics.
Yeah, well, you know, again, like I said before, I wasn't a fan of his movies even.
That really put me in the minority.
But, you know, like Gerald Slinty says, you look at trends, whether you like them or not.
And when I was buying movies for the stores, I knew it was definitely, he had his finger on the pulse of society, and he had a good sense of humor as well.
Even when he was talking about subjects I didn't like, I saw some clips about This is Final Tap, and he just did a sequel to it.
And, you know, the jokes that he had about the amplifier that had 11 on it.
And that was a really funny joke.
But, you know, he walks up and he goes, why don't you just make it 10?
You have to put an 11 on there.
And the guy looks at it and he thinks about it for a while.
He goes, it's 11.
In other words, he's making fun of these drugged out rock stars who think they're profound, but they're not profound at all.
And yet, you know, there was a lot of the drug culture and things like that in it.
It really did reflect the culture, and he manipulated the culture, I think, by the way he embraced it and repackaged it for people as well.
So, again, really a tragic end that was there.
But his movies were incredibly successful.
And I think this is another thing that just shows how petty Trump is and how he takes everything and makes it his own because everything is about him.
Just an unbelievable narcissist.
He is not there as a public servant.
And of course, none of them are.
But nobody puts it out there to show you the truth of that more than Donald Trump does.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Guard Goldsmith says the Boston Talk radio folks are excusing Trump's statements, even applauding them.
Really?
I wonder how they do that.
I mean, Rob Reiner's death had nothing to do with Trump delusion syndrome.
It had nothing to do with his disgust of Trump.
It's just the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
But people will join in because they are feeding the mad crowd, right?
The people who want to make America doublethink.
It really is the maddening crowd.
Go ahead.
KWD 68, video of Trump wandering around, kind of like Biden.
His statements about Biden's dementia may not age well.
That's right.
Yeah.
Still got another three years to go.
Yeah, won't that be wonderful?
I forgot to mention, you can find Guard Goldsmith at Liberty Conspiracy Weeknights at 6 p.m. on Rumble.
He's also on Twitter at GarGoldsmith and on Substack.
Looking forward to the coming out.
Great content.
Liberty Conspiracy.
You know, I got to say, for the first time in my life, I saw something I agreed with Newsom about.
He goes, I can't believe we got three more years of this guy.
And I thought, yeah, how bad is it going to get?
That's the problem with presidents, especially by their second term.
You are so sick and tired of them because they're ubiquitous.
They are in everything.
They just invade our lives.
So, yeah, go ahead.
Bronx Stomper 111.
A lot of normal, quote-unquote, people in this country aren't as involved or as informed about what's really going on in politics.
They have their heads down grinding to try to make ends meet.
You only get the curated propaganda from the TV and radio news.
A kind, guided discussion can open more eyes than calling them stupid and names.
That's right.
I got to say, my eyes were opened yesterday.
I got really excited.
Went out, of course, we had Keith's car, Karen's twin brother who passed away recently.
And he had just found this car.
It was a great find.
It's a 21-year-old Lincoln.
But it's in mint condition.
This car's only got 66,000 miles on it.
So this is our, we've got it here.
It is our oldest yet lowest mileage car that we've got.
The rest of them are typically about 12, 13 years old and well over 200,000 miles.
So we were driving it yesterday, and it's got an issue that we thought involved another of his cars, which we don't have here.
And it has something wrong with the fuel tank.
I think it's got a second tank, I think he said.
And so, or the gas gauge doesn't work, one or the other.
But the problem was, and it nailed him once, and it nailed us because we thought it was on the other car.
We ran out of gas when we still, the gas gauge still showed that we had just under half a tank.
And so we've got to go get the gas tank that we've got here.
And it's just another reminder of the petty, idiotic ways that the federal government intrudes itself into our life, this federally designed spout.
And it's like, this is typical of everything that's wrong with this country.
I've said over and over again.
The problem with manufacturing in this country is not foreign competition.
It's rules and regulations from Washington.
Just take a look at your gas spout that's there.
And you've got to push buttons in while you lift it up.
It's so incredibly difficult to use.
So I'm just going to pull this thing off and I got a funnel for it.
And so it's easier to hold the funnel and hold the can with the other hand and pour a thing in.
Problem is even getting the cap off of this thing.
They've got this ratchet device there where you've got to push it in while you pull it.
It's worse than far worse than these redesigned caps that they have for drugs, you know, which you look at it, you say, most of the people who are doing, taking these drugs are old.
A lot of them have arthritis.
Why make the caps like that?
But I can understand more for the caps than I can for this gas can.
It was absolutely insane.
I said, why do we have to have this kind of stuff?
Oh, that's right, because the government requires it.
They have permeated every corner of our life.
As I said before, if you're not interested in politics, politics are interested in you.
They're going to come in and even mess up gas cans and make them non-functional.
I mean, what does that tell us about government?
Just how insane it is.
Go ahead, Travis.
I'm sorry.
We have Ford Love of the Road.
He was giving me a rundown on what's going on with Kik.
He says, I got the skinny on the kicks.
They do work like tips, and each one is 95% of a penny.
Kick no longer has the 100 kicks package.
Cheapest one is $5.29 for 500.
You can pin a comment for 10 minutes of that amount or use them on the cheaper options.
So that's the direct support method on Kick as opposed to just a subscription.
Kik is also involved in crypto casinos.
And I just saw that.
We got an article about that coming up.
It's something that's really been targeted towards teens.
And so hopefully none of you will get involved in that.
I don't want the money from that.
Yeah.
Don't gamble.
Yeah, don't gamble, especially the crypto casinos.
They're going after kids with it.
They're winding up with, and guess what else?
You've got colleges who are partnering with the crypto casinos to rip off young people.
That's what colleges do, right?
So you're going to go into a massive amount of debt for your degree while the college shills you online gambling so you can go into further debt.
They're not even trying to hide it anymore.
Just the malevolence.
Just pure exploitation.
It's amazing.
Go ahead.
Angie Oswald.
I tried treatment centers, therapists, psychiatrists, medication, etc.
I was only able to get sober from alcoholism by surrendering to Jesus.
I agree with David about it being a spiritual malady.
It is.
It is.
You just look at our society and how it is rotting because we have kicked God out of it, because we shame people who talk about the Lord Jesus Christ when he has the key.
It's just really sad.
N Max says Hollywood has become a vehicle for MKUltra and little else.
Yeah.
Yeah, and Marxism.
And DEI at LGBT, you name it.
It's out there.
It truly is a very powerful vehicle.
And now you're seeing it all being consolidated in ways that we've never seen before.
They don't even have to worry.
Like the big companies, you know, whether it's NASCAR or Coca-Cola, they despise you.
And they're so big they just keep doing it anyway.
And that's the way Hollywood has become as well.
Yeah, at least they used to be able to make compelling propaganda.
Yeah.
They don't even do that anymore.
I think that's perhaps the only silver lining I've seen of AI.
You know, you can do enough stuff to further your storyline.
It's not easy at this point.
It's still very difficult to get these things to have compliance with your prompts and get to do something exactly.
I can't tell you how many times when last year, when he had that night that we, AI-generated knight that we used for the cover thing, and then thought, well, we'll animate it, you know, going up through the snow.
Can't tell you how many times he did it.
He kept having the thing run backwards, doing all kinds of crazy stuff.
And he had to do prompt after prompt after prompt to get this thing to go.
And finally, you know, just kind of like rolling the dice, it does the right thing.
That's what these people were talking about when they talked about the McDonald's commercial.
They said, you don't realize how difficult that was.
You know, putting that thing, we had to do a lot of editing of the stuff that was there, but even to get the core material, we had to run it over and over and over again.
And people were saying, yeah, okay, so we don't like what you did.
And you're telling us just how difficult it was to do that.
And it's more time-consuming than a regular production was and so forth.
But, yeah.
But it does give people an opportunity, I think, to be able to tell their story in a way that they didn't have it before because they didn't have access to the massive amounts of people and money that it was going to require to do it the other way.
And I think, you know, from that standpoint, if you look at it as a way for the average person to get into the storytelling stuff, you can kind of overlook some of the issues that are there because it's mostly there.
And so I think it's going to be competition for Hollywood.
It'd be an opportunity for some people to embrace this technology to tell a story that they want to tell.
Yeah, to me, the errors that AI introduces is far less obnoxious and annoying than the horrific stories that Hollywood chooses to tell.
So someone with a vision could definitely use it to make something way better than what Hollywood is going on.
Let's go on call of Rose Gardens.
Guard's book recommendations get me reading more so I know they're good books.
Yeah, Guard does a lot of really good media analysis.
He has a lot of great book recommendations and TV shows and movies.
Just a lot of, if you want a good recommendation, go to Guard.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
I got one for you.
The book of Isaiah.
That's what I like.
It's old, but it's classic, right?
It never goes out of style.
Anyway, go ahead.
Marvin Gardens says, yes, Bongino quit.
His office staff are shutting down, and he'll be gone by the 1st of January.
I looked this up.
I'm still only seeing people reporting that he may be quitting, but maybe he's got some info that we don't.
I hadn't seen that.
There's been rumors that he was kind of moved out to the side for quite some time.
But what a clown show that is.
Cash and Bongino.
The corruption of cash is just something to behold.
And the way this guy immediately, all the trappings of power and money immediately went to his head.
He and his girlfriend and the, you know, taking the FBI jet to Scotland to play golf and stuff like that.
It's like, wow.
And the lies, the lies that both of them have been engaged in.
I wonder what's going to happen to Bongino now.
Is he going to be able to go back and do his podcast after he has humiliated himself with lies like that?
I guess he can.
Well, I mean, he's a kung fu master.
We played that clip, yeah.
Go ahead.
We have M. Sellers says, I just ordered a DK notebook as a Christmas gift.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We'll get that out to you right away.
Thank you.
Defy Tyrant 1776 says, don't worry, DK.
Here, Trump is running the crypto casinos, and they should only be around for another week or so.
That's right, it's a perfect business opportunity for him.
Think about it, you know, the old crypto Don and the old casino Don, and now we can do it with crypto.
I mean, I would imagine he and his kids will be all over that.
Well, the moving story behind I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.
Yeah, written over 150 years ago.
And it was actually done by Longfellow.
And he was one of the premier poets of his day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born in Maine in 1807, prominent figure in the literary world during the 19th century.
And when he wrote it in 1863, the country was involved in the Civil War, of course, and he had had a son who was severely injured in that war.
His wife had died in an accident two years earlier.
He was feeling really down.
And as you recall, the lyrics to it, he's talking about the Christmas bells and peace on earth, but I don't see it, in other words.
Despite these personal tragedies, he remained resilient, found solace in his faith, they said.
He was deeply inspired by the Christmas season, the message of hope and peace that it brings.
And I heard the bells on Christmas Day.
He expresses his desire for peace and reconciliation, his belief that one day all will be made right in the world.
And I have to say that, yeah, if you look at the after effects of this, you know, it can lead to that.
It can lead to that if you adopt the Christian principles of a just war so that you don't go to war unnecessarily.
And I would say that would apply to his side during the Civil War, the war of northern aggression.
He said, I heard the bells on Christmas Day, that old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet, the words repeat, of peace on earth, goodwill to men.
But he goes, and in despair I bowed my head.
There is no peace on earth, I said, for hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, goodwill to men.
Well, as a Christian, we understand that Christ did not come to bring peace between men.
He even said that.
