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| Dr. David Martin was recently a guest at the European Union and laid out the timeline for the biggest democide in recorded history. | ||
| You can see the full video on band.video. | ||
| This is my short edit. | ||
| Coronavirus was identified in 1965 as one of the first infectious replicatable viral models that could be used to modify a series of other experiences of the human condition. | ||
| What's particularly interesting about its isolation in 1965 was that it was immediately identified as a pathogen that could be used and modified for a whole host of reasons. | ||
| In 1966, the very first COV, coronavirus model, was used as a transatlantic biological experiment in human manipulation. | ||
| And in 1967, we did the first human trials on inoculating people with modified coronavirus. | ||
| The common cold was turned into a chimera in the 1970s. | ||
| And in 1975, 1976, and 1977, we started figuring out how to modify coronavirus by putting it into different animals. | ||
| Pigs and dogs. | ||
| And that became the basis for Pfizer's first spike protein vaccine patent filed. | ||
| Are you ready for this? In 1990. | ||
| And in 1990, they found out that there was a problem with vaccines. | ||
| They didn't work. | ||
| It turns out that coronavirus is a very malleable model. | ||
| It transforms and it changes and it mutates over time. | ||
| As a matter of fact, every publication on vaccines for coronavirus, from 1990 until 2018, every single publication concluded that coronavirus escapes The vaccine impulse. | ||
| In 2002, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill patented, and I quote, an infectious replication defective clone of coronavirus. | ||
| And that work, patented at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, mysteriously preceded SARS 1.0. | ||
| By a year. In 2005, this particular pathogen was specifically labeled as a bioterrorism and bioweapon platform technology. | ||
| And from 2005 onwards, it was actually a biowarfare enabling agent. | ||
| It's official classification. | ||
| We have been lured into believing that EcoHealth Alliance and DARPA and all of these organizations are what we should be pointing to. | ||
| But we've been specifically requested to ignore the fact That over $10 billion have been funneled through black operations through the check of Anthony Fauci and a side-by-side ledger where NIAID has a balance sheet and next to it is a biodefense balance sheet, equivalent dollar-for-dollar matching that no one in the media talks about. | ||
| Poised for human emergence in 2016 at the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, such that by the time we get to 2017 and 2018, the following phrase entered into common parlance among the community. | ||
| There is going to be an accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen. | ||
| Seven months before the allegation of patient number one, four patent applications of Moderna were modified to include the term accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen as the justification for making a vaccine for a thing that did not exist. | ||
| The intent was to get the world to accept a universal vaccine template, and the intent was to use coronavirus to get there. | ||
| This was premeditated domestic terrorism stated at the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015. | ||
| That sounded like a bat and a pangolin went into a bar in the Wuhan market. | ||
| This is an act of biological and chemical warfare perpetrated on the human race. | ||
| See the full video at band.video. | ||
| On this Memorial Day weekend, let us remember our friends and family that we've lost in this war against we the people being waged by our own government. | ||
| And let us never rest until there is justice. | ||
| Reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese. | ||
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It's Wednesday, May 31st, Dear Verlorn, 2023. 2023. | |
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| And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to The American Journal. | ||
| Very, very excited for today's program. | ||
| There's a lot of... | ||
| Just stuff to talk about. | ||
| We have a lot of stuff to talk about. | ||
| We'll be joined in the third hour by George Alexopoulos. | ||
| I hope I'm pronouncing that right. | ||
| Very talented cartoonist. | ||
| I'm sure you will recognize his work, even if you don't recognize his name. | ||
| The beauty of being a cartoonist these days, especially in the meme culture that we're in. | ||
| Your work's often far more... | ||
| Famous than you are, and that's a testament to his talent and ability. | ||
| So very excited to talk to him about creating culture and, of course, the second great meme war that we embark upon in an effort to save Western civilization. | ||
| Oh, it's as silly as it is deadly. | ||
| Deadly serious about all of this. | ||
| We'll be taking your phone calls as well. | ||
| Yesterday, we only were able to take phone calls for one segment. | ||
| We took like 10 calls, and they were all really good. | ||
| So we're going to do that again. | ||
| We're going to just try to take as many of your calls as possible. | ||
| And as succinctly as possible. | ||
| We'll get into all of it. Of course, remember you support everything we do here by going to Infowarsstore.com. | ||
| Fan.video is where you go to share all these links in the previous five minutes. | ||
| We just saw a... | ||
| Pared down version, courtesy of Greg Reese, of a video that we played on American Journal in full and has since gone totally viral. | ||
| If anything can wake up the sleeping, that's got to be it. | ||
| So please do share that link by going to Bandai Video. | ||
| Hit the share button, not the don't copy the URL. Hit the share button and it gives you a disguised link. | ||
| The title of that video is Dave Martin. | ||
| David Martin exposes timeline of biggest democide in recorded history. | ||
| Also, just some exciting sharing news. | ||
| Finally, after weeks of tangling with tech companies, you can now go to AmericanJournal.info. | ||
| AmericanJournal.info is our new sort of homepage slash splash page where you can then find links to band.video and the Infowars store and the live stream on Rumblin and all of our social media. | ||
| Of course, previously it was AmericanJournal.bio.link, but I hated saying that URL. | ||
| So now it's AmericanJournal.info, AmericanJournal.info. Bookmark it and help us to continue our jihad, our holy war as we invade in a crusade-like fashion the former holy lands of the social media platforms our holy war as we invade in a crusade-like fashion the former holy lands of the Thank you. | ||
| I think that's enough rambling. | ||
| Bling, let's get right down to it. | ||
| Here it is, your Daily Dispatch. | ||
| All right, here it is, folks, your Daily Dispatch for Wednesday, the 31st of May, 2023. | ||
| President Trump says he'll end automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens. | ||
| Former President Donald Trump unveiled a new executive order that would overhaul the birthright citizenship process, which he says acts as a magnet incentivizing migrants to illegally enter the United States. | ||
| Kind of sad the way this article is written is as if he's president and as if he's Actually doing this, wouldn't that be a world to live in, where the votes were appropriately counted and we had President Trump still in office? | ||
| But no, this is just an announcement of his day one executive order. | ||
| In other words, as soon as he becomes president, he will implement this executive order. | ||
| To stop illegal aliens from using their unborn babies as passports or green cards to get into this country. | ||
| It only makes sense, folks. | ||
| Next on the docket, get rid of asylum. | ||
| Not because we don't want to be in asylum for the downtrodden, but because we're sick of being taken advantage of. | ||
| So unfortunately, this is why we can't have nice things. | ||
| There's so many videos, people... | ||
| People from Haiti who are living in Colombia who are interviewed as they get in their car with an eight-month pregnant woman, and they're like, yeah, well, she's about to give birth, so we're going to America to use the baby as a shortcut to get around their laws. | ||
| Like, how is this legal? | ||
| What is this? What sort of vestigial frontier law are we working with here? | ||
| This isn't the old days when some family would spend everything they had to buy a ticket across the Atlantic Ocean from Italy, leaving everything behind and starting a new life in America without the possibility of returning home. | ||
| Just like people being ferried here from the UN. So, good on Donald Trump. | ||
| Very excited to see that enacted. | ||
| Meanwhile, some more political news here. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy threatens to hold FBI Director in contempt over stonewalled Biden evidence. | ||
| House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt if the agency continues to shelter the Biden family from congressional investigators seeking key documents. | ||
| ray has until the end of the day uh tuesday to produce several fd 1023 forms records of interactions with confidential sources from june 2020 which contained the word biden the firm the forms were requested by the house oversight chairman james comer after he issued a subpoena to compel the agency to produce the forms we'll get into this a little bit later but this really is an important | ||
| I mean, this is, while it sort of has all of the hallmarks of the typical boring political nonsense that we can ignore, this represents an existential conflict going on. | ||
| This is Really helping to determine who's in charge of this country, the people and their elected representatives or the unelected deep state shadow government. | ||
| Who has the power over whom? | ||
| And this is being decided, and it seems like we already have our answer considering the behavior of the deep state over the last several years. | ||
| We'll keep an eye on that and return to that story a little bit later. | ||
| Russia claims they've destroyed Ukraine's last warship. | ||
| Russia on Wednesday claimed it had destroyed the last major warship of the Ukrainian naval forces, which it said was stationed on the south port of Odessa. | ||
| On May 29th, they say a high-precision strike by the Russian Air Force on a ship-anchored site in the port of Odessa destroyed the last warship of the Ukrainian navy, the Yuri Olyfyrinko, the Russian army said in its daily briefing. | ||
| I'm Lots of developments in the war in Ukraine, as well as the conflict in Serbia and Kosovo, as well as with China as well. | ||
| And we'll get into that a little bit later as we give you our daily update of World War III, just how close we are to the brink. | ||
| Meanwhile, here's a Bit of a groundbreaking event. | ||
| Sort of a barrier we're passing through from which I fear there's no return. | ||
| Denmark Prime Minister delivers a speech partly written by A.I., Danish Prime Minister Met Frederiksen on Wednesday delivered a speech to Parliament partly written using artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to highlight the revolutionary aspects and risks of AI. The head of the Danish government was giving a traditional speech as Parliament gets ready to close for the summer, | ||
| saying, quote, What I have just read here is not from me or any other human for that matter, Frederiksen suddenly said partway into her speech to legislators, explaining it was written by ChatGPT. | ||
| We've covered it before that I believe it's like Hungary. | ||
| I think it's Hungary, but there's an Eastern European country that openly announced they have an AI advisor advising the president as to what to do. | ||
| Of course, we know they've been using AI. I mean, if we have access to ChatGPT and it's free, you can only imagine the level of AI that is available to those in the halls of power. | ||
| So... I think for a while they've been making decisions and asking questions of and being advised by and possibly even reading speeches written by AI. This is the first time that a prime minister, a head of state, has openly delivered a speech written by an unthinking machine. | ||
| Sort of a hallmark event in human history, I think. | ||
| A horrifying one, but there it is. | ||
| Finally, we have this story. 200,000 cows to be culled in order to meet climate targets. | ||
| Internal documents reveal that a $200 million budget is needed to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years to meet completely arbitrary, nonsensical, unscientific climate goals. | ||
| It's completely insane. | ||
| Pat McCormick, president of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association, talked about this on Newstalk.com earlier today. | ||
| But yeah, 200,000 cows to be culled, you know, because John Kerry says so, because Klaus Schwab just decided. | ||
| So now that's happening. | ||
| Completely insane, but so is everything else in this... | ||
| Crazy mixed-up world. | ||
| That's going to do it for us for the Daily Dispatch, folks. | ||
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| We'll be right back. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are on the march here. | ||
| The Empire is doing everything it can to frantically keep hold of the gains it's made over the last several years, but... | ||
| Trying to grab liquid or something, and we just keep slipping through its fingers. | ||
| The harder they squeeze, the more and more people wake up to what's going on and start opposing them. | ||
| There's some interesting... | ||
| Ways this develops. | ||
| We're going to look at a little compare and contrast activity here. | ||
| As of course there's been, now that we are one day away from gay month. | ||
| Used to be called June. | ||
| Not anymore. No, now it is a month dedicated to the deadly sin of pride. | ||
| Obviously there are As a dictate from on high, our world leaders in the global government are, through their financial monopolistic practices, forcing all corporations to bend the knee, bow before their new unsacred religion. | ||
| And that's exactly what this is. | ||
| And when you think about it in that... | ||
| Frame, in that framework, it becomes really obvious what's going on here. | ||
| It's an anti-Christian religion. | ||
| It's an unspiritual religion. | ||
| They think that because they don't have God, they're not a religion, but they have all of the hallmarks of a religion. | ||
| And when you think about it like that, I know I hate just doing the same thing over, imagine if it was them, but you can just imagine if it was Muslims or Christians or Jews or Hindu or any religion really. | ||
| Making the type of demands that this cult makes. | ||
| I should pull the video from... | ||
| The internal Zoom meeting at Target where they're like, you don't have to believe in what we're doing, but you have to pretend you do. | ||
| And eventually, you'll come around. | ||
| Like, okay, this is sick. | ||
| This is sick. This is like an inquisition. | ||
| The gay inquisition. | ||
| And again, we're in this weird position of being attacked and then being told we're the bad people. | ||
