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We're going to talk about the drone sightings.
Perhaps I was wrong due to several other stories that came out today.
Yesterday, I said most likely us, and it could be us.
But there's so many things that bother me.
And I want to try to put it, I want to start with a little bit of history that shows you where we are mentally right now and then get into the drones and so many other things that have happened in the last 24 hours.
We begin in 60 seconds.
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Okay, so this is this.
I want to talk to you a little bit about history, and there's a reason I'm going to take you through this because I need you to understand in many ways, we have been here before.
And while what was being said at the time wasn't true, in some ways, in some ways, and I'll explain, it was, and why people went crazy.
Ever since I've been hearing about these drones, and I know it's me because I'm just a weird radio freak, but I've been thinking of Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey.
Every time I hear it, say, over New Jersey, I think of a time before television where people sat in front of their radios and listened to music and news reports and plays and other programs for entertainment.
In 1938, you're only about 10 years into almost everybody having a radio in their home.
So you're about as far away from the beginning of radio en masse as we are now from everybody having a cell phone, you know, smartphone, okay?
Chase and Sanborn Hour00:02:42
And social media.
So we see the effects and society completely changed.
And just like everybody does now, we're at the end, hopefully, the beginning of the end of everybody just trusting what's online.
People have a hard time trusting anything.
They trust what's in people's hands as they film something much more than they believe anything else, right?
If I'm hearing it from a regular person, I trust it more.
Media has destroyed itself.
Media hadn't destroyed itself in 1938.
At the time, the Chase and Sanborn hour was number one.
This is how this is how desperate people were for entertainment.
On Sunday nights at 8 o'clock, Charlie McCarthy was the number one draw of radio.
Charlie McCarthy was a ventriloquist doll.
Now, how hard is it to be a ventriloquist on radio?
All right.
That was the number one thing.
And it was on, it was always in this Chase and Sanborn hour.
But they usually led with something kind of boring.
And on this particular Sunday evening, the day before Halloween, a guy named Orson Welles, who was looking to make a name for himself for his radio program because he couldn't get past Charlie McCarthy, decided to do something that had never been done.
He took an old novel set in England, H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds, and at 8 o'clock that night, he gives a quick little like one-minute opening.
And you know it's a show, but remember, everyone at that time is tuned in to Chase and Sanborn to see who was on the show and when Charlie McCarthy was going to come on.
So most of America missed this.
The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air in The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
Clearly, a radio program.
And then Orson Welles himself steps up to the mic to begin the narration.
Mercury Theater's War of the Worlds Scare00:03:04
Ladies and gentlemen, the director of the Mercury Theater and star of these broadcasts, Orson Welles.
We know now that in the early years of the 20th century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's.
Stop.
I want you to put yourself not just what, and listen to what he's saying, but also listen to the words he's saying and apply them today.
Now, he's just narrating, and he says, in the early 20th century, the world was worried that there were intelligences beyond our own, beyond our own capabilities, that could harm us.
Hmm.
All right, next.
And yet, as mortal as his own.
We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns, they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
Stop.
Are we being scrutinized?
Is everything we're doing being scrutinized, monitored, catalogued?
Is there an intelligence out there that is that knows us better than we know ourselves?
With infinite complacence, people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their dominion over this small, spinning fragment of solar driftwood, which by chance or design, man has inherited out of the dark mystery of time and space.
Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool, and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
In the 39th year of the 20th century came the Great Disillusionment.
The Great Disillusionment.
It was near the end of October.
Business was better.
Business is better.
War scare was over.
War scare is over.
Our men were back at work.
Sales were picking up.
Sales were picking up.
On this particular evening, October 30th, the Crosby service estimated that 32 million people were listening in on radios.
All right, that's interesting.
The war scare.
In 1938, we thought Hitler was going to invade, but, you know, Neville Chamberlain is just about to meet or just did meet with Hitler.
The 1938 War Scare Broadcast00:06:23
He's promising peace.
He doesn't invade until 39.
All right.
So the war scare is over.
Kind of like we all know Trump is coming into office and the war scare is over.
Does anybody else see any parallels to what's happening to us right now?
So he stops being the narrator and then he just becomes a character because nobody heard that part.
They were listening for Charlie McCarthy.
And it was about this time that people started to dial surf.
And this time, they interrupt a program and say that there's been flashes off of Mars and they don't know what it is.
And then there are things seen in the sky, lights seen in the sky over New York and New Jersey.
And then something crashes in Grover's Mill.
So they send a team from Trenton, New Jersey.
They send the state police from Trenton, New Jersey, to find out what it is.
In a few minutes, the Pentagon, not the Pentagon at the time, the War Department or the defense secretary, will step to the microphone first and say, we have no idea what this is.
There's nothing to worry about.
And then they start broadcasting.
And listen to home comes a special bulletin from Trenton, New Jersey.
It is reported that at 8:50 p.m., a huge flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighborhood of Grover's Mill, New Jersey, 22 miles from Trenton.
The flash in the sky was visible within a radius of several hundred miles, and the noise of the impact was heard as far north as Elizabeth.
We have dispatched a special mobile unit to the scene, and we'll have our commentator, Carl Phillips, give you a word picture of the scene as soon as he can reach there from Princeton.
In the meantime, we take you to the Hotel Martinette in Brooklyn, where Bobby Millette and his orchestra are offering a program of dance music.
So you turn over from the other station, and you just hear that news break, and you're like, wow, that's weird.
I wonder what that is.
And then they play this little bit of music, and they break in back from Trenton.
He's there, that quick.
Ladies and gentlemen, my aunt, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, here I am back of a stone wall that adjoins Mr. Wilmer's garden.
From here, I get a sweep of the whole scene.
I'll give you every detail as long as I can talk and as long as I can see this.
More state police have arrived.
They're drawing up a cordon in front of the pit.
About 30 of them.
No need to push the crowd back now.
They're willing to keep their distance.
The captain's conferring with someone.
Can't quite see who.
Oh, yes, I believe it's Professor Pearson.
Yes, it is.
Now they've parted, and the professor moves around one side, studying the object while his captain and two policemen advance with something in their hands.
I can see it now.
It's a white hack chip tied to a pole.
Because those creatures know what that means.
What anything means.
Wait a minute, something's happening.
A shape is rising out of the pit.
I can make out a small beam of light against a mirror.
There's a shed of flame springing from the mirror and it leaps right at the advancing men.
It strikes them head on.
Lord, they're turning into flames.
Out of ahead, he's caught up by the woods of Barsa.
There's gas tags, tanks, and the automobiles spreading everywhere.
Coming this way now, about 20 yards to my right.
And then the broadcast cuts out.
And there's about 10 seconds of silence and everybody in America is like, oh my gosh, what just happened?
What just happened?
This might sound hokey to you now.
Just as a lot of the stuff we're looking at now, in 10, 20, 70, 90 years from now, people will say, how the hell did they believe that?
But this is the way radio actually sounded just the year before this broadcast.
America heard this over and over and over again.
It's starting to rain again.
The rain had clacked up a little bit.
The back motors of the ship were just holding it just enough to keep it from...
It burst into flames!
Get there, Scotty.
Get there, Scotty.
It's fighting.
And it's rising.
It's rising terrible.
Oh, my, get out of the way, please.
It's burning and bursting into flames and it's holding on the mooring pass.
And all the folks between the sins is terrible.
This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world.
Oh, it seems like 20, oh, 400 or 500 feet into the sky.
And it's a terrific race, ladies and gentlemen.
The smoke and the flames now.
And the flame is rising to the ground.
Not quite to the mooring mass.
All the humanity and all the fans are just speeding around it.
I told you.