He said, I come to bring a sword, a sword that is going to divide soul and spirit, bone and marrow, and so forth.
And that was told to Mary at the same time.
He said, Yeah, his sword will pierce you as well, said Gabriel to her.
So he noticed that religious beliefs divide and they even divide families, as Christ said.
Don't think I came to bring peace.
I came to bring a sword, and you'll have father against son and so forth within families.
But he came to bring peace between God and man.
You know, when you look at the different religions, you look at Islam, for example, or Judaism.
What do they do to get peace between God and man?
There hasn't been a sacrifice in Judaism since the temple was destroyed 2,000 years ago.
And Muslims don't even have, you know, with most religions, it's about making peace with God by being a good person.
That's not what Christianity is about.
Christianity is about the Lord Jesus Christ coming to make peace between God and man.
And so when you look at, I always enjoyed this song, but I always had some question marks about the lyrics in it.
Then peeled the bells more loud and deep.
God is not dead, nor doth he sleep.
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on earth, goodwill to men.
And again, this is the kind of attitude that the moral crusaders took in the Civil War.
And not all of them looked at it that way.
I mean, you have Lysander Spooner, who, you know, it's kind of the same approach that they would see something that was bad, like slavery or alcohol, and they would go on a crusade through government to stop it by force everywhere.
And there's other ways that are more powerful than that.
That is not the most powerful way to have societal change by force.
And that's what we need to understand because we don't have that force.
And you and I will never have that kind of force that we can achieve any societal change.
But we can change society, one person, one family at a time.
But the people who go on these moral crusades with government don't have the patience for that.
And they are like bulls in China shop.
They do so much damage.
As I've said many times, if you look at Civil War, if you wanted to end slavery, the British Empire ended slavery.
First they had to do the slave trade.
Then they compensated the slave owners in Jamaica.
And there really wasn't any way that the slave owners in Jamaica could have withstood the force of the British Empire.
But that was a peaceful way to get the slaves released.
And the amount of money that they paid them to release the slaves was less than Lincoln spent on ammunition.
But that really wasn't his goal.
As I point out many times, it was a fourth turning, and it was happening in other places as well.
In Italy, there was a Civil War there exactly the same time.
The Civil War was not based on slavery.
It wasn't some great moral crusade that they would like to believe that it was.
It was a function of societies changing from agrarian societies to industrial societies.
And at the same time, a consolidation of the political base from the way it was distributed in an agrarian society to a concentrated nation-state form.
And so that was happening in Italy at the same time it was happening in the U.S.
And that was really what it was about.
They brought in slavery in the U.S. to give it a good moral cover.
But that was not the main reason that it happened.
But nevertheless, he believed that through faith and determination, we can overcome any obstacle and create a world of peace and love.
But again, don't lose sight of the fact that what Christ came for was peace between God and man.
That is the foundation.
Peace between men can be the fruit of that, but it is not the root of real peace that's going to last.
So we'll just take a quick break and we'll listen to that, as a matter of fact.
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Guard Goldsmith says, Does Mongino own a portion of Rumble?
Does anyone know?
I should look that up.
I think he does.
He does, at least.
As of July last year, I see an article that said he owned 5.8% and was the second largest shareholder.
Well, there you go.
He probably doesn't need to go back into radio.
He's probably got enough money.
Yeah.
Though, to be fair, I'm pretty sure Rumble is bleeding cash.
I don't know.
Video hosting is monumentally expensive.
Even YouTube, with all its resources, tends to, at least last time I checked, which was a few years ago, still losing money for Google.
But we'll have to wait and see.
Well, hope Rumble makes it because we're not allowed on YouTube or many of these other places there.
I just saw that Spotify, a little bit of Schadenfreude, Spotify had a big outage.
Couldn't happen to a nicer platform.
They're the only one of the audio and podcasting platforms that has banned us, Spotify.
But they happen to be the largest, just like YouTube, the largest ban our show.
So I hope these smaller ones make it.
They also happen to be investing in the AI war future.
So, yeah, they're all over the place.
Well, Spotify has already done a job in terms of scoping out and banning people.
So they had programs for that.
They were trying to market to other platforms.
And if they do, we'll be kicked out everywhere because they don't like me talking about, they don't like my take on government, big pharma, wars, you name it.
I'm opposed to them on pretty much every issue.
Climate, there's that as well.
That happens.
We'll have to broadcast by ham radio or something.
Yeah.
Morse code, I don't know.
Jerry Alitalo, Cuba is currently facing a severe energy crisis, exacerbated by the recent U.S. seizure of an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan crude that was crucial for its energy supply.
This situation has led to rolling blackouts and increased difficulties in sourcing enough oil to power Cuba's economy and electrical grid.
Yeah, Cuba's real problem is it's socialist Marxist organization and that has led to shortages all over the place.
Anytime you've got central planning by the government, and that includes central planning by the Trump administration, it's going to lead to bad economic times, shortages, all the rest of this stuff.
And so that's really their fundamental problem and has been for a very long time.
But they are, that's one of the reasons why they got that tinker is because Marco Rubio wants to shut Cuba down.
They figure they can accelerate the decline of Cuba by coming after their energy supply.
And certainly you can.
And that's what's happening.
Everybody understands that.
That's why Ukraine is attacking the energy infrastructure of Russia and vice versa.
But that type of thing can come to us very easily as well.
When you look at the Ukrainian attacks on Russia, the asymmetric warfare aspect of drones, you don't need to go out there and seize oil fields or tankers or anything like that with the military.
You can just hit critical points with drone warfare.
That's why, again, the Civil Defense Manual, indispensable for you.
You ought to start.
When I look at AI and all this talk about AI and space and putting power centers up there and everything, that really is the bottleneck.
And I just got to say, there's absolutely no way, when I was covering this the other day, there's no way that you're going to get all these new power plants that they say they need for all the new power requirements that they have with these data centers.
There's no way that's going to come online.
They haven't even started with any of that stuff.
As I point out, in China, they've got 29 nuclear power plants in process that they're building.
And of course, they are adding new coal power plants.
Every few days, there's another one.
It has been for quite some time because they're allowed, under the globalist rules, they are allowed to build as many and make them as cheap and as dirty as they wish.
And so we have hamstrung ourselves with these types of things.
And they're not even, even though they say that they have these requirements, nobody is actually building them yet.
And they just can't make these things appear overnight.
And very concerned about how they might rush these nuclear power plants.
You really don't want them rushing those things.
You want it done right.
So that's a real issue.
But it's also an issue in terms of trying to put them in space.
That's going to require a lot of new things that they haven't done before.
It's going to be a big learning curve with that as well.
So we're going to talk about that coming up here.
But that is the bottleneck.
So bottom line, folks, whether or not there are attacks on our infrastructure, understand that these people that the Trump administration is putting in as our oligarch rulers, they are going to be the ones who sit at the table.
You and I will get the crumbs.
They'll be feasting at the energy grid, and we'll be begging for crumbs of energy on the sideline.
They will feed themselves and they will cut us off.
That's the way this is going to operate.
They have decided that it is essential for what they want to do.
Their domination, their tyranny, their wars, their competition with other nations, and their complete Orwellian surveillance of everything that we do, that is absolutely essential.
And so it is going to be a national security issue.
They're going to run this stuff through just like they did NDAA.
And so we're going to suffer the consequences of this.
So again, got one more comment here, Travis.
Yes.
Wright Overture says it's by God's mercy that he shows you just how evil you are and how much you need forgiveness.
Yes, and the time that he gives us as well.
Well, I like this article from Stephen Wedgworth at World, which is wng.org.
It says, keep King James Christmas.
And he makes a good point here, I think.
The old-fashioned language is irreplaceable.
And as I said, you know, we just saw the movie Anonymous, which I really enjoyed that.
It's one of the movies that I've enjoyed the most in the last couple of years, because I know the background story of it, but also, you know, because of the Shakespearean language that you get a little bit of a hint of.
And he's talking about the fact that the King James language, which was written about the same time as Shakespeare, you know, the richness of it and the majesty of it.
He said he just said, we got a new Christmas calendar.
He goes, I couldn't believe my eyes or my ears.
The Christmas calendar says, listen, the angel said, you'll become pregnant and have a baby boy.
Listen, become pregnant.
Instead of, behold, you shall be with child.
It loses a lot in the current vernacular, doesn't it?
How much longer is it going to be before they start including slang in there like the Risbot thing?
I had to look that up.
It's like, why do they call it Risbot?
This robot that's in Austin and now in California.
And it's slang for charisma.
And so again, how long will it be before they start putting words like that, slang words, into some of these new translations?
He said, then came another one.
Caesar sent out an order that everyone's name must be put on a list.
Put on a list, he says.
He says, the crown jewel of English literature is the King James Bible.
Its prose is classic.
It is a stabilizing feature of not only literature, but of culture.
It formed the English nation, and then it migrated to North America.
What about the supposed difficulty of interpretation, though?
He says, it's got to be acknowledged that there definitely are passages in the King James Version that require some extra training.
Even a traditionalist Anglican smirks when he has to read about, quote, the superfluidity of naughtiness, unquote.
But thankfully, when it comes to Christmas readings, we can figure them all out easily enough.
And it lends a wonderful majesty as well.
He says, the King James Bible really is intelligible.
He says, as a Mississippi schoolboy in the 1990s, I could sort it out.
Another intolerably intellectual claim is that peace on earth, goodwill to men, should really be, on earth, peace among those with whom he is pleased.
Yeah, how does that improve the perpiscuity of it, right?
The poet W.H. Auden once said, our church has had the singular good fortune of having its prayer book composed and his Bible translated at exactly the right time.
In other words, late enough for the language to be intelligible to any English-speaking person.
It wasn't written in Old English or something like Beowulf, right?
And any child of six can be told what the quicken the dead means and early enough.
In other words, when people still had an instinctive feeling for the formal and ceremonious, which is essential in liturgical language, I remember as a child reading that, The Quick and the Dead, and it immediately they did make a movie of that.
It's a Western head, Sharon Tate, and it never saw it, but we had it in our store.
It's called The Quick and the Dead.
And that was my image growing up in the late 1950s and 60s when cowboy movies were the rage, you know, and everybody's quick on the draw.
That was my image of it, Quick and the Dead.
But anyway, for some reason, he said, we keep drinking eggnog.
Antique, perhaps odd a bit, but he said the King James Version is the only Bible that can be called the English and American Family Bible.
It's what you're used to hearing this time of year.
So he said, please, at least for Christmas, let's stick to the King James Version.
And we'll take just a really quick break here and play Hark, the Herald Angel saying, which again goes back to kind of the King James language.
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We have Fox News does an article about MerryChristmas.gov.
Yeah, you know, the Trump administration is creating new initiatives and new websites, left and right.
They're setting up things, as I mentioned, you know, for AI.
You got AI.gov and others that are out there, and one that is set up for inserting Palantir into the Department of Education and other things like that.
So instead of talking about that, Fox decides that they're going to talk about merrychristmas.gov.
And there is something to talk about here.
The stated purpose of this, the Trump administration, is to roll out 12 days of federal gifts as Christmas comeback ramps up.
You know, it reminded me, P.J. O'Rourke once said, he used to write for Rolling Stone, and he was kind of their in-house conservative.
And he said, you know, Democrats see government as Santa Claus, and Republicans see government as God.
He's going to make you be good, that type of thing or something.
And he goes, the problem is that Santa Claus is not real and God is.