| Infowars has this story. | ||
| Target boycotts, quote, literally terrorism, economics professor claims. | ||
| An economics professor on MSNBC claimed the boycotts against Target in response to its LGBTQ campaign for kids are, quote, literally terrorism. | ||
| It's a boycott. | ||
| I mean, people are just not shopping at a store that hates them. | ||
| And that's terrorism, apparently. | ||
| You have to understand, this is the mindset of these people. | ||
| He's not being hyperbolic in his own warped perception of the world. | ||
| It sounds insane to us. | ||
| To him, this makes perfect sense. | ||
| If you oppose us, you are a danger, you are a terrorist, you are a blasphemer and a heretic, and you must be destroyed. | ||
| University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers joined the 11th hour on Monday claiming the boycotts against Target's woke products are a form of terrorism. | ||
| He said one of two things are true. | ||
| It could be Target are cowards and they use this as projection and a smokescreen so they could make a cowardly decision. | ||
| Or it could be they're actually genuinely concerned about the well-being of their employees and they've had credible threats. | ||
| One of these two things are true, and he just says two fake things. | ||
| Two false things, neither one of which apply in the slightest. | ||
| They are losing tens of billions of dollars because of their stand for trans children. | ||
| Again, it's not about pride. Pride's been going on for 20 years. | ||
| Nobody cared when it was just adult products with, like, rainbows on them. | ||
| Do whatever you want. | ||
| We literally couldn't care less. | ||
| Love who you want to love. | ||
| Dress how you want to dress. This is America, after all. | ||
| It used to be what we were all about. | ||
| Now, it's top-down, enforced conformity to this new religion. | ||
| And it wasn't putting rainbows on shirts that got everybody up in arms. | ||
| It was the transgender swimsuits for four-year-olds. | ||
| That's when everybody went, okay, alright, we have to step in now. | ||
| You freaking psychopaths have gone too far, and we have to start rolling it back. | ||
| There's such a thing as too far. | ||
| There's such a thing as not far enough. | ||
| There's such a thing as, you know, oppressing people for lifestyles or beliefs or physical characteristics that they have no control over, and that's wrong too. | ||
| But there's also such a thing as the corrective measures, just kind of like in COVID, interesting parallel, Doing more damage than the thing they're trying to fix. | ||
| But again, it's not just corporations that are doing this, obviously, as one of the only still existing and still in some ways relevant cultural outputs of America, if you can even call that. | ||
| Sports are a very useful tool to these corporations. | ||
| People. MLB pitcher denounces LA Dodgers' decision to honor anti-Catholic hate group at Pride Night. | ||
| Washington Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams has denounced the Los Angeles Dodgers' decision to honor an anti-Catholic hate group at their Pride Night event on June 16th. | ||
| Williams, a Catholic, issued a statement on social media about the team's decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of blasphemous That's what they exist for. | ||
| That's their entire purpose of existing. | ||
| Like how Nazis exist to hate Jews, right? | ||
| You can just imagine a Jewish ballplayer writing a letter being like, actually, I'm not okay with you letting a Nazi rally take place at our game. | ||
| Please don't do that. | ||
| And they're just like, shut up, terrorist! | ||
| You just have to put it in a slightly different context and suddenly it makes sense what's going on here. | ||
| Should, at least. The Dodgers originally disinvited the group after outcry from Catholic fans but caved to pressure from LGBTQ groups and re-invited them. | ||
| He wrote a letter, Williams. | ||
| He says, Williams continued. | ||
| Williams continued. | ||
| Well, I mean, unless you're white and Christian, a little caveat there, a little asterisk next to that particular rule. | ||
| He says, I know I'm not alone in my frustration, hurt, and disappointment about this situation, Williams wrote. | ||
| As Catholics, we look to Jesus Christ and the way he was treated, and we realize the suffering in this world unites us to him in the next. | ||
| As Gateway Pundit previously reported, one of the largest Catholic organizations, Catholic Vote, has raised $1 million to launch a campaign to boycott the L.A. Dodgers. | ||
| I think one aspect of that boycott that should be ignored, everybody should buy this guy's jersey. | ||
| Hey, all of my terrorist minions out there, you want to do some terrorism? | ||
| Go buy this guy's jersey. | ||
| Go, you know, use your money to support this guy and make his jersey the number one seller on the MLB website. | ||
| Make that a story. | ||
| That's real terrorism in the modern day. | ||
| You might get on an FBI list. | ||
| At least you'll get a cool jersey of a faithful guy. | ||
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| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| That's a funny kind of thought experiment. | ||
| I mean, I can say something with pretty much full confidence here. | ||
| It might sound outrageous. If you had a time machine, you go back in time and pick someone up and bring them to the modern day. | ||
| I'm pretty confident in saying that every single United States president from George Washington up to and including Barack Obama, you could take them from the year they were elected, bring them into 2023, every single one of them would vote Republican. | ||
| I don't think there's a single one that would see what the left is doing right now and think, That's good. | ||
| That's my belief. | ||
| That's my position. | ||
| See, it's worth trying to sort of recenter yourself, reground yourself, find the foundation of your beliefs and of our collective beliefs as Americans. | ||
| It stood for hundreds of years in America, thousands of years before that in essence. | ||
| Even Barack Obama, when he was running for president, was against gay marriage. | ||
| Even when he was president, he spoke against illegal immigrants and deported more than every other president combined. | ||
| At that point, see, they call us extremists. | ||
| They call us terrorists for boycotting something. | ||
| They fire you from your job or pressure you with destitution and ostracization if you don't go along with them. | ||
| But their beliefs are utterly unprecedented on the world stage. | ||
| It's unlike anything that's ever come before. | ||
| You think any president in our entire history, if you brought them forward and presented them with like what each side is fighting for, you think a single one of them would be like, I'm on the side of the people who are trying to cut off the genitals of little children and whose entire identity is based around destroying America itself. | ||
| Or hating white people. | ||
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| It's a nice little thought experiment to remind ourselves that we're on the right side of history. | ||
| And we don't have to feel shy about believing the things that we believe because they're true, they work, it's just reality. | ||
| And these weird religious fanatics on the other side I've done a great job over the last 10 years of utterly reorganizing American society to their own vision. | ||
| But don't let them trick you into thinking that somehow it's American to follow these people or it's somehow Christian to bow to the devil. | ||
| You can be strong and resolute in your faith without succumbing to their Claims of terrorism and all this other ridiculous nonsense. | ||
| But that is what's happening. | ||
| And so we just read some of the statement from Trevor Williams, pitcher for the Nationals baseball team. | ||
| I haven't seen what the response is to him yet. | ||
| In other words, he hasn't been fired yet as far as I know. | ||
| There certainly will be some sort of backlash to him releasing a very nice letter to Just defending himself, right? | ||
| Not hating anybody. | ||
| Not even denouncing anybody. | ||
| Just going, why are you bringing in a hate group that specifically exists to mock, denigrate, blaspheme against, and spread hate for my religion? | ||
| What is wrong with you people? | ||
| And they're going to act like this is a former Mets pitcher Trevor Williams, deeply troubled by Dodgers' Pride Night reveal. | ||
| I'm sure you're going to see headlines. | ||
| Dodgers deeply troubled by Trevor Williams defending himself and his religion. | ||
| They don't care. They don't care in the slightest. | ||
| It's tolerance, tolerance, tolerance. | ||
| There's like a phrase where it's like, when I'm in the minority, I'll preach tolerance because that's according to your virtues. | ||
| But once I'm in the minority, I'll practice oppression because that's in my belief. | ||
| See, they want tolerance. | ||
| For them, but they're not willing to extend that to you. | ||
| They're not shy about that. | ||
| They're not about inclusivity or tolerance or diversity. | ||
| They're about total and complete submission. | ||
| Pretty obvious at this point. | ||
| So we're going to, again, compare and contrast two circumstances here. | ||
| The first is that Trevor Williams... | ||
| Quote where he stridently, faithfully comes out, says, I'm a Catholic, four million Catholics in our county alone, and yet you're having a hate group, a Catholic hate group, come and, what, twerk on Jesus for pride? | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| It's insane. We don't need to stand for this. | ||
| On the other hand, you have the Blue Jays. | ||
| Blue Jays Anthony Bass endorses Bud Light target boycotts over LGBTQ promotions. | ||
| Toronto's Blue Jay reliever relieving pitcher Anthony Bass is facing backlash over an Instagram post boycotting Target and Bud Light, which have been publicly supporting LGBTQ rights. | ||
| I feel like I just need to go through and rewrite all of these articles, which has been publicly not supporting LGBTQ rights. | ||
| This makes it look like they're like, we think that people should be able to love who they love. | ||
| And Anthony Bass is like, bankrupt them! | ||
| Bankrupt them! We hate them! | ||
| No, no. When they say supporting LGBT rights, what they mean is transing kids. | ||
| What they mean is indoctrinating children with A transgender ideology that is a cult of death that cannot, by its very nature, produce life and actually precludes reproduction entirely. | ||
| On Tuesday, Bass reposted a video to his Instagram story that appeared to be anti-LGBTLQF and discussed the, quote, biblical reasons Christians should boycott Target and Bud Light. | ||
| These boycotts are still having massive issues. | ||
| Massive impacts, Bud Light risks losing number one status in the U.S. as sales plunge 25.7% in a single week. | ||
| And we're actually going to go to this video from a guy on Instagram called DudeWithGoodNews. | ||
| So this is the video that the Blue Jays relief pitcher posted on Instagram. | ||
| Now he has been forced to apologize for it. | ||
| We'll show you that as well. But first, here's DudeWithGoodNews talking about Target and works of darkness. | ||
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Here's the reason, biblically, why I believe Christians ought to be boycotting Target and Bud Light and any other corporation that's pushing the things they're pushing. | |
| I think a lot of people make this into a political issue. | ||
| Or they say, oh, what's the big deal? | ||
| Is it really going to make that big of a difference if I'm shopping there or not shopping there? | ||
| Here's what the Bible says. | ||
| It tells us what to do as Christians in Ephesians chapter 5. | ||
| It says this. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them, for it is shameful to even talk of the things that they do in secret. | ||
| So what does that mean to take no part? | ||
| Well, what's Target do? | ||
| it's a business. | ||
| They make money. | ||
| They sell things. | ||
| And to take part in that is to take part in that God of Mammon that they're serving and to take part in the darkness that they're purveying and getting out to the world and shoving into children's faces. | ||
| And to take part in that is to give them your money. | ||
| And I believe the Bible gives us radical precedent to say, no, we are running from that. | ||
| And to instead expose those things. | ||
| To shout it to all the people that have ears to hear. | ||
| That this is evil. | ||
| This is demonic. We won't stand for it. | ||
| We're not going to go to the stores anymore and we're not going to give them our money. | ||
| We're going to let our voice be heard so that people can see the light. | ||
| And so that people can be pulled out of the darkness. | ||
| So that was the video that this pitcher posted. | ||
| Then he got the talk. | ||
| Then he got a little talking to. | ||
| And here he is apologizing, groveling in front of his bullies, basically. | ||
| And it looks to all the world like the results of a communist showdown. | ||
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| I just spoke with my teammates and shared with them my actions yesterday, and I apologized with them. | ||
| And as of right now, I'm using the Blue Jays' resources to better educate myself, to make better decisions moving forward. | ||
| The ballpark is for everybody. | ||
| Chilling stuff. | ||
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| We include all. | ||
| All right, folks, welcome back. | ||
| We'll be opening up the phone lines a little bit later in this segment, taking your calls Joined in the third hour. | ||
| All right, yeah, taking your calls throughout the second hour. | ||
| In the third hour, we'll be joined by George Alexopoulos, noted cartoonist. | ||
| Doing some really, really interesting and fascinating and patriotic stuff. | ||
| Excited to talk to him about that. | ||
| First, let's just... | ||
| Again, do another little compare and contrast. | ||
| We're gonna first watch... | ||
| Rewatch that video we just played. | ||
| We'll watch it in full here. This is the Blue Jays pitcher, Anthony Bass. | ||
| He made the mistake of daring to share a message on Instagram with biblical lessons in it. | ||
| Christians saying that boycotting companies that Do evil is actually a good thing and that you shouldn't, under biblical decree, participate in the spreading of sin and evil and things that Christians believe is a foundation of their faith. | ||
| Yeah, how dare he? | ||
| How dare he? | ||
| And so I honestly find this video kind of chilling. | ||
| I kind of find it, like, horrifying that This is the world that we live in now, where this guy has to apologize. | ||
| Now, he's the one that actually is under attack. | ||
| He shares this video, and the responses to it are things like, quote, really regretting my decision not to throw popcorn at him while he was warming up in the bullpen on Saturday, one Twitter user wrote in response to Bass's post. | ||
| He's a clown, added another. | ||
| Right, so just like actually threatening him. | ||
