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to the fact Hunter Radio Network. Here is your host,
Doeuge Hobbs. Welcome back truth seekers from around the world.
It's time for another edition of the fact Hunter podcast.
As we record on this Sunday, February, the first twenty
twenty six of very cold wedintry day. It felt like
negative three this morning, very cold weather. We had a
decent turnout at church. Many churches around where I live
didn't even open today, but ours was and we had
a decent little turnout. We had a great message, and
I just hope everybody's doing well. We are certainly living
in interesting times. It's nothing to be afraid of, but
certain things you should be wary of today. You know,
I have a bunch of these subjects that I wanted
to talk about, but you know, the schedule's been crazy,
the weather, this, that and the other thing. So just
if I have an opportunity a free hour or ninety
minutes or even a half an hour in some cases,
I'd like to just sit down at the record button
and get the message out. It's something I've been working on. Right.
We often say that certain events have to transpire for
them to get to their endgame, which is the Beast
system right where you can, you know, have to buy
into their system if you're going to be able to
buy and sell and live. Otherwise you know you're going
to have a very persecuted life, right. They couldn't really
execute COVID until they had a lot of that technology
in place. All of these things, you know, are generational planning.
And I just took a look back. It's February the first,
which is hard to believe. January's already gone. Christmas was
like five weeks ago already, but just in the short
I guess next month it'll be six years since the
scamdemic happened, which even that in itself is insane to
think it's been six years. But just to prove a
point here, how they can normalize certain things that even
ten years ago you couldn't even imagine. Now, obviously, some
of these things that I'm going to point out today
hit a little harder than others. And there's a list
of twenty that I came up with. And by the way,
at the end, I want to talk about a few
things that are interesting and kind of a sneak peek
working up to the Charlie Kirk episode. And here's one
of the quandaries I'm having with that is, many of
the things that I want to talk about, I feel
they require video, So I don't know if I'm going
to do an audio video episode. I'm still kind of
floating some things around because the more that we have
dug into things, the less things make sense. If that
in itself makes sense. But even some of the things
I initially believed, I'm not so sure I believe them anymore.
You know, if you google what a thirty eight six
does just to a pumpkin or something like that, it
you know quite a distance. There's so many things in play.
The way you never want to judge someone because everybody
handles death differently, but there's just been too many red
flags with Erica, and you know, I'm trying to be
careful with that how to present it. There are so
many things involved with this. The one thing I wanted
to take away since September the tenth of twenty twenty
five was not to hold Charlie on a pedestal, but
the the what was supposed to have been the heart
of the movement, which was faith in Christ But you
know some of the things, I'll mention it at the
end of the show. It kind of turns your stomach.
It does me how they have taken this and ran
with it, made a money machine out of it, and
it's just difficult to swallow. But we're going to start
today with we're going to talk about, you know, all
of the things that shifted after twenty twenty, right, things
that we would have never dreamed of, which is now, well,
it's just the way it is now. And you hear
that all the time. Right before twenty twenty, when you
picked up food, you didn't tip, right, you tipped your
delivery driver. But if you ordered a you know, a
cheese steak and a side of fries and you went
and picked it up, you paid whatever it costs for
the food. But now everything, there's a tip request for everything.
I took my grandchildren to the mall down in I
think it's called a Arundel Mills Mall outside of Baltimore,
and they like these little cookies that are like one
cookies four fifty apiece macaroons I think they're called, right,
and they want a tip for handing you cookies. And
it's just these type of things that have become normalized
post twenty twenty, But the playbook is always the same, Right,
Crisis rules become default rules and a lot of temporary
measures that turn into these permanent profit centers. And obviously
it's more important than profit in their eyes. It's about control, right.
And that's why the zoom and all these things are
so important to them, because all these things are stored
in the cloud. Right. And here's another thing I thought about,
are all these data centers really for AI or are
they to store these digital conversations? Right. Somebody had messaged
me last weekend and said, you need to go see
this movie Mercy. He said, I believe this is coming
a lot sooner than what people think. And my wife
and I had some free time Friday after lunch and
we went and saw it was only about ninety minute movie.
And I thought the very first red flag was it
was case number nineteen. Right. And there's that number nineteen again, right,
COVID nineteen. All the numbers that we've seen associated with
the number nineteen. Right. It's very interesting, but it's very
minority report meets you know, AI, judge, jury and executioners. Interesting,
But let's start with number one, remote life becomes a
business model, not an emergency measure. Right Zoom and teams
did not just normalize room meetings, they normalized remote everything.
And I remember this back in twenty twenty when I
saw the doctor, the VA had this special app on
the phone and you could have a conversation with your doctor.
All of these things had to happen to normalize it.
And it's everything now, job interviews, doctor's visits, therapy, parent
teacher conferences, even court appearances. Right, my son has us
hooked on these police cam videos. And there was this
guy who had a court appearance for driving with a
suspended license and he was because you know they do
it remote now, he was actually driving his car when
the judge pulls him up for his suspended license case.
And the judge is just shaking his head. It's like
you're telling me that you're seeing me about a suspended
license and here you are on the phone, uh driving.
But even of course we've talked about worship services. You
know my thoughts on church. I think the technology is
an important tool to have in the toolbox, but I
don't think it's a great idea to you know, put
on your pajamas and eat a bowl of cereal and
watch church. I use it as a tool. I don't
listen to music when I'm driving around. That's just me.
