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Hey, everybody, Jason Burmes here, and we are about to go deep in the weeds with WQUD 1077 Vintage Radio.
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Jason, how's it going this morning, buddy?
It is going well.
How are you doing today on this very frigid morning?
I mean, I'm inside, so I'm doing just fine.
I'm warm.
Do you list the fact that you were spooked on South Park on a resume of any kind?
Because I would.
You know, I have not, but then again, I have not made too many resumes in the past decade plus.
I have been lucky enough to either work for myself or fall into job offers.
I literally just got kind of one of my dream jobs, Aaron.
I just started this week, actually.
I am now currently working on a paper/slash presentation via 9-11 that we will be submitting to Ron Johnson's office.
And if this goes well enough and Ron Johnson's office takes a look at it and sees a lot of validity there, there is the chance, the very small chance, who knows, that it could also go on to the office of the president.
And just maybe, just maybe, we can bring the 9-11 issue back to the forefront and at least get more truth than we certainly have over the last almost 25 years, 25th anniversary now just around the corner.
We're already almost done with the first month of 2026.
And I would just remind everybody that the base narrative of 9-11 still represents a multitude, if not the vast majority of both our foreign and domestic policy.
Even if you look at something like what is going on now with ICE and DHS and these protests slash riots and incidents, remember, DHS does not exist and ICE does not exist pre-9-11.
Yes, we, of course, had immigration enforcement, but I often say that that's probably my biggest problem with ICE is that I think that the Office of Department or the Department of Homeland Security is completely and totally illegitimate.
And just look at the numbers, folks.
I mean, just take a step back from your emotions for a moment and look at the numbers.
If you look at how the border was run and illegal immigration enforcement prior to DHS existing and ICE existing, it was far more efficient, far less violence.
And of course, we certainly did not have the controversies that are going on right now in this country today.
Well, you know, ICE is not at the border.
They've been all over other places, and it's, I don't know.
I don't know if this is just, is this a distraction tactic?
Is this an enforcement tactic?
Is this trying to like scare people, scare tactics?
Like, I don't know what the hell's going on anymore.
It just seems, I'm glad to hear.
I saw Tom Holman said they're going to be drawing down all the ICE folks and getting them out of there, which is good.
And because nothing good has come of this.
And partially, though, we know, and okay, so this is a good question for you because I know you've been in on a lot of protests.
You talked a little bit about it a couple of weeks ago.
You've been there.
You've been boots on the ground, been the guy.
And there's some stories coming out now that some of the protesters have identified as people that are the paid protesting, which I was saying earlier this week.
I don't even know how that's legal.
How is it legal as a company that you hire people to go protest and agitate and literally to start trouble and unrest?
But it's legal.
You can have a company that does that because there's all kinds of them.
And I don't know, they're saying there's a Chinese guy that's funding some of it or this, that, and the other, whatever.
Doesn't matter.
But it's crazy.
And I got to ask, like, can you tell when you're at a protest, can you tell the people that are there for a cause versus the people that are there for money?
Well, let me put it this way to you.
You know, again, I have been covering these things for the better part of two decades, right?
And I often find, number one, if you have a legitimate protest, and what do I mean by legitimate protest?
When you have an event that is pre-planned for months, if not almost the entire year, say something like the G20 in Pittsburgh, you are going to see a lot more organic protesters.
Now, at the same time, I always am on the lookout for agitators.
Before Antifa was the hot word, they were often called the quote-unquote black block.
And they were called that because they would often dress all in black and mask their faces up as well.
I've never been a fan of masking your face up, whether you're on the side of the protesters or on the side of law enforcement.
I don't like it.
I've never liked it.
It's something I've spoken out against.
At the same time, when you see certain groups at these protesters, they're usually in small packs.
It's pretty evident and obvious that some of these people are absolutely paid.
They don't know the issue.
They didn't just come with somebody.
They are often the loudest, the most raucous.
I am usually less concerned with them than I am police agitators that will often, as we discussed a few weeks ago, get into some kind of a physical altercation falsely, of course, with somebody who else is in law enforcement.
And then this gives them the excuse to cordon off the area or restrict movement.
I've seen this time and time again.
You said they wear the same boots.
Well, that's often how they get caught: they have a piece of the same tactical gear on that they didn't think about.
And it's like, oh, wow, everybody's wearing matching boots.
How convenient.
I would always say this also.
If you're getting a massive amount of mainstream media attention and that attention is in a positive light, you better bet your sweet ass that that is paid by somebody.
