Jason Bermas critiques the upcoming "The Epstein Files" docuseries, exposing alleged connections between Clinton, Trump, and Thiel while debunking Pfizer's Lyme vaccine as a PR stunt masking government bioweapon origins. He highlights NSA recruitment of youth, AI energy demands, and Trump's eugenicist rhetoric regarding Iran, contrasting these with road infrastructure failures caused by climate change. The episode concludes by linking Republican warhawks to a modern military-industrial complex, suggesting systemic decay drives both physical decay and geopolitical aggression. [Automatically generated summary]
And because you mentioned the documentary films, we actually have a new trailer out this week.
You have it out?
It is out and about.
And you can check it out on my YouTube channel or over on my ex at Jason Burmas, all one word.
And it's a little under three minutes, and it is on the new docuseries, The Epstein Files.
So if you want a little teaser taste of what you're going to be in for in this Dauntless docuseries, please go check it out.
When any ETA on when the actual documentary is going to come out?
So the way I've structured this is it's a series, so you're not going to have to wait, you know, a year for a 90-minute picture.
I am trying to get these out in a three-month or so clip.
That would mean hopefully somewhere in the June, July, probably early July, maybe mid-July range, the first part of this series is going to be coming out.
The first part is going to focus on the Epstein class.
I'm tentatively calling it the fine young cannibal class.
We'll see.
I like that.
I like that.
Yeah, I think it's got a hook to it.
But that is just going to get into all these associations, right?
Obviously, we can't go into everybody in depth, but as well as hitting the more well-known ones, such as Clinton or Trump or even somebody like Prince Andrew, we're going to dig into the relationships with Chomsky, with Steve Bannon, with Peter Thiel, with Faith Cates.
I mean, you go down the line, there are connections everywhere.
Mandelson, Tom Barack, I'm sorry, Tom Barrick, mispronouncing that, who is currently in the Trump administration.
He's an envoy to Turkey.
He just got asked on camera.
We played it yesterday in the fourth hour of the Alex Jones show when I hosted about his relationship with Epstein after his conviction in Palm Beach.
And just like almost everybody else, you know, he tried to spin it.
He essentially said, you know, everybody knew and was doing business with Jeffrey Epstein in the 80s.
It was unavoidable.
He was almost like this mythic figure.
He then went on to say, you know, myself and many others kind of just assumed that his wealth came from his international dealings with Israel.
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And then when he was pressed, they're like, oh, yeah, okay, that's all well and good.
But why were you meeting with him after he was convicted?
And he just, you know, walked away.
Which is not shocking.
So we're going to focus on those relationships.
And then in the second chapter, I think we're going to be doing the Iran-Contra scandal.
So we're going to rewind a little bit to basically his origin story within the banking world, but also in this, you know, mega intelligence network, the very deep state that people talk about that still exists to this day.
And then the third part, and we'll see if we end up doing more.
We'll see how successful the series is, whether or not I'm really able to get my legs back under me in the documentary world.
But it's going to focus on transhumanism.
Now, look, we only have somewhere around half the files, supposedly, if not less at this point.
A lot can happen in three, six, nine, 12 months.
So, you know, there are rough outlines for each of these.
And I'm a one-man show.
I've got other projects I'm working on other than just doing my own show or guesting on shows like these.
So, you know, it's no small task, Aaron, but I'm certainly looking forward to tackling it.
You know, you could probably get some interns.
I'm serious.
Like, like work with some local colleges or something like that.
Well, I'll say this.
In the editing process, I bet there'd be a lot of kids that would love to dip their toe in something like this, especially once they realize who you are and your body of work.
Well, when I first came out to the Quad Cities, I even opened up like a business bank account.
I was actually looking for a building and to do just that because I really can't hire anybody.
And I have been in charge of younger people in video departments.
I actually headed up the video department for the largest little league baseball camp in the world just outside of Cooperstown, New York, Dreams Park.
I love that stuff.
It's great.
But at the same time, I am, in fact, even then, I was working on Shade the Motion Picture while I had that job.
And I did recruit some of my editors to do some of my baseline editing, say around the interviews I was conducting.
So I do like a four-hour interview, and I tell the person to go in, and I want them to cut my audio all the way out, and I want them to piecemail it into each question, et cetera, et cetera.
Some busy work that can take, you know, three, four, five hours, you know, per interview, if not more.
So who knows what we're going to do right now, as far as interviews and other people, kind of behind the scenes, I may dig into my massive archive of interviews I've done in the past with Epstein experts like Whitney Webb or Nick Bryant and pull a select piece of audio and edit over it.
But right now, that's pretty much what we're looking at there.
We're really trying to dig deep into the files specifically and what they reveal, Aaron.
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Right on, man.
That's just knowing your other work, I'm very excited to see it.
Well, my wife and I probably watched the trailer tonight.
So she's a little, she's seven years younger than me.
And so we started talking about 9-11, and I'm like, well, you watch Blue's Change, right?
Because I just recently re-watched it, but it was during the day when she was at work.
You know, because technically I consider that my work since we talked to you, right?
And I just wanted to be educated on what we're doing.
And so we got talking about that.
And so she's really excited.
We're a big basketball fan, so we've been watching that.
But that's like the next thing on our list is to sit down and watch Blue's Change.
She wants to check that out.