I'm not telling you what you should do. I listen
to certain passers, certain messages, certain audio books that have meaning.
And that's just what I do. And if I hear
a good message, I'll go back and listen to it again.
That's a tool. But to have it as your primary
is not the greatest idea. And now listen, I get it.
I get emails all the time. I can't find a church.
I can't find a church. You can find one. It
takes a lot of work. Sometimes it took me four years. Guys,
it took me four years. But worship service and even
family gatherings now I will just do it on zoom.
So the bigger change is that being of available expanded,
and the expectation is not just that you can work
from anywhere. Think about this, it's you can be reached
from anywhere. Right. And alongside that came the new home
office with new overhead. Your power bill has gone up,
your internet bill has probably gone up. Right, desk chare
extra room. Many people absorbed the costs that employers used
to absorb. Think about this. In nineteen eighty eight or
eighty nine, I worked for Chase Manhattan Bank eight two
Delaware Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware. They had a thirteen or
fourteen story building that had indoor parking, a cafeteria. Think
of the overhead that it costs that bank. Now most
people who work for Wells Fargo Chase discover they work
from home. All that overhead has shifted to the employee E.
Where do you think that money goes that they used
to spend on rent and everything else? It goes into
their pocket. Remote work also made surveillance normal, right They
track your time, screenshots, activity, monitors, always on camera culture.
Why to normalize them spying on you? Okay? Number two
contact lists? Right? Remember contactless deliveries?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: It turned into reduced human service. They don't want people
mingling together. Why. What was the first rule of the
Georgia guidestones, right? Keeping the population down? They want you
home by yourself watching pornography. Right? Remember contactless started as
health theater right. Now it's resulting in staffing cuts, less
customer support. When's the last time you've seen a cashier
at the stores. At the Walmart on a busy day,
you may see one, two, three, depending on where you live.
And I makes you know, I'm nice about it. I
try to be funny about it. But you know, when
people come up and say something to me, I'll ask
about employee discounts. What do you mean do you work here?
I'm like, well, I'm I'm doing my own groceries. And
what about the bags before twenty twenty? Let me ask
you this, how many people remember paying for a bag?
You know, you go to the Acme here, five cents
a bag. If you go to Redner's, it's ten cents
a bag. Once again, who carries the bird? Now the customer? Right?
You're still you can still buy things. But here's the problem.
You can't easily speak to a human when something goes wrong.
Like you know, we all have our different hobbies. I'm
a radio guy. I was up till I lost track
of time. I was up till one o'clock in the
morning working on my new DMR radio. I was like,
oh my goodness, I got to get to sleep. It's
one o'clock. They get up at six. But you know
most of these come from China, right The boofangs, the chaigus,
even many of the things that have American names are China.
I'm a big chi Yang radio guy, and when we
have an issue, I got to email a guy in
China and he's got to translate it and the whole thing.
But it's the same here in the United States, right,
you get less quality for more money. You pay more
money and you get less quality, you get less food.
Even the places we used to enjoy going to, like
and by the way, I'm not trying to turn this
into a boomer episode, just me complaining. I'm just trying
to point these things out. When they do I think
of all the things, it does get frustrating because we
really like to go to Texas Roadhouse, and we don't
go out that much. I mean, we might go out
to a restaurant once a month every now and then
we'll hit the little delivery place down the street, but
to actually go and sit down, we just don't do
it much. We live in the sticks. We got to
drive twenty thirty minutes everywhere we go. Church is twenty five, right,
Low's is twenty five. Sam's Club's thirty. But you know
I got chicken from and that's what I get for
not getting a steak, right, But I got a chicken
from Texas Roadhouse and it was medium rare. I didn't
know that chicken case. It was terrible. I got pretty
sick from it. I rolled the dice. But you know,
it's just you know, self checkout. Like I was saying,
the customer does labor, the store saves on payroll, and
the customer gets watched like a suspect while doing unpaid work.
This is the truth, right, and this pattern is everywhere kiosks,
QR codes, app only coupons scanned to tip screens. Convenience
is real, but it also trains you, right, that's the thing.
It trains you to accept less human accountability. Number three,
Delivery culture has become the default, and it has changed
pricing psychology. You got your DoorDash, your Uber eats, instacart, right.
They just didn't add a new option. What they did
was they rewired what people consider normal paying higher menu prices,
service fees, delivery fees, and then your tip. By the way,
if you don't order an x amount, there's a small
order fee. Right. By the way, we never ever use
any of those things just mentioned. I know people who
do that's their choice, right obviously, but it's crazy if
you think about it. The average person now routinely pays
thirty to seventy percent more for the same meal then
they would have paid just six years ago. Now. You know,
some people say, well, you don't really notice it because
the charges are split into smaller prices. I don't agree
with that. People see the end result. And you know,
somebody was saying, it seems like just a minute ago
you can get a four to ninety nine value meal
at McDonald's, and now you know it's ten ninety nine
or whatever. That's everywhere. It is just where we are now. Right.