I can't talk to people and friends who are out there.
I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen.
Honestly, it just laid down massive smoking wreckage.
And everybody can't hardly breathe and talk and screaming.
Lady, I'm sorry.
Honestly, I can hardly breathe.
I'm going to step inside where I cannot see it.
Scotty, that's terrible.
Listen, folks, I'm going to have to stop for a minute because I've lost the voice.
This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed.
Sound kind of like what they'd hear on the radio a year later?
Almost exactly.
So now why is this important today with what's happening over New Jersey in the skies?
Untracked Targets Over New Jersey00:15:38
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So...
Stu, let me just ask you a series of questions here.
What is that story that has been shocking to you and I for the last five years?
And shocking because nobody's talking about it.
And it's pretty big.
And the government keeps furthering the storyline.
You're talking about the weird things with UFOs over the past few years?
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
That there's these ships that are just appearing and we have no idea what they are.
Could be ours.
Could be somebody else's.
We don't think they're ours, but when does the government tell you the truth on things like this?
Okay.
Then what was the next part in the story?
First, we found out UFOs are real.
Then what was the next part of the story?
You remember?
We have some.
We have pieces of some.
And we're trying to build them and retro design, design from what we have and understand, design something using the technology that we found right, reverse engineering, reverse engineering, thank you um, that was the next step then the latest step is, we or someone else has them.
We're worried that Russia has them, China has them we, we don't know if we have any.
Okay, but whoever gets there controls the world, because you can't track them.
They're too fast, they avoid all radar, they avoid everything.
You can't track them.
They can fly in the sky, they can stop, they can go underwater, you just can't track them.
That was the latest in that five-year saga, if you were paying attention to it, correct?
Uh yeah I I, I mean, I guess, maybe I, I remember parts, bits and pieces of this, but it's weird, like and you made this point before, but you'd think every one of these developments would be the only thing we're talking about, correct?
But there's been so much other stuff that, like I correct, it's been lost in the noise a little for me correct, lost in the noise.
Now let me ask you which one is noise?
Is the whole UFO thing noise, or is the whole what's going on in Washington noise unrelated to UFOS?
Which is which and why can't we figure it out what?
What would we have said 25 years ago?
25 years ago, this was happening.
We would have said, that's the United States government doing something right.
That's what I said to you yesterday.
But then some other things happened last night and I thought how could I have gotten on yesterday and said with such surety, this is nothing, this is us, because This isn't Orson Welles.
Or is it Orson Welles, but not being paid by the media?
I'll explain next.
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So I want to start here.
As we're talking about the drones over the skies of New Jersey and what's true, what's not.
Let me give you something that is purportedly from the Oregorian, the Oregorian.
I just said, no, the Oregonian.
Oregorian.
Do you know where the state?
I know.
Do you know the state?
It's Oregon.
Oregon.
Oregonian, which is the newspaper, claims that this happened over the weekend between commercial pilots and air traffic control.
Listen to this.
Is there any military activity out straight ahead of us?
No, we're not seeing anything.
I had another one report at like 30,000 feet in the Eugene area.
We're not sure what it is.
Yeah, there's lots moving out there.
We're seeing three or four targets.
You know, they're all altitudes up and down.
It's pretty crazy.
There's one way up high and one about my altitude.
Moving in like a circle, like a corkscrew pattern.
Visually I have eyes on what looks like an aircraft scrobe that's at my 2 o'clock and 22 miles at my altitude.
He looks like he's moving towards, it looks like it's moving towards the north.
We just had another one show up about my one o'clock speed high zipping towards us and then back to the...
You are cleared.
Okay.
is that true how much of those that you're probably being bombarded on social media of seeing all of these And a lot of those are not true.
Okay, they just, they go out in social media.
Somebody's made them.
And so they're not true.
However, some of them are true.
What we're talking about are these drones or something in the sky that are flying over New York and New Jersey, New York City area and New Jersey.
That is some of the most dense air traffic in the world.
And these things are flying around and we supposedly cannot track them.
But that's not a problem, according to the government.
Now, here's something that the Department of Homeland Security came out with yesterday.
Historically, we have experienced cases of mistaken identity where reported drones, this is historically, in fact, are manned aircraft or facilities.
We are supporting local law enforcement in New Jersey with numerous detection methods, but we have not been able to cooperate any of the reported visual sightings with electronic detection.
Okay.
The state police are standing on the sides of the highway and saying, I got one.
It's right there in the sky.
Air traffic control, can you verify?
No.
And it's the size of a car.
What do you mean you can't verify?
How come you can't see these things if they're that large?
How can they avoid all detection?
So the state police were just promised by the Department of Homeland Security two days ago, in a couple of days, we have some things that will really give detection.
Will you really be able to detect everything?
Okay, so we're waiting on that.
Then the Homeland Security Department says, to the contrary, upon the review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft operating lawfully.
You get, wait, you couldn't track them?
That means we have a problem with air traffic control if they're manned aircraft operating lawfully.
There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace.
We take seriously the threat that can be posed by unmanned aircraft systems, which is why law enforcement and other agencies continue to support New Jersey and investigate the reports.
To be clear, they have uncovered no such malicious activity or intent at this stage.
While there is no known malicious activity occurring in New Jersey, the reported sightings there do, however, highlight the insufficiency of current authorities.
So who are the current authorities?
Homeland security or the state cops who are seeing things.
What does that mean?
What the hell does that mean?
You know, let me give you the most boring explanation of what's going on.
A bunch of hobbyists have built a bunch of drones the size of cars and they built them or bought them and they have the red and green lights on.
And for some reason, these drones can't be tracked at that size.
And it's just hobbyists.
OK, in in a country where the president of the United States hasn't just yesterday pardoned Chinese spies.
Pardoned Chinese spies.
In a country where the President of the United States didn't allow a spy balloon from China, which they tracked from China and tracked it all the way across the country, going over our most sacred and secure military sites, and did nothing except lie to the people for a long time that it wasn't Chinese and then blow it out of the sky over the water.
In a country where that didn't happen, maybe I go, okay, this is just hobbyist.
And it very well may be hobbyist.
I want you to understand that.
That is a very viable explanation.
In a country where the president is Trump or Reagan, what does the President of the United States do when this is starting to sweep everywhere?
What does he do?
He comes out with a speech or an address or a press conference or a statement and comes out and says, Ladies and gentlemen, we are not sure what these are, but we're pretty convinced that these are hobbyists.
And they are putting in peril our airline industry, which not only is industry moving packages and important things all over the world and slowing us down, but also endangering the lives of American citizens and citizens from all over the world as they approach some of the world's largest airports.
Let me just say the FBI is on this.
And if these are hobbyists, you should understand, you will be found and you will be arrested.
Right?
Isn't that what a president would do?
The president hasn't offered that.
In the most boring explanation of this, our government is sending the message to China and to Iran and to everyone else that has drones that hobbyists can baffle the United States government.
Trump Pardons Son, China Learns00:02:15
Remember, China's already learned we can fly a balloon over the state, over, I'm sorry, over the entire state, capital state.
Now what are we teaching the world?
That's the most boring explanation.
Okay, so I started with War of the Worlds.
Brought you here.
Next hour we'll talk about other explanations, et cetera, et cetera, but I'll leave you with the most boring one.
This is why, no matter who is pardoned, when Kash Patel, Doge, Donald Trump, and everybody else gets in office, every single secret that is not critical to our actual national security needs to be revealed.
Everything that Hillary Clinton did that Donald Trump's son might have done.
No accusations because there's nothing there.
But if they had something on Donald Trump's son and it was classified, then that should be revealed.
Every damn secret has got to come out because there is no trust on anything.