It is such a rare occasion that the mainstream press will pick up on any legitimate protests in this country or even abroad.
And I'll give you some examples here.
Julian Assange, prior to his very, very quiet release under the tail end of the Biden administration in Europe, you had several protests where tens of thousands of people were showing up.
You see that on the news here in this country?
No, you did not.
Another great example are the protests that you saw across the Western world, and especially in Australia via the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, entire bridges being taken over.
No press coverage whatsoever.
No.
Unfortunately, in this country, over the past, I would say decade or so, maybe a little more, the only coverage of protests that we have seen are based in race baiting identity politics.
Full stop.
Those are the only things that seem to matter to the mainstream media, whether it's the Chaz and the Summer of Love, whether it's Trayvon Martin, or whether it's what's going on now with ICE and Minnesota.
Well, it's click-affiliated now.
So, you know, it's not like the old news where people watch the news.
Everybody watches everything, not everybody, but a lot of folks watch things on demand when they want to, have time, whatever, on their phone.
And it's all about clickbait.
It's what will you click?
And I feel like the news is, I don't even know, I couldn't even give a percentage, but very much more incendiary, you know, trying to start fires because people will click it.
And so it just kind of feeds on itself and turns into this giant snowball rolling down to hell.
Well, there's certainly that aspect of it, but there is also the narrative management and propaganda aspects of this.
You know, I just mentioned several international protests that you heard zero about in this country.
How much in the last two, three weeks have we heard about Iran and the protests there?
And not only plenty, but I just want to let people know the obvious, and I mean outrageous lie that the regime there has killed 20 to 30,000 people in the last two weeks.
First of all, let me just state this.
I'm not here to apologize for Iran or their policies or promote their government or social structure, but you have to be a special type of touched in the head to believe that that government killed 30,000 people.
Okay, 30,000.
I've never seen that number.
I've seen like six to 10.
They're promoting even six to ten, Aaron, sounds a bit off.
Now, does that mean that no protesters or dissidents have been killed or imprisoned?
Absolutely not.
You know, obviously, this is very much an information war.
They have cut off certain aspects of the internet for some time now.
They are now using technologies that are subverting VPNs, virtual private networks that have allowed some people to get around this.
Yes, they're involved in their own narrative management.
They're involved in their own pushback against their general populace.
But to believe like the 20 to 30,000, that's a rate that is much higher than Auschwitz.
Okay.
Like, in order to kill that many people in that, you know, small, small period of time, it is no small feat.
And ask yourself, not that these are the type of videos that I want to see, but how many executions in Iran have you seen?
I'm not saying that there aren't videos circulating that may or may not be real of political dissidents being captured and killed.
Videos Circulating: Silver's Future?00:03:45
I'm glad you brought that up.
Yeah, it is not hundreds of videos.
It's not even really dozens of videos.
There's like literally like three or four of these videos circulating.
And then the media is running with this story.
Now, think about the narratives we've been sold via Iran.
And we were told after this beautiful strike that no other nation could do.
You know, Donnie T got up there, said the B-2 bombers did things no one else could.
We hit these three nuclear facilities that should have wiped out their capabilities.
Not what we're being told now.
Uh-oh, another couple weeks, Aaron.
They could have a nuke.
We can't let them have a nuke.
I am extremely concerned right now, especially after the military action that was taken with Maduro and Venezuela, especially with the volatility, not only of the dollar, but the global metals market, which I'm sure we'll get into in a little bit.
It's dipping right now.
It might be dipping, but I want people to realize this.
And what you're saying, dipping, the silver and gold market.
Now, gold hit an all-time high, I believe, of $5,400, was sitting at $5,600.
Yes.
So $5,600 was sitting about $53 yesterday.
Silver hit an all-time high yesterday of $121 and change.
Now, today, as I'm looking at it right now, and if you watch, and I actually predicted this yesterday, I should have gone on air, but it is officially dipped below the $100 mark after going to $121.
Is it $99.50?
I want people to think about this for a moment.
The silver market for the last two decades has revolved around $14 at the very, very minimum to $28 at the tippity top, just under $30.
But really in that $20 range most of the time, over the last two decades, Aaron.
I can verify.
I've been doing this show for a decade, and that's one of the things I've read every day.
And yes, I can verify it's never been over 30.
I remember there was like maybe a few years ago after that to like 32, and it was like, ooh, but yeah, silver has been pretty boring up until now.
And now we have movement on silver in a 24-hour period where it is literally that movement is what the base value has maintained for two decades.
Okay.
