Jan. 11, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 365: POPE BENEDICT LETTER REVEALED - WE ARE IN THE TIME OF THE ANTICHRIST
On today’s episode of Human Events Daily Jack Posobiec is joined by Editor-in-Chief of the Post Millennial in a can’t miss discussion about the passing of Pope Benedict and the ominous letter he left outlining how society is living in the time of the Antichrist. Poso and Libby also discuss her escape from New York City and how she traded sirens and chaos for serenity and church bells. Finally, the details of the alleged Idaho killer’s creepy tinder date are revealed. All this and more on toda...
*Music* Unexpectedly, today, His Eminence Cardinal Pell passed away at age 81.
It's a surprise.
He was visiting Rome for the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI, to pay his regard, and he had also scheduled a hip surgery, a replacement Hip surgery and the story that I've gotten, it could be incorrect, but the story I've heard is he had a successful hip surgery.
Afterwards, he was speaking to the doctor about the successful hip surgery and he died suddenly.
That's all we have.
His secretary has released that he's died and the Holy See has acknowledged that Cardinal Pell has died.
So that's Dr. Taylor Marshall from the Dr. Taylor Marshall Show confirming the death of Cardinal Pell from Australia on while he was visiting Rome for the funeral of Pope Benedict.
Today is January 11th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
So you've got Cardinal Pell.
Thanks, Jack.
This is a way in Rome for the funeral of Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict.
More writings now have been released from both Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict.
And this is what we need to get into.
And in order to do this, I want to bring on Libby Emmons.
First show of the year.
Libby, thank you so much for joining us.
Thanks, Jack.
Happy to be here.
So we're going to dig into this.
We've also got some news from Libby that we're going to break down in the next segment.
But first up, Cardinal Pell wrote an article, apparently, for The Spectator...
Now, we don't know if he was on his deathbed writing this because it seems as though this was a surprise, but he may have known that his number was coming up soon because he wrote an article to be published posthumously.
It later came out in The Spectator.
He wrote, denouncing the current neo-Marxist agenda of Pope Francis The synodism of the church, which he says is completely anti-tradition, anti-scripture, anti-theological, and he wrote, the Catholic Church must free itself from this toxic nightmare.
This member, by the way, Cardinal Pell, was one of the former members of the inner circle of Pope Francis himself, our first Jesuit Pope.
And even perhaps more drastically, we've now received, and this is from the American Conservative, We've received an excerpt from a letter that was written by Pope Benedict before he passed that has never been revealed until today.
And Pope Benedict wrote in this letter, which was released right around the time of his funeral, obviously after his passing.
He wrote that we are now living in the time of the Antichrist.
Benedict wrote, we see how the power of the Antichrist is expanding.
And we can only pray that the Lord will give us strong shepherds who will defend his church in the hour of need from the power of evil.
Pope Benedict, throughout his life, was an eschatologist.
He wrote and studied the end times.
He studied the signs of the end times.
He wrote about how the Antichrist, he believed, would come as a theologian, someone who quotes scripture the way the devil does in the Book of Matthew, in the Gospel of Matthew, when he tempts Jesus in the wilderness.
He wrote that the Antichrist would come as benevolent, as a humanist, and potentially that the Antichrist would come from within the church itself.
Libby Emmons, I know it's your first show back, but what do you think about these revelations and the fact that you have someone as high as the Pope himself writing that we are living in the time of the Antichrist?
I think it's absolutely fascinating, and what you point out about the time that Jesus spent in the desert when he was tempted by Satan repeatedly, that's actually some of my favorite stories in the Bible entirely.
The Lenten season is the most celebratory time of the year, I find, in my heart, with Trying to live up to Christ's example, rejecting Satan, Christ's example of trusting God in all things.
And it is really stunning to look at this and wonder if we really are living in the time of the Antichrist.
That's something for my whole life since childhood I've been a bit terrified, I'm not ashamed to say, of this idea that we could all be collectively led astray by someone who has that kind of darkness in their heart.
And I think it's definitely worth an examination.
So this idea, this eschatology that, you know, it's the study of the end, the study of the end of all things.
And that really is the, the, the word apocalypse, um, for us comes from the Greek, the word apocalypsis, which of course just means revelation.
And so the book of revelation by written when it was written by the apostle John on the island of Patmos, he was writing about the final revelation.
And so when we talk about this, we have to understand that these are the signs we were all looking for.