How can the President of the United States yesterday pardon Chinese spies, especially after he just said, I'm not going to pardon my son, but he pardons his son for any and all activities even against the United States, knowing that they got millions of dollars from the Chinese Communist Party.
And, okay, he doesn't go to jail, but can we find out exactly what they did do?
Can we do that, please?
Can we find out so we can have some trust?
Meanwhile, We Are Being Watched00:11:50
We're in a very important time period.
We're at the beginning of the 21st century and people are busying themselves with the upcoming holidays, going to and fro, just minding their own business.
Meanwhile, we are being watched.
It is the opening of War of the Worlds.
My question is, is it fake this time too?
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this is the glenn beck program now we spent some time talking about the apocalypse and what could come right around the corner This reminds me to tell you about an Angel Studios movie that's coming out to theaters on December 20th.
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Yeah, Glenn's watched it.
It's about a nuclear bomb going off in Los Angeles, right?
And it's not like that other one that was on Netflix that was like all woke and everything else.
Did you see that?
I watched.
I made the mistake of watching that.
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Oh, wow.
This one is really good.
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I mean, thinking about preparing yourself, right?
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Welcome.
By the way.
Have you watched the show Lioness?
I've heard people talking about it, but I haven't watched it good.
No.
It's so good.
Yeah.
I just said to one of my military friends, have you seen it?
He says, no, I've heard it was just what you just said.
Yeah.
And I said, I'd really like your opinion because if half of that stuff happens, these people that are in our military are just out of their mind, brave and nuts.
Because, you know, and I don't know if these people, I think these people do actually exist, but I don't know.
But it's another Taylor Sheridan written show.
How?
I think this guy.
He's got like 12 shows on right now.
I know.
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This is Landman.
This is another one I've heard from 25 people.
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You will love it.
Really?
Oh, because it's just, it's like, here's the truth on global warming.
Really?
And it's not preachy.
It's just like, you know, oh, yeah, sure.
You want to, oh, you want to get off oil.
Okay, let me tell you what the world's going to be like.
You know what I mean?
It's just these oil, you know, riggers who, again, if that's what working on an oil rig is like, oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
These people are unbelievably either stupid or unbelievably brave.
There's no way I wouldn't even, after watching two episodes of Landman, I'm like, I don't want to be with it.
I'm thinking about moving out of Texas.
I don't want to be even in the same state as those oil rigs.
They're dangerous.
Just what they have to do to get oil out of the ground is crazy.
Those oil riggers are amazing people.
Amazing.
And I like the fact that all of Taylor Sheridan's stuff is holding up the vanishing man.
You know what I mean?
We get rid of oil, you lose oil riggers.
You get rid of ranches, you lose cowboys.
You lose these men.
And he is showing us what men do in Lioness, what men and women also can do in the military.
But he's showing us the real world and why Strength of a man is so critical to all of our lives.
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Well, a lot happened yesterday.
A lot that we need to talk about.
This government is completely out of control.
And I think for the first time, I think we're nearing the area where I could say, can you be pardoned for treason?
Because what's happening right now in the White House is absolutely out of control and leads to the mystery over New Jersey, the drones.
We're going to talk about that coming up.
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Biden's Historic Pardons00:14:47
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 1,500 Americans who were released from prison, placed on house arrest during the pandemic, will be pardoning 39 individuals who were convicted of nonviolent crimes.
Okay, that's the largest single-day clemency in modern history.
Okay, all right.
But he's also now pardoning people who are murderers on death row and setting them free.
Now, that is disturbing until you read this.
President Joe Biden announced on Thursday granting 39 pardons, 1,499 commutations in his administration, blah, blah, blah.
However, as you're looking through, Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies.
Also, an individual that was convicted of possessing child pornography.
Now, why?
Child pornography?
I don't know.
Maybe that was his son.
I didn't see any on his laptop, but would anybody be surprised?
And we know that the Hollywood group and everybody else, even the teachers' union, just doesn't seem to have a problem with any of that.
But the Chinese spies.
Now, that seems a little odd, doesn't it?
Why would you pardon?
You exchange spies.
You don't pardon spies.
You know, unless you've been taking money from, oh, but that's right.
His son, who was the one that was actually taking money from the communist government, has been pardoned for everything that he did or may have done up beginning in 2014 up to today.
Okay.
Or sorry, two weeks ago.
Gee, what, what, 2014?
Why was it that?
Oh, that's right.
Because that's when Ukraine started.
What was happening in Ukraine?
Well, as we showed you when we did our investigation on that perfect phone call in a four episode series on what really happened in Ukraine, when we did this, I don't know, 2018, we were shocked at what we found.
What we found was the United States was sending money to NGOs.
It was all dirty money.
They were all over doing all kinds of things and trying to overthrow the government and did of Ukraine.
And who was one of them besides the Bidens?
Hillary Clinton.
Now, isn't it strange that for the first time, Bill Clinton comes out and says, hey, I don't want my wife to be pardoned.
She didn't do anything.
Except yesterday he's saying to the Bidens, hey, maybe you should add my wife to a pardon?
Why?
Because he's not, Donald Trump already proved he wasn't going to go after her.
Why?
She's not a political enemy at this point, but she's deeply involved in Ukraine.
Oh, by the way, did I mention earlier this week, President Biden gave another $600 million to Ukraine.
And yesterday, another aid package to Ukraine worth $500 million was granted.
Huh.
Now, as I said last hour, we have all relaxed a little bit on war because Donald Trump is coming in.
But we see what our government and Joe Biden's administration is doing just to keep poking and poking and poking and trying to get people to respond.
Democrats now have called on Biden to tie Trump's hands over the U.S. nuclear strike capabilities.
That is the job of the president of the United States.
They want him to now tie the hands on our strike.
Donald Trump is the clearest president on nuclear weapons since Ronald Reagan.
They cannot be used.
If you do anything with nuclear weapons, we blow up the entire world.
We kill everybody.
You cannot, he's been warning and warning and warning.
And the threat is what matters.
But why do the Democrats want to take that threat off?
Oh, by the way, also the DOJ, the investigating general, that office came out and said, by the way, yeah, we found out 26 FBI informants were there on January 6th.
What?
A shock.
Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth, there was a story going around yesterday.
He never even, he wasn't even, he didn't even apply to go to West Point.
He certainly wasn't accepted.
And we've talked to the government officials at West Point, and they agree.
Nope, not true.
How did that end?
He happened to keep their letter accepting him into West Point.
Okay.
So I just want you to think about everything that is going on as we go back to the drone story.
I want you to remember the record of our military right now under this president.
I want you to keep remembering that guy is barely in control of his bladder, let alone the United States of America.
He's just pardoned Chinese spies who are known for their drones.
China just gave a bunch of drones to Iran, which he has also funded.
Now, I told you last hour, the most boring explanation of this is these drones that are over in New Jersey and everywhere else, that they can't seem to lock in.
They can't detect them on radar.
Hmm.
Wow, that seems like a problem.
These drones, the most boring explanation is some of them aren't drones.
They're just people are seeing things that aren't there or they're seeing planes that they think are drones.
But some of them are drones.
Again, this is the best explanation I can come up with.
And like I said yesterday, and the rest of them are ours.
And we're showing that the government has some new technology that nobody else has that even can get past our defenses.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe, maybe.
But it's from this government, this administration that has projected weakness forever.
My mind changed yesterday when I read about the spies being, and I thought, you know what?
That is, this is, this would be too strong for this Pentagon and this group of girls in the White House to project strength to the rest of the world.
I don't believe it.
I just, it probably is true.
I no longer believe what I told you yesterday.
Okay.