And I don't know.
I'm just saying, you do a good job.
And for people that haven't checked out any of Jason's documentaries, give it a go.
And he covers a lot of bases with the different documentaries and this one here.
And obviously, we've done a lot of chatter about Epstein on this segment.
And I don't know.
I'm just excited to see it.
Good stuff, man.
Always good stuff.
So what's going on in the world?
What are you seeing out there in the world?
Well, here's a story that kind of caught my eye for a number of reasons.
The good people at Pfizer, you know, those lovely folks, have now said, yes, I'm a very big fan of Pfizer, if you couldn't tell, that they have a new human Lyme disease vaccine that they say is 70% effective.
Now, first and foremost, let's start with efficacy on any of these things, right?
So right away when I hear, I'm like 70% effective on what exactly, right?
Because there's always fine print.
There's always media spin.
There's certainly a huge PR campaign on this thing.
And look, Lyme's disease is no joke.
It can be as detrimental, if not more, than things like multiple sclerosis, right?
I know a couple of people that I went to school with that, well, one I went to school with, somebody else was from another town about my age.
And yeah, they both deal with it.
And I mean, we're talking deteriorating to the point where you're in a wheelchair and beyond if it gets that bad.
It also is kind of an outlier where, you know, you can just get bit by a tick and maybe show no symptoms or just be having mental symptoms that you're not piecing together would be anything like this and suffer from this thing for decades, right?
I mean, this is a serious deal.
So, first and foremost, what in the world is Pfizer talking about?
So, I went right to the Pfizer site.
I wanted to see what their PR was going to say about this.
And, you know, they kick it off with all the good things.
Oh, 70% effective in preventing Lyme disease in individuals five and above.
And they said, you know, we investigated this candidate and there were no safety concerns whatsoever at the time of analysis.
So, so far, best things since breakfast.
Now, you just scroll down and you keep scrolling down and you keep scrolling down.
And then you'll get to a thing called Valneva forward-looking statements.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then it says, in some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words as could, should, may, expects, anticipates, believes, intends, estimates, aims, targets, or similar words.
These forward-looking statements are based largely on the current expectations of Valneva as of the date of this press release and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results.
I mean, it continues to go and cover their ass, but I think you're getting what they're saying.
Yeah, it's at the end, and it basically exonerates them of telling any tall tales in the above.
Now, the other thing that really bothers me about this: let's say they're telling the truth and it actually does all this.
Are we not going to talk about the fact that Lyme's disease, even though they'll tell AI will tell you it's a conspiracy theory, didn't exist before human beings started tinker tampering in labs and black sites.
And one in particular was about to have open government hearings here in the United States pre-COVID.
You actually had senators talking about this as if it was fact, because essentially, when you follow the dots, it is fact.
That this thing was created not only by the U.S. government at a bioweapons facility, but we know that facility and it's Plum Island.
Okay.
And we've done a lot of things on Plum Island.
It's a miracle, really, that darker things have not come out of there, or at least things that we don't know about.
But Lyme disease in itself, talk about a war crime that this government and their mad scientists have committed against the human race and their own populace in particular.
I would tell people to dig into it and just take a look at the baseline information.
Because a lot of these things, I mean, whether you take a look at something like this or you really want to dig into something like HIV, they seem to have an origin story in labs that are funded by your taxpayer dollars.
Huh, sort of like COVID.
Hey, how about that?
That's so weird to say something like, hey, but Rand Paul's out there saying, hey, I've referred Fauci to the Justice Department, and I am still getting crickets.
I mean, God love Rand Paul.
Again, it's probably not being discussed on this show or the mainstream media, etc.
But he's out there trying to kick and scream and saying, Why are we not prosecuting this guy?
Well, I'll tell you why, because we don't do prosecutions in this country.
And when we do, they fall apart because they don't present the real evidence because then the real evidence will have that person that they've charged sing like a canary and present other real evidence against higher-level people.
And they don't want that domino effect.
Now, I'm not sure whether or not you saw this, but I briefly discussed it yesterday.
Going back to the Epstein files, just really quick.
Look, I'm not expecting real criminal accountability overseas in these arrests that we're seeing in the Epstein files.
But just like I've stated before, we've moved the needle enough that although there's not even like the slap on the wrist type arrest in the United States, they literally raided this week an Edmund Rothschild office in Paris related to the Epstein files.
Rothschild?
You're looking at it on Reuters if you're watching this on the replay, the Deep in the Weeds over at YouTube.
But yeah, you can look it up right now.
Happened a few days ago.
And whether or not that gets any actual arrests and prosecutions, whether or not that's some type of cover-up crew coming in to get the pertinent evidence and then hide it from the public, I don't know.
But once again, that doesn't happen without people like myself, people like Alex Jones, people like Whitney Webb putting this information out over the decades and the people actually demanding some movement.
So, yeah, that's why the Epstein files are so still relevant to this day.
Let's say that that raid right there just has one criminal case, Aaron.
Then, all of a sudden, that documentation, because it will be involved with the United States, Jeffrey Epstein, his businesses there, associates there, et cetera, et cetera.
At some point, due to this law, when that knowledge is supposed to become publicly available, it will have to be released to the United States public.
Hence, the Epstein files are an ever-growing thing.