| Actually just like... You better hope I'm not in the crowd next time you're warming up. | ||
| Why? Because he said he doesn't want to participate in the transitioning of children, you psychopaths? | ||
| You religious fanatics? | ||
| Worshipping Satan? Totally insane. | ||
| And so... I would love to see the behind the scenes. | ||
| I really would love to see... | ||
| Like, if any professional ball player, like this guy's not a big name, like people I don't think really knew who this guy was before. | ||
| He's a, you know, national headlines now. | ||
| He's like a relief pitcher, not a major star. | ||
| So, you know, there are tens of thousands probably professional sports players. | ||
| NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, like all these people. | ||
| If one of you guys wants to really make a splash, post something like this. | ||
| Post some statement saying that you don't agree with pride. | ||
| And then act like you're on a reality show and just film everything that happens after. | ||
| I would love to see the phone call that he gets. | ||
| I'd love to see he's called in for very important. | ||
| There's some concerning things we need to talk to you about. | ||
| Like, I'd love to see the pressure tactics that are used. | ||
| Because they're so good at it. | ||
| They're so efficient at it. | ||
| Here you've got a guy who has religious beliefs. | ||
| He has convictions. He's willing to stand up for them. | ||
| And then in like the course of an afternoon, he's out groveling for an apology against the people persecuting him. | ||
| How do you do that? | ||
| How does that work? I don't understand it. | ||
| I don't understand how you can so effectively carry out this inquisition. | ||
| I want to see it in action. | ||
| So if any ballplayer out there wants to really shed a light on how things work, a little hidden cam, a little hidden camera. | ||
| They're like $10 now. A little microphone in your hat or something. | ||
| I would just love to see the pressure tactics that are used. | ||
| I can almost picture them right now, right? | ||
| Because we know how they do it because they do it in public quite often. | ||
| It's not the Spanish Inquisition where they just bust in and are just like, you are not allowed to believe this, apologize, or be destroyed. | ||
| It's always couched in the phrases of concern, right? | ||
| It's always, a lot of people are really worried about you. | ||
| Do you know you've hurt a lot of people? | ||
| You don't want people thinking you're evil, do you? | ||
| After all, you have a pregnant wife and a child at home. | ||
| And we don't want to fire you, but... | ||
| We're facing a lot of backlash here. | ||
| Could you help us out? Simple little statement of apology. | ||
| Right? It's always, look, I'm looking out for you. | ||
| Okay? It's best for you. | ||
| You just abandon your moral principles, denounce your own religion, and kneel before us, your masters. | ||
| Okay? It's just better for all of us if you do that. | ||
| I'd love to see it play out in real time because all this happens behind the scenes. | ||
| But clearly they wield some incredible pressure over these people. | ||
| Because they almost universally succeed in this pressure tactic. | ||
| Again, let's just go again to this video of the Blue Jays pitcher, Anthony Bass, being forced to make a groveling apology about how he's learned and grown. | ||
| He realizes now, Satan was right all along. | ||
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Let's watch. I recognized yesterday I made a post that was hurtful to the Pride community, which includes friends of mine and close family members of mine, and I am truly sorry for that. | |
| I just spoke with my teammates and shared with them my actions yesterday, and I apologized with them. | ||
| And as of right now, I'm using the Blue Jays' resources to better educate myself, to make better decisions moving forward. | ||
| The ballpark is for everybody. | ||
| We include all fans at the ballpark, and we want to welcome everybody. | ||
| That's all I have to say. Thank you. | ||
| All right, that was disturbing. | ||
| I feel like I've seen this before. | ||
| I feel like I've seen this tactic in action. | ||
| In fact, it reminds me of all the way back in, wasn't it, 2018, when a similar apology was made. | ||
| Maybe you'll recognize this one. | ||
| A U.S. student held in North Korea apologizes. | ||
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Let's watch. After I planned in detail to accomplish my plan, I arrived in Pyongyang on December 29th, 2015, through Beijing. | |
| On the early morning of January 1st, 2016, I committed my crime of taking out the important political slogan from the staff-only area of the Angakdo International Hotel aimed at harming the work ethic and the motivation of the Korean people. | ||
| After committing my crime against the people and government of the DPR Korea, I was detained on January 2nd, 2016, at the Pyongyang International Airport. | ||
| I have been very impressed by the Korean government's humanitarian treatment of severe criminals like myself. | ||
| And of their very fair and square legal procedures in the DPR Korea. | ||
| I understand the severity of my crime, and I have no idea what sort of penalty I may face. | ||
| But I am begging to the Korean people and government for my forgiveness. | ||
| And I am praying to the heavens so that I may be returned home to my family. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Kind of similar, if you ask me. | ||
| Kind of a similar vibe I get from both of those. | ||
| Obviously, North Korea has much more leeway in the tactics that they use, yet the outcome is pretty much the same. | ||
| Even in some cases where you see this type of reversal where somebody comes out and just says something normal and Christian, and they're just like, actually, I don't support this. | ||
| Then like maybe it takes a little while, like a couple weeks later, they're like, okay, this is not worth it. | ||
| My life has been destroyed over this. | ||
| These people are psychopaths. | ||
| I'm just going to try to get them off my back at this point. | ||
| But this one seems like it happened in about 12 hours. | ||
| Seems like he posts this video, and it's just a biblical video about... | ||
| Biblical beliefs saying, yeah, it's right to boycott places that don't have your values. | ||
| It's right to spend your money with people who believe the things you believe. | ||
| Everybody believes that. | ||
| No group of people that would argue against that in theory. | ||
| But I guess if you're Christian, the rules are all a little bit different. | ||
| But again, I would just love to see the pressure that's wielded against these people to have them so dramatically reverse themselves. | ||
| Completely insane. And then, of course, he's just like, actually, if you're a Christian, maybe don't support Satanist. | ||
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And everybody's just like, I will kill you if I see you. | |
| I will throw things at you. | ||
| You better watch your back. | ||
| Just like, good Lord. | ||
| Screw these people. Screw them. | ||
| They will not give you just even the slightest... | ||
| Bit of leniency. They're not concerned about hurting your feelings. | ||
| Like, that's things like, I understand that a lot of my friends and family were hurt by what I did. | ||
| It's like, if they're your friends and family, then they probably understand what you were saying. | ||
| They probably were not offended by what you posted. | ||
| If they were, as a friend, you need to tell them to grow up. | ||
| People have different beliefs. And yours is not the brand new one that needs to be proven out. | ||
| Yours is actually the... One that built Western civilization and provided for the most free, fair, prosperous nations on Earth. | ||
| So, you know, if they're your friend and they're, like, hurt by you posting something Christian, like, I don't know if they should really be your friend. | ||
| But also, do they care? | ||
| Do they care? | ||
| They're, like, doing strip shows on Jesus on the cross. | ||
| And you're like, hey, this is kind of offensive. | ||
| And they're just like, shut up, terrorist. | ||
| They don't care that they offend you. | ||
| You shouldn't care if you offend them. | ||
| The second hour has begun here on American Journal. | ||
| We'll be taking your calls this hour, joined by George Alexopoulos in the third hour. | ||
| Very excited to talk to him. Very excited to talk to you as well. | ||
| We'll give out the number on the other side. | ||
| I want to go to this video first because we are going to talk about the international situation here. | ||
| And this is a video from George Galloway, incredible thinker, patriot. | ||
| I don't agree with him on everything. | ||
| But he's dead on when it comes to the anti-imperialistic stance that he has against America, Britain, NATO, and all these. | ||
| Here he gives a breakdown, a little bit of the history of Kosovo and Serbia and NATO's involvement with that country. | ||
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Let's watch. They were partying like it was 1999. | |
| In fact, it was in 1999 when peaceful NATO were partying here in a European capital, the city of Belgrade. | ||
| They tell you that NATO is a defensive organisation. | ||
| Tell that to the people of former Yugoslavia. | ||
| Tell that to the people of Belgrade. | ||
| For almost three months, they were bombing and killing here in the heart of Europe. | ||
| NATO is, as it has always been, a front for the American empire. | ||
| If you're supporting it, you're acting against the interests of the people of Europe. | ||
| You're acting in the interests of the continuing domination of the globe by the United States of America. | ||
| They even bombed the Chinese embassy here in 1999. | ||
| They silenced the television station, not by ordinance, but yes, by ordinance of the exploding kind. | ||
| They killed 16 employees of the state radio and television, the equivalent of the BBC in Belgrade, including makeup ladies and tea ladies. | ||
| They did so in order to complete the destruction and the dismemberment of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. | ||
| Nobody much said or did anything against it, in Britain or in Europe as a whole. | ||
| Myself, in Parliament, it's a period of which I'm inordinately proud. | ||
| Under the leadership of the late Mr. | ||
| Benn, Tony Benn, the greatest Prime Minister we never had, we fought a rearguard action in Parliament against the destruction of Yugoslavia. | ||
| We failed, like we failed again just a few years later in Iraq. | ||
| The world has changed. Nobody can bomb a Chinese embassy now. | ||
| Nobody can stand up to the new Eurasian development which is taking place on this planet, where most of the people and most of the wealth of the planet resides. | ||
| We're in a new world. | ||
| It's just not the new world order that the so-called West, which is, I remind you, just 10% of the world's population, think or thought that it was going to be. | ||
| Their new world order has been still born. | ||
| A better world order, a more just world order, is in the process of being born. | ||
| These are useful reminders of just exactly the nature of the beast that is nature. | ||
| We're here in Belgrade and we can say these things without fear of seizure, of our assets, without fear of imprisonment. | ||
| Seven years imprisonment. | ||
| If I was to say what I've just said through the mediums that would reach a large number of people, I could end up next door to Julian Assange. | ||
| Just thinking. Very interesting thoughts from George at Galloway, and we'll get into the international situation here on the other side, as well as taking your phone calls. | ||
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| I don't know if I've ever heard Alex so profusely complimenting a caller like he did to Simon yesterday for good reason. | ||
| Simon's got his finger on the pulse of international goings on. | ||
| And so I wanted to bring him on today to talk about some of the developments that I've always had a story about it on my desk, but I haven't really been able to get to it this week. | ||
| And that is simultaneously China is refusing to acknowledge or even talk to their American counterparts, but they are involved in some very interesting meetings going on starting this week on Friday. | ||
| Simon, thank you for calling in. | ||
| Give us a lowdown. What do you think people need to know? | ||
| Hello there, Harrison. So this is just going to be very brief, and this is literally just a warning of an event that is shaping up to be quite a big confrontation between The U.S. Secretary of Defense and his Chinese counterpart, Mr. | ||
| Shang Fu. He's actually a four-star general, Shang Fu. | ||
| And what's important to know here is that it's actually going to be at the 20th Shangri-La Security Conference. | ||
| I know that sounds like a mystical city somewhere in the Orient. | ||
| It's actually an event that happens in Singapore. | ||
| People can look it up at hashtag IIS. That's the International Institute of Strategic Studies. | ||
| Now, the reason why this is important, as you have already indicated, the Chinese Defence Department have been refusing to communicate for several months now with the United States Defence Department. | ||
| And the purpose of this conference is actually to talk about European involvement in the Indo-Pacific. | ||
| Now, China is pretty much hopping mad about that. | ||
| They regard that as being direct interference into their backyard. | ||
| And what should be noted here is Secretary Austin is going to speak, then some Europeans are going to speak. | ||
| Shang Fu is going to be one of the last speakers. | ||
| Now, this has been in the offing for a while, but General Shang Fu has only confirmed his attendants On Monday, but this week. | ||
| So much like a tennis match or an American football match, there's a lot of gamesmanship about will he turn up, won't he turn up, that he's going to be outnumbered effectively 10 to 1. | ||
| So this is an opportunity for him to basically conduct a tabletop exercise and take on the whole of NATO. And if he pulls this off, It's going to be an incredible point of prestige for him. | ||
| Now, people should imagine this like the Battle of Midway. | ||
| They can see the remake, or perhaps they can watch the 1976 version with Charlton Heston. | ||
| Excellent, excellent movie. | ||
| Now, imagine that you're going to replay that entire scenario, but on a tabletop exercise, so nobody gets hurt and it's just generals moving pieces around on the board. | ||
| But this is basically going to set the table for whether or not Europe should rally to assist the United States in containing China in the first string of islands and potentially be ready to intervene in an armed conflict in Taiwan. | ||
| So this is very, very, very important for the Chinese. | ||
| He's going to be speaking after Austin, so that gives him a big tactical advantage. | ||
| And what they're going to be attempting to achieve is a complete humiliation like they did to Secretary Blinken when China last had a big meeting with the Americans in Alaska. | ||