So now you have movements of $20 plus dollars, what the value of silver was just weeks ago, just months ago, right?
Within a 24-hour period, there was a huge dip yesterday.
You're seeing it today.
I think you're going to see a recovery.
I do think silver could probably go down to about 75 lowest.
Maybe it goes down lower than that.
I think we're going to see $200 silver now within the next six weeks.
I was pretty close when we were at the $55, $60 marker.
And I think I said something like six weeks out.
I think it hit it the three digits in five weeks.
I'm not telling you how to invest here, folks, but I am telling you that the reason that these markets are so volatile is because the entire global economic structure is changing at a rapid pace.
And even here in the United States, I think that we are going to be moving much more into digital currencies and programs.
Federal Power Play00:03:13
I think I may have, again, mentioned this a couple weeks ago when it happened, but we had the chair of the Fed, Jerome Powell, come out and do this video, Aaron, where, you know, he basically, you know, puffed up his chest and said that the Trump administration and the Department of Justice was now investigating the Federal Reserve, but they were only doing so because they didn't like the interest rates that they were setting and they were a completely independent organization,
blah, blah, blah.
Number one, Powell wasn't all wrong.
Okay.
It's a totally criminal organization.
The Federal Reserve is about as federal as FedEx or Federal Express, guys.
It is not a government agency.
Is what's known as a pseudo-government agency that is outside of our checks and balances system, unfortunately.
What do they call it?
It's a governmentally funded, what's the what's the word? NGO?
Is it NGO?
It is not an NGO.
It is not a non-government organization.
Essentially, it is outside of the purview of the executive, but really everything but the Department of Justice.
And that's why the Department of Justice has stepped in.
I recently played this clip of Alan Greenspan explaining how it doesn't really matter who the president of the United States is, what the administration is.
The Federal Reserve is a completely independent entity, and it would take the mechanisms of Congress to do anything about that.
And you just won't see it.
So, Powell, I think he's been through four administrations.
I'm pretty sure he started under the Barack Star.
Obviously, the Trump administration.
He may actually go all the way back to the tail end of Bush II, but don't quote me on that.
He's out.
He's out.
So with that, I would say this.
I don't expect any criminal indictments or charges against Powell or anybody else in the Fed via this investigation.
I think they're going to just move past it.
I think they were puffing up their chest.
Trump has nominated today a guy named Kevin Warsh to succeed Powell.
I expect that he is going to become the Federal Reserve chair.
And, you know, I also expect this to have some pretty large economic impacts.
But I think that those impacts are not necessarily going to be a stronger dollar.
Everything is screaming in the other direction.
And when we talk about things like inflation, we also have artificial movement on so many things that are completely essential.
Let me give you a great example of what they did over on the East Coast just before this huge storm that they all had.
Gas prices leap 70% in days as power firms cash in amid Arctic blasts, leaving families facing $5,000 heating bills.
Okay.
Bill Gates and AI in Medicine00:06:05
So you got no choice.
You got to heat your home.
You've already incrementally your power bills never gone down, I assure you, especially in those regions.
Side note, real quick, comment just filed like a $15.3 billion thing to raise prices and upgrade the grid because of the need for more power.
Exacto Mondo.
They are more power hungry than ever.
We continue to talk about these AI data centers.
And even without them, your power bill is going through the roof.
And these people have no problem hitting you when you are most vulnerable.
That should really tell you what the priorities are of the people in power.
You know, even Mamdani, you know, Mr. Everybody wants to call him a socialist.
He's globalist.
In New York City, he refused to get the homeless off the streets.
Now, that's no small task in the five boroughs.
I will say that.
It's not easy.
You're going to have people slip through the cracks.
I don't think that you can get necessarily everybody off the streets.
But during that cold spell that week, last week, they had 10 people freeze to death in New York City.
Okay.
10.
That also is not a small number.
And to me, not an acceptable number.
Now, hey, I don't know if you saw the story here in the quad cities, but you had a woman almost freeze to death on the streets.
Luckily, another homeless man went into a local convenience store, and the guy literally went out and picked up a frozen woman, and she thawed out in the store.
Wow.
Yes.
I didn't see that.
I somehow missed that.
Is that maybe is it QCA today?
Is it on there?
Yeah, I think so.
It was in my local feed.
But yeah, I think it was, I think it was in Davenport.
So I'm pretty sure it was on this side.
It wasn't on the Mullen side.
But anyway, go check it out.
This is a huge problem, man, nationwide.
I mean, you read all the news from different states, and everybody's dealing with this.