It's not just what they're hiding right now and what we talked about last week with all these other data sets that already seem to be up there with the current.
Yeah.
Just keeps growing.
Yes, sir.
It's creepy.
Back to ticks for a second.
We were talking about Lyme disease.
Yes.
Mike, you ever had tick bite?
Yeah, I've got tick ticks on you.
And I don't know what the Lyme tick looks like or any of that, but here's what I do know.
So they basically already have a treatment for this.
So my wife works before she went back into Durham.
She was a family care clinic, nurse practitioner.
And she said that they would, if someone came in with a tick on them or a tick bite, and she had some stories, they would just typically ask the person first, but they would typically treat them for Lyme disease whether they knew it or not, because it was one of those things.
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If you catch it early, typically they can eradicate it and it's not going to be a big problem.
Now, if you don't catch it early, then that's when you run into a big problem.
But why make a vaccine, another shot, for something that, as long as you catch it early, you know, it's not a big deal anyway.
Yeah, the one information I was reading when you guys were talking about it was the tick has to be on you 38, 32 to 48 hours for the bacteria to get into your body.
Right.
So, I mean, there's all, because I'm an outdoorsman fish.
Yeah, so you know to check for ticks.
Yeah, and there's all kinds of sprays and clothing you can wear.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I but it's just another feels like another money grab.
And then I also saw the it didn't do uh well enough in the trials that they were going to approve it, Jason.
At least that's the story I saw earlier this week.
Well, again, you know, I guess yeah, it all it all depends on who's making those approvals, right?
Um, you know, you just talked about like the 24 to 30, you know, six hours and the bacteria, etc.
Um, I'm a little bit skeptical of that, although that's you know a possibility.
Obviously, this is a big thing in the canine population as well.
Uh, but especially in upstate New York, man, uh, and I shouldn't just say upstate New York because really I remember as a kid, uh, you started hearing about it late 80s, early 90s in like the Dutchess County and Rockland County areas that's just above the city.
Uh, again, making it even more suspicious from Plum Island.
But but then you've got a giant state, like New York is a physically giant state that has a ton of farmland.
And, you know, as a kid, it was kegs in cornfields and that type of thing.
Oh, yeah.
So yeah, so I'm just saying that it is a huge, huge issue in that state, and it's barely whispered about.
So I would just say this: if they do get it on the market and they are able to, you know, essentially sell it to the public or really the medical community that's going to thrust it upon upon the public, this is going to be very profitable.
And again, very dangerous.
I'm so sick of them trying to come up with some sort of medication, whether they're being genuine or not, when we cannot even address where it came from in the first place.
Because if we addressed where it came from in the first place and we could look at how it was created, that's going to give us a big leg up on how we can fight this thing.
But if it's just denial after denial after denial, you're tying your hands behind your back and you're not really trying to address the issue or solve the problem in the slightest, in my opinion.
Well, no, you keep the problem so you can keep people paying to treat it.
Oh, West Nile virus, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's another thing they could, yeah, find a vaccine.
So I had like West Nile fever, which is the more common.
90% of people that get the vote, it's just the fever, not the actual virus.
But it was weird.
That's like within the last 20 years.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You never really heard about that one either.
They're always coming up with new stuff.
And then, hey, conveniently, we can make this vaccine and we'll make a lot of money off it.
You can take it.
We don't know if it'll work.
We don't care.
And away we go.
You know, bribe some politicians, hit repeat.
That's like the Pfizer business model, right?
It seems to be just the business model for all of these companies.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to give it exclusive to the good people at Pfizer.
You know, I was over at the Adler last night.
Again, always something to do in the quad cities, folks.
I got out of the weigh-ins.
We got fights tonight at the River Center, by the way.
If you're not coming, you're missing out big.
But I went and saw Tosh.
Yes.
You know, almost a sold-out crowd.
I think I got the last two seats inside on the floor.
But he was talking about, you know, what was the thing, you know, before COVID?
And, you know, everybody forgets it.
Nobody was yelling it out.
And he's like, the whole Zika thing.
And remember, even with that, they were trying to hype you up to get some kind of a shot and they were warning you against having babies.
And they were trying to hype that Zika had hit America.
I mean, these people are shameless, Eric.
Did you see there's a new COVID variant?
Oh, wow.
Is there?
Wow.
I should get real concerned.
And I am seeing more people in masks in the store that have totally lost their minds.
Yes.
For real?
Unfortunately.
I saw a guy driving in his car with one on the other day here in town in Erie.
And I was like, weird.
No, yeah, they got, you know, it's a real five-alarm fire.
My wife showed me a thing online because whoever originally posted it or whatever, they said, oh, this new COVID variant, it's, you know, it's sneaky and it's this and that.
And like, all the comments are just people with a laugh emoji.
You know, like a thousand of them.
It was all just like, yeah, right, dude.
Whatever.
You're not going to pull that one on us again.
And quick comment on you said, I always tell them doing the quiet cities.
We also said about ticks and cornfields.
I read a story earlier this week in Wall Street Journal.
They were talking about how Gen Z, like, they watch movies from the 80s and 90s.
We were talking about this earlier.
And they don't think it's real.
They don't think people acted like that back then.
Like you're, you know, your 10 things I hate about you or your fast times at Richmond High, house parties and stuff like that.