| Right, and I haven't been hearing much about this at all, except from what I've seen on your Twitter. | ||
| Do you think that the American establishment sort of expects this to go poorly for them, so they're trying to downplay it now and not pump it up? | ||
| I imagine most of the reporting on this, as you've discussed, is coming from China. | ||
| They're looking forward to this event. | ||
| It doesn't seem like the West is looking forward to that. | ||
| Do you think that sort of portends what the outcome is going to be? | ||
| Well, funnily enough, it was mentioned recently in the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| They put out a very short two or three paragraph article that detailed that the U.S. Defense Department had requested a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of the conference. | ||
| And the Chinese Defense Department had not only refused that, but they had done so in a very rude manner. | ||
| Now, it's important to note that the Chinese Secretary of Defense has actually been on an individual U.S. sanctions list for five years. | ||
| Right. or the People's Liberation Army of China, but it's also a matter of national prestige and it's an opportunity for him to get his personal revenge. | ||
| It wouldn't surprise me, frankly, at this point if Secretary Austin suddenly and very unfortunately contracts COVID and is unable to travel. | ||
| But if he does go, and I'm sure his military pride will be compelling him to attend and take on the challenge, Then it has the makings of a really major confrontation. | ||
| Now, I'm sure if it does go bad that the U.S. press will basically not cover the event at all. | ||
| But you can rest assured that I'll be on top of it. | ||
| And whatever the outcome, should you be interested, I'll be happy to bring details to you on InfoWars next week. | ||
| Of course. I've not so jokingly referred to you as like our foreign correspondent because honestly you really have your finger on the pulse here and there's so much stuff that it does seem incredibly important and yet I don't see it anywhere but you're always trolling the international newspapers that tend to actually shine light on some of this stuff. | ||
| If you don't mind, Simon, I'd like to come back to you on the other side of a break. | ||
| We're about to go to break in just a few seconds. | ||
| Just to elaborate a little bit more on this, again, if people don't know, Li Shengfu was actually really recently appointed to his position just earlier this year, a couple months ago, on the 12th of March, he was appointed to his position. | ||
| And the reason that they're rejecting conversations with our Defense Department is they say, well, you have him on sanctions, so he's not allowed to talk to you. | ||
| In a very sort of backhanded way, you know, blaming us for not being able to talk. | ||
| You got to wonder, you know, what our defense department is thinking about all this. | ||
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| We're talking about World War III, the fault lines being drawn. | ||
| And this stuff is really fascinating to me. | ||
| I mean, we can talk about propaganda and the LGBTQ program. | ||
| Like, we can talk about all that stuff until we're blue in the face. | ||
| What we're talking about here has this air of international intrigue, of gamesmanship, of the art of war, as these, you know, superpowers are, you know, it's like boxers getting a read of each other before a fight. | ||
| It's just totally fascinating and underreported by the American press, and Simon is breaking down for us What the real import of this is and how these events are being perceived by people outside of the United States which I think is so valuable. | ||
| If you search this general's name in China, Li Shengfu, you get a lot of versions of this headline, essentially. | ||
| China turns down U.S. invitation for defense chief's meeting in Singapore. | ||
| Pentagon has requested an encounter between Lloyd Austin and Li Shengfu, who's under sanctions, at a forum in June. | ||
| But they've denied it. | ||
| It's not the first time that they've denied a meeting with their American counterparts. | ||
| In fact, they've been... | ||
| Sort of leaving us on red, right? | ||
| Ghosting us since 2021. | ||
| China has declined or failed to respond to more than a dozen requests for senior level meetings in addition to multiple requests for working level meetings. | ||
| And again, I get this air of they're just like, well, we don't have to meet with you. | ||
| We don't want to. We don't have to. | ||
| What are you going to do about it, right? | ||
| It's this law of power sort of thing. | ||
| Or if you want to show that you're more powerful than somebody else, you show up late to show they have to wait for you. | ||
| Your time is more important than theirs. | ||
| It's this high-level gamesmanship and mind games being played. | ||
| And it's not just a game. | ||
| I mean, the outcome of this will determine whether we all die in nuclear hellfire. | ||
| So, I mean, it's kind of important, potentially, right? | ||
| So... That's a story that you see over and over in Financial Times. | ||
| From the IISS, China's Minister of National Defense Li Shang-Fu is set to address ISS Shangri-La dialogue. | ||
| This is that meeting. It's called the Shangri-La dialogue. | ||
| It takes place in Singapore from the 2nd of June until the 4th of June this year. | ||
| So it's coming up this weekend. | ||
| Simon, you described this as sort of a... | ||
| Tabletop version of the Battle of Midway. | ||
| Battle of Midway, giant Pacific theater battle in World War II against Japan. | ||
| Can you elaborate a little bit on that metaphor? | ||
| Why do you see this as being the equivalent to a Battle of Midway? | ||
| Well, Harrison, if I may say, your summary there was excellent. | ||
| And when you describe some of these aspects, it's not just theoretical. | ||
| These are playing out in real time. | ||
| So if people search around, they will find that there was recently a close-in air intercept of an American RC-135 biplane that was flying in a declared military exercise zone where the Chinese were putting one of their aircraft carriers I'm sorry. | ||
| Thank you for bringing that up. | ||
| I meant to mention that when I first brought you on. | ||
| Here's the story from Inside Paper. | ||
| China says U.S. plane in South China Sea incident broke into military training area. | ||
| They said on Wednesday the U.S. surveillance aircraft involved in a confrontation last week over South China Sea broke into a military training area. | ||
| They say this reconnaissance plane deliberately broke into our training area to carry out reconnaissance and interference. | ||
| That's what the Chinese military spokesperson's Spokesperson says, they said in a statement adding that China had sent aircraft to track and monitor the jet according with laws and regulations. | ||
| And again, just the latest in a long series of, I don't know if you'd call them provocations, but they'll do a simulation where they show that in their war games, they can eliminate all of the aircraft carriers around China in an afternoon, right? | ||
| And then they make this public and just show these animations of American warships being obliterated. | ||
| I mean, this is... This is, again, high-level gamesmanship going on where they're sort of announcing their intentions. | ||
| But yeah, thank you for bringing that up because I did mean to mention that. | ||
| Sorry, go on, Simon. No, that's quite all right. | ||
| This is exactly how you and I are cooperating, filling in details to the audience on stories that they may not otherwise come across. | ||
| And it's my honor to be able to do this with you. | ||
| And so if people think back, and maybe some of the younger Inca warriors won't be intimately familiar with the details of the Battle of Midway, I would really encourage them to watch the original Charlton Heston movie. | ||
| It's a very enjoyable way of updating your historical knowledge. | ||
| And one of the key points in that, and this directly relates to the nature of the activities of that American spy plane, is it was an intended battle. | ||
| That determined the outcome of the Second World War theater of the Pacific. | ||
| And it was a huge confrontation between U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers before the era of satellites. | ||
| They didn't have photo reconnaissance. | ||
| It was just seaplanes. | ||
| Now, the key breakthrough for the Americans was being able to decrypt some of the Japanese communication. | ||
| And that gave them an idea of when they were going to advance to a particular point. | ||
| And so they were able to do an enormous naval ambush on a huge scale. | ||
| Now, despite defeating the Japanese and actually thinking of severely damaging Four aircraft carriers in a single day. | ||
| There was a massive loss of life of the American Navy pilots who were largely all shot down and many then were lost to sea in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. | ||
| So when I'm drawing these comparisons here is to give people a scale of it. | ||
| Now, I'm not saying that this weekend the Japanese Navy is going to fight against the American Navy, but the heads I think it's important to note that We're going to send aircraft carrier groups to the South China Sea. | ||
| And then in 2025, assuming they can get it to work, the British Navy are going to send an aircraft carrier task force to the South China Sea. | ||
| So this is all part of this NATO expansion into Asia with the cooperation of the Australians, the Japanese, and the South Koreans. | ||
| And the Chinese are furious about it. | ||
| And at an enormous pace, as recently discussed in the US Senate, whilst the Russians are building up in the Arctic, the Chinese are expanding their Pacific naval forces as fast as they possibly can. | ||
| Yeah, so this really is a showdown for the benefit of all of these other countries as they both, I almost just get the picture of like two roosters kind of like puffing up their chest and squawking at each other. | ||
| The fight hasn't started yet, but they both want to just show off, I'm the strong one, you should come with me because I can protect you. | ||
| You know, the other guy's weaker than me. | ||
| It really is just a fascinating example of... | ||
| Hopefully not a build-up to World War III, but we'll certainly be keeping our eye on it, and we thank you so much, Simon, for keeping us updated on all of this. | ||
| And again, here's a quote from Bonnie Glasser, a China expert of the German Marshall Fund. | ||
| She says, It's worrisome that the Chinese fail to see the inherent risks and prolonged suspension of U.S.-China military-military dialogue. | ||
| That's an interesting way of begging them to talk to you. | ||
| I mean, America does not seem like we are the strong party in this confrontation. | ||
| And that should worry us because, hey, we're American after all. | ||
| Incredible stuff. Thank you for that, Simon. | ||
| We'll be right back. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We are going to be taking your calls until the 10 o'clock Central time slot when we will be joined by George Alexopoulos. | ||
| We're excited to talk to him. | ||
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| We are broadcasting live on this Wednesday, the 31st of May. | ||
| And we'll just go out to your phone calls right now. | ||
| There's still a little bit more to talk about in terms of war and climate change and there's still some more just absolutely insane COVID news coming out. | ||
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| Massive rise, unexplained rise in cancer and unexplained deaths in young people. | ||
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| According to an Israeli study, nobody in Israel under the age of 50 died of COVID. Sort of shocking. | ||
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| Let's go to Leora in Georgia. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. Leora, you're on the air. | ||
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Yes, Harrison Smith. | |
| You asked me to call back on Tuesday. | ||
| But I couldn't even get the doggone phone to ring except to hang up on me. | ||
| Well, I appreciate it. | ||
| I took your call at the very end of the show, and I had to cut you off and fell back for it. | ||
| Well, thank you so much for calling in. | ||
| I'm glad you did. What's on your mind, Leora? | ||
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I just wanted to say I'm going to focus on what you were asking about China. | |
| I also want to get on another line to be able to give information about That I feel would be important and interesting and as well as contact information. | ||
| Stuff like that that you don't put on the air, I don't believe. | ||
| But anyway, yes, I just wanted to say that the Chinese people in a lot of cases, they're actually good people, but the military that is following the government is no better than the cesspool in Washington, D.C., as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| Right. That's my opinion, but I think it's a good opinion. | ||
| I really do. No, you're exactly right. | ||
| It's a good point to make because any time that we talk about Geopolitics and that sort of stuff. | ||
| Like, clearly we're talking about the organizing superstructures of these people, not the people, not the Chinese people. | ||
| I have no ill will to the Chinese people. | ||
| I sure as hell don't want to be under their governmental system. | ||
| Just like when I talk about Israel, I have no ill will towards the Israelis or Jews or anything. | ||
| But I do have a problem with their military adventurism. | ||
| Same way that I talk about the USA. I love the American people. | ||
| I am American. And I love me. | ||
| But I... Pretty strongly despise the people that are running our country right now. | ||
| So yeah, I know when we talk about this stuff, maybe we go hard on these things, but that's a good distinction to make, that what we want is for the Chinese people to be free and prosperous, just like we want to be free and prosperous. | ||
| And the things stopping us from doing that are the cooperating governments of the Chinese Communist Party and what apparently is the American Communist Party, aka the Democrats. | ||
| But yeah, thank you for making that distinction, Liora. | ||
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You're welcome. I was just going to also say that you might have connections to the Jewish. | |
| I know one thing. | ||
| I have got a spiritual daughter that has got a background in that, and I came from that, but she also was a Christian and a strong one. | ||
| But I'm just going to say to you They say older than dirt. | ||
| I'm older than Roger Stone. | ||
| I'll tell you that much. | ||
| You sound sprightly, Leora. | ||
| Wisdom. Huh? | ||
| I said you sound sprightly. | ||
| You sound like you have a young soul. | ||
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Well, thank you. Well, thank you. | |
| I'm fighting, of course, physical problems, but I never would take the vaccine. | ||
| I'm not stupid like that. | ||
| Good for you. And I'm not saying that the others are stupid, but I just feel like they were victimized. | ||