If you double minimum wage, you're going to basically cut
your employees in half.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, it also normalized the idea
that you do not see the real price until the end. Right,
that's a huge cultural shift, right, I think that what's
the new term for that drip pricing?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And then not to be at a dead horse, but
I'm gonna do it in the order I have it
written down. Mass tipping, right, and what tipping was. And
by the way, if you if you've never been to Europe,
tipping doesn't exist in Europe. I remember getting too hungry
and Croatia and Germany. You don't tip. It's just you
don't tip. It's in their ways, it's their job. And
over here again this mass tipping moved from gratitude to
payroll substitution. Right tipping expanded into places that used to
be strictly hourly right counter service, pickup orders, convenience stores,
retail checkouts, even check out kiosks ask for tips in
some cases. Again, it's not an accident. This is all.
You could call it wage model shifting. That is once
again risking or shifting. I should say, the risk from
employee to customer. So in the old model, you tipped
for direct personal service. Right In the new model, tipping
is a guilt lever attached to a touch screen. It
pushes customers to subsidize wages while companies preserve margins and
keep base pay low. Right now, how about the subscription model.
Everything is a subscription now, that's all post twenty twenty.
Now you could argue Netflix gun it was really one
of the first subscription services that started. And now that
you know that the guy who started Netflix was related
to now I'm having a brain fart. The guy who
did the torches of freedom. A Burnez Right, the guy
who founded Netflix was like Edward Burne's steptw nephew. Right,
Burnees was his uncle, right psychology right X amount of
dollars a month. Remember you used to get the DVDs
in the mail, two of them, you'd pay for one,
two or three. You'd watch them return them. You'd look
in the mailbox and your DVDs would show up a
few days later. But that was really that what I
recalled the first subscription service, and then Blockbuster tried to
emulate that before they went out of business. But subscriptions,
it's everything now, Right. You used to pay for cable,
your one bill, but now you have to have ESPN,
have Hulu, you have to have Peacock, you have to
have Apple on and on and on. Right, So instead
of having one monthly bill for your entertainment, you've got ten. Right,
you think about it, and if you have your PlayStation
or the other one xbox right, software, entertainment, exercise, car features, printer,
inc music, cloud storage, your ring, security camera. Right, And
when you think about it, the normalization isn't just the
subscription itself, it's dependence. Where have you heard this before?
You don't really own it. When I order, by the way,
old boomer here, I still order Blu rays. If there's
something like They Live, I have it on Blu Ray.
My wife wants to get that movie we just saw
on Blu ray when it comes out, because when you
watch it the first time, you're more invested in the story.
But I like to go back, like with Contagion, and
take notes and what did I miss? What's the true meaning?
Investigate those things. What are they trying? What message are
they subconsciously trying to get across to us? Right? But
the biggest thing is you don't own it, right. I
buy that movie, I own it, I have it right.
I can bust out the the Blu ray player anytime
and watch the movie. You pay for a subscription service,
you stop paying, There goes the movie. Right. That's you
will own nothing and be happy. It's the same. I
wrote an article on substack two weeks ago about your property.
You don't own your property, Yes I do, my house
is paid off. Okay, then don't pay your property taxes
for three years and tell me how that works out
for you. You don't own it, right, And I think the
psychological effect is a little heavier than what people realize. Right,
A thousand small, Well, it's only four, it's only ninety nine,
it's only twelve one nine. Right, Those charges create a
life where your income is pre spent before the month
even begins. And fees right, you know, I hear people
complaining about concert I have not been to a concert
and I can't tell you how long we went to
the certain del soleat Beetle thing year, eight or nine
years ago, I think, And you know, but to actually
go to I never was a concert guy. And as
bad as my tonight says, I'm thankful because I couldn't
admit imagine it being any worse. But these convenience fees right,
the ticketing adding more layers, the restaurants adding serve charges,
and if you want to make a reservation, many of
the restaurants in Lancaster, believe it or not, you have
to use a thing called rezi rs y and they
have charges right, online payment service fees, kitchen appreciation fees.
Even if you're on social media, you'll see a lot
of people posting these what is it like employee wellness fees?
While you're going to cover my staff's insurance? Right again,
a lot of it's the same story. The posted price
is a suggestion. The real price, that's the surprise. Right.
And you know number seven, paying for basic necessities got
reframed as environmental virtue. Right. Again, this goes back to
grocery bags. Charging for grocery bags is a good example
because it was framed as a moral improvement. Right, just
like those awful whoever came up with the paper straw
You need to just go away. I'm sorry. Paper straws
is the most discussed. I get very angry when I
am sitting down with a friend. There's a place called
the Green Turtle in Middletown, Delaware. We used to meet
up for lunch once a month there. They're out of
business now, but you know twenty twenty started and they
brought up with our water and a paper straw, a
paper straw in liquid genius, I tell you, right. But
again it's framed its moral improvement. But again, in practice
it operates as a quiet regressive fee, not huge, but
it's constant. And again, once people accept paying for bags,
it becomes the norm. Ten years from now, nobody will
blink twice when they pay for their bags. Right. How
about shrinkflation, right, became so common that it barely shocks
anyone anymore. Packages got smaller, ingredients got cheaper. I'm not
talking about price wise, I'm talking about quality wise. Quality dipped,
but the prices continued to climb when you were getting
lower quality and people noticed it first. I still do.