Yeah, so it's, it's, yeah, it's sort of stunning.
I'm sort of blown away by it, honestly.
That's why I'm a little bit speechless.
Um, and I think it's, you know, what should we, what should we, all right, for you, for you as a mom, though, for you as a mom, when you hear something like that, what does it make you think?
Um, you know, I try to teach my son to trust God, really, to look for faith and to, um, Not be discouraged when he can't find it in himself.
I think that doubt is really an essential part of catechism.
And there was a time at the end of Mother Teresa's life where she expressed concern, where she expressed doubt.
And to me, that gave me a lot of hope.
And it gave me even more faith, honestly, because I thought if someone who Does the kinds of good works that Mother Teresa does can experience doubt, can be concerned that perhaps she has been wrong in her trust in God, perhaps she's been wrong in her faith, then it made me feel a lot better about my own doubts that I have had over my time in faith and my time in the church.
You know?
So, yeah, this idea that we could be living in the time of the Antichrist.
It's also possible too, though, because we are, as a human race, we're constantly obsessed with the end times.
We're constantly looking for that moment in history that we are living through that makes our time so unique.
We're obsessed with our own end.
We're really constantly trying to figure out what the end of the world is going to be like.
There's a play, actually, by There's a playwright called Len Jenkin called Dark Ride.
And at the end, you have the characters repeatedly saying, I don't care about philosophy, just tell me how it ends.
And I think that's something we're always looking for.
We're always desperate to know what the end of the world looks like, what the end of our own lives looks like.
It feels like we're speeding at the speed of a bullet to get to the end of things.
Indeed, and as we are at the end of things, in the same way that we're at the end of our segment.
But before we head out, you know, what I'll just say is, as the Lord tells us, He will come like a thief in the night.
We never know.
And so it's incumbent on us to always be ready, to always be prayerful, to always understand that our time may one day be up.
And we're back.
So Libby Emmons, I've got to ask you, you posted something on the Postmillennial this morning that I've known about, has been in the works for a little bit.
I can see that your background has changed just a little bit since the last time we've had you on.
Tell us about the piece that you just wrote.
It seemed like a very personal piece that you just published up at the Postmillennial.
It was very personal.
I moved out of New York.
I moved into a home of my own in a red state in a little town where my son goes outside to play after school.
He barely knows where his Xbox is right now, and he's thriving and happy, and I could not be more overjoyed that my son is happy.
You're beaming right now, Libby.
You're actually beaming.
I'm very happy.
As any parent will tell you, right, you're only as happy as your unhappiest child.
I only have one child and he's doing great.
So I'm thrilled beyond measure that he's doing so well.
So when I said, get out of cities, and I, when I kept saying, get out of cities, get out of cities, get out of cities, you decided to actually take me literally.
I actually did take you literally.
And to be honest, I never thought in my entire life that I would leave New York City.
From the time I was little, my mom lived on West 66th Street uptown.
She lived right near Tower Records.
She lived across from Lincoln Center.
She owned her own apartment.
I loved visiting her there.
I didn't grow up there.
I loved visiting her.
I grew up in Massachusetts.
I spent summer vacations in New York City.
I spent school breaks and holidays in New York City.
And my mother was born in New York City.
My grandparents were born in New York City.
My great grandparents immigrated from Italy to New York City.
They opened their businesses there.
My great-grandfather, one of my great-grandfathers, owned a grocery store on 34th Street, and he eventually sold the space to Macy's, which then opened Macy's.
My other great-grandfather opened several bakeries in New York City, one after the other.
Each one kept failing, and he finally opened one in Brooklyn.
So you've got a lot of family history there, a lot of roots.
A lot of family history, that's right.
You've lived in New York and you've written a piece for about 20 years, about the last 20 years you've been in New York.
Yeah, I've been a permanent resident for 20 years.
So walk me through then, and summarize, because the piece is just amazing.
You wrote in the piece And this, I think, is the best line.
You said you left the sirens of New York for the church bells of small-town America.
Walk us through the thought process and then the feeling when you got to where you are now.
I was very stunned that I left New York every step of the way.
I found it sort of shocking.
I kept having to realize that I was leaving.
But it wasn't until the day after New Year's that I realized that I hadn't just left someplace.
I had arrived somewhere else.
I was sitting here in my little office that I share with my son.
We set it up.
I had the window open and I heard church bells.