| Some of them forced on them. | ||
| Absolutely. So there's a lot of stuff going on. | ||
| 100%. Well, thanks so much for calling in, Lou. | ||
| You had a question about contact information before we get to another caller? | ||
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I need to get on to the other line and give my contact information and also have the contact That information sent to my phone, my phone shows up, doesn't it? | |
| If it doesn't, I can give it to you. | ||
| Interesting. Okay, well, stay on the line and we'll talk to you behind the scenes here. | ||
| If you do want to get in contact with us, that's something that we've set up here at American Journal. | ||
| If you go to AmericanJournal.info, there's an email icon. | ||
| Click that and that's a special tip email address. | ||
| We're already getting some emails, some tips and some stories from people. | ||
| So if you do want to get in contact with us, AmericanJournal.info has the email address. | ||
| We also just added the Spotify playlist there. | ||
| So our sound engineer, Sean, is very good at keeping track of all the songs that we play. | ||
| And I know people ask all the time, get a lot of calls or messages from people, what was that song you're just playing? | ||
| I'm like, you gotta ask Sean, man. | ||
| So now you can go to AmericanJournal.info and click the Spotify icon there. | ||
| And there he is, sitting in the shadows. | ||
| Operating from the shadows, Sean the sound engineer. | ||
| But yeah, the Spotify playlist is there for your enjoyment. | ||
| So if you like any of the songs we play, they're all there on the Spotify playlist at AmericanJournal.info as we continue to find new outlets to connect to our audience. | ||
| Let's go now to Rick from Mississippi. | ||
| Thanks for calling in, Rick. | ||
| We don't get a lot of calls from Mississippi. | ||
| I would think we'd get more. | ||
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Go ahead, Rick. You're on the air. Hey, man, hard to follow up on that, but I was just thinking this morning, you know, I've been listening to y'all for a while, and I just, how much my life has changed since I started getting informed. | |
| I was in the, while I was holding, I was thinking, you know, my kids are 10, 8, 7, and even they flip the labels around to look to see if something has red dye in it or stuff like that. | ||
| They only drink out of the Alexa Pure. | ||
| They take their eye out on it every day. | ||
| Like, things that, I don't have to tell them, they just do it. | ||
| And I was just wondering, you know, if you had some people call in on how much their life has changed since they started waking up. | ||
| My garden's gotten bigger. | ||
| I have animals now. | ||
| I mean, it's just... | ||
| My whole life has changed because of y'all. | ||
| And I just thought it'd be kind of cool to hear a couple people call in and just, you know, kind of vouch for that on how... | ||
| You know, before y'all, I thought I was a prepper. | ||
| Since y'all, I am a prepper. | ||
| And a lot of things have changed. | ||
| And I just thought it'd be cool to have different people call in and say, you know, how their lives change because of y'all. | ||
| Oh, we love when people call in and let us know that because, again, we're not just here to whine and complain about stuff. | ||
| We really think it's about collective individual action, right? | ||
| A pack of lone wolves. | ||
| Right? We don't want people being in some sort of, you know, uniformed, like, you must do this then. | ||
| But we do need people cooperating and working together and working individually to improve their own lives. | ||
| I mean, I always say when people are like, are we doomed? | ||
| Is our society doomed? It's like, I'm not doomed. | ||
| My family's not doomed. | ||
| My sister's family's not doomed. | ||
| My parents aren't. We're not doomed. | ||
| So how can we as a collective be doomed? | ||
| And that's really what it's all about. | ||
| We don't need or require top-down control to set things right. | ||
| We need bottom-up revolution in your own personal life to combat the various attacks that we're under. | ||
| I think that's a great idea, Rick, and we love when people call in and let us know how we've helped them. | ||
| And a lot of times it's just... | ||
| I really just think we're like this island and people are lost at sea and they're just they're looking around there's like everything's crazy everyone's insane and they're like maybe I'm insane because I'm the only one that seems to recognize what's going on here and we can provide that safe harbor for people with open arms going you're not crazy it's you you're right actually they are all crazy and you know it doesn't mean we hate them or you know don't want you to interact then you got to interact with crazy people sometimes That's life, | ||
| man, but just to avoid the... | ||
| The whole connotation of like, yes, you're with us now. | ||
| Ignore those. No, you want to be a full participant in your neighborhood and your community, your family and your life, but at the same time, be able to forcefully, not even forcefully, but just confidently assert what you know to be true. | ||
| And hopefully we can provide that respite for people just to just go, no, there's actually millions of people that think just like you because this is the obvious reality. | ||
| That, you know, everybody arrives to really without overt propaganda forcing them towards the lie. | ||
| So hopefully we can be that respite for everybody. | ||
| Folks, welcome back. | ||
| It's the American Journal. We'll go to your phone calls shortly. | ||
| I do want to give some updates to what's going on in Ukraine. | ||
| Very interesting things coming out about this, but I regret... | ||
| Regret to have to inform you that not one of them seems to be edging us towards peace whatsoever. | ||
| Now every update we receive on an almost hourly basis at this point is the upping the ante, more aggressive, closer and closer to direct outright confrontation with Russia. | ||
| Which you can just imagine being Russia right now. | ||
| USA just like, well, we're not at war with you as we just like fund and organize and coordinate and provide intelligence for and weapons for and it's just like it's like the annoying little brother being like not hitting you, not touching you, I'm not touching you. | ||
| But you know what you're doing, jackass. | ||
| Logo of the Democratic Party for a reason. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| So here's some of the latest. French General says the solution for Ukraine will appear when Biden and others who hold Zelensky leave power. | ||
| He says, quote, I think the results of the special operation in Ukraine will play a decisive role in the U.S. presidential election, and in November 2024 there will be light at the end of the tunnel. | ||
| He says the Ukraine conflict is only part of the global struggle against Western hegemony. | ||
| The economy of the West is seriously weakened, so Russia is doing the right thing by not pushing in Ukraine. | ||
| First, it saves strength. Second, time works for her. | ||
| The West is getting weaker every day, so the balance of power is now in favor of Russia. | ||
| Again, he says that once the people that are pulling Zelensky's puppet strings get replaced, hopefully by somebody like Trump that doesn't want war, doesn't want to see people die and kill each other over nonsense— Then maybe we'll see some relief, but clearly the American warmongers are the ones pushing this and organizing it from the beginning. | ||
| But in terms of accelerations, in terms of provocations being made, Ukraine's ex-Dutch F-16s could wreak havoc on Russian air defenses. | ||
| Fifteen months into Russia's wider war on Ukraine, Ukrainian officials have finally convinced Kiev's allies to donate F-16 fighters to the war effort. | ||
| While no panacea, the nimble supersonic fighters could significantly boost Ukraine's air force defensive and offensive capabilities. | ||
| Nowhere is this more evident than the Air Force's faltering effort to suppress Russian air defenses. | ||
| Ukraine has already received special radar-seeking missiles and a number of other very high-tech weapons. | ||
| A giant amount of high-tech weaponry. | ||
| In response to this, Russia has now moved nuclear bombers to Belarus in a staging for what is apparently a European mission. | ||
| Meanwhile, Germany orders Russia to close four out of five of its consulates in a tit-for-tat move. | ||
| The German government said Wednesday that it has told Russia to close four out of five of its consulates general in Germany in a tit-for-tat move after Moscow set a limit for the number of staff at the German embassy and related bodies in Russia. | ||
| Again, it just feels like we're living through the build-up to something like World War II or World War I. Clearly it's not getting any better as countries start closing consulates, sending more advanced offensive weaponry, and the people in power of the so-called Western hegemony clearly driving us in a suicidal way towards conflict with Russia for, again, no particular reason. | ||
| That's stated, right? | ||
| There are reasons. They're just secret and hidden and disguised and camouflaged with... | ||
| Democracy. Let's talk about our democracy, shall we? | ||
| Let's talk about the democracy of the Ukraine that we apparently have to go to World War III over to support. | ||
| The free and fair and open society of Ukraine. | ||
| U.S. citizen in Ukraine faces 13 years in prison for supporting Russian actions and criticizing Zelensky. | ||
| Ah, yes, it's one of those types of democracies. | ||
| It's one of those democracies where if you criticize the president, you go to jail for 13 years. | ||
| Wow, it really is. It's an American-style democracy. | ||
| Gonzalo Lira, a prominent YouTuber and columnist, has gained recognition for his financial articles featured in renowned platforms such as Business Insider and Zero Hedge. | ||
| Lira has notably emerged as a vocal critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. | ||
| And he, of course, is an American citizen. | ||
| He's now been detained by Ukrainian authorities after expressing support for Russian actions and criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. | ||
| Gonzalo... According to official press release, Gonzalo Lira was detained by the Ukrainian Security Services of Ukraine in early May for publicly justifying the Russian invasion. | ||
| Just not a democracy. | ||
| Just not free. Just has nothing to do with what we formerly saw as our values and foundational beliefs in this country. | ||
| Not only is it Never has existed and is non-existent in Ukraine. | ||
| Doesn't really exist in the West in general. | ||
| British police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg interrogate him about the gray zone. | ||
| This is from thegrayzone.com. | ||
| counter-terror police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London's Luton Airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for the gray zone. | ||
| As soon as he landed in his home country of Britain on May 17, 2023, six anonymous plainclothes counter-terrorist officers detained him. | ||
| They quickly escorted him to a back room where they grilled him for over five hours about his reporting for this outlet. | ||
| They also inquired about his personal opinion on everything from the current British political leadership to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| Of course, David Icke was also put on the terror watch list and prevented from entering certain countries. | ||
| Again, it's like, what are we We don't even have free speech or democratic ideals in this country or Western Europe in general, but we're going to war and going to start a nuclear conflict over democracy in Ukraine, which will arrest you and throw you in jail for 13 years for simply opposing the ruling party or saying that, hey, Russia might actually have a good reason for carrying out this operation. | ||
| It just really goes to show How fallen the West has already become and how all of what's going on in the international front simply moves us further down the path towards absolute despotism. | ||
| With that, we go out to your calls. | ||
| Vince in Colorado has called in about a patriotic response that we can all take by ourselves. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. Vince, you're on the air. | ||
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Hello, Harrison Smith. | |
| How are you? Good, thank you. | ||
| Okay, um... | ||
| Here's the first thing that I want to mention, and that is that we need full-spectrum patriots right now in America. | ||
| And to just kind of preface this, every American should be able to defend themselves in front of a judge before they graduate high school, or we are serfs. | ||
| And this is a feudal system. | ||
| So, if you... | ||
| Look over there on Rumble, hashtag Patriot Battle Plan. | ||
| I put up, it's DIY, open source. | ||
| I went through a whole whiteboard of what we need to do, and it's basically three things. | ||
| We need to learn the law. | ||
| We need to defund everything, as evidenced by all the boycotting, and it's actually working. | ||
| We need to take that all away, and we need to just We're good to go. | ||
| Go ahead. Well, we'll finish up quickly because I do want to get to another call here, but I think you're exactly right. | ||
| Hashtag Patriot Battle Plan on Rumble, you said. | ||
| I think that's a great idea, and I think you're exactly right about the necessity of us to understand and be able to operate within the legal bounds as they stand now. | ||
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Final thoughts, Finns? Yeah, they are now stealing Rumble followers now, just like they were doing it on YouTube. | |
| And what I think that's going on, they just want to keep us all dumbed down as much as possible. | ||
| I'm shadowbanned on Truth. | ||
| I'm shadowbanned on Getter. | ||
| I don't know much about whether or not I'm shadow banned on Gab or anything, but if I could shout out my handle, I'd really love for people to come follow me, and I'll help anybody out. | ||
| All right, go ahead. | ||
| What's your handle, Vince? | ||
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You've got to go to learn the law. | |
| What's your handle? | ||
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Vince Able World. | |
| Vince Able World. | ||
| And then on Twitter, it's G-O-E underscore project. | ||
| G-O-E underscore project. | ||
| That's my fifth Twitter account, by the way. | ||
| Well, keep it up. Keep up the good work. | ||
| Keep up fighting, and this is exactly what we need. | ||
| Brilliant stuff. Thank you for that. | ||
| I want to go quickly to Frank in Ohio. | ||
| We only have one minute left, but the comment that you called in is just, Bud Light was pure power. | ||
| What do you mean by that, Frank? Harrison, good morning, man. | ||
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Hey, I just want to say that what we witnessed with the Bud Light thing was the American people taking complete control. | |
| It wasn't protesting. | ||
| No buildings were burned down. | ||