Like, they don't, they, they, well, and also I've come to realize because we have a 14-year-old kid, pretty sharp kid, Caleb Zegman, that comes in and talks sports with us first thing on the show in the morning.
And he doubted Will Chamberlain scoring 100 points in a game.
I listened to that live.
You did, because it's not on video.
So they don't think it's real.
Yeah.
But they don't think like this, this party nature of the, and then I found out, so I deep dove and found out there's like a whole bunch of kids that age.
Like that's a common thing in their generation.
They don't, if they don't have video of it, they don't think it's real, which is ironic to me because now people are making videos of things that aren't real with AI.
So it's like, what?
But anyway.
So wait, let me comment on that.
Okay.
Because it's super important.
There's a study that came out recently at the end of February, and I was discussing this with Alex Jones, and he was kind of taken aback by it.
But anybody can go check it out right now.
And that study is showing that this is the first generation that is literally less cognizantly capable than the generation prior to theirs.
And we're talking about 40% in written and speech cognition, written in particular.
Now, I want people to really grasp that for a moment.
So me and Jones are talking about it back and forth.
And Aaron, you're not going to believe this one, but I think it was Wednesday.
Wait, yeah, Wednesday.
Okay.
I opened up my mailbox and I got this thick, kind of like, it almost feels like a birthday card type envelope addressed to my niece.
And it's my older one.
She's the 16-year-old.
She's a junior.
You know, only a few months left, and then she's going to be a senior.
So on her way out into the world.
And I'm very proud of her.
She's in the top 10% of the state.
She's on the National Honor Society, the whole nine.
And when I get the envelope in my hand, I can kind of see through it a little bit.
And I see national.
So I'm like, oh, this must be from the National Honor Society.
But then I continue to snoop and read.
And it says, Uncle Jason.
And it says National Security Agency, Aaron.
Oh.
Oh.
16-year-old girl.
So she's 16.
Yeah.
So a 16-year-old girl.
So obviously I'm curious.
And I go to pick them up from track, you know.
So Michelina gets into the front seat and I start.
She's like, well, what's this?
I'm like, you got to tell me.
I don't know, kid.
And she starts opening it up.
And again, she's real sharp.
Okay.
And academically, again, in the top 10% of the state, everybody, I want to make that extremely clear.
And so the National Security Agency has this kind of like a recruitment program for kids.
And she has now been invited over to Georgetown University for a week to spend with the Pentagon and the National Security Agency and DHS.
And it's not cheap, Aaron.
This is going to cost about five grand if we do it.
So there will be a GoFundMe, folks.
Keep that in mind.
Uncle Jason is just trying to make it, but I see it.
She's really excited about it.
Apparently, she's also the president of her Crime Stoppers group.
I know that she's kind of leaned towards psychology and that type of thing that interests her.
And so, you know, I look at her and I go, well, if you're going to do something like this, you better be a good spook.
And she looks at me.
She goes, I don't know what that is.
Now, again, top 10% of her class.
I go, you don't know what a spook is.
And she goes, no.
And I go, well, that is a term for being a spy or somebody in the intelligence community.
Okay.
All right.
So there's one thing, again, I would expect that a 16-year-old would know.
And by the way, you mentioned that whole watching 90s stuff.
She's big into that.
You know, she watched the whole Scream series with her friends.
They all do watch those type of movies.
So you would think that they would hit up on some of that kind of information and pop culture.
So then the next thing she says to me when she tells me it's at Georgetown University, I go, wow, well, that's a kind of a big thing.
She didn't know what Georgetown University was.
And now I'm like, all right, well, like probably by the time I was 12 years old, I was pretty aware of Georgetown being an academically astute, kind of like an Ivy League school, but I was also at least aware of it in the sense of NCAA basketball, right?
Like that type of thing.
Hoyas, everything like that.
Well, and so I, you know, I explained that to her and I'm like, you know, you know, my, my nieces go to Bettendorf and let's just say that we don't have the kind of dollars a lot of the Bettendorf people do too.
You know what I'm saying?
So they're surrounded by a lot of rich kids.
And I go, if you go to this thing, I go, I guarantee you that you're probably maybe like three other people will be as poor as you, if that.
I go, I go, this is going to be another level of the type of kid they recruit and the area that you're in.
And she's like, really?
And I'm like, this would be playthings.
You know, for those that don't understand, Georgetown is a hub for intelligentsia and really things like the road.
Yeah, I mean, it's right there.
Yeah, road scholarships, all those type of things, the kind of roundtable groups, the Council on Foreign Relations, et cetera.
So, you know, on one end, very exciting, right?
Especially for my niece.
It's a huge opportunity.
On the other end, you know, when I was sitting there talking about, talking about this to Alex, she goes, she doesn't even know she's going into the belly of the beast, does she promise?
And I'm just like, yeah, I don't know that she does.
You know, I don't know that she, you know, knows exactly what the NSA does and, you know, what the compromises might be.
And with a program like this, man, they're getting them young.
You know, she's going to graduate by the time she's 17, just like I did.
And she does this summer program.
You know, maybe they put you through a two to four year university program, but I would say it's probably two years max.
And, you know, another thing people don't really realize about the intelligentsia community, it's like, all right, well, they have the type of thing where they'll put you in like an Ivy League or they'll put you with an agency.
But they also like to send people to things like clown college or, you know, the Barnum and Bailey School.