I talk about it often. My wife, she hears about
it all the time. Right, they now people just I
think people are just adjusting their expectations downward, which is sad. Right,
this is one of the most important normalizations since twenty
twenty because it really touches our everyday life. It's not
just economic. I do believe it is once again psychological conditioning.
You are trained to accept less and you simply call
it normal. And that's not the way it should be, right,
That's not what we believed was the American way. This
was a number nine is a big one to me.
Service quality has declined. You want to talk about minimum
effort in many cases, and I'm here to tell you
it's not always the guy who you see, right. Maybe
it's the guy serving you the food. Maybe it's the
guy who's coming out to do a you know, who
works for a big corporation a service carpet guy right
coming out to clean your carpet, because I think these
companies don't have nearly enough employees. The employees that we
do see are taking on more than they can possibly handle. Right.
So you know, now the customer is just expected to
be understanding forever and tolerate everything. Right. And I do
believe in twenty twenty, for the most part, even for truthers,
those who could see people were patient. We gave them
the benefit of the doubt for fifteen days. Right, long lines,
reduced hours. You know, mom's sick in the hospital. Only
one of us can go. We understood fewer staff people
were sick. Right, slower service, we get it. Nobody wants
to work right now and again, whether or not that
slogan had truth in it, it functions as an excuse
that protects the business from having to improve. And we
have become an excused based country. It snowed, don't have
to go to school, get on the computer. Right. You
know how many snow days my daughter has had zero
She still gets up and does her school. Right. Moving
on number ten, supply chain problems, and this is a
big one for me. I was a loggie. Right, I
was a logistition. I understand how in twenty twenty six
still feel it feels weird saying twenty twenty six that
just in time ji t logistics. So for the business
the least, I should say, the less amount of time
that a product is on the shelf, the more it
benefits the company. Right back in the day, the grocery
stores in the fifties, sixties and seventies, they had to
stock up their supplies. But now they have logistics. You know,
computers can have it. So just as that last gown
of milk is being sold at Walmart, the next batch
is rolling in. Right. That's called just in time logistics.
The problem with JIT logistics is that if there is
a crack, it's very much like the airline industry. Right.
So I'm a stewardess, a beautiful one at that. I
leave Miami at six, I go to Atlanta at seven thirty.
Then I have to be on the ten o'clock from
Atlanta back and it's you know, they do three or
four a day. If one of those flights gets delayed
or canceled, then that stewardess can't get on the next flight.
They don't have enough crew and that gets you see
where I'm going with this, and that became a permanent
explanation for problems. Right, and for a while we all
remember in twenty twenty and here in Delaware, anytime there's
even one to three inches of snow forecast that people
will run by milk and eggs, milk, eggs and bread.
It can be one inch. Everybody will freak out and
apparently the only thing that can keep you alive during
a snowstorm is milk, bread and eggs. But the normalization
was that the supply chain became a catch all justification
for price hikes, delays, reduced selections, which we still see today, right,
even after the worst of the disruptions had passed. It
created a new standard. Businesses can cite visible complexity and
customers cannot verify it.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 1: Right, Moving on app dependence, Right, even many churches now
have apps. You can tithe on it, you can watch
the service on it, the service replay. They have prayer walls.
The pastor can send out messages during the week. Right,
that's one of the things we talk about, you know,
double edged swords. These what is called app dependence. Right,
it's really become the gate keeper of normal life. Right,
to get the deal, you need an app. Right, every
grocery store you have to have the app. I again
went to that mall in Baltimore to see my grandchildren
right before Christmas. All the free parking was gone. I
had to pay for parkers. I was a dummy and
I took my truck to Baltimore and I had to
pay for it was ten bucks for the day, but
I had to download an app. I had to scan
the little sign in front of the parking spot. It's
just ridiculous. Right, Loyalty programs are all part of the
game because they are and will be a part of
a digital tracking system that all plays into your social
credit score. Right, QR codes have replaced menus and receipts
went digital by default. This is the normalization of data
extraction right now. We trade it for convenience, but the
price that we pay is surveillance and something called behavioral profiling,
identity checks, and paper culture expended in subtle ways, more verification,
more account creation, more two factor prompts. Right to prove
you are you? Sometimes it's justified by fraud, And I mean,
how many of y'all if you're like me. I get
ten spam calls a day. I get many emails a
day saying my Norton anti virus is expiring, or my
iCloud is expiring, or my email is expiring. Disheartening. How
many scammers are out there that are looking to prey
on people, That in itself kind of saddens me. It's
like it says that many crooks out there, come on man, right,
But really it's what it's about. Again. The deeper change
here isn't security, it's fragility. Anyway, let's move to thirteen.
Public health language became a template for policy enforcement. Okay,
and listen, even if you took the politics out of it,
the normalization is that emergency language can be used to
justify rapid rule changes. And I told you that anytime
the word emergency is used by politicians, you better be ready, right,
no bid contracts are in place. Their buddies get rich,
and it all comes at the cost of the little guy.
If you do just a little research and see how
many small businesses have closed over the last five years,
it's devastating. And you want to talk about the greatest
wealth shift in history, in history sixty five hundred years
happened on our watch just six years ago. It's sad, right,
and again they use it to justify rule changes, enforcement
right limitations that would have been questioned more aggressively before
twenty twenty. But again, once people accept temporary, there's no
going back. You can't put the rabbit back in the hole.