Small towns, big towns, cities.
It's kind of incredible in a bad way.
Well, the other thing that's really incredible about it is I don't know that there is going to be any real way to fix these issues.
We talked a little bit about the World Economic Forum and Davos last week.
Well, I've been combing through a bunch of the Davos presentations and the interviews there.
And our good friend Bill Gates did an interview at Davos, number one, where he announced that he is going to, his foundation, the Gates Foundation, is going to be partnering with Open AI.
Now, it's not just Open AI.
This is a technopoly.
I want to make that extremely clear.
There is no real competition in artificial intelligence when we are talking about large-scale platforms and what it will be utilized for in the workforce.
Full stop.
It is as controlled as humanly possible.
Now, as Gates announced that he's going to be partnering with Open AI, right now, OpenAI is in a law, many lawsuits, but it's in a lawsuit with Elon Musk, who helped start the company.
And Musk is contending that it can't really go public because its main investor is actually a foundation.
And Gates kind of acknowledges this.
He talks about how the foundation that owns the majority of Open AI is the second richest slash largest foundation, one of those NGOs you were talking about, Aaron, in the world.
You know what the first one is?
No.
The Gates Foundation.
Oh!
I know you're looping back around here.
Okay.
Oh, and he just kind of like snickers like, hey, yeah, they're really big and they're almost as big as the biggest one.
Mine.
So now he can't escape the nerdery.
He's just so nerdy.
Oh, my goodness.
He is some of the worst.
Now, I want to make this extremely clear.
He also said, but that's not all.
We're going to be partnering with Google, which has already partnered with NASA and the NSA.
It is a closed system.
Now, the other scary aspect of artificial intelligence, not just, you know, the data centers and the power and the fact that Bill Gates is even admitting in this interview that his Gates Foundation is going to be slimming down on the humans a bit.
We're going to be bringing the AI in.
Oh, the white-collar jobs better watch it.
And then he talks about within the next two to three years that it will also be the blue-collar jobs and it will be everywhere.
But the main thing that OpenAI and Bill Gates are going to be partnering on is this AI-driven quote-unquote medicine and AI-driven doctors in Africa.
So that means that we are about to beta test a lot of this totally and completely AI-driven healthcare where we are taking humans out of the equation in mass.
And time and time again at Davos, you're constantly hearing about the need for doctors.
There's just a shortage of doctors all of a sudden.
There's a shortage of healthcare workers all of a sudden.
All of a sudden, cancer is exploding everywhere.
And we're not going to have enough oncologists.
It's like all of a sudden, human beings are being worked out of the medical system.
And Bill Gates, after the COVID-19 84 nightmare, is going to be at the apex of this thing.
Gun Hip, Gun00:10:42
That's where I can't get down with all these MAGA heads and Trump is the best thing since breakfast.
None of these people, none of these people are going to be charged with anything.
Gates isn't.
Fauci isn't.
None of them.
I watched Rand Paul on Rogan a week or so ago.
And he just said, look, it seems to me like RFK Jr. Bobby Kennedy is really the only one working towards any type of change or possible prosecution and accountability in that realm.
And I got news for people.
We're just about up on the statute of limitations.
You know, it was big news yesterday that Telsey Gabbard and the DOJ went into Fulton County in Georgia, and they're taking a look at the ballots and the corruption from the 2020 election.
Great.
It's 2026, everybody.
Does anybody believe that anybody that helped rig that game over in Georgia's going to jail?
They used that Fulton County mechanism to put Giuliani in jail, to put others lower than him in jail for just questioning the election, okay, for trying to audit an election.
So, look, we're in a weird spot here because Trump's presidency is going to come and go.
The midterms are here.
The rhetoric is louder than ever trying to separate us with this left and right.
And the Democrats are kind of just openly saying if they're able to overtake the House, we're going to be on impeachment number three.
They're going to find something.
We're going to have to live this groundhog day over and over and over again under this administration.
In my opinion, you know, it came out hot.
It did some, you know, really positive things in the way of Ross Ulbricht, the commute, the commuting of the January 6thers.
But since then, has just kind of gone by the wayside.
It seems more neocon than ever.
And especially even with the ICE thing, it shows that that type of rhetoric and those type of politics can have an impact in the fact that, you know, Trump does not like to back down.
Trump does not like to renegotiate.
And certainly, certainly with ICE and what's happened in Minnesota, he's been forced to do so.
Yeah, well, nothing good was coming up.
You know what I mean?