| No people were assaulted. | ||
| What happened was we simply stopped giving them our money. | ||
| And that is where the power really is, is with their worthless fake money. | ||
| And now look, it goes on to Twitter. | ||
| Is this Frank Kavanaugh? | ||
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Yeah, man. Frank from Ohio. | |
| I would have known. | ||
| No, you're exactly right. | ||
| That is where the power lies. | ||
| And you can see why they're so desperate to keep us fighting against each other and dislocated and not able to come together because it turns out we all come together doing something as simple as not shopping at Target or not buying Bud Light. | ||
| What an easy sacrifice to make. | ||
| We have them on their knees. | ||
| It's amazing. Frank Cavanaugh, thank you so much for calling in. | ||
| What a surprise. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the third hour of the American Journal on Infowars.com and Band.video. | ||
| I'm very excited to welcome my guest, George Alexopoulos. | ||
| He's an American award-winning cartoonist, artist, podcaster, game developer, and comic book author. | ||
| The highly detailed and vibrant art style of his cartoons really make them stand out. | ||
| As they feature figures and agendas of modern-day liberalism, episodes of his podcast, Podlomatic, along with other videos like breakdowns of his cartoon creations, can be found on YouTube at GeorgeAlexopolis9221. | ||
| People can purchase a copy of his book, Goofberry Pie, on the PokeDot Etsy, or support his work on his personal Etsy, Studio NJ. Lots of ways to find him, but you can get links to all of that by going to his Twitter at Gprime85. | ||
| Thank you so much for coming on, George. | ||
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Thank you, Harrison, for the invite. | |
| I regret the circumstances of which we met but I'm glad we're talking now. | ||
| Yeah, it was sort of unfortunate, but it was, you know, I think this is sort of, we're in uncharted territory when it comes to the meme ecosystem these days, and I'm excited to have you on because I know a lot of people have probably seen your work and don't know who you are, maybe don't know where it came from, gets posted all over the place, but it has such a distinct style. | ||
| Just tell the people, what do you do and why do you do it? | ||
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Well, I guess I'm known for being a cartoonist. | |
| I draw semi-political cartoons. | ||
| I just call them current events cartoons in a four-panel style. | ||
| They're very colorful. I guess people recognize them. | ||
| But I've been a cartoonist off manga. | ||
| They call it manga, like Japanese manga. | ||
| I just draw comics. | ||
| I've been drawing comics for the longest time. | ||
| And yeah, I guess I just got into the political sphere and people wanted to see more of that and wanted to hear their side represented, I suppose. | ||
| I defaulted to conservative, even though I consider myself just center vague. | ||
| I'm not a Republican or anything. | ||
| I'm not a Democrat, definitely not a Democrat. | ||
| So I guess I'm fighting for the side of sanity and reality and I don't know. | ||
| I just consider myself a small creator who got a little too big for his own good and here we are. | ||
| Well, I really love what you've done so far and what you're doing in the future and some of the projects that you're working on right now, I'm extremely excited about. | ||
| I talk about on this show quite a bit, like, you know, your cartoons are very good politically. | ||
| They have this, like, energy to them where, you know, there's the one with Kamala Harris, you know, saying, have a happy Memorial Day. | ||
| She's sort of interrupting this kid saying, Mourning for his father who must have died in a war. | ||
| But when I picture it in my mind, I picture Kamala Harris jumping out at you. | ||
| I mean, obviously, it's a still frame. | ||
| It's just an image. | ||
| But it has this energy and vitality to it that's just totally unique to your work. | ||
| Is that a style that you've worked on developing? | ||
| Or did that just come about naturally? | ||
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I don't know about style. | |
| I think for a lot of artists, you just draw the way that you draw. | ||
| And it ends up being called a style. | ||
| What I have done consistently... | ||
| So that comic that you're... | ||
| Some people consider it funny, the Memorial Day comic, but I consider it disgusting and sad, and there's a weird branch of humor that I guess... | ||
| It's both... | ||
| Yeah, it's on the screen there. | ||
| She had tweeted something like, enjoy the long weekend, and I just thought that was the most offensive thing you could say on Memorial Day. | ||
| I think this was three years ago before they had even gotten in or something, two years ago. | ||
| There's another similar comic where a woman is seeing her dying father behind a glass at a hospital, and she's saying to him, he has like a respirator. | ||
| This was during COVID times. | ||
| She goes, I'll miss you, Dad. | ||
| My only regret is that I couldn't hold your hand one more time. | ||
| And she presses against the glass very sadly, and then some dancing nurses start dancing behind her. | ||
| Right, making the TikTok video, yeah. | ||
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Sure. So, for me, it's not even that I'm trying to make a joke. | |
| I'm trying, or I was trying, to point out how disgusting these people are. | ||
| Sure. And it's not, it's not to me, it wasn't funny. | ||
| It was more trying to process something that was really pissing me off. | ||
| Yeah, well, and that's why it's brilliant. | ||
| I mean, you almost have to laugh at the gallows humor of it, but it says so much in those four panels, more than I could say in an hour of ranting. | ||
| I think you really portray it well. | ||
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We'll be right back with George Alexopoulos. | |
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| My guest is George Alexopoulos. | ||
| You can find him on Twitter at GPrime85. | ||
| And even if you haven't heard his name, you've probably seen his comics. | ||
| They're incredibly popular with a very distinct style. | ||
| And I have to think that... | ||
| A lot more people know your comics and would recognize it. | ||
| And if I said George Alexopoulos, they'd go, who? | ||
| And then I'd go, the guy who makes this. | ||
| They'd go, oh, that! Oh, that style of comic. | ||
| Like, it's so distinct and it's everywhere. | ||
| And that's got to be a big compliment to you. | ||
| I mean, that's sort of the goal, right? | ||
| You want your art to speak for itself and to stand on its own. | ||
| And I imagine, you know, you don't want to be the star... | ||
| The star is the art, right? | ||
| Am I projecting that on you or do I have that right? | ||
| How do you feel about your art blowing up across the internet like it has? | ||
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Well, that is an accurate way to look at it. | |
| I always think of it as I am drawing my stuff regardless of if 10 people are reading it or 100,000 people or in some cases millions. | ||
| But I don't control any of that. | ||
| So... You try not to let that get to your head, and of course people wouldn't recognize me. | ||
| It's the same with, like, back in the day, Charles Schultz or Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes and Charlie Brown, if anyone doesn't know. | ||
| You would recognize their work, I suppose, but them as people, you don't know them so good, and I... That's part of the profession of being a cartoonist. | ||
| I prefer it that way, I guess. | ||
| I don't think I'm a very interesting person in real life, but... | ||
| For some reason my work seems to be effective in the same way a plumber might do a good job installing a toilet and people say good job. | ||
| So I don't see it as anything special except I try to do a good job like any professional. | ||
| So people seem to like that and that's a good thing. | ||
| Well, it's a very unique skill. | ||
| Growing up, I always wanted to be a cartoonist, so I'm kind of jealous of you. | ||
| I always wanted to be Gary Larson, Farside Comics. | ||
| I love the one panel style and the absurdity. | ||
| But I think that there's a real talent and a real skill in what you do. | ||
| As we were saying at the end of the last segment, I could ramble for an hour about the injustice of the COVID pandemic pandemic. | ||
| Policies being made. I could mock the doctors dancing on TikTok while people are dying behind sheets of glass. | ||
| I don't think it has the same impact as a comic does because you're just laying it out there. | ||
| You're just putting it out there. I mean, what is it about comics or do they have a particularly powerful medium in comics to express this sort of stuff? | ||
| Like, what is it about comics that makes it such a good medium for, I'm going to say our message, but your message? | ||
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Well, they say a picture's worth a thousand words, right? | |
| And that's kind of a cliche. | ||
| But what it really is, is that an image is a distilled message, like a painting, that can... | ||
| Think of it like a zip file. | ||
| You pack an enormous amount of information into an image that can be read by the human mind in a matter of seconds. | ||
| And... Depending on who's in the know, they might get more meaning out of the image than other people. | ||
| But the reason that comics are so powerful is that, I would argue, using images to tell stories predates the written word. | ||
| It predates language itself, perhaps. | ||
| I don't even know. If you look at old cave paintings, people would just say, hey, I hunted some animals. | ||
| Here's a painting of that. | ||
| Or here's some kings that used to live, and this is what they might have looked like. | ||
| And the image is... | ||
| I mean, human beings, depending on how you argue humanity got to where it is, human beings could see before they could speak, I would argue. | ||
| And therefore, the image is more potent in delivering a message, a story. | ||
| That's why comics are so important. | ||
| Incidentally, that's why I get upset at conservatives, I won't name any, who look at comics as sort of a juvenile medium that is not mature, that cannot be used for telling important stories or delivering messages. | ||
| So even though it's considered a low art, perhaps, I think it's incredibly potent, and our opponents are using the drawn image all the time. | ||
| And I think we need to not... | ||
| Not abandon the hill, but instead take it back and have more conservative artists participating in the culture war by creating culture, not just criticizing bad culture. | ||
| Which is why, incidentally, I made a children's book, for example. | ||
| Okay, and I definitely want to get into that, and I also want to, because you're exactly right, and the audience knows I talk about this all the time, because I don't even want there to be explicitly conservative culture. | ||
| I just want there to be, like, good, cool stuff to watch that has a good message intrinsically. | ||
| I want to be beaten over the head with some narrative that somebody wants to push. | ||
| But I think that's such a strange view to have about comics when, I mean, the reason Donald Trump got elected in the first place, the reason we're in the situation we are now is because of the meme culture, the meme war. | ||
| It's hard to argue against a comic. | ||
| It's hard to argue against a meme because you're not really putting forth an argument. | ||
| You're just portraying it sort of how you see it. | ||
| And people can roll their eyes or they can laugh or they can, you know, see it as tragic. | ||
| But it sort of circumvents all of the rhetoric that goes on. | ||
| So that's a very bizarre stance to take that comics aren't powerful or aren't some sort of high art form when clearly they're like way more powerful than almost any other, in my opinion. | ||
| I mean, that's a bizarre stance to take. | ||
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Or it's for kids or something like that. | |
| I see that popping up among conservosphere or whatever, and I criticize them. | ||
| I'm not the most polite sometimes. | ||
| But what I don't like is that they fail to... | ||
| I don't know if it's on purpose. | ||
| They're not accepting the value of culture and the arts. | ||
| As something that needs to be not only defended, but produced. | ||
| So you mentioned the word meme, for instance, you got the, everyone was talking about the meme wars the past few years. | ||
| But if we look at the word meme as it was originally invented, I guess, Dawkins or something like that, like the meme is the same kind of thing as a gene is. | ||
| It's like an idea. | ||
| It's a thought pathogen that can be passed from one person to another. | ||
| I'm going to draw an image of, say, Joe Biden eating a kid or something. | ||
| And let's say, and I draw it and you see it. | ||
| And now all of a sudden that image is touching all these hyperlinks in your brain. | ||
| I don't even need to tell you because we both know already he's got a weird history of weird things, let's say. | ||
| And now you see my image that I made and you're thinking of all these other things that I didn't even have to tell you. | ||
| That's a meme. So the reason that memes are so powerful and, say, film, video games, art, culture, and general music, and why it shouldn't be abandoned by the right, is because it's so powerful in communicating instantly things that we already know, whether through culture or the news, or just even biologically. | ||
| If a person is coming to get you like a horror movie, you just know biologically there's something scary about that. | ||
| When I look at some politicians, there's just something biologically that makes my skin crawl about. | ||
| And that's why I would advocate for we have to jump in and make culture. | ||
| It's not as simple as criticizing, say, bad things that the left is making or dumb things. | ||
| We have to replace bad art with good art. | ||
| We can't just have a vacuum. | ||
| 100%. And it's such an opportunity now. | ||
| I mean, the left-wing media ecosystem is collapsing. | ||
| I mean, nobody likes what they're coming out with. | ||
| Nobody likes what they're producing. | ||
| The only way they even get viewers is by fabricating outrage, by changing the race of somebody. | ||
| And it's like, this is a prime time for people to, I wish more people would, invest in movies that just tell a good story, that are just interesting and have... | ||
| It's heroism that the left seems to not be able to recognize and certainly not create. | ||
| And they take the heroes that we've loved since childhood and just basically wear them as a mask, right? | ||
| They like skin them and wear them and then have to say, I know I really am your mother. | ||
| It's like, no, you killed my mom and are wearing her skin as a mask, you utter weirdo. | ||
| So I think you're exactly right. | ||
| And I want to get into that in the next segment. | ||
| Special. I'm very excited about a new comic book you're coming out with. | ||