You just can't. Number fourteen Medical and mental health shifted
toward tell everything telehealth Tell a friend is convenient and
sometimes it can be helpful, but it can also once
again be normalized into shorter interactions algorithmic triage. You know,
we've talked about the shortage of nurses in the states,
nas in this state, and you know, the medical industry
is very complicated because on the pharmaceutical side of it,
it can be very inherently evil. We've discussed it many times.
But when you depend on this telehealth, you're also risking
missing something major, cancer, something of the right. It's just
normalized medication management through quick visits, right, and his normalized
outsourcing care into apps. And you're all Number fifteen Education
to me, the you know now everything is taught on tablet.
I listen. I am not opposed to technology. I love technology.
Everything in my office I'm sitting here. Even my old
eighties arcade cabinet's sitting over there with Joust on it. Right,
that's technology. My radio is technology. I'm all about it.
It's how it's executed. And you have to understand who
we putting in, what your children are studying, and the
Rockefellers and everyone since the nineteen you know, early nineteen hundred's,
early twentieth century to today, they are trying to once again.
They want to dumb down the country. They don't want
your children asking questions. They want serfs. They want serfdom.
They want people who obey the government without question. Okay,
but it all starts with the moral compass. It starts
with mom and dad raising the children correctly and understanding
you know, hey, Johnny, Hey, Jill, Susie, whoever.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Authority can be respected, but if it crosses that line,
it is your moral, spiritual obligation to stand up against it.
That's not what they teach at school. They have you
pledge allegiance to a flag. They ring the bell every
fifty minutes, just like you know back in the day.
They don't have factories anymore. Right, But I think that's
kind of what it was all about reacting to the bell, right, lunch, bell,
break bell, And that's what it was all about. Now,
obviously they're heading towards the final system. They have everybody
behind a camera, behind a tablet, and education right, this
hybrid learning.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Nobody went to school this week in Delaware. I'm not
saying it was good or bad. I'm not right. I'm
not the governor, I'm not the mayor, I'm not the
superintendent of the school districts. But they have lowered expectations.
Schools and even colleges have integrated remote components, digital assignments.
You know, once again, just like shopping, they have made
parents become the teachers during lockdowns, during bad weather. They're
in charge to make sure their son and daughter gets
it right. Now, that side I don't have a huge
problem with, because you know how I feel about education
in itself. As I wrote in my sub stack, I
believe it is the parent's responsibility. Right on that property
tax article, it's not my responsibility to pay for your
child's education, just as it's not your responsibility to pay
for my child's education. Right. But once again, that is
the public school putting that on the parent and the
normalization is the expectation that education can be delivered like
content rather than information. Right, having a conversation, critical thinking skills,
and that does I'm here to tell you that plays
in a discipline, attention span, and you could argue social
development sixteen. We're almost there. Safety theater moved from airports, right.
That happened with nine to eleven, and it became every
day even to this day. Anytime we go to the
Dover Air Force Base to use the grocery store there
called the Commissary. There is a place where at off
base Chinese restaurant my wife loves, so we'll grab some
whatever fried rice and dumplings that she gets. And even
to this day, you know, when COVID happened, they put
up this plexa glass with the speaker. To this day
it's still there. So it's normalized. Right, the directional arrows,
the sanitation rituals, the signs, many of the signs are
still there. Many grocery stores still have the arrows on
the ground. Right. Maybe they have faded, but you know what,
the mindset has stuck. Institutions learned that visible measures can
replace meaningful measures. It is not about health, it's about
managing perception. Number seventeen. Corporate moral messaging became part of
branding and then faded, leaving distrust.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Remember all the companies became loud about values and causes
and then they went quiet when it stopped paying. Right,
people are starting to pick up on that, right, and
if you've noticed, many of the companies have gone away
from it. Right because many of those companies who took
up causes that weren't inherently authentic. People turned their back
on those companies. You know, we could say target right.
They were falling into fiscal collapse and they started stepping
away from the wokeism, the bud light, and then they
had to hire all these famous people to save them.
The man you know, Peyton Manning and whoever that guy
with the tattoos on his face. He's a singer or something.
But that's what it's about. Right. We remember twenty twenty,
and it's incredible that we were alive during that year
because you had the nation shut down and then three
months later you had cities burning. It was quite a time.
And here we are almost next month will be six
months since that happened, and we're still talking about the changes. Right.
Number eighteen. The economy has normalized and this kind of
goes hand in hand with what we talked about earlier.
But high price, low stability, right inflation. I mean, we
are closing in on why more conditions with you know,
your dollar goes nowhere anymore. Right, rate hikes, layoffs, the
housing instability, and they're doing everything to protect you know,
it's a they want to contract in New York City.
That dude wants to tell homeowners how much they can
charge rent. That's not how it works. That's not how
a free economy works. Right. Grocery bills through the roof.
That's why we don't get our meat at the commissary
on Dover Air Force Base. But we get some produce
and some canned goods and seeds for the birds. By
the way, man, I feed birds cats. I want to
claim these birds and cats on my taxes this year
because I think we have two thirds of the birds
in Delaware come out every morning. We get big thing
of seeds. And we have a woodpecker that'll peck on
the top of my house if I don't, if I'm
not out there by seven am with his food, he
pecks on my house. But that's really, it's incredible what's
going on. And again I think that's part of the shift, right,
this deep change that we're seeing. This is all long
term planning, right, and I think people are defaulting to
shorter horizons. They're acquiring much more debt than they want to.