It was just no matter what the, I know you got people being paid to be there to add state jobs, got people protesting.
And then, so I was going to ask you, you brought up about something if a video was real.
So the guy that got shot, and again, you have some protest experience.
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Alex Frady got shot.
Now, the difference between him and everybody else is that he had a gun on his hip.
Now, he didn't, I'm not aware that he ever pulled it out or anything like that, but it's just like the situation with the lady in the car.
You are legal.
You're in a car, you can run someone over and kill them.
You have a gun on your hip.
Now, I'm sure he was legal to have that.
And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that.
But if you're going to go agitate ICE agents with a gun on your hip, you're a lot more likely, I feel like, to get shot than someone who doesn't have a gun on their hip.
Now, if you don't agitate them at all, you're fine either way.
But then there's a video that came out after the fact of him kicking a taillight off of an SUV, spitting on the SUV.
Do you think that video was real or was it AI?
Because I gotta feel like the AI that my kids can do on Chat GPT isn't near as good as the stuff the government could probably pull off.
And that was a helpful video, I would say, for their end.
I would say I've seen that video too.
It does not appear to be AI with me, but if you want an AI controversy on this one, let me give you one.
You need a controversy?
Let's go.
Yes, I got it.
So if you actually look at a lot of the thumbnails, even on the videos on this, and you look at the face of this guy, a lot of people ran with what the media ran with.
And it is an AI digitally retouched photo of this guy to make him have less of an oblong head, more of a square jaw, and it fixes his gnone a little or nose a little bit to make it a little bit prettier.
So what I'm telling you is that the CNNs of the world, the MS nows of the world, literally used an AI touch-up photo of a murder victim for their political cause because they didn't think he was attractive enough.
Who cares?
You would think that I mean, it just shows you how far we have gone with our narcissism, with the fact that we are now in a stage where we are beautifying the propaganda.
I mean, anybody can go and watch these videos of this guy.
They know what he looks like.
There are plenty of real photographs of the guy from social media.
The press decided none of that was good enough, and we had to tom cruise him up a bit.
I don't know.
I mean, I got vampire teeth, man.
There's just certain things that I'm not too worried about, you know, and touching someone up to make them more attractive as a shooting victim or whatever, whatever you want to call them.
That's just dumb.
Like, is this what we're using AI for?
This is what we're trading all our fresh water and jobs for is so that we can touch things up to make people more attractive on a video.
It's exactly what we're doing.
Maybe the dumbest damn thing I've ever heard in my life.
And here we are.
Yep.
Nobody has jobs anymore.
We're just going to sit around on phones and make each other look like Santa Claus with our face and Santa Claus's beard and stuff because we can, because we have AI.
Is that the plan?
I mean, again, Gates, you know, is forced to kind of address this a little bit.
I mean, it's not like the moderator or the interviewer is pressing him.
But he starts talking.
What are we going to do with all?
Are we going to let people retire earlier?
What are we going to do with all these people that aren't working?
And I just saw a robo demo, if you will, of a robot in the kitchen.
Have you seen this yet, Aaron?
No, I've seen the Robot Olympics in China, some videos of that, but I haven't seen the kitchen robot.
I would encourage people to go check out the kitchen bot because it is well beyond Rosie from the Jetsons.
We've been doing a lot of Jetsons references on the program.
Washing dishes, moving things along, using its hip.
I mean, it doesn't really have a hip because it's a robot, but since it's made humanoid, it's hip to close little drawers.
It's getting you ready for the very rich and wealthy in this country to now have literal robot assistants, butlers, cleaning, whatever.
And they are humanizing them big time.
I would say that as far as commercialized humanoid robots, we are probably about 24 to 36 months out.
That's two to three years max, max.
And it could be before that.
As soon as we start seeing them via those arenas, expect to start seeing them in more and more box stores, in more and more fast food establishments, etc.
You know, I was talking to a buddy of mine just yesterday about all the precious metals, and we were talking about outlet stores, and Costco and Sam's Club came up.
And the last time that I was in a Sam's club back in upstate New York, I was pretty dismayed that they had a human-sized robot.
It very much looked more like the Rocky robot, if you will, that was going around with a large camera on it and taking inventory.
So it was going around checking out what needed to be restocked on the shelves and then dicka tickadoing and funneling that back to whatever management so that they go stock the shelves.
That is just the beginning.
We've got the service bots that have now been on college campuses, believe it or not, closer to a decade than not.
Some of these ones in universities like Indiana, seven, eight years now, delivering people their food and their dorms.