It had been decades since I heard church bells in New York City.
I hear the calls to prayer from the mosque nearby.
I hear lots of screaming.
I hear cats and traffic and cursing and all sorts of things.
And I heard church bells.
And then I realized that the church bells were actually playing Christmas carols.
The church bells were playing Christmas carols, and I had never heard church bells playing Christmas carols.
I realized in that moment that I had come to a place where my culture exists, that my culture neither in the arts nor, you know, particularly religiously, culturally existed anymore in New York City.
And here I was listening to Christmas carols.
On a crisp winter's day, coming through my window, and I felt my heart lift.
I felt my eyes sting with this recognition.
And it was really very joyous.
And then my son ran by the window, getting on an office chair on the porch.
So that was really funny.
I can actually picture him doing that too, by the way.
Yeah.
But it was very surprising.
Very surprising to leave, very surprising then to arrive.
Walking through the decision process, right?
Because you're a mom, you've got your son.
Why leave New York now?
Was it COVID?
Was it the lockdowns?
Was it the vaccine mandates?
Is it the crime?
Or is it just sort of all of that?
It was kind of everything all at once.
I was no longer part of the theater community.
I moved to New York City to make art, to make theater.
That community is not one that I'm a part of, and the art that I see coming out of it is certainly not something that I want to be a part of.
School shut down halfway through fourth grade for my son, and even though he's been back, there's really just no education happening at the school where he was.
36 kids in his class because there were two teachers in the class that allowed them to have all of these extra kids.
There was no personal attention.
He would come home and tell me that his teacher kept the kids in the classroom after the bell rang because there were fights in the hall.
Lunches were terrible.
It just was not working out for him, and that was a huge deal.
Also, the city has changed drastically, and that did happen under de Blasio and COVID.
The subways are not as safe as they were.
Plus, the infrastructure of the subway system itself Has entirely veered off course so that you could be on a train that you think is running express only to find five stops into your express train that it's now going to run local and you're going to be 45 minutes for whatever it was you thought you were trying to do.
Uber rides home in the middle of the night, $80, things like this.
So yeah, it was definitely the lifestyle that I had come to New York to have no longer existed.
It at least no longer existed for me, and it definitely did not exist for my son.
It was at the point where I certainly, he's of the age where I should be able to say, go ahead to the park with your friends and come home when you're ready.
And there was just not the possibility of doing that.
The park was not a safe place for him to do, you know, to go play, to walk over to.
There's definitely no playing with Nerf guns in the park because you have to worry that you might get shot.
And certainly, you know, his friends who are brown, like they have to worry about getting shot as well.
We've seen that.
So there were all kinds of concerns, education, lifestyle, crime.
Also, the political leanings of the city are so horrific.
I definitely did not want my tax dollars to be paying for women from other states to come to the city and get abortions.
That's something Kathy Hopel, the governor of the state, really wants to have happen.
Libby, I just got to say, we're running out of time, but I just got to say, God bless you.
It sounds like you're absolutely thriving.
You've gone and you're not having culture shock.
I think you're having a culture discovery, cultural rebirth in a sense.
And it's great to see.
We can't wait to come visit you.
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When University of Idaho murder suspect Brian Kohlberger was arrested, this woman couldn't believe her eyes.
I recognized him immediately and my heart just sank because I couldn't believe that I was face-to-face with this guy.
Nurse Haley Ouellette says they met on Tinder in 2015 when they were both psych majors at Pennsylvania colleges.
He took her to a movie, then insisted on escorting her to her dorm room.
I was kind of afraid to say no, so I Just let him come in with me.
Then he did something she says she'll never forget.
He kept trying to tickle me and I would ask him to stop or I'd say, what are you doing?
And he would be like, I'm not, I'm not tickling you.
And he would get very serious.
Creeped out by Coburger, she came up with a clever ruse.
I proceeded to pretend to throw up in the bathroom, hoping that, you know, it would gross him out and he would leave.
Did it work?
Yeah, he had messaged me on Tinder and said that he was leaving and that he had a good time and that he would message me later.
And then about an hour later, he messaged me and he said that I had good birthing hips and I just never messaged him back after that.
So Libby Emmons, we haven't had you on since The news broke about Brian Coburger, the fact that this does look like this was a serial killer who is obsessed with serial killers.
You and I had talked about different hypotheses about was this potentially someone who was a jilted lover?