And people go, well, why would they do that?
Sleight of hand and that type of thing, you know, field agents.
So there's a wide spectrum there.
And, you know, I'm taking it with a grain of salt.
We'll see how the kid likes it if we get it done.
But I do worry about the naivety of my niece because, again, she's extremely smart.
But when I look at this group of young people, and the irony here is, you know, we've spent so much more money.
It's about $30 billion more, all right, to ditch textbooks for laptops, tablets.
These kids supposedly have more information at their fingertips than ever, and they have cognitively declined on every level from the previous generation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Textbook screens aren't good for him, I don't think, you know, and I think they're lessening standards as well on education-wise.
So we are deep in the weeds with Jason Burmese, brought you by River Cities Reader, by the way.
A couple things.
So, number one, has it not crossed your mind that maybe the NSA is hoping to get a handler in your house?
Believe me.
Go ahead.
I'm just saying you wouldn't be the first person to already say that to me after I brought this up.
I believe, oh, Burmese niece, she hit a profile.
All right.
Hey, yeah, right?
Like, hey, Uncle Jason, what are you doing?
What are you working on?
What are you seeing out there?
I'll just mess with you, of course.
So my son, he just graduated from AM last year.
He got a similar thing.
So he took, so with Texas A ⁇ M, he graduated with honors and all that stuff.
I mean, he did really well.
But he they had taken some sort of, I don't know, social dynamics survey or something like Rando.
Like he just got it in one of his classes, filled it out, whatever.
Well, then like two or three months later, he gets this letter from a similar kind of thing where they offered to let him come to a training session or a training, whatever.
It was like eight or 10 weeks long.
He would get paid.
It was a pretty good chunk of change, you know, because he's graduated from college already.
So it's probably a further along type of thing.
But he was going to get like five or six grand for going.
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And then, of course, they take care of room and board while he was there.
And it was basically to put him through like these, you know, a summer essentially of training to see if he would fit profiles for three-letter organizations.
And him and I had a lot of talks about it.
And I'm like, well, you hit the intelligence part with your grades and all that.
They know you're smart enough.
I said, and however you filled out that survey may have had something to do with them feeling like you were a good candidate because he was asking all of his buddies at school if they got him the letters and nobody else did.
Exactly.
And I'm like, and my kid's pretty, you know, I don't know.
He knows how to keep his mouth shut.
You know, he's been through some stuff.
Obviously, his mom and I got divorced.
It was always a situation where I'm always going to get him every summer, spring, breaking, Christmas, bringing him home.
And that was our time together.
And like, I don't know.
He's just, he could handle a little bit of stress, controversy, whatever.
Like, he's been through a lot of different stuff.
Been went to a different school a whole bunch of times.
Like, he's gone through a lot of that.
So it was weird to see that.
Now to hear someone else that had their kid or, you know, niece in this case, get a similar letter, but at a younger level.
So that's very interesting.
So yeah, his was like a whole, like, hey, you've qualified for this.
So then he actually did go and talk to the recruiter or whoever was there in the Houston or would have been, I think he talked to the guy in Houston because he was home to see his mom or something, but because it wasn't at AM.
But he talked to the guy and for like had an interview with him.
And then he decided he just didn't really think he wanted to do it.
And they called him back.
They wanted to do another interview.
And there was like a two or three interview process.
And if you got through those, then they would send you to the summer school, basically, where you could get paid.
And then they would see how you fit in or if you did, I guess.
And that was uh, I kind of didn't even I haven't thought about that in a while, but yeah, that's weird, isn't it?
That like they send out these little recruitment letters.
Well, I think they're vetting people, just like you said.
And, you know, I think that my niece has gone through some similar things and might have also fit a psychological profile, you know, had the grades to do it.
And I think there is a certain amount of, like you said, being able to keep your mouth shut, right?
Especially if you're going to be working in these intelligence situations.
So, you know, it is alarming on one sense, but it is expected.
You know, Robert Mueller died this past week, right?
And I brought that up because Robert Mueller was actually buddies with a guy named Bill Barr.
Okay.
They worked together in the Justice Department.
And you look at somebody like Bill Barr, yes, his dad was involved in the intelligence agencies prior to him getting involved, but they got their hooks into somebody like Bill Barr at the earliest of ages.
You know, he was a central intelligence agency guy before he had even become a lawyer.
And it was the central intelligence agency that actually put him through law school to pass the bar.
So if they can get their hooks in you as a teenager and you're a part of this culture basically for your entire adult life, that suits them.
And I want to remind people that, you know, all of us, you know, our frontal lobes don't fully develop to the time we're 24.
I think that these agencies are the military, they're very well aware of that very crucial time period of 18 to 24 and how you're really able to shape a human being for the rest of their life in those years.
You know, you say what you want about the military, but the people that get through the military and then are able to have a civilian life, they're often very, very disciplined in keeping a home clean, making their bed and those type of things because it has been drilled into them since they were out of high school, right?
So it doesn't shock me.
I'm keeping an eye on it.
But, you know, I thought it was pretty interesting just to see not only that study, but then in relation to that generation.
And look, I'm hoping we can turn it around.
I'm not rooting against the youth.
I think that this has been done on purpose.
A lot of people have talked about dumbing down America, but then you got people like Sam Altman.