More and more of this, more and more of a movement into automated vehicles.
Forget about your Waymore Mo's.
Once they have this entire system in place, yes, it will be the 18-wheelers.
I think that's a bit off still because you need a national grid.
You can't have any dead zones or dead spots.
I think that is the, yes.
A lot of people thought that 5G was going to be able to provide that.
I don't think 5G is going to be able to do it.
6G, possibly, but really what we're talking about is more Starlink in the air.
And then the classified version of that is no longer the Blackjack program.
It is now Star Shield.
So we actually had a Starlink launch this past week.
I did not look into it.
I should have looked into it a little bit more, but I guarantee if I just dig past the surface level that it was also a Star Shield launch.
So Musk keeps getting richer.
I saw $2 billion.
Tesla just spent $2 billion on XAI stock because their sales are down a little bit, but they're really pumping this CyberCab thing.
They're already testing it in Austin.
So it's a car that's a two-seater with no steering wheel.
And they're going to try and run them out for the starting price around 30 grand.
And then when people buy them, then if they're not using them, they can rent them back to Tesla as part of their robo-taxi fleet.
Musk's Robo-Taxi Vision00:15:23
But they're thinking that this is going to be the thing, that everybody's going to have one of these.
And that's going to be the new way to trans, you know, the new way of transportation.
But he is, I don't know.
If there's anybody that's like cyborg in this world, my first pick would be Elon Musk.
You know, if there was some technology or something that they were testing, and he's like, I'll do that.
Because this dude is, he's something else.
He is tied into everything.
One question I had, too, before we get too far out, we're talking about robots, the very wealthy being able to have those in their house.
But do they want that?
Because, you know, your buddy, the governor, comes over, your robot's in there hanging out.
And then all of a sudden later on, it's spitting out videos like our two did on Star Wars of the stuff you guys talk about.
I mean, that's something to think about.
Well, I think that, again, you're going to see the very wealthy, and they do want that.
I mean, are they ever going to be present in a situation where they could compromise a political or an entertainment figure?
I mean, I don't know that you would see that right away.
Epstein would have used it as blackmail.
Well, I mean, we got some Epstein news, if you'd like as well.
If you didn't see it, Ghelane Maxwell came out yesterday and said that 29 different individuals had already cut cushy secret deals with the Department of Justice to escape prosecution.
And then you read a little deeper into it, and four of those individuals appear to be from the Palm Beach case.
They appear to likely be the people I continually talk about, Sarah Kalin, Leslie Groff, Adriana Ross, and Nadia Marcinko slash Marcon Kova.
But then you have 25, 25 other individuals, most likely rich men, that have also cut deals with the DOJ in order not to be prosecuted.
The real question I have is why Maxwell is now saying this when she has really stuck to the mainstream narrative other than maintaining her innocence, you know, since her arrest, indictment, and even prosecution now, you know, five plus years ago.
So the question is, why is she now saying this?
What is on the horizon?
These are in line with other numbers that people like Massey have said.
Massey have been in Congress and talked about 20 men named off some of their occupations, etc.
But it does seem like we're getting even more movement on the Epstein case outside of the Clintons just not answering the subpoenas.
But the question is, why now?
I don't know.
I also do not know her.
I am.
I mean, this thing is so deep and bizarre.
My question is, how much does it cost to be above the law?
What kind of check are you writing the Department of Justice to just make it go away?
Well, again.
It's out of my price range, and I don't have anything to hide like that anyway, but it's just interesting.
Like, wow.
Like, okay, your 25 people have cut deals with the DOJ.
What's that look like?
You know, I think that although some of it has to do with monetary value and power, I think it also has to do with the company you keep and who else might go down.
You know, those are the type of things that are worked out in those type of deals.
I would imagine that somebody like Leslie Wexner also has to be there.
When you look down the line at that list, there are many other extremely powerful individuals.
I'm talking about a list of individuals that clearly had a relationship with Epstein both prior to and then after His conviction via Palm Beach.
When you look at the Jeff Staley's of the world, when you look at the Larry Summers's of the world, I think that they are likely amongst those 20 plus.
So the real question is: number one, when's the next dump of documents?
Number two, you know, Massey has already said that not only was this insufficient, but they are overly classified and protecting many of these people that we now hear Ghelain Maxwell confirming.
So, look, I don't think that story is going away.
I think it's got legs for days.
The question is: how far?
How much are we actually going to learn about it?
And I'm not super confident that we're ever going to get to the core of the issue.