You can see the stress in people's lives and it's
just interesting. Last two I got to get going here,
But social life. Do you remember always to be social
back in the day, and all of you who are
my age or older, remember Saturday nights you were at
somebody's house playing pee knuckle or having a potluck dinner
or that has just gone by the wayside. Now part
of it is just because of the entertainment value. Right
when I was growing up, I was in a house
with a black and TV. Now we had a color
TV upstairs on the porch, but we had two TVs
in the house. Now everybody has a device in their
hand that they can watch whatever they want. And we
didn't have Wi Fi. You know, we could play backgammon,
we could play chess, read the newspaper. But people were
more social and the last six years, social life has
shifted toward isolation and being entertained instead of us being entertaining,
and I think that has drawn out a lot of personality.
And I'm not picking here, right, we're all this generation. No,
but you do notice that the younger children up today
are more quietly, are more reserved, not as outgoing as
you and I used to be. That is not across
the board, every single one, obviously, but I think most
of you could look me in the eye and give
me a little north south. Yes, yeah, I agree. Right,
people go out less, people host less, socialized in more
controlled environments. Even me and my family, we have made
it a concerted effort over the last year to go
out and interact with people more. If the local church
down the street is if we don't go there, if
they're having a spaghetti dinner or whatever, we go, we go.
And we're trying to show our children that, look, go
out interact with people. It's very good for the heart,
it's good for the soul, and it's good for the mind. Right,
But that's not what they want. They want controlled environments,
and that's what laptops and iPads and all that do. Again,
they're great to have, they're great tools, but don't be
consumed by them. Right, Some people just feel happier. I
have a community online, right, But I think that can
lead to loneliness too. It can lead to inwardness. And
everybody's different. And again I'm not telling anybody how to
live their life, but there is a way you could
look at it. That normalization is that isolation is not
seen as a crisis or a problem, but it's seen
as a lifestyle. And lastly, you know everything is a
scam is mainstream and I think that might be the
most fact hunter friendly point. Right. Since twenty twenty, when
this podcast began, people have watched narratives change fast, rules flip,
experts disagree, and institutions care only about protecting themselves. You
adding crypto financial collapse, influencer fraud, corporate price games, grocery
store prices going through the roof, property taxes going through
the roof, political theater, absolutely embarrass saying presidents tell you
to get vaccinated or you're gonna have a winner of death.
Wake up. You're being managed, you're being compartmentalized, you're being
sold a bill of goods based on lies. They are
trying to manipulate you constantly, right, And that type of
thing reshapes behavior, and that's probably why you're listening to
this podcast right right now, right, you have less trust
for their government. I know some of you still hold
on to hope that just maybe, just maybe Trump might
be a good guy, right Psalms one eighteen eight, Just
remember that. Okay, before we go, I'm going to play
a couple clips for you. The first one is Jack Hibbs.
He is the senior pastor at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills
and the founder of Real Life Ministry. If I remember correctly,
I think this guy's life was in that movie. I
think he was with Lonnie Frisbee, part of that Jesus
Revolution in the seventies. But this gentleman has had a
also reported has had a long or had a long
standing friendship with Charlie Kirk that went you could say,
well beyond casual. Right. He appeared on his podcasts, spoke
publicly about praying with him, mentoring him, and if you
recall what Charlie said in the Last Days calling out
Israel and all of that, and then listen, this is
again Pastor Jack Hibbs, who by the way, has over
a million subscribers. This is a two minute clip of
you Can't question Israel and be a Christian. It's heart.
Speaker 5: This is good news. This is an amazing indicator of
the last days. The true Church of Jesus Christ, the
true believers will be friends of Israel, will pray for Israel,
will reach out to Israel to lead Israel to Christ
because Book of Romans Chapter two, begining verse twenty six
out to about verse thirty. Romans Chapter two tells us
that a true Jew is someone who's been circumcised in
the heart, and that we are to be people who
provoke the Jews to jealousy in that we know their Messiah,
God came to this world as a Jew. He's coming
back as a resurrected man. Jesus Christ not only the
King of kings and the Lord of lords, but he's
Jesus Christ, King of the Jews. His throne will be
in Jerusalem, the Jewish capital, in the nation of Israel,
the Jewish state, and he will sit upon the throne
of David, an amazing Jewish musician and warrior and king.
All this rhetoric you're hearing, get pumped. We're in the
last days.
Speaker 1: It's got to go this way.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 5: If your church is not pro Israel, it's not a church.
If your church is not pro Israel and pro reaching
the Jewish people with the love of God, you're not
in a New Testament church. You're actually attending a fraud.
It's fraudulent. Get up, get out, And if you have
any doubts about this, read the Seven Letters to the
Seven Churches that Jesus gave us in the Book of Revelation.
Please do that. But by all means, pray for the
peace of Jerusalem. And when you find a Jew, hug them.
Tell them that you're praying for them, and that Jesus Christ,
according to Proverbs thirty verse four, is the Son of
God to the Jewish people.