Was this someone who had planned this out, was working out to it?
Now we see That he had been on Tinder, looks like seven, eight years ago, was on there back when he was in Pennsylvania still.
Still haven't found any connection or that we know of between the suspect, even though the evidence is very strong against him.
Very, very strong evidence.
DNA, cell phone, video evidence.
And now that we see this Tinder angle, walk us through what do you think the psychology is?
You know, do you think this was an innocuous Tinder?
You know, same reason everybody uses Tinder, right?
Try to hook up with somebody.
It's hook up.
It's a hookup app.
But is there a danger of combining the hookup culture of the 21st century where we have these one night stand apps at the same time as we see this massive explosion in true crime, the obsession with serial killers that seems to be every the obsession with serial killers that seems to be every single new Netflix show that comes out or HBO.
HBO series.
It's always about serial killers.
What is the danger there?
Yeah, I think that there is a danger.
And this isn't the first time that we've heard of a situation where a woman has gone on a Tinder date with someone who turns out to be a total psychopath.
We've seen this before.
People have said, you know, my Tinder date tried to kill me and things like this have come out.
Yeah, I think it's a concern.
The other thing too, is if you're going on a Tinder date, right?
And let's say it's a hookup app type of thing.
You don't always tell People that you're going on these dates, you know, I've had friends tell me like only way afterwards.
Oh, I ended up going out with this guy and I met him on Tinder, you know, but you don't hear from your friend that she's going on a date with the guy from Tinder in the first place.
Um, because I think people are embarrassed of that, of doing that sort of thing sometimes.
Is Tinder like Snapchat in, in which if, It's very easy to delete the text.
It's very easy to delete the connections.
So is it possible, and I'm not casting aspersions or anything like this, but is it possible that they could have connected through Tinder or one of the other dating apps between 10 miles, right?
He lived 10 miles away.
Is it possible that maybe he was chatting with one of the girls, and maybe they didn't even know, right?
Maybe he's got a total catfish account on one of the apps.
They're chatting, and that's how he targets people, and then eventually led to targeting them.
Potentially, not even just the ones who died, but potentially even one of the ones who lived.
Yeah, that's a hypothesis that certainly could prove out if Tinder has any records of the communications, which I don't know if they necessarily do.
People need to be a lot safer, though, out there.
And you certainly wouldn't admit it.
Yeah, you certainly wouldn't admit it.
But, you know, I think people do need to be a lot safer.
There are reasons that we had courtship rituals, right?
If you look at the Amish, they still do have these courtship rituals where if a couple is courting, they're accompanied by a couple in a different carriage, you know, who go along for the ride to make sure.
In China, they call that In China, they call that the light bulb.
We consider it the third wheel in modern society.
But in China, they consider that third person, and this is the traditional culture, not what you see today, but they would call that person the light bulb.
They're there just to kind of shine a light on everything that's going on.
And that makes a lot of sense.
But to a certain extent, people aren't looking for relationships when they go on dates.
They're not looking for relationships when they go on these apps.
They're looking for something far briefer, you know, they're looking for a one night stand or something like that.
So why would you want somebody along if you only intend to see the person just the one time?
Perhaps that's a concern that we should have.
Perhaps one night stands should not be what our culture is driving towards and what people are seeking when they're looking for- We live in a disposable culture.
And people are disposable as well.
I had a friend recently telling me about, you know, a situation similar to this.
And she was saying, you know, that her friend who has a guy was just seeing women as, you know, just throw away, throw away women, as he was waiting for the true thing.
And I was like, that's just crazy.
Like, you can't throw away a bunch of women and expect that a good woman is going to show up and be ready to be with you after all of that.
It's just not That likely.
And your mindset, if you're looking at someone as a throwaway person, is not going to be to treasure them and to treasure their heart, to care for them, to be cared for.
You're just not going to have that that feeling.
I think it's certainly possible that this guy has been involved in other situations.
Right.
I mean, who's to say that this is even his first crime, necessarily?
I think there's I think there is a lot more That's going to come out on this.
The fact that we know that he was meeting people on social media app, these one night stand apps, I think is huge.
I think that those apps, billions of dollars on the line, they're going to do everything they can to deny that he was using it.
But we we clearly see it.
And I hope that the post-millennial will continue to pull at that thread.
Libby Evans, thank you so much for joining us.
And congratulations to you on your successful escape from New York.