The problem with the most boring explanation that it's really just hobbyists is that shows that our government is so inept that we can't catch hobbyists.
That's a problem.
That does not project strength to the rest of the world.
Jason Buttrell is joining me now, chief researcher.
He's also former military intelligence.
Okay, where do you stand on this?
Because yesterday we were kind of in line, but I just have a hard time with this.
Just on the drones?
Or what about the pardons?
I wanted to interject a couple of different times there.
So yeah, okay.
So let's start with the pardons and then we'll get back into the drones.
Go ahead.
Your TV show on Wednesday almost kind of goes right in line with my thinking on these pardons.
Everything is a psyop.
Everything is a deep state psyop.
I don't buy for a second that right after he pardons Hunter Biden and we're expecting other pardons like maybe James, maybe his wife, who knows how many others, he makes a record-setting commutation pardon list that dominates the headlines.
And suddenly we're not talking about why did he pardon Hunter going from 2014 to 2024 for crimes that he may have committed or did?
Why is he pardoning James?
Who else is involved?
What are the connections that we can draw?
Like, oh, no, it's just this record-setting commute.
No, I don't buy for a second that, you know, and we know that these pardons, especially presidential pardons, they're not because the president's like, you know what?
I've been following these, you know, these cases personally.
No.
They're being brought to him.
Yes, they are.
And the same way that the military industrial complex is handling, in my opinion, this drone situation, they're the ones directing that.
It's not the president of the United States.
Definitely not the, you know, the, the, the guy with, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the, the, the pudding eater in chief right now.
He doesn't have any freaking clue what's going on.
Or the president, Barack Obama.
Or the on his third term.
Yeah.
But I think everything is a psyop.
And I think that I think these pardons are going to get more and more interesting.
We need to stay on top of them because they're going to try and misdirect our attention on some of these other things.
But what you really need to be looking at, I love the way that you're looking at the China situation in these Chinese pardons, because who are they?
Do they have any connections that go back to CEFC?
I don't know.
I haven't looked at them.
But that's the type of questions we need to be asking.
CEFC is the company that the Bidens were doing business with.
Do they have connections with drone technology out of that?
But how do you go out?
For instance, they're also selling the border fence now.
We have all this stuff that's ready to go sitting there at the border, been sitting there for five years.
And we tried to sell it once, nobody wanted it.
And so now we're selling it at pennies on the dollar and it's all being hauled away.
Yeah.
Now, why would you do that?
I mean, I am approaching the place.
And Stu, you know this, I do not use the word treason because it is in the Constitution and it means death if you're convicted of treason.
It's very hard to convict somebody of treason, et cetera, et cetera.
But I'm having a hard time with all of these dots that are out there that are just weakening us, trying to preserve that weakness, trying to subvert the will of the next president of the United States on not just some things, everything.
Everything.
I'm having a hard time in the last few weeks of this guy.
You?
Just meaning whether you're going to, because the treason part kind of complicates, I think, your question.
I'm not saying that, but I am, for the first time, getting to an area where I'm like, you know, if you can prove all this stuff, this was a traitor in chief.
Jeez, yeah.
I mean, it's hard to even understand if he's president.
I don't even know.
You know, you point out, like, does he know what's going on?
I don't even know how that would work, honestly, in this case, because he doesn't seem to be even aware of what's occurring.
So if he's not president, then who is the traitor?
And because it is treasonous to take the powers of the president and just be a shadow president, whether you're vice president or not, that also is against the Constitution.
And it would be nice, too.
They put on the nice face for the transition.
They invite Trump to lunch, right?
Like there's all these nice things that they seem like they're doing.
We're going to give a, they make the speeches about the peaceful transition.
But I mean, their actions don't line up with that at all.
You know, and I, I, every, everybody, we should get back to that.
It's a good idea.
It would be a good idea to get back to that and respect what the people actually say when they vote.
It's interesting, these, you know, these proponents of big government, you know, like the people that are in power now, I think that they're the ones that don't, they don't agree with a strong executive.
And a strong executive used to be like a bad word or a dirty word.
Even the founders agreed with a strong executive.
Go back to any of the federalist papers when they talk about it.
They wanted a strong executive.
They wanted a strong legislative and judicial branch.
They wanted them strong.
Why?
Because they have the power to push back on each other.
The current brand of progressivism does not want a strong executive.
They want a committee that's in charge of the executive.
Because it's 100 years into this and they have eviscerated and Congress and the Senate have given their powers to the executive branch.
And the executive branch had to be strong to protect all of those things.
But now the executive branch is so strong, the only thing holding it back is the Supreme Court.
And so now you want all of the people just to run what the plan has been.
You don't need the president anymore.
Well, yeah, the president is not the executive in this case.
I mean, he's part of it, but you're mostly looking at his appointed people that are carrying everything out, the bureaucracy.
What is the end?
Do you remember the end of Philip Drew Administrator, Stu?
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So during the Woodrow Wilson, I hate Woodrow Wilson, and I love anybody who hates him as much as I do.
Anyway, it is your passion.
It is my passion.
During his term, he read a book, and it's an awful book.
You can get it for free on like Google Reads, a Philip Drew administrator.
And it is what we've done to our country.
And it was this reluctant servant who was going to come in and calm everything down.
And gosh, darn it, I guess I'll be the hero.
And he gets in.
And when he's the president, he starts to dismantle the Constitution.
He starts to weaken the Congress and the Supreme Court.
And he strengthens the administrative state.
And his whole thing is, that's too much for me to handle myself.
I need all of these administrators in all of this administration all around.
They're unelected, but they all will do the right thing.
Because when for me to quit, I need that to be strong.
So nobody gets the credit.
It'll all be these great servants.
And then I can go from state to state and take and change their constitution and bring them into the administrative state.
We're there.
We are there.
They're the experts and scientists.
I know that.
Of course they're correct.
The Rise of Unelected Servants00:03:01
That's right.
Meinher.
You're right.
Fiora's got all kinds of experts.
Jeez.
Okay.
I just like, I like how you're like, you know, the Philip Drew administrator.
Remember that?
Remember the end of it?
Like, we're so deep.
To dive through the Glenn Beck mind, it's like, what?
You don't know if you're getting a chitty chitty bang bang reference.
Philip Drew, Woodrow, Wilson.
Like, it's so, there is no AI that could replicate it.
You don't want to live in my head.
No.
You don't want to live in my head.
It's a very interesting journey.
All right.
We're going to go back to the drones because there's something that needs to be explained that I said last hour that was not in Philip Drew or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Well, kind of.
There were scientists that said, we've got to take chitty chitty bang bang and make another copy of it.
We don't have the plans.
And that's kind of what may be happening with the drones.
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There is a great, great podcast out tomorrow.
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Zachary Levi on 2030 Military Hardware00:15:37
It's with Zachary Levi.
He is, he's one of the few.
I tried to put a list together of people that I wanted to talk to in Hollywood.
Was that with you, Jason?
And I think I came up, I know I came up with three, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Zachary Levi.
And then I went, I'll never get one with Glenn Eastwood, who I've always wanted, but he's too old now, I bet.
Who else?
Nope, not interested in anybody else in Hollywood, you know?
And that's sad because there's probably really interesting people, but I don't want to talk to him about Hollywood stuff.
Zachary Levi, he played Shazam.
He was the prince entangled.
Chuck, you might know him from that.
Radical Love.
I mean, he's been in a billion things.
Kurt Warner?
Yeah, played Kurt Warner.
I got home and my son was so mad.
You were with Zachary Levi?
My favorite movie is about Kurt Warner and you didn't tell me.
And I'm like, sorry, dude.
Anyway, he's a great guy.
And we talked about, you know, about five years ago, he was in a death spiral.