Speaker 1: See, that's a very mixed message. Number One, New Jerusalem
comes is down from Heaven. Jesus isn't coming to the
Middle East. Okay, get that right. Please read Revelation twenty one,
verse two. Right, I saw the Holy City New Jerusalem
coming down from God out of heaven. And then it's interesting,
he says, read Revelations the Seven Letters, Revelation two nine
and three nine, and times people will claim they are Jews,
but they're not there liars. That's all of these people
involved in turning point. USA will throw half truths at
you half truths. By the way, George Zen, if you
remember him who claimed to have shot Charlie Kirk, do
you remember, right after the incident happened, the old guy
yelling I did it, I did it, the distraction just
two minutes after his assassination. He was sentenced to fifteen
years in prison for obstructing justice and two counts of
possession of child porn. And as you know, the joke
in DC, anytime they want to get rid of somebody,
what are they do? And in a day and age
where everything is electronic and there's AI, you can be
framed and be considered a garbage human being and tossed
away for the rest of your life. George Zinn will
no doubt be, in my mind, die in jail, or
he'll just be an old man forgotten because they controlled
the narrative. They're not going to give a microphone to
this guy in fifteen years, right, Zen, on many accounts
on alternative media, was said to have told hospital staff
that he was paid to cause a distraction and say
that he shot Charlie. But we never found out who
he was supposedly paid by. And remember this was the
same guy who was at other events. Interestingly enough, another
pastor who is involved with Turning Point USA is Greg Laurie. Now,
actually Greg Laurie, I apologize. I think Greg Laurie was
the guy who was involved in the Jesus Revolution Friends
with Lonnie Frisbee, which we did a podcast on I
think two years ago, and his church, Harvest Christian Fellowship.
They towards the end of twenty twenty five were facing
several high profile federal lawsuits that alleged negligence, child trafficking violations,
and upwards of a two decade long cover up. Right,
and again, these people are directly involved with Turning Point USA.
Greg Laurie, Yeah, he was the guy who was involved.
He was the topic of the Jesus Revolution, from that
twenty twenty three movie Friends with Lonnie Frisbee, the whole
seventies movement in southern California. But again in twenty twenty
five law all suits were filed against Laurie and Harvest
Christian Fellowship Church in regard to you know, let's just say,
crimes against humanity to those under eighteen at an orphanage
in Romania. Now, this is where it gets really interesting.
Where's my notes. Yeah, we already talked about Romania. Oh
here it is.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: I think Eric Kirk's nonprofit was called Everyday Heroes Like You,
and that played into Romania as well. They pulled during
my search, they pulled all of their tax returns off
the internet. They have been tax exempt since two thousand
and nine, so there should be even if they haven't
filed last year's there should be fourteen or fifteen years
worth of tax returns on pro Publica. They are missing.
And I'm not the first person to say this. There
are a few other people, not any big sites, but
a few smaller sites like myself, who have pointed this
out that they, whoever they are not the good guys,
have pulled and hid all the evidence that has to
do anything with this orphanage in Romania. More on that,
I'd like to close. If you have as this podcast
comes to an end today, I'd invite you to go
to Turning Point USA's homepage and you'll see that they
are selling a book called Stop in the Name of God,
Why Honoring the Sabbath will Transform your life? You know
that is a work it should honor Christ. I have
not read the book, but on their homepage you know
they're saying it's the last book Charlie wrote. This is
a money machine that is ran by people who pretend,
you know, turning point Usay, I'm sure they passed out Bibles,
but if you saw them, they passed out hats more
than they did Bibles. Delivered a lot of half truths.
And I'm still not convinced about Charlie's demise. Still have
a lot of pondering thinking to do. And I'm not
sure that's the most important thing because we know all
the world's of stage. So I don't think anybody in
this audience should or would be shocked if that were
the case, right, But we'll see, We'll continue to ponder.
I did have one more piece of audio before we go.
This audio was eleven days I think after Charlie was killed.
This was like September the twentieth and Erica. Again, I
get we all are different, right, but I know that
you know, if my wife passed, folks, there wouldn't be
a podcast for some time. I couldn't get past the
first minute. Again, everybody grieves differently, But to put on
a show, the show must go on. No, No, especially
not when you're asking for money. I want you to listen.
This is three minutes and this is ten days after
you know, the person she loves the most on this
earth has passed away.
Speaker 6: Hi, everybody, I still of all these emojis, zoom things.
Speaker 7: Wow. I don't even know where to begin.
Speaker 6: The fact that we were able to pull off.
Speaker 7: An event of a century, like it's just insane.
Speaker 6: We had over two hundred and seventy five thousand people
that attended, and the stadium overflow Westgate.
Speaker 7: Insane, you guys. And then you have was it one
hundred million over.
Speaker 6: You guys that heard the gospel and all about Charlie
and all about everything that you guys do, and the
hard work of turning twenty wessay is insane. We had
thousands that were registered to vote. I think we're at
like over two hundred thousand for merch sales. Don't quote
me on that because I think it just keeps like
bumping up like crazy. But I just wanted to say
a huge, huge, huge thank you to the events team,
the development team, the graphic design team, the production team.
Speaker 7: It's just phenomenal.
Speaker 6: Their incredible work of leading into the memorial and honestly
a lot of this staff that worked on the memorial.
They had twenty hour days for a week during the
time of us grieving the loss of my husband, and honestly,
I know several staff that didn't even sleep again.