| I want to talk about your kids, your children's story. | ||
| Again, you can find George Alexopoulos on Twitter at gprime85. | ||
| That's gprime85studionj.etsy.com. | ||
| You can also find his book at polkadot underscore shop on Twitter. | ||
| And that's p-o-k-i-d-o-t underscore shop. | ||
| And, of course, he's on YouTube as well at GeorgeAlexopolis9221. | ||
| On the other side, I do want to get into, because you're doing something with RazorFist, right? | ||
| He's one of my favorite YouTubers, and he's the one that I found out about Solomon Cain from. | ||
| Now I'm, like, obsessed with Solomon Cain, and I first heard about it from one of his videos. | ||
| Oh, very nice. | ||
| Yeah. Oh, man. Some of the best. | ||
| And so you're working on a comic book with him. | ||
| I really want to talk to you about that, so we'll do that on the other side. | ||
| Stay with us, folks. It's American Journal and FullWars.com. | ||
| You know, I've thought for a long time that I often learn more from nonfiction, or I'm sorry, I learn more from fiction than I do from nonfiction. | ||
| You can read a history book. | ||
| And sure, you learn history. | ||
| You learn some facts or whatever. | ||
| But to me, I'm just thinking about Solomon Cain. | ||
| You're holding up that Solomon Cain book. | ||
| I mean, there's a story about where he's traveling across the moors and he's fighting a demon that's just like the physical embodiment of hate. | ||
| And like the literature is so powerful and it's so like visceral. | ||
| And it's almost like this explains what I feel like I'm going through. | ||
| Yeah, there it is. What's the... | ||
| Is it... Is it Skulls and the Star? | ||
| What's the title of that one? | ||
| I'll pull it up. It's totally brilliant. | ||
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Skulls? The Moon of Skulls? | |
| Moon of Skulls or Skulls and the Stars? | ||
| Skulls and the Stars? I think it's Skulls and the Stars. | ||
| The point is it's almost impossible to talk about what it feels like to try to be fighting against this cultural evil that we see just tearing everything down. | ||
| Then you read a story about Some Puritan in the 1600s wrestling with a shadow and it's like, this is what I'm going through. | ||
| This is perfect. | ||
| And we're missing that on the right these days. | ||
| We don't have just that... | ||
| There's nothing conservative about that story. | ||
| He's fighting a demon in a swamp. | ||
| It's just a story about that, and yet it's so powerful, and it speaks to the human condition. | ||
| It speaks to good versus evil and the strength of courage. | ||
| I mean, that's powerful stuff. | ||
| That moves people. That can really change people's minds more, I think, than nonfiction. | ||
| What's your take on that, George? | ||
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That's a really poignant point, and it's one of the reasons why I get so upset when I see our side dismissing art in general, like it's not manly or something. | |
| Like, I understand there's a lot of manly guys on our side, football and the military and stuff, and I appreciate that. | ||
| But the arts are, unfortunately, maybe that's not the right word, they're kind of a softer art. | ||
| They require empathy and openness, and the people who produce them are slightly crazy sometimes, and Part of the reason for that is that we need to have a more sensitive antenna so that we can sort of, speaking hyperbolically, enter other people's spirits in their lives and sort of see the world through their eyes. | ||
| Because any story, even orally told stories from the Iliad or even more ancient stories that are spoken, not even written down, The reason that these stories existed is to gain wisdom from the experiences of characters who may not have even existed. | ||
| But we can project ourselves into their lives and experience their adventure and extract the wisdom from their experiences without having to go through it ourselves. | ||
| It's like a virtual reality before VR was invented. | ||
| Even Bible stories. | ||
| I'm reading a story about something that happened to someone thousands of years ago, and here's the lesson of this story. | ||
| Not only did it happen, some say, which I will not address right now, but some people say, like, hey, this is the point of the story. | ||
| This is the moral you're supposed to gain. | ||
| Or a fable. | ||
| Here's a story about the fox and the old lion, and here's the moral of the So the reason fiction, or Solomon Cain, you know, here's a guy who travels the world. | ||
| Maybe he doesn't even know why sometimes. | ||
| Some stories open with him saying, like, I don't even know where I'm going or why, but I know that I'm hunting evil. | ||
| And, of course, the story ends with him usually slaying some monster, and there's some lesson, or maybe we're just having fun. | ||
| But we project ourselves as readers onto these characters. | ||
| That's where you get the word Charisma from character, meaning like a mask. | ||
| You put on the mask of this person and experience the world through their eyes, and that's what storytelling is. | ||
| I can extract the moral of this story without ever having to leave my house, my comfortable chair. | ||
| That's what all storytelling is. | ||
| Back in the day, it was done at campfires, but it's still so valuable, and that's why the right... | ||
| The center-right, whatever we want to call ourselves, has to make stories because we have to tell stories that are relevant to our generation using the memes of our generation. | ||
| If I say, or back a few years ago, the left was saying, Trump is Voldemort. | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Well, everyone read Harry Potter, so we know what Voldemort is, and therefore Trump is that bad. | ||
| So we have to create memes that reference hyperlinks to the generation of today that maybe can speak to future generations as well. | ||
| But we're going to lose the generation of today if we don't speak in a language and tell stories that they understand today. | ||
| That's why we can't dismiss the things that they're consuming. | ||
| Video games, anime, comics, whatever else. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. You sort of stole the words out of my mouth. | ||
| I was going to use Star Wars rather than Harry Potter, but these stories speak to us. | ||
| Even the fact that they can speak to us over thousands of years, that says something about the human condition and its continuity and that these same things come up over and over again. | ||
| People have lived through this before and can maybe guide us in our path. | ||
| And then you get these stories in the modern day that they strike something intrinsic in us. | ||
| They're Superlative or transcendental might be the right word. | ||
| Like, there's something about him that, you know, in the modern day, you're going to hear a lot more people talking, you know, comparing evil to Darth Vader than to Nebuchadnezzar, right? | ||
| Even though that's, you know, the sort of Nebuchadnezzar is from our Bible and our religion. | ||
| We understand it more almost when you reference Darth Vader or Voldemort or Sauron because these are the modern myths that help us to align our ideology, our beliefs in sort of a subtle way. | ||
| Do you think that's being targeted... | ||
| On purpose by Hollywood, since they're taking all these old intellectual properties, these transcendental media, and remaking them and destroying them? | ||
| Do you think that's on purpose, or do you think that's just a side effect of them? | ||
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No, they know. | |
| I will give them credit. | ||
| They are geniuses, and they are doing it on purpose. | ||
| There's a great video that Razor Fist made called Hollywood Was Always Red, and he explains that communism infiltrated Hollywood Directly after World War II, maybe I'm getting the dates wrong, but they knew that in order to indoctrinate generations of people, you have to not target, say, the voting booths. | ||
| You have to go into their culture and infect their culture. | ||
| You have to dismantle the fundamental ethics that they're building their entire lives on. | ||
| Like, if I have to ask myself as a young man, who should I marry? | ||
| What kind of person? Is it okay to cheat on my wife and have multiple families or abandon my children and stuff like that? | ||
| The kind of stories that I consumed as a young man would help me make these ethical decisions, for example. | ||
| If I watch a lot of movies where I'm not going to poop on, you know, James Bond, but let's say here's the macho fantasy of a guy who sleeps around with lots of women never settles down, I might idolize a character like that. | ||
| So I'm not going to say, like, this is a bad example. | ||
| But, for example, there's a lot of movies with antiheroes these days. | ||
| And we are now uplifting an antihero or a hero that hates his culture and his past and let the past die, kill it if you have to. | ||
| That was a line in Star Wars. | ||
| And their thesis in a lot of the stories is we have to let the previous generations, the ethics of the previous generations die And then we have to create our own set of ethics. | ||
| That's one of the theses that they're putting forward. | ||
| I don't want to go too far off base if that was the question. | ||
| No, no. I think you're right on. | ||
| That's exactly what I'm referencing. | ||
| And I think you're right that the people making this understand how powerful it is, even if the audience doesn't. | ||
| Even if the audience is just passively taking it in and not thinking about how it's altering their perception of the world around them, it is doing that. | ||
| And the people making it are very aware of that and making these things on purpose. | ||
| I totally agree. More with... | ||
| George Alexopoulos on the other side. | ||
| You can be found on Twitter at D Prime 85. | ||
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Stay with us. | |
| All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| I'm really enjoying our conversation with my guest George Alexopoulos. | ||
| Hope you are as well. | ||
| You can find him on Twitter at GPrime85. | ||
| You can find links to his YouTube channel and his Etsy store and all that great stuff. | ||
| You know, usually We have guests. | ||
| I'll talk to them during the break. | ||
| I just didn't want to do that right now because I know anything that we talk about, I'll just want to repeat on air. | ||
| So we'll just keep all the conversation in front of the audience here. | ||
| So I want to talk about Lord of the Rings. | ||
| I want to talk about Norm Macdonald. | ||
| I really want to get your take on a lot of this stuff, but let's talk about what you're doing because you are creating stories and works of art. | ||
| Children's book, this comic with Razor Fist. | ||
| Again, he keeps coming up in this conversation because he focuses a lot on culture, and it's such an important thing for us to be focusing on right now. | ||
| Everybody knows there's a culture war going on. | ||
| Some people just don't want to fight it for some reason. | ||
| It's raging around you whether you're fighting it or not. | ||
| You should probably be a part of it. | ||
| But tell us about the work that your children's book that you're working on and the comic that you're working on with Razor Fist. | ||
| Are these out already? | ||
| Are they coming out? And how can people find them? | ||
| And what are they about? All right. | ||
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Well, I'll start with the Razor Fist project. | |
| It's called Ghost of the Badlands. | ||
| It's written and created by Razor. | ||
| And for anyone who doesn't know who he is, he's an amazing YouTuber. | ||
| He does these cultural rants. | ||
| But also he does a lot of videos about... | ||
| Film, old films, westerns, old film noir, and just movie reviews and stuff like that. | ||
| I've been following him for the longest time. | ||
| And yeah, he wrote this western, and I had worked with him in the past, and we said, let's work together again on a real, like, full graphic novel. | ||
| So he and I launched an Indiegogo about a month ago that unfortunately has closed as of last Sunday, but there will be future opportunities to buy the book. | ||
| But it actually gained... | ||
| $347,000 in a month of funding. | ||
| Wow. For us, I don't know about him, but for me that was amazing. | ||
| We got a ton of funding and all of that is just going into making different versions of the book. | ||
| Hardcover, softcover. | ||
| We're making posters. It's a really cool story. | ||
| It's like a gritty... | ||
| If you've seen the... | ||
| There's a trilogy from Clint Eastwood where he's sort of like a ghost almost and he appears and Slays some eva-doers and then vanishes again, like Hang Em High and High Plains Drifter, he quotes often. | ||
| So we're doing a sort of dark Western, not a revival exactly, but sort of we're honoring the old traditional storytelling of, I don't know, it's sort of a genre that he claims is on its way back. | ||
| It's going to make a huge comeback, and I hope so, and I'd love to keep doing these books. | ||
| It looks totally brilliant. | ||
| I wish I'd known about it. | ||
| I would have contributed because I'm very excited for this. | ||
| And you're doing what I am always imploring people to do. | ||
| Just make good content. | ||
| Just make stuff that people will want to watch or read just because it's a good story, because it's interesting, because the art is beautiful, right? | ||
| And then if it aligns with them politically, great. | ||
| And if it has sort of... | ||
| Our ideology embedded in it, wonderful, but you're not hitting somebody over the head with your beliefs. | ||
| It's just a good story. | ||
| I mean, do I have that right? That was the impression that I got looking into this work over the last week or so. | ||
| Is that the idea? Was that something consciously that you chose? | ||
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In the case of Ghost of the Badlands, I guess he would be in a better position to say, but I don't think there's an ideological twist to it aside from it's a Main character or protagonist who goes around the Old West punishing bad guys while quoting scripture, let's say, in sort of a tough guy kind of way, yeah, I'm going to get you, and also quote, you know, so-and-so, verse, chapter, verse, and all that. | |
| But in this case, I think, yeah, it can be enjoyed by anybody. | ||
| The whole point of the story is there are clear bad guys and some sneaky bad guys, and there are clear good guys, and some of the good guys are in a redemption arc. | ||
| But yeah, he would be able to say better for his specific story, but I agree in general that stories should be for everyone, and there should be morals that if the person watching or consuming it chooses, they can dig deeper. | ||
| But that's more of the job of, say, like a pastor, which is why I think pastors and even youth pastors, the good ones, are engaging with art and culture that say they're The people they're shepherding are consuming. | ||