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I mean, it's a fascinating interview.
And towards the end of it, I said, you got to come back after the new year because he is way up on AI and the things.
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Okay, so Jason Buttrell is our head researcher for the show and head writer for TV and also former military intelligence.
I wanted you to come on because I wanted you to explain the reverse engineering that these drones may be.
Because Stu and I were talking earlier today, like in the last five years, the New York Times printed UFOs are real.
And we're like, wait, what?
And nobody paid attention to it.
And then, well, UFOs are real, but we're not really sure.
And then it was, well, we're not really sure, but we have pieces of UFOs that definitely are otherworldly.
And you're like, wait, ha.
And then there was testimony after testimony.
And the latest testimony was, they're real.
Well, they may not be real, but we do have devices that don't come from this world.
And we're trying to re-engineer because China and Russia and everybody else is trying to reverse design these things.
And you're like, my head's going to explode.
So what do you think is, because all of this could be misdirection.
What?
Tell me the reverse engineering thing.
And do you believe that?
Well, okay, that's a loaded question.
It's kind of like when Michael Schellenberger just testified at the UAP thing in front of Congress, where he was like, he was the one extremely brutally honest person was like, look, these things are real.
I don't know where they come from.
I don't know where they come from.
I will say that the last time the UFO phenomenon has been brought out so much, especially as kind of a cover for what the government was doing, was the stealth program.
Exactly.
The B-2, all that tech.
There was story after story after story of the government encouraging UFO talk because they wanted to mask what was going on.
Yes, yes.
Now, there's things going on right now.
There's a couple different technologies in the military industrial complexes all over the world.
One is hypersonic weapons.
Russia has gone all in on hypersonic weapons.
China, eh, secondary.
The U.S., eh, secondary.
That's kind of odd to me.
Why would we be like, eh, and just like kind of look at Russia as they go all out?
News today that the United States and NATO is expecting another hypersonic attack slash test from Russia.
Their Arezhnek missile, hypersonic missile is going to be used in the next 24 to 48 hours.
That's what they're expecting.
That's good.
They're telling us in advance.
They're letting us know.
But again, why is this not such a big deal to us?
Why are we prioritizing some other tech?
Now, I start thinking about that.
And I start thinking about this entire UFO phenomenon.
You talk about the retrofitting or that type of intelligence.
Reverse engineering.
It came out in that congressional hearing.
It's come out a couple of times, but in that congressional hearing where Schellenberger was there with so much credibility, they talked about a program, a government program called the Immaculate Constellation.
And they were very honed in on what they called reproduction vehicles, which the first thought in my mind was the back of Granddad's 57 Chevy.
That sounded like a reproduction vehicle.
But you don't think that's what they meant.
That's not what they meant.
This is immaculate.
That's immaculate.
Exactly right.
Now I get the reason for the name.
We're connecting dots.
Like, owner UK right now.
They're not making 57 Chevies.
All right.
But what they meant, actually meant by that was UFO craft, UAP craft, this is what they're hinting at, that they have either recovered or observed and tried to retrofit it and try to make it on their own.
Reverse engineering.
Reverse engineering.
And they even go so far as to say, these are actual government reports that they said they were observing hostile country off certain waters that were doing a test of their reproduction vehicle.
Now, to me, that sounds like China.
They talk about it in detail, how there was naval assets, they were watching to see, you know, it looked like they were scanning to see if it showed up on their radar.
Then after the test, they dispersed and went away and the vehicle went away.
Now, personally, I think there's huge talk about drone warfare.
This is not happening in a New Jersey turnpike vacuum.
Three hours ago, there was a story from Reuters that over the past couple of weeks, all these random, what appeared to be drones were appearing over a Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
Germany.
This is happening all over the place.
And it's accelerated over the what, past two years, two, three, four years?
Yes.
This is accelerating.
This is not just a New Jersey turnpike phenomenon.
This is everywhere.
Now, all the attention is right there.
And to me, it's very interesting that after Russia is going all in on hypersonic weapons and gone to fully using them on the battlefield in a war that we're actively engaged in, that now we're talking about this a whole lot more.
It's not a problem.
But how does this not make us look pathetic?
I mean, because you wouldn't believe, I mean, if Russia did this and says, and also we cannot radar, you'd be like, oh, really?
Ivan, you can't track it.
Wow, I believe you.
I mean, you would have to do it over somebody else that would fool their tracking, not ours.
Why would you, I mean, I just think this makes us look weak, which makes a case that, yes, the Biden administration is behind it because it makes us look weak.
You're right.
Remember that if a lot of these disclosures are true and accurate, and again, I'm not saying that they're from, you know, outer space.
They could be, but I'm not saying that.
It could just be that.
Would you agree that we're on the verge of a technological explosion?
Yes.
Quantum computing, everything.
Wouldn't that seem like alias?
Yes.
Remember what I said about the Hindenburg last hour and war of the worlds?
They knew at the time the whole country was unsettled.
Radio was about the age of the iPhone.
And I mean, far as being mass.
And people were just unsettled.
War was in the air.
They knew everything was about to change.
It was just in the air.
That's where we are.
I mean, that's what I said with Zachary Levi.
He's like, Glenn, three years from now.
I said, by 2030, no one will recognize anything.
You won't recognize your job.
You won't recognize your life.
You won't recognize anything by 2030.
He said, 2030, I think we got two years.
And I said, maybe, maybe four.
Those lines aren't that far apart from each other.
It's already 2025.
It feels 2030 feels like it's way out in the distance, really not that far away.
But remember when I first said 2030, it felt like it was.
No, everyone, everyone was saying 2050, 2050, if we ever get there.
And I said, I'm telling you, it's 2030.
And now others are saying it's right around, not just Zachary Levi, other people who actually know things like unlike me are saying it's someplace very soon, could be next year, two years, five years, but it's here.
On the quantum computing front, there was that announcement from Google this week on the Willow chip.
They say that Google claims that Willow was able to complete one particular problem in five minutes, while the same task would have taken today's supercomputers 10 septillion years to finish.
And Septillion is 10, then 000, You could have just said the federal deficit.
Yeah, yeah.
That is, by the way, longer than the universe existed, has existed.
That's what they say.
So that are today's supercomputers longer than the universe has existed, and it took the Google chip five minutes.
Now, you add AI to that.
Because you're not going to, we are not going to have, you're not going to go to the library and go, I want to try this, this quantum computing thing.
That is going to be sold for the highest dollar.
You're going to have to bid on the time.
You're going to have to have a really good reason.
And it's only going to be scientists, studies, governments that have access to these things.
Oh, one more thing.
AI will have that.
Now, what do you do when you introduce something, as we talked about last Tuesday, Wednesday show, when you have something that you think is your friend, but it can think in five minutes what to you would take longer than the history of the, not even you, the supercomputer of today,
longer than the time the entire universe has existed.
Yeah, we're going to be able to put that back in a bottle.
It's not going to outsmart us.
Yeah.
I think we are on the verge of a wildly transformative time in military hardware.
And I think there is a lot of posturing right now as far as what is about to get exposed and used actively.
That's personally what I think is going on right now.
I don't think every single sighting that's happening in New Jersey everywhere is some of it might be probably hobbyists.
But if you listen to what John Kirby actually said, he said that most of or some of, he didn't say all of everything that's being observed out there is something that they can't explain.
Okay, so let me let me pick it up.
Let me take a break and then I would pick it up with the Kirby thing, what you just said.
And I also want to show you that what we think now is bad may actually be verification of what you just said.
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All right, I want to start.
We're talking about the drones over New Jersey and new technology.
I agree with Jason.