And that core being Epstein as part of an intelligence asset, not only for the Mossad, but the Central Intelligence Agency, an FBI informant, and his work with those agencies for decades, you know, starting in and around the time of Iran Contra with his client, Adnan Khashoggi.
God, yeah, I don't know.
I'm ready for the Epstein stuff to be over with.
Never going to be over with, Aaron.
We're going to be hearing that until we go to our graves, unfortunately.
I don't think it's going anywhere.
I saw a story that said, you know, this is why ICE has been in all these cities is because it's just a distraction.
Actually, I saw a political cartoon about that as well.
And, you know, I, you know, there are plenty of distractions out there.
I just think that these are, you know, concurrent stories and they're doing everything in their power, no matter what's going on, to marginalize, if not altogether, minimize the Epstein thing, but it's not going away.
It's the thing that hit the zeitgeist that went beyond left and right.
And I wish that more people were concerned about the other big issues out there, like the AI data centers, like the tech, like the track trace database, and yes, like the transhumanism issue that are all coming to a head.
You know, this week, Aaron, we had Google pay out another $68 million, but admit no wrongdoing via secretly recording conversations via its Google Assistant.
You see that story in the news?
I did not.
Oh, that's weird.
One of the states is raising a fuss.
Gosh, I can't remember which state we talked about earlier this week that they should allow people the option to have all of their search results scraped into the AI database or whatever versus not being scraped in.
But they're just doing it and they're not asking and they're saying people should have that option.
But they don't care.
And for Google, 68 million, whatever, that's like interest off interest of, you know, boy, they don't care.
It's not even them blowing their nose.
You're right.
It's nothing.
And they never admit wrongdoing.
And they're not the only ones, man.
You know, Snowden, there's this video where he talks about both Apple and Android devices are not good in protecting your privacy.
No kidding.
We had Windows this week hand over BitLocker encryption to the Department of Justice.
None of this stuff, none of this stuff is outside of the powers that shouldn't be.
And then WhatsApp, also not encrypted.
There are lawsuits.
This one hasn't been won yet.
And by the way, I don't think they're going to win a settlement, but it'll be just along the lines of the Google thing where WhatsApp, again, this other encryption system, this other, it's not really a social media platform.
It's bigger in Europe, but I use it when I'm working with European clients a lot, actually.
And guess what?
Your conversations there, also not private.
People are fooling themselves if they believe that anything they do whatsoever in the digital wonderverse that is connected to the internet is private.
It is not.
You know, you just mentioned the scraping of your search results.
I got news for you.
It's everything.
It's everybody's email.
It's everybody's video chats on some level.
It's everybody's selfies.
They are feeding the Leviathan.
And by the Leviathan, I am talking about different aspects of these artificial intelligence data centers.
It's really happening, and it's happening at a rapid pace.
I, yeah, I don't know.
I'm, I know, I mean, anybody who just pays attention, like, knows that this is going on.
I don't, I don't know.
I don't worry too much about it.
It's weird.
I think it's weird.
But I mean, for years now, at least the last four or five, if you talk about something, like maybe buying a bread maker, all of a sudden it pops up on your phone.
It happens on computers, too.
This has been going on for a while.
And they're all like, oh, no, no, we're not doing it.
And then I know Meta has paid up some serious change for the same thing.
Like, oh, yeah, sorry.
We didn't, we didn't know or whatever.
We didn't mean to.
And then we'll give you 300 million, no problem.
And then we're just going to keep doing it.
But, you know, don't just look away.
Look, it's the Goodyear Blip.
You know, it's, oh, look, there's ICE agents in this city now.
Pay attention to that.
It's wacky.
But I don't really, I don't know.
I think most of us are pretty boring.
Like, I would, I mean, I'm serious.
Like, I don't care.
I don't think anybody really cares about what I'm doing.
Let me put it this way to you, Aaron.
Think about it this way.
Remember last week, we talked about these AI-driven visas.
And I'm talking about credit cards, folks, that are going to be deployed and have the ability to make purchases on behalf of the people that allow their AI agent to make those purchases.
Now, you may think you're very, very boring, but you can take that data and that can be analyzed.
And then they can figure out what the next thing they can sell you on is, whether that be a political agenda or a consumer item or something in the middle.
And again, if you allow AI to just buy things for you, it's going to show up.
And even if you're questioning yourself, do I really want this?
Did I want AI to purchase it?
It is going to have the information and data to try and manipulate you into not only keeping it, but thinking you wanted it in the first place.
Okay.
It is the ultimate gaslighting tool.