AI Data Centers Nuclear Power00:07:23
I played this clip yesterday out there openly admitting that they are going to treat AI as quote unquote intelligence, and that intelligence will be sold as a utility.
So once again, as they dumb you down and make you less intellectually capable, they want a meter intelligence that they've created that you may have to rely upon because you're no longer capable of any type of human autonomy.
I mean, I know it sounds like a nightmarish Twilight Zone episode, but folks, we're currently living it.
Yeah.
So I'm glad you brought that up.
And since we don't plan anything before we start, we talk for like a minute before we go on the air.
And occasionally we'll go back and forth during the week if stuff pops up or whatever, but usually we just kind of roll with it.
So here's something that is kind of odd and alarming.
Remember, like, gosh, even just four months ago, maybe when we were talking about AI data centers, you were the first person actually.
Maybe it was six months ago.
I don't even know how long we've been doing this, but you kept talking about AI data centers having their own nuclear power plants and all this stuff going on, right?
Well, they don't.
They don't have their own nuclear power plants.
They're using power out of the grid.
There's less supply.
There's more demand.
Prices are going up for everybody where all these giant data centers are going up.
And there's a theory or the math behind this is that the companies that are just burning this cash to build these AA data centers have to get them up and making some kind of profit at some point.
And that's like sooner than later.
And that's why there's this huge push right now because it was like, oh, there's going to be AA data centers.
And then all of a sudden, within a matter of a few months, it went to like data center here, data center there.
I mean, it's in the paper constantly.
Like in state news, you see like, oh, this town and this town, like Indianapolis just approved a $4 billion data center to go on the southwest side of town.
Well, they're not building their own power plant.
Like that, that was the plan, right?
That's what everybody talked about.
Well, no, they're not doing that.
They're just taking power right out of the grid.
And it's, this isn't what we were told.
You know, it's like, oh, the old bait and switch sell tactic.
And here we are.
Well, they've got to get the public behind them letting them build those nuclear reactors.
And then, of course, you think those companies are going to foot the bill for the nuclear reactors that power their facilities specifically?
Of course not.
Let me tell you about some of the bait and switches that are going on.
You just talked about the building of these data centers.
Now, there's a great headline out there, and I'm very proud of these folks.
You got this farm that was 1,200 acres, and they got offered $26 million for 600 of those acres.
They said no.
You know, good for them.
But let's say, you know, Farmer Ben decides to take that money, even though Farmer Joe didn't.
Chances are they're not getting that $26 million up front, right?
They're probably getting it in a payment plan, and there's probably some regulations.
They'll probably get, you know, $10, $15 million up front, maybe.
But then they're going to be paid every year for a certain amount of years.
Well, what happens in a lot of these cases, or I predict will happen, is the same thing that happened with things like solar farms or wind farms.
So you get the money in like the first year or whatever, but then the company goes out of business.
Okay.
And these are all shell companies anyway.
So when they go out of business and declare bankruptcy, you know, it ends up being a tax write-off for a bigger company.
Well, then all of a sudden, all those contracts are a moot point.
Farmer Ben doesn't get the rest of his money.
And then another company comes in, all right?
And they buy it up for pennies on the dollar.
All right.
So now you've got this thing.
You got to make it work.
This guy didn't get his money.
And like you said, it's taking more power from the grid.
Well, Altman in this same clip that he's talking about, the fact that they're going to sell it as a service, talks about the cost and energy going up.
And he basically says, in one of, well, in some cases, maybe it's only going to be for rich people.
No kidding.
So now we've all paid for it.
Okay.
Our actual, I mean, our actual resources have been truncated and controlled.
And you have these basic tech oligarchs that are outside of the purview of any type of accountability running this system.
And, you know, I'm actually going to be doing a special broadcast this weekend with Alex Jones on the AI, automation, AGIs, all these things, because AGIs, if you didn't know, Aaron, just this week have now been announced by NVIDIA.
So, you know, Mr. Leather Jacket over here is now touting artificial general intelligence.
Now, let me say this.
Artificial general intelligence has more than likely been around for quite some time in black sites, government programs, even Google for some time.
And an AGI is much more of a personalized artificial intelligence.
By no means what I call it conscious, but it is still at a much higher level than, say, the latest chat GPT or any type of assistant.
Now, it is interesting that people like Epstein in these files are talking about AGIs all the way back in like 2010 or 11, right?
They want to thwart this technology on as many people as possible because they want more and more control over all systems.
And on top of the chief artificial intelligence officer program that we've talked about here, where essentially AI companies are government companies because you have to have a CAIO in that company.
They have to have a certain security clearance.
And your company's software and hardware can always be audited by the government.
The only people outside of those audits are the government themselves.
Smells like fascism to me, everybody.
This week, they just announced these new tech oligarchs, this group of people under the executive.
Have you seen this?
No.
You know, I should bring it up because I haven't.
Dicka-dicka-dooted yet.
But Zuckerberg, Bryn, I think Mark Andreessen is on there.
I know it was a big topic in my independent media alliance feed.
So they're just not even being shy about it.
They're telling you who they're picking.
I think Larry Ellison is in there as well as the lords, the progenitors of all AI for us plebs, Aaron.
Oh, they got nerds running the show.