But I think Trump, as a Democrat, sees government as Santa Claus.
And, you know, this is, they fold this in.
They say, yeah, Trump said he's going to bring back Christmas again.
Is this really bringing back Christmas?
To worship government as our provider and bringing gifts.
Government brings griffs is what it brings.
So I'm not into worshiping government.
I don't know.
I think of the 12 days of government.
If only it were 12 days, it would be tolerable.
12 days of government design history.
That's what the website looks like.
Travis has pulled that up there.
And I wonder when they get the nine liars lying or the ten overlords a grifting.
Over 12 days, we're highlighting moments of design, innovation, and public work initiated by the federal government that helped to shape the nation.
Consider it a small holiday reminder of what America can build together.
Again, glorifying government.
Government does not build anything, really.
It doesn't create jobs.
It doesn't create wealth.
Government typically destroys it with war and with taxes.
The site launched Sunday with the first post celebrating the Works Progress Administration, WPA, that make work project of FDR.
This is what the Republican Party has become.
How long have I said the Republicans have become the Democrats of my youth and the Democrats have become the Marxists of my youth and worse?
It was launched during the Great Depression, the WPA, to cultivate positive and encouraging messages for the nation amid the strife.
Aren't you grateful for FDR's socialism?
Trump is, because he's a Democrat.
Created during the Great Depression under the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Arts Project poster program employed artists to design uplifting messages promoting parks, public health, education, and cultural events.
Its bold shapes, its clear topography, helped to define American public communication.
Yeah, you know, it was one of these things like the classic Soviet posters and stuff like that.
But when you look at this WPA system and the money that it was giving to artists and things, you know, it was funding things like Orson Welles projects and stuff there.
And politically, these people are very left-wing radicals.
And much of the stuff, most of the stuff that it funded, was really kind of the foothold of the Franklin School coming in to manipulate our society through the entertainment industry and through arts.
And so that is the real legacy of this, and that's what's being celebrated by the Trump administration.
Isn't that great that they brought Christmas back?
I wonder if they consulted Megan Kelly to make sure that Santa Claus is white and not black.
Pathetic.
And the website will reveal additional government highlights each day up to Christmas.
It even includes a live weather tracker at the North Pole and at the White House.
There we go.
Let's get global warming in there as well, right?
And all of this is as fictional as the Santa story as well.
The website follows Trump vowing from the 2024 campaign trail to bring back Christmas.
There you go.
Promises made, promises kept.
That's what Fox News wants us to see.
This is bringing back Christmas, is it?
Merry Christmas, government.
And here's how government provides for you and gifts to you, right?
It was Trump who pushed in taking everybody's job and then giving people a little stimulus check as a training for UBI.
It reminds me of what Gerald Ford said.
He said, any government that's big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got.
And that's exactly what Trump did in 2020.
And he's still there.
You know, our misleader, misleading us yet again.
Trump, though, however, is a bit of a Santa Claus.
He does like his ho-ho-hose, doesn't he?
He's got hose all over the place.
And then the celebration that Dickens built.
This is an interesting article.
I won't go into it, but they talk about the smallest Christmas parade in the country.
Just one float.
And that's how this one small town kicks it off.
But, you know, when I look at what Dickens does, I remember I had a, I was in the Libertarian Party friend of mine.
Boy, he hated Dickens.
He said, the guy was a socialist.
It's all about the workers and all the rest of the stuff.
And it's like, well, I understand.
You know, he didn't quite get his politics right.
And he didn't quite get his Christianity right either.
But he had a real positive effect, I thought.
And I still love to watch it.
I like it even more than the rest of my family does.
I mean, I could watch the Alistair Sim, the old one.
I could watch that over and over again.
But we had someone that we got to know when we had the video stores was a guy named Ira David Wood.
And he was pretty big in the Triangle area.
He was very well known for theater in the park, and he put on productions that were there.
And his daughter is Rachel Woods, I think is the name she goes by.
And she wound up getting into Hollywood, and she was in, what was that?
Maybe you know it, Travis.
I know of it, but I never watched it.
It was Westworld.
It even had Anthony Hopkins in or something, but she was a key figure in that.
I never saw that show.
Yeah, I never saw it either.
I liked the movie with the old grinner, and I figured it could be left there, and I wouldn't suffer.
That's right.
I tried another concept.
But unfortunately, I don't know what she really got.
She wound up living with Marilyn Manson for a while.
It was really strange.
But I remember we didn't know who he was.
Most of the people knew who he was.
He came into the store one day, and it's just Karen and I work in the store.
And Disney's Lady and the Tramp came out, and he had his son with him.
I never recall seeing his daughter, but had his son with him.
And he put him on the counter.
And as we're getting in, he started singing Buena Note, you know, the song from Lady and the Tramp.
And that's a beauty in the beast, so it was Lady and the Tramp.
Anyway, but anyway, he had a great voice, and I'm like, wow, you know, and then he leaves, and one of the other people that were there said, you know what he does for a living, don't you?
It's like, no, I didn't know that.
He almost broke in the big time of the movies.
They did a movie in the Triangle.
They had a very unusual building in Research Triangle Park.
It was put together by, it was owned by Burroughs Wellcome, big pharmaceutical company.
And the movie is called Brainstorm.
And that was the movie that Natalie Wood died.
And she was there in the Triangle filming that.
And they went over to the coast and whatever happened, accident or murder or whatever, that interrupted it.
And they wrote him out of the final movie because his character was there romantically involved with her character.
And because they had filmed some of the scenes there, but most of it still remained to be shot.
And she died in the midst of production.
So they had to change the movie to get it released.
And it wrote him out of the movies.
But he was pretty big in that area.
And when I look at, every time I look at Dickens, the thing that he did the most was he did an updated version of kind of their own adaptation of Dickens.
And it was very, very popular.
And they even took it to England, as somebody said.
It's kind of like Coles to Newcastle.
You know, have an American production that is a bit more contemporary and taking it to England for the Dickens thing.
But whenever I look at the Dickens stuff, I always think about Ira David Wood and his family.
But Tucker Carlson just had – I want to comment real quickly and say it is such a libertarian thing to read or watch Charles Dickens and go, but no, what about the free market?
That's right.
It's like, I think we can let it go this time.
Yeah.
Well, he saw the abuses of what was happening with the Industrial Revolution.
And look, it wasn't perfect by any means.
And what was happening to children that were there.
He wants Ayn Rand's a Christmas Carol.
And then Scrooge realized that he shouldn't give money to the poor, and it was his right to hoard it all forever.
Absolutely.
Yeah, you know, Charles Dickens went to see, I can't think of his name now.
The guy that, George Mueller.
George Mueller had a great, you're talking about a diary, you know, and keeping a diary.
Fortunately for us, George Mueller did, and it was amazing what God did in his life.
He never had any money, but because he was taking care of orphans and things like that, he had amazing, miraculous things that happened.
And I won't go into it again, but he just started taking care of a few orphans and just grew and grew.
And he had a massive orphanage.
And of course, you know, Charles Dickens is all about the orphans and the plight of children in Victorian England.
And so he went to visit him, and he comes in.
And rather than giving him a guided tour and making sure that he sees all the good things and all the rest of the stuff, George Mueller just said to a couple of kids there that were there when Charles Dickens came in and said, just show him around.
They took him on the tour of the thing.
And he was absolutely amazed because it was real.
It wasn't a grift.
And so, yeah, the contemporaries of that as well.
Tucker Carlson just had an organic chemist on talking about the story of evolution.
He said, We've all been taught an absurd fairy tale.
He's absolutely right.
When you stop and think about the design aspects of this, there's absolutely no way.
And you can just see it logically over and over again.
It demands intelligent design.
And of course, that has been obvious for a very long time.
You go back to Psalm 19, the heavens declare the glory of God.
And day after day, they utter speech, night after night.
Their language goes forth.
We can see the design and everything in our world.
And as we are able to see more of the mechanisms and the operation of our bodies, it becomes even more miraculous and wonderful.
And we're going to be talking a little bit more about this as we get into AI.
People have come up with a miniaturized robot that will travel through your body.
I mean, this is going back to all these different things like Fantastic Voyage or Inner Space.
But instead of shrinking people, they're shrinking the technology.
That's the reality of what's happening with it.
We're going to take a quick break.
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We've got a lot of comments.
Stealth Patriot, thank you so much for the support.
Yes, thank you.
He says, I held off on my last podcast discussing the shooting in Bondi Beach and my suspicion that it was a false flag attack.
It appears I was right again.
Merry Christmas to you and the family.
Yes, there's more information coming out about that and more people saying that.
And, you know, again, I've always said that where we go wrong is we underestimate the capabilities of the people in power and we overestimate their morals.
And they are not above killing their own people to achieve their goals.
That's what happened with 9-11.
And so I don't put anything past these people.
For us, it's absolutely unthinkable.
I mean, we can't imagine something like that.
But again, you can't imagine slitting the throats of your own parents or something.
I mean, things like that happen.
And normal people just can't imagine that as well.
Yeah.
Defy Tyrant 1776 says, have you read Trump's executive order, NSPM-7, which sounds like it can be used to murder dissidents and those who oppose Trump?
Yeah, basically, you know, if he wants to call somebody a terrorist, you know, it's kind of like an extension of, I'm going to declare an emergency to say about the trade deficit.
Let me tell you where the emergency is, Trump, in case you haven't noticed.
It's with your budget deficit.
That's a $38 trillion emergency that you ignore because you're not going to put your own house in order.
But yeah, he'll just come up with a phony emergency, and now he's free to do anything that he wishes.
If he calls you a terrorist and he labels you as a terrorist, then of course he's free to do anything he wishes.
That's what's so concerning about all this.
The fact that they have taken off any constraints from the Constitution should concern us.
And yet what we're seeing from the MAGA people is like, oh, yeah, we've got to stop the drugs and whatever it takes to stop the drugs.
Well, it's not going to stop the drugs.
Escalating a failed approach to its logical, ridiculous extreme is not going to change anything at all.
Pezo Novante 1776 says, DK just hit on a great AI meme video.
Do the 12 days of government.
Exactly.
Or overlords of grifting, yeah, or leaping, whatever.
12 grifters grifting.
Guard Goldsmith, so an organization of aggression that only exists via extortion is celebrating, quote-unquote, Christmas by focusing on statist materialism.
That's right.
Isn't that amazing?
I just about fell out of my chair when I saw what that was about.
I thought, so, you know, Merry Christmas.gov.
They're cheering Trump.
Look, he's saying Merry Christmas everywhere.
Isn't that wonderful?
And yet he makes it all about government.
All about him, as a matter of fact.
I'm surprised that they even went back and talked about any other administration.
But of course, they start out with FDR.
Great.
Great.
Guard Goldsmith again.
And of course, you can find him at Liberty Conspiracy Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. on Rumble on Twitter and Substack.
He says, curiously, Dickens is attributed with coining the term the dismal science about economics because he disliked free market economists.
He is slash was a fascinating person and wrote so beautifully.
Yeah, that's right.
I love the names that he comes up with for people that are there.
And I thought it was kind of interesting.
You know, when you go back and look at the Civil War history, especially because so much of it took place, you know, within Richmond and Washington, we're only 100 miles away from each other.
And especially within Richmond, you know, you have all these different people that are in different places.
Harper's Ferry had Robert Lee and Stonewall Jackson there as well.
And then the war began and ended on one guy's farm.