So you can sit there and have that argument, if you will, that I'm boring or no one really cares about me or what do I care if somebody has all this data.
I assure you that this data is going to be used to not only manipulate society, but individuals, you included.
I will be susceptible to this.
You will be susceptible to this.
This is moving at a breakneck pace.
And we are quickly moving from artificial intelligence to artificial general intelligence and then into not only automation but robotics.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So basically AI is like, you know, the world's best used car salesman.
Hey, I noticed you, you know, kind of tall.
Let's pick them if you look good around you.
Let me tell you.
You know, we are deep in the weeds of Jason Burmese, by the way, brought to you by River Cities Reader.
And kind of winded down here on time, but I don't know, man.
Now I understand where the whatever it is, 30-some odd percent of people who say they just basically like, remember on the cartoons and the bird would stick its head in the sand?
The one out of three people in the U.S. are that bird.
They just put their head, they don't want to know.
They don't pay attention.
And I get it.
Like, I get where you're coming from because life's a lot easier to not worry about all that stuff.
But I'm a person who, my whole life, I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on.
Whether it's Tony Bologna, Real Deal, somewhere in the middle, cover-ups.
Like, I've always been fascinated with history and all the things that go with that, real cover-ups, all the things.
And it's fascinating to watch history play out today, every day, right in front of us.
Or at least that's, you know, the presentation of it.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's to me, again, it seems like we could spend our energies doing a lot more useful things.
My biggest issue is that's what they're trying to sell you on, is that you're going to have so much more free time.
Your standard of living is going to shoot up because of this AI.
You're not going to have to go to work all the time.
Exactly.
We all have to have a purpose.
Okay.
You know, you're lucky that you're in the radio world.
You enjoy being on a microphone.
I'm extremely lucky that I get to be on a microphone or that I just pulled this gig.
But I've done plenty of jobs that I wasn't in love with.
And, you know, unfortunately, that's just part of it.
At the same time, if you do not have a purpose, your mental health degrades.
It is a part of our humanity.
And time and time again, we are overpromised by what technology is going to bring for the common person.
And not only does it under deliver, it seems to be the exact inversion of what we were told.
Remember, it was our parents' generation when things like the microwave were coming into the household and all these different conveniences that they told them you were going to work less and you were going to have more.
In other words, hey, you got a family of five?
Your husband's working 40 to 60 hours a week.
No, All this convenience is going to make everything easy.
He's going to be working 30 hours a week.
And instead, what happened?
Nope.
Now it's not a family of five.
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It's a family of three or four.
Both parents are working 40-hour work weeks, if not more.
And guess what?
They're lucky to own their home with a mortgage.
Forget about a time period where there were actually people out there, Aaron, that didn't take out mortgages.
They would build their homes.
They used to actually sell home kits where you could buy a kit, have a piece of land, and essentially put it together yourself with you, your friends, your family, and your neighbors.
And this was a common occurrence post-World War II.
You hear anything about home kits in 2025, Aaron?
2026?
I haven't seen any available.
Yeah, it's weird.
Maybe Google that.
But yeah, yeah, different deal.
And it's funny now, you know, we talk about both parents being out of the home and working.
You know, in the next few years, we'll be lucky if both parents are still working.
Especially if they're white collar anyway.
What happens after that?
That's the big question.
That's what I'm worried about, man.
That's what I, you've got tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of people out of work looking for a job.
That means they're not paying taxes.
That means that the government revenue is going to go way down when it already has all this debt to service.
It's, yeah, I'm concerned.
I got to say, a little concerned.
This is what I've been talking about the whole time.
We're giving up water, and basically our economic structure is going to disappear.
And at that point, it's going to make it really easy to get people to do whatever you want because they're just going to want to survive.
It is not a heartwarming proposition.
And I am much more concerned than the average person, but I really do hope that more and more people start waking up to this at a rapid pace so that we can try to mitigate some of the negative outcomes that are inevitable with this technology if the sociopaths, psychopaths, and predator class that is currently in charge remains in charge.
Well, you know, maybe God gets involved, throws down some solar flares, blows up a bunch of these AI data centers, and these guys all go broke because of it.
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It'll be a little flip around.
Yeah, I don't know, man.
It's a lot.
It's a lot.
And as I said, I understand why so many people just check out.
But I sure like going deep in the weeds with you every week to discuss this because this is my only place to really do that.
We touch on some things here and there during the show during the week, but, you know, this is stuff that's in the back of my mind that I sincerely worry about.
So anyway, another great segment today.
Jason, thank you so much.
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