Tech Council Advertisements Controversy00:04:57
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah, until somebody, until the wall inspector comes along.
And, you know, yeah.
Let me see.
I got it's the new tech council.
Here it is.
Let me see.
We've got Zuckerberg, Ellison, Jensen, who we just talked about, who announced AGI, Sergey Brin, Lisa Su.
And there's 13.
They don't have Andreessen for some reason on here, but they need to.
So, yeah, we've got a new tech council, science and tech council with the Zuckerberg.
Great stuff.
A bunch of people who couldn't get laid in high school.
I mean, at least they weren't wearing eye makeup as much as I know.
And these days, at least they didn't cut off their genitals, right?
Like, yeah.
Fair enough.
Thanks for taking that a little farther.
We're deep in the weeds with Shace Defense.
Rodney by Rivers.
I might be that guy.
I know.
Like I said, we finish the week every week with thought-provoking chatter.
It's a good time.
You know, Aaron, these are the topics that actually matter.
Look, I know everybody was really.
Yeah, I mean, I get it.
People are excited about their sports team.
Did Iowa lose last night in the NCAA?
No, buddy.
They won.
They're actually playing Ellenoy in the Elite Eight for the chance to go to the Final Four.
One of those two teams.
So, Quad Cities right now.
Yeah, where everybody is pretty excited.
I mean, I remember, like, again, I was at Tosh, and he was actually gambling on the game in live time and talking about it.
And at one point, the audience went nuts, but I didn't hear whether or not they had won or not.
That's how detached I am from the majority.
Go ahead.
Iowa was behind a whole game until the last two minutes.
Yeah, just couldn't get in.
Then they hit Ben Asterse at a big three, put him up, and then they stayed.
They finished the game on like a 15 to 4 run or whatever.
But yeah, but yeah, and this is not, I mean, and no one expected this.
The refs let him play.
Oh, yeah, I thought.
Yeah, it was a it was rough.
It was a physical game, but they let him play.
Yeah, Mike's not a huge basketball fan, but he's a big Hawkeye fan.
So he's in here today with his Hawkeye hat on, and he's ready to roll.
And of course, we carry the games.
The Iowa Illinois game is going to be on our station tomorrow at five.
So we're pretty excited about that.
But yeah, Iowa won, man.
It's, you know, I kind of expected Illinois to win, but nobody saw Iowa getting this far.
They might make Ben McCollum the coach governor.
Well, that seems to be the way things go, right?
If you can make a name for yourself somewhere in sports, you can also have a political career.
Good to hear that you're playing that at five because I want to encourage people to get in their cars and come on down to the River Center where fists will be flying around 7:30.
So that means if you got to listen to like that fourth quarter on the ride down via WQUD, you can.
And then you can see some live action right here.
Can't make it tonight.
We got another event going on Saturday.
Not going to want to miss that caged aggression, Aaron.
I know you love the fights, man.
And I dig that.
You know, it's, and I don't even, if I'll be honest, I wouldn't even know a lot of the events.
Like, they should really market more.
Like, you're the only person that tells me about any of this stuff.
I never see anything.
I don't even know that I see it in the reader, maybe in the listings.
But it's, you know, you guys got to get the word out a little more.
I'm trying.
The thing is that, again, and I think this is also like a problem.
I talked about this with Jones and the nieces.
I think that people's algorithms are so funneled in to the short-term things.
And like, you know, somebody that like that's putting on the caged aggression thing, right?
They're friends with all the fighters online.
They're constantly seeing the advertisements for their event because it's in their algae.
I see advertisements for the fights all the time.
They don't realize that you got to step out of the purview.
You still have to do some traditional media like radio or billboards, right?
And as much as I hate getting posters over at TBK.
You know, I'm over at TBK every Sunday, and there are literally 2,000 to 3,000 people inside TBK every Sunday by 9 a.m.
Oh, yeah, buddy.
I was there.
I mean, we didn't do AAU basketball this spring.
My daughter wanted to, she decided she wanted to go out for track at school instead.
And I think now she's maybe wishing she just stayed to an AAU, but we'll be back in the fall.
But oh, yeah, I mean, that's that's that.
What are you doing there on Sundays?
Again, my nieces are overachievers.
They're both on track, by the way.
They had a meet yesterday, but we do platform elite volleyball with the younger ones.
Studio Roads and Potholes00:02:56
Yep.
And again, I think it's a great program.
But yeah, thousands of people there.
Listen, the quad cities is happening.
I love it here.
It is continually expanding.
I think that that area out by TBK right now is super growing.
And the houses that they've built there, it's a real community, man.
And it's nice to see something like that when you're a guy like me and I've seen just so much destitude in like the upstate New York areas or the East Coast.
And I've been to other parts of the country that aren't doing so well.
We're doing all right here.
I just wish that we could get the roads down.
Can we please start building roads that don't have massive potholes in them?
I mean, I know I mentioned this the other, I think, last week with Eisenhower and the highway system, but it's out of control.
It's got to stop.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, come on out.
See, you think the roads in Iowa are bad?
Oh, bro.
We need to bring you back out here in Illinois, and I'll show you some bad roads.
I'm fine with like country roads that are dirt roads, gravel roads, or a little broken up.
I'm talking about when I'm going down main drags and I've got to shift to the left so my Jeep doesn't blow out a tire from a pothole that's 18 inches deep.