We are on the verge of seeing if there is a war, it will be to us as it was to society in 1916 of World War I, where everybody was like, whoa, whoa, what is this?
This is completely different.
And all the old technology is going to be out.
It'll be different.
It'll be destroyed quickly.
Let me play Kirby yesterday from Pentagon.
We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are investigating these sightings and they're working closely with state and local law enforcement to provide resources using numerous detection methods to better understand their origin.
Using very sophisticated electronic detection technologies provided by federal authorities, we have not been able to, and neither have state or local law enforcement authorities, corroborate any of the reported visual sightings.
Why is that important to you?
Well, there was an I think he goes on later where he talks about and where he says most of these have not been found as being anything at all.
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And I'm like, most of or all of them?
Why didn't you say everything is just a hoax?
Don't worry about it.
This is dumb.
Why would you say most of?
Yep.
In my mind.
Because in my mind, some of these things are being tested.
Some of these things are known by our government.
And a lot of these things are being told to organizations like the FAA or even police departments that they're telling them, don't worry about it.
Right.
So let me give you one other piece of hope that I think we have been, we've been screaming for four years how we're just being gutted.
Our military is just being gutted.
If you're collecting dolls and you decide I want to collect something else and I have to choose, you'd get rid of your doll collection either all at once or slowly give it away as you're buying new stuff, right?
I think that that could be what our government is doing with Ukraine.
We're just getting, not the money, we're just getting rid of all of our old technology because what we have is so far advanced from that that we know that, I mean, just might as well give that away to another country because we're not going to, that will be useless if we get involved.
We need to concentrate elsewhere.
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Hey, have you noticed that nuclear energy was just not possible for us plebes?
No, but we can't have nuclear energy.
Even though it is the cleanest and the safest energy, honest to God, safest energy you can have.
No, we're against it.
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Can't build anything.
All of a sudden, Silicon Valley says we need nuclear power.
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Huh, as we were talking about last hour, the whole world is about to change and i'm going to explain it and give you a few of the leaps that we have made.
That uh, don't even come close to comparing to what this next leap is going to be like.
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Yeah, Bob, Jason Buttril, our chief researcher, former military intelligence is staying because or Bob.
Or Bob, yes, sometimes called Bob Jeff, whatever.
But I wanted him to stay in because we were talking about quantum computing and how far that is.
Stu, explain what Google just did again.
So they came out with a new chip.
They've announced they have this chip called Willow.
It was able to complete a problem in five minutes while the same task would have taken today's supercomputers 10 septillion years, which is longer than the universe has existed.
Super quiet.
Okay.
So by the way, think of that.
That's what that can do in five minutes.
You have a problem you're dealing with and you're like, you know what?
Let me sleep on it.
Do you know how long that is to a quantum computer?
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By the time you get back, it's like, who are you again?
It's already evolved.
It's so far ahead.
Okay.
So everything's about to change.
We started to talk about this because of the drones over New Jersey and New York City.
We think they may be something new technology that we have and others may have that we have reverse engineered.
That's what has been planted in our heads here for a while.
But war and everything else is going to change it.
And this time, it's going to be, even if it doesn't get to nuclear war, it's going to be horrifying, absolutely horrifying.
Everything that we have, aircraft carriers, everything else, that's done.
It's done.
Now, let me take you through this.
The British, when we fought in the Revolutionary War, they were like, what?
These animals, they're savages.
They won't line up so we can shoot them, right?
We used our brains instead of everybody else's bodies.
And we won, but that changed war.
Then the next war we had that was really horrifying was the Civil War.
And that was horrifying to Americans.
And I know from diaries in the family, my great, great, great grandfather who fought for the Union was never, he came back.
He was in Andersonville and he came back and he was never the same.
And people weren't the same after that because of the 600,000 dead in our country at a time when we had how many million?
Three?
I mean, the blood was just everywhere.
Then we had other wars and they, you know, everybody was pretty much okay.
And then the big one was World War I because we went out on the battlefield.
Remember, the Gatling gun was not used in the Civil War because everybody thought it would be a waste of ammunition.
Wow.
That would have solved things pretty quickly if one side or the other would have had that.
But we come with a Gatling gun and we bring it on the, you know, on the back of a wagon dragged by a horse.
Okay.
In World War I, that's all now mechanized and no one saw that coming.
No one knew what that was going to be like.
People had started to make tanks.
We started to use air warfare.
We started to use gas and science.
All of this stuff was used.
And people came back and literally were shell-shocked for the rest of their life.
They had never seen anything like that.
The quickness of death changed war forever.
Then World War II happens.
And we fight it pretty much the same way.
What affected people for a very long time was war.
They were affected just like everybody else in every other war, in every other epic.
However, You were really set back if you walked into one of the concentration camps and you saw how science was being used or you witnessed the explosion of the atomic bomb.
You never recovered from that.
And I know this used to be top secret.
This is from Major Robert A. Lewis.
He was on, was it the Enola Gay that bombed Hiroshima?
Yep.
So he was on the Enola Gay and he was the navigator, I think.
And his job was also to make notes of what was happening.
This is the original text from the Enola Gay in his handwriting.
He says, 0730, we are loaded.
The bomb is now alive.
It's kind of a funny feeling knowing it's right in back of you, Knockwood.
We started our climb to 30,000 feet at 0748.
Well, folks, it's not long now.
At 18,500 feet, I said on autopilot for the last time until bombs away.
I checked with the crew at 20,000 feet.
So far, everything is satisfactory.
We've just reached our altitude at 0830.
He's saying with a report primary, target is the best target.
Everything is going well.
So far, it looks like we're making the bomb run at Hiroshima.
Right now, we are 25 miles from the Empire, and everyone has a big, hopeful look on his face.
Okay.
It won't be very long before it happens now.
So he says there'll be a short, because he's taking minute by minute what's happening.
And he writes at the bottom of page five, there'll be a short intermission while we bomb our target.
So they drop the bomb.
They have to be up 35,000 feet and they turn the plane.
You know, they're trying to beat hell away from it, but they also need to observe it.
He said, here's a brief blow-by-blow description of the bombing run.
We turned off our IP and had about a four-minute run on a perfectly open target.
Tom scrutinized on his briefed AP and let go.
For the next minute, no one knew what to expect.
The bombardier and the right seat jockey or pilot both forgot to put on their dark glasses and therefore witnessed the flash, which was terrific.
Then in about 15 seconds after the flash, there were two very distinct slaps on the ship.
Then there was this physical effect we felt.
We turned the ship so we could observe the results.
And there in front of our eyes, without a doubt, was the greatest explosion man had ever witnessed.
Three exclamation points.
The city was nine-tenths covered with smoke of a boiling and large column, a white cloud in less than three minutes.
It undulated with buildings and fire as they were blowing up.
Then that undulating cloud reached 30,000 feet and then went to at least 50,000 feet.
I am certain the entire crew felt this experience was more than any human had ever thought possible.
It just seems impossible to comprehend.
Just how many in Japan did we kill?
I honestly have the feeling of groping for words to explain this, or I might say, my God, what have we done?
So right before they drop it, he says, we have smiles on our face.
Three minutes after they drop it, he says, my God, what have we done?
So this was the next big change in war.
But it was really up until the 80s, it was theory.
Nobody had really seen it.
We knew it was going to be bad.
We were afraid of it.
But only the people who actually witnessed it said, dear God, what have we done?
Okay.
That changed war.
That changed everything.
Since that day, we have all been saying, let's just not get to nuclear war.
In the 80s, we all learned from that movie The Day After, which was on TV.
And Gorbachev and Reagan both came together and said, this can never be fought because it can never be won.
And we thought we were past it.
Now we're there again.
But that's not what war may look like this next time.