| Like, if I'm a youth pastor, I'm going to want to be watching the same movies and playing the same games that the students are because, A, it makes me relate to them, but B, I can also speak in their language. | ||
| So that's very valuable to create stories that are not clearly... | ||
| You and I were talking about Hallmark movies and Lifetime Channel movies where it's just very corny and cheesy where, like, I don't know, on Amazon or something, I saw some movie with some actor where it's about a plane going down. | ||
| And from what I understand, he just prays a lot and the Lord saves him. | ||
| And that's the moral of the story. | ||
| And I'm looking at it like a focus on the family, if anyone knew that, like growing up. | ||
| There's a certain corniness where nobody who doesn't already believe in this stuff is going to watch this. | ||
| So you have to create art that people who even disagree with you are going to want to consume it because it's so good or it's so well made. | ||
| Like we were talking about Lord of the Rings a little bit. | ||
| Everybody who's sane loves Lord of the Rings. | ||
| And the reason for that is because it's a universally... | ||
| A applicable story. | ||
| Anyone from any culture across the world can understand it and appreciate it, and there are clear messages. | ||
| And then if you want to analyze, you can understand who are the good guys, why, what are their ethics, what lessons can I learn? | ||
| So those are the stories we have to make, too. | ||
| They can't be obviously ideologically pregnant with obvious messaging. | ||
| That just turns people off. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. And I think that most art and most storytelling, movies especially, TV, is so politically overt now on the left that even just not having a political message, it's almost like you're making a statement because you're so different than what's already out now. | ||
| I want to get into Lord of the Rings more in the next segment, but tell us about your children's book and how people can find that. | ||
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That's out already, am I right? Yeah, it's called Goofberry Pie. | |
| I can show you guys some images here. | ||
| I've got them bookmarked a little bit. | ||
| It's a story about a mouse who has to go and pick some berries for his dad who's coming home from lunch, and his mom is baking a pie. | ||
| Yeah, that's coming out all right, I suppose. | ||
| And he has to go and pick the best berry, but he keeps finding bigger and bigger berries to find, like, say he starts with cranberries, then blueberries, and they eventually find strawberries, you see. | ||
| But it's too heavy for him to bring home, so what's he gonna do? | ||
| And then, at the very end of the story, I'm gonna tell you guys a spoiler, because this is for the kids, right? | ||
| For parents, this is a spoiler. | ||
| He finds a weasel who gives him a goofberry, which doesn't exist, and the weasel takes the strawberry for himself. | ||
| And so Strudel, the main character, gets tricked at the end of the story. | ||
| And he brings home a fake berry for his dad's cake. | ||
| And then... The conclusion is about, you know, oh, you took responsibility for your mistake, but you had a great adventure anyway. | ||
| You learned a lot of lessons. | ||
| It's a story about, you know, a little naive character, a kid, going out into the wilderness where treasure is, and he goes and brings some back to the home, which is what a hero does. | ||
| And he accepts responsibility for his decisions and And his dad praises him, his mom praises him, and he learns a lesson, and then they have cake at the end of the story. | ||
| And I'm spoiling it for parents because the story is designed to be read to children. | ||
| It's kind of like Winnie the Pooh. | ||
| Kids can't read it by themselves, but they love the pictures, I can tell you that much. | ||
| I recently actually... | ||
| I'm sorry. Well, the art is beautiful. | ||
| We are coming up to a break here, so keep that thought in mind. | ||
| We'll return to it in just a second. | ||
| But I just, I love, I mean, back to the primordial reason that we tell stories. | ||
| I've experienced I have a two-year-old son and I can sit him down and try to explain to him why you should behave correctly and why da-da-da-da-da. | ||
| It's so much more effective to tell him a story about a little boy who does badly and bad things happen to him and he does good and people are happy and it's like by telling stories that's how we learn about the world around us from our very earliest age. | ||
| I mean, we learn Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. The basics of the basics. | ||
| The primordial reason we tell stories with that. | ||
| So it's called Goofberry. Again, you can find George Alexopoulos on Twitter at GPrime85. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
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| This will be our last segment with my guest, George Alexopoulos. | ||
| You can find him on Twitter at GPrime85 and you can actually find his children's book, Goofberry Pie, on his Etsy shop. | ||
| It's the Polkadot Etsy and it's spelled P-O-K-I-D-O-T and you can find them on Twitter as well at Polkadot underscore shop. | ||
| I know we got cut off by the break there and I know you're about to say something else about this children's book. | ||
| Do you remember what that was? | ||
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I think we were talking about character, the hero's journey in telling stories to kids about... | |
| You mentioned on the break that if you were to read a story to a child, you would say, don't just behave. | ||
| You would say, be like this character from the story we just read. | ||
| And because they remember the story, they're able to make hyperlinks because the brain is designed to do that. | ||
| They would say, oh, for instance, in Goofberry Pie, the main character's name is Strudel. | ||
| And so I would say to a kid, oh, you want to be like Strudel. | ||
| You want to be adventurous, but also take responsibility for your mistakes. | ||
| And don't worry about, like, part of the story at the end is, like, his dad says, like, no, he asks his mom, what should we do about this? | ||
| And the mom says, I don't know. | ||
| You have to take responsibility. | ||
| And so the point being, it's like a kid has to accept... | ||
| Your parents aren't going to do everything for you, but part of their role is to help you become strong and responsible. | ||
| And even though scary and unintended things happen, it can still turn out okay, because the story has a happy ending. | ||
| And the next Goofberry book is going to be similar. | ||
| It's going to be about stories. | ||
| I guess I won't spoil it, but after I finish the Razor book, I'm going to immediately do the next Goofberry. | ||
| But also, just for clarification, the shop is actually my wife's shop, the Etsy shop. | ||
| Polkadot is hers. | ||
| And what we had wanted to do is because she is... | ||
| She's an expert with thread and fabrics and stuff. | ||
| She makes plushies and clothing. | ||
| And she's always been good at it. | ||
| And we saw this as an opportunity because she... | ||
| On her shop, the Polkadot shop, she makes custom children's clothing, like dresses for confirmations at church and stuff. | ||
| Like really elaborate children's clothing bibs and stuff like that. | ||
| But like really... The dresses, they're really good. | ||
| Handmade. That's awesome. Handmade. | ||
| And so we said with Goof Fairy Pie, since I was making it anyway, this is not really on brand for me because I'm sort of a sarcastic cartoonist with a foul mouth. | ||
| So Goof Fairy Pie fit a lot better with these adorable plushies that she makes. | ||
| And we've been really blessed in how many copies have been selling and her shop is doing great. | ||
| So I would actually point people towards that shop instead of mine, because I'm going to be busy on the razor book. | ||
| And for the people listening, I think our age, we're having kids at our age, and there's people who have grandkids and nieces and nephews, and I would say a book like this, a shop like that, is exactly what we need. | ||
| As opposed to buying from Target, let's say, where they have You know, clothes with messed up imagery and you're supporting people who essentially want to undermine your culture. | ||
| So my wife and I had said we want to make a brand for kids that is just cute. | ||
| Like we have, I don't know, an overall with a cute animal on it. | ||
| And that's about it. Right. | ||
| And you're supporting conservative creators and we're just a small business. | ||
| We're working out of home. | ||
| And yeah. | ||
| Yeah. I think we need more of that. | ||
| We need more creators and people willing to support those creators. | ||
| Because we were saying it's not enough to just criticize, say, you know, let's say I was making beer. | ||
| You don't just criticize Budweiser. | ||
| You should also then buy from your local creator who you know is sane to support them, help their business grow, and not just criticize people being jerks. | ||
| Because let's say with Disney, for instance, They're making horrible movies and they obviously hate you. | ||
| So where's the alternative? | ||
| We need to support people who are making stories for our kids for the next generation. | ||
| Yeah. I don't want the old Disney to come back. | ||
| No, you're exactly right. | ||
| I could not agree more and I think it's brilliant and... | ||
| Yeah, it's definitely hard being a parent and all the clothes are just really kind of horrific graphic tees. | ||
| I really want my kid just looking like a hobbit 99% of the time. | ||
| I'll tell my wife you said that. | ||
| If she's got tiny suspenders for sale, my wife will certainly be a customer. | ||
| She'll do it. There's nothing like that old style. | ||
| But I brought up Hobbits. | ||
| I do want to talk about Lord of the Rings because it's sort of the iconic one to me. | ||
| And obviously there's controversy now with Black Aragorn. | ||
| They're changing the race of Aragorn, which is like... | ||
| If this was the first time this had happened, I could understand how people were like, what's the big deal? | ||
| But it's when it's every character from every IP gets replaced or gender swapped or race swapped. | ||
| It's like ridiculous. But even beyond that, I know so many people in my personal life that... | ||
| like friends from high school and stuff, like they're super lefty, they're super like new age progressivism, but they love Lord of the Rings. | ||
| They like, there's something intrinsic in them that speaks to Lord of the Rings or Lord of the Rings speaks to them in a way that is so powerful and profound. | ||
| And yet if you really were to break down what I believe to be the message of Lord of the Rings, I don't think these people that are progressive would really agree with it. | ||
| And yet they love this IP, the movies, the trilogy. | ||
| I mean, they love it. Does anything explain that? | ||
| Like, how does that happen? | ||
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It's a story that is true, and it's not that it happened historically, but when it happens to these characters and we see their choices, It strikes us as this is something that could happen. | |
| And in storytelling, we call this suspension of disbelief. | ||
| It's the feeling of I'm not watching a movie. | ||
| I'm actually watching something that's really happening in front of me. | ||
| And good storytelling maintains that illusion throughout the whole process from beginning of a movie to the end. | ||
| Bad storytelling constantly reminds you you are watching basically a commercial. | ||
| You are watching propaganda. | ||
| And the Lord of the Rings movies, as you know, they have some imperfections, but they're still excellent. | ||
| The Lord of the Rings books, when you read that, I mean, even in the 60s, right, when they were coming out, leftists on college campuses were the champions of these stories. | ||
| And they were saying things like, Frodo lives. | ||
| They had t-shirts or something like that. | ||
| They loved it because it was so historically true. | ||
| It was something so traditional and deep in the culture. | ||
| Tolkien set out to write a story that was English, he was saying. | ||
| Something like those northern European countries. | ||
| The kind of stories he started off with Beowulf. | ||
| Translating Beowulf. | ||
| He wanted to create a mythology that was strictly British. | ||
| Something like that he was saying. | ||
| I'm probably butchering his quote. | ||
| And when the left comes along and starts butchering the stories, like the Rings of Power, which was awful. | ||
| Just awful. But they didn't understand. | ||
| It was like bad fan fiction. | ||
| And most fans who watch it, I couldn't even tolerate 10 minutes of it. | ||
| Same here. Who watch this stuff... | ||
| We know there's something that's not true about it. | ||
| And I use this word true. | ||
| Because when you see a story about a hero who behaves in a heroic way, even if they're imperfect, like say Aragorn's journey, he's sort of a scoundrel at the beginning. | ||
| He's this dark character. | ||
| And by the end, of course, he becomes the king. | ||
| It's sort of a King Saul, David, Solomon kind of... | ||
| It touches all the hyperlinks of our culture from thousands of years ago. | ||
| We've been telling stories like The Lord of the Rings for thousands of years, maybe even longer. | ||
| And because it falls into a classic archetype, it's still true, even though readers and viewers from nowadays are more used to different kinds of stories, a different aesthetic. | ||
| But we still want to hear stories about these are characters that are admirable. | ||
| I want to be like them. | ||
| And then when the left comes along, sorry. | ||
| No, you're exactly right. | ||
| We are coming up to the end of the show. | ||
| We'll have to do this again because I feel like we could keep this conversation going for so long. | ||
| But somebody on Twitter recently pointed out, they're like, I just watched Lord of the Rings and I was struck by how sincere it was. | ||
| There was no quipping. | ||
| There was no, like, smirking at the camera. | ||
| It's just it's sincere. | ||
| You believe that the actors really believe what they're saying. | ||
| And that, you know, transcends our understanding even and draws us in in a way that's inexplicable. | ||
| I've really enjoyed this conversation. | ||
| We didn't even talk about really the political aspects of your comics, which maybe is what you're most well known for. | ||
| But people can find it, of course, by going to your Twitter at GPrime85. | ||
| Your YouTube, GeorgeAlexopoulos9221. | ||
| The book can be found at We're good to go. | ||
| I think the cultural aspect of this is really the most important. | ||
| So just thank you for coming on. | ||
| Thank you for doing what you do. And keep up the good work, sir. | ||
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| I hope we talk again. I hope so, too. | ||
| This has been extremely fun and hopefully enlightening for our audience. | ||
| Folks, that's going to do it for us at American Journal. | ||
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