Speaker 7: You guys are breathing angels, and I'm so grateful for
all of.
Speaker 6: You, and obviously a huge thank you to the Mosaic
team v I.
Speaker 7: You guys are ten.
Speaker 6: Out of ten, Like we have the most incredible team.
We just do, and you guys know that, and you
guys are all a part of that.
Speaker 7: And I am so so thankful.
Speaker 6: And if you do have a moment and you run
into any of those staff members, know.
Speaker 7: That you know had a role in this, and you know.
Speaker 6: That they put a lot of their time and effort
into it, just say thank you. There's something really special
to be seen in moments like this, and it's not easy.
I am speaking from experience. I'm right in the trenches
with you guys, and so the fact that you just
a simple thank you. I don't care if any of
you have beef with each other from the past or
have any issues.
Speaker 7: With someone says something about.
Speaker 6: This or that, Like, if you guys have any of that,
please put it to rest. My husband's dead. Like I'm
not trying to be morbid, but he's dead. And it
puts life into perspective of how short life is and
relationships and God puts people in your life for a
reason and it teaches you a lesson, it teaches them
a lesson.
Speaker 7: So if you are going through a time where.
Speaker 6: Just lay it to rest and we are moving forward
Turning point USA two point zero with Charlie and our hearts,
that's what he would want.
Speaker 1: There, you go, balls in your court, and I will
tell you what. I'd love nothing more than to hear
what you think. My email address is the fact hunter
at mail dot com and that email addresses in all
of the show notes. I would love nothing more than
to hear from you. What are your thoughts on this?
I really would, no matter which circumstance there's So if
you saw my notes, how do you even organize something
like this? The plane just things like that. We're moving on, Charlotte,
you know Turning point two point zero where we have
Ben Shapiro speak, it's just you know, money this They
talk about God, but again they never mentioned Jesus did
say gospel give her that, but again half truths that's
what it is all about. Me an email, what you
think about all of this that has to do from
September tenth, twenty twenty five to today, The event itself
that happened that day, reactions, you know, the money grab Eric,
which I guess the latest thing is she doesn't even
have custody of her children anymore? Has that been like?
Is that solid? Weird? The whole thing anyway, I'm glad
I had this a little bit of downtown down time
on the Sunday afternoon because I really wanted to catch out.
I did not have a chance to put that Thursday
night out like I said I was going to try.
So there's your bonus. We'll certainly drop another episode this week.
If I can get five or six, at least five
or six emails regarding this by Thursday, I'll do a
special Thursday night. I'll just read you know, first name,
where you're from, and read the email for listeners to
hear your thoughts. I'll read those emails on the air,
your thoughts about this, and you know, we'll see what
happens anyway. Listen, have a great week. If you're being
affected by this weather, take your time, be safe, right
that's the most important thing. Just take your time, keep
your feet under you. I fell on Tuesday. It's it's
not pleasant when you get closing in on sixty and
you hit the ground. It's still pride is the first thing.
When I hit the ground, first thing I do, before
the paint even registers. I'm looking around to see if
anybody's watching me. And then it's like, oh, ow, you know,
I really hurt my arm trying to catch myself. Cut
my right hand wide open and knucklehead. There you go.
God bless you. Keep your head on a swivel, in
Christ in your heart. And until we meet again, my friends,
we will see you.
Speaker 8: I know it's been struggle. I don't know you've had spain.
I know you feel tired, held down by all the way. Yeah,
I know you feel.
Speaker 2: You smile ain't the same.
Speaker 8: That's all you were going from you. I feel like
you've lost your way.
Speaker 3: Don't give it. No, don't give it.
Speaker 1: And never is home.
Speaker 4: Don't let call the primise.
Speaker 3: It ain't done yet.
Speaker 1: He's got a glad.
Speaker 4: Why it's away, time got up?
Speaker 3: Gave me? Come? Why afraid? God m called?
Speaker 8: I can see the street beside you. Childs are putting
up the fid. Oh you're stronger than anything.
Speaker 3: You are. Yeah, you're gonna be all right.
Speaker 8: You're accepting a dead found you.
Speaker 4: Beautiful.
Speaker 8: You're shoving ride.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're live and breathing oven.
Speaker 8: You can hold your head of pie.
Speaker 3: Don't give up, No, don't give in.
Speaker 2: Never loves home, don't let go on the primies.
Speaker 3: And ain't done yet? This god up Planting wants a
way down, the God of Mericau. Don't give up.
Speaker 7: No, don't give in you never love home, don't.
Speaker 3: Let go on?
Speaker 4: The primis, ain't don life his worth a man? What's
a lay down?
Speaker 1: The God up bay called?
Speaker 3: Why sur pray down the baby? Oh? Yes, what spray
down the god? Baby call? Oh yeah, got TV call.
Don't give up, No, don't give in?
Speaker 4: Never so do they go of?
Speaker 7: The primis?
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 7: And don yas got a play?
Speaker 2: What kind of heavy coats? Don't give no dog giving?
Never hol do they go up? Fine is getting done?
Love is both living?
Speaker 4: What's done? God of ancors all, the God of needs
cos why's done?
Speaker 3: God of a.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fact Hunter Radio Network. Just the facts,
ma'am