Let's do something about it, Bettendorf.
Yeah, yeah, you'll have that.
That's winter weather.
Why do we get?
Well, Mike, you plowed snow forever.
Is that what it is coming into the spring?
You get a lot of potholes from that?
It's heavy salt usage.
It's the climate.
It's the freeze-thaw.
It's hard on the material that we drive on.
Yeah.
So you can go like some milder climates when I lived in Portland and Seattle.
Hardly any pot.
Yeah.
And it doesn't get below freezing.
Right.
You get like Cheyenne, Wyoming or Denver.
They barely use salt at all, but they got a different kind of climate.
They get right.
When I live in Latina, they use sand.
Yeah.
And so it's the product we put.
People want clear roads when it's snowing at zero.
Yeah.
Well, this is a byproduct.
Right.
Potholes.
Potholes.
So, I mean, you got to make your sweep.
Yeah.
We had before they fixed my road last year, which hadn't been fixed for 37 years, Jason.
Oh, my God.
Oh, yeah.
There was one pothole that, yeah, if you hit it, we had a birthday dinner that you gave it a name.
Yeah.
I mean, it was, it was so bad.
And my daughter, my oldest daughter, actually did pop a tire in a pothole.
But it was out here because the roads were so bad.
But they fixed part of it.
The rest of it, the rest of Route 2 that goes to the quad cities from Lake Erie, it's still bad and getting worse and all the things.
And we get you out here in the studio one day.
You'll get a chance to feel that firsthand.
Well, we've been out in the studio.
We got to come back again.
You know, we only got probably a few more minutes, Aaron.
Lindsey Graham Wild Claims00:05:20
And I want to hit the Trump and stump, okay?
We got to hit some of them.
You haven't hit Sharpie yet?
All I know.
Jerry's putting his name on all the money.
Yeah.
Listen.
So is the secretary.
This guy, he is losing it.
Okay.
And I don't want to be, I don't want to be the guy that has to really point out that his cognition seems to be going because he has been a pretty sharp guy, whether you agree with him or not.
Again, I think his arrogance has gotten in the way.
The fact that he cannot be submissive in any manner, he's got to be the alpha, etc.
Have you seen this interview yet with the Fox News presenter that he phoned in on yesterday?
No.
So he phones in.
I forget which one.
I don't even know the woman's name.
I've seen her a million times.
But, you know, she's talking to him about something pretty important.
You know, this whole Iran war, which it looks like we're putting ground troops on, where we had actual Republicans now walking out of closed-door meetings because they are pissed and rightfully so.
Trump's on this interview talking to her, and she's asking a serious question about the Iran war.
And he's like, hey, do you remember when we had dinner a couple of years ago?
He's like, you look even better now.
What are we doing, man?
That's where his mindset is.
I just think, look, the guy's never had, you know, a lot of sleep.
He's always been a really driven individual.
He's 79 years old.
He spent way too much time with Lindsey Graham for my liking in these.
Yeah, in these elder years.
And look, I think that we all know it.
In those last years of a lot of people's lives, I come from an Italian family where I was around some of the old timers.
Maybe they get a little pervy and the guys think, ah, she's so beautiful.
You know, they start reflecting on their youth.
And Trump has always, you know, always been about quote-unquote beautiful women.
And I just think that we're now at the point where he's going to have a lot of self-control issues on a lot of things.
I mean, he said some really wild stuff just in the past few weeks.
You know, that Fox News interview where he's talking about the Iranians and bad genetics.
Look, if you want to sit there and talk about quote-unquote bad genetics, let's talk about the inbred Rothschild family.
Okay.
Let's not, let's not, let's talk about specifics.
Let's not talk about an entire, you know, race of people.
Because that, I mean, first of all, it's ridiculous.
It's totally eugenics and it's dehumanizing.
Bad genetics.
They're just bad genetics.
No, that's not a real thing.
We can't be saying things like that.
So look, I don't know how Trump gets back on the rails.
Right now, there are headlines that JD Vance was just in a crazy verbal altercation with Netanyahu because of Netanyahu selling Trump on this war, which I'm sure in part is true.
But it's not just Netanyahu selling him.
It's not just Lindsey Graham.
It's not just Ted Cruz.
It's almost the entire inside intelligence community of Warhawks that have been elevated over the years and crafted into this modern-day military industrial complex.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall in some of their meetings where it's like, you know, you got PD Warwar over there like chewing the heads off of Ken dolls because that's just what he does for a habit or whatever.
You know, war, like more war, bigger war, all the war.
Like, dude, it's just some.
But I don't know.
I just want out.
Well, you know, he's mentioned Heg Seth again and his war demeanor.
I'm not sure if you actually caught that Leonard Cohen AI piece that I sent you, but they have Heg Seth in there basically in the kind of like this Roman pantheon of Trump and his administrators.
And he's just pumping iron, baby.
He's getting the gun show a working, Aaron.
Flexing the mirror.
Yes, sir.
Every time you walk by.
Great stuff again today, man.
I know we kind of went, well, we kind of took the hiking trail today around some stuff, but it was a great conversation.
A couple of squirrels.
Yeah, maybe.
Definitely a couple squirrels.
But no, very good time.
As always, we have been deep in the weeds with Jason Burmes.
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Thank you so much.
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