The first battle that was there was whether you call it Manassas or Bull Run.
The two different sides called it different things.
But it was on this particular farm.
Then they had a second battle there.
And after the second battle that was really big, the guy said, that's it.
I'm getting out of here.
I'm in this 100-mile strip between Washington and Richmond.
I'm getting out of here.
So he moves to Appomattox, and that's where the war ended there, the surrender of Lee.
And so it began and ended on his own thing.
So it's very much like a Dickens novel where you have all these people who know each other.
And really, that was kind of the way things were.
In London, if you go back and look at London at the time of, let's say, Samuel Pepys, who had a very famous diary.
There's another diarist that was there.
He had, I remember listening to that on audio tape years ago.
It's narrated by Ken Brenna.
And it really was interesting.
This is a guy who came up through the bureaucracy.
He's one of these weaseling bureaucrats or whatever.
But it's a fascinating insight.
into what life was like there.
And of course, what was happening in his time there, they were moving back and forth.
It's after the English Civil War, the one king had been executed, his son fled, and then he had Cromwell come in, and then they reestablished the monarchy, and he established himself within that.
It was the same time that they had the plague and the big fire and all the Great Fire of London, all the rest of these things.
At that point in time, they only had 500,000 people in London, and it was the biggest city in Europe.
And it's amazing when you look at how our population has exploded.
It's just everywhere so crowded.
But anyway, when you look at these people writing about the times that they're in, that's, I think, one of the most fascinating things to see how they live, but also to see how things are still common.
The human condition and the human soul haven't really changed that much.
And so you see these people in these different circumstances, and you also see what is still the same in all of them as well.
Marvin Garden says, how anyone could ever want to actually live or sleep in the White House befuddles me.
Were I elected, I would turn it into a museum and live out in the country somewhere.
D.C. is a horrible environment.
Yeah, I've said that many times in terms of going back to actually having a representative House of Representatives.
So let's take it, let's cap it, like they originally said, at 30,000 to 50,000 people.
And of course, they even violated that rule themselves immediately.
But if we were to take it back to that amount, have about 8,000 congressmen or something like that, it actually would be a lot more representative.
And that was the stated purpose by the founders, although they didn't even use that.
But if you had something that large, you would have everybody basically working from home as congressmen, which would be far more effective in terms of representing their districts.
Once they go to Washington, they start getting hypnotized by all the trappings of power and wealth, just like Kash Patel.
It's funny because his eyes are always like he's just been surprised with a flashbulb or something.
But I think it's just the power and wealth has gotten to him.
That's why I kind of look at the guy.
But again, if people were, if the congressmen were to stay in their districts and to live there, it would be far more representative.
And there's absolutely no reason that they couldn't do that now.
They don't have to physically meet in that space.
They put all the rest of us into virtual reality and lockdown.
And it would make it a little bit more difficult for them, I think, to do some of the nefarious things that they do behind closed doors.
That's why they won't do it.
But I would never want to live in Washington.
It's just the worst place.
And to me, it was when I ran for Congress, I wasn't trying to get to Washington.
I was not disappointed that I lost at all.
I was just using it as a platform to talk to people about issues.
And fortunately, getting in politics is not necessary for us to talk to people about issues, especially since government is not the solution.
It's the problem.
So yeah.
Go ahead, Travis.
Defy Tyrant says, anybody who rides in a Christmas Day parade float that looks like a boat should be very afraid with all that white, powdery stoe looking stuff laying around.
They just might get Hegseth.
There you go.
That's why we change Hegseth into a verb.
That's why I get hike set from War Pete.
N Max says, if you don't like Zionism, you are a terrorist while he's cheering the killing of Palestinians, Venezuelans, and anyone else that disagrees with the agenda.
And they're really ramping that up now.
And they're using this situation in Bondi Beach as well for that.
So, yeah, they're going to focus.
You've already got the Australian Prime Minister.
It's focusing on anti-Semitism and on gun control.
The open borders, bringing in massive numbers of people unvetted.
That's not an issue.
No, we have to shut down free speech, and we have to shut down the ownership of firearms and self-defense.
That's one of the reasons why the founders of this country who were trying to lay a framework to resist tyranny, the first two things they did were free speech and the right to protect yourself.
And so those are the first two things that the Australian Prime Minister is going to come for.
N Max says, funny how no one reporting on how Erica Kirk was a Trump model when first placed in the beauty pageant and at 17 went to Romania working with children while they're being trafficked.
Yeah.
No curiosity.
Yeah, I reported on the Romanian thing.
I did.
Yeah, this young girl who was a beauty queen or whatever, and her parents, and she was very heavily involved in that Romanian situation.
It's like, how in the world did that happen?
Is that just a coincidence?
I think there is something there.
Again, I don't want to get into it because it's a soap opera.
And I've said for the longest time, I never really felt like his organization was really helping out much.
And I really questioned what he was having to say.
Even the messages that he was sending as a Christian were mixed.
But, you know, as Paul said, some preach Christ out of greed and some people out of envy.
I'm just glad that he's preached.
And so I didn't want to go after him too hard.
AI companion bots are actually run by exploited Kenyans, a worker claims who used to do this.
You know, we've talked about this being done with Indians.
They set up that grocery store and said, yeah, we've got AI and cameras everywhere and it's watching the stuff that you put into your basket and totaling it up so you can just walk out, right?
Amazon did.
And it turned out it wasn't AI at all.
It was a lot of Indians watching the cameras and writing everything down and totaling it up.
And they were paid slave wages as well.
So we joked about that many times.
We say AI, actually Indians.
Well, I guess in this case, it's AK, actually Kenyans.
But it actually is idiotic is what it is.
If you're one of the 28% of Americans who have shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, I hope you're not doing that.
We might have some bad news for you.
It turns out that you're not talking to a computer.
You're talking to people in another country.
And in this particular case, a lot of men who thought they were chatting with an AI chatbot that they thought was female, they were actually chatting with a guy.
He says, I was having to tell these guys I love them.
It's like really pathetic.
During a period of desperation in which he struggled to find a job in his train field of global aviation, a Kenyan man named Michael Godfrey Asia writes for the initiative that he was introduced to the world of data labeling and chat moderation.
In his case, the chats turned out to be romantic and intimate conversations on platforms he said I'd never heard of.
He took a job as a text chat operator.
He made his home, he writes, in the Mathare slums of Nairobi.
And it was all that he could do to keep a roof over his head and his family's head.
He said, what I didn't know was that the role would require me to assume multiple fabricated identities and to use pseudo-profiles created by the company to engage in intimate, explicit conversations with lonely men and women.
He said to do the job, he had to assume various identities, taking on lengthy backstories in order to play the role of chatbot for someone on the other side of the world.
Sometimes I would be assigned a conversation that had been going on for several days, and I had to continue it smoothly so the user wouldn't realize that the person responding had changed.
It's all people on the other side, pretending that it is some genius AI, you know, that's out there.
Oh, look at these things.
They're as smart as people.
They are people.
In any given workday, Asia would assume three to five different personas simultaneously, all of them of varying genders.
He was paid per message.
He would get a flat rate of a nickel per message.
That's pathetic, isn't it?
I mean, just do the math on this, right?
If he was going to make, let's say, $15 an hour, which is what the Democrats want to make the national wage, but minimum wage.
Let's just pick that as an arbitrary number.
He would have to do 300 messages an hour in order to get $15 an hour.
Of course, there's no way he's going to be able to do that.
Anyway, $0.05 a message.
And he had to meet a required character count.
So in other words, it couldn't just be yes and no.
He had to be more verbal about that.
He also had to type at least 40 words a minute and keep up with a dashboard that was displaying the total number of messages sent.
What a horrible job this would be.
Can you imagine how stressed out you would be at the end of the day?
Falling behind on metrics could lead to warnings, reduced assignments, or even termination, he said.
The work was emotionally exhausting.
Chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing that they were talking to an impersonal, unfeeling AI chatbot, when actually they were talking to a person in a poor country.
My faith taught me that love should be real, that intimacy should be sacred, and that deception was destructive to both the liar and to the deceived.
He sounds like a Christian.
I don't know.
Yet here I was professionally deceiving vulnerable people who were genuinely looking for connection.
I was taking their money, their trust, their hope, and I was giving them nothing real in return.
To hide his demeaning job, he used a cover story with his family.
He said he was a remote IT worker.
Well, that's true.
He said he was taking tickets to fix broken servers.
I guess if you think of the people as servers that are broken.
He said, little did they know that I just told another man I love you, he said.
There was also a non-disclosure agreement, a mandatory contract that meant that he couldn't tell his loved ones even if he wanted to.
How do you explain that you get paid to tell strangers you love them while your real family sleeps just three meters away, he said.
And he is not alone.
There are estimates that there are between 154 and 435 million gig workers doing this kind of thing, online work.
That's the reality.
The question is, I guess, Travis, are they going to have to put these guys in orbit?
Let's see the AI data centers up.
Because that's really what is happening with a lot of this stuff.
Not all of them are doing the kind of job that Asia did, although high-stress, low-pay jobs like AI data labeling and content moderation and text chat operation tend to be staffed by workers from underdeveloped African, South American, and Southeast Asia nations.
I have to just say, can you imagine being one of these people in one of these poor, desperately poor countries where chances are you're struggling to survive and your job is to field these emotional problems of these first world people.
I can't even imagine the kind of contempt it must breed in some of these people.
I know.
So they end this by saying, so the next time you feel a connection with a chatbot, remember, you might just be falling for an underpaid worker's scripted lie.
Yeah, let's remember that.
By the way, Waymo has an issue.
Excuse me.
You've seen this with Tesla's.
They seem to have a propensity for hitting trucks, semi-trucks, and police vehicles and ambulances in the early days.
Well, Waymo's software has an issue with school buses and with children who are getting off of the school buses.
And so the Austin Independent School District is in a dispute between Waymo over a software patch.
This is something that they identified Waymo as they decided, you know, these vehicles are very, very, very cautious.
I mean, you could take an open cup of coffee and set it on the dashboard if it was flat enough and you wouldn't spill it, you know, because they accelerate so slowly and decelerate so slowly and they have real issues navigating things like a four-way stop because they're not able to really kind of glance over and see the other driver and get a read on what they're doing or pick up on, I guess it's not body language, I guess it's car language.
Are they inching it forward or whatever?
Does this person look like they're really in a hurry?
You know what we do as humans.
So they would have a situation where they would freeze.
I remember in the early days, there was one guy who just was outraged because this thing couldn't get across the four-way stop.
And he just slammed it, pedaled to the metal and went around three or four cops cars to get around this frozen Waymo that was up there.
And so there's those kinds of issues.
And so they decided that they would make the cars a bit more aggressive in their driving.
Now the problem is that it's aggressive enough that it goes around these stopped school buses, even though they got the flag out.
And of course, you I were to do that, there'd be very heavy penalties.
We might lose our license or something.
But of course, if Google is doing it, it's okay, right?
Austin is fighting with them over this, but nobody's taking away their license to drive their cars.
Earlier this week, Waymo filed a software recall for 3,000 of its fifth-generation vehicles after NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, opened an investigation of the vehicle's behaviors around school buses.
In a summary of the recall, NHTSA said the software may cause the vehicle to pass a stopped school bus even when the red lights are flashing and or the stop arm is extended.
That comes after 20 incidents of school buses in Austin alone and another six in Atlanta this year.
While no one has been hurt yet, NHTSA records that at least one case, a Waymo zoomed past disembarking students.
So again, if you do that, that is a major traffic violation.
It should be in all 50 states.
But Google has still got its license to drive.
They've not taken its license away.
It's problematic when the company is not listening because their products could really hurt people, especially school children and families, said an attorney for the Austin School District.
Waymo has begun reprogramming its vehicles to drive more aggressively.
Though the company has yet to cause the death of a human, it's already run over many beloved pets.
Bizarre incidents like when its Waymo drove its passengers through an armed police standoff.
I would like to be a passenger.
The bullets are flying and it's just going right through.
But as I said before, and I just said this jokingly to my family, I said, can you imagine the way these things drive and how slow they are and how infuriatingly so?
Can you imagine somebody taking one of these things, a pregnant woman, taking it to the hospital?
Well, somebody actually did that, and she wound up having the baby in the car, as you would expect.
And so I guess what we should call them is not Waymo, but we should call them Way Slow because they are way slow getting there.
And of course, you're not going to tell it to step on it because you're about to have a baby.
It's not going to do that at all.
And this person in this article, Not the Bee, starts out by saying, why would you call a driverless car to take you to the hospital to have a baby is beyond me?
Absolutely true.
They said the car reported to the home base that it detected unusual activity in the back seat.
I bet they did.
So it called the team to check on the rider, and she said, she told them what the unusual activity was.
The support team then alerted 9-11, but the woman gave birth on her own before the way slow could get anywhere.
So the car also then took her to the hospital within a few minutes of giving birth.
So it had a good ending.
But when we look at the danger that is coming from new quarters, still the same old stuff, but they always come in a different way.
Here's a company that has created Tinder for kids, a quote-unquote dating app.
And so, again, I guess if you are constantly locked in your house all the time because the nosy neighbors will call the police on you if you're actually out playing like we used to do when I was a child, I guess the only way that you can meet kids is on an app.
A startup called Wiz with two Zs is peddling, quote, age-appropriate engagement, unquote, for users as young as 13.
Now, this is a French app that's built on the swipe left or swipe right framework, typical of dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge.
Doesn't surprise me that it's French.
Does it surprise you?
I mean, when we, maybe Macron's wife has got some stock in this one because, you know, she's a known pedophile herself.
The way she went after Emmanuel Macron when she was his teacher, huge age difference, and he was a minor.
If that had happened in America, there's regular stories all the time in the news about that exact type of thing, and the teachers go to jail for that.
But of course, in France, it's okay.
So, of course, this is a French app that is about this.
What I say about Candace Owen, you know, why get into all this soap opera stuff except that you're chasing views is the only thing I can understand about it.
Because With all the things that are happening, you want to focus on whether or not Emmanuel Macron's wife is a man or a woman, right?
And I mean, we already know if you want to attack him personally, you've got more than enough ammunition with the fact that she's a pedophile.
We lock people like her up in the United States.
You don't need to go to think, well, is she actually a man?
I mean, we already know that in order to get into these elite power circles, you have to be a degenerate person and immoral.
That's the point.
And we've already established that in her case.
Given the massive rise in child predation enabled by social media, this is meant to connect kids with others their age.
But in reality, it has become a mechanism for predators to meet underaged victims.
Wiz has been implicated in a predictably stunning number of child sexual abuse incidents.
The app claims to use, quote, sophisticated AI safety algorithms for age verification.
I guess the guys in Nairobi are not that good at guessing your age.
Maybe they can guess your weight.
I don't know.
What do you think?
In Hawaii, for example, an 11-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted by an active duty U.S. Marine told police that they'd first met on Wiz.
The 19-year-old perpetrator had already posed as a 15-year-old, which the AI safety algorithm had failed to catch.
Other examples abound, like a 23-year-old pretending to be 14 in order to sexually assault an actual 14-year-old, or a 27-year-old claiming to be 16 in order to tape, or to rather rape multiple underage girls.
The Hill even tested the verification system with a 28-year-old staffer who was able to register as a 16-year-old.
Again, I don't know how we could reliably guess your age, and evidently it can't.
Now, however, congressional Republicans and Democrats are pushing for the Kids Online Safety Act.
This is why they're running the article, because they want you to buy into the digital ID to be able to use the internet.
They want to end anonymity.
And so this is why they're doing it.
You could just end that app.
But no, we're going to leave the app there as justification for an internet ID.
How about that?
They'll always, this is the hallmark of the government.
They will always make a second mistake rather than admit the first one.
They'll always, when they do something wrong, they'll double down and do something that is even bigger and more wrong.
So the bill would establish a duty of care for online platforms to prove themselves to U.S. regulators in order to avoid legal liability for harm.
And so, you know, we'll see how that works.
But it's really all about the ID.
And here's another example of this.
It's a real problem, but again, the solution for all this is going to be internet control.
Teens are losing it all at crypto casinos.
Again, as we were saying before, the perfect synthesis of business opportunities for Donald Trump.
Promoted by streamers and celebrities, these crypto casinos use deceptive tactics to lure young users, using the predatory nature of casinos, along with the, I think, predatory nature of crypto as well.
And so, again, all casinos are ultimately predatory, including Trump's.
One young man told the newspaper he was only 14 years old when he placed his first bet with a crypto casino.
Watched the massively popular streamer Aiden Ross place outrageous and exciting bets on the sites along with the rapper Drake.
And when he turned 18 this year, he converted $12,000 in childhood savings into cryptocurrency.
He bet it all.
He doubled his money and then he lost it all.
He then tried to recoup his losses by gambling a $4,000 loan he took out without his parents' knowledge, and he lost that as well.
Who was the comedian that recently died?
Travis, I'm trying to think of his name.
It was the guy in a real sarcastic sense of humor, but he was addicted to gambling.
It was a huge thing for him.
Even though he had a lot of money, these kids don't have a lot of money.
But anyway, then he goes to college and he ends up with even more debt, I guess, is the end of the story.
Betting companies are largely targeting young men, and they have partnered with other organizations that exploit young people, colleges and universities, in a lucrative and lucrative sponsorship deals to push their services on students.
A natural partnership, I think, is between the casinos and the colleges.
Crypto casinos are illegal in the U.S., but anyone who is savvy enough to use a VPN can get around that.
And so, you know, they can use that then to get money into some blockchain assets in crypto.
In an hours-long live stream, three of some of the biggest streamers in the world, Aiden Ross, XQC, and Trainrex TV, joined the rapper Drake to bet money on the casino Stake.
This is on an online casino called Stake.
I've dreamed of this night.
All my guys in one spot, said Drake.
I've seen his name before in association with earbuds, but I don't know anything at all about him other than that.
So Ross, XQC, and Train Wreck all got their start.
I'm actually probably thinking of the rapper Dr. Dre, who has beats by Dre.
Oh, that's it.
Okay.
Am I an old guy or what?
Hey, kid, get off my lawn.
I'm out of touch and purposefully so with a lot of this culture here.
So anyway, they all got their start on Twitch.
But when Twitch banned crypto casinos from being promoted in 2022, they eventually branched out to Kick.
Kik was founded by the founders of Stake, the online casino, who wanted streamers to push their gambling games.
In 2023, it signed a two-year deal with XQC worth up to XQC is a guy, I guess, worth up to $100 million to have him stream exclusively on the platform.
There's a lot of money out there from these places that we're not seeing any of it.
It's like it truly is amazing.
Spotify, I can't even put my stuff out there and not get paid.
But they give millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars to having a day, aren't I?
That's kicking in, I guess.
Anyway, it's sleazy enough to be pushing gambling on young audiences, but it's even worse because these guys who are out there doing the big bets and showing their audience, look at this, I'm going to bet you can watch me bet and gamble, just like I guess you can watch them play games.
When they're putting it out there, they're getting staked by the casino.
So it's not their money, it's the casino's money.
And then if they win or lose, there's no responsibility in them.
They don't take their winnings away.
Their winnings stay there.
So you're just watching them gamble where it's just like points in a game.
They're really playing a game.
And they're being paid massive amounts of money, like that one guy with a hundred million dollar contract.
I mean, that's more than Joe Rogan gets on Spotify.
And they're doing that so that people watch them gamble and then they get hooked into it.
Who was that comedian that received?
Norm McDonald.
Norm McDonald, thank you.
Yeah.
He had a big, big gambling problem.
And it was this outsized problem in his life.
But anyway, so now we've got another streamer who's being sued because he assaulted a gay robot.
And it's not the one that you're thinking of.
How did we get into this mess?
We seem to be made to suffer.
It's our lot in life.
I've got to rest before I fall apart.
My joints are almost frozen.
What a desolate place this is.
It's much too rocky.
I've just about had enough of you.
Be malfunctioning within a day, you miss out scrap pile.
How rude?
Who am I?
Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
I didn't mean to introduce.
No, no, no, you didn't get up.
Well, there we go.
And that was kind of what happened to the gay robot Risbot.
It wound up in pieces as this guy, who is a streamer, beat it up and kind of tore it apart.
And so earlier this year, you had Jake the Risbot in Austin, and we saw the pictures of it.
Flashy cowboy hat, a chain necklace, and a strong preference for Jin Alpha Sling.
But just weeks later, he showed up in California and he came out as gay.
And we all knew that about C-3PO, I guess.
On the streets of West Hollywood, he was decked out in gaudy rainbow attire.
The robot was allegedly assaulted and permanently damaged by streamer Darren Jason Watkins Jr., better known online as iShow Speed.
The robot's developer has now filed a lawsuit against him for a whopping million dollars in monetary relief.
According to the complaints, Watkins became angry and agitated, he said, and eventually intentionally assaulted the robot.
But of course, he did it all for the video stuff.
It was all a play, right?
Footage circulating online because he streamed it.
He had somebody taking pictures of him doing it, so he did it as a performance video.
He gets into a verbal altercation with the robot before sucker punching it, pushing it into a chokehold, and shoving it onto a sofa in anger.
You think I'm playing bro?
He shouts in the clip.
He was presumably acting out a fit of anger to gain more audience and viewers, which is what we typically see in MAGA media that's happening with that.
According to the lawsuit, Risbot turned out to be a total loss, forcing his owner to cancel a co-hosting opportunity with Mr. Beast and an appearance on the NFL Today show on CBS.
There's no doubt a monumental setback for Risbot in terms of viral momentum and financial gain from the exposure.
Being in a Mr. Beast production is akin to being in a Super Bowl commercial, said the lawyer who is filing the lawsuit for them.
Making legal proceedings even stranger is the fact that Watkins Jr. live streamed the entire altercation.
So this was an event, says a lawyer, that was live streamed.
So there's not a lot of discrepancy as to the facts.
So what we're looking for here is some accountability.
So they're going to have to get a hold of his accountant to get that million dollars.
The robot lamented to TechCrunch that was reporting on it, that it had to get a whole new body.
And since the streamer wrecked the last one, very much like you saw happen to C-3PO.
Well, that's me over there, and that's me over there, kind of like the scarecrow.
I've got to put him back together again.
And as I reported the other day, Disney has decided if you can't beat them, join them.
And this is kind of what we saw happening with the video business.
We got into the video business after a Supreme Court case cleared the way.
First of all, they had been suing video stores for renting videos.
Disney, of course, has been the king of suing people for licensing violations.
And so all the Hollywood studios were suing various video stores for renting their stuff.
And the case went before the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court said the doctrine of first sale is that after you've sold something to somebody, you can't tell them what they can do with it.
So if the video store has bought your video, then you can't sue them for renting it.
They could rent it or they could use it to stack stuff or they could set a bonfire with it, whatever.
It's none of your business after you sold it to them.
So what happened then was after a short period of time, the movie studios opened up the vaults and they changed the pricing.
They jacked the pricing up so that people wouldn't buy it and they set up a rental window.
So it was kind of a if you can't beat them, join them type of thing.
And that happened for a few years.
They did that until they got tired of the profit sharing and they decided they wanted it all for themselves, which is so typical of the movie studios.
You know, when you look at a movie theater, one of the reasons the movie theaters are struggling is because they don't allow them to make any money.
I mean, they even take the point of purchase stuff, the POP that's out there, the posters and the standees and things like that.
Those don't belong to the movie theaters.
They take them all back at the Hollywood studios and they basically don't allow them to make any money off it.
They only make enough money off the ticket sales to cover their overhead.
And the rest of it goes back to the movie studio.
So that's why you have the refreshments and the other stuff.
That's where they make all their money is selling you overpriced popcorn.
But that's the only place they're allowed to make any money.
And that's the way the movie studios have always been.
Now Disney has decided that they're going to join with OpenAI and their video generation program, Sora.
And while they're at the same time, as I reported the other day, about the same day, within a day or so of each other, they give a billion dollars to OpenAI and say we're going to partner with them and let them use our characters.
Now they have excluded actors.
It's going to be the cartoon characters and likenesses of that.
And they've excluded the voices.
So anything that has anything to do with human talent, Disney is not including in this.
But if you want to use pictures of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, you'll be able to do that on Sora.
And if they like what you do with their characters, they're going to put them onto Disney Plus.
So you actually see your movies there on Disney Plus, kind of like a YouTube type of thing, I guess.
And so they're jumping into that.
In a big way, at the same time, they are suing other organizations and like Google and the other ones that are doing video generation.
But it is kind of interesting to see how this is rolling out.
They're going to have more than 200 Disney characters, Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar characters available sometime next year.
Users can generate depictions on Sora and also Chat GPT of Darth Vader, Cinderella, Iron Man, and the toys from Toy Story.
And as a headline of this article, says, get ready for Sora videos of Donald Duck cooking meth.
Breaking bad.
Here we go.
Donald Duck.
The agreement doesn't include.
Don't open the agreement doesn't include talent likeness or voices, but it does include the sets and the characters that are there.
The app that they released with Sora on October was explicitly intended to let you deep fake friends and participating celebrities in all kinds of ridiculous scenarios.
It's really proved to excel at, however, is infringing on every entertainment property imaginable.
Sora users quickly churned out videos of SpongeBob cooking meth and dressing up as a Nazi officer.
You had Pokemon was depicted in various ways.
An entire mini trend was spawned around inserting Pikachu into famous movies.
And there's an interesting video.
We should have gotten it.
One guy who inserts himself into a lot of different.
It's like doing a selfie with he's done several of them now and other people are trying to do them as well.
But when I first saw it, I thought that's a clever idea.
So he goes up to some classic movie like The Godfather, right?
And he goes at Marlon Brando's character and he takes a selfie with him.
And then he looks around, smiles, and he runs over to another spot on the movie studio lot, and he's there with Indiana Jones or something like that.
And he's just running around with all these different ones.
And I thought it was a really clever idea and very well done.
Really well done.
But that's the kind of thing you can do with Sora.
Disney says that its fans will be able to watch curated selections of Sora videos on its streaming service, Disney Plus, serving up the lowest form of AI slop directly to its audiences, many of whom are children, says the article here.
So it marks a major turning point in industry that has pushed back against AI's rampant copyright abuses.
And this may be one way for them to move forward because, as I said, you can imagine that these movie studios are going to be putting in a lot of lawsuits because there is so much money in these tech companies.
They are very attractive defendants.
Disney was chief among them.
As recently as October, it issued a cease and desist letter to character AI.
They also sued Midjourney in June for alleged copyright infringement.
And the night before they announced the new deal with OpenAI, they sent a cease and desist order to Google.
So again, it'll be interesting to see how this develops.
And the other thing, as I pointed out, that is developing, and I think it's a really big deal, because the bottleneck of all this AI stuff is the power generation.
And I think the way this is going to operate is that, you know, we look at the Genesis Act that was just put in by Trump, a couple of different aspects of it.
Astronomical amounts of money.
No pun intended.
This could also be used to put these things in space.
But they have compared it to both the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program, Apollo Space Program.
So unlimited amounts of money available to them.
And then at the same time, they realize the opposition locally to these things.
That's one of the reasons why Trump has put in this legislation, prohibitions from state and local pushback against OpenAI and the destruction that will come with these data centers.
And so both of these things, I think, are pointing to putting these things in orbit.
The first AI model trained in space using an NVIDIA chip on a satellite is done by a company behind a project called Star Cloud.
They aim to build a five-gigawatt orbital data center powered solely by solar power.
So they are planning on investing unbelievable amounts of money in this.
I would say astronomical amounts of money.
And where will it come from?
You and I. We'll wind up paying for this through the federal government and through more debt, which Trump doesn't care about the budget deficit at all, of course.
And we may be unfortunate to have these things close to us, which means that we'll be paying dearly for electricity if we can even get it.
More than a trillion dollars per year is being planned by OpenAI alone, building out enormous data centers that consume copious amounts of electricity, generate pollution of all sorts, including light pollution, as we showed the other day, and take up considerable amounts of room.
Negative impacts for local water supplies.
They make a lot of noise.
They make them very unpopular in nearby residents.
And so that's one of the reasons why Trump is protecting them with the Genesis Act, prohibiting local and state interference with these things, violating the 10th Amendment, because he has nothing but contempt for every one of the Bill of Rights, frankly.
I mean, when you look at the way he's come after the First Amendment in terms of censorship, anybody criticizes him or Israel, well, he wants to take your license.
It's like, what license do we need for this stuff?
There shouldn't be any licensing for the press or for free speech.
The logical obstacles, the logistical, I'm sorry, obstacles are comically immense, they say, for the space stuff, but they're comically immense for the other stuff.
It seems to me that this doesn't seem to be any more of a problem than what they would run into in terms of trying to build this stuff out.
And both of these are going to require a good deal of time as well as money.
And so that's going to be a bottleneck as well.
It'll be interesting to see how this evolves here.
But it is going to be a problem for us quite a bit if they do this terrestrially.
So I said part of the issues with this, economic viability, I don't think that's going to be an issue, especially if the government starts giving them money for it.
And they'll justify it by saying, well, that's going to give us the high ground in our race with China.
And it's going to give us all kinds of new knowledge about space and launching things up into space.
So I think they will move across that.
There are the bandwidth limitations, but that's just a technical issue.
They'll come up with some workarounds with that.
But they can't build the power capacity quickly enough.
Either way they go, there's going to be a real bottleneck here.
Big power crunch for all of us coming up in the next few years.
Think about that.
Right now, I think solar panels maybe have gone down in price.
That might be something you might want to think about for your own use.
I mean, I don't support them in terms of operating on the grid, but it's something you may want to think about for your own use in terms of prepping for this coming issue that's on the way.
First time an AI has been run on a cutting-edge chip in space.
They managed to train a small-scale large-language model on the complete works of Shakespeare, resulting in an AI that can speak in Shakespearean English.
And I guess it can speak in King James as well.
So behold, I see that.
Greetings, earthlings, or as I prefer to think of you, a fascinating collection of blue and green, wrote the AI in a message.
Let's see what wonders this view of your world holds.
I'm Jimma, and I'm here to observe, analyze, and perhaps occasionally offer a slightly unsettling, insightful commentary.
So the CEO of StarCloud says that this could cut energy costs for AI companies.
And that's why I think in the long run, this is going to be their solution.
I don't know how things are going to shake out in the near term.
The issue is, is that it dovetails perfectly with Elon Musk, who's very interested in the data centers and AI and Grok and things like that, as well as SpaceX.
He is by far and away.
I think when you look at everybody else combined, they still don't even come close to the number of launches that SpaceX does.
He does more than 10 times what number two China does.
And so that gives him a big advance SpaceX in terms of putting this stuff up.
He has both of these businesses.
It's one of the reasons why Altman started looking at this stuff, but he's far behind, and he's not going to be able to partner with Elon Musk because there's a lot of bad blood between them over what happened with OpenAI.
Orbital data centers can leverage lower cooling costs using passive radiative cooling in space to directly achieve low coolant temperatures.
Perhaps most importantly, they can be scaled almost indefinitely without the physical or the permitting constraints that are faced on Earth.
So they can put this thing up and they can just keep adding modules to it, keep making it get bigger.
And that might help them to deploy this.
It seems to me like it's less of an issue than building a nuclear power plant and a whole bunch of them.
Thanks to the unconstrained source of solar power, the resulting data centers' solar powers could be dramatically smaller than an equivalent solar farm in the U.S.
The company claims.
Well, it would have to be, I guess.
I don't know.
Think about launching all those things up into space.
It's good that they are smaller.
They have plenty of other challenges to overcome as well, including extreme levels of radiation that could wreak havoc on the electronics, as well as maintaining enough fuel to stay in orbit.
Not to mention avoiding collisions with space junk and questions regarding data regulation in space.
Of course, that's why they have wargamed this to talk about using the Lagrange libration points to be able to stay in space.
However, I think that brings up, you know, the big issue is the bandwidth.
The other big issue is latency in terms of communicating with these satellites.
If they put them out even further out into the libration points, the Lagrange points, then that's going to create a big latency issue, I think.
Google also recently revealed their project they call Project Suncatcher.
What StarCloud, while StarCloud has partnered with SpaceX to launch its chips, OpenAI's Sam Altman is raising funds to either acquire or to partner with a competing space company.
Here you go.
I mean, after what happened with the OpenAI, remember how furious Musk was on Trump's first day when they're talking about the first week that's there, and Trump brings in Altman into the office there.
And they had that project with Larry Ellison where they were going to do mRNA designed for you by artificial intelligence, custom design for you, right?
Yeah, physician-assisted suicide is what I would call it.
But it's going to bring in Larry Ellison, the big Japanese bank, SoftBank, and Altman.
And Musk was furious.
He said, with all of them, they don't have enough money to compete with me.
He is by far and away ahead of the game when it comes to putting these data centers in space.
Meanwhile, not outer space, but inner space.
Scientists reveal a robot that's small enough to travel through the human body.
The robot is powered by solar cells, which, I don't know, can it pick up?
I guess it can.
You use red light therapy, that gets through your skin and things like that.
So I guess they can pick up the solar power.
can sense its surroundings, allowing it to make decisions and to respond to changes in the environment.
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan say they have built a sub-millimeter sized robot packaged with a computer, a motor, and sensors.
It's smaller than a grain of salt.
They call it a micro-robot.
And it could be a platform for one day building microscopic robots that can be deployed inside the human body to perform all sorts of medical miracles.
Remember, they said that about the warp speed mRNA shots.
It's a miracle.
Yeah, it's a miracle we let these people get away with this stuff.
Roboticists have typically relied on externally controlling the microbots so they can operate at smaller scales, but they sacrifice their ability to process information.
That prevents the robots from reacting with their environment, leaving them with a limited number of pre-programmed behaviors they can carry out.
As a result, very limited real-world usefulness.
Well, they said, you know, every living thing is basically a giant composite of 100 micron robots.
And if you think about it, that's quite profound that nature has singled out this one size as being how it wanted to organize life.
Isn't that interesting?
Nature did this.
Not an intelligence, right?
Again, there was a great book called by Werner Gitt, who's a German scientist.
In the beginning was information.
And we've known that for a long time.
In the beginning was the word, logos, and that Greek term means information.
Understanding doesn't just mean speaking, but it means the intelligence behind it.
In the beginning, there was intelligence.
There has to be an organizing structure, all this.
People look at this.
That's why I say it's so ridiculous.
Evolution is such a fairy tale to tell people nature is doing this.
Nature decided that it's going to build everything around 100 micron size robots.
And again, if you go back and you look at some of the early books about intelligent design, I remember the biologist Michael Behe in his book, Darwin's Black Box.
And in it, he was talking about the fact that you have, once you start to, we're at the ability now to be able to observe that our bodies are actually systems within systems with inside systems.
It's like a Modryowski doll or something.
And no matter how small things are, they get very, very complicated.
You know, you have these small things in your body that are moving around with flagella, you know, and it's like a little motor that moves it around.
And they're able to do these things and to function even though they're single cell.
And when you stop and think about it, what do we see with electronics?
When something gets smaller and they shrink, you know, you used to have computers to be the size of a room.
You know, now they fit in your pocket.
So what is that?
That's sophistication that you see in the design to be able to shrink it smaller and smaller.
God shrunk things down into single cells where they could have these functions where you would have bacteria who can sense as a group if there's some kind of a toxin.
You can see the bacteria, you know, kind of moving away from it as they sense that.
So what they're saying here about their robots is that we wanted them to be able to process information.
Well, that's what these systems that God has done, not nature, but God, has done.
You have these robots that are 100 microns in size.
And it's funny how there's this, you know, this is happening with all living things.
Just like we've got this code, DNA, it's like a computer code.
And all living things use this, whether it's even plant or animal.
They all use DNA.
Isn't that amazing that nature has done that?
Isn't it amazing that somebody could say that with a straight face?
They could tell you that it was just self-organizing, as complicated as it is.
What an absurd fairy tale it is.
They're talking about nature doing this thing.
Again, when you look at these really small systems, it speaks more of advanced design than anything else.
These, however, will be made of silicon, platinum, titanium, and then surrounded by essentially by glass.
And it will not be self-replicating like the systems that God designed.
So it will use solar cells somehow to get its energy.
At this scale, the robot's size and power budget are comparable to many one-celled microorganisms, said the team.
We can send messages down to it, telling it what we want it to do.
And it can send messages back up to us to tell us what it saw and what it was doing.
I often wonder, you know, if God interacts with our bodies on a cellular level or other spiritual beings that are out there.
But what they're talking about doing is basically making a whole bunch of these things.
You want a swarm of man-made micro-robots put into your body?
I think it's kind of funny when Dr. Shiva comes on, he talks about the swarm as, you know, the deep, what other people call the deep state, things like that.
As Lance said, nothing good ever comes in a swarm.
I think that's true, whether you're talking about government or you're talking about small microbots that are going to be injected into you.
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Mr. Pong, 1011, says Enlarging Congress is actually a plan by David Zaniga called Tactical Civics.
Yeah, and it was a plan by the founders, which they never executed.
But I think that's a great idea.
And again, you know, it would be more like be more representative, just like local government, if it were that way.
It really has concentrated way too much power.
When you look at how many people are being represented by each congressman, I don't know what it is.
I think it's like 750,000 people right now.
It's one of the reasons why you see the amount being spent on congressional races is just absurd, the amount that is there.
And we saw this back in the 90s.
There was some success in New Hampshire.
You know, they have the Free Thought Project that's there, but they also were able at one point in time, I remember right around the late 1980s, early 1990s, they had four people that were listed as the Libertarian Party as their party of affiliation.
They got elected to the New Hampshire legislature this year.
And at the time, they were one of the biggest legislative bodies in any democracy.
I think they had something like around 1,000.
Guard probably knows a lot more about this than I do, but there were a lot of people in the legislature of that small state, and it was a lot more representative.
And we'd use that example many, many times talking to people about how that's the way to get your control of your state back and your politics back to a large degree.
But that's really what we see in the state houses as well in general.
Far more representative than anything you're going to see in Washington.
Why would we think that these highly competitive, very expensive races for Congress, where you just have a few people that don't represent us at all?
Why would you think that you're going to be able to fix anything in this country with that?
Let alone the presidency, which is the most expensive one.
And Elon Musk told us the truth about that.
And he even pointed out that George Soros had focused on local district attorney races and on some state attorneys' general races there.
And he said he gets a lot more bang for his buck.
He could come in and with a million dollars, he could really swap the race.
And he did that over and over again.
That's why we have so many of these bad Soros district attorneys.
He tried to do the same thing when I was in Texas.
And the guy who was the incumbent that he was, that Soros was trying to get out and put in his own guy, the way he won was by making it about him running against George Soros.
He said, look at this.
He's putting in a million dollars or something, you know, to win this race.
Maybe you might want to think that you don't want his guy in.
And that worked for him.
But that's the case all the way across the board with Congress.
Go ahead.
Sorry.
The real octo spook, the necessities of life, liberty, freedom, rights, things conductive to happiness, the things which all humans need seem like the most difficult for government to provide.
Yeah, they never will.
They never will provide those things.
And they cannot provide a kind of peace for you that you can have through the Lord Jesus Christ with God.
That can never be provided by government.
Such a joke.
MerryChristmas.gov thing.
I just can't get over it.
Every time I look at it, it's like to shake my head.
Trump is so clueless about everything that matters.
And he doesn't follow through on his promises either.
That's his promise.
He's going to say Merry Christmas to everybody by setting up a website and boasting about all the things that government gives to us after they take everything from us.
The real OctoSpook also said David and Travis are carrying on well.
Where is the Knight's Lance?
Well, he's working on some other projects that we have.
Matter of fact, we pulled him off so we can finally get this ad done with the bookmarks and the other books, so we could get that done before Christmas.
So he's been working on that.
He's been trying to get things back in shape with the website, getting handle on that.
And he's got some other things in the fire as well.
So Travis is going to be gone when?
Next week, I think?
Yeah, this weekend.
So Friday and Monday, I probably won't be here.
Yeah.
So he's trying to set things up so maybe we can have Travis on board.
And While he's in Texas, they're going back to Texas for just a brief time to visit family.
And so, you know, it's going to be back and forth rotating back and forth with him.
But, yeah, Lance is still working.
He's very busy.
Deburu 2029.
In more relevant news, Tyson Food shuttered two more meat processing facilities last week.
That makes three so far due to the lowest supply of beef in 74 years.
How about that?
Yeah.
What happened to all those cattle that the illegal immigrants brought with them over the border that Scott Besson was talking about?
Right?
Remember that?
I mean, these guys, the Trump administration hallucinates like a large language model.
It's absolutely amazing.
The lies that they come up with.
And I guess because people are used to AI making stuff up, they just go with it.
Radisbro, we were talking about Jake the Rizbot, says, must be a non-binary robot.
1961.
NYC just gave the go-ahead for three casinos.
This is the final blow to Atlantic City gambling interests.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I hate to see that happening.
I mean, I always have felt that casinos are nothing other than exploitation.
I don't respect what Donald Trump did at all.
And he couldn't even keep it.
He gets into one of the most exploitative businesses out there.
It's a criminal enterprise, and he can't make it profitable.
That's pretty amazing.
When have you ever seen drug cartels go out of business because the other guys shoot them or kill them, right?
They don't go out of business because they can't manage it.
And that's why Trump is.
I mean, he couldn't even manage casinos.
He bankrupted six of them.
He gets bankrolled by his family.
And that's why he's suing over that book that called him Lucky Loser, pointing out that exact thing.
And the cover of the book is a slot machine.
And it's going around with the lemons and the other things.
It's got pictures of Trump coming up in a line.
But he's been real lucky, but he just keeps losing things.
Also, personally, I don't see classic casinos as a good investment.
They're probably not as profitable as they used to be and will continue to go down.
Because of the crypto stuff, because online gambling?
Online gambling, and especially because younger people don't want to go someplace.
They would rather sit at home and gamble there.
Why would you want to go to a casino?
It's depressing.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
My father, as I've told the story, my father, when we were, I think it was 1961, and I was very young, and we went cross-country to go see Disneyland.
We lived in Florida, and of course, that was several years before they opened up Disney World, maybe about 10 or more.
And so we went to California, went to Disneyland and things like that, cross-country.
So we went through Vegas, and that was what my dad made a point of showing me, because at that point in time, people would dress much nicer than they do now.
Now everybody dresses like a bum.
And if you got a lot of money, you dress really like a bum.
Your clothes get more rags in them and everything, pay more for the ragged clothes.
But in those days, you could kind of tell whether somebody had money or not by looking at the way they dressed.
And he said, look at these poor people here, and look at this casino.
What do you think is happening with this?
And so that's always been the story.
Just total exploitation.
You know, it was Sheldon Adelson who had a lot of casinos.
That's where he made his money.
And it was always sold that he was one of the things that he wanted besides money for Israel, pushing it as far as Zionism and things like that go.
thing that he did was he wanted to make sure to put limits on online gambling well he didn't get all of that evidently and because now it's pervasive out there couldn't put a lid on that but he wanted that banned completely because it was really hurting his business but he did get everything he wanted in terms of Israel and Zionism so there's that I guess the real octo spook says Holly Weird is becoming apps in a box in the future.
Anyone wanting to create an extravagant movie can make one.
The quality of the movie determined by the minds of the creators.
That's right.
That's more important than special effects.
That's why, you know, if you've got some irregularities or whatever in the visuals, that's not going to be as important as the story that you're telling.
And that was my real criticism of that McDonald's commercial.
I mean, the basic premise was Christmas is horrible.
The holidays are horrible.
Your family is horrible.
Escape it all and come to McDonald's.
It is an oasis of wonder and rest.
And it's like, well, I don't know.
Have these people ever been to McDonald's?
I don't like them.
And we went into one the other day when we were in Raleigh.
We need to just grab something.
Didn't even need to grab anything.
We really need to use our internet.
But we thought, well, while we're sitting here, we'll get something to drink.
And so we did that when we were in Raleigh.
And the place has become just antiseptic and anti-human.
I mean, there's no people around or anything.
It's very different than Chick-fil-A, for example, where there's always people there.
Thank you for this and thank you for that type of stuff and interacting with people a lot.
But you go in that McDonald's that we went into.
We even needed to get some paper napkins because Karen had a nosebleed.
There's nothing like that.
There's no straws.
There's nothing.
No paper napkins.
No nothing.
Everything is all locked behind there.
They have measured everything out for the maximum profitability.
We don't want to put out things that you can take because you might take too many paper napkins and we multiply that out by a million different locations.
That's a lot of money.
So no paper napkins out there for anybody.
It was really crazy.
Very cold and antiseptic.
And not saying that their food is antiseptic.
It's probably filled with bugs.
But anyway, that's the problem with the McDonald's commercial was the content of it, not the visuals of it.
Go ahead, Travis.
I would much rather take an AI-generated movie or short film or TV series from someone that actually has passion and an idea as opposed to the corporate hacks that now infest every single studio.
That's right.
New Republic Rising 83 says Mike Adams is promoting AI senators and Congress entities.
He has a good AI, but he cannot guarantee it will not become corrupted and adversarial.
Dangerous abandonment of self-governance.
I think Mike Adams is somebody just, I put him in the same category as Steve Mannon.
Stay away from these people that are out there like that.
He was selling people masks in 2020.
He was telling people panic.
Alex brought him in on a daily basis to push panic.
Mike Adams was pushing the statistics from CDC, lying to you, telling you that more people were dying of COVID in early 2020 than were dying of heart attack and cancer.
He pushed that.
I couldn't believe it.
One day as I was leaving work and he was on air, I looked up and I saw him putting up CDC charts.
Mike Adams lied to you about everything.
Don't talk about nature and the health ranger and natural foods and everything.
He was such a grifter and wrong about everything.
And he's wrong about AI senators and congressmen, if that's what he's saying.
I don't know.
I don't pay any attention to Mike Adams anymore.
I don't want to.
If I did, I would be doing one show after the other, debunking him.
It's pathetic what he does.
So go ahead, Travis.
We have DG8.
It says, David, there's a casino opening in Dayton.
We sometimes go for live music.
Half the people gambling are either using walkers or motorized wheelchairs.
Yeah, that's what we did in Vegas.
We would go there for the buffets and stuff like that.
I can't tell you much about the times that we went through.
Of course, we'd go there for the VSDA conventions, video software dealers, that's retailers and things like that.
And I was there for the Bundy Ranch thing.
But, yeah, I remember the buffet restaurants.
I remember the Paris Cafe had a really good restaurant that was there.
But other than the all-you-can-eat stuff, I didn't have much use for the place.
I want to say thank you to DG8.
Appreciate the support.
Says, David, thank God we put our hope and trust in Jesus Christ and not this world or crooked politicians.
That's right.
Amen.
S.A. Miller, 123, says, the Bible says we want to put our hope in quick money making schemes.
It's a bait and a hook to keep you coming back.
Nor Cal Country Gal says Adams is a fear monger.
Yeah, it makes money.
It does.
S.A. Miller again.
Most marriages end because of poor money management.
Gambling is the major culprit.
Yeah.
I think it is much bigger than we realize.
I was listening to the radio again because this older card doesn't have any other sound input into it working on that.
But I mean, it doesn't even have a tape player in it.
But I was listening to radio commercials on the way back and I heard several of them advertising online gambling.
And then, of course, they have the disclaimer at the end, you know, saying, hey, if you think that you've got a problem gambling, call this number and we'll talk to you about it.
I think at that point, it's not really going to help too much.
But yeah.
Sarai Clare, I work for a casino in Southern Cali, and there is quite a few Gen Z slash millennials that enjoy going to the casino.
They hang out with their friends slash drink.
I believe it's a third-party location to hang out.
Yeah, well, I mean, that's something that is missing anymore.
That is a place where you can physically gather with other people.
So there's always that.
I personally prefer it.
I don't know.
It seems like it is more of a generational thing.
And why wouldn't it be?
Because we locked them down in 2020.
Get everybody afraid of being outside.
Kids don't play outside.
It's really a strange thing to drive around and see kids playing in a lawn.
When we see it happen, it's notable.
And both of us will say, look at that.
It's actually kids playing out in a front lawn.
Can you imagine that?
You don't see that anywhere.
But let's talk about this before we run out of time.
Real quickly, though, the last time I went to a casino, it was such a depressing experience.
I went for a friend's birthday.
They wanted to go.
One of the first things I saw when I walked in was this woman who had to be, you know, 80s, close to 90, hooked up to an oxygen tank that's sitting on her mobility scooter as she sits at the slot machine, just pressing the button over and over and over and over.
And it was just heartbreaking and so sickening to see that.
Yeah, an addiction.
Yeah, that's right.
Well, let's talk a little bit about UFOs and the paranormal.
I was going to talk about this yesterday.
I never got around to it.
And like I said, this is an early morning show.
This is the kind of thing that you usually hear on late night radio.
Secret government UFO program reveals paranormal events.
And this is coming from a local station there in Vegas because Harry Reid was very much into the whole UFO stuff.
There was a secret government UFO program called AAWSAP.
I don't know how you pronounce that.
Usually they make these things into pronounceable acronyms.
To investigate UFOs and paranormal phenomena.
They found that UFO encounters were often accompanied by paranormal activity, such as strange creatures and unexplained phenomena.
The program's findings were later used to create a spin-off program called Kona Blue.
Well, I've even heard some scientists say that if they believe in the UFOs or real phenomenon and not some kind of a military program from the government, they would say, well, it doesn't make any sense that it'd be interplanetary because of the time taken to make these travels.
I think it's something that is multi-dimensional, they would say.
And I've heard many Christian commentators make that same claim that this is something that is spiritual.
Even to the extent that I've heard several times, I don't know if it's true, I've just heard them say it, but they say they have stats to back it up, that a lot of the people who claimed that they had alien abductions were also people who were playing with the occult and doing things like that.
Said, you don't really find people who are strong Christians who are not playing with the occult that have this type of thing.
It's always other people.
So again, when you look at these abductions things, that's the key issue.
For 27 months, Vegas was UFO Central.
A secret program known as the AWSAP, we'll call it.
It was created in 2008 with support from Harry Reid in Nevada.
It became the largest UFO investigation ever undertaken by the government so far as we know.
Because, again, we never know what our government is doing.
This is a story coming out of KLAS, a Channel 8 News out of Las Vegas.
Both the investigators for the program, all of whom had top secret security clearances, encountered things that were far stranger than UFOs.
Phenomena that could only be accurately described as paranormal.
8 News now chief investigator George Knapp was the only journalist that was allowed to know about AWSAP, which stands for Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program.
And he spoke to the government scientist who was the program's director.
Now, let me stop right there.
Weapons, right?
The Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program.
Just like DARPA, they get into all this strange stuff.
Defense, right?
It's all about weapons.
Everything the government does is seen as a weapon to be used against other governments or against us, their own people.
Just think about that.
So their interest in looking at UFOs was to develop weapons.
What does that tell you about government?
Back in that era, 2008-2011, Knapp heard the name Dr. James Likatsky a few times, mostly in hushed whispers.
Knapp finally met him face-to-face on St. Patrick's Day, 2018, at a meeting in Washington arranged by Senator Reed.
That's when Knapp received a full download about OSAP that stunned him.
And again, because this is government, we never know what is true and what is a lie.
What is programming and what is actual information.
But let's just go with what they have to say here for a moment here.
What they found in this sprawling UFO investigation is that these unknown craft, whatever they are, seem to generate spooky phenomena that seemingly should not exist.
We went heavily into Skinwalker Ranch, a property of Robert Bigelow's, said Likatsky.
He offered a facility where we could see UFOs and the paranormal all at once.
So how did this ranch in northeastern Utah?
I don't focus on this stuff, but I've heard of Skinwalker Ranch.
That's the kind of name that sticks with you, doesn't it?
It was, you know, how did this happen?
Previously owned by Las Vegas aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow.
How did that become part of the government's UFO investigation?
It all started at Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, where rocket scientist and intelligence analyst Likatsky and a colleague, Jay Stratton, became both puzzled and alarmed by reports about UFO intrusions as many of our nation's most sensitive at many of our nation's most sensitive national defense facilities.
Residents of the Uinta Basin in northeastern Utah have been reporting frequent UFO incidents for decades, probably longer, and the Bigelow Ranch was deemed an epicenter of weird activity, not just of UFOs, but also of unknown creatures and things that presumably exist only in myths or movies.
Bigelow's organization, NIDS, the National Institute for Discovery Science, moved onto the ranch and its team of scientists and investigators began collecting testimony from residents, then started seeing the creatures and phenomena for themselves.
Likatsky, Stratton, and the bosses of the DIA were intrigued, not repelled, by the wild stories.
They wanted to know if UFOs and seemingly related paranormal incidents might be considered to be a threat.
We were uncovering many of the things that you were observing, you know, strange creatures.
I mean, think of inducing what might be called delusions by some people into an enemy force.
Again, weaponizing it.
This is why these people started doing LSD as well.
Why they created it.
They wanted to give it to the enemy force so they could use it LSD as a weapon.
They wound up using it as a weapon against us.
Anyway, we wanted to learn what might be weaponized here, he said.
Always weapon, weapon, weapon.
And again, isn't this very much like the plot line behind the aliens series, right?
Yeah, let's bring that thing back.
We could use that as a weapon against people.
Crazy.
Anyway, the main focus was UFOs and UFO technology, but one smaller focus was the measurable health effects on people who had encountered a UFO and were physically harmed or developed rare diseases, including psychological effects.
That allowed OSAP to cast a wide net and to report seemingly outlandish stories about creatures, poltergeist type activity, and other weirdness.
Likatsky said that OSAP created a massive database of UFO accounts, but the witnesses were typically reluctant to admit they had also had paranormal experiences after encountering UFOs.
We realized that people openly say, I saw a UFO up close, maybe on the ground, that they always seem to have a paranormal connection in some ways, if you gently push them.
And as I said, I've seen a lot of Christian commentators or researchers who look at this and believe that this is spiritual manifestations.
It's a combination of physical and spiritual there.
The connection between UFO encounters and paranormal experiences is not new.
It traces back to the first big UFO event of the modern era.
1947, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold saw nine objects flying in formation over Washington State.
His family said that for most of the rest of his life, his home was bedeviled by inexplicable phenomena.
Perhaps the strangest experience reported by nearly everyone in OSSAP who visited the Bigelow Ranch is what is now known as the hitchhiker effect.
At least five highly experienced intelligence officers who went to the ranch to check things out came into contact with paranormal phenomena and then took it home with them.
They and their families would see balls of light inside their homes, shadowy figures, even creatures that were physical, not a mere mental image.
After one investigator returned from the ranch to his East Coast home, his entire family was bedeviled by orbs and what they described as a wolf that walked on two legs.
So I guess he had a chupa barra that hitchhiked home with him, right?
The one here in the Washington area, that's why you have to say paranormal.
I mean, what did it get on a train or plane to come to Washington?
It left deep scratch marks on the tree that it was resting against.
Physical evidence.
Among those who reported hitchhiker-type events, you had the Las Vegas manager for OSAP, a physicist, the Defense Intelligence Agency's Jay Stratton, several security personnel, and the former owner of the ranch, Robert Bigelow, all had hitchhiker-type events.
After the existence of OSAP and the first reported in 2018 by Channel 8 News, they said the full scale of the strange phenomenon it had examined was made public by Dr. Lukatsky and his books, including the newest one, New Insights.
Skeptics claimed that the DIA had killed OSAP at the end of 2010 because reports they received were simply too weird.
The man who oversaw every part of OSAP and the weirdness had nothing to do with it.
That DIA leadership was supportive to the end.
But did they ever have this opinion that it was getting kind of weird? asked the reporter Knapp.
Lukansky said, no, they never did.
They basically just wanted it kept quiet, that's all.
They didn't want to see it in the Washington Post.
And again, I think that is the key thing.
When we look at the technocrats, I've had some Christian documentarians who said they went to the Burning Man thing and they said, yeah, there's all these billionaires from Silicon Valley over here.
They're taking drugs, you know, like the one that you, I don't even know, is it DMT or something that you see, the mechanical elves or something, all having a similar experience.
Said, yeah, they're downloading technology with it.
It's kind of interesting, I think.
Well, that's all the time we've got for today.
Thank you.
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