It may get there quickly, but that's not what war, war this time is going to take the breath of everyone away because it won't be humanized.
It's beyond mechanized.
It's computerized.
And so now it will happen at such a rate of speed, you won't be able to comprehend.
Do you agree with that?
Oh, completely.
And what's interesting to me and hearing you read that, I'm actually more interested in his comments before they dropped the bomb.
Less so on afterwards, because before, remember, like if you've watched Oppenheimer, the scientists didn't know what was going to happen.
They were like, it's either going to be a big explosion or it's going to be a chain reaction and the entire world's going to combust and we're all dead.
So they didn't really know.
Like, what's about to happen?
Very similar today.
And going along on your theory of we're getting rid of the old weapons before these newer weapons are unveiled.
These new AI weapons.
They don't know what they're about to set off, what era this unleashes.
What's going to happen?
Do we happen to have the audio?
We played it a few days ago.
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A lot.
Yeah, a lot more than me.
We had it a couple of days ago.
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See if you can find it real quick because this is stunning what the White House told him.
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I think I'm for Donald Trump.
There's a reason, and he is the first to spill the beans on it.
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We're just looking up to CNN that's talking about these drones.
The White House says that they don't know what it is, but there's nothing to worry about.
How could you possibly say that?
That New Jersey rep, I think he was a Democrat.
Yeah, he was like, this is unacceptable that we can't identify them, some of them.
But then he follows it right back up, just like you said, with, yeah, but we're not concerned that it's a public.
How would you know that it's not a public safety threat unless someone high up told you?
Hey, don't worry.
So weird.
So weird.
Okay.
So let me show you how close we are to absolute insanity.
This is Mark Andreessen on Barry Weiss.
Just, I think, last week, talking about a meeting last fall at the White House talking about AI.
Listen.
We had meetings in D.C. in May where we talked to them about this, and the meetings were absolutely horrifying, and we came out basically deciding we had to endorse Trump.
Add a little color to absolutely horrifying.
What did you hear in those meetings?
They said, look, AI is one of these technology.
AI is a technology basically that the government is going to completely control.
This is not going to be a startup thing.
They actually said flat out to us, don't do AI startups.
Don't fund AI startups.
It's not something that we're going to allow to happen.
They're not going to be allowed to exist.
There's no point.
They basically said AI is going to be a game of two or three big companies working closely with the government.
And we're going to basically wrap them in a, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but we're going to basically wrap them in a government cocoon.
We're going to protect them from competition.
We're going to control them and we're going to dictate what they do.
And then I said, well, I said, I don't understand how you're going to lock this down so much because like the math for AI is like out there and it's being taught everywhere.
And they literally said, well, during the Cold War, we classified entire areas of physics and took them out of the research community and entire branches of physics basically went dark and didn't proceed.
And that if we decide we need to, we're going to do the same thing to the math underneath AI.
Wow.
And I said, I've just learned two very important things because I wasn't aware of the former and I wasn't aware that you were even conceiving of doing it to the latter.
And so they basically just said, yeah, we're going to take total control of the entire thing and just don't.
And Mark, what was the steel man for the listener?
Like, what was their argument?
Why were they?
So this gets into this whole like, all these debates around like AI safety, AI policy.
So there's sort of several dimensions on it, and I'll do my best to steel man it.
So one is just like to the extent that this stuff is relevant to the military, which it is, like if you draw an analogy between AI and autonomous weapons being like the new thing that's going to determine who wins and loses wars, then you draw an analogy to the, in the Cold War, that was nuclear energy, that was nuclear power, and that was the atomic bomb.
And, you know, the federal government, the steel man would be, the federal government didn't let startups go out and build atomic bombs.
Right.
You had, you know, the Manhattan Project and everything was classified.
And, you know, at least according to them, they classified down to the level of actual mathematics.
And, you know, they tightly controlled everything.
And then, and look, you know, that determined a lot of the, you know, the shape of the world, right?
And so there's that.
And then, look, there's the other, that's part one.
And then, look, I think part two is there's the social control aspect to it, which is where the censorship stuff comes right back, which is the exact same dynamic we've had with social media censorship and how it's basically been weaponized and how the government became entwined with social media censorship, which is one of the real scandals of the last decade and a real problem, like a real constitutional problem.
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Like that is happening at hyperspeed in AI.
And, you know, these are the same people who have been using social media censorship against their political enemies.
These are the same people who have been doing debanking against their political enemies.
And they basically, I think, they want to use AI the same way.
And then look, I think the third is I think this generation of Democrats, the ones in the White House under Biden, they became very anti-capitalist.
And they wanted to go back to much more of a centralized, controlled, planned economy.
And you saw that in many aspects of their policy.
But I think, quite frankly, they think that the idea that the private sector plays an important role is not high up on their priority list.
And they think generally companies are bad and capitalism is bad and entrepreneurs are bad.
And they've said that a thousand different ways.
And, you know, they, you know, they demonize entrepreneurs as much as they can.
I didn't.
I mean, that's kind of like the Pentagon coming out and saying, oh, by the way, UFOs are real.
Let's move on.
What he just said is you know it's true.
And the first one is the only one that you go, okay, well, I kind of see that.
You know, you don't want people making nuclear weapons, you know, but you're not going to, it will only be very, very, very big companies because it'll be quantum computing with AI that will control everything.
So that'll only be government level or Google level kind of companies.
That's scary enough.
But then when you put on top of that, you put what he said, then there's a social control aspect.
Oh my gosh.
The world's about to change.
And, you know, where I started the show today was, you know, we have to know the truth.
This is why Doge and everything else is so important.
They need to declassify all of this stuff.
We need to know what we can trust, what's true, what's not, because otherwise everything runs out of our control entirely.
And we need to be able to trust and know, are we being manipulated or not?
And the answer right now is absolutely yes.
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So last weekend, everybody was in, well, everybody who is anybody.
Of course, I wasn't there.
You weren't there.
Nobody I know was there.
But all of the leaders of the world were in France for the reopening of the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
And it's supposed to be marvelous, wonderful, and way ahead of schedule, etc.
But I heard at the beginning that they were going to make this kind of into a temple of reason again and kind of finish what the French Revolution started.
And they didn't, they restored part of it, but there was a big argument of, do we go modern or do we put the Gothic back in?
And I hate this.
I absolutely, I have no problem against, I have no problem with modern architecture.
But there is, you know, Jefferson said, if you want your civilization to survive even beyond you, you must embed your principles in your architecture.
Okay.
Greece, we get it because of their architecture, a lot of it.
The medieval times, we get it because of the architecture.
And maybe it's time for all of us to go modern because so much of it makes no sense that you're like, yep, well, that's a sign of our times.
Duncan Stroich, he is an architect, and I wanted him on to talk about what did they do to Notre Dame in the end.
Duncan, welcome to the program.
It's great to be here, Glenn.
I've really enjoyed your recent programs, especially with this great time of emphasis on the nativity.
Well, thank you very much.
So Notre Dame, the last time that I know of, that it was really desecrated and almost destroyed was during the French Revolution, and they wanted to make it a temple of reason.
And then I heard they were going to do this again, and it was going to be to, you know, the earth and all of this crap.
Did any of that happen?
And what changes did they make to the cathedral?
That's a great point.
I agree with you that our great cathedrals, especially in the Gothic period, have had three enemies, fire, vandals, and iconoclasts.
And poor Notre Dame has had all of those.
And the fire was devastating.
But what makes it even more painful is that after the fire did its work, that the iconoclast came in and wanted to vandalize.
And was it, I mean, because I know there was this big panel put together and everything else.
Was there anybody that was really, that actually in France believed in God that was on the architectural board?
I think there is, but they're not supposed to admit to it.
There's a wonderful interview with Philippe Villeneuve, who was the head architect and who really fought to restore it the way it was, especially the spire, the 19th century spire.
And he gets, I give him the major credit for the restoration and preventing the vandals and the iconoclasts from doing their work.
But Philippe never said anything.
And I talked to him in person a couple of times.
He never said anything about God or about faith.
But there's a recent interview with him, and he admits that he has faith, that has kept him going during these last six years, and also that the mother of God helped him immensely in rebuilding this little church.
I can't imagine what it was like being a God person rebuilding the most famous cathedral in the world and not be able to say, hey, you know, there's some God stuff here in this Gothic architecture we may not want to lose.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And it's so amazing because Macron, the president, he, you know, originally he wanted to have a competition to redo the outside of it and do something 21st century, something of our time.
And the elites and the architects were, you know, excited, you know, greedy little animals wanting to eat up this beautiful building.
And fortunately, the people of France fought that.
But he did not give up.
Every step of the way, he says, well, could we have a competition to redo the stained glass?
Could we have a competition to redo the side chapels?
Could we do, you know, anything he could do to get the contemporary in there?
And unfortunately for him, not for me, but for him, the contemporary means the secular.
So what is massively different when you go there now?
I think Philip Villaneuve got 98% of it.
I mean, he really succeeded.
They rebuilt the roof exactly the way it was, including with medieval axes.
They rebuilt the spire the way it was in 1860 with handmade joinery, wood joinery.
They redid the lead roof, which is very handmade, very phenomenal.
They redid all the stonework, the five huge openings in the ceiling that had been destroyed.
They restored and cleaned some of the side chapels and the paintings, which just are, you know, were kind of dark for now.
They're beautiful.
So he got 98% of it.
Macron got very little.
The elite art world that doesn't go to church, doesn't believe in church, are very influential.
They got very little.
But unfortunately, the Archbishop of was philosophically or at least aesthetically in league with Macron.
So some of the things that he spent money on are of the contemporary.
And most people won't even give them a second thought because they are so out of, you know, out of touch with the rest of the building.
That's actually good news because I thought a lot more had been done that was bad.
So that's really good to hear.
That's a great story.
It really is.
I'm very thrilled.
Complaint of these little minor interior decorating things that look like they're ephemeral and you can get rid of them next year.
It really is a triumph.
So you're a professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame.
And I want to ask you, so much of our architecture is just meaningless.
And I'm not against modern architecture.
You know, some of it is interesting only because of what we can now do.
But it doesn't really even speak to anything, you know, even a century from now, I don't think.
But I was reading that there is this new AI-driven machinery that can now recarve from solid marble in a fraction of a time and not even close to the cost.
You know, you could rebuild all of the great statues and go back to even a gothic kind of architecture at a fraction of the cost and the time.
But I kind of think when you see David, I have to tell you, I went to Florence and my wife and I stood in the square.
I didn't know that the one in the square was a fake.
And we were standing in the square and I went, huh?
Well, I've seen that before in all different sizes and it wasn't that impressive.
And then I went into the museum where the original is and I cannot tell you what the difference is, but that one is alive.
The other one is not.
Yes.
What is the difference?
And by getting rid of handmade things, don't you think that just changes absolutely everything?
Totally, totally.
And especially when it comes to art with sculpture, with decoration, with figures, with floral things, the hand is where it's at.
And I do.
We use modern technology to cut our marble and our limestone.
But the thing that gets me so excited is to see that guy with his hands actually cutting into the stone and making an Acanta sleeve.
No question with sculpture.
I believe totally with sculpture that it's the key.
And so, yes, the David is a great example because there's a couple of great, great copies in Florence.
And the one that we're all moved by is the one by that Michelangelo guy.
Why is that?
Because they look identical.
Yes, yes, totally.
And they were great.
They were very good sculptors who did it.
And they were copying it as closely as they could.
And so there's something beautiful about the hand.
I'm with you.
And I really want to, and they did that as much as they could at Notre Dame in this new restoration.
And I think we want to, and young people were involved in it.
That's what's also exciting is that young people today want to do things with their hands.
Some people do.
Other people want to do video games.
But, you know, I think there's, I think there's a good future for a lot of this.
Yeah, I think the more we get into AI, there's going to be a real problem of dislocation of people and artists and everything else that we're going to have to figure out soon.
But once we get past that, it's kind of like it's kind of like when clothing went to machine-made.
At first, everybody wanted it made by machine.
Now, if it's handmade, holy cow, is it different?
You know, even from, I was just talking to somebody about, you know, everybody buys ripped jeans now.
We were embarrassed when I was a kid because our moms would patch them.
Now you'll pay $150 extra if they're patched by a machine, but we're trying to buy that authenticity that, yeah, I wore these out, even though we didn't.
You know what I mean?
Yes, yes.
And one of the things that really amazed me was at the roof of Notre Dame, which took about 1,500 trees, some 80 feet tall, that they had to use from the old state forests for the great buildings to make this roof.
1,500 trees.
And most of them were cut by hand using axes.
1,500 trees.
They had 60 men working for three or four years cutting these trees and then forming them into square timbers and then joining them with dovetails and mortise and tenons.
And it was all handmade.
How did they get this done?
I mean, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. took forever.
How did they do this so fast?
Well, I think it was national pride.
And it shows you that the French still have it in them to restore, but I also believe build things of that quality of the Middle Ages.
They still have it.
They have the people that love it.
And even though the elites and the leadership, you know, the political leadership don't think it's valid, but the regular people and the craftsmen, they know this was a high point.
This is a golden age and that we could do it again today.
So I'm very excited about the French.
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I want to export the French, these mastercraftsmen to other countries, especially the U.S. where we can afford it, and get them to train us and lead us to do this in America on a smaller scale or whatever.
But I think we want to do that.
Duncan, thank you.
If you're ever in Dallas, please let me know.
I'd love to have lunch with you sometime.
You're fascinating.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for what you do, Ben.
Thank you for speaking up.
You got it.
Duncan Stroich, he is an architect and the professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame.
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So I want to show you a little Christmas miracle here, I think.
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I think.
Last night I heard that the woman that was behind the lacrosse, the Duke La Crosse stuff, accuser.
Yeah, the accuser came out and said, I made it all up.
And I'm like, what?
And I was just outraged.
I was like, that person should be in prison.
And then I found out she actually is in prison for, I think, murder.
She murdered her boyfriend.
She murdered her boyfriend.
Okay, so she's already in prison.
However, just listen to the, we might get into this next week.
Listen to this 30 second, a 37 second clip here of her talking from prison about this.
And I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't.
And that was wrong.
And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God.
And that was wrong.
And I hope that they can forgive me.
Okay, so that is a very shortened version.
We'll play the longer version, but she talks about God here.
And, you know, how long has she been in prison?
Several years.
Yeah, several years.
She has 14 years' sentence, I think, but it's about nothing.
And I'm not saying anything about her prison sentence or anything else, but there is possibly this might be somebody because of the way she was talking.
We'll play the whole interview.
The way she was talking, she's obviously deeply reading the Bible.
There is a chance that this is one person that went to jail and it humbled them enough to find God, and she really is seeking forgiveness.
I mean, it's what I want to believe for sure.
That's what I want to believe.
You know, it was oddly sincere sounding and feeling.
Yeah.
The interview.
And look, miracles can happen.
Doesn't mean she gets out of prison.
Yeah, no.
The murder counts.
Yeah, that one we're going to take the forgiveness path on that one quite yet.
Quite yet.
Yeah.
Serve your term on that.
But that is great news that somebody